List of shipwrecks in 1890
The list of shipwrecks in 1890 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1890.
January
2 January
- Czarowitz (
United Kingdom): The brigatine was hit by the White Star Liner Britannic ( United Kingdom) and sunk in the Crosby Channel as she was about to enter the River Mersey. She was bound for Runcorn loaded with china clay from Fowey.[1]
13 January
- Marlborough ( United Kingdom): The refrigerated full-rigged ship was sighted off the coast of New Zealand while om a voyage from Lyttelton, New Zealand to London. Possibly subsequently wrecked on the coast of Chile with the loss of all on board.
23 January
- Ambassador ( United Kingdom):The barque was run in to by the full-rigged ship Cambrian Duchess ( United Kingdom) off The Mumbles, Glamorgan. She was declared a constructive total loss.[2]
26 January
- Ashlowe (
Canada):The barque ran aground off The Mumbles, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was abandoned by her eleven crew. They were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat[2]
28 January
- Irex ( United Kingdom): Wrecked on her maiden voyage at Scratchell's Bay, Isle of Wight.
February
16 February
- Nautique (
France): The French, Le Havre for Baltimore, foundered in mid-Atlantic Ocean shortly after the crew were rescued by steamer Manitoban (1865).[3]
28 February
- Quetta ( United Kingdom): Struck an uncharted rock in the Torres Strait, Queensland and sank with the loss of 134 lives.
March
12 March
- Agnes (
New South Wales): The schooner foundered off the Brunswick River.
28 March
- Benamain ( United Kingdom):The steamship ran aground on the east coast of Lundy Island, Devon. She was refloated the next day but consequently foundered in the Bristol Channel 7 nautical miles (13 km) off The Mumbles, Glamorgan. Her twelve crew were rescued by the pilot cutter Rival ( United Kingdom). Benamain was on a voyage from Swansea to Le Treport, Seine-Maritime, France.[2]
April
21 April
- Brankelow ( United Kingdom): The Liverpool ship, chartered by the Russian government, went ashore on Loe Bar, Cornwall during a gale while bound for Kronstadt from Cardiff. She was carrying 3,000 tons of coal which was salvaged along with her engines.[4]
August
8 August
- Admiral Tromp (
Norway): The barque was run down and sunk by British steamer Ching Wo in the Thames Estuary off The Nore. The wreck was dispersed by explosives April–July 1931.[5][6]
September
18 September
- Ertuğrul (
Ottoman Navy): Wrecked on Oshima Island with the loss of 533 crew.
October
1 October
- Melmerby ( United Kingdom): The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at New Glasgow, Canada with the loss of fifteen of her crew. She was on a voyage from Quebec, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire.[7]
19 October
- Alberta ( United Kingdom): The 3,168 GRT cargo steamship, laden with coal from Japan to Melbourne, ran aground on Sutherland Reef south of Fingal Head Light, New South Wales. Her crew of 36 reached Tweed Heads in the ship's lifeboats.[8]
28 October
- Benton: The 77 ton schooner survived hitting the Pollard Rock in the Seven Stones Reef, made it to Falmouth, Cornwall full of water and with her cargo of china clay intact.[9]
31 October
- Fannie C ( United Kingdom): The schooner caught fire in the English Channel and was beached at Chesil Cove, Dorset.[10]
November
6-7 November
- Kishon ( United Kingdom): The barque parted her tow off Trevose Head from the steam tug Australia, and was driven ashore near Bude breakwater. Her crew of eight was saved by the rocket lifesaving crew.[11][12]
December
23 December
- Ferdinand Vandertaelen (
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Belgium): Foundered in the Mediterranean Sea at 37°N 06°E / 37°N 6°E, with all the crew rescued.[13]
Unknown date
- Uppingham ( United Kingdom):The ship struck rocks off Hartland Point, Devon and foundered with the loss of eighteen of her 28 crew.[2]
Unknown date
- Louise Ernest ( France): While en route for Nantes from Falmouth, Cornwall, the ketch was unable to round the Lizard and turned back. She hit Castle Point, St Mawes and the crew of five men and a boy were taken off by the lifeboat, Jane Whittington.[14]
References
- ↑ "Collisions at Sea" (News). The Times (London). Saturday, 4 January 1890. (32900), col D, p. 6.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ↑ "Epitome of General News". Leicester Chronicle and the Leicestershire Mercury (4128) (Leicester). 22 March 1890. p. 3.
- ↑ Treglown, Tony (2011). Porthleven in Years Gone by; Local Shipwrecks. Ashton: Tony Treglown.
- ↑ "Disasters at Sea". The Times (33087) (London). 11 August 1890. p. 10.
- ↑ "Submerged wrecks at the Nore" The Times (London). Thursday, 23 July 1931. (45882), col E, p. 9.
- ↑ "Melmerby - 1890". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ↑ Tweed Heads Shipwrecks (PDF). Sydney: Government of New South Wales, Heritage Branch. 2000. p. 2. ISBN 1-876415-42-8. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
- ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
- ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ "Severe Gale in Scotland and England". Aberdeen Weekly Journal (11158) (Aberdeen). 8 November 1890. p. 6.
- ↑ "Kishon". Pastscape. English Heritage.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
- ↑ Pollard, Chris (2007). The Book of St Mawes. Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove. ISBN 978 1 84114 631 7.
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| Ship commissionings: | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 |