List of shipwrecks in 1877

The list of shipwrecks in 1877 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1877.

February

Ethel ( United Kingdom): The steamship was wrecked on the Black Rock, in the Bristol Channel of Lundy Island, Devon with the loss of nineteen of her twenty crew.^[1]

Rusland ( Belgium): The Red Star Line owned ocean liner ran aground at Long Island, United States. All 125 passengers were taken ashore. There were attempts made to salvage the ship, but it broke in two on 16 April and was declared a total loss.^[2]

Elizabeth ( United Kingdom): The smack was lost off Cardigan. Her two crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).^[3]
Mary Helen ( United Kingdom): The schooner sprang a leak off Ceibwr Bay and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Bristol, Gloucestershire. Mary Helen was taken in to Cardigan the next day by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution)^[3]

SS Dakota ( United Kingdom): The Guion Line vessel left Liverpool for America under Captain Price with 218 passengers and 109 crew, and 1,800 tons of general cargo. At 9.30 pm, when abreast of Point Lynas Lighthouse, the captain gave order to port the helm. This order was misunderstood and the helm was put to starboard, thus throwing the vessel off her course. The mistake was noticed too late and although the engines ware reversed the Dakota stranded at the East Mouse, near Amlwch on Anglesey. All those on board got off in safety, but the ship broke in two the next day and became a total wreck.^[4]

Lillie Parsons ( Canada): The schooner sank after hitting rocks in the Saint Lawrence Seaway, Canada.

William Van Name ( United States): Struck the Seven Stones Reef while bound for Queenstown for orders. Captain Cogniss and his crew of eleven were picked up by the schooner Caroline of Looe and landed at Penzance, Cornwall.^[5]

Haswell ( United Kingdom): The paddle tug foundered in the Bristol Channel off Oxwich, Glamorgan. Her eight crew were rescued by the pilot cutter Benson ( United Kingdom).^[1]

Paul et Marie ( France): The schooner, with a cargo of wheat, was dismasted after hitting the Seven Stones Reef. She was later brought into the nearby Isles of Scilly as a derelict.^[5]

Hibernia ( United Kingdom): The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company owned cable-laying ship sank at anchor at Alagoas, Brazil.

Huron ( United States): The United States Navy sloop-rigged steamer sank in storm near Nags Head, North Carolina. Ninety-eight lives were lost.

Charles Davenport ( United Kingdom): The full-rigged ship was wrecked after hitting a jetty in a storm at Margate, United Kingdom^[6]

Johann ( Norway): The barque ran aground on the Scarweather Sands, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by Chafyn Grove ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and Velindra ( United Kingdom).^[1]

Magnolia ( United States): The Ocean Steamship Company owned (ex USS Augusta) sidewheel steamer sank in a storm. There were no casualties.

Ethel ( United Kingdom): The schooner struck the Seven Stones Reef but sustained little damage and headed for Plymouth. Her captain and mate had their certificates withdrawn.^[7]

Nelly: The schooner was found (in early May, 1878) in a bad state by the sealing schooner Tungus in a bay on the east side of Great Schantar Island in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia. The last entry in the ship's log is for 16 April, 1877. Five bodies were found ashore^[8]

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
↑ 3.0 3.1 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
↑ "SS Dakota [+1877]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
↑ Lane, Anthony (2009). Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: The History Press. pp. p15. ISBN 978-0-7524-1720-2.
↑ Noall, Cyril (1968). Cornish Lights and Shipwrecks. Truro: D. Bradford Barton.
↑ "Disasters at Sea". The Cornishman (5). 15 August 1878. p. 3.