List of shipwrecks in 1881
The list of shipwrecks in 1881 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1881.
January
4 January
List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1881
Ship | Country | Description |
Active |
United Kingdom |
The 200 ton Newcastle steamer struck the Stag Rocks off Lizard Point, Cornwall while bound for Caen with coal from Neath.[1] |
Brazilian |
|
The Warren Line steamer broke in two while stranded on the Burbo Bank off Liverpool. The steamer was out of Boston with cattle.[2] |
5 January
6 January
List of shipwrecks: 6January 1881
Ship | Country | Description |
Unnamed |
|
A large steamer when ashore on the Goodwin Sands and sank with all hands.[7] |
7 January
List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1881
Ship | Country | Description |
John Tillotson |
|
The steamer Idlewild collided with the Tittleson barque John Tillotson which foundered within five minutes. The pilot and five of the crew drowned.[8] |
Sly Boots |
United Kingdom |
(first report) The Brixham trawler was run down by the steamer, Compton. All five crew drowned.[9] |
11 January
14 January
List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1881
Ship | Country | Description |
Emily |
United Kingdom |
The Brixham trawler was run down by a sailing vessel approximately 20 miles (32 km) off the Eddystone. A nearby fishing boat picked up the crew.[11] |
15 January
List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1881
Ship | Country | Description |
Lumley |
United Kingdom |
The brig stranded on a rock approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) offshore, north of Whitby. The crew lost their lives.[12] |
16 January
17 January
18 January
List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1881
Ship | Country | Description |
Abraham Thomas |
United Kingdom |
The Yarmouth lifeboat capsized while returning with the sole survivor of the Guiding Star. Two survived.[14] |
Anna Decéil |
France |
The Boulogne ketch went ashore at Ipswich.[14] |
Ann Turgoose |
United Kingdom |
The Goole schooner, with a cargo of wheat, from London to Hull, stranded near Saltfleet.[14] |
Charlotte Dunbar |
France |
The Lorient brigantine went ashore on Burnt Island, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly while bound from Newport for Morlaix. There was no sign of the crew or the ship's boat.[15] |
Edith Mary |
United Kingdom |
The London barque went ashore at Yarmouth. Five of the crew were saved by the rocket aparatus and five drowned.[14] |
Felix and Rosalie |
France |
The schooner foundered approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Boscastle, Cornwall while in ballast for Swansea from Trouville. Five men and a boy landed near King Arthur's Castle.[16] |
Guiding Star |
United Kingdom |
The Padstow vessel went ashore at Yarmouth with only one survivor.[17] |
Havelock |
United Kingdom |
The collier was washed on to the pier at Ryde, Isle of Wight.[14] |
John Ward |
United Kingdom |
The collier was washed on to the pier at Ryde, Isle of Wight.[14] |
Palestine |
United Kingdom |
The West Hartlepool barque was wrecked at Thorpeness, Suffolk. The crew were saved by the rocket apparatus[14] |
Rapid |
United Kingdom |
The Whitby brig went ashore at Gorleston, Norfolk. The seven crew drowned.[14] |
Restless |
United Kingdom |
The brigantine was driven ashore at Penarth.[14] |
Rhoda |
United Kingdom |
The Middlesbrough schooner went ashore at Ipswich.[14] |
Rook |
United Kingdom |
The steamer, with a cargo of coal and syrup, sank at Lookdow, near Tobermory.[14] |
Sarah Jane |
United Kingdom |
The Whitehaven three-masted schooner went ashore at Yarmouth with the lost of the mate.[14] |
Victor |
United Kingdom |
The tug was damaged by ice and sank in Leith harbour.[14] |
Unnamed |
United Kingdom |
One hundred barges sank in the Thames with considerable loss of life.[14] |
Unnamed |
United Kingdom |
Several fishing boats went ashore at Harwich.[14] |
Unnamed |
United Kingdom |
Several vessels foundered at Ryde, Isle of Wight.[14] |
Unnamed |
United Kingdom |
Several trows from Gloucester and Bristol were driven ashore.[14] |
Unnamed |
United Kingdom |
Many vessels in Brixham harbour foundered with some washed onto the streets.[14] |
Unnamed |
United Kingdom |
A vessel came ashore at Shovepoint, Walton-on-the-Naze.[18] |
19 January
List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1881
Ship | Country | Description |
Anthrodite |
Netherlands |
The Friesland brig was wrecked off Beachy Head and four of the crew drowned.[19] |
Rising Sun |
United Kingdom |
Went ashore in the River Thames. The crew were saved.[20] |
Unnamed |
|
Nine vessels were wrecked off Yarmouth and nearly fifty lives lost. Many wrecks on the coast around Harwich.[19] |
Unnamed |
|
Thirty vessels beached near Cardiff and several more reported.[21] |
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.[22] |
21 January
27 January
Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
Blyth |
United Kingdom |
The steamer ran aground on rocks at Santoria Bay. The crew survived.[27] |
Saint Jean |
France |
The barque sank, with the loss of three men, after colliding with the barque Privateer off the Isles of Scilly.[28] |
February
7 February
13 February
19 February
March
12 March
29 March
April
3 April
9 April
12 April
15 April
17 April
26 April
30 April
List of shipwrecks: 30 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
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, Canada. Approximately 182 people drowned out of a total of 600 on board.[38] |
Unknown date
June
13 June
26 June
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.[39][40] |
October
5 October
List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1881
Ship | Country | Description |
Koning der Nederlanden |
Netherlands |
The Sinking of SS Koning der Nederlanden, oil painting by J. Eden, 1881. After her drive shaft broke on 4 October, the passenger liner sank in the Indian Ocean 400 miles (640 km) off the Chagos Archipelago. Six lifeboats were launched; three were found and their occupants rescued, but the other three, with 90 passengers and crew aboard them, disappeared without trace.[41] |
14 October
18 October
List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1881
Ship | Country | Description |
Alexandre Smyers |
Belgium |
The steamer foundered off Hanstholm, Denmark. Her crew was rescued by the steamer Orlando (flag unknown).[42] |
31 October
November
22 November
List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1881
Ship | Country | Description |
Barbara |
United Kingdom |
The barque, built by the Sunderland Shipbuilding Company in 1878, departed Cardiff, Wales, for Zanzibar on 14 September 1880. During the voyage, the captain, Richard Prichard of Llanbedrog, Wales, died and the mate, John Jones, took command. On the journey back to Liverpool, Barbara docked at Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland, and Jones enlisted a channel pilot, Thomas Lewis, to steer the remaining journey to Liverpool. A series of blunders followed and it appears Lewis was not qualified. In great confusion, Barbara was steered off course in heavy seas, the anchors were deployed but dragged, and the ship drifted onto rocks at Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire, England. All 16 crew were saved except Jones, who drowned.[44] |
Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1881
Ship | Country | Description |
Henry Edye |
Belgium |
The steamer disappeared without trace after passing the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, on 22 November. She is believed to have foundered in the Atlantic Ocean on or about 27 November.[45] |
December
1 December
18 December
List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1881
Ship | Country | Description |
Tripolia |
Sweden |
The steamer ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, the Netherlands, with the loss of five lives.[47] |
Unknown date
Unknown date
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