List of shipwrecks in 1894

The list of shipwrecks in 1894 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during the year 1894.

According to the American newspapers of 1894, the winter and spring storms of December 1893 to April 1894 proved to be one of the most disastrous for the United States of America, particularly the Cape Cod area since 1860.[1] The eastern seaboard of the continent had already faced a fierce hurricane season in 1893 when over 2,000 lives where lost.

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1894
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1894
Ship Country Description
Firth of Cromarty  United Kingdom Full rigged ship grounded in St Margaret's Bay with the loss of two lives.[2][3]

February

2 February

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1894
Ship Country Description
Kearsarge  United States Navy Ran aground at Roncador Cay, Colombia and was wrecked.

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1894
Ship Country Description
Huntcliff  United Kingdom The tramp steamer was beached at Blackpool, Lancashire. All crew safe.
Maurice & Marguerite  Belgium The schooner foundered on a voyage between Antwerp and Buenos Aires, Argentina.[4]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1894
Ship Country Description
Aarhus  Germany Sank off Cape Moreton, Australia.

March

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1894
Ship Country Description
De Ruyter  Belgium Passed Lizard Point bound for Boston, United States. No further trace.[5]

22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1894
Ship Country Description
Glenravil Miner  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Overton, Glamorgan. Her three crew were rescued.[6]

April

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1894
Ship Country Description
S A Rudolph  United States Three masted schooner loaded with ice blocks bound for Ocean City, Maryland from Boothbay, Maine. Captained by John P Burns of Camden, New Jersey. The ship was caught in a sudden gale on the night of Thursday, April 12 and floundered on the shoals of Cape Cod. The fractured hull of the ship washed up north of Nauset Beach.[7] All six crew members perished including Captain Burns and his brothers on board the vessel.
Jennie M Carter  United States Three masted schooner carrying paving stones bound for New York Bay. The ship was first damaged on April 10, 1894, ship owner and captain Wesley T Ober decided that he could pilot the crippled ship and dock safely, denying aid. However, they were overtaken by the storm of April 12. The survivors attempted to abandon the schooner in a lifeboat but did not reach land. The ship, meanwhile, had been driven by the storm onto Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts.[8]
By April 15th, the crew was declared deceased after thorough searching. It is thought that the crew may have survived had they kept to the interior of the ship with the cargo. Three bodies and an overcoat belonging to the first mate were recovered; the lifeboat was recovered near Plum Island. Folklore dictates that the ship’s cat was the only survivor.
The story of the shipwrecks from April 12th and the previous weeks sparked national interest and thousands gathered to see the wreck of the Jennie M Carter.[9] The paving stones were removed and sold at auction; some were used in Salisbury. The ship remains were considered unsalvageable and left to disintegrate on the beach where it became a well-known site. Some of the wooden frame could still be seen in 2013.

July

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1894
Ship Country Description
Valkyrie II  United Kingdom Collided with yacht Santanita ( United Kingdom) and sank.

28 July

List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1894
Ship Country Description
Castor  Netherlands The passenger ship was in collision with the barque Ernst ( Germany) and sank in the English Channel 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) south south west of Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom. All 28 people on board were rescued.[10]

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1894
Ship Country Description
Nicosia  Canada The barque ran aground and was wrecked on the south coast of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Her eighteen crew survived. She was on a voyage from Dublin, United Kingdom to Saint John, New Brunswick.[11]

August

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1894
Ship Country Description
Gertrude  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset.[12]

September

3 September

List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1894
Ship Country Description
Matchless  United Kingdom Capsized in Morecambe Bay with loss of 25 lives

17 September

List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1894
Ship Country Description
Chih Yuen Qing dynasty Beiyang Fleet): Sunk during the Battle of the Yalu River.
Ching Yuen Qing dynasty Beiyang Fleet): Sunk during the Battle of the Yalu River.
King Yuen Qing dynasty Beiyang Fleet): Sunk during the Battle of the Yalu River.
Laiyuan Qing dynasty Beiyang Fleet): Sunk during the Battle of the Yalu River.

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1894
Ship Country Description
George N Wilcox  Germany The barque was wrecked near Ilio Point, Molokai, Hawaii after being caught by strong currents. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, United Kingdom to Honolulu with coal, liquor and general cargo.[13]

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1894
Ship Country Description
Dorunda  United Kingdom Struck rocks off the Burlings Lighthouse, Portugal and was beached.[14]

October

1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1894
Ship Country Description
Allegheny  United Kingdom Collided with tanker Caucase ( Belgium) in the Delaware River and sank. Later raised, repaired and returned to service.[5]

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1894
Ship Country Description
Vennerne  Norway The barque was driven ashore at Worms Head, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was wrecked. All ten people on booard survived.[6]
Wairarapa United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand
Wairarapa

Sailing between Auckland, New Zealand and Australia came to a tragic end when it hit a reef at the northern edge of Great Barrier Island, about 100 kilometres (54 nmi) out from Auckland, and sank. The loss of about 140 people remains one of the largest such loss in New Zealand's history.

December

22 December

List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1894
Ship Country Description
Abana  Norway
Abana

The barque was wrecked at Blackpool, all seventeen crew and a dog saved.

Petrel  United Kingdom The fishing boat was driven ashore at Blackpool.
Stanley  Norway The schooner was wrecked at Borbjerg.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "50 Human Lives Swallowed Up in Angry Seas Outside of Cape Cod, Storm-Beaten Coast a Graveyard Since Dec 5th". The Boston Journal. 14 April 1894.
  2. ↑ Lane, Anthony (2009). Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: The History Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-7524-1720-2.
  3. ↑ Ogley, Bob; Currie, Ian; Davison, Mark (1991). The Kent Weather Book. Brasted Chart: Froglets Publications Ltd. p. 19. ISBN 1-872337-35-X.
  4. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  5. 1 2 3 "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  6. 1 2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  7. ↑ "Fourteen Sailors Lost Overboard: Further News of the Wreck of the Rudolph and the Carter". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 14 April 1894.
  8. ↑ "A Deserted Vessel. The Entire Crew of the Jennie M. Carter Supposed to be Lost". Wheeling Register. 14 April 1894.
  9. ↑ “The Jennie M. Carter. Three Thousand People Visit the Wreck, Crew Yet be Heard From,” Boston Journal, 14 April 1894.
  10. ↑ R. Cross (1996). "The wreck of the S.S. Castor (1870-1984) and the recovery of part of the ship's cargo" (PDF). Archaeologica Cantiana (Kent Archaeological Society) 116: 183–202.
  11. ↑ "Nicosia - 1894". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  12. ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  13. ↑ Soboleski, Hank (27 July 2014). "The wreck of the bark “George N. Wilcox”". The Garden Island (Lihue, Hawaii). Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  14. ↑ "(No. 5012) ("DORUNDA S. S.")" (PDF). Board of Trade / Plimsoll ship data. Retrieved 7 October 2010.

See also

Ship events in 1894
Ship launches: 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
Ship commissionings: 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
Ship decommissionings: 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
Shipwrecks: 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
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