List of shipwrecks in 1892

The list of shipwrecks in 1892 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1892.

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1892
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Unknown date

January

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1892

Ship	Country	Description
USRC Gallatin	United States Revenue Cutter Service	Also known as USRC Albert Gallatin, the revenue cutter was wrecked on Boo Hoo Ledge in the Atlantic Ocean off Manchester, Maine, United States. Her wreck is located at 42°33′50″N 70°44′52″W / 42.56389°N 70.74778°W

8 January

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Namchow	China	The steamer foundered off Cupchi Point.[1]

February

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Messina	German Empire	The cargo steamer foundered off the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom on passage Cardiff for Marseille with coal. Only one survivor.[2]

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Tunisie	France	The ship was driven ashore on Lundy Island, Devon, United Kingdom. Her 21 crew were rescued.[3]

March

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1892

Ship	Country	Description
County of Salop	United Kingdom	The steamer was wrecked at Wanson Mouth near Bude, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[4]

May

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Christiana	United Kingdom	The smack ran aground and was wrecked at Cardigan. Her two crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Caernarfon to Llangrannog, Glamorgan.[5]

5 May

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Frascati	Germany	The steamer ran aground at Cape Town, South Africa. Later refloated and returned to service.[1]

June

22 June

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1892

Ship	Country	Description
City of Chicago	United Kingdom	The passenger ship ran aground off the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. All on board, including 1,100 passengers, were rescued. She broke up and sank a few days later.[6]
Fred B. Taylor	Canada	The wooden sailing ship was cut in two by the steamer Trave ( Germany) in the Atlantic Ocean 100 nautical miles (190 km) south east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States, with the loss of two of her 21 crew. The survivors were rescued by Trave. The stern section came ashore at Wells, Maine, United States on 7 August. The bow section was last sighted off the coast of North Carolina, United States, in late August.[7]

July

1 July

List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Ella Moore	Canada	Ella Moore. The barque ran aground near Canso, Nova Scotia. She was later refloated, repaired and returned to service.[8]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date July 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Beaver	Canada	The partially stripped wreck of the steamer, aground on rocks at Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, since 17 July 1888, sank after being struck by the wake of the passing steamer Yosemite.

August

30 August

List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Western Reserve	United States	The lake freighter suffered a structural failure, broke in two, and sank in Lake Superior with the loss of 31 lives. There was one survivor.

September

8 September

List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Charles W. Wetmore	United States	The whaleback steam cargo ship ran aground at Coos Bay, Oregon, and was abandoned.

17 September

List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Vienna	United States	The steamer was accidentally rammed by the steamer Nipigon ( Canada) and sank in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior.

October

1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Camiola	United Kingdom	Despite warning signals from the Sevenstones Lightship, the Newcastle steamer struck the Seven Stones Reef at full speed and quickly sank; all of her crew managed to get into the ship's two boats. She was carrying 3,400 tons of coal from Cardiff to Naples,[9] or Barry Docks to Malta.[10]

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Sirene	Norway	The barque was wrecked alongside North Pier at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, during a storm. Her entire crew of 11 survived by jumping onto the pier.

28-29 October

List of shipwrecks: 28-29 October 1892

Ship	Country	Description
W. H. Gilcher	United States	The lake freighter disappeared during the night of 28-29 October in Lake Michigan somewhere near North Manitou Island with the loss of her entire crew, variously reported as 18 or 22 men.

November

8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Watergeus	United Kingdom	The steamer sank after a collision in Shanghai harbour.[1]

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Abbey Town	Sweden	The three-masted sailing ship, previously called Ida, was wrecked in Perelle Bay on the west coast of Guernsey in the Channel Islands during a voyage from Raine Island to Granville, Manche, with a cargo of guano.[11][12][13]

30 November

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Chishima	Imperial Japanese Navy	The unprotected cruiser sank after a collision in Seto Inland Sea with P&O merchant vessel Ravenna ( United Kingdom) with the loss of 90 lives.

December

9 December

List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Duke	United Kingdom	During a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Cardigan, the schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Cemaes Head, Cardiganshire, Wales. Her crew were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[5]

18 December

List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Bokhara	United Kingdom	The steam passenger ship struck a reef in the Taiwan Strait off Sand Island in the Pescadores during a typhoon and foundered with the loss of 125 of the 150 people on board. She was on a voyage from Shanghai, China, to Hong Kong.

20 December

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1892

Ship	Country	Description
Nubian	United Kingdom	The passenger-cargo steamer sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Lisbon, Portugal.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date

Ship	Country	Description
Danube	United Kingdom	The sailing ship disappeared during a voyage from Guadeloupe to New York City.

References

1. "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
2. "Wrecks and Casualties". Liverpool Mercury (13784). 10 March 1892. p. 3.
3. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
4. Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 31
5. "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
6. "Shipwrecked". Kilbrittain. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
7. "Wreck of the Fred B. Taylor on Wells Beach". SoMeOldNews. 8 October 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
8. "Ella Moore - 1892". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
9. Noall, Cyril (1968). Cornish Lights and Shipwrecks. Truro: D. Bradford Barton.
10. Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
11. "Ida (ex-Abbey Town) [+1892]". www.wrecksite.eu.
12. Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
13. Dafter, Ray. Guernsey wrecks. Matfield Books. p. 105. ISBN 0-9540595-0-6.

Ship events in 1892
Ship launches:	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897
Ship commissionings:	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897
Ship decommissionings:	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897
Shipwrecks:	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897