List of shipwrecks in 1875

The list of shipwrecks in 1875 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1875.

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1875
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Surprize	United Kingdom	The pilot cutter foundered in the Bristol Channel off Ilfracombe, Devon. Two crew were rescued by the schooner Britannia ( Sweden).[1]

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Britannia	Sweden	The schooner ran aground at Port Eynon, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[1]

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Marie Reine	France	The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[2]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Georgia	Canada	The steamship foundered off Maine, United States.

February

14 February

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Floresta	United Kingdom	The 299 ton Sunderland barque grounded on the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall in fog and quickly sank; her crew of ten were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the St Malo lugger Josephine.[3]

16 February

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1875

Ship	Country	Description
SS Havre	United Kingdom	the LSWR Channel Packet from Southampton, founders on Platte Boue rock, 92 survivors. Passengers put ashore on Amfroque; wreck found lying across that of the PSS Waverley ( United Kingdom), which had hit the same rock in 1873.[4] [5] [6]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Gothenburg	United Kingdom	The McMerkan, Blackwood and Co. owned steamship foundered off the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. At least nine-eight lives lost.

March

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Columbus	United States	She was accidentally rammed and sunk by White Star Line ship SS Adriatic in the Crosby Channel at Liverpool. Accident occurred on the 9th March 1875

May

7 May

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Schiller	Germany	The German Transatlantic Steam Navigation Line owned ocean liner ran aground in fog on the Retarrier Ledges, Isles of Scilly, with the loss of 335 lives.[7]

June

13 June

List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Geffrard	Australia	The Fred Davis (Melbourne) owned brig run aground on a sandbank after the anchor chain parted off Quindalup, Western Australia.[8]

24 June

List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Caroline Phillips	United Kingdom	The schooner was wrecked on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all four crew.[1]

July

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Forfait	French Navy	An artist′s impression of Forfait sinking. The screw corvette sank without loss of life in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the east coast of Corsica after colliding with the ironclad central battery ship Jeanne d'Arc ( French Navy) during naval exercises.[9]

August

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Comet	United States	The W. M. Hanna and George W. Chapin (Cleveland, Ohio) owned commercial wooden propeller collided with the Manitoba at Whitefish Bay of Lake Superior. Ten lives were lost.

September

Ellen Southard.

1 September

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Vanguard	United Kingdom	The Royal Navy Audacious class battleship sunk after a collision with HMS Iron Duke near Kish Bank, Ireland.

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Ellen Southard	United States	The TJ Southard (Maine) owned Full-rigged ship was wrecked in a hurricane at the mouth of the River Mersey, Liverpool. Twenty-seven first class gold Lifesaving Medals awarded by the United States Congress to the local lifeboat men.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Edith	United Kingdom	The London and North Western Railway owned paddle steamer sunk after a collision with the paddle steamer Duchess of Sutherland off Holyhead, Wales. She was salvaged in 1877, rebuilt and returned to service.[10]

October

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Cornelia	Belgium	The Trawler was struck by Khedive and sunk in the River Scheldt, near Bath, Netherlands.[11]Khedive was undergoing sea trials prior to delivery.

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Magenta	French Navy	An accidental nighttime galley fire aboard the Magenta-class broadside ironclad while she was in port at Toulon, France, spread out of control and reached her after ammunition magazine, causing her to explode and sink 2 hours 55 minutes after the fire broke out.[12]

November

6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Pacific	United States	The Paddle steamer sunk after being in collision with Orpheus (flag unknown) off Cape Flattery, United States. At least 318 lives lost.

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Alberta	United Kingdom	The schooner foundered off Cardigan. Her crew survived.[13]

9 November

List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1875

Ship	Country	Description
City of Waco	United States	The Mallory Line (New York) Steamship sunk after a fire aboard off Galveston, Texas. 56 lives were lost.

19 November

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Johanna Antoinette	Netherlands	The three-masted schooner was lost off Cardigan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[13]
Saladin	Netherlands	The two-masted schooner was wrecked at Cardigan.[13]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Foscolo	Kingdom of Italy	The 452 ton ship from Naples struck the Seven Stones Reef while bound from Montevideo for Dundee with scrap iron and bones. She managed to reach Crow Bar in the Isles of Scilly and sank in the shallows. She was later salvaged and raised.[3]

December

6 December

Deutschland.

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Deutschland	Germany	The Norddeutscher Lloyd Steamship ran aground on Kentish Knock sandbank. 78 lives were lost.

22 December

List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1875

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Goliath	Royal Navy	The Vanguard-class ship of the line was destroyed by fire at Grays, Essex. Twenty-three of her crew were killed.
Jenny	Russia	The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Pilton, Devon, United Kingdom and was wrecked. Her cew survived. She was on a voyage from Pensacola, Florida, United States to Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.[1]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Khedive	Belgium	The A Smyers & Co. owned cargo ship ran aground off Ameland, Netherlands. She was on her maiden voyage. She was eventually refloated on 31 December and towed to London by Cambria. Repaired and returned to service.[11]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Harvest Queen	United States	The packet ship of the Black Ball Line sank in a collision with the steamer SS Adriatic in St George's Channel, Irish Sea.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875

Ship	Country	Description
Dunbrody	United Kingdom	The barque foundered off Labrador, Canada.

References

1. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
2. "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
3. Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
4. cite web |url=http://www.rnli.org.gg/lifeboat-timeline/lifeboat-timeline-1803-1899/ |title=1875
5. cite |title=Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche |published=2008 |author=YvesDufiel
6. "WRECKS of the _Havre_, off Guernsey". The Times. 17 February 1875. p. 5d.
7. "Museum News". Scilly Up To Date. April 1999. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
8.  Inquiry into the shipwreck of 'Geffrard'. Busselton, Western Australia: Court of Inquiry. Wikisource. 1875. 
9. dawlishchronicles.blogspot.com The ramming of the Forfait by the Jeanne d’Arc, 1875
10. "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
11. "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
12. Gardiner, Robert, ed., Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 287.
13. "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.

Ship events in 1875
Ship launches:	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880
Ship commissionings:	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880
Ship decommissionings:	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880
Shipwrecks:	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880