List of shipwrecks in 1888

The list of shipwrecks in 1888 includes sone ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1888.

January

Milan ( United Kingdom): The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Overton Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued by the Port Eynon Lifeboat or rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Alexandria, Egypt.^[1]

Switserland ( Belgium) : She collided with La Gascogne off New York, United States and holed. Put into New York for repairs, returned to service.^[2]

Lanoma ( United Kingdom): The barque was driven ashore and wrecked near Fleet, Dorset with the loss of twelve of her eighteen crew.^[3]

Levant ( United Kingdom) of South Shields, a British steamship, built of iron at Hartlepool in the year 1865, departed Penarth (Wales) bound for Oporto (Portugal) with 15 hands, never seen again. Board of Trade Report filed could not speculate on cause, however, loaded with coal, possibly over safe weight. (

Vena ( Belgium) sank in the North Sea following a collision with another ship.^[2]

Ellengowan ( United Kingdom) sank at its moorings, unmanned, in Port Darwin and was abandoned.

Henry Edmunds ( United Kingdom): The brigantine was wrecked at Overton, Glamorgan. Her crew survived.^[1]

Jeune Hortense ( France) : The schooner wrecked at Long Rock, Cornwall.^[4] The Penzance lifeboat, having been brought by carriage to the beach near Marazion, rescued four crew.^[5]
Otto stranded in Mount's Bay, Cornwall. Later renamed Providence and operated out of Penzance.^[6]
Brigantine Nulli Secundus ( Germany) stranded in Mount's Bay. Previously named Tobaco and stranded on the Eastern Green, Mount's Bay in 1865.^[6]

Alhambra ( United Kingdom) collided with John T. Berry ( United States), which it was trying to salvage, and sank off Newcastle, New South Wales. Crew rescued by Tasmania ( United Kingdom). The derelict John T. Berry later sunk by Thetis ( United Kingdom) as a danger to navigation.

Beaver ( United States) grounded on rocks in Stanley Park, Vancouver. Wreck sank four years later.

City of Chester ( United States): The passenger ship was in collision with RMS Oceanic ( United Kingdom) in San Francisco Bay and sank with the loss of sixteen lives. She was on a voyage from San Francisco to Eureka, California^[7]

Sud America I ( Italy) sunk in a collision with the French collier France at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, with the loss of 79 people.

Fleetwing ( United States) struck a rocky beach on the coast of Liberty Grove, Wisconsin.

Atalanta ( Russia): Ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, South Holland, Netherlands. There were six deaths.^[8]

Barque Renown ( Germany) sank off Den Helder. Five crew killed, twenty five rescued.
Barque Anna Delius ( Norway) abandoned in the North Atlantic. Crew rescued by Deutschland ( Germany) and later transferred to Pieter de Coninck ( Belgium) which landed them at Boston, United States.^[2]

↑ 1.0 1.1 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Belgian Merchant P-Z". Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
↑ Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16
↑ Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 18
↑ 6.0 6.1 Carter, C. (1998). The Port of Penzance: a history. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
↑ "USA: City of Chester’s Wreck Rediscovered". World Maritime News. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
↑ "Reddingsstation Ouddorp". KNRM. Retrieved 22 March 2012.

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