List of shipwrecks in 1892

The list of shipwrecks in 1892 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1892.

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1892
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January

6 January
List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1892
ShipCountryDescription
USRC Gallatin United States Revenue-Marine Also known as USRC Albert Gallatin, the 142-foot (43 m), 250-ton revenue cutter was wrecked on the northwest side of Boo Hoo Ledge in the Atlantic Ocean off Manchester, Maine, United States, with the loss of one life. Her wreck is located at 42°33′50″N 70°44′52″W in up to 50 feet (15 m) of water.[1]

8 January
List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Namchow  Straits Settlements The steamer foundered off Cupchi Point, or four miles (6.4 km) off Breaker Point, China. 414 killed.[2][3][4]

February

19 February
List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Messina  Germany The cargo steamer foundered off the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom on passage Cardiff for Marseille with coal. Only one survivor.[5]

21 February
List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Tunisie  France The ship was driven ashore on Lundy Island, Devon, United Kingdom. Her 21 crew were rescued.[6]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Star of Erin  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was wrecked in the Forveaux Straits, New Zealand.[7]
Soudan  United Kingdom The ship, belonging to the British and Eastern Shipping Company, was carrying grain from Tacoma to Antwerp when she wrecked off North Point on Ascension Island (7°53.266′S 14°22.599′W), without loss of life.[8]

March

8 March
List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1892
ShipCountryDescription
County of Salop  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked at Wanson Mouth near Bude, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[9]

8 March
List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Elginshire  United Kingdom
Elginshire
The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Timaru, New Zealand.

20 March
List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1892
ShipCountryDescription
William Lewis  United States The 463-gross register ton, 134-foot (41 m) steam whaling bark, aground on a sandspit off Point Barrow, Territory of Alaska, since 3 October 1891, was destroyed by an accidental fire that broke out during salvage operations.[10]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date June 1893
ShipCountryDescription
Harry White  United States The schooner was sunk in a collision in Block Island Sound between Block Island and the coast of Rhode Island.[11]

April

12 April
List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Alexander  United States The 128.88-ton whaling brig was wrecked on a reef in the Bering Sea on the northwest coast of Saint Paul Island in the Pribilof Islands. Her crew of 29 reached the shore and survived and eventually were picked up by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[12]

20 April
List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1892
ShipCountryDescription
City of Cheboygan  United States The schooner was wrecked by unknown schooner in the Detroit River. Refloated, repaired and returned to service.[13]

May

3 May
List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Christiana  United Kingdom The smack ran aground and was wrecked at Cardigan. Her two crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Caernarfon to Llangrannog, Glamorgan.[14]

5 May
List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Frascati  Germany The steamer ran aground at Cape Town, South Africa. Later refloated and returned to service.[2]

June

22 June
List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1892
ShipCountryDescription
City of Chicago  United Kingdom The passenger ship ran aground off the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. All on board, including 1,100 passengers, were rescued. She broke up and sank a few days later.[15]
Fred B. Taylor  Canada The wooden, fully-rigged sailing ship was cut in two in a collision in fog with the steamer Trave ( Germany) in the Atlantic Ocean 100 nautical miles (190 km) south east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States, with the loss of two of her 21 crew. The survivors were rescued by Trave. The stern section came ashore at Wells, Maine, United States on 7 August. The bow section drifted ashore on the coast of North Carolina, United States, between Bodies Island and Carrituck Inlet.[16][17]

July

1 July
List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Ella Moore  Canada
Ella Moore.

The barque ran aground near Canso, Nova Scotia. She was later refloated, repaired and returned to service.[18]

25 July
List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Alva  United States The 285-foot (87 m) steam luxury yacht — the property of William K. Vanderbilt — sank in 50 feet (15 m) of water on Pollock Rip Shoal off Chatham, Massachusetts, after the steamer H. F. Dimock (flag unknown) rammed her in fog.[19]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date July 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Beaver  Canada The partially stripped wreck of the steamer, aground on rocks at Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, since 17 July 1888, sank after being struck by the wake of the passing steamer Yosemite.

August

8 August
List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1892
ShipCountryDescription
HM Torpedo Boat 75  Royal Navy The torpedo boat was sunk in a collision with HM Torpedo Boat 77 off The Maidens in the North Channel off County Antrim, Ireland.[20]

20 August
List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Albatross  United States While attempting to enter Lituya Bay in Southeast Alaska, the 7.22-gross register ton, 31.1-foot (9.5 m) schooner drifted onto rocks in the bay inside Harbor Point (58°37′N 137°39′W) and was wrecked. Her crew of two survived, but she was deemed a total loss.[12]

30 August
List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Western Reserve  United States The lake freighter suffered a structural failure, broke in two, and sank in Lake Superior with the loss of 31 lives. There was one survivor.

31 August
List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Active  United States The 14.3-ton, 41.2-foot (12.6 m) schooner was wrecked in "Marosco Bay, Cold Harbor," probably a reference to Morozovski Bay – a name commonly used for Cold Bay at the time – on the Alaska Peninsula in the Territory of Alaska. Her crew of eight survived.[12]

September

8 September
List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Charles W. Wetmore  United States The whaleback steam cargo ship ran aground at Coos Bay, Oregon, and was abandoned.

17 September
List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Vienna  United States The steamer was accidentally rammed by the steamer Nipigon ( Canada) and sank in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior.

October

1 October
List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Camiola  United Kingdom Despite warning signals from the Sevenstones Lightship, the Newcastle steamer struck the Seven Stones Reef at full speed and quickly sank; all of her crew managed to get into the ship's two boats. She was carrying 3,400 tons of coal from Cardiff to Naples,[21] or Barry Docks to Malta.[22]

6 October
List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Helen Mar  United States The 110-foot (33.5 m) whaling bark sank in the Chukchi Sea northwest of Point Barrow, Territory of Alaska, with the loss of 27 lives after she was caught in a swift current and crushed between two icebergs. Her five survivors clung to her mainmast as she sank, escaped onto the ice, and were rescued on 8 October by the whaling steamer Orca ( United States).[23]

9 October
List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Sirene  Norway The barque was wrecked alongside North Pier at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, during a storm. Her entire crew of 11 survived by jumping onto the pier.

18 October
List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Elizabeth Mary  United States The 49-foot (14.9 m) steamer was wrecked in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska during a gale. Her crew of three survived.[24]

26 October
List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1892
ShipCountryDescription
J. P. Allen  United States The schooner was sunk by a whirlwind 55 miles (89 km) east of Pensacola, Florida.[25]

28 October
List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Roumania  United Kingdom The Anchor Line steel screw steamer Roumania went aground near the Óbidos Lagoon Inlet on the west coast of Portugal with the loss of 120 lives.

28–29 October
List of shipwrecks: 28–29 October 1892
ShipCountryDescription
W.H. Gilcher  United States The lake freighter disappeared during the night of 28–29 October in Lake Michigan somewhere near North Manitou Island with the loss of her entire crew, variously reported as 18 or 22 men.[26]

November

2 November
List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1892
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Howe  Royal Navy The Admiral-class battleship ran aground on a shoal off Ferrol, Spain, primarily due to faulty charts. Salvage was difficult, and she was not refloated until 30 March 1893. She was repaired and returned to service.[27][28][29]

8 November
List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Watergeus  United Kingdom The steamer sank after a collision in Shanghai harbour.[2]

17 November
List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Abbey Town  Sweden The three-masted sailing ship, previously called Ida, was wrecked in Perelle Bay on the west coast of Guernsey in the Channel Islands during a voyage from Raine Island to Granville, Manche, with a cargo of guano.[30][31][32]

18 November
List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Hattie Wells  United States The schooner barge went ashore five miles (8.0 km) from Point Pelee, Ontario. Reported a week later as going to pieces, but salvaged in July 1893 and taken to Port Huron, Michigan, with repairs finished on 19 September 1893.[33][34]

24 November
List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Mauritius  Norway The ship was wrecked at Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[35]

27 November
List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Leo  United States The 155-ton schooner struck a rock and sank in Port Houghton Bay (57°03′N 135°22′W) in Southeast Alaska. She was refloated and subsequently served in a cove at Japonski Island in the harbor at Sitka, Territory of Alaska, as a quarantine hulk and later as a prison hulk.[36]

30 November
List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Chishima  Imperial Japanese Navy The unprotected cruiser sank after a collision in Seto Inland Sea with P&O merchant vessel Ravenna ( United Kingdom) with the loss of 90 lives.

December

7 December
List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Northerner  United States The steam barge ran aground on Keweenaw Point in fog. She was refloated and taken to L'Anse, Michigan.[37]

9 December
List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Duke  United Kingdom During a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Cardigan, the schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Cemaes Head, Cardiganshire, Wales. Her crew were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[14]

11 December
List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Northerner  United States The steam barge caught fire at L'Anse, Michigan when a kerosene lamp was dropped in a possible arson fire. The fire destroyed the vessel, dock, and warehouse. She was scuttled off the dock in 10-15 feet of water.[38]

18 December
List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Bokhara  United Kingdom The steam passenger ship struck a reef in the Taiwan Strait off Sand Island in the Pescadores during a typhoon and foundered with the loss of 125 of the 150 people on board. She was on a voyage from Shanghai, China, to Hong Kong.

20 December
List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1892
ShipCountryDescription
Nubian  United Kingdom The passenger-cargo steamer sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Lisbon, Portugal.

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date
ShipCountryDescription
Bessie Reuter  United States The 31-ton schooner was lost with all hands off the Territory of Alaska.[39]
Danube  United Kingdom The sailing ship disappeared during a voyage from Guadeloupe to New York City.
Henry Davey The schooner was lost off "Squan," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet.[40]
Seignelay  French Navy The unprotected cruiser was wrecked.[41][42]

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References
  • Colley, Paul (2013) Diving and Snorkelling Ascension Island: Guide to a Marine Life Paradise (Dived Up). ISBN 978-1-909455-00-9
Ship events in 1892
Ship launches: 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897
Ship commissionings: 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897
Ship decommissionings: 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897
Shipwrecks: 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897
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