List of shipwrecks in 1888

The list of shipwrecks in 1888 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1888.

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1888
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Unknown date

January

13 January

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Milan	United Kingdom	The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Overton, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued by the Port Eynon Lifeboat or rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, to Alexandria, Egypt.[1]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Switserland	Belgium	The steamer collided with the steamer La Gascogne (flag unknown) in the Atlantic Ocean off New York City, United States, and holed. She put into New York for repairs and later returned to service.[2]

February

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date February 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Eastminster	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship disappeared with the loss of all on board after ignoring a pilot′s warnings and departing Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, bound for Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, on 17 February in deteriorating weather. She presumably sank in a tropical cyclone that struck the area soon afterward. Her wreckage was found on a coral reef in the Capricorn and Bunker Group in the Coral Sea approximately 100 nautical miles (185 km) east of Rockhampton, Queensland.

March

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Lanoma	United Kingdom	The barque was driven ashore and wrecked near Fleet, Dorset with the loss of twelve of her eighteen crew.[3]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date March 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Levant	United Kingdom	The South Shields steamship, built of iron at Hartlepool, England, in 1865, disappeared with the loss of her entire crew of 15 after departing Penarth, Wales, bound for Oporto, Portugal, on 24 March with a cargo of coal. A Board of Trade report on her loss did not speculate on its cause, but she may have been overloaded.[4]

April

13 April

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Yorouba	France	The ship was on a voyage to Le Havre, France, when she hit a rock west of Guernsey in the Channel Islands in fog and sank 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) from shore and 7 nautical miles (13 km) from Les Hanois Lighthouse. All passengers and crew were saved. [5] [6]

16 April

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Vena	Belgium	The steamer sank in the North Sea following a collision with another ship.[2]

27 April

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Ellengowan	United Kingdom	The schooner-rigged screw steamer sank at her moorings, unmanned, at Port Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, and was abandoned.

May

8 May

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Henry Edmunds	United Kingdom	The brigantine was wrecked at Overton, Glamorgan. Her crew survived.[1]

17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Jeune Hortense	France	The schooner was wrecked at Long Rock, Cornwall, England.[7] The Penzance lifeboat, having been brought by carriage to the beach near Marazion, rescued four of her crew.[8]
Otto	Flag unknown	The ship was stranded in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England. She was salvaged and later was renamed Providence and operated out of Penzance.[9]
Nulli Secundus	Germany	The brigantine was stranded in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England. Under the name Tobaco, she previously had been stranded on the Eastern Green in Mount's Bay in 1865.[9]

June

30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Alhambra	United Kingdom	The screw steamer collided with the derelict steamer John T. Berry ( United States), which she was trying to salvage, and sank off Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The steamer Tasmania ( United Kingdom) rescued her crew. The steamer Thetis ( United Kingdom) later sank John T. Berry as a danger to navigation.

July

17 July

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Beaver	United States	The steamer was wrecked on rocks at Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The partially stripped wreck sank in July 1892 when struck by the wake of the passing steamer Yosemite.

August

22 August

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1888

Ship	Country	Description
City of Chester	United States	A painting of SS City of Chester (right) sinking after colliding with RMS Oceanic (left). The passenger ship was in collision with RMS Oceanic ( United Kingdom) in San Francisco Bay and sank with the loss of sixteen lives. She was on a voyage from San Francisco to Eureka, California[10]

September

13 September

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Sud America I	Italy	The ocean liner was sunk in a collision with the collier France ( France) in the bay at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, with the loss of 79 lives.

19 September

List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Lota	Chile	The frigate foundered in the Pacific Ocean 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) off an unspecified "Palmer Island," possibly an island west of Fiji. Her two survivors came ashore on the island, where one died in 1890 and the other finally was rescued by a German ship in 1893.

26 September

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Fleetwing	United States	The schooner was wrecked on a rocky beach in Lake Michigan off Liberty Grove, Wisconsin, during a gale and eventually sank.

November

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Atalanta	Russia	The steamer ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, South Holland, the Netherlands, with the loss of six lives.[11]

25 November

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Estrella de Chile	United Kingdom	The barque ran aground in the Solway Firth with the loss of one of her fifteen crew. Survivors were rescued by the Maryport Lifeboat.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknwn date November 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Vaitarna	Flag unknown	The schooner-rigged passenger steamer disappeared in a storm in the Arabian Sea with the loss of all 746 people on board sometime after she was last sighted off Mangrol, India, on 8 November.

December

9 December

List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Yaquina Bay	United States	Yaquina Bay The passenger steamer broke her tow and ran aground in Yaquina Bay at Newport, Oregon. She was declared a total loss.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1888

Ship	Country	Description
Anna Delius	Norway	The barque was abandoned in the North Atlantic. Crew rescued by Deutschland ( Germany) and later transferred to Pieter de Coninck ( Belgium) which landed them at Boston, United States.[2]

References

1. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
2. "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
3. "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
4. plimsoll.org
5. "Yorouba [+1888] document". wrecksite.eu.
6. Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
7. Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16
8. Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 18
9. Carter, C. (1998). The Port of Penzance: a history. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
10. "USA: City of Chester's Wreck Rediscovered". World Maritime News. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
11. "Reddingsstation Ouddorp". KNRM. Retrieved 22 March 2012.

Ship events in 1888
Ship launches:	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893
Ship commissionings:	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893
Ship decommissionings:	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893
Shipwrecks:	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893