List of shipwrecks in 1875

The list of shipwrecks in 1875 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1875.

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1875
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January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Surprize  United Kingdom The pilot cutter foundered in the Bristol Channel off Ilfracombe, Devon. Two crew were rescued by the schooner Britannia ( Sweden).[1]

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Britannia  Sweden The schooner ran aground at Port Eynon, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[1]

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Marie Reine  France The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[2]

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Georgia Canada Canada The steamship foundered off Maine, United States.

February

14 February

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Floresta  United Kingdom The 299 ton Sunderland barque grounded on the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall in fog and quickly sank; her crew of ten were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the St Malo lugger Josephine.[3]

16 February

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1875
ShipCountryDescription
SS Havre  United Kingdom the LSWR Channel Packet from Southampton, founders on Platte Boue rock, 92 survivors. Passengers put ashore on Amfroque; wreck found lying across that of the PSS Waverley ( United Kingdom), which had hit the same rock in 1873.[4][5][6]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Gothenburg  United Kingdom
Artist's impression of the wreck of SS Gothenburg.
The McMerkan, Blackwood and Company steamship foundered off the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. At least 98 lives lost.

March

9 March

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Columbus  United States Accidentally rammed and sunk by the White Star Line ocean liner Adriatic ( United Kingdom) in the Crosby Channel at Liverpool.

May

7 May

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Schiller  Germany The German Transatlantic Steam Navigation Line owned ocean liner ran aground in fog on the Retarrier Ledges, Isles of Scilly, with the loss of 335 lives.[7]

June

13 June

List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Geffrard  Australia The Fred Davis (Melbourne)-owned brig run aground on a sandbank after the anchor chain parted off Quindalup, Western Australia.[8]

18 June

List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1875
ShipCountryDescription
USS Saranac  United States Navy The sloop-of-war was wrecked on the submerged Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows off Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada.

24 June

List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Caroline Phillips  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all four crew.[1]

July

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Forfait  French Navy
An artist′s impression of Forfait sinking.
The screw corvette sank without loss of life in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the east coast of Corsica after colliding with the ironclad central battery ship Jeanne d'Arc ( French Navy) during naval exercises.[9]

August

18 August

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Mistletoe  United Kingdom The schooner sank with the loss of three lives after colliding with the royal yacht HMY Alberta ( Royal Navy) in the Solent. Alberta rescued Mistletoe′s survivors.[10]

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Comet  United States The W. M. Hanna and George W. Chapin (Cleveland, Ohio)-owned commercial wooden propeller collided with the Manitoba (flag unknown) at Whitefish Bay of Lake Superior and sank. Ten lives were lost.

September

1 September

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1875
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Vanguard  Royal Navy
An 1887 illustration of HMS Vanguard (right) sinking. HMS Iron Duke is at left.
The Audacious-class central battery ironclad sank after a collision with the central battery ironclad HMS Iron Duke ( Royal Navy) near Kish Bank, Ireland.

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Ellen Southard  United States
The wreck of Ellen Southard.
The full-rigged ship, owned by T. J. Southard of Maine, was wrecked in a hurricane at the mouth of the River Mersey, Liverpool, England. The United States Congress awarded 27 first-class gold Lifesaving Medals to the local lifeboat men.

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Edith  United Kingdom The London and North Western Railway paddle steamer sank after a collision with the paddle steamer Duchess of Sutherland ( United Kingdom) off Holyhead, Wales. She was salvaged in 1877, rebuilt and returned to service.[11]

October

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Cornelia  Belgium The fishing trawler was struck by Khedive and sunk in the River Scheldt, near Bath, Netherlands.[12] Khedive was undergoing sea trials prior to delivery.

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Magenta  French Navy An accidental nighttime galley fire aboard the Magenta-class broadside ironclad while she was in port at Toulon, France, spread out of control and reached her after ammunition magazine, causing her to explode and sink 2 hours 55 minutes after the fire broke out.[13]

November

6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Pacific  United States The paddle steamer sank after colliding with Orpheus (flag unknown) off Cape Flattery, United States. At least 318 lives lost.

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Alberta  United Kingdom The schooner foundered off Cardigan. Her crew survived.[14]

9 November

List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1875
ShipCountryDescription
City of Waco  United States The Mallory Line (New York) steamship sank after an on-board fire off Galveston, Texas, with the loss of 56 lives.

19 November

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Johanna Antoinette  Netherlands The three-masted schooner was lost off Cardigan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[14]
Saladin  Netherlands The two-masted schooner was wrecked at Cardigan.[14]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Foscolo  Kingdom of Italy The 452-ton ship from Naples struck the Seven Stones Reef while bound from Montevideo for Dundee with scrap iron and bones. She managed to reach Crow Bar in the Isles of Scilly and sank in the shallows. She was later refloated.[3]

December

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Deutschland  Germany
The wreck of Deutschland.
The Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship was wrecked on Kentish Knock sandbank with the loss of 78 lives.

22 December

List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1875
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Goliath  Royal Navy The Vanguard-class ship of the line, in use as a pauper training ship for workhouse boys, was destroyed by fire at Grays, Essex, England.[15] Of the approximately 500 on board, 23 of the boys were killed.
Jenny  Russia The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Pilton, Devon, United Kingdom and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Pensacola, Florida, United States to Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.[1]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Khedive  Belgium The A Smyers & Co.-owned cargo ship ran aground off Ameland, Netherlands. She was on her maiden voyage. She was eventually refloated on 31 December and towed to London by Cambria (flag unknown). Repaired and returned to service.[12]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875
ShipCountryDescription
Dunbrody  United Kingdom The barque foundered off Labrador, Canada.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  4. ↑ "1875".
  5. ↑ YvesDufiel (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche.
  6. ↑ "WRECKS of the _Havre_, off Guernsey". The Times. 17 February 1875. p. 5d.
  7. ↑ "Museum News". Scilly Up To Date. April 1999. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
  8. ↑ Wikisource link to Inquiry into the shipwreck of 'Geffrard'. Busselton, Western Australia: Court of Inquiry. Wikisource. 1875.
  9. ↑ dawlishchronicles.blogspot.com The ramming of the Forfait by the Jeanne d’Arc, 1875
  10. ↑ Poole Museum Society Blog: The Fate of the Mistletoe
  11. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  12. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  13. ↑ Gardiner, Robert, ed., Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 287.
  14. 1 2 3 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  15. ↑ The Times (London), Thursday, 23 December 1875, p.5
Ship events in 1875
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Ship commissionings: 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880
Ship decommissionings: 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880
Shipwrecks: 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880
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