List of shipwrecks in October 1887

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The list of shipwrecks in October 1887 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during October 1887.

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Arctic  United Kingdom The whaler was lost in the Cumberland Gulf. Her 21 crew survived.[1]
Stewart Freeman Canada Canada The full-rigged ship collided with the schooner Enterprise ( United Kingdom) off Barry, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was severely damaged. Stewart Freeman was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Rio de Janeiro Brazil. She was taken in to Penarth, Glamorgan.[2]

2 October

List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Clydach  United Kingdom The steamship collided with the steamship Benamain ( United Kingdom) and sank 8 nautical miles (15 km) south west of Sandhammer, Sweden. Clydach was on a voyage from Rostock, Germany to Härnösand, Sweden.[3]

3 October

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Eaglet  United Kingdom The smack foundered in the Horse Channel, off the coast of Denbighshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Nefyn, Caernarfonshire.[2]
Havana  United States The schooner sank in a gale 3 miles from saint Joseph, Michigan. Her Captain and 2 crewmen died. 4 crew rescued by "Hannah Sullivan" ( United States). Wreck located in 1895.[4][5]

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
California  United States The steamship foundered in Lake Michigan off Gros Cap, Michigan with the loss of sixteen lives.[6]
Mary Blundell  United Kingdom The barque caught fire in the Yarra River, Victoria.[7]

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Hedvig  Sweden The ship departed from the River Tyne for Bornholm, Denmark. No further trace, reported missing.[8]
Zoe  United Kingdom The fishing smack was run into by the steamship Grenadier ( United Kingdom) and sank in the North Sea 50 nautical miles (93 km) off the mouth of the Humber. Her five crew were rescued by Grenadier.[9]

6 October

List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Platon  Greece The brig was run into by St. Louis (Flag unknown) and sank at Kertch, Russia.[10]
Santa Andrea  Italy The barque was destroyed by fire at Carboneras, Spain.[11]

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Christine  Sweden The schooner collided with the steamship Christian IX ( Denmark) and sank. Her crew were rescued.[11]

8 October

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Hoffnung  Germany The barque was run down by Essequibo (Flag unknown) and sank in the English Channel off Start Point, Devon, United Kingdom with some loss of life.[12]

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Spahis  France The steamship ran ashore and was wrecked on "La Formigue de Bourmes", off the coast of Var with the loss of 22 lives.[12][13]
Sleipner  Denmark The schooner sank in the North Sea 260 nautical miles (480 km) off Spurn Point, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the smack Moniteur ( United Kingdom). Sleipner was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands to Aalborg.[14]

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Jules et Marie  France The ship ran aground, capsized and sank at Padstow, Cornwall, United Kingdom with the loss of a crew member.[15]

11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Dolphin  United Kingdom The ship was run into by the barque Crummock Water ( United Kingdom) and sank in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent. Her crew were rescued by Crummock Water.[14]
Escurial, and
Georgian
Flag unknown
 United Kingdom
The steamship Escurial collided with the steamship Georgian in the River Thames at Rosherville, Kent. She was on a voyage from Zakynthos, Greece to London. She was beached at Tilburyness, Essex but was refloated and taken in to Tilbury, Essex. Georgian sank. She was on a voyage from London to Antwerp, Belgium.[15][16] Georgian was refloated on 27 October. She was towed in to London the next day.[17]
George W. Beale  United States The fishing steamship was sunk in a collision with a tug in the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City. A crew member was reported missing.[18]
IJmuiden  Netherlands The barque was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the fishing boat Reval (Flag unknown). IJmjuiden was on a voyage from IJmuiden, North Holland to Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland.[14]
Jantje Flag unknown The galiot was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the smack Boy Ernest ( United Kingdom). Jantje was on a voyage from London to Oldenburg, Germany.[19]
Venice  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground on the Maplin Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, at a position north west of the Mouse Lightship ( Trinity House). An offer of assistance from the Clacton Lifeboat was refused.[15]

12 October

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Ascalon  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Hidacore Rocks, 14 nautical miles (26 km) north of Galle, Ceylon. Her 32 crew survived. She was on a voyage from Aden, Aden Governorate to Calcutta, India.[20]
Marmion  United Kingdom The steamship sprang a leak and sank off the Isle of Bute. She was on a voyage from Maryhill, Renfrewshire to the Isle of Arran.[10]
Onward  Sweden The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Thisted, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Stockholm.[10]

13 October

List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Elizabeth  United Kingdom The fishing sloop was damaged by fire at Sutton Pool, Devon.[14]
Salvatore Massa  Italy The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her thirteen crew were rescued by the steamship Arecuna ( United Kingdom). Salvatore Massa was on a voyage from Lisbon, Portugal to New York, United States.[21]

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Victis  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Whitstable, Kent.[19]

15 October

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Dagny Flag unknown The ship was driven ashore at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Neder Kalix, Sweden to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.[19]
Heidahl  Norway The brig was driven ashore at the Vrouwepolder, Zeeland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Christiania to Ostend, Belgium.[19]

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Augusta  Sweden The 850 ton barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of the captain and eight seamen. Augusta was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Aspinwall, Colombia. Reports differ as to which ship rescued the six survivors on 24 October. One source says they were rescued by the barque Gerson ( Denmark), another reports they were taken to New York by the barque Union.[22][23][24]
Kameruka  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked on the Pedro Rocks, off Moruya Heads, New South Wales.[25]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Fides  Denmark The schooner was lost off Mamanguape, Brazil. She was on a voyage from Macau to Porto Alegre, Brazil.[26]

18 October

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Bellona  United Kingdom The barque capsized and sank at Mauritius. She was refloated in late November.[27]
Douro  United Kingdom The tug was run into by the steamship African ( United Kingdom) and sank at Rotherhithe, Surrey.[26]
L. T. Billinger  United States The canal boat, under the tow of Oswego ( United States) sank off Newburgh, New York. Her captain and his wife, asleep in their cabin, drowned.[18]
Planteur  Germany The barque collided with the steamship Upapa ( United Kingdom) and sank in the English Channel 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Beachy Head, Sussex, United Kingdom with the loss of eleven of the thirteen people on board. Survivors were rescued by Upapa. Planteur was on a voyage from London to Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and Buenos Aires, Argentina.[28]
Polly  United Kingdom The Thames barge was run into by the tug Mosquito ( United Kingdom) and sank in the River Thames at Erith, Kent. Polly was on a voyage from Rochester, Kent to Putney, Surrey.[29]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Cheviot  Victoria
Cheviot
The steamship ran aground in Port Philip Bay and was wrecked with the loss of 35 lives.
Four Brothers  United States The schooner was abandoned in the Gulf of Mexico south south west of Panama City, Florida(29°30′N 86°00′W / 29.500°N 86.000°W / 29.500; -86.000).[30]
Sara F. Bird  United States The schooner was wrecked 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) east of the mouth of the Perdido River.[30]

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Unnamed Flag unknown The barque ran aground on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom.[31]

22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Midge  United Kingdom The yawl foundered 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) east of Lymington, Hampshire.[32] She was refloated on 9 November and towed in to Cowes, Isle of Wight. She was placed under repair.[33]

23 October

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
City of Owen Sound Canada Canada The steamship struck a sunken rock and foundered in Georgian Bay off the Clapperton Lighthouse, Ontario. Her crew were rescued.[34][35]
Delaware  United States The steamship was beached in a storm near Hammond Bay, Michigan Straits and declared a total loss. Sunsequently refloated, rebuilt and returned to service as Charles B. Hill.[36]
Francis Henry  United Kingdom The ship departed from Comfort Bight, Labrador, Newfoundland Colony for Gibraltar. No further trace, reported missing.[37]
Laketon  United States The steamer ran aground and sank in a gale in Lake Superior. Seven of her crew were rescued. Raised 6 August, 1888.[38]

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Meliora  United Kingdom The ketch was driven ashore at Cullen, Moray. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Methil, Fife to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides.[39]
Perseverance  United Kingdom The smack foundered off the north Devon coast.[39]
Sibylla  United Kingdom The steamship departed from Malta for Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. No further trace, reported overdue.[40]

25 October

List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Frigga  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the smack Our Boys ( United Kingdom). Frigga was on a voyage from Caen, Calvados, France to Fredrikstadt.. She was subsequently taken in to Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom.[35]
Striver  United Kingdom The fishing smack, under tow of the tug Tasmania ( United Kingdom) collided with a brig and sank at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.[41]

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Ada and Ethel  New South Wales The schooner was wrecked 10 nautical miles (19 km) south of the Seal Rocks, New South Wales.
Arken  Norway The brig sprang a leak and sank in the North Sea 12 nautical miles (22 km) south west of Smith's Knowl, off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the smack Figet ( United Kingdom). Arken was on a voyage from Cowes, Isle of Wight to Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom.[42]
Flaminian  United Kingdom The ship ran aground at "Burgar Deressi", Ottoman Empire. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire.[43]
Protector  Norway The brig ran aground and was wrecked at Troon, Ayrshire, United Kingdom. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Stranraer, Wigtownshire to Ayr, United Kingdom.[35]

27 October

List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Flying Hawk  United Kingdom The tug was driven ashore on Dalkey Island, County Dublin.[43]
Swift  United Kingdom The ship collided with Dundee ( United Kingdom) and sank in the North Sea off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. Her captain was reported missing. Swift was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Poole, Dorset.[44]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Princess of Wale  United Kingdom The ship was sighted off Portland, Dorset whilst on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Somme, France. No further trace, reported overdue.[45]

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Vernon  United States
Sonar image of the wreck of Vernon, 12 June 2022.
During a westward voyage from Frankfort, Michigan, the 158.7-foot (48 m), 694.94-gross register ton steamship foundered in a gale in Lake Michigan east of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, with the loss of all but one of the 40 to 50 people on board. The lone survivor was rescued after 60 hours on a raft. The wreck lies in the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary at 44°12.125′N 087°24.738′W / 44.202083°N 87.412300°W / 44.202083; -87.412300 (SS Vernon) at a depth of 210 feet (64 m) except for the pilot house and deck superstructure, which lie west of the rest of the wreck in 160 feet (49 m) of water.[18][46][47][48][49][50]
Von Peter  Norway The barque was driven ashore in Rocquaine Bay, Guernsey, Channel Islands. A crew member was reported missing.[51]

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1887
ShipStateDescription
Flaxmoss  United Kingdom The steamship was abandoned in the English Channel 10 nautical miles (19 km) off the Isle of Wight. Her crew were rescued by the barque Neptunus ( Netherlands). Flaxmoss was on a voyage from Guernsey, Channel Islands to London.[52]
Helena  United Kingdom The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Dunkirk, Nord with the loss of four of the six people on board. Survivors were rescued by a fishing vessel.[51]
Pride of the Sea  United Kingdom The lugger was driven ashore and wrecked at Shanklin, Isle of Wight with the loss of all six crew.[42][51]
Ranger  United Kingdom The pilot cutter was driven onto Ryde Pier, Isle of Wight.[51]
Robert  United Kingdom The barque sank in the River Thames at Swanscombe, Kent.[52]
Sydney  United Kingdom The barque sank in the River Thames at Swanscombe.[52]
Thomas and Sarah  United Kingdom The Thames barge foundered in the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent. Her crew were rescued.[52]
Yarra  United Kingdom The excursion boat foundered in the Solent west of Ryde Pier.[51]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The yacht foundered in the English Channel off Portland, Dorset with the loss of ten of the twelve people on board.[51]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The barge foundered off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of all hands.[51]

31 October

Unknown date

References

Related Articles

Wikiwand AI