List of shipwrecks in 1882

The list of shipwrecks in 1882 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1882.

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1882
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
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January

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Edwin & Sarah	United Kingdom	The ketch was wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset.[1]

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Grand Tower	United States	The steamer struck a snag near Goose Island in the Mississippi River and sank. Four drowned.[2]

17 January

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Bosphorus	United Kingdom	The vessel was wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off Homs, Tripoli. NIne of the twenty-two crew perished.[3]
Gem	Canada	The Brigantine foundered in a storm off Port Morien, Nova Scotia.[4]

20 January

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Henricho	Sweden	The Barque was sunk in a collision with E. B. Ward, Jr. ( United States) off Cape San Antonio, Cuba. Six killed.[5]

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Valley City	United States	The schooner sprang a leak in a storm and sank 40 miles (64 km) east southeast of Pensacola, or off Cape San Blas, Florida.[6]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Spartan	United Kingdom	The brigantine was abandoned, after drifting in the Atlantic Ocean following the loss of her mainsail on 13 January. The crew transferred to Anglesea and were taken to Falmouth, Cornwall.[7]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1882

Ship	Country	Description
City of Limerick	United Kingdom	The steamer sailed from New York on 8 January 1882 for London and disappeared.[8]
Concurrenteu	Norway	The derelict barque with the after-house washed away and some of the decks missing was seen on 10 January in the Atlantic.[9]
Elizabeth	United Kingdom	The Tobermory schooner was wrecked and three of her crew drowned.[10]

February

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Gem	United States	The steamer burned to the waterline and sank off Appletree Cove. Two passengers and 3 crew killed.[11]

9 February

List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Chimborazo	United Kingdom	The bark was wrecked 30 miles (48 km) south of Egmont West.[12]

15 February

List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Rosebud	United Kingdom	The steamer, carrying coal from Newport to Lisbon, collided with Lady Olive 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the Longships. Four crew lost their lives.[13]

20 February

List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Alexandria	United Kingdom	The Maryport barque left her home port on 14 December 1881 and, experiencing continuous bad weather abandoned the vessel on 20 February. They were picked up by the Dutch vessel Ermsterl on 28 February and landed at Falmouth, Cornwall on 16 March.[14]

25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Auguste	Germany	The Hamburg brigantine ran ashore in Whitsand Bay, Cornwall and became a total wreck. All the crew survived.[15]
Bertie Claiborne	United States	The steamer was destroyed by fire. Three children killed.[16]

28 February

List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Livadia	United Kingdom	The steamer grounded on the Cross Sands, off Great Yarmouth while carrying coal from Shields to Alexandria. All of the crew were washed off the wreck except for the boatswain who was picked up by the Gorleston volunteer lifeboat.[17]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: February

Ship	Country	Description
Constantine	Germany	The barque left New York on 29 January carrying paraffin oil for Danzig and was abandoned after five days of manning the pumps, in an effort to keep the ship afloat after a storm. The boatswain and one crew were washed overboard while the captain and ten men were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the Norwegian barque Emma on 26 February.[18]

March

17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Oline	United Kingdom	The ship foundered in Cardigan Bay with the loss of all five crew.[19]

21 March

List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Lessie B.	United States	The steamer was destroyed by fire near Jefferson, Texas. The Cabin Boy died.[20]

22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Unnamed		Two vessels went ashore in a gale in the North Sea, off Shields. One is expected to be a total wreck. No lives were lost.[21]

24 March

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Maddick		Sank in three minutes after being hit by the steamer Gertrude while at anchor off Southend. A pilot and the crew were landed at Gravesend by the steamer.[22]

25 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Iron Mountain	United States	The sternwheel paddle steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Mississippi River at Stumpy Point, near Island 102, after departing Vicksburg, Mississippi. A stewardess was trapped below decks and killed, but the rest of the crew escaped safely onto barges.

29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Liban	France	The steamship sank on the Tusker Sands, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of three of her eleven crew. Survivors were rescued by the Porthcawl Lifeboat.[23]

30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Golden City	United States	The steamer was destroyed by fire while making a landing at Memphis, Tennessee. Three crew and 22 passengers were lost.[24]

April

1 April

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Douro	United Kingdom	The passenger ship collided with the steamer Yrurac Bat ( Spain) in the Bay of Biscay off the northwest coast of Spain and sank with the loss of six lives. Survivors were rescued by the steamer Hidalgo ( United Kingdom).[25][26]
Yrurac Bat	Spain	The steamer collided with the passenger ship Douro ( United Kingdom) in the Bay of Biscay off the northwest coast of Spain and sank with the loss of 53 lives. Survivors were rescued by the steamer Hidalgo ( United Kingdom).[26]

3 April

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Europe	France	The Bordeaux barque stranded on the Goodwin Sands and the crew abandoned, taking to two boats. One boat was picked up by a tug off South Foreland.[27]

22 April

List of shipwrecks: 22 April 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Jehu	United Kingdom	The Chichester vessel was wrecked off Margate during a gale. The crew are presumed dead.[28]
Unnamed vessel		The vessel was wrecked off Margate during a gale.[28]

23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Little Eagle	United States	The tow steamer struck a bridge pier near Hannibal, Missouri in the Mississippi River and sank. Three drowned.[29]

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1882

Ship	Country	Description
St Vincent	United Kingdom	The barque struck the Spanish Ledges, at the entrance to St Mary's Sound in the Isles of Scilly. She was en route from St Vincent for London with sugar. The crew escaped, but there was much embarrassment as she was carrying a St Agnes pilot.[30][31]

29 April

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Drumhendry	United Kingdom	The 89 ton steamer was driven ashore in St Ives Bay under Wheal Lucy mine while carrying dynamite from Ireland to Hayle. The crew were hauled ashore on a rope and the captain and mate were picked up by the Hayle lifeboat.[32]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date

Ship	Country	Description
Golden City	United States	The steamer caught fire, while in Memphis and became a total wreck. Thirty-five people lost their lives.[33]

May

1 May

List of shipwrecks: May 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Western Belle		The ship collided with an iceberg off the east coast of Canada and sank.[34]

6 May

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Sappho	United States	The 263-ton whaling bark became a total loss when ice stove in her hull in the Bering Sea off Provideniya Bay on the southern coast of the Chukchi Peninsula of northeastern Siberia.[35]

13 May

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Pliny	United Kingdom	"The Wreck of the 'Pliny' at Deal Beach, New Jersey, Saturday, May 13," illustration from Harper's Weekly, 27 May 1882. Bound from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, carrying 21 passengers, a crew of 34, and a cargo of 20,000 bags of coffee and 300 bales of hides, the 1,671-ton schooner-rigged steam screw cargo ship was wrecked during a storm about 200 yards (183 m) off Deal Beach on the coast of New Jersey, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Elberon. The United States Life-Saving Service rescued everyone on board. She broke in two on 16 May, and her wreck sank in 10 to 25 feet (3 to 8 m) of water.[36]

18 May

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1882

Ship	Country	Description
H. M. Thanhouser	United States	The steamer sank in the Ohio River near West Franklin, Indiana. One life lost.[37]

19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Constance	United Kingdom	The schooner was destroyed by fire at Queenborough Pier, Kent.[38]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: May 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Holyrood		The steamer sank while on a voyage between Saigon and Singapore.[39]

June

2 June

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Melanie Heloise		The schooner parted her chains in Whitesand Bay, Cornwall, was holed when she fouled an English schooner and drifted past the Longships Lighthouse. The French ship was abandoned 19 nautical miles (35 km; 22 mi) off Land's End. The crew was picked up by the schooner Bull.[40]

3 June

List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Albatross	United States	The schooner lost her sails in a storm and drifted into the breakers at St. Andrews, Florida.[6]

12 June

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Iron Eva	United Kingdom	Eleven of the crew abandoned the vessel when it was sinking. Others, including the captain and mate were left on board when their lifeboat broke adrift. The Hartlepool ship was carrying deal, iron and oats from Gothenburg to London.[41]

22 June

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Escambia	United Kingdom	The screw steamer capsized and sank off San Francisco, California, United States, with the loss of twenty lives.

23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Vic	United Kingdom	The no 3 Pilot Cutter based at Falmouth, was run down in the English Channel, by the steamer Rosina about 3 miles (4.8 km) off St Anthony Head, Cornwall. The six crew survived.[42][43]

29 June

List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Alice	United Kingdom	The Newcastle steam tug left Shields for Warkworth, Northumberland with one hundred passengers. Alice hit rocks near Bondiear Point in fog and most of the passengers were taken off in fishing boats. The ship's boat submerged when launched with seventeen onboard, only three survived.[44]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: June 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Albion	United Kingdom	The Padstow ship grounded on the Long Sand. The crew survived.[45]
Min-y-don	United Kingdom	The London, iron clipper ship foundered off the coast of Australia with the loss of her crew of thirty.[46]

July

4 July

List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Scioto	United States	The steamer was sunk in a collision with John Lomas ( United States) off Mingo Junction, Ohio in the Ohio River, sinking partially submerged in 16 feet of water. Raised, repaired and returned to service under the name "Regular". Death estimates range from 58 to more than 75 died.[47][48][49]

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1882

Ship	Country	Description
HNLMS Adder	Royal Netherlands Navy	The Adder-class monitor sank with the loss of 65 lives.[50]

8 July

List of shipwrecks: 8 July 1882

Ship	Country	Description
North Star	United States	The 489-ton steam bark was crushed by ice in the Arctic Ocean 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) off Point Barrow, Territory of Alaska. Her crew survived.[51]

16 July

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1882

Ship	Country	Description
John Wilson	United States	The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Atchafalaya River. Lost with 3 passengers and 12 hands.[52]

22 July

List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Mayfly	United Kingdom	The schooner was hit by the screw-steamer Valhalla off Dungeness and sank immediately off. The captain and three crew drowned, six others and four passengers survived.[53]
Sparkling Wave	United Kingdom	The Fowey vessel sprung a leak and foundered 200 miles (320 km) north of Mona while bound for Hamburg with phosphate. The crew were rescued by the Danish brigantine Familieus and landed at Fowey on 27 August.[54]

August

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Gold Dust	United States	The steamer's boiler exploded, setting her on fire. She burned to the waterline and sank near Hickman, Kentucky. 20 killed.[55]

9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Mosel	German Empire	The North German Lloyd mail steamer grounded on rocks off the Lizard while on a voyage from Southampton to New York with mail and passengers. The 500 to 600 passengers were landed at Pennance by the Falmouth steamer Rosella.[56]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: August

Ship	Country	Description
Cardiff	United Kingdom	The iron steamer left Genoa on 25 August and was wrecked on the Berlings, Portugal.[57]

September

9 September

List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Mobile American	United States	The river steamer was blown ashore in Dog Island Harbor, a 1/2 mile from the west end of James Island, Florida.[6]

12 September

List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1882

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Phoenix	Royal Navy	HMS Phoenix The Doterel-class sloop-of-war was wrecked on East Point Reef, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Her crew abandoned her on 14 September without loss of life.

13 September

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Reine Des Anges	France	The Boulogne fishing boat sank on the Middle Ross Sands off Yarmouth with the loss of six of the fourteen crew.[58]

14 September

List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Asia	Canada	The passenger steamer and package freighter sank near Lonely Island in Canada′s Georgian Bay with the loss of 123 lives. Only two passengers survived..

21 September

List of shipwrecks: 21 September 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Edam	Netherlands	The steamer was struck amidships by the Wilson Line steamer Lepanto during thick fog. Edam left New York the day before and sank the Mouth of the Hudson River near Sandy Hook at latitude 41-8, longitude 66-59 west. All the passengers and crew were saved bar two of the crew.[59][60]
Robert E. Lee	United States	The steamer was destroyed by fire 30 miles below Vicksburg, Mississippi. Lost with 8 passengers and 14 hands.[61]

22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Clan Campbell	United Kingdom	The 2,434-grt Clan Line freighter ran aground and was wrecked at Baie du Cap, Mauritius.

26 September

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Rose	United States	With two passengers and a five crewmen on board, the 45.85-gross ton, 65-foot (19.8 m) screw steamer ran onto an uncharted rock between Error Island (57.0092°N 135.3208°W / 57.0092; -135.3208 (Error Island)) and Bridarlin Island in Southeast Alaska approximately 4.5 nautical miles (8.3 km; 5.2 mi) from Sitka, Territory of Alaska, without loss of life. The screw sloop-of-war USS Wachusett ( United States Navy) pulled her off the rock and towed her into port, and she apparently was repaired and returned to service.[62]

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Robert E Lee	United States	The steamboat caught fire and sank on the Mississippi River while heading to New Orleans from Vicksburg. Twenty crew and passengers lost their lives.[63]

October

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Nive	United Kingdom	The Aberystwith schooner sprung a leak eight miles south-east of Penzance, Cornwall and foundered while carrying pitch from Plymouth to Swansea. The crew of four landed at Penzance in the ship's boat.[64]

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Herder		The Hamburg-American mail steamer was wrecked off Cape Race, Newfoundland. All on board were saved.[65]

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Bremen	United Kingdom	The vessel ran ashore on the Farallone Islands during a thick fog and will probably be a total wreck. All the crew were saved.[66]

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Victory	United Kingdom	The Bideford schooner carrying coal from Cardiff to Waterford sank near Ballyteique with the loss of all hands.[67]

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Unnamed		Two schooners were driven ashore at Lowestoft during a storm.[68]
Unnamed		A barque was driven ashore on Corton Sands with all hands lost.[68]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Iris	United Kingdom	The Cowes vessel, out of Hartlepool for her home port, was wrecked on South Beach. Three men drowned.[69]
Rudolph Wetzel	United States	The Tug blew up and sank 15 miles from Racine, Wisconsin, about 2 miles off shore. Lost with all 3 hands.[70]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: October 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Launceston	United Kingdom	The Fowey brigatine, out of Middlesbrough for Newport with pig iron was stranded on South Beach, Lowestoft. The crew survived.[71]
Wambe		The steamer, from Hong Kong to Victoria, Vancouver Island with several hundred ″Coolies″ onboard sank 45 miles (72 km) to the north of the Juan de Fuca Strait. There were no survivors.[72]
Seven unnamed brigatine		A waterspout at San Raphael, France destroyed seven brigantine in the port.[73]

November

1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Ellen	United Kingdom	The smack foundered off Cardigan. Her three crew were rescued by the lifeboat John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[19]

3 November

List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Gulf of Panama	United Kingdom	The steamer, from Simonachi, Japan with rice for Bremen broke up on the sandbanks off the north coast of the Netherlands. Five of the twenty-seven crew survived.[74]

6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Isis	United States	The steamer sank in Lake George in a Gale. Three crew killed.[75]

10 November

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Wellington	United Kingdom	The vessel was on a voyage from Dalhousie, Scotland, to Cardigan, Wales, when she had a mishap. Eleven crew were taken off by the lifeboat John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Wellington sailed in to Cardigan the next day.[19]

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1882

Ship	Country	Description
SS Austral	United Kingdom	The ship sank at her mooring in Neutral Bay, off Kirribilli Point in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia on 11 November 1882. Five crew were killed in the incident. The ship was raised and sailed to Glasgow for refit.

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Diomedes Herman	United States	During a gale, the 12.86-ton schooner dragged her anchor and was blown against a steep bluff on the coast of Chernabura Island (54°47′N 159°33′W) in the Territory of Alaska′s Shumagin Islands, tearing a hole in her side. All four people aboard – two crewmen and two passengers – survived, and her cargo of provisions, dry goods, and firewood was salvaged, but she was deemed a total loss.[76]

15 November

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Dahomey	United Kingdom	The brigantine foundered off Margate, while bound for Oporto. The captain, his wife and the four crew were landed at Margate.[77]

16 November

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Elizabeth	United Kingdom	The Newquay schooner was wrecked on Ramsey Island, Wales while out of Portmadoc for Cardiff. All of the crew was lost[78]
James and Elizabeth	United Kingdom	The Plymouth smack capsized and was driven ashore at Hellsmouth, 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east of Godrevy Head, Cornwall.[79]
Unnamed	United Kingdom	An unnamed brig sank near St Ives Head, while attempting a run for one of St Ives beaches.[80][79]
Winton	United Kingdom	The Newcastle steamer foundered 30 miles (48 km) north of Ushant. The crew took to two whaleboats which capsized at the entrance to the port of Argenton with the loss of twent-seven lives. One man survived.[81][82]

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Condor	Russian Empire	The 676 ton barque hit the Vorses, rocks on the outer part of the Manacles, near Falmouth, Cornwall and fell on her portside. The captain, first mate and nine crew put off in the ship's boat for the shore leaving five onboard, who were rescued by two local cutters, just before the masts fell leaving all of the vessel underwater.[83]

19 November

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Lamershagen	Germany	The ship was driven ashore at Pwlldu Bay, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. All twenty-one people on board survived. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Swansea, Glamorgan. Lamershagen broke in two the next day.[23]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Drounengen	Norway	The barque was wrecked at the mouth of the River Shannon, while out of Glasgow for New York.[84]

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1882

Ship	Country	Description
James W Barber	Belgium	The steamer was wrecked near Cape Finisterre, Spain.[85]

28 November

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Percy	Latvia	The Riga brig stranded on the Goodwin Sands. Four drowned including the captain and three were rescued by the Ramsgate lifeboat.[86]

29 November

List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1882

Ship	Country	Description
St George	United Kingdom	The Glasgow steamer foundered 25 miles (40 km) from Portreath, Cornwall while bound for Nantes from Swansea. Ten of the crew and the engineer's wife went down with the steamer. The eight remaining crew took to the ship's boat and capsized in the surf at Portreath with the loss of one more life.[87][88]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Acastus	United Kingdom	The Whitstable vessel parted her anchors in the Swin and probably went ashore on the sands with the loss of ten crew, who were nearly all married women.[89]
Avon	United Kingdom	The Whitstable vessel disappeared during recent gales. The crew were mostly made up of married women.[89]
Cambronne	France	The steamer Marion changed course and hit the French steamer while seeking the shelter of Lundy Island. The crew jumped overboard but only the captain and three crew were saved. Fourteen lives lost.[90]
Ischia		The crew were landed at Greenock from the steamer Stilrio following the wrecking of Ischia in the Straits of Babel Maadeb.[91]
Medea	United Kingdom	The steamer, carrying ballast from Honfleur to Sunderland went ashore at Camber coastguard station. The sixteen crew were taken off by the Rye lifeboat; the captain remaining onboard. The Winchelsea lifeboat capsized twice with one man drowning.[92]
Petroslana	Austria-Hungary	The barque, out of Cardiff with coal for Pola was wrecked off Milford with the loss of all twelve crew.[93]
Unnamed	Germany	A barque went ashore on the Gunfleet sands.[94]
Unnamed	Spain	A vessel foundered in a gale and was found floating bottom up near Gibraltar. The John Marychurch rescued five crew.[95]
Witzel	United States	The tug exploded and was destroyed while racing another tug near Racine, Wisconsin. The owner and two engineers were killed.[96]
W J Taylor	United Kingdom	The Penzance steamer was in a collision in the Thames off Rotherhithe, London.[97]

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Selim	United Kingdom	The Leith barque was run down by the steamer Hamstels and sank 16 miles (26 km) off Start Point, Devon. The pilot and a crewman were drowned, while the rest were landed at Plymouth.[98]

2 December

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1882

Ship	Country	Description
R.G. Peters	United States	The Barge was destroyed by fire in Lake Michigan. 14 killed.[99]

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Black Diamond	United Kingdom	The steamship foundered off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from London to Sunderland, County Durham. She was subsequently salvaged, repaired and returned to service.[100]
Fiona	United Kingdom	The Glasgow barque was wrecked on Hale Sands with the loss of all the crew.[101]
Unnamed	France	A steamer landed some fishermen at Falmouth, Cornwall, from a lugger which foundered while returning from the Newfoundland fishery.[102]

7 December

List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Cheval de Troie	Guernsey	Five crew drowned when the vessel foundered at Flamborough.[103]
Edith	United Kingdom	While lying at anchor, the Padstow schooner was struck by the Excelsior and sank about 3 cables from Carrick Nath Point, St Mawes, Cornwall.[104]
Helen	United Kingdom	The Cowes vessel Helen ( United Kingdom) collided with the Hayle schooner Giles Lang and was abandoned off the Lizard. The crew were saved by the Giles Lang.[105]
Marion	United Kingdom	The London schooner was wrecked near Montrose with the loss of the crew.[103]
Matthew Wignall	United Kingdom	The crew abandoned the Fleetwood schooner, after being hit by the barquentine Fonthill, 8 to 10 miles west north-west of the Longships Lighthouse, Cornwall. The five crew were picked up by the Fonthill. The abandoned schooner drifted ashore, bottom up, at the Gassick, between Sennen Cove and St Just.[106]
Sotir	Greece	The barque grounded on a rock on the Kits Cairn, near Porthcurno, Cornwall. After 10 or 15 minutes the barque was carried out to sea by the wind and tide. Before the barque foundered, two local boats following the vessel, took off the ten crew and landed them at Porthgwarra.[107]
Unnamed	German Empire	The captain of the schooner drowned while being rescued by the rocket apparatus at Amble.[103]

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Raglan	United Kingdom	The steamer sank off the Isles of Scilly, after being hit by a Greek steamer and her boiler exploding. The crew were picked up by the Greek steamer and taken to Cardiff.[108]

14 December

List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Burnswark	United Kingdom	The Bristol barque, owned by Messrs King and Company went ashore on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel during a thick fog. The crew took to the ship's boat, landing on Lundy. She was carrying a general cargo including bales of silk.[109]
Unnamed	United Kingdom	The three-masted brigantine left Cardiff with steel rails and went ashore on Lundy in a thick fog. The crew escaped in the ship's boat and climbed the cliffs on the north coast.[109]

15 December

List of shipwrecks: 15 December 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Eilian Hill	United Kingdom	The schooner collided with the steamship Ernest in Mount's Bay, Cornwall and sank immediately. The crew were landed at Falmouth by the Ernest.[110]
Glad Tidings	Canada	The 1300 ton Saint Johns vessel ran ashore to the west of Prawle Point with the loss of two men. She was en route from Calcutta to Amsterdam with linseed.[111]
Landrigg Hall	United Kingdom	The barque hit the Tuscar Rock, County Wexford while en route from Liverpool to Calcutta. Two of the twenty-six crew survived, being washed ashore near Carnsore in the ship's lifeboat.[112]

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Haven		The Wedestrand barque was struck amidship and sank in twenty minutes when hit by the London steamer Cyanus off Folkestone. The crew were picked up by Cyanus and landed at Dover.[113]
Unnamed vessel	United Kingdom	An unknown vessel went ashore on the Kincardine coast, drowning the crew.[114]

27 December

List of shipwrecks: 27 December 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Carvedras	United Kingdom	The Truro schooner sank, rapidly in a heavy sea, about 5 miles (8.0 km) south-west of the Longships Lighthouse. The crew took to the ship's boat and were rescued by the St Ives lifeboat, about 2 miles (3.2 km) off St Ives.[115]
New England		The steamer sank after hitting a bar in the Clarence River. Sixteen of the fifty-three on board drowned.[116]

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Accrington Lass	United Kingdom	The schooner left Douglas, Isle of Man on 4 December and wreckage was reported at the mouth of the Dee.[117]
Campeador		The steamer sank within five minutes after colliding with the Knight of the Thistle off the Owers Lightship, near the Isle of Wight. Three crew lost their lives.[118]
Cedar Gross	United Kingdom	The London steamer was wrecked off Cape Canso, Nova Scotia.[119]
H Todger		The schooner was wrecked on Lake Ontario with the loss of nine lives.[120]
Siro	Italy	The Castellmare barquentine, carrying coal from Newcastle to Bari was wrecked on the Goswick Sands, near Berwick. The pilot and eleven crew drowned; two crew survived.[121]
Unnamed	Norway	The schooner was found by the Hull fishing smack Victor. An attempt to save the crew failed when a heavy sea swamped the Victor's boat with three of the rescued crew on board.[122]

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1882

Ship	Country	Description
Bahama	flag unknown	The vessel sank. A Trinidad brigantine picked up the only survivor from an icebox; he was in the sea for six days.[123]
Don Guillermo	flag unknown	The barque sank in the harbour of Vanvan, Tonga during a hurricane, when a 15-foot (4.6 m) storm surge swept over the island. The captain, officers, and six seamen were drowned. Five boys survived.[124]
General Miller	United States	The 108-ton, two-masted schooner was wrecked in the Shumagin Islands in the Territory of Alaska.[125]
Gitana	United Kingdom	The steam yacht foundered in Loch Rannoch in Scotland.[126]
H. L. Tiernan	United States	The 153-ton two-masted cod-fishing schooner was lost in the Shumagin Islands in the Territory of Alaska.[127]
Largo	United Kingdom	The Glasgow vessel carrying coal from Newcastle upon Tyne, England, to Valparaiso, Chile, was seen passing Dover, England, on 11 June and was never heard from again.[128]
Mayumba	United Kingdom	The cargo ship caught fire at "Arzue", Algeria, and was scuttled. She was declared a total loss.[129]
Santa Catharina	Imperial Brazilian Navy	While docked for repairs, the Pará-class river monitor sank at her moorings due to the poor condition of her hull.

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See also

Ship events in 1882
Ship launches:	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887
Ship commissionings:	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887
Ship decommissionings:	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887
Shipwrecks:	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887