List of shipwrecks in 1896
The list of shipwrecks in 1896 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1896.
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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
Unknown date |
January
1 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ealing | The ship ran aground off Isaacs Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, with the loss of eighteen of her 27 crew. She was on a voyage from Pelley Island, Newfoundland to New York, United States.[1] |
6 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Emperor of St. John | The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged south of Cape George, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec to Guysboro, Nova Scotia.[2] |
February
29 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ailsa | The steamer was rammed and sunk by the French liner La Bourgogne while anchored at the entrance to New York Harbor in fog. All on board were rescued.[3] |
March
2 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Rosstrevor | The passenger-cargo ship grounded at Carlingford Lough. Refloated on 7 March, repaired and returned to service.[4] |
6 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Volo | During a voyage from Goteburg, Sweden, to Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa, with a cargo of Baltic pine timber, the barque was wrecked without loss of life on the coast of South Africa near the mouth of the Bushman River. |
April
10 April
11 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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SMS S48 | The torpedo boat sank with the loss of five lives after colliding during a storm with the torpedo boat SMS S46 ( |
May
22 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Belgravia | The ocean liner ran aground in heavy fog on Saints Rest Beach shortly after departing Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, without loss of life. She was declared a total loss. |
June
5 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Princesse Clementine | The steamship collided with the sailing ship Axel Wästfelt ( | |
Drummond Castle | The steamer ran aground at Ushant, France, and sank with the loss of 242 crew and passengers. |
July
10 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Audacieux | The torpedo boat sank after a collision.[10] |
13 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Immanuel | The ship was wrecked in the Teifi Estuary.[11] |
23 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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SMS Iltis | The gunboat sank in the East China Sea off China′s Shandong Peninsula near Tsingtao during a typhoon with the loss of 77 lives. There were 11 survivors.[12][13][14] |
30 July
August
27 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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HHS Glasgow | Anglo-Zanzibar War: The royal yacht was sunk by the |
September
22 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Christiana | The smack was wrecked at Poppit, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( |
24 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hugo | The former White Star Line passenger liner ran aground on Terschelling Island in the Netherlands. She was declared a total loss. After refloating, she was auctioned for scrap on 9 December 1896 and towed to Amsterdam, where she was broken up |
26 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alexander james Yeats | The ship ran aground at Gurnard's Head. Crew of 19 rescued.[16] |
27 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Adgar | Flag unknown | The ship was wrecked off Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom. All crew saved by the Hythe Lifeboat.[17] |
Baron Holberg | Flag unknown | The ship was wrecked off Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom. All crew saved by the Hythe Lifeboat.[17] |
October
30 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Samuel P. Ely |
November
17 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Memphis | The cargo ship was wrecked in Dunlough Bay, County Cork with the loss of nine of her crew. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Avonmouth, Somerset.[18] |
December
5 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Nathan F. Cobb | The three-masted schooner capsized in the Atlantic Ocean after departing Brunswick, Georgia, and drifted onto the outer sand bar off Ormond Beach, Florida, where she ran around. Two crewman and a civilian rescuer were killed during the incident. |
8 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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British Peer | The sailing ship struck a reef off Saldanha Bay, South Africa, and was wrecked with 471 Indian indentured labourers on board. Eighteen crew were killed; there were only four survivors. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Douro | The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Ouessant, Finistère, France.[19] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Vixen |
References
- ↑ "Ealing - 1896". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ↑ "Emperor of St John - 1896". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ↑ "An Atlantic Liner Sunk". The Standard (22361). London. 2 March 1896. p. 3.
- ↑ Patton, Brian (2007). Irish Sea Shipping. Kettering: Silver Link Publications. pp. 178–184. ISBN 978-1-85794-271-2.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
- ↑ 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. 263.].
- ↑ wrecksite.eu S-48 (+1896)
- ↑ Philbin, Tobias R., Admiral von Hipper: The Inconvenient Hero, Amsterdam: B. R. Grüner Publishing Company, 1982, ISBN 978-90-272-7258-4, p. 13.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ↑ 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. 328.].
- 1 2 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ robertbickers.net, "Lost monuments and memorials on the Shanghai Bund, 3: the Iltis monument, 1898," 8 November 2014.
- ↑ dawlishchronicles.com SMS Iltis – a gunboat, a pope and a stand-off in the Pacific
- ↑ 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. 260.].
- ↑ Allen, Tony; Lettens, Jan (30 July 2013). "SS Rajah Brooke [+1896]". The Wreck Site. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ↑ Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
- 1 2 Ogley, Bob; Currie, Ian; Davison, Mark (1991). The Kent Weather Book. Brasted Chart: Froglets Publications Ltd. p. 21. ISBN 1-872337-35-X.
- ↑ "Memphis". The Yard. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- ↑ "Historian". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
See also
Ship events in 1896 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 |
Ship commissionings: | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 |
Shipwrecks: | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 |
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