List of shipwrecks in June 1886

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The list of shipwrecks in June 1886 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during June 1886.

List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1886
ShipStateDescription
Lookout United States The schooner was wrecked on Sanak Island in the Aleutian Islands, District of Alaska. Her fifteen crew survived.[1]
Thomas P. Sheldon United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with Russia (flag unknown) in the St. Marys River. Her crew were rescued by New Orleans (flag unknown). Apparently raised, repaired and returned to service.[2]

4 June

List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1886
ShipStateDescription
Caterina Doge  Italy The barque was wrecked at Olifantsbos, Cape Colony with the loss of five of her twelve crew. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Table Bay.[3][4][5]

5 June

List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1886
ShipStateDescription
Alpha United States The paddle tug was destroyed by fire.

10 June

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1886
ShipStateDescription
Happy Return  United Kingdom The ship was run into by a steamship in the River Avon and was severely damaged.[6]

11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1886
ShipStateDescription
Margrethe  United Kingdom The schooner was run into by the steamship Hero ( United Kingdom) and sank. Her crew were rescued by Hero. Margrethe was on a voyage from London to Goole, Yorkshire.[6]

12 June

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1886
ShipStateDescription
Balmoral  United Kingdom The fishing trawler, a paddle steamer, ran aground at Dysart, Fife. She was refloated and taken in to Dysart in a leaky condition.[7]
Ironsides Canada Canada The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Emilie Hessenmuller (Flag unknown). Ironsides was on a voyage from Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands to Buenos Aires, Argentina.[8]
Lyttelton  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship sank at Timaru, New Zealand and was expected to become a total wreck.[9][10]

17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1886
ShipStateDescription
David Vance United States The schooner, under tow of the steam barge Bessemer ( United States), was damaged when she hit a pile of rocks at Lime-Kiln Crossing, in the Detroit River. She was taken to Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada where she sank. She was later raised, repaired and returned to service.[2]

18 June

List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1886
ShipStateDescription
Jan Mayen Flag unknown The ship was lost on this date.[11]

19 June

List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1886
ShipStateDescription
Boyne  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore and wrecked 25 nautical miles (46 km) north east of Pooree, India.[12]

21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1886
ShipStateDescription
John Carver United States The whaling barque was crushed in ice and abandoned in the Bering Sea north of Saint Lawrence Island and 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) south of King Island, District of Alaska. Her crew abandoned ship in her boats and were rescued 33 hours later by the barque Atlantic ( United States). The derelict wreck of John Carver eventually drifted to Cape Thompson on the Chukchi Sea coast of the District of Alaska.[13]

23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1886
ShipStateDescription
Francesco  United Kingdom The ship departed from the River Tyne for Cape Town, Cape Colony. No further trace,[14] reported missing.[15]
Mary Atwater United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with City of Kingston (flag unknown) in the Hudson River off Fort Montgomery, New York with the loss of two of her crew.[16]

26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1886
ShipStateDescription
Moselle  United Kingdom The steamship was damaged by fire and was severely damaged in the River Thames.[8]
Silverdale  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked at "Point Engano". She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Coló, United States of Colombia.[17]
Syringa  United Kingdom The barque was destroyed by fire at sea. She was abandoned 40 nautical miles (74 km) off the Algnada Reef, in the Bay of Bengal. All twelve people on board took to a boat; they were rescued by the tug Mary ( Burma). Syringa was on a voyage from Chittagong, India to Union Island, Mauritius.[12]

27 June

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1886
ShipStateDescription
Teutonia  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Suez Canal.[18]

30 June

Unknown date

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