List of shipwrecks in 1891

The list of shipwrecks in 1891 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1891.

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1891
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1891
Ship Country Description
Thames  United Kingdom Penzance steamer on voyage to London grounded on the Chesil Bank in thick fog.[1]

8 January

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1891
Ship Country Description
Kaffraria  United Kingdom wrecked in the River Elbe, Germany.

February

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1891
Ship Country Description
Chiswick  United Kingdom The 1,261 ton steamship ran aground, in calm weather, on the North-east ledges of the Seven Stones Reef, while bound for St Nazaire with coal from Cardiff. The captain is supposed to have said "every man for himself" before going down, along with ten crew, and his ship. Eight survivors were picked up by the Sevenstones Lightship's longboat.[2][3]

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1891
Ship Country Description
Trignac  France The steamer sprang a leak, blew up and sank within five minutes, between the Isles of Scilly and the Seven Stones Reef. She was carrying coal from Newport to St Nazaire.[3]

March

1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1891
Ship Country Description
H.L.C.  France The brigantine ran aground on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Pornic, Loire-Atlantique.[4]

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1891
Ship Country Description
Roxburgh Castle  United Kingdom The 1222-ton cargo steamer was on a voyage from Newport to Piraeus with a cargo of coal when it was struck by the British Peer ( United Kingdom) 120 miles SW of the Isles of Scilly during the "Great Blizzard of 1891". Roxburgh Castle sank, losing 22 of its 24 crew.[5]

17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1891
Ship Country Description
Utopia  United Kingdom
Utopia

The passenger ship collided with HMS Anson ( Royal Navy in the Bay of Gibraltar and sank with the loss of 552 of the 880 people aboard.

April

23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1891
Ship Country Description
Blanco Encalada  Chilean Navy An Almirante Cochrane-class central battery ship launched in 1874, and sunk in 1891 by a torpedo gunboat in the port of Caldera as part of the 1891 Chilean Civil War.

May

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1891
Ship Country Description
Clan Lamont  United Kingdom She ran aground and sank off Vindiloas Point, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.[6]

July

18 July

List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1891
Ship Country Description
Princesse Stephanie  Belgium Wrecked off Christiansand, Norway.[7]

October

13 October

List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1891
Ship Country Description
Ora et Labora  Norway The brig was driven ashore and wrecked near Chesil Cove, Dorset, United Kingdom.[8]

November

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1891
Ship Country Description
Benvenue  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Sandgate, Kent with the loss of five lives. Twenty-seven survivors were rescued by the Mayer de Rothchild ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[9]

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1891
Ship Country Description
Samuel Mather  United States A wooden freighter which was launched in 1887 and sank in 1891, when she was rammed by the steel freighter Brazil in heavy fog in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior.

December

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1891
Ship Country Description
Merannio  United Kingdom En route for Newport from Bilbao with 1,300 of iron ore hit the Seven Stones Reef, but managed to reach St Ives, Cornwall where a 10 ft (3 m) hole was found in her bow.[3]

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1891
Ship Country Description
Torbay Lass  United Kingdom The Brixham schooner sank within a few hundred metres of Penzance harbour, Cornwall, UK. On tow after unloading her cargo of coal on St Michael's Mount the tug Merlin suffered a drop in steam pressure and Torbay Lass drifted onto the Cressars off Penzance promenade. Pulled clear by the steamship Lady of the Isles she sank after a few hundred yards.[10]

10 December

List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1891
Ship Country Description
Drumblair  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore on Sully Island, Glamorgan. Her crew either took to the ships' boats or were rescued by Joseph Denman II ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Drumblair was on a voyage from Barry, Glamorgan to Mauritius. She was later salvaged, repaired and returned to service.[4]

23 December

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1891
Ship Country Description
Felicete  France The brig ran aground at Port Eynon Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Nantes, Loire-Atlantique to Swansea, Glamorgan.[4]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1891
Ship Country Description
Sarsfield  United Kingdom The brigantine ran aground at Rhosilli, Glamorgan and was wrecked. All seven people on board survived.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance: a history. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
  2. ↑ Liddiard, John. "Seven Stones". Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  5. ↑ The Blizzard in the West. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1891.
  6. ↑ "SS Clan Lamont (+1891)".
  7. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  8. ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  9. ↑ Bignell, Alan (2001). Kent Shipwrecks (Second ed.). Newbury: Countryside Books. ISBN 1 85306 719 9.
  10. ↑ Larn, R. and Larn, B. (1991) Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
Ship events in 1891
Ship launches: 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
Ship commissionings: 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
Ship decommissionings: 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
Shipwrecks: 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
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