List of shipwrecks in March 1883

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The list of shipwrecks in March 1883 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during March 1883.

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Kron Prinz  Germany The steamship collided with the steamship Arandhu ( United Kingdom) and sank in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Arandhu. 'Kron Prinz was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom to Saigon, French Indo-China.[1]

3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1883
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Lodore  United Kingdom The ship departed from Moulmein, Burma for a European port. No further trace,[2] reported missing.[3]

4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1883
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Glenroy  United Kingdom The barque foundered 15 nautical miles (28 km) west of the South Stack, Anglesey. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Buenos Aires, Argentina.[4]
Ruth  United Kingdom The smack struck the Rattray Briggs, off the coast of Aberdeenshire and foundered. Her crew survived.[4]
Yazoo  United States The steamship struck a drifting log and sank in the Mississippi River with the loss of twenty of the 31 people on board.[5][6]

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Ariel Patterson  United States The pilot boat was sunk in a collision with Commonwealth ( United States). The pilot was killed.[5]
Asia  United Kingdom The steamship departed from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire for Liverpool, Lancashire. No further trace, reported overdue.[7]
Fervent  United Kingdom The steamship departed from the River Tyne for London. No further trace, reported overdue.[8]
H. D. Pochin  United Kingdom The steamship departed from West Hartlepool, County Durham for Wismar, Germany. No further trace, reported overdue.[7]
Leamington  United Kingdom The ship departed from Pensacola, Florida, United States for Liverpool, Lancashire. No further trace, reported missing.[9]

6 March

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Abeona  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground at Slipper Point, Cornwall and was beached at Padstow. She was on a voyage from Padstow to Swansea, Glamorgan.[10]
Active  United Kingdom The fishing yawl was driven ashore at Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued.[10]
Alice G. Wonson  United States The fishing schooner was lost in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. Her crew were rescued.[11]
Annie  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned off Thurso, Caithness. Her crew were rescued by the Thurso Lifeboat.[12]
Catherine Marr  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground at Bangor, County Antrim and became waterlogged.[13]
Emerald Isle  United Kingdom The fishing smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Ramsey, Isle of Man. Her crew were rescued by the Ramsey Lifeboat Two Sisters ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[12]
Emmanuel  United Kingdom The steamship collided with the steamship James Shaw ( United Kingdom) and sank in the River Tees.[10]
Governor Loch  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned off Thurso. Her crew were rescued by the Thurso Lifeboat.[12]
Hephzibah  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on rocks at "Pennyland", near Thurso. Her five crew were rescued by the Thurso Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Caernarfon to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.[10][12]
Maiden Queen  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Scarborough. Her crew were rescued.[10]
Major  United Kingdom The Yorkshire Billyboy collided with Gem of the Ocean ( United Kingdom) and sank in the River Thames at Woolwich, Kent.[10]
Marie Stewart  United Kingdom The steamship foundered in the North Sea after 5 March. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Dunkirk, Nord, France. Wreckage washed ashore at Whitby, Yorkshire.[13][7]
Mary Tweedlie  United Kingdom The ketch ran aground and was wrecked off Lindisfarne, Northumberland with the loss of one of her three crew. Survivors were rescued by the Lindisfarne Lifeboat.[13]
Matchless  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Atwick, Yorkshire.[13] She was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to London.[14]
May Bird  United Kingdom The steam trawler was driven ashore and wrecked at Scarborough. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus.[10]
Mayflower  United Kingdom The Humber Keel was driven ashore and wrecked 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) south of the Stallingborough Lighthouse, Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued.[13]
Naiad  United Kingdom The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Fierceness, Eday, Orkney Islands. Her crew were rescued.[15]
Navarre  United Kingdom The steamship was disabled by a gale on 5 March and foundered the next day on the Little Fish Bank, in the North Sea. Carrying 81 people, including 50 migrants, she sank before assistance could arrive; 60 people lost their lives. One person was rescued by the smack Florence and Louise, five peeple were rescued by the smack George Killick, and five people were rescued by the smack Sir Stafford Northcote(all  United Kingdom). Ten crew were rescued by a Dutch fishing smack.[16][15]
Peri  United Kingdom The smack foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the smack John Macey ( United Kingdom).[13]
Royal Consort  United Kingdom The crewless ship was driven onto the Boick Rock, off Port Dinorwic, Caernarfonshire and was wrecked.[10]
Vesta  Norway The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at IJmuiden, North Holland, Netherlands with the loss of her captain. She was on a voyage from Santos, Brazil to Hamburg, Germany.[13]
William and Martha  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned off Thurso. Her crew were rescued by the Thurso Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Thurso to Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire.[12]
Willing Mind  United Kingdom The ketch was driven ashore and wrecked at Whitby. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus.[10]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.[12]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The fishing smack foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands, six or seven lives.[17]

7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Bremen  Germany The steamship was wrecked in the Strait of Messina. All on board were rescued by the steamships Alfredo Cappellini and Leon (both  Italy). Bremen was on a voyage from Palermo to Riposto, Sicily, Italy.[15][18]
Ingomar  United Kingdom The barque was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean 30 nautical miles (56 km) west of Cape Horn, Chile. Her nine crew were rescued by Lord Kinnaird ( United Kingdom). Ingomar was on a voyage from San Francisco, California, United States to Calais, France.[19]
J. W. Sawyer  United States The schooner was wrecked on Black Ledge, at Bar Harbor, Maine. Three crew were drowned trying to reach Black Ledge. The rest of her crew made it to the ledge, and were rescued on 9 March.[11]
Leon Jamie  France The fishing boat struck the pier at Dover, Kent, United Kingdom and was beached in a waterlogged condition.[13]
Rogate  Norway The barque was abandoned in the Dogger Bank. Her crew were rescued by a fishing smack. Rogate was on a voyage from Korsør, Denmark to Kinsale, County Cork, United Kingdom.[20] She was subsequently towed in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.[21]
Vicuna  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. Her nine crew were rescued by the Hunstanton Lifeboat.[14]

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Albert Edward  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Solent off Southsea, Hampshire. Her passengers were taken off by tugs. She was on a voyage from Portsmouth, Hampshire to Ryde, Isle of Wight. She was refloated and taken in to a harbour.[22]
Buenos Ayrean  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Clyde between Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire and Bowlin, Dunbartonshire. She was refloated.[20]
Circassia  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Clyde between Bowling and Port Glasgow.[22][20]
Deepdale  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Clyde between Port Glasgow and Bowling. She was refloated.[20]
Devonia  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Clyde between Port Glasgow and Bowling. She was refloated.[22][20]
Hamburg  Germany The barque was wrecked on a sandbank in the North Sea off the coast of Nord, France. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Zanzibar.[15]
Manitoban  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Clyde between Bowling and Port Glasgow.[22][20]
Margaret  Norway The barque was driven ashore and wrecked between Brancaster and Thornham, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Christiania to Dover, Kent, United Kingdom.[20]
Nithsdale  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Clyde between Port Glasgow and Bowling.[20]
SS State of Pennsylvania  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Clyde between Bowling and Port Glasgow.[20]

9 March

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Clan Sinclair, and
Margaret		  United Kingdom The steamships collided in the River Thames at Blackwall, Middlesex. Margaret sank. She was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire to London. Margaret was refloated on 18 March and taken in to drydock. Clan Sinclair was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from London to Liverpool, Lancashire and Calcutta, India. She put back to London.[23][24]
Orpheus  United Kingdom The steamship collided with the tug Despatch ( United Kingdom) and sank in the River Mersey. Orpheus was on a voyage from Liverpool to Birkenhead, Cheshire. She was refloated and taken in to Birkenhead.[25]
Pacific  United Kingdom The schooner was severely damaged by fire at Galway with the loss of a crew member.[26]
Parklands  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Moulmein, Burma. She was on a voyage from Aden, Aden Settlement to Elephant Point, Burma.[25]
Reclam  Germany The kuff was abandoned in the North Sea. She came ashore at the Orfordness Lighthouse, Suffolk, United Kingdom.[20]

10 March

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Thomas Adams  United Kingdom The steamship collided with another vessel in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Almería, Spain. She put in to Gravesend, Kent.[21]

11 March

List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Dunelm  United Kingdom The steam collier collided with HMS Penelope ( Royal Navy) at Sheerness, Kent and was severely damaged. Dunelm put in to Rochester, Kent.[21]
Triton  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire. She was on a voyage from Odesa, Russia to Falmouth, Cornwall.[21]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Ary Scheffer  Netherlands The steamship sprang a leak and sank 25 nautical miles (46 km) south by east of the North Foreland, Kent, United Kingdom with the loss of four of her fourteen crew. Survivors were rescued by the steamship Stanley ( United Kingdom).[27]
Atlas  Norway The schooner was wrecked on the Longscar Rocks, on the coast of County Durham, United Kingdom. Her five crew were rescued by the Seaton Carew lifeboat Job Hindley. She was on a voyage from Drammen to Sunderland, County Durham with a cargo of ice.[21][28]
Echo  United Kingdom The ketch struck the wreck of the steamship Teesdale ( United Kingdom) and sank of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Her four crew survived. Echo was on a voyage from The Needles, Isle of Wight to Emsworth, Hampshire.[29]

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Cyprus  United Kingdom The ship departed from Newcastle, New South Wales for Bangkok, Siam. No further trace,.[30] reported missing.[2]
Stadacona  United Kingdom The ship departed from Pensacola, Florida, United States for Newport, Monmouthshire. No further trace, reported missing.[9]

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Amalia and Hedwig  Germany The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Sculptor ( United Kingdom). Amalia and Hedwig was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom to the Cape Verde Islands.[31]
Dora Cabler  United States The steamship was sunk in a collision with the steamship Engineer ( United States). One crewman was killed.[5]

15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Hannah United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Guernsey The brig foundered in the English Channel 20 nautical miles (37 km) north east of Les Casquets, off Guernsey. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Guernsey to London.[32]
To Brodre  Sweden The ship departed from Falkenberg for Bo'ness, Lothian, United Kingdom. No further trace, reported overdue.[33]

16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Punch  United Kingdom The dandy was driven ashore and wrecked at the Birling Gap, Sussex. She was on a voyage from Newhaven to the Birling Gap.[34]
Wansfell  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Belfast, County Antrim and became waterlogged. She was on a voyage from Ayr to Larne, County Antrim.[32]

17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Dunstaffnage  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked 8 to 10 nautical miles (15 to 19 km) south of Aberdeen with the loss of all 23 crew. She was being towed from Dundee, Forfarshire to Liverpool, Lancashire by the tug Recovery ( United Kingdom).[35][36]
Mazinthien  United Kingdom The steam whaler was driven ashore and wrecked at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued by the Coastguard. She was on a voyage from Dundee to Greenland.[36]

18 March

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Elsa Russian Empire Grand Duchy of Finland The barquentine was wrecked on the Black Middens, off the mouth of the River Tyne. Her crew were rescued by the Tynemouth Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to the River Tyne.[24]
Nara  Portugal The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Pelotas, Brazil. She was on a voyage from Viera, Florida, United States to Pernambuco, Brazil.[24]
Nora  Norway The schooner was wrecked at Wilkhaven, Ross-shire, United Kingdom. Four crew were rescued.[37]

19 March

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Gelszein  Netherlands The galiot was abandoned in the North Sea. Her five crew were rescued by the fishing smack Spitfire ( United Kingdom).[38]

20 March

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Pride of Quitta  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked at Grand Popo, Dahomey.[39]

22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Lagos  Germany The steamship was wrecked at Lagos with the loss of two of her crew.[7]

23 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Aberfoyle, and
Renown		  United Kingdom The steamships collided at South Shields, County Durham. Both vessels were severely damaged. Aberfoyle lost a crew member and was beached. She subsequently sank.[40][38]
Clapeyron  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore at Penarth, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France to Penarth.[41][40]
Cornishman  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Damietta, Egypt. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Port Said, Egypt.[42][43]
Orienten  Norway The schooner was discovered derelict in the North Sea. She was beached at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom.[38]
HMS TB.73  Royal Navy The torpedo boat sank at Portsmouth, Hampshire. She was refloated the next day.[44]

24 March

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Adela  France The brig ran aground on the Newcombe Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to the West Indies.[38] She was later refloated and assisted in to Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom by a tug.[31]
Macedon  Western Australia The steamship struck a rock and was wrecked at Rottnest Island. All on board were rescued.[45]
Wild Rose  United Kingdom The steamship sank at Cardiff, Glamorgan.[45]

26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
City of Rotterdam  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Maassluis, South Holland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Rotterdam, South Holland.[31] She broke in two on 29 March and was a total loss.[46]
Dan  Denmark The steamship ran aground at Saltholm. She was refloated and towed in to Copenhagen.[31]
Ecliptic  United Kingdom The ship departed from Dysart, Fife for Danzig, Germany. No further trace, reported missing.[47]
Unnamed Flag unknown The ship capsized in the English Channel off Dymchurch, Kent, United Kingdom.[48]

27 March

List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
California  Russia The barque was driven ashore and severely damaged at Tayabas, Spanish East Indies. She was on a voyage from Tayabas to Barcelona, Spain. She was refloated.[48]
Castlefield  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground near the Dog Rock, off Malta. She was on a voyage from Odesa, Russia to Liverpool, Lancashire.[48]
Eagle  United Kingdom The steamship foundered off St. Abbs Head, Berwickshire with the loss of three of her crew.[46]
Julie  Germany The brig was wrecked at Johanna, South Australia. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Mauritius to Johanna.[48]

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Nestor  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in the Krishna River.[46]
Unnamed Flag unknown The schooner collided with the barque Meropi ( Netherlands) in the English Channel 10 nautical miles (19 km) south west of Dungeness, Kent, United Kingdom. Presumed foundered, nothing was seen of her after the collision.[49]

30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1883
ShipStateDescription
Alarm  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Polperro, Cornwall with the loss of five of her eight crew.[50]
Queen  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked near Aberdeen.[50]
Sarah  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on Rattray Briggs, off the coast of Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.[49]
Tom Duff  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked near Aberdeen.[50]
Yanyan  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Black Middens, off the mouth of the River Tyne and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by the Tynemouth Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from London to Dundee, Forfarshire.[49]

31 March

Unknown date

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