List of shipwrecks in 1887

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The list of shipwrecks in 1887 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1887.

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1887
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January

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Nor  Norway The schooner-rigged steamship was wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[1]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Ella  Sweden The wooden barque Ella, built in 1851, was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden, to Liverpool, England, with a cargo of pit props when she ran aground and was wrecked in Belgrave Bay (Belle Grève), Guernsey, Channel Islands. There were no casualties.[2] [3]

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Bolina  United Kingdom The Caernarvon schooner was carrying slate from Portmadoc, Wales, to London when she sank south of Gugh, Isles of Scilly, during an easterly gale.[4]

16 January

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Caterina  Italy The barque was wrecked on the Nash Sands in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all 13 people on board.[5]

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Argus  United Kingdom The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Llangenneth, Glamorgan. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Lannion, Côtes du Nord, France to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[5]

20 January

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Kapunda  United Kingdom The London-based three-masted emigrant ship collided with the barque Ada Melmore (flag unknown) off Brazil and sank with the loss of 299 lives.[6]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Ribble  United Kingdom The ship was in collision with the ship Coniston Fell ( United Kingdom in the Bristol Channel and sank with the loss of two of her seven crew. Survivors were rescued by the lifeboat Wolverhampton II ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Coniston Fell was beached at The Mumbles, Glamorgan, Wales.[5]

29 January

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Brighton  United Kingdom The paddle steamer was on voyage from Weymouth, Dorset, England, to Guernsey, Channel Islands, when, steaming faster than her crew thought, she hit a rock in fog north of Guernsey and foundered. There was no loss of life. [7] [8]

February

1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Hermes  United Kingdom The brigantine foundered off Île Vierge, France.[9]

March

22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Prophete Elie  France The brig was driven ashore at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew survived.[5]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1887
ShipCountryDescription
City of Exeter  United Kingdom The steamship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, Devon, England, with the loss of 16 of her 19 crew.[5]

May

19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Celtic  United Kingdom The ocean liner collided with the ocean liner Britannic ( United Kingdom) 350 nautical miles (650 km) east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States. Both ships were damaged and 12 people were killed on board Britannic. Both ships were escorted to New York City.

June

8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Castleford  United Kingdom The ship struck the Crebawethans, Isles of Scilly, in dense fog, and led to some of her cargo of 450 cattle being landed on Annet and staying there for up to ten days.[10] Some of the cattle were shipped to Falmouth, Cornwall, England, and dead steers later washed up as far away as Penzance and Lelant, Cornwall.[11]

27 June

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Star of Scotia  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was wrecked on Bull Point, Falkland Islands with the loss of seven lives. She was on a voyage from San Francisco, California, United States to Queenstown, County Cork and London.[12]

July

9 July

List of shipwrecks: 9 July 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Barremann  United Kingdom The Glasgow sailing ship hit the Pollard Rock within the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall with the loss of all of the twenty-seven crew. The 1,400-ton ship was on voyage from South Shields to San Francisco with coal, pig-iron and cement.[13]

August

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1887
ShipCountryDescription
City of Ashland  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer burned and sank in Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior, off Ashland, Wisconsin, with the loss of one life.

10 August

List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1887
ShipCountryDescription
City of Montreal  United Kingdom
City of Montreal.
The Inman Line passenger steamer caught fire and sank in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, 400 nautical miles (740 km) from Newfoundland. All 245 passengers and crew were rescued.[14]

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Jane Sophia  United Kingdom The crew of the Plymouth schooner was saved after she sank following a collision with the steamer Zenobia (flag unknown) in the Atlantic Ocean near the Seven Stones Reef between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall, England.[11]

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1887
ShipCountryDescription
King George  United Kingdom The fishing trawler struck the Black Rocks and sank in West Bay, Dorset, England.[1]

September

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Earl of Jersey  United Kingdom The four-masted full-rigged ship ran aground in the Chittagong River, India, and was declared a total loss.[15]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1887
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Wasp  Royal Navy The Bramble-class gunboat disappeared with the loss of all hands after departing Singapore on 10 September for a voyage to Shanghai, China.

October

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Mary Blundell  United Kingdom The barque caught fire in the Yarra River, Victoria, Australia.[16]

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Kameruka  United Kingdom The Illawarra & South Coast Steam Navigation Company′s 515-gross register ton steamship was wrecked on Pedro Rocks, Moruya Heads, New South Wales, Australia.[17]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Cheviot  Victoria The screw steamer ran aground in Port Philip Bay, Victoria, Australia, and wrecked with the loss of 35 lives.

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Ada and Ethel  New South Wales The schooner was wrecked 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) south of Seal Rocks, New South Wales, Australia.

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Flower of May  United Kingdom The schooner foundered in Morecambe Bay, England. Three crew were rescued.[18]

November

1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Happy Go Lucky  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore on the Isle of Whithorn, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.[19]
Helvetia  Norway The barque was on a voyage from Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada, to Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, when she was wrecked in Rhossili Bay, Wales. A crew member was rescued by breeches buoy, the rest reaching safety in the ship′s boat.[5]
Robert Preston  United Kingdom The brigantine was driven ashore on the Isle of Whithorn, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.[19]

16 November

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Tom Roberts  United Kingdom The schooner foundered off Ballaugh, Isle of Man. All four crew were saved.[20]

December

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Brighouse  United Kingdom The 604-ton iron steamer was on passage from Bordeaux, France, to Cardiff, Wales, with a cargo of pitwood when she hit the Seven Stones Reef west-northwest of Land's End, Cornwall, England, in fog and sank. Her crew took to the lifeboats and had to stay for two weeks on the Sevenstones Lightship.[11]

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Alice Fisher  United Kingdom The schooner foundered in the Crosby Channel in the Mersey Estuary.[21]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Renown  Germany The barque sank off Den Helder, North Holland, the Netherlands. Five crew were killed, 25 were rescued.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1887
ShipCountryDescription
Hallowe'en  United Kingdom The clipper was wrecked off Salcombe, Devon, England.
Wan Nien Ch'ing  Imperial Chinese Navy The sloop-of-war was sunk in a collision.[22]

References

  1. 1 2 "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "SV Ella [+1887]". wrecksite.eu.
  3. ↑ Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
  4. ↑ Larn, Richard (1971). Cornish Shipwrecks – The Isles of Scilly. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Great Disaster At Sea Loss Of Two Or Three Hundred Lives". Illustrated London News. February 5, 1887. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
  7. ↑ "PSS Brighton [+1887] document". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 Aug 2015.
  8. ↑ "Wreck Report for 'Brighton', 1887] document". plimsoll.org.
  9. ↑ "Hermes". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  10. ↑ Gurney (1889) "Notes on the Isles of Scilly and the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus anglorum)"; Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. In: Parslow, R. (2007) The Isles of Scilly. London: HarperCollins
  11. 1 2 3 Larn, Richard (1992). Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  12. ↑ "Star of Scotia". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  13. ↑ Noall, Cyril (1968). Cornish Lights and Shipwrecks. Truro: D. Bradford Barton.
  14. ↑ "'City of Montreal'". PortCities Southampton. London: Board of Trade. 1887. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  15. ↑ "Earl of Jersey". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  16. ↑ "Mary Blundell". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  17. ↑ Cameron, Stuart; Biddulph, Bruce; Robinson, George. "SS Bega". Clydebuilt Database. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  18. ↑ "Flower of May". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  19. 1 2 "Robert Preston". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  20. ↑ "Tom Roberts". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  21. ↑ "Alice Fisher". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  22. ↑ Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 398.].
Ship events in 1887
Ship launches: 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892
Ship commissionings: 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892
Ship decommissionings: 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892
Shipwrecks: 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892
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