List of shipwrecks in 1895

The list of shipwrecks in 1895 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1895.

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1895
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1895
Ship Country Description
Antoinette Canada The barque on voyage from Newport to Santos Brazil with coal, lost parts of her masts in the Bristol Channel near Lundy. The following day she broke her tow and drifted onto the Doom Bar in the Camel estuary. All the crew saved.[1][2]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1895
Ship Country Description
Cupid  United Kingdom The schooner sank in the Teifi Estuary. She was later refloated.[3]

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1895
Ship Country Description
Olive  United Kingdom The ship foundered in West Bay, Dorset.[4]

30 January

List of shipwrecks: 30 January 1895
Ship Country Description
Elbe  Germany The steam ship collided with Crathie ( United Kingdom) and sank with the loss of 334 lives.

February

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1895
Ship Country Description
Dingyuan  Imperial Chinese Navy Scuttled off Liugong Island, China.

March

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1895
Ship Country Description
Ambassadrice  France En route from St Malo for New Foundland destined for Cod the Sailing vessel had a crew of 7 and 90 male passengers. It ran onto rocks on the south coast of Guernsey Channel Islands in fog and foundered close to shore. All managed to climb to the top of the cliffs safely apart from one elderly man who slipped and fell to his death.[5]

9 March

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1895
Ship Country Description
Reina Regente  Spanish Navy The Reina Regente-class protected cruiser foundered in the Bay of Cádiz with the loss of all 420 crew.

23 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1895
Ship Country Description
Mary Ann  United Kingdom The ship got into difficulties off Cardigan Island, Cardiganshire. Her two crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[3]

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1895
Ship Country Description
Saintonge  France Ran aground, approximately 200 yd (183 m) from the shore in calm weather on rocks in Boskenna Bay, 5 miles (8.0 km) to the west of Penzance, Cornwall. She was finally abandoned on 1 April with all the crew and some of the cargo saved.[6]

April

9 April

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1895
Ship Country Description
Lord Spencer  United Kingdom Foundered on a voyage from San Francisco, United States to Queenstown, Ireland.[7]

20 April

List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1895
Ship Country Description
Wasp  United Kingdom The tug was run down and sunk in the Bristol Channel by Severn ( United Kingdom) with the loss of all four people on board. The wreck was later raised and beached.[8]

July

7 July

List of shipwrecks: 7 July 1895
Ship Country Description
Mexico  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked near the Belle Isle Lighthouse while en route from Montreal to Bristol. She was carrying 900 sheep, 200 cattle and a general cargo. The crew was saved but the wreck was plundered and set alight.[9]

9 July

List of shipwrecks: 9 July 1895
Ship Country Description
Hilaria  United Kingdom One died when the ship caught fire and sank in Port Phillip, near Melbourne. She was carrying a general cargo and rosin.[10]
Volurous Canada Canada The schooner collided near Beaver Light, Nova Scotia. She was out of White Head, Nova Scotia.[11][12]

10 July

List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1895
Ship Country Description
Uhlan  United Kingdom Wrecked off Heligoland.[13]

11 July

List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1895
Ship Country Description
Birkhall  United Kingdom Collided while in ballast on the seaward side of the Woosung bar.[14]

18 July

List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1895
Ship Country Description
Hibernia  United Kingdom The 83 gross ton ketch was in a collision and wrecked off Heligoland.[15]

19 July

List of shipwrecks: 19 July 1895
Ship Country Description
Sankai Maru  Japan The steam cargo ship ran aground on Shosei Island.[16]

20 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1895
Ship Country Description
Westella  United Kingdom Collided and sank 8 nautical miles (15 km) SSE of Finngrundet. The Jackson & Beaumont owned steamer was in ballast between Stockholm and Hernosand.[17]

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1895
Ship Country Description
Maria P  Italy The passenger carrying cargo ship was involved in a collision in the Gulf of Spezia, off the Italian coast with 148 lives lost. She was en route from Naples to Genoa with a general cargo.[18]

24 July

List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1895
Ship Country Description
Granby  United Kingdom Wrecked on the Brazilian coast while in ballast from Imbituba to Buenos Aires[19]
Unique  United Kingdom Ran aground on the coast of Victoria in the Bass Strait.[20]
Ymuiden  Netherlands Wrecked off Rotterdam.[21]

25 July

List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1895
Ship Country Description
Agnes Donald  Queensland Out of Thursday Island, and carrying ballast, she was lost off the coast of her destination of Fremantle.[22]
Angelica  United Kingdom En route from Bordeaux to Barry with pitwood, she was wrecked off Milford.[23]
Mogador  United Kingdom Ran aground on the Hats and Barrell Rocks, between Milford and St David's Head, while carrying coal from Glasgow to Bayonne.[24]

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1895
Ship Country Description
SV Condor Norway The barque was lost 50 nautical miles (93 km) ESE of Lowestoft, out of Hull for Pensacola.[25]

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1895
Ship Country Description
Agra  Western Australia Lost in Koombana Bay close to her destination of Bunbury while out of Fremantle. The barque was carrying a cargo of stock and general goods.[26]
Cleaveland  United Kingdom Was in a collision off Folkestone with the tanker Duffield, while in ballast, and en route to Cardiff from London.[27]
Seagull  Western Australia Lost off Garden Island, Western Australia, along with her three crew.[28]

28 July

List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1895
Ship Country Description
Ida  Germany The cargo ship was carrying sugar, wheat and a general cargo from Danzig to London and ran aground on Hasborough Sands.[29]
Masonic  United Kingdom The steam cargo ship was wrecked at Saint Pierre and Miquelon. She was in ballast and out of Swansea for Miramichi.[30]

29 July

List of shipwrecks: 29 July 1895
Ship Country Description
Haakon Adelsteen Norway Ran aground near Santa Catherina, Brazil. Haakon Adelsteen was out of La Plata for Rio de Janeiro.[31]

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1895
Ship Country Description
Congo  United Kingdom Out of Antwerp in ballast she ran aground at Triborka in the White Sea.[32]

August

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1895
Ship Country Description
Argonaut  United Kingdom While en route for Halifax with timber and salted fish, Harberton foundered approximately 30 miles (48 km) north-east of Port Morant, Jamaica.[33]
Emma May Canada Canada Ran aground off White Point, Nova Scotia, while heading from Chester, Nova Scotia, to Port Matoon, Nova Scotia, Canada.[34]

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1895
Ship Country Description
Albatros  France Sank during a storm in the Rance estuary at Point Cancaval, Brittany.[35]
Catterthun  New South Wales Sank 2–3 miles north of Seal Rocks, New South Wales after hitting a reef, while on a journey from Sydney to Hong Kong with fifty-eight crew and twenty-two passengers. Fifty-five died.[36][37]
Saint Paul United States Wrecked near Point Pinos Lighthouse, California.[38]

10 August

List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1895
Ship Country Description
Mayhill  United Kingdom While en route to Geraldton from Middlesbrough, England with railway iron, the barque was wrecked off Point Moore, Western Australia.[39]
Miranda  Belgium Carrying Australian wool for Hamburg, she was wrecked on the Jument rock, near Ushant, France. Lugger Charlotte picked up the survivors and there was no loss of life.[40]

11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1895
Ship Country Description
Pan  Denmark While en route to Ghent, Belgium from St Petersburg, Russia with barley, flax and pulpwood, Pan sank after a collision four miles south of Ystad, Sweden.[41]

12 August

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1895
Ship Country Description
Soochow  United Kingdom The passenger and cargo ship ran aground off Chefoo while out of Chinkiang for Chefoo.[42]

14 August

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1895
Ship Country Description
Dracona  United Kingdom While en route, and carrying pig iron and coal, from Middlesbrough, England, Dracona ran aground at Fame Point in the Saint Lawrence River, near her destination, Montreal.[43]

21 August

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1895
Ship Country Description
Etta Stewart Canada Eight people died when the sailing ship was lost off Three Fathom Harbour, Halifax in a storm.[44]
Seaford  United Kingdom The Newhaven and Dieppe ferry sank 20 miles (32 km) from Newhaven after a collision with the SS Lyon. There was no loss of life.[45]

22 August

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1895
Ship Country Description
Sentinel Canada The barque was lost at sea while en route to Buenos Aires from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.[46]

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1895
Ship Country Description
Clémentine  France Sank after hitting rocks near Mont Saint-Michel. She was carrying limestone from Regnéville, Normandy to Dahouët, Brittany.[47]

25 August

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1895
Ship Country Description
Alice Ran aground off Seal Island, while en route for Liverpool from Port Medway, Nova Scotia.[48]
Four Sisters  France Ran aground while en route from St Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon to Sydney, Nova Scotia.[49]
Fredrikka Norway Lost during a storm off Aspy Bay while en route to Baie Verte, New Brunswick, Canada, from Le Havre, Upper Normandy, France.[50]
Morning Light The schooner was wrecked off Mulgrave Cove while heading to Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia from Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada.[51]

28 August

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1895
Ship Country Description
Morning Light  United Kingdom The recently converted tanker caught fire and was a total wreck after being stranded in Coos Bay, near Bandon. She was heading for Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico from Comox.[52]
Duchess of Kent  Western Australia Wrecked off Cervantes Island, Western Australia while en route to Fremantle from Geraldton.[53]
Norman  New South Wales The schooner was wrecked off Bellambi Reef while carrying coal from Wollongong to Sydney.[54]
Sea Wo  Western Australia The small fishing boat was lost off the north-west coast of Western Australia.[55]

30 August

List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1895
Ship Country Description
Ansgarius  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on Lowther Rock, South Ronaldsay, Orkney. She was carrying coal from Glasgow to Christiana.[56]

31 August

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1895
Ship Country Description
Look Out  Queensland the barque was out of Thursday Island and was wrecked off Dove Island in the Torres Strait.[57]

September

2 September

List of shipwrecks: 2 September 1895
Ship Country Description
Geneva Myrtis Canada Canada The schooner caught alight off Woods Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada while out of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.[58]

7 September

List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1895
Ship Country Description
Europa  Germany Out of Leith, Scotland her cargo of coal caught fire and Europa was abandoned. Her crew was picked up by bark Forfarshire and landed at Talcahuano, Chile.[59]
Parkfield  United Kingdom The steam-propelled cargo ship ran aground on the island of Gran Canaria at Isleta.[60]

9 September

List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1895
Ship Country Description
Le Glorieux  United Kingdom The trawler sank 6 miles (9.7 km) south-east of St Abb's Head, Berwickshire, England, after a collision.[61]

10 September

List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1895
Ship Country Description
Xania  Spain En route for Antwerp, Belgium from Gavle, Sweden, the steamer sank 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east of Vlissingen, Netherlands after a collision with Manila. Six people drowned.[62]

11 September

List of shipwrecks: 11 September 1895
Ship Country Description
Glenclune  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked near Porto Alegre, Brazil while out of Hamburg for Los Angeles. She was carrying cement for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.[63]

14 September

List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1895
Ship Country Description
Vandora  United Kingdom The steamship was carrying coal from Maryport, England and ran aground near her destination of Ballyshannon, Ireland.[64]

17 September

List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1895
Ship Country Description
Calcutta  United Kingdom While en route from Huanillos for London with guano, the barque was abandoned on 16 September off Staten Island, Argentina and ran aground the next day.[65]

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1895
Ship Country Description
Mauranger  Norway Foundered off Cape San Antonio, Cuba while in ballast from Maracaibo to Laguna de Termininos[66]

October

1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1895
Ship Country Description
Maria and Smiling Morn (both  United Kingdom):The pilot cutters were in collision in the Bristol Channel off Worms Head, Glamorgan. Both vessels sank. Their crews survived.[8]

2 October

List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1895
Ship Country Description
Llanisley  United Kingdom The schooner foundered in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, Devon. Her four crew abandoned ship but were subsequently lost attempting to reach Ilfracombe, Devon.[8]
Ocean  United Kingdom The smack was wrecked near Cardigan.[3]

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1895
Ship Country Description
Zoe  United Kingdom The brigantine struck the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel and foundered with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Swansea, Glamorgan.[8]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1895
Ship Country Description
Harberton  United Kingdom While en route from her home port of London to Barry in ballast she hit the Kettle's Bottom Reef between Land's End, Cornwall and the Longships. On a rising tide she drifted off and a steam tug towed her into Whitesand Bay.[67]

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1895
Ship Country Description
Kate Thomas  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked off Point Cires W of Ceuta, while on a voyage from Cardiff to Brindisi with a cargo of coal.[68]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1895
Ship Country Description
Cato  Norway Ran aground on Macabou Cae, Martinique in the Caribbean while carrying coal.[69]
Cristobal Colon  Armada Española The cruiser foundered off Cuba.

December

24 December

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1895
Ship Country Description
Palme  Russia Wrecked in Dublin Bay, Ireland. Lifeboat Civil Service Number Seven ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) went to assist, but capsized with the loss of all fifteen crew. Tearaght ( United Kingdom) rescued the crew of Palme and her ship's cat on 26 December.
Pilgrim  United Kingdom The schooner was missing off Land's End, Cornwall.[70]

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Ship events in 1895
Ship launches: 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
Ship commissionings: 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
Ship decommissionings: 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
Shipwrecks: 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
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