List of shipwrecks in 1891

The list of shipwrecks in 1891 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1891.

January

2 January

• Thames ( United Kingdom): Penzance steamer on voyage to London grounded on the Chesil Bank in thick fog.^[1]

8 January

• Kaffraria ( United Kingdom): wrecked in the River Elbe, Germany.

April

23 April

• Blanco Encalada ( Chilean Navy): an Almirante Cochrane-class battery ship launched in 1874 as the Valparaiso, renamed in 1890, and sunk in 1891 by a torpedo gunboat in the port of Caldera as part of the Chilean Civil War.

July

18 July

• Princesse Stephanie ( Belgium) wrecked off Christiansand, Norway.^[2]

November

22 November

• Samuel Mather ( United States): a wooden freighter launched in 1887 and sank in 1891 when she was rammed by the steel freighter Brazil in heavy fog in Whitefish Bay in Lake Superior.

December

8 December

• Brixham schooner Torbay Lass ( United Kingdom) sank within a few hundred metres of Penzance harbour, Cornwall, UK. On tow after unloading her cargo of coal on St Michael's Mount the tug Merlin suffered a drop in steam pressure and Torbay Lass drifted onto the Cressars off Penzance promenade. Pulled clear by the steamship Lady of the Isles she sank after a few hundred yards.^[3]

References

Ship events in 1891
Ship launches:	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896
Ship commissionings:	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896
Ship decommissionings:	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896
Shipwrecks:	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896