List of shipwrecks in 1879

The list of shipwrecks in 1879 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1879.

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1879
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
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January

4 January

List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Vindicator	United States	The steamer ran aground 300 yards (270 m) off shore on Long Island at Long Island Beach, one mile (1.6 km) west of Smith's Point. Her crew of 15 were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[1]

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Gerhardine	Germany	The brigantine was abandoned by her crew approximately 30 miles (48 km) south of St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. She was towed into St Mary's by Gladiator. The crew were landed at Le Havre on the 16 January.[2]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Speedy	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset.[3]

8 January

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Riverside	United Kingdom	The Belfast brigantine was abandoned in the Atlantic while carrying pitch pine from St. Marys, Georgia to Montevideo.[4]
Sarah Ann	United Kingdom	The barque foundered in Swansea Bay. Her crew were rescued by Wolverhampton ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[5]

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Le Mignon	France	The Dunkerque dandy went onshore on the Little Bezeath ridge of rocks at Marazion beach, Mount's Bay, Cornwall in a south-east gale. She was en route from Swansea to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme with coal. All the crew survived.[6][7]
William and Mary	United Kingdom	The Workington brig was driven on to rocks at Cloughey Bay, County Down. The fate of the crew is unknown.[8]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Hellespont	United Kingdom	The steamer, out of Swansea with coal, floundered in the Bay of Biscay during a gale. The first and second officers were swept off the ship and the rest of the crew were rescued by Madonna and landed at Gibraltar.[9]

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Hugenot	United States	While entering Carrick Roads without a pilot the guano carrying ship drifted in to the brigantine Cassandra and went ashore in St Mawes Creek. She was refloated with the help of two tugs. Cassandra lost her headgear and jibboom.[10]
Luigiolivari	Italy	The barque, From Philadelphia, via Falmouth, Cornwall for Silloth, was lost on the Cumberland coast between Netherton and St Bees. A number of bodies have been found and it is thought that all fourteen on board are lost.[11][12]

15 January

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Success	Norway	The barque was beached to prevent sinking off Life Saving Station No. 15, 6th District on the North Carolina coast, she broke in two, a total loss. Her crew of ten made it to shore in her boat.[13]

16 January

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1879

Ship	Country	Description
USS Constitution	United States Navy	The American training frigate went aground at Bolland Point, Swanage, United Kingdom. She was refloated and repaired and returned to service.[14]
Cuba	Canada	The schooner ran aground three-quarters mile (1.2 km) from the Life Saving Station no. 20, 4th district on the New Jersey coast, she became a total wreck. Her crew of six were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[15]
Italia	Italy	The barque ran aground in a blinding snowstorm at Deal's Beach, New Jersey, she became a total wreck. Her crew of 14 were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[16]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Besie Grenfell	United Kingdom	The St Ives schooner went ashore at Saffi in a heavy gale and broke up on rocks. Three of the crew were drowned.[17]
Mercur	Norway	The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Slade, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, United States to Penarth, Glamorgan.[5]
Unnamed fishing boat	United Kingdom	Left Aberdeen harbour on Tuesday morning (possibly 14 January) and attempted to return to port in the afternoon. Later found upturned and no sign of the four crew.[18]

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Assistant		Capsized while attempting to enter the harbour at Antwerp, Belgium. All eight on board drowned.[19]

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1879

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Active	Royal Navy	The Volage-class corvette grounded on an unmapped shoal north of the Tugela River, South Africa. She was refloated almost immediately.[20]
Expert	United Kingdom	The steamship Countess of Durham struck the fishing-boat off Kincardineshire drowning three men.[21][22]
Scud	United States	The barque ran aground one mile (1.6 km) south of Life Saving Station No. 12, 2nd District, she became a total wreck. Her crew of five were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[23]
HMS Tenedos	Royal Navy	The corvette grounded on an unmapped shoal north of the Tugela River, South Africa and on the next high tide was hauled off by HMS Active.[20]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Snow Bird	United States	The schooner ran aground in a gale 2 ^1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) north east of Life saving Station No. 13, 2nd District, near Chatham, Massachusetts. She was lost and her crew of five were rescued by two boats from Chatham.[24]

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Diadem	United Kingdom	The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean after a collision with the stores ship USS Supply ( United States Navy). All the crew were landed at Madeira.[25]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Bertha	United Kingdom	The Liverpool barque was abandoned off the Isles of Scilly after a collision with J Brown which headed for Queenstown with the crew of the abandoned ship. Bertha foundered shortly after.[26]
Frederick	Germany	The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean while carrying pitch pine from Doboy to Falmouth, Cornwall. The crew and ship's dog (except the Captain) were rescued by an Italian barque, Gaetano.[27]
Marie Louise	Norway	The Tønsberg barque, out of Calais with deals]wrecked at Dymchurch. All the crew saved, bar one who died of exposure.[8]
Mayard	United Kingdom	Two survivors from the steamer were landed at Ferrol by a Spanish vessel.[28]
Sofia	Italy	The brigantine was driven ashore in the Longhole Gut, Glamorgan, United Kingdom after 21 January. All ten people on board survived. She was on a voyage from Naples to Swansea, Glamorgan.[5]
Unnamed smack		Wrecked on Puffin Island, Anglesey while bound for Bangor, North Wales. All the crew were saved.[8]
Unnamed smack		Wrecked on Puffin Island, Anglesey while bound for Bangor, North Wales. The crew are reported to have drowned.[8]

February

1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Angé	France	The lugger went ashore in a strong south southeast gale at Porthcurno, Cornwall. The crew of four were saved by employees of the Eastern Telegraph Company.[29]

11 February

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Mary Stenhouse	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore at Rhosilli, Glamorgan. Ten of the twenty-two people on board were lost trying to reach land. She was refloated the next day.[5]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Faulconnier	France	The steamship sank after running into the schooner Beta off Nash Point, South Wales. Beta docked at Cardiff with the crew of Faulconnier.[30]

15 February

List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Admiral Cator	United Kingdom	The steamship departed from Hull for Larnaca, Cyprus. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[31]

18 February

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Hanna	Norway	The schooner ran aground in a snowstorm and heavy seas 1 ^1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) north east of the Long Branch, New Jersey Life Saving Station No. 4, 4th District. Her crew of 17 were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[32]
Taupo	New Zealand	The steamer struck rocks and foundered near the mouth of Tauranga Harbour. The passengers and crew abandoned ship and made it safely to shore. The ship was eventually refloated in 1881, but she started taking water near Mayor Island while being towed and was abandoned.[33]

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Moses Day	United States	The brig ran aground in a snowstorm 2 ^3⁄4 miles (4.4 km) from Life Saving Station No. 5, 5nd District, 350 yards (320 m) off the Maryland coast, a total loss. Part of her cargo was salvaged. Her crew of ten and three passengers were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[34]
Sadie	United States	The schooner ran aground in a snowstorm 3/4 miles from Life Saving Station No. 11, 4nd District, on the New Jersey coast. Her crew of ten were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[35]

20 February

List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Clyde	New South Wales	The schooner was wrecked on Kaitorete Spit on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island when equipment failed during a strong northerly. All hands were saved.[36]
Ralph Creyke	United Kingdom	The steamship was lost in a storm in the Celtic Sea 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Lundy Island while on a voyage from Cardiff, Wales, to Dieppe, France.
Torpedo	United States	The schooner ran aground in a snowstorm on Rye Ledge 1 ^1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) from Life Saving Station No. 7, 1st District, on the New Hampshire coast and was wrecked. Some equipment salvaged. Her crew of four were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[37]

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Jura		A boat and medicine chest from Jura were brought into Yarmouth by the steam tug Pilot. Jura was on a voyage from Kingston upon Hull to Smyrna. One body was seen, and it was assumed that Jura's crew of 16 drowned.[38]

23 February

List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Mary	United Kingdom	The steamship was driven ashore on rocks at North Shields, England, while trying to enter harbour with a cargo of iron ore from Huelva, Spain. A Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat rescued her crew.[38]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Dolphin	United Kingdom	The fishing lugger went ashore on the coast of Wexford. The crew were saved by the local lifeboat.[39]
Mary Cook		The barque was wrecked on the coast of Aberdeenshire. Eleven of the fourteen on board drowned.[38]

26 February

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1879

Ship	Country	Description
David H. Tolck	United States	The schooner ran aground off Long Beach, New Jersey in heavy surf and was wrecked. She grounded 200 yards (180 m) offshore. Her captain, his wife and three crewmen died. Six crew were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[40]
Rosaire	France	The Nantes brig sank when she hit the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall while carrying coal from Newport to Brest. Three men drowned and four of her crew were picked up by the pilot cutter Queen, off Crow Sound in the Isles of Scilly.[41][42]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Adriatic	United Kingdom	The three-masted sailing ship, carrying guano from Callao stranded in the English Channel, approximately 5 miles west of Dunkirk. Only seven of the forty-nine on board saved.[43]
Augusta		The steamer went ashore on Tory Island, County Donegal while being towed by Flying Hurricane from Sligo to Glasgow; they are likely to become total wrecks. Both crews survived.[38]
Flying Hurricane		The steam tug went ashore on Tory Island while towing Augusta from Sligo to Glasgow; they are likely to become total wrecks. Both crews survived.[38]
Unnamed vessel		Two men were saved from a steamer which foundered in the Bristol Channel.[44]

March

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Admiral	Norway	The barque ran aground one mile (1.6 km) south of Life Saving Station No. 5, 6th District, on the North Carolina coast and was wrecked later in the day when the weather deteriorated. Her crew of 14 were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[45]

3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1879

Ship	Country	Description
E. A. Barnard	Canada	The barquentine ran aground in thick weather with light snow one and a half miles (2.4 km) north of Life Saving Station No., 5th District, on the Maryland coast. A box of silver plate was brought off. Four of her crew came ashore in the ship's boat and four were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[46]

6 March

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Mary Helena	United States	The schooner sprung a leak and was beached to prevent sinking two miles (3.2 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 13, 4th District on the New Jersey coast and was wrecked. She was stripped and abandoned. Her crew of two and one passenger made it to shore on their own.[47]

10 March

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Bonnie Dundee	New South Wales	The steamship was cut in two in a collision with the steamship Barrabool (flag unknown) and sank with the loss of five lives at 33°06.327′S 151°42.258′E, about 5 kilometres (2.7 nmi; 3.1 mi) off Caves Beach, New South Wales, Australia. Barrabool suffered a gash in her bow but remained afloat.
Geelong	New Zealand	The steamship stranded and broke up close to the mouth of the Hokianga Harbour, New Zealand, with the loss of two passengers.[48]

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Edinburgh	United Kingdom	The 62 GRT pilot cutter was struck by the 1,736 GRT iron-screw steamer Severn ( United Kingdom) two miles south of Dungeness lighthouse with the loss of ten pilots and five of the cutter's crew.[49]

15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Unnamed vessel		Derelict barque reported by Eboe at latitude 48N, longitude 8.50W.[50]

19 March

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Bay City	United States	The barge, abandoned a few days earlier, was sunk by ice one-quarter mile (0.40 km) from the Marblehead Light in Lake Erie in six feet (1.8 m) of water, a total loss.[51]
Happy Return	United Kingdom	The sloop was wrecked at Port Eynon Point, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Carmarthen.[5]
Robert Pow	United Kingdom	The paddle tug was wrecked at Souter Point, Northumberland. Her crew survived.[52]

20 March

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Cynthia	New Zealand	The schooner went ashore in fog to the south of Ross, New Zealand, while en route from Wanganui to Greymouth. All hands were saved.[48]
Unity	New Zealand	The ketch was driven onto rocks and broke up at Cape Campbell, New Zealand, while en route from Lyttelton Harbour to Wellington. All hands were saved.[48]

21 March

List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Homeward Bound	United States	The barque stranded in thick weather one mile (1.6 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 8, 4th District on the New Jersey coast and was wrecked. Her crew of 11 was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[53]

24 March

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Tabasco	France	The schooner carrying coal from Greenock to Bordeaux struck White Island, St Martin's, Isles of Scilly. Her master mistook the Sevenstones Lightship for Trevose Head on the north Cornish shore. She was on her maiden voyage and the vessel and cargo are a total loss. All the crew survived.[54]

26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Ellen J. McKinnon	United States	The 69.84-gross register ton trading schooner rolled onto her side and became waterlogged during a storm in the North Pacific Ocean six days into a trading voyage from San Francisco, California, to Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands and the Arctic with a crew of 10 men and 100 tons of merchandise aboard. The vessel Otaga or Otago (flag unknown) found her wreck on 21 April drifting 500 nautical miles (930 km; 580 mi) northwest of San Francisco at 42°14′00″N 29°37′10″W with only one crewman left alive.[55][56]

27 March

List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Unidentified brig		A brig was seen to keel over and sink on Hasborough Sands off the coast of Norfolk, England, by a Great Yarmouth fishing boat.[57]

31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1879

Ship	Country	Description
James M. Vance	United States	The schooner stranded in a gale and heavy seas 2 ^3⁄4 miles (4.4 km) north of the Cape Henry Life Saving Station No. 1, 6th District on the North Carolina coast and was wrecked. Her crew of six was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[58]
Norina	Austria-Hungary	The sailing ship sprung a leak off of Florida and stranded ten miles (16 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 2, 7th District on the Florida coast, one-quarter mile (0.40 km) offshore, a total loss of vessel and cargo. Her crew of 13 made it to shore in the ship's boat.[59]

April

1 April

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Emma J. Edwards	United States	The schooner capsized four miles (6.4 km) off Tuckernuck Island off Nantucket in dense fog and heavy seas. Two crewmen died, one of her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[60]
John W. Hall	United States	The schooner ran aground on Tuckernuck Island west of Nantucket in dense fog and heavy seas. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[61]

2 April

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Emma	United States	The schooner capsized four miles (6.4 km) off Muskegit Island west of Nantucket in dense fog and heavy seas. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[62]
J. W. Hall	United States	The schooner ran aground on Muskegit Island west of Nantucket in dense fog and heavy seas. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[63]

3 April

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Clyde	United Kingdom	The transport steamer was wrecked on Dyer's Island while carrying troops of the 24th Regiment to Natal for the Anglo-Zulu War. The troops were transferred to the troopship HMS Tamar ( Royal Navy).[64]

4 April

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Sarah J. Fort	United States	The schooner ran aground on Peaked Hill Bar off Cape Cod in a snowstorm and was wrecked. She grounded 200 yards (180 m) offshore. Two crewmen died, four rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[65]

11 April

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Alice M. Lewis	United States	The schooner stranded in a gale and heavy seas on the north bar of Townsend's Inlet, New Jersey and was wrecked.[66]

14 April

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Robert and Agnes	United Kingdom	The fishing boat went ashore on the western side of the Hayle Estuary, Cornwall while attempting to enter the harbour.[67]
Saint Michel	Haiti	The warship collided with the steamer Bolivar ( United Kingdom) and foundered with the loss of 108 lives. Seventy-two people were saved.[68][69]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1879

Ship	Country	Description
North Star	United Kingdom	The tug was driven ashore on the western side of the Hayle estuary when her screw was fouled by a rope while attempting to refloat the stranded fishing boat Robert and Agnes.[67]

18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Great Republic	United States	Wrecked on Sand Island at the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon, breaking up the next day with the loss of 11 or 14 crewmen.[70][71]

22 April

List of shipwrecks: 22 April 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Maria	United Kingdom	The Plymouth trawler ran on to the Gear Rock, in Mount's Bay, Cornwall and began to break up.[72]

23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Ruby	New Zealand	The schooner struck Walker Rock in the Marlborough Sounds and became a complete wreck. All crew and passengrs were rescued by the crew of the steamer Taiaroa.[48]

29 April

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Nile	United Kingdom	The Sunderland steamer sank off Cape Finisterre while en route to Newport. The three surviving crew out of twenty-three were landed at St Mary's, Isles of Scilly by the steamer Recovery.[73][74]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Gladiolus		The timber-laden ship en route from Doboy for Shields became waterlogged and all the crew bar one washed overboard.[75]

May

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Unknown schooner	United States	The lumber schooner struck Sail Rock near the Passamaquoddy Lighthouse, Maine, and was wrecked. Her two crewmen rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[76]

6 May

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Zina	United States	The schooner ran aground on Eastern Egg Rock in heavy seas and dense fog several miles from Jonesport, Maine and was wrecked. Her cook was washed away at the time of grounding, the rest of her crew was rescued from the rock 36 hours later by a passing boat.[77]

10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1879

Ship	Country	Description
George S. Low	United States	The schooner went ashore one mile (1.6 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 33, 4th District on the New Jersey shore and was wrecked. Her crew made it to shore on their own.[78]

11 May

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Baltic	United States	The fishing schooner struck Passamaquoddy Head Rocks, Maine, in thick fog near Life saving Station No. 1, 1st district and filled with water and broke up. Some of her rigging was salvaged. Her three crewmen rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[79]

17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Ponthieu	France	The brig drifted in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, after losing a mast and her sails. She eventually grounded at Perranuthnoe and all the crew were saved by the coastguard. She was carrying iron-ore from Pomaron to Liverpool.[80]

18 May

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Christina	Sweden	The barque changed course and ran in front of the Sydney bound passenger vessel Dunbar Castle ( United Kingdom). The barque was cut in two and sank with the loss of three of the nine crew.[81]

19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Firebrick	United Kingdom	The Caernarfon sloop sank off the Pembrokeshire coast. The crew survived for three days on a rock eating gulls' eggs.[82]

21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Esmeralda	Chilean Navy	War of the Pacific, Battle of Iquique: The wooden-hulled steam corvette was sunk by the ironclad turret ship Huáscar ( Peruvian Navy).[83]
Independencia	Peruvian Navy	War of the Pacific, Battle of Punta Gruesa: The armored corvette ran aground while chasing the steam schooner Covadonga ( Chilean Navy). Independencia was destroyed by the ironclad turret ship Huáscar ( Peruvian Navy) to prevent her capture by Chile.[83][84]

22 May

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Timandra	United States	During a voyage from Honolulu, Hawaii, to the Arctic with a cargo of 75 tons of general merchandise and a crew of 12, the 119.88-ton brig was wrecked without loss of life on a reef in the Bering Sea off the west end of Nunivak Island.[85]

24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Ava	United Kingdom	The British-India Steam Navigation Company steamer was hit amidships by Brenhilda while en route from Calcutta for Madras, Colombo and London. Aga sank, in less than twenty minutes, 70 miles (110 km) from the Sandheads drowning sixty-seven. An estimated 70 to 100 lives were lost.[86][87]

31 May

List of shipwrecks: 31 May 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Charles S. Rogers	United States	The schooner was sunk in a collision with Hercules ( United States) near Life Saving Station No. 9, 2nd District on the Massachusetts shore. Her crew was rescued by Hercules, except one crewman who drowned. Her cargo was salvaged.[88]

June

4 June

List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Phoenix	New Zealand	The cutter was blown inshore and wrecked at Omaka Bay in the Hauraki Gulf.[89]

5 June

List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Lake Erie	Unknown	The 27-ton schooner stranded at Andersons Cove, near Mangawhai Harbour, Northland, New Zealand, and became a wreck.[89]

8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Pearl	New Zealand	The ketch stranded and was wrecked on the coast of Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand in a gale while hauling coal.[89]

15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Scot's Craig	United Kingdom	Ran aground, in thick fog, under the Lizard Lighthouse, despite the foghorn sounding. Scot's Craig refloated on a rising tide and proceeded to Greenock.[90]

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Franklyn Belle	New Zealand	The ketch stranded at Oamaru, New Zealand, during a storm after dragging her anchors and became a wreck.[91]

21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Annie	New Zealand	The cutter sank at the mouth of the Whanganui River during a heavy sea.[92]
Bells	New Zealand	The barque was wrecked in Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand.[89]

27 June

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Lydia Budd	United States	The schooner went aground on the bar at Absecon, New Jersey near Life Saving Station No. 27, 4th District and sank. Her crew, and the captain's wife and two children, was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[93]
Mary	New Zealand	The schooner was wrecked on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, after being driven ashore in a gale.[92]
Three Brothers	New Zealand	The cutter was wrecked at Coromandel, New Zealand, after being driven ashore in a gale.[92]

28 June

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1879

Ship	Country	Description
B.L.	Unknown	The 364-ton barque went ashore on the Canterbury, New Zealand, coast north of New Brighton during a gale while en route from San Francisco to Lyttelton.[94]
Swallow	New Zealand	The brigantine was wrecked at the mouth of Tory Channel in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.[92]

29 June

List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Akbar	New Zealand	The brigantine went ashore and was wrecked at Timaru, New Zealand, during a strong gale. The captain, his wife, and three crew members were drowned.[95]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date June 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Ironsport	New Zealand	The brig left Auckland for Whangaroa on 11 June and was not seen again.[95]
Oamaru	New Zealand	The brigantine left Auckland for Whangaroa on 11 June and was not seen again.[95]

July

1 July

List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Foam	United Kingdom	The Plymouth schooner ran agound on Luburcur Beach, near St Anthony's Lighthouse, Cornwall with the loss of two crew. Foam was carrying sugar from her home port to Marseilles.[96]

10 July

List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Vittorio Emannele	Regia Marina	The frigate was stranded on a shoal off Ischia. She was refloated on 22 July.[97]

11 July

List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Day Dawn	New Zealand	The schooner hit rocks at Mākaro / Ward Island in Wellington Harbour, severely holing her hull. She became a total wreck.[95]

12 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1879

Ship	Country	Description
State of Virginia		The steamship went ashore on the eastern end of Sable Island while en route from New York to Glasgow. Three women and two children lost their lives.[98][99]

16 July

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1879

Ship	Country	Description
John Rose	United States	The schooner was wrecked two miles (3.2 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 5, 5th District on the Maryland shore, a total loss. Her crew made it to shore in her boat.[100]

19 July

List of shipwrecks: 19 July 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Arthur Wakefield	New Zealand	The schooner foundered after she began shipping water during a heavy sea off New Zealand's Taranaki coast.[95]

20 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Naiad	United Kingdom	The Falmouth schooner was wrecked on The Manacles, Cornwall during a south-west gale and poor visibility. Naiad was carrying coal to Falmouth and Truro from Port Talbot and was the second wreck on the rocks in three weeks.[101]

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1879

Ship	Country	Description
S A Hawthorne	United Kingdom	The barge, with a cargo of shingle, foundered near Margate sands. Two crew were saved.[102]

24 July

List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Heather Bell	New Zealand	The cutter ran aground on a reef near the northern tip of Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. She became a total wreck.[95]

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Maipu	United Kingdom	The barque was wrecked in Hell Bay on Bryher, Isles of Scilly. She was bound for Hamburg from Iquique with a cargo of saltpetre. All seventeen crew saved.[103][41]
River Lune	United Kingdom	The iron-barque in ballast from Lorient to Ardrossan was lost on Brothers Rock in Muncoy Neck, the channel between Annet and Melledgan, after a faulty chronometer put her off course. She sank in ten minutes, but the crew escaped to the nearby island of St Agnes, Isles of Scilly in the ship's boats.[103][41]

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Alcaser	United Kingdom	The steamer collided with Flamingo and sank off Ushant. Flamingo took the crew to Dartmouth, Devon.[104]

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Josephine	United States	The Yacht capsized. Five lost their lives.[105]
Pericles	United Kingdom	The passenger ship grounded on Penere Point, on the shore-side of The Manacles, The Lizard and refloated on a rising tide two hours later. The ship continued on her journey to Sydney with 496 emigrants, and on the following day headed for Plymouth for repairs to a leak in the fore peak.[106]
Mabel Young	United Kingdom	The Barque foundered 30 miles south east of Algoa Bay carrying jute to Dundee from Calcutta.[107]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date

Ship	Country	Description
Fanny	United Kingdom	The Rochester ship was wrecked on the French coast while en route for Dieppe.[108]
Lady Belhaven	United Kingdom	Stranded on the Argo flat at the mouth of the Mutlah. Some of the crew were taken to Calcutta.[102]
Samacood	Egypt	The government steamer sank near Réunion with the loss of twenty-four lives.[109]

August

1 August

List of shipwrecks: 01 August 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Angela	United Kingdom	The Dundee London Shipping Company steamer ran aground on Ladybank, six miles south of Dundee during fog.[99]
Hannah Louisa	United Kingdom	The ketch beached at Perranporth after the captain mistook Perran for Padstow. The crew were taken off by the rocket apparatus and the ship was refloated on 4 August.[110]

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 04 August 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Hannah Louisa	United Kingdom	The Chepstow ketch foundered off Trevose Head, Cornwall while being towed to Padstow by the steam-tug Amazon. Two of the eight on board lost their lives.[110]
Unnamed ship	France	The lugger went ashore near Hartland Quay, Devon.[111]

6 August

List of shipwrecks: 06 August 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Garibaldi	New Zealand	The 51-ton schooner stranded on a spit at Hokitika, New Zealand. She became a total wreck.[112]

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 07 August 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Marie Louise	Belgium	Wrecked on the Penarvan rocks, off Ouessant while bound for Alicante. Seven of the thirty-four on board were saved.[113]

11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Nankin	United Kingdom	The steam ship in ballast ran ashore at Mear's Point, Coverack, Cornwall in thick fog while out of London for Cardiff.[114][115] Refloated and towed to Falmouth in September.[116]

13 August

List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1879

Ship	Country	Description
City of London	United Kingdom	The passenger steam-boat sank on Barking beach following a collision with the Hamburg steamer Vesta ( Germany). City of London was refloated on 16 August.[117]

16 August

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Alleghany	United States	The schooner ran aground near Racine, Wisconsin in Lake Michigan. Refloated 1 October.[118]

18 August

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Berkeley	United States	The ferry sank at dock in a hurricane.[119]
Emma D. Blew	United States	The schooner lost her rudder and ran aground in a hurricane one mile (1.6 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 21, 4th District on the New Jersey coast and was wrecked, a total loss of vessel and cargo. Her captain was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service, the other three crewmen waded to shore.[120]
Flora Curtis	United States	The schooner ran aground in a hurricane at Atlantic City, New Jersey one mile (1.6 km) south west of Life Saving Station No. 27, 4th District. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[121]
Ida B. Silsbee	United States	The schooner sank at anchor in a hurricane in Pamlico Sound one mile (1.6 km) north of Hatteras, North Carolina, a total loss. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[122]
John C. Henry	United States	The schooner foundered off Gwynn's Island in a hurricane.[119]
N. P. Banks	United States	The steamer went ashore on the grounds of the Norfolk Naval Hospital in a hurricane.[119]
North Carolina	United Kingdom	The barque ran aground in a hurricane one-half mile (0.80 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 4, 6th District on the Virginia coast. Later refloated by a wrecking company. Her crew made it to shore on their own.[123]
Water Lily	United States	The schooner parted her anchor chains in a hurricane and grounded in Hatteras Inlet. She was later refloated. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[124]

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Manilla	Italy	The Rubattino Line steamer grounded in the Suez Canal, stopping traffic.[125]

21 August

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Peace	United Kingdom	The steamship capsized in Whitby harbour.[126]

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Queen of Britain	United Kingdom	The brig was abandoned in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by Wolverhampton ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[5]

31 August

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Seagull		The steamship was wrecked on Gafaru Island in the Maldives.[127][128]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: August 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Barry	United Kingdom	Sank off North Foreland.[129]
Louis David		The steamer en route for Naples was lost off Ushant sometime between 1–5 August. Seven of the twenty-seven on board survived.[130]

September

3 September

List of shipwrecks: 03 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
J. Bertschey	United States	The screw steamer sprung a leak in a violent gale on Lake Huron and ran aground in an attempt to beach her near Grindstone City, Michigan and broke up. Her crew of 32 and 19 passengers were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[131]
Salamander	United Kingdom	The Padstow schooner was hit by the 2,000-ton screw collier Lycham, 10 miles (16 km) off Hartland Point, and sank almost immediately.[132]

4 September

List of shipwrecks: 04 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Columbia	Norway	The barque, from London for Quebec, was holed following a collision with either a fish or "some other sea monster". Columbia sank within thirty minutes of the crew taking to two boats and were picked up by the Dutch steamer Plealand, on 9 September.[133]

6 September

List of shipwrecks: 06 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Brest	United Kingdom	The Cunard Line steamship with sails went ashore at Polbarrow near Lizard Point, Cornwall at full speed in thick fog. All the crew and migrants were saved by the RNLI lifeboat, Joseph Armstrong and local fishing boats.[134][135][136]
Marion	United Kingdom	The Carnarvon owned iron ship ran aground on Rickham Sands, east of Salcombe harbour, Devon while carrying rice from Rangoon to London. The crew were saved.[137]

8 September

List of shipwrecks: 08 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Laurel	New Zealand	The schooner sprang a leak off the Kaikoura Coast, New Zealand. The crew were rescued by the barque Mary Bell; the Laurel foundered somewhere close to Cook Strait.[138]

9 September

List of shipwrecks: 09 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Favourite	United Kingdom	The Bute fishing boat was lost near Loch Fyne. All three crew drowned.[139]

11 September

List of shipwrecks: 11 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Corrina	United Kingdom	The barque, carrying coffee, plumbago and cocoa-nut oil for London, was hit by the steamer Zeeland ( Belgium) and sank off Dungeness, with the loss of four lives.[140]

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Shepherdess	New Zealand	The 30-ton schooner was driven ashore at Charleston, New Zealand and broke up. She had gone aground in May of the same year at Kaikoura, but had been refloated.[138]

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Malakoff	United Kingdom	The Newlyn lugger sank off Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire, after being struck by Erith of London. Three lives lost.[141]

19 September

List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Messenger	Unknown	The 925-ton barque grounded on Farewell Spit, New Zealand, while en route from Lyttelton to Newcastle in New South Wales. Crew took to the lifeboats; the barque became a wreck.[138]

20 September

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Sylvanus Blanchard	United States	Abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean while en route from Liverpool to Rio de Janeiro. The captain and nine men were picked up by Vale of Nith.[142]

22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Erith	United Kingdom	The London collier collided with Orwell and sank in the Lower Hope Reach off Gravesend, Kent. All the crew were landed at Gravesend.[143] Erith was in collision with a fishing boat off Scarborough four days previous.
Orwell	United Kingdom	The London collier collided with Erith and sank in the Lower Hope Reach off Gravesend, Kent. All the crew were landed at Gravesend.[143]

23 September

List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Unnamed herring craft	United Kingdom	The Flamborough herring craft sank after being struck by the fishing boat Mary of Fowey.[144]

24 September

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Primitive	United Kingdom	The Mousehole smack sank off Scarborough, Yorkshire, after a collision with the Newcastle steamer Talisman which was bound for Rotterdam. All the crew were landed at Scarborough.[145]
Woodruff Sims	United States	The lumber schooner sprung a leak in a violent gale and was abandoned by her crew. She drifted ashore the next day one mile (1.6 km) south of Life Saving Station No. 2, 6th District on the coast of Virginia, a total loss. Her crew was rescued by a passing vessel.[146]

26 September

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Racer	United Kingdom	The Ramsgate fishing lugger was run down by the screw-steamer Pleiades off the North Foreland in the North Sea. One drowned.[147]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Anna Clara		The boiler of the steamer exploded while entering the bar at Santa Cruz, with the loss of two crew and a passenger. Most of the cargo and the mail was saved.[148]
Emmanuel	France	The brigantine stranded on the Sokendal coast, to the north of the Haadyr look-out station, Norway, and sank almost immediately.[149]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: xx September 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Quebec	United Kingdom	The Dominion Line steamer stranded off East Point, Prince Edward Island. The sixty passengers were taken off by Griffin.[150]

October

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Mount Wollaston	United States	The 325-ton whaling bark was lost with all hands at Herald Island in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Siberia.[151]
Vigilant	United States	Carrying a crew of about 30, the 215-ton whaling bark was lost with all hands when ice stove in her hull in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Siberia about 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) southwest of Herald Island.[152]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Cutelin Dall' Orso	Italy	The barque ran aground near Life Saving Station No. 28, 4th District on the New Jersey coast. Refloated on 22 October.[153]

18 October

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Nuevo Pajano del Oceano		The ship caught fire while en route to Nuevitas from Havana, Cuba, and sank in the Old Bahama Channel. Seventeen of the crew were landed at New Orleans, Louisiana, but 42 passengers died.[154]

23 October

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Eliza Gerlach	United States	The schooner lost her tow and drifted onto the breakwater at Buffalo, New York near Life Saving Station No. 5, 9th District on the Lake Erie coast. She was scuttled to prevent additional damage. Probably refloated.[155]

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Henry Rony	Canada	The schooner sank in 50 feet (15 m) of water off Charlotte, New York, five miles (8.0 km) east of Life Saving Station No. 4, 9th District after springing a leak the day before in wind and a heavy sea. Eight of her crew made it to shore in her yawl, but the female cook, who was asleep in a cabin, was forgotten in the panic to get off and was left to die.[156]
Mercury	United States	The 311-ton whaling bark was frozen in the ice and abandoned in the Chukchi Sea near Herald Island off Siberia. All 38 people aboard – 37 crew members and the captain's wife – were rescued by the bark Helen Mar ( United States).[151]

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Sea Spray	United Kingdom	The Sunderland barque sank after catching fire approximately 240 miles (390 km) from St Vincent. The crew took to the boats and arrived at St Vincent two days later.[157]

27 October

List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Sally	United States	The brigantine capsized during a gale in the Gulf of Mexico. Two survivors were picked by up by the steamer Enrique ( Spain) and landed at New Orleans, Louisiana.[158]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Amazon	United States	The screw steamer ran aground at Grand Haven, Michigan in a gale, broke in two and broke up, a total wreck. Her 32 crew and 36 passengers were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[159]

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1879

Ship	Country	Description
W. H. Wood	United States	The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Unga, Territory of Alaska.[160]

November

2 November

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Ithica	United States	The lumber schooner ran aground at Saint Joseph, Michigan in a snowstorm and broke up, a total wreck. Her six crew and one passenger were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[161]

3 November

List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Reindeer	United States	The lumber schooner ran aground at Lincoln Park, Chicago in a snowstorm, a total wreck. Part of her cargo was salvaged. Her two crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[162]

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Nellie Brown	United States	The lumber schooner ran aground on Little Egg Harbor Bar. She developed a leak that her pumps could not keep up with and she was lost. Her six crewmen and one passenger were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[163]
Taufahau	New South Wales	The two-masted brigantine ran aground off Seal Rocks, New South Wales.[164]

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Champion	United States	The steamer was sunk in a collision with Lady Octavia. 28 or 31 lives lost.[165][166]

9 November

List of shipwrecks: 09 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Florence and Johanna	United Kingdom	The Yarmouth smack was hit by another vessel and sank at the fishing grounds in the North Sea. The five crew drowned and only the master survived.[167]

12 November

List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Helen and Jane	Victoria	The schooner ran aground at Te Waewae Bay, New Zealand, and became a wreck.[138]
Rapidan	United States	The steamer struck an obstruction and sank. Two lives lost.[168]

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Bay Queen	United States	The schooner, abandoned by her crew at an unknown time, drifted ashore at Rockport, Massachusetts and broke up, a total wreck.[169]
Scarborough King	United Kingdom	The smack was swamped in a heavy sea and sank in the North Sea, with the loss of the skipper and all four crew.[170]
unreported	United Kingdom	The mast of a smack was seen above water on the Scroby Sands, off Great Yarmouth. The crew was thought to have perished.[171]

15 November

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Venerata	United Kingdom	The barque was abandoned off the coast of Portugal after springing a leak on 5 November following a south-east gale three days earlier. Fifty tons of pig iron was thrown overboard in an attempt to stay afloat and the crew abandoned ship when Vega ( Norway) was nearby.[172]

16 November

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Hattie Howard	United States	The lumber schooner broached going into harbor at Oswego, New York, in Lake Ontario and was driven ashore 150 feet (46 m) from the lighthouse and broke up, a total wreck. Her seven crewmen rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[173]

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Algie O. Thayer	United States	The steamer was wrecked in a violent storm.[174]
Charles M. Ritter	United States	The steamer was wrecked in a violent storm.[175]
George D. Seymore	United States	The steamer was wrecked in a violent storm.[176]
John Heckler	United States	The steamer was wrecked in a violent storm.[177]
Philip Becker	United States	The steamer was wrecked in a violent storm.[178]
Sasco	United States	The schooner was trying to enter the harbor at Fairport, Ohio, in Lake Erie in a gale with rain and sleet, but missed and was driven ashore one-half mile (0.80 km) from Life Saving Station No. 7, 9th District and was lost. Her six crewmen rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[179]

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Greyhound	United States	The schooner ran aground on Plum Island with in sight of Life Saving Station No. 1, 2nd District. In the early evening a gale sprung up causing her to float off and sink in deep water, a total lost. Her eight crewmen made it to shore on their own.[180]
Warren Hastings	United Kingdom	The barque left Lisbon for the Delaware River in ballast on 6 November, and during a heavy gale on 15 November was hit by large waves which took away the wheel-house. On 18 November Tollington ( Canada) of Nova Scotia picked up the crew and transferred them to Mabel, and the crew were finally landed at Falmouth, Cornwall, England.[181]

19 November

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
C. O. D.	United States	The barge went ashore 200 feet (61 m) from Margaret Dall, at the same time, north of the North Pier at Grand Haven, Michigan in a heavy storm on Lake Michigan after losing her tow. Her crewmen stayed on board.[182]
C. Rich	United States	The scow was wrecked in a gale and severe snowstorm after parting her anchor chains in Lake Erie. Her three crewmen were rescued by Life Saving Station No. 9, 9th District, United States Life Saving Service.[183]
General H. E. Payne	United States	After the other disasters the tug struck the bar at Grand Haven, Michigan, sprung a leak, and then hit the end of the North Pier in a heavy storm on Lake Michigan and sank immediately. She broke up in 30 minutes, a total loss. Her 13 crewmen and 2 passengers were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[184]
J. A. Holmes	United States	The schooner struck Maple Leaf ( United States) near sunken cribs of the North Pier at Grand Haven, Michigan in a heavy storm on Lake Michigan and started to go to pieces, she was scuttled to prevent further damage. Her six crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[185]
J. A. Saunders	United States	The scow was driven ashore in a gale and severe snowstorm in Lake Erie near where C. Rich and New Hampshire had gone ashore. Later refloated. Her four crewmen were rescued by Life Saving Station No. 9, 9th District, United States Life Saving Service.[186]
John P. Clark	United States	The tug sank in a gale. One woman died.[187]
Maple Leaf	United States	The lumber schooner struck sunken cribs of the North Pier at Grand Haven, Michigan in a heavy storm on Lake Michigan and partially filled with water. Her four crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. Three hours later she was struck by J. A. Holmes ( United States) cutting her almost in two, and broke up, a total wreck.[188]
Margaret Dall	United States	The schooner went ashore 200 yards (180 m) north of the North Pier at Grand Haven, Michigan in a heavy storm on Lake Michigan an hour after J. A. Holmes stranded, she was immediately scuttled to prevent further damage. Her seven crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[189]
Mystic	United States	The schooner stranded near the harbor mouth at Grand Haven, Michigan in a heavy storm on Lake Michigan. Her three crewmen made it to shore on their own. On 10 December she was washed off the beach in a storm out to the bar where she started pounding heavily and was scuttled to prevent further damage. Her three crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service[190]
New Hampshire	United States	The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked in a gale and severe snowstorm on Lake Erie near where C. Rich had gone ashore. Her four crewmen were rescued by Life Saving Station No. 9, 9th District, United States Life Saving Service.[191]
Sumatra	United States	The schooner was wrecked after parting her anchor chains in a gale in Lake Erie and struck the old Lake Shore Depot near Life Saving Station No. 8, 9th District knocking down part of the pier. Her seven crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[192]
W. B. Phelps	United States	The schooner was wrecked in a gale and severe snowstorm one mile (1.6 km) east of Glen Arbor, Michigan and went to pieces. Five crewmen died, two crewmen were rescued by townspeople.[193]

20 November

List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Mercury	United States	The lumber schooner was wrecked in a gale and severe snowstorm two miles (3.2 km) south of Pentwater, Michigan and went to pieces. Her eight crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. An earlier rescue attempt by citizens resulted in one of the rescuers drowning.[194]

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Hector	United States	The schooner was wrecked on Jones Inlet bar, Long Island, and was stripped and abandoned.[195]

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
John Watson	United Kingdom	The 200-ton three-masted schooner was holed on a reef off New Zealand's South Canterbury coast. The crew were rescued by the schooner Saxon before John Watson sank.[196]
Waubuno	Canada	The paddle steamer foundered off Christian Island, Lake Huron, with the loss of all 24 on board.

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Carlingford	United States	The lumber schooner was wrecked on Horse-Shoe Reef off Buffalo, New York in a snowstorm with heavy seas. Her nine crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[197]

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
City of New York	United States	The ship's prop struck the bar entering the harbor at Ludington, Michigan causing damage that sank her eight feet (2.4 m) off the pier. Later raised. The 21 people on board made it to the pier.[198]
Curlew	United States	The schooner was wrecked four miles (6.4 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 5, 10th District on the Michigan coast of Lake Huron in strong wind with heavy seas. Her five crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[199]
Olivo	Austria-Hungary	The barque was battered by a week long storm near the Azores and was in sinking condition when she was discovered by USS Constellation ( United States Navy). Constellation's boat rescued her crew and the vessel was scuttled by burning as she was a hazard to navigation in her waterlogged condition. The ensign in charge of the boat was awarded the United States Life Saving Service's Gold Life Saving Medal, a medal from the Massachusetts Humane Society, and the New York Life Saving Benevolent Association.[200]

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Jason	Norway	The barque stranded one and a half miles (2.4 km) south east of Life Saving Station No. 9, 5th District on the Virginia coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Despite efforts of a wrecking company to refloat her, she broke in two on 2 January 1880, and was abandoned, a total loss.[201]

30 November

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
M. and E. Henderson	United States	The schooner went aground 300 yards (270 m) offshore and broke up near New Inlet, North Carolina one and a half miles (2.4 km) south of Life Saving Station No. 17, 6th District. Three crewmen washed ashore alive, her captain and three crewmen died.[202]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: xx November 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Edith	United Kingdom	The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean while en route for Queenstown from Philadelphia. Survivors were picked up by Atlas of the Cunard line and landed at New York.[203]

December

3 December

List of shipwrecks: 03 December 1879

Ship	Country	Description
M. A. Baston	United States	The fishing schooner went ashore on Plum Island and sank. Her crew got off on their own.[204]

4 December

List of shipwrecks: 04 December 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Relic	United Kingdom	The Brixham smack was driven onto the breakwater in Brixham harbour during a gale and became a total loss. Two fishing boats were grounded and others received damage.[205]

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 05 December 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Bella	United States	Thanks to an unsuccessful tacking attempt during a storm, the 34.83-ton schooner ran aground at the north entrance to Oumnak Island (53°22′N 167°50′W) in the Aleutian Islands. Her crew of five survived, but she broke up on the beach and was deemed beyond repair.[206]
Romola	United Kingdom	The Arbroath schooner was taken in tow to Dartmouth by the steamer Yorkshireman ( United Kingdom). Romola was found dismasted and abandoned, in the English Channel approximately 60 miles west of Start Point.[207]

7 December

List of shipwrecks: 07 December 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Mineola	Canada	The schooner broke loose from her moorings in a severe storm in Eastport Bay and drifted ashore on the Eastern Shoal. She was refloated and sailed to Lubec, Maine where she was beached for repairs.[208]

10 December

List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Mystic	United States	The schooner, stranded near the harbor mouth at Grand Haven, Michigan since 19 November, was washed off the beach in a heavy storm on Lake Michigan out to the bar where she started pounding heavily and was scuttled to prevent further damage. Her three crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[209]

11 December

List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Alexandra	United Kingdom	The Penzance vessel was taken in tow by Bessie Belle after being hit on the port side by Secret ( United Kingdom), a schooner from Truro, five miles (8.0 km) east of Hartland Point. Within three hours Alexandra sank and the crew were landed at Portreath.[210]
Bristol City	United Kingdom	The steamer leaving Bristol for New York, went ashore, in thick fog, at Nelson Point, at the mouth of the River Avon.[211]

14 December

List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Artie Garwood	United States	The schooner stranded in a gale with high seas two miles (3.2 km) south of Life Saving Station No.4, 4th District on the New Jersey coast and broke up. Her crew of seven rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[212]

16 December

List of shipwrecks: 16 December 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Open Sea	United States	The schooner stranded on a reef off Napatree Point, a total loss of vessel and cargo. Her crew of 5 rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[213]

19 December

List of shipwrecks: 19 December 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Derby	United Kingdom	The brig, carrying mahogany, foundered nine days out of Ninatitlan. The crew, bar two, were picked up by Resolute and the captain only survived a few days.[214]

20 December

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Whitney Long	United States	The schooner sank on Hatteras Shoal in five fathoms (30 ft; 9.1 m) of water, a total loss of vessel and cargo. Her crew got off on their ship's boat and were helped through the surf by the United States Life Saving Service.[215]
Trellis	United Kingdom	The schooner was damaged and disabled in a collision with an unknown schooner and went ashore the next day one mile (1.6 km) north north east of the Life Saving Station No. 13, 2nd District on the coast of Massachusetts, a total loss. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[216]

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Adelphoi	New South Wales	The barque was wrecked off Port Hacking, New South Wales, Australia.
City of Toledo	United States	The steamer ran aground in a gale and snowstorm six miles (9.7 km) south of Life Saving Station No. 6, 11th District on the Michigan coast. Her captain and a few crew made it to shore in the ship's boat, the rest of the 24 on board were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[217]
T. J. Trafton	United States	The schooner wrecked eight miles (13 km) north east of Manomet Point, Massachusetts. Her crew made it to shore in the ship's boat.[218]

22 December

List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Black Swan	United States	The barque dragged anchor in a gale with snow and heavy seas and was wrecked one and a half miles (2.4 km) east north east of Life Saving Station No. 14, 2nd District, on the coast of Massachusetts. Her eight crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[219]

28 December

List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Agnes Irving	New South Wales	The paddle steamer was wrecked in the Macleay River, Trial Bay, New South Wales.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: December 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Fenella	United Kingdom	Left Penzance, Cornwall in late November/early December with a cargo of fish for the Mediterranean, and had not been heard off for three weeks. It is feared she was lost (along with many other ships) during recent storms in the Bay of Biscay.[220]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1879

Ship	Country	Description
Albatross		The steamer left Grimsby for Alexandria on 10 January and has not been sighted since.[38]
Carrie Annie	United Kingdom	The ship left Cadiz on 27 May, and sank after colliding with a Brazilian steamer. The crew were landed in Rio Grande.[221]
Covadonga	Chilean Navy	The steam schooner was stranded in the roadstead at Antofagasta, Chile. She was refloated and returned to service.[222]
E J Harland	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship collided with another vessel and foundered. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to New York, United States.[223]
Glencoe	United Kingdom	Refloated after running aground in the Shanghai River, which detained her for a week along with her cargo of the new-seasons tea.[224]
Glynllifon	United Kingdom	The Swansea vessel left the Coosaw River, South Carolina, with phosphate rock on 29 January. She was not seen or heard from again.[225]
Petrel		The whaling schooner capsized in mid-ocean with the loss of all fourteen crew.[226]
Samanoot	Egypt	The steamer was lost between Mauritius and Egypt with the loss of twenty-fives lives.[227]
Sarah	United States	The 142-ton two-masted fishing schooner became a total loss in the North Pacific Ocean.[228]
Shenandoah	Zanzibar	Wrecked in the Persian Gulf with the loss of several lives. Shenandoah was involved in the War of Secession and passed to the Sultan of Zanzibar following arbitration at Geneva.[229]

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Ship events in 1879
Ship launches:	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884
Ship commissionings:	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884
Ship decommissionings:	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884
Shipwrecks:	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880	1881	1882	1883	1884