List of shipwrecks in 1890

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The list of shipwrecks in 1890 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1890.

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1890
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1890
Ship Country Description
Czarowitz  United Kingdom The brigatine was hit by the White Star Liner Britannic ( United Kingdom) and sank in the Crosby Channel as she was about to enter the River Mersey. She was bound for Runcorn loaded with china clay from Fowey.[1]

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1890
Ship Country Description
Ambassador  United Kingdom The barque was run in to by the full-rigged ship Cambrian Duchess ( United Kingdom) off The Mumbles, Glamorgan. She was declared a constructive total loss.[2]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1890
Ship Country Description
Ashlowe Canada Canada The barque ran aground off The Mumbles, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was abandoned by her eleven crew. They were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat[2]

28 January

List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1890
Ship Country Description
Irex  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was wrecked on her maiden voyage at Scratchell's Bay, Isle of Wight, England.

February

16 February

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1890
Ship Country Description
Nautique  France The steamer, bound from Le Havre, France, for Baltimore, Maryland, foundered in mid-Atlantic Ocean shortly after the crew were rescued by the steamer Manitoban (flag unknown).[3]

28 February

List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1890
Ship Country Description
Quetta  United Kingdom The steamer struck an uncharted rock in the Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia, and sank with the loss of 134 lives.

March

1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1890
Ship Country Description
Colonist  New South Wales The passenger-cargo schooner sank wth the loss of one life off Bradleys Head, Sydney Harbour, Australia, after colliding with the steamer Adelaide ( UKGBI). Adelaide rescued two survivors and the skiff half-decker Young Oscar (flag unknown) rescued three others.

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1890
Ship Country Description
Agnes  New South Wales The schooner foundered off the Brunswick River, New South Wales, Australia.

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1890
Ship Country Description
Benamain  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the east coast of Lundy Island, Devon. She was refloated the next day but consequently foundered in the Bristol Channel 7 nautical miles (13 km) off The Mumbles, Glamorgan. Her twelve crew were rescued by the pilot cutter Rival ( United Kingdom). Benamain was on a voyage from Swansea to Le Treport, Seine-Maritime, France.[2]

April

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1890
Ship Country Description
Brankelow  United Kingdom The Liverpool steamer, chartered by the Russian government, went ashore on Loe Bar, Cornwall during a gale while bound for Kronstadt from Cardiff. She was carrying 3,000 tons of coal which was salvaged along with her engines.[4]

August

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1890
Ship Country Description
Admiral Tromp  Norway The barque was run down and sunk by British steamer Ching Wo in the Thames Estuary off The Nore. The wreck was dispersed by explosives April–July 1931.[5][6]

September

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1890
Ship Country Description
Ertuğrul  Ottoman Navy The sailing frigate was wrecked on Oshima Island off Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, with the loss of 533 crew.

October

1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1890
Ship Country Description
Melmerby  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at New Glasgow, Canada with the loss of fifteen of her crew. She was on a voyage from Quebec, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire.[7]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1890
Ship Country Description
Alberta  United Kingdom The 3,168-gross register ton cargo steamship, laden with coal on a voyage from Japan to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ran aground on Sutherland Reef south of Fingal Head Light, New South Wales, Australia. Her crew of 36 reached Tweed Heads in the ship's lifeboats.[8]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1890
Ship Country Description
Benton The 77-ton schooner survived hitting the Pollard Rock in the Seven Stones Reef, made it to Falmouth, Cornwall, England, full of water and with her cargo of china clay intact.[9]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1890
Ship Country Description
Fannie C  United Kingdom The schooner caught fire in the English Channel and was beached at Chesil Cove, Dorset.[10]

November

6-7 November

List of shipwrecks: November 1890
Ship Country Description
Kishon  United Kingdom The barque parted her tow by the steam tug Australia (flag unknown) off Trevose Head, Cornwall, England, and was driven ashore near Bude breakwater. Her crew of eight was saved by the rocket lifesaving crew.[11][12]

10 November

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1890
Ship Country Description
HMS Serpent  Royal Navy The torpedo cruiser ran aground off Cape Vilan in northwest Spain in a violent storm, killing 173 of the 176 aboard.[13][14]

19 November

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1890
Ship Country Description
Cuxhaven flag unknown The steamer was severely damage in a collision with the cargo steamer Equity ( UKGBI) in the Goole Channel and was beached to avoid sinking.

December

23 December

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1890
Ship Country Description
Ferdinand Vandertaelen  Belgium The steamer foundered in the Mediterranean Sea at 37°N 06°E / 37°N 6°E / 37; 6, with all the crew rescued.[15]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1890
Ship Country Description
Coptic  United Kingdom The steamer ran aground on Main Island at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while departing for a voyage to Plymouth, England. Her forward compartments flooded, but were repaired by local engineers, and she returned to service.[16]
Uppingham  United Kingdom The ship struck rocks off Hartland Point, Devon and foundered with the loss of eighteen of her 28 crew.[2]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1890
Ship Country Description
Assaye  United Kingdom The barque disappeared during a voyage from London to Wellington, New Zealand, after being spoken to near the equator on 16 March. She was due in Wellington in May.
Dunedin  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship disappeared with the loss of all 35 people on board after departing Oamaru, New Zealand, on 19 March.
Louise Ernest  France While en route for Nantes, France, from Falmouth, Cornwall, England, the ketch was unable to round the Lizard and turned back. She hit Castle Point, St Mawes, Cornwall, and the crew of five men and a boy were taken off by the lifeboat Jane Whittington ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) of the Falmouth Lifeboat Station.[17]
Marlborough  United Kingdom The refrigerated full-rigged ship disappeared after being sighted off the coast of New Zealand on 13 January while on a voyage from Lyttelton, New Zealand, to London. Possibly subsequently wrecked on the coast of Chile with the loss of all on board.

References

  1. ↑ "Collisions at Sea". News. The Times (32900). London. 4 January 1890. col D, p. 6.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Epitome of General News". Leicester Chronicle and the Leicestershire Mercury (4128). Leicester. 22 March 1890. p. 3.
  4. ↑ Treglown, Tony (2011). Porthleven in Years Gone by; Local Shipwrecks. Ashton: Tony Treglown.
  5. ↑ "Disasters at Sea". The Times (33087). London. 11 August 1890. p. 10.
  6. ↑ "Submerged wrecks at the Nore". The Times (45882). London. 23 July 1931. col E, p. 9.
  7. ↑ "Melmerby - 1890". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  8. ↑ Tweed Heads Shipwrecks (PDF). Sydney: Government of New South Wales, Heritage Branch. 2000. p. 2. ISBN 1-876415-42-8. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  9. ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  10. ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  11. ↑ "Severe Gale in Scotland and England". Aberdeen Weekly Journal (11158). Aberdeen. 8 November 1890. p. 6.
  12. ↑ "Kishon". Pastscape. English Heritage.
  13. ↑ "The Loss of H.M.S Serpent" (PDF). The Engineer. 14 November 1890. p. 398.
  14. ↑ "Aniversario del naufragio del "HMS Serpent"". El Ideal Gallego. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  15. ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  16. ↑ "SS Coptic," de Kerbrech, Richard (2009). Ships of the White Star Line. Surrey, UK: Ian Allen Publishing. pp. 34–36. ISBN 978-0-7110-3366-5
  17. ↑ Pollard, Chris (2007). The Book of St Mawes. Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove. ISBN 978 1 84114 631 7.
Ship events in 1890
Ship launches: 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895
Ship commissionings: 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895
Ship decommissionings: 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895
Shipwrecks: 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895
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