List of shipwrecks in 1897
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The list of shipwrecks in 1897 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1897.
1897 | |||
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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
January
2 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Commodore | United States | The steamboat was wrecked off the coast of Florida with the loss of one life. |
14 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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RIMS Warren Hastings | Royal Navy | The troopship was wrecked off the coast of Réunion with the loss of two lives. |
February
2 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Imbros | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground on the Helwick Bank, in the Bristol Channel. She was subsequently refloated and beached at The Mumbles, Glamorgan.[1] |
12 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Rapid | United Kingdom | The ketch ran aground and was wrecked at Cardigan.[2] |
April
7 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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James and Agnes | United Kingdom | The schooner struck the Scarweather Sands, in the Bristol Channel and was consequently beached in Black Rock Bay. Her five crew were rescued.[1] |
16 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ibex | United Kingdom | The GWR-owned ship struck the Noirmontaise rocks off Jersey, Channel Islands and was beached in Portlet Bay, Jersey. She was refloated and re-entered service. |
29 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ada | New South Wales | The ketch was wrecked at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Barga | Belgium | The steamer was declared missing, having departed Huelva, Spain, for Antwerp, Belgium, on 30 March.[3] |
May
1 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ability | New South Wales | The ketch was driven ashore along with four other ships at Cape Hawke Bay, Australia, during a storm. |
3 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bruxelles | Belgium | The steamer ran aground on St. Pierre Island, Seychelles, a total loss.[3] |
June
12 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Gangut | Imperial Russian Navy | The coast defense ship struck an uncharted rock and sank in the Gulf of Finland. |
16 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Foudroyant | United Kingdom |
July
5 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Heathmore | United Kingdom | The Liverpool steamer ran into the Seven Stones Reef at full speed while en route from Santander to Glasgow with 2,400 tons of iron-ore. She floated clear at 8 am and anchored two miles away with the crew pumping water all day. By evening they took to the boats and were picked up by the Lady of the Isles as Heathmore sank in 40 fathoms (73 m).[4] |
20 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Concha | Belgium | The steamer collided with Saint Fillans ( United Kingdom) off the Owers Lightship, English Channel and sank.[3] |
26 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Advance | New South Wales | While anchored off New South Wales, Australia, in Botany Bay at the entrance to Cooks River, the schooner was driven ashore on Lady Robinsons Beach during a fierce squall after her port anchor chain parted and she dragged her starboard anchor chain. She was refloated, repaired, and returbed to service. |
August
9 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Oakland | New South Wales | The passenger cargo ship ran aground on the bar at Ballina, New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. |
September
29 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Lynx | Royal Navy | The Ferret-class destroyer ran aground on Dodman Point, Cornwall, England, in fog. She managed to refloat herself and limped to Devonport.[5] |
HMS Thrasher | Royal Navy | The Quail-class destroyer ran aground on Dodman Point, Cornwall, England, in fog. She was escorted to Falmouth, Cornwall, and eventually made it to Devonport for repairs.[5] |
October
16 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pelican | United Kingdom | The steamer was last sighted on this date. She then disappeared.[3] |
November
23 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Flirt | United Kingdom | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Burton Bradstock, Dorset with the loss of three of her six crew.[6] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Innisfallen | United Kingdom | The ship sank in a storm in the English Channel near the Goodwin Sands with the loss of eight lives. |
December
2 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Friend to all Nations | United Kingdom | The Margate surfboat capsized with the loss of nine of her 13 crew.[7] She was going to the assistance of Persian Empire ( United Kingdom).[8] |
Persian Empire | United Kingdom | The ship collided with a steamship and was beached on the Margate Sands, Kent. Her crew were rescued by the lifeboat Quiver ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution.[8] |
Prince Albert de Belgique | Belgium | The steamer collided at Antwerp, Belgium, with the sailing ship Larnaca ( United Kingdom) and sank. She was raised on 6 July 1900.[9] |
30 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Clarissa Radcliffe | United Kingdom | The 2,544 grt steamer was on a voyage from Odessa to Rotterdam with a cargo of grain. The vessel met a gale off Cape St Vincent, the cargo shifted and the vessel sank with the loss of sixteen lives |
References
- 1 2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
- ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
- 1 2 "Bad day for trio of destroyers". Falmouth Packet. 29 March 2006. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ↑ "Extract from The Burton and Shipton Gorge Parish Magazine Vol XXVlll December 1898". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ Bob Ogley, Ian Currie and Mark Davison (1991). The Kent Weather Book. Brasted Chart: Froglets Publications Ltd. p. 22. ISBN 1-872337-35-X.
- 1 2 Bignell, Alan (2001). Kent Shipwrecks (Second ed.). Newbury: Countryside Books. pp. 57–62. ISBN 1 85306 719 9.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
Ship events in 1897 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 |
Ship commissionings: | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 |
Shipwrecks: | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 |
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