List of shipwrecks in 1888

The list of shipwrecks in 1888 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1888.

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1888
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January

2 January
List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1888
ShipCountryDescription
William Porter  United States The steamer burned five miles (8.0 km) below the mouth of the Salt River, a high wind fanned the flames. She either sank or was scuttled short of the beach. One of her deck hands died.[1]

4 January
List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Alfred D. Snow  United States The full-rigged sailing ship was wrecked near Waterford, Ireland, United Kingdom. 28 crew died.[2]

5 January
List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Goolwa  United Kingdom The clipper ship started to leak during heavy weather on route from Penarth, Wales to San Francisco, California. She started to sink after the loss of deck hatches and was abandoned in the Bay of Biscay on 5 January 1888.[3]
Warren J. Crosby  United States The schooner was wrecked at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. Wreck was sold, raised, repaired and put in Canadian service.[4]

8 January
List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Emma A. Cutting  United States The schooner was wrecked on Pavilion Beach.[4]

12 January
List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Hattie N. Gove  United States The three-masted schooner was wrecked on Port Royal Bar.[4]

13 January
List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Isaac Patch  United States The schooner was wrecked at Grand Manan. The crew were saved.[4]
Milan  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Overton, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued by the Port Eynon Lifeboat or rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, to Alexandria, Egypt.[5]

17 January
List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Sylvester  United States The schooner was wrecked at Brace's Cove. Crew saved.[4]

19 January
List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Bronx  United States The tug was run down and sunk by Miranda ( Canada) in the East River off Blackwell's Island. Her fireman drowned.[1]

20 January
List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Anna H. Mason  United States The schooner was sunk in a collision at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.[4]

21 January
List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Switserland  Belgium The steamer collided with the steamer La Gascogne (flag unknown) in the Atlantic Ocean off New York City, United States, and holed. She put into New York for repairs and later returned to service.[6]

22 January
List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1888
ShipCountryDescription
May Queen  United Kingdom The iron barque wrecked in Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand. She was inward bound from London carrying general cargo.

25 January
List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Etta Gott  United States The schooner was wrecked on Big Spoon Island near Isle au Haut. The crew of eleven men remained on a desolate island a week before they were discovered and taken off.[4]

26 January
List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Finance  United States The schooner was wrecked on Blanche Island, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia. She struck on the ledges at 2:00 in the morning, in the height of a severe gale. One crewmember drowned and one died of exposure getting a line to shore so the crew could get off the ship, survivors rescued in the afternoon.[7]

28 January
List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Gleaner  United States The steamer swamped in a heavy squall in the Columbia River near Astoria, Oregon. Three passengers died.[1]
Restless  United States The schooner was heavily damaged by high seas on Brown's Bank on 18 January, drifting rudderless in snow storms. The crew was taken off by the schooner Harry Lewis ( United States) an hour before she sank on 28 January.[4]

February

2 February
List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Mystery  United States The schooner was wrecked on Western Bail at Lockeport, Nova Scotia. The crew were saved.[4]

10 February
List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Rising Star  United States The schooner was wrecked at Rye Beach. The crew were saved.[4]

17 February
List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Geelong  United Kingdom The steamship was run ashore on Carlisle Island, Queensland, Australia, after losing her cable in a hurricane. Two crew were lost, but remainder and all 13 passengers saved. She was on a voyage from Townsville to Brisbane[8][9]

27 February
List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Julia  United States The ferry's boiler exploded at South Vallejo, California causing her to burn to the waterline and sink. The fire also set on fire 600 feet (180 m) of the wharf, large vats of petroleum, the telegraph office, and freight depot. 30 to 40 killed and 14 wounded.[1][10]

28 February
List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Dayot  French Navy The unprotected cruiser foundered in a cyclone at Tamatave on the coast of Madagascar.[11][12]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date February 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Eastminster  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship disappeared with the loss of all on board after ignoring a pilot's warnings and departing Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, bound for Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, on 17 February in deteriorating weather. She presumably sank in a tropical cyclone that struck the area soon afterward. Her wreckage was found on a coral reef in the Capricorn and Bunker Group in the Coral Sea approximately 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) east of Rockhampton, Queensland.

March

8 March
List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Lanoma  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore and wrecked near Fleet, Dorset with the loss of twelve of her eighteen crew.[13]

11 March
List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Pamet  United States The schooner sank at Salem, Massachusetts.[4]

12 March
List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Charles W. White  United States The barge, under tow by the steamer Gertrude ( United States), sank in Huntington Bay on the north coast of Long Island, New York. One crewman drowned.[1]
William H. Starbuck  United States The pilot boat sank after colliding with the steamer Japanese ( United Kingdom) off Barnegat, New Jersey, with the loss of six of her crew.[14]

13 March
List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Enchantress  United States The pilot boat Enchantress went down with all hands in the Great Blizzard of 1888. Pilots John Johnston, John Martineau, Daniel B. Jones, Henry Sequin, Jr., Frederick Whitehead, boatkeeper, and five sailors were among those that were lost.[15]

28 March
List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Canonbury  United Kingdom During a voyage from Matanzas, Cuba, to Boston, Massachusetts, with a cargo of sugar, the 258-foot (79 m), 1,080-net register ton cargo ship, a screw steamer, was wrecked on the Nantucket Shoals off Nantucket, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) southeast of the United States Life-Saving Service station at Surfside, Massachusetts, with the loss of one life. There were 23 survivors.[16]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date March 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Levant  United Kingdom The South Shields steamship, built of iron at Hartlepool, England, in 1865, disappeared with the loss of her entire crew of 15 after departing Penarth, Wales, bound for Oporto, Portugal, on 24 March with a cargo of coal. A Board of Trade report on her loss did not speculate on its cause, but she may have been overloaded.[17][18]

April

13 April
List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Yorouba  France The ship was on a voyage to Le Havre, France, when she hit a rock west of Guernsey in the Channel Islands in fog and sank 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) from shore and 7 nautical miles (13 km) from Les Hanois Lighthouse. All passengers and crew were saved.[19][20]

16 April
List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Vena  Belgium The steamer sank in the North Sea following a collision with another ship.[6]

27 April
List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Ellengowan  United Kingdom The schooner-rigged screw steamer sank at her moorings, unmanned, at Port Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, and was abandoned.
Julia Foard  United States The 445.97-ton, 136.7-foot (41.7 m) bark was wrecked on the Karluk River on Kodiak Island in the Territory of Alaska. All 17 people on board survived.[21]

May

3 May
List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Isabel  United States The 184.93-gross register ton, 103.2-foot (31.5 m) two-masted cod-fishing schooner sank at sea in the Territory of Alaska's Shumagin Islands during a storm. All 19 members of her crew abandoned ship in eight dories, but 12 of them perished in the boats. Over the month following the sinking, the seven survivors were rescued, the last two from a dory on 4 June by the schooner Kodiak ( United States).[22]

8 May
List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Henry Edmunds  United Kingdom The brigantine was wrecked at Overton, Glamorgan. Her crew survived.[5]

17 May
List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Jeune Hortense  France The schooner was wrecked at Long Rock, Cornwall, England.[23] The Penzance lifeboat, having been brought by carriage to the beach near Marazion, rescued four of her crew.[24]
Otto The ship was stranded in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England. She was salvaged and later was renamed Providence and operated out of Penzance.[25]
Nulli Secundus  Germany The brigantine was stranded in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England. Under the name Tobaco, she previously had been stranded on the Eastern Green in Mount's Bay in 1865.[25]

June

4 June
List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1888
ShipCountryDescription
H. W. Crawford  United States The vessel was beached during a storm three miles (4.8 km) west of the West Pass of St. Andrew's Bar.[26]

7 June
List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Gleam  United States The yacht was sunk in a collision with Joppa ( United States) in Chesapeake Bay near Seven Foot Knoll Light (39.1572°N 76.4034°W), in the mouth of the Patapsco River. One man died.[1]

14 June
List of shipwrecks: 14 June 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Pony  United States The tow steamer capsized and sank during a turn on Muskegon Lake. Her engineer drowned.[1]

23 June
List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Olivette  United States The pleasure launch struck a dike in Newark Bay and capsized. Six, men and women, drowned.[1]

27 June
List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Unknown launch  United States The pleasure launch was sunk in a collision with James W. Baldwin ( United States) one mile (1.6 km) above Newburg, New York. Six rescued, two women drowned.[1]

30 June
List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Alhambra  United Kingdom The screw steamer collided with the derelict steamer John T. Berry ( United States), which she was trying to salvage, and sank off Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The steamer Tasmania ( United Kingdom) rescued her crew. The steamer Thetis ( United Kingdom) later sank John T. Berry as a danger to navigation.

July

16 July
List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Henrietta L.  United States The schooner was wrecked on St. George Island, Florida.[26]

25 July
List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Beaver  Canada
The wreck of Beaver.
The 109-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked when her inebriated crew ran her onto rocks in Burrard Inlet at Prospect Point in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The partially stripped wreck sank in July 1892 when struck by the wake of the passing steamer Yosemite (flag unknown).

31 July
List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1888
ShipCountryDescription
William A. Dugoswue  United States The schooner was wrecked on Straitsmouth Island, Rockport, Massachusetts.[4]

August

3 August
List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Fleetwing  United States The 114.4-foot (34.9 m) whaling bark was wrecked on a reef 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) northeast of Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska during a gale. Her entire crew of 37 survived.[27] Her crew was rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[22]
Jane Grey  United States The 109-ton schooner was wrecked near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska during a gale.[21] Her crew was rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[22]
Mary and Susan  United States The 327-ton, 114.7-foot (35.0 m) whaling bark was wrecked on a reef 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) south of Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska during a gale.[28] Her crew was rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[22]
Young Phoenix, or Young Phenix  United States The 355-ton, 107.3-foot (32.7 m) whaling bark was crushed against the shore by ice and lost near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska during a gale. Her entire crew of 38 survived.[29] Her crew was rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[22]

8 August
List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Ino  United States The 98-ton schooner dragged her anchor and was wrecked at Cape Smyth (71°17′35″N 156°47′15″W) near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska during a gale. Her crew was rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[22]

19 August
List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Warren  United States The steamer was blown ashore in a gale at Baton Rouge. One crewman killed in a fall.[30]

22 August
List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1888
ShipCountryDescription
City of Chester  United States
A painting of SS City of Chester (right) sinking after colliding with RMS Oceanic (left).
The passenger ship was in collision with RMS Oceanic ( United Kingdom) in fog in San Francisco Bay and sank with the loss of sixteen lives. She was on a voyage from San Francisco to Eureka, California[31][30]
Gov. Jackson  United States The barge, under tow of Raleigh ( United States), sank off Winter Quarter Shoal. One crewman lost, survivors rescued by Raleigh.[30]

27 August
List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Vanderbilt  United States Operating in ballast on a fishing and hunting expedition, the 92.87-gross register ton 85-foot (26 m) wooden schooner was wrecked in a severe storm with heavy rain and high seas at Pirate Cove (55°21′40″N 160°21′25″W) in the Territory of Alaska. Her crew of 27 survived.[32]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in August 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Liberta  Norway The steamship ran aground and was wrecked at White Island, Nova Scotia, Dominion of Canada. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Stettin, Germany.[33]

September

6 September
List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1888
ShipCountryDescription
E. B. Ward, Jr.  United States The steamer foundered in a gale in the Gulf of Mexico. Twenty-one killed.[30]

13 September
List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Sud America I  Italy The ocean liner was sunk in a collision with the collier France ( France) in the bay at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, with the loss of 79 lives.

17 September
List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Inga  Norway The barque was wrecked on Grand Cayman island, on voyage from Montevideo to "Ship Island"[34][35]

19 September
List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Lota  Chile The frigate foundered in the Pacific Ocean 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) off an unspecified "Palmer Island," possibly an island west of Fiji. Her two survivors came ashore on the island, where one died in 1890 and the other finally was rescued by a German ship in 1893.

26 September
List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Fleetwing  United States The schooner was wrecked on a rocky beach in Lake Michigan off Liberty Grove, Wisconsin, during a gale and eventually sank.
W. W. Graham  United States The tug was caught in the suction of a foreign vessel she was aiding and capsized and sank off Wilmington, Delaware. Her engineer died. Survivors rescued by Philadelphia ( United States).[30]

October

3 October
List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Ohio  United States The 195-ton 92.6-foot (28.2 m) bark was driven ashore and wrecked in a gale and snowstorm at Point Hope (68°20′20″N 166°50′40″W) on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska, with the loss of 25 of her 33 crew members. The eight survivors were rescued eight months later.[36]

6 October
List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Matthew M. Murray  United States The schooner was wrecked at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia.[4]

31 October
List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1888
ShipCountryDescription
A. W. Lawrence  United States During a predawn race with the tug Merrill ( United States) in the harbor at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the 72-foot (22 m), 50.62-gross register ton screw steam tug disintegrated when her boiler exploded, killing four members of her six-man crew. The accident was blamed on her engineer suddenly turning on the water feed to her boiler while she was carrying a full head of steam. Her remains lie on the harbor bottom at 43°01.532′N 087°51.339′W.[37]

November

5 November
List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Goldsmith Maid  United States The schooner sank after colliding with the steamer Glaucus ( United States) in the Narrows of Boston Harbor. Two crewmen were lost.[30]

6 November
List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Stella  United States The steamer capsized and sank in a squall in the Monongahela River near Coal Bluff, Indiana. One passenger was killed.[30]

11 November
List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Iberia  France
Illustration "The Collision Between the 'Umbria' and 'Iberia,'" from Harper's Weekly, 24 November 1888. Iberia is at left, Umbria in the center, and Iberia's severed stern is at right.
During a voyage from the Persian Gulf to New York City with a cargo of 28,000 crates of dates, a few bales of hides, and coffee, the 1,388-gross register ton steam cargo ship sank in 60 feet (18 m) of water in the North Atlantic Ocean south of Long Island, New York, about 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) off the Long Beach Barrier Island, after the Cunard Line ocean liner Umbria ( United Kingdom) collided with her in dense fog on 10 November, shearing off 14 feet (4.3 m) of her stern. Her entire crew of 30 had survived the collision on 10 November and abandoned ship on 11 November, and a salvage crew of three on board when she sank escaped safely in a longboat.[38]

15 November
List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1888
ShipCountryDescription
USFC Grampus United States Fish Commission The fisheries research vessel, a schooner, ran aground during a gale on Bass Rip 41.2834554°N 69.8994561°W / 41.2834554; -69.8994561 (Bass Rip), a shoal in the North Atlantic Ocean 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) east of Nantucket Island off the coast of Massachusetts and her crew abandoned ship. Unmanned, she floated free and was adrift for several days before she was recovered. She returned to service.[39][40]

18 November
List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Maud M. Fish  United States The steamer capsized and sank at Gould's Store 22 miles (35 km) below New Orleans. One crewman killed.[30]

21 November
List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Atalanta  Russia The steamer ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, South Holland, the Netherlands, with the loss of six lives.[41]

25 November
List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Allentown  United States The collier broke up and sank in a gale off Cape Ann in over 200 feet (61 m) of water with the loss of all 18 crew.[30][42][43]
Edward Norton  United States The schooner was wrecked at Chatham, Massachusetts. Her cook and two crewmen died.[4]
Estrella de Chile  United Kingdom The barque ran aground in the Solway Firth with the loss of one of her fifteen crew. Survivors were rescued by the Maryport Lifeboat.

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Carlton  United States The fishing schooner left Gloucester, Massachusetts on 12 November and vanished, probably lost on 24 November on the Georges Bank in a gale. Lost with all 12 hands.[44][45]
Joseph O.  United States The fishing schooner left Gloucester, Massachusetts on 13 November and vanished, probably lost on 24 November on the Georges Bank in a gale. Lost with all 12 hands.[46]
Vaitarna  British India The schooner-rigged passenger steamer disappeared in a storm in the Arabian Sea with the loss of all 746 people on board sometime after she was last sighted off Mangrol, India, on 8 November.

December

3 December
List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Seaton  United Kingdom The steamship collided with Argo ( United Kingdom) and sank off Hull, Yorkshire with the loss of two of her crew.[47]

9 December
List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Yaquina Bay  United States
Yaquina Bay
The passenger steamer broke her tow and ran aground in Yaquina Bay at Newport, Oregon. She was declared a total loss.

22 December
List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Mendocino  United States The steamer was wrecked crossing the Bar at Humboldt Bay. Her engineer, his wife, and infant daughter drowned when a lifeboat overturned.[30]

23 December
List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Kate Adams  United States The US Mail steamer burned in the Mississippi River opposite Commerce, Mississippi. Twelve crew, a cabin boy, and 20 passengers were killed.[30]

24 December
List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1888
ShipCountryDescription
John H. Hannah  United States The steamer was destroyed by fire in the Mississippi River off Plaquemine, Louisiana. Four passengers and 17 crewman killed.[30]

31 December
List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1888
ShipCountryDescription
H. C. Warmoth  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with Sarah ( United States) in the Pearl River. One passenger killed.[30]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1888
ShipCountryDescription
Andrew H. Edwards The barque was lost off Island Beach on the coast of New Jersey.[48]
Anna Delius  Norway The barque was abandoned in the North Atlantic. Crew rescued by Deutschland ( Germany) and later transferred to Pieter de Coninck ( Belgium) which landed them at Boston, United States.[6]
Civitas Carrera The barque was lost at Manasquan, New Jersey. Her wreck was buried until a storm uncovered it and it was salvaged in 1937.[48]
Star of Greece  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was wrecked off Port Willunga, South Australia with the loss of seventeen lives.[49]

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Ship events in 1888
Ship launches: 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
Ship commissionings: 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
Ship decommissionings: 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
Shipwrecks: 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
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