List of shipwrecks in September 1885

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

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Waveney  United Kingdom The yacht ran aground and sank on the Brake Sands, in the North Sea. All three people on board survived. She was on a voyage from Lowestoft, Suffolk to Ramsgate, Kent.[1][2]

2 September

List of shipwrecks: 2 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Queen  United Kingdom The steamship put in to Penzance, Cornwall on fire. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Dénia, Spain.[3] The fire was extinguished on 4 September.[4]

3 September

List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Mazeppa Norway The galeas ran aground at the entrance to the Ise Fjord. She was on a voyage from Charlestown, Cornwall, United Kingdom to Roskilde, Denmark.[3]

4 September

List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Benedicta  Germany The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Akassa, Royal Niger Company territory. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Akassa.[5]
General Gordon  United Kingdom The fishing lugger was driven ashore at the North Foreland, Kent.[4]
Lincoln  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore on Oyster Island, County Sligo. She was refloated on 6 September and taken in to Sligo.[6]

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Alice M. Williams United States The fishing schooner struck an uncharted rock and sank 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) off "Bildall£, Iceland. Her crew rowed to Bildall in her boats.[7][8]

7 September

List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Alpheta  United Kingdom The ship departed from Adelaide, South Australia for Portland, Oregon, United States. No further trace,[9] reported missing.[10]

8 September

List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Advance United States
Advance, 9 June 2022.
The 117.3-foot (35.8 m), 179.92-gross register ton schooner sprang a leak and capsized in Lake Michigan 9 nautical miles (10 mi; 17 km) southeast of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, at 43°36.71′N 087°42.973′W / 43.61183°N 87.716217°W / 43.61183; -87.716217 (Advance). Her six-man crew took to a yawl, which capsized 200 feet (61 m) from shore with the loss of five lives. Her wreck was discovered in 1983 and lies within the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary.[11][12]
Bob Hackett United States The tug collided with St. Magnus ( United States) and sank in the Detroit River off Bois Blanc Island, Ontario, Canada. Her boiler and engine were salvaged in May 1886. The rest of the wreck was blown up with dynamite.[13][14]
Director  United Kingdom The Thames barge was run into by Loch Fergus at Gravesend, Kent. Director then collided with the steamship Bulimba.[15]
Erie United States The schooner capsized off Port Colborne, Ontario with the loss of two of the six people on board.[16]
Grove  United Kingdom The smack was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the tug Pelican ( United Kingdom).[17]
Honour  United Kingdom The schooner departed from Par, Cornwall for Gloucester. No further trace, reported overdue.[18]
Idlewild, and
Loch Fergus		  United Kingdom The steamship Idlewild collided with Loch Fergus and both vessels were severely damaged with much loss of life. Idlewild was on a voyage from London to Penarth, Glamorgan. Loch Fergus was on a voyage from London to Sydney, New South Wales. She was towed in to the River Thames.[15]
Milton United States The barge was wrecked at Two Rivers, Wisconsin with the loss of all five crew.[16]

9 September

List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Coronella  United Kingdom The brigantine ran aground at Holyhead, Anglesey and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Dublin.[19]
Florence Miriam  United Kingdom The ketch collided with the steamship River Derwent and sank in the River Thames at Northfleet, Kent with the loss of all three crew.[15][20]
Guardian Angel Dominion of Newfoundland Newfoundland Colony The fishing schooner capsized off Cape Ballard with the loss of all but one of her crew.[21]
Oakland  United Kingdom The steamship was run into by SMS Blitz ( Imperial German Navy) and sank in the Kattegat with the loss of fifteen of her seventeen crew. Survivors were rescued by SMS Blitz. Oakland was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Stockholm, Sweden.[22]
Unnamed  Imperial German Navy The torpedo boat collided with another and sank off Langeland, Denmark with the loss of a crew member.[23]

10 September

List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Auckland  United Kingdom The steamship collided with an Imperial German Navy warship and sank in the Kattegat 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) north by east of the Kobbergrund. She was on a voyage from Burntisland, Fife to Tromsø, Norway.[22]

11 September

List of shipwrecks: 11 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Acorn  United Kingdom The Mersey Flat sank at Liverpool, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Birkenhead, Cheshire to Liverpool. She was refloated.[24]
Amadis  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore on Hogland, Russia.[24] She was refloated.[20]
Glynn  United Kingdom The brigantine stranded on Hayle bar. Her five crew were rescued by the Hayle Lifeboat Isis ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Glynnn was on a voyage from Hayle, Cornwall to Cherbourg, Manche, France.[25]
Lady Frances  United Kingdom The steamship struck a sunken rock and was wrecked 170 nautical miles (310 km) west of Alexandria, Egypt with the loss of ten of her nineteen crew. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Alexandria, Egypt.[26][27]
Moneta  United Kingdom The brigantine ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. She was refloated and assisted in to Whitstable, Kent in a leaky condition.[20]

12 September

List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Excel  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on Double Island, off "Cape Harrigan". Her crew were rescued.[28]
Ferdinand Bruhn  Germany The ship was driven ashore on Inchcape, Fife, United Kingdom. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Doboy, Georgia, United States to Dundee, Forfarshire, United Kingdom.[20] She was refloated and towed in to Dundee in a wrecked condition on 16 September.[29]
Harriet Shiel  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore on Inchgarvie, Fife. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Grangemouth, Stirlingshire. She was refloated and taken in to Grangemouth in a leaky condition.[20]
Mary and Jane  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Skerray, Sutherland. Her crew were rescued.[20]
New Emerald  United Kingdom The fishing lugger was run into by the brigantine Poseidon ( Norway) and sank at Scarborough, Yorkshire.[24]

13 September

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Rookwood United States The ship ran aground at San Francisco, California. She was refloated.[29]

14 September

List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Haabet Denmark The schooner was driven ashore at Margate, Kent, United Kingdom.[26] She was later refloated and towed in to Ramsgate, Kent in a waterlogged condition.[30]
Hermes  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground off Cape St. Mary with the loss of four of her crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Montevideo, Uruguay. She was a total loss.[31][32]

15 September

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Coumoundoros  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on Hastensground, in the Baltic Sea.[33][26]
Unnamed Flag unknown The steamship ran ashore on Læsø, Denmark.[33]

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Corona  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on a reef off Prince Head, Java, Netherlands East Indies. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Singapore, Straits Settlements.[34]
Electrico  Italy The steamship sank off Asinara, Sardinia. Her crew were rescued.[32]
Unnamed United States The wrecking schooner sank collided with the tug Fanny P. Sheer ( United States) and sank at New York. Two of her crew were reported missing.[35]

17 September

List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
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 with the loss of five of her crew.[35]

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Brenda, and
Dolphin		  United Kingdom The paddle steamer Dolplhin collided with the steamship Brenda and sank in The Downs a mile (1.9 km) offshore and midway between Walmer Castle and Kingsdown, Kent with the loss of seventeen of the 37 or 38 people on board. Survivors were rescued by the Kingsdown Lifeboat Charles Hargreave ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and by boats from Kingsdown. Dolphin was on a voyage from the River Thames to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was subsequently salvaged.[36][37][38] Brenda was on a voyage from Bushire, Persia to London. She was severely damaged at the bow and was towed in to Dover, Kent by the tug Granville ( United Kingdom).[26] Temporary repairs were made and she was towed to London.[38][39]
Floretta United States
Sonar image of the wreck of Floretta, 12 June 2022.
During a voyage from Escanaba, Michigan, to Chicago, Illinois, with a cargo of iron ore, the 134-foot (41 m), 259.9-gross register ton canal schooner sprang a leak and sank in 180 feet (55 m) of water in Lake Michigan 11 nautical miles (20 km; 13 mi) southeast of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, at 43°57.24′N 087°32.20′W / 43.95400°N 87.53667°W / 43.95400; -87.53667 (Floretta). Her crew of seven reached Manitowoc safely in a yawl. Her wreck was discovered in 1980 and in 2021 was included in the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary.[40][41]
Flying Cloud Straits Settlements The steamship foundered 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Pulo Remo. Twenty-five of the 53 people on board were reported missing.[42]
Hannah  United Kingdom The smack was wrecked near Newhaven, Sussex.[43]

19 September

List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Annie and Matthew  United Kingdom The fishing coble capsized off Robin Hoods Bay with the loss of two of her three crew.[44]
Margaret United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Isle of Man The schooner foundered off the coast of Cumberland with the loss of three of her crew. A would-be rescuer was lost when his boat capsized.[44]

20 September

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
RMS Etruria  United Kingdom The ocean liner collided with the steamship Canada ( United Kingdom) in Lower New York Bay. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire. She continued her voyage.
Helen Pembroke  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on North Andaman Island, Andaman Islands in a cyclone. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Port Blair, Andaman Islands to Calcutta, India.[45]

21 September

List of shipwrecks: 21 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Scamandre France The steamship collided with the steamship Ortegal and sank off Almería, Spain. Her crew were rescued.[21][46]
Neustrie France The 3 masts wrecked during False Point cyclone (Bay of Bengal) et had been forsaken, François Saboureau captain, shipowner H. Auger. Her crew were rescued.[47]

22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
H. A. Johnson United States The fishing schooner was run down by a barque and sank in the Western Cashe's with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by the schooner Aroostook ( United States).[7]

23 September

List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Penzance  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Dardanelles at Kumcale, Ottoman Empire. She was on a voyage from Sulina, Romania to Malta.[30]

24 September

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Alexander  India The tug was severely damaged in a cyclone at False Point.[48]
Booldana  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore in a cyclone at False Point.[48][49]
Franco Cherie France The ship put in to Faial Island, Azores on fire. She was on a voyage from Cochin, India to Bordeaux, Gironde. The fire was extinguished.[50]
Neustrie France The barque was wrecked in a cyclone at False Point. Her crew survived.[50]
Tewkesbury  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in a cyclone at False Point. She was on a voyage from False Point to Mauritius.[51]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The ship foundered off the Sandheads, India in a cyclone with the loss of all but two of her crew.[49]
Unnamed France The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in a cyclone at False Point.[51]

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1885
ShipStateDescription

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Angelina  Italy The barque was abandoned in the South Atlantic. Her crew were rescued by Maria T. (Flag unknown). Angelina was on a voyage from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France.[52]
Artiere Austria-Hungary The barque struck the breakwater at Trieste and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Trieste.[50]
Crimus  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at the mouth of the River Nene. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.[50]
Sarah Ann Widdup  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground and capsized at Margate, Kent. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Margate.[51]

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1885
ShipStateDescription
Abraham Sutton  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore at Waterloo, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Cork to Liverpool, Lancashire.[50]
Elizabeth Graham  United Kingdom The barque ran aground on the Seven Stones Reef, Cornwall. She was later refloated.[53]

30 September

Unknown date

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