List of shipwrecks in 1881

The list of shipwrecks in 1881 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1881.

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1881
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
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January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
George B. McClellan	United States	The tug exploded. Her smokestack fell on the master of the barge she was towing, killing him.[1]

3 January

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Lupata	United Kingdom	The ship sank about 200 yards (180 m) from the Teilamork Rock Lighthouse, San Francisco with the loss of the crew.[2]

4 January

List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Active	United Kingdom	The 200-ton Newcastle steamer struck the Stag Rocks off Lizard Point, Cornwall while bound for Caen with coal from Neath.[3]
Brazilian		The Warren Line steamer broke in two while stranded on the Burbo Bank off Liverpool. The steamer was out of Boston with cattle.[4]

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Farnley	United Kingdom	(first report) The Newcastle screw steamer was out of Savannah with cotton for Revel.[4] Farnley left Dartmouth on 26 December 1880 and, on an unreported date, two bodies and several bales of cotton were washed up on the coast of Jutland, near Ringkøbing.[5]
Indian Chief	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the Long Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Kent with the loss of seventeen of her 28 crew. Survivors were rescued by the lifeboat Bradford ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Indian Chief was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, County Durham to Yokohama, Japan.[6][7]
Nymphaea	United Kingdom	The cargo ship ran aground on the Sunk Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Kent. Her crew took to the lifeboats and were rescued by another vessel.[8]

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Unnamed		A large steamer when ashore on the Goodwin Sands and sank with all hands.[9]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
John Tillotson		The steamer Idlewild collided with the Tittleson barque John Tillotson which foundered within five minutes. The pilot and five of the crew drowned.[10]
Sly Boots	United Kingdom	(first report) The Brixham trawler was run down by the steamer, Compton. All five crew drowned.[11]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Hereford	South Australia	The full-rigged ship ran aground at Point Lonsdale, Victoria. She was later salvaged and repaired.[12]

14 January

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Emily	United Kingdom	The Brixham trawler was run down by a sailing vessel approximately 20 miles (32 km) off the Eddystone. A nearby fishing boat picked up the crew.[13]

15 January

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Lumley	United Kingdom	The brig stranded on a rock approximately one mile (1.6 km) offshore, north of Whitby. The crew lost their lives.[14]

16 January

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
BAP Atahualpa	Peruvian Navy	War of the Pacific: Scuttling of the Peruvian fleet in El Callao: The monitor was scuttled by her crew at El Callao, Peru, to prevent her capture by advancing Chilean forces. She was salvaged later in 1881 and became a storage hulk.
BAP República	Peruvian Navy	War of the Pacific: Scuttling of the Peruvian fleet in El Callao: The torpedo boat was scuttled by her crew at El Callao, Peru, to prevent her capture by advancing Chilean forces.
BAP Talismán	Peruvian Navy	War of the Pacific: Scuttling of the Peruvian fleet in El Callao: The troopship was scuttled by her crew at El Callao, Peru, to prevent her capture by advancing Chilean forces.
BAP Toro Submarino	Peruvian Navy	War of the Pacific: Scuttling of the Peruvian fleet in El Callao: The submarine was scuttled by her crew at El Callao, Peru, to prevent her capture by advancing Chilean forces.

17 January

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Enterprise	United Kingdom	The Porthleven dandy went ashore on Clodgy Point, St Ives, Cornwall. The crew were taken off by the steamer Gwent before the dandy went ashore.[15]
BAP Rímac	Peruvian Navy	War of the Pacific: Scuttling of the Peruvian fleet in El Callao: The troopship was scuttled by her crew at El Callao, Peru, to prevent her capture by advancing Chilean forces. She was salvaged in June 1881.
Rosa Joseph	France	The schooner went ashore at St Ives, Cornwall while taking coal from Briton Ferry to Cherbourg.[15]
Unnamed	France	A vessel, possibly a chasse-marée sank in Yarmouth roads.[16]

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Abraham Thomas	United Kingdom	The Yarmouth lifeboat capsized while returning with the sole survivor of the Guiding Star. Two survived.[16]
Anna Decéil	France	The Boulogne ketch went ashore at Ipswich.[16]
Ann Turgoose	United Kingdom	The Goole schooner, with a cargo of wheat, from London to Hull, stranded near Saltfleet.[16]
Charlotte Dunbar	France	The Lorient brigantine went ashore on Burnt Island, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly while bound from Newport for Morlaix. There was no sign of the crew or the ship's boat.[17]
Edith Mary	United Kingdom	The London barque went ashore at Yarmouth. Five of the crew were saved by the rocket apparatus and five drowned.[16]
Felix and Rosalie	France	The schooner foundered approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Boscastle, Cornwall while in ballast for Swansea from Trouville. Five men and a boy landed near King Arthur's Castle.[18]
Guiding Star	United Kingdom	The Padstow schooner went ashore at Yarmouth. The captain and two crew was ashore and the mate left onboard drowned.[19][20]
Havelock	United Kingdom	The collier was washed on to the pier at Ryde, Isle of Wight.[16]
John Ward	United Kingdom	The collier was washed on to the pier at Ryde, Isle of Wight.[16]
Palestine	United Kingdom	The West Hartlepool barque was wrecked at Thorpeness, Suffolk. The crew were saved by the rocket apparatus[16]
Rapid	United Kingdom	The Whitby brig went ashore at Gorleston, Norfolk. The seven crew drowned.[16]
Restless	United Kingdom	The brigantine was driven ashore at Penarth.[16]
Rhoda	United Kingdom	The Middlesbrough schooner went ashore at Ipswich.[16]
Rook	United Kingdom	The steamer, with a cargo of coal and syrup, sank at Lookdow, near Tobermory.[16]
Sarah Jane	United Kingdom	The Whitehaven three-masted schooner went ashore at Yarmouth with the loss of the mate.[16]
Victor	United Kingdom	The tug was damaged by ice and sank in Leith harbour.[16]
Unnamed	United Kingdom	One hundred barges sank in the Thames with considerable loss of life.[16]
Unnamed	United Kingdom	Several fishing boats went ashore at Harwich.[16]
Unnamed	United Kingdom	Several vessels foundered at Ryde, Isle of Wight.[16]
Unnamed	United Kingdom	Several trows from Gloucester and Bristol were driven ashore.[16]
Unnamed	United Kingdom	Many vessels in Brixham harbour foundered with some washed onto the streets.[16]
Unnamed	United Kingdom	A vessel came ashore at Shovepoint, Walton-on-the-Naze.[21]

19 January

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Anthrodite	Netherlands	The Friesland brig was wrecked off Beachy Head and four of the crew drowned.[22]
Rising Sun	United Kingdom	Went ashore in the River Thames. The crew were saved.[23]
Unnamed		Nine vessels were wrecked off Yarmouth and nearly fifty lives lost. Many wrecks on the coast around Harwich.[22]
Unnamed		Thirty vessels beached near Cardiff and several more reported.[24]

20 January

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Bothalwood	United Kingdom	A barque-rigged vessel sailing from Carthagena for Leith hit rocks in St Ouen's bay. No crew were lost.[25]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Alexandrea	France	The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[26]
Amiral	France	The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[26]
British Lady	United Kingdom	The 89-ton schooner from Penzance, Cornwall lost her mast in a gale and sank near the Runnel Stone. Her crew were picked up by the Isles of Scilly ferry Queen of the Bay ( United Kingdom).[27]
Buckinghamshire	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[26]
Cecile	France	The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[26]
Etta	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[26]
Mirella	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[26]

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Cresswell	New South Wales	The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Paviland, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[26]
Eleanor	United Kingdom	The paddle steamer was wrecked at Leestone Point, Kilkeel, Ireland.[28]
Telegraph	United Kingdom	The steamer ran aground at Cooley Point, Ireland. She was salvaged but waa deemed beyond economical repair and was scrapped.[28]

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Mintie	United States	The sternwheel steamer was sunk in Perdido Bay when her boiler exploded 3 miles east of Minez Ferry. 3 killed.[29]

29 January

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Harvest Queen	United Kingdom	The American ship McLauria found the British barque, in poor condition, in the Atlantic on 28 January. Eight of the crew were taken on board with the captain and mate staying on the Harvest Queen, which foundered during the night.[30]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown date

Ship	Country	Description
Blyth	United Kingdom	The steamer ran aground on rocks at Santoria Bay. The crew survived.[31]
Josephine	United States	The paddle steamer sprang a leak and foundered in the Gulf of Mexico. She was on a voyage from Cuba to New Orleans, Louisiana.[32]
Saint Jean	France	The barque sank, with the loss of three men, after colliding with the barque Privateer off the Isles of Scilly.[33]

February

6 February

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1881

Ship	Country	Description
T. J. Mitchell	United States	The schooner sank in a storm in Pensacola Bay.[29]

7 February

List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Bohemian	United Kingdom	The cargo ship was wrecked near Crookhaven, County Cork with the loss of 33 lives.[34]

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Kron Prinz von Preussen	Germany	The brigantine was driven ashore in New Grimsby harbour, Tresco, Isles of Scilly.[35]
Unidentified schooner		A three-masted schooner foundered in Bideford Bay, near Clovelly.[36]

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Ridge Park	Australia	The cargo ship sank after hitting the Beware Reef, Cape Conran, Australia.[37]

13 February

List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Flying Spur	United Kingdom	The clipper ship was wrecked on Martin Vas, North Rock, in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Sylphide	France	The Nantes brigantine foundered and became a total wreck on the beach at Perranuthnoe, Cornwall while bound from Audierne, France to Cardiff, Wales with a cargo of potatoes. The crew were saved by the Prussia Cove rocket appartatus.[38]
T F Whiton	United States	The Searsport, Maine barque bound for London from Victoria, Vancouver Island carrying a mixed cargo of oil, tinned fish, wool, etc, foundered at Praa Sands, Cornwall. The crew were saved by the Prussia Cove rocket appartatus and the ship became a total loss after it caught fire.[38]

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Caledonia	United Kingdom	Carrying mail and passengers from Southampton, England, to Guernsey, Sark, and Jersey in the Channel Islands, the steamer was wrecked off Oyster Rock, just outside the harbour at Saint Helier, Jersey, in the Channel Islands.[39][40]
Jesse Rhnas	United States	The Brig was stranded on the East Pensacola Bar on Santa Rosa Island, Florida at the entrance to Pensacola Bay.[29]

20 February

List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Polly Peckham		The schooner stranded on the coast near Waterford, Ireland. The captain and mate survived, while five of the crew were lost.[41]

22 February

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Georgina	United Kingdom	The Port Madoe schooner ran ashore on the rocks off Porthoustock, Cornwall while en route to Cork from London. The crew attracted attention by lighting a tar-barrel and the ship and cargo of railway sleepers was destroyed. The crew were rescued by the Porthoustock lifeboat.[42]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Eliser Bru	Norway	The brigantine was run down by the Carlyle Castle. The crew of eight were landed on the Isles of Scilly the following day.[43]

25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Liverpool	United States	The ship left New York, on 21 February, with a cargo of tobacco for Bordeaux. Liverpool was abandoned when on her beam-ends and the crew were picked up by the Norwegian barque Valkyrien and some were landed in the Isles of Scilly.[44]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown date

Ship	Country	Description
Boomtide	United Kingdom	The steamer sank off Sunderland and eighteen of the crew was saved by the lifeboat Florence Nightingale.[45]
Harry See	United States	The schooner was lost near Pensacola, Florida.[29]
Isabel	United Kingdom	The ship was lost in Peter's River, Newfoundland with all hands.[46]
John Kendall	United Kingdom	The Penzance brig carrying coal from Greenock to Barbadoes was a total wreck on a ridge at CloghyCloughey Bay.[46]
Redown	United States	The New York brig was wrecked near Passages, Spain. The crew were picked up by the Alverton and landed at Cardiff.[47]
Stamford	United Kingdom	The Sunderland steamer struck the west point of Ushant and foundered. Stamford was out of Bilbao for Middlesbrough with a cargo of mineral. Thirteen of the crew died.[48]
Unnamed		The Rocket Brigade shewn alacrity last week to reach the scene of the wreck in Hoblyn's Cove, St Agnes, Cornwall.[49]

March

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Cecilie Caroline	France	The Croisec vessel left Charlestown with china clay for Nantes. She was driven ashore, a few hours after she left port, at Apple-tree on the south Cornish coast. The five crew lost their lives. .[50]

3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Victorine	France	The brigantine carrying pitwood for Port Talbot went ashore at Mevagissey, Cornwall. Two of the crew drowned.[51]

4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Ajace	Kingdom of Italy	During a voyage from Belgium to New York City with a cargo of scrap railroad iron and 2,040 empty petroleum barrels, the 566-ton sailing vessel was wrecked off Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York, during a storm. Only one member of her crew survived. Her wreck settled in 25 feet (8 m) of water and became known as "the Italian Wreck".[52]

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Essen	German Empire	The steamer was abandoned after she stranded on the Isle of Wight.[53]
Merlin	United Kingdom	The barque went ashore at St Andrews, Scotland with the loss of eight or nine crew.[53]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Benin	United Kingdom	The Elder Dempster 1,530-grt cargo ship sank in the English Channel following a collision with Duke of Buccleugh off Start Point, Devon, England. Ninety-four elephant tusks were removed from her wreck in 1954.[54]

29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Geraldine	United Kingdom	The schooner sank in Port Eynon Bay off Swansea, Wales. Her crew survived.[26]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: March 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Gilbert Thompson	United Kingdom	The barque, from Calcutta to Liverpool, sank after hitting a ledge.[53]
Juno	United Kingdom	The schooner was run down by Lady Ruthven off Beachy Head and sank with the loss of three crew.[53]
Sultan	United Kingdom	The steamer sank in the Humber.[53]

April

2 April

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Goldhunter	United States	The 8.1-ton schooner was wrecked on the coast of the Territory of Alaska 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi) east of the entrance to "Behring Bay" – probably a reference to Yakutat Bay, which historically was sometimes known as "Bering Bay" – after she lost her rudder in a storm. All seven people aboard survived.[55]

3 April

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1881

Ship	Country	Description
United States	United States	Carrying a valuable cargo, the passenger-cargo steamer was wrecked near the outer shoal of Cape Romain, South Carolina.[56]

6 April

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Cornish Girl	United Kingdom	The vessel was abandoned at sea while en route for her home port of Falmouth, Cornwall from Aracaju.[57]

9 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Newton	United Kingdom	The 1,324 GRT cargo ship was wrecked in the Atlantic Ocean off Madeira while carrying coffee and sugar from Bahia, Brazil, to London.[58]
Speed		The Guernsey schooner sank after a collision with the steamer Solent off the Longships, Cornwall, causing the death of the master. Speed was carrying salt from Runcorn to Jersey and the surviving crew were picked up by Victua and landed at Plymouth.[59][60]

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Daisy	United States	The steamer suffered a machinery failure and capsized. Two crewmen killed.[61]
Marmora	Denmark	The barque was wrecked on the Scarweather Sands in the Bristol Channel. Her eight crew were rescued by the lifeboat Chafyn Grove ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[26]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Kestrel	United Kingdom	On a voyage from London, England, to Bordeaux, France, carrying twenty passengers and cargo in patchy fog, the steamer struck Burhou Island, west of Alderney in the Channel Islands[62]

17 April

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Annie	United Kingdom	The Padstow registered schooner struck a rock while on a course between Land's End and the Longships. The schooner began to take on water and was taken in tow by the steamer Mary Monica for Mount's Bay. After two hours the crew went on the steamer and after another hour of tow Annie sank.[63]
Katie	United Kingdom	Carrying starch from Norwich, England, to Dublin, Ireland, the 99-ton Padstow, Cornwall-registered schooner struck the Runnel Stone in the English Channel off Gwennap Head, Cornwall, and sank with no loss of life.[27]

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Ellen Vair	United Kingdom	The crew were taken off and landed in Newport, when she collided with the Gertrude off The Lizard.[64]

25 April

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1881

Ship	Country	Description
City of Sanford	United States	The steamer burned in the St. Johns River, a total loss. Four burned to death and five drowned.[65]

26 April

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1881

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Doterel	Royal Navy	The Doterel-class sloop sank while at anchor ​^1⁄2 mile off Sandy Point, Chile, following an explosion and the loss of 143 lives. There were twelve survivors.[66][67]

27 April

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Saint George	United States	During a voyage in the waters of the Territory of Alaska from Kodiak to English Bay and Nutchick with three passengers, a cargo of general merchandise, and a crew of seven aboard, the 100.41-ton schooner struck an uncharted rock off Twin Rocks (57°50′05″N 152°18′45″W) near Kodiak. There was no loss of life, but she filled with enough water to become unmanageable. The schooner Pauline Collins ( United States) towed her to Long Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska, but she was so badly damaged that she was declared nearly a total loss.[68]

30 April

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Tararua	United Kingdom	Tararua The passenger steamer struck the reef off Waipapa Point in the Catlins, New Zealand, on 29 April, and sank the next day. This is the worst civilian shipping disaster in New Zealand's history with 131 deaths; only twenty of the 151 passengers and crew survived.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: April 1881

Ship	Country	Description
James Harris	United Kingdom	The steamship collided with the Andalusia in the North Sea, off the Farne Islands and sank within five minutes. Fourteen of her crew drowned and four survived.[69]

May

7 May

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Culmore	United Kingdom	The steamer with a cargo of onions, peppers and oranges hit the Crim Rocks, near the Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly.[70] The captain and three of the crew lost their lives.[71]

10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Gananoque	United Kingdom	The barque collided with an iceberg in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 4 miles (6.4 km) off the Bird Rocks in the Magdalen Islands and sank quickly.[72][73] The crew landed on Bird Rocks, and were picked up on 12 May.[72]

24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Victoria	Canada	While carrying passengers back to downtown London, Ontario, Canada during Victoria Day celebrations, the steamboat sank in the Thames River, due to overcrowding causing her to strike a rock in the shallow river and ultimately capsize. Approximately 182 people drowned out of a total of 600 on board.[74]

28 May

List of shipwrecks: 28 Mayl 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Mary Hough'	United Kingdom	The steamer collided in thick fog with the Castilian in the River Mersey. Taken under tow by the steam tug Hercules, a few minutes later, she was run into by the mail steamship African and sank. The crew were landed at Liverpool.[75]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date May 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Queen of Nations	United Kingdom	The clipper ship was wrecked on Corrimal Beach, New South Wales, Australia, with the loss of one life.

June

2 June

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Alster	United Kingdom	The steamship collided with Adam Smith ( United Kingdom) and sank off Happisburgh, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Antwerp, Belgium.[76]

6 June

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Seine'	United Kingdom	The 222-ton steamer sank immediately after being hit by the 1,058 ton steamer Prado off Godrevy Head, Cornwall. Prado landed the crew at Falmouth.[77]

13 June

List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1881

Ship	Country	Description
USS Jeannette	United States Navy	USS Jeanette Jeannette expedition: The Philomel-class gunvessel sank in the Arctic Ocean (77°15′N 154°59′E) after being crushed by ice. Although there was no immediate loss of life, 20 of her 33 crewmen died before reaching safety.

26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Jamestown	United States	The abandoned sailing ship was found aground at Hafnir, Iceland. Badly battered by high seas in December 1880 and January 1881, she had been abandoned in the North Atlantic Ocean in January 1881 at 43.10°N 22°W / 43.10; -22 with all 27 people aboard rescued by the steamer Ethiopia ( United Kingdom). She then had floated unmanned for four months before running aground.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown date

Ship	Country	Description
Flora P Stafford	United Kingdom	The barque was run down by the Haytien and abandoned while returning to Hampton Roads from Bordeaux with iron ore. The crew were taken off the barque but the captain died within an hour.[78]

July

2 July

List of shipwrecks: 2 July 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Daniel Webster	United States	The 327-ton whaling vessel was crushed in ice and sank in the Arctic Ocean 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) south of Point Barrow, Territory of Alaska.[79]

3 July

List of shipwrecks: 3 July 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Glen	United Kingdom	The schooner collided with the screw-steamer Alliance off St Ives, Cornwall and foundered. The crew were landed at Penarth on board the Alliance.[80]

4 July

List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Britannic	United Kingdom	The White Star Line ocean liner ran aground in fog at Kilmore, County Wexford, Ireland, and remained stuck for two days. All the passengers were safely landed at Waterford. She sprang a leak in her engine room after being re-floated and was beached at Wexford Bay. She had to be patched up and pumped before returning to Liverpool.

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Unnamed		Thirty lives were lost when three sailing vessels sank during a ″terrific gale″ at East London.[81]

28 July

List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Nordstjernan	Norway	The passenger-cargo steamer was wrecked at Knivskjærodden, near North Cape, Norway, and sank. Tourist passengers and crew saved.[82][83]

August

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Isaac Pereire	France	The steamer was scuttled to extinguish a fire at Tunis French Tunisia. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[84]

9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Hugo	German Empire	The crew abandoned their vessel in the Pacific Ocean, while carrying coal from Newcastle to San Francisco, after it was destroyed by fire. The nine crew reached Chilbe, Chile in the lifeboat, taking nine days to cover 800 miles.[85]

15 August

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1881

Ship	Country	Description
W. F. March	United States	Carrying 10 miners as passengers, a cargo of 35 tons of ballast, provisions, ore, and mining tools, and a crew of seven, the 95.92-ton schooner dragged her anchor during a gale and was wrecked without loss of life on the beach at Golovnin Bay in the Territory of Alaska.[86]

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August

Ship	Country	Description
A. B. Ward	United States	The tug blew up and sank in the Chicago River at the Clark Street Bridge, Chicago as a result of a boiler explosion. Later towed to Miller's Dry Dock and rebuilt. Two crewmen killed.[87][88]
Courier		The schooner foundered and the crew were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall on 12 September by Golden Sea.[89]

21 August

List of shipwrecks: 21 August

Ship	Country	Description
Eira	United Kingdom	The steam exploration yacht of Benjamin Leigh Smith was heavily damaged by floating ice on 21 August and sank near Cape Flora, Franz Joseph Land. The owner and his crew were all rescued almost a year later.[90]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown

Ship	Country	Description
Asterope	United Kingdom	The brig was lost on the coast near the Para River while carrying coal from Cardiff to Para. The crew of eight were rescued following two days in the ship's boat.[91]
Thomas Blythe	United Kingdom	The Hayle barque filled with water and sank about 500 miles (800 km) from the Isles of Scilly. The seven crew took to the ships boat and were picked up my a Norwegian ship. The barque was carrying iron ore from Samanco, Peru to Liverpool.[92]
Unnamed fishing vessels	United Kingdom	Fifty-eight fishermen from Shetland drowned during a recent storm.[93]

September

10 September

List of shipwrecks: 10 September

Ship	Country	Description
Clarovine	United Kingdom	A fire in the forecastle spread to the rest of the barque while docked at Milford Haven. Both the ship and the cargo of timber were destroyed with no loss of life.[94]

24 September

List of shipwrecks: 24 September

Ship	Country	Description
Independenza		The barque first hit the Crim Rocks in the Isles of Scilly, and later the Barrel of Butter rock on The Garrison where she sank. She was carrying guano from Pabella de Pica to Rotterdam. The crew took to the ship's boat and survived.[95]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September

Ship	Country	Description
W J Taylor	United Kingdom	The Penzance steamer was hit amidships by the Plover, in the Warp Channel at the mouth of the River Thames and sank shortly after. The cargo and crew were lost.[96]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown

Ship	Country	Description
Elizabeth Irving		A number of crew drowned in the Fraser River while trying to escape from the burning steamer.[97]
St Louis		The brig sank off Beachy Head following a collision with the Seriol Wyn. Eight crew of the St Louis drowned.[98]
Teuton	United Kingdom	The Cape Mai steamer struck a rock and started to take on water, the captain altered course for Simon's Bay, near Cape Town, at initially 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph). At ten in the evening the engines were stopped and the ship's boats lowered but the ship sank quickly, along with four of the ship's boats, drowning 236.[99]

October

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Lucie M.	United States	The schooner sprang a leak and sank 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Key West.

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Koning der Nederlanden	Netherlands	The Sinking of SS Koning der Nederlanden, oil painting by J. Eden, 1881. After her drive shaft broke on 4 October, the passenger liner sank in the Indian Ocean 400 miles (640 km) off the Chagos Archipelago. Six lifeboats were launched; three were found and their occupants rescued, but the other three, with 90 passengers and crew aboard them, disappeared without trace.[100] The captain and thirty-eight crew and passengers were landed at Aden on 13 November by Madeira.[101]

6 October

List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Pauline Collins	United States	With six passengers and four crewmen aboard, the 69.33-ton fur-trading schooner was wrecked without loss of life on the coast of Kodiak Island near Karluk, Territory of Alaska.[102]

12 October

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Pasha	United Kingdom	While carrying coal from Burnt Island, the Dundee steamer sank off the Norwegian coast. The crew were saved.[103] The master was reprimanded for having an unfit ship and the crew were drunk because they felt that ″... as the vessel did not look very well, and they thought they might as well go down with a bellyful of whisky as a bellyful of water.″[104]
Unknown		During a gale a vessel sank off Formby with the loss of all hands.[103]

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Bertha	United Kingdom	The Newcastle steamer foundered with all hands lost.[105]
Cyprian	United Kingdom	The steamer sank within 2 miles (3.2 km) of Liverpool with the loss of twenty-one lives. Six other vessels were lost within a few miles.[106]
Emma Mary	United Kingdom	The barque foundered near Yarmouth and the crew were rescued by the St Bernard.[105]
Ganges	United Kingdom	During a voyage from Middlesbrough, England, to Calcutta, India, with a cargo of railway iron, the sailing ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands in the English Channel off Kent, England, with the loss of three lives.
Sunflower	United Kingdom	The Falmouth vessel was foundered in the North Sea and the crew were taken to Yarmouth.[105]
Unione	Italy	The barque sank in the North Sea. Eight of the crew were taken to Yarmouth by the Seaflower and the other four were picked up by fishermen from Lowestoft.[105]
Unnamed	United Kingdom	At least twenty fishing boats were lost in the North Sea, off Eyemouth during a gale.[107] All told 189 men lost their lives.

18 October

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Alexandre Smyers	Belgium	The steamer foundered off Hanstholm, Denmark.[108] Her crew was rescued by the steamer Orlando (flag unknown).
Balclutha	New South Wales	The steamship foundered off Gabo Island, Victoria with the loss of all 22 crew.[109]

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Calliope	United Kingdom	The steamer sank with all hands, bar one, off Cape Corubedo near Cape Finisterre. Calliope was carrying grain from Odessa to Bremen.[110]

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Clan Macduff	United Kingdom	The steamer left Liverpool for Bombay on 18 October and foundered in the Atlantic three days later. Some of the crew and passengers took to the boats the day before she sank, and ten people were picked up by the steamer Palestine, There were not enough lifeboats and nineteen were left on board. Clan Macduff were picked up by the Cork Liner Upupa and taken to Plymouth.[111]

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Sagittarie	France	The crew abandoned their vessel, while en voyage from Cardiff to Nantes with coal, at lat. 50.15N and long. 11.10W, following six days of heavy weather. They were picked up by the Variverts and taken to Falmouth.[112]
Victoria	United Kingdom	The schooner became total wreck in Newlyn harbour, Cornwall during a storm. Onboard was ten tons of coal and fifteen tons of ballast.[113]

27 October

List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Dixie	United States	The Schooner was stranded on Santa Rosa Island, Florida 30 miles east of the entrance to Pensacola Bay.[29]
Jennie Gilchrist	United States	The tow steamer suffered engine failure above a Government bridge causing her to strike the bridge in the Mississippi River between Rock Island, Illinois and Clinton, Iowa and was wrecked, a total loss. Nine lost.[114]
Unnamed	unknown	The steamer Venetia, was sailing with another steamer which disappeared during a sudden squall.[115]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Flying Fish	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.[116]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Balclutha		The steamer foundered during a gale while en voyage from Melbourne to Sydney. All twenty-two on board lost their lives.[117]
England's Glory	United Kingdom	The vessel struck a rock and foundered in Bluff Harbour, New Zealand.[118]
Fortitude	United Kingdom	The Hartlepool ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Towan Beach, near St Anthony Head, Cornwall.[119]
Omba		The vessel foundered off Newcastle while sailing from Batavia to Melbourne. It is believed all on board perished.[117]

November

1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Sophie	France	The Regniville schooner was wrecked and went to pieces on Battery Point, Prussia Cove in Mount's Bay with the loss of all the crew.[120]

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Albion		Thirty-two crew and passengers drowned when the steamer was wrecked on the Atlantic coast of Colombia.[121]

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1881

Ship	Country	Description
England's Glory	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked at The Bluff. The crew survived.[122]

12 November

List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Alverton	United Kingdom	The 1,821-ton screw steamer went ashore below a cliff, 10 miles (16 km) from Mugia, Portugal during fog. The Cardiff owned vessel was carrying pig iron from Bilbao to Cette, France.[123][124] The crew survived.[122]
Brunswick	United States	The steamer was sunk in a collision with Carlingford ( United States) on a squally night 10 miles east of Dunkirk, New York 10 miles off shore. Three crewmen killed when a lifeboat was capsized by the sinking ship.[125][126]
Carlingford	United States	The schooner was sunk in a collision with Brunswick ( United States) on a squally night 10 miles east of Dunkirk, New York 10 miles off shore. One crewman killed. Wreck discovered in mid 1990s.[127][128]

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Gem	United Kingdom	The small steamer broke from her moorings in St Mary's Pool, Isles of Scilly and went ashore at William's Bay, becoming a total wreck. Gem was bound for South Africa for employment as a river boat.[129]

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Barbara	United Kingdom	The barque, built by the Sunderland Shipbuilding Company in 1878, departed Cardiff, Wales, for Zanzibar on 14 September 1880. During the voyage, the captain, Richard Prichard of Llanbedrog, Wales, died and the mate, John Jones, took command. On the journey back to Liverpool, Barbara docked at Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland, and Jones enlisted a channel pilot, Thomas Lewis, to steer the remaining journey to Liverpool. A series of blunders followed and it appears Lewis was not qualified. In great confusion, Barbara was steered off course in heavy seas, the anchors were deployed but dragged, and the ship drifted onto rocks at Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire. All sixteen crew were saved except Jones, who drowned.[130]

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1881

Ship	Country	Description
F. W. Gaylord	United States	The steamer sank in a collision with D. T. Lane ( United States) in the Ohio River. Her cook was drowned.[131]

26 November

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Unnamed		The masts of a sunken ship could be seen off Margate.[132]

27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Albion	United Kingdom	One of the crew drowned when the brigantine became a total wreck at Ramsgate.[132]
Jackel	United Kingdom	The Preston steamer foundered off Trevose Head, Cornwall with the loss of the crew.[132]
Jane Elsie	France	The crew abandoned their schooner which was driven ashore at Yarmouth. There was no loss of life.[132]
Liverpool	United Kingdom	The vessel collided with the Larnaca in The Downs, southern North Sea and sank. The captain, pilot and some of the crew were lost.[132]
Naval Reserve	United Kingdom	The full rigged ship was wrecked at St Bees, in the Irish Sea. All twenty-five crew were saved.[132]
Unnamed		A schooner was seen to ground on Scroby Sands, Norfolk. It is assumed that she was lost with all hands.[132]
Unnamed		Two barques were driven ashore at the ″back″ of the Isle of Wight.[132]

28 November

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Annie Arbib	United Kingdom	The London steamer was abandoned in the North Sea, while on a voyage from Cronstadt, Russia to her home port with grain. The crew were landed at Great Yarmouth.[133]
Calzean	United Kingdom	The Greenock vessel became a total wreck after going ashore in the Sound of Jura. All the sixteen crew died.[134]

30 November

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Alsace-Lorraine	France	The steamer was struck amidships by the English steamer Rhondda and sank in a few minutes while leaving Messina for Cette with wine.[135]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Bendon	United Kingdom	The Liverpool barque foundered in the Atlantic while en route to St Johns. Five men from the barque Lowood died when attempting to save the crew of the Bendon.[136]
Gem	United Kingdom	On 20 November, the pilot-cutter Presto landed three sailors onto the Isles of Scilly, from the shipwrecked steamer Gem.[137][138]
Patriot	United Kingdom	The barque, carrying coal between Androssan and Galway was wrecked at Doolough Ireland. The Captain, his son and a crew member were drowned.[139]
Henry Edye	Belgium	The steamer disappeared without trace after passing the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, on 22 November. She is believed to have foundered in the Atlantic Ocean on or about 27 November.[140]
Thistle	United Kingdom	The Falmouth brigantine was hit by an unnamed vessel and sank off Dover. All the crew was saved.[141]
Unnamed		A large steamer struck the Barrels Rock near Courtmaesherry Bay.[133]
Warrior	United Kingdom	The London barque was loading at Homs on the Barbary coast when she was driven ashore in a gale. Five of the crew drowned.[142]

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Archiduc Rodolphe	Belgium	The steamer sank in the Scheldt after a collision with Stephenson ( United Kingdom). She was raised in 1898 and scrapped.[143]
USS Rodgers	United States Navy	The bark-rigged steamer, burning since 30 November after a fire started in her hold, sank in Saint Lawrence Bay off the Russian Empire's Chukotka Peninsula without loss of life after her magazine exploded.

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Malaleel	Austria-Hungary	The barque hit the Shark's Fin, the northernmost rock of the Longships reef and became a total wreck. She was carrying pitwood for the collieries in South Wales from Bordeaux.[144] Wreckage was washed up below the Levant mine and in Portheras Cove.[145]

15 December

List of shipwrecks: 15 December 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Eros	United Kingdom	While at anchor the steamer, was run down by an unnamed steamer and sank in the River Mersey, Liverpool.[146]

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Constance	United Kingdom	The three-masted schooner bound for Santander, Spain from Newport, with coal, grounded at the entrance to the Hayle River, Cornwall and became a total wreck. The crew and pilots were taken off by the Hayle lifeboat Isis.[147]

18 December

List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Tripolia	Sweden	The steamer ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, the Netherlands, with the loss of five lives.[148]

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Mary Julia	United Kingdom	The schooner was run down by a steamer with the loss of all hands.[149]

23 December

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Granger	United States	The steamer burned in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. One passenger and one crewman died.[150]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Helenslea	United Kingdom	The Dundee barque was run down and sank off Roche's Point, Ireland. Some of the crew perished.[151]

29 December

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Theta	United Kingdom	The vessel was scuttled at Stanley, Falkland Islands because the cargo was on fire. Theta was en voyage from Swansea to Valparaíso.[152]

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Rosa B.	United States	The steamer was destroyed by fire at Bayou De'Arbonne. one crewman drowned swimming to shore.[153]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Harworth	United Kingdom	The Newcastle steamer was abandoned in the Atlantic following the loss of her rudder, while on a voyage from Montreal to Rotterdam. The steamer became a total wreck and the crew were rescued by Germanic.[154]
Milton	United Kingdom	The ship caught fire and was abandoned at Christmas in latitude 3 N longitude, 110 W. Some of the crew were picked up by the Cochin and have not been heard of since. Five more were picked up by a steamer, off the coast of Lower California and are believed to be from the Milton.[155]
Pilot	United Kingdom	The paddle steamer was wrecked off the mouth of the River Ogmore in South Wales.[26]
Polly	United Kingdom	The Salcombe, Devon barque was a total wreck in the Bay of Honduras.[156]
Unidentified		The steamship Bendigo ran down a sailing vessel at 43N 9W.[157]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1881

Ship	Country	Description
Arctic	Unknown	The brigantine was lost in the vicinity of "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.[158]
Ellengowan	United Kingdom	The schooner-rigged screw steamer struck a sandbar in the Daly River in what is now the Northern Territory of Australia and sank. She was refloated in 1885 and was repaired and returned to service.
Elliot Ritchie	United States	The three-masted schooner was abandoned at sea after a fire broke out in one of her cargo holds.
Glendorgal	United Kingdom	The Padstow schooner became a total wreck near Ilfracombe, Devon.[159]
Guacolda	Chilean Navy	War of the Pacific: The torpedo boat was wrecked on the coast of Chile.[160]
Hattie M	United Kingdom	The Dublin barque was abandoned in the Atlantic. The surviving crew were landed in New York.[161]
Kismet	United Kingdom	The Liverpool barque is missing and has probably foundered in the Atlantic. Left Bahia, Brazil for New York with coffee.[162]
Los Angeles	United States	The vessel sank in Peril Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[163]
O.K.	United States	The 48- or 75-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost in either 1867 or 1881.[164]
Pepe Tono		The Mengual ship sailed from Pensacola for Barcelona on 2 February and not heard of since.[165]
Sarah Mandell	United Kingdom	Sailed from Pensacola for Dordt on 4 February and not heard of since.[165]
Severn	United Kingdom	The barque was in collision with Mayumba ( United Kingdom) off Madeira, Portugal and sank.[166]

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Ship events in 1881
Ship launches:	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886
Ship commissionings:	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886
Ship decommissionings:	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886
Shipwrecks:	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886