List of shipwrecks in 1887

The list of shipwrecks in 1887 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1887.

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1887
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1887
Ship Country Description
Nor  Norway The schooner-rigged steamship was wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[1]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1887
Ship Country Description
SV Ella  Sweden The Swedish wooden barque Ella, built in 1851, on voyage from Gothenburg to Liverpool with a cargo of pit props, was lost after running aground in Belgrave Bay (Belle Grève), Guernsey Channel islands. There were no casualties.[2] [3]

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1887
Ship Country Description
Bolina  United Kingdom The Caernarvon schooner was carrying slate from Portmadoc to London and sank off the south coast of Gugh during an easterly gale.[4]

16 January

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1887
Ship Country Description
Caterina  Italy The barque was wrecked on the Nash sands, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all thirteen people on board.[5]

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1887
Ship Country Description
Argus  United Kingdom The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Llangenneth, Glamorgan. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Lannion, Côtes du Nord, France to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[5]

20 January

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1887
Ship Country Description
Kapunda  United Kingdom Emigrant ship out of London, collided with the barque Ada Melmore (flag unknown) off Brazil. Ship sunk, 299 lives lost.[6]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1887
Ship Country Description
Ribble  United Kingdom The ship was in collision with Coniston Fell ( United Kingdom in the Bristol Channel and sank with the loss of two of her seven crew. Survivors were rescued by Wolverhampton II ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Coniston Fell was beached at The Mumbles, Glamorgan.[5]

29 January

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1887
Ship Country Description
PSS Brighton  United Kingdom Sailing from Weymouth to Guernsey Channel Islands the ship was travelling faster than they thought and hit a rock, in fog, north of Guernsey causing the ship to founder. there was no loss of life. [7] [8]

February

1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1887
Ship Country Description
Brigantine Hermes  United Kingdom Foundered off Île Vierge, France.[9]

March

22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1887
Ship Country Description
Prophete Elie  France The brig was driven ashore at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew survived.[5]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1887
Ship Country Description
City of Exeter  United Kingdom The steamship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, Devon with the loss of sixteen of her nineteen crew.[5]

May

19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1887
Ship Country Description
Celtic  United Kingdom Collided with Britannic ( United Kingdom) 350 nautical miles (650 km) east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States. Both ships damaged, 12 people killed on board Britannic. Both ships escorted to New York.

June

8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1887
Ship Country Description
Castleford  United Kingdom Struck the Crebawethans, Isles of Scilly in dense fog, and led to some of her cargo of 450 cattle being landed on Annet and staying there for up to ten days.[10] Some of the cattle were shipped to Falmouth, Cornwall and dead steers were later washed up as far as Penzance and Lelant.[11]

July

9 July

List of shipwrecks: 9 July 1887
Ship Country Description
Barremann  United Kingdom The Glasgow sailing ship hit the Pollard Rock within the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall with the loss of all of the twenty-seven crew. The 1400 ton ship was on voyage from South Shields to San Francisco with coal, pig-iron and cement.[12]

August

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1887
Ship Country Description
Jane Sophia  United Kingdom The crew of the Plymouth schooner was saved after she sank following a collision with the steamer Zenobia near the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall.[11]

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1887
Ship Country Description
King George  United Kingdom The trawler struck the Black Rocks and sank in West Bay, Dorset.[1]

September

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1887
Ship Country Description
Four-masted ship Earl of Jersey  United Kingdom Ran aground in the Chittagong River, India and declared a total loss.[13]

October

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1887
Ship Country Description
Barque Mary Blundell  United Kingdom Caught fire in the Yarra River, Victoria.[14]

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1887
Ship Country Description
Kameruka  United Kingdom Illawarra & South Coast Steam Navigation Co's 515 GRT steamship was wrecked on Pedro Rocks, Moruya Heads, New South Wales.[15]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1887
Ship Country Description
Cheviot  Victoria Ran aground in Port Philip Bay and wrecked with the loss of thirty-five lives.

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1887
Ship Country Description
Schooner Ada and Ethel  New South Wales Wrecked 10 nautical miles (19 km) south of Seal Rocks.

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1887
Ship Country Description
Schooner Flower of May  United Kingdom Foundered in Morecambe Bay, three crew rescued.[16]

November

1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1887
Ship Country Description
Happy Go Lucky  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore on the Isle of Whithorn, Dumfriesshire.[17]
Helvetia  Norway The barque was wrecked in Rhossili Bay. A crew member was rescued by breeches buoy, the rest taking to the ships' boat. She was on a voyage from Campbeltown, New Brunswick, Canada to Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[5]
Robert Preston  United Kingdom the brigantine was driven ashore on the Isle of Whithorn.[17]

16 November

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1887
Ship Country Description
Schooner Tom Roberts  United Kingdom Foundered off Ballaugh, Isle of Man. All four crew saved.[18]

December

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1887
Ship Country Description
Brighouse  United Kingdom The 604 ton iron steamer hit the Seven Stones Reef in fog. Her crew took to the lifeboats and had to stay for two weeks on the Sevenstones Lightship. Brighouse was on passage from Bordeaux to Cardiff with pitwood.[11]

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1887
Ship Country Description
Schooner Alice Fisher  United Kingdom Foundered in the Crosby Channel, Mersey Estuary.[19]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1887
Ship Country Description
Clipper Hallowe'en  United Kingdom Wrecked off Salcombe, Devon.

References

  1. 1 2 "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "SV Ella [+1887]". wrecksite.eu.
  3. ↑ Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
  4. ↑ Larn, Richard (1971). Cornish Shipwrecks – The Isles of Scilly. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Great Disaster At Sea Loss Of Two Or Three Hundred Lives". Illustrated London News. February 5, 1887. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
  7. ↑ "PSS Brighton [+1887] document". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 Aug 2015.
  8. ↑ "Wreck Report for 'Brighton', 1887] document". plimsoll.org.
  9. ↑ "Hermes". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  10. ↑ Gurney (1889) "Notes on the Isles of Scilly and the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus anglorum)"; Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. In: Parslow, R. (2007) The Isles of Scilly. London: HarperCollins
  11. 1 2 3 Larn, Richard (1992). Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  12. ↑ Noall, Cyril (1968). Cornish Lights and Shipwrecks. Truro: D. Bradford Barton.
  13. ↑ "Earl of Jersey". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  14. ↑ "Mary Blundell". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  15. ↑ Cameron, Stuart; Biddulph, Bruce; Robinson, George. "SS Bega". Clydebuilt Database. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  16. ↑ "Flower of May". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  17. 1 2 "Robert Preston". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  18. ↑ "Tom Roberts". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  19. ↑ "Alice Fisher". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
Ship events in 1887
Ship launches: 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892
Ship commissionings: 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892
Ship decommissionings: 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892
Shipwrecks: 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892
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