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
References

January

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Achilles	United States	Carrying a cargo of coal, the 195-foot (59 m), 764-gross register ton screw steamer, a cargo ship, was stranded in fog on a shoal 1 to 2 nautical miles (1.9 to 3.7 km; 1.2 to 2.3 mi) south of Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island. She later broke up and sank.[1]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1887

Ship	Country	Description
City of Brussels	United Kingdom	The ocean liner was rammed and sunk by the ocean liner Kirby Hall ( United Kingdom) in thick fog off Great Orme, or Liverpool. Eight crew and two passengers were killed.[2][3]
Nor	Norway	The schooner-rigged steamship was wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, England.[4]

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.[5][6]

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.[7]

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.[8]

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.[8]
Theodore Birely	United States	The tug's boiler exploded and she sank at Fall River, Massachusetts. Her engineer died.[9]

20 January

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Kapunda	United Kingdom	The full-rigged emigrant sailing ship collided with the barque Ada Melmore ( United Kingdom) off Brazil and sank with the loss of 299, or 303, lives. 16 survivors were rescued by Ada Melmore.[10][11][12]

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Francis A. Perkins	United States	The 78-foot (23.8 m) schooner was wrecked with the loss of two lives on the Barnegat Shoals off the coast of New Jersey during a gale and snowstorm. There were seven survivors. Her wreck sank in 80 feet (24 m) of water.[13][14]

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.[8]

28 January

List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Ada Melmore	United Kingdom	The barque collided with the full-rigged ship Kapunda ( United Kingdom) off Brazil on 20 January causing Kapunda to sink. 16 survivors were rescued by Ada Melmore. Ada Melmore was damaged in the incident and was taking on water. She was able to transfer her crew and survivors to an unknown ship, losing two, and was abandoned to sink on 28 January.[15][16]

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, when, steaming faster than her crew thought, she hit a rock in fog north of the island and foundered. There was no loss of life.[17][18]

February

1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Hermes	United Kingdom	The brigantine foundered off Île Vierge, France.[19]

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1887

Ship	Country	Description
A. C. Monroe	United States	The schooner was sunk in a collision off White Point in Pensacola Bay, Florida, with the tugboat Echo ( United States).[20]

March

1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1887

Ship	Country	Description
W. H. Gardner	United States	The steamer was destroyed by fire in the Tombigbee River off Howard's Bar three miles (4.8 km) south of Gainesville, Alabama when a bale of cotton caught fire and a deck hand attempted to extinguish it but caught fire himself. He ran spreading the fire through the ship, a total loss. Some survivors were rescued by a boat from Tally ( United States). Eight passengers and 13 crew died.[21][22]

10 March

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Samuel MacManemy	United States	The schooner was lost off Apalachicola, Florida.[20]

20 March

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Derry Castle	United Kingdom	During a voyage from Geelong, Australia to Falmouth, Cornwall carrying wheat and a single passenger, the iron barque was wrecked off Enderby Island with eight survivors from her 23 crew.[23]
Seal	United States	During a voyage in Southeast Alaska from Juneau to Dyea carrying passengers, cargo, and mining gear, the steamer was lost in Lynn Canal north of Berners Bay with the loss of 12 lives.[24]

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.[8]

31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Ounimak	United States	The 34.67-gross register ton, 61.5-foot (18.7 m) schooner was found bottom-up on a reef off Pavlof Harbor on Sanak Island in the Aleutian Islands, apparently having capsized in a gale and snowstorm sometime during the night of 30–31 March. Her entire crew of six men perished.[25]

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.[8]

April

8 April

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Bride of Lorne	United Kingdom	The schooner was wrecked on Santa Rosa Island, Florida (30°17′N 87°13′W), or just west of the Pensacola Pass.[26][27]

14 April

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Corsair	United States	The tug struck the bank of the Mississippi River just above New Orleans in fog causing her to careen and sink. A female passenger died.[28]

May

5 May

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Louis O'Neill	United States	The schooner collided with Thos. W. Parker after both lost their tow, Swain ( United States), in a gale off Port Stanley, sinking in 12 fathoms of water. The crew reached shore in her boat, they were exposed to the violent storm for 60 hours.[29]

13 May

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Empire State	United States	The passenger ship, a sidewheel paddle steamer, burned and sank in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water at dock while moored on the east side of the harbor at Bristol, Rhode Island.[30]

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.

20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Cochrane	United Kingdom	The steamship foundered in the North Sea. Her thirteen crew survived. She was on a voyage from the River Tyne to Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands.[31]
Go Ahead	New Zealand	The vessel ran aground in fog at Cape Kidnappers during a voyage from Wellington Harbour to Napier with one man drowned.

21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Charley Bowen No. 2	United States	The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River near Twin Hollows. One crewman died.[32]

23 May

List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Glenroy	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship sank in the Red Sea.[33]

26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Ivy	United States	The tug was sunk in a collision with Wydale ( United Kingdom) in the Mississippi River at New Orleans. One person died.[34]

30 May

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Oswego	United States	The tug was rammed and sunk by the sail barge May Richards after a steering error by Oswego five miles (8.0 km) below Colchester Lighthouse sinking in mid channel three miles (4.8 km) offshore in five fathoms (30 ft; 9.1 m) of water. The wreck was located on 16 June, and was raised and taken to Detroit for repairs.[35]

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.[36] Some of the cattle were shipped to Falmouth, Cornwall, England, and dead steers later washed up as far away as Penzance and Lelant, Cornwall.[37]

11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Goodhit	United States	The steam barge caught fire and was beached on Grosse Island below Ballard's where she burned to the water's edge.[38]

15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Champlain	United States	The steamer caught fire at the mouth of Grand Traverse Bay near Fisherman Island, near Charlevoix, Michigan and was run aground where she burned to the water's edge. The wreck was salvaged, completely rebuilt and returned to service as City of Charlevoix. Approximately 30 crew and passengers were killed.[39][40]

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1887

Ship	Country	Description
P. H. Walley	United States	The steam barge capsized and sank in a storm in Lake Erie. Eight crewmen, the captain's wife and two of his children died. The captain, two of his children and the ship's mate survived.[41]
Philip Walter	United States	The steamer was struck by a cyclone between Cleveland, Ohio and Marblehead, Ohio and sank due to cargo shift. Lost with all eight hands, a mix of men and women.[42]

27 June

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Star of Scotia	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship was wrecked on Bull Point, Falkland Islands with the loss of seven lives. She was on a voyage from San Francisco, California, United States to Queenstown, County Cork and London.[43]

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.[44]

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Amanda	United States	The schooner capsized in a storm off Piney Point in Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida.[26]

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1887

Ship	Country	Description
H. S. Rowe	United States	The schooner wrecked in a storm 25 miles (40 km) east of East Pass Destin, Florida.[26]

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Twilight	United States	The steamer sank in the St. John's River. Her engineer died.[45]

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 Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior, off Ashland, Wisconsin, one mile (1.6 km) south of Chequamegon Point Light with the loss of one life.[46][47]

10 August

List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1887

Ship	Country	Description
City of Montreal	United Kingdom	City of Montreal. 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.[48]

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.[37]

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.[4]

September

17 September

List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Perth	United Kingdom	The steamship ran aground off Point Cloates in Western Australia.[49]

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.[50]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1887

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Wasp	Royal Navy	The Bramble-class gunboat disappeared with the loss of all hands after departing Singapore on 10 September for a voyage to Shanghai, China.

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.[51]

11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1887

Ship	Country	Description
George W. Beale	United States	The fishing steamer was sunk in a collision with an unknown tug in the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City. One missing.[52]

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.[53]

18 October

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1887

Ship	Country	Description
L. T. Billinger	United States	The canal boat, under the tow of Oswego ( United States) suddenly sank off Newburgh, New York. Her captain and his wife, asleep in their cabin, drowned.[54]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Cheviot	Victoria	Cheviot The screw steamer ran aground in Port Philip Bay, Victoria, Australia, and wrecked with the loss of 35 lives.
Four Brothers	United States	The schooner was abandoned in the Gulf of Mexico south south west of Panama City, Florida(29°30′N 86°00′W).[26]
Sara F. Bird	United States	The schooner wrecked a mile east of the entrance to the Perdido River in 60 mph (97 km/h) winds.[26]

23 October

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Delaware	United States	The 1,731-gross register ton screw steamer was beached in a storm near Hammond Bay, Michigan Straits and declared a total loss. Refloated, rebuilt and returned to service as Charles B. Hill.[55]

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Ada and Ethel	New South Wales	The schooner was wrecked 10 nautical miles (19 km) south of Seal Rocks, New South Wales, Australia.

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Vernon	United States	The steamer foundered in a gale in Lake Michigan off Two Rivers, Wisconsin in 210 feet (64 m) of water. Lost with all 41 on board, 16 passengers and 25 crew.[56][57][58]

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.[59]

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.[60]
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.[8]
Robert Preston	United Kingdom	The brigantine was driven ashore on the Isle of Whithorn, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.[60]

15 November

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Wah Young	United Kingdom	The steamer burned between Hong Kong and Canton, China. 400 killed.[61]

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.[62]

20 November

List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Telephone	United States	The steamer caught fire near Astoria, Oregon and was beached. later refloated and rebuilt. One person died.[63]

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Charles P. Chouteau	United States	The steamer burned in the Mississippi River at Sunflower Landing 135 miles (217 km) below Memphis, Tennessee. One of her firemen died.[64]

December

7 December

List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1887

Ship	Country	Description
San Vancente	United States	The steamer caught fire off Pidgeon Point, 45 miles (72 km) south of San Francisco, burned and sank. Eight crew who abandoned ship in a lifeboat died. The captain and second mate were taken off by a boat from Queen of the Pacific ( United States).[65]

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.[37]

14 December

List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Lizzie Ella	United States	The sloop was lost in the Gulf of Mexico on a fishing trip to the "Snapper Banks".[26]

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.[66]

24 December

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1887

Ship	Country	Description
Nellie Martin	United States	During a voyage from Juneau, Territory of Alaska, to Shakan on Kosciusko Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska, the 24.5-ton, 47.9-foot (14.6 m) schooner was wrecked on rocks at the south end of Douglas Island after her anchor chain parted in a gale. Her two-man crew survived.[67]

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.
Novelty	New Zealand	The steam ship Novelty was wrecked off Quail Island, Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand
Wan Nien Ch'ing	Imperial Chinese Navy	The sloop-of-war was sunk in a collision.[68]

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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