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List of shipwrecks in 1897

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The list of shipwrecks in 1897 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1897.

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1897
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
Unknown date

January[]

2 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1897
Ship Country Description
Commodore  United States The steamboat was wrecked off the coast of Florida with the loss of one life.

14 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1897
Ship Country Description
RIMS Warren Hastings  Royal Navy
RIMS Warren Hastings sketch

A sketch depicting the wreck of the RIMS Warren Hastings, published by the Dundee Courier on 24 March 1897.

The troopship was wrecked off the coast of Réunion with the loss of two lives.

February[]

2 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1897
Ship Country Description
Imbros  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The steamship ran aground on the Helwick Bank, in the Bristol Channel. She was subsequently refloated and beached at The Mumbles, Glamorgan.[1]

12 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1897
Ship Country Description
Rapid  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The ketch ran aground and was wrecked at Cardigan.[2]

March[]

2 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1897
Ship Country Description
Cyril  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Ketch registered Falmouth official number 62042 missing in Bristol Channel, Captain master mariner Thomas G. R. Cooper, also his son aged 17, Norman Copper, both of Middle Terrace, Falmouth

April[]

5 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1897
Ship Country Description
Assaye  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The cargo ship was wrecked on Blonde Rock, off Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.[3]

7 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1897
Ship Country Description
James and Agnes  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The schooner struck the Scarweather Sands, in the Bristol Channel and was consequently beached in Black Rock Bay. Her five crew were rescued.[1]

16 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1897
Ship Country Description
Ibex  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The GWR-owned ship struck the Noirmontaise rocks off Jersey, Channel Islands and was beached in Portlet Bay, Jersey. She was refloated and re-entered service.

29 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1897
Ship Country Description
Ada  New South Wales The ketch was wrecked at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1897
Ship Country Description
Barga  Belgium The steamer was declared missing, having departed Huelva, Spain, for Antwerp, Belgium, on 30 March.[4]

May[]

1 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1897
Ship Country Description
Ability  New South Wales The ketch was driven ashore along with four other ships at Cape Hawke Bay, Australia, during a storm.

3 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1897
Ship Country Description
Bruxelles  Belgium The steamer ran aground on St. Pierre Island, Seychelles, a total loss.[4]

June[]

12 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1897
Ship Country Description
Gangut  Imperial Russian Navy The coast defense ship struck an uncharted rock and sank in the Gulf of Finland.

16 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1897
Ship Country Description
HMS Foudroyant  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
File:HMS Foudroyant wreck.jpg

HMS Foudroyant

The training ship was driven ashore at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, and wrecked.

July[]

5 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1897
Ship Country Description
Heathmore  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The Liverpool steamer ran into the Seven Stones Reef at full speed while en route from Santander to Glasgow with 2,400 tons of iron-ore. She floated clear at 8 am and anchored two miles away with the crew pumping water all day. By evening they took to the boats and were picked up by the Lady of the Isles as Heathmore sank in 40 fathoms (73 m).[5]

20 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1897
Ship Country Description
Concha  Belgium The steamer collided with Saint Fillans ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) off the Owers Lightship, English Channel and sank.[4]

26 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1897
Ship Country Description
Advance  New South Wales While anchored off New South Wales, Australia, in Botany Bay at the entrance to Cooks River, the schooner was driven ashore on Lady Robinsons Beach during a fierce squall after her port anchor chain parted and she dragged her starboard anchor chain. She was refloated, repaired, and returbed to service.

August[]

9 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1897
Ship Country Description
Oakland  New South Wales The passenger cargo ship ran aground on the bar at Ballina, New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

September[]

29 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1897
Ship Country Description
HMS Lynx  Royal Navy The Ferret-class destroyer ran aground on Dodman Point, Cornwall, England, in fog. She managed to refloat herself and limped to Devonport.[6]
HMS Thrasher  Royal Navy The Quail-class destroyer ran aground on Dodman Point, Cornwall, England, in fog. She was escorted to Falmouth, Cornwall, and eventually made it to Devonport for repairs.[6]

October[]

16 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1897
Ship Country Description
Pelican  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The steamer was last sighted on this date. She then disappeared.[4]

November[]

23 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1897
Ship Country Description
Flirt  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Burton Bradstock, Dorset with the loss of three of her six crew.[7]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1897
Ship Country Description
Innisfallen  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The ship sank in a storm in the English Channel near the Goodwin Sands with the loss of eight lives.

December[]

2 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1897
Ship Country Description
Friend to all Nations  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The Margate surfboat capsized with the loss of nine of her 13 crew.[8] She was going to the assistance of Persian Empire ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland).[9]
Persian Empire  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The ship collided with a steamship and was beached on the Margate Sands, Kent. Her crew were rescued by the lifeboat Quiver ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution.[9]
Prince Albert de Belgique  Belgium The steamer collided at Antwerp, Belgium, with the sailing ship Larnaca ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) and sank. She was raised on 6 July 1900.[10]

30 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1897
Ship Country Description
Clarissa Radcliffe  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The 2,544 grt steamer was on a voyage from Odessa to Rotterdam with a cargo of grain. The vessel met a gale off Cape St Vincent, the cargo shifted and the vessel sank with the loss of sixteen lives.

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1897
Ship Country Description
Margaret and Mary ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) The Welsh schooner from Port Dinorwic was lost at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall.[11]

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 21 December 2014. 
  2. ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. http://www.glen-johnson.co.uk/cardigan-district-shipwrecks-and-lifeboat-service/. Retrieved 1 February 2015. 
  3. ↑ "Assaye". The Yard. http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=239. Retrieved 19 February 2017. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Belgian Merchant A-G". Belgische Koopvaardij. http://www.belgischekoopvaardij.net/belgian%20merchant%20A-G%2023.5.04.pdf. Retrieved 1 October 2010. 
  5. ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Bad day for trio of destroyers". 29 March 2006. http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/in_port/717176.Bad_day_for_trio_of_destroyers/. Retrieved 28 January 2014. 
  7. ↑ "Extract from The Burton and Shipton Gorge Parish Magazine Vol XXVlll December 1898". Burton Bradstock Online. http://www.burtonbradstock.org.uk/History/Wrecks%20off%20Burton%20Bradstock/The%20wreck%20Flirt..htm. Retrieved 27 December 2014. 
  8. ↑ Bob Ogley, Ian Currie and Mark Davison (1991). The Kent Weather Book. Brasted Chart: Froglets Publications Ltd. pp. 22. ISBN 1-872337-35-X. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Bignell, Alan (2001). Kent Shipwrecks (Second ed.). Newbury: Countryside Books. ISBN 1 85306 719 9. 
  10. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z". Belgische Koopvaardij. http://www.belgischekoopvaardij.net/belgian%20Merchant%20%20P-Z.pdf. Retrieved 1 December 2010. [dead link]
  11. ↑ Historic England. "Margaret and Mary (1113577)". PastScape. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1113577 


Ship events in 1897
Ship launches: 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902
Ship commissionings: 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902
Ship decommissionings: 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902
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