List of shipwrecks in 1891
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The list of shipwrecks in 1891 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1891.
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January
2 January
Ship | Country | 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
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kaffraria | ![]() |
![]() Part of the wreck of Kaffraria in March 2007. |
February
5 February
Ship | Country | 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.[2][3] |
18 February
Ship | Country | 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
Ship | Country | 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.[3] |
March
1 March
Ship | Country | 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-Atlantique.[4] |
13 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Roxburgh Castle | ![]() |
The 1222-ton cargo steamer was on a voyage from Newport to Piraeus with a cargo of coal when she collided wuth the sailing ship British Peer (![]() |
17 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Utopia | ![]() |
![]() Utopia The passenger ship collided with the battleship HMS Anson ( |
20 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sovereign | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire while loading coal. |
April
23 April
Ship | Country | 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. |
May
3 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Clan Lamont | ![]() |
The ship ran aground and sank off Vindiloas Point, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.[6] |
July
18 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Princesse Stephanie | ![]() |
The steamer was wrecked off Christiansand, Norway.[7] |
September
5 September
Ship | Country | 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.[8] |
October
10 October
Ship | Country | 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
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ora et Labora | ![]() |
The brig was driven ashore and wrecked near Chesil Cove, Dorset, United Kingdom.[9] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | 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.[10] |
November
11 November
Ship | Country | 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 (![]() |
22 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Samuel Mather | ![]() |
The wooden steam cargo ship sank after she was rammed by the steel cargo ship Brazil in heavy fog in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior. |
December
5 December
Ship | Country | 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.[3] |
8 December
Ship | Country | 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
Ship | Country | 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 (![]() |
23 December
Ship | Country | 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-Atlantique to Swansea, Glamorgan.[4] |
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
Ship | Country | Description |
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Maggie | ![]() |
The sailing vessel collided with the passenger-cargo steamer Inishtrahull (![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sarsfield | ![]() |
The brigantine ran aground at Rhosilli, Glamorgan, Wales, and was wrecked. All seven people on board survived.[4] |
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.[14][15] |
References
- ↑ Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance: a history. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
- ↑ Liddiard, John. "Seven Stones". Retrieved 19 February 2012.
- 1 2 3 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
- 1 2 3 4 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ↑ The Blizzard in the West. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1891.
- ↑ "SS Clan Lamont (+1891)".
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ↑ Fisheries Historical Timeline: Historical Highlights 1890's
- ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ Anonymous, Shipwrecks of the Mid-Atlantic: Maryland, Delaware & Southern New Jersey (poster), Sealake Products USA, undated.
- ↑ Bignell, Alan (2001). Kent Shipwrecks (Second ed.). Newbury: Countryside Books. ISBN 1 85306 719 9.
- ↑ Larn, R. and Larn, B. (1991) Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
- ↑ "Board of Trade Wreck Report for 'Maggie' and 'Inishtrahull', 1891". Board of Trade. 19 January 1892. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
- ↑ Crothers, William L. (1997). The American-Built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856: Characteristics, Construction, Details. Camden, ME: International Marine. pp. xvii, 342, 502, etc. ISBN 0-07-014501-6.
- ↑ State Street Trust Company; Walton Advertising and Printing Company, Boston. (1913). Some ships of the clipper ship era, Their builders, owners, and captains. Boston, MA: Printed for the State Street Trust Company. p. 18. Cite uses deprecated parameter
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Ship events in 1891 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 |
Ship commissionings: | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 |
Shipwrecks: | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 |
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