List of shipwrecks in 1899

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The list of shipwrecks in 1899 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1899.

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1899
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Forest Hall  United Kingdom The barque got in trouble off Porlock, Somerset, England. The Lynmouth Lifeboat Station answered her distress call by taking the lifeboat Louisa ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution), pulled by horses and people, overland for 15 miles (24 km) to go to her rescue, climbing 1,423 feet (434 m) during the journey.[1]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date January 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Voorwaarts  Italy The steamship was wrecked at Morwenstow, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[2]

February

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Mary Hannah  United Kingdom A Penzance schooner on passage from Cardiff to Plymouth with a cargo of coal. Disabled after the main boom was damaged in a huge sea and gale off the Lizard, she headed for Newlyn but was unable to enter the harbour and ran ashore at Tolcarne. All four crew were rescued by breeches-buoy.[3]

13 February

List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Germanic  United Kingdom The ocean liner sank at New York, United States. Subsequently refloated, repaired and returned to service

March

1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Labrador  United Kingdom The passenger ship was wrecked on Skerryvore. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from St. John, New Brunswick, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire.[4]

4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Resistance  Royal Navy The decommissioned broadside ironclad foundered in Holyhead Bay off the coast of Wales while under tow to the breakers. She was refloated and scrapped.

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Castilian  United Kingdom The cargo liner ran aground on the Gannet Dry Ledge and was wrecked. All on board were rescued. She was on the return leg of her maiden voyage, from Portland, Maine, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.[5]

26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Science  United Kingdom The steamer collided with the steamer Daybreak ( United Kingdom) north of Cape St Vincent, Portugal and sank.[6]

30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Stella  United Kingdom The passenger ferry sank off the Casquets, Channel Islands with the loss of 78 lives.[7][8]

April

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Loch Sloy  United Kingdom The three-masted barque sank off Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

May

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date May 1899
ShipCountryDescription
City of Paris  United States The ocean liner was grounded at Lowland Point near Coverack, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The Falmouth and Porthoustock lifeboats helped transfer her passengers to tugs. The ship was successfully salved after seven weeks of work.[9]

June

4 June

List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Lindus  New South Wales The coastal cargo ship was wrecked during a storm on the wreck of the coastal cargo ship Colonist ( New South Wales) near Oyster Bank, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, at position 32°54′50″S 151°47′49″E / 32.914°S 151.797°E / -32.914; 151.797Coordinates: 32°54′50″S 151°47′49″E / 32.914°S 151.797°E / -32.914; 151.797.
R. G. Stewart  United States The packet steamer burned and sank in Lake Superior off Michigan Island in Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior, with the loss of one life. The other 11 people on board survived, as did the ship′s cargo of cattle, which were pushed overboard and swam to shore.

28 June

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Margaret Olwill  United States Shipping vessel carrying limestone sank in Lake Erie.

July

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Three Sisters  United Kingdom The ketch sank in the Bristol Channel after colliding with the steamship Tweed with the loss of two of her three crew. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot, Glamorgan to Llangrannog, Cardiganshire.[10]

12 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
City of York  United Kingdom The three-masted barque sank off Rottnest Island, Western Australia.

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Nunobiki Maru  Japan The steamer foundered off Formosa (now Taiwan) in a typhoon.

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Clarence  United Kingdom The reformatory ship – formerly the screw ship-of-the-line HMS Royal William ( Royal Navy) – was destroyed by arson near New Ferry on the Wirral Peninsula in England.[11][12]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date July 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Oakland  New South Wales The passenger-cargo ship ran aground at the Richmond River on the coast of New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

August

1 August

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Benjamin C. Cromwell  United States The schooner was beached and wrecked at Dog Island, Florida, during a hurricane.
James A. Garfield  United States
James A. Garfield (center) beached after the hurricane.
The three-masted bark was beached at Dog Island, Florida, during a hurricane. She was intact, but salvaging her was deemed impossible.

September

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Duraes  Norway The steamer foundered off Elba, Italy.[13]

22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Scotsman  United Kingdom The passenger ship was wrecked in the Strait of Belle Isle with the loss of thirteen lives.[14]

30 September

List of shipwrecks: 30 September 1899
ShipCountryDescription
International  United Kingdom The cable laying steam ship came aground near Birling Gap Coastguard Station, Sussex in bad weather.[15]

October

3 October

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Bay State  United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked near Cape Ballard, Newfoundland.[16]

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Typo
The wreck of Typo still stands upright at the bottom of Lake Huron.

The wooden three-masted schooner was run down in Lake Huron by the steamer W. P. Ketcham. Typo sank immediately and the four crew on board drowned.[17]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Llandaff  United Kingdom The Welsh collier was wrecked at Bude, Cornwall, England.[18]

November

2 November

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
USS Charleston  United States Navy The cruiser was wrecked on an uncharted reef off Camiguin Island in the Philippines. Her wreck was deemed beyond salvage and was abandoned.[19]

10 November

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Belgique  Belgium Formerly called Mount Hebron, the ship foundered 6 nautical miles (11 km) northwest of the Casquets[20][21]

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Duisberg  Norway The barque ran aground at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada to The Mumbles, Glamorgan.[10]

December

3 December

List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Ismore  United Kingdom The 7,744 GRT cargo ship on her passage from Birkenhead to Cape Town with a cargo of horses, military stores and ammunition as well as 455 men of the British Armed forces went aground on submerged rocks near Cape Columbine, and broke apart the next day. There were no casualties.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1899
ShipCountryDescription
Frank A. Palmer  United States The four-masted schooner grounded near Tathem's life-saving station in New Jersey. She was refloated on 23 July and returned to service.
Merrimac  United Kingdom The cargo ship foundered with the loss of all 36 crew whilst on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Belfast, County Antrim.[22]

References

  1. ↑ Fisher, E.J. (1999). "The Strange and Heroic Journey of the Louisa". Lerwill Life. Retrieved 2010-11-05.
  2. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 30.
  3. ↑ Larn, R; Larn, B (1991). Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
  4. ↑ "Labrador". The Yard. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Castilian - 1899". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  7. ↑ "SS Stella (1899)". www.wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 Aug 2015.
  8. ↑ "SS Stella Disaster". akesimpkin.org. Retrieved 27 Aug 2015.
  9. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. pp. 2, 6.
  10. 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.
  11. ↑ "A Reformatory Ship Destroyed By Fire". The Times (35892): Col A, p. 6. 27 July 1899.
  12. ↑ Anonymous, Reports from Commissioners, Inspectors, and Others: Reformatories and Industrial Schools; Public Record; Public Records (Ireland), Volume XLIII, 1900, p. 46.
  13. ↑ "Mail & Shipping Intelligence". The Times (35937). London. 18 September 1899. col D, p. 4.
  14. ↑ "Scotsman". The Yard. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  15. ↑ Renno 2004, pp. 487-488
  16. ↑ "Bay State". The Yard. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  17. ↑ "Typo". Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. NOAA.
  18. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 31.
  19. ↑ Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, eds., Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 151.
  20. ↑ "MOUNT HEBRON".
  21. ↑ Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
  22. ↑ "Alexander Elder". The Yard. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  • David Renno (2004). Beachy Head Shipwrecks of the 19th Century. Severnoaks, Kent, England: Amherst Publishing. ISBN 1 903637 20 1.
Ship events in 1899
Ship launches: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
Ship commissionings: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
Ship decommissionings: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
Shipwrecks: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
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