List of shipwrecks in 1880

The list of shipwrecks in 1880 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1880.

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1880
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec

January

21 January 1880

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Lady Kinnaird  United Kingdom The three masted barque which was built in 1877 at Dundee, Scotland by Brown & Simpson for W.B. Ritchie, was lost after running aground in Spencer Gulf south of Cape Burr on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia early on 21 January 1880.[1]

February

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Corea  United States The barque ran aground on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel, Her crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat. Corea was later refloated and taken in to Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[2]

25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Resurgam II  United Kingdom sank in Liverpool Bay whilst under tow, no casualties.

26 February

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Bessie Jones  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked off Blackpool, one person lost, three crew saved.[3]

March

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1880
Ship Country Description
Montana  United Kingdom The Guion Line steamship was wrecked on the coast of North Wales on 14 March 1880, not far from Anglesey where her sister ship, the Dakota, had been wrecked three years before. There was no loss of life.[4]

16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1880
Ship Country Description
SS Rontegui  France Carrying wine, ran aground on rocks off N coast of Guernsey Channel Islands.[5] [6]

April

List of shipwrecks: April 1880
Ship Country Description
Mercator  Belgium departed Antwerp for New York, United States. A lifeboat was recovered by Chateaubriand ( France) on 19 June.[7]

June

11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1880
Ship Country Description
Narragansett  United States burned and sunk in a collision with her sister ship Stonington ( United States) at night in heavy fog in Long Island Sound. Approximately 50 lives lost.

August

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Tidy  United Kingdom The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked in Broughton Bay. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Portland, Dorset to Llanelli, Glamorgan.[2]

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Hetty Taylor  United States She was a schooner that encountered a squall and sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Sheboygan, Wisconsin.[8] In 2005, the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[9] There were no casualties.

September

13 September

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Covadonga  Chile sunk by a mine at Chancay, Peru. Thirty three crew killed, forty eight taken prisoner.

October

15 October

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Alpena  United States sank in Lake Michigan, at least 80 killed.

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Lifeboat Eliza Adams Royal National Lifeboat Institution capsized whilst attempting a rescue. Eleven crew killed.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1880
Ship Country Description
Jane  United Kingdom The lugger was swamped by heavy seas, off Penzance, Cornwall, UK during a SSE hurricane force gale.[10]

November

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1880
Ship Country Description
Ottawa  United Kingdom wrecked, Cape La Roche on maiden voyage, no lives lost, 3,712 tons[11]

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1880
Ship Country Description
Pet  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Talbot, Glamorgan. Her five crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "The wreck of the Barque Lady Kinnaird". The South Australian Register. 26 January 1880. p. 5. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Shipwreck Gallery". Blackpool Gazette. 25 February 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "SS Montana (+1880)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  5. ↑ cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?2876 |title=SS Rontegui [+1880] document |publisher=wrecksite.eu
  6. ↑ cite |title=Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche |published=2008 |author=YvesDufiel
  7. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  8. ↑ "Introduction". Wisconsin Shipwrecks.org. Retrieved 2013-06-05.
  9. ↑ "Hetty Taylor (shipwreck)". Landmark Hunter.com. Retrieved 2013-06-05.
  10. ↑ Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications. ISBN 0-9533028-0-6.
  11. ↑ http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/dominion.shtml

See also

Ship events in 1880
Ship launches: 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885
Ship commissionings: 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885
Ship decommissionings: 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885
Shipwrecks: 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885
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