List of shipwrecks in 1887
The list of shipwrecks in 1887 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1887.
January
7 January
- Nor (
Norway): The schooner-rigged steamship was wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[1]
12 January
- Bolina (
United Kingdom): The Caernarvon schooner was carrying slate from Portmadoc to London and sank off the south coast of Gugh during an easterly gale.[2]
16 January
- Caterina (
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Italy): The barque was wrecked on the Nash sands, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all thirteen people on board.[3]
18 January
- Argus ( United Kingdom): The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Llangenneth, Glamorgan. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Lannion, Côtes du Nord, France to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[3]
20 January
- Kapunda ( United Kingdom), Emigrant ship out of London, collided with the barque Ada Melmore (flag unknown) off Brazil. Ship sunk, 299 lives lost.[4]
26 January
- Ribble ( United Kingdom): The ship was in collision with Coniston Fell ( United Kingdom in the Bristol Channel and sank with the loss of two of her seven crew. Survivors were rescued by Wolverhampton II (
Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Coniston Fell was beached at The Mumbles, Glamorgan.[3]
February
1 February
- Brigantine Hermes ( United Kingdom): Foundered off Île Vierge, France.[5]
22 March
- Prophete Elie (
France): The brig was driven ashore at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew survived.[3]
Unknown date
- City of Exeter ( United Kingdom): The steamship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, Devon with the loss of sixteen of her nineteen crew.[3]
May
19 May
- Celtic ( United Kingdom): Collided with Britannic ( United Kingdom) 350 nautical miles (650 km) east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States. Both ships damaged, 12 people killed on board Britannic. Both ships escorted to New York.
June
8 June
- Castleford ( United Kingdom): Struck the Crebawethans, Isles of Scilly in dense fog, and led to some of her cargo of 450 cattle being landed on Annet and staying there for up to ten days.[6] Some of the cattle were shipped to Falmouth, Cornwall and dead steers were later washed up as far as Penzance and Lelant.[7]
July
9 July
- Barremann ( United Kingdom): The Glasgow sailing ship hit the Pollard Rock within the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall with the loss of all of the twenty-seven crew. The 1400 ton ship was on voyage from South Shields to San Francisco with coal, pig-iron and cement.[8]
August
20 August
- Jane Sophia ( United Kingdom): The crew of the Plymouth schooner was saved after she sank following a collision with the steamer Zenobia near the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall.[7]
27 August
- King George ( United Kingdom): The trawler struck the Black Rocks and sank in West Bay, Dorset.[1]
September
29 September
- Four-masted ship Earl of Jersey ( United Kingdom): Ran aground in the Chittagong River, India and declared a total loss.[9]
October
4 October
- Barque Mary Blundell ( United Kingdom): Caught fire in the Yarra River, Victoria.[10]
16 October
Kameruka in about 1883
- Kameruka ( United Kingdom): Illawarra & South Coast Steam Navigation Co's 515 GRT steamship was wrecked on Pedro Rocks, Moruya Heads, New South Wales.[11]
19 October
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26 October
- Schooner Ada and Ethel (
New South Wales): Wrecked 10 nautical miles (19 km) south of Seal Rocks.
31 October
- Schooner Flower of May ( United Kingdom): Foundered in Morecambe Bay, three crew rescued.[12]
November
1 November
- Happy Go Lucky ( United Kingdom): The schooner was driven ashore on the Isle of Whithorn, Dumfriesshire.[13]
- Helvetia ( Norway): The barque was wrecked in Rhossili Bay. A crew member was rescued by breeches buoy, the rest taking to the ships' boat. She was on a voyage from Campbeltown, New Brunswick, Canada to Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[3]
- Robert Preston ( United Kingdom): the brigantine was driven ashore on the Isle of Whithorn.[13]
16 November
- Schooner Tom Roberts ( United Kingdom): Foundered off Ballaugh, Isle of Man. All four crew saved.[14]
December
12 December
- Brighouse ( United Kingdom): The 604 ton iron steamer hit the Seven Stones Reef in fog. Her crew took to the lifeboats and had to stay for two weeks on the Sevenstones Lightship. Brighouse was on passage from Bordeaux to Cardiff with pitwood.[7]
17 December
- Schooner Alice Fisher ( United Kingdom): Foundered in the Crosby Channel, Mersey Estuary.[15]
Unknown date
- Clipper Hallowe'en ( United Kingdom): Wrecked off Salcombe, Devon.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ Larn, Richard (1971). Cornish Shipwrecks – The Isles of Scilly. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ "Great Disaster At Sea Loss Of Two Or Three Hundred Lives". Illustrated London News. February 5, 1887. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
- ↑ "Hermes". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- ↑ Gurney (1889) "Notes on the Isles of Scilly and the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus anglorum)"; Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. In: Parslow, R. (2007) The Isles of Scilly. London: HarperCollins
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Larn, Richard (1992). Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
- ↑ Noall, Cyril (1968). Cornish Lights and Shipwrecks. Truro: D. Bradford Barton.
- ↑ "Earl of Jersey". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- ↑ "Mary Blundell". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- ↑ Cameron, Stuart; Biddulph, Bruce; Robinson, George. "SS Bega". Clydebuilt Database. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
- ↑ "Flower of May". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Robert Preston". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- ↑ "Tom Roberts". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- ↑ "Alice Fisher". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
| Ship events in 1887 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 |