List of shipwrecks in 1881

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The list of shipwrecks in 1881 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1881.

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January[]

1 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The tug exploded. Her smokestack fell on the master of the barge she was towing, killing him.[1]

3 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Lupata  United Kingdom The ship sank about 200 yards (180 m) from the , San Francisco, California with the loss of the crew.[2]

4 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Active  United Kingdom The 200-ton Newcastle steamer struck the Stag Rocks off Lizard Point, Cornwall, while bound for Caen, France, with coal from Neath.[3]
Brazilian The Warren Line steamer broke in two while stranded on the Burbo Bank off Liverpool, United Kingdom. The steamer was out of Boston, Massachusetts with cattle.[4]

5 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Farnley  United Kingdom (first report) The Newcastle screw steamer was out of Savannah, Georgia with cotton for Revel.[4] Farnley left Dartmouth on 26 December 1880 and, on an unreported date, two bodies and several bales of cotton were washed up on the coast of Jutland, near Ringkøbing.[5]
 United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the Long Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Kent with the loss of seventeen of her 28 crew. Survivors were rescued by the lifeboat Bradford (Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Indian Chief was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, County Durham, to Yokohama, Japan.[6][7]
 United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground on the Sunk Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Kent. Her crew took to the lifeboats and were rescued by another vessel.[8]

6 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was wrecked on bar, New Jersey. The wreck was probably caused by the death of the captain earlier and six crew were ill leaving only the mate and cook to work the ship.[9]
Unnamed steamer A large steamer when ashore on the Goodwin Sands and sank with all hands.[10]

7 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1881
Ship Country Description
John Tillotson The steamer Idlewild collided with the Tittleson barque John Tillotson which foundered within five minutes. The pilot and five of the crew drowned.[11]
Sly Boots  United Kingdom (first report) The Brixham trawler was run down by the steamer, Compton. All five crew drowned.[12]

10 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Highflyer  United States The fishing schooner was wrecked at , Fox Island, Maine. The crew were saved.[13]

11 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Hereford  South Australia The full-rigged ship ran aground at Point Lonsdale, Victoria. She was later salvaged and repaired.[14]

14 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Emily  United Kingdom The Brixham trawler was run down by a sailing vessel approximately 20 miles (32 km) off the Eddystone. A nearby fishing boat picked up the crew.[15]

15 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Lumley  United Kingdom The brig stranded on a rock approximately one mile (1.6 km) offshore, north of Whitby. The crew lost their lives.[16]

16 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1881
Ship Country Description
BAP Atahualpa  Peruvian Navy War of the Pacific: Scuttling of the Peruvian fleet in El Callao: The monitor was scuttled by her crew at El Callao, Peru, to prevent her capture by advancing Chilean forces. She was salvaged later in 1881 and became a storage hulk.
BAP República  Peruvian Navy War of the Pacific: Scuttling of the Peruvian fleet in El Callao: The torpedo boat was scuttled by her crew at El Callao, Peru, to prevent her capture by advancing Chilean forces.
BAP Talismán  Peruvian Navy War of the Pacific: Scuttling of the Peruvian fleet in El Callao: The troopship was scuttled by her crew at El Callao, Peru, to prevent her capture by advancing Chilean forces.
BAP Toro Submarino  Peruvian Navy War of the Pacific: Scuttling of the Peruvian fleet in El Callao: The submarine was scuttled by her crew at El Callao, Peru, to prevent her capture by advancing Chilean forces.

17 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Enterprise  United Kingdom The Porthleven dandy went ashore on Clodgy Point, St Ives, Cornwall. The crew were taken off by the steamer Gwent before the dandy went ashore.[17]
BAP Rímac  Peruvian Navy War of the Pacific: Scuttling of the Peruvian fleet in El Callao: The troopship was scuttled by her crew at El Callao, Peru, to prevent her capture by advancing Chilean forces. She was salvaged in June 1881.
Rosa Joseph  France The schooner went ashore at St Ives, Cornwall while taking coal from Briton Ferry to Cherbourg.[17]
Unnamed  France A vessel, possibly a chasse-marée sank in Yarmouth roads.[18]

18 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Abraham Thomas  United Kingdom The Yarmouth lifeboat capsized while returning with the sole survivor of Guiding Star. Two survived.[18]
Anna Decéil  France The Boulogne ketch went ashore at Ipswich.[18]
Ann Turgoose  United Kingdom The Goole schooner, with a cargo of wheat, from London to Hull, stranded near Saltfleet.[18]
Charlotte Dunbar  France The Lorient brigantine went ashore on Burnt Island, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly while bound from Newport for Morlaix. There was no sign of the crew or the ship's boat.[19]
Edith Mary  United Kingdom The London barque went ashore at Yarmouth. Five of the crew were saved by the rocket apparatus and five drowned.[18]
Felix and Rosalie  France The schooner foundered approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Boscastle, Cornwall while in ballast for Swansea from Trouville. Five men and a boy landed near King Arthur's Castle.[20]
Guiding Star  United Kingdom The Padstow schooner went ashore at Yarmouth. The captain and two crew were ashore, and the mate left on board drowned.[21][22]
Havelock  United Kingdom The collier was washed on to the pier at Ryde, Isle of Wight.[18]
John Ward  United Kingdom The collier was washed on to the pier at Ryde, Isle of Wight.[18]
Palestine  United Kingdom The West Hartlepool barque was wrecked at Thorpeness, Suffolk. The crew were saved by the rocket apparatus[18]
Rapid  United Kingdom The Whitby brig went ashore at Gorleston, Norfolk. The seven crew drowned.[18]
Restless  United Kingdom The brigantine was driven ashore at Penarth.[18]
Rhoda  United Kingdom The Middlesbrough schooner went ashore at Ipswich.[18]
Rook  United Kingdom The steamer, with a cargo of coal and syrup, sank at , near Tobermory.[18]
Sarah Jane  United Kingdom The Whitehaven three-masted schooner went ashore at Yarmouth with the loss of the mate.[18]
Victor  United Kingdom The tug was damaged by ice and sank in Leith harbour.[18]
Unnamed barges  United Kingdom One hundred barges sank in the Thames with considerable loss of life.[18]
Unnamed fishing boats  United Kingdom Several fishing boats went ashore at Harwich.[18]
Unnamed trows  United Kingdom Several trows from Gloucester and Bristol were driven ashore.[18]
Unnamed vessel  United Kingdom A vessel came ashore at Shovepoint, Walton-on-the-Naze.[23]
Unnamed vessels  United Kingdom Several vessels foundered at Ryde, Isle of Wight.[18]
Unnamed vessels  United Kingdom Many vessels in Brixham harbour foundered with some washed onto the streets.[18]

18 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Charlotte Dunbar  United Kingdom The wooden-hulled brigantine was found ashore and abandoned on Burnt Island, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. She was sailing from Newport, Wales, to Audierne with coal and nothing was heard of her crew of six.[24]

19 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Anthrodite  Netherlands The Friesland brig was wrecked off Beachy Head and four of the crew drowned.[25]
Rising Sun  United Kingdom The vessel went ashore in the River Thames. The crew were saved.[26]
Unnamed vessels Nine vessels were wrecked off Yarmouth and nearly fifty lives lost. Many wrecks on the coast around Harwich.[25]
Unnamed vessels Thirty vessels beached near Cardiff and several more reported.[27]

20 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Bothalwood  United Kingdom A barque-rigged vessel sailing from Carthagena for Leith hit rocks in St Ouen's bay. No crew were lost.[28]

21 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Alexandrea  France The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[29]
Amiral  France The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[29]
British Lady  United Kingdom The 89-ton schooner from Penzance, Cornwall lost her mast in a gale and sank near the Runnel Stone. Her crew were picked up by the Isles of Scilly ferry Queen of the Bay ( United Kingdom).[30]
Buckinghamshire  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[29]
Cecile  France The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[29]
Etta  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[29]
Mirella  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was driven ashore on the coast of Glamorgan.[29]

27 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Cresswell  New South Wales The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Paviland, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[29]
Eleanor  United Kingdom The paddle steamer was wrecked at Leestone Point, Kilkeel, Ireland.[31]
 United Kingdom The steamer ran aground at Cooley Point, Ireland. She was salvaged but was deemed beyond economical repair and was scrapped.[31]

22 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The sternwheel steamer was sunk in Perdido Bay when her boiler exploded three miles (4.8 km) east of Minez Ferry. Three killed.[32]

29 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1881
Ship Country Description
Harvest Queen  United Kingdom The American ship McLauria found the British barque, in poor condition, in the Atlantic on 28 January. Eight of the crew were taken on board with the captain and mate staying on Harvest Queen, which foundered during the night.[33]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: unknown date
Ship Country Description
Blyth  United Kingdom The steamer ran aground on rocks at . The crew survived.[34]
 United States The paddle steamer sprang a leak and foundered in the Gulf of Mexico. She was on a voyage from Cuba to New Orleans, Louisiana.[35]
Saint Jean  France The barque sank, with the loss of three men, after colliding with the barque Privateer off the Isles of Scilly.[36]

February[]

6 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner sank in a storm in Pensacola Bay.[32]

7 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1881
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked near Crookhaven, County Cork with the loss of 33 lives.[37]

8 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1881
Ship Country Description
Kron Prinz von Preussen  Germany The brigantine was driven ashore in New Grimsby harbour, Tresco, Isles of Scilly.[38]
Unidentified schooner A three-masted schooner foundered in Bideford Bay, near Clovelly.[39]

10 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1881
Ship Country Description
Ridge Park  Australia The cargo ship sank after hitting the Beware Reef, Cape Conran, Australia.[40]

13 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1881
Ship Country Description
Flying Spur  United Kingdom The clipper ship was wrecked on Martin Vas, North Rock, in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Sylphide  France The Nantes brigantine foundered and became a total wreck on the beach at Perranuthnoe, Cornwall while bound from Audierne, France, to Cardiff, Wales with a cargo of potatoes. The crew were saved by the Prussia Cove rocket appartatus.[41]
T F Whiton  United States The Searsport, Maine barque bound for London from Victoria, Vancouver Island carrying a mixed cargo foundered at Praa Sands, Cornwall. The crew were saved by the Prussia Cove rocket apparatus and the ship became a total loss after it caught fire.[41]

19 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1881
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom Carrying mail and passengers from Southampton, England, to Guernsey, Sark, and Jersey in the Channel Islands, the steamer was wrecked off Oyster Rock, just outside the harbour at Saint Helier, Jersey, in the Channel Islands.[42][43]
 United States The brig was stranded on the East Pensacola Bar on Santa Rosa Island, Florida at the entrance to Pensacola Bay.[32]

20 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1881
Ship Country Description
Polly Peckham The schooner stranded on the coast near Waterford, Ireland. The captain and mate survived, while five of the crew were lost.[44]

22 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1881
Ship Country Description
Georgina  United Kingdom The schooner ran ashore on the rocks off Porthoustock, Cornwall while en route to Cork from London. The crew attracted attention by lighting a tar-barrel and the ship and cargo of railway sleepers was destroyed. The crew were rescued by the Porthoustock lifeboat.[45]

24 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1881
Ship Country Description
Eliser Bru  Norway The brigantine was run down by Carlyle Castle. The crew of eight were landed on the Isles of Scilly the following day.[46]

25 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1881
Ship Country Description
Liverpool  United States The ship left New York, on 21 February, with a cargo of tobacco for Bordeaux. Liverpool was abandoned when on her beam-ends and the crew were picked up by the Norwegian barque Valkyrien and some were landed in the Isles of Scilly.[47]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: unknown date
Ship Country Description
Boomtide  United Kingdom The steamer sank off Sunderland and eighteen of the crew was saved by the lifeboat Florence Nightingale.[48]
 United States The schooner was lost near Pensacola, Florida.[32]
Isabel  United Kingdom The ship was lost in Peter's River, Newfoundland with all hands.[49]
John Kendall  United Kingdom The Penzance brig carrying coal from Greenock to Barbadoes was a total wreck on a ridge at .[49]
Redown  United States The New York brig was wrecked near Passages, Spain. The crew were picked up by Alverton and landed at Cardiff.[50]
Stamford  United Kingdom The Sunderland steamer struck the west point of Ushant and foundered. Stamford was out of Bilbao for Middlesbrough with a cargo of mineral. Thirteen of the crew died.[51]
Unnamed vessel Rocket Brigade shewn alacrity last week to reach the scene of the wreck in Hoblyn's Cove, St Agnes, Cornwall.[52]

March[]

2 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1881
Ship Country Description
Cecilie Caroline  France The vessel left Charlestown with china clay for Nantes. She was driven ashore, a few hours after she left port, at Apple-tree on the south Cornish coast. The five crew lost their lives.[53]

3 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1881
Ship Country Description
Victorine  France The brigantine carrying pitwood for Port Talbot went ashore at Mevagissey, Cornwall. Two of the crew drowned.[54]

4 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1881
Ship Country Description
Ajace  Italy During a voyage from Belgium to New York City with a cargo of scrap railroad iron and 2,040 empty petroleum barrels, the 566-ton sailing vessel was wrecked off Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York, during a storm. Only one member of her crew survived. Her wreck settled in 25 feet (8 m) of water and became known as "the Italian Wreck".[55]

5 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1881
Ship Country Description
Essen  Germany The steamer was abandoned after she stranded on the Isle of Wight.[56]
Merlin  United Kingdom The barque went ashore at St Andrews, Scotland, with the loss of eight or nine crew.[56]

12 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1881
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 1,530 GRT cargo ship sank in the English Channel following a collision with Duke of Buccleugh off Start Point, Devon, England. Ninety-four elephant tusks were removed from her wreck in 1954.[57]

19 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner was wrecked at Rye Beach, New Hampshire. The crew were saved.[58]

25 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner was capsized and sank about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Barnegat, New Jersey. The crew of fourteen men were rescued by Pilot boat No. 3 ( United States).[59]

29 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1881
Ship Country Description
Geraldine  United Kingdom The schooner sank in Port Eynon Bay off Swansea, Wales. Her crew survived.[29]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: March 1881
Ship Country Description
Gilbert Thompson  United Kingdom The barque, from Calcutta to Liverpool, sank after hitting a ledge.[56]
Juno  United Kingdom The schooner was run down by Lady Ruthven off Beachy Head and sank with the loss of three crew.[56]
Sultan  United Kingdom The steamer sank in the Humber.[56]

April[]

2 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1881
Ship Country Description
Goldhunter  United States The 8.1-ton schooner was wrecked on the coast of the Territory of Alaska 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi) east of the entrance to "Behring Bay" – probably a reference to Yakutat Bay, which historically was sometimes known as "Bering Bay" – after she lost her rudder in a storm. All seven people aboard survived.[60]

3 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1881
Ship Country Description
United States  United States Carrying a valuable cargo, the passenger-cargo steamer was wrecked near the outer shoal of Cape Romain, South Carolina.[61]

6 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1881
Ship Country Description
Cornish Girl  United Kingdom The vessel was abandoned at sea while en route for her home port of Falmouth, Cornwall from Aracaju.[62]

9 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1881
Ship Country Description
Newton  United Kingdom The 1,324 GRT cargo ship was wrecked in the Atlantic Ocean off Madeira while carrying coffee and sugar from Bahia, Brazil, to London.[63]
Speed The Guernsey schooner sank after a collision with the steamer Solent off the Longships, Cornwall, causing the death of the master. Speed was carrying salt from Runcorn to Jersey and the surviving crew were picked up by Victua and landed at Plymouth.[64][65]

12 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer suffered a machinery failure and capsized. Two crewmen killed.[66]
Marmora  Denmark The barque was wrecked on the Scarweather Sands in the Bristol Channel. Her eight crew were rescued by the lifeboat Chafyn Grove (Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[29]

15 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1881
Ship Country Description
Kestrel  United Kingdom On a voyage from London, England, to Bordeaux, France, carrying twenty passengers and cargo in patchy fog, the steamer struck Burhou Island, west of Alderney in the Channel Islands[67]

17 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1881
Ship Country Description
Annie  United Kingdom The Padstow registered schooner struck a rock while on a course between Land's End and the Longships. The schooner began to take on water and was taken in tow by the steamer Mary Monica for Mount's Bay. After two hours the crew went on the steamer and after another hour of tow Annie sank.[68]
Katie  United Kingdom Carrying starch from Norwich, England, to Dublin, Ireland, the 99-ton Padstow, Cornwall-registered schooner struck the Runnel Stone in the English Channel off Gwennap Head, Cornwall, and sank with no loss of life.[30]

21 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1881
Ship Country Description
Ellen Vair  United Kingdom The crew were taken off and landed in Newport, when she collided with Gertrude off The Lizard.[69]

25 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer burned in the St. Johns River, a total loss. Four burned to death and five drowned.[70]

26 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1881
Ship Country Description
HMS Doterel  Royal Navy The Doterel-class sloop sank while at anchor one-half mile (0.80 km) off Sandy Point, Chile, following an explosion and the loss of 143 lives. There were twelve survivors.[71][72]

27 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1881
Ship Country Description
Saint George  United States During a voyage in the waters of the Territory of Alaska from Kodiak to English Bay and with three passengers, a cargo of general merchandise, and a crew of seven aboard, the 100.41-ton schooner struck an uncharted rock off (57°50′05″N 152°18′45″W / 57.83472°N 152.31250°W / 57.83472; -152.31250 (Twin Rocks)) near Kodiak. There was no loss of life, but she filled with enough water to become unmanageable. The schooner Pauline Collins ( United States) towed her to Long Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska, but she was so badly damaged that she was declared nearly a total loss.[73]

30 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1881
Ship Country Description
Tararua  United Kingdom
Tararua
The passenger steamer struck the reef off Waipapa Point in the Catlins, New Zealand, on 29 April, and sank the next day. This is the worst civilian shipping disaster in New Zealand's history with 131 deaths; only twenty of the 151 passengers and crew survived.

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown April 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner was last seen on 13 April with a bad leak, either two days after, or two days before, a bad storm swept the western Banks. Lost with all 12 crew.[74][75][76]
James Harris  United Kingdom The steamship collided with Andalusia (flag unknown) in the North Sea, off the Farne Islands and sank within five minutes. Fourteen of her crew drowned and four survived.[77]

May[]

7 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1881
Ship Country Description
Culmore  United Kingdom The steamer with a cargo of onions, peppers and oranges hit the Crim Rocks, near the Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly.[78] The captain and three of the crew lost their lives.[79]

10 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1881
Ship Country Description
Gananoque  United Kingdom The barque collided with an iceberg in the Gulf of St. Lawrence four miles (6.4 km) off the in the Magdalen Islands and sank quickly.[80][81] The crew landed on Bird Rocks, and were picked up on 12 May.[80]

24 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1881
Ship Country Description
Victoria  Canada While carrying passengers back to downtown London, Ontario, Canada during Victoria Day celebrations, the steamboat sank in the Thames River, due to overcrowding causing her to strike a rock in the shallow river and ultimately capsize. Approximately 182 people drowned out of a total of 600 on board.[82]

28 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1881
Ship Country Description
Mary Hough  United Kingdom The steamer collided in thick fog with Castilian (flag unknown) in the River Mersey. Taken under tow by the steam tug Hercules, a few minutes later, she was run into by the mail steamship African and sank. The crew were landed at Liverpool.[83]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date May 1881
Ship Country Description
Queen of Nations  United Kingdom The clipper ship was wrecked on Corrimal Beach, New South Wales, Australia, with the loss of one life.

June[]

2 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1881
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The steamship collided with Adam Smith ( United Kingdom) and sank off Happisburgh, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire, to Antwerp, Belgium.[84]

6 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1881
Ship Country Description
Seine  United Kingdom The 222-ton steamer sank immediately after being hit by the 1,058 ton steamer Prado off Godrevy Head, Cornwall. Prado landed the crew at Falmouth.[85]

13 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1881
Ship Country Description
USS Jeannette  United States Navy
USS Jeanette
Jeannette expedition: The Philomel-class gunvessel sank in the Arctic Ocean (77°15′N 154°59′E / 77.250°N 154.983°E / 77.250; 154.983) after being crushed by ice. Although there was no immediate loss of life, 20 of her 33 crewmen died before reaching safety.

26 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1881
Ship Country Description
Jamestown  United States The abandoned sailing ship was found aground at Hafnir, Iceland. Badly battered by high seas in December 1880 and January 1881, she had been abandoned in the North Atlantic Ocean in January 1881 at 43°06′N 22°00′W / 43.10°N 22°W / 43.10; -22 with all 27 people aboard rescued by the steamer ( United Kingdom). She then had floated unmanned for four months before running aground.

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: unknown date June 1881
Ship Country Description
Flora P Stafford  United Kingdom The barque was run down by Haytien (flag unknown) and abandoned while returning to Hampton Roads from Bordeaux with iron ore. The crew were taken off the barque but the captain died within an hour.[86]

July[]

2 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 July 1881
Ship Country Description
Daniel Webster  United States The 327-ton whaling vessel was crushed in ice and sank in the Arctic Ocean 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) south of Point Barrow, Territory of Alaska.[87]

3 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 July 1881
Ship Country Description
Glen  United Kingdom The schooner collided with the screw-steamer Alliance (flag unknown) off St Ives, Cornwall and foundered. The crew were landed at Penarth on board Alliance.[88]

4 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1881
Ship Country Description
Britannic  United Kingdom The White Star Line ocean liner ran aground in fog at Kilmore, County Wexford, Ireland, and remained stuck for two days. All the passengers were safely landed at Waterford. She sprang a leak in her engine room after being re-floated and was beached at Wexford Bay. She had to be patched up and pumped before returning to Liverpool.

11 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner sank off in the Annisquam River. The crew were safe.[89]

26 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1881
Ship Country Description
Unnamed vessels Thirty lives were lost when three sailing vessels sank during a "terrific gale" at East London.[90]

28 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1881
Ship Country Description
Nordstjernan  Norway The passenger-cargo steamer was wrecked at Knivskjærodden, near North Cape, Norway, and sank. Tourist passengers and crew saved.[91][92]

August[]

8 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was wrecked on , . The crew were saved.[93]
 France The steamer was scuttled to extinguish a fire at Tunis French Tunisia. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[94]

9 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1881
Ship Country Description
Hugo  Germany The crew abandoned their vessel in the Pacific Ocean, while carrying coal from Newcastle to San Francisco, after it was destroyed by fire. The nine crew reached , Chile in the lifeboat, taking nine days to cover 800 miles (1,300 km).[95]

15 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1881
Ship Country Description
W. F. March  United States Carrying ten miners as passengers, a cargo of 35 tons of ballast, provisions, ore, and mining tools, and a crew of seven, the 95.92-ton schooner dragged her anchor during a gale and was wrecked without loss of life on the beach at Golovnin Bay in the Territory of Alaska.[96]

20 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The tug blew up and sank in the Chicago River at the Clark Street Bridge, Chicago as a result of a boiler explosion. Later towed to Miller's Dry Dock and rebuilt. Two crewmen killed.[97][98]
Courier The schooner foundered and the crew were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall on 12 September by Golden Sea.[99]

21 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1881
Ship Country Description
Eira  United Kingdom The steam exploration yacht of Benjamin Leigh Smith was heavily damaged by floating ice on 21 August and sank near Cape Flora, Franz Joseph Land. The owner and his crew were all rescued almost a year later.[100]

30 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1881
Ship Country Description
City of Richmond  United States With approximately 60 passengers and crew aboard, the 227-foot (69 m), 875-gross register ton coastal sidewheel paddle steamer struck a reef — the south ledge of — in Penobscot Bay off the coast of Maine and sank without loss of life. She later was refloated, rebuilt, renamed City of Key West, and placed back in service.[101]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date August 1881
Ship Country Description
Asterope  United Kingdom The brig was lost on the coast near the Para River while carrying coal from Cardiff to Para. The crew of eight were rescued following two days in the ship's boat.[102]
 United States The fishing schooner sailed from Gloucester, Massachusetts on 30 July 1881 and vanished. Lost with all 14 hands.[103][104][105]
Thomas Blythe  United Kingdom The Hayle barque filled with water and sank about 500 miles (800 km) from the Isles of Scilly. The seven crew took to the ships boat and were picked up my a Norwegian ship. The barque was carrying iron ore from , Peru to Liverpool.[106]
Unnamed fishing vessels  United Kingdom Fifty-eight fishermen from Shetland drowned during a recent storm.[107]

September[]

10 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1881
Ship Country Description
Clarovine  United Kingdom A fire in the forecastle spread to the rest of the barque while docked at Milford Haven. Both the ship and the cargo of timber were destroyed with no loss of life.[108]

24 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1881
Ship Country Description
Independenza The barque first hit the Crim Rocks in the Isles of Scilly, and later the Barrel of Butter rock on The Garrison where she sank. She was carrying guano from to Rotterdam. The crew took to the ship's boat and survived.[109]
 United States The schooner went ashore at Cape Sable, caught fire and was destroyed. The crew were saved.[110]

28 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1881
Ship Country Description
W J Taylor  United Kingdom The Penzance steamer was hit amidships by Plover (flag unknown), in the Warp Channel at the mouth of the River Thames and sank shortly after. The cargo and crew were lost.[111]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: unknown date September 1881
Ship Country Description
Elizabeth Irving A number of crew drowned in the Fraser River while trying to escape from the burning steamer.[112]
 United States The schooner was lost on the passage from Boston for Baracoa. The captain and mate died.[113]
St Louis The brig sank off Beachy Head following a collision with Seriol Wyn (flag unknown). Eight crew of St Louis drowned.[114]
Teuton  United Kingdom The steamer struck a rock and started to take on water, the captain altered course for Simon's Bay, near Cape Town, at initially 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph). At ten in the evening the engines were stopped and the ship's boats lowered but the ship sank quickly, along with four of the ship's boats, drowning 236.[115]

October[]

5 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner sprang a leak and sank 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Key West.

5 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1881
Ship Country Description
Koning der Nederlanden  Netherlands
The Sinking of SS Koning der Nederlanden, oil painting by J. Eden, 1881
After her drive shaft broke on 4 October, the passenger liner sank in the Indian Ocean 400 miles (640 km) off the Chagos Archipelago. Six lifeboats were launched; three were found and their occupants rescued, but the other three, with 90 passengers and crew aboard them, disappeared without trace.[116] The captain and thirty-eight crew and passengers were landed at Aden on 13 November by Madeira.[117]

6 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1881
Ship Country Description
Pauline Collins  United States With six passengers and four crewmen aboard, the 69.33-ton fur-trading schooner was wrecked without loss of life on the coast of Kodiak Island near Karluk, Territory of Alaska.[118]

12 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1881
Ship Country Description
Pasha  United Kingdom While carrying coal from Burnt Island, the Dundee steamer sank off the Norwegian coast. The crew were saved.[119] The master was reprimanded for having an unfit ship and the crew were drunk because they felt that ″... as the vessel did not look very well, and they thought they might as well go down with a bellyful of whisky as a bellyful of water.″[120]
Unknown vessel During a gale a vessel sank off Formby with the loss of all hands.[119]

14 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1881
Ship Country Description
Bertha  United Kingdom The Newcastle steamer foundered with all hands lost.[121]
Cyprian  United Kingdom The steamer sank within two miles (3.2 km) of Liverpool with the loss of twenty-one lives. Six other vessels were lost within a few miles.[122]
Emma Mary  United Kingdom The barque foundered near Yarmouth and the crew were rescued by the St Bernard.[121]
Ganges  United Kingdom During a voyage from Middlesbrough, England, to Calcutta, India, with a cargo of railway iron, the sailing ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands in the English Channel off Kent, England, with the loss of three lives.
Sunflower  United Kingdom The Falmouth vessel was foundered in the North Sea and the crew were taken to Yarmouth.[121]
Unione  Italy The barque sank in the North Sea. Eight of the crew were taken to Yarmouth by Seaflower and the other four were picked up by fishermen from Lowestoft.[121]
Unnamed fishing boats  United Kingdom At least twenty fishing boats were lost in the North Sea, off Eyemouth during a gale.[123] All told 189 men lost their lives.

18 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1881
Ship Country Description
 Belgium The steamer foundered off Hanstholm, Denmark.[124] Her crew was rescued by the steamer .
 New South Wales The steamship foundered off Gabo Island, Victoria with the loss of all 22 crew.[125]

20 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1881
Ship Country Description
Calliope  United Kingdom The steamer sank with all hands, bar one, off near Cape Finisterre. Calliope was carrying grain from Odessa to Bremen.[126]

21 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1881
Ship Country Description
Clan Macduff  United Kingdom The steamer left Liverpool for Bombay on 18 October and foundered in the Atlantic three days later. Some of the crew and passengers took to the boats the day before she sank, and ten people were picked up by the steamer Palestine, There were not enough lifeboats and nineteen were left on board. Clan Macduff were picked up by the Cork Liner Upupa and taken to Plymouth.[127]

24 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1881
Ship Country Description
Sagittarie  France The crew abandoned their vessel, while en voyage from Cardiff to Nantes with coal, at lat. 50.15N and long. 11.10W, following six days of heavy weather. They were picked up by Variverts and taken to Falmouth.[128]
Victoria  United Kingdom The schooner became total wreck in Newlyn harbour, Cornwall during a storm. Onboard was ten tons of coal and fifteen tons of ballast.[129]

27 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was stranded on Santa Rosa Island, Florida 30 miles (48 km) east of the entrance to Pensacola Bay.[32]
 United States The tow steamer suffered engine failure above a government bridge causing her to strike the bridge in the Mississippi River between Rock Island, Illinois and Clinton, Iowa and was wrecked, a total loss. Nine lost.[130]
Unnamed steamer The steamer Venetia, was sailing with another steamer which disappeared during a sudden squall.[131]

31 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1881
Ship Country Description
Flying Fish  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.[132]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1881
Ship Country Description
Balclutha The steamer foundered during a gale while en voyage from Melbourne to Sydney. All twenty-two on board lost their lives.[133]
England's Glory  United Kingdom The vessel struck a rock and foundered in Bluff Harbour, New Zealand.[134]
Fortitude  United Kingdom The Hartlepool ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Towan Beach, near St Anthony Head, Cornwall.[135]
Omba The vessel foundered off Newcastle while sailing from Batavia to Melbourne. It is believed all on board perished.[133]

November[]

1 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1881
Ship Country Description
Sophie  France The Regniville schooner was wrecked and went to pieces on Battery Point, Prussia Cove in Mount's Bay with the loss of all the crew.[136]

5 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1881
Ship Country Description
Albion Thirty-two crew and passengers drowned when the steamer was wrecked on the Atlantic coast of Colombia.[137]

7 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1881
Ship Country Description
England's Glory  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at The Bluff. The crew survived.[138]

12 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1881
Ship Country Description
Alverton  United Kingdom The 1,821-ton screw steamer went ashore below a cliff, 10 miles (16 km) from Mugia, Portugal during fog. The Cardiff owned vessel was carrying pig iron from Bilbao to Cette, France.[139][140] The crew survived.[138]
 United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with ( United States) on a squally night ten miles (16 km) east of Dunkirk, New York ten miles (16 km) offshore. Three crewmen killed when a lifeboat was capsized by the sinking ship.[141][142]
 United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with ( United States) on a squally night ten miles (16 km) east of Dunkirk, New York ten miles offshore. One crewman killed. Wreck discovered in mid 1990s.[143][144]

21 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1881
Ship Country Description
Gem  United Kingdom The small steamer broke from her moorings in St Mary's Pool, Isles of Scilly and went ashore at William's Bay, becoming a total wreck. Gem was bound for South Africa for employment as a river boat.[145]

22 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1881
Ship Country Description
Barbara  United Kingdom The barque, built by the Sunderland Shipbuilding Company in 1878, departed Cardiff, Wales, for Zanzibar on 14 September 1880. During the voyage, the captain, Richard Prichard of Llanbedrog, Wales, died and the mate, John Jones, took command. On the journey back to Liverpool, Barbara docked at Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland, and Jones enlisted a channel pilot, Thomas Lewis, to steer the remaining journey to Liverpool. A series of blunders followed and it appears Lewis was not qualified. In great confusion, Barbara was steered off course in heavy seas, the anchors were deployed but dragged, and the ship drifted onto rocks at Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire. All sixteen crew were saved except Jones, who drowned.[146]

24 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank in a collision with ( United States) in the Ohio River. Her cook was drowned.[147]

26 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1881
Ship Country Description
Unnamed ship The masts of a sunken ship could be seen off Margate.[148]

27 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1881
Ship Country Description
Albion  United Kingdom One of the crew drowned when the brigantine became a total wreck at Ramsgate.[148]
Jackel  United Kingdom The Preston steamer foundered off Trevose Head, Cornwall with the loss of the crew.[148]
Jane Elsie  France The crew abandoned their schooner which was driven ashore at Yarmouth. There was no loss of life.[148]
Liverpool  United Kingdom The vessel collided with Larnaca (flag unknown) in The Downs, southern North Sea and sank. The captain, pilot and some of the crew were lost.[148]
Naval Reserve  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was wrecked at St Bees, in the Irish Sea. All twenty-five crew were saved.[148]
Unnamed barques Two barques were driven ashore at the "back" of the Isle of Wight.[148]
Unnamed schooner A schooner was seen to ground on Scroby Sands, Norfolk. It is assumed that she was lost with all hands.[148]

28 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1881
Ship Country Description
Annie Arbib  United Kingdom The London steamer was abandoned in the North Sea, while on a voyage from Cronstadt, Russia, to her home port with grain. The crew were landed at Great Yarmouth.[149]
Calzean  United Kingdom The Greenock vessel became a total wreck after going ashore in the Sound of Jura. All sixteen crew died.[150]

30 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1881
Ship Country Description
Alsace-Lorraine  France The steamer was struck amidships by the English steamer Rhondda (flag unknown) and sank in a few minutes while leaving Messina for Cette with wine.[151]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1881
Ship Country Description
Bendon  United Kingdom The Liverpool barque foundered in the Atlantic while en route to St Johns. Five men from the barque Lowood died when attempting to save the crew of Bendon.[152]
Gem  United Kingdom On 20 November, the pilot-cutter Presto landed three sailors onto the Isles of Scilly, from the shipwrecked steamer Gem.[153][154]
Patriot  United Kingdom The barque, carrying coal between and Galway was wrecked at Doolough Ireland. The captain, his son and a crew member were drowned.[155]
 Belgium The steamer disappeared without trace after passing the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, on 22 November. She is believed to have foundered in the Atlantic Ocean on or about 27 November.[156]
Thistle  United Kingdom The Falmouth brigantine was hit by an unnamed vessel and sank off Dover. All the crew was saved.[157]
Unnamed steamer A large steamer struck the near .[149]
Warrior  United Kingdom The London barque was loading at Homs on the Barbary coast when she was driven ashore in a gale. Five of the crew drowned.[158]

December[]

1 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1881
Ship Country Description
 Belgium The steamer sank in the Scheldt after a collision with Stephenson ( United Kingdom). She was raised in 1898 and scrapped.[159]
USS Rodgers  United States Navy The bark-rigged steamer, burning since 30 November after a fire started in her hold, sank in Saint Lawrence Bay off the Russian Empire's Chukotka Peninsula without loss of life after her magazine exploded.

8 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1881
Ship Country Description
Malaleel  Austria-Hungary The barque hit the Shark's Fin, the northernmost rock of the Longships reef and became a total wreck. She was carrying pitwood for the collieries in South Wales from Bordeaux.[160] Wreckage was washed up below the Levant mine and in Portheras Cove.[161]

15 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 December 1881
Ship Country Description
Eros  United Kingdom While at anchor the steamer, was run down by an unnamed steamer and sank in the River Mersey, Liverpool.[162]

17 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1881
Ship Country Description
Constance  United Kingdom The three-masted schooner bound for Santander, Spain from Newport, with coal, grounded at the entrance to the Hayle River, Cornwall and became a total wreck. The crew and pilots were taken off by the Hayle lifeboat Isis.[163]

18 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1881
Ship Country Description
Swedish norwegian union flag.svg Sweden The steamer ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, the Netherlands, with the loss of five lives.[164]

21 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1881
Ship Country Description
Mary Julia  United Kingdom The schooner was run down by a steamer with the loss of all hands.[165]

23 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer burned in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. One passenger and one crewman died.[166]

25 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1881
Ship Country Description
Helenslea  United Kingdom The Dundee barque was run down and sank off Roche's Point, Ireland. Some of the crew perished.[167]

29 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1881
Ship Country Description
Theta  United Kingdom The vessel was scuttled at Stanley, Falkland Islands because the cargo was on fire. Theta was en voyage from Swansea to Valparaíso.[168]

30 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1881
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at . one crewman drowned swimming to shore.[169]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1881
Ship Country Description
Harworth  United Kingdom The Newcastle steamer was abandoned in the Atlantic following the loss of her rudder, while on a voyage from Montreal to Rotterdam. The steamer became a total wreck and the crew were rescued by Germanic.[170]
Milton  United Kingdom The ship caught fire and was abandoned at Christmas in latitude 3 N longitude, 110 W. Some of the crew were picked up by Cochin and were not heard from since. Five more were picked up by a steamer, off the coast of Lower California and were believed to be from Milton.[171]
Pilot  United Kingdom The paddle steamer was wrecked off the mouth of the River Ogmore in South Wales.[29]
Polly  United Kingdom The Salcombe, Devon barque was a total wreck in the Bay of Honduras.[172]
Unidentified sailing vessel The steamship Bendigo ran down a sailing vessel at 43N 9W.[173]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1881
Ship Country Description
Arctic The brigantine was lost in the vicinity of "Squan," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet.[174]
Ellengowan  United Kingdom The schooner-rigged screw steamer struck a sandbar in the Daly River in what is now the Northern Territory of Australia and sank. She was refloated in 1885 and was repaired and returned to service.
Elliot Ritchie  United States The three-masted schooner was abandoned at sea after a fire broke out in one of her cargo holds.
Glendorgal  United Kingdom The Padstow schooner became a total wreck near Ilfracombe, Devon.[175]
Guacolda  Chilean Navy War of the Pacific: The torpedo boat was wrecked on the coast of Chile.[176]
Hattie M  United Kingdom The Dublin barque was abandoned in the Atlantic. The surviving crew were landed in New York.[177]
Kismet  United Kingdom The Liverpool barque went missing and probably foundered in the Atlantic. Left Bahia, Brazil for New York with coffee.[178]
Los Angeles  United States The vessel sank in Peril Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[179]
O.K.  United States The 48- or 75-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost in either 1867 or 1881.[180]
Pepe Tono The Mengual ship sailed from Pensacola for Barcelona on 2 February and not heard of since.[181]
Sarah Mandell  United Kingdom Sailed from Pensacola for Dordt on 4 February and not heard of since.[181]
Severn  United Kingdom The barque was in collision with ( United Kingdom) off Madeira, Portugal and sank.[182]

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Ship events in 1881
Ship launches: 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886
Ship commissionings: 1876 1877 1879 1882 1884 1885
Ship decommissionings: 1876 1877 1879 1882 1884 1886
Shipwrecks: 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886
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