List of shipwrecks in 1893

The list of shipwrecks in 1893 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1893.

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1893
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January

6 January
List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Black Diamond  United Kingdom The steamship collided with Progress ( United Kingdom) and sank in the River Thames.[1]

16 January
List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1893
ShipCountryDescription
San Marco  Italy The steamer sank after a collision in the Strait of Messina.[2]

February

2 February
List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1893
ShipCountryDescription
E. W. Monifie  United States The barge burned at the Railroad Wharf at Pensacola, Florida.[3]

18 February
List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Dicky  Queensland
Dicky
The cargo ship was driven ashore at Caloundra Head. The wreck still lies on the beach as of May 2009.

19 February
List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1893
ShipCountryDescription
J. A. Bishop  United States The steam tugboat burned at the Timber Wharf, Carrabelle, Florida.[3]

21 February
List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Coanza  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 1,518 GRT passenger ship ran aground and was wrecked on Bayak Rock, Baujah Reef near Sinou, Senegal. She was en route to West Africa from Hamburg.[4][5]
Labourdonnais  French Navy The sloop-of-war was wrecked on Île Sainte-Marie off the coast of Madagascar.[6]

22 February
List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Shamrock  United Kingdom The iron schooner was stranded at Ballyquintin Point, County Down, Ireland and became a wreck.[7]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date February 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Naronic  United Kingdom The White Star Line steamship was lost in the Atlantic Ocean after leaving Liverpool on 11 February 1893 bound for New York, possibly on 19 February, with the loss of all 74 people on board. The ship's fate remains a mystery.
Ripple  United States The fishing schooner wrecked in fog on Santa Rosa Island, Florida on either 13 or 15 February.[3]

March

3 March
List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Kanawha  United States The steamer ran aground on Santa Rosa Island, Florida 12 miles (19 km) east of Pensacola Pass, possibly salvaged.[3]

7 March
List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1893
ShipCountryDescription
John Hancock  United States While moored at the wharf at Sand Point on the northwestern coast of Popof Island in the Shumagin Islands off the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula in the Territory of Alaska with a crew of eight and a cargo of 80 tons of salt and provisions aboard, the 167.62-ton, 143.7-foot (43.8 m) cod-fishing schooner broke loose from her moorings during a storm and was stranded. All on board survived, but she and her cargo both were a total loss.[8]

21 March
List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Helen Blum  United States The 66.17-gross register ton, 75-foot (22.9 m) sealing schooner was seen for the last time at Ugamok Island (57.8945°N 153.3850°W / 57.8945; -153.3850 (Ugamok Island)) in the Shumagin Islands off the south coast of the Territory of Alaska′s Alaska Peninsula. She subsequently disappeared with the loss of her entire crew of 26, presumably lost in a storm that struck the area. In May 1893, wreckage believed to be from Helen Blum was discovered in the Shumagin Islands on the coasts of Chernabura Island (54.7875°N 159.5603°W / 54.7875; -159.5603 (Chernabura Island)) and Simeonof Island (54.8978°N 159.2667°W / 54.8978; -159.2667 (Simeonof Island)).[9]

23 March
List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Allanshaw  United Kingdom The iron sailing ship was wrecked on Tristan da Cunha with the loss of three crew.

24 March
List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Glückauf  Germany
Glückauf
The 2,307-gross ton oil tanker was wrecked without loss of life during a snow squall just before dawn across from Sayville, New York, at Blue Point Beach on Fire Island off the south coast of Long Island. United States Life-Saving Service personnel from the Blue Point Life-Saving Station rescued her entire crew.[10][11]

26 March
List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Octavia A. Dow  United States The schooner ran aground on Fort Barrancas Bar, Santa Rosa Island, Florida.[3]

April

4 April
List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Horsa  United Kingdom The sailing ship ran aground off St Martin's, Isles of Scilly; the ship was towed off but later foundered in deep water.[12][13]

May

10 May
List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Vitiaz  Imperial Russian Navy The Vitiaz-class protected cruiser was wrecked on a reef in the Sea of Japan off Port Lazarev during a typhoon.[14][15]

21 May
List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Almirante Barroso  Brazilian Navy The corvette was wrecked in the Red Sea near Ras Zeith while on an around-the-world cadet cruise. The screw sloop-of-war HMS Dolphin ( Royal Navy) rescued her crew.[16]

26 May
List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Sea Ranger  United States While approaching the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska to bury a deceased crewman, the 273.12-gross register ton, 106.8-foot (32.6 m) bark was wrecked on an uncharted reef – thereafter known as Sea Ranger Reef – north-northwest of Cape Saint Elias, 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) west of Kayak Island.[17]

June

22 June
List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1893
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Victoria  Royal Navy
HMS Victoria sinking at right. The battleship HMS Nile is at left.
The Victoria-class battleship collided with the battleship HMS Camperdown ( Royal Navy) in the Mediterranean Sea near Tripoli, Lebanon, and sank with 358 crew killed, 357 rescued.

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date June 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Eliza Anderson  United States The schooner sank in Long Island Sound near Faulkner Island off the coast of Connecticut. She later was refloated and was stripped at New Haven, Connecticut, and her wreck was abandoned there, but it later was refloated again and then scuttled in deep water in Long Island Sound.[18][19]

July

9 July
List of shipwrecks: 9 July 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Harry Tilden  United States The schooner was sunk accidentally off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, by a shot fired from the United States Army′s Sandy Hook Proving Ground.[20]

August

21 August
List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Mary Lizzie  United States The fishing schooner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off northeastern North America with the loss of five lives. Her sole survivor was rescued after 33 hours in the water by the steamer Eggleston Abbey ( United Kingdom).[21]

24 August
List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Ella M. Johnson  United States 1893 New York hurricane: The fishing schooner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off Manasquan, New Jersey, with the loss of her entire crew of eight men.[21]
Empire State  United States 1893 New York hurricane: The fishing schooner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off Manasquan, New Jersey, with the loss of her entire crew of 10 men.[21]
Panther  United States 1893 New York hurricane: While towing barges, the 110-foot (33.5 m) iron-hulled steam tug sank with the loss of 17 lives in 56 feet (17 m) of water in the North Atlantic Ocean south of Long Island off Southampton, New York, during a storm.[22][23]

September

7 September
List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Rusalka  Imperial Russian Navy The monitor foundered and sank in a storm in the Gulf of Finland with the loss of her entire crew of 177. Her wreck was discovered in July 2013 at 59°51′55″N 24°53′07″E.

22 September
List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Lewis Wallace  United States The 54-foot (16.5 m) steam tug burned and sank in a small bay at the west end of Portage Lake in Michigan.

23 September
List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Albert Walter  United States The 44-tons burden schooner drifted onto rocks several miles north-northeast of Kodiak, Territory of Alaska, and was abandoned by her crew of five.[24]

October

13 October
List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Emily Schroeder  United States The whaling and trading schooner dragged her anchor during a storm and was wrecked in Maryat Inlet (68°20′20″N 166°50′40″W) in Point Hope Lagoon near Point Hope on the coast of the Territory of Alaska. She became a total loss and was still visible hard aground in the inlet in 1896.[25]

November

6 November
List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Yukon  United States The steamer was wrecked at Juneau, Territory of Alaska, during a storm.[26]

17 November
List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Favourite  United Kingdom The ketch foundered in the Bristol Channel 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off Worms Head, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued.[27]

18 November
List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Bessie  United Kingdom The collier was wrecked on Carbis Bay beach, Cornwall.[28]
Cintra  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Carbis Bay, in St Ives Bay, with the loss of seven of her twelve crew. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Dartmouth, Devon.[29] One of her anchors was recovered in 1959 and can be seen on Smeaton's Pier, St Ives.[28]
Hampshire  United Kingdom The vessel sank in St Ives Bay with the loss of all hands.[28]
Rosedale  United Kingdom The vessel was washed ashore at Porthminster beach, St Ives, Cornwall.[28]
Vulture  United Kingdom The collier was stranded on Carbis Bay beach. The boilers were taken for scrap during WWII.[28]

22 November
List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Javary  Brazilian Navy Revolta da Armada: The monitor was sunk by coastal artillery in the harbor at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

24 November
List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1893
ShipCountryDescription
SS Serica  United Kingdom The steamer nearly foundered and took shelter in St Mary's Roads on 19 November. As she left on 24 November she struck an uncharted rock (later named Serica Rock) and sank.[30][31]

December

8 December
List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Princesse Louise  Belgium The steamer became stranded in the River Scheldt at Saaftingen and broke in two.[32]

13 December
List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Althea  Norway The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in Oxwich Bay. Her ten crew were rescued by the Port Eynon Lifeboat.[27]

16 December
List of shipwrecks: 16 December 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Sete de Setembro  Imperial Brazilian Navy The armored frigate burned and sank at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

20 December
List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Iota  Italy The barque sank off the coast of Cornwall at Tintagel with the loss of one life.[33][34]

28 December
List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Alert  Victoria The steamer sank off Cape Schanck, Australia, with the loss of 15 lives and one survivor.

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Horn Head  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of 30 lives.[35]
Vizcaya  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the coast of Yorkshire.[36]

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See also
Ship events in 1893
Ship launches: 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
Ship commissionings: 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
Ship decommissionings: 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
Shipwrecks: 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
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