List of shipwrecks in 1880

The list of shipwrecks in 1880 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1880.

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1880
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1880
Ship Country Description
Hesperus  United Kingdom The Padstow ketch went ashore at Battery Point under St Ives Head (St Ives Island), Cornwall, England, while carrying 140 tons of coal from Liverpool to Calstock, Cornwall. All four crew were saved.[1]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1880
Ship Country Description
Lady Kinnaird  United Kingdom The three-masted barque – built in 1877 at Dundee, Scotland, by Brown & Simpson for W. B. Ritchie – was wrecked in the Spencer Gulf south of Cape Burr on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.[2]

30 January

List of shipwrecks: 30 January 1880
Ship Country Description
Iserbrook  United Kingdom The burned-out hulk of the brig – destroyed by fire and scuttled on 21 December 1878 and reloated in 1879 – sank again in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.[3]

February

9 February

List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Constance  United Kingdom The West Hartlepool steamship foundered in the Bay of Biscay and the captain and six of the crew were saved by Lady Tredegar (flag unknown).[4]
Jane and Ellen  United Kingdom The Aberystwith schooner went ashore on the beach at Charlestown, Cornwall, England. All the crew survived.[5]
Sisters  United Kingdom The schooner from St Ives, Cornwall, England, went ashore approximately 150 yards (137 meters) east of the breakwater at Pentewan, Cornwall, while carrying coal from Cardiff, Wales, to Charlestown, Cornwall. One of the four crew survived.[6]
Sofya  Italy The brig went ashore near St Mawes, Cornwall, on Polwarth Beach.[7][8]
Valentine  France The Dieppe ship foundered off The Lizard, Cornwall, with only one crew member surviving out of 18.[9]

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Corea  United States The barque ran aground on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel, Her crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat. Corea was later refloated and taken in to Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom.[10]

13 February

List of shipwrecks: 13 February
Ship Country Description
Strathnairn  United Kingdom The barque – owned by interests in Dundee, Scotland – collided with the steamer Edith Hough (flag unknown), in the Atlantic Ocean 37 nautical miles (69 km) west of Ushant, France, with the loss of all on board.[11] Two casks of brandy, from her cargo, were picked up in the Isles of Scilly the following April.[12]
Name unknown unknown A fishing boat capsized while entering the harbor at Wexford, Ireland, with the loss of all hands.[13]

14 February

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Gypsy Newfoundland The brigantine went aground in hurricane-force winds in Cornwall, England, on the east coast of The Lizard at Downes Cove, halfway between Kennack Sands and Coverack. All nine crew managed to climb ashore just before the ship broke up.[14]

16 February

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Belmont  United Kingdom A southwest gale damaged the Plymouth, England-registered vessel′s sails and pumps when she was 15 days out of Pensacola, Florida. Her crew took to the tops when she became unmanagable and after four days were taken off in the Atlantic Ocean at 40°50′N 031°33′W / 40.833°N 31.550°W / 40.833; -31.550 by the schooner Faithlie (flag unknown), which landed them at Plymouth on 6 March.[15]

22 February

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Hindoo flag unknown The steamer foundered in the Atlantic Ocean at 41°50′N 41°05′W / 41.833°N 41.083°W / 41.833; -41.083 while bound for Hull from New York City with the loss of six crew. Fifty-three crew and passengers were picked up by Alexandra (flag unknown).[16]
Ulster  Canada The crew abandoned the Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada-registered barque when she became waterlogged. Four of the crew lost their lives but the master and eleven crew were rescued by Hipparchus (flag unknown) on 22 February.[17][18]

23 February

List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Neptunns  Norway The Christiansand, Norway-registered brig was wrecked at Auchmithie, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Arbroath, Scotland.[19]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1880
Ship Country Description
A M Roselands  United Kingdom All seven crew members abandoned the brigantine in the Atlantic Ocean at 38°50′N 039°40′W / 38.833°N 39.667°W / 38.833; -39.667 while bound for Falmouth, Cornwall, England, from Port Castries, St Lucia, with a cargo of sugar and logwood. Kaut Alpsen (flag unknown) dropped the crew off at Falmouth on 6 March.[15]

25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Resurgam II  United Kingdom The submarine sank without loss of life in Liverpool Bay off Rhyl, Wales, while under tow, .

26 February

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Bessie Jones  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked off Blackpool, England with the loss of one life. Three crew members were saved.[20]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown date
Ship Country Description
HMS Atalanta  Royal Navy The training ship presumably foundered in the Atlantic Ocean sometime between 12 and 16 February during a storm with the loss of all hands. She had on board 11 officers and approximately 300 young seamen.[21]
Bay of Biscay  United Kingdom The vessel was lost in the Atlantic Ocean.[22]
John Abbott  United Kingdom The Maryport barque was damaged in a hurricane during February and the crew were rescued by an Italian vessel.[17]
Visgorla unknown The steamer foundered with the loss of 64 lives near Bombay, India, while bound for Kurrachee, India.[23]
Name unknown unknown A vessel was lost at Sidmouth, Devon, England, with all hands.[24]
Names unknown Spain Many Spanish fishing boats and their crews were lost in hurricane-force winds.[25]
Various ships various The presence of large icebergs in the South Atlantic Ocean to the east of the Falkland Islands may account for many ships that vanished in the area during February.[26]

March

6 March

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1880
Ship Country Description
Unknown unknown A waterlogged vessel was reported by Giorgio Washington ( Italy) in the Atlantic Ocean at 45°41′N 025°15′W / 45.683°N 25.250°W / 45.683; -25.250.[27]

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1880
Ship Country Description
Travancore  United Kingdom The P&O steamer went ashore, in thick fog, at Castro Bight, south of Otranto, Italy.[26]

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1880
Ship Country Description
Montana  United Kingdom The Guion Line steamship was wrecked on the coast of North Wales not far from Anglesey, where her sister ship, SS Dakota ( United Kingdom), had been wrecked in 1877. There was no loss of life.[28]

16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1880
Ship Country Description
Rontegui  France Carrying wine, the steamer ran aground on rocks off the north coast of Guernsey in the Channel Islands.[29][30]

22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March
Ship Country Description
Isabella Mott  United States The Annapolis, Maryland-based ship encountered heavy seas in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned at 42°04′N 47°58′W / 42.067°N 47.967°W / 42.067; -47.967. The crew were brought into Falmouth, Cornwall, England, by a Norwegian barque.[31]

26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March
Ship Country Description
Dowlais  United Kingdom The Cardiff, Wales-based steamer hit the Rundlestone in Cornwall, England, in thick fog and sank within minutes. Two of the crew lost their lives when the ship sank as they were retrieving clothing, but 13 crew and three passengers took to the lifeboats. The surviviors were picked up by Sedgemoor (flag unknown) and landed at St Ives, Cornwall.[32]
Fernville  United Kingdom The Sunderland-based steamer sank after colliding with an iceberg while on a voyage from Hartlepool, England, to Boston, Massachusetts, with a cargo of coal and iron. Twenty-two of the crew were rescued by Sarmatian ( France) on 29 March and landed at Liverpool on 20 April.[22][33]
Kosmopolict  Netherlands The Groningen, Netherlands-based galiot foundered in the Atlantic Ocean at 49°17′N 007°31′W / 49.283°N 7.517°W / 49.283; -7.517 while carrying copper ore from Ferrol, Spain, to Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The barque Vesta ( Germany) landed the crew in the Isles of Scilly on 29 March.[34]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown
Ship Country Description
Ablana  United Kingdom The Newport, Wales-based barque was wrecked in the Bay of Fundy with the loss of seven crew, including the captain and first mate.[26]
Cerwyn  United Kingdom The Falmouth, Cornwall, England-based steamer foundered off Ushant, France. There were only two survivors.[35]

April

8 April

List of shipwrecks: 8 April
Ship Country Description
Fasen  United Kingdom The steam tug was nearly cut in two in a collision with the London and South Western Railway's steamer Cherbourg (flag unknown) in Southampton Water off Netley Hospital in Netley, Hampshire, England, and sank. One man drowned.[36]

11 April

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1880
Ship Country Description
H Galmar  Norway The brig was in collision on the English Channel with the full-rigged ship Firth of Clyde off Beachy Head. Five crew, including the captain were killed, while another four were landed at Weymouth, Dorset, England.[37]
Nicolo Tomasco  Austria-Hungary The barque, bound for Trieste from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a cargo of petroleum, sank in the Strait of Gibraltar off Europa Point, Gibraltar, after being struck by lightning and catching fire.[38]

13 or 14 April

List of shipwrecks: 13 or 14 April
Ship Country Description
Calypso The ship collided with the General Steam Navigation Company steamer Hawk (flag unknown) in the Thames Estuary and sank off the Princess Channel lighthouse, a few miles from London, her destination. All crew and 47 passengers were saved.[39]

19 April

List of shipwrecks: 19 April
Ship Country Description
Emmanuel  German Empire The 72 ton Emden galliot was driven ashore on Cudden Point, Cornwall during a gale. The four crew jumped ashore and climbed the cliff to safety. The ship refloated and was washed eastwards to the mouth of Little Harry Sowan where it went to pieces.[40]

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April
Ship Country Description
Alexander Buthie  United Kingdom The Aberdeen vessel sank during a storm with the loss of all six crew.[41]
Isabella  United Kingdom The fishing vessel from Downies, Scotland sank during a storm with the loss of all six crew.[41]
Twilight  United Kingdom The Downies vessel capsized with the loss of all four crew.[41]
Unnamed vessels (4)  United Kingdom Four Stonehaven, Scotland vessels lost during a sudden storm killing nineteen crew.[41]

23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April
Ship Country Description
American  United Kingdom The Union Company Royal Mail steamer foundered at Cape Palmar following the breaking of her screw. Seven men remained on American which was towed by the Portuguese brig Taraja and landed at Loanda on 21 July. The rest of the crew and the passengers took to the ship's boats and landed at various ports.[42][43]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: April 1880
Ship Country Description
Chard  United Kingdom The crew abandoned their vessel at 49.7 W when the fore mast was lost. They were landed in the Isles of Scilly by Tetans ( Norway).[44]
Mercator  Belgium Departed Antwerp for New York, United States. A lifeboat was recovered by Chateaubriand ( France) on 19 June.[45]


May

4 May

List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1880
Ship Country Description
Conovium  UKGBI The Aberystwyth schooner hit rocks off Lizard Point, Cornwall while carrying 152 tons of cement from London to Dublin. The captain miscalculated the ship's position blaming the intensity of the light from the Lizard Lighthouse. The four crew rowed to Penzance in the ship's boat.[46]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown date May 1880
Ship Country Description
Advance  New Zealand The composite schooner drifted onto the North Spit at Christchurch, New Zealand. She lost her rudder and part of her false keel, but was refloated easily without further damage.

June

11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1880
Ship Country Description
Bay of Biscay  United Kingdom Set sail from Tower Hill. All aboard lost by drowning, wrecked.[47]
Narragansett  United States The passenger paddle steamer burned and sank in a collision at night in heavy fog in Long Island Sound with her sister ship SS Stonington ( United States). Approximately fifty lives were lost.

15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1880
Ship Country Description
Maha Buleshwar  United Kingdom Total wreck at Ancutta, Laccadives and the cargo probably lost. The barque was en route for Bombay from London. Twelve of the crew saved.[48]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date June 1880
Ship Country Description
Alianza  Peruvian Navy War of the Pacific: The torpedo boat was scuttled by her crew to prevent her capture by advancing Chilean forces.
Ayr  United Kingdom The Hain Line ship of St Ives was wrecked at the Magdalena River, Colombia.[49]

July

3 July

List of shipwrecks: 3 July
Ship Country Description
Manne Du Cel  France The lugger, with a cargo of coal from Newport to St Malo, sprung a leak in the North Channel and despite efforts to keep the vessel afloat, abandoned her when approximately 10 miles off Lizard Point, Cornwall. The four crew were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall the following Monday.[50]

10 July

List of shipwrecks: 10 July
Ship Country Description
Alert  United Kingdom The steamer struck The Manacles, a reef off the coast of the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall. A rock penetrated the hull and the ship was able to reach the nearest beach before foundering. Following temporary repairs she was towed to Falmouth that evening.[51]

17 July

List of shipwrecks: 17 July
Ship Country Description
Hydaspes While en route from London to Melbourne, with 40 passengers and a crew of 45, the barque collided with the steamer Centurion and sank 5 miles (8.0 km) off Dungeness. Despite the thick fog and sinking within eleven minutes, no lives were loss.[52]

22 July

List of shipwrecks: 17 July
Ship Country Description
Mamie  United States The excursion steamer Garland collided with the steam yacht on the Detroit River, 9 miles (14 km) below Detroit. Mamie was cut in two and of the twenty-four on board sixteen drowned.[53]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown
Ship Country Description
Poolscar  United Kingdom The Liverpool barque was wrecked at Holm, Orkney.[54]

August

3 August

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Unnamed  United Kingdom The Gamrie fishing-boat sank off Rose Hearty, Scotland with the loss of all six crew.[55]

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Duroon Castle  United Kingdom The Clyde steamer with 700 day-trippers on board struck a submerged rock and was beached nearby. She was within 200 yards (180 m) of the pier at Glasgow and all onboard landed safely.[56]
Harriet  United Kingdom The Bideford smack was wrecked on Pentire Point East, Newquay, Cornwall while carrying coal from Swansea to Hayle. There was controversy over the launching of the lifeboat and the crew were eventually saved by the Newquay lifeboat.[57]
Jeddah  United Kingdom After the passenger steamship suffered progressive boiler damage and lost her sails in heavy weather beginning on 3 August, some of her European officers abandoned her on 7 August, assuming she would sink, leaving her adrift in the Indian Ocean near Socotra and Guardafui with about 1,000 passengers (Muslim pilgrims making the Haj) and crew aboard. The Europeans who abandoned her were rescued on 8 August by the convict ship Scindian ( United Kingdom), while the passenger steamship Antenor ( France) towed Jeddah into port at Aden on 11 August. Eighteen lives were lost in the incident.
Tidy  United Kingdom The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked in Broughton Bay, south Wales. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Portland, Dorset to Llanelli, Glamorgan.[10]

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Waswater Unknown (First report). The iron ship was found derelict and on fire by the steamer Blenheim. There was no sign of her eighteen crew.[58]

12 August

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Unnamed steamboats  United States Several steamboats lost during a great storm on 12 and 13 August at Brownsville, Texas.[59]

19 August

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Caroni  United Kingdom The brigantine from Lockeport, Nova Scotia with salted provisions, was a total wreck following a hurricane at Kingston, Jamaica. All the crew survived.[60]

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Eastern Star  United Kingdom (First report – telegram) from Durban. Went ashore and probably a total wreck.[61]
Hetty Taylor  United States The schooner encountered a squall and sank in Lake Michigan off Sheboygan, Wisconsin.[62] In 2005, the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[63] There were no casualties.
Surprise  United Kingdom (First report – telegram from Durban). Went ashore and probably a total wreck.[61]

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Nannie Noall  United Kingdom The St Ives fishing vessel was hit by the steamer Aurora ( United Kingdom) about four or five miles south-west of the Wolf Rock. Two of the seven crew drowned.[64]

29 August

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1880
Ship Country Description
City of Vera Cruz  United States The steamship, en route from New York City to Mexico, encountered a violent hurricane and sank off the coast of Florida. Of the 79 aboard, ten or eleven (depending on accounts) survived.[65]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown
Ship Country Description
Nadine  Imperial Russian Navy The torpedo boat was wrecked on the coast of Brazil. All the crew survived.[66]

September

3 September

List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Silurian  United Kingdom The steamship en route from Salonica to Cardiff with patent fuel, ran ashore in thick fog between Hartland Point and Clovelly, Devon. The twenty-one crew were saved but the ship and cargo were lost.[67]

6 September

List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Sorata  United Kingdom Reported as a probable total wreck off South Australia. The crew, passengers and cargo were saved and much of the ship will probably be salvaged.[68] The vessel went into dry dock at Melbourne. [69]
Unnamed An unnamed schooner sank in a squall, off the Bass Rock, Scotland with the loss of all five crew.[70]

12 September

List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Albert  France The Binic fishing schooner carrying 97,000 cod and seventeen barrels of oil left Newfoundland for the Isle de Rey. Albert was dismasted on 10 September and two days later the crew abandoned ship and boarded the Titania ( Norway). They were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall on 23 September.[71]

13 September

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Covadonga  Chile War of the Pacific: The schooner was sunk by a mine at Chancay, Peru. Thirty-three crew were killed and forty-eight taken prisoner.

14 September

List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Aurora  United Kingdom The Dublin steamer foundered 35 miles (56 km) north of Ushant, during a storm, while on a voyage from Oporto to Southampton[72] Some of the 250 bullocks were loose and the vessel leaned to starboard and the crew were unable to right her. Seven of the crew and passengers were landed at Brest by the Consul. (See 27 August above for the sinking of the Nannie Noall).[73][74][75]

15 September

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Ellen Frances  United Kingdom The Fowey steamship en route from Swansea to Mevagissey with coal was driven ashore on Carrack Gladden Beach, St Ives, Cornwall. The crew took to the ship's boat and landed safely.[76]
Jane Smith  United Kingdom The Plymouth ship en route from Llanelli to Ipswich with stone coal, grounded off St Ives, Cornwall. The six crew were rescued by St Ives lifeboat.[76]

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Bonne Adèle  France The schooner, carrying coal from Llanelli to Cherbourg struck Hayle Bar and was driven ashore on Lelant beach. The crew were landed by the Hayle Lifeboat. She was attempting to ride a gale in St Ives Bay.[77]

22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Unnamed  France The ferry steamer capsized by the tidal bore near Bordeaux with the loss of six passengers.[78]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown
Ship Country Description
Anglia  United Kingdom The Anchor Line, ship foundered in the Atlantic while out of Boston for London. The crew were landed at St Johns.[79]
Flavin  United Kingdom The Liverpool steamer stranded on the Canadian coast; the captain blaming his compass. The cargo included fifteen cases of musical instruments, some of which contained jew's harps and a large packet of magnets.[80]
Hardwich  United Kingdom The West Hartlepool steamer foundered while carrying barley from Odessa for Bristol. All hands, except for a fireman, lost.[81]

October

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Jane  United Kingdom The lugger was swamped by heavy seas, off Penzance, Cornwall, UK during a SSE hurricane force gale.[82] Altogether thirty fishing boats were destroyed, or damaged, in Mount's Bay and seven lives lost.[83]
Somorostro  United Kingdom The Cardiff streamer carrying iron-ore from Bilbao is believed to have foundered in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of all on board.[84][85]

8 October

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Hannah  United Kingdom The Caernarfon schooner was run down by Shamrock, the Dublin to Holyhead ferry, killing three of the four crew.[86]
Henry Benness  United Kingdom The Newhaven brig was struck by a heavy sea about 15 miles (24 km) off the Longships and she began to take on water. The crew abandoned ship at about 2 o'clock the following morning and the ship sank 30 minutes later off the Three Stone Oar. The crew were picked up by the Progrès and landed in Penzance, a day later.[87]

15 October

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Alpena  United States The sidewheel steamer sank in Lake Michigan with at least 80 killed.

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Unnamed  Liberia The schooner, with 38 on board, capsized off Grand Bassa. After fifteen hours, four survivors were picked up by the Corsico and landed at Liverpool[88]

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Bessie Wilkingson  United Kingdom The Bideford ketch with coal from Newport ran aground on the Blackrock, outside of the destination, Mevagissey, Cornwall.[89]

22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Mary  United Kingdom The Whitby brig dragged her anchor and hit the Black Rock at the entrance to Falmouth harbour, drifted leeward and sank between the rock and shore. Three of the crew died.[90]

23 October

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Argo  United Kingdom The Bridgwater schooner with coal from Newport for Polruan sprung a leak and made for Old Grimsby, Tresco, Isles of Scilly. The schooner stuck on rocks at Teän and the crew were taken off the island the following day.[91]

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Blanche  United Kingdom The ketch sprang a leak 40 miles (64 km) west south-west of The Lizard and foundered. The master was landed at Fowey, Cornwall by the Lizzie Trembath[92]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Alice  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Flamborough on the Northumberland coast.[93]
Camilla  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked at Newtown on the Northumberland coast.[93]
Fortuna  United Kingdom The schooner grounded on the rocks at Jenniecliffe Bay, Plymouth. The crew were taken off by the Plymouth lifeboat.[94]
John May  United Kingdom The brig lost one of her anchors when sheltering from a storm off Plymouth. Setting sail for the Cattewater, John May drifted across the bows of the schooner Reddies, taking away the schooners bowsprit, topsail-yard along with other damage. John May drifted onto the Mount Batten breakwater, breaking her back. The captain drowned.[95]
Lady Young  United Kingdom The barque ran ashore near the entrance of Brixham harbour with the loss of one life.[96]
Messenger  United Kingdom The Salcombe brig with coal from Cardiff for Portsmouth dragged onto Skirt Island, Tresco, Isles of Scilly while carrying coal from Cardiff to Portsmouth.[97] She refloated after St. Mary's lifeboat (Henry Dundas) had saved five of her crew but was later scrapped. The ship and cargo was sold for £11.[98]
Saffron  United Kingdom The Southampton vessel was driven ashore at Withernsea, carrying away 60 feet (18 m) of the quay.[93]

28/29 October

List of shipwrecks: 28/29 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Black-eyed Sue  United Kingdom The Bideford ship went ashore at Scarborough. Another three or four vessels were also stranded.[99]
British Engsign  United Kingdom The vessel was driven ashore at Seaham, County Durham with the loss of one life.[100]
Flying Huntsman  United Kingdom The steam trawler was struck by a heavy sea and capsized while making for her home port of North Shields. The six crew drowned.[101]
Good Intent  United Kingdom The fishing boat went ashore at Whitby.[102]
Henry Brown  United Kingdom The schooner was driven onto the Baily Lighthouse, three of the crew were drowned.[103]
Johanna  Denmark The schooner foundered while entering South Shields harbour. All the crew except the Mate drowned.[104]
Reaper  United Kingdom The schooner went ashore at Whitby with the loss of the master.[102]
Wonga  United Kingdom The steam trawler was struck by a heavy sea and capsized while making for her home port of North Shields. The six crew drowned.[101]
Zostria  United Kingdom The vessel was driven ashore at Seaham, County Durham.[100]
unnamed  United Kingdom The fishing boat sank in the River Liffey, Dublin.[103]
unnamed  United Kingdom The unnamed vessel was wrecked at Dalkey, Ireland with the loss of five lives.[103]
unnamed The vessel went ashore at Laugharne Sands, Carmarthen Bay. The crew, except the master, was saved by the City of Manchester lifeboat. [100]
unnamed  Netherlands The Dutch vessel came ashore at Scarborough along with eight other ships. All the crews were saved.[93]

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Earl Derby  United Kingdom The vessel was driven ashore at Hornsea, Yorkshire.[93]
Eliza Adams  United Kingdom The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat () capsized when a large wave broke over her near the harbour at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, while she was attempting to rescue the crew of the brig Ocean Queen during a gale. Eleven of her thirteen crew were killed.[105]
Katherine  United Kingdom The Lynn ship went ashore at Clay. The crew were saved by the rocket apparatus.[105]
Lois  United Kingdom The Littlehampton ship was stranded on the beach at Holkham, Norfolk, England. The crew was saved by the life-lines.[105]
Macbeth  United Kingdom The large iron-ship was driven ashore at Hornsea, Yorkshire. The captain was drowned.[93]
New Parliament  United Kingdom The Padstow schooner hit very heavy weather, water entered the hold and the four crew and black cat were taken off their vessel, 180 miles (290 km) west by north of the Isles of Scilly. The vessel was bound from Yarmouth to Sligo with wheat and flour. The crew were landed at Falmouth.[106]
Ocean Queen  United Kingdom The Sunderland brig was driven ashore on a beach near the harbour of Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, during a gale.[105]
Sharon Rose  United Kingdom The Whitby brig was driven ashore on the beach at Holkham, Norfolk, England, during a gale. The crew was saved by the lifeboat Eliza Adams.[105]
Violet  United Kingdom The Whitby ship was driven ashore on a beach at Holkham, Norfolk, England, during a gale. The crew were saved by the life-lines.[105]
unnamed ship  United Kingdom Stranded at Burnham, Norfolk.[105]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1880
Ship Country Description
Percy  United Kingdom The brigantine foundered in St George's Channel while carrying china clay from Par, Cornwall to Glasgow. The captain and crew were landed at Liverpool by a Guernesy brig.[107]
Iserbrook  United Kingdom The wreck of the brig – destroyed by fire and scuttled on 21 December 1878, reloated in 1879, and which sank again on 30 January 1880 – was destroyed by explosives in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales.[3]
Serhorry  United Kingdom The crew abandoned the Dublin brigantine between Cornwall and Waterford and were picked up by the Prince of Porthleven.[108]
Soredderin Arundel  Norway The barque, carrying plaster from Riga for Brest foundered 14 miles (23 km) off the Isles of Scilly. The Leonore picked up the nine crew from the ship's boat and landed them at Dover.[109]
Unnamed Many wrecks and much loss of life is reported from Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.[110]

November

3 November

List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1880
Ship Country Description
Scindian  United Kingdom The convict ship sank in the Tyrrhenian Sea off Rio Marina, Elba, Italy, with the loss of six lives. Eight people were rescued.[111]

8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1880
Ship Country Description
Lubra The barque foundered in the Atlantic while in ballast from Bristol to Wilmington. The crew were landed in Cowes.[112]

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1880
Ship Country Description
Ottawa  United Kingdom The 3,712-ton vessel was wrecked at Cape La Roche on her maiden voyage. No lives lost.[113]

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1880
Ship Country Description
Mavis  United Kingdom The screw steamer sank after hitting a rock off the Gironde estuary. The crew rowed for the coast and were taken to La Rochelle by pilot boat. They finally landed in Bristol a week later by the Clio.[114]
Oucle Joseph  France The steamship sank after a collision with the Italian steamer Ortigia. Of the three hundred on board, only fifty survived.[115]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1880
Ship Country Description
Champion  United Kingdom The captain and eighteen crew of the Greenock barque, were landed at Falmouth by the Spanish barque Eliza. Champion was carrying deal from Mirimichi and was abandoned following a succession of heavy gales.[116][117]
Leading Star  United Kingdom The St Ives, Cornwall ship was a total wreck off Umzimkula while out of Christiana for Natal, Africa. The captain, both mates and the steward drowned, five of the crew survived.[118] Information was received via telegrams dated 10 and 11 November 1880.[119]
Lisvane  United Kingdom The steamship, owned by Messrs Stallybrass of Cardiff, foundered during a gale in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of all fourteen crew. The Cardiff ship left Corunna on 12 November for Newport, Wales with iron ore.[120]
Little Nell  United Kingdom The Padstow schooner foundered off Barra Head, Scotland.[117]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The trawler capsized off Greenock during a storm. The four crew drowned[121]
Unnamed  France The unnamed schooner was wrecked at Kirkcaldy.[121]
Unnamed The unnamed steamer was wrecked at St Govan's Head with the loss of all hands.[122]

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1880
Ship Country Description
Pet  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Talbot, Glamorgan. Her five crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat.[10]

26 December

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1880
Ship Country Description
USC&GS Baton Rouge United States United States Coast and Geodetic Survey The survey ship, a sternwheel paddle steamer, sank in the Mississippi River. She was refloated and sold in 1881.

28 December

List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1880
Ship Country Description
Montgomeryshire  United Kingdom (first report) The steamer left Cardiff for Singapore with 2000 tons of coal and should have passed Gibraltar on 27 or 28 December. Wreckage found at Tocha, 9 miles (14 km) north of Figueira, near Cape Mondego is thought to be from this vessel. All of the thirty crew perished.[123][124]

29 December

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1880
Ship Country Description
Richelieu  French Navy The ironclad central battery ship caught fire in the harbor at Toulon, France, and was scuttled in 10.75 meters (35.3 feet) of water to prevent her ammunition magazine from exploding, capsizing almost 90 degrees to port as she sank. She was raised and repaired, and she returned to service in October 1881.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1880
Ship Country Description
Garibaldil The ship was stranded at Weller's Beach, Corsican, while en route to Toronto. The chief officer froze to death.[125]
Star of Bengal  United Kingdom The Liverpool ship Corbey put into Falmouth, Cornwall, with damage, following a 10 minute collision 23 miles (37 km) off The Lizard. The Star of Bengal is believed to have sunk with all hands.[126]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown 1880
Ship Country Description
Beatrice  United Kingdom The Mevagissey schooner sank in St George's Bay, Newfoundland while en voyage from Gaspé to Rio de Janeiro. The crew survived.[127]
Cape Sable  United Kingdom The Greenock ship, left Sunderland, for Singapore in June, was lost at sea. The captain and crew of 28 did not survive[128]
David Law  United Kingdom The ship, out of Leith, Scotland for San Francisco with coal and pig iron, was abandoned off South America after the cargo caught fire and exploded three times. The crew of 22 were landed at Plymouth on 3 December by HMS Raleigh.[129]
Killeena  United Kingdom The crew abandoned Killeena in the mid-Atlantic and the vessel was towed to Falmouth, Cornwall.[117]
Penwith  United Kingdom The ship left Cardiff for the Rio Grande on 11 May 1880 and had not been heard of since (to December 1880). [117]
Senegal  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in the Atlantic. Some of the passengers had been on the Royal Mail steamer American which foundered on 23 April. Crew and passengers were picked up by the Teuton and landed at Madeira.[43]

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