List of shipwrecks in 1880

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The list of shipwrecks in 1880 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1880.

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January[]

3 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 03 January 1880
Ship Country Description
Prairie The 139-ton brig went ashore at the entrance to Kaipara Harbour, New Zealand, when the wind dropped suddenly while she was negotioating the bar. She became a total wreck.[1]

8 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The lumber brigantine went ashore in a gale with snow and heavy seas and was wrecked three and a half miles (5.6 km) south of Life Saving Station No. 8, 5th District, on the coast of Virginia, a total loss. Her nine crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. Most of her cargo was salvaged by a wrecking company. One wrecking company employee drowned on 23 January when a boat swamped.[2]

9 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1880
Ship Country Description
 Canada The schooner capsized and went ashore in heavy seas and was wrecked off one mile (1.6 km) west of the Passamaquoddy Light. Her five crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. Some equipment was salvaged.[2]

11 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner struck Hog Island Shoals and then drifted ashore one and a half miles (2.4 km) south east of Life Saving Station No. 9, 5th District, on the coast of Virginia, later breaking up, a total loss. Her four crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[2]
Hesperus  United Kingdom The Padstow ketch went ashore at Battery Point under St Ives Head (St Ives Island), Cornwall, England, while carrying 140 tons of coal from Liverpool to Calstock, Cornwall. All four crew were saved.[3]

13 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1880
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The paddle tug ran ashore near Marsden, County Durham and was severely damaged. Subsequently repaired and returned to service.[4]

21 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1880
Ship Country Description
Lady Kinnaird  United Kingdom The three-masted barque – built in 1877 at Dundee, Scotland, by Brown & Simpson for W. B. Ritchie – was wrecked in the Spencer Gulf south of Cape Burr on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.[5]

23 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1880
Ship Country Description
Progress  New Zealand The 210-ton brigantine was severely holed when she ran aground in Palliser Bay, New Zealand during thick fog. She became a total wreck.[1]

25 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire. Eight crewmen killed.[6]

30 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 January 1880
Ship Country Description
Iserbrook  United Kingdom The burned-out hulk of the brig – destroyed by fire and scuttled on 21 December 1878 and refloated in 1879 – sank again in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.[citation needed]

February[]

2 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner ran aground near Life Saving Station No. 23, 4th District, on the coast of New Jersey in a snowstorm, later sinking. Her four crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[2]

3 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States Storm of 3 February 1880: The schooner parted her anchor chains and went ashore in a gale and heavy seas one mile (1.6 km) east of Life Saving Station No. 2, 2nd District, on the coast of Massachusetts and was lost. Her eight crewmen were rescued by fishing dories.[2]
 Spain Storm of 3 February 1880: The brig was beached to save the crew in a gale and heavy seas in front of Life Saving Station No. 4, 4th District, and a one-quarter mile (0.40 km) north of where ( United States) had wrecked and broke up, on the coast of New Jersey, she broke in two and broke up, a total loss. Her seven crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[2]
 United States Storm of 3 February 1880: The brig went ashore in a gale and heavy seas three-quarters mile (1.2 km) from Life Saving Station No. 3, 4th District, on the coast of New Jersey. Later refloated. Her ten crewmen and a woman passenger were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[2]
 Canada Storm of 3 February 1880: The schooner ran aground on , five and a half miles (8.9 km) from the Little Cranberry Island Life Saving Station No. 4, 1st District, on the coast of Maine. Refloated on 10 February.[2]
 United States Storm of 3 February 1880: The schooner went ashore in a gale and heavy seas one-quarter mile (0.40 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 4, 4th District, on the coast of New Jersey and broke up, a total loss. Her five crewmen and the captain's wife and two daughters were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[2]
 United States Storm of 3 February 1880: The schooner suffered a fire at sea that was put out. She then anchored, but she then dragged anchor before dropping her anchor and went aground 200 yards (180 m) offshore in a gale and heavy seas two miles (3.2 km) south of Life Saving Station No. 11, 4th District, on the coast of New Jersey, but was dragged along the coast by the high seas and current eventually grounding one mile (1.6 km) south of Life Saving Station No. 12, a total wreck. Two crewmen died, five crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[2]
 United States Storm of 3 February 1880: The schooner was sunk in a collision with ( United States) in a gale and snowstorm six or seven miles (9.7 or 11.3 km) off the coast of New Jersey. Lost with all hands except one crewman who was knocked overboard by the force of impact and was fortunate to land on Stephan Harding.[2]
 United States Storm of 3 February 1880: The schooner went aground 200 yards (180 m) offshore in a gale and heavy seas one mile (1.6 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 5, 4th District, on the coast of New Jersey, a total loss. Her five crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[2]
 Canada Storm of 3 February 1880: The schooner was lost in a storm off .[7]
 United States Storm of 3 February 1880: The lumber schooner was damaged in a collision with ( United States) causing one anchor to deploy and making the ship unmanageable and she went ashore in a gale and heavy snowstorm one mile (1.6 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 2, 4th District, on the coast of New Jersey and was lost. Her six crewmen, the captain's wife, and the survivor of Kate Newman were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[2]
 United States Storm of 3 February 1880:The fishing Schooner was wrecked at . Crew saved.[8]

7 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner struck a bar one mile (1.6 km) west of Life Saving Station No. 7, 2nd District, on the coast of Massachusetts. Attempts to free her were a failure and she became a total wreck. Her crew were taken off by a tug that was unsuccessful in pulling her off the bar.[2]

9 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Constance  United Kingdom The West Hartlepool steamship foundered in the Bay of Biscay and the captain and six of the crew were saved by Lady Tredegar (flag unknown).[9]
Jane and Ellen  United Kingdom The Aberystwith schooner went ashore on the beach at Charlestown, Cornwall, England. All the crew survived.[10]
Sisters  United Kingdom The schooner from St Ives, Cornwall, England, went ashore approximately 150 yards (140 m) east of the breakwater at Pentewan, Cornwall, while carrying coal from Cardiff, Wales, to Charlestown, Cornwall. One of the four crew survived.[11]
Sofya  Italy The brig went ashore near St Mawes, Cornwall, on Polwarth Beach.[12][13]
Valentine  France The Dieppe ship foundered off The Lizard, Cornwall, with only one crew member surviving out of 18.[14]

10 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Corea  United States The bark ran aground on the Greengrounds, in the Bristol Channel, Her crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat. Corea was later refloated and taken in to Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom.[15]

13 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner stranded on Handkerchief Shoals nine miles (14 km) south west of Life Saving Station No. 13, 2nd District, on the coast of Massachusetts, in thick fog and rough seas, a total loss of vessel and cargo. Her crew left in her boat on 14 February.[2]
Strathnairn  United Kingdom The barque – owned by interests in Dundee, Scotland – collided with the steamer Edith Hough (flag unknown), in the Atlantic Ocean 37 nautical miles (69 km) west of Ushant, France, with the loss of all on board.[16] Two casks of brandy, from her cargo, were picked up in the Isles of Scilly the following April.[17]
Unknown fishing boat A fishing boat capsized while entering the harbor at Wexford, Ireland, with the loss of all hands.[18]

14 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Gypsy The Newfoundland Blue Ensign, Newfoundland's colonial government flag from 1870 to 1904 Newfoundland The brigantine went aground in hurricane-force winds in Cornwall, England, on the east coast of The Lizard at Downes Cove, halfway between Kennack Sands and Coverack. All nine crew managed to climb ashore just before the ship broke up.[19]

15 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1880
Ship Country Description
 Canada The schooner struck a rock near the entrance to Head Harbor, Maine developing a leak and was beached to effect repairs.[2]

16 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Belmont  United Kingdom A southwest gale damaged the Plymouth, England-registered vessel's sails and pumps when she was 15 days out of Pensacola, Florida. Her crew took to the tops when she became unmanagable and after four days were taken off in the Atlantic Ocean at 40°50′N 031°33′W / 40.833°N 31.550°W / 40.833; -31.550 by the schooner Faithlie (flag unknown), which landed them at Plymouth on 6 March.[20]

22 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Hindoo The steamer foundered in the Atlantic Ocean at 41°50′N 41°05′W / 41.833°N 41.083°W / 41.833; -41.083 while bound for Hull from New York City with the loss of six crew. Fifty-three crew and passengers were picked up by Alexandra (flag unknown).[21]
Ulster  Canada The crew abandoned the Saint John, New Brunswick-registered barque when she became waterlogged. Four of the crew lost their lives but the master and eleven crew were rescued by Hipparchus (flag unknown) on 22 February.[22][23]

23 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Neptunns  Norway The Christiansand, Norway-registered brig was wrecked at Auchmithie, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Arbroath, Scotland.[24]

24 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1880
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom All seven crew members abandoned the brigantine in the Atlantic Ocean at 38°50′N 039°40′W / 38.833°N 39.667°W / 38.833; -39.667 while bound for Falmouth, Cornwall, England, from , St Lucia, with a cargo of sugar and logwood. Kaut Alpsen (flag unknown) dropped the crew off at Falmouth on 6 March.[20]

25 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Resurgam II  United Kingdom The submarine sank without loss of life in Liverpool Bay off Rhyl, Wales, while under tow.

26 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1880
Ship Country Description
Bessie Jones  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked off Blackpool, England with the loss of one life. Three crew members were saved.[25]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: unknown date
Ship Country Description
HMS Atalanta  Royal Navy The training ship presumably foundered in the Atlantic Ocean sometime between 12 and 16 February during a storm with the loss of all hands. She had on board 11 officers and approximately 300 young seamen.[26]
Bay of Biscay  United Kingdom The vessel was lost in the Atlantic Ocean.[27]
John Abbott  United Kingdom The Maryport barque was damaged in a hurricane during February and the crew were rescued by an Italian vessel.[22]
Visgorla The steamer foundered with the loss of 64 lives near Bombay, India, while bound for Kurrachee, India.[28]
Unknown A vessel was lost at Sidmouth, Devon, England, with all hands.[29]
Unknown fishing boats Flag of Spain (1785-1873 and 1875-1931).svg Spain Many Spanish fishing boats and their crews were lost in hurricane-force winds.[30]
Various ships The presence of large icebergs in the South Atlantic Ocean to the east of the Falkland Islands may account for many ships that vanished in the area during February.[31]

March[]

6 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1880
Ship Country Description
Unknown A waterlogged vessel was reported by Giorgio Washington ( Italy) in the Atlantic Ocean at 45°41′N 025°15′W / 45.683°N 25.250°W / 45.683; -25.250.[32]

8 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner sprung a leak and sank five miles (8.0 km) south of Petit Manan Light. Her crew left in her boat landing 15 hours later on Baker's Island.[2]
Travancore  United Kingdom The P&O steamer went ashore, in thick fog, at , south of Otranto, Italy.[31]

10 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1880
Ship Country Description
Energy  New Zealand The 12-ton cutter became a total loss after stranding on Whakaari / White Island in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty during a gale.[1]

11 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner went ashore and was wrecked one mile (1.6 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 12, 4th District, on the New Jersey coast, a loss of vessel and cargo, some equipment salvaged. Her crew of 5 was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[2]

14 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer capsized. Three drowned.[6]
 United Kingdom The Guion Line steamship was wrecked on the coast of North Wales not far from Anglesey, where her sister ship, Dakota ( United Kingdom), had been wrecked in 1877. There was no loss of life.[33]

16 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner went ashore in a heavy storm and bad seas and was wrecked 500 yards north of Life Saving Station No. 13, 4th District, 200 yards (180 m) off the New Jersey coast, a total wreck. Her crew of six were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[2]
 France Carrying wine, the steamer ran aground on rocks off the north coast of Guernsey in the Channel Islands.[34][35]
 Haiti The brig went ashore in a heavy storm and bad seas and was wrecked one mile (1.6 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 21, 4th District, on the New Jersey coast, a total wreck. Her crew of 7 was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[2]

17 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1880
Ship Country Description
 Canada The barque went ashore on shoals off Hog Island near the entrance to one mile (1.6 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 9, 5th District, off the Virginia coast. An attempt to be pulled off by a tug on 19 March failed. She was stripped and abandoned on 20 March. Her crew of 14, plus locals hired by the wrecking company were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service and the wrecking company tug.[2]

18 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with schooner ( United States) nine miles (14 km) off Absecon, New Jersey. One of her crew was killed, the other three crew made it to Hereford Inlet in her boat.[2]

21 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1880
Ship Country Description
Rosannah Rose  New Zealand The schooner went ashore and was wrecked north of Kaikoura, New Zealand after her canvas was blown out in a gale. All seven on board survived.[1]

22 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1880
Ship Country Description
Isabella Mott  United States The Annapolis, Maryland-based ship encountered heavy seas in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned at 42°04′N 47°58′W / 42.067°N 47.967°W / 42.067; -47.967. The crew were brought into Falmouth, Cornwall, England, by a Norwegian barque.[36]

23 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner was lost on . Lost with all 14 crew.[37][38]

26 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1880
Ship Country Description
Canadian  United Kingdom The steamship foundered off Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, England while at anchor after developing a leak.[39]
Dowlais  United Kingdom The Cardiff, Wales-based steamer hit the Rundlestone in Cornwall, England, in thick fog and sank within minutes. Two of the crew lost their lives when the ship sank as they were retrieving clothing, but 13 crew and three passengers took to the lifeboats. The survivors were picked up by Sedgemoor (flag unknown) and landed at St Ives, Cornwall.[40]
Fernville  United Kingdom The Sunderland-based steamer sank after colliding with an iceberg while on a voyage from Hartlepool, England, to Boston, Massachusetts, with a cargo of coal and iron. Twenty-two of the crew were rescued by Sarmatian ( France) on 29 March and landed at Liverpool on 20 April.[27][41]
Kosmopolict  Netherlands The Groningen, Netherlands-based galiot foundered in the Atlantic Ocean at 49°17′N 007°31′W / 49.283°N 7.517°W / 49.283; -7.517 while carrying copper ore from Ferrol, Spain, to Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The barque Vesta ( Germany) landed the crew in the Isles of Scilly on 29 March.[42]
 United States The fishing Schooner sprang a leak and sank on the Georges Bank. Crew taken off.[43]

27 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1880
Ship Country Description
"Harp"  United States The boat was lost on Green Island, Maine crew saved.[44]

28 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The lumber schooner was stranded in thick weather with rain, snow, high winds and a raging sea after breaking her anchor chains two miles (3.2 km) north of Life Saving Station No. 3, 2nd District on the coast of Massachusetts and was wrecked. Her crew landed on shore using a rope.[2]

30 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The lumber schooner sank in Pamlico Sound seven miles (11 km) north west of Life Saving Station No. 23, 6th District. Later raised by a wrecking company. Her crew of seven made it to shore in the ship's boat.[2]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: unknown
Ship Country Description
Ablana  United Kingdom The Newport, Wales-based barque was wrecked in the Bay of Fundy with the loss of seven crew, including the captain and first mate.[31]
Acadia  New Zealand The schooner, with a crew of eight, left Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, for Auckland on 9 March and was not sighted again.[1]
 United Kingdom The Falmouth, Cornwall, England-based steamer foundered off Ushant, France. There were only two survivors.[45]

April[]

4 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1880
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The barque stranded on Pecks Beach opposite Life Saving Station No. 31, 4th District, on the New Jersey coast in very thick weather, a total loss of vessel and cargo. Her crew of ten was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[2]

5 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner stranded on Long Island one-half mile (0.80 km) west of Life Saving Station No. 11, 3rd District, 200 feet (61 m) offshore in high seas, a total loss of vessel and cargo. Her crew of six was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[2]

6 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1880
Ship Country Description
Nicholas  United States The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on in the Territory of Alaska.[46]

8 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 April
Ship Country Description
Fasen  United Kingdom The steam tug was nearly cut in two in a collision with the London and South Western Railway's steamer (flag unknown) in Southampton Water off Netley Hospital in Netley, Hampshire, England, and sank. One man drowned.[47]

10 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1880
Ship Country Description
Mary Garret  United States The scow was in danger of serious damage by pounding on a pier in a gale at New River on Lake Huron four miles (6.4 km) from Life Saving Station No. 2, 10th District, and was scuttled to prevent destruction. Later raised.[2]

11 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1880
Ship Country Description
 Canada The schooner stranded six miles (9.7 km) east of Oswego, New York, a total loss of vessel and cargo. Her crew of seven was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[2]
H Galmar  Norway The brig was in collision on the English Channel with the full-rigged ship Firth of Clyde off Beachy Head. Five crew, including the captain were killed, while another four were landed at Weymouth, Dorset, England.[48]
Nicolo Tomasco  Austria-Hungary The barque, bound for Trieste from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a cargo of petroleum, sank in the Strait of Gibraltar off Europa Point, Gibraltar, after being struck by lightning and catching fire.[49]

13 or 14 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 or 14 April
Ship Country Description
Calypso The ship collided with the General Steam Navigation Company steamer Hawk (flag unknown) in the Thames Estuary and sank off the Princess Channel lighthouse, a few miles from London, her destination. All crew and 47 passengers were saved.[50]

14 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 April
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner collided with a scow off the entrance to the harbor at Manistee, Michigan. She was towed up the river off Life Saving Station No. 5, 11th district where she sank. Refloated on 17 April.[2]

15 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 April
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner struck a shoal and was wrecked in a snowstorm one mile (1.6 km) south of the Mouth of the Au Sable River, a total loss. The crew of ten men and one woman was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service and volunteers. During the rescue on 16 April the line-throwing cannon exploded killing the Deputy Collector of Customs of Au Sable, Michigan and wounding two others.[2]

16 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 April
Ship Country Description
 United States The lumber schooner went ashore and was wrecked in a snowstorm and heavy seas one mile (1.6 km) south of the Milwaukee Life Saving Station, and broke up the next day. Some equipment was salvaged. The crew of four men made it to shore on a line thrown by bystanders.[2]

19 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 April
Ship Country Description
Emmanuel  Germany The 72-ton Emden galliot was driven ashore on Cudden Point, Cornwall during a gale. The four crew jumped ashore and climbed the cliff to safety. The ship refloated and was washed eastwards to the mouth of Little Harry Sowan where it went to pieces.[51]

21 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 April
Ship Country Description
Alexander Buthie  United Kingdom The Aberdeen vessel sank during a storm with the loss of all six crew.[52]
Isabella  United Kingdom The fishing vessel from Downies, Scotland sank during a storm with the loss of all six crew.[52]
Twilight  United Kingdom The Downies vessel capsized with the loss of all four crew.[52]
Unnamed vessels (4)  United Kingdom Four Stonehaven, Scotland vessels lost during a sudden storm killing nineteen crew.[52]

23 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 April
Ship Country Description
American  United Kingdom The Union Company Royal Mail steamer foundered at following the breaking of her screw. Seven men remained on American which was towed by the Portuguese brig Taraja and landed at Loanda on 21 July. The rest of the crew and the passengers took to the ship's boats and landed at various ports.[53][54]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: April 1880
Ship Country Description
Chard  United Kingdom The crew abandoned their vessel at 49.7 W when the foremast was lost. They were landed in the Isles of Scilly by Tetans ( Norway).[55]
 Belgium Departed Antwerp for New York, United States.[56] A lifeboat was recovered by ( France) on 19 June.

May[]

4 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1880
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The Aberystwyth schooner hit rocks off Lizard Point, Cornwall while carrying 152 tons of cement from London to Dublin. The captain miscalculated the ship's position blaming the intensity of the light from the Lizard Lighthouse. The four crew rowed to Penzance in the ship's boat.[57]

6 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1880
Ship Country Description
Colleen Bawn  New Zealand The 28-ton schooner left Wellington for Havelock on 1 May, but never arrived. Distress lights were sighted on 6 May during a heavy gale. Colleen Bawn had a crew of seven.[1]

17 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire while fitting out.[58]

22 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1880
Ship Country Description
Anna  New Zealand The 27-ton ketch was wrecked close to Bluff, New Zealand while trying to take shelter during a heavy sea. Both men on board perished.[59]
Maine  United States The screw steamer was destroyed by fire while loading at the Grand Trunk Railroad dock at Port Huron, Michigan.[58]

23 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1880
Ship Country Description
Fanny Thornton  New Zealand The 80-ton ketch drifted onto rocks and was wrecked near the entrance to Hokianga Harbour when the wind suddenly abated.[60]

25 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1880
Ship Country Description
Janequeo  Chilean Navy War of the Pacific: The torpedo boat was sunk off Callao, Peru.

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: unknown date May 1880
Ship Country Description
Advance  New Zealand The composite schooner drifted onto the North Spit at Christchurch, New Zealand. She lost her rudder and part of her false keel, but was refloated easily without further damage.

June[]

3 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The 70-foot (21 m) screw steamer burned on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin. She was rebuilt in April 1881 and returned to service with the name .[61]

11 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1880
Ship Country Description
Bay of Biscay  United Kingdom The vessel set sail from Tower Hill. All aboard lost by drowning, wrecked.[62]
Narragansett  United States The 1,633-ton passenger ship — a sidewheel paddle steamer — caught fire after a collision at night in heavy fog in Long Island Sound off Saybrook, Connecticut, with the steamer Stonington ( United States) and was grounded in shallow water. Approximately 30 people aboard Narragansett died. Narragansett was later refloated, rebuilt, and placed back in service.[6][63]

15 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1880
Ship Country Description
Maha Buleshwar  United Kingdom The barque was a total wreck at Ancutta, Laccadives and the cargo probably lost. The barque was en route for Bombay from London. Twelve of the crew saved.[64]

20 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1880
Ship Country Description
Wanganui  New Zealand The iron-hulled brigantine launched in July 1863 which for traded around New Zealand till 1880 when the vessel was sunk whilst entering the Clarence River on 20 June.

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date June 1880
Ship Country Description
Alianza  Peruvian Navy War of the Pacific: The torpedo boat was scuttled by her crew to prevent her capture by advancing Chilean forces.
Ayr  United Kingdom The Hain Line ship of St Ives was wrecked at the Magdalena River, Colombia.[65]
Poneke  New Zealand The 80-ton schooner left Onehunga for Picton with six crew on 11 June. She was sighted off Greymouth but not seen again.[60]

July[]

2 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 July 1880
Ship Country Description
Three Brothers  New Zealand The 18-ton cutter foundered in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf. All three crew were lost.[60]

3 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 July
Ship Country Description
Jane Hannah  New Zealand The 52-ton schooner became a loss after stranding at the head of Akaroa Harbour in a heavy gale. All four crew drowned.[60]
Manne Du Cel  France The lugger, with a cargo of coal from Newport to St Malo, sprung a leak in the North Channel and despite efforts to keep the vessel afloat, abandoned her when approximately 10 miles off Lizard Point, Cornwall. The four crew were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall the following Monday.[66]

10 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 July
Ship Country Description
Alert  United Kingdom The steamer struck The Manacles, a reef off the coast of the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall. A rock penetrated the hull and the ship was able to reach the nearest beach before foundering. Following temporary repairs she was towed to Falmouth that evening.[67]

17 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 July
Ship Country Description
Hydaspes While en route from London to Melbourne, with 40 passengers and a crew of 45, the barque collided with the steamer Centurion and sank five miles (8.0 km) off Dungeness. Despite the thick fog and sinking within eleven minutes, no lives were lost.[68]

22 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 July
Ship Country Description
Mamie  United States The excursion steamer Garland collided with the steam yacht on the Detroit River, 9 miles (14 km) below Detroit, Michigan. Mamie was cut in two and of the twenty-four on board sixteen drowned.[69]

30 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 July
Ship Country Description
Cleveland  United States The tow steamer burned to the water's edge off Charity Island in Lake Huron.[58]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: unknown
Ship Country Description
Poolscar  United Kingdom The Liverpool barque was wrecked at Holm, Orkney.[70]

August[]

1 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Idem  United Kingdom The steamship Harter, bound from China to New York with a full cargo of tea, collided with the barque Idem in heavy fog off Gibraltar. The crew of Idem were all rescued, but the ship sank. Harter was undamaged.[71]

3 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Northern Ensign - B.F.608  United Kingdom The Gamrie fishing-boat sank off Rose Hearty, Scotland with the loss of all six crew.[72]


7 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Duroon Castle  United Kingdom The Clyde steamer with 700 day-trippers on board struck a submerged rock and was beached nearby. She was within 200 yards (180 m) of the pier at Glasgow and all onboard landed safely.[73]
Harriet  United Kingdom The Bideford smack was wrecked on Pentire Point East, Newquay, Cornwall while carrying coal from Swansea to Hayle. There was controversy over the launching of the lifeboat and the crew were eventually saved by the .[74]
Jeddah  United Kingdom After the passenger steamship suffered progressive boiler damage and lost her sails in heavy weather beginning on 3 August, some of her European officers abandoned her on 7 August, assuming she would sink, leaving her adrift in the Indian Ocean near Socotra and Guardafui with about 1,000 passengers (Muslim pilgrims making the Haj) and crew aboard. The Europeans who abandoned her were rescued on 8 August by the convict ship Scindian ( United Kingdom), while the passenger steamship Antenor ( France) towed Jeddah into port at Aden on 11 August. Eighteen lives were lost in the incident.
Tidy  United Kingdom The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked in Broughton Bay, south Wales. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Portland, Dorset to Llanelli, Glamorgan.[15]

8 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Waswater (First report). The iron ship was found derelict and on fire by the steamer Blenheim. There was no sign of her eighteen crew.[75]

9 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck an obstruction causing her boiler to explode, sinking her. Nine crewmen killed.[58]
Sarah And Mary  New Zealand The 40-ton ketch was wrecked after running aground on an island in New Zealand's Queen Charlotte Sound after her line parted. The ship's stove was knocked over by the force of the impact, and the ship caught fire. All crew successfully landed on the island.[60]

12 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank. Three crewmen killed.[58]
 United States The steamer broke from her moorings, filled and sank.[58]
 United States The steamer broke from her moorings, filled and sank.[58]
Unnamed steamboats  United States Several steamboats lost during a great storm on 12 and 13 August at Brownsville, Texas.[76]

19 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Caroni  United Kingdom The brigantine from Lockeport, Nova Scotia with salted provisions, was a total wreck following a hurricane at Kingston, Jamaica. All the crew survived.[77]

26 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Eastern Star  United Kingdom (First report – telegram) from Durban. Went ashore and probably a total wreck.[78]
Hetty Taylor  United States The schooner encountered a squall and sank in Lake Michigan off Sheboygan, Wisconsin.[79] In 2005, the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[80] There were no casualties.
Southern Queen  New Zealand The 19-ton schooner was driven onto a reef and wrecked at Amuri Bluff. Two lives were lost.[60]
Surprise  United Kingdom (First report – telegram from Durban). Went ashore and probably a total wreck.[78]

27 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1880
Ship Country Description
Nannie Noall  United Kingdom The St Ives fishing vessel was hit by the steamer Aurora ( United Kingdom) about four or five miles south-west of the Wolf Rock. Two of the seven crew drowned.[81]

29 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1880
Ship Country Description
City of Vera Cruz  United States The steamship, en route from New York City to Mexico, encountered a violent hurricane and sank off the coast of Florida. Of the 79 aboard, ten or eleven (depending on accounts) survived.[82]
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire in Lake Huron two miles (3.2 km) off Alcona, Michigan. Six passengers and three crew killed.[58]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: unknown
Ship Country Description
Nadine  Imperial Russian Navy The torpedo boat was wrecked on the coast of Brazil. All the crew survived.[83]

September[]

3 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Silurian  United Kingdom The steamship, en route from Salonica in the Ottoman Empire to Cardiff, Wales, with a cargo of , ran ashore in thick fog between Hartland Point and Clovelly, Devon, England. Her crew of 21 were saved but the ship and cargo were lost.[84]

4 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Loleta  United States The 119-gross register ton schooner was wrecked in fog on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea. Her crew of 16 survived.[85]

6 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Sorata  United Kingdom Reported as a probable total wreck off South Australia. The crew, passengers and cargo were saved and much of the ship will probably be salvaged.[86] The vessel went into dry dock at Melbourne.[87]
Unnamed schooner An unnamed schooner sank in a squall, off the Bass Rock, Scotland with the loss of all five crew.[88]

12 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Albert  France The Binic fishing schooner carrying 97,000 cod and seventeen barrels of oil left Newfoundland for the . Albert was dismasted on 10 September and two days later the crew abandoned ship and boarded Titania ( Norway). They were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall on 23 September.[89]

13 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Covadonga  Chilean Navy War of the Pacific: The schooner was sunk by a mine at Chancay, Peru. Thirty-three crew were killed and forty-eight taken prisoner.

14 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Aurora  United Kingdom The Dublin steamer foundered 35 miles (56 km) north of Ushant, during a storm, while on a voyage from Oporto to Southampton[90] Some of the 250 bullocks were loose and the vessel leaned to starboard and the crew were unable to right her. Seven of the crew and passengers were landed at Brest by Consul. (See 27 August above for the sinking of Nannie Noall).[91][92][93]

15 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Ellen Frances  United Kingdom The Fowey steamship en route from Swansea to Mevagissey with coal was driven ashore on Carrack Gladden Beach, St Ives, Cornwall. The crew took to the ship's boat and landed safely.[94]
Jane Smith  United Kingdom The Plymouth ship en route from Llanelli to Ipswich with stone coal, grounded off St Ives, Cornwall. The six crew were rescued by St Ives lifeboat.[94]

16 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Bonne Adèle  France The schooner, carrying coal from Llanelli to Cherbourg struck Hayle Bar and was driven ashore on Lelant beach. The crew were landed by the Hayle Lifeboat. She was attempting to ride a gale in St Ives Bay.[95]

22 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1880
Ship Country Description
Unnamed steamer  France The ferry steamer capsized by the tidal bore near Bordeaux with the loss of six passengers.[96]

24 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck a snag, sinking her. Five killed.[58]

28 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States During a voyage in ballast from Chicago, Illinois, to Escanaba, Michigan, the 137-foot (42 m), 341.67-gross register ton three-masted schooner ran over lines connecting the tugs M. A. Gagno ( United States) and A. W. Lawrence ( United States) to scows they were towing in Lake Michigan near Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and sank a few minutes later 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) offshore and 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) north of Two Rivers Light. She came to rest with her bow underwater and stern in the air. A failed salvage attempt by M. A. Gagno and the wrecking tug Winslow ( United States) on 6 October caused her seams to open, and she sank in 130 feet (40 m) of water at 44°21.048′N 087°26.850′W / 44.350800°N 87.447500°W / 44.350800; -87.447500 (America).[97]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: unknown
Ship Country Description
Anglia  United Kingdom The Anchor Line, ship foundered in the Atlantic while out of Boston for London. The crew were landed at St Johns.[98]
Flavin  United Kingdom The Liverpool steamer stranded on the Canadian coast; the captain blaming his compass. The cargo included fifteen cases of musical instruments, some of which contained jew's harps and a large packet of magnets.[99]
Hardwich  United Kingdom The West Hartlepool steamer foundered while carrying barley from Odessa for Bristol. All hands, except for a fireman, lost.[100]

October[]

5 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States During a voyage from Ellison Bay, Wisconsin, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a cargo of wood and bark, the 77.5-foot (23.6 m), 57-gross register ton two-masted schooner was wrecked without loss of life on the coast of Wisconsin at in Green Bay. She was declared a total loss.[101]
 United Kingdom The paddle steamer foundered in the North Sea 6 nautical miles (11 km) east south east of Sunderland, County Durham. Her crew were rescued by the brig Cherokee ( United Kingdom).[102]

7 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Jane  United Kingdom The lugger was swamped by heavy seas, off Penzance, Cornwall, UK during a south south east hurricane force gale.[103] Altogether thirty fishing boats were destroyed, or damaged, in Mount's Bay and seven lives lost.[104]
Somorostro  United Kingdom The Cardiff streamer carrying iron-ore from Bilbao is believed to have foundered in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of all on board.[105][106]

8 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Hannah  United Kingdom The Caernarfon schooner was run down by Shamrock, the Dublin to Holyhead ferry, killing three of the four crew.[107]
Henry Benness  United Kingdom The Newhaven brig was struck by a heavy sea about 15 miles (24 km) off the Longships and she began to take on water. The crew abandoned ship at about 2 o'clock the following morning and the ship sank 30 minutes later off the Three Stone Oar. The crew were picked up by Progrès and landed in Penzance, a day later.[108]

15 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Alpena  United States The sidewheel steamer sank in Lake Michigan with at least 80 killed.

16 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Unnamed schooner  Liberia The schooner, with 38 on board, capsized off Grand Bassa. After fifteen hours, four survivors were picked up by Corsico and landed at Liverpool.[109]

21 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Bessie Wilkingson  United Kingdom The Bideford ketch with coal from Newport ran aground on the Blackrock, outside of the destination, Mevagissey, Cornwall.[110]

22 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Mary  United Kingdom The Whitby brig dragged her anchor and hit the Black Rock at the entrance to Falmouth harbour, drifted leeward and sank between the rock and shore. Three of the crew died.[111]

23 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Argo  United Kingdom The Bridgwater schooner with coal from Newport for Polruan sprung a leak and made for Old Grimsby, Tresco, Isles of Scilly. The schooner stuck on rocks at Teän and the crew were taken off the island the following day.[112]

24 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Blanche  United Kingdom The ketch sprang a leak 40 miles (64 km) west south-west of The Lizard and foundered. The master was landed at Fowey, Cornwall by Lizzie Trembath {flag unknown).[113]

27 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1880
Ship Country Description
"I Tell Ye"  United States The boat was run down and sunk in Boston Bay.[114]

28 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Alice  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Flamborough on the Northumberland coast.[115]
Camilla  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked at Newtown on the Northumberland coast.[115]
Fortuna  United Kingdom The schooner grounded on the rocks at Jenniecliffe Bay, Plymouth. The crew were taken off by the Plymouth lifeboat.[116]
John May  United Kingdom The brig lost one of her anchors when sheltering from a storm off Plymouth. Setting sail for the Cattewater, John May drifted across the bows of the schooner Reddies, taking away the schooners bowsprit, topsail-yard along with other damage. John May drifted onto the Mount Batten breakwater, breaking her back. The captain drowned.[117]
Lady Young  United Kingdom The barque ran ashore near the entrance of Brixham harbour with the loss of one life.[118]
Messenger  United Kingdom The Salcombe brig with coal from Cardiff for Portsmouth dragged onto Skirt Island, Tresco, Isles of Scilly while carrying coal from Cardiff to Portsmouth.[119] She refloated after St. Mary's lifeboat (Henry Dundas) had saved five of her crew but was later scrapped. The ship and cargo was sold for £11.[120]
Saffron  United Kingdom The Southampton vessel was driven ashore at Withernsea, carrying away 60 feet (18 m) of the quay.[115]

28/29 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 28/29 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Black-eyed Sue  United Kingdom The Bideford ship went ashore at Scarborough. Another three or four vessels were also stranded.[121]
British Engsign  United Kingdom The vessel was driven ashore at Seaham, County Durham with the loss of one life.[122]
Flying Huntsman  United Kingdom The steam trawler was struck by a heavy sea and capsized while making for her home port of North Shields. The six crew drowned.[123]
Good Intent  United Kingdom The fishing boat went ashore at Whitby.[124]
Henry Brown  United Kingdom The schooner was driven onto the Baily Lighthouse, three of the crew were drowned.[125]
Johanna  Denmark The schooner foundered while entering South Shields harbour. All the crew except the Mate drowned.[126]
Reaper  United Kingdom The schooner went ashore at Whitby with the loss of the master.[124]
Wonga  United Kingdom The steam trawler was struck by a heavy sea and capsized while making for her home port of North Shields. The six crew drowned.[123]
Zostria  United Kingdom The vessel was driven ashore at Seaham, County Durham.[122]
unnamed  United Kingdom The fishing boat sank in the River Liffey, Dublin.[125]
Unnamed vessel  United Kingdom The unnamed vessel was wrecked at Dalkey, Ireland with the loss of five lives.[125]
Unnamed vessel The vessel went ashore at Laugharne Sands, Carmarthen Bay. The crew, except the master, was saved by the lifeboat City of Manchester.[122]
unnamed  Netherlands The Dutch vessel came ashore at Scarborough along with eight other ships. All the crews were saved.[115]

29 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1880
Ship Country Description
Earl Derby  United Kingdom The vessel was driven ashore at Hornsea, Yorkshire.[115]
Eliza Adams  United Kingdom The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat (Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg) capsized when a large wave broke over her near the harbour at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, while she was attempting to rescue the crew of the brig Ocean Queen during a gale. Eleven of her thirteen crew were killed.[127]
Katherine  United Kingdom The Lynn ship went ashore at Clay. The crew were saved by the rocket apparatus.[127]
Lois  United Kingdom The Littlehampton ship was stranded on the beach at Holkham, Norfolk, England. The crew was saved by the life-lines.[127]
Macbeth  United Kingdom The large iron-ship was driven ashore at Hornsea, Yorkshire. The captain was drowned.[115]
New Parliament  United Kingdom The Padstow schooner hit very heavy weather, water entered the hold and the four crew and black cat were taken off their vessel, 180 miles (290 km) west by north of the Isles of Scilly. The vessel was bound from Yarmouth to Sligo with wheat and flour. The crew were landed at Falmouth.[128]
Ocean Queen  United Kingdom The Sunderland brig was driven ashore on a beach near the harbour of Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, during a gale.[127]
Sharon Rose  United Kingdom The Whitby brig was driven ashore on the beach at Holkham, Norfolk, England, during a gale. The crew was saved by the lifeboat Eliza Adams.[127]
Violet  United Kingdom The Whitby ship was driven ashore on a beach at Holkham, Norfolk, England, during a gale. The crew were saved by the life-lines.[127]
unnamed ship  United Kingdom Stranded at Burnham, Norfolk.[127]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1880
Ship Country Description
Percy  United Kingdom The brigantine foundered in St George's Channel while carrying china clay from Par, Cornwall to Glasgow. The captain and crew were landed at Liverpool by a Guernesy brig.[129]
Iserbrook  United Kingdom The wreck of the brig – destroyed by fire and scuttled on 21 December 1878, refloated in 1879, and which sank again on 30 January 1880 – was destroyed by explosives in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales.[citation needed]
Serhorry  United Kingdom The crew abandoned the Dublin brigantine between Cornwall and Waterford and were picked up by the Prince of Porthleven.[130]
Soredderin Arundel  Norway The barque, carrying plaster from Riga for Brest foundered 14 miles (23 km) off the Isles of Scilly. The Leonore picked up the nine crew from the ship's boat and landed them at Dover.[131]
Unnamed wrecks Many wrecks and much loss of life is reported from Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.[132]

November[]

3 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1880
Ship Country Description
Scindian  United Kingdom The convict ship sank in the Tyrrhenian Sea off Rio Marina, Elba, Italy, with the loss of six lives. Eight people were rescued.[133]

6 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1880
Ship Country Description
 United States The 2,000-ton passenger ship — a sidewheel paddle steamer — was wrecked on rocks in fog without loss of life in Narragansett Bay 200 feet (61 m) off , Narragansett, Rhode Island. Her wreck settled in 10 to 20 feet (3.0 to 6.1 m) of water at 41°28′12″N 071°25′06″W / 41.47000°N 71.41833°W / 41.47000; -71.41833 (Rhode Island). Her steam engine, boiler, and most of her cargo were salvaged soon afterward.[134]

8 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1880
Ship Country Description
Lubra The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean while in ballast from Bristol to Wilmington. The crew were landed in Cowes.[135]

19 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1880
Ship Country Description
"Bee"  United States The boat was lost on . crew saved.[136]

21 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1880
Ship Country Description
Ottawa  United Kingdom The 3,712-ton vessel was wrecked at on her maiden voyage. No lives lost.[137]

24 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1880
Ship Country Description
Mavis  United Kingdom The screw steamer sank after hitting a rock off the Gironde estuary. The crew rowed for the coast and were taken to La Rochelle by pilot boat. They finally landed in Bristol a week later by Clio (flag unknown).[138]
Oucle Joseph  France The steamship sank after a collision with the Italian steamer Ortigia. Of the three hundred on board, only fifty survived.[139]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1880
Ship Country Description
Champion  United Kingdom The captain and eighteen crew of the Greenock barque, were landed at Falmouth by the Spanish barque Eliza. Champion was carrying deal from and was abandoned following a succession of heavy gales.[140][141]
Leading Star  United Kingdom The St Ives, Cornwall brig was a total wreck off while out of Christiana for Natal, Africa. The captain, both mates and the steward drowned, five of the crew survived.[142] (Information was received via telegrams dated 10 and 11 November 1880.[143]) The cargo was sold for £320 at Natal on 18 December.[144]
Lisvane  United Kingdom The steamship, owned by Messrs Stallybrass of Cardiff, foundered during a gale in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of all fourteen crew. The Cardiff ship left Corunna on 12 November for Newport, Wales with iron ore.[145]
Little Nell  United Kingdom The Padstow schooner foundered off Barra Head, Scotland.[141]
 United States The fishing schooner was lost on the Banks. Lost with all 14 crew.[146]
Unnamed schooner  France The unnamed schooner was wrecked at Kirkcaldy.[147]
Unnamed steamer The unnamed steamer was wrecked at St Govan's Head with the loss of all hands.[87]
Unnamed trawler  United Kingdom The trawler capsized off Greenock during a storm. The four crew drowned.[147]

December[]

1 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1880
Ship Country Description
Pet  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Talbot, Glamorgan. Her five crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat.[15]

6 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1880
Ship Country Description
Fresia  Chilean Navy War of the Pacific: The torpedo boat was sunk off Callao, Peru. She was refloated.

20 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1880
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked off the Horns Reef. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States and Reval, Russia.[148]

26 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1880
Ship Country Description
USC&GS Baton Rouge United States United States Coast and Geodetic Survey The survey ship, a sternwheel paddle steamer, sank in the Mississippi River. She was refloated and sold in 1881.

28 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1880
Ship Country Description
Montgomeryshire  United Kingdom (first report) The steamer left Cardiff for Singapore with 2000 tons of coal and should have passed Gibraltar on 27 or 28 December. Wreckage found at Tocha, 9 miles (14 km) north of Figueira, near Cape Mondego is thought to be from this vessel. All of the thirty crew perished.[149][150]

29 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1880
Ship Country Description
Richelieu  French Navy The ironclad central battery ship caught fire in the harbor at Toulon, France, and was scuttled in 10.75 metres (35 ft 3 in) of water to prevent her ammunition magazine from exploding, capsizing almost 90 degrees to port as she sank. She was raised and repaired, and she returned to service in October 1881.

31 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1880
Ship Country Description
 New Zealand The steamer struck a small, submerged rock near Morgen's Harbour, Whangarei, New Zealand and foundered.[151]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date December 1880
Ship Country Description
Garibaldil The ship was stranded at Weller's Beach, Corsica, while en route to Toronto. The chief officer froze to death.[152]
 United Kingdom The barque left San Francisco on 3 December for Queenstown, Ireland, and was not heard of again. Lost with all 21 hands.[153][154]
Star of Bengal  United Kingdom The Liverpool ship Corbey put into Falmouth, Cornwall, with damage, following a 10 minute collision 23 miles (37 km) off The Lizard. Star of Bengal is believed to have sunk with all hands.[155]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: unknown 1880
Ship Country Description
Beatrice  United Kingdom The Mevagissey schooner sank in St George's Bay, Newfoundland while en voyage from Gaspé to Rio de Janeiro. The crew survived.[156]
Cape Sable  United Kingdom The Greenock ship, left Sunderland, for Singapore in June, was lost at sea. The captain and crew of 28 did not survive.[157]
David Law  United Kingdom The ship, out of Leith, Scotland for San Francisco with coal and pig iron, was abandoned off South America after the cargo caught fire and exploded three times. The crew of 22 were landed at Plymouth on 3 December by HMS Raleigh ( Royal Navy).[158]
Killeena  United Kingdom The crew abandoned Killeena in the mid-Atlantic and the vessel was towed to Falmouth, Cornwall.[141]
Nagay  United States The schooner was lost without loss of life at Popof Island in the Shumagin Islands off the south coast of the Territory of Alaska during the summer of 1880.[46]
Penwith  United Kingdom The ship left Cardiff for the Rio Grande on 11 May 1880 and had not been heard of since (to December 1880).[141]
Senegal  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in the Atlantic. Some of the passengers had been on the Royal Mail steamer American which foundered on 23 April. Crew and passengers were picked up by Teuton (flag unknown) and landed at Madeira.[54]

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Ship events in 1880
Ship launches: 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885
Ship commissionings: 1875 1876 1877 1879 1882 1884 1885
Ship decommissionings: 1876 1877 1879 1882 1884
Shipwrecks: 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885
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