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The list of shipwrecks in 1888 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1888.

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1888
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January[]

13 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1888
Ship Country Description
Milan Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Overton, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued by the Port Eynon Lifeboat or rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, to Alexandria, Egypt.[1]

21 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1888
Ship Country Description
Switserland Flag of Belgium (civil) Belgium The steamer collided with the steamer La Gascogne (flag unknown) in the Atlantic Ocean off New York City, United States, and holed. She put into New York for repairs and later returned to service.[2]

February[]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date February 1888
Ship Country Description
Eastminster Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The full-rigged ship disappeared with the loss of all on board after ignoring a pilot′s warnings and departing Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, bound for Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, on 17 February in deteriorating weather. She presumably sank in a tropical cyclone that struck the area soon afterward. Her wreckage was found on a coral reef in the Capricorn and Bunker Group in the Coral Sea approximately 100 nautical miles (185 km) east of Rockhampton, Queensland.

March[]

8 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1888
Ship Country Description
Lanoma Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The barque was driven ashore and wrecked near Fleet, Dorset with the loss of twelve of her eighteen crew.[3]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date March 1888
Ship Country Description
Levant Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The South Shields steamship, built of iron at Hartlepool, England, in 1865, disappeared with the loss of her entire crew of 15 after departing Penarth, Wales, bound for Oporto, Portugal, on 24 March with a cargo of coal. A Board of Trade report on her loss did not speculate on its cause, but she may have been overloaded.[4]

April[]

13 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1888
Ship Country Description
Yorouba Flag of France France The ship was on a voyage to Le Havre, France, when she hit a rock west of Guernsey in the Channel Islands in fog and sank 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) from shore and 7 nautical miles (13 km) from Les Hanois Lighthouse. All passengers and crew were saved.[5][6]

16 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1888
Ship Country Description
Vena Flag of Belgium (civil) Belgium The steamer sank in the North Sea following a collision with another ship.[2]

27 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1888
Ship Country Description
Ellengowan Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The schooner-rigged screw steamer sank at her moorings, unmanned, at Port Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, and was abandoned.

May[]

8 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1888
Ship Country Description
Henry Edmunds Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The brigantine was wrecked at Overton, Glamorgan. Her crew survived.[1]

17 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1888
Ship Country Description
Jeune Hortense Flag of France France The schooner was wrecked at Long Rock, Cornwall, England.[7] The Penzance lifeboat, having been brought by carriage to the beach near Marazion, rescued four of her crew.[8]
Otto Flag unknown The ship was stranded in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England. She was salvaged and later was renamed Providence and operated out of Penzance.[9]
Nulli Secundus Flag of the German Empire German Empire The brigantine was stranded in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England. Under the name Tobaco, she previously had been stranded on the Eastern Green in Mount's Bay in 1865.[9]

June[]

30 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1888
Ship Country Description
Alhambra Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The screw steamer collided with the derelict steamer John T. Berry (US flag 38 stars United States), which she was trying to salvage, and sank off Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The steamer Tasmania (Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) rescued her crew. The steamer Thetis (Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) later sank John T. Berry as a danger to navigation.

July[]

17 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1888
Ship Country Description
Beaver US flag 38 stars United States The steamer was wrecked on rocks at Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The partially stripped wreck sank in July 1892 when struck by the wake of the passing steamer Yosemite.

August[]

22 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1888
Ship Country Description
City of Chester US flag 38 stars United States
"City of Chester" Hit and Sunk By "Oceanic"

A painting of SS City of Chester (right) sinking after colliding with RMS Oceanic (left).

The passenger ship was in collision with RMS Oceanic (Government Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) in San Francisco Bay and sank with the loss of sixteen lives. She was on a voyage from San Francisco to Eureka, California[10]

September[]

13 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1888
Ship Country Description
Sud America I Flag of Italy (1861-1946) Italy The ocean liner was sunk in a collision with the collier France (Flag of France France) in the bay at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, with the loss of 79 lives.

19 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1888
Ship Country Description
Lota Flag of Chile Chile The frigate foundered in the Pacific Ocean 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) off an unspecified "Palmer Island," possibly an island west of Fiji. Her two survivors came ashore on the island, where one died in 1890 and the other finally was rescued by a German ship in 1893.

26 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1888
Ship Country Description
Fleetwing Flag of the United States United States The schooner was wrecked on a rocky beach in Lake Michigan off Liberty Grove, Wisconsin, during a gale and eventually sank.

November[]

21 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1888
Ship Country Description
Atalanta Flag of Russia Russian Empire The steamer ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, South Holland, the Netherlands, with the loss of six lives.[11]

25 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1888
Ship Country Description
Estrella de Chile Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The barque ran aground in the Solway Firth with the loss of one of her fifteen crew. Survivors were rescued by the Maryport Lifeboat.

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknwn date November 1888
Ship Country Description
Vaitarna Flag unknown The schooner-rigged passenger steamer disappeared in a storm in the Arabian Sea with the loss of all 746 people on board sometime after she was last sighted off Mangrol, India, on 8 November.

December[]

9 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1888
Ship Country Description
Yaquina Bay Flag of the United States United States
Caracas wreck

Yaquina Bay

The passenger steamer broke her tow and ran aground in Yaquina Bay at Newport, Oregon. She was declared a total loss.

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1888
Ship Country Description
Anna Delius Norge-Unionsflagg-1844 Norway The barque was abandoned in the North Atlantic. Crew rescued by Deutschland (Flag of the German Empire German Empire) and later transferred to Pieter de Coninck (Flag of Belgium (civil) Belgium) which landed them at Boston, United States.[2]
Star of Greece Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The full-rigged ship was wrecked off Port Willunga, South Australia with the loss of seventeen lives.[12]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf. Retrieved 20 December 2014. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Belgian Merchant P-Z". Belgische Koopvaardij. http://www.belgischekoopvaardij.net/belgian%20Merchant%20%20P-Z.pdf. Retrieved 1 December 2010. [dead link]
  3. "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. http://www.burtonbradstock.org.uk/History/Wrecks%20off%20Burton%20Bradstock/Historical%20list%20of%20wrecks.htm. Retrieved 27 December 2014. 
  4. plimsoll.org
  5. "Yorouba [+1888 document"]. wrecksite.eu. http://www.wrecksite.eu/docBrowser.aspx?2279?5?1. 
  6. Dufiel, Yves (2008) (in French). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche. 
  7. Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". pp. 14–16 
  8. Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 18
  9. 9.0 9.1 Carter, C. (1998). The Port of Penzance: a history. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications. 
  10. "USA: City of Chester’s Wreck Rediscovered". World Maritime News. http://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/121937/usa-city-of-chesters-wreck-rediscovered/. Retrieved 24 April 2014. 
  11. "Reddingsstation Ouddorp". KNRM. http://www.knrm.nl/waar-wij-zijn/reddingstations/ouddorp/historie. Retrieved 22 March 2012. 
  12. "Star of Greece". The Yard. http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=57. Retrieved 18 February 2017. 
Ship events in 1888
Ship launches: 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
Ship commissionings: 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
Ship decommissionings: 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
Shipwrecks: 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
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