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.

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1897
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January

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Commodore  United States The steamboat was wrecked off the coast of Florida with the loss of one life.

14 January

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1897
ShipCountryDescription
RIMS Warren Hastings  Royal Navy
A sketch depicting the wreck of the RIMS Warren Hastings, published by the Dundee Courier on 24 March 1897.

The troopship was wrecked off the coast of Réunion with the loss of two lives.

February

2 February

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
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

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Rapid  United Kingdom The ketch ran aground and was wrecked at Cardigan.[2]

March

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Cyril  United Kingdom The ketch, registered at Falmouth, England, with official number 62042, went missing in Bristol Channel with the loss of her captain, master mariner Thomas G. R. Cooper, and his 17-year-old son Norman Copper, both of Middle Terrace, Falmouth.

15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Ville de Saint Nazaire  France The 2,640-gross ton steamer foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during a storm with the loss of 80 lives. The 648-gross ton schooner Hilda ( United States) rescued her four survivors from a lifeboat on 22 March; they were all that remained alive out of 38 people who had boarded the lifeboat when Ville de Saint Nazaire sank.[3][4]

17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Unidentified schooner  Greece International intervention in Crete: Attempting to reach Crete with a cargo of munitions and manned by Cretan insurgents, the schooner was sunk off Cape Dia, Crete, in an exchange of gunfire with the torpedo cruiser SMS Sebenico ( Austro-Hungarian Navy), which was operating as part of the International Squadron intervening in the Cretan rebellion against rule by the Ottoman Empire. The schooner′s crew suffered no casualties an swam to shore on Crete.[5]

April

5 April

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Assaye  United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked on Blonde Rock, off Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.[6]

7 April

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
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

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
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

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Ada  New South Wales The ketch was wrecked at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Barga  Belgium The steamer was declared missing, having departed Huelva, Spain, for Antwerp, Belgium, on 30 March.[7]

May

1 May

List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Ability  New South Wales The ketch was driven ashore along with four other ships at Cape Hawke Bay, Australia, during a storm.

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Bruxelles  Belgium The steamer ran aground on St. Pierre Island, Seychelles, a total loss.[7]

June

12 June

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Gangut  Imperial Russian Navy The coast defense ship struck an uncharted rock and sank in the Gulf of Finland.

16 June

List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1897
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Foudroyant  United Kingdom
HMS Foudroyant
The training ship was driven ashore at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, and wrecked.

July

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1897
ShipCountryDescription
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).[8]

20 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Concha  Belgium The steamer collided with Saint Fillans ( United Kingdom) off the Owers Lightship, English Channel and sank.[7]

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1897
ShipCountryDescription
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

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1897
ShipCountryDescription
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

22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
SMS S26  Imperial German Navy The torpedo boat sank in a storm at the mouth of the Elbe off Cuxxhaven, Germany.[9][10]

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1897
ShipCountryDescription
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.[11]
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.[11]

October

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Pelican  United Kingdom The steamer was last sighted on this date. She then disappeared.[7]

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Fusō  Imperial Japanese Navy When a strong gale struck while she was anchored in the Seto Inland Sea off Nagahama, Shikoku,, Japan, the central battery ironclad′s anchor chain broke and she drifted across the harbor, collided with the ram of the protected cruiser Matsushima ( Imperial Japanese Navy), and then struck the protected cruiser Itsukushima ( Imperial Japanese Navy). To keep her from sinking in deeper water, she was run onto a reef, where she sank in shallow water.[12][13][14] She was refloated in July 1898 and returned to service in 1900.[14]

November

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Flirt  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Burton Bradstock, Dorset with the loss of three of her six crew.[15]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1897
ShipCountryDescription
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

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Friend to all Nations  United Kingdom The Margate surfboat capsized with the loss of nine of her 13 crew.[16] She was going to the assistance of Persian Empire ( United Kingdom).[17]
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.[17]
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.[18]

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1897
ShipCountryDescription
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.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1897
ShipCountryDescription
Margaret and Mary  United Kingdom The Welsh schooner from Port Dinorwic was lost at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall, England.[19]
Mortera  Spain The cargo ship was lost at the entrance to the harbor at Nuevitas, Cuba, in an accident caused by strong tides and currents.[20]
ARA Santa Fe  Argentine Navy The destroyer was wrecked in the River Plate off Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.[21]

References

  1. 1 2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Anonymous, "Terrible Sufferings at Sea," The Argus (Melbourne, Australia), 20 March 1897, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Anonymous, "Wreck of the Steamer Ville de Saint Nazaire, Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 93, Number 29, March 23, 1897, p. .
  5. ↑ Anonymous, "Greek Transport Sunk: An Austrian Gunboat Fires on a Schooner Carrying Cretan Insurgents," New York Journal, March 19, 1897.
  6. ↑ "Assaye". The Yard. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  8. ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  9. ↑ 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.].
  10. ↑ navypedia.org S24 torpedo boats (1886-1887)
  11. 1 2 "Bad day for trio of destroyers". Falmouth Packet. 29 March 2006. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  12. ↑ 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. 219.
  13. ↑ steelnavy.net Fuso Japanese Battleship 1900
  14. 1 2 Lengerer, Hans (September 2007). Ahlberg, Lars, ed. "The IJN's First Warship Order to a Foreign Country: Armoured Frigate Fusô and Belted Corvettes Kongô and Hiei – Part III". Contributions to the History of Imperial Japanese Warships (Paper III), p. 46.
  15. ↑ "Extract from The Burton and Shipton Gorge Parish Magazine Vol XXVlll December 1898". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  16. ↑ Bob Ogley, Ian Currie and Mark Davison (1991). The Kent Weather Book. Brasted Chart: Froglets Publications Ltd. p. 22. ISBN 1-872337-35-X.
  17. 1 2 Bignell, Alan (2001). Kent Shipwrecks (Second ed.). Newbury: Countryside Books. pp. 57–62. ISBN 1 85306 719 9.
  18. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  19. ↑ Historic England. "Margaret and Mary (1113577)". PastScape. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  20. ↑ mundodelmar.wordpress.com SANCHEZ BARCAIZTEGUI, detalles de su hundimiento (Spanish)
  21. ↑ 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. 404.].
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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