List of shipwrecks in 1888

The list of shipwrecks in 1888 includes sone ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1888.

January

13 January

• Milan (United Kingdom): The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Overton Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued by the Port Eynon Lifeboat or rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Alexandria, Egypt.

21 January

• Switserland (Belgium) : She collided with La Gascogne off New York, United States and holed. Put into New York for repairs, returned to service.

March

8 March

• Lanoma (United Kingdom): The barque was driven ashore and wrecked near Fleet, Dorset with the loss of twelve of her eighteen crew.

24 March

• Levant (United Kingdom) of South Shields, a British steamship, built of iron at Hartlepool in the year 1865, departed Penarth (Wales) bound for Oporto (Portugal) with 15 hands, never seen again. Board of Trade Report filed could not speculate on cause, however, loaded with coal, possibly over safe weight. ([1]

April

13 April

• Yorouba (France) On a journey to Havre when she hit a rock west of Guernsey Channel Islands in fog and sank 2 miles from shore and 7NM from Les Hanois Lighthouse. All passengers and crew were saved.

16 April

• Vena (Belgium) sank in the North Sea following a collision with another ship.

27 April

• Ellengowan (United Kingdom) sank at its moorings, unmanned, in Port Darwin and was abandoned.

May

8 May

• Henry Edmunds (United Kingdom): The brigantine was wrecked at Overton, Glamorgan. Her crew survived.

17 May

• Jeune Hortense (France) : The schooner wrecked at Long Rock, Cornwall. The Penzance lifeboat, having been brought by carriage to the beach near Marazion, rescued four crew.
• Otto stranded in Mount's Bay, Cornwall. Later renamed Providence and operated out of Penzance.
• Brigantine Nulli Secundus (Germany) stranded in Mount's Bay. Previously named Tobaco and stranded on the Eastern Green, Mount's Bay in 1865.

June

30 June

• Alhambra (United Kingdom) collided with John T. Berry (United States), which it was trying to salvage, and sank off Newcastle, New South Wales. Crew rescued by Tasmania (United Kingdom). The derelict John T. Berry later sunk by Thetis (United Kingdom) as a danger to navigation.

July

17 July

• Beaver (United States) grounded on rocks in Stanley Park, Vancouver. Wreck sank four years later.

August

22 August

• City of Chester (United States): The passenger ship was in collision with RMS Oceanic (United Kingdom) in San Francisco Bay and sank with the loss of sixteen lives. She was on a voyage from San Francisco to Eureka, California

September

13 September

• Sud America I (Italy) sunk in a collision with the French collier France at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, with the loss of 79 people.

26 September

• Fleetwing (United States) struck a rocky beach on the coast of Liberty Grove, Wisconsin.

November

21 November

• Atalanta (Russia): Ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, South Holland, Netherlands. There were six deaths.

25 November

• Estrella de Chile (United Kingdom): The barque ran aground in the Solway Firth with the loss of one of her fifteen crew. Survivors were rescued by the Maryport Lifeboat.

Date unknown

• Renown (Germany): The barque sank off Den Helder, North Holland, Netherlands. Five crew were killed, twenty five were rescued.
• Anna Delius (Norway): The barque was abandoned in the North Atlantic. Crew rescued by Deutschland (Germany) and later transferred to Pieter de Coninck (Belgium) which landed them at Boston, United States.

References

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• cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/docBrowser.aspx?2279?5?1 |title=Yorouba [+1888] document | publisher=wrecksite.eu
• cite |title=Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche |published=2008 |author=YvesDufiel
• Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 18