List of shipwrecks in October 1886

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The list of shipwrecks in October 1886 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during October 1886.

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2 October

List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1886
Ship State Description
Garibaldi  United States The
Murder Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her crew were rescued.[1]

3 October

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1886
Ship State Description
Mary Lester  United Kingdom The ship departed from Glasgow, Renfrewshire for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. No further trace, reported missing.[2]

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1886
Ship State Description
Greenock  United Kingdom The lighter was run into by the steamship Escurial (Flag unknown) and sank in the Clyde at Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire.[3]

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1886
Ship State Description
La Mascotte  United States The
St. Louis, Missouri. Ten passengers and 22 crew died.[4]
Mandarin  United Kingdom The
Holy Isle, in the Firth of Clyde. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was refloated with assistance and found to be leaky.[5]
Theodore  Russia The
Sunderland, County Durham.[6][5]

6 October

List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1886
Ship State Description
Guilherme Flag unknown The ship was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from
Oporto, Portugal to St. Simons, Georgia, United States.[7]
Juliet  United Kingdom The
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.[8]
Julius  Germany The
Stettin.[9]
Robert Brown  United Kingdom The ship was run into by the steamship Tolka ( United Kingdom) and sank in the Belfast Lough off Carrickfergus, County Antrim. Her crew were rescued by Tolka.[10]
Sinclair  United Kingdom The
cutter yacht was driven ashore at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.[5]

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1886
Ship State Description
Pegli  Italy The ship departed from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom for Table Bay. No further trace, reported missing.[11]

8 October

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1886
Ship State Description
Agnes  United Kingdom The
Seine-Inférieure, France to Swansea, Glamorgan.[13] An attempt at salvage failed when she was driven further ashore the next day. She was abandoned as a total loss.[14] She broke up on 15 October.[15]
Felix Depeaux  France The steamship collided with the steamship Holmside ( United Kingdom) and foundered in the North Sea off Whitby, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by Holmside.[9]
Tramurora  Spain The
Dry Tortugas with the loss of seven of her eleven crew. Survivors took to a raft; they were rescued by a schooner on 13 October. She was on a voyage from Barcelona to Havana, Cuba.[16]
Warwick  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship ran ashore on the coast of Heligoland with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Taltal, Chile to Hamburg, Germany.[17]

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1886
Ship State Description
Ant  United Kingdom The ship departed from a port on the west coast of
Ireland for a British port. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[15]
Cambria  United Kingdom The abandoned schooner was taken in to Munlara, County Donegal. She had been on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Sligo.[9]
Garam  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Seaham, County Durham. She was refloated and towed in to West Hartlepool, County Durham.[9]
Francis  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked near Tiraun Point, County Mayo. Her crew were rescued.[7]
Treasaurora  Spain The
Dry Tortugas with the loss of seven of her thirteen crew. Survivors were rescued from a raft on 14 October by the schooner Anna Hutcheson ( United States).[18]
LH 1088
  United Kingdom The
steam fishing boat was driven ashore and wrecked 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) south of Newburgh, Fife.[7]

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1886
Ship State Description
San Juan  Spain The
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.[9][19]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The yacht foundered off Crookhaven, County Cork with the loss of all hands.[14]

11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1886
Ship State Description
Henrys  United Kingdom The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her eight crew were rescued by Max Morris ( United States). Henrys was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Southampton, Hampshire.[20]
Onward  United Kingdom The schooner was abandoned off the Gull Rock, Cornwall. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from an Irish port to Padstow, Cornwall.[7]

12 October

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1886
Ship State Description
Hammonia  Germany The barque sprang a leak and sank at Yantai, China.[21]
Lord Jeffrey  United Kingdom The steamship departed from the River Tyne for Port Said, Egypt. No further trace, reported overdue.[22]
North Devon  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore at Workington, Cumberland. She was on a voyage from Cartagena, Spain to Workington.[19]
Wenonah  United Kingdom The schooner sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her eight crew were rescued by an Italian barque. She was on a voyage from Tuacacas, Venezuela to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.[23][24]

13 October

List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1886
Ship State Description
Auckland Castle  United Kingdom The
Yenikale Strait. She was refloated the next day.[21]
Scotia  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in the Hoorn Islands.[25]
Selah Chamberlain  United States
masted steam barge collided with the steamship John Pridgeon Jr. ( United States) in Lake Michigan about 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) off the coast of Wisconsin. Selah Chamberlain cut her towline to Fayette Brown and headed toward shore, but sank 15 minutes after the collision off Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) northeast of Sheboygan Point in 90 feet (27 m) of water with the loss of five of her crew.[4][26][27][28]

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1886
Ship State Description
Belle Mitchell  United States The schooner sank in a gale in Lake Erie between Conneaut, Ohio and the base of Long Point Peninsula. Lost with all nine hands.[29][30]
Ben-y-Gloe  United Kingdom The ship capsized off Nash Point, Glamorgan and drove ashore with the loss of one of her 30-plus crew. Survivor were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Singapore, Straits Settlements to Penarth, Glamorgan.[12][31][15][32]
Castleton  United Kingdom The steamship departed from Penarth, Glamorgan for Saint Lucia. No further trace,[33] reported missing.[34]
George M. Case  United States The
Chicago, Illinois to Buffalo, New York.[36]
Indus  United Kingdom The steamship foundered off Trevose Head, Cornwall. Her 29 crew were rescued by the Port Issac Lifeboat Richard and Sarah ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and a gig.[37][38][32] Indus was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Tenerife, Canary Islands.[39]
Malleny  United Kingdom The ship struck the Tusker Rock and foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all twenty crew. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The wreck came ashore at Westward Ho!, Devon.[12]
O. M. Bond  United States The schooner was driven ashore on Rond Eau Point, Ontario, Canada in Lake Erie in a severe gale and was wrecked, a total loss, with the loss of two of her crew.[40][41]

15 October

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1886
Ship State Description
Gina  United Kingdom The
Nord to Penarth.[15]
Henry  United Kingdom The
Lundy Island, Devon in heavy gales. Her four crew were rescued.[42][43]
Ida  United Kingdom The
fishing boats, sinking some of them, and was wrecked.[15]
J. W. A.  United Kingdom The schooner was abandoned off Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued by the Fishguard Lifeboat Sir Edward Perrot ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[15]
Lady But  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in
Aberdovey, Merionethshire to Sligo.[44]
Matilda  United Kingdom The barge was driven ashore near Bognor, Sussex. The whereabouts of her crew was unknown.[45]
Ocean Beauty  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore at Aberavon, Glamorgan with the loss of two of her fifteen crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, to Valparaíso, Chile.[12] She subsequently became a wreck.[15]
Rochfort  United Kingdom The
Carnarvon Bay. Her crew were rescued.[15]
Roseola  United Kingdom The
St. Brides Bay. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Bristol, Gloucestershire.[15]
Teviotdale  United Kingdom The
Bombay, India. Some of the ship's cargo of coal was pillaged.[46][47][15]
Valeria  United Kingdom The
Portland, Dorset.[15]
Unnamed Flag unknown The barque foundered off the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.[15]
Unnamed  Norway The barque was driven ashore in Port Queen Bay, Cornwall with the loss of eleven lives.[15]

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1886
Ship State Description
Albert Wilhelm  Germany The brig hit the Stones reef, near the Godrevy Lighthouse, Cornwall, United Kingdom and was driven on to the sands at Lelant, Cornwall. Five of her nine crew were saved by the Hayle Lifeboat Isis ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and four by breeches buoy or rocket apparatus.[48][49][15]
Alliance  Norway The barque was wrecked on the Doom Bar with the loss of four of her eleven crew. Survivors were rescued by the Padstow Lifeboat.[15]
Ariel  Norway The
Seine-Inférieure, France.[15]
Bellaport  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore at Ballinskelligs, County Kerry with the loss of all hands.[15] She was subsequently refloated and towed in to Kenmare, County Kerry by the steamship Fastnet ( United Kingdom).[32]
Ellida  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Dover, Kent.[15]
Frederick Start  Norway The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Pentire Head, Cornwall with the loss of eleven of her twelve crew.[15]
Frederick William  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore in Swansea Bay. Her crew were rescued by a steamship.[15]
Inversnaid  United Kingdom The
Lundy Island, Devon whilst on a voyage from Penarth, Glamorgan to Singapore, Straits Settlements. Presumed foundered with the loss of all seventeen crew, wreckage from the ship was sighted by the tug Flying Fox ( United Kingdom).[50][51][11]
Leon Raimundo  United Kingdom The
collier was driven ashore near Margate, Kent. She was refloated and towed in to Dover.[15]
Nancy McSweeney  United Kingdom The
Newport, Monmouthshire.[15]
Nash  United Kingdom The ship was lost in Swansea Bay.[15]
Unnamed Flag unknown The barque foundered off Trebarwith, Cornwall with the loss of all hands, between twelve and twenty lives.[15]
Three unnamed vessels Flags unknown The ships were lost in Swansea Bay.[15]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1886
Ship State Description
Independent  United Kingdom The steamship foundered in the Swash, off the coast of Somerset. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sydney to Bridgwater, Somerset.[32]
Mary Seymour  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked at Spithead, Hampshire.[52]
Rutland  United Kingdom The
Lundy Island, Devon. Her thirteen crew were rescued by the steamship Carn Brea ( United Kingdom). Rutland was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Greenock, Renfrewshire. She was subsequently towed in to Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.[32]
Sarah Anderson  United Kingdom The barque sank at Trebarwith Strand, Cornwall with the loss of all on board.[53] She was on a voyage from Falmouth, Cornwall to Fleetwood, Lancashire.

18 October

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1886
Ship State Description
Atros  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at the Pointe de la Coubre, Gironde, France. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Bordeaux, Gironde.[32]
Unnamed Flag unknown The ship was driven ashore at the Pointe de la Coubre.[21]
Unnamed  Norway The barque was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Lydian Monarch ( United Kingdom).[44]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1886
Ship State Description
Wexford  United Kingdom The ship foundered off
Lundy Island, Devon.[44]

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1886
Ship State Description
Benalder  United Kingdom The steamship caught fire at London. The fire was extinguished.[44]
Brilliant  United Kingdom The
pilot cutter No. 1 ( United Kingdom. Brilliant was taken in tow for Dover by the tug Ben Nevis ( United Kingdom) but consequently sank 1+1⁄2 nautical miles (2.8 km) south west of Folkestone, Kent.[44]
Louis  United Kingdom The
Charlton, Kent.[44]
Maude, and
Teutonia (SS Teutonia (1881), British or SS Teutonia (1878), German? --> 		 United Kingdom
Flag unknown 		The
Thames barge Maude in the River Thames at Northfleet, Kent. Both vessels were beached on the Essex shore.[44]
Neptunus  Norway The ship foundered in the
Forfarshire, United Kingdom to Christiania.[36]

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1886
Ship State Description
Express  United Kingdom The steam trawler was wrecked on the Longscar Rocks, on the coast of County Durham. Her seven crew were rescued by the Seaton Carew Lifeboat.[54][51]
Ilex  Norway The barque ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. She was refloated with assistance and taken in tow for the River Thames by the tug Zealandia ( United Kingdom).[54]

22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1886
Ship State Description
Cambrian Princess  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in the River Thames at Thamesmead, Kent.[54]
Clare  United Kingdom The
Barking, Essex.[54]
Falls of Dee  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in the River Thames at Thamesmead.[54]
Little Briton  United Kingdom The tug was driven ashore in the River Thames at Barking.[54]
Stormcock  United Kingdom The tug was driven ashore in the River Thames at Thamesmead. She was on a voyage from London to Liverpool, Lancashire.[54]

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1886
Ship State Description
Irene  United Kingdom The
Gravesend, Kent.[55]
Kate United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Guernsey The brig ran aground off Southend, Essex. She was refloated with the assistance of a tug and found to be leaky.[36]
Medelin  Ottoman Empire The steamship ran aground at Cape Drepano, Greece and was abandoned by all on board, more than 800 people.[56]
Normanton
 		 United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked in heavy wind and rain off the coast of what is now Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. The European officers and crew abandoned ship and reached safety, leaving the twelve Chinese and Indian crewman and all 25 Japanese passengers behind to fend for themselves. All the Japanese passengers died.
Samuel J. Tilden  United States The schooner was rammed and sunk at anchor in the St. Clair River 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) downstream of Port Huron, Michigan by Arabia ( United States). The wreck was raised on 28 October. Samuel J. Tilden was repaired, and returned to service in late 1887.[29][57]
Tonquin  French Navy The
transport ship was driven ashore on Port-Cros, Hyères. She was refloated the next day.[58]
William Rudolph  United States The
Grosse Point, Michigan. She was scuttled by the steam barge Cleveland ( United States) to prevent destruction.[29]

25 October

List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1886
Ship State Description
Queen  United Kingdom The steamship was severely damaged by fire at Liverpool, Lancashire.[55]

27 October

List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1886
Ship State Description
Sumatra  Netherlands The
Portland, Dorset.[20]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1886
Ship State Description
Minerva  United Kingdom The
Sunderland, County Durham.[59][60] She was refloated in mid-November and beached near the Shornemead Fort.[23][61]

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1886
Ship State Description
Ongo  United Kingdom The
Baltic Port, Russia. She was refloated and put back to South Shields with the assistance of two tugs.[20]

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1886
Ship State Description
Saphir  Norway The
Seaford, Sussex. She was declared a total loss.[62]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1886
Ship State Description
Calypso  Germany The
Stettin. She was a total loss.[25]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in October 1886
Ship State Description
Acacia  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Zindgir Bank. She was on a voyage from
Marianople, Russia to Gibraltar. She was later refloated and taken in to Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire.[25]
Adelheid and Berth  United Kingdom The barque ran aground on the Domesnes Reef, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Honfleur, Manche, France.[21]
Albano  United States The
Baltimore, Maryland.[63]
Anduline Flag unknown The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean.[21]
A. Neff Canada Canada The steamship was wrecked on rocks off Porphyria Point, Edward Island, Ontario in late October. Her crew were rescued by a tug.[29]
Archangelsk  Russia The
Archangelsk to Saint Petersburg.[25]
Autocrat  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore on the south point of
Cronstadt, Russia.[54] She was later refloated and taken in to Oskarshamn, Sweden.[36]
Baobab  France The schooner was driven ashore at Pauillac, Gironde and sprang a severe leak.[21]
Belle O'Brien  United States The
Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France and was severely damaged.[7]
Benjamin Mollen  Sweden The ship ran aground on the Cross Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Stockholm to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. She was refloated with the assistance of a tug and taken in to Great Yarmouth.[10]
Black Diamond  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Chapman Sands.[21]
Boswedden  United Kingdom The
Lundy Island, Devon and a table with a ship's notebook near Ilfracombe were also found.[65][66] She was on a voyage from Briton Ferry, Glamorgan to Penzance, Cornwall.[67]
Britannia  United Kingdom Wreckage marked "SS Britannia, Glasgow" was found in Bideford Bay, and reported on 17 October at Bideford, Devon after the heavy gales of 14–16 October, though the vessel concerned was not identified.[42]
Carl Oscar  Sweden The schooner was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg to Dartmouth, Devon. She was refloated and put back to Gothenburg.[19]
Castleton  United Kingdom The steamship departed from Penarth, Glamorgan for Saint Lucia, West Indies on 14 October with a crew of 23, and was seen in difficulties the following day during heavy gales. Identifable wreckage seen in Bideford Bay was reported from Bideford on 17 October and by the Westward Ho! coastguard on two days later.[42][68][69][70]
Chevychase  United Kingdom The steam trawler was driven ashore and wrecked at Filey Briggs, Yorkshire. Her crew survived.[5]
Clutha  United Kingdom The steamship was abandoned at sea on or before 14 October. Her crew were rescued.[39] She was subsequently towed in to Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium.[15]
Conquistador  United Kingdom The
Newport, Monmouthshire for Málaga, Spain on 13 October and lost in heavy gales on or after 14 October; her lifeboat was picked up, waterlogged, on 21 October in 48°50′N 4°50′W / 48.833°N 4.833°W / 48.833; -4.833, and more identifiable wreckage was later washed up between Mullion Cove and The Lizard, Cornwall including a boat's stern bearing the name Conquistador.[71][72][73]
Dovre  Norway The brig collided with the Grand Bank Lightship ( France) at Bordeaux, Gironde and was severely damaged.[21]
Ecossaise  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore on Skagen, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire to Cronstadt.[36]
Elephant  United Kingdom The steamship foundered in the English Channel off the coast of Sussex. A boiler intended for HMS Imperieuse, which formed part of her cargo, washed up at Eastbourne.[51]
Faedrelandet  Norway The
Saint Lawrence River. She was on a voyage from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was refloated and found to be leaky. Faedrelandet was taken in to a port for repairs.[9]
Fanny  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked south of Maughold Head, Isle of Man.[3]
Fleetwing  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at St Marys Bay, Kent. She was on a voyage from London to Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.[44]
Gebruder  Germany The galiot was driven ashore on Nidingen, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Kungsbacka, Sweden to an English port.[21]
General Napier  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore near the Marjaniemi Lighthouse, Sweden.[54]
Georg  Germany The ship was severely damaged off
Hven, Sweden by an onboard explosion. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Liepāja, Russia. She put in to Copenhagen, Denmark.[36]
Gleneuse Flag unknown The ship was driven ashore at
Victoria. She was on a voyage from the Charente to Melbourne, Victoria.[10]
Guild Mayor  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore near Carrickfergus, County Antrim.[3]
Ida  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore on Corsica, France.[21]
Jacoba  Netherlands The ship foundered at sea. Her crew were rescued.[21]
J. H. Niemann  Germany The steamship was driven ashore at Thisted, Denmark. She was refloated with the assistance of a steamship and resumed her voyage.[25]
John Taylor  United Kingdom The steamship foundered on or after 14 October. Her crew were rescued by a steamship. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Newry, County Antrim.[74]
Lake Huron CanadaCanada The steamship ran ashore on Madam Island, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Montreal. She was refloated but had to be beached at Indian Harbour, Nova Scotia.[63][75]
Lancaster  United Kingdom The steamship caught fire at Savannah, Georgia, United States.[9]
La Plata  Norway The brig was driven ashore on Swain, in the Pentland Firth. Her crew were rescued.[14]
Leo  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore on the Isle of Arran. She was refloated and taken in to Ardrossan, Ayrshire for repairs.[44]
Lero Flag unknown The steamship was driven ashore in Chesapeake Bay. She was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. She was later refloated with assistance and put back to Baltimore.[19]
Lilian  United Kingdom The
Orkney Islands in a waterlogged condition.[13]
Martha  Germany The
Drontheim, Norway to Onega, Russia.[7]
Martin  United Kingdom The sloop collided with a steamship and sank at the mouth of the River Mersey.[9]
Mindet  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Saga ( United Kingdom). Mindet was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to West Hartlepool, County Durham.[25]
Nerbudda  United Kingdom The
Calcutta, India on 14 October with a crew of 42 and was lost in heavy gales on or after that date. The ship's figurehead and other identifiable wreckage was washed up in Bideford Bay, and reported on 19 October at Bideford.[68][76]
Nicola  United States The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Fortune Island, Bahamas.[10][36]
O. M. Baird  United States The
Detroit, Michigan to Buffalo, New York.[36]
Ontario  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Saint Lawrence River. She was on a voyage from Montreal to Bristol, Gloucestershire. Ontario was refloated and found to be leaky. She put back to Montreal for repairs.[9]
Otterburn  United Kingdom The ship caught fire and was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the
San Francisco, California, United States.[51]
Owen  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Cape Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.[36] All on board were rescued.[77]
Oxen  United Kingdom Identifiable wreckage seen in Bideford Bay, and reported by the Charlotte (Flag unknown) on 22 October at Cardiff.[50]
Pan  Sweden The steamship ran aground at Sandhamn.[63]
Pontyprid  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Doganastan Shoal, in the Sea of Marmara. She was on a voyage from Brăila, Romania to Gibraltar.[19]
Queen Victoria  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued by the
Neufahrwassar, Germany.[44]
Solide  Sweden The steamship was driven ashore at "Alebeckk", Gotland. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg to Stockholm.[9]
Suakim  United Kingdom The ship caught fire at San Francisco.[20]
HMS Tyne  Royal Navy The troopship ran aground at Sheerness, Kent. She was refloated.[78]
Upton  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore in the Seine. She was later refloated with assistance.[3]
Wacissa Flag unknown The ship was wrecked on the South Reef, off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada.[54]
Wave  United Kingdom The steamship sank in the Great Belt after 7 October. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from West Hartlepool, County Durham to Wismar, Germany.[9]
William and Catherine  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Exmouth, Devon.[3]
Yuba Canada The ship ran aground and the mouth of the Richelieu River. She was on a voyage from Pictou, Nova Scotia to Sorel, Quebec.[63]
Unnamed  United Kingdom The barque foundered off Boscastle, Cornwall with the loss of all hands.[32]

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