The list of shipwrecks in 1892 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1892.
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H. B. Griffin | United States | The schooner was destroyed by fire at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. [1] |
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USRC Gallatin | United States Revenue-Marine | Also known as USRC Albert Gallatin, the 142-foot (43 m), 250-ton revenue cutter was wrecked on the northwest side of Boo Hoo Ledge in the Atlantic Ocean off Manchester, Maine, United States, with the loss of one life. Her wreck is located at ( 42°33′50″N70°44′52″W / 42.56389°N 70.74778°W ) in up to 50 feet (15 m) of water. [2] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Namchow | Straits Settlements | The steamer foundered off Cupchi Point, or four miles (6.4 km) off Breaker Point, China. 414 killed. [3] [4] [5] |
Ship | State | Description |
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S. M. Lake | Canada | The schooner capsized at Black River in a heavy gale. The crew were saved. [6] |
Ship | State | Description |
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No.7 | United Kingdom | The Admiralty lighter (in tow from Deptford and Plymouth for Pembroke Dock, with naval stores), broke away from armed tug HMS Traveller ( Royal Navy) on 26 January near the Longships rocks, and drifted in heavy weather. On 28 January it was wrecked on the coast at Morwenstow, Cornwall. [7] |
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Starry Flag | United States | The schooner was wrecked on Cape Island Rock, near Kennebunk, Maine. The crew were saved. [8] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Morril Boy | United States | The schooner was wrecked at Pigeon Cove. The crew were saved. [9] |
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Charles C. Warren | United States | The schooner capsized and sank off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The crew were saved. [10] |
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H. A. Duncan | United States | The schooner developed a leak in the gale on 11/12 February off Newfoundland. The crew was taken off just before she sank by the schooner Sylth ( Canada). [11] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Messina | Germany | The cargo steamer foundered off the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom on passage Cardiff for Marseille with coal. Only one survivor. [12] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Tunisie | France | The ship was driven ashore on Lundy Island, Devon, United Kingdom. Her 21 crew were rescued. [13] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Star of Erin | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship was wrecked in the Forveaux Straits, New Zealand. [14] |
Soudan | United Kingdom | The ship, belonging to the British and Eastern Shipping Company, was carrying grain from Tacoma to Antwerp when she wrecked off North Point on Ascension Island ( 7°53.266′S14°22.599′W / 7.887767°S 14.376650°W ), without loss of life. [15] |
Ship | State | Description |
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County of Salop | United Kingdom | The steamer was wrecked at Wanson Mouth near Bude, Cornwall, United Kingdom. [16] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Elginshire | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Timaru, New Zealand. |
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William Lewis | United States | The 463-gross register ton, 134-foot (41 m) steam whaling bark, aground on a sandspit off Point Barrow, District of Alaska, since 3 October 1891, was destroyed by an accidental fire that broke out during salvage operations. [17] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Harry White | United States | The schooner was sunk in a collision in Block Island Sound between Block Island and the coast of Rhode Island. [18] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Alexander | United States | The 128.88-ton whaling brig was wrecked on a reef in the Bering Sea on the northwest coast of Saint Paul Island in the Pribilof Islands. Her crew of 29 reached the shore and survived and eventually were picked up by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine). [19] |
Ship | State | Description |
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City of Cheboygan | United States | The schooner was wrecked by unknown schooner in the Detroit River. Refloated, repaired and returned to service. [20] |
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Christiana | United Kingdom | The smack ran aground and was wrecked at Cardigan. Her two crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Caernarfon to Llangrannog, Glamorgan. [21] |
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Frascati | Germany | The steamer ran aground at Cape Town, South Africa. Later refloated and returned to service. [3] |
Water Lily | United States | The schooner was rammed, and cut in two, and sunk by Estella ( United States) off the mouth of the harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Both crewmen on board were rescued by Estella. [22] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Nellie N. Rowe | United States | The schooner was wrecked on Gull Rock, near Lockeport, Nova Scotia. The crew were saved. [23] |
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Alma | United States | Bound from gravel pits north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Milwaukee itself with a cargo of gravel, the 57.4-foot (17.5 m), 26-gross register ton scow schooner capsized in heavy seas off Milwaukee after her hold filled with water. Her three-man crew clung to her overturned hull until rescued by the fishing schooner Prince ( United States). Alma then drifted ashore onto rocks and probably broke up there in 15 to 20 feet (4.6 to 6.1 m) of water. [24] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Harley | United Kingdom | The steamship ran onto the Runnel Stone, off Land's End, Cornwall, United Kingdom and quickly sank. Her crew abandoned ship and eventually reached shore in the ship's boats. She was on a ballast voyage from Looe, Cornwall to Neath, Glamorgan, Wales. [25] [26] |
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Little Fanny | United States | The boat capsized at Rockland, Maine. The captain and one crewman died. [27] |
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Alice E. Wilds | United States | During a voyage from Chicago, Illinois, to Escanaba, Michigan, either in ballast or carrying a cargo of either coal or wood (according to various sources), the 136-foot (41 m), 292.86-gross register ton screw steamer sank without loss of life in Lake Michigan in 300 feet (91 m) of water 18 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi) off Milwaukee, Wisconsin, within three minutes of colliding in heavy fog with the steamer Douglas ( United States). Douglas rescued her crew. A wreck discovered in May 2015 appears to be that of Alice E. Wilds. [28] |
Ship | State | Description |
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City of Chicago | United Kingdom | The passenger ship ran aground off the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. All on board, including 1,100 passengers, were rescued. She broke up and sank a few days later. [29] |
Fred B. Taylor | Canada | The wooden, fully-rigged sailing ship was cut in two in a collision in fog with the steamer Trave ( Germany ) in the Atlantic Ocean 100 nautical miles (190 km) south east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States, with the loss of two of her 21 crew. The survivors were rescued by Trave. The stern section came ashore at Wells, Maine, United States on 7 August. The bow section drifted ashore on the coast of North Carolina, United States, between Bodies Island and Carrituck Inlet. [30] [31] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Champion | United States | The schooner was wrecked on Gull Rock, near Lockeport, Nova Scotia. She caught fire and was destroyed. The crew were saved. [32] |
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Ella Moore | Canada | The barque ran aground near Canso, Nova Scotia. She was later refloated, repaired and returned to service. [33] |
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G. P. Whitman | United States | The schooner was wrecked off Rose Blanche, Newfoundland. The crew was saved. [34] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Laura Sayward | United States | The schooner sprang a leak and sank. The crew made it to shore in her boats. [35] |
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Alva | United States | The 285-foot (87 m) steam luxury yacht — the property of William K. Vanderbilt — sank in 50 feet (15 m) of water on Pollock Rip Shoal off Chatham, Massachusetts, after the steamer H. F. Dimock (flag unknown) rammed her in fog. [36] |
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Beaver | Canada | The partially stripped wreck of the steamer, aground on rocks at Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, since 17 July 1888, sank after being struck by the wake of the passing steamer Yosemite. |
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Alabama | United States | The schooner was wrecked on Boon Island Ledge. The crew were saved. [37] |
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HM Torpedo Boat 75 | Royal Navy | The torpedo boat was sunk in a collision with HM Torpedo Boat 77 off The Maidens in the North Channel off County Antrim, Ireland. [38] |
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Albatross | United States | While attempting to enter Lituya Bay in Southeast Alaska, the 7.22-gross register ton, 31.1-foot (9.5 m) schooner drifted onto rocks in the bay inside Harbor Point ( 58°37′N137°39′W / 58.617°N 137.650°W ) and was wrecked. Her crew of two survived, but she was deemed a total loss. [19] |
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Western Reserve | United States | The lake freighter suffered a structural failure, broke in two, and sank in Lake Superior with the loss of 31 lives. There was one survivor. |
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Active | United States | The 14.3-ton, 41.2-foot (12.6 m) schooner was wrecked in "Marosco Bay, Cold Harbor," probably a reference to Morozovski Bay – a name commonly used for Cold Bay at the time – on the Alaska Peninsula in the District of Alaska. Her crew of eight survived. [19] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Charles W. Wetmore | United States | The whaleback steam cargo ship ran aground at Coos Bay, Oregon, and was abandoned. |
Ship | State | Description |
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Vienna | United States | The steamer was accidentally rammed by the steamer Nipigon ( Canada) and sank in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior. |
Ship | State | Description |
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Camiola | United Kingdom | Despite warning signals from the Sevenstones Lightship, the Newcastle steamer struck the Seven Stones Reef at full speed and quickly sank; all of her crew managed to get into the ship's two boats. She was carrying 3,400 tons of coal from Cardiff to Naples, [39] or Barry Docks to Malta. [40] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Helen Mar | United States | The 110-foot (33.5 m) whaling bark sank in the Chukchi Sea northwest of Point Barrow, District of Alaska, with the loss of 27 lives after she was caught in a swift current and crushed between two icebergs. Her five survivors clung to her mainmast as she sank, escaped onto the ice, and were rescued on 8 October by the whaling steamer Orca ( United States). [41] |
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Elizabeth Mary | United States | The 49-foot (14.9 m) steamer was wrecked in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the District of Alaska during a gale. Her crew of three survived. [42] |
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J. P. Allen | United States | The schooner was sunk by a whirlwind 55 miles (89 km) east of Pensacola, Florida. [43] |
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A. P. Nichols | United States | Bound from Chicago, Illinois, for Escanaba, Michigan, the 145.2-foot (44.3 m), 299.67-gross register ton three-masted schooner ran aground on a reef in Lake Michigan off Pilot Island in Door County, Wisconsin. Her crew survived and sheltered at Pilot Island Light. She was still on the reef when a storm struck in March 1893, during which she broke up and sank. Her wreckage lies scattered in waters 25 to 55 feet (7.6 to 16.8 m) deep about 300 feet (91 m) west of the Pilot Island boat dock at 45°17.120′N086°55.091′W / 45.285333°N 86.918183°W . [44] |
Roumania | United Kingdom | The Anchor Line steel screw steamer Roumania went aground near the Óbidos Lagoon Inlet on the west coast of Portugal with the loss of 120 lives. |
Ship | State | Description |
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Flying Cloud | United States | The schooner dragged anchor and was wrecked on rocks in Lake Michigan at Glen Arbor Township, Michigan in a squall. [45] [46] |
Ostrich | United States | The schooner capsized in Lake Michigan in a squall and was driven ashore on South Manitou Island with the loss of her entire crew. [47] [48] |
W.H. Gilcher | United States | The lake freighter sank during the night of 28–29 October in Lake Michigan somewhere near North Manitou Island with the loss of her entire crew, variously reported as 18 or 22 men. [49] |
Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Howe | Royal Navy | The Admiral-class battleship ran aground on a shoal off Ferrol, Spain, primarily due to faulty charts. Salvage was difficult, and she was not refloated until 30 March 1893. She was repaired and returned to service. [50] [51] [52] |
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Watergeus | United Kingdom | The steamer sank after a collision in Shanghai harbour. [3] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Abbey Town | Sweden | The three-masted sailing ship, previously called Ida, was wrecked in Perelle Bay on the west coast of Guernsey in the Channel Islands during a voyage from Raine Island to Granville, Manche, with a cargo of guano. [53] [54] [55] |
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Hattie Wells | United States | The schooner barge went ashore five miles (8.0 km) from Point Pelee, Ontario. Reported a week later as going to pieces, but salvaged in July 1893 and taken to Port Huron, Michigan, with repairs finished on 19 September 1893. [56] [57] |
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Leo | United States | The 155-ton schooner struck a rock and sank in Port Houghton Bay ( 57°03′N135°22′W / 57.050°N 135.367°W ) in Southeast Alaska. She was refloated and subsequently served in a cove at Japonski Island in the harbor at Sitka, District of Alaska, as a quarantine hulk and later as a prison hulk. [59] |
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Chishima | Imperial Japanese Navy | The unprotected cruiser sank after a collision in Seto Inland Sea with P&O merchant vessel Ravenna ( United Kingdom ) with the loss of 90 lives. |
Kate Harding | United Kingdom | During a storm, the 712-ton three-masted barque was wrecked on Nauset Beach near Highland Light on Cape Cod on the coast of Massachusetts. [60] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Knights Templar | United States | The schooner was damaged in a collision with an unknown schooner in a snowstorm eight miles (13 km) off Sambro, Nova Scotia. She filled and sank. The crew took to her boats and were rescued six hours later by a pilot boat. [61] |
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Northerner | United States | The steam barge ran aground on Keweenaw Point in fog. She was refloated and taken to L'Anse, Michigan. [62] |
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Duke | United Kingdom | During a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Cardigan, the schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Cemaes Head, Cardiganshire, Wales. Her crew were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). [21] |
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Northerner | United States | The steam barge caught fire at L'Anse, Michigan when a kerosene lamp was dropped in a possible arson fire. The fire destroyed the vessel, dock, and warehouse. She was scuttled off the dock in 10–15 feet (3.0–4.6 m) of water. [62] |
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Bokhara | United Kingdom | The steam passenger ship struck a reef in the Taiwan Strait off Sand Island in the Pescadores during a typhoon and foundered with the loss of 125 of the 150 people on board. She was on a voyage from Shanghai, China, to Hong Kong. |
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Nubian | United Kingdom | The passenger-cargo steamer sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Lisbon, Portugal. |
Ship | State | Description |
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Esther Ward | United States | The schooner went ashore on Cape Cod. The crew were saved. [63] |
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Bessie Reuter | United States | The 31-ton schooner was lost with all hands off the District of Alaska. [64] |
Danube | United Kingdom | The sailing ship disappeared during a voyage from Guadeloupe to New York City. |
Henry Davey | The schooner was lost off "Squan," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet. [65] | |
Seignelay | French Navy | The unprotected cruiser was wrecked. [66] [67] |