List of shipwrecks in 1886
The list of shipwrecks in 1886 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1886.
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January
2 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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W. D. Chipley | ![]() |
The steamer struck a snag and sank at Stark Clay Landing in the Chattahoochee River, a total loss. Ten passengers and one crewman died.[1] |
7 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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John | ![]() |
The Runcorn schooner was wrecked near Stress. The crew were rescued.[2] |
The Native | ![]() |
The Welsh schooner was wrecked on Ringwood Rocks, near Ardglass, County Down. The crew survived.[2] |
Pearl | ![]() |
The LIverpool vessel was wrecked on Pilling-sands, near Fleetwood. The crew survived.[2] |
Swallow | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked on Pilling-sands, near Fleetwood. All on board drowned.[2] |
Whitehaven lifeboat | ![]() |
The Whitehaven lifeboat capsized while assisting a foreign barque. One crew member of the lifeboat drowned.[2] |
8 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Harkaway | ![]() |
The schooner was lost at Minehead while on her return journey from South Wales with coal for her home port of Truro, Cornwall.[3] |
I. H. Higgins | ![]() |
The schooner was lost in a storm.[4] |
Levanter | ![]() |
The fishing schooner struck a reef near Lockeport, Nova Scotia and went to pieces. The crew were saved.[5] |
Rattler | ![]() |
The schooner was lost in a storm, she dragged anchor and went ashore on a ledge at Eastport, Maine and sank. The crew were saved.[6] |
9 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alicia A. Washburn | ![]() |
The steamer caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Mexico 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) off St. George Island, Florida.[7] |
Hettie | ![]() |
The stern-board and part of the keel of the Hartlepool steamship was washed ashore at Trevone Bay, Cornwall.[8] |
11 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hylton Castle | ![]() |
During a voyage from New York City to Rouen, France, with a cargo of 57,880 bushels of corn, the 1,258-gross register ton iron-hulled steam cargo ship sank in 95 feet (29 m) of water in the North Atlantic Ocean about 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) south of the Fire Island Lighthouse on Fire Island south of Long Island, New York, during a storm. Her entire crew of 22 survived, abandoning ship in two lifeboats. One lifeboat with nine or 10 men aboard (sources disagree) reached shore, while the other, with 11 or 13 men aboard (sources disagree) drifted at sea for three days until picked up by the fishing smack Stephen Woolsey (![]() |
21 January
30 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fulmar | ![]() |
The cargo ship, transporting coal from Troon, Scotland, to Limerick, Ireland, sank in Farrihy Bay, just north of Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland. All 17 aboard died, and only one body was recovered.[11] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cornishman | ![]() |
The steamer, while heading north from Sullna struck a rock off Ottavov and foundered in deep water. The crew survivied were picked up by the Whitby Abbey and Conductor. (First report - 8 January 1886)[12][13] |
Hudson | ![]() |
The Glasgow vessel capsized 120 miles (190 km) south of Blettingburg's bay in a gale. Fifteen of the crew drowned. The steamship German landed the captain and nine of the crew at Plymouth.[14] |
Frank N Trayes | ![]() |
The captain and crew abandoned ship, in the South Atlantic, after it was set alight by two crew who jumped overboard. Five of the crew were stabbed and killed and the captain was injured. The surviving crew spent a week in an open boat before landing on Saint Helena.[15] |
February
10 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cambridge | ![]() |
The 1,337-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a passenger ship, sank without loss of life in up to 50 feet (15 m) of water at 43°50′41″N 069°18′56″W after striking the west side of the pinnacle of Old Man Ledge, a reef 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) south-southwest of Port Clyde, Maine.[16] |
Flamingo | ![]() |
The Cork Steamship Company's steamer was hit by the steamer Glenmoor while entering the Mersey from Antwerp. Flamingo sank soon after and the second engineer drowned.[17] |
Lizzie H. Haskell | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked on Plum Island. The crew were saved.[18] |
15 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary E. McDonald | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked at Port Jolie, Nova Scotia. The crew were saved.[19] |
17 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Annie D. | ![]() |
The schooner burned on the Georges Bank. The crew were saved.[20] |
25 February
26 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Favourite | ![]() |
The Brixham trawler was run down by the barque St Pierre (![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hope | ![]() |
The ship ran aground at Port Eynon Point, Glamorgan, Wales, and was abandoned by her crew. She was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[23] |
Julia | ![]() |
The schooner was driven against the Ogmore which was at anchor in Penarth roads. Julia′s bow stove in and she sank in a few minutes. The crew escaped in the boat and landed at Cardiff.[24] |
March
1 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Missouri | ![]() |
The steamship, en route to Liverpool from Boston, went ashore on the Holyhead shore during a snowstorm and became a total wreck the following day. All the crew and some livestock survived.[25][26] |
6 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Xanthippe | ![]() |
The brig ran aground at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan, Wales, and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Port Talbot, Glamorgan.[23] |
11 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ike Bonham | ![]() |
The steamer's boiler blew up 11 miles (18 km) below Vicksburg, Mississippi at Bedford's Bar, Louisiana, sinking in three feet (0.91 m) of water. Six crewman died, and everyone else on board was wounded except the captain's wife who took over and prevented the ship from burning. The wreck was sold and the new owner had her raised, towed to Paducah, Kentucky where she was rebuilt and returned to service for the 1886–1887 cotton season.[27][28][29] |
12 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ellrickdale | ![]() |
The steamer was wrecked on Europa Point, Gibraltar. At least three of the crew survived.[30] |
13 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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John Marker | ![]() |
The tow steamer's boiler exploded destroying the ship in the lower harbor of Boston, Massachusetts. Five died.[31] |
14 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Charles H. Morse | ![]() |
The schooner disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean near New York City. She probably was the schooner the passenger liner Oregon (![]() |
Oregon | ![]() |
![]() Oregon ![]() |
15 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Beda | ![]() |
The freighter sank 40 miles (64 km) off Cape Perpetua, Oregon . The crew abandoned ship in her two lifeboats. One with her master and five crewmen were never seen again, the other one reached shore on 17 March near the mouth of the Umpqua River with only two of the five crew aboard still alive.[33][34] |
17 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Breconshire | ![]() |
The steamship grounded on rocks near the Lamock Islands off Swatow, China, and became a wreck, finally breaking up on 25 March[35][36] |
18 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Seewoo | ![]() |
The Indo-China Steam Navigation Company Ltd. steamer struck Taichow Rocks in thick fog and foundered off the shore of Shangta Island, near Chekiang, China, in 10 fathoms (60 ft; 18 m). Two of the ship's boats landed eighty-four of the crew and passengers on the island. One boat with seven crew was swamped and they lost their lives.[37][38][39] |
20 March
22 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Port Chalmers | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship registered in Glasgow left Falmouth for Liverpool and was stranded on Lowland Point, a short distance west of The Manacles.[42] |
23 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unknown vessel | A 300-ton vessel was passed, bottom up, about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) south by east of the Bishop Rock, by steamer Niobe.[43] |
25 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Devines | ![]() |
The brig was embayed at Penberth Cove, Cornwall, and while waiting for a change of wind, went ashore and is expected to become a total wreck.[44] |
26 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Nellie | ![]() |
The brigantine was wrecked on Jackey's Rock (grid reference SV83600639) in the Isles of Scilly. Two men were taken off the wreck and five were found on Melledgan. The captain and mate perished.[45] |
27 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Electric Light | ![]() |
The fishing schooner was run down and sunk by schooner Annie Lord off Chesapeake Bay. The crew were saved.[46] |
30 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary Lewis | ![]() |
The steamer was smashed against the Lagonda bridge on the Atchafalaya River by a sudden gale of wind and sank. Two crew died.[47] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alert | ![]() |
The Lowestoft lugger was run down by a trawler and sank 28 miles east of Lowestoft. All ten crew were rescued.[48] |
Dix Freres | ![]() |
The brig became waterlogged following the loss of her masts during a hurricane. Four of the crew were picked up by the barque Sarah Anne on 2 March, leaving four on the wreck. On 17 March one of the crew died and three days later the remaining three were rescued by the Sunderland barque Efficient and landed them at Queenstown, Ireland.[49] |
Eagle | The yacht went to pieces in the harbour at Kingsville, Ontario during the last week of March or 1 April.[50] |
April
6 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mountain Boy | ![]() |
The sternwheel steamer capsized in a wind storm at dock in Owensborough, Kentucky, a total loss. Three crew died.[51] |
Oconto | ![]() |
The steamer was wrecked in a gale/snowstorm on Charity Island, Michigan on 5 December 1885. The vessel's cook died of fright, while the rest of her crew and passengers were ferried to the island in her boat. She floated off on 6 April 1886 and drifted 20 miles (32 km) before sinking in Saginaw Bay near North Island in 14 feet (4.3 m) of water. The wreck was raised in early May and taken to Port Huron, Michigan for repairs.[52][53] |
7 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Star of Hope | ![]() |
The steam barge was wrecked when the tow line to the tug Burlington (![]() |
William Vanatta | ![]() |
The schooner barge, aka Vannatta, Vennette, or Vennetta, was wrecked when the tow line to the tug Burlington (![]() |
11 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Taiaroa | ![]() |
The schooner-rigged coastal steamer was wrecked on the coast of New Zealand's South Island near the mouth of the Waiau Toa / Clarence River with the loss of 36 of the 50 people on board. |
13 April
15 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Africa | ![]() |
The steamer burned at Owen Sound, Ontario.[59] |
17 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Prince Alfred | ![]() |
The Montrose steam-trawler struck a reef about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Stonehaven, filled and sank. Only three of the eight crew survived.[60] |
20 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary Spencer | ![]() |
The Newcastle barque burnt at sea and ten of the crew and the captain were landed at Plymouth by the fishing-sloop Coquette on 2 May.[61] |
23 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Eureka | ![]() |
The schooner struck a ledge and sunk off the Delaware Breakwater. The crew were saved.[62] |
28 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mildred | ![]() |
The Padstow schooner was hit by the West India mail steamer Eldorado, between Portland and the Isle of Wight. One crew member died and the remainder were landed at Penarth.[63] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pietro | ![]() |
The barque burned to the water-line off Penarth, Wales.[64] |
Sewell | ![]() |
The newly-built tug, awaiting her machinery to be installed by Kerr Brothers at Walkerville, sank in a storm in mid April. Raised two days later.[65] |
May
3 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary, Queen of the Sea | ![]() |
The vessel was abandoned and the crew were landed at Queenstown, Ireland by the steamer British Princess.[66] |
4 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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A. N. Clark | ![]() |
The schooner sank off Bass Rocks. The crew were saved.[67] |
5 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Monitor | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked at Port May, Newfoundland. The crew were saved.[68] |
7 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lord Derby | ![]() |
The Cardiff tug hit a buoy and sank near Roath harbour. It was raised the following morning and sank in the entrance to the East Dock while under tow.[69] |
9 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Henrietta | ![]() |
The schooner stranded at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The crew were saved.[70] |
13 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mermaid | ![]() |
The brig went ashore at Donna Nook, while heading to Hartlepool from Whitstable with the loss of the captain and mate. One of the crew of the Donna Nook lifeboat (![]() |
President | ![]() |
The ship ran aground off Cardigan, Wales. Her three crew were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (![]() |
20 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Joseph Story | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked at Saint-Pierre, Miquelon. The crew were saved.[73] |
30 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ly-ee-Moon | ![]() |
The Australasian Steam Navigation Company steamship was wrecked off Green Cape, New South Wales, Australia, on a voyage from Melbourne to Sydney with passengers and cargo; 71 lives lost, 15 survivors[74][75] |
June
3 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lookout | ![]() |
The 66.71-ton, 80.1-foot (24.4 m) schooner was wrecked on Sanak Island in the Aleutian Islands in a thick fog. Her crew of 15 survived.[76] |
Thomas P. Sheldon | ![]() |
The schooner was sunk in a collision with Russia (flag unknown) in Lake George in the St. Marys River. Crew rescued by New Orleans (flag unknown). Apparently raised, repaired and returned to service.[77] |
5 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alpha | ![]() |
The paddle tug was destroyed by fire. |
12 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lyttelton | ![]() |
The iron full-rigged ship sank at Timaru, New Zealand in 26 feet (7.9 m) and was expected to become a total wreck.[78][79] |
17 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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David Vance | ![]() |
The schooner, under tow of the steam barge Bessemer (![]() |
21 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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John Carver | ![]() |
The 319-ton whaling bark 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. Her crew abandoned ship in her boats and was rescued 33 hours later by the bark Atlantic (![]() |
23 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary Atwater | ![]() |
The schooner was sunk in a collision with City of Kingston (flag unknown) in the Hudson River off Fort Montgomery, New York. Two crew died.[82] |
30 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Birgitte | ![]() |
The bark drifted ashore in Apalachicola Bay opposite Dog Island during a hurricane.[83] |
C. Ervlin | ![]() |
The tugboat sank at the East Pass to Apalachicola Bay near Cat Point during a hurricane. Two crewmen killed. Two barges she was towing were driven ashore.[83] |
California | ![]() |
The schooner was lost in Dog Island Cove, Apalachicola Bay during a hurricane. Four crewmen killed.[83] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Caterina Doge | Five of the crew drowned when the vessel was wrecked at Olifantsbosch.[84] | |
Gertrude | ![]() |
The steamer Gertrude was wrecked at Cape Pine, Newfoundland while carrying grain from New Orleans to Copenhagen.[84] |
Unnamed | ![]() |
A torpedo boat sank off the coast of Corsica while manouvring against Ironclad warships.[85] |
July
3 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Royal Edward | ![]() |
The clipper ship became damaged in a gale and her crew abandoned her in a sinking state. Bellona (![]() |
5 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lincoln | ![]() |
The Liverpool iron steamer struck the Runnelstone, Cornwall in thick fog and sank off St Loy's Cove. The fourteen crew abandoned ship about a mile off St Loy's and reached Penzance.[87][88] |
6 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Oconto | ![]() |
The steamer struck a boulder and sank, slipping into deeper water during a salvage attempt.[89] |
8 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Milwaukee | ![]() |
The steam barge sank in Lake Michigan after colliding in fog with the steam barge C. Hickox (![]() |
16 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Napoleon | ![]() |
The fishing boat sank off Norman's Woe.[91] |
Prince of Wales | ![]() |
The steam tug sank after colliding with the ship Peterborough (![]() ![]() |
19 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Joe Hooker | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked at Cape Macedome, Newfoundland. The crew were saved.[93] |
30 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Clarissa | ![]() |
The schooner foundered in Cardigan Bay, Wales and the crew were taken off by the Liverpool steamer Mersey, which later went ashore and was abandoned.[94] |
Mersey | ![]() |
The Liverpool steamer picked up crew from the schooner Clarissa in Cardigan Bay, and later was abandoned when she went ashore in dense fog.[94] |
31 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bloomer | ![]() |
The schooner sank 15 miles (24 km) off Kennebunk, Maine. The crew were saved.[95] |
Passport | ![]() |
The steamer struck a dock at the east entrance to the Cornwall Canal, Canada and sank in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water.[96] |
August
8 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Acolus | ![]() |
The Hartlepool steamer collided with the steamer Valetta (![]() |
20 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Jane Sophia | ![]() |
The crew of the Plymouth schooner was saved, after she sank in 20 minutes, following a collision with the steamer Zenobia (![]() |
23 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Howard | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked at Portugal Cove, Newfoundland. The crew were saved.[101] |
27 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bournemouth | ![]() |
The paddle steamer stranded in fog on Portland, Dorset, England while on an excursion from Torquay, Devon to Bournemouth, Hampshire, with 180 passengers and 14 crew, who were all saved.[102][103] |
28 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Quail | ![]() |
The steamship collided with the steamship St. Martin (![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Clara Light | ![]() |
The 179-ton whaling schooner and tender was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) north of Point Franklin on the coast of the Territory of Alaska in late August.[105] |
George L. Smith | ![]() |
The fishing schooner vanished on the Banks after being seen on 21 August. Lost with all 14 hands.[106] |
John F. Wonson | ![]() |
The fishing schooner sailed from Gloucester, Massachusetts on 4 August for Brown's Bank and vanished. Lost with all ten hands.[107] |
September
1 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Harriet R | ![]() |
The Llanelli brigantine was run down by an unknown steamer 15 miles (24 km) south-east of the Owers lightvessel. The crew of six escaped in the ships boat and landed at Dover.[102] |
Zeal | ![]() |
The vessel struck rocks, while leaving Oporto in ballast en route for Cadiz. All efforts to save Zeal failed.[108] |
6 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Victory | ![]() |
The three-masted schooner was stranded on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela and became a total loss.[109][110] |
15 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bonita | ![]() |
The St Ives, Cornwall schooner sank between the Longships, Cornwall and the Runnel Stone, when the three-mast schooner Rescue ran into her. Bonita sank within the hour and the crew were landed at Penzance by the Rescue.[111] |
Kingfisher | ![]() |
The fishing boat sank following a collision with the steamer Eugenie off the coast of Waterford.[112] |
23 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mandova | ![]() |
The Bombay schooner sank off Dover after a collision with the steamship Matilda. The sixteen crew were landed at Dover by the Matilda.[113] |
24 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary Ann | ![]() |
The schooner sank in two minutes following a collision with the Somerset, off St. John's, Newfoundland, which cut her in two. Four of the 27 on board drowned.[114] |
28 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Star of Albion | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship ran aground and was wrecked in the Hooghly River, India.[115] |
Suffolk | ![]() |
The steamship was wrecked in fog on the eastern side of Lizard Point, Cornwall, England. The 45 people aboard were saved.[116] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Arctic | ![]() |
The crew of the three-masted schooner, of Swansea, were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall.[117] |
Joseph Ferens | ![]() |
The Hull steamer ran aground 10 miles (16 km) from Cape St. Vincent, Portugal, while carrying 2500 tons of coal from Newport, Wales for Bolama, Spain.[118] |
Strathnairn | ![]() |
The vessel was struck amidships by the Clan Graham and sank in the River Clyde, Scotland.[119] |
Unknown vessel | A large quantity of wreckage came ashore at Belle Isle, Newfoundland.[120] |
October
2 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Garibaldi | ![]() |
The schooner was destroyed by fire off Murder Island, Nova Scotia. The crew were saved.[121] |
5 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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La Mascotte | ![]() |
The passenger steamer was destroyed by fire in the Mississippi River at Crawford's Landing, 125 miles (201 km) below St. Louis due to a flue collapsing. Ten passengers and 22 crew died.[122] |
Theodore | The Russian brig went ashore near Sunderland. The crew were saved by the lifeboat.[123] |
6 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Juliet | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the Gingerbread Shoal. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.[124] |
8 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Agnes | ![]() |
The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked in Caswell Bay off Wales. Her crew survived.[23] |
13 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Selah Chamberlin | ![]() |
The steamer was sunk in a collision with John Pridgen, Jr. (![]() |
14 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Belle Mitchell | ![]() |
The schooner sank in a gale in Lake Erie between Conneaut, Ohio and the base of Long Point Peninsula. Lost with all nine hands.[127][128] |
George M. Case | ![]() |
The schooner sank in a gale three miles (4.8 km) off Port Colborne in seven fathoms (42 ft; 13 m) of water. Her captain, female cook, and one crewman died. Survivors were rescued by the tug W. A. Moore.[129][130] |
Indus | ![]() |
The Dundee steamship foundered off Trevose Head, Cornwall. The thirty crew were rescued by the Port Issac lifeboat Richard and Sarah and a gig.[131][132] |
Malleny | ![]() |
The ship was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when she struck the Tusker Rock in the Bristol Channel and foundered with the loss of all 20 crew. The wreck came ashore at Westward Ho!, Devon, England.[23] |
O. M. Bond | ![]() |
The schooner went ashore in a storm on Rond Eau Point and was wrecked. Ship and cargo a total loss. Two crew killed.[133] |
15 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ben-y-Gloe | ![]() |
The ship was on a voyage from Singapore to Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales, when she capsized off Nash Point, Glamorgan, Wales. Her crew survived.[23][134] |
Matilda | ![]() |
The London barge went ashore, in the English Channel, near Bognor. The whereabouts of her crew is unknown. [135] |
Ocean Beauty | ![]() |
The barque was driven ashore at Aberavon, Glamorgan, Wales, with the loss of two of her 15 crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, to Valparaíso, Chile.[23] |
16 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Albert Wilhelm | ![]() |
The Barth brig hit the Stones reef, near Godrevy Lighthouse and was driven on to the sands at Lelant, Cornwall. Five of the crew were saved by the Isis (![]() |
17 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary Seymour | ![]() |
The Padstow, Cornwall brig became a total wreck at Spithead, in the English Channel.[138] |
Sarah Anderson | ![]() |
The ship sank at Trebarwith Strand, near Tintagel, Cornwall, England, with the loss of all on board.[139] |
24 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Normanton | ![]() |
The cargo ship was wrecked in heavy wind and rain off the coast of what is now Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. The European officers and crew abandoned ship and reached safety, leaving the 12 Chinese and Indian crewman and all 25 Japanese passengers behind to fend for themselves. All the Japanese passengers died. |
Samuel J. Tilden | ![]() |
The schooner was rammed and sunk ay anchor by Arabia (![]() |
William Rudolph | ![]() |
The steam barge caught fire off Grosse Point, Michigan. She was scuttled by the steam barge Cleveland (![]() |
28 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Minerva | ![]() |
The West Hartlepool steamer collided with the Liverpool steamer Borderer and sank in the Thames, off Gravesend. Seven lives were lost.[143] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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A. Neff | ![]() |
The steamer was wrecked on rocks in a gale 30 miles (48 km) from Port Arthur, Ontario off Porphyria Point, Edward Island in Lake Superior late in the month. The crew was picked up from the island by a tug.[144] |
Boswedden | ![]() |
The iron barque was lost off Hartland Point, Devon, England. All that was found was a brass bound bucket on Lundy and a writing desk washed up near Ilfracombe.[145] |
Britannia | ![]() |
A large quantity of wreckage seen in Bideford Bay, was reported by the Charlotte, on 22 October at Cardiff.[146] |
Castleton | ![]() |
A large quantity of wreckage seen in Bideford Bay, was reported by the Charlotte, on 22 October at Cardiff.[146] |
Catherine | ![]() |
The schooner foundered and the crew were landed at the North Sea port of Grimsby.[147] |
Dolphin | ![]() |
The Liverpool vessel sank in St George's Channel. A bottle containing the following note was picked up at Livermead, Torbay; Lost in St George's Channel, the ss Dolphin of Liverpool, with all hands. May anybody pick this up, will you send it to my dear wife: she lives at 45 Fore-street, Bristol. Good-by; going down now. There are 24 of us on board (signed) Fred Ravion. We have lost our funnel and our engines are broken down. good-by; going down now. I am the third engineer on board the Dolphin. Send to my dear wife. Good-by.[146] |
Henry | ![]() |
A large quantity of wreckage seen in Bideford Bay, was reported by the Charlotte, on 22 October at Cardiff.[146] |
Invermaid | ![]() |
The sailing vessel was last seen in a ″disabled conditon″ off Lundy Island, in the Bristol Channel. She had a crew of seventeen.[146] |
Marie Blanche | ![]() |
The lugger sank at the western end of Plymouth's breakwater. Her cargo of limestone and 200 pounds (91 kg) of gun cotton was salvaged by the Torpedo of HMS Defiance.[148] |
Nerbudda | ![]() |
A large quantity of wreckage seen in Bideford Bay, was reported by the Charlotte, on 22 October at Cardiff.[146] |
Oxen | ![]() |
A large quantity of wreckage seen in Bideford Bay, was reported by the Charlotte, on 22 October at Cardiff.[146] |
Tevioldale | ![]() |
The Glasgow vessel was wrecked on the Carmarthen coast with the loss of her seventeen crew. Some of the ships cargo was pillaged.[149] |
November
2 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Myles | ![]() |
The steamer was sunk on a reef, today known as Myles Shoal, in the harbour of Kingston, Ontario. Refloated on 20 April 1887 and repaired and returned to service.[150][151] |
November
4 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ellen Spry | ![]() |
The schooner sprung a leak and sank in 500 feet (150 m) of water in early November on the Great Lakes.[152][153][154][155] |
5 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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City of Cheboygan | ![]() |
The schooner was sunk or wrecked at DeTour Village, Michigan in 30 feet (9.1 m) of water. Refloated in June 1887, repaired and returned to service.[156][157] |
Detroit | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked on Summer Island in Green Bay near the Door Peninsula, or on Skillagalee Reef near Beaver island.[158][159] |
M. Stalker | ![]() |
The schooner was rammed and sunk while anchored three miles (4.8 km) off Mackinaw City (45°47′N 84°41′W) in a storm by Severn or Muskoka, sinking in 15 fathoms (90 ft; 27 m) of water. The wreck was located in 1967.[160][161][162] |
12 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Northerner | ![]() |
The steam barge ran aground on a reef off Kelly's Island in Lake Erie. She caught fire and burned to the waterline. Rebuilt in 1887 and returned to service.[163][164] |
13 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Snowbird | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked on the Great Lakes.[165] |
14 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Flying Scud | ![]() |
The 25.96-gross register ton, 50.2-foot (15.3 m) schooner departed Douglas Station near Cape Douglas (57°34′10″N 154°27′30″W) on the north coast of Kodiak Island in the Territory of Alaska bound for Kodiak on the eastern end of the island with 26 people on board and was never heard from again. Wreckage and broken baidarkas were found weeks later, but the loss of Flying Scud did not finally became fully apparent until the spring of 1887.[166] |
17 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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B. B. Buckout | ![]() |
The barge went aground in a blizzard at McDougall.[167][168] |
B. M. Baker | ![]() |
The barge went aground in a blizzard at East Tawas, Michigan.[169][170] |
Belle Cross | ![]() |
The steamer went aground in a blizzard opposite China Beach.[171] |
City of New York | ![]() |
The steamer went aground in a blizzard near Cheboygan, Michigan at North Point in Hammond's Bay.[172][173] |
Cuyahoga | ![]() |
The schooner and two scows went aground in a blizzard in North Bay.[174] |
David Wallace | ![]() |
The schooner barge, being towed by Robert Wallace (flag unknown), went aground in a blizzard at Chocolay four miles (6.4 km) east of Marquette, Michigan, sinking the next day. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[175] |
Emerald | ![]() |
The barge foundered in a blizzard near Kewaunee, Wisconsin. Her captain, three crewmen and female cook were lost.[176] |
F. M. Dickinson | ![]() |
The barge foundered in a blizzard near Kewaunee, Wisconsin. Two crewmen and the female cook were lost.[177] |
Florida | ![]() |
The schooner slipped her anchor and was dashed to pieces against a dock at Marquette, Michigan in a blizzard. Her mate was crushed between her hull and the hull of the rescue tug Gilett (![]() |
Golden | ![]() |
The schooner went aground in a blizzard below China Beach.[180] |
Golden Harvest | ![]() |
The barge went aground in a blizzard at East Tawas, Michigan.[181] |
Harvey Bissell | ![]() |
The schooner barge went aground in a blizzard near Alpena, Michigan. Refloated and returned to service.[182] |
Helen | ![]() |
The schooner foundered in a blizzard on Lake Michigan about three miles (4.8 km) north of the Muskegon channel. Lost with all hands, four crewmen, her captain and his wife.[183][184] |
L. J. Conway | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked in a blizzard on Lake Michigan and was wrecked near Frankfort, Michigan. Lost with all hands.[185][186][187] |
Mary | ![]() |
The schooner went aground in a blizzard near Blenheim, Ontario.[188][189] |
Nashua | ![]() |
The steamer went aground in a blizzard near Grass Island in Green Bay.[190] |
Nelson Mills | ![]() |
The schooner went aground in a blizzard in the St. Clair River.[191] |
P. S. March | ![]() |
The schooner went aground in a blizzard on St. Ignace, Michigan.[192] |
Pathfinder | ![]() |
The schooner went aground in a blizzard near Rawley Point, Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Broke up over the next several days.[193][194] |
Robert Wallace | ![]() |
The steamer went aground in a blizzard at Chocolay four miles (6.4 km) east of Marquette, Michigan, sinking the next day. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[195] |
South Haven | ![]() |
The schooner went aground in a blizzard near Sherman's Point, Ontario, Canada (44°10′N 77°06′W).[196] |
Star of the North | ![]() |
The barge foundered in a blizzard near East Tawas, Michigan in 14 feet (4.3 m) of water.[197] |
Thomas P. Sheldon | ![]() |
The schooner went aground in a blizzard at Oscoda, Michigan, later sinking off Fish Point in 14 feet (4.3 m) of water after being cut loose by her tug. Apparently raised, repaired and returned to service.[198] |
Tonawanda | ![]() |
The barge went aground in a blizzard at McDougall.[199] |
Unknown schooner | The schooner went aground in a blizzard at St. Ignace, Michigan.[200] | |
William Jones | ![]() |
The schooner went ashore in a blizzard on Little Sable Point, south of Pentwater, Michigan.[201][202] |
18 November
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Hanna Butler | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked in Weller's Bay off Stony Point after rescuing the crew rescued by Ida Walker (![]() |
Ida Walker | ![]() |
The schooner dragged anchor in a blizzard and was wrecked on a reef in Weller's Bay. Broke in two the next day. Crew rescued by Hanna Butler.[205][206] |
John G. Kolfage | ![]() |
The schooner went aground in a blizzard near Goderich, Ontario.[207] |
Lucerne | ![]() |
The schooner sank in a gale/snowstorm in Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior, in 17 feet (5.2 m) of water off the north side of Long Island at La Pointe, Wisconsin, with the loss of all hands.[208] |
Marinette | ![]() |
The schooner, under tow by Manistique (![]() |
Queen of the Lakes | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked on Stony Point in Weller's Bay. Reportedly went to pieces, but was pulled off in 1887 and taken to Kingston, Ontario, repaired and returned to service.[211][212] |
19 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Menekaunee | ![]() |
The schooner, under tow by Manistique (![]() |
20 November
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Thames | ![]() |
The schooner was on a voyage from Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, to Bilbao, Spain, when she struck the Scarweather Sands in the Bristol Channel and consequently foundered off The Mumbles, Glamorgan. Her crew survived.[23] |
27 November
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
56S | ![]() |
The 56S-class torpedo boat sank in the Bay of Biscay after colliding with the torpedo boat 57S (![]() |
Oregon | ![]() |
The steamer was damaged in a collision with steamer Alaska (![]() |
Richmond | ![]() |
The steamer was destroyed by fire at the mouth of the Black River. Two crew died.[218] |
29 November
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Alfred P. Wright | ![]() |
The tug went aground on a beach three miles (4.8 km) north of Manistee, Michigan and was abandoned. The Crew was saved.[219] |
30 November
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Arundel | ![]() |
The schooner, under tow of Maggie Marshall (![]() |
Maggie Marshall | ![]() |
The steamer went aground on a beach three miles (4.8 km) south of Manistee, Michigan. Refloated and returned to service. The crew was saved.[221] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Carthage | ![]() |
The fishing schooner sailed from Gloucester, Massachusetts on 30 November for the Georges Bank and vanished. Lost with all 12 hands.[222] |
Ironton | ![]() |
The steam barge sank was sunk at L'Anse, Michigan in Lake Superior in early November.[223] |
Lubrene | ![]() |
The schooner was lost in the blizzard of 17–19 November near Ashland. Eight lives were lost.[224] |
December
2 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ariadne | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked in a gale in Mexico Bay four miles (6.4 km) from Stony Point near Oswego, New York. Her captain drowned and two crewmen froze to death. Three survivors were rescued near death by the United States Life Saving Service.[225][226] |
4 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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D.H. Ingraham | ![]() |
The vessel ran aground at Hereford Inlet on its way from Rockland, Maine to Richmond, Virginia. All crew were saved before the ship caught fire.[227][228] |
9 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alliance | ![]() |
The ship was wrecked on the seaward side of the Albert Pier, Penzance, Cornwall, England.[145] |
Eliza Fernley | ![]() |
After launching from Southport, England, the lifeboat capsized during a gale in the Irish Sea with the loss of 14 of her 16 crew while trying to reach the crew of the barque Mexico (![]() |
Laura Janet | ![]() |
After launching from St Annes, England, the lifeboat capsized during a gale in the Irish Sea with the loss of all 13 of her crew while trying to reach the crew of the barque Mexico (![]() |
Mexico | ![]() |
![]() Mexico ![]() |
13 December
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Richmond | ![]() |
The steamer was destroyed by fire at Saint Maurice Plantation on the Mississippi River. Five passengers and five crew died.[229] |
21 December
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
John G. Fletcher | ![]() |
The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Red River at Shady Grove Landing, 15 miles (24 km) above Shreveport, Louisiana, a total loss. One crew died.[230] |
24 December
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Annie C. Maguire | ![]() |
Sailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a cargo of miscellaneous freight, the 188-foot (57 m), 1,363-ton three-masted barque ran onto rocks on the ledge at Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, during a storm and sank in up to 30 feet (9.1 m) of water.[231] Today, letters painted on the rocks below the lighthouse commemorate the wreck and the Christmas Eve rescue of her crew. |
30 December
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Richard K. Fox | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked at North Chatham, Massachusetts. The crew were saved.[232] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Unebi | ![]() |
The cruiser disappeared without trace in the South China Sea with the loss of all hands. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Allahabad | ![]() |
The iron sailing ship was on a voyage from Glasgow, Scotland, to Dunedin, New Zealand, with a cargo primarily of coal when she disappeared without trace after last being spoken to by the crew of the ship South Australian (flag unknown) in the Atlantic Ocean at (29°S 28°W) on 4 September. |
Boyne | ![]() |
The sailing ship was wrecked without loss of life on False Point on the coast of India during a voyage from Suva, Fiji, to Calcutta, India. |
Ferntower | ![]() |
The vessel foundered in the Saigon River, causing the loss of fifty lives.[233] |
Jinseppina Acceme | The Savona sugar-laden vessel left Benjonwongie for Falmouth, Cornwall on 27 February 1886 and has been placed on the missing vessel list.[234] | |
René | ![]() |
The Nantes vessel was wrecked under Overton cliffs, Gowan, Glamorganshire. There were five survivors.[235] |
Seth Stockbridge | ![]() |
The fishing schooner was lost with all 14 hands off Greenland early in the Summer.[236] |
Thornton | ![]() |
The 29-ton sealing schooner was battered to pieces at Unalaska on Unalaska Island in the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands sometime during or after 1886.[237] |
Tsengora | The full-rigged ship was lost at Spring Lake, New Jersey.[238] | |
W. C. Warner | The brig was lost at Mantoloking, New Jersey.[238] | |
Western Shore | ![]() |
The sloop was lost in Bristol Bay in the Territory of Alaska.[239] |
Young America | ![]() |
Bound from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Fiume, the clipper ship disappeared without trace after passing the Delaware Breakwater outbound on 17 February. |
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Ship events in 1886 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 |
Ship commissionings: | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 |
Shipwrecks: | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 |
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