List of shipwrecks in 1885

The list of shipwrecks in 1885 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1885.

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1885
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Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

3 January
List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Mary Celeste  United States The brigantine was deliberately wrecked on the Rochelois Bank, off Gonâve Island, Haiti.

8 January
List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1885
ShipCountryDescription
René  France The barque struck the Helwick Bank, in the Bristol Channel and subsequently drove ashore at Overton, Glamorgan, United Kingdom with the loss of four of her nine crew. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Arcachon, Gironde.[1]

15 January
List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Admiral Moorsom  United Kingdom The passenger paddle steamer collided with Santa Clara (flag unknown) and sank in the Irish Sea off Arklow, Ireland.

25 January
List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Elise  Belgium The steamer ran aground at Killard Point, Ballyhornan, Ireland, and was wrecked.[2]

February

1 February
List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Petrellen  Norway After the new Penzance lifeboat Dora ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) on the lifeboat′s first "shout" (rescue) took her crew off on 31 January and left her riding at anchor in ballast at Long Rock, the Porsgrunn barquentine beached near Chyandour, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England.[3][4][5]

15 February
List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Teng Ch'ing  Imperial Chinese Navy Sino-French War, Battle of Shipu: The sloop-of-war was sunk in Shipu Bay near Ningbo, China, by spar torpedoes employed by two torpedo boats from the ironclad Bayard ( French Navy).[6]
Yuyuen  Imperial Chinese Navy
French Navy torpedo boat attacking Yuyuen.
Sino-French War, Battle of Shipu: The frigate was sunk in Shipu Bay near Ningbo, China, by spar torpedoes employed by two torpedo boats from the ironclad Bayard ( French Navy).[7]

16 February
List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Holmhurst  United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with Westerland ( Belgium) and foundered 7 nautical miles (13 km) south of the Eddystone Lighthouse with the loss of four of her crew.[8]

March

4 March
List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1885
ShipCountryDescription
River Lagan  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on Islas Año Nuevo, Argentina. Her eighteen crew survived.[9]

5 March
List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Tonquin  France The ocean liner, chartered to the French Government as a troop transport, sank off Málaga, Spain, after colliding with another French steamer. The master and 23 of the crew drowned.[10][11]

13 March
List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Kate Isle of Man The fishing lugger – registered in Peel, Isle of Man, owned by John Tear and others, and crewed by Scotsmen, the majority of them from Skye and unable to speak English – left Peel on the evening of 12 March heading to Kinsale, Ireland, to fish there, but sometime during the night collided with the steamer Caledonian ( United Kingdom – apparently bound for Silloth in Cumbria, England – some miles west of the Calf of Man. The force of the collision was so great that Kate sank in a few minutes, carrying down with her four of her crew. The remainder were picked up by Caledonian and landed at Silloth.[12]

28 March
List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Nan B  United States The 25.30-ton schooner sank sprang a leak while taking on ballast during a gale on the southeast point of Chernaburna Island (renamed Cherni Island in 1936) in the Gulf of Alaska off the Alaska Peninsula and sank. Her crew of three survived.[13]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1885
ShipCountryDescription
No. 45  French Navy The torpedo boat sank in a storm.[14]

April

14 April
List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Rainbow  United States The whaling bark was crushed by ice off the Bering Sea coast of the Russian Empire near Cape Navarin (62.2778°N 179.0961°E / 62.2778; 179.0961 (Cape Chiniak)) and sank in 20 minutes.[15]

15 April
List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1885
ShipCountryDescription
J. R. Jolley  United States The steamer sank while tied up to the bank in Big Bayou Jessie. Two crew killed.[16]

17 April
List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Ransome  United Kingdom The 85-ton steamer hit the Low Lee rocks off Mousehole, Cornwall, England. With pumps working on full, she sank just a few metres short of Penzance harbour, her captain′s home town. Within six days bad weather had destroyed the wreck.[4]

23 April
List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Charles George  United Kingdom The 193-ton brigantine – owned by Charles Odell – collided with the 2,983-ton P&O liner Cathay ( United Kingdom) at 2:50 a.m. in the English Channel off Beachy Head, Sussex, England. She sank within four minutes with the loss of her captain William Thomas Odell (Charles Odell's brother), William Penn Odell (son of William Thomas Odell), crew members Henry Woodford and Ernest Adams, and a passenger, John Kearley; all the dead were from Newport, Isle of Wight. Three men were rescued; Fred Churchill of Sandown swam to Cathay and was picked up, James Wallace of Cowes and Henry Jennings of Landport were rescued by boats from Cathay.[17]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1885
ShipCountryDescription
No. 46  French Navy The torpedo boat foundered while under tow.[14]

May

8 May
List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Helvetia  Belgium The steamer sank in the Atlantic Ocean near Scatarie Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.[2]

June

8 June
List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Earl of Lonsdale  United Kingdom The Newcastle ship was carrying cotton seed from Alexandria, Egypt, to Portishead, Somerset, England, and was wrecked in Smith Sound, off the Troy Town maze, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, in thick fog.[18][19] The master had thought his ship was to the west of, and ten miles south of, the Bishop Rock in the Isles of Scilly.[20]

11 June
List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Montana  United States Carrying 73 passengers, a cargo of 500 tons of general merchandise, and a crew of 23, the 628-gross register ton bark was wrecked without loss of life on the Nushagak River in the Territory of Alaska due to an error by her pilot.[21]

25 June
List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Conqueror  United Kingdom The barquentine collided with Alert ( United Kingdom) and sank in the Firth of Clyde 8 nautical miles (15 km) north north west of Sanda Island. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Dublin.[22]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in June 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Renard  French Navy The sloop-of-war was wrecked off Aden.[23]
Slieve More  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire in the Indian Ocean.[24]

July

20 July
List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Cheerful The steamer sank 19 miles (31 km) north northwest of St Ives, Cornwall, UK. A mineral, abhurite, formed from the reaction between seawater and the cargo of tin ingot, has been found on the wreck.[25][26]

22 July
List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Unidentified schooner The yawl Zephyr launched to the aid of a stranded schooner on the Lower Barber Sand by the crew of the Caister Lifeboat resulting in the loss of eight out of the fifteen crew.

23 July
List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Corisco  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 1,856-grt passenger-cargo ship was wrecked at the mouth of the River Cess in Liberia.[27]

August

10 August
List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1885
ShipCountryDescription
George and Susan  United States During a gale, the 343-ton whaling bark dragged her anchor, collided with the whaling bark Mabel ( United States), and was driven ashore and wrecked at Wainwright Inlet on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska. The revenue cutter USRC Thomas Corwin ( United States Revenue-Marine) rescued all but three members of the crews of George and Susan and Mabel.[28]
Mabel  United States After the whaling bark George and Susan ( United States) dragged her anchor during a gale and collided with Mabel – a 188-ton whaling bark with 35 crewmen aboard – Mabel also dragged her anchor and was driven ashore and wrecked at Wainwright Inlet on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska. The revenue cutter USRC Thomas Corwin ( United States Revenue-Marine) rescued all but three members of the crews of George and Susan and Mabel.[21]

15 August
List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1885
ShipCountryDescription
City of Manatee  United States The vessel sank off Pickens Point, Pensacola, Florida.[29]

September

16 September
List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Unknown  United States The wrecking schooner was sunk in a collision with Tug Fanny P. Sheer ( United States) in the Harbor of New York City. two crewmen reported missing.[30]

17 September
List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1885
ShipCountryDescription
"Orient"  United States The Barge, under tow of Ranger ( United States), lost her towline off the Bar at Galveston, Texas, went ashore and was wrecked. Five crew died.[31]

29 September
List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Elizabeth Graham  United Kingdom The London barque grounded on the Seven Stones Reef between Cornwall, England, and the Isles of Scilly. She later was refloated.[20]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Sweepstakes Canada
The wreck of Sweepstakes on 30 May 2009
The schooner sank at Big Tub Harbour, Tobermory, Ontario following damage sustained at Cove Island in August 1885.

October

6 October
List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Amethyst  United States The 356.2-ton, 102-foot (31.1 m) whaling bark was last sighted in the Bering Sea north of Saint Lawrence Island bound for San Francisco, California. She was never heard from again. Her wreck was discovered on Castle Rock in the Territory of Alaska′s Shumagin Islands in September 1887, but the bodies of the 43 men who had been aboard – her crew of 38 and five survivors of the whaling bark Rainbow ( United States), which had been crushed by ice in the Arctic Ocean off Russia on 14 April 1885 – were never found.[32][15]

November

1 November
List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Frank Moffatt  United States The Tow steamer's boiler exploded at Sombra, Ontario and she was wrecked, sinking in the Saint Clair River. Her engine salvaged 1 December and the wreck was blown up with Dynamite. Wreckage removed by Canadian Government in 1888. Five crewmen died.[33][34]
Unknown  United States The steam Dredge, under tow of C. C. Wait ( United States), sank, possibly from a boiler explosion, between New York City and Providence, Rhode Island. Lost with all 5 or 6 hands.[35]

6 November
List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Mountain Girl  United States The steamer sank in a collision with James W. Gaff ( United States) in the Ohio River 2 1/2 miles above Rising Sun, Indiana. Two passengers died.[36]

7 November
List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Algoma Canada
The wreck of Algoma

The steamer was wrecked in Lake Superior off Isle Royale, Michigan, United States, with the loss of 46 lives.[37]

8 November
List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Brooklyn  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked on Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada, with no loss of life.[38]

18 November
List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Malta  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States.[39]

21 November
List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1885
ShipCountryDescription
"Atlantic"  United States The steamer burned and sank in the Ohio River near Neville, Ohio. Her Fireman died.[40]
Iberian  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked on the south coast of Ireland.[41]

22 November
List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Mary  United States The 18.26-ton, 48.4-foot (14.8 m) sloop dragged her anchors during a gale and was wrecked at Point Retreat (58°24′45″N 134°57′15″W), the northernmost point on Admiralty Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. Her entire crew of three survived.[21]

23 November
List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Cornelius Grinnell  United States The barge, under tow by the tug America ( United States), was cut loose in a storm 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) below Highland Light off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She and her entire crew of three were assumed to be lost.[42]

24 November
List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Malta  United States The 1,600-ton iron-hulled sailing ship — a former steamer — was wrecked 100 yards (91 m) off Belmar, New Jersey, during a storm with the loss of one life. There were 23 survivors. Her wreck sank in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water.[43]

26 November
List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Emma Graham  United States The steamer sank at Ripley Landing on the Ohio River below Parkersburg, West Virginia. Her fireman died.[44]

December

4 December
List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Wakefield  United Kingdom The passenger-cargo ship collided with the passenger-cargo ship Chester ( United Kingdom) and sank. Her stewardess drowned.[20]

5 December
List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Dorie Emory  United States The Tug's boiler exploded off fifty-Seventh Street in the North River. All 4 crew killed.[45]

14 December
List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1885
ShipCountryDescription
"George Franklin"  United States The Lighter, under tow of Star ( United States), sank 3/4 mile east south east of Robbin's Reef. Her Captain drowned.[46]

17 December
List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Sussex  United Kingdom The cargo ship was stranded on Seal Rock in the Isles of Scilly near the Maiden Bower while travelling at normal cruising speed in heavy fog. Her crew abandoned ship safely, and she broke up in heavy seas during the night of 4–5 January 1886.[20]

23 December
List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1885
ShipCountryDescription
West Jersey  United States The Ferry Boat, under tow of F. W. Vosburg ( United States), sank 15-18 miles north of Barnegat, New Jersey. Her Captain died.[47]

30 December
List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Unidentified cutter  United Kingdom A local cutter capsized off Yellow Ledges in the Isles of Scilly with the loss of one life while on her way to the assist the stranded steamer Sussex ( United Kingdom) at Seal Rock.

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1885
ShipCountryDescription
Aggie  United States The steamboat sank in the Missouri River at Kansas City, Kansas.[48]
Alaska  United States The 138-ton two-masted schooner was lost in the Bering Sea.[32]
Gale  United States The 273-ton whaling bark was lost at Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea.[28]
J.W.J.  United Kingdom The pilot vessel collided with Sea Fisher ( United Kingdom) in the Bristol Channel and sank. Sea Fisher rescued her four crew members.[1]
Napoleon  United States The 306-ton bark was lost in the Bering Sea.[13]
Peacedale Unknown The schooner was lost at Ocean Grove, New Jersey.[49]
Rainier  United States The 51.55-ton bark was lost in the Arctic.[15]
Red Jacket  Portugal The clipper ship was driven ashore at the Madeira Islands in the Atlantic Ocean in a gale.[50]

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Ship events in 1885
Ship launches: 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890
Ship commissionings: 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890
Ship decommissionings: 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890
Shipwrecks: 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890
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