List of shipwrecks in 1887

The list of shipwrecks in 1887 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1887.

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1887
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Unknown date

January

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Nor	Norway	The schooner-rigged steamship was wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[1]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Ella	Sweden	The wooden barque Ella, built in 1851, was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden, to Liverpool, England, with a cargo of pit props when she ran aground and was wrecked in Belgrave Bay (Belle Grève), Guernsey, Channel Islands. There were no casualties.[2] [3]

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Bolina	United Kingdom	The Caernarvon schooner was carrying slate from Portmadoc, Wales, to London when she sank south of Gugh, Isles of Scilly, during an easterly gale.[4]

16 January

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Caterina	Italy	The barque was wrecked on the Nash Sands in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all 13 people on board.[5]

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Argus	United Kingdom	The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Llangenneth, Glamorgan. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Lannion, Côtes du Nord, France to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[5]

20 January

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Kapunda	United Kingdom	The London-based three-masted emigrant ship collided with the barque Ada Melmore (flag unknown) off Brazil and sank with the loss of 299 lives.[6]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Ribble	United Kingdom	The ship was in collision with the ship Coniston Fell ( United Kingdom in the Bristol Channel and sank with the loss of two of her seven crew. Survivors were rescued by the lifeboat Wolverhampton II ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Coniston Fell was beached at The Mumbles, Glamorgan, Wales.[5]

29 January

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Brighton	United Kingdom	The paddle steamer was on voyage from Weymouth, Dorset, England, to Guernsey, Channel Islands, when, steaming faster than her crew thought, she hit a rock in fog north of Guernsey and foundered. There was no loss of life. [7] [8]

February

1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Hermes	United Kingdom	The brigantine foundered off Île Vierge, France.[9]

March

22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Prophete Elie	France	The brig was driven ashore at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew survived.[5]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1887

Ship	Country	Description
City of Exeter	United Kingdom	The steamship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, Devon, England, with the loss of 16 of her 19 crew.[5]

May

19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Celtic	United Kingdom	The ocean liner collided with the ocean liner Britannic ( United Kingdom) 350 nautical miles (650 km) east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States. Both ships were damaged and 12 people were killed on board Britannic. Both ships were escorted to New York City.

June

8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Castleford	United Kingdom	The ship struck the Crebawethans, Isles of Scilly, in dense fog, and led to some of her cargo of 450 cattle being landed on Annet and staying there for up to ten days.[10] Some of the cattle were shipped to Falmouth, Cornwall, England, and dead steers later washed up as far away as Penzance and Lelant, Cornwall.[11]

July

9 July

List of shipwrecks: 9 July 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Barremann	United Kingdom	The Glasgow sailing ship hit the Pollard Rock within the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall with the loss of all of the twenty-seven crew. The 1,400-ton ship was on voyage from South Shields to San Francisco with coal, pig-iron and cement.[12]

August

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1887

Ship	Country	Description
City of Ashland	United States	The sidewheel paddle steamer burned and sank in in Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior, off Ashland, Wisconsin, with the loss of one life.

10 August

List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1887

Ship	Country	Description
City of Montreal	United Kingdom	The Inman Line passenger steamer caught fire and sank in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, 400 nautical miles (740 km) from Newfoundland. All 245 passengers and crew were rescued.[13]

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Jane Sophia	United Kingdom	The crew of the Plymouth schooner was saved after she sank following a collision with the steamer Zenobia (flag unknown) in the Atlantic Ocean near the Seven Stones Reef between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall, England.[11]

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1887

Ship	Country	Description
King George	United Kingdom	The fishing trawler struck the Black Rocks and sank in West Bay, Dorset, England.[1]

September

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Earl of Jersey	United Kingdom	The four-masted full-rigged ship ran aground in the Chittagong River, India, and was declared a total loss.[14]

October

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Mary Blundell	United Kingdom	The barque caught fire in the Yarra River, Victoria, Australia.[15]

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Kameruka	United Kingdom	The Illawarra & South Coast Steam Navigation Company′s 515-gross register ton steamship was wrecked on Pedro Rocks, Moruya Heads, New South Wales, Australia.[16]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Cheviot	Victoria	The screw steamer ran aground in Port Philip Bay, Victoria, Australia, and wrecked with the loss of 35 lives.

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Ada and Ethel	New South Wales	The schooner was wrecked 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) south of Seal Rocks, New South Wales, Australia.

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Flower of May	United Kingdom	The schooner foundered in Morecambe Bay, England. Three crew were rescued.[17]

November

1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Happy Go Lucky	United Kingdom	The schooner was driven ashore on the Isle of Whithorn, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.[18]
Helvetia	Norway	The barque was on a voyage from Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada, to Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, when she was wrecked in Rhossili Bay, Wales. A crew member was rescued by breeches buoy, the rest reaching safety in the ship′s boat.[5]
Robert Preston	United Kingdom	The brigantine was driven ashore on the Isle of Whithorn, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.[18]

16 November

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Tom Roberts	United Kingdom	The schooner foundered off Ballaugh, Isle of Man. All four crew were saved.[19]

December

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Brighouse	United Kingdom	The 604-ton iron steamer was on passage from Bordeaux, France, to Cardiff, Wales, with a cargo of pitwood when she hit the Seven Stones Reef west-northwest of Land's End, Cornwall, England, in fog and sank. Her crew took to the lifeboats and had to stay for two weeks on the Sevenstones Lightship.[11]

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Alice Fisher	United Kingdom	The schooner foundered in the Crosby Channel in the Mersey Estuary.[20]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Renown	Germany	The barque sank off Den Helder, North Holland, the Netherlands. Five crew were killed, 25 were rescued.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Hallowe'en	United Kingdom	The clipper was wrecked off Salcombe, Devon, England.

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6. "Great Disaster At Sea Loss Of Two Or Three Hundred Lives". Illustrated London News. February 5, 1887. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
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10. Gurney (1889) "Notes on the Isles of Scilly and the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus anglorum)"; Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society. In: Parslow, R. (2007) The Isles of Scilly. London: HarperCollins
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12. Noall, Cyril (1968). Cornish Lights and Shipwrecks. Truro: D. Bradford Barton.
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14. "Earl of Jersey". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
15. "Mary Blundell". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
16. Cameron, Stuart; Biddulph, Bruce; Robinson, George. "SS Bega". Clydebuilt Database. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
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19. "Tom Roberts". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
20. "Alice Fisher". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 3 January 2011.

Ship events in 1887
Ship launches:	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892
Ship commissionings:	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892
Ship decommissionings:	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892
Shipwrecks:	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892