List of shipwrecks in 1874

The list of shipwrecks in 1874 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1874.

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1874
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec

January

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1874
ShipCountryDescription
Sherman  United States The steamer sprang a leak and sank off Cape Fear, North Carolina.

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1874
ShipCountryDescription
Minnehaha  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked off Peninnis Head, Isles of Scilly with the loss of ten of her crew. She was on a voyage from Peru to Dublin.

March

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1874
ShipCountryDescription
Enterprise  Belgium Stranded off Brouwershaven, Netherlands and broke her back. Declared a total loss.[1]

April

1 April

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1874
ShipCountryDescription
Kron Prinz  Germany Grounded on the outside of a narrow channel around a tight bend, whilst entering the River Avon to Bristol. Then fell over as the tide ebbed, and blocked the river channel. Demasted to clear the channel, then refloated three weeks later and repaired.[2][3][4]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1874
ShipCountryDescription
Alma  Norway The ship was wrecked on the Sizewell Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, United Kingdom. All thirteen people on board were rescued by the Aldeburgh Lifeboat and the Southwold Lifeboat.[5]

16 April

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1874
ShipCountryDescription
Nederland  Belgium Stranded off New Jersey, United States. Refloated on 18 April.[6]

20 April

List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1874
ShipCountryDescription
Rydall Hall Unknown The 1,780-ton ship sank despite being taken in tow by the Queen of the Bay while off the Seven Stones Reef. She lost most of her head gear while on her maiden voyage from San Francisco with a general cargo. The packet ship received £150.[7]

May

10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1874
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Endymion  Royal Navy The screw frigate ran aground in Palermo Bay, Sicily. Refloated and sailed to Cagliari, Sardinia, for assessment.
HMS Narcissus  Royal Navy The screw frigate ran aground in Palermo Bay, Sicily, suffering moderate damage. Refloated and sailed to Cagliari, Sardinia, for assessment.

21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1874
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Niobe  Royal Navy
The wreck of Niobe (center). Illustration from the Illustrated London News, 18 July 1874.
The screw sloop-of-war was wrecked in fog off Miquelon Island with the loss of one life. The gunvessel HMS Woodlark = Royal Navy) saved the rest of her crew.[8][9][10]

June

19 June

List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1874
ShipCountryDescription
Flying Cloud  United Kingdom The clipper ran aground on Beach Island Bar, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, a total loss.

30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1874
ShipCountryDescription
L'Hermitte  French Navy
HMS Dido (left) assisting the wrecked L′Hermitte (right). (Illustration from the Illustrated London News, 1874.)
The unprotected cruiser was wrecked on a reef off Wallis Island with the loss of two lives. The screw sloop-of-war HMS Dido ( Royal Navy) arrived to assist her survivors on 20 July.[11]
Nick King  United Kingdom The sidewheel paddle steamer sank near Darien, Georgia, and the mouth of the Altamaha River.[12]

July

23 July

List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1874
ShipCountryDescription
Mary  United Kingdom The sloop was run down and sunk off St Anne's Head, Pembrokeshire with the loss of all hands.[13]

August

23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1874
ShipCountryDescription
City of Adelaide  United Kingdom
City of Adelaide stranded on Kirkcaldy Beach
The clipper was stranded on Kirkcaldy Beach, South Australia. Refloated 4 September and returned to service.

September

8 September

List of shipwrecks: 8 September1874
ShipCountryDescription
D. R. Owen  United States The schooner sank in a storm in the Chequamegon Bay area of Lake Superior east of Ashland, Wisconsin, near the mouth of the Bad River. Her crew survived.

November

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1874
ShipCountryDescription
Cospatrick  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship caught fire and sank off the Cape of Good Hope with the loss of 469 lives. Only three people survived.

December

3 December

List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1874
ShipCountryDescription
Dextrous  United Kingdom The schooner was struck by the brig Alfred ( United Kingdom) and foundered in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by Aneroid ( United Kingdom).[14]

9 December

List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1874
ShipCountryDescription
Centaur Unknown The brig struck the southern section of Marmion Reef north of Perth, Western Australia, and sank. All 13 people on board, including noted politician and lawyer Septimus Burt, survived.

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1874
ShipCountryDescription
Corsair  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Seatown, Dorset.[15]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  2. ↑ "SS Idraet (+1899)". Wrecksite.
  3. ↑ David Large, ed. (1984). "Docks Committee Minutes 1848-1884". The Port Of Bristol 1848-1884 (PDF). Bristol Record Society. pp. 120–121.
  4. ↑ "Wreck of the Kron Prinz in the Avon". Flickr. 1874.
  5. ↑ Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  7. ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  8. ↑ Anonymous, "Wreck of H.M. S. Niobe," Illustrated London News, July 18, 1974, p. 80.
  9. ↑ battleships-cruisers.co.uk List of Royal Navy Cruisers from 1876 -1945
  10. ↑ The Annual Register: A Review of Public Events At Home and Abroad For the Year 1874, London: Rivingtons, 1875, pp. 55-56.
  11. ↑ Anonymous, "Wreck of a French Warship," Illustrated London News, Volume 65, p. 301.
  12. ↑ Gaines, p. 6.
  13. ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  14. ↑ Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  15. ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.

Bibliography

Ship events in 1874
Ship launches: 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
Ship commissionings: 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
Ship decommissionings: 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
Shipwrecks: 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
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