List of shipwrecks in 1886
The list of shipwrecks in 1886 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1886.
1886 | |||
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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
Unknown date |
January
30 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fulmar | United Kingdom | The cargo ship, transporting coal from Troon, Scotland, to Limerick, Ireland, sank in Farrihy Bay, just north of Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland. All 17 aboard died, and only one body was recovered.[1] |
February
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hope | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground at Port Eynon Point, Glamorgan, Wales, and was abandoned by her crew. She was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[2] |
March
6 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Xanthippe | United Kingdom | The brig ran aground at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan, Wales, and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Port Talbot, Glamorgan.[2] |
14 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Charles H. Morse | United States | The schooner disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean near New York City. She probably was the schooner the passenger liner Oregon ( United Kingdom) – en route from Liverpool, England, to New York – collided with at 04:30 just 15 nautical miles (28 km) from New York. The schooner Oregon hit sank almost immediately with the loss of all hands.[3] |
Oregon | United Kingdom | The ocean liner, en route from Liverpool, England, to New York City, sank in the Atlantic Ocean after colliding at 04:30 just 15 nautical miles (28 km) from New York with a schooner. The schooner she hit – probably Charles H. Morse ( United States) – sank almost immediately with the loss of all hands.[3] |
April
11 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Taiaroa | United Kingdom | The schooner-rigged coastal steamer was wrecked on the coast of New Zealand′s South Island near the mouth of the Clarence River with the loss of 36 of the 50 people on board. |
May
13 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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President | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground off Cardigan, Wales. Her three crew were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). President was later refloated and taken in to Cardigan.[4] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ly-ee-Moon | New South Wales | The Australasian Steam Navigation Company steamship was wrecked off Green Cape, New South Wales, Australia, on a voyage from Melbourne to Sydney with the loss of 71 lives.[5] |
June
5 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alpha | United States | The paddle tug was destroyed by fire. |
July
16 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Prince of Wales | Flag unknown | The steam tug sank after colliding with the ship Peterborough (flag unknown) off Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Peterborough was towed into port by the steam tug Kate ( United Kingdom). |
September
28 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Suffolk | United Kingdom | The steamship was wrecked in fog on the eastern side of Lizard Point, Cornwall, England. The 45 people aboard were saved.[6] |
October
8 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Agnes | United Kingdom | The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked in Caswell Bay off Wales. Her crew survived.[2] |
14 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Malleny | United Kingdom | The ship was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when she struck the Tusker Rock in the Bristol Channel and foundered with the loss of all 20 crew. The wreck came ashore at Westward Ho!, Devon, England.[2] |
15 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ben-y-Gloe | United Kingdom | The ship was on a voyage from Singapore to Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales, when she capsized off Nash Point, Glamorgan, Wales. Her crew survived.[2] |
Ocean Beauty | United Kingdom | The barque was driven ashore at Aberavon, Glamorgan, Wales, with the loss of two of her 15 crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, to Valparaíso, Chile.[2] |
16 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Albert Wilhelm | Germany | The brig sank at Hayle Towans, Cornwall, England.[7] |
17 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sarah Anderson | United Kingdom | The ship sank at Trebarwith Strand, near Tintagel, Cornwall, England, with the loss of all on board.[8] |
24 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Normanton | United Kingdom | The cargo ship was wrecked in heavy wind and rain off the coast of what is now Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. The European officers and crew abandoned ship and reached safety, leaving the 12 Chinese and Indian crewman and all 25 Japanese passengers behind to fend for themselves. All the Japanese passengers died. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Boswedden | United Kingdom | The iron barque was lost off Hartland Point, Devon, England. All that was found was a brass bound bucket on Lundy and a writing desk washed up near Ilfracombe.[9] |
November
18 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lucerne | United States | The schooner sank in Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior, off the north side of Long Island at La Pointe, Wisconsin, with the loss of all hands. |
20 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Thames | United Kingdom | The schooner was on a voyage from Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, to Bilbao, Spain, when she struck the Scarweather Sands in the Bristol Channel and consequently foundered off The Mumbles, Glamorgan. Her crew survived.[2] |
December
9 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alliance | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the seaward side of the Albert Pier, Penzance, Cornwall, England.[9] |
Eliza Fernley | Royal National Lifeboat Institution | After launching from Southport, England, the lifeboat capsized during a gale in the Irish Sea with the loss of 14 of her 16 crew while trying to reach the crew of the barque Mexico ( Germany), which had wrecked off Southport. |
Laura Janet | Royal National Lifeboat Institution | After launching from St Annes, England, the lifeboat capsized during a gale in the Irish Sea with the loss of all 13 of her crew while trying to reach the crew of the barque Mexico ( Germany), which had wrecked off Southport, England. |
Mexico | Germany |
24 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Annie C. Maguire | United Kingdom | Sailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, the three-masted barque struck the ledge at Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Today, letters painted on the rocks below the lighthouse commemorate the wreck and the Christmas Eve rescue of her crew. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unebi | Imperial Japanese Navy | The cruiser disappeared without trace in the South China Sea with the loss of all hands. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Allahabad | United Kingdom | The iron sailing ship was on a voyage from Glasgow, Scotland, to Dunedin, New Zealand, with a cargo primarily of coal when she disappeared without trace after last being spoken to by the crew of the ship South Australian (flag unknown) in the Atlantic Ocean at 29°S 28°W / 29°S 28°W on 4 September. |
Boyne | United Kingdom | The sailing ship was wrecked without loss of life on False Point on the coast of India during a voyage from Suva, Fiji, to Calcutta, India. |
Young America | United States | Bound from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Fiume, the clipper ship disappeared without trace after passing the Delaware Breakwater outbound on 17 February. |
References
- ↑ "Fulmar Report". Irishshipwrecks.com. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- 1 2 Flayhart, William Henry (2003). Disasters at Sea. New York: W.W. Norton.
- ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ "Shipwreck and Great Loss of Life". News. The Times (31774). London. 1 June 1886. col F, p. 11.
- ↑ Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 15
- ↑ Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 30
- ↑ "Wreck Report for 'Sarah Anderson', 1887". Plimsoll. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
- 1 2 Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. A History. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
Ship events in 1886 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 |
Ship commissionings: | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 |
Shipwrecks: | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 |
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