List of shipwrecks in 1879

The list of shipwrecks in 1879 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1879.

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1879
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

3 January

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1879
Ship Country Description
Nederland  Belgium Stranded off Cherry Island, Maryland. Later refloated and returned to service.[1]

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1879
Ship Country Description
Gerhardine  German Empire The brigantine was abandoned by her crew approximately 30 miles south of St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. She was towed into St Mary's by Gladiator. The crew were landed at Le Havre on the 16 January.[2]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1879
Ship Country Description
Speedy  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset.[3]

8 January

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1879
Ship Country Description
Riverside  United Kingdom The Belfast brigantine was abandoned in the Atlantic while carrying pitch pine from St. Marys, Georgia to Montevideo.[4]
Sarah Ann  United Kingdom The barque foundered in Swansea Bay. Her crew were rescued by Wolverhampton ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[5]

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1879
Ship Country Description
Le Mignon  France The Dunkerque dandy went onshore on the Little Bezeath ridge of rocks at Marazion beach, Mount's Bay, Cornwall in a south-east gale. She was en route from Swansea to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme with coal. All the crew survived.[6][7]
William and Mary  United Kingdom The Workington brig was driven on to rocks at Cloughey Bay, County Down. The fate of the crew is unknown.[8]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1879
Ship Country Description
Hellespont  United Kingdom The steamer, out of Swansea with coal, floundered in the Bay of Biscay during a gale. The first and second officers were swept off the ship and the rest of the crew were rescued by the Madonna and landed at Gibraltar.[9]

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1879
Ship Country Description
Hugenot  United States While entering Carrick Roads without a pilot the guano carrying ship drifted in to the brigantine Cassandra and went ashore in St Mawes Creek. She was refloated with the help of two tugs. Cassandra lost her headgear and jibboom.[10]
Luigiolivari  Italy The barque, From Philadelphia, via Falmouth, Cornwall for Silloth, was lost on the Cumberland coast between Netherton and St Bees. A number of bodies have been found and it is thought that all fourteen on board are lost.[11][12]

16 January

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1879
Ship Country Description
Constitution  United States The American training-frigate went aground at Bolland Point, Swanage, United Kingdom.[13]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1879
Ship Country Description
Besie Grenfell  United Kingdom The St Ives schooner went ashore at Saffi in a heavy gale and broke up on rocks. Three of the crew were drowned.[14]
Mercur  Norway The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Slade, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, United States to Penarth, Glamorgan.[5]
Unnamed fishing boat  United Kingdom Left Aberdeen harbour on Tuesday morning (possibly 14 January) and attempted to return to port in the afternoon. Later found upturned and no sign of the four crew.[15]

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1879
Ship Country Description
Assistant Capsized while attempting to enter the harbour at Antwerp, Belgium. All eight on board drowned.[16]

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1879
Ship Country Description
Active  United Kingdom The Volage-class corvette grounded on an unmapped shoal north of the Tugela River, South Africa. Active refloated almost immediately.[17]
Expert  United Kingdom The steamship Countess of Durham struck the fishing-boat off Kincardineshire drowning three men.[18][19]
Tenedos  United Kingdom The corvette grounded on an unmapped shoal north of the Tugela River, South Africa and on the next high tide was hauled off by HMS Active.[17]

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1879
Ship Country Description
(First report) Diadem  United Kingdom The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic after a collision with the United States man-of-war Supply. All the crew were landed at Madeira.[20]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1879
Ship Country Description
Bertha  United Kingdom The Liverpool barque was abandoned off the Isles of Scilly after a collision with J Brown which headed for Queenstown with the crew of the abandoned ship. Bertha foundered shortly after.[21]
Frederick  German Empire The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean while carrying pitch pine from Doboy to Falmouth, Cornwall. The crew and ship's dog (except the Captain) were rescued by an Italian barque, Gaetano.[22]
Marie Louise  Norway The Tønsberg barque, out of Calais with deals]wrecked at Dymchurch. All the crew saved, bar one who died of exposure.[8]
Mayard  United Kingdom Two survivors from the steamer were landed at Ferrol by a Spanish vessel.[23]
Sofia  Italy The brigantine was driven ashore in the Longhole Gut, Glamorgan, United Kingdom after 21 January. All ten people on board survived. She was on a voyage from Naples to Swansea, Glamorgan.[5]
Unnamed smack Wrecked on Puffin Island, Anglesey while bound for Bangor, North Wales. All the crew were saved.[8]
Unnamed smack Wrecked on Puffin Island, Anglesey while bound for Bangor, North Wales. The crew are reported to have drowned.[8]

February

1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1879
Ship Country Description
Angé  France The lugger went ashore in a strong SSE at Porthcurno, Cornwall. The crew of four were saved by employees of the Eastern Telegraph Company.[24]

11 February

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1879
Ship Country Description
Mary Stenhouse  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Rhosilli, Glamorgan. Ten of the twenty-two people on board were lost trying to reach land. She was refloated the next day,.[5]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1879
Ship Country Description
Faulconnier  France The steamship sank after running into the schooner Beta off Nash Point, South Wales. Beta docked at Cardiff with the crew of the French steamship.[25]

20 February

List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1879
Ship Country Description
Ralph Creyke  United Kingdom The ship was lost in a storm 16 miles south-west of Lundy Island while on a voyage from Cardiff to Dieppe.

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1879
Ship Country Description
Jura (First report) A steamers boat and medicine chest was brought into Yarmouth by the steamtug Pilot. Jura was out of Hull for Smyrna, one body was seen, and it is assumed that the crew of sixteen are drowned.[26]

23 February

List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1879
Ship Country Description
Mary  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore on rocks at North Shields while trying to enter harbour with iron-ore from Huelva. The nineteen crew were rescued by the lifeboat.[26]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1879
Ship Country Description
Dolphin  United Kingdom The fishing lugger went ashore on the coast of Wexford. The crew were saved by the local lifeboat.[27]
Mary Cook The barque was wrecked on the coast of Aberdeenshire. Eleven of the fourteen on board drowned.[26]

26 February

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1879
Ship Country Description
Rosaire  France The Nantes brig sank when she hit the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall while carrying coal from Newport to Brest. Three men drowned and four of her crew were picked up by the pilot cutter Queen, off Crow Sound in the Isles of Scilly.[28][29]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1879
Ship Country Description
Adriatic  United Kingdom The three-masted sailing ship, carrying guano from Callao stranded in the English Channel, approximately 5 miles west of Dunkirk. Only seven of the forty-nine on board saved.[30]
Augusta The steamer went ashore on Tory Island, County Donegal while being towed by Flying Hurricane from Sligo to Glasgow; they are likely to become total wrecks. Both crews survived.[26]
Flying Hurricane The steamtug went ashore on Tory Island while towing Augusta from Sligo to Glasgow; they are likely to become total wrecks. Both crews survived.[26]
Unnamed vessel Two men were saved from a steamer which foundered in the Bristol Channel.[31]

March

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1879
Ship Country Description
Edinburgh  United Kingdom The 62 ton pilot cutter was struck by the iron-screw steamer Severn ( United Kingdom) (1,736 ton) two miles south of Dungeness lighthouse with the loss of ten pilots and five of the cutter's crew.[32]

15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1879
Ship Country Description
Unnamed vessel Derelict barque reported by Eboe at latitude 48N, longitude 8.50W.[33]

19 March

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1879
Ship Country Description
Happy Return  United Kingdom The sloop was wrecked at Port Eynon Point, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Carmarthen.[5]

24 March

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1879
Ship Country Description
Tabasco  France The schooner carrying coal from Greenock to Bordeaux struck White Island, St Martin's, Isles of Scilly. Her master mistook the Sevenstones Lightshp for Trevose Head on the north Cornish shore. She was on her maiden voyage and the vessel and cargo are a total loss. All the crew survived.[34]

26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1879
Ship Country Description
EJ M'Kinnon The schooner became waterlogged, six days out from San Francisco and the crew drowned during the next few days. One survivor was rescued by the Otago from the waterlogged ship at lat 42.14N, long 29.3710.[35]

27 March

List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1879
Ship Country Description
Unidentified vessel A brig was seen to keel over and sink on Hasborough Sands by a Yarmouth fishing-boat.[36]

April

3 April

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1879
Ship Country Description
Clyde  United Kingdom The transport steamer was wrecked on Dyer's Island while carrying troops of the 24th Regiment to Natal for the Anglo-Zulu War. The troops were transferred to HMS Tamar.[37]

14 April

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1879
Ship Country Description
Robert and Agnes  United Kingdom The fishing boat went ashore on the western side of the Hayle Estuary, Cornwall while attempting to enter the harbour.[38]
Saint Michel  Haiti The warship collided with the steamer Bolivar ( United Kingdom) and foundered with the loss of 108 lives. Seventy-two people were saved.[39][40]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1879
Ship Country Description
North Star  United Kingdom The tug was driven ashore on the western side of the Hayle estuary when her screw was fouled by a rope while attempting to refloat the stranded fishing boat Robert and Agnes.[38]

18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1879
Ship Country Description
Great Republic  United States Wrecked on Sand Island, Columbia River with the loss of ten lives.[41]

22 April

List of shipwrecks: 22 April 1879
Ship Country Description
Maria  United Kingdom The Plymouth trawler ran on to the Gear Rock, in Mount's Bay, Cornwall and began to break up.[42]

29 April

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1879
Ship Country Description
SS Nile  United Kingdom The Sunderland steamer sank off Cape Finisterre while en route to Newport. The three surviving crew out of twenty-three were landed at St Mary's, Isles of Scilly by the steamer Recovery.[43][44]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1879
Ship Country Description
Gladiolus The timber-laden ship enroute from Doboy for Shields became waterlogged and all the crew bar one washed overboard.[45]

May

17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1879
Ship Country Description
Ponthieu  France The brig drifted in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, after losing a mast and her sails. She eventually grounded at Perranuthnoe and all the crew were saved by the coastguard. She was carrying iron-ore from Pomaron to Liverpool.[46]

18 May

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1879
Ship Country Description
Christina Sweden The barque changed course and ran in front of the Sydney bound passenger vessel Dunbar Castle ( United Kingdom). The barque was cut in two and sank with the loss of three of the nine crew.[47]

19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1879
Ship Country Description
Firebrick  United Kingdom The Caernarfon sloop sank off the Pembrokeshire coast. The crew survived for three days on a rock eating gulls' eggs.[48]

21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1879
Ship Country Description
Esmeralda  Chile The wooden-hulled steam corvette of the Chilean Navy, was sunk by Huáscar ( Peru) during the Battle of Iquique.[49]
Independencia  Peru The armored corvette of the Peruvian Navy ran aground after the Battle of Iquique, while chasing the Covadonga ( Chile). Independencia was destroyed by Huáscar ( Peru) to prevent her capture by Chile.[49][50]

24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1879
Ship Country Description
Ava  United Kingdom The British-India Steam Navigation Company steamer was hit amidships by the Brenhilda while en route from Calcutta for Madras, Colombo and London. Aga sank, in less than twenty minutes, 70 miles from the Sandheads drowning sixty-seven. Estimates of seventy to one-hundred lives were lost.[51][52]

June

15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1879
Ship Country Description
Scot's Craig  United Kingdom Ran aground, in thick fog, under the Lizard Lighthouse, despite the foghorn sounding. Scot's Craig refloated on a rising tide and proceeded to Greenock.[53]

July

1 July

List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1879
Ship Country Description
Foam  United Kingdom The Plymouth schooner ran agound on Luburcur Beach, near St Anthony's Lighthouse, Cornwall with the loss of two crew. Foam was carrying sugar from her home port to Marseilles.[54]

10 July

List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1879
Ship Country Description
Vittorio Emannele  Kingdom of Italy The Regia Marina frigate was stranded on a shoal off Ischia and refloated on 22 July.[55]

12 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1879
Ship Country Description
State of Virginia The steamship went ashore on the eastern end of Sable Island while en route from New York to Glasgow. Three women and two children lost their lives.[56][57]

20 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1879
Ship Country Description
Naiad  United Kingdom The Falmouth schooner was wrecked on The Manacles, Cornwall during a south-west gale and poor visibility. Naiad was carrying coal to Falmouth and Truro from Port Talbot and was the second wreck on the rocks in three weeks.[58]

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1879
Ship Country Description
S A Hawthorne  United Kingdom The barge, with a cargo of shingle, foundered near Margate sands. Two crew were saved.[59]

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1879
Ship Country Description
Maipu  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked in Hell Bay on Bryher, Isles of Scilly. She was bound for Hamburg from Iquique with a cargo of saltpetre. All seventeen crew saved.[60][28]
River Lune  United Kingdom The iron-barque in ballast from Lorient to Ardrossan was lost on Brothers Rock in Muncoy Neck, the channel between Annet and Melledgan, after a faulty chronometer put her off course. She sank in ten minutes, but the crew escaped to the nearby island of St Agnes, Isles of Scilly in the ship's boats..[60][28]

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1879
Ship Country Description
Alcaser  United Kingdom The steamer collided with Flamingo and sank off Ushant. Flamingo took the crew to Dartmouth, Devon.[61]

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1879
Ship Country Description
Pericles  United Kingdom The passenger ship grounded on Penere Point, on the shore-side of The Manacles, The Lizard and refloated on a rising tide two hours later. The ship continued on her journey to Sydney with 496 emigrants, and on the following day headed for Plymouth for repairs to a leak in the fore peak.[62]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date
Ship Country Description
Fanny  United Kingdom The Rochester ship was wrecked on the French coast while en route for Dieppe.[63]
Lady Belhaven  United Kingdom Stranded on the Argo flat at the mouth of the Mutlah. Some of the crew were taken to Calcutta.[59]
Samacood  Egypt The government steamer sank near Réunion with the loss of twenty-four lives.[64]

August

1 August

List of shipwrecks: 01 August 1879
Ship Country Description
Angela  United Kingdom The Dundee London Shipping Company steamer ran aground on Ladybank, six miles south of Dundee during fog.[57]
Hannah Louisa  United Kingdom The ketch beached at Perranporth after the captain mistook Perran for Padstow. The crew were taken off by the rocket apparatus and the ship was refloated on 4 August.[65]

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 04 August 1879
Ship Country Description
Hannah Louisa  United Kingdom The Chepstow ketch foundered off Trevose Head, Cornwall while being towed to Padstow by the steam-tug Amazon. Two of the eight on board lost their lives.[65]
Unnamed ship  France The lugger went ashore near Hartland Quay, Devon.[66]

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 07 August 1879
Ship Country Description
Marie Louise  Belgium Wrecked on the Penarvan rocks, off Quessant while bound for Alicante. Seven of the thirty-four on board were saved.[67]

11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1879
Ship Country Description
SS Nankin  United Kingdom The ship in ballast ran ashore at Mear's Point, Coverack, Cornwall in thick fog while out of London for Cardiff.[68][69] Refloated and towed to Falmouth in September.[70]

13 August

List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1879
Ship Country Description
City of London  United Kingdom The passenger steam-boat sank on Barking beach following a collision with the Hamburg steamer Vesta ( German Empire). City of London was refloated on 16 August.[71]

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1879
Ship Country Description
Manilla  Italy The Rubattino Line steamer grounded in the Suez Canal, stopping traffic.[72]

21 August

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1879
Ship Country Description
Peace  United Kingdom The steamship capsized in Whitby harbour.[73]

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1879
Ship Country Description
Queen of Britain  United Kingdom The brig was abandoned in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by Wolverhampton ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[5]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: August 1879
Ship Country Description
Barry  United Kingdom Sank off North Foreland.[74]
Louis David The steamer en route for Naples was lost off Ushant sometime between 1 – 5 August. Seven of the twenty-seven on board survived.[75]


September

3 September

List of shipwrecks: 03 September 1879
Ship Country Description
Salamander  United Kingdom The Padstow schooner was hit by the 2,000 ton screw-collier Lycham, 10 miles (16 km) off Hartland Point, and sank almost immediately.[76]

4 September

List of shipwrecks: 04 September 1879
Ship Country Description
Columbia  Norway The barque, from London for Quebec, was holed following a collision with either a fish or "some other sea monster". Columbia sank within thirty minutes of the crew taking to two boats and were picked up by the Dutch steamer Plealand, on 9 September.[77]

6 September

List of shipwrecks: 06 September 1879
Ship Country Description
Brest  United Kingdom The Cunard Line steamship with sails went ashore at Polbarrow near Lizard Point, Cornwall at full speed in thick fog. All the crew and migrants were saved by the RNLI lifeboat, Joseph Armstrong and local fishing boats.[78][79][80]
Marion  United Kingdom The Carnarvon owned iron ship ran aground on Rickham Sands, east of Salcombe harbour, Devon while carrying rice from Rangoon to London. The crew were saved.[81]

9 September

List of shipwrecks: 09 September 1879
Ship Country Description
Favourite  United Kingdom The Bute fishing boat was lost near Loch Fyne. All three crew drowned.[82]

11 September

List of shipwrecks: 11 September 1879
Ship Country Description
Corrina  United Kingdom The barque, carrying coffee, plumbago and cocoa-nut oil for London, was hit by the steamer Zeeland ( Belgium) and sank off Dungeness, with the loss of four lives.[83]

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1879
Ship Country Description
Malakoff  United Kingdom The Newlyn lugger sank off Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire, after being struck by the Erith of London. Three lives lost.[84]

20 September

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1879
Ship Country Description
Sylvanus Blanchard  United States Abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean while en route from Liverpool to Rio de Janeiro. The captain and nine men were picked up by the Vale of Nith.[85]

22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1879
Ship Country Description
Erith  United Kingdom The London collier collided with Orwell and sank in the Lower Hope Reach off Gravesend, Kent. All the crew were landed at Gravesend.[86] Erith was in collision with a fishing boat off Scarborough four days previous.
Orwell  United Kingdom The London collier collided with Erith and sank in the Lower Hope Reach off Gravesend, Kent. All the crew were landed at Gravesend.[86]

23 September

List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1879
Ship Country Description
Unnamed herring craft  United Kingdom The Flamborough herring craft sank after being struck by the fishing boat Mary of Fowey.[87]

24 September

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1879
Ship Country Description
Primitive  United Kingdom The Mousehole smack sank off Scarborough, Yorkshire, after a collision with the Newcastle steamer Talisman which was bound for Rotterdam. All the crew were landed at Scarborough.[88]

25 September

List of shipwrecks: 25 September 1879
Ship Country Description
De Ruyter  Belgium Aground in the Scheldt near Hoedekenskerke.[89] Refloated on 27 September and returned to service.[90]

26 September

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1879
Ship Country Description
Racer  United Kingdom The Ramsgate fishing lugger was run down by the screw-steamer Pleiades off the North Foreland in the North Sea. One drowned.[91]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1879
Ship Country Description
Anna Clara The boiler of the steamer exploded while entering the bar at Santa Cruz, with the loss of two crew and a passenger. Most of the cargo and the mail was saved.[92]
Emmanuel  France The brigantine stranded on the Sokendal coast, to the north of the Haadyr look-out station, Norway, and sank almost immediately.[93]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: xx September 1879
Ship Country Description
Quebec  United Kingdom The Dominion Line steamer stranded off East Point, Prince Edward Island. The sixty passengers were taken off by Griffin.[94]
Seagull The steamship was wrecked on Maldive Island.[95]

October

18 October

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1879
Ship Country Description
Nuevo Pajano del Oceano The ship caught fire while en route to Nuevitas from Havana and sank in the Old Bahama Channel. Seventeen of the crew were landed at New Orleans and forty-two passengers died.[96]

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1879
Ship Country Description
Sea Spray  United Kingdom The Sunderland barque sank after catching fire approximately 240 miles from St Vincent. The crew took to the boats and arrived at St Vincent two days later.[97]

27 October

List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1879
Ship Country Description
Sally  United States The brigantine capsized during a gale in the Gulf of Mexico. Two survivors were picked by up by the Spanish steamer Enrique and landed at New Orleans.[98]


November

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1879
Ship Country Description
Taufahau  New South Wales The two-masted brigantine ran aground off Seal Rocks, New South Wales.[99]

9 November

List of shipwrecks: 09 November 1879
Ship Country Description
Florence and Johanna  United Kingdom The Yarmouth smack was hit by another vessel and sank at the fishing grounds in the North Sea. The five crew drowned and only the master survived.[100]

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1879
Ship Country Description
Scarborough King  United Kingdom The smack was swamped in a heavy sea and sank in the North Sea, with the loss of the skipper and all four crew.[101]
Name un-reported  United Kingdom The mast of a smack was seen above water on the Scroby Sands, off Great Yarmouth. It is thought that the crew perished.[102]

15 November

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1879
Ship Country Description
Venerata  United Kingdom The barque was abandoned off the coast of Portugal after springing a leak on 5 November following a south-east gale three days earlier. Fifty tons of pig iron was thrown overboard in an attempt to stay afloat and the crew abandoned ship when the Vega ( Norway) was nearby.[103]

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1879
Ship Country Description
Warren Hastings  United Kingdom The barque left Lisbon for the Delaware River in ballast on 6 November, and during a heavy gale on 15 November was hit by large waves which took away the wheel-house. On 18 November the Tollington of Nova Scotia picked up the crew, transferred them to Mabel and the crew were finally landed at Falmouth, Cornwall.[104]

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1879
Ship Country Description
Waubuno  Canada Foundered off Christian Island, Lake Huron with the loss of all twenty-four on board.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: xx November 1879
Ship Country Description
Edith  United Kingdom The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean while en route for Queenstown from Philadelphia. Survivors were picked up by Atlas of the Cunard line and landed at New York.[105]


December

4 December

List of shipwrecks: 04 December 1879
Ship Country Description
Relic  United Kingdom The Brixham smack was driven onto the breakwater in Brixham harbour during a gale and became a total loss. Two fishing boats were grounded and others received damage.[106]

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 05 December 1879
Ship Country Description
Romola  United Kingdom The Arbroath schooner was taken in tow to Dartmouth by the steamer Yorkshireman ( United Kingdom). Romola was found dismasted and abandoned, in the English Channel approximately 60 miles west of Start Point.[107]

11 December

List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1879
Ship Country Description
Alexandra  United Kingdom The Penzance vessel was taken in tow by Bessie Belle after being hit on the port side by Secret ( United Kingdom), a schooner from Truro, 5 miles east of Hartland Point. Within three hours Alexandra sank and the crew were landed at Portreath.[108]
Bristol City  United Kingdom The steamer leaving Bristol for New York, went ashore, in thick fog, at Nelson Point, at the mouth of the River Avon.[109]

19 December

List of shipwrecks: 19 December 1879
Ship Country Description
Derby  United Kingdom The brig, carrying mahogany, foundered nine days out of Ninatitlan. The crew, bar two, were picked up by Resolute and the captain only survived a few days.[110]

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1879
Ship Country Description
Adelphoi  New South Wales The barque was wrecked off Port Hacking.

28 December

List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1879
Ship Country Description
Agnes Irving  New South Wales Wrecked in the Macleay River, Trial Bay.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: December 1879
Ship Country Description
Fenella  United Kingdom Left Penzance, Cornwall in late November/early December with a cargo of fish for the Mediterranean, and had not been heard off for three weeks. It is feared she was lost (along with a many other ships) during recent storms in the Bay of Biscay.[111]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1879
Ship Country Description
Albatross The steamer left Grimsby for Alexandria on 10 January and has not been sighted since.[26]
Carrie Annie  United Kingdom The ship left Cadiz on 27 May, and sank after colliding with a Brazilian steamer. The crew were landed in Rio Grande.[112]
Covadonga  Chile The naval vessel stranded in Autofogasta roadstead.[113]
Glencoe  United Kingdom Refloated after running agound in the Shanghai River, which detained her for a week along with her cargo of the new-seasons tea.[114]
Glynllifon  United Kingdom The Swansea vessel left the Coosaw River, South Carolina with phosphate rock on 29 January. There have been no reports since.[115]
Petrel The whaling schooner capsized in mid-ocean with the loss of all fourteen crew.[116]
Samanoot  Egypt The steamer was lost between Mauritius and Egypt with the loss of twenty-fives lives.[117]
Shenandoah  Zanzibar Wrecked in the Persian Gulf with the loss of several lives. Shenandoah was involved in the War of Secession and passed to the Sultan of Zanzibar following arbitration at Geneva.[118]

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  2. ↑ "Rescue of an Abandoned Vessel". The Cornishman (28). 23 January 1879. p. 5.
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