List of shipwrecks in 1878
The list of shipwrecks in 1878 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1878.
January
3 January
- Tocapilla (
United Kingdom): The barque was driven ashore at Rhosilli, Glamorgan. She was later refloated.[1]
25 January
- King Philip (
United States): The 19th century three-masted sailing clipper was wrecked at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California after her anchor dragged and she ran aground in heavy surf.
March
24 March
- Eurydice (
United Kingdom) : The Royal Navy frigate capsized and sank off the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. 376 lives were lost.
May
9 May
- Confidence ( United Kingdom): The Bristol ship sank after being hit by a tidal wave off the coast of Peru.[2]
10 May
- Alarm ( United Kingdom): The pilot cutter was run down and sunk in the Bristol Channel by the steamship Foyle ( United Kingdom). Her crew were rescued by Foyle.[1]
12 May
- Gipsy ( United Kingdom): The schooner struck rocks and sank in the River Avon at Bristol, Gloucestershire She broke in two during salvage efforts, blocking the river until 17 May. Her remains were later blown up to clear the river.[1]
15 May
- Dolphin ( United Kingdom): The Hull ship sprung a leak at latitude 49, longitude 70.10. A bottle containing the ships position was found in Padstow harbour, Cornwall, along with the following message: Water gaining. Crew taking to boats.[3]
31 May
Großer Kurfürst.
- SMS Großer Kurfürst (
Kaiserliche Marine) : The armoured frigate was accidentally rammed and sunk off Folkestone, United Kingdom. 284 drowned.
June
1 June
- SS Idaho ( United Kingdom): The Guion Line passenger ship, on a voyage from New York to Liverpool via Queenstown, after delivering mails to Queenstown, ran aground on Connigmore rocks near the Saltee Islands. The Idaho carried 151 passengers and a mixed cargo of fifty-one horses, some cattle and a 1000 tons of beef. She drifted off the rock and sank within twenty minutes, passengers and crew saved.[4]
- Loch Ard ( United Kingdom): The Loch Line owned clipper ran onto rocks in fog and sank at Muttonbird Island, Australia. There were fifty-two dead and two survivors.[5]
24 June
- Hydrabad ( United Kingdom): The Stephens and Sons owned iron cargo/passenger sailing ship caught in a storm and beached at Waitarere Beach, New Zealand. There was no loss of life.
30 June
- Lady Elizabeth ( United Kingdom): The Wilson & Co owned barque ran aground and sank at Bickley Bay, Australia.
July
2 July
- Capital City (
United States): The steamer caught alight while loading cottonseed oil at Memphis, Tennessee. Several lives were lost, and the river was alight 100 ft (30 m) from the shore and a ¼ mile downstream.[6]
12 July
- Unnamed vessel ( United Kingdom): The pilot boat belonging to Messrs Scott and Co of Queenstown foundered off Toe Head, Ireland with the loss of ten pilots.[7]
- Unnamed vessel (
Russia): The overcrowded passenger vessel foundered on Lake Onega, Russia with the loss of forty people.[8]
17 July
- Europa ( United Kingdom):The Anchor Line steamer collided with Staffa ( United Kingdom) and sank near Ferrol, Spain.[9]
23 July
- Ranneys ( United Kingdom): Out of Seville, she ran aground off St Mary's, Isles of Scilly while awaiting orders. After twenty-four hours she refloated with the loss of her kedge anchor and hawser.[10]
28 July
- Dispatch ( United Kingdom): The sloop capsized in Cardigan Bay, Wales. Her three crew were rescued.[11]
- Lena Thurlow ( United States): The Portland ship sank after a collision off the Banks of Newfoundland with the Harvest Hastings which was bound for Liverpool. All the crew were rescued and landed at Liverpool.[12]
- Mercury ( United Kingdom): The Newcastle steamer may have foundered when she sprung a leak near the island of Zembra, Tunisia. One crew member drowned and the fate of the rest is unknown. She was en route for Sligo from Ismail with maize.[13]
Unknown date
- Scottish Admiral ( United Kingdom): The barque grounded on the Maplin Sands near the Admiralty beacon, on her maiden voyage to Brisbane, with three hundred emigrants on board. (She left London on 11 July and a telegram reporting the grounding was sent on 20 July).[14]
August
15 August
- Albert ( United Kingdom): The Falmouth steamer ran aground at Bishop's Quay, Helford River, Cornwall. She re-floated two days later.[15]
30 August
- Unnamed fishing boat (
France): The fishing smack sank off the pier at Folkestone, England with the loss of her twelve crew.[16] - Unnamed fishing boat ( United Kingdom): The Berwick herring boat collided with a schooner and sank.[16]
Unknown date
- Eos (
German Empire): The brig grounded on a sandbank in the mouth of the River Thames and went to pieces. The seven crew were landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer from the fishing boat Catherine.[17]
- Hendrika (
Netherlands): The galliot sank after a collision with an American barque off Dover. All the crew were lost bar one crew member who jumped overboard and made it to Dover.[18]
- Irene ( United Kingdom): The Liverpool ship broke her moorings during a severe north-east gale and became a total wreck at Llandudno, north Wales. Three New Brighton registered vessels were also wrecked.[19]
- Juliet ( United Kingdom): The barque ran aground (in August or early September) on Staten Island while bound for San Francisco from London. One crew member died and the barque was a total loss.[20]
- Unnamed boat: The pleasure craft was cut in two after a collision with the Prince of Wales steamer near Pimlico pier. Two youths lost their lives.[22]
- Unnamed ships: Five ships lost in Table Bay, Cape Colony in the week prior to 22 August.[22]
September
3 September
- Princess Alice ( United Kingdom) : The London Steamboat Company owned paddle steamer was hit on the port side by the collier Bywell Castle off the City of London gasworks, Beckton, in the Thames Estuary. At least six hundred lives lost.[23]
4 September
- Sully ( France): The steamship ran aground at Port Eynon, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. She was later refloated.[1]
October
18 October
- Daniel Lyons ( United States) : The schooner was in collision with schooner Kate Gillett off Algoma, Wisconsin. There was no loss of life
Unknown date
- Express ( United States): The steamboat capsized in Chesapeake Bay with the loss of sixteen of the thirty-one people on board.[24]
Unknown date
- Alabama ( United States): The paddle steamer caught fire and sank.
- Herman Ludwig (
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Belgium): The Steinmann, Ludwig & Co. owned ocean liner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. She had departed New York on 28 September bound for Antwerp, Belgium and believed to have foundered on or about 15 October with the loss of all fifty passengers and crew.[26]
- St Enoch ( United Kingdom): The Dundee clipper sailed in March with coal for Bombay and has not been heard of since. The crew of thirty-five plus the captain and his wife are lost.[17]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ Anon (1 August 1878). "Miscellaneous". The Cornishman. p. 7.
- ↑ "Disasters at Sea". The Cornishman (5). 15 August 1878. p. 3.
- ↑ "SS Idaho [+1878]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
- ↑ "Disaster at Sea". The Cornishman. 8 August 1878. p. 7.
- ↑ "A Ship Burst in Harbour". The Cornishman. 1 August 1878. p. 3.
- ↑ Anon (18 July 1878). "Ten Pilots Drowned". The Cornishman. p. 8.
- ↑ "Untitled". The Cornishman. 25 July 1878. p. 8.
- ↑ "Untitled". The Cornishman. 1 August 1878. p. 3.
- ↑ "Our Ships and our Sailors". The Cornishman (4). 8 August 1878. p. 8.
- ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ "Disasters at Sea". The Cornishman (6). 22 August 1878. p. 3.
- ↑ Atlas (1 August 1878). "What the "World" says". The Cornishman.
- ↑ "Miscellaneous". The Cornishman. 25 July 1878. p. 7.
- ↑ "Helston". The Cornishman (6). 22 August 1878. p. 5.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "An Autumnal Gale". The Cornishman (8). 5 September 1878. p. 7.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Mercantile Marine". The Cornishman (5). 15 August 1878. p. 7.
- ↑ Anon (8 August 1878). "Miscellaneous". The Cornishman. p. 1.
- ↑ "Heavy storms and loss of life". The Cornishman (4). 8 August 1878.
- ↑ "Disasters at sea". The Cornishman (8). 5 September 1878. p. 7.
- ↑ "Untitled". The Cornishman (7). 29 August 1878. p. 7.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Untitled". The Cornishman (6). 22 August 1878. p. 2.
- ↑ "Appalling Catastrophe on the Thames. Loss of more than 500 lives". The Cornishman (8). 5 September 1878. p. 5.
- ↑ "Shipwrecks". Chesapeake Bay Program. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ↑ Anon. "St Just". The Cornishman (8 August 1878). p. 5.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
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| Ship commissionings: | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 |