List of shipwrecks in 1877

The list of shipwrecks in 1877 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1877.

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1877
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


February

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1877
Ship Country Description
Ethel  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked on the Black Rock, in the Bristol Channel of Lundy Island, Devon with the loss of nineteen of her twenty crew.[1]

March

19 March

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1877
Ship Country Description
Rusland  Belgium The Red Star Line owned ocean liner ran aground at Long Island, United States. All 125 passengers were taken ashore. There were attempts made to salvage the ship, but it broke in two on 16 April and was declared a total loss.[2]

April

16 April

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1877
Ship Country Description
Elizabeth  United Kingdom The smack was lost off Cardigan. Her two crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[3]
Mary Helen  United Kingdom The schooner sprang a leak off Ceibwr Bay and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Bristol, Gloucestershire. Mary Helen was taken in to Cardigan the next day by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution)[3]

May

9 May

List of shipwrecks: 9 May 1877
Ship Country Description
SS Dakota  United Kingdom The Guion Line vessel left Liverpool for America under Captain Price with 218 passengers and 109 crew, and 1,800 tons of general cargo. At 9.30 pm, when abreast of Point Lynas Lighthouse, the captain gave order to port the helm. This order was misunderstood and the helm was put to starboard, thus throwing the vessel off her course. The mistake was noticed too late and although the engines were reversed, the Dakota was stranded at the East Mouse, near Amlwch on Anglesey. All those on board got off in safety, but the ship broke in two the next day and became a total wreck.[4]

August

5 August

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1877
Ship Country Description
Lillie Parsons  Canada The schooner sank after hitting rocks in the Saint Lawrence Seaway, Canada.

October

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1877
Ship Country Description
William Van Name  United States Struck the Seven Stones Reef while bound for Queenstown for orders. Captain Cogniss and his crew of eleven were picked up by the schooner Caroline of Looe and landed at Penzance, Cornwall.[5]

November

3 November

List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1877
Ship Country Description
Harewood  United Kingdom The Newcastle ship was found abandoned (at latitude 45.44, longitude 39.55) in the Atlantic by the SS Abyssinia of the Cunard Line.[6]

8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1877
Ship Country Description
Haswell  United Kingdom The paddle tug foundered in the Bristol Channel off Oxwich, Glamorgan. Her eight crew were rescued by the pilot cutter Benson ( United Kingdom).[1]

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1877
Ship Country Description
Paul et Marie  France The schooner, with a cargo of wheat, was dismasted after hitting the Seven Stones Reef. She was later brought into the nearby Isles of Scilly as a derelict.[5]

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1877
Ship Country Description
Hibernia  United Kingdom The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company owned cable-laying ship sank at anchor at Alagoas, Brazil.

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1877
Ship Country Description
Huron  United States The United States Navy sloop-rigged steamer sank in storm near Nags Head, North Carolina. Ninety-eight lives were lost.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1877
Ship Country Description
Charles Davenport  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was wrecked after hitting a jetty in a storm at Margate, United Kingdom[7]

December

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1877
Ship Country Description
Johann  Norway The barque ran aground on the Scarweather Sands, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by Chafyn Grove ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and Velindra ( United Kingdom).[1]

27 December

List of shipwrecks: 27 December 1877
Ship Country Description
Magnolia  United States The Ocean Steamship Company owned (ex USS Augusta) sidewheel steamer sank in a storm. There were no casualties.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1877
Ship Country Description
Concordia  United Kingdom The barque was abandoned on an unknown date and position. The master of James Sprott was fined £100 plus costs for not reporting the hulk, and for boarding somewhere between San Francisco and Cape Town and removing items. Concordia of Bristol was carrying coal, rope, butter, rifles and pistols.[8]
Ethel  United Kingdom The schooner struck the Seven Stones Reef but sustained little damage and headed for Plymouth. Her captain and mate had their certificates withdrawn.[9]
Nelly The schooner was found (in early May, 1878) in a bad state by the sealing schooner Tungus in a bay on the east side of Great Schantar Island in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia. The last entry in the ship's log is for 16 April 1877. Five bodies were found ashore[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  3. 1 2 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "SS Dakota [+1877]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  5. 1 2 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  6. ↑ "A Derelict in the Atlantic". Edinburgh Evening News. 5 November 1877. p. 3.
  7. ↑ Lane, Anthony (2009). Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: The History Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-7524-1720-2.
  8. ↑ "Neglecting to Report a Wreck". The Cornishman (39). 10 April 1879. p. 3.
  9. ↑ Noall, Cyril (1968). Cornish Lights and Shipwrecks. Truro: D. Bradford Barton.
  10. ↑ "Disasters at Sea". The Cornishman (5). 15 August 1878. p. 3.
Ship events in 1877
Ship launches: 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882
Ship commissionings: 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882
Ship decommissionings: 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882
Shipwrecks: 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882
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