List of shipwrecks in 1881

The list of shipwrecks in 1881 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1881.

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1881
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Indian Chief  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the Long Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Kent with the loss of seventeen of her 28 crew. Survivors were rescued by Bradford ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Indian Chief was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, County Durham to Yokohama, Japan.[1][2]
Nymphaea  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground on the Sunk Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Kent. Her crew took to the lifeboats and were rescued by another vessel.[3]

20 January

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Bothalwood  United Kingdom A barque-rigged vessel sailing from Carthagena for Leith hit rocks in St Ouen's bay. No crew were lost.[4]

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Charlotte Dunbar  United Kingdom The wooden hulled brigantine was found ashore and abandoned on Burnt Island, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. She was sailing from Newport, Wales to Audierne with coal and nothing was heard of her crew of six.[5]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Alexandrea  France The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[6]
Amiral  France The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[6]
British Lady  United Kingdom The 89 ton schooner from Penzance, Cornwall lost her mast in a gale and sank near the Runnel Stone. Her crew was picked up by the Isles of Scilly ferry the Queen of the Bay.[7]
Buckinghamshire  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[6]
Cecile  France The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[6]
Etta  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[6]
Mirella  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[6]

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Cresswell  New South Wales The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Paviland, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[6]
Piako  New Zealand Struck a small, submerged rock near Morgen's Harbour, Whangarei. Repaired and insured for £250.[8]
Eleanor  United Kingdom Ran aground at Leestone Point, Kilkeel, Ireland. Ship a complete wreck.[9]
Telegraph  United Kingdom Ran aground at Cooley Point, Ireland. Salvaged but beyond economical repair and scrapped.[9]

February

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1881
Ship Country Description
Caledonia  United Kingdom Carrying mail and passengers from Southampton to Guernsey Sark and Jersey, was wrecked on 19th February 1881, off Oyster Rock, just outside St Helier harbour Jersey Channel Islands.[10][11]

March

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1881
Ship Country Description
Benin  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 1,530 grt cargo ship sank following a collision with the Duke of Buccleugh off Start Point, Devon. Ninety-four elephant tusks were removed from this wreck in 1954.[12]

29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1881
Ship Country Description
Geraldine  United Kingdom The schooner sank in Port Eynon Bay. Her crew survived.[6]

April

3 April

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1881
Ship Country Description
United States  United States The passenger/cargo steamer with a valuable cargo was wrecked near the outer shoal of Cape Romain, South Carolina.[13]

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1881
Ship Country Description
Marmora  Denmark The barque was wrecked on the Scarweather Sands, in the Bristol Channel. Her eight crew were rescued by Chafyn Grove ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[6]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1881
Ship Country Description
SS Kestrel  United Kingdom Sailing from London to Bordeaux with 20 passengers and cargo in patchy fog the ship struck Burhou Island, west of Alderney Channel Islands[14]

17 April

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1881
Ship Country Description
Katie  United Kingdom 99 ton Padstow, Cornwall schooner, struck the Runnel Stone and sank. She was carrying starch from Norwich to Dublin and there was no loss of life.[7] carrying starch from Norwich to Dublin,

26 April

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1881
Ship Country Description
HMS Doterel  Royal Navy Sank at anchor off Punta Arenas after an explosion with the loss of 143 lives. There were twelve survivors.

29 April

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1881
Ship Country Description
Tararua  United Kingdom
Tararua

The passenger steamer struck the reef off Waipapa Point in the Catlins, New Zealand on 29 April, and sank the next day. This is the worst civilian shipping disaster in New Zealand's history with 131 deaths; only twenty of the 151 passengers and crew survived.

May

10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1881
Ship Country Description
Gananoque  United Kingdom The barque collided with an iceberg, 4 miles (6.4 km) off Bird Rocks, Magdalen Islands, quickly sinking.[15][16] The crew landed on Bird Rocks, and were picked two days later.[15]

24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1881
Ship Country Description
Victoria  Canada The overloaded passenger steamer capsized and sank in the Thames River, near London, Ontario. Approximately 182 people drowned, out of a total of 600 on board.[17]

July

4 July

List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1881
Ship Country Description
Britannic  United Kingdom The White Star Line ocean liner ran aground in fog at Kilmore, County Wexford, Ireland, and remained stuck for two days. All the passengers were safely landed at Waterford. She sprang a leak in her engine room after being re-floated and was beached at Wexford Bay. She had to be patched up and pumped before returning to Liverpool.

28 July

List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1881
Ship Country Description
Nordstjernan  Norway The passenger-cargo steamer was wrecked at Knivskjærodden, near North Cape, Norway and sank. Tourist passengers and crew saved.[18][19]

October

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1881
Ship Country Description
Koning der Nederlanden  Netherlands Her shaft broke on 4 October and she sank the next day 400 miles (640 km) off Chagos Archipelago. Three life boats with ninety passengers and crew were never found.[20]

18 October

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1881
Ship Country Description
Alexandre Smyers  Belgium Foundered off Hanstholm, Denmark. Crew rescued by Orlando.[21]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1881
Ship Country Description
Flying Fish  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme Regis, Dorset.[22]

November

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1881
Ship Country Description
Barbara  United Kingdom The barque Barbara built at Sunderland ship building company in 1878 set out of Cardiff for Zanzibar on the 14th September 1880. On the voyage the Captain 'Richard Prichard'of Llanbedrog died and the Mate 'John Jones' took over command. On the journey back to Liverpool, the Barbara docked at Queenstown Ireland and John Jones enlisted a channel pilot 'Thomas Lewis' to steer the remaining journey to Liverpool. A series of Nautical blunders followed and it appears Lewis was not qualified. In great confusion the Barbara was steered off course in heavy seas, the anchors were deployed but dragged and drifted onto rocks at Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire. All sixteen crew saved, bar the captain Jones who drowned.[23]

27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1881
Ship Country Description
Henry Edye  Belgium Passed the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom on 22 November with no further trace. Believed to have foundered in the Atlantic Ocean on or about 27 November.[24]

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1881
Ship Country Description
Archiduc Rodolphe  Belgium Sank in the river Scheldt after a collision with the Stephenson ( United Kingdom). She was raised in 1898 and scrapped.[25]

18 December

List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1881
Ship Country Description
Tripolia Sweden Ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, Netherlands with five deaths.[26]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1881
Ship Country Description
Pilot  United Kingdom The paddle steamer was wrecked off the mouth of the Ogmore River.[6]
Rodell Bay Left San Francisco on 3 December for Queenstown, Ireland and not heard of again.[27]

References

  1. ↑ Howarth, Patrick (1981). Lifeboat In Danger's Hour. London, New York, Sydney, Toronto: Hamlyn. pp. 39–43. ISBN 0 600 34959 4.
  2. ↑ Board of Trade (1881). "Wreck Report for 'Indian Chief', 1881". Portcities. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  3. ↑ Bignell, Alan (2001). Kent Shipwrecks (Second ed.). Newbury: Countryside Books. p. 44-46. ISBN 1 85306 719 9.
  4. ↑ cite web |url=http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/14503.asp | name=Wreck Report for 'Bothalwood', 1881 |publisher=plimsoll.org |accessdate=27 Aug 2015
  5. ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  7. 1 2 Noall, Cyril (1968). Cornish Lights and Ship-Wrecks. Truro: D Bradford Barton.
  8. ↑ "WRECK OF A STEAMER." Auckland Star , Issue 3259, 3 January 1881, Page 2. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=AS18810103.2.3.7&cl=CL2.1881.01.03&e=-------10--21----0Franz+Ferdinand+1914-- Retrieved 19 May 2012.
  9. 1 2 Patton, Brian (2007). Irish Sea Shipping. Kettering: Silver Link Publications. pp. 178–84. ISBN 978-1-85794-271-2.
  10. ↑ cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?82909 |name=SS Caledonia [+1881] document |publisher=wrecksite.eu |accessdate=27 Aug 2015
  11. ↑ cite web |url=http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/14456.asp |name=Wreck Report for 'Caledonia', 1881 document |publisher=plimsoll.org |accessdate=27 Aug 2015
  12. ↑ "Loss of SS Benin". Retrieved 3 September 2013.
  13. ↑ Savannah Morning News, Savannah, Georgia, April 8, 1881, p. 3, c. 5
  14. ↑ cite web |url=http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/14745.asp |name=Wreck Report for 'Kestrel', 1881 |publisher=plimsoll.org |accessdate=27 Aug 2015
  15. 1 2 "Ship Collisions". Institute for Ocean Technology, Canada. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  16. ↑ "Loss of barque Gananoque". Glasgow Herald. 19 May 1881. p. 7. Retrieved 2012-12-27.
  17. ↑ Looker, Janet (2000). "A Victorian Capsizal". Disaster Canada. Lynx Images. pp. 8–12. ISBN 1-894073-13-4.
  18. ↑ "Shipping: Wrecks and Casualties". Liverpool Mercury (10473). 4 August 1881. p. 7.
  19. ↑ Alsaker, Per (1988). "Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab, Bergen". Skipet (in Norwegian). Bergen: Norwegian Maritime History Society. p. 1. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  20. ↑ "SS Koning der Nederlanden". wrecksite.eu. 2001. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
  21. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  22. ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  23. ↑ Hughes, John (August 2009). "Time and tide". Pembrokeshire Life (Newcastle Emlyn: Swan House Publishing): 21.
  24. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  25. ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  26. ↑ "Reddingsstation Ouddorp". KNRM. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
  27. ↑ Pollard, Chris (2007). The Book of St Mawes. Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove. ISBN 978 1 84114 631 7.
Ship events in 1881
Ship launches: 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886
Ship commissionings: 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886
Ship decommissionings: 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886
Shipwrecks: 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886
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