List of shipwrecks in 1886
The list of shipwrecks in 1886 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1886.
January
30 January
- The Fulmar (
United Kingdom): Sank just north of Kilkee, Co. Clare in an area known as Farrihy Bay. The ship was transporting coal from Troon in Scotland to Limerick city, but never reached its intended destination. Of the seventeen crew only one body was ever recovered.[1]
February
Unknown date
- Hope ( United Kingdom): The ship ran aground at Port Eynon Point, Glamorgan and was abandoned by her crew. She was later refloate, repaired and returned to service.[2]
March
6 March
- Oregon ( United Kingdom): She was a record breaking passenger liner that won the Blue Riband for the Guion Line as the fastest liner on the Atlantic in 1884. She was en route from Liverpool when at 04:30, just 15 nautical miles (28 km) from New York, she collided with a schooner, most likely the Charles H Morse (
United States), which disappeared in those waters about the same time. The schooner sank almost immediately with the loss of all hands.[3] - Xanthippe ( United Kingdom): The brig ran aground at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Port Talbot, Glamorgan.[2]
May
13 May
- President ( United Kingdom): The ship ran aground off Cardigan. Her three crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (
Royal National Lifeboat Institution). President was later refloated and taken in to Cardigan.[4]
Unknown date
- Ly-ee-Moon (
New South Wales): The steamship of the Australasian Steam Navigation Company was wrecked off Green Cape on a voyage from Melbourne to Sydney with a loss of seventy-one lives.[5]
June
5 June
- Alpha (
United States): The paddle tug was destroyed by fire.
September
28 September
- Suffolk ( United Kingdom): The steamship was wrecked in fog on the eastern side of Lizard Point, Cornwall. The forty-five people aboard were saved.[6]
October
8 October
- Agnes ( United Kingdom): The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked in Caswell Bay. Her crew survived.[2]
14 October
- Malleny ( United Kingdom): The ship struck the Tusker Rock, in the Bristol Channel and foundered with the loss of all twenty crew. The wreck came ashore at Westward Ho!, Devon. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[2]
15 October
- Ben-y-Gloe ( United Kingdom): The ship capsized off Nash Point, Glamorgan. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Singapore to Penarth, Glamorgan.[2]
- Ocean Beauty ( United Kingdom): The barque was driven ashore at Aberavon, Glamorgan with the loss of two of her fifteen crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Valparaíso, Chile.[2]
16 October
- Albert Wilhelm (
Germany): The brig sank at Hayle Towans, Cornwall.[7]
17 October
- Sarah Anderson United Kingdom sank at Trebarwith, near Tintagel (all on board died).[8]
Unknown date
- Boswedden United Kingdom: The iron barque was lost off Hartland Point, Devon. All that was found was a brass bound bucket on Lundy and a writing desk washed up near Ilfracombe.[9]
November
18 November
- Lucerne (
US United States): Sank off the north side of Long Island at La Pointe, Wisconsin with the loss of all hands.
20 November
- Thames ( United Kingdom): The schooner struck the Scarweather Sands, in the Bristol Channel and consequently foundered off The Mumbles, Glamorgan. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot, Glamorgan to Bilbao, Spain.[2]
December
9 December
- Mexico ( Germany): She was wrecked at Southport, all twelve crew saved, but twenty-seven lifeboatmen drowned attempting the rescue when the Southport lifeboat Eliza Fernley ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and the St Annes lifeboat Laura Janet ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) capsized. Mexico was later repaired and returned to service.
- Alliance ( United Kingdom): Wrecked on the seaward side of the Albert Pier, Penzance, Cornwall, UK.[9]
24 December
- Annie C. Maguire ( United Kingdom): She was a three-masted barque sailing from Buenos Aires. She struck the ledge at Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Today, letters painted on the rocks below the lighthouse commemorate the wreck and the Christmas Eve rescue.
Unknown date
- Unebi (
Imperial Japanese Navy): The cruiser disappeared without trace in the South China Sea with the loss of all hands.
References
- ↑ "Fulmar Report". Irishshipwrecks.com. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ Flayhart, William Henry (2003). Disasters at Sea. New York: W.W. Norton.
- ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ "Shipwreck and Great Loss of Life" (News). The Times (London). Tuesday, 1 June 1886. (31774), col F, p. 11.
- ↑ Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 15
- ↑ Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 30
- ↑ "Wreck Report for 'Sarah Anderson', 1887". Plimsoll. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. A History. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
| Ship events in 1886 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 |
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