List of shipwrecks in 1884
The list of shipwrecks in 1884 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1884.
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January
2 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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I. N. Bunton | ![]() |
The tow steamer was wrecked in the Ohio River when she struck the pier of the Davis Island Dam. Four died.[1] |
16 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fusilier | ![]() |
About 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of Koitiata, on the west coast of New Zealand, the 404-ton, iron barque was blown ashore. The vessel's wreck is located in the sand dunes, about 200 yards (180 m) from the highest tides. |
17 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Clarence | ![]() |
The reformatory ship was destroyed by fire at Liverpool, Lancashire. |
18 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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City of Columbus | ![]() |
![]() USRC Dexter (left) aiding the wrecked City of Columbus (right) ![]() |
26 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alliance | ![]() |
The schooner was driven into Deal Pier, Kent, which was severely damaged.[5] |
Cviet | ![]() |
The 381-ton barque of Ragusa was deliberately run aground, 300 metres (330 yd) east of Porthleven harbour, Cornwall, England, during a severe gale in an attempt to save the lives of the crew. Six hundred tons of logs were salvaged; three of the crew lost their lives.[6] |
27 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Augusta | ![]() |
The schooner foundered with the loss of the master and one crew.[7] |
G D T | ![]() |
The brigantine was driven ashore in St Aubin's Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands, and was wrecked.[8] |
Goefredo | ![]() |
The steamship, formerly the White Star Line ocean liner Belgic, ran aground off Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. She was refloated and sent to Liverpool, England, for repairs. |
Clarence | The steamer foundered off Hilpaford. Three men drowned.[7] | |
Juno | The vessel was stranded on the bar at Liverpool. Twenty-five crew were seen in the rigging when the masts collapsed and thirty-one lives were lost.[7] | |
Nokomis | The barque went ashore on the Antrim coast when she broke from her anchors while in the River Foyle. The fifteen crew and one pilot perished.[7] | |
Unnamed barque | An overturned barque was seen off Ilfracombe, Devon.[7] | |
Unnamed vessel | A ship was wrecked near Liverpool with the loss of the crew.[7] | |
Unnamed vessels | Several vessels have been lost at Folkestone and bodies have been washed ashore at Hythe and Dungeness.[7] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hals | ![]() |
The West Hartlepool steamer sank near Corunna. Five of the crew were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the cattle-vessel Cupid.[9] |
Hwai Yuen | The steamer was wrecked on the Hieshan Islands. Five people are known to have been saved and 199 were missing.[10] | |
Mary Hubert | The steamer sank in a gale on Lake Superior.[11] | |
Royal Oak | ![]() |
The schooner was lost at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. The crew were saved. The wreck was sold.[12] |
February
5 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Rhuabon | ![]() |
The Padstow steamer struck The Smalls and sank during a south-south-west gale, while heading for Cardiff from Holyhead. Seven of the crew left in the ship's boat and were picked up by the steamer Briton. The captain and nine men were left on board.[13] |
10 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alexandra | ![]() |
The schooner foundered off Cardigan. Her four crew were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (![]() |
Racer | ![]() |
The Padstow schooner foundered 25 miles (40 km) north-west of Lundy Island.[15] |
11 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Advance | ![]() |
The schooner ran aground in Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia, and was wrecked. |
McClure | ![]() |
The Dublin steamship bound for Cork from Newport, Wales with coal hit the Barrel Rock at noon and foundered five house later. The captain and twelve crew were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the steamship James Hogg the following morning.[16] |
12 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Moel Rhewan | ![]() |
The cargo of the Welsh barque shifted during a gale on 9 February causing her to list and she was taken in tow by Upupa near the Smalls Lighthouse. Two days later the line broke and Captain Williams refused to leave his ship. Upupa continued on her voyage and on 12 February the crew were taken off by three ships.[17] |
Samuel | ![]() |
The barque was driven ashore and wrecked east of Worms Head, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, to Santos, Brazil.[18] |
26 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Goefredo | ![]() |
The steamship, formerly the White Star Line ocean liner Belgic, had undergone repairs at Liverpool, England, due to an earlier incident, but while leaving the port, bound for Havana, Cuba, she ran onto Burbo Bank at the mouth of the River Mersey and was wrecked. |
28 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Magic | ![]() |
The fishing schooner was lost in a gale on Georges Bank. Lost with all 12 crew.[19][20] |
Phoenix | ![]() |
The fishing schooner was lost in a gale on Georges Bank. Lost with all 14 crew.[21] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hornet | ![]() |
The steamer foundered off Lundy with the loss of seventeen men. The only survivor was landed at Newport, Wales.[22] |
March
2 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pizarro | ![]() |
The barque was sighted off Gabo Island, Victoria. Subsequently foundered off the coast of Queensland with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumberland to Cooktown, Queensland.[23] |
9 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Samson | ![]() |
The Sunderland schooner was driven ashore, during a gale, near Wick, Scotland. The crew of six was drowned.[24] |
16 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary Boyns | ![]() |
The Penzance schooner was stuck by the steamer Mulgrave and sank a few minutes later in the Bristol Channel. Mary Boyns was carrying coal from Neath to Penzance. The crew were taken aboard the steamer and landed at St Ives, Cornwall.[25] |
Victoria | ![]() |
The Gelfe brig was abandoned, waterlogged at 39°31′N 32°46′W, while carrying logwood from Old Harbour, Jamaica to Goole, Yorkshire. The captain and six of the crew were rescued by Astoria and landed at Falmouth, Cornwall.[26] |
28 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Balbec | ![]() |
The Cunard iron-screw steamer left Liverpool with five passengers and a general cargo for Le Havre, striking a rock about one mile (1.6 km) south-east of the Longships Lighthouse. With eight feet (2.4 m) of water in the hold the captain decided to run ashore at full-speed; Nanjizal (also known as Millbay) was the nearest convenient place. There was no loss of life.[27] The 774-ton vessel was sold by public auction on 5 April 1884 at Nanjizal followed by another auction at Sennen Cove of the rigging, sails, several lots of brass and copper, four ship's-boats, sixty hams, thirteen cases of lobsters, etc.[28] |
31 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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William S. Baker | ![]() |
The schooner sank in a gale between New York City and Boothbay, Maine. Lost with all five crew.[29][30][31] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cassiope | ![]() |
The Liverpool vessel left Rangoon in February and is assumed to have foundered in a cyclone near Mauritius.[32] |
Fayaway | ![]() |
The Padstow schooner was wrecked at Bunbeg, County Donegal, Ireland while en route to that port from Killybegs, County Donegal.[33] |
San Josef | The derelict vessel was found about six miles (9.7 km) south-east of the Longships Lighthouse with only a dog on board. The vessel from Painpol was laden with salt and was towed to Penzance by the lugger William and Annie.[34] |
April
1 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Herald | ![]() |
The paddle steamer sank off North Head, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, after suffering a burst boiler. Both men aboard escaped safely in one of her boats. |
3 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Daniel Steinmann | ![]() |
The steamer ran aground on the Madrock Shoal, off Sambro Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, with the loss of 121 of the 130 passengers and crew.[35] |
Rebecca Everingham | ![]() |
The steamer burned to the water's edge at Fitzgerald Landing, Georgia, 28 miles (45 km) above Eufaula, Alabama, before her mooring lines parted allowing her to drift 100 yards (91 m) down stream in the Chattahoochee River before sinking. Five passengers and seven crew were killed.[36][37] |
4 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Viking | ![]() |
The schooner was lost at Newcomb's Hollow. The crew were saved.[38] |
5 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Flying Cloud | ![]() |
The brig left Liverpool carrying salt for Quebec and drove ashore in Dundrum Bay, Ireland. One of the ship's boats capsized and all the occupants drowned. The rest of the crew landed in a second ship's boat or were brought ashore by the Newcastle lifeboat.[39] |
12 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lady Dalhousie | ![]() |
The steamship struck the Chynoweth rock near The Manacles off the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, while in ballast for Newport. All the crew were saved.[40] |
19 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ponema | The barque left Liverpool for Miramichi on 10 April and collided with State of Florida (flag unknown) around midnight, both sinking within 15 minutes. Only the captain and two men out of fifteen crew survived.[41] | |
State of Florida | The State line steamer left New York for the Clyde on 12 April and collided with Ponema {flag unknown) around midnight, both sinking within 15 minutes. Thirty-six crew and eleven passengers were saved.[41][42] |
28 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Saint Paul | ![]() |
During a voyage in the waters of the Territory of Alaska from Belkofski to Kodiak with a cargo of provisions and a crew of two, the 13.92-ton schooner was wrecked on the coast of the Alaska Peninsula near Nikolaief, 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) north of Belkofski, during a gale. Both crewmen survived.[43] |
29 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Falmouth | ![]() |
The passenger steamer burned and sank at dock in Portland, Maine. Three crew were killed.[44][45] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Ohio | ![]() |
While being stripped, the decommissioned ship-of-the-line broke loose from her moorings at Greenport, Long Island, New York, and ran aground on Fanning Point on the south coast of Long Island. She was burned to the waterline there to ease the recovery of her fittings, and her wreck sank in 20 feet (6 m) of water.[46][47][48] |
May
1 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Seslin | ![]() |
The 20-ton schooner was wrecked on a rock near Howkan (54°52′15″N 132°48′05″W) on Long Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of three survived.[43] |
8 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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City of Portland | ![]() |
The passenger ship, a 2,200-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, struck Northwest Ledge, a reef in Muscle Ridge Channel off Owls Head, Maine, and sank without loss of life in up to 40 feet (12 m) of water at 44°02′56″N 069°02′54″W.[49] |
10 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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J.S. Seaverns | ![]() |
The screw steamer sank in Lake Superior at Michipicoten, Ontario, Canada, with no loss of life. Her wreck was discovered in 2016. |
15 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Athanasios Vagliamos | ![]() |
The 513-ton vessel was carrying coal from Swansea to Italy when she sprang a leak 180 miles (290 km) west of the Isles of Scilly. While heading for land the vessel was driven ashore on rocks just above Port Gaverne, Cornwall. The three crew took to the boat and landed safely ashore.[50] |
Ilyrian | ![]() |
The cargo ship was wrecked on Cape Clear Island, County Cork. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Boston, Massachusetts, United States.[51] |
18 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Catherine and Alice | ![]() |
The captain and crew abandoned ship off St Alban's bay in fine weather and the vessel was towed to port as a derelict. The captain was found guilty at Liverpool sessions of ″... neglecting to take measures to avert the loss of his vessel.″ He was sentenced to 18 months in prison.[52] |
Syria | ![]() |
![]() The wreck of Syria |
26 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Daring | The schooner collided with Skeellings (flag unknown) and both vessels sank off the Chicken Rock. The captain and two of the crew of Daring drowned.[53] | |
Skeellings | The steamer collided with Daring (flag unknown) and both vessels sank off the Chicken Rock Lighthouse,[53] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Senorine | ![]() |
The brig was lost on the Grand Bank sometime in May. Sixty-two men, including passengers who were fishermen, were lost.[54] |
June
2 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Wave | ![]() |
The steamer capsized in the Cape Fear River when she careened going around a bend and her deck cargo shifted. Two passengers and the cook died.[55] |
7 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fanny Fern | ![]() |
The fishing schooner was sunk in a collision with Allentown (![]() |
20 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Girdler lightship | ![]() |
The lightship was sunk by the P&O steamer Indus (flag unknown). The lightship crew were landed at Dover by Indus.[58] |
22 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unknown vessel | Reports of wreckage including deal and battens, off the west coast of Orkney. A lifebuoy belonging to Voalant of Caernarfon was also found.[59] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Angeleta | ![]() |
The vessel caught fire and the nineteen crew were taken off by the Italian barque Pipalarno. Eight were later transferred to Village Belle and landed at Londonderry, Ireland.[60] |
July
7 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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H. C. Colman | ![]() |
The freighter was sunk when her boiler exploded. One crewman was killed.[61] |
9 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ahnapee | ![]() |
Bound from Torch Lake, Michigan, to either Chicago, Illinois, or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a cargo of 110 cords of wood and 300 railroad ties, the 71.1-foot (21.7 m), 80.42-gross register ton two-masted scow schooner ran aground in fog during a gale at North Point in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of the Sheboygan United States Life-Saving Service station in the vicinity of 43°47.110′N 087°42.635′W. All six members of her crew survived and were rescued by U.S. Life-Saving Service personnel. Ahnapee became a total loss.[62][63] |
10 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Gravina | ![]() |
The Velasco-class unprotected cruiser sank in a typhoon north of Luzon in the Spanish East Indies. |
17 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Caleb Eaton | ![]() |
The 110-ton whaling schooner was crushed in ice off the Territory of Alaska.[64] |
W. M. Wood | ![]() |
The tug capsized at Twelve-Mile Point below New Orleans, Louisiana, while trying to refloat the barque Bristol. Three of her officers were killed.[65] |
24 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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J. M. Bowell | ![]() |
The passenger steamer capsized in a storm in the Monongahela River near Brownsville, Pennsylvania. A small girl was lost.[66] |
Gijon | ![]() |
The steamer collided with Laxham (![]() |
Laxham | ![]() |
The vessel collided with Gijon (![]() |
27 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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John M. Osborn | ![]() |
The wooden screw steamer sank with the loss of three lives six miles (9.7 km) west-northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior after she was rammed by the steamer Alberta (![]() |
August
2 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Dione | ![]() |
The Middlesbrough steamer sank in two or three minutes, when struck by Camden (flag unknown) off Gravesend, England. Ten of her crew and seven passengers are missing.[71] |
4 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Water Nymph | ![]() |
The Newquay, Cornwall schooner stranded at Clifden, Ireland while carrying ore to the Clyde and was likely to be a total wreck. All the crew survived.[72] |
6 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Shooting Star | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked on the Nova Scotia coast. The crew were saved.[73] |
9 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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E. L. Rowe | ![]() |
The schooner was lost on Avery's Ledge. The crew were saved.[74] |
Martha Sephens | ![]() |
The passenger steamer struck a snag and sank near Boonville Island in the Missouri River. Four crewmen were killed.[75] |
10 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Red Rose | ![]() |
The Cardiff vessel stranded about five miles (8.0 km) south-east of the Ar Men light, France[76] |
11 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bowhead | ![]() |
Drifting ice struck the 533-ton steam whaling bark while she was moored to ground ice so her crew could clean her boilers at Blossom Shoals (70°23′N 161°57′W) off Icy Cape on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska, holing her hull and sinking her quickly. The vessels Balaena and Narwhal (flags unknown) rescued her crew.[77] |
14 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Berwick | ![]() |
The steamship foundered off Huntcliffe, Yorkshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Portsmouth, Hampshire.[78] |
20 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Admiral | ![]() |
The harbor tug sank when her boiler exploded at Chicago, Illinois, killing her master, engineer, and fireman.[79] |
23 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Chenhang | ![]() |
Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The armed transport was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers D'Estaing, Duguay-Trouin, and Villars (all ![]() |
Feiyun | ![]() |
Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The sloop-of-war was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers D'Estaing, Duguay-Trouin, and Villars (all ![]() |
Fusheng | ![]() |
Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The flatiron gunboat was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers D'Estaing, Duguay-Trouin, and Villars (all ![]() |
Fuxing | ![]() |
Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The gunboat sank in the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, after being attacked successfully by a French Navy pinnace with a spar torpedo. |
Ji'an | ![]() |
Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The sloop-of-war was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers D'Estaing, Duguay-Trouin, and Villars (all ![]() |
Jiansheng | ![]() |
Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The flatiron gunboat was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers D'Estaing, Duguay-Trouin, and Villars (all ![]() |
Yangwu | ![]() |
![]() The wreck of Yangwu, photographed in 1884 |
Yongbao | ![]() |
![]() The wreck of Yongbao (at left), photographed in 1884 ![]() |
Zhenwei | ![]() |
Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The gunboat exploded and sank in the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, because of a single shell hit by the ironclad corvette Triomphante (![]() |
24 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Tallapoosa | ![]() |
The 1,173-displacement ton gunboat — a sidewheel paddle steamer — sank in Vineyard Sound shortly before midnight with the loss of three members of her crew after she collided with the schooner J. S. Lowell (![]() |
Unidentified torpedo launch | ![]() |
Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The torpedo launch was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruiser Duguay-Trouin (![]() |
Unidentified torpedo launch | ![]() |
Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The torpedo launch was abandoned in the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, after she came under fire by the cruiser Duguay-Trouin (![]() |
29 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Belmont | ![]() |
The steamer capsized in a storm in the Ohio River three miles (4.8 km) above Henderson, Kentucky. Her captain died, as did five women and eight children, a total of 20–25 lives lost.[83][84] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Margaret Kendal | ![]() |
The Barrow schooner was wrecked at Wick Bay, with the loss of three or four crew.[85] |
September
1 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Dart | ![]() |
The Royal Mail steamer left Southampton on 1 August for the Brazilian ports and sank at San Sebastian, to the north of Santos. No lives were lost.[86] |
7 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ellen | ![]() |
The smack foundered off Cardigan. Three people were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (![]() |
Unda | ![]() |
The brigantine foundered of Cardigan. Her six crew were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (![]() |
9–10 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fenella | ![]() |
![]() Fenella aground |
11 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Twilight | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked on Shag Rock, off Cranberry Island, Maine. The captain and two of the crew got out a dory, which was struck by a sea, killing the captain and one of the men. The rest of the crew made it onto Shag Rock where they were doused by waves for 13 hours before being saved by a passing schooner.[87] |
13 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unidentified brig | The brig was wrecked on the Seven Stones Reef between Cornwall, England, and the Isles of Scilly.[88] |
20 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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RMS Cordillera | The vessel struck rocks at San Isidro, Chile in the Strait of Magellan. Six of the passengers were taken off by Uarda (![]() |
22 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Wasp | ![]() |
The Banterer-class screw gunboat ran aground off Tory Island, Ireland, and quickly sank with the loss of 52 lives. Six people survived.[90] |
Welsh Prince | ![]() |
The steamship was disabled and ran aground when a rope became entangled around her propeller at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. Her passengers were taken off by the lifeboat William James Holt (![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Elisa | ![]() |
The crew abandoned the barque in early September and were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by Claason.[91] |
Lastingham | ![]() |
The vessel, which left London on 29 May with a general cargo, was lost on Port Jackson Head, Cook's Straight. Only 14 of the crew survived.[92] |
Frederick Scalla | ![]() |
The barque was demasted in a severe storm in mid-Atlantic Ocean, lost her boats, and sprang a leak. After nine days the vessel was on the verge of sinking and the crew worn out from manning the pumps when they sighted the brig F. Y. Merryman (![]() |
Swallow | ![]() |
The vessel was abandoned in the Atlantic and nineteen of the crew landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the German barque Ernst Ludwig Holtz.[94] |
October
10 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Eliza | ![]() |
The Penzance schooner grounded on the Dunbar, at the entrance to Padstow harbour, while carrying coal from Porthcawl to Penzance. The crew were taken off by the lifeboat Arab.[95] |
Samarang | ![]() |
The Newcastle barque, carrying timber from Quebec ran aground near Saltburn. The twenty crew were rescued by the Redcar and Saltburn lifeboats.[96] |
11 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Europa | ![]() |
The Dublin steamer was hit on the starboard bow by Roseville (flag unknown) near the Cloch Lighthouse, six miles (9.7 km) west of Greenock, Scotland. Europa sank in minutes with the loss of five men. The rest of the crew jumped onto Roseville.[97] |
Morjord and Truby | ![]() |
The Aberdeen barque was wrecked while on a voyage from Grangemouth, Scotland, to Plymouth, England. The crew took to the rigging and all but three were rescued by the Harwich lifeboat.[98] |
17 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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A. R. Noyes | ![]() |
Carrying a cargo of coal, the 90-foot (27 m) barge sank in 65 to 80 feet (20 to 24 m) of water in Lake Champlain off Shelburne Point, Vermont, north of Proctor Shoal, at 44°27.2′N 073°14.7′W.[99] |
24 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Christina Nilsson | ![]() |
The schooner struck a reef and sank in Lake Michigan off Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin, during a blizzard. |
26 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Amaranth | ![]() |
The Padstow, Cornwall schooner collided with the steamer St Jacques (flag unknown) of Le Havre off Dungeness and sank with the loss of four lives.[100] |
Pearl | ![]() |
The Plymouth ketch became a wreck after going ashore near Padstow during a gale.[100] |
27 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Chang Chow | The vessel went ashore at Sandy Cape while en route for China from Newcastle, New South Wales. Seven of the crew and passengers are missing.[101] |
28 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Avebury | ![]() |
The Sunderland screw-steamer, carrying 450 tons of iron ore and 200 tons of esparto to Cardiff stranded at Rosemodress, near Lamorna, Cornwall. All the crew managed to get ashore.[102] |
SMS Undine | ![]() |
The training ship, a brig, was wrecked on the northern coast of Jutland in Denmark during a storm with the loss of one life.[103][104] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bickley | ![]() |
Stranded on the island of Coll.[105] |
Despatch | ![]() |
The Yarmouth fishing lugger sank after being hit by a steamer. All ten (or twelve) crew lost their lives.[106] |
Little Beck | ![]() |
The steamer foundered on the coast of Holland with only six of the twenty on board saved.[107] |
November
6 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Brixham | ![]() |
The Brixham steamship foundered off Cape Finisterre. [108] |
Clyde | ![]() |
The barque ran aground off Banks Peninsular, New Zealand and sank, with seventeen crew killed. |
19 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Silentium | ![]() |
The steamship collided with the steamer Pennland (![]() |
21 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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James McMahon | ![]() |
The tug sank when her boiler exploded in Long Island Sound. Two of the crew were killed.[109] |
22 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Chandler J. Wells | ![]() |
The schooner ran aground in Lake Michigan off Whiskey Island, Michigan. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Craigforth | ![]() |
The steamer left Iceland for her home port of Leith, Scotland and ran ashore on rocks three miles (4.8 km) west of Fraserburgh. The cargo of 3,200 sheep and 16 ponies were thrown overboard, and 2,500 sheep and all the ponies swam ashore. The crew and passengers were saved.[110] |
December
5 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alliance | ![]() |
The Cardiff steamer was lost off Boscastle, Cornwall while carrying coal to St Nazaire.[111] |
Josephine | ![]() |
The schooner was lost on Little Boar's Head. The crew were saved.[112] |
7 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Polchard | ![]() |
The Cork Steamship Company steamer foundered one mile (1.6 km) off Holyhead, Wales while en route to Liverpool.[113] |
15 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hildegarde | ![]() |
The schooner was lost on Little River Island, Maine. The crew were saved.[114] |
19 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Uva | ![]() |
The Liverpool steamer left Liverpool for Barcelona with a cargo of coal and pitch. Last seen off Port Lynas on 18 December it is thought the steamer foundered during bad weather off the English coast the following day.[115] |
20 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Echo | ![]() |
The vessel was overwhelmed by weather off the Corbiere, Jersey, Channel Islands. All aboard drowned.[116] |
21 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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St. Peter | ![]() |
The schooner ran aground in a snowstorm off Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The vessel slid off and sank in four fathoms (24 ft; 7.3 m) of water four hours later. The crew were saved by the schooner Lizzie A. Robbey.[117] |
22 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Edward Haskell | ![]() |
The schooner ran aground at Cape Canso, Nova Scotia. The crew made it to an uninhabited island from which they were rescued 24 hours later.[118] |
25 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Chelydra | ![]() |
The Sunderland steamer was struck amidships by a Norwegian barque off the Eddystone and both vessels sank. The crew took to the boats and landed at Plymouth.[119] |
Holmstrand | ![]() |
The barque struck Chelydra (flag unknown), off the Eddystone, and the crew were picked up by an unnamed vessel and landed at Newport.[119][120] |
26 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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SMS Marie | ![]() |
The Carola-class corvette ran aground on a reef off Neu Mecklenburg, German New Guinea and was severely damaged. She was refloated on 29 December and put into Nusa, German New Guinea for repairs. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Atrato | ![]() |
The paddle steamer sank. |
Berengeria | The vessel was wrecked on the Galloper Sands en route to Greenock from Falmouth, Cornwall.[121] | |
Charlie Hickman | ![]() |
The vessel went ashore and became a total wreck, while en route to New York from Liverpool. One member of the crew was drowned.[122] |
Ebendase | ![]() |
The Newcastle steamer sank in Havre roads, after being run down by the steamship Linda (![]() |
Echo | ![]() |
The dandy-cutter was lost during a gale while carrying Christmas goods for Guernsey. None of the fifteen crew survived.[124] |
Lornty | The vessel, bound for Bombay sank after colliding with the Great Western steamer Cornwall. The crew survived.[120] | |
Ohio | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire in the harbour at Greenport, New York. |
Redesdale | ![]() |
The North Shields steamer was stranded on the Pearl rock, near Gibraltar and sank. The crew were saved.[124] |
Unnamed junks | ![]() |
An estimated 112 junks were destroyed in a typhoon.[125] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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C. C. Dame | The schooner was lost at Bay Head, New Jersey.[126] | |
Elliott Richie | ![]() |
The waterlogged bark-rigged sternwheel paddle steamer was abandoned off Pernambuco, Brazil.[127] |
Grassendale | ![]() |
The iron sailing ship left New York, with a crew of 32 and a cargo of petroleum for Shanghai in May and has not been heard of since.[128] |
Olano | ![]() |
The barque was lost off Cape Horn, Chile.[129] |
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Ship events in 1884 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 |
Ship commissionings: | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 |
Shipwrecks: | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 |
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