The list of shipwrecks in 1892 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1892.
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H. B. Griffin | ![]() | The schooner was destroyed by fire at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. [1] |
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USRC Gallatin | ![]() | 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] |
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Namchow | ![]() | The steamer foundered off Cupchi Point, or four miles (6.4 km) off Breaker Point, China. 414 killed. [3] [4] [5] |
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S. M. Lake | ![]() | The schooner capsized at Black River in a heavy gale. The crew were saved. [6] |
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No.7 | ![]() | The Admiralty lighter (in tow from Deptford and Plymouth for Pembroke Dock, with naval stores), broke away from armed tug HMS Traveller (![]() |
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Starry Flag | ![]() | The schooner was wrecked on Cape Island Rock, near Kennebunk, Maine. The crew were saved. [8] |
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Morril Boy | ![]() | The schooner was wrecked at Pigeon Cove. The crew were saved. [9] |
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Charles C. Warren | ![]() | The schooner capsized and sank off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The crew were saved. [10] |
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H. A. Duncan | ![]() | 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 (![]() |
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Messina | ![]() | The cargo steamer foundered off the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom on passage Cardiff for Marseille with coal. Only one survivor. [12] |
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Tunisie | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore on Lundy Island, Devon, United Kingdom. Her 21 crew were rescued. [13] |
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Star of Erin | ![]() | The full-rigged ship was wrecked in the Forveaux Straits, New Zealand. [14] |
Soudan | ![]() | 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] |
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County of Salop | ![]() | The steamer was wrecked at Wanson Mouth near Bude, Cornwall, United Kingdom. [16] |
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Elginshire | ![]() | ![]() |
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William Lewis | ![]() | 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] |
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Harry White | ![]() | The schooner was sunk in a collision in Block Island Sound between Block Island and the coast of Rhode Island. [18] |
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Alexander | ![]() | 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 ( ![]() |
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City of Cheboygan | ![]() | The schooner was wrecked by unknown schooner in the Detroit River. Refloated, repaired and returned to service. [20] |
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Christiana | ![]() | The smack ran aground and was wrecked at Cardigan. Her two crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( ![]() |
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Frascati | ![]() | The steamer ran aground at Cape Town, South Africa. Later refloated and returned to service. [3] |
Water Lily | ![]() | The schooner was rammed, and cut in two, and sunk by Estella (![]() |
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Nellie N. Rowe | ![]() | The schooner was wrecked on Gull Rock, near Lockeport, Nova Scotia. The crew were saved. [23] |
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Alma | ![]() | 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 (![]() |
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Harley | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | The boat capsized at Rockland, Maine. The captain and one crewman died. [27] |
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Alice E. Wilds | ![]() | 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 (![]() |
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City of Chicago | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | The wooden, fully-rigged sailing ship was cut in two in a collision in fog with the steamer Trave (![]() |
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Champion | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | ![]() 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 | ![]() | The schooner was wrecked off Rose Blanche, Newfoundland. The crew was saved. [34] |
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Laura Sayward | ![]() | The schooner sprang a leak and sank. The crew made it to shore in her boats. [35] |
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Alva | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | The schooner was wrecked on Boon Island Ledge. The crew were saved. [37] |
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HM Torpedo Boat 75 | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 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] |
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Charles W. Wetmore | ![]() | The whaleback steam cargo ship ran aground at Coos Bay, Oregon, and was abandoned. |
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Vienna | ![]() | The steamer was accidentally rammed by the steamer Nipigon ( ![]() |
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Camiola | ![]() | 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] |
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Helen Mar | ![]() | 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 (![]() |
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Elizabeth Mary | ![]() | 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] |
Ship | State | Description |
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J. P. Allen | ![]() | The schooner was sunk by a whirlwind 55 miles (89 km) east of Pensacola, Florida. [43] |
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A. P. Nichols | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 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. |
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Flying Cloud | ![]() | The schooner dragged anchor and was wrecked on rocks in Lake Michigan at Glen Arbor Township, Michigan in a squall. [45] [46] |
Ostrich | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 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] |
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HMS Howe | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | The steamer sank after a collision in Shanghai harbour. [3] |
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Abbey Town | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | The unprotected cruiser sank after a collision in Seto Inland Sea with P&O merchant vessel Ravenna (![]() |
Kate Harding | ![]() | 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] |
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Knights Templar | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 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 ( ![]() |
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Northerner | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | The passenger-cargo steamer sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Lisbon, Portugal. |
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Esther Ward | ![]() | The schooner went ashore on Cape Cod. The crew were saved. [63] |
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Bessie Reuter | ![]() | The 31-ton schooner was lost with all hands off the District of Alaska. [64] |
Danube | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | The unprotected cruiser was wrecked. [66] [67] |