List of shipwrecks in 1880
The list of shipwrecks in 1880 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1880.
January
21 January 1880
Lady Kinnaird (
United Kingdom): The three masted barque which was built in 1877 at Dundee, Scotland by Brown & Simpson for W.B. Ritchie, was lost after running aground in Spencer Gulf south of Cape Burr on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia early on 21 January 1880.[1]
February
10 February
- Corea (
United States): The barque ran aground on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel, Her crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat. Corea was later refloated and taken in to Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[2]
25 February
- Resurgam II ( United Kingdom) sank in Liverpool Bay whilst under tow, no casualties.
26 February
- Bessie Jones ( United Kingdom): The schooner was wrecked off Blackpool, one person lost, three crew saved.[3]
March
14 March
- Montana ( United Kingdom): The Guion Line steamship was wrecked on the coast of North Wales on 14 March 1880, not far from Anglesey where her sister ship, the Dakota, had been wrecked three years before. There was no loss of life.[4]
April
- Mercator (
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Belgium) departed Antwerp for New York, United States. A lifeboat was recovered by Chateaubriand (
France) on 19 June.[5]
June
11 June
- Narragansett ( United States) burned and sunk in a collision with her sister ship Stonington ( United States) at night in heavy fog in Long Island Sound. Approximately 50 lives lost.
August
7 August
- Tidy ( United Kingdom): The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked in Broughton Bay. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Portland, Dorset to Llanelli, Glamorgan.[2]
26 August
- Hetty Taylor (
United States): She was a schooner that encountered a squall and sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Sheboygan, Wisconsin.[6] In 2005, the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[7] There were no casualties.
September
13 September
- Covadonga (
Chile) sunk by a mine at Chancay, Peru. Thirty three crew killed, forty eight taken prisoner.
October
15 October
- Alpena ( United States) sank in Lake Michigan, at least 80 killed.
29 October
- Lifeboat Eliza Adams (
Royal National Lifeboat Institution) capsized whilst attempting a rescue. Eleven crew killed.
Unknown date
- Jane ( United Kingdom):The lugger was swamped by heavy seas, off Penzance, Cornwall, UK during a SSE hurricane force gale.[8]
November
21 November
- Ottawa, ( United Kingdom) wrecked, Cape La Roche on maiden voyage, no lives lost, 3,712 tons[9]
December
1 December
- Pet ( United Kingdom): The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Talbot, Glamorgan. Her five crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat.[2]
References
- ↑ "The wreck of the Barque Lady Kinnaird". The South Australian Register. 26 January 1880. p. 5. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ "Shipwreck Gallery". Blackpool Gazette. 25 February 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ "SS Montana (+1880)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O". Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
- ↑ "Introduction". Wisconsin Shipwrecks.org. Retrieved 2013-06-05.
- ↑ "Hetty Taylor (shipwreck)". Landmark Hunter.com. Retrieved 2013-06-05.
- ↑ Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications. ISBN 0-9533028-0-6.
- ↑ http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/dominion.shtml
See also
| Ship events in 1880 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 |
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