List of shipwrecks in 1890

The list of shipwrecks in 1890 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1890.

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1890
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Unknown date
References

January

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Czarowitz	United Kingdom	The brigantine was hit by the White Star Line ocean liner Britannic ( United Kingdom) and sank in the Crosby Channel as she was about to enter the River Mersey. She was bound for Runcorn loaded with china clay from Fowey.[1]

14 January

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Sacrobosco	United Kingdom	The steamer burned to the waterline at Baltimore, Maryland. Several lives lost. Wreck bought by Red Star Line, salvaged, rebuilt and returned to service as Conemaugh ( Belgium).[2]

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Dispatch	United States	While towing a barge, the 10.27-ton steamer dragged her anchor during a storm and was wrecked on the east shore of Seymour Canal on the coast of Admiralty Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska, 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) northwest of the mouth of the canal. Her crew of three survived.[3]

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Ambassador	United Kingdom	The barque was run into by the full-rigged ship Cambrian Duchess ( United Kingdom) off The Mumbles, Glamorgan. She was declared a constructive total loss.[4]

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1890

Ship	Country	Description
"Amazon"	United States	The Barge, under tow of Harold ( United States) lost her tow line in high wind and heavy seas causing her to fill and sink in Long Island Sound. Her Captain drowned.[5]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Ashlowe	Canada	The barque ran aground off The Mumbles, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was abandoned by her eleven crew. They were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat[4]

28 January

List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1890

Ship	Country	Description
DeSoto	United States	The steamer burned to the waterline 1 mile below Owensboro, Kentucky. Two crewmen died.[6]
Irex	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship was wrecked on her maiden voyage at Scratchell's Bay, Isle of Wight, England.

February

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Port Eads	United States	The steamer struck Bridge Pier No. 2 and sank in 70 feet of water at Memphis, Tennessee. seven crewmen died. Survivors rescued by C. B. Bryan, Welcome, and May Flower all ( United States), plus skiffs from shore.[7]

16 February

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Nautique	France	The steamer, bound from Le Havre, France, for Baltimore, Maryland, foundered in mid-Atlantic Ocean shortly after the crew were rescued by the steamer Manitoban (flag unknown).[8]

22 February

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Susie	United States	The steamer burned at Devils Elbow, Apalachicola, Florida.[9]

25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Avant-Garde	French Navy	The torpedo boat was wrecked.[10]

28 February

List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Quetta	United Kingdom	The steamer struck an uncharted rock in the Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia, and sank with the loss of 134 lives.

March

1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Colonist	New South Wales	The passenger-cargo schooner sank with the loss of one life off Bradleys Head, Sydney Harbour, Australia, after colliding with the steamer Adelaide ( UKGBI). Adelaide rescued two survivors and the skiff half-decker Young Oscar (flag unknown) rescued three others.

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Agnes	New South Wales	The schooner foundered off the Brunswick River, New South Wales, Australia.

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Benamain	United Kingdom	The steamship ran aground on the east coast of Lundy Island, Devon. She was refloated the next day but consequently foundered in the Bristol Channel 7 nautical miles (13 km) off The Mumbles, Glamorgan. Her twelve crew were rescued by the pilot cutter Rival ( United Kingdom). Benamain was on a voyage from Swansea to Le Treport, Seine-Inférieure, France.[4]

April

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Brankelow	United Kingdom	The Liverpool steamer, chartered by the Russian government, went ashore on Loe Bar, Cornwall during a gale while bound for Kronstadt from Cardiff. She was carrying 3,000 tons of coal which was salvaged along with her engines.[11]

23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Corea	United States	After the 564.62-ton, 133.4-foot (40.7 m) bark – carrying 97 passengers, 19 crewmen, and a cargo of 500 tons of cannery supplies and merchandise – grounded in bad weather on a sandbar 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) south of Kalgin Island in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska, was refloated, and began flooding, she sailed 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) in a sinking condition and was beached on the eastern shore of Cook Inlet. Everyone on board survived, but she was deemed a total loss.[12]

26 April

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Onieda	United States	During a voyage from San Francisco, California, to Thin Point (54.9628°N 162.5672°W / 54.9628; -162.5672 (Thin Point)), Territory of Alaska, with 127 passengers, a crew of 28, and a cargo of 550 tons of merchandise and provisions aboard, the 1,130-gross register ton, 179-foot (54.6 m) wooden ship sank in the North Pacific Ocean after striking "Harnings Rock" – probably a rock that was named Onieda Rock (54°28′20″N 162°55′40″W) in 1901 – 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) southwest of Sanak Island in the Aleutian Islands. Seventy-seven Chinese men aboard as passengers perished.[13]

29 April

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1890

Ship	Country	Description
H. B. Plant	United States	The steamer burned on Lake Beneford, Florida. Two crewmen and one passenger died.[14][15]

May

21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Mountain Girl	United States	The steamer sank in the Gulf of Mexico while under tow to Central America. Two crewmen died.[16]

23 May

List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Lotus	United States	The Yacht capsized, or swamped, and sank attempting to enter the Mouth of the Merrimack River. Two crewmen drowned.[17]

July

13 July

List of shipwrecks: 13 July 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Sea Wing	United States	The steamer capsized in a storm in the Mississippi River, Lake Pepin. 98 died including the Captain's Wife and Son. Raised, rebuilt and returned to service.[18][19][20]

23 July

List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Mary Ellen	Canada	The 77-ton schooner was wrecked on a reef at Sand Point, Territory of Alaska. She later was sold, refloated, and sold again.[21]

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Charles Morand	United States	The 761-gross ton iron-hulled screw steamer sank without loss of life in 160 feet (49 m) of water in the North Atlantic Ocean east of Cape May, New Jersey, after colliding with the schooner Zacheus Sherman ( United States).[22]

28 July

List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Thomas Pope	United States	The 226.86-ton, 100.6-foot (30.7 m) whaling bark was wrecked in the Chukchi Sea on the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Hope during a gale. Her 12 crew members all survived and were rescued by the steamer William Lewis and the brig F. A. Barstow (both  United States).[23]

August

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Admiral Tromp	Norway	The barque was run down and sunk by British steamer Ching Wo in the Thames Estuary off The Nore. The wreck was dispersed by explosives April–July 1931.[24][25]

17 August

List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Spencer F. Baird	United States	During a voyage in the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands from Pauloff Harbor on Sanak Island to Tigalda Island with a crew of two and a cargo of ​2 ^1⁄2 tons of provisions and mining equipment, the 7.91-gross register ton, 31.8-foot (9.7 m) schooner was wrecked 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) east of Sankin Island (54°58′30″N 163°16′20″W) during a gale. Both crewmen survived.[26]

September

6 September

List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Honfleur	United Kingdom	The steamship ran aground at Foreland, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure, France to Southampton, Hampshire. She was refloated and completed her voyage.

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Ertuğrul	Ottoman Navy	The sailing frigate was wrecked on Oshima Island off Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, with the loss of 533 crew.

25 September

List of shipwrecks: 25 September 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Denton Holme	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship was wrecked off the coast of Western Australia. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Fremantle, Western Australia.[27]

October

1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Melmerby	United Kingdom	The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at New Glasgow, Canada with the loss of fifteen of her crew. She was on a voyage from Quebec, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire.[28]

11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Eliza	United States	The 296.51-gross register ton, 109-foot (33.2 m) bark was wrecked without loss of life on Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea during a gale. The steamer Belvedere ( United States) rescued her crew of 35 on 19 October.[29]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1890

Ship	Country	Description
105S	Regia Marina	The torpedo boat foundered in the Piombino Channel off the coast of Italy during a storm.[30]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Alberta	United Kingdom	The 3,168-gross register ton cargo steamship, laden with coal on a voyage from Japan to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ran aground on Sutherland Reef south of Fingal Head Light, New South Wales, Australia. Her crew of 36 reached Tweed Heads in the ship's lifeboats.[31]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Benton		The 77-ton schooner survived hitting the Pollard Rock in the Seven Stones Reef, made it to Falmouth, Cornwall, England, full of water and with her cargo of china clay intact.[32]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Fannie C	United Kingdom	The schooner caught fire in the English Channel and was beached at Chesil Cove, Dorset.[33]

November

6-7 November

List of shipwrecks: 6-7 November 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Kishon	United Kingdom	The barque parted her tow by the steam tug Australia (flag unknown) off Trevose Head, Cornwall, England, and was driven ashore near Bude breakwater. Her crew of eight was saved by the rocket lifesaving crew.[34][35]

10 November

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1890

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Serpent	Royal Navy	The torpedo cruiser ran aground off Cape Vilan in northwest Spain in a violent storm, killing 173 of the 176 aboard.[36][37]

19 November

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Cuxhaven	flag unknown	The steamer was severely damage in a collision with the cargo steamer Equity ( United Kingdom) in the Goole Channel and was beached to avoid sinking.

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Nurjahan	United Kingdom	The cargo ship was wrecked near Cape Comorin, India. She was on a voyage from Bombay to Calcutta.[38]

25 November

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Spy	United States	The 17.96-gross register ton, 41-foot (12 m) sloop was crushed by ice and broken into pieces at Point Barrow on the Arctic Ocean coast of the Territory of Alaska. All on board survived.[26]

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Maud Sammons	United States	With no one on board, the 18-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Michigan′s St. Helena Island in Lake Michigan just west of the Straits of Mackinac.[39]

3 December

List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1890

Ship	Country	Description
John Pew	United States	The schooner was wrecked 15 miles (24 km) east of the East Pass, Santa Rosa Island.[9]

23 December

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Eastern Light	United States	The ship was wrecked on Caucus Shoal (30°18′54″N 87°19′27″W).[9]
Ferdinand Vandertaelen	Belgium	The steamer foundered in the Mediterranean Sea at (37°N 06°E), with all the crew rescued.[40]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Coptic	United Kingdom	The steamer ran aground on Main Island at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while departing for a voyage to Plymouth, England. Her forward compartments flooded, but were repaired by local engineers, and she returned to service.[41]
Uppingham	United Kingdom	The ship struck rocks off Hartland Point, Devon and foundered with the loss of eighteen of her 28 crew.[4]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1890

Ship	Country	Description
Assaye	United Kingdom	The barque disappeared during a voyage from London to Wellington, New Zealand, after being spoken to near the equator on 16 March. She was due in Wellington in May.
Dunedin	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship disappeared with the loss of all 35 people on board after departing Oamaru, New Zealand, on 19 March.
Dunluce	United Kingdom	The cargo ship was wrecked on the Wijkesgrund.[42]
Lawrence McKenzie	Unknown	The schooner was lost opposite Forked River, New Jersey.[43]
Louise Ernest	France	While en route for Nantes, France, from Falmouth, Cornwall, England, the ketch was unable to round the Lizard and turned back. She hit Castle Point, St Mawes, Cornwall, and the crew of five men and a boy were taken off by the lifeboat Jane Whittington ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) of the Falmouth Lifeboat Station.[44]
Marlborough	United Kingdom	The refrigerated full-rigged ship disappeared after being sighted off the coast of New Zealand on 13 January while on a voyage from Lyttelton, New Zealand, to London. Possibly subsequently wrecked on the coast of Chile with the loss of all on board.
Talookdar	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship collided with Libussa (flag unknown) off the Cape of Good Hope and foundered.[45]
Webster	United States	The vessel was lost at Atka Island in the Andreanof Islands – part of the Aleutian Islands – in the Territory of Alaska.[46]

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Ship events in 1890
Ship launches:	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895
Ship commissionings:	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895
Ship decommissionings:	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895
Shipwrecks:	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895