List of shipwrecks in 1884

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The list of shipwrecks in 1884 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1884.

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January[]

2 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The tow steamer was wrecked in the Ohio River when she struck the pier of the Davis Island Dam. Four died.[1]

17 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1884
Ship Country Description
HMS Clarence  Royal Navy The reformatory ship was destroyed by fire at Liverpool, Lancashire.

18 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1884
Ship Country Description
City of Columbus  United States
USRC Dexter (left) aiding the wrecked City of Columbus (right)
The passenger steamer was wrecked on Devil's Bridge Rocks and broke up in the Atlantic Ocean off the Gay Head Cliffs in Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, with the loss of 70 passengers and 34 crew. Later her boiler, prop, prop shaft and parts of her engine were salvaged. The 29 survivors were rescued by two boats launched from shore by Wampanoags and by the revenue cutter USRC Dexter (Ensign of the United States Revenue-Marine (1868).png United States Revenue-Marine).[2][3][4]

26 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1884
Ship Country Description
Alliance  United Kingdom The schooner was driven into Deal Pier, Kent, which was severely damaged.[5]
Cviet  Austria-Hungary The 381-ton barque of Ragusa was deliberately run aground, 300 metres (330 yd) east of Porthleven harbour, Cornwall, England, during a severe gale in an attempt to save the lives of the crew. Six hundred tons of logs were salvaged; three of the crew lost their lives.[6]

27 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1884
Ship Country Description
Augusta  Sweden The schooner foundered with the loss of the master and one crew.[7]
Canada Canada The brigantine was driven ashore in St Aubin's Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands, and was wrecked.[8]
Goefredo  Portugal The steamship, formerly the White Star Line ocean liner Belgic, ran aground off Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. She was refloated and sent to Liverpool, England, for repairs.
Clarence The steamer foundered off . Three men drowned.[7]
Juno The vessel was stranded on the bar at Liverpool. Twenty-five crew were seen in the rigging when the masts collapsed and thirty-one lives were lost.[7]
Nokomis The barque went ashore on the Antrim coast when she broke from her anchors while in the River Foyle. The fifteen crew and one pilot perished.[7]
Unnamed barque An overturned barque was seen off Ilfracombe, Devon.[7]
Unnamed vessel A ship was wrecked near Liverpool with the loss of the crew.[7]
Unnamed vessels Several vessels have been lost at Folkestone and bodies have been washed ashore at Hythe and Dungeness.[7]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date
Ship Country Description
Hals  United Kingdom The West Hartlepool steamer sank near Corunna. Five of the crew were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the cattle-vessel Cupid.[9]
Hwai Yuen The steamer was wrecked on the . Five people are known to have been saved and 199 were missing.[10]
Mary Hubert The steamer sank in a gale on Lake Superior.[11]
 United States The schooner was lost at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. The crew were saved. The wreck was sold.[12]

February[]

5 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1884
Ship Country Description
Rhuabon  United Kingdom The Padstow steamer struck The Smalls and sank during a south-south-west gale, while heading for Cardiff from Holyhead. Seven of the crew left in the ship's boat and were picked up by the steamer Briton. The captain and nine men were left on board.[13]

10 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1884
Ship Country Description
Alexandra  United Kingdom The schooner foundered off Cardigan. Her four crew were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Porthmadog, Merionethshire, Wales to Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales.[14]
Racer  United Kingdom The Padstow schooner foundered 25 miles (40 km) north-west of Lundy Island.[15]

11 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1884
Ship Country Description
Advance  New South Wales The schooner ran aground in Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia, and was wrecked.
McClure  United Kingdom The Dublin steamship bound for Cork from Newport, Wales with coal hit the Barrel Rock at noon and foundered five house later. The captain and twelve crew were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the steamship James Hogg the following morning.[16]

12 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1884
Ship Country Description
Moel Rhewan  United Kingdom The cargo of the Welsh barque shifted during a gale on 9 February causing her to list and she was taken in tow by Upupa near the Smalls Lighthouse. Two days later the line broke and Captain Williams refused to leave his ship. Upupa continued on her voyage and on 12 February the crew were taken off by three ships.[17]
Samuel  Norway The barque was driven ashore and wrecked east of Worms Head, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, to Santos, Brazil.[18]

26 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1884
Ship Country Description
Goefredo  Portugal The steamship, formerly the White Star Line ocean liner Belgic, had undergone repairs at Liverpool, England, due to an earlier incident, but while leaving the port, bound for Havana, Cuba, she ran onto Burbo Bank at the mouth of the River Mersey and was wrecked.

28 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner was lost in a gale on Georges Bank. Lost with all 12 crew.[19][20]
 United States The fishing schooner was lost in a gale on Georges Bank. Lost with all 14 crew.[21]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: February 1884
Ship Country Description
Hornet  United Kingdom The steamer foundered off Lundy with the loss of seventeen men. The only survivor was landed at Newport, Wales.[22]

March[]

2 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1884
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The barque was sighted off Gabo Island, Victoria. Subsequently foundered off the coast of Queensland with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumberland to Cooktown, Queensland.[23]

9 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1884
Ship Country Description
Samson  United Kingdom The Sunderland schooner was driven ashore, during a gale, near Wick, Scotland. The crew of six was drowned.[24]

16 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1884
Ship Country Description
Mary Boyns  United Kingdom The Penzance schooner was stuck by the steamer Mulgrave and sank a few minutes later in the Bristol Channel. Mary Boyns was carrying coal from Neath to Penzance. The crew were taken aboard the steamer and landed at St Ives, Cornwall.[25]
Victoria  Sweden The brig was abandoned, waterlogged at 39°31′N 32°46′W / 39.517°N 32.767°W / 39.517; -32.767, while carrying logwood from Old Harbour, Jamaica to Goole, Yorkshire. The captain and six of the crew were rescued by Astoria and landed at Falmouth, Cornwall.[26]

28 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1884
Ship Country Description
Balbec  United Kingdom The Cunard iron-screw steamer left Liverpool with five passengers and a general cargo for Le Havre, striking a rock about one mile (1.6 km) south-east of the Longships Lighthouse. With eight feet (2.4 m) of water in the hold the captain decided to run ashore at full-speed; Nanjizal (also known as Millbay) was the nearest convenient place. There was no loss of life.[27] The 774-ton vessel was sold by public auction on 5 April 1884 at Nanjizal followed by another auction at Sennen Cove of the rigging, sails, several lots of brass and copper, four ship's-boats, sixty hams, thirteen cases of lobsters, etc.[28]

31 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner sank in a gale between New York City and Boothbay, Maine. Lost with all five crew.[29][30][31]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: March 1884
Ship Country Description
Cassiope  United Kingdom The Liverpool vessel left Rangoon in February and is assumed to have foundered in a cyclone near Mauritius.[32]
Fayaway  United Kingdom The Padstow schooner was wrecked at Bunbeg, County Donegal, Ireland while en route to that port from Killybegs, County Donegal.[33]
San Josef The derelict vessel was found about six miles (9.7 km) south-east of the Longships Lighthouse with only a dog on board. The vessel from was laden with salt and was towed to Penzance by the lugger William and Annie.[34]

April[]

1 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1884
Ship Country Description
Herald  United Kingdom The paddle steamer sank off North Head, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, after suffering a burst boiler. Both men aboard escaped safely in one of her boats.

3 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1884
Ship Country Description
 Belgium The steamer ran aground on the Madrock Shoal, off Sambro Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, with the loss of 121 of the 130 passengers and crew.[35]
 United States The steamer burned to the water's edge at Fitzgerald Landing, Georgia, 28 miles (45 km) above Eufaula, Alabama, before her mooring lines parted allowing her to drift 100 yards (91 m) down stream in the Chattahoochee River before sinking. Five passengers and seven crew were killed.[36][37]

4 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was lost at . The crew were saved.[38]

5 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1884
Ship Country Description
Flying Cloud  United Kingdom The brig left Liverpool carrying salt for Quebec and drove ashore in Dundrum Bay, Ireland. One of the ship's boats capsized and all the occupants drowned. The rest of the crew landed in a second ship's boat or were brought ashore by the Newcastle lifeboat.[39]

12 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1884
Ship Country Description
Lady Dalhousie  United Kingdom The steamship struck the Chynoweth rock near The Manacles off the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, while in ballast for Newport. All the crew were saved.[40]

19 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1884
Ship Country Description
Ponema The barque left Liverpool for Miramichi on 10 April and collided with State of Florida (flag unknown) around midnight, both sinking within 15 minutes. Only the captain and two men out of fifteen crew survived.[41]
State of Florida The State line steamer left New York for the Clyde on 12 April and collided with Ponema {flag unknown) around midnight, both sinking within 15 minutes. Thirty-six crew and eleven passengers were saved.[41][42]

28 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1884
Ship Country Description
Saint Paul  United States During a voyage in the waters of the Territory of Alaska from Belkofski to Kodiak with a cargo of provisions and a crew of two, the 13.92-ton schooner was wrecked on the coast of the Alaska Peninsula near , 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) north of Belkofski, during a gale. Both crewmen survived.[43]

29 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The passenger steamer burned and sank at dock in Portland, Maine. Three crew were killed.[44][45]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date April 1884
Ship Country Description
USS Ohio  United States While being stripped, the decommissioned ship-of-the-line broke loose from her moorings at Greenport, Long Island, New York, and ran aground on on the south coast of Long Island. She was burned to the waterline there to ease the recovery of her fittings, and her wreck sank in 20 feet (6 m) of water.[46][47][48]

May[]

1 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1884
Ship Country Description
Seslin  United States The 20-ton schooner was wrecked on a rock near (54°52′15″N 132°48′05″W / 54.87083°N 132.80139°W / 54.87083; -132.80139 (Howkan)) on Long Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of three survived.[43]

8 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The passenger ship, a 2,200-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, struck Northwest Ledge, a reef in off Owls Head, Maine, and sank without loss of life in up to 40 feet (12 m) of water at 44°02′56″N 069°02′54″W / 44.04889°N 69.04833°W / 44.04889; -69.04833 (City of Portland).[49]

10 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1884
Ship Country Description
J.S. Seaverns  United States The screw steamer sank in Lake Superior at Michipicoten, Ontario, Canada, with no loss of life. Her wreck was discovered in 2016.

15 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1884
Ship Country Description
Athanasios Vagliamos  Greece The 513-ton vessel was carrying coal from Swansea to Italy when she sprang a leak 180 miles (290 km) west of the Isles of Scilly. While heading for land the vessel was driven ashore on rocks just above Port Gaverne, Cornwall. The three crew took to the boat and landed safely ashore.[50]
 United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked on Cape Clear Island, County Cork. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Boston, Massachusetts, United States.[51]

18 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1884
Ship Country Description
Catherine and Alice  United Kingdom The captain and crew abandoned ship off in fine weather and the vessel was towed to port as a derelict. The captain was found guilty at Liverpool sessions of ″... neglecting to take measures to avert the loss of his vessel.″ He was sentenced to 18 months in prison.[52]
Syria  United Kingdom
The wreck of Syria
The sailing ship ran aground on the Nasili Reef off Fiji with the loss of 59 lives.

26 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1884
Ship Country Description
Daring The schooner collided with Skeellings (flag unknown) and both vessels sank off the Chicken Rock. The captain and two of the crew of Daring drowned.[53]
Skeellings The steamer collided with Daring (flag unknown) and both vessels sank off the Chicken Rock Lighthouse,[53]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown May 1884
Ship Country Description
 France The brig was lost on the Grand Bank sometime in May. Sixty-two men, including passengers who were fishermen, were lost.[54]

June[]

2 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer capsized in the Cape Fear River when she careened going around a bend and her deck cargo shifted. Two passengers and the cook died.[55]

7 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner was sunk in a collision with ( United States) in Massachusetts Bay. Four crew were killed.[56][57]

20 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1884
Ship Country Description
Girdler lightship  United Kingdom The lightship was sunk by the P&O steamer Indus (flag unknown). The lightship crew were landed at Dover by Indus.[58]

22 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1884
Ship Country Description
Unknown vessel Reports of wreckage including deal and battens, off the west coast of Orkney. A lifebuoy belonging to Voalant of Caernarfon was also found.[59]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date
Ship Country Description
Angeleta  Spain The vessel caught fire and the nineteen crew were taken off by the Italian barque Pipalarno. Eight were later transferred to Village Belle and landed at Londonderry, Ireland.[60]

July[]

7 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 July 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The freighter was sunk when her boiler exploded. One crewman was killed.[61]

9 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 July 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States Bound from Torch Lake, Michigan, to either Chicago, Illinois, or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a cargo of 110 cords of wood and 300 railroad ties, the 71.1-foot (21.7 m), 80.42-gross register ton two-masted scow schooner ran aground in fog during a gale at North Point in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of the Sheboygan United States Life-Saving Service station in the vicinity of 43°47.110′N 087°42.635′W / 43.785167°N 87.710583°W / 43.785167; -87.710583 (Ahnapee). All six members of her crew survived and were rescued by U.S. Life-Saving Service personnel. Ahnapee became a total loss.[62][63]

10 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1884
Ship Country Description
Gravina  Spanish Navy The Velasco-class unprotected cruiser sank in a typhoon north of Luzon in the Spanish East Indies.

17 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1884
Ship Country Description
Caleb Eaton  United States The 110-ton whaling schooner was crushed in ice off the Territory of Alaska.[64]
 United States The tug capsized at below New Orleans, Louisiana, while trying to refloat the barque . Three of her officers were killed.[65]

24 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The passenger steamer capsized in a storm in the Monongahela River near Brownsville, Pennsylvania. A small girl was lost.[66]
Gijon  Spain The steamer collided with Laxham ( United Kingdom) and both vessels sank off Cape Finisterre. Fifteen passengers were landed at Dartmouth, Devon by Zoe and nine of the crew were landed at Royal Victoria Dock, London by Ville de Valence. A further seven passengers and eight crew were landed at Muros, near A Coruña by Vespertina Wilson. About eighty lives were lost including the captain who shot himself.[67][68][69]
Laxham  United Kingdom The vessel collided with Gijon ( Spain) and both vessels sank off Cape Finisterre. Two of the crew were landed at Dartmouth, Devon by Zoe.[67]

27 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1884
Ship Country Description
John M. Osborn  United States The wooden screw steamer sank with the loss of three lives six miles (9.7 km) west-northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior after she was rammed by the steamer Alberta ( Canada).[70]

August[]

2 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1884
Ship Country Description
Dione  United Kingdom The Middlesbrough steamer sank in two or three minutes, when struck by Camden (flag unknown) off Gravesend, England. Ten of her crew and seven passengers are missing.[71]

4 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1884
Ship Country Description
Water Nymph  United Kingdom The Newquay, Cornwall schooner stranded at Clifden, Ireland while carrying ore to the Clyde and was likely to be a total wreck. All the crew survived.[72]

6 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 August 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was wrecked on the Nova Scotia coast. The crew were saved.[73]

9 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was lost on . The crew were saved.[74]
 United States The passenger steamer struck a snag and sank near in the Missouri River. Four crewmen were killed.[75]

10 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1884
Ship Country Description
Red Rose  United Kingdom The Cardiff vessel stranded about five miles (8.0 km) south-east of the Ar Men light, France[76]

11 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1884
Ship Country Description
Bowhead  United States Drifting ice struck the 533-ton steam whaling bark while she was moored to ground ice so her crew could clean her boilers at (70°23′N 161°57′W / 70.383°N 161.950°W / 70.383; -161.950 (Blossom Shoals)) off Icy Cape on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska, holing her hull and sinking her quickly. The vessels Balaena and Narwhal (flags unknown) rescued her crew.[77]

14 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1884
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The steamship foundered off , Yorkshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Portsmouth, Hampshire.[78]

20 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1884
Ship Country Description
Admiral  United States The harbor tug sank when her boiler exploded at Chicago, Illinois, killing her master, engineer, and fireman.[79]

23 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1884
Ship Country Description
 Imperial Chinese Navy Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The armed transport was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers , , and (all  French Navy).
 Imperial Chinese Navy Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The sloop-of-war was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers , , and (all  French Navy).[80]
 Imperial Chinese Navy Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The flatiron gunboat was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers , , and (all  French Navy).[80]
Fuxing  Imperial Chinese Navy Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The gunboat sank in the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, after being attacked successfully by a French Navy pinnace with a spar torpedo.
 Imperial Chinese Navy Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The sloop-of-war was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers , , and (all  French Navy).[80]
 Imperial Chinese Navy Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The flatiron gunboat was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers , , and (all  French Navy).[80]
Yangwu  Imperial Chinese Navy
The wreck of Yangwu, photographed in 1884
Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The sloop-of-war exploded and sank in the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou) after being attacked successfully by a French Navy torpedo boat with a spar torpedo.
 Imperial Chinese Navy
The wreck of Yongbao (at left), photographed in 1884
Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The armed transport was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruisers , , and (all  French Navy).
 Imperial Chinese Navy Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The gunboat exploded and sank in the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, because of a single shell hit by the ironclad corvette Triomphante ( French Navy).[80]

24 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1884
Ship Country Description
USS Tallapoosa  United States Navy The 1,173-displacement ton gunboat — a sidewheel paddle steamer — sank in Vineyard Sound shortly before midnight with the loss of three members of her crew after she collided with the schooner J. S. Lowell ( United States) approximately 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. She was raised and repaired, and she returned to service in January 1886.[81][82]
Unidentified torpedo launch  Imperial Chinese Navy Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The torpedo launch was sunk by gunfire on the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, by the cruiser ( French Navy).
Unidentified torpedo launch  Imperial Chinese Navy Sino-French War, Battle of Fuzhou: The torpedo launch was abandoned in the Min River at Foochow (now Fuzhou), China, after she came under fire by the cruiser ( French Navy). The launch's crew swam to shore.

29 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer capsized in a storm in the Ohio River three miles (4.8 km) above Henderson, Kentucky. Her captain died, as did five women and eight children, a total of 20–25 lives lost.[83][84]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown August 1884
Ship Country Description
Margaret Kendal  United Kingdom The Barrow schooner was wrecked at Wick Bay, with the loss of three or four crew.[85]

September[]

1 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1884
Ship Country Description
Dart  United Kingdom The Royal Mail steamer left Southampton on 1 August for the Brazilian ports and sank at San Sebastian, to the north of Santos. No lives were lost.[86]

7 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1884
Ship Country Description
Ellen  United Kingdom The smack foundered off Cardigan. Three people were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[14]
Unda  Norway The brigantine foundered of Cardigan. Her six crew were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[14]

9–10 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1884
Ship Country Description
Fenella  United Kingdom
Fenella aground
The screw steamer struck a rock in the Menai Strait, grounded, refloated, collided with Prince Arthur (flag unknown), then grounded again near the Menai Bridge on the Isle of Anglesey in north Wales, without loss of life. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

11 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 September 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was wrecked on Shag Rock, off , Maine. The captain and two of the crew got out a dory, which was struck by a sea, killing the captain and one of the men. The rest of the crew made it onto Shag Rock where they were doused by waves for 13 hours before being saved by a passing schooner.[87]

13 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1884
Ship Country Description
Unidentified brig The brig was wrecked on the Seven Stones Reef between Cornwall, England, and the Isles of Scilly.[88]

20 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1884
Ship Country Description
RMS Cordillera The vessel struck rocks at San Isidro, Chile in the Strait of Magellan. Six of the passengers were taken off by Uarda ( Germany) the following day and the rest were taken off by Neko on 23 September 1884.[89]

22 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1884
Ship Country Description
HMS Wasp  Royal Navy The Banterer-class screw gunboat ran aground off Tory Island, Ireland, and quickly sank with the loss of 52 lives. Six people survived.[90]
Welsh Prince  United Kingdom The steamship was disabled and ran aground when a rope became entangled around her propeller at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. Her passengers were taken off by the lifeboat William James Holt (Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Welsh Prince was subsequently refloated and returned to service.[18]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: September 1884
Ship Country Description
Elisa  Spain The crew abandoned the barque in early September and were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by Claason.[91]
 Germany The barque was demasted in a severe storm in mid-Atlantic Ocean, lost her boats, and sprang a leak. After nine days the vessel was on the verge of sinking and the crew worn out from manning the pumps when they sighted the brig ( United States) drifting towards them. Her crew, except for two men, had been wiped out by disease and were drifting helplessly. The crew of Frederick Scalla transferred to F. Y. Merryman as their ship sank and was able to sail the ship to New York.[92]
Swallow  United States The vessel was abandoned in the Atlantic and nineteen of the crew landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the German barque Ernst Ludwig Holtz.[93]

October[]

10 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1884
Ship Country Description
Eliza  United Kingdom The Penzance schooner grounded on the Dunbar, at the entrance to Padstow harbour, while carrying coal from Porthcawl to Penzance. The crew were taken off by the lifeboat Arab.[94]
Samarang  United Kingdom The Newcastle barque, carrying timber from Quebec ran aground near Saltburn. The twenty crew were rescued by the Redcar and lifeboats.[95]

11 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1884
Ship Country Description
Europa  United Kingdom The Dublin steamer was hit on the starboard bow by Roseville (flag unknown) near the Cloch Lighthouse, six miles (9.7 km) west of Greenock, Scotland. Europa sank in minutes with the loss of five men. The rest of the crew jumped onto Roseville.[96]
Morjord and Truby  United Kingdom The Aberdeen barque was wrecked while on a voyage from Grangemouth, Scotland, to Plymouth, England. The crew took to the rigging and all but three were rescued by the Harwich lifeboat.[97]

17 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1884
Ship Country Description
A. R. Noyes  United States Carrying a cargo of coal, the 90-foot (27 m) barge sank in 65 to 80 feet (20 to 24 m) of water in Lake Champlain off , Vermont, north of , at 44°27.2′N 073°14.7′W / 44.4533°N 73.2450°W / 44.4533; -73.2450 (A. R. Noyes).[98]

24 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1884
Ship Country Description
Christina Nilsson  United States The schooner struck a reef and sank in Lake Michigan off Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin, during a blizzard.

26 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1884
Ship Country Description
Amaranth  United Kingdom The Padstow, Cornwall schooner collided with the steamer St Jacques (flag unknown) of Le Havre off Dungeness and sank with the loss of four lives.[99]
Pearl  United Kingdom The Plymouth ketch became a wreck after going ashore near Padstow during a gale.[99]

27 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1884
Ship Country Description
Chang Chow The vessel went ashore at Sandy Cape while en route for China from Newcastle, New South Wales. Seven of the crew and passengers are missing.[100]

28 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1884
Ship Country Description
Avebury  United Kingdom The Sunderland screw-steamer, carrying 450 tons of iron ore and 200 tons of esparto to Cardiff stranded at Rosemodress, near Lamorna, Cornwall. All the crew managed to get ashore.[101]
 Imperial German Navy The training ship, a brig, was wrecked on the northern coast of Jutland in Denmark during a storm with the loss of one life.[102][103]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: October 1884
Ship Country Description
Bickley  United Kingdom Stranded on the island of Coll.[104]
Despatch  United Kingdom The Yarmouth fishing lugger sank after being hit by a steamer. All ten (or twelve) crew lost their lives.[105]
Little Beck  United Kingdom The steamer foundered on the coast of Holland with only six of the twenty on board saved.[106]

November[]

6 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1884
Ship Country Description
Brixham  United Kingdom The Brixham steamship foundered off Cape Finisterre. [107]
Clyde  Australia The barque ran aground off Banks Peninsular, New Zealand and sank, with seventeen crew killed.

19 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1884
Ship Country Description
 Sweden The steamship collided with the steamer Pennland ( Belgium) off the Goodwin Sands, in the English Channel and sank.[8]

21 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The tug sank when her boiler exploded in Long Island Sound. Two of the crew were killed.[108]

22 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner ran aground in Lake Michigan off Whiskey Island, Michigan.[citation needed]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: November 1884
Ship Country Description
Craigforth  United Kingdom The steamer left Iceland for her home port of Leith, Scotland and ran ashore on rocks three miles (4.8 km) west of Fraserburgh. The cargo of 3,200 sheep and 16 ponies were thrown overboard, and 2,500 sheep and all the ponies swam ashore. The crew and passengers were saved.[109]

December[]

5 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1884
Ship Country Description
Alliance  United Kingdom The Cardiff steamer was lost off Boscastle, Cornwall while carrying coal to St Nazaire.[110]
 United States The schooner was lost on Little Boar's Head. The crew were saved.[111]

7 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1884
Ship Country Description
Polchard  United Kingdom The Cork Steamship Company steamer foundered one mile (1.6 km) off Holyhead, Wales while en route to Liverpool.[112]

15 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 December 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was lost on , Maine. The crew were saved.[113]

19 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 December 1884
Ship Country Description
Uva  United Kingdom The Liverpool steamer left Liverpool for Barcelona with a cargo of coal and pitch. Last seen off on 18 December it is thought the steamer foundered during bad weather off the English coast the following day.[114]

20 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1884
Ship Country Description
Echo  United Kingdom The vessel was overwhelmed by weather off the Corbiere, Jersey, Channel Islands. All aboard drowned.[115]

21 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner ran aground in a snowstorm off Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The vessel slid off and sank in four fathoms (24 ft; 7.3 m) of water four hours later. The crew were saved by the schooner .[116]

22 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1884
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner ran aground at Cape Canso, Nova Scotia. The crew made it to an uninhabited island from which they were rescued 24 hours later.[117]

25 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1884
Ship Country Description
Chelydra  United Kingdom The Sunderland steamer was struck amidships by a Norwegian barque off the Eddystone and both vessels sank. The crew took to the boats and landed at Plymouth.[118]
Holmstrand  Norway The barque struck Chelydra (flag unknown), off the Eddystone, and the crew were picked up by an unnamed vessel and landed at Newport.[118][119]

26 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1884
Ship Country Description
SMS Marie  Imperial German Navy The Carola-class corvette ran aground on a reef off Neu Mecklenburg, German New Guinea and was severely damaged. She was refloated on 29 December and put into , German New Guinea for repairs.

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1884
Ship Country Description
Atrato  United Kingdom The paddle steamer sank.
Berengeria The vessel was wrecked on the en route to Greenock from Falmouth, Cornwall.[120]
Charlie Hickman  United Kingdom The vessel went ashore and became a total wreck, while en route to New York from Liverpool. One member of the crew was drowned.[121]
Ebendase  United Kingdom The Newcastle steamer sank in Havre roads, after being run down by the steamship Linda ( Italy). The crew were picked up by a fishing boat.[122]
Echo  United Kingdom The dandy-cutter was lost during a gale while carrying Christmas goods for Guernsey. None of the fifteen crew survived.[123]
Lornty The vessel, bound for Bombay sank after colliding with the Great Western steamer Cornwall. The crew survived.[119]
Ohio  United States The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire in the harbour at Greenport, New York.
Redesdale  United Kingdom The North Shields steamer was stranded on the Pearl rock, near Gibraltar and sank. The crew were saved.[123]
Unnamed junks  Japan An estimated 112 junks were destroyed in a typhoon.[124]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1884
Ship Country Description
C. C. Dame The schooner was lost at Bay Head, New Jersey.[125]
Elliott Richie  United States The waterlogged bark-rigged sternwheel paddle steamer was abandoned off Pernambuco, Brazil.[126]
Grassendale  United Kingdom The iron sailing ship left New York, with a crew of 32 and a cargo of petroleum for Shanghai in May and has not been heard of since.[127]
 United Kingdom The barque was lost off Cape Horn, Chile.[128]

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Ship events in 1884
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Ship commissionings: 1879 1882 1884 1885 1889
Ship decommissionings: 1879 1882 1884 1886
Shipwrecks: 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
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