List of shipwrecks in 1899

The list of shipwrecks in 1899 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1899.

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1899
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January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Harry  United States The steam barge was sunk by ice in Chesapeake Bay off Pools Island.[1]
Protection  United States The freighter sank in a heavy gale off the mouth of the Columbia River. Survivors rescued by Colgate ( United Kingdom). One crewman killed.[2]

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Alex Yost  United States The steamer hit a snag on Middle Creek Bar in the Big Sandy River and sank, later breaking up. Her machinery was later salvaged.[3]

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Genivieve  United States The steamer sprang a leak and sank in the Great Kanawha River at Deep Water, West Virginia, later raised and repaired.[4]

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Annie May  United States The sloop was wrecked when she broke loose from her moorings in Cross Island, Maine by heavy seas and high wind. After the storm she was stripped.[5]

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Forest Hall  United Kingdom The barque got in trouble off Porlock, Somerset, England. The Lynmouth Lifeboat Station answered her distress call by taking the lifeboat Louisa ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution), pulled by horses and people, overland for 15 miles (24 km) to go to her rescue, climbing 1,423 feet (434 m) during the journey.[6]
Startle  United States The sloop ran aground in dense fog near Wood End. Refloated on 22 January.[7]

13 January

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Jewel  United States The ferry was wrecked on rocks near Caspar, California. One crewman killed.[8]

14 January

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Andelana  United Kingdom
A photograph of most of the crew of Andelana taken on her deck at Tacoma, Washington, on 14 January 1899. She sank later the same day with the loss of all the men in the photograph.
The four-masted barque, newly arrived from China, capsized during a storm in Commencement Bay on the coast of Washington. Seventeen of the crew and her officers were lost.[9]

16 January

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Neches Belle  United States The laid up steamer sank in the Sabine River at Logansport, Louisiana.[10]

17 January

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
R. C. Gunter  United States The laid up steamer was sunk by ice at Kampsville, Illinois. Raised later.[11]

19 January

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Ouachita  United States The steamer burned and sank at Memphis, Tennessee. Three passengers killed.[12]

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
William D.  United States The launch was sunk in a collision with the ferry Oakland ( United States) in San Francisco Bay. Two passengers killed.[13]

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
M. M. Davis  United States The bugeye sank in a collision with Gov. Robt. M. McLane ( United States) at the entrance to the harbor of Cambridge, Maryland.[14]
Santiago  United States The steamer was wrecked at Brazos Santiago.[15]

25 January

List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Tycoon  United States The steamer burned and sank at Newport, Arkansas.[16]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Jessie Wilson  United States The steamer sprang a leak and sank at Shawneetown, Illinois. Raised and repaired.[17]
Royal Pierce  United States The steamer sprang a leak and sank at Pond River.[18]

29 January

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Cathie C. Berry  United States The schooner sprung a leak and was abandoned by her crew while going from Edgartown, Massachusetts to Boston and was wrecked when she went ashore one-half mile (0.80 km) from the Peaked Hill, Massachusetts Life-saving Station. She was stripped and abandoned. Total loss. [19]

31 January

List of shipwrecks: 31 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Fannie Flint  United States The schooner fowled the anchored William M. Bird ( United States) and sprung a leak when the seas slapped her against the larger vessel's hull. She got clear and anchored, but her pumps could not keep up and she sank in the area of Monomoy Island. Crew transferred by boat to William M. Bird.[20]
James Baird  United States The schooner ran aground during a storm and foundered on Santa Rosa Island, Florida, 29 miles (47 km) east of the entrance to Pensacola Bay.[21]
Rhynland  Belgium The ocean liner ran aground on Fenwick Island. Refloated on 4 February.[20]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Voorwaarts  Italy The steamship was wrecked at Morwenstow, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[22]

February

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Katherine Francesco  United States The steamer sank due to a leaking gasket at New York City. Raised the next day.[23]
Mary Hannah  United Kingdom A Penzance schooner on passage from Cardiff to Plymouth with a cargo of coal. Disabled after the main boom was damaged in a huge sea and gale off the Lizard, she headed for Newlyn but was unable to enter the harbour and ran ashore at Tolcarne. All four crew were rescued by breeches-buoy.[24]

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
George E. Dudley  United States The schooner stranded in a gale and snowstorm six miles (9.7 km) south of the Cobb Island, Virginia life-saving station off New Inlet. Refloated on 28 February.[25]
Robert A. Snow  United States The 225-foot (68.6 m), 1,556-gross register ton schooner lost her tow in a snowstorm and was stranded in heavy seas near Rockaway, Queens, New York, and sank in 23 feet (7 m) of water. The United States Life-Saving Service rescued her crew from her rigging. She was declared a total loss.[26][27]
William Lawrence  United States The steamer foundered on the bar off Hunting Island, South Carolina in a storm.[28]

9 February

List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
F. J. O'Connell  United States The steamer was sunk by ice at Evansville, Indiana.[29]
Fred Wilson  United States The steamer was sunk by ice at Hall's Wood Yard in the Ohio River. Raised and repaired.[30]

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Annie M. Reynolds  United States The schooner sank in a violent snowstorm off the Metomkin Inlet, Virginia life saving station where she had been anchored after damage in a series of storms since the 10th. Crew rescued by United States Life-Saving Service. Total loss.[31]
Brazil  United Kingdom The barkentine stranded two miles (3.2 km) west of the Moriches, New York life saving station in a snowstorm. Crew rescued by United States Life-Saving Service. The vessel broke up in another snowstorm on 12 or 13 February, and declared a total loss.[32]
Maggie Etter  United States The schooner stranded two miles (3.2 km) north west of the Gull Shoal, North Carolina life saving station after being carried out of the harbor at Rodanthe, North Carolina by ice flows. She was refloated by the United States Life-Saving Service on 21 February.[33]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
E. L. Dow  United States The schooner was stranded by drift ice one and a half miles (2.4 km) south east of the Coskata, Massachusetts life saving station during a thick snowstorm. The crew was rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. She broke up on 16 February, a total loss.[34]
Novelty  United States The steamer burned at Vicksburg, Mississippi.[35]

13 February

List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Germanic  United Kingdom The ocean liner sank at New York, United States. Subsequently refloated, repaired and returned to service
Jas. A. Carney  United States The steamer was sunk by ice in Mobile Bay. Raised and repaired.[36]
Ralph  United States The steamer was sunk by ice at Memphis, Tennessee. Raised and repaired.[37]
Winnegance  United States The schooner was stranded in a north east gale one and three-quarters miles (2.8 km) east of the Muskeget Island life saving station. The crew was rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. Refloated on 4 March.[38]

14 February

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Charlie McDonald  United States The steamer was sunk by ice in the Ohio River near White House, Kentucky.[39]
John V. Morgan  United States The steamer sprung a leak and sank while in ice near Muskegon, Michigan.[40]
St. George  United States The schooner sunk in shallow water by ice eight miles (13 km) north north west of the Sabine Pass life saving station. Crew boarded a nearby schooner. She was pumped out and refloated by the United States Life-Saving Service on 16 February.[41]

15 February

List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Addie M. Anderson  United States Carrying a cargo of coal, the 184-foot (56 m), 934-gross register ton four-masted schooner sank in 50 feet (15 m) of water off Rhode Island in the West Passage of Narragansett Bay 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km; 0.6 mi) northeast of Whale Rock at 41°27.02′N 71°24.76′W after striking a submerged wreck.[42]
Demozelle  United Kingdom The schooner was stranded on a shoal off Tuckernuck Island off Nantucket, Massachusetts. She was refloated on 28 February.[41]

18 February

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Fair Play  United States The steamer was sunk by ice in the Big Sandy River at White House, Kentucky.[43]

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Huston Combs No.2  United States The steamer sank between New Iberia and Morgan City, Louisiana when Hogchains failed. Three crewmen killed.[44]
Mark Winnett  United States The laid up steamer was sunk by ice at Marmet's Coal Harbor.[45]

22 February

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Island Queen  United States The ferry sprang a leak and sank at New Harmony, Indiana.[46]

23 February

List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
U and I  United States The steamer burned on the Red River near Coushatta, Louisiana.[47]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
John S. Ames  United States The schooner stranded on Galveston Island 15 miles (24 km) south south west of the Galveston, Texas life saving station in thick weather. Her captain, his wife, and the crew were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. Broke up the next day, a total loss.[48]
Unknown  United States The naptha launch broke loose from her moorings and was wrecked on Point Diablo breaking up. Her engine was salvaged by the United States Life-Saving Service. A total loss.[48]

25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Anna  United States The steamer burned at Wilmington, North Carolina.[49]
State of Texas  United States The steamer was damaged by ice in the Chesapeake Bay and beached on Guinns Island, Virginia. Later refloated and repaired.[50]

27 February

List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
May McFarland  United States The schooner stranded at Long Beach, New York one mile (1.6 km) west of the life saving station in a gale. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. Total loss.[51]
Starbuck  United States The steamer struck a rock and was beached near Conseguina Point, Nicaragua.[52]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Maggie Murtagh  United States The towboat foundered between dusk on 10 February and dawn on 11 February at the foot of Bush Street, Brooklyn, New York. Later raised.[53]

March

1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Labrador  United Kingdom The passenger ship was wrecked on Skerryvore. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, to Liverpool, Lancashire.[54]
R. S. Van Meter  United States The steamer burned at Quincy, Illinois.[55]

4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Ada  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[56]
Adi Alum  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was llost off Cape Melville.[57]
Admiral  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[58]
Aladdin  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger dragged anchor and went ashore. Apparently refloated.[59]
Carrie  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[60]
Channel Rock Lightship  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The Lightship was lost off the Channel Rocks, Cape Grenville. Lost with all 4 hands, or all hands including her 4 Officers.[61][62]
Charmer  United States The schooner stranded on the Ocracoke Inlet bar in fog. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. She broke up, a total loss.[51]
Clara Merriman  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[63]
Crest of the waves  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner either survived the storm with out going ashore or was beached to prevent sinking after the storm passed Cape Melville.[64]
Daisy  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[65]
"Dudley"  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The Queensland Marine Department supply vessel disappeared during the storm in the Torres Strait area. Lost with all 4 hands.[66]
Eileen  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[67]
Endeavour  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[68]
Endymion  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[69]
"Estelle"  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[70]
Fiji  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[71]
Francis  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[72]
Gipsy  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[73]
Gitana  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[74]
Guarra Peres  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[75]
Hime  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[76]
Jennie  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[77]
Jessamine  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[78]
Joseph  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[79]
Kate  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[80]
Kathleen  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[81]
Kirkham  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[82]
Kotohira  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[83]
Eileen  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[84]
Leopold  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[85]
Little Bell  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[86]
Lucia  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[87]
Maggie  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[88]
Martha  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[89]
Maygalle  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[90]
Meg Merrilees  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The schooner stranded during the storm, Princess Charlotte Bay area..[91]
Molyneaux  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[92]
Nancy  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[93]
Narellan  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[94]
North Star  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[95]
North Wales  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape York.[96][97]
Ocean Bride  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[98]
Pacific  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[99]
Paleatea  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[100]
Pearl King  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[101]
Pearl Queen  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[102]
Pegasus  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[103]
Pert  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[104]
Pirate  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[105]
HMS Resistance  Royal Navy The decommissioned broadside ironclad foundered in Holyhead Bay off the coast of Wales while under tow to the breakers. She was refloated and scrapped.
Rosa  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape York Peninsula.[106][107]
Sagitta  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville. Lost with all crewmen, either 11 or 20, one woman crewmember survived.[108][109][110]
Silvery Wave  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner foundered off Cape Melville. 23 crewmen killed, one crewman survived.[111][112]
Sprig  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[113]
Sun  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[114]
Tarawa  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner dragged anchor and was wrecked, but later refloated.[115]
Two Brothers  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape York Peninsula.[116][117]
Vailele  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[118]
Vera  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[119]
Vision  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[120]
Wai Weer  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger dragged anchor and was wrecked, but later refloated.[121]
Xarifa  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape York Peninsula.[122][123]
Yamotu  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[124]
Zanoni  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was washed ashore on Cape Melville near Boulder Rocks Reef and wrecked.[125][126]
Zypher  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was washed ashore on Cape Melville. refloated 8 weeks later.[127][128]
Zoe  Australia Cyclone Mahina:The fishing schooner/pearling lugger was lost off Cape Melville.[129]

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
H. W. Buttorff  United States The steamer was damaged in a severe thunderstorm and sank in shallow water when blown into the Louisville and Nashville Railroad bridge at Clarksville, Tennessee. Raised and repaired.[130]
Tamesi  United States The steamer was wrecked on William's Shoal, Wallops Beach, Virginia in thick weather. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. A total loss.[131]

7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Alfred Brabrook  United States The schooner went ashore in a Gale two miles (3.2 km) north north east of the Gull Shoal, North Carolina Life Saving Station. Crew rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. Total loss[132]
Belle  United States The sloop went ashore in a snowstorm abreast the Chincoteague Lighthouse. Refloated on the 21st.[131]
G. P. Keagle  United States The 42-gross register ton schooner was lost when she collided with an unidentified vessel at Hampton Roads, Virginia. All three people on board survived.[133]
Henrietta  United States The schooner dragged anchor and went ashore in a Gale three-quarters mile (1.2 km) west of the Big Kinnakeet, North Carolina Life Saving Station. Refloated on the 10th by the United States Life-Saving Service.[132]
Homer D. Alverson  United States The schooner lost her tow off Lone Hill, New York, drifting ashore in thick weather. Her crew abandoned her on 27 March. A total loss.[131]
James Bowen  United States The steamer foundered off Hog Island, Virginia. Reported lost with all ten hands.[134]
Mascot  United States The sloop went ashore in a snowstorm 1 1/4 mile south south east of the Assateague Life saving station. Crew taken off by the United States Life-Saving Service. Refloated on the 8th.[132]
William B. Steelman  United States The schooner went ashore in fog and thick weather two miles (3.2 km) north north east of the Lewes, Delaware Life Saving Station. Her crew transferred to a nearby hospital ship. Her wreck was sold.[131]
Willie T.  United States The schooner dragged anchor and went ashore in a Gale three-quarters mile (1.2 km) west of the Big Kinnakeet, North Carolina Life Saving Station. Refloated on the 18th by the United States Life-Saving Service.[132]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Castilian  United Kingdom The cargo liner ran aground on the Gannet Dry Ledge and was wrecked. All on board were rescued. She was on the return leg of her maiden voyage, from Portland, Maine, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.[135]

16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Cygnet  United States In a gale the laid up steamer got hung up on her wharf, tipped and sank after flooding at New Bedford, Massachusetts. Later raised.[136]

16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
A. J. Poole  United States The towboat foundered off Red Hook, Brooklyn when a schooner she was towing put on sail with out cutting the tow line causing the towboat to sink in 12 feet (3.7 m) of water. Raised on 19 March.[137]
Mary Lewis  United States The towboat foundered off 42nd Street, South Brooklyn, New York when swamped by following seas. Raised the next day.[138]

21 March

List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
C. D. Owens  United States The steamer burned at a wharf in the Chatahoochie River at Columbus, Georgia.[139]
Flint  United States The steamer burned at a wharf in the Chatahoochie River at Columbus, Georgia as a result of "C. D. Owens" burning.[140]
Hannah Sullivan  United States The steamer was sunk by a stopcock that was left open at Port Washington, Wisconsin. Raised and repaired.[141]

26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Science  United Kingdom The steamer collided with the steamer Daybreak ( United Kingdom) north of Cape St Vincent, Portugal and sank.[142]

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Gertrude  United States The steamer was sunk by a log raft at Catlettsburg, Kentucky.[143]

29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Rowena Lee  United States The steamer struck an obstruction and was sunk at Tyler, Missouri.[144]

30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Stella  United Kingdom
The passenger ferry sank off the Casquets, Channel Islands with the loss of 78 lives.[145][146]

April

1 April

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Foam  United States The 6-ton, 30.6-foot (9.3 m) schooner was beached on either Nakchamik Island (56°20′N 157°49′W) or Shanachu Island off the south coast of the Territory of Alaska's Alaska Peninsula after she sprang a leak during a gale. The only person aboard survived, but she became a total loss.[147]

4 April

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Chilkat  United States The steamer capsized and broke up trying to cross the Humboldt Bay Bar. 11 crewmen killed. 6 survivors rescued by North Fork ( United States), and 2 crewmen and 1 passenger made it to shore on their own.[148]

6 April

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Eillen  United States The steamer struck a snag in the Mississippi River and sank at Stag Island, Missouri near Sterling, Missouri. Raised 17 April.[149]

7 April

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Kanawha  United States The steamer sank from leaks after entering a hurricane on 4 April, location unspecified. Survivors were rescued by the brig Atalanta and landed at San Juan, Puerto Rico.[150]

8 April

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
J. C. McNaughton  United States The schooner parted her cable, stranded and sank one-half mile (0.80 km) east of the Durants, North Carolina Life Saving Station. The crew rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. $800 of her cargo of lumber was salvaged. A total loss.[151]

9 April

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
John K. Speed  United States The steamer struck the guide wall of a canal and sank in eight feet (2.4 m) of water at Louisville, Kentucky. 101 passengers and crew rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. Raised and repaired.[152][151]

10 April

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Salem  United States The tow steamer struck a ledge and sank in White Head Passage in Portland Harbor, Maine.[153]

16 April

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Eva  United States The steamer burned on the Chefunete River at Madisonville, Louisiana.[154]

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
General Whitney  United States The steamer sank from leaks in the Atlantic Ocean (28°40′N 79°39′W). 19 crewmen survived, 12 drowned, including her captain, when one lifeboat capsized off New Smyrna, Florida.[155]
Mystery  United States The schooner stranded on St. Joseph Island 13 miles (21 km) north east of the Port Aransas, Texas Life Saving Station. Her master made it to shore, the mate, the only other crew member, drowned in the attempt. Started to break up during a salvage attempt two days later and was abandoned, a total loss.[156]
Paris  United States The steamer was wrecked between St. Anthony's Light and Manacles Rock, Cornwall, England. Raised, repaired, returned to service as Philadelphia.[157][158]

23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
City of Kingston  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with Glenogle ( United States) near Tacoma, Washington.[159]

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Loch Sloy  United Kingdom The three-masted barque sank off Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

25 April

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Dick Clyde  United States The steamer sprung a leak and sank at Kuttawa, Kentucky.[160]

27 April

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Chamberlain  United States The vessel burned two miles (3.2 km) below Chamberlain, South Dakota.[161]

29 April

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Alarm  United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank at Gretna, Louisiana. Later raised.[162]

May

1 May

List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1899
ShipCountryDescription
John Taylor  United States The ferry burned at Burlington, Iowa.[163]

2 May

List of shipwrecks: 2 May 1899
ShipCountryDescription
City of Paris  United States

The ocean liner was grounded at Lowland Point near Coverack, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The Falmouth and Porthoustock lifeboats helped transfer her passengers to tugs. The ship was successfully salved after seven weeks of work.[164]

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Hendricks  United States The cat boat capsized and sank in shallow water one-quarter mile (0.40 km) south east of the Short Beach Life Saving Station. The United States Life-Saving Service rescued the two men that had been on board, and dragged the boat on shore and bailed it out.[165]
Robert Byron  United States The schooner stranded close to the Race Point Life Saving Station and partially sank, she then caught fire and partially burned. Crew rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. Wreck sold for $25.[165]

4 May

List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1899
ShipCountryDescription
W. A. Williams  United States The steamer was flooded by the wake of a passing vessel and sank at her dock in New Orleans, Louisiana.[166]

7 May

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Fred Jansen  United States The laid up tow steamer foundered at her dock at Wilmington, Delaware. Pumped out the next day.[167]

11 May

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Thomas Davidson  United States The steamer stranded on Cana Island, Lake Michigan, seven miles (11 km) east north east of the Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin Life Saving Station. Refloated on 20 May.[168]

13 May

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Nelson  United States The schooner foundered in a fierce gale in Lake Superior eighteen miles (29 km) west north west of the Muskallonge Lake Life Saving Station. Her master survived, but his infant son and the other seven crewmen did not.[168]

16 May

List of shipwrecks: 16 May 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Ganges  United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with Presque Isle ( United States) in Lake Erie near Colchester Light.[169]
J. M. Spalding  United States The schooner was scuttled at dock in Greenbush, Michigan to prevent her from being beaten to pieces by a strong wind. Raised the next day.[170]
Vigilant  United States The sloop was driven onto Ditch Shoal by wind and seas. Refloated on 23 May.[170]

18 May

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Erie  United States The steamer struck a boulder and sank near Van Buren Reef.[171]

21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Brittania  United States The sloop struck a sunken wreck four miles (6.4 km) north west of the Gilbert's Bar, Florida Life Saving Station and was beached. Refloated and repaired.[172]

22 May

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Addie  United States The lumber schooner struck the bar at Indian River Inlet and sprung a leak. She was worked off the bar by the United States Life-Saving Service and was sailed into the harbor where she filled and sank.[172]

25 May

List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Florence Pearl  United States The schooner stranded on Shovelfull Shoal, sprung a leak and filled. Crew rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. The wreck later drifted off the shoal and broke up.[172]

26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Amelia  United States The schooner stranded on middle ground of the pass at San Louis, Texas, sprung a leak and filled. Three crew and four passengers were rescued by a vessel. Attempts to salvage were called off two days later and she was abandoned after being stripped.[173]

June

1 June

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
A. J. Wright  United States The canal boat burned in the Thames River, Connecticut near Allyn's Point.[174]

2 June

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Antelope  United States The steamer, beached for repairs, listed and sank on the Coquille River with only her deckhouse above water. Righted and refloated two days later.[175]

4 June

List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Lindus  New South Wales The coastal cargo ship was wrecked during a storm on the wreck of the coastal cargo ship Colonist ( New South Wales) near Oyster Bank, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, at position 32.914°S 151.797°E / -32.914; 151.797.
O. M. Nelson  United States The schooner stranded on Pilot Island in Lake Michigan two and a quarter miles (3.6 km) south east of the Plum Island Life Saving Station in fog and a gale. The crew and the captain's daughter rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. Stripped and abandoned on 7 June. Total loss.[176]
R.G. Stewart  United States
The packet steamer burned and sank in Lake Superior off Michigan Island in Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior, with the loss of one life. The other 11 people on board survived, as did the ship's cargo of cattle, which were pushed overboard and swam to shore.[177]

5 June

List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Unknown  United States The sloop capsized and sank in Dorchester Bay in a sudden squall. Crew rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[176]

10 June

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Charles A. Swift  United States The schooner ran aground and was wrecked on the west side of the entrance to Perdido Bay.[21]
Lota  United States The laid up steamer burned at her dock at Big Timber Creek, New Jersey.[178]
William Fletcher  United States The steamer sank in the North River near the New Jersey shore when struck from behind by Campania ( United States).[179]

12 June

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Addie Luddington  United States The fishing schooner was sunk in a collision with S. S. Spartan ( United States) off the Brandywine in thick fog. The crew were rescued by S. S. Spartan.[180]

13 June

List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Macedonia  Germany The 2,268-gross register ton steam cargo ship sank in 60 feet (18 m) of water in the North Atlantic Ocean off Sea Bright, New Jersey, at 40°21.418′N 073°56.153′W with the loss of one life after colliding with the ocean liner Hamilton ( United States) in thick fog. There were 18 survivors.[181][182]

15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Wabashene  United Kingdom The lumber schooner sprung a leak in heavy seas in Lake Superior and was towed into Harbor at Marquette, Michigan where she sank at dock. Refloated on 17 June.[183]

17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Argus  United States The tow steamer and the barge she was towing were wrecked on Montauk Point.[184]

22 June

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Florence  United States The schooner stranded one-half mile (0.80 km) north east of the Gurnet Point, Massachusetts Life Saving Station in heavy seas. She broke up, a total loss.[185]
Nellie Torrent  United States The steamer burned off Lime Island on the St. Marys River.[186]

23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Apalachie  United States The steamer struck a snag in the Chipola River Cut Off and sank. One crewman killed.[187]

25 June

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Joe Mathews  United States Carrying 12 passengers, a crew of five, and a cargo of 17 tons of general merchandise, the 31-gross register ton, 45.8-foot (14.0 m) steamer was wrecked without loss of life at the mouth of the Snake River near Cape Nome on the coast of the Territory of Alaska.[188]
Satisfaction  United States The steamer burned 12 miles (19 km) north of Sheboygan, Wisconsin.[189]
Yazonia  United States The steamer burned at Brown's Landing on the Tallahatchie River. Wreck removed with explosives in 1900.[190][191]

26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Gate City  United States The barge sank near Petersburg, Kentucky. Two crewmen from the steamer towing her were killed.[192]
Pawnee  United States The steamer burned and sank 90 miles (140 km) north of the Hatteras Lightship. Her crew was rescued by George W. Clyde ( United States).[193]

28 June

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Black Diamond  United States The steamer was sunk at Maberry, Arkansas by a broken suction pipe on a pump.[194]
Margaret Olwill  United States The steamer capsized and sank in a gale in Lake Erie off Lorain, Ohio. Her master, five crewmen, a woman and a boy died.[195]

30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Mayflower  United States The steamer sank in the throughfare between the Roanoke River and the Cashie River. One infant drowned.[196]

July

2 July

List of shipwrecks: 2 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Willard Ainsworth  United States While on a voyage from Port Clarence to Kotzebue Sound in the Territory of Alaska with a crew of ten and a cargo of four tons of coal, the 42-gross register ton, 63.8-foot (19.4 m) schooner was driven ashore on Chamisso Island in a gale and wrecked without loss of life.[197]

4 July

List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Majestic  United States The steamer stranded in thick fog eight miles (13 km) south of the Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin Life Saving Station. Refloated 9 July.[198]

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Three Sisters  United Kingdom The ketch sank in the Bristol Channel after colliding with the steamship Tweed with the loss of two of her three crew. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot, Glamorgan to Llangrannog, Cardiganshire.[199]

7 July

List of shipwrecks: 7 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Fra Diavola  United States The steam yacht sank in a collision off Pier 8, North River with wrecking tug Hustler ( United States). Passengers and crew rescued by Hustler.[200]

10 July

List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Portia  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked west of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her boats were used to go to inner Sambro Island. One 10-year-old boy was lost.[201]

11 July

List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
S. W. Schuyler No.2  United States The steamer burned at Vansciver's Warf in the Rancocas River.[202]

12 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
City of York  United Kingdom The three-masted barque sank off Rottnest Island, Western Australia.

16 July

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
John A. McKie  United States The schooner stranded one mile (1.6 km) north of the Ship Bottom, New Jersey Life Saving Station and was wrecked. She was stripped of valuables.[203]

16 July

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Vicksburg  United States The schooner struck a rock in the Muscle Ridge Channel and sprung a leak. She went to Seal Harbor, Maine and sank at anchor. She was stripped and abandoned to a wrecking company.[204]

18 July

List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Mountaneer  United States The steamer was sunk by a snag above Charleston, West Virginia. Raised and re-hulled.[205]

19 July

List of shipwrecks: 19 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
George A. Dean  United States The tow steamer sank 15 miles (24 km) off Highlands, New Jersey due to a defective sea cock.[206]

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Nunobiki Maru  Japan The steamer foundered off Formosa (now Taiwan) in a typhoon.

22 July

List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Henrietta  United States The steamer struck an obstruction at Whitehall, Louisiana and sank.[207]

25 July

List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Gossoon  United States The steamer struck a tow cable running between the tug Conneaut ( United States) and steamer Colgate ( United States) and sank at Buffalo, New York.[208]

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Clarence  United Kingdom The reformatory ship – formerly the screw ship-of-the-line HMS Royal William ( Royal Navy) – was destroyed by arson near New Ferry on the Wirral Peninsula in England.[209][210]

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Baird and Lymon  United States The canal boat sank in a collision off Blackwells Island in the East River with Massachusetts ( United States).[211]
Sea Gull  United States The freighter capsized at dock at Spear Street Wharf, San Francisco, California.[212]

29 July

List of shipwrecks: 29 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Bob Anderson  United States The steamer burned at Grand Marais, Minnesota.[213]
Grace A. Ruelle  United States The steamer sprung a leak and sank in Lake Huron off Pointe aux Barques. One person died.[214]
Pilot  United States The steamer burned between Cedar River, Michigan and Menominee, Michigan.[215]
Shamrock  United States The sloop was damaged in a collision with a tug. She was towed into Cleveland, Ohio where she sank at a slip.[216]

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
C. M. Belshaw  United States The steamer struck a snag and sank near Dandy Point, Oregon in the Columbia River.[217]
Consuelo  United States The steam yacht burned at Alexandria Bay, New York.[218]
Grace A. Ruelle  United States The steamer sprung a leak and sank in Lake Huron 7 miles off Sand Beach, Michigan. Her engineer was picked up off an improvised raft by a passing steamer, her Captain died. swimming to shore[219]

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Louisa  United States The steamer was pushed ashore after damage to her wheel, sinking in nine feet (2.7 m) of water off the coast of the Territory of Alaska 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) west of St. Michael. Later raised.[220]
Saint Michael #8  United States Anchored while under tow by the steamer Louise ( United States) from St. Michael to Fort Gibbon in the Territory of Alaska after Louise suffered machinery damage in rough seas, the 240-ton barge, with a three-man crew and a cargo of 225 tons of United States Government supplies aboard, dragged her anchor and was wrecked on the coast of the Territory of Alaska 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) west of St. Michael, breaking in two and becoming a total loss. Louise rescued her crew.[221]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Oakland  New South Wales The passenger-cargo ship ran aground at the Richmond River on the coast of New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

August

1 August

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Albert Halsey  United States 1899 Carrabelle hurricane: The fishing schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Carrabelle Harbor, Florida, during the hurricane.[21]
Benjamin C. Cromwell  United States 1899 Carrabelle hurricane: The schooner was beached and wrecked at Dog Island, Florida, during the hurricane.
Cortesa Unknown 1899 Carrabelle hurricane: The vessel was wrecked during the hurricane.[222]
Hindos Unknown 1899 Carrabelle hurricane: The vessel was wrecked during the hurricane.[223]
Jafnhar Unknown 1899 Carrabelle hurricane: The vessel was wrecked during the hurricane.[223]
James A. Garfield  United States
James A. Garfield (center) beached after the hurricane.
1899 Carrabelle hurricane: The three-masted bark was beached at Dog Island, Florida, during the hurricane. She was intact, but salvaging her was deemed impossible.
Latava Unknown 1899 Carrabelle hurricane: The vessel was wrecked during the hurricane.[223]
Mary E. Morse Unknown 1899 Carrabelle hurricane: The vessel was wrecked during the hurricane.[223]
Unknown mostly  United States 1899 Carrabelle hurricane: Approximately 57 other vessels was beached and wrecked during the hurricane.[224]
Unknown  United States 1899 Carrabelle hurricane: The sloop capsized and was blown ashore near the Cape St. George Lighthouse during the hurricane. A couple was found dead on board.[223]
Vale  Norway 1899 Carrabelle hurricane: The lumber bark was beached and wrecked at Apalachicola Bay, Florida, during the hurricane.[225]
Vivette Unknown 1899 Carrabelle hurricane: The vessel was wrecked during the hurricane.[223]
Warren Adams  United States 1899 Carrabelle hurricane: The schooner was beached and wrecked at St. George Island, Florida, during the hurricane.[224]

2 August

List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Fidgett  United States The tow steamer burned at a wharf in Pennsville, New Jersey.[226]

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Advance  United States The steamer caught fire and sank at Middleport, Ohio after being struck by lightning.[227]

6 August

List of shipwrecks: 6 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
H. A. Emory  United States The schooner stranded trying to enter harbor at Sand Beach, Michigan on Lake Huron during strong wind and rough seas. She was scuttled to prevent breaking up from pounding on the bottom. Attempts to salvage began the next day and were unsuccessful, with the vessel being stripped and abandoned on 18 August, a total loss.[5]
W. B. Morley  United States The steamer collided with the car ferry Lansdowne ( Canada) and sank in the Detroit River.[228]

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Iowa  United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank between Henderson, Kentucky and Paducah, Kentucky.[229]

11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
June  United States The sloop yacht stranded trying to enter Oregon Inlet, North Carolina and broke up. The crew were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[5]
M. W. Hunt  United States The laid up steamer sank at Almond Street Wharf. Later raised.[230]

12 August

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Bessie  United States The steamer collided with Ireland ( Canada) near Belle Isle in the Detroit River and was beached on the isle. Later refloated and drydocked.[231]

13 August

List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
New Haven  United States The tow steamer sprung a leak in the Mississippi River and sank at the foot of Biddle street, St. Louis, Missouri.[232]
H. G. Cleveland  United States The schooner sprang a leak 12 miles (19 km) west north west of the Cleveland, Ohio Life Saving Station. She was put under tow, but sank 8 miles (13 km) off Cleveland in Lake Erie.[5]

15 August

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Angie and Nellie  United States The steamer struck an obstruction in a cut north of Brunswick, Georgia and sank. Raised later.[233]
Sagadahoc  United States The lighter got hung up on the dock, heeled over and sank at Bath, Maine.[234]

16 August

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Aaron Reppard  United States The schooner dragged anchor in a terrific storm going into the breakers off Gull Shoal, North Carolina and went to pieces. The United States Life Saving Service saved all nine of her crew, and the captain's wife.[5]
Florence Randall  United States The schooner stranded in a furious storm two miles (3.2 km) south of the Big Kinnakeet, North Carolina Life Saving Station and was a total loss. The United States Life Saving Service saved three of her crew, five died.[5]

17 August

List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Fred Walton  United States The hulk, being used as a lay boat by steamers, parted her moorings in a hurricane and stranded on Hog Shoal 2 miles (3.2 km) east north east of the Portsmouth, North Carolina Life Saving Station and was a total loss. Two of her crew washed overboard and died. The United States Life Saving Service saved the other four of her crew when the wreck was discovered on 19 August.[5]
Lydia A. Willis  United States The schooner parted her anchor chain in a hurricane and stranded three miles (4.8 km) east of the Portsmouth, North Carolina Life Saving Station where it broke in two and filled with water and was a total loss. The United States Life Saving Service saved the shipkeeper and his wife when the wreck was discovered on 18 August.[5]
Priscella  United States The barkentine broke up at sea in a terrific storm before going into the breakers three miles (4.8 km) south of the Gull Shoal, North Carolina Life Saving Station. The captain's wife and Son, The mate, and a boy washed overboard at sea and died. The United States Life Saving Service saved the rest.[5]
Robert W. Dasey  United States The schooner stranded in a furious storm three-quarters mile (1.2 km) south of the Little Kinnakeet, North Carolina Life Saving Station and was a total loss. The United States Life Saving Service saved the whole crew. The wreck was sold on 30 August and abandoned by the captain.[5]

18 August

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Annie  United States The lightship sprung a leak in a severe storm three miles (4.8 km) offshore of the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station, Rodanthe, North Carolina, on Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks. Her captain allowed the vessel to go ashore to save his crew. Her captain stayed around until the portion of the cargo of oil that floated ashore was sold on 30 August. The crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[5]
Diamond Shoal Lightship No. 69 United States Lighthouse Service The lightship parted her moorings in a severe storm and stranded one mile (1.6 km) south south west of the Creeds Hill, North Carolina Life Saving Station. The crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. Refloated on 21 September and taken to Baltimore for repairs.[5]
Frank  United States The steamer got crowded onto a bar and sank opposite Buffalo, Iowa.[235]
Minnie Bergen  United States The schooner stranded on Sheffield Point one mile (1.6 km) east of the Quonochontaug, Rhode Island Life Saving Station and was a total loss. Her two crew made it to shore safely.[5]

19 August

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Miriam  United States The steam launch was being towed by Leah ( United States) when heavy seas broke out her windows and she began to swamp in Norton Sound three miles (4.8 km) off Stewart's Island. She was pulled close to shore sinking in six feet (1.8 m) of water.[236]
Penobscot  United States The steamer ran aground on Knife Island, Lake Superior in dense fog. Raised and repaired.[237]

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Hunter Savidge  United States The schooner capsized in a sudden storm in Lake Huron 14 miles (23 km) north north east of the Sand Beach, Michigan Life-Saving Station and sank. Five crewmen killed, five were rescued by A. McVittie.[5]

21 August

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Magic  United States The boat dragged anchor and hit a ledge on Santa Rosa Island, California and was abandoned as a total loss.[238]

22 August

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Carrie E. Phillips  United States The schooner stranded in thick fog one-quarter mile (0.40 km) west of the White Head, Maine Life-Saving Station and broke up, a total loss. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[5]
Gus Fowler  United States The passenger steamer struck a snag in the Missouri River and sank in eight feet (2.4 m) of water at Mokane, Missouri.[239]
Lem Meta  United States The lumber schooner sprung a leak and was beached four and a half miles (7.2 km) north north east of the North Beach, Maryland Life-Saving Station. The tide floated her off the beach and she capsized, a total loss. She was stripped and part of her cargo of lumber salvaged.[5]
Mayflower  United States The steamer was damaged in a collision in dense fog with Yarmouth ( United States) in Boston Harbor and was beached on Deer Island.[240]

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Henrietta Hill  United States The schooner dragged anchor in a heavy storm and went ashore three miles (4.8 km) south east of the Portsmouth, North Carolina Life-Saving Station. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. Efforts to refloat the vessel were unsuccessful, a total loss. She was stripped and abandoned on 7 September.[5]

25 August

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
C. L. Pavy  United States The steamer struck an obstruction in Bayou Lafourche and sank. Later raised[241]

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Saint James  United States The river steamer capsized and was lost in the Yukon River in the Territory of Alaska.[221]

30 August

List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Edward Rich  United States Carrying a cargo of granite paving blocks, the 79-foot (24 m), 74-gross register ton schooner sank without loss of life in up to 70 feet (21 m) of water at 42°40′39″N 070°35′25″W after striking the Sandy Bay Breakwater off Rockport, Maine, in fog.[242]
Music  United States The 93-foot (28.3 m) steam tug caught fire while tied up at a pier in Onekama, Michigan. She was cast adrift, drifted westward into Portage Lake, and sank near the middle of the lake.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Caleb Curtis  United States The schooner was lost at Nome, Territory of Alaska.[243]

September

2 September

List of shipwrecks: 2 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Morgan City  United States The steamer ran aground on Yoko Island, Japan. She was backed off but found to be leaking badly and was beached on Ino Shima and was abandoned as a total loss.[244]

3 September

List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Pointer  United States The sloop ran into tidal rips off Race Point, Massachusetts and her tender capsized and banged into her hull holing it, the leak caused her to be beached and abandoned. The two men onboard and their wives were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[5]

4 September

List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Red Cloud  United States The tow steamer was wrecked in heavy seas in Lake Erie on Cedar Point.[245]

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Douglas Houghton  United States The steamer was sunk by the barge she was towing after a steering failure at Sailor's Encampment on the St. Marys River. Raised and repaired.[246]

7 September

List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Peerless  United States The steamer, being towed by Industry ( United States), was sunk in Duluth, Minnesota harbor near the Northern Pacific Railroad bridge in a collision with the barge A. Stewart ( United States) in the tow of Buffalo ( United States).[247]

8 September

List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Annie  United States The lumber schooner sprang a leak and sank in shoal water four miles (6.4 km) west south west of the Smith Island, Virginia Life Saving Station. She was refloated and beached for repairs. She was refloated again on 17 September and taken to Norfolk, Virginia.[5]
J. N. Harbin  United States The steamer struck an obstruction and was sunk between Memphis, Tennessee and Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Raised and repaired.[248]

10 September

List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Emma  United States The steamer burned at Punta Gorda, Florida.[249]

11 September

List of shipwrecks: 11 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Arrow  United States The sloop parted her anchor cable, went ashore and was wrecked one and a half miles (2.4 km) east of the Quogue Life-Saving Station. crew rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[5]

12 September

List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Jessie Russell  United States The tow steamer sank in a collision off Pennsylvania Docks, Jersey City with Annie M. Bauer.[250]

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Duraes  Norway The steamer foundered off Elba, Italy.[251]

17 September

List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Jennie K.  United States The steamer foundered in Norton Sound between the Mouth of the Yukon River and St. Michael, Alaska.[252]
Susie  United States The steamer burned at Anacortes, Washington.[253]

19 September

List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Sudie Wayman  United States The schooner went ashore and was wrecked one mile (1.6 km) from the Atlantic City, New Jersey Life-Saving Station. Crew rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[5]

21 September

List of shipwrecks: 21 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
White Foam  United States The schooner capsized and sank in a storm in Lake Huron thirteen miles (21 km) west of the Bois Blanc, Michigan Life-Saving Station. Total loss.[5]

22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Scotsman  United Kingdom The passenger ship was wrecked in the Strait of Belle Isle with the loss of thirteen lives.[254]

24 September

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Cleveland  United States The steamer sprang a leak in heavy weather on Lake Michigan. She was towed into the Chicago River where she filled up and sank. Refloated the next day.[255][5]
G. J. Dorr  United States The steamer foundered in heavy weather between Michigan City, Illinois and South Chicago, Illinois.[256]

25 September

List of shipwrecks: 25 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Comrade  United Kingdom The schooner struck Grindstone Ledge in Fisherman's Island channel causing a severe leak. She put into Seal Harbor, Maine where she was beached. She was beached for two weeks until the tide was low enough for repairs and refloated on the next high tide.[5]

26 September

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
W. Y. Emory  United Kingdom The schooner sprung a severe leak in a gale on Lake Ontario. She anchored off Bear Creek eighteen miles (29 km) east of the Charlotte, New York Life-Saving Station, and sank the next morning, a total loss. Her crew of five was rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[5]

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Jupiter  United States The steamer sank in a collision at Atlantic Basin, Brooklyn with steamer Hustler ( United States).[257]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Laurada  United States Carrying 18 passengers, a crew of 46, and 1,200 tons of assorted cargo including cattle and sheep on deck, the 1,256-gross register ton, 230.1-foot (70.1 m) steamer was run aground without loss of life in Zapadni Bay (56°34′N 169°41′W) on St. George Island in the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea to prevent her from sinking after she sprang a leak. She became a total loss. The revenue cutter USRC Thomas Corwin ( United States Revenue Cutter Service) rescued her passengers and crew, but her entire cargo was lost.[258]

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Barge 2 (or Barge No. 2)  United States With a cargo of 200 tons of general merchandise on board, the 300-ton barge sank in a gale in the middle of St. Michael Bay (63°27′N 162°00′W) on the west-central coast of the Territory of Alaska and was deemed a total loss.[259]
Britomart  United States The sloop sprung a leak and sank on Cana Island Reef in Lake Michigan seven miles (11 km) from the Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin Life-Saving Station. Hauled up on the beach 7 October and repaired, refloated the next day.[5]
Clyde  United States The steamer struck a snag and sank. Raised 15 October and towed to Carondelet, Missouri for repairs.[260]
Nugget  United States The prospecting steamer foundered at Nome, Alaska.[261]

30 September

List of shipwrecks: 30 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
International  United Kingdom The steam cable layer came aground near Birling Gap Coastguard Station, Sussex, England, in bad weather.[262]
Music  United States The steamer burned at Onekama, Michigan.[263]

October

1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Beaver  United States The steamer foundered in a storm at St. Michael, Alaska.[264]
E. E. Frost  United States The steamer was struck from behind by New Orleans ( United States) and sank at Buffalo, New York.[265]

3 October

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Bay State  United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked near Cape Ballard, Newfoundland.[266]
Big Kanawha  United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Ohio River at Ross's Landing. Raised and repaired.[267]
Rescue  United States The steamer struck a snag in the Yazoo River at Gum Grove Landing and sank. later raised.[268]

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
City of Memphis  United States The steamer struck an obstruction and was sunk between Memphis, Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri. Raised and repaired.[269]
Dennis Valentine  United States The steamer sank at Pier 20, East River, New York when she caught fire and the ship was flooded by efforts to put out the fire.[270]
Leona  United States The steamer sank at her slip on Forth Street, Hoboken, New Jersey when a collision with a passing barge pulled stay bolts out of her hull causing her to capsize to port and sink.[271]
Maggie Ashton  United States The steamer stranded on a Reef in Lake Huron three miles (4.8 km) north east of the Grindstone City, Michigan Life-Saving Station. Crew rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. Efforts to refloat were unsuccessful and she was abandoned on 11 October, a total loss.[5]
Ralph  United States The steamer was wrecked in Winchester Bay, Oregon near the mouth of the Umpqua River. Her boiler and machinery was salvaged.[272]

8 October

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Lulu F.  United States The steamer hit the cofferdam of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge and sank at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Raised and repaired.[273]
Record  United States The tow steamer, towing James B. Neilson ( United States), was capsized and sunk when Neilson suddenly gained speed and hit the tug. One crewman killed.[274]

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
M. M. Drake  United States The steamer burned at Charlotte, New York.[275]
Thomas W. Holder  United Kingdom The schooner stranded in thick fog and high surf on a bar two miles (3.2 km) north of the Cahoon Hollow Beach Life-Saving Station, and later was pushed by waves over the bar, a total loss. Her crew of seven made it to shore in her boat with assistance by the United States Life-Saving Service.[5]

12 October

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Stone City  United States The steamer was wrecked on Little Cedar Shoal.[276]

13 October

List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Romana  United States The schooner stranded in thick fog two miles (3.2 km) west of the Gilgo, New York Life-Saving Station, She was stripped of useful items and abandoned, a total loss. Her crew walked to shore.[5]

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Nutmeg State  United States The steamer caught fire two miles (3.2 km) east of Execution Point, she was beached off Sands Point, New York. Two crewmen and possibly five passengers drowned when a lifeboat capsized.[277]
Pottsville  United States The tow steamer wrecked in thick fog on the rocks at Norwalk Lighthouse and then burned.[278]
Typo
The wreck of Typo still stands upright at the bottom of Lake Huron.

The wooden three-masted schooner was run down in Lake Huron six miles (9.7 km) east southeast of the Presque Isle Light by the steamer W. P. Ketcham. Typo sank immediately and the four crew on board drowned.[279][280]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Saint Michael #1  United States In use as a lighter with a crew of four, the 228-ton barge, with a deck load of 175 tons of general cargo, broke loose from her moorings and was wrecked at the mouth of the Snake River at Nome, Territory of Alaska, becoming a total loss. No lives were lost.[221]

18 October

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Hazel Kirke  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision off Bay Street, Jersey City, with F. W. Devoe ( United States).[281]

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Two-Forty  United States The schooner was run down and sunk by Ardandhu ( United Kingdom) in Boston Harbor in the Shipping Cannel one mile (1.6 km) north east of the City Point, Massachusetts Life-Saving Station. She was raised and repaired. One person killed, three missing. Survivors rescued by a boat from Ardandhu and the schooner James and Ella ( United States).[5]

22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
W. H. Scott  United States The steamer burned at a dock at the foot of Thirty-Second Street, South Brooklyn.[282]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Mermaid  United States The 273-ton whaling bark was lost in a storm at Dutch Harbor, Territory of Alaska. One of her crewmen perished. She was condemned, but later was rebuilt and returned to service.[283]

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Hibernia  United States The laid up steamer burned at Kleinston, Mississippi.[284]

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
George L. Colwell  United States The steamer broke up and sank in a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean off the southern seaboard. Her master was rescued by Navahoe ( United States) and landed at Charleston, South Carolina, the other 12 crewmen were lost.[285]
J. W. Somers  United States The schooner stranded one mile (1.6 km) south east of the Indian River Inlet Life-Saving Station while trying to enter the harbor. She was thrown over the bar and onto the beach by heavy seas 200 yards (180 m) south of the inlet. She was stripped and abandoned, a total loss.[5]
Roger Moore  United States The schooner stranded one mile (1.6 km) east south east of the Big Kinnakeet, North Carolina Life-Saving Station during a gale, a total loss. Crew rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[5]
Thomas Tracy  United States The tow steamer was damaged in a collision in the East River with Ferry Garden City ( United States). She sank at Washington Street Dock soon after.[286]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Chicago  United States The ferry steamer was sunk in a collision off Pier 13 in the North River with City of Augusta ( United States). Survivors rescued by various vessels. One life lost. Later raised.[287]
Falmouth  United States The schooner parted her anchor cable and stranded two miles (3.2 km) north of the Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Life-Saving Station in thick and stormy weather, a total loss. crew made it to shore on a line.[5]
Mary B. Rogers  United States The lumber schooner sprung a leak and became waterlogged three miles (4.8 km) east south east of the Jerrys Point, New Hampshire Life-Saving Station. She was beached in Portsmouth, New Hampshire for repairs.[5]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Llandaff  United Kingdom The Welsh collier was wrecked at Bude, Cornwall, England.[288]

November

1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
William H. Dunham  United States The schooner parted her moorings and went ashore at Otter Creek, Michigan in Lake Michigan in a gale. She was refloated on 13 November.[5]

2 November

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
USS Charleston  United States Navy The cruiser was wrecked on an uncharted reef off Camiguin Island in the Philippines. Her wreck was deemed beyond salvage and was abandoned.[289]
Kodiak  United States The steamer burned at Oakland Creek, California and was scuttled. Raised on 11 November.[290]

4 November

List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Plover  United Kingdom The brig stranded near the Sandy Point Island Life-Saving Station. She was refloated on 11 November. Her crew were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[5]

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Edward S. Pease  United States The steamer sank after striking a dock in a gale at Ashtabula.[291]

6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
R. Eacrett  United States During a voyage from Nome, Territory of Alaska, to San Francisco, California, the 32.11-gross register ton, 49.5-foot (15.1 m) two-masted schooner was wrecked on the eastern end of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) east of Cape Kukuliak (or "Nukuliak"). Her six-man crew made it to shore, but five of them died before the whaling bark Alaska ( United States) arrived on 1 June 1900 and picked up the last remaining survivor. He also survived the wreck of Alaska off Nome on 6 June 1900.[292][293]

8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Pottsville  United States The steamer sank in Swans Island Channel. Raised and repaired.[294]

10 November

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Belgique  Belgium Formerly called Mount Hebron, the ship foundered six nautical miles (11 km) northwest of the Casquets.[295][296]
Hattie  United States The steamer burned at Point Gadsden Light.[297]

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Duisberg  Norway The barque ran aground at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Parrsboro, Nova Scotia to The Mumbles, Glamorgan.[199]

20 November

List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Natchez  United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Mississippi River off Ford's Crossing. Later raised.[298]

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Canary  United Kingdom The schooner was in a collision with David S. Siner ( United States) near Tuckernuck Shoal and was abandoned as a loss. Her crew were rescued by David S. Siner.[5]

25 November

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Fountain  United States The steamer lost a hull plank off Westchester in the Long Island Sound and sank.[299]
Maggie J. Jory  United States The steamer sank in Hampton Roads when it came in contact with a hawser of tow tug Volunteer ( United States). One life lost.[300]

27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Adventure  United States The 12-ton, 37.4-foot (11.4 m) schooner dragged her anchors, drifted ashore, and became a total loss at Point Arden (58°09′30″N 134°10′30″W) off Admiralty Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. All four people on board – three men and a woman – survived.[301]

29 November

List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Columbia River Lightship No. 50 United States Lighthouse Service The lightship parted her moorings and drifted out to sea. She was towed back but broke her tow cable crossing the bar and went ashore near McKinzie Head. The crew of eight was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service, troops of Battery M, 3rd Artillery, and citizens of Fort Stevens. After many failed salvage attempts she was moved overland by a house moving company and refloated in Baker's Bay, Washington on 2 June 1901, repaired and returned to service.[5][302]

30 November

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Clara  United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with Ericcson ( United States) off Thompson's Point in the Delaware River. Her captain was rescued by Ericcson, but three crewmen lost.[303]
Eureka  United States The schooner suffered loss of part of her sails crossing the Coquille River Bar and went ashore one mile (1.6 km) from the Coquille River Life Saving Station. She broke up after being stripped.[5]

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
New March  United States The ferry burned at Badgers Island, Maine.[304]
Wecott  United States The steamer was wrecked when she suffered machinery failure while crossing the Humboldt Bay Bar, Ship and cargo were a total loss. One passenger and one crewman killed, 8 survivors made it so shore on their own, and 14 were helped off by the United States Life-Saving Service.[305][5]

2 December

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Pottsville  United States The steamer sank in Swans Island Channel. Raised and repaired.[306]

3 December

List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Ismore  United Kingdom The 7,744 GRT cargo ship on her passage from Birkenhead to Cape Town with a cargo of horses, military stores and ammunition as well as 455 men of the British Armed forces went aground on submerged rocks near Cape Columbine, and broke apart the next day. There were no casualties.

7 December

List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Annie M. Bauer  United States The tow steamer sank at her dock on Main Street, Brooklyn, New York. Later raised.[307]

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Lillie M. Barlow  United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Cane River off Derry Landing, Louisiana. Later raised.[308]

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Colusa  United States During a voyage from Kahului, Maui, Hawaii, to Sitka Sound in Southeast Alaska, the bark was wrecked without loss of life on rocks in Sitka Sound during a storm. Her captain, his wife, and her crew of 13 abandoned ship and reached Sitka, Territory of Alaska, on 16 December.[243]

13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Pacific  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with Charlie Clark ( United States) near Jacks Run in the Ohio River.[309]

14 December

List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Rillie S. Derby  United States The schooner stranded and sank on Hog Island Shoals four miles (6.4 km) from shore in a fresh wind and heavy seas, total loss Her crew of seven were rescued by United States Life-Saving Service.[5]

18 December

List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
State of Kansas  United States The steamer burned at New Madrid, Missouri.[310]

23 December

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Laura Marion  United States The steamer swamped trying to cross the Bar at the entrance to the Merrimack River in heavy seas. Her wreckage washed ashore the next day. Her boiler and part of the engine was salvaged. Her crew of 3 all died.[5]

24 December

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Ariosto  United Kingdom The steamer stranded 2 or 6 miles (3.2 or 9.7 km) south west of the Ocracoke, North Carolina Life Saving Station in thick weather, became a total loss. Her cargo was salvaged. 21 of her crew died, when her boat capsized. Three of the crew dumped in the water and six who had stayed on the ship were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[5][311]

26 December

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Lakme  United States The steamer caught fire at Astoria, Oregon and was scuttled.[312]
M. J. Soley  United Kingdom The schooner stranded three miles (4.8 km) north north west of the Crumple Island, Maine Life Saving Station on Brig Ledge. She slid off the Ledge and sank in 6 fathoms (36 ft; 11 m) of water. Her wreck was sold to a salvage company that raised her. Her crew were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. [5]

27 December

List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Frank Thomson  United States The launch was destroyed by fire at Brighton, Massachusetts.[313]

29 December

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Laura Marion  United States The tow steamer foundered on the bar at the entrance to the Merrimack River in a gale. Lost with all three hands.[314]
Linda  United States The steamer was destroyed by fire in the Red River. Five crewmen killed.[315]

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Thomas A. Hendricks  United States The steamer burned in the Mississippi River near Prophet's Island.[316]
Rabboni  United States The schooner dismasted in a gale in Long Island Sound then dragged anchor into shallows 12 miles (19 km) west of the Rocky Point, New York Life Saving Station. Her wreckage washed ashore the next day, a total loss. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[5]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Alaska Union  United States The 214-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer dragged her anchors during a gale in Norton Sound off the northeast coast of St. Michael Island off the west coast of the Territory of Alaska and was stranded. Her crew survived, but she became a total loss.[301]
Arcade  United States The steamer was wrecked at St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, during a storm. She became a total loss[301]
Mockingbird  United States The vessel was lost in the harbor at Dyea, Territory of Alaska.[283]
W. K. Merwin  United States The steamer was blown ashore and wrecked near Nome, Territory of Alaska, near the mouth of the Snake River, or in Norton Sound near the mouth of the Yukon River on 10 August 1900, or 28 July 1900 or sometime in December 1899/January 1900.[317][318][319]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Aji Unknown The schooner was lost on Island Beach on the coast of New Jersey.[320]
Frank A. Palmer  United States The four-masted schooner grounded near Tathem's life-saving station in New Jersey. She was refloated on 23 July and returned to service.
James H. Hamilton  United States The sternwheel paddle steamer was wrecked on a sand bar on the Yukon River in the Territory of Alaska, breaking her keel and becoming a total loss.[188]
Karluk  United States The launch was wrecked on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska near Cape Karluk (57°35′10″N 154°30′50″W).[321]
Merrimac  United Kingdom The cargo ship foundered with the loss of all 36 crew whilst on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Belfast, County Antrim.[322]
N A T & T Co. No. 3  United States The 120-ton barge sank in the waters of the Territory of Alaska. Contemporary sources disagree on the location of the sinking, reporting it as taking place both at Tugidak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago in the Gulf of Alaska and at St. Michael on the Bering Sea coast.[323]
Politkofsky  United States Carrying a cargo of coal, the 174.89-ton fuel barge went aground at Nome, Territory of Alaska, and was broken up by the surf.[324]
Zaragoza  Spanish Navy The decommissioned torpedo training ship, a former armored frigate, was scuttled.[325]

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Ship events in 1899
Ship launches: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
Ship commissionings: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
Ship decommissionings: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
Shipwrecks: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
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