List of shipwrecks in 1880

The list of shipwrecks in 1880 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1880.

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1880
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec

January

11 January 1880

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1880
Ship Country Description
Hesperus  United Kingdom The Padstow ketch went ashore at Battery Point under St Ives Head (St Ives Island), Cornwall while carrying 140 tons of coal from Liverpool to Calstock. All four crew were saved.[1]

21 January 1880

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1880
Ship Country Description
Lady Kinnaird  United Kingdom The three masted barque which was built in 1877 at Dundee, Scotland by Brown & Simpson for W.B. Ritchie, was lost after running aground in Spencer Gulf south of Cape Burr on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia early on 21 January 1880.[2]

February

9 February

List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Constance  United Kingdom The West Hartlepool steamship foundered in the Bay of Biscay and the captain and six of the crew were saved by the Lady Tredegar.[3]
Jane and Ellen  United Kingdom The Aberystwith schooner went ashore on the beach at Charlestown, Cornwall. All the crew survived.[4]
Sisters  United Kingdom The schooner from St Ives, Cornwall went ashore approximately 150 yards east of Pentewan breakwater while carrying coal from Cardiff to Charlestown, Cornwall. One of the four crew survived.[5]
Sofya  Italy The brig went ashore near St Mawes, Cornwall on Polwarth Beach.[6][7]
Valentine  France The Dieppe ship foundered off the Lizard, Cornwall with only one crew member surviving out of eighteen.[8]

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Corea  United States The barque ran aground on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel, Her crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat. Corea was later refloated and taken in to Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[9]

13 February

List of shipwrecks: 13 February
Ship Country Description
Strathnairn  United Kingdom The Dundee owned barque was run down by the steamer Edith Hough, 37 miles (60 km) west of Ushant, with the loss of all on board.[10] Two casks of brandy, from her cargo, were picked up in the Isles of Scilly the following April.[11]
Unnamed A fishing-boat capsized while entering Wexford harbour with the loss of all hands.[12]

14 February

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Gypsy Newfoundland The brigantine went aground in hurricane-force winds on the east coast of the Lizard Peninsula at Downes Cove, halfway between Kennack Sands and Coverack. All nine crew managed to climb ashore just before the ship went to pieces.[13]

16 February

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Belmont  United Kingdom A south-west gale damaged the sails and pumps, fifteen days out of Pensacola, Florida. The crew of the Plymouth vessel took to the tops when the ship became unmanagable and after four days the crew were taken off by the schooner Faithlie (lat 40.50 N, long 31.33 W) and landed at Plymouth on 6 March.[14]

22 February

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Hindoo The steamer foundered at latitude 41.50, longitude 41.05 while bound for Hull from New York with the loss of six crew. Fifty-three crew and passengers were picked up by Alexandra.[15]
Ulster  Canada The crew abandoned the Saint John, New Brunswick barque when she became waterlogged. Four of the crew lost their lives but the master and eleven crew were rescued by Hipparchus on 22 February, .[16][17]

23 February

List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Neptunns  Norway The Christiansand brig quickly broke up when wrecked at Auchmithie, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Arbroath, Scotland.[18]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1880
Ship Country Description
A M Roselands  United Kingdom The seven crew abandoned the brigantine in lat 38.50N, long 39.40W while bound for Falmouth, Cornwall from Port Castries, St Lucia with sugar and logwood. Kaut Alpsen dropped the crew off in Falmouth on 6 March.[14]

25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Resurgam II  United Kingdom Sank in Liverpool Bay while under tow, no casualties.

26 February

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Bessie Jones  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked off Blackpool, one person lost, three crew saved.[19]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown date
Ship Country Description
HMS Atalanta  United Kingdom The training-ship is presumed to have foundered during a storm in the Atlantic Ocean, sometime between 12 and 16 February. She had on board eleven officers and approximately three hundred young seamen.[20]
Bay of Biscay  United Kingdom Lost in the Atlantic Ocean.[21]
John Abbott  United Kingdom The Maryport barque was damaged in a hurricane during February and the crew were rescued by an Italian vessel.[16]
Visgorla The steamer foundered near Bombay while bound for Kurrachee with the loss of sixty-four lives.[22]
Unnamed A vessel was lost at Sidmouth, Devon with all hands.[23]
Unnamed Spain Many Spanish fishing boats and crews were lost following hurricane force winds.[24]
Unnamed The presence of large icebergs to the east of the Falkland Islands may account for many ships that are missing.[25]


March

6 March

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1880
Ship Country Description
Unknown A waterlogged vessel was reported by Giorgio Washington ( Italy) at lat 45.41N, long 25.15 W in the Atlantic Ocean.[26]

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1880
Ship Country Description
Travancore  United Kingdom The P&O steamer went ashore, in thick fog, at Castro Bight, south of Otranto Italy.[25]

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1880
Ship Country Description
Montana  United Kingdom The Guion Line steamship was wrecked on the coast of North Wales on 14 March 1880, not far from Anglesey where her sister ship, the Dakota, had been wrecked three years before. There was no loss of life.[27]

16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1880
Ship Country Description
SS Rontegui  France Carrying wine, ran aground on rocks off the north coast of Guernsey Channel Islands.[28] [29]

22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March
Ship Country Description
Isabella Mott  United States The Annapolis ship was struck by heavy seas and abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean (lat.42.04N, long.47.58W). The crew were brought into Falmouth, Cornwall by a Norwegian barque.[30]

26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March
Ship Country Description
Dowlais  United Kingdom The Cardiff steamer hit the Rundlestone, Cornwall in thick fog and sank within minutes. Thirteen crew and three passengers took to the lifeboats while two of the crew lost their lives when the ship sank as they were retrieving clothing. The surviviors were picked up by the Sedgemoor and landed at St Ives.[31]
Fernville  United Kingdom Wrecked after a collision with an iceberg while en route for Boston with coal and iron from Hartlepool. Twenty-two of the Sunderland steamers crew were rescued by Sarmatian ( France) three days later and landed at Liverpool on 20 April.[21][32]
Kosmopolict  Netherlands The Gronigen galiot foundered in the Atlantic Ocean (lat. 49.17.N.long. 7.31.W) while carrying copper ore from Ferrol to Newcastle. The crew were landed in the Isles of Scilly three days later by the German barque Vesta.[33]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown
Ship Country Description
Ablana  United Kingdom The Newport, Wales barque was wrecked in the Bay of Fundy with the loss of seven crew, including the captain and first mate.[25]
Cerwyn  United Kingdom The Falmouth owned steamer foundered off Ushant. There were only two survivors.[34]


April

8 April

List of shipwrecks: 8 April
Ship Country Description
Fasen  United Kingdom The steam tug was nearly cut in two and sank following a collision with the London and South Western Railway's steamer Cherbourg in Southampton Water, off Netley Hospital. One man drowned.[35]

11 April

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1880
Ship Country Description
H Galmar  Norway The brig was in collision with the full-rigged ship Firth of Clyde off Beachy Head. Five crew, including the captain are feared dead, while another four were landed at Weymouth.[36]
Nicolo Tomasco  Austria-Hungary The barque bound for Trieste from Philadelphia with petroleum, sank off Europa Point after being struck by lightning and catching fire.[37]

13 or 14 April

List of shipwrecks: 13 or 14 April
Ship Country Description
Calypso Collided with the General Steam Navigation Company steamer Hawk in the Thames Estuary and sank off the Princess Channel lighthouse, a few miles from her destination of London. All crew and forty-seven passengers saved.[38]

19 April

List of shipwrecks: 19 April
Ship Country Description
Emmanuel  German Empire The 72 ton Emden galliot was driven ashore on Cudden Point, Cornwall during a gale. The four crew jumped ashore and climbed the cliff to safety. The ship refloated and was washed eastwards to the mouth of Little Harry Sowan where it went to pieces.[39]

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April
Ship Country Description
Alexander Buthie  United Kingdom The Aberdeen vessel sank during a storm with the loss of all six crew.[40]
Isabella  United Kingdom The fishing vessel from Downies, Scotland sank during a storm with the loss of all six crew.[40]
Twilight  United Kingdom The Downies vessel capsized with the loss of all four crew.[40]
Unnamed vessels (4)  United Kingdom Four Stonehaven, Scotland vessels lost during a sudden storm killing nineteen crew.[40]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: April 1880
Ship Country Description
Chard  United Kingdom The crew abandoned their vessel at 49.7 W when the fore mast was lost. They were landed in the Isles of Scilly by Tetans ( Norway).[41]
Mercator  Belgium Departed Antwerp for New York, United States. A lifeboat was recovered by Chateaubriand ( France) on 19 June.[42]


May

4 May

List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1880
Ship Country Description
Conovium  UKGBI The Aberystwyth schooner hit rocks off Lizard Point, Cornwall while carrying 152 tons of cement from London to Dublin. The captain miscalculated the ship's position blaming the intensity of the light from the Lizard Lighthouse. The four crew rowed to Penzance in the ship's boat.[43]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown
Ship Country Description
American The ship floundered at Cape Palmar and some of the passengers and crew landed at Maxvia in one of the ship's boats.[44]


June

11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1880
Ship Country Description
Bay of Biscay  United Kingdom Set sail from Tower Hill. All aboard lost by drowning, wrecked.[45]
Narragansett  United States The passenger paddle steamer burned and sank in a collision at night in heavy fog in Long Island Sound with her sister ship Stonington ( United States). Approximately fifty lives were lost.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date June 1880
Ship Country Description
Alianza  Peruvian Navy War of the Pacific: The torpedo boat was scuttled by her crew to prevent her capture by advancing Chilean forces.

August

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Tidy  United Kingdom The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked in Broughton Bay. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Portland, Dorset to Llanelli, Glamorgan.[9]

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Hetty Taylor  United States The schooner encountered a squall and sank in Lake Michigan off Sheboygan, Wisconsin.[46] In 2005, the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[47] There were no casualties.

September

13 September

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Covadonga  Chile War of the Pacific: The schooner was sunk by a mine at Chancay, Peru. Thirty three crew killed, forty eight taken prisoner.

October

15 October

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Alpena  United States The sidewheel steamer sank in Lake Michigan with at least 80 killed.

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Eliza Adams Royal National Lifeboat Institution The lifeboat capsized when a large wave broke over her near the harbor at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, while she was attempting to rescue the crew of the brig Ocean Queen during a gale. Eleven of her 13 crew were killed.
Ocean Queen The brig was driven ashore on a beach near the harbor of Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, during a gale.
Sharon Rose The brig was driven ashore on a beach at Holkham, Norfolk, England, during a gale.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1880
Ship Country Description
Jane  United Kingdom The lugger was swamped by heavy seas, off Penzance, Cornwall, UK during a SSE hurricane force gale.[48]

November

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1880
Ship Country Description
Ottawa  United Kingdom The 3,712-ton vessel was wrecked at Cape La Roche on her maiden voyage. No lives lost.[49]

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1880
Ship Country Description
Pet  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Talbot, Glamorgan. Her five crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Wreck In St Ives Bay". The Cornishman (79). 15 January 1880.
  2. ↑ "The wreck of the Barque Lady Kinnaird". The South Australian Register. 26 January 1880. p. 5. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Captain Waller (11 March 1880). "The Kindness of Capt Hodge". The Cornishman (87). p. 5.
  4. ↑ "Loss Of A Schooner And All Hands". The Cornishman (83). 12 February 1880. p. 5.
  5. ↑ "Loss Of Life At Pentewan". The Cornishman (83). 12 February 1880. p. 5.
  6. ↑ "Other Casualties". The Cornishman (83). 12 February 1880. p. 5.
  7. ↑ "Salvage Services". The Cornishman (85). 26 February 1880. p. 5.
  8. ↑ "Foundering Of French Steamer Off The Lizard". The Cornishman (83). 12 February 1880. p. 5.
  9. 1 2 3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  10. ↑ "Postscript". The Cornishman (85). 26 February 1880. p. 5.
  11. ↑ "Islands of Scilly". The Cornishman (91). 8 April 1880. p. 5.
  12. ↑ "A Fishing Boat And All Hands Lost". The Cornishman (84). 19 February 1880. p. 7.
  13. ↑ "Wreck Near The Lizard". The Cornishman (84). 19 February 1880. p. 5.
  14. 1 2 "Disasters At Sea". The Cornishman (87). 11 March 1880. p. 5.
  15. ↑ "Wreck Of An Atlantic Passenger Steamer". The Cornishman (86). 4 March 1880. p. 5.
  16. 1 2 "Dangers Of The Deep". The Cornishman (87). 11 March 1880. p. 3.
  17. ↑ "Terrible Privations At Sea". The Cornishman (92). 15 April 1880. p. 6.
  18. ↑ "Disaster At Sea". The Cornishman (85). 26 February 1880. p. 6.
  19. ↑ "Shipwreck Gallery". Blackpool Gazette. 25 February 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  20. ↑ "The Missing Training-Ship Atalanta And 300 Officers, Petty Officers and Young Men". The Cornishman (92). 15 April 1880. p. 8.
  21. 1 2 "Ah! Surely nothing dies but something mourns". The Cornishman (93). 22 April 1880. p. 4.
  22. ↑ "Foundering Of A Steamer And Loss Of 64 Lives". The Cornishman (86). 4 March 1880. p. 5.
  23. ↑ "Miscellaneous". The Cornishman (84). 19 February 1880. p. 5.
  24. ↑ "Terrific Hurricane In Spain". The Cornishman (85). 26 February 1880. p. 7.
  25. 1 2 3 "Postcript". The Cornishman (87). 11 March 1880. p. 5.
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  31. ↑ "The Latest Victims Of The Rundlestone". The Cornishman (90). 1 April 1880. p. 4.
  32. ↑ "An English Steamer Sunk By Ice". The Cornishman (93). 22 April 1880. p. 5.
  33. ↑ "Penzance". The Cornishman (91). 8 April 1880. p. 7.
  34. ↑ "Rumoured Foundering Of A Steamer". The Cornishman (90). 1 April 1880. p. 5.
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  36. ↑ "Collision In The Channel". The Cornishman (92). 15 April 1880. p. 5.
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  39. ↑ "Wreck On Cuddan Point". The Cornishman (93). 22 April 1880. p. 6.
  40. 1 2 3 4 "19 Scotch Fishermen Drowned". The Cornishman (94). 29 April 1880. p. 7.
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  44. ↑ "Loss of the American". The Cornishman (96). 13 May 1880. p. 5.
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Ship events in 1880
Ship launches: 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885
Ship commissionings: 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885
Ship decommissionings: 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885
Shipwrecks: 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885
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