List of shipwrecks in 1884

The list of shipwrecks in 1884 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1884.

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1884
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
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January

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1884

Ship	Country	Description
I. N. Bunton	United States	The tow steamer was wrecked in the Ohio River when she struck the pier of the Davis Island Dam. Four died.[1]

17 January

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1884

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Clarence	Royal Navy	The reformatory ship was destroyed by fire at Liverpool, Lancashire.

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1884

Ship	Country	Description
City of Columbus	United States	USRC Dexter (left) aiding the wrecked City of Columbus (right). The passenger steamer was wrecked on Devil's Bridge Rocks and broke up in the Atlantic Ocean off the Gay Head Cliffs in Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, with the loss of 70 passengers and 34 crew. Later her boiler, prop, prop shaft and parts of her engine were salvaged. The 29 survivors were rescued by two boats launched from shore by Wampanoags and by the revenue cutter USRC Dexter . ( United States Revenue Cutter Service).[2][3][4]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Cviet	Austria-Hungary	The 381-ton barque of Ragusa was deliberately run aground, 300 meters (328 yards) east of Porthleven harbour, Cornwall, England, during a severe gale in an attempt to save the lives of the crew. Six hundred tons of logs were salvaged; three of the crew lost their lives.[5]

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Augusta	Sweden	The schooner foundered with the loss of the master and one crew.[6]
G D T	Canada	The brigantine was driven ashore in St Aubin's Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands, and was wrecked.[7]
Goefredo	Portugal	The steamship, formerly the White Star Line ocean liner Belgic, ran aground off Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. She was refloated and sent to Liverpool, England, for repairs.
Clarence		The steamer foundered off Hilpaford. Three men drowned.[6]
Juno		The vessel was stranded on the bar at Liverpool. Twenty-five crew were seem in the rigging when the masts collapsed and thirty-one lives were lost.[6]
		The barque went ashore on the Antrim coast when she broke from her anchors while in the River Foyle. The fifteen crew and one pilot perished.[6]
Unnamed vessel		A ship was wrecked near Liverpool with the loss of the crew.[6]
Unnamed vessels		Several vessels have been lost at Folkestone and bodies have been washed ashore at Hythe and Dungeness.[6]
Unnamed vessel		An overturned barque was seen off Ilfracombe, Devon.[6]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date

Ship	Country	Description
Hals	United Kingdom	The West Hartlepool steamer sank near Corunna. Five of the crew were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the cattle-vessel Cupid.[8]
Hwai Yuen		The steamer was wrecked on the Hieshan Islands. Five people are known to have been saves and 199 are missing.[9]
Mary Hubert		The steamer sank in a gale on Lake Superior.[10]

February

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Rhuabon	United Kingdom	The Padstow steamer struck The Smalls and sank during a south-south-west gale, while heading for Cardiff from Holyhead. Seven of the crew left in the ship's boat and were picked up by the steamer Briton. The Captain and nine men were left onboard.[11]

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Alexandra	United Kingdom	The schooner foundered off Cardigan. Her four crew were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Porthmadog, Merionethshire, Wales to Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales.[12]
Racer	United Kingdom	The Padstow schooner foundered 25 miles (40 km) north-west of Lundy Island.[13]

11 February

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Advance	New South Wales	The schooner ran aground in Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia, and was wrecked.
McClure	United Kingdom	The Dublin steamship bound for Cork from Newport with coal hit the Barrel Rock at noon and foundered five house later. The captain and twelve crew were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the steamship James Hogg the following morning.[14]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Moel Rhewan	United Kingdom	The cargo of the Welsh barque shifted during a gale on 9 February causing her to list and she was taken in tow by the Upupa near the Smalls Lighthouse. Two days later the line broke and Captain Williams refused to leave his ship. The Upupa continued on her voyage and on the 12th the crew were taken off by three ships.[15]
Samuel	Norway	The barque was driven ashore and wrecked east of Worms Head, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, to Santos, Brazil.[16][16]

26 February

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Goefredo	Portugal	The steamship, formerly the White Star Line ocean liner Belgic, had undergone repairs at Liverpool, England, due to an earlier incident, but while leaving the port, bound for Havana, Cuba, she ran onto Burbo Bank at the mouth of the River Mersey and was wrecked.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: February 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Hornet	United Kingdom	The steamer foundered off Lundy with the loss of seventeen men. The only survivor was landed at Newport, Wales.[17]

March

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Pizarro	United Kingdom	The barque was sighted off Gabo Island, Victoria. Subsequently foundered off the coast of Queensland with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumberland to Cooktown, Queensland.[18]

9 March

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Samson	United Kingdom	The Sunderland schooner was driven ashore, during a gale, near Wick, Scotland. The crew of six was drowned.[19]

16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Mary Boyns	United Kingdom	The Penzance schooner was stuck by the steamer Mulgrave and sank a few minutes later in the Bristol Channel. Mary Boyns was carrying coal from Neath to Penzance. The crew were taken aboard the steamer and landed at St Ives, Cornwall.[20]
Victoria	Sweden	The Gelfe brig was abandoned, waterlogged at latitude 39°31′ N and longitude 32°46′ W, while carrying logwood from Old Harbour, Jamaica to Goole, Yorkshire. The captain and six of the crew were rescued by the Astoria and landed at Falmouth, Cornwall.[21]

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Balbec	United Kingdom	The Cunard iron-screw steamer left Liverpool with five passengers and a general cargo for Le Havre, striking a rock about 1 mile (1.6 km) south-east of the Longships Lighthouse. With 8 feet (2.4 m) of water in the hold the captain decided to run ashore at full-speed; Nanjizal (also known as Millbay) was the nearest convenient place. There was no loss of life.[22] The 774 ton vessel was sold by public auction on 5 April 1884 at Nanjizal followed by another auction at Sennen Cove of the rigging, sails, several lots of brass and copper, four ship's-boats, sixty hams, thirteen cases of lobsters, etc.[23]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: March 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Cassiope	United Kingdom	The Liverpool vessel left Rangoon in February and is assumed to have flounded in a cyclone near Mauritius.[24]
Fayaway	United Kingdom	The Padstow schooner was wrecked at Bunbeg, County Donegal, Ireland while en route to that port from Killybegs, County Donegal.[25]
San Josef		The derelict vessel was found about 6 miles (9.7 km) south-east of the Longships Lighthouse with only a dog on board. The vessel from Painpol was laden with salt and was towed to Penzance by the lugger William and Annie.[26]

April

1 April

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Herald	United Kingdom	The paddle steamer sank off North Head, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, after suffering a burst boiler. Both men aboard escaped safely in one of her boats.

3 April

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Daniel Steinmann	Belgium	The steamer ran aground on the Madrock Shoal, off Sambro Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, with the loss of 121 of the 130 passengers and crew.[27]
Rebecca Everingham	United States	The steamer burned to the water's edge at Fitzgerald Landing, Georgia, 28 miles above Eufaula, Alabama, before her mooring lines parted allowing her to drift 100 yards down stream in the Chattahoochee River before sinking. Five passengers and seven crew killed.[28][29]

5 April

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Flying Cloud	United Kingdom	The brig left Liverpool carrying salt for Quebec and drove ashore in Dundrum Bay, Ireland. One of the ship's boats capsized and all the occupants drowned. The rest of the crew landed in a second ship's boat or were brought ashore by the Newcastle lifeboat.[30]

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Lady Dalhousie	United Kingdom	The steamship struck the Chynoweth rock near The Manacles off the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, while in ballast for Newport. All the crew were saved.[31]

19 April

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Ponema		The barque left Liverpool for Miramichi on 10 April and collided with the State of Florida around midnight, both sinking within 15 minutes. Only the captain and two men out of fifteen crew survived.[32]
State of Florida		The State line steamer left New York for the Clyde on 12 April and collided with the Ponema around midnight, both sinking within 15 minutes. Thirty-six crew and eleven passengers were saved.[32][33]

28 April

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Saint Paul	United States	During a voyage in the waters of the Territory of Alaska from Belkofski to Kodiak with a cargo of provisions and a crew of two, the 13.92 ton schooner was wrecked on the coast of the Alaska Peninsula near Nikolaief, 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) north of Belkofski, during a gale. Both crewmen survived.[34]

29 April

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Falmouth	United States	The passenger steamer burned and sank at dock in Portland, Maine. Three crew killed.[35][36]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date April 1884

Ship	Country	Description
USS Ohio	United States	While be stripped, the decommissioned ship-of-the-line broke loose from her moorings at Greenport, Long Island, New York, and ran aground on Fanning Point on the south coast of Long Island. She was burned to the waterline there to ease the recovery of her fittings, and her wreck sank in 20 feet (6 m) of water.[37][38]

May

1 May

List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Seslin	United States	The 20-ton schooner was wrecked on a rock near Howkan (54°52′15″N 132°48′05″W) on Long Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of three survived.[34]

10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1884

Ship	Country	Description
J.S. Seaverns	United States	The screw steamer sank in Lake Superior at Michipicoten, Ontario, Canada, with no loss of life. Her wreck was discovered in 2016.

15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Athanasios Vagliamos	Greece	The 513 ton vessel was carrying coal from Swansea to Italy when she sprang a leak 180 miles (290 km) west of the Isles of Scilly. While heading for land the vessel was driven ashore on rocks just above Port Gaverne, Cornwall. The three crew took to the boat and landed safely ashore.[39]
Ilyrian	United Kingdom	The cargo ship was wrecked on Cape Clear Island, County Cork. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Boston, Massachusetts, United States.[40]

18 May

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Catherine and Alice	United Kingdom	The captain and crew abandoned ship off St Alban's bay in fine weather and the vessel was towed to port as a derelict. The captain was found guilty at Liverpool sessions of ″... neglecting to take measures to avert the loss of his vessel.″ He was sentenced to 18 months in prison.[41]
Syria	United Kingdom	The wreck of Syria. The sailing ship ran aground on the Nasili Reef off Fiji with the loss of 59 lives.

26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Daring		The schooner collided with the Skeellings and both vessels sank off the Chicken Rock. The captain and two of the crew of Daring drowned.[42]
Skeellings		The steamer collided with the Daring and both vessels sank off the Chicken Rock Lighthouse,[42]

June

2 June

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Wave	United States	The steamer capsized in the Cape Fear River when she careened going around a bend and her deck cargo shifted. Two passengers and the Cook died.[43]

7 June

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Fanny Fern	United States	The fishing schooner was sunk in a collision with Allentown ( United States) in Massachusetts Bay. Four crew killed.[44][45]

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Girdler lightship	United Kingdom	The lightship was sunk by the P&O steamer Indus. The lightship crew were landed at Dover by the Indus.[46]

22 June

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Unknown vessel		Reports of wreckage including deal and battens, off the west coast of Orkney. A lifebuoy belonging to Voalant of Caernarfon was also found.[47]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date

Ship	Country	Description
Angeleta	Spain	The vessel caught fire and the nineteen crew were taken off by the Italian barque Pipalarno. Eight were later transferred to the Village Belle and landed at Derry, Ireland.[48]

July

7 July

List of shipwrecks: 7 July 1884

Ship	Country	Description
H. C. Colman	United States	The freighter was sunk when her boiler exploded. One crewman were killed.[49]<

10 July

List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Gravina	Spanish Navy	The Velasco-class unprotected cruiser sank in a typhoon north of Luzon in the Spanish East Indies.

17 July

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Caleb Eaton	United States	The 110-ton whaling schooner was crushed in ice off the Territory of Alaska.[50]
W. M. Wood	United States	The Tug capsized at Twelve-Mile Point below New Orleans while trying to refloat Barque Bristol. Three of her Officers were killed.[51]<

24 July

List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1884

Ship	Country	Description
J. M. Bowell	United States	The passenger steamer capsized in a storm in the Monongahela River near Brownsville, Pennsylvania . a small girl was lost.[52]
Gijon	Spain	The steamer collided with the Laxham and both vessels sank off Cape Finisterre. Fifteen passengers were landed at Dartmouth, Devon by the Zoe and nine of the crew were landed at Royal Victoria Dock, London by the Ville de Valence. A further seven passengers and eight crew were landed at Muros, near A Coruña by the Vespertina Wilson. About eighty lives were lost including the captain who shot himself.[53][54][55]
Laxham	United Kingdom	The vessel collided with the Gijon and both vessels sank off Cape Finisterre. Two of the crew were landed at Dartmouth, Devon by the Zoe.[53]

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1884

Ship	Country	Description
John M. Osborn	United States	The wooden screw steamer sank with the loss of three lives 6 miles (9.7 km) west-northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior after she was rammed by the steamer Alberta ( Canada).[56]

August

2 August

List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Dione	United Kingdom	The Middlesbrough steamer sank in 2 or 3 minutes, when struck by the Camden off Gravesend, England. Ten of her crew and seven passengers are missing.[57]

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Water Nymph	United Kingdom	The Newquay, Cornwall schooner stranded at Clifden, Ireland while carrying ore to the Clyde and is likely to be a total wreck. All the crew survived.[58]

9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Martha Sephens	United States	The passenger steamer struck a snag and sank near Boonville Island in the Missouri River. Four crewmen were killed.[59]

10 August

List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Red Rose	United Kingdom	The Cardiff vessel stranded about five miles south-east of the Ar Men light, France[60]

11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Bowhead	United States	Drifting ice struck the 533-ton steam whaling bark while she was moored to ground ice so her crew could clean her boilers at Blossom Shoals (70°23′N 161°57′W) off Icy Cape on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska, holing her hull and sinking her quickly. The vessels Balaena and Narwhal (flags unknown) rescued her crew.[61]

14 August

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Berwick	United Kingdom	The steamship foundered off Huntcliffe, Yorkshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Portsmouth, Hampshire.[62]

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1884

Ship	Country	Description
"Admiral"	United States	The Harbor Tug sank when her boiler exploded at Chicago killing her Master, Engineer, and Fireman.[63]

23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Chenhang	Imperial Chinese Navy	Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The armed transport was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers D'Estaing, Duguay-Trouin, and Villars (all  French Navy).
Feiyun	Imperial Chinese Navy	Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The sloop-of-war was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers D'Estaing, Duguay-Trouin, and Villars (all  French Navy).[64]
Fusheng	Imperial Chinese Navy	Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The flatiron gunboat was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers D'Estaing, Duguay-Trouin, and Villars (all  French Navy).[64]
Fuxing	Imperial Chinese Navy	Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The gunboat sank in the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, after being attacked successfully by a French Navy pinnace with a spar torpedo.
Ji'an	Imperial Chinese Navy	Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The sloop-of-war was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers D'Estaing, Duguay-Trouin, and Villars (all  French Navy).[64]
Jiansheng	Imperial Chinese Navy	Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The flatiron gunboat was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers D'Estaing, Duguay-Trouin, and Villars (all  French Navy).[64]
Yangwu	Imperial Chinese Navy	The wreck of Yangwu, photographed in 1884. Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The sloop-of-war exploded and sank in the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou) after being attacked successfully by a French Navy torpedo boat with a spar torpedo.
Yongbao	Imperial Chinese Navy	The wreck of Yongbao (at left), photographed in 1884. Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The armed transport was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers D'Estaing, Duguay-Trouin, and Villars (all  French Navy).
Zhenwei	Imperial Chinese Navy	Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The gunboat exploded and sank in the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, because of a single shell hit by the ironclad corvette Triomphante ( French Navy).[64]

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1884

Ship	Country	Description
USS Tallapoosa	United States Navy	The sidewheel paddle steamer sank shortly before midnight when she collided with the schooner J. S. Lowell ( United States) approximately 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. She was raised and repaired, and she returned to service in January 1886.[65]
Unidentified torpedo launch	Imperial Chinese Navy	Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The torpedo launch was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruiser Duguay-Trouin ( French Navy).
Unidentified torpedo launch	Imperial Chinese Navy	Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The torpedo launch was abandoned in the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, after she came under fire by the cruiser Duguay-Trouin ( French Navy). The launch's crew swam to shore.

29 August

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Belmont	United States	The steamer capsized in a storm in the Ohio River 3 miles above Henderson, Kentucky . Her Captain died, as did 5 ladies and 8 children, a total of 20-25 lives lost.[66][67]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: August 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Margaret Kendal	United Kingdom	The Barrow schooner was wrecked at Wick Bay, with the loss of three or four crew.[68]

September

1 September

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Dart	United Kingdom	The Royal Mail steamer left Southampton on 1 August for the Brazillian ports and sank at San Sebastian, to the north of Santos. No lives were lost.[69]

7 September

List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Ellen	United Kingdom	The smack foundered off Cardigan. Three people were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[12]
Unda	Norway	The brigantine foundered of Cardigan. Her six crew were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[12]

9–10 September

List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Fenella	United Kingdom	Fenella aground. The screw steamer struck a rock in the Menai Strait, grounded, refloated, collided with Prince Arthur (flag unknown), then grounded again near the Menai Bridge on the Isle of Anglesey in north Wales, without loss of life. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

13 September

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Unidentified brig	Flag unknown	The brig was wrecked on the Seven Stones Reef between Cornwall, England, and the Isles of Scilly.[70]

22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1884

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Wasp	Royal Navy	The Banterer-class screw gunboat ran aground off Tory Island, Ireland, and quickly sank with the loss of 52 lives. Six people survived.[71]
Welsh Prince	United Kingdom	The steamship was disabled and ran aground when a rope became entangled around her propeller at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. Her passengers were taken off by the lifeboat William James Holt ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Welsh Prince was subsequently refloated and returned to service.[16]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: September 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Elisa	Spain	The crew abandoned the barque in early September and were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the Claason.[72]
Swallow	United States	The vessel was abandoned in the Atlantic and nineteen of the crew landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the German barque Ernst Ludwig Holtz.[73]

October

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Eliza	United Kingdom	The Penzance schooner grounded on the Dunbar, at the entrance to Padstow harbour, while carrying coal from Porthcawl to Penzance. The crew were taken off by the lifeboat Arab.[74]
Samarang	United Kingdom	The Newcastle barque, carrying timber from Quebec ran aground near Saltburn. The twenty crew were rescued by the Redcar and Saltburn lifeboats.[75]

11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Europa	United Kingdom	The Dublin steamer was hit on the starboard bow by the Roseville near the Cloch Lighthouse, 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Greenock. Europa sank in minutes with the loss of five men. The rest of the crew jumped on to the Roseville.[76]
Morjord and Truby	United Kingdom	The Aberdeen barque was wrecked while on a voyage from Grangemouth to Plymouth. The crew took to the rigging and all bar three were rescued by the Harwich lifeboat.[77]

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Christina Nilsson	United States	The schooner struck a reef and sank in Lake Michigan off Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin, during a blizzard.

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Amaranth	United Kingdom	The Padstow, Cornwall schooner collided with the steamer St Jacques of Le Havre off Dungeness and sank with the loss of four lives.[78]
Pearl	United Kingdom	The Plymouth ketch became a wreck after going ashore near Padstow during a gale.[78]

27 October

List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Chang Chow		The vessel went ashore at Sandy Cape while en route for China from Newcastle, New South Wales. Seven of the crew and passengers are missing.[79]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Avebury	United Kingdom	The Sunderland screw-steamer, carrying 450 tons of iron ore and 200 tons of esparto to Cardiff stranded at Rosemodress, near Lamorna, Cornwall. All the crew managed to get ashore.[80]
SMS Undine	Imperial German Navy	The training ship, a brig, was wrecked on the northern coast of Jutland in Denmark during a storm with the loss of one life.[81][82]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: October 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Bickley	United Kingdom	Stranded on the island of Coll.[83]
Despatch	United Kingdom	The Yarmouth fishing lugger sank after being hit by a steamer. All ten (or twelve) crew lost their lives.[84]
Little Beck	United Kingdom	The steamer foundered on the coast of Holland with only six of the twenty on board saved.[85]

November

6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Brixham	United Kingdom	The Brixham steamship foundered off Cape Finisterre. [86]
Clyde	Australia	Ran aground off Banks Peninsular, New Zealand and sank, with seventeen crew killed.

19 November

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Silentium	Sweden	The steamship collided with the steamer Pennland ( Belgium) off the Goodwin Sands, in the English Channel and sank.[7]

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1884

Ship	Country	Description
James McMahon	United States	The tug sank when her boiler exploded in Long Island Sound. Two of the crew were killed.[87]

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Chandler J. Wells	United States	The schooner ran aground in Lake Michigan off Whiskey Island, Michigan.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: November 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Craigforth	United Kingdom	The steamer left Iceland for her home port of Leith, Scotland and ran ashore on rocks 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Fraserburgh. The cargo of 3,200 sheep and 16 ponies were thrown overboard, and 2,500 sheep and all the ponies swam ashore. The crew and passengers were saved.[88]

December

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Alliance	United Kingdom	The Cardiff steamer was lost off Boscastle, Cornwall while carrying coal to St Nazaire.[89]

7 December

List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Polchard	United Kingdom	The Cork Steamship Company steamer foundered a mile off Holyhead, Wales while en route to Liverpool.[90]

20 December

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Echo	United Kingdom	The vessel was overwhelmed by weather off the Corbiere, Jersey, Channel Islands. All aboard drowned.[91]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Chelydra	United Kingdom	The Sunderland steamer was struck amidships by a Norwegian barque off the Eddystone and both vessels sank. The crew took to the boats and landed at Plymouth.[92]
Holmstrand	Norway	The barque struck the Chelydra, off the Eddystone, and the crew were picked up by an unnamed vessel and landed at Newport.[92][93]

26 December

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1884

Ship	Country	Description
SMS Marie	Imperial German Navy	The Carola-class corvette ran aground on a reef off Neu Mecklenburg, German New Guinea and was severely damaged. She was refloated on 29 December and put into Nusa, German New Guinea for repairs.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1884

Ship	Country	Description
Atrato	United Kingdom	The paddle steamer sank.
Berengeria		The vessel was wrecked on the Galloper Sands en route to Greenock from Falmouth, Cornwall.[94]
Charlie Hickman	United Kingdom	The vessel went ashore and became a total wreck, while en route to New York from Liverpool. One member of the crew was drowned.[95]
Ebendase	United Kingdom	The Newcastle steamer sank in Havre roads, after being run down by the steamship Linda ( Kingdom of Italy). The crew were picked up by a fishing boat.[96]
Echo	United Kingdom	The dandy-cutter was lost during a gale while carrying Christmas goods for Guernsey. None of the fifteen crew survived.[97]
Lornty		The vessel, bound for Bombay sank after colliding with the Great Western steamer Cornwall. The crew survived.[93]
Ohio	United States	The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire in the harbour at Greenport, New York.
Redesdale	United Kingdom	The North Shields steamer was stranded on the Pearl rock, near Gibraltar and sank. The crew were saved.[97]
Unnamed	Japan	An estimated 112 junks were destroyed in a typhoon.[98]

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1884

Ship	Country	Description
C. C. Dame	Unknown	The schooner was lost at Bay Head, New Jersey.[99]
Elliott Richie	United States	The waterlogged bark-rigged sternwheel paddle steamer was abandoned off Pernambuco, Brazil.[100]
Olano	United Kingdom	The barque was lost off Cape Horn, Chile.[101]

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Ship events in 1884
Ship launches:	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889
Ship commissionings:	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889
Ship decommissionings:	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889
Shipwrecks:	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889