List of shipwrecks in 1899

The list of shipwrecks in 1899 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1899.

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1899
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
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January

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date January 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Voorwaarts	Italy	The steamship was wrecked at Morwenstow, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[1]

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Forest Hall	United Kingdom	The barque got in trouble off Porlock, Somerset, England. The Lynmouth Lifeboat Station answered her distress call by taking the lifeboat Louisa ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution), pulled by horses and people, overland for 15 miles (24 km) to go to her rescue, climbing 1,423 feet (434 m) during the journey.[2]

February

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Mary Hannah	United Kingdom	A Penzance schooner on passage from Cardiff to Plymouth with a cargo of coal. Disabled after the main boom was damaged in a huge sea and gale off the Lizard, she headed for Newlyn but was unable to enter the harbour and ran ashore at Tolcarne. All four crew were rescued by breeches-buoy.[3]

March

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Castilian	United Kingdom	The cargo liner ran aground on the Gannet Dry Ledge and was wrecked. All on board were rescued. She was on the return leg of her maiden voyage, from Portland, Maine, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.[4]

26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Science	United Kingdom	The steamer collided with the steamer Daybreak ( United Kingdom) north of Cape St Vincent, Portugal and sank.[5]

30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Stella	United Kingdom	The passenger ferry sank off the Casquets, Channel Islands with the loss of 78 lives.[6][7]

April

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Loch Sloy	United Kingdom	The three-masted barque sank off Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

May

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date May 1899

Ship	Country	Description
City of Paris	United States	The ocean liner was grounded at Lowland Point near Coverack, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The Falmouth and Porthoustock lifeboats helped transfer her passengers to tugs. The ship was successfully salved after seven weeks of work.[8]

June

4 June

List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Lindus	New South Wales	The coastal cargo ship was wrecked during a storm on the wreck of the coastal cargo ship Colonist ( New South Wales) near Oyster Bank, Newcastle, New South Wales , Australia, at position 32°54′50″S 151°47′49″E / 32.914°S 151.797°ECoordinates: 32°54′50″S 151°47′49″E / 32.914°S 151.797°E.
R. G. Stewart	United States	The packet steamer burned and sank in Lake Superior off Michigan Island in Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior, with the loss of one life. The other 11 people on board survived, as did the ship′s cargo of cattle, which were pushed overboard and swam to shore.

July

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Three Sisters	United Kingdom	The ketch sank in the Bristol Channel after colliding with the steamship Tweed with the loss of two of her three crew. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot, Glamorgan to Llangrannog, Cardiganshire.[9]

12 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1899

Ship	Country	Description
City of York	United Kingdom	The three-masted barque sank off Rottnest Island, Western Australia.

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Nunobiki Maru	Japan	The steamer foundered off Formosa (now Taiwan) in a typhoon.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date July 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Oakland	New South Wales	The passenger-cargo ship ran aground at the Richmond River on the coast of New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

August

1 August

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Benjamin C. Cromwell	United States	The schooner was beached and wrecked at Dog Island, Florida, during a hurricane.
James A. Garfield	United States	James A. Garfield (center) beached after the hurricane. The three-masted bark was beached at Dog Island, Florida, during a hurricane. She was intact, but salvaging her was deemed impossible.

September

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Duraes	Norway	The steamer foundered off Elba, Italy.[10]

October

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Typo		The wreck of Typo still stands upright at the bottom of Lake Huron. The wooden three-masted schooner was run down in Lake Huron by the steamer W. P. Ketcham. Typo sank immediately and the four crew on board drowned.[11]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Llandaff	United Kingdom	The Welsh collier was wrecked at Bude, Cornwall, England.[12]

November

10 November

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Belgique	Belgium	Formerly called Mount Hebron, the ship foundered 6 nautical miles (11 km) northwest of the Casquets[13][14]

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Duisberg	Norway	The barque ran aground at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada to The Mumbles, Glamorgan.[9]

December

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date December 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Ida	Spain	The steamer was wrecked.[15]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1899

Ship	Country	Description
Frank A. Palmer	United States	The four-masted schooner grounded near Tathem's life-saving station in New Jersey. She was refloated on 23 July and returned to service.

References

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2. Fisher, E.J. (1999). "The Strange and Heroic Journey of the Louisa". Lerwill Life. Retrieved 2010-11-05.
3. Larn, R; Larn, B (1991). Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
4. "Castilian - 1899". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
5. "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
6. "SS Stella (1899)". www.wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 Aug 2015.
7. "SS Stella Disaster". akesimpkin.org. Retrieved 27 Aug 2015.
8. Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. pp. 2, 6.
9. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
10. "Mail & Shipping Intelligence". The Times (35937). London. 18 September 1899. col D, p. 4.
11. "Typo". Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. NOAA.
12. Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 31.
13. "MOUNT HEBRON".
14. Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
15. "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.

Ship events in 1899
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Ship decommissionings:	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904
Shipwrecks:	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904