List of shipwrecks in 1888

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

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1888
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

January

13 January

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Milan	United Kingdom	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 to Alexandria, Egypt.[1]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Switserland	Belgium	She collided with La Gascogne off New York, United States and holed. Put into New York for repairs, returned to service.[2]

March

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Lanoma	United Kingdom	The barque was driven ashore and wrecked near Fleet, Dorset with the loss of twelve of her eighteen crew.[3]

24 March

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Levant	United Kingdom	of South Shields, a British steamship, built of iron at Hartlepool in the year 1865, departed Penarth (Wales) bound for Oporto (Portugal) with 15 hands, never seen again. Board of Trade Report filed could not speculate on cause, however, loaded with coal, possibly over safe weight. (

April

13 April

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Yorouba	France	On a journey to Le Havre when she hit a rock west of Guernsey Channel Islands in fog and sank 2 nautical miles (3.7 km)s from shore and 7 nautical miles (13 km) from Les Hanois Lighthouse. All passengers and crew were saved. [4] [5]

16 April

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Vena	Belgium	sank in the North Sea following a collision with another ship.[2]

27 April

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Ellengowan	United Kingdom	sank at its moorings, unmanned, in Port Darwin and was abandoned.

May

8 May

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Henry Edmunds	United Kingdom	The brigantine was wrecked at Overton, Glamorgan. Her crew survived.[1]

17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Jeune Hortense	France	The schooner wrecked at Long Rock, Cornwall.[6] The Penzance lifeboat, having been brought by carriage to the beach near Marazion, rescued four crew.[7] Otto stranded in Mount's Bay, Cornwall. Later renamed Providence and operated out of Penzance.[8]
Brigantine Nulli Secundus	Germany	stranded in Mount's Bay. Previously named Tobaco and stranded on the Eastern Green, Mount's Bay in 1865.[8]

June

30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Alhambra	United Kingdom	collided with John T. Berry ( United States), which it was trying to salvage, and sank off Newcastle, New South Wales. Crew rescued by Tasmania ( United Kingdom). The derelict John T. Berry later sunk by Thetis ( United Kingdom) as a danger to navigation.

July

17 July

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Beaver	United States	grounded on rocks in Stanley Park, Vancouver. Wreck sank four years later.

August

22 August

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1888

Ship	Country	Description
City of Chester	United States	The passenger ship was in collision with RMS Oceanic ( United Kingdom) in San Francisco Bay and sank with the loss of sixteen lives. She was on a voyage from San Francisco to Eureka, California[9]

September

13 September

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Sud America I	Italy	sunk in a collision with the French collier France at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, with the loss of 79 people.

26 September

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Fleetwing	United States	struck a rocky beach on the coast of Liberty Grove, Wisconsin.

November

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Atalanta	Russia	Ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, South Holland, Netherlands. There were six deaths.[10]

25 November

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Estrella de Chile	United Kingdom	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: Unknown date 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Renown	Germany	The barque sank off Den Helder, North Holland, Netherlands. Five crew were killed, twenty five were rescued.
Anna Delius	Norway	The barque was abandoned in the North Atlantic. Crew rescued by Deutschland ( Germany) and later transferred to Pieter de Coninck ( Belgium) which landed them at Boston, United States.[2]

References

1. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
2. "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
3. "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
4. "Yorouba [+1888] document". wrecksite.eu.
5. Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
6. Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16
7. Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 18
8. Carter, C. (1998). The Port of Penzance: a history. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
9. "USA: City of Chester’s Wreck Rediscovered". World Maritime News. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
10. "Reddingsstation Ouddorp". KNRM. Retrieved 22 March 2012.

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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