List of shipwrecks in 1889

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The list of shipwrecks in 1889 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1889.

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January

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1889
Ship Country Description
Paris C. Brown  United States The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Hermitage, Louisiana with part of her superstructure above water. One passenger and six crew killed.[1][2]

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1889
Ship Country Description
Juliet  United States The schooner foundered off Thacher's Island, Massachusetts. Two crewmen died.[3]

17 January

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1889
Ship Country Description
Advance  United States The schooner was wrecked on rocks at the southwest corner of the Pensacola Navy Yard, Pensacola.[4]
Urbano  United States The bark was lost off Pensacola, Florida.[4]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1889
Ship Country Description
H. F. Morse  United States The tugboat was wrecked on Harding Ledge in Massachusetts Bay. One crewman killed.[5]
Unknown barges  United States Two barges were wrecked when their tug H. F. Morse was wrecked on Harding Ledge in Massachusetts Bay. Five crewmen were killed between the two crews.[6]

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1889
Ship Country Description
Bartie Pierce  United States The schooner was wrecked on Cape Island, Nova Scotia. The crew were saved.[7]

February

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1889
Ship Country Description
Fannie Belle  United States The schooner was wrecked at Langley Head, Miquelon Island. The crew were saved.[8]

7 February

List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1889
Ship Country Description
Princesse Josephine  Belgium The steamer ran aground and was wrecked off Algeria.[9]

9 February

List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1889
Ship Country Description
Annie  United States The 41.73-ton, 57-foot (17.4 m) schooner departed San Francisco, California bound for Unalaska on Unalaska Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands and was never seen or heard from again. Her entire crew of 11 was lost.[10]
Harvest Home  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground at Cardigan. Her four crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Fowey, Cornwall to Runcorn, Cheshire. Harvest Home was refloated on 13 February and taken in to Pwllcam, Cardiganshire.[11]

17 February

List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1889
Ship Country Description
HMS Cumberland  Royal Navy The training ship – a former ship-of-the-line – burned on the River Clyde in Scotland.[12]

26 February

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1889
Ship Country Description
Clyde  United States The schooner was wrecked at Gerring Island, Kittery, Maine. The crew were saved.[13]

March

1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1889
Ship Country Description
No. 102  French Navy The 35-metre (115 ft) type torpedo boat suddenly capsized and foundered during manoeuvres off Toulon, France. Six of her crew were killed.[14]

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1889
Ship Country Description
Otter  United States The 73.75-ton, 81-foot (24.7 m) schooner departed San Francisco, California, bound for the Shumagin Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands and was never seen or heard from again. Her entire crew of 23 men was lost.[15]

3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1889
Ship Country Description
James A. Hamilton  United States The 77.8-ton, 81.5-foot (24.8 m) whaling schooner departed San Francisco, California bound for Unalaska on Unalaska Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands and was never seen or heard from again. Her entire crew of 18 men and all three men aboard her as passengers were lost.[10][16]

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1889
Ship Country Description
Isaac A. Chapman  United States The schooner went ashore on Plum Island, Newburyport, Massachusetts. Though heavily damaged she was refloated, repaired and returned to service.[17]

7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1889
Ship Country Description
Duke of Buccleugh  United Kingdom The Eastern Steamship Company 3,099 GRT sail and steam cargo ship was wrecked following a collision with the 1,478-ton sailing ship Vandalia ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel. She was en route from Antwerp to Madras. All forty-seven crew of Duke of Buccleugh were lost.[18]

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1889
Ship Country Description
Vega  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked near Langton Matravers, Dorset. All 29 people on board were rescued.[19]

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1889
Ship Country Description
Kangaroo  United States The steamer sank while laying at Spottsville, Kentucky. The captain/owner and his nephew were killed.[20]

16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1889
Ship Country Description
SMS Adler  Imperial German Navy
SMS Adler
1889 Apia cyclone: The gunboat was wrecked in the harbor at Apia, Samoa, with the loss of 20 lives.
SMS Eber  Imperial German Navy
Wrecked ships in Apia Harbor, Upolu, Samoa soon after the storm. The view looks northwestward, with the shattered bow of the German gunboat Eber on the beach in the foreground. The stern of USS Trenton is at right, with the sunken USS Vandalia alongside. The German gunboat Adler is on her side in the center distance. USS Trenton's starboard quarter gallery has been largely ripped away.
1889 Apia cyclone: The gunboat was forced against the harbor reef at Apia, Samoa, by large waves and sank quickly with the loss of 73 lives.
USS Nipsic  United States Navy
The wreck of USS Nipsic is at left; the wreck of USS Trenton is at center, with the wreck of USS Vandalia alongside in the center.
1889 Apia cyclone: The gunboat was driven ashore in the harbor at Apia, Samoa, with heavy damage and the loss of eight lives. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
SMS Olga  Imperial German Navy
The wreck of SMS Olga at right; the wreck of USS Trenton is at left, with the wreck of USS Vandalia alongside.
1889 Apia cyclone: The corvette was wrecked in the harbor at Apia, Samoa. She was salvaged and returned to service as a training ship.
USS Trenton  United States Navy
The wreck of USS Trenton is at left, with the wreck of USS Vandalia alongside. The wreck of SMS Olga at right.
1889 Apia cyclone: The screw steamer was wrecked in the harbor at Apia, Samoa, with the loss of one life.
USS Vandalia  United States Navy
The wreck of USS Vandalia, seen from the wreck of USS Trenton.
1889 Apia cyclone: The sloop-of-war was wrecked in the harbor at Apia, Samoa, with the loss of 43 lives.

19 March

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1889
Ship Country Description
Kate & Anna  United States The 30.7-gross register ton, 45-foot (13.7 m) steam sealing schooner was blown ashore and wrecked on the southwestern shore of Morzovia Bay, later called Morzovhoi Bay (55°N 163°W / 55°N 163°W / 55; -163 (Morzovhoi Bay)), on the Alaska Peninsula on the coast of the Territory of Alaska after her anchor line parted in a gale. Her crew of six survived.[21]

25 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1889
Ship Country Description
Shiloh  United States The fishing schooner was sunk in a collision with N. B. Stetson ( United States). All 14 crew were killed.[22][23]

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1889
Ship Country Description
Ruth Darling  United States The schooner was run into and sunk by Wyanoke ( United States) in dense fog between Absecon, New Jersey and Cape May. Her captain and one crewman were killed.[24]

30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1889
Ship Country Description
Stella  United Kingdom On her way from Southampton, England, to Guernsey and Jersey in the Channel Islands in thick fog, the steamer ran at full speed onto Les Casquets reef near Alderney in the Channel Islands and sank within minutes with the loss of over 80 lives.[25]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown March 1889
Ship Country Description
Shiloh  United States The schooner sailed from Gloucester, Massachusetts on 25 March and vanished. The vessel was thought to have been run down by the schooner M. B. Stetson ( United States) on the night of her departure.[26]

April

6 April

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1889
Ship Country Description
Danmark  Denmark The passenger steamer foundered in the North Atlantic after her propeller shaft snapped. A total of 721 passengers and crew saved by the cargo steamer Missouri ( United States). Abandoned and almost submerged, the wreck of Danmark was found on 8 April by the passenger steamer City of Chester ( United Kingdom) at 45°55′N 37°16′W / 45.917°N 37.267°W / 45.917; -37.267.

13 April

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1889
Ship Country Description
Commodore Bateman  United States The Hamburg Line steamship Suevia ( Germany) ran into the pilot boat and sank her off Georges Bank, Cape Cod.[27]

18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1889
Ship Country Description
Everett  United States The steamer was sunk in a wind storm in the Mississippi River near Burlington, Iowa. Five killed.[28]

22 April

List of shipwrecks: 22 April 1889
Ship Country Description
Lizzie Williams  United States During a voyage from San Francisco, California, to Kodiak Island, Territory of Alaska, carrying 82 passengers – 75 of them Chinese cannery workers – and a crew of 14, as well as an 1,100-ton cannery fit and supplies as cargo, the 790-ton, 159.4-foot (48.6 m) bark was wrecked without loss of life on a shoal off Tugidak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago. The steamers Al-Ki and Elsie (both  United States) assisted in rescuing her passengers and crew.[29]

29 April

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1889
Ship Country Description
Anna B. Cannon  United States The schooner was wrecked on Milk Island. Crew saved.[30]

May

9 May

List of shipwrecks: 9 May 1889
Ship Country Description
Mabel  United States The fishing boat sprung a leak ten miles (16 km) east of Chatham, Massachusetts and sank. Her crew of three was saved after rowing for several hours.[31]

12 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1889
Ship Country Description
Alaskan  United States
Painting of Alaskan sinking.
The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in a storm in the Pacific Ocean off Cape Blanco, Oregon, killing at least 21 people. 10 of 11 made it to shore after spending three days in a lifeboat and then swimming to shore, one survivor drowned in the attempt.[32]

16 May

List of shipwrecks: 16 May 1889
Ship Country Description
Champion  United States The schooner was run down and sunk by the schooner Willie Parkman ( United States) five miles (8.0 km) off Thacher's Island. Crew saved.[33]

19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1889
Ship Country Description
Charlotte Webb  United States
Pilot boat Charlotte Web
The pilot boat was run down by the French Line steamship La Normandie, in a dense fog eight miles (13 km) east of Sandy Hook, New York. The pilot boat sank in three minutes. Two pilots on Charlotte Webb were lost in the incident.[34]

22 May

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1889
Ship Country Description
Ohio  United States The 363.8-ton 110.9-foot (33.8 m) whaling bark became unmanageable after her hull was stove in by ice and was blown ashore and wrecked on Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea. Her crew survived and was rescued from the island by the bark Ocean ( United States).[15]

24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1889
Ship Country Description
Steelfield  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was sighted on this date whilst on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Callao, Peru. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[35]

June

1 June

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1889
Ship Country Description
Kangaroo  Australia The steamer was lost off, or in, the Brisbane River. Scrapped in place.[36]

25 June

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1889
Ship Country Description
Jessie W. Knight  United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with Wm. R. McCabe ( United States) in Chesapeake Bay. Her captain, his wife, and one crewman killed.[37]

28 June

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1889
Ship Country Description
Edward S. Webster  United States The 83-foot (25.3 m) schooner sank after striking a submerged rock at the entrance to Coal Harbor (55°20′30″N 160°39′30″W / 55.34167°N 160.65833°W / 55.34167; -160.65833 (Coal Harbor)) on Unga Island in the Shumagin Islands off the south coast of the Territory of Alaska's Alaska Peninsula. Her crew of 12 survived. She later was condemned, sold, and refloated.[38]

30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1889
Ship Country Description
William Armstrong  United States The ferry san in the St. Lawrence River between Morristown, New York and Brockville, Ontario. One passenger killed.[39]

July

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1889
Ship Country Description
Kenilworth  Germany The barque was wrecked entering the North East Channel to the Torres Strait from Bramble Bay, Australia.[40]

16 July

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1889
Ship Country Description
Lorenzo D. Baker  United States The steamer was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean in the vicinity of (38°15′N 69°49′W / 38.250°N 69.817°W / 38.250; -69.817). Survivors were rescued by the whaling schooner Franklin ( United States). Two of her firemen died.[41][42]

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1889
Ship Country Description
Eduardo  Spain The steamer was wrecked in dense fog on Old Man Island two miles (3.2 km) south of Cutler, Maine. All 40 crew rescued.[43][44]

23 July

List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1889
Ship Country Description
Herman Babson  United States The schooner was wrecked at Baine Harbour, Newfoundland. crew saved.[45]

August

1 August

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1889
Ship Country Description
Vinnie M. Getchell  United States The schooner was run down and sunk. crew saved.[46]

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1889
Ship Country Description
Bloomer  United States The schooner capsized in a squall 55 miles (89 km) east southeast of Pensacola, Florida.[4]

9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1889
Ship Country Description
Wildwood  United States While departing Nushagak on Bristol Bay in the Territory of Alaska carrying the summer's catch from the cannery at Nushagak, the 1,056.09-ton, 198.8-foot (60.6 m) bark was wrecked in the Nushagak River 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) south of Harkanock. Her entire crew of 21 survived.[47]

17 August

List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1889
Ship Country Description
A.E. Vickery  United States The wooden three-masted schooner sank after striking a shoal while entering the American Narrows in the St. Lawrence River near Alexandria Bay, New York.

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1889
Ship Country Description
Torpedo boat No. 10  Royal Danish Navy The torpedo boat capsized in the Øresund and subsequently sank whilst under tow for Copenhagen. She was salvaged, repaired and returned to service.[48]

25 August

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1889
Ship Country Description
Lame Duck  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with Commonwealth ( United States) in the Ohio River opposite Cincinnati, Ohio. One crewman and three passengers died.[49]

28 August

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1889
Ship Country Description
Ancon  United States The 1,208.05-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded on a rock projecting from a reef in Naha Bay (55°36′12″N 131°38′00″W / 55.60333°N 131.63333°W / 55.60333; -131.63333 (Naha Bay)) in Southeast Alaska as she was departing the wharf at Loring, Territory of Alaska. Her back broke as the tide receded, and she became a total loss. All on board – 119 passengers and 72 crewmen – survived.[10]

September

4 September

List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1889
Ship Country Description
Lucretia  United States The 350-ton whaling bark was wrecked on an uncharted reef in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Siberia 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) west of Herald Island. The steam bark Abram Barker ( United States) rescued her crew.[29]

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1889
Ship Country Description
Earnmoor  United Kingdom The tramp steamer sank in a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of the Greater Antilles with the loss of 17 lives. The seven survivors floated in an open lifeboat for 21 days before the schooner Mosquito ( United States) rescued them off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

15 September

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1889
Ship Country Description
Island Belle  United States The 19-ton, 43.5-foot (13.3 m) schooner was wrecked on the southern shore of Delarof Harbor (55°10′30″N 160°30′00″W / 55.17500°N 160.50000°W / 55.17500; -160.50000 (Delarof Harbor)) on the coast of Unga Island in the Shumagin Islands in the Territory of Alaska. Her crew of four survived.[50]

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1889
Ship Country Description
Leo  United States The naptha launch burned between Loraine, Ohio and Cleveland, Ohio. Lost with all hands.[51]
HMS Lily  Royal Navy The Arab-class gunvessel was wrecked off Point Amour Lighthouse, Labrador, in thick fog with the loss of seven lives.
Torpedo boat No. 9  Royal Danish Navy The torpedo boat ran aground in the Øresund. She was refloated on 18 September, subsequently returned to service.[48]

19 September

List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1889
Ship Country Description
Florence  United Kingdom The cargo ship foundered after taking water in a gale off the Calf of Man, Isle of Man, with the loss of 11 lives. The sole survivor was rescued from the ship's boat by steamer King Orry ( United Kingdom).[52][53]

20 September

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1889
Ship Country Description
Sarah C. Pyle  United States The schooner parted her anchor cable and drifted ashore at Matinicus Isle, Maine, a total loss. The crew were saved.[54]

24 September

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1889
Ship Country Description
C. M. Gifford  United States The tow steamer, towing Chas. E. Wyman ( United States), was capsized by the towline in Lake Huron between Cheboygan, Michigan and Cross Village, Michigan. One crewman died.[55]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date September 1889
Ship Country Description
Alpha  United States After losing ropes, a canoe, and her portside bulwarks and stanchions overboard in a gale 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) east of Cape Fairweather (58°48′20″N 137°56′39″W / 58.8056°N 137.9442°W / 58.8056; -137.9442 (Cape Fairweather)) in Southeast Alaska, the 26.28-ton schooner was beached at Yakutat, Territory of Alaska, sometime soon after the revenue cutter USRC Rush (Ensign of the United States Revenue-Marine (1868).png United States Revenue-Marine) arrived at Yakutat on 5 September to pick up her nine passengers and crew of five.[10]

October

2 October

List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1889
Ship Country Description
Geographique  France The steamer sank after a collision.[56]

3 October

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1889
Ship Country Description
Corona  United States The steamer was destroyed by a boiler explosion in the Mississippi River near Prophet's Island. 35 died.[57]

12 October

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1889
Ship Country Description
Coptic  United Kingdom The mail steamer struck a rock on Mai Island [pt] off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after sailing from there for Plymouth and London. She floated off, but forward compartments were flooded and she returned to port for repairs, resuming her voyage from Rio de Janeiro on 30 October.[58][59][60][61]

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1889
Ship Country Description
Thesis  United Kingdom The cargo steamer struck a reef at the south end of the Sound of Mull between the Isle of Mull and Scotland off Inninmore Point and sank four hours later. Her crew of 11 abandoned ship safely.

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1889
Ship Country Description
Carl D. Lathrop  United States The schooner sprung a leak and capsized 10 miles (16 km) south southwest of the Cape St. George Lighthouse, Florida.[62]

23 October

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1889
Ship Country Description
Perseverance  United States The schooner was wrecked on the "Londoner".[63]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1889
Ship Country Description
Mary L. Varney  United States The schooner was wrecked on the "Salvages".[64]

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1889
Ship Country Description
Cheseborough  United States
File:Cheseboroughship.gif
The wreck of Cheseborough
The full-rigged ship was wrecked in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Shariki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, during a typhoon.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1889
Ship Country Description
Llandaff  United Kingdom The Welsh collier was wrecked at Land's End, Cornwall. She was repaired and returned to service.[65]
Malta  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked at Botallack Head, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, United Kingdom; vessel was a complete loss but no lives were lost.[66]

November

6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1889
Ship Country Description
Lady Lincoln  United States The schooner sank off Highland Light. crew saved.[67]

16 November

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1889
Ship Country Description
Fearless  United States The tug ran aground on the north spit of the Umpqua River and went to pieces. Lost with everyone on board, one passenger and seven crew.[68]

20 November

List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1889
Ship Country Description
Manhattan  United States The cargo liner was sunk in a collision with Schooner Agnes Manning ( United States) off Fenwick Island, Delaware, eight miles (13 km) off Fenwick Shoal Lightship. Three passengers and eight crew died.[69][70]

28 November

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1889
Ship Country Description
Nominoé  France The brig ran aground near Blankenberge, Belgium during a violent storm. All five crew were rescued by Belgian lifeguards, but five lifeguards died during the rescue attempts.[71]

29 November

List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1889
Ship Country Description
Three Brothers  United States The schooner sank off Norman's Woe. Two crewmen died, her captain was saved by the schooner Apollo.[72]

December

22 December

List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1889
Ship Country Description
Adonis  United States The wooden brigantine was wrecked approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of Crowdy Head, New South Wales, Australia, when she sprang a leak while carrying a cargo of coal between Wollongong and the Richmond River in New South Wales.

23 December

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1889
Ship Country Description
Annie M. Jordan  United States The schooner was wrecked on Gallantry Head, St. Pierre, Miquelon.[73]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1889
Ship Country Description
Wide West  United States The screw steamer was wrecked on Destruction Island off Washington, United States, after losing her propeller and auxiliary sailing rig in high winds and heavy seas. Her crew abandoned ship safely.

26 December

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1889
Ship Country Description
Clan McKenzie  United Kingdom The steamer was sunk in a collision in snow with Oregon ( United States) in the Columbia River at Coffee Rock 47 miles (76 km) above Astoria, Oregon in 22 feet (6.7 m) of water. Two crew killed, one injured. Survivors made it to shore in her boats.[74][75]
Oregon  United States The steamer was damaged in a collision with Clan McKenzie ( United Kingdom) in the Columbia River at Coffee Rock 47 miles (76 km) above Astoria, Oregon in snow, losing her bow, and drifted ashore, later pulled off. One crewman injured.[76]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1889
Ship Country Description
Herald of the Morning  Canada The hulk of the square-rigged sailing ship, severely damaged by fire in Hobsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia, on 15 November 1859 and never repaired, was scuttled ca. 1889.
Queensmore  United Kingdom The cargo ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean whilst on the return leg of her maiden voyage. An attempt was made to beach her in Dunmanus Bay but she struck the Bullig Reef and sank.[77]

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Ship events in 1889
Ship launches: 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894
Ship commissionings: 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894
Ship decommissionings: 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894
Shipwrecks: 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894