List of shipwrecks in 1885

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The list of shipwrecks in 1885 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1885.

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January[]

2 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner on a journey from Grand Manan to Gloucester, Massachusetts was run down by an unknown schooner and sunk off "Salvages". The crew made it to shore in her dories.[1]

3 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1885
Ship Country Description
Mary Celeste  United States The brigantine was deliberately wrecked on the Rochelois Bank, off Gonâve Island, Haiti.

8 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1885
Ship Country Description
René  France The barque struck the Helwick Bank, in the Bristol Channel and subsequently drove ashore at Overton, Glamorgan, United Kingdom with the loss of four of her nine crew. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Arcachon, Gironde.[2]

12 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1885
Ship Country Description
Canoese  United Kingdom The Liverpool barque was wrecked on the Kentish Knock.[3]

14 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1885
Ship Country Description
Eleanor  United Kingdom Two London and North Western Railway steamers Eleanor and Stanley collided in Holyhead harbour. Eleanor was nearly cut in two and drifted ashore. No lives were lost.[4]

15 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1885
Ship Country Description
Admiral Moorsom  United Kingdom The passenger paddle steamer collided with Santa Clara (flag unknown) and sank in the Irish Sea off Arklow, Ireland.

16 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1885
Ship Country Description
Cordella  United Kingdom The Penzance vessel went ashore and became a total wreck in St Bride's Bay, West Wales. The crew were saved.[5]
Olivia  United Kingdom The schooner was driven on to rocks and became a total wreck while entering Sunderland harbour.[6]

18 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was dismasted in a strong gale between and the Georges Bank. One crewman drowned. The surviving crewmen were taken off by an unknown steamer on 20 or 21 January.[7]

24 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1885
Ship Country Description
Maryse  United Kingdom The fishing boat was swamped in the North Sea about three miles (4.8 km) off Stonehaven, Scotland. Four of the six crew drowned.[8]

25 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1885
Ship Country Description
 Belgium The steamer ran aground at Killard Point, Ballyhornan, Ireland, United Kingdom, and was wrecked.[9]

26 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1885
Ship Country Description
Saapmeer The schooner was wrecked off the Backpools, near Banff, Scotland.[10]

29 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1885
Ship Country Description
Wellington  Canada The Windsor, Nova Scotia barque grounded one mile (1.6 km) up the River Yealm, south Devon, while en route for New York from Havre with iron ore and empty petroleum oil barrels. The captain was "habitually drunk" and when 400 miles (640 km) from the Isles of Scilly shot two of the sixteen crew before being disarmed. The barque headed for the nearest port and while under tow by Scotia (flag unknown), broke the towline and drifted up river.[11][12]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in January 1885
Ship Country Description
Bordein Siege of Khartoum: The vessel was holed when she struck a rock in the River Nile and was abandoned. Men, guns and stores were all landed.[13]
St John  United Kingdom A telegram from Albany, estimates the loss of the steamer destroyed by fire is $200,000.[8]
Tellhoweiya Siege of Khartoum: The steamer sank between two rocks in the River Nile below , Sudan. Guns, baggage, crew and soldiers were put on a large unmasted .[13]

February[]

1 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1885
Ship Country Description
 Norway The new Penzance lifeboat Dora (Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution), on the lifeboat′s first rescue, took eight of the vessels crew off on 31 January and left her riding at anchor in ballast at Long Rock. The captain and mate remained on board. The crew returned the next day and the Porsgrunn barquentine beached near Chyandour, Mount's Bay, Cornwall.[14][15][16][17]

6 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1885
Ship Country Description
Spanker  United Kingdom The Glasgow barque went ashore on Harlech beach, Wales and became a complete wreck. Four of the crew drowned.[18]

9 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner sank in a gale on the Grand Banks. Lost with all 14 crew.[19][20]

15 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1885
Ship Country Description
 Imperial Chinese Navy Sino-French War, Battle of Shipu: The sloop-of-war was sunk in Shipu Bay near Ningbo, China, by spar torpedoes employed by two torpedo boats from the ironclad Bayard ( French Navy).[21]
Yuyuen  Imperial Chinese Navy
French Navy torpedo boat attacking Yuyuen
Sino-French War, Battle of Shipu: The frigate was sunk in Shipu Bay near Ningbo, China, by spar torpedoes employed by two torpedo boats from the ironclad Bayard ( French Navy).[22]

16 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1885
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with ( Belgium) and foundered 7 nautical miles (13 km) south of the Eddystone Lighthouse with the loss of four of her crew.[23]

20 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1885
Ship Country Description
Camilla  United Kingdom The Cork brigantine was wrecked in . The crew of nine lost their lives.[24]
Rosendale  United Kingdom The schooner was driven on to Holyhead Breakwater and is expected to become a total wreck. The crew escaped.[24]
Unnamed barque  Austria-Hungary The barque was driven ashore on the Waterford coast with the loss of her crew of fifteen.[24]
Unnamed steamer A large steamer was driven ashore on the bar at on the Waterford coast.[24]
Venus  United Kingdom The vessel went ashore and broke up on the Longcliff rocks, County Waterford, with the probable loss of the crew.[24]

22 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1885
Ship Country Description
Vale of Calder  United Kingdom The Liverpool steamer, from its home port to Limerick with a general cargo, foundered ten miles (16 km) west of The seventeen crew and four passengers took to the ship's boat and were picked up by Cheerful (flag unknown) and landed at Falmouth, Cornwall.[25]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date
Ship Country Description
Benwell Tower  United Kingdom The vessel left Baltimore, Maryland on 20 January and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. All the crew were saved except the second mate and one seaman.[26][27]
Mary Coad  United Kingdom The Padstow schooner sank after a collision off while carrying coal for Pool from the Firth of Forth. The crew survived.[18]
 United States The schooner was probably lost on the Grand Banks on 9 February. 14 crewmen drowned.[28]

March[]

4 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1885
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on , Argentina. Her eighteen crew survived.[29]
John Henry  United Kingdom The 31-ton lighter sank after striking the Rae, a sunken rock off the Lowlands, St Keverne, while carrying manure from Penryn to Porthleven. The crew took to the boat and reached Falmouth.[30]

5 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1885
Ship Country Description
Tonquin  France The ocean liner, chartered to the French Government as a troop transport, sank off Málaga, Spain, after colliding with another French steamer. The master and 23 of the crew drowned.[31][32]

11 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1885
Ship Country Description
Unknown vessel The Liverpool steamer Bear reported the funnel and two masts of a small steamer above water on a reef on the south-west corner Cumbrae head.[33]

13 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1885
Ship Country Description
Kate United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Isle of Man The fishing lugger – registered in Peel, Isle of Man, owned by John Tear and others, and crewed by Scotsmen, the majority of them from Skye and unable to speak English – left Peel on the evening of 12 March heading to Kinsale, Ireland, to fish there, but sometime during the night collided with the steamer Caledonian ( United Kingdom – apparently bound for Silloth in Cumbria, England – some miles west of the Calf of Man. The force of the collision was so great that Kate sank in a few minutes, carrying down with her four of her crew. The remainder were picked up by Caledonian and landed at Silloth.[34]

16 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner was lost on Seal Island, Nova Scotia. The crew were on the island for eight days before being able to return to the mainland.[35]
 United States The fishing schooner was wrecked at , near Rockland, Maine. The crew got off in her dories.[36]

17 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner was wrecked on . The crew of 17 men were saved by the United States Life Saving Service.[37]

20 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1885
Ship Country Description
Hirondelle  United Kingdom The Brixham brigantine sank after a collision with the barquentine Mary Ann, north-east of Lundy. Hirondelle was carrying coal from Cardiff to Dakar and sank five minutes after the collision. The seven crew were landed at Cardiff by Mary Ann.[38]
Rhondda  United Kingdom The crew of Rhondda were landed at Cardiff, after their vessel sank following a collision with Brooklyn City between Holmes and the Lightship.[39]

28 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1885
Ship Country Description
Lin Yun  Qing Dynasty The Chinese ferry-steamer was cut in two by the Ocean Steamship Company's steamer Oroates on the in China. The ferry was carrying about 100 passengers and twelve crew and all but 32 passengers and seven crew survived.[40]
Nan B  United States The 25.30-ton schooner sank sprang a leak while taking on ballast during a gale on the southeast point of Chernaburna Island (renamed Cherni Island in 1936) in the Gulf of Alaska off the Alaska Peninsula and sank. Her crew of three survived.[41]

29 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1885
Ship Country Description
French Van Gilder  United States Carrying a cargo of granite paving stones, the 129-foot (39 m), 239-ton schooner was wrecked without loss of life on in Nantucket Sound off the coast of Massachusetts at 41°24.1′N 070°13′W / 41.4017°N 70.217°W / 41.4017; -70.217 (French Van Gilder).[42]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1885
Ship Country Description
 French Navy The No. 24-class torpedo boat sank in a storm.[43]
Queen of Devon  United Kingdom The Plymouth brig sank off Swansea after a collision with a steamer. The crew survived.[44]
Unnamed bark  United States The bark sank during a severe gale at Tamatave, Madagascar.[45]
Unnamed transports  France Three transports sank during a severe gale at Tamatave, Madagascar. Seventeen lives were lost.[45]

April[]

6 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1885
Ship Country Description
Ayrshire  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked in while en route from Bilbao to Glasgow. One man drowned.[46]

14 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1885
Ship Country Description
Rainbow  United States The whaling bark was crushed by ice off the Bering Sea coast of the Russian Empire near (62°16′40″N 179°05′46″E / 62.2778°N 179.0961°E / 62.2778; 179.0961 (Cape Chiniak)) and sank in 20 minutes.[47]

15 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank while tied up to the bank in . Two crew killed.[48]

17 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1885
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The 85-ton steamer hit the Low Lee rocks off Mousehole, Cornwall, England. With pumps working on full, she sank just a few metres short of Penzance harbour, her captain′s home town. Within six days bad weather had destroyed the wreck.[15]

19 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1885
Ship Country Description
Young Prince  Newfoundland The sealer was sunk by an iceberg. Her crew of 32 men were on an ice floe for 19 days until rescued by an unknown French brig.[49]

23 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1885
Ship Country Description
Charles George  United Kingdom The 193-ton brigantine – owned by Charles Odell – collided with the 2,983-ton P&O liner ( United Kingdom) at 2:50 a.m. in the English Channel off Beachy Head, Sussex, England. She sank within four minutes with the loss of her captain William Thomas Odell (Charles Odell's brother), William Penn Odell (son of William Thomas Odell), crew members Henry Woodford and Ernest Adams, and a passenger, John Kearley; all the dead were from Newport, Isle of Wight. Three men were rescued; Fred Churchill of Sandown swam to Cathay and was picked up, James Wallace of Cowes and Henry Jennings of Landport were rescued by boats from Cathay.[50]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1885
Ship Country Description
 French Navy The No. 24-class torpedo boat foundered while under tow.[43]

May[]

8 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1885
Ship Country Description
 Belgium The steamer sank in the Atlantic Ocean near Scatarie Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.[9]
Mary E. Fish  United States The pilot boat was run down and sank by the schooner Frank Harrington 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Barnegat Light. The four pilots and crew were able to escape from the sinking vessel.[51]

10 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1885
Ship Country Description
Thorsgere  United Kingdom The barque carrying timber for Whitehaven was driven ashore onto a sandbank in Whitehaven roads. The Whitehaven lifeboat rescued the crew.[52]

25 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1885
Ship Country Description
 France The fishing brig was run down and sunk by the steamer City of Rome (flag unknown). Of her crew of 24 men, only two were rescued.[53]

26 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was lost on Sable Island reef. the crew of 24 made it to shore.[54]

30 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The tug ran aground in Lake Huron off , three miles (4.8 km) above New Presque Isle Light, in dense fog. She then caught fire and burned to the waterline. Her machinery and boilers were salvaged in 1886.[55][56]
Teucer  United Kingdom The Liverpool vessel, carrying tobacco, was wrecked off Ushant while en route from Singapore to Amsterdam. The crew and passengers were saved.[57][58]

June[]

1 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner was wrecked about two miles (3.2 km) south of Nauset Light. The crew were saved.[59]
 United States The fishing schooner struck a hidden ledge and sank off the Isle of Shoals. The crew escaped in their dories.[60]

2 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1885
Ship Country Description
SMS Augusta War Ensign of Germany (1867-1892).svg Imperial German Navy
SMS Augusta
The Augusta-class corvette sank in a storm with the loss of the three hundred crew.[61]

8 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1885
Ship Country Description
Earl of Lonsdale  United Kingdom The Newcastle ship was carrying cotton seed from Alexandria, Egypt, to Portishead, Somerset, England, and was wrecked in Smith Sound, off the Troy Town maze, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, in thick fog.[62][63] The master had thought his ship was to the west of, and ten miles (16 km) south of, the Bishop Rock in the Isles of Scilly.[64]

11 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1885
Ship Country Description
Montana  United States Carrying 73 passengers, a cargo of 500 tons of general merchandise, and a crew of 23, the 628-gross register ton bark was wrecked without loss of life on the Nushagak River in the Territory of Alaska due to an error by her pilot.[65]

24 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1885
Ship Country Description
City of Tokio  United States The steamer was wrecked on rocks in thick weather near Sagama Light, 22 miles (35 km) from Yokohama, Japan. The vessel broke up in a typhoon a week later.[66][67]

25 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1885
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The barquentine collided with Alert ( United Kingdom) and sank in the Firth of Clyde 8 nautical miles (15 km) north north west of Sanda Island. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Dublin.[68]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in June 1885
Ship Country Description
 French Navy The sloop-of-war was wrecked off Aden.[69]
 United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire in the Indian Ocean.[70]
 United Kingdom The steamer from Liverpool and Cardiff to Bombay sank during a cyclone in the Gulf of Aden. Only one crew out of 35 survived.[71]

July[]

8 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 July 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner sank on the Grand Banks. Crew saved.[72]

16 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1885
Ship Country Description
Perkiomen  United States During a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Boston, Massachusetts, with a cargo of coal, the 1,305-gross register ton collier — a screw steamer — sank in 55 feet (17 m) of water off the coast of Massachusetts near Pollock Rip Shoal, 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) east of Monomoy Island at 41°34.934′N 069°53.309′W / 41.582233°N 69.888483°W / 41.582233; -69.888483 (Perkiomen) after colliding with the schooner Abbie C. Stubbs ( United States) at night in fog. Her entire crew of 15 survived. Her wreck later was blown up and flattened.[73]

19 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 July 1885
Ship Country Description
Luigia Maddalena  Italy The Genoa barque ran aground at Tol-Pedn-Penwith, Cornwall while in ballast from Le Havre to Cardiff. The crew managed to reach the shore.[74]

21 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1885
Ship Country Description
Cheerful The steamer sank 19 miles (31 km) north northwest of St Ives, Cornwall, UK. The steamer was run down by ( Royal Navy) and sank in four minutes. Of the twenty-three crew and twenty-six passengers, eleven crew lost their lives. A mineral, abhurite, formed from the reaction between seawater and the cargo of tin ingot, has been found on the wreck.[75][76][77]

22 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1885
Ship Country Description
Unidentified schooner The yawl Zephyr launched to the aid of a stranded schooner on the Lower Barber Sand by the crew of the Caister Lifeboat resulting in the loss of eight out of the fifteen crew.

23 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1885
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 1,856 GRT passenger-cargo ship was wrecked at the mouth of the River Cess in Liberia.[78]
 United States The fishing schooner was lost off Miquelon. The crew were saved.[79]

August[]

5 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1885
Ship Country Description
 Spain During a voyage from the West Indies to St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, the 2,525-gross register ton cargo ship — a barquentine-rigged screw steamer — was wrecked in fog on , a reef off Grand Manan, New Brunswick. Her entire crew was rescued. When 12 wreckers later went aboard Humacao to salvage her, however, her wreck broke up, slid off the reef, and sank 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) south-southeast of Southwest Head Light at 44°31.9′N 066°52.5′W / 44.5317°N 66.8750°W / 44.5317; -66.8750 (Humacao), killing 11 of the wreckers.[80]

9 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1885
Ship Country Description
Oakland  United Kingdom The steamer sank with the loss of fifteen crew following a collision with the despatch vessel Blitz ( Germany) in the Cattegat[81]

10 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1885
Ship Country Description
George and Susan  United States During a gale, the 343-ton whaling bark dragged her anchor, collided with the whaling bark Mabel ( United States), and was driven ashore and wrecked at Wainwright Inlet on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska. The revenue cutter USRC Thomas Corwin (Ensign of the United States Revenue-Marine (1868).png United States Revenue-Marine) rescued all but three members of the crews of George and Susan and Mabel.[82]
Mabel  United States After the whaling bark George and Susan ( United States) dragged her anchor during a gale and collided with Mabel – a 188-ton whaling bark with 35 crewmen aboard – Mabel also dragged her anchor and was driven ashore and wrecked at Wainwright Inlet on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska. The revenue cutter USRC Thomas Corwin (Ensign of the United States Revenue-Marine (1868).png United States Revenue-Marine) rescued all but three members of the crews of George and Susan and Mabel.[65]

15 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The vessel sank off Pickens Point, Pensacola, Florida.[83]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1885
Ship Country Description
British Statesman  United Kingdom The vessel was wrecked.[84]
Haddingtonshire  United Kingdom The steamer became a total wreck off San Francisco, California.[85]

September[]

5 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner struck an uncharted rock and sank 2 miles off the south west coast of Iceland, off . The crew rowed to Bildall in her boats.[86][87]

8 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States Carrying a cargo of bark, the 117.3-foot (35.8 m), 179.92-gross register ton two-masted schooner sprang a leak, became waterlogged, and capsized in Lake Michigan 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) southeast of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Her captain and four crewmen abandoned ship and tried to reach land in a yawl, but the yawl capsized in breakers 200 feet (61 m) offshore and all but one man drowned. Advance′s wreck, discovered in 1983, lies 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) from shore in 80 feet (24 m) of water at 43°36.71′N 087°42.973′W / 43.61183°N 87.716217°W / 43.61183; -87.716217 (Advance).[88]
 United States The tug sank in a collision with ( United States) near the head of Bois Blanc Island in the Detroit River in 16 feet (4.9 m) of water. Her boiler and engine salvaged in May 1886, rest of the wreck was blown up with dynamite.[89][90]

11 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 September 1885
Ship Country Description
Glynn  United Kingdom The Plymouth brigantine stranded on Hayle bar with a cargo of coal for Cherbourg. The Hayle lifeboat Isis took off the five crew.[91]

16 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1885
Ship Country Description
Unidentified schooner  United States The wrecking schooner sank in a collision with the tug ( United States) in the harbor of New York City. Two crewmen reported missing.[92]

17 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1885
Ship Country Description
Orient  United States The barge, under tow of ( United States), lost her towline off the bar at Galveston, Texas, went ashore and was wrecked. Five crew died.[93]

18 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1885
Ship Country Description
Dolphin  United Kingdom The General Steam Navigation Company's steamer collided with the steamer Brenda ( United Kingdom) in the Downs, English Channel and sank. Seven of the crew and passengers lost their lives.[94]

22 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner was run down by unknown bark on and sunk. One crewman killed. The survivors were rescued by schooner .[95]

29 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1885
Ship Country Description
Elizabeth Graham  United Kingdom The London barque grounded on the Seven Stones Reef between Cornwall, England, and the Isles of Scilly. She later was refloated.[64]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1885
Ship Country Description
Sweepstakes  Canada The schooner sank at Big Tub Harbour, Tobermory, Ontario sometime in September following damage sustained at Cove Island in August 1885.
The wreck of Sweepstakes on 30 May 2009
[96]
Tacna  United Kingdom The crew abandoned the coal carrying Swansea barque when they were unable to put out a fire. On 11 September, thirteen were picked up by Herschel and landed at Plymouth.[97]

October[]

6 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1885
Ship Country Description
Amethyst  United States The 356.2-ton, 102-foot (31.1 m) whaling bark was last sighted in the Bering Sea north of Saint Lawrence Island bound for San Francisco, California. She was never heard from again. Her wreck was discovered on Castle Rock in the Territory of Alaska's Shumagin Islands in September 1887, but the bodies of the 43 men who had been aboard – her crew of 38 and five survivors of the whaling bark Rainbow ( United States), which had been crushed by ice in the Arctic Ocean off Russia on 14 April 1885 – were never found.[98][47]

11 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1885
Ship Country Description
Adam Averill The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel broke up at Indian Tickle.[99]
Addie The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was a total loss at .[99]
Alice H. The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel went ashore at . Later refloated.[99]
Annie The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel hull was stove in and she sank at .[99]
Annie McRae The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at .[99]
Atlanta The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at Marks.[99]
Augusta The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel went ashore at Black Island, Newfoundland.[99]
Barbara The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel dragged anchor and was driven ashore at "Fishing Ships".[99]
British Pride The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel broke up at Batteau, Labrador.[99]
Cabot The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel stranded at Dumpling.[99]
Caleb Corkum The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was stranded at Batteau, Labrador.[99]
Dash The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel dragged anchor and was driven ashore in the , a total loss.[99]
Emma The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at .[99]
 Newfoundland The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The schooner dragged anchor and went ashore at Black Island, Newfoundland, went to pieces and sank. Her captain and approximately 21 men, women, and children died. Several men and one woman survived.[100]
Flora The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel stranded at Dumpling.[99]
Gleaner The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was a total loss at Marks. Two killed.[99]
Guiding Star The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel went ashore at . Refloated after lightering her cargo of fish.[99]
Harriet The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at Tickle Harbour.[99]
H. M. Curtis The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel stranded at Indian Harbour, Nova Scotia. Later refloated.[99]
I Am away The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel went ashore at Black Island, Newfoundland.[99]
Isabella The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at Marks.[99]
John Hill The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at .[99]
Kenmore The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at Holton.[99]
Lark The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at .[99]
Leopard The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel stranded at Dumpling.[99]
Margaret Ann The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel stranded at .[99]
Mary The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel broke up at Batteau, Labrador.[99]
'Mary Ann The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at Adnavik.[99]
Mary Bell The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel broke up at Indian Tickle.[99]
Mary Calpin The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel broke up at Batteau, Labrador.[99]
Mary Joseph The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at Sandwich Bay, Labrador, Canada, a total wreck.[99]
Notre Dame de Bonsecour The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel dragged anchor and was driven ashore at , a total wreck.[99]
North Star The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel stranded at .[99]
Panther  Canada The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The steamer dragged anchor and went ashore. Refloated after the storm passed and rescued 400 survivors along the coast.[101]
Peerless The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was a total loss at Holton.[99]
Phoebe Jane The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel broke up at Batteau, Labrador.[99]
Portee The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel dragged anchor and was driven ashore in the Seal Island, Nova Scotia.[99]
Racer The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at Indian Harbour, Nova Scotia.[99]
Rio Grande The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel stranded at Black Tickle.[99]
Rising Dawn The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel dragged anchor and was driven ashore in the Square Islands, a total loss.[99]
Rival The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at Ragged Islands, Newfoundland.[99]
Rolling Wave The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at .[99]
Rovers Bride The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at .[99]
Sarah C. The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel had her hull stove in and flooded at Domino.[99]
Scilia The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at .[99]
Scout The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel stranded at .[99]
Sherbrooke The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel stranded at Domino.[99]
Sisters The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at South-East Cove.[99]
Sisters The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at Cuthroat.[99]
Snowdrop  United Kingdom The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at Marks.[99]
Stars and Stripes  United States The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel stranded at , a total loss.[99]
Surprise The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel stranded at .[99]
Syringa The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at Marks.[99]
Thomas Ridley The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost at .[99]
Trial The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel went ashore at . Possibly refloated.[99]
Trixie H. The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel stranded at Indian Harbour, Nova Scotia, a total loss[99]
Unknown schooner  Newfoundland The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The schooner went ashore at Black Island, Newfoundland. Lost with all hands.[99][102]
Vanguard The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was stranded at Island Pond, .[99]
Verbena The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel was lost with all 21 hands at Indian Tickle.[99]
Verdant The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel wrecked at Domino, a total loss. Lost with all but one hand.[99]
 United Kingdom The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The schooner was lost at Domino with all four hands.[99][103]
Voyager The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel stranded at Indian Tickle.[99]
Winfield Scott  United States The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel dragged anchor and was wrecked at Gull Island.[99]
Young Prince The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel stranded at .[99]

12 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1885
Ship Country Description
Hope  Canada The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel dragged anchor and was wrecked in the and went to pieces. 14 killed, mostly women and children.[102][103]
Release  Canada The Great Labrador Gale of 1885: The vessel dragged anchor and was wrecked in the and went to pieces. 25 killed, all but six were women and children.[102][103]

20 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1885
Ship Country Description
Hope  United Kingdom The St Ives, Cornwall vessel was wrecked on Puffin Island, Wales, while carrying coal from Runcorn to Pentewan, Cornwall. The captain and crew were rescued by the and the vessel went to pieces.[104]
 Canada The schooner was lost in a storm off .[105]

21 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The sloop was sunk off Bakers Island.[106]

22 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1885
Ship Country Description
Bencruachan  United Kingdom The vessel foundered after a collision with the steamer Bilbao six miles (9.7 km) off the Wolf Rock. The crew were saved by the steamer Methyr.[107]

29 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1885
Ship Country Description
Sidon  United Kingdom The steamer struck a rock off and is a probable total loss. All but four of the passengers and crew survived.[108]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1885
Ship Country Description
Unnamed fishing craft  Canada An estimated eighty fishing craft were wrecked or stranded during a storm on the coast of Labrador and 300 lives lost, 11-12 October.[109]

November[]

1 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The tow steamer's boiler exploded at Sombra, Ontario and she was wrecked, sinking in the Saint Clair River. Her engine was salvaged on 1 December and the wreck was blown up with dynamite. Wreckage removed by Canadian Government in 1888. Five crewmen died.[110][111]
Unknown dredge  United States The steam dredge, under tow of ( United States), sank, possibly from a boiler explosion, between New York City and Providence, Rhode Island. Lost with all five or six hands.[112]

2 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was wrecked off . The crew were saved.[113]

6 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank in a collision with ( United States) in the Ohio River 2+1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) above Rising Sun, Indiana. Two passengers died.[114]
Mary and Catherine  United States The pilot boat was struck and sunk by the British tramp trade steamship Haverton. A cabin boy was below deck and went down with the pilot boat.[115]

7 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1885
Ship Country Description
Algoma Canada Canada
The wreck of Algoma

The steamer was wrecked in Lake Superior off Isle Royale, Michigan, United States, with the loss of 46 lives. The vessel's machinery was removed and the wreck was blown up in July 1886.[116][117]

8 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1885
Ship Country Description
Brooklyn  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked on Anticosti Island, Quebec, with no loss of life.[118]
Lady Elizabeth  United Kingdom The Hull vessel collided with the Premier, also of Hull, and sank with the loss of the captain and his son. The three survivors were landed at Hull by Premier.[119]

18 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1885
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States.[120]

19 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1885
Ship Country Description
Guadaloupe  United States The ship was wrecked on Barnegat, New Jersey and the crew were not rescued for 42 days.[121]

21 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1885
Ship Country Description
Atlantic  United States The steamer burned and sank in the Ohio River near Neville, Ohio. Her fireman died.[122]
 United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked on the south coast of Ireland.[123]

22 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1885
Ship Country Description
Mary  United States The 18.26-ton, 48.4-foot (14.8 m) sloop dragged her anchors during a gale and was wrecked at Point Retreat (58°24′45″N 134°57′15″W / 58.41250°N 134.95417°W / 58.41250; -134.95417 (Point Retreat)), the northernmost point on Admiralty Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. Her entire crew of three survived.[65]

23 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1885
Ship Country Description
Cornelius Grinnell  United States The barge, under tow by the tug America ( United States), was cut loose in a storm 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) below Highland Light off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She and her entire crew of three were assumed to be lost.[124]

24 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1885
Ship Country Description
Malta  United States The 1,600-ton iron-hulled sailing ship — a former steamer — was wrecked 100 yards (91 m) off Belmar, New Jersey, during a storm with the loss of one life. There were 23 survivors. Her wreck sank in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water.[125]

25 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1885
Ship Country Description
Albula  United Kingdom The ship was lost at sea and the crew were brought to San Francisco, California by Marquis of Lorne. Two of the crew drowned.[126]
Mellona  United Kingdom The twelve crew of the brigantine were picked up, when the vessel, laden with stones, sank following a collision with the steamship Stockton.[127]

26 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank at Ripley Landing on the Ohio River below Parkersburg, West Virginia. Her fireman died.[128]

28 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1885
Ship Country Description
Annie Vernon  United Kingdom The twelve crew of the 328-ton, Cardiff-registered steamer abandoned ship near St Ives, Cornwall and the vessel foundered shortly after.[129]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1885
Ship Country Description
Aurora  United Kingdom The screw steamer foundered in deep water, two hours after leaving West Hartlepool. Four of the twenty-six crew lost their lives.[130]
Earl of Dufferin  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked off Anticosti Island, Quebec while salvaging the cargo of Brooklyn. The crew were saved.[130]
Kerrig  United Kingdom The barque foundered during a gale. Ten of the crew were picked up by the steam trawler Challenger.[130]
Pat  United Kingdom The schooner, carrying over 1,000 barrels of herring, was driven ashore during a gale at Cunningsburgh, Shetland.[130]
Triumph  United Kingdom The Newquay schooner was hit by a steamer off Gravesend and sank.[131]

December[]

3 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1885
Ship Country Description
Palgrave  United Kingdom The disabled vessel Palgrave was being towed by Deccan when the hawser parted while off the coast of Ireland. Deccan lost sight of the vessel and seven of the crew were seriously injured.[132]
Wakefield  United Kingdom The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln company's steamship collided with the steamship Chester off Grimsby and foundered. All were saved, bar a stewardess.[133]

4 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1885
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The passenger-cargo ship collided with the passenger-cargo ship Chester ( United Kingdom) and sank. Her stewardess drowned.[64]

5 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The tug's boiler exploded off Fifty-Seventh Street, New York City in the North River. All four crew were killed.[134]
Oconto  United States The steamer was wrecked in a gale/snowstorm on Charity Island, Michigan. The ship's cook died of fright, while the rest of her crew and passengers were ferried to the island in her boat. She floated off on 6 April 1886, drifted 20 miles (32 km) and sank in Saginaw Bay near North Island in 14 feet (4.3 m) of water.[135][136]
Unnamed vessel An unknown vessel was hit amidships by the steamer Hayle and sank about 16 miles (26 km) east of the Bell Rock lighthouse. A boat was lowered from Hayle but no survivors were found.[126]

7 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1886
Ship Country Description
Mary Coverdale  United Kingdom The Hartlepool steamer was lost off the Danish coast.[137]


10 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1885
Ship Country Description
Flora  United Kingdom The Whitstable vessel ran aground on while on a voyage from Hartlepool to Weymouth, Dorset. The captain and crew survived.[138]
 United States The fishing schooner struck on , came off and sank. The crew were saved.[139]

12 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1885
Ship Country Description
Julia Catherine  Russia The crew abandoned the schooner and were landed at Gibraltar by Einaldo.[140]
Unknown steamer Wreckage from a large iron steamer was washed up on the south shore of Guernsey, in the English Channel.[141]

14 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1885
Ship Country Description
George Franklin  United States The lighter, under tow of ( United States), sank 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) east-south-east of Robbin's Reef, New Jersey. Her captain drowned.[142]

17 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1885
Ship Country Description
Alster  United Kingdom The steamer sailed from Swansea with a cargo of coal for Saint-Nazaire and struck the Three Stone Ore, near Gurnard's Head, Cornwall. After ten minutes the vessel came off and headed for St Ives, sinking about a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) off St Ives Head. The fifteen crew were picked up by local boats.[143]
Neva  United Kingdom The trawler sank off the Eddystones after being run down by a steamer, which picked up two of the crew and landed them in Cardiff. The other three crew drowned.[144]
Sussex  United Kingdom The cargo ship was stranded on Seal Rock in the Isles of Scilly near the Maiden Bower while travelling at normal cruising speed in heavy fog. Her crew abandoned ship safely, and she broke up in heavy seas during the night of 4–5 January 1886.[64]

23 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The ferry boat, under tow of ( United States), sank 15–18 miles (24–29 km) north of Barnegat, New Jersey. Her captain died.[145]

25 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States 1885 Christmas gale: The fishing schooner sank in a gale on the Georges Bank. Lost with all 16/17 crew.[146][147]

26 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States 1885 Christmas gale: The fishing schooner was dismasted in the gale. Five crew killed. Survivors were rescued the next day by ( United States). Ship scuttled by burning.[148]
 United States 1885 Christmas gale: The schooner dragged anchor in , Grand Manan, was fouled by ( Canada) then went ashore and wrecked at Centerville.[149][150]
 United States 1885 Christmas gale: The fishing schooner was wrecked on in the gale, and abandoned the next day. The crew were rescued the next day by ( Germany).[151]
 Canada 1885 Christmas gale: The schooner dragged anchor in , Grand Manan, fouled ( United States) then went ashore and wrecked at Centerville. Her captain froze to death.[152][153]

28 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner sank 16 miles (26 km) off Portland, Maine.[154]

30 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1885
Ship Country Description
Unidentified cutter  United Kingdom A local cutter capsized off Yellow Ledges in the Isles of Scilly with the loss of one life while on her way to the assist the stranded steamer Sussex ( United Kingdom) at Seal Rock.

31 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States New Year's gale: The schooner sank in a gale on the Grand Banks. Lost with all 14 hands.[155]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1885
Ship Country Description
1885 Christmas gale: The schooner was wrecked at .[156]
1885 Christmas gale: The schooner went ashore at .[157]
Golden Sheaf  United Kingdom The Whitstable vessel was lost.[138]
Kedron  United Kingdom The barque went ashore at Dome Ness with the loss of all hands.[138]
Lyton  United Kingdom The Liverpool barque sailed from South Shields for Aspinwall, Central America and was wrecked at that place. Five crew lost their lives.[138]
Magician  United Kingdom The vessel sank after a collision with Ben Dourall. The crew survived, except the second officer, and were landed at .[158]
1885 Christmas gale: The schooner was wrecked at Brown's Point.[159]
Morasize  United Kingdom The Whitstable vessel sank with the loss of all hands.[138]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1885
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamboat sank in the Missouri River at Kansas City, Kansas.[160]
Alaska  United States The 138-ton two-masted schooner was lost in the Bering Sea.[98]
Gale  United States The 273-ton whaling bark was lost at Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea.[82]
J.W.J.  United Kingdom The pilot vessel collided with Sea Fisher ( United Kingdom) in the Bristol Channel and sank. Sea Fisher rescued her four crew members.[2]
Labrador  United Kingdom The barque had been given up for lost. Twenty crew on the vessel.[161]
Napoleon  United States The 306-ton New Bedford bark was crushed by ice in the Bering Sea. Thirty-two crew lost their lives.[41][162]
Peacedale Unknown The schooner was lost at Ocean Grove, New Jersey.[163]
 Canada The steamer sank in the Great Lakes sometime in 1885. Raised, repaired and returned to service in 1886.[164]
Rainier  United States The 51.55-ton bark was lost in the Arctic.[47]
Red Jacket  Portugal The clipper ship was driven ashore at the Madeira Islands in the Atlantic Ocean in a gale.[165]
Wallace United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand
Wallace
The ship was driven ashore at Greymouth, New Zealand.

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Ship events in 1885
Ship launches: 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890
Ship commissionings: 1882 1884 1885 1889 1890
Ship decommissionings: 1882 1884 1886
Shipwrecks: 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890
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