List of shipwrecks in 1891

The list of shipwrecks in 1891 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1891.

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1891
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
References

January

2 January
List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Thames  United Kingdom The Penzance steamer was on a voyage to London when she grounded on the Chesil Bank in thick fog.[1]

8 January
List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Kaffraria  United Kingdom
Part of the wreck of Kaffraria in March 2007
The cargo steamer was wrecked in the River Elbe in Germany.

9 January
List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1891
ShipCountryDescription
James W. Wherren  United States The schooner was stranded in a storm at Barrances Light, Pensacola, Florida.[2]

February

5 February
List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Chiswick  United Kingdom The 1,261-ton steamship ran aground in calm weather on the northeast ledges of the Seven Stones Reef, while bound for St Nazaire, France, with coal from Cardiff, Wales. The captain is supposed to have said "every man for himself" before going down along with ten crew and his ship. Eight survivors were picked up by the Sevenstones Lightship's longboat.[3][4]

6 February
List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Hattie G. McFarland  United States The bark was stranded on Santa Rosa Island, Florida (30°19′N 87°18′W).[2]

18 February
List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Bruce  United Kingdom The sailing ship capsized in New York Harbor. She was salvaged and placed in use as a coal storage hulk.

19 February
List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Trignac  France The steamer sprang a leak, blew up and sank within five minutes, between the Isles of Scilly and the Seven Stones Reef. She was carrying coal from Newport to St Nazaire.[4]

20 February
List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Teresa Garnham  Chile The ship was sailing from Valparaiso to Chiloé when she struck a rock. The crew took to her boats and reached port.[5]

March

1 March
List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1891
ShipCountryDescription
H.L.C.  France The brigantine ran aground on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Pornic, Loire-Inférieure.[6]

9 March
List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Dundela  United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked at "Straythe" with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal to Hull, Yorkshire.[7]

13 March
List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Roxburgh Castle  United Kingdom The 1,222-ton cargo steamer was on a voyage from Newport to Piraeus with a cargo of coal when she collided with the sailing ship British Peer ( United Kingdom) 120 miles southwest of the Isles of Scilly during the "Great Blizzard of 1891". Roxburgh Castle sank, losing 22 of her 24 crew members.[8]

17 March
List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Utopia  United Kingdom
Utopia

The passenger ship collided with the battleship HMS Anson ( Royal Navy) in the Bay of Gibraltar and sank with the loss of 552 of the 880 people aboard.

19 March
List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Bay of Panama  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was driven ashore at Penare Point, Cornwall with the loss of eight lives. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Dundee, Forfarshire.[9]

20 March
List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Sovereign  Norway The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire while loading coal.

April

2 April
List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Amicus  United Kingdom The bark was stranded on Flug Island Shoals hear the West Pass to Apalachicola Bay. Florida.[2]

6 April
List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Premier  United States Carrying 18 fishermen, seven crewmen, and a cargo of 350 tons of cannery supplies, the 307.69-gross register ton, 141.7-foot (43.2 m), three-masted schooner was wrecked during a snowstorm in Ramsey Bay (55°10′N 160°00′W) in the Territory of Alaska on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula. All on board survived. Premier was salvaged, repaired, and returned to service.[10]

15 April
List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Dashing Wave  United States During a voyage in the Territory of Alaska from Sand Point to a destination identfied as "Isatok" with a crew of eight and a cargo of 120 tons of general merchandise on board, the 141.46-ton 106-foot (32.3 m) schooner was wrecked without loss of life during a gale and heavy snowstorm in a location identified as "Coal Bay." This location often is equated with Coal Harbor (55.3369°N 160.6042°W / 55.3369; -160.6042 (Coal Harbor)) on Unga Island in the Shumagin Islands, but it might instead be Coal Bay (55°22′N 161°22′W) on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula. The wreck may also have occurred in Zachary Bay (55.3455°N 160.6316°W / 55.3455; -160.6316 (Zachary Bay)) – often called "Coal Bay" at the time – on the coast of Unga Island, and some early reports place it somewhere in the Bering Sea, while an 1892 report places it on Hair Seal Cape – now known as Seal Cape (55.9950°N 158.4328°W / 55.9950; -158.4328 (Seal Cape)) – on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula.[10]

23 April
List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Blanco Encalada  Chilean Navy 1891 Chilean Civil War: The Almirante Cochrane-class central battery ship was sunk by a torpedo gunboat in the port of Caldera, Chile.

May

2 May
List of shipwrecks: 2 May 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Sadie F. Caller  United States During a voyage from San Francisco, California, to Chignik Bay, Territory of Alaska, carrying 158 cannery workers as passengers, a 450-ton salmon-canning outfit as cargo, and a crew of 10, the 413.81-gross register ton, 393.25-foot (119.86 m) schooner was wrecked on a sand bar whose position had shifted without the knowledge of the crew, altering the navigable channel, at the entrance to Chignik Bay Harbor (56°18′N 158°24′W) on the Gulf of Alaska coast of the Alaska Peninsula near Chignik. The steamer Polar Bear ( United States) towed her to shore two hours later, and she was beached and declared a total loss. By 1913, her wreck reportedly had sunk in 60 feet (18.3 m) of water.[11]

3 May
List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Clan Lamont  United Kingdom The ship ran aground and sank off Vindiloas Point, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.[12]

17 May
List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Martaban  United Kingdom The barque ran aground and was wrecked off the coast of Cuba. She was on a voyage from the Salt River, Jamaica to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.[13]

July

18 July
List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Princesse Stephanie  Belgium The steamer was wrecked off Christiansand, Norway.[14]

August

Unknown August
List of shipwrecks: Unknown August 1891
ShipCountryDescription
H. A. DeWitt  United States The schooner was found aground and abandoned 4 miles east of St. Andrews Bay, Florida.[2]

September

5 September
List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1891
ShipCountryDescription
USFC Grampus United States Fish Commission The schooner, a fisheries research ship, was on a voyage from Hyannis to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, with U.S. Fish Commissioner Marshall McDonald and his wife and daughter, Assistant U.S. Fish Commissioner J. W. Collins, and two female guests aboard when she ran aground on L'Hommidieu Shoal in Vineyard Sound during a southeasterly storm. McDonald, Collins, McDonald's family members, and the other two women made it safely to Falmouth, Massachusetts, in a dory, and Grampus later was refloated and returned to service.[15]

6 September
List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Fiji  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked at Moonlight Head, Victoria with the loss of twelve of her 26 crew. She was on a voyage from Hamburg, Germany to Melbourne, New South Wales.[16]

Unknown September
List of shipwrecks: Unknown September 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Ada  United States The schooner disappeared on a fishing trip out of Pensacola, Florida. lost with all five crew.[2]

October

3 October
List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1891
ShipCountryDescription
William Lewis  United States While on an Arctic whaling voyage, the 463-gross register ton, 134-foot (41 m) steam bark was wrecked during a gale and snowstorm off Point Barrow, Territory of Alaska, when she became stranded on a snow-covered sandspit that her captain mistook for slush ice floating on the sea. The steamers Belvedere and Navarch (flags unknown) rescued her entire crew of 45. During salvage operations, the wreck of William Lewis was destroyed by an accidental fire on 20 March 1892.[17]

10 October
List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1891
ShipCountryDescription
USS Despatch  United States Navy The steamer was wrecked without loss of life on Assateague Island off the coast of Virginia during a gale.

13 October
List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Ora et Labora  Norway The brig was driven ashore and wrecked near Chesil Cove, Dorset, United Kingdom.[18]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Red Wing The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of Delaware just south of the Indian River Inlet during a gale, killing her entire crew of six.[19]

November

9 November
List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Maude M. Lane  United States The schooner barge sank 95 miles (153 km) south southwest of Pensacola, Florida.[2]

11 November
List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Benvenue  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Sandgate, Kent with the loss of five lives. Twenty-seven survivors were rescued by the lifeboat Mayer de Rothchild ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[20]

22 November
List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Samuel Mather  United States The wooden steam cargo ship sank after she was rammed by the steel cargo ship Brazil (flag unknown) in heavy fog in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior.

December

5 December
List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Merannio  United Kingdom En route for Newport from Bilbao with a cargo of 1,300 tons of iron ore, the ship hit the Seven Stones Reef, but managed to reach St Ives, Cornwall where a 10 ft (3 m) hole was found in her bow.[4]

8 December
List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Torbay Lass  United Kingdom After unloading her cargo of coal on St Michael's Mount, the Brixham schooner was under tow by the tug Merlin (flag unknown) when Merlin suffered a drop in steam pressure and Torbay Lass drifted onto the Cressars off the promenade at Penzance, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The steamship Lady of the Isles ( United Kingdom) pulled her clear, but she sank after a few hundred yards, within a few hundred metres of Penzance harbour.[21]

10 December
List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Drumblair  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore on Sully Island, Glamorgan. Her crew either took to the ships' boats or were rescued by the lifeboat Joseph Denman II ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Drumblair was on a voyage from Barry, Glamorgan to Mauritius. She was later salvaged, repaired and returned to service.[6]

23 December
List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Felicete  France The brig ran aground at Port Eynon Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom, and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Nantes, Loire-Inférieure to Swansea, Glamorgan.[6]
Oakland  New South Wales The passenger-cargo ship ran aground on the southern breakwater at Ballina, New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

29 December
List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Maggie  United Kingdom The sailing vessel collided with the passenger-cargo steamer Inishtrahull ( United Kingdom) in the Irish Sea just off the Kish Bank off the east coast of Ireland. Her crew were rescued by Inishtrahull, after which Maggie drifted away in a sinking condition and probably sank somewhere near the Kish Lighthouse.[22]
Dexter Clark  United States The schooner sank after bottoming on Flug Island Shoals near the West Pass of Apalachicola Bay, Florida.[23]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1891
ShipCountryDescription
Sarsfield  United Kingdom The brigantine ran aground at Rhosilli, Glamorgan, Wales, and was wrecked. All seven people on board survived.[6]
Sea Serpent  United States The clipper's crew of 17 abandoned her at sea at 46°N 40°W and were rescued by the barque Gulnare (flag unknown). The derelict Sea Serpent was sighted on 18 October by the barque Ardgowan (flag unknown), having drifted 1,120 miles (1,800 km) unmanned in 93 days. Sea Serpent was sighted 19 times before disappearing.[24][25]
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References
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Ship events in 1891
Ship launches: 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
Ship commissionings: 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
Ship decommissionings: 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
Shipwrecks: 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
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