List of shipwrecks in 1893
The list of shipwrecks in 1893 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1893.
1893 | |||
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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
Unknown date | |||
References |
January
6 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Black Diamond | ![]() |
The steamship collided with Progress (![]() |
16 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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San Marco | ![]() |
The steamer sank after a collision in the Strait of Messina.[2] |
February
2 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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E. W. Monifie | ![]() |
The barge burned at the Railroad Wharf at Pensacola, Florida.[3] |
18 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Dicky | ![]() |
![]() Dicky |
19 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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J. A. Bishop | ![]() |
The steam tugboat burned at the Timber Wharf, Carrabelle, Florida.[3] |
21 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Coanza | ![]() |
The Elder Dempster 1,518 GRT passenger ship ran aground and was wrecked on Bayak Rock, Baujah Reef near Sinou, Senegal. She was en route to West Africa from Hamburg.[4][5] |
Labourdonnais | ![]() |
The sloop-of-war was wrecked on Île Sainte-Marie off the coast of Madagascar.[6] |
22 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Shamrock | ![]() |
The iron schooner was stranded at Ballyquintin Point, County Down, Ireland and became a wreck.[7] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Naronic | ![]() |
The White Star Line steamship was lost in the Atlantic Ocean after leaving Liverpool on 11 February 1893 bound for New York, possibly on 19 February, with the loss of all 74 people on board. The ship's fate remains a mystery. |
Ripple | ![]() |
The fishing schooner wrecked in fog on Santa Rosa Island, Florida on either 13 or 15 February.[3] |
March
3 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kanawha | ![]() |
The steamer ran aground on Santa Rosa Island, Florida 12 miles (19 km) east of Pensacola Pass, possibly salvaged.[3] |
7 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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John Hancock | ![]() |
While moored at the wharf at Sand Point on the northwestern coast of Popof Island in the Shumagin Islands off the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula in the Territory of Alaska with a crew of eight and a cargo of 80 tons of salt and provisions aboard, the 167.62-ton, 143.7-foot (43.8 m) cod-fishing schooner broke loose from her moorings during a storm and was stranded. All on board survived, but she and her cargo both were a total loss.[8] |
21 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Helen Blum | ![]() |
The 66.17-gross register ton, 75-foot (22.9 m) sealing schooner was seen for the last time at Ugamok Island (57.8945°N 153.3850°W) in the Shumagin Islands off the south coast of the Territory of Alaska′s Alaska Peninsula. She subsequently disappeared with the loss of her entire crew of 26, presumably lost in a storm that struck the area. In May 1893, wreckage believed to be from Helen Blum was discovered in the Shumagin Islands on the coasts of Chernabura Island (54.7875°N 159.5603°W) and Simeonof Island (54.8978°N 159.2667°W).[9] |
23 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Allanshaw | ![]() |
The iron sailing ship was wrecked on Tristan da Cunha with the loss of three crew. |
24 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Glückauf | ![]() |
![]() Glückauf |
26 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Octavia A. Dow | ![]() |
The schooner ran aground on Fort Barrancas Bar, Santa Rosa Island, Florida.[3] |
April
4 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Horsa | ![]() |
The sailing ship ran aground off St Martin's, Isles of Scilly; the ship was towed off but later foundered in deep water.[12][13] |
May
10 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Vitiaz | ![]() |
The Vitiaz-class protected cruiser was wrecked on a reef in the Sea of Japan off Port Lazarev during a typhoon.[14][15] |
21 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Almirante Barroso | ![]() |
The corvette was wrecked in the Red Sea near Ras Zeith while on an around-the-world cadet cruise. The screw sloop-of-war HMS Dolphin (![]() |
26 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sea Ranger | ![]() |
While approaching the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska to bury a deceased crewman, the 273.12-gross register ton, 106.8-foot (32.6 m) bark was wrecked on an uncharted reef – thereafter known as Sea Ranger Reef – north-northwest of Cape Saint Elias, 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) west of Kayak Island.[17] |
June
22 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Victoria | ![]() |
![]() HMS Victoria sinking at right. The battleship HMS Nile is at left. ![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Eliza Anderson | ![]() |
The schooner sank in Long Island Sound near Faulkner Island off the coast of Connecticut. She later was refloated and was stripped at New Haven, Connecticut, and her wreck was abandoned there, but it later was refloated again and then scuttled in deep water in Long Island Sound.[18][19] |
July
9 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Harry Tilden | ![]() |
The schooner was sunk accidentally off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, by a shot fired from the United States Army′s Sandy Hook Proving Ground.[20] |
August
21 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary Lizzie | ![]() |
The fishing schooner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off northeastern North America with the loss of five lives. Her sole survivor was rescued after 33 hours in the water by the steamer Eggleston Abbey (![]() |
24 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ella M. Johnson | ![]() |
1893 New York hurricane: The fishing schooner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off Manasquan, New Jersey, with the loss of her entire crew of eight men.[21] |
Empire State | ![]() |
1893 New York hurricane: The fishing schooner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off Manasquan, New Jersey, with the loss of her entire crew of 10 men.[21] |
Panther | ![]() |
1893 New York hurricane: While towing barges, the 110-foot (33.5 m) iron-hulled steam tug sank with the loss of 17 lives in 56 feet (17 m) of water in the North Atlantic Ocean south of Long Island off Southampton, New York, during a storm.[22][23] |
September
7 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Rusalka | ![]() |
The monitor foundered and sank in a storm in the Gulf of Finland with the loss of her entire crew of 177. Her wreck was discovered in July 2013 at 59°51′55″N 24°53′07″E. |
22 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lewis Wallace | ![]() |
The 54-foot (16.5 m) steam tug burned and sank in a small bay at the west end of Portage Lake in Michigan. |
23 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Albert Walter | ![]() |
The 44-tons burden schooner drifted onto rocks several miles north-northeast of Kodiak, Territory of Alaska, and was abandoned by her crew of five.[24] |
October
13 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Emily Schroeder | ![]() |
The whaling and trading schooner dragged her anchor during a storm and was wrecked in Maryat Inlet (68°20′20″N 166°50′40″W) in Point Hope Lagoon near Point Hope on the coast of the Territory of Alaska. She became a total loss and was still visible hard aground in the inlet in 1896.[25] |
November
6 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Yukon | ![]() |
The steamer was wrecked at Juneau, Territory of Alaska, during a storm.[26] |
17 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Favourite | ![]() |
The ketch foundered in the Bristol Channel 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off Worms Head, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued.[27] |
18 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bessie | ![]() |
The collier was wrecked on Carbis Bay beach, Cornwall.[28] |
Cintra | ![]() |
The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Carbis Bay, in St Ives Bay, with the loss of seven of her twelve crew. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Dartmouth, Devon.[29] One of her anchors was recovered in 1959 and can be seen on Smeaton's Pier, St Ives.[28] |
Hampshire | ![]() |
The vessel sank in St Ives Bay with the loss of all hands.[28] |
Rosedale | ![]() |
The vessel was washed ashore at Porthminster beach, St Ives, Cornwall.[28] |
Vulture | ![]() |
The collier was stranded on Carbis Bay beach. The boilers were taken for scrap during WWII.[28] |
22 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Javary | ![]() |
Revolta da Armada: The monitor was sunk by coastal artillery in the harbor at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
24 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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SS Serica | ![]() |
The steamer nearly foundered and took shelter in St Mary's Roads on 19 November. As she left on 24 November she struck an uncharted rock (later named Serica Rock) and sank.[30][31] |
December
8 December
13 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Althea | ![]() |
The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in Oxwich Bay. Her ten crew were rescued by the Port Eynon Lifeboat.[27] |
16 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sete de Setembro | ![]() |
The armored frigate burned and sank at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
20 December
28 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alert | ![]() |
The steamer sank off Cape Schanck, Australia, with the loss of 15 lives and one survivor. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Horn Head | ![]() |
The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of 30 lives.[35] |
Vizcaya | ![]() |
The ship was wrecked on the coast of Yorkshire.[36] |
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References
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- "San Marco (1062372)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- Singer, Stephen D. (1998) [1992]. Shipwrecks of Florida: A Comprehensive Listing (Second ed.). Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press. p. 33. ISBN 1-56164-163-4.
- "Loss of SS Coanza". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- "Clyde built ships". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2013.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
- Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 321.].
- "Wreck on the County Down Coast". The Belfast News-Letter (24227). 24 February 1893. p. 6.
- alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (J)
- alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (H)
- "A Big Steamship's Fate; Now Only a Prey For Seaside Relic Hunters. The Gluckauf At Fire Island; For Over Two Years a Plaything for the Surf and a Curiosity for Summer Strollers Along the Beach". The New York Times. 10 November 1895. Archived from the original on 25 June 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
- njscuba.net Gluckauf
- Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 20
- Horsa cargo full-rigger from New Zealand grounded in a cove on St Martins, and capsized some hours later whilst being towed off. Thankfully, no one was killed. (Source for the date.)
- navypedia.org VITYAZ' screw corvettes (1886)
- Anonymous, "From the Orient," San Francisco Call, Volume 74, Number 7, 7 June 1893, p. 7.
- naval.com.br Cruzador Almirante Barroso (Portuguese)
- alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (S)
- njscuba.net Panther
- Report of the Secretary of War, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894, p. 82 Retrieved 15 February 2020
- The Citizen Almanac: A Compendium of Statistics Concerning Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Citizen, 1893, p. 348 Retrieved 15 February 2020
- Anonymous Forty-Seven Sailors Go Down: Three Wrecks of Fishing Schooners Reported on the Atlantic, Rock Island Daily Argus, August 25, 1893, p. 1 Retrieved 15 February 2020
- njscuba.net Panther
- Report of the Secretary of War, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894, p. 82 Retrieved 15 February 2020
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- alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (E)
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- Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- "Low tide uncovers remains of three wrecked coal ships". The Cornishman. 17 January 2019. p. 15.
- "Cintra". Caledonian Maritime Heritage Trust. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
- The Cornishman. 18 January 1894. p. 8'
- "Loss of SS Serica". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- "Princesse Louise (5608720)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
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See also
Ship events in 1893 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 |
Ship commissionings: | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 |
Shipwrecks: | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 |
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