List of shipwrecks in 1899

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The list of shipwrecks in 1899 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1899.

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1899
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec

January

List of shipwrecks: January 1899
Ship Country Description
Voorwaarts  Italy The steamship was wrecked at Morwenstow, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[1]

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1899
Ship Country Description
The Lynmouth lifeboat Louisa Royal National Lifeboat Institution answered a call from the barque Forest Hall ( United Kingdom) in trouble off Porlock by taking the lifeboat overland. This entailed a journey of 15 miles (24 km) and a climb of 1,423 feet (434 m) pulled by horses and people.[2]

February

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1899
Ship Country Description
Mary Hannah  United Kingdom A Penzance schooner on passage from Cardiff to Plymouth with a cargo of coal. Disabled after the main boom was damaged in a huge sea and gale off the Lizard, she headed for Newlyn but was unable to enter the harbour and ran ashore at Tolcarne. All four crew were rescued by breeches-buoy.[3]

March

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1899
Ship Country Description
Castilian  United Kingdom The cargo liner ran aground on the Gannet Dry Ledge and was wrecked. All on board were rescued. She was on the return leg of her maiden voyage, from Portland, Maine, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.[4]

26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1899
Ship Country Description
Science  United Kingdom collided with Daybreak ( United Kingdom) north of Cape St Vincent, Portugal and sank.[5]

30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1899
Ship Country Description
Stella  United Kingdom The ship sank off the Casquets, Channel Islands with the loss of 78 lives.[6][7]

April

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1899
Ship Country Description
Loch Sloy  United Kingdom sank off Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

May

List of shipwrecks: May 1899
Ship Country Description
City of Paris  United States The liner was grounded at Lowland Point near Coverack, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The Falmouth and Porthoustock lifeboats helped transfer her passengers to tugs; the ship was successfully salved after seven weeks work.[8]

July

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1899
Ship Country Description
Three Sisters  United Kingdom The ketch was run into and sunk in the Bristol Channel by the steamship Tweed with the loss of two of her three crew. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot, Glamorgan to Llangrannog, Cardiganshire.[9]

12 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1899
Ship Country Description
City of York  United Kingdom sank off Rottnest Island, Western Australia.

August

1 August

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1899
Ship Country Description
Benjamin C. Cromwell  United States beached at Dog Island, Florida.
James A. Garfield  United States beached at Dog Island, Florida.

September

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1899
Ship Country Description
Duraes  Norway Foundered off Elba, Italy.[10]

October

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1899
Ship Country Description
Typo
Typo still stands upright at the bottom of Lake Huron, where it was shipwrecked in 1899.

The wooden three-masted schooner was run down in Lake Huron by the steamer W.P. Ketcham. The ship sank immediately and the four crew on board drowned.[11]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1899
Ship Country Description
Llandaff  United Kingdom the Welsh collier was wrecked at Bude, Cornwall (also wrecked on the Cornish coast in 1889)[12]

November

10 November

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1899
Ship Country Description
Belgique  Belgium Formerly called Mount Hebron, she foundered 6 nautical miles (11 km) NW of the Casquets[13][14]

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1899
Ship Country Description
Duisberg  Norway The barque ran aground at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada to The Mumbles, Glamorgan.[9]

December

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1899
Ship Country Description
Ida  Spain Wrecked.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 30.
  2. ↑ Fisher, E.J. (1999). "The Strange and Heroic Journey of the Louisa". Lerwill Life. Retrieved 2010-11-05.
  3. ↑ Larn, R; Larn, B (1991). Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
  4. ↑ "Castilian - 1899". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  6. ↑ "SS Stella (1899)". www.wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 Aug 2015.
  7. ↑ "SS Stella Disaster". akesimpkin.org. Retrieved 27 Aug 2015.
  8. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. pp. 2, 6.
  9. 1 2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  10. ↑ "Mail & Shipping Intelligence" The Times (London). Monday, 18 September 1899. (35937), col D, p. 4.
  11. ↑ "Typo". Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. NOAA.
  12. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 31.
  13. ↑ "MOUNT HEBRON".
  14. ↑ Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
  15. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
Ship events in 1899
Ship launches: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
Ship commissionings: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
Ship decommissionings: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
Shipwrecks: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
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