List of shipwrecks in 1891
Appearance
The following ships were sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost in the year 1891.
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References |
January
[edit]2 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Thames | The Penzance steamer was on a voyage to London when she grounded on the Chesil Bank in thick fog.[1] |
8 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Kaffraria |
9 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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James W. Wherren | The schooner was stranded in a storm at Barrancas Light, Pensacola, Florida.[2] |
11 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Charles H. Boynton | The schooner was wrecked on Libby Island, near Machias, Maine and became a total loss. Crew made it to shore in her dories.[3] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Veteran | The schooner left Gloucester, Massachusetts on 7 January for the Georges Bank and vanished. Lost with all 12 hands.[4] |
February
[edit]3 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Senator Morgan | The schooner was wrecked at Cow Bay. Crew made it to shore.[5] |
5 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Chiswick | The 1,261-ton steamship ran aground in calm weather on the northeast ledges of the Seven Stones Reef, while bound for St Nazaire, France, with coal from Cardiff, Wales. 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.[6][7] |
6 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Hattie G. McFarland | The bark was stranded on Santa Rosa Island, Florida (30°19′N 87°18′W / 30.317°N 87.300°W).[2] |
7 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Sarah E. Lee | The schooner was wrecked at Lockeport, Nova Scotia in heavy seas, a total loss. Crew was rescued.[8] |
18 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Bruce | The sailing ship capsized in New York Harbor. She was salvaged and placed in use as a coal storage hulk. |
19 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Trignac | 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.[7] |
20 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Teresa Garnham | The ship was sailing from Valparaiso to Chiloé when she struck a rock. The crew took to her boats and reached port.[9] |
March
[edit]1 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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H.L.C. | 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-Inférieure.[10] |
9 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Dundela | The cargo ship was wrecked at "Straythe" with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal to Hull, Yorkshire.[11] |
13 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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USS Galena | While under tow by the tug USS Nina ( | |
USS Nina | While towing the steamer USS Galena ( | |
Roxburgh Castle | The 1,222-ton cargo steamer was on a voyage from Newport, Wales, to Piraeus, Greece, with a cargo of coal when she collided with the sailing ship British Peer ( |
15 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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USS Triana | The 137-foot (42 m), 450-ton tug was wrecked off the coast of Massachusetts on a sandbar off the east end of Cuttyhunk Island because of a navigational error by her crew. She sank in up to 20 feet (6.1 m) of water just west of Canapitsit Channel at 41°25′15″N 070°55′02″W / 41.42083°N 70.91722°W.[15] |
17 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Utopia | The passenger ship collided with the battleship HMS Anson ( |
19 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Bay of Panama | The full-rigged ship was driven ashore at Penare Point, Cornwall with the loss of eight lives. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Dundee, Forfarshire.[16] |
20 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Sovereign | The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire while loading coal. |
April
[edit]2 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Amicus | The barque was stranded on Flug Island Shoals hear the West Pass to Apalachicola Bay. Florida.[2] |
6 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Premier | Carrying 18 fishermen, seven crewmen, and a cargo of 350 tons of cannery supplies, the 307.69-gross register ton, 141.7-foot (43.2 m), three-masted schooner was wrecked during a snowstorm in Ramsey Bay (55°10′N 160°00′W / 55.167°N 160.000°W) in the District of Alaska on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula. All on board survived. Premier was salvaged, repaired, and returned to service.[17] |
15 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Dashing Wave | During a voyage in the District of Alaska from Sand Point to a destination identified as "Isatok" with a crew of eight and a cargo of 120 tons of general merchandise on board, the 141.46-ton 106-foot (32.3 m) schooner was wrecked without loss of life during a gale and heavy snowstorm in a location identified as "Coal Bay." This location often is equated with Coal Harbor (55°20′13″N 160°36′15″W / 55.3369°N 160.6042°W) on Unga Island in the Shumagin Islands, but it might instead be Coal Bay (55°22′N 161°22′W / 55.367°N 161.367°W) on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula. The wreck may also have occurred in Zachary Bay (55°20′44″N 160°37′54″W / 55.3455°N 160.6316°W) – often called "Coal Bay" at the time – on the coast of Unga Island, and some early reports place it somewhere in the Bering Sea, while an 1892 report places it on Hair Seal Cape – now known as Seal Cape (55°59′42″N 158°25′58″W / 55.9950°N 158.4328°W) – on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula.[17] |
19 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Lydia Skolfield | Carrying a cargo of cottonseed oil, the square-rigged ship was wrecked in fog without loss of life at Newport, Rhode Island, off Bateman's Beach, just east of Butter Ball Rock. Her wreck sank in up to 30 feet (9.1 m) of water at 41°27′31″N 071°21′41″W / 41.45861°N 71.36139°W.[18] |
23 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Blanco Encalada | 1891 Chilean Civil War: The Almirante Cochrane-class central battery ship was sunk by a torpedo gunboat in the port of Caldera, Chile. |
28 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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SS Lawrence | The 399grt collier damaged her propellor on the Mōkihinui River bar[19] and broke her back on the beach.[20] |
May
[edit]2 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Sadie F. Caller | During a voyage from San Francisco, California, to Chignik Bay, District of Alaska, carrying 158 cannery workers as passengers, a 450-ton salmon-canning outfit as cargo, and a crew of 10, the 413.81-gross register ton, 393.25-foot (119.86 m) schooner was wrecked on a sand bar whose position had shifted without the knowledge of the crew, altering the navigable channel, at the entrance to Chignik Bay Harbor (56°18′N 158°24′W / 56.300°N 158.400°W) on the Gulf of Alaska coast of the Alaska Peninsula near Chignik. The steamer Polar Bear ( |
3 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Clan Lamont | The ship ran aground and sank off Vindiloas Point, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.[22] |
17 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Martaban | The barque ran aground and was wrecked off the coast of Cuba. She was on a voyage from the Salt River, Jamaica to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.[23] |
21 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Thomas Hume | The lumber schooner sank in Lake Michigan in a squall. Lost with all 6 hands.[24][25] |
June
[edit]4 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Fayette Brown | The schooner was rammed and sunk by Northern Queen (flag unknown) in Pelee Passage in Lake Erie in 60 feet (18 m) of water. One crewman of Fayette Brown jumped aboard Northern Queen and the rest were rescued from her rigging by Robert Mills (flag unknown). The wreck was removed in 1893.[26][27][28] |
16 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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David F. Low | The schooner was wrecked at Port au Port, Newfoundland in heavy seas. Crew was rescued.[29] |
July
[edit]18 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Princesse Stephanie | The steamer was wrecked off Christiansand, Norway.[30] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Harrier |
August
[edit]27 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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John J. Whittier | The schooner was wrecked at Flower's Cove, Newfoundland. Crew was rescued.[31] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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H. A. DeWitt | The schooner was found aground and abandoned four miles (6.4 km) east of St. Andrews Bay, Florida.[2] |
September
[edit]5 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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USFC Grampus | The schooner, a fisheries research ship, was on a voyage from Hyannis to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, with U.S. Fish Commissioner Marshall McDonald and his wife and daughter, Assistant U.S. Fish Commissioner J. W. Collins, and two female guests aboard when she ran aground on L'Hommidieu Shoal in Vineyard Sound during a southeasterly storm. McDonald, Collins, McDonald's family members, and the other two women made it safely to Falmouth, Massachusetts, in a dory, and Grampus later was refloated and returned to service.[32] |
6 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Fiji | The barque was wrecked at Moonlight Head, Victoria with the loss of twelve of her 26 crew. She was on a voyage from Hamburg, Germany to Melbourne, New South Wales.[33] |
7 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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City Point | Labor Day gale: The schooner was lost with all hands.[34] | |
Paul and Essie | Labor Day gale: The schooner was wrecked at Black Point, Nova Scotia. Crew saved.[35] | |
Percy | Labor Day gale: The fishing schooner sank on the Georges Bank in a gale. Lost with all 12 crewmen.[36][37] |
13 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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John S. McQuin | The schooner was wrecked near Bath, Maine. Crew saved.[38] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Ada | The schooner disappeared on a fishing trip out of Pensacola, Florida. Lost with all five crew.[2] |
October
[edit]1 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Clytie | The schooner went ashore near Matinicus Island, bilged and sank. Crew saved.[39] |
3 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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William Lewis | While on an Arctic whaling voyage, the 463-gross register ton, 134-foot (41 m) steam bark was wrecked during a gale and snowstorm off Point Barrow, District of Alaska, when she became stranded on a snow-covered sandspit that her captain mistook for slush ice floating on the sea. The steamers Belvedere and Navarch (flags unknown) rescued her entire crew of 45. During salvage operations, the wreck of William Lewis was destroyed by an accidental fire on 20 March 1892.[40] |
10 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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USS Despatch | The steamer was wrecked without loss of life on Assateague Island off the coast of Virginia during a gale. |
13 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Ora et Labora | The brig was driven ashore and wrecked near Chesil Cove, Dorset, United Kingdom.[41] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Red Wing | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of Delaware just south of the Indian River Inlet during a gale, killing her entire crew of six.[42] |
November
[edit]9 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Maude M. Lane | The schooner barge sank 95 miles (153 km) south southwest of Pensacola, Florida.[2] |
11 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Benvenue | 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 lifeboat Mayer de Rothchild ( | |
Rappahannock | The full-rigged ship caught fire due to spontaneous combustion in her cargo of coal and was beached and burned out in Cumberland Bay, Juan Fernandez Island, Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile. The captain, his wife, two daughters, and 30 crew were eventually rescued by the government steamer Huemial ( |
15 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Minnie Davis | The schooner was sunk in a collision with the schooner Hunter Savidge ( |
22 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Samuel Mather | The wooden steam cargo ship sank after she was rammed by the steel cargo ship Brazil (flag unknown) in heavy fog in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior.[48] |
December
[edit]4 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Ogemaw | The steam barge sprung a leak and sank between Point Peninsula and Poverty Passage in 65 feet of water. Raised in 1893, rebuilt and returned to service in 1894.[49][50] |
5 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Merannio | En route for Newport from Bilbao with a cargo of 1,300 tons of iron ore, the ship hit the Seven Stones Reef, but managed to reach St Ives, Cornwall where a 10 ft (3 m) hole was found in her bow.[7] |
8 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Torbay Lass | After unloading her cargo of coal on St Michael's Mount, the Brixham schooner was under tow by the tug Merlin (flag unknown) when Merlin suffered a drop in steam pressure and Torbay Lass drifted onto the Cressars off the promenade at Penzance, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The steamship Lady of the Isles ( |
10 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Drumblair | The ship was driven ashore on Sully Island, Glamorgan. Her crew either took to the ships' boats or were rescued by the lifeboat Joseph Denman II ( |
18 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Abyssinia | The cargo liner burned and sank in Mid Atlantic Ocean, no casualties. All rescued by Spree ( |
23 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Felicete | 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-Inférieure to Swansea, Glamorgan.[10] | |
Oakland | The passenger-cargo ship ran aground on the southern breakwater at Ballina, New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. |
29 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Maggie | The sailing vessel collided with the passenger-cargo steamer Inishtrahull ( | |
Dexter Clark | The schooner sank after bottoming on Flug Island Shoals near the West Pass of Apalachicola Bay, Florida.[55] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Sarsfield | The brigantine ran aground at Rhosilli, Glamorgan, Wales, and was wrecked. All seven people on board survived.[10] | |
Sea Serpent | The clipper's crew of 17 abandoned her at sea at (46°N 40°W / 46°N 40°W) and were rescued by the barque Gulnare (flag unknown). The derelict Sea Serpent was sighted on 18 October by the barque Ardgowan (flag unknown), having drifted 1,120 miles (1,800 km) unmanned in 93 days. Sea Serpent was sighted 19 times before disappearing.[56][57][failed verification] | |
Annie | A steamer carrying wood from Sävenäs, near Skellefteä, to Sutton Bridge ran aground off Umeå due to navigational error. The ship was taken under tow but sank. The crew was rescued.[58] |
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