List of shipwrecks in 1893

The list of shipwrecks in 1893 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1893.

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1893
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

January

16 January

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1893

Ship	Country	Description
San Marco	Italy	sank after a collision in the Straits of Messina.[1]

February

18 February

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Dicky	Queensland	Dickey The cargo ship was driven ashore at Caloundra Head. The wreck still lies on the beach as of May 2009.

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Naronic	United Kingdom	The White Star Line steamship was lost after leaving Liverpool on 11 February 1893 bound for New York, with the loss of all 74 people on board. The ship's fate is a mystery that remains unsolved to this day.

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Coanza	United Kingdom	The Elder Dempster 1,518 grt passenger ship ran aground and was wrecked on Bayak Rock, Baujah Reef near Sinou, Senegal. She was en route to West Africa from Hamburg.[2][3]

22 February

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Shamrock	United Kingdom	The iron schooner was stranded at Ballyquintin Point, County Down, Ireland and became a wreck.[4]

March

23 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Allanshaw	United Kingdom	wrecked on Tristan da Cunha with the loss of three crew.

24 March

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Glückauf	Germany	She ran aground across from Sayville, New York at Blue Point Beach on Fire Island along Long Island.[5] A contemporary New York Times article said that it ran aground "just before dawn" on March 24, 1893.

April

4 April

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Horsa	United Kingdom	The sailing ship ran aground off St Martin's, Isles of Scilly; the ship was towed off but later foundered in deep water.[6][7]

June

22 June

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1893

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Victoria	Royal Navy	collided with HMS Camperdown ( Royal Navy) near Tripoli, Lebanon and sank with 358 crew killed, 357 rescued.

September

7 September

List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Rusalka	Imperial Russian Navy	The monitor foundered and sank in the Gulf of Finland. Wreck discovered in July 2013 at 59°51′55″N 24°53′07″E / 59.86528°N 24.88528°E.

November

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Favourite	United Kingdom	The ketch foundered in the Bristol Channel 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off Worms Head, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued.[8]

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Serica	United Kingdom	nearly foundered and took shelter in St Mary's Roads on the 19th. As she left she struck an uncharted rock (later named Serica Rock) and sank.[9][10]

December

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Princesse Louise	Belgium	became stranded in the River Scheldt at Saaftingen and broke in two.[1]

13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Althea	Norway	The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in Oxwich Bay. Her ten crew were rescued by the Port Eynon Lifeboat.[8]

20 December

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Iota	Italy	She sank off the coast at Tintagel (one life was lost).[11][12]

28 December

List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Alert	Victoria	sank off Cape Schanck, Australia with the loss of 15 lives and one survivor.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1893

Ship	Country	Description
Cintra	United Kingdom	wrecked on Porthminster Beach, St Ives, Cornwall, five crew rescued.[13]
Rosedale	United Kingdom	wrecked on Porthminster Beach, St Ives, Cornwall. Sixteen crew saved.[13]

References

1. "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
2. "Loss of SS Coanza". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
3. "Clyde built ships". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
4. "Wreck on the County Down Coast". The Belfast News-Letter (24227). 24 February 1893. p. 6.
5. "A Big Steamship's Fate; Now Only a Prey For Seaside Relic Hunters. The Gluckauf At Fire Island; For Over Two Years a Plaything for the Surf and a Curiosity for Summer Strollers Along the Beach.". The New York Times. 10 November 1895. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
6. Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 20
7. Horsa cargo full-rigger from New Zealand grounded in a cove on St Martins, and capsized some hours later whilst being towed off. Thankfully, no one was killed. (Source for the date.)
8. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
9. The Cornishman. 18 January 1894. p. 8'
10. "Loss of SS Serica". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
11. Canner, A. C. (1982) The Parish of Tintagel: some historical notes. Camelford: A. C. Canner; pp. 87-88
12. Dyer, Peter (2005) Tintagel: a portrait of a parish. [Cambridge]: Cambridge Books; pp. 431-34, 496-98
13. "1893 - 1920". St. Ives Trust. Retrieved 2008-03-16.

See also

Ship events in 1893
Ship launches:	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898
Ship commissionings:	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898
Ship decommissionings:	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898
Shipwrecks:	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898

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