List of shipwrecks in 1886

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The list of shipwrecks in 1886 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1886.

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January[]

2 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck a snag and sank at Stark Clay Landing in the Chattahoochee River, a total loss. Ten passengers and one crewman died.[1]

7 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1886
Ship Country Description
John  United Kingdom The Runcorn schooner was wrecked near Stress. The crew were rescued.[2]
The Native  United Kingdom The Welsh schooner was wrecked on Ringwood Rocks, near Ardglass, County Down. The crew survived.[2]
Pearl  United Kingdom The LIverpool vessel was wrecked on Pilling-sands, near Fleetwood. The crew survived.[2]
Swallow  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on Pilling-sands, near Fleetwood. All on board drowned.[2]
Whitehaven lifeboat  United Kingdom The Whitehaven lifeboat capsized while assisting a foreign barque. One crew member of the lifeboat drowned.[2]

8 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1886
Ship Country Description
Harkaway  United Kingdom The schooner was lost at Minehead while on her return journey from South Wales with coal for her home port of Truro, Cornwall.[3]
 United States The schooner was lost in a storm.[4]
 United States The fishing schooner struck a reef near Lockeport, Nova Scotia and went to pieces. The crew were saved.[5]
 United States The schooner was lost in a storm, she dragged anchor and went ashore on a ledge at Eastport, Maine and sank. The crew were saved.[6]

9 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1886
Ship Country Description
Alicia A. Washburn  United States The steamer caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Mexico 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) off St. George Island, Florida.[7]
Hettie  United Kingdom The stern-board and part of the keel of the Hartlepool steamship was washed ashore at Trevone Bay, Cornwall.[8]

11 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1886
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom During a voyage from New York City to Rouen, France, with a cargo of 57,880 bushels of corn, the 1,258-gross register ton iron-hulled steam cargo ship sank in 95 feet (29 m) of water in the North Atlantic Ocean about 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) south of the Fire Island Lighthouse on Fire Island south of Long Island, New York, during a storm. Her entire crew of 22 survived, abandoning ship in two lifeboats. One lifeboat with nine or 10 men aboard (sources disagree) reached shore, while the other, with 11 or 13 men aboard (sources disagree) drifted at sea for three days until picked up by the fishing smack Stephen Woolsey ( United States).[9]

21 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1886
Ship Country Description
Riflemen  Guernsey The Guernsey schooner foundered, when the cargo shifted, 22 miles (35 km) off Spurn. The nine crew were washed overboard, but three were picked up by the Corieande and landed at Grimsby.[10]

30 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 January 1886
Ship Country Description
Fulmar  United Kingdom The cargo ship, transporting coal from Troon, Scotland, to Limerick, Ireland, sank in Farrihy Bay, just north of Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland. All 17 aboard died, and only one body was recovered.[11]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: January 1886
Ship Country Description
Cornishman  United Kingdom The steamer, while heading north from Sullna struck a rock off Ottavov and foundered in deep water. The crew survivied were picked up by the Whitby Abbey and Conductor. (First report - 8 January 1886)[12][13]
Hudson  United Kingdom The Glasgow vessel capsized 120 miles (190 km) south of bay in a gale. Fifteen of the crew drowned. The steamship German landed the captain and nine of the crew at Plymouth.[14]
Frank N Trayes  United Kingdom The captain and crew abandoned ship, in the South Atlantic, after it was set alight by two crew who jumped overboard. Five of the crew were stabbed and killed and the captain was injured. The surviving crew spent a week in an open boat before landing on Saint Helena.[15]

February[]

10 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1886
Ship Country Description
Cambridge  United States The 1,337-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a passenger ship, sank without loss of life in up to 50 feet (15 m) of water at 43°50′41″N 069°18′56″W / 43.84472°N 69.31556°W / 43.84472; -69.31556 (Cambridge) after striking the west side of the pinnacle of Old Man Ledge, a reef 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) south-southwest of Port Clyde, Maine.[16]
Flamingo  United Kingdom The Cork Steamship Company's steamer was hit by the steamer Glenmoor while entering the Mersey from Antwerp. Flamingo sank soon after and the second engineer drowned.[17]
 United States The schooner was wrecked on Plum Island. The crew were saved.[18]

15 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was wrecked at . The crew were saved.[19]

17 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner burned on the Georges Bank. The crew were saved.[20]

25 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1886
Ship Country Description
 Canada The schooner was wrecked on . The crew were saved.[21]

26 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1886
Ship Country Description
Favourite  United Kingdom The Brixham trawler was run down by the barque St Pierre ( France) 25 miles (40 km) off Berry Head, Devon. All five crew survived.[22]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1886
Ship Country Description
Hope  United Kingdom The ship ran aground at , Glamorgan, Wales, and was abandoned by her crew. She was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[23]
Julia  United Kingdom The schooner was driven against the Ogmore which was at anchor in Penarth roads. Julia′s bow stove in and she sank in a few minutes. The crew escaped in the boat and landed at Cardiff.[24]

March[]

1 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1886
Ship Country Description
Missouri  United Kingdom The steamship, en route to Liverpool from Boston, went ashore on the Holyhead shore during a snowstorm and became a total wreck the following day. All the crew and some livestock survived.[25][26]

6 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1886
Ship Country Description
Xanthippe  United Kingdom The brig ran aground at , Glamorgan, Wales, and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Port Talbot, Glamorgan.[23]

11 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer's boiler blew up 11 miles (18 km) below Vicksburg, Mississippi at Bedford's Bar, Louisiana, sinking in three feet (0.91 m) of water. Six crewman died, and everyone else on board was wounded except the captain's wife who took over and prevented the ship from burning. The wreck was sold and the new owner had her raised, towed to Paducah, Kentucky where she was rebuilt and returned to service for the 1886–1887 cotton season.[27][28][29]

12 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1886
Ship Country Description
Ellrickdale  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked on Europa Point, Gibraltar. At least three of the crew survived.[30]

13 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The tow steamer's boiler exploded destroying the ship in the lower harbor of Boston, Massachusetts. Five died.[31]

14 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1886
Ship Country Description
Charles H. Morse  United States The schooner disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean near New York City. She probably was the schooner the passenger liner Oregon ( United Kingdom) – en route from Liverpool, England, to New York – collided with at 04:30 just 15 nautical miles (28 km) from New York. The schooner that Oregon hit sank almost immediately with the loss of all hands.[32]
Oregon  United Kingdom
Oregon
The ocean liner, en route from Liverpool, England, to New York City, sank in the Atlantic Ocean after colliding at 04:30 just 15 nautical miles (28 km) from New York with a schooner. The schooner she hit – probably Charles H. Morse ( United States) – sank almost immediately with the loss of all hands.[32]

15 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The freighter sank 40 miles (64 km) off Cape Perpetua, Oregon . The crew abandoned ship in her two lifeboats. One with her master and five crewmen were never seen again, the other one reached shore on 17 March near the mouth of the Umpqua River with only two of the five crew aboard still alive.[33][34]

17 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1886
Ship Country Description
Breconshire  United Kingdom The steamship grounded on rocks near the Lamock Islands off Swatow, China, and became a wreck, finally breaking up on 25 March[35][36]

18 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1886
Ship Country Description
Seewoo  United Kingdom The Indo-China Steam Navigation Company Ltd. steamer struck Taichow Rocks in thick fog and foundered off the shore of , near Chekiang, China, in 10 fathoms (60 ft; 18 m). Two of the ship's boats landed eighty-four of the crew and passengers on the island. One boat with seven crew was swamped and they lost their lives.[37][38][39]

20 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1886
Ship Country Description
Colombia The steamer's boiler exploded and killed fifteen people, injuring twenty-two others, at the island of Tumaco, Colombia.[40][41]

22 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1886
Ship Country Description
Port Chalmers  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship registered in Glasgow left Falmouth for Liverpool and was stranded on Lowland Point, a short distance west of The Manacles.[42]

23 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1886
Ship Country Description
Unknown vessel A 300-ton vessel was passed, bottom up, about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) south by east of the Bishop Rock, by steamer Niobe.[43]

25 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1886
Ship Country Description
Devines  France The brig was embayed at Penberth Cove, Cornwall, and while waiting for a change of wind, went ashore and is expected to become a total wreck.[44]

26 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1886
Ship Country Description
Nellie  Denmark The brigantine was wrecked on Jackey's Rock (grid reference SV83600639) in the Isles of Scilly. Two men were taken off the wreck and five were found on Melledgan. The captain and mate perished.[45]

27 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner was run down and sunk by schooner off Chesapeake Bay. The crew were saved.[46]

30 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was smashed against the Lagonda bridge on the Atchafalaya River by a sudden gale of wind and sank. Two crew died.[47]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown March 1886
Ship Country Description
Alert  United Kingdom The Lowestoft lugger was run down by a trawler and sank 28 miles east of Lowestoft. All ten crew were rescued.[48]
Dix Freres  France The brig became waterlogged following the loss of her masts during a hurricane. Four of the crew were picked up by the barque Sarah Anne on 2 March, leaving four on the wreck. On 17 March one of the crew died and three days later the remaining three were rescued by the Sunderland barque Efficient and landed them at Queenstown, Ireland.[49]
Eagle The yacht went to pieces in the harbour at Kingsville, Ontario during the last week of March or 1 April.[50]

April[]

6 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The sternwheel steamer capsized in a wind storm at dock in Owensborough, Kentucky, a total loss. Three crew died.[51]
 United States The steamer was wrecked in a gale/snowstorm on Charity Island, Michigan on 5 December 1885. The vessel'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 and drifted 20 miles (32 km) before sinking in Saginaw Bay near North Island in 14 feet (4.3 m) of water. The wreck was raised in early May and taken to Port Huron, Michigan for repairs.[52][53]

7 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The steam barge was wrecked when the tow line to the tug ( United States) parted in heavy weather and was driven ashore at Point Pelee, Ontario. Refloated and taken to Detroit, Michigan, but described as a loss. The crew were rescued by Canadian fishermen. Her cargo of lumber was later salvaged.[54][55]
 United States The schooner barge, aka Vannatta, Vennette, or Vennetta, was wrecked when the tow line to the tug ( United States) parted in heavy weather and was driven ashore at Point Pelee, Ontario, a total loss. The crew were rescued by Canadian fishermen. Her cargo of lumber was later salvaged.[56][57]

11 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1886
Ship Country Description
Taiaroa  United Kingdom The schooner-rigged coastal steamer was wrecked on the coast of New Zealand's South Island near the mouth of the Waiau Toa / Clarence River with the loss of 36 of the 50 people on board.

13 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1886
Ship Country Description
St Athens  United Kingdom The Inverness vessel foundered off the Longships, Cornwall while heading to Runcorn from Plymouth. The crew were rescued and landed at Kingstown, Ireland.[58]

15 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer burned at Owen Sound, Ontario.[59]

17 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1886
Ship Country Description
Prince Alfred  United Kingdom The Montrose steam-trawler struck a reef about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Stonehaven, filled and sank. Only three of the eight crew survived.[60]

20 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1886
Ship Country Description
Mary Spencer  United Kingdom The Newcastle barque burnt at sea and ten of the crew and the captain were landed at Plymouth by the fishing-sloop Coquette on 2 May.[61]

23 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner struck a ledge and sunk off the Delaware Breakwater. The crew were saved.[62]

28 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1886
Ship Country Description
Mildred  United Kingdom The Padstow schooner was hit by the West India mail steamer Eldorado, between Portland and the Isle of Wight. One crew member died and the remainder were landed at Penarth.[63]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown April 1886
Ship Country Description
Pietro  Italy The barque burned to the water-line off Penarth, Wales.[64]
 United States The newly-built tug, awaiting her machinery to be installed by Kerr Brothers at Walkerville, sank in a storm in mid April. Raised two days later.[65]

May[]

3 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1886
Ship Country Description
Mary, Queen of the Sea  United Kingdom The vessel was abandoned and the crew were landed at Queenstown, Ireland by the steamer British Princess.[66]

4 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner sank off . The crew were saved.[67]

5 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was wrecked at , Newfoundland. The crew were saved.[68]

7 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1886
Ship Country Description
Lord Derby  United Kingdom The Cardiff tug hit a buoy and sank near Roath harbour. It was raised the following morning and sank in the entrance to the East Dock while under tow.[69]

9 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 May 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner stranded at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The crew were saved.[70]

13 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1886
Ship Country Description
Mermaid  United Kingdom The brig went ashore at Donna Nook, while heading to Hartlepool from Whitstable with the loss of the captain and mate. One of the crew of the (Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and a civilian died in the attempt to reach the brig.[71]
President  United Kingdom The ship ran aground off Cardigan, Wales. Her three crew were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). President was later refloated and taken in to Cardigan.[72]

20 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was wrecked at Saint-Pierre, Miquelon. The crew were saved.[73]

30 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1886
Ship Country Description
Ly-ee-Moon  New South Wales The Australasian Steam Navigation Company steamship was wrecked off Green Cape, New South Wales, Australia, on a voyage from Melbourne to Sydney with passengers and cargo; 71 lives lost, 15 survivors[74][75]

June[]

3 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1886
Ship Country Description
Lookout  United States The 66.71-ton, 80.1-foot (24.4 m) schooner was wrecked on Sanak Island in the Aleutian Islands in a thick fog. Her crew of 15 survived.[76]
 United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with Russia (flag unknown) in Lake George in the St. Marys River. Crew rescued by (flag unknown). Apparently raised, repaired and returned to service.[77]

5 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1886
Ship Country Description
Alpha  United States The paddle tug was destroyed by fire.

12 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1886
Ship Country Description
Lyttelton  United Kingdom The iron full-rigged ship sank at Timaru, New Zealand in 26 feet (7.9 m) and was expected to become a total wreck.[78][79]

17 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner, under tow of the steam barge Bessemer ( United States), was damaged when she hit a pile of rocks at . She was taken to Amherstburg, Ontario where she sank. The vessel was later raised, repaired and returned to service.[80]

21 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1886
Ship Country Description
John Carver  United States The 319-ton whaling bark was crushed in ice and abandoned in the Bering Sea north of Saint Lawrence Island and 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) south of King Island. Her crew abandoned ship in her boats and was rescued 33 hours later by the bark Atlantic ( United States). The derelict wreck of John Carver eventually drifted to Cape Thompson on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska.[81]

23 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with (flag unknown) in the Hudson River off Fort Montgomery, New York. Two crew died.[82]

30 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1886
Ship Country Description
 Norway The bark drifted ashore in Apalachicola Bay opposite Dog Island during a hurricane.[83]
 United States The tugboat sank at the East Pass to Apalachicola Bay near Cat Point during a hurricane. Two crewmen killed. Two barges she was towing were driven ashore.[83]
 United States The schooner was lost in Dog Island Cove, Apalachicola Bay during a hurricane. Four crewmen killed.[83]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date
Ship Country Description
Caterina Doge Five of the crew drowned when the vessel was wrecked at .[84]
Gertrude  United Kingdom The steamer Gertrude was wrecked at Cape Pine, Newfoundland while carrying grain from New Orleans to Copenhagen.[84]
Unnamed  French Navy A torpedo boat sank off the coast of Corsica while manouvring against Ironclad warships.[85]

July[]

3 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 July 1886
Ship Country Description
Royal Edward  United Kingdom The clipper ship became damaged in a gale and her crew abandoned her in a sinking state. Bellona ( Norway) rescued the crew.[86]

5 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1886
Ship Country Description
Lincoln  United Kingdom The Liverpool iron steamer struck the Runnelstone, Cornwall in thick fog and sank off St Loy's Cove. The fourteen crew abandoned ship about a mile off St Loy's and reached Penzance.[87][88]

6 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 July 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck a boulder and sank, slipping into deeper water during a salvage attempt.[89]

8 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 July 1886
Ship Country Description
Milwaukee  United States The steam barge sank in Lake Michigan after colliding in fog with the steam barge ( United States). One crewman died.[90]

16 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1886
Ship Country Description
Napoleon  United States The fishing boat sank off Norman's Woe.[91]
Prince of Wales  United Kingdom The steam tug sank after colliding with the ship Peterborough ( United Kingdom) off Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia, with loss of two crew. Peterborough was towed into port by the steam tug Kate ( United Kingdom).[92]

19 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 July 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was wrecked at , Newfoundland. The crew were saved.[93]

30 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1886
Ship Country Description
Clarissa  United Kingdom The schooner foundered in Cardigan Bay, Wales and the crew were taken off by the Liverpool steamer Mersey, which later went ashore and was abandoned.[94]
Mersey  United Kingdom The Liverpool steamer picked up crew from the schooner Clarissa in Cardigan Bay, and later was abandoned when she went ashore in dense fog.[94]

31 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner sank 15 miles (24 km) off Kennebunk, Maine. The crew were saved.[95]
 Canada The steamer struck a dock at the east entrance to the Cornwall Canal, Canada and sank in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water.[96]

August[]

8 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1886
Ship Country Description
Acolus  United Kingdom The Hartlepool steamer collided with the steamer Valetta ( United Kingdom) and sank off Padstow, Cornwall. The crew were saved.[97]

20 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1887
Ship Country Description
Jane Sophia  United Kingdom The crew of the Plymouth schooner was saved, after she sank following a collision with the steamer Zenobia (flag unknown) in the Atlantic Ocean, near the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall.[98][99]

23 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was wrecked at Portugal Cove, Newfoundland. The crew were saved.[100]

28 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1886
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The steamship collided with the steamship St. Martin ( France) and sank in the English Channel 20 nautical miles (37 km) west of Beachy Head, Sussex. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.[101]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date August 1886
Ship Country Description
Clara Light  United States The 179-ton whaling schooner and tender was abandoned in ice in the Chukchi Sea 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) north of Point Franklin on the coast of the Territory of Alaska in late August.[102]
 United States The fishing schooner vanished on the Banks after being seen on 21 August. Lost with all 14 hands.[103]
 United States The fishing schooner sailed from Gloucester, Massachusetts on 4 August for and vanished. Lost with all ten hands.[104]

September[]

6 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1886
Ship Country Description
Victory  United Kingdom The three-masted schooner was stranded on La Tortuga Island, Venezuela and became a total loss.[105][106]

28 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1886
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The full-rigged ship ran aground and was wrecked in the Hooghly River, India.[107]
Suffolk  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked in fog on the eastern side of Lizard Point, Cornwall, England. The 45 people aboard were saved.[108]

October[]

2 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was destroyed by fire off Murder Island, Nova Scotia. The crew were saved.[109]

5 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The passenger steamer was destroyed by fire in the Mississippi River at Crawford's Landing, 125 miles (201 km) below St. Louis due to a flue collapsing. Ten passengers and 22 crew died.[110]

6 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1886
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the Gingerbread Shoal. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.[111]

8 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1886
Ship Country Description
Agnes  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked in Caswell Bay off Wales. Her crew survived.[23]

13 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with ( United States) in fog on Lake Michigan off Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Five crewmen died.[112][113]

14 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner sank in a gale in Lake Erie between Conneaut, Ohio and the base of . Lost with all nine hands.[114][115]
 United States The schooner sank in a gale three miles (4.8 km) off Port Colborne in seven fathoms (42 ft; 13 m) of water. Her captain, female cook, and one crewman died. Survivors were rescued by the tug .[116][117]
Malleny  United Kingdom The ship was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when she struck the Tusker Rock in the Bristol Channel and foundered with the loss of all 20 crew. The wreck came ashore at Westward Ho!, Devon, England.[23]
 United States The schooner went ashore in a storm on and was wrecked. Ship and cargo a total loss. Two crew killed.[118]

15 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1886
Ship Country Description
Ben-y-Gloe  United Kingdom The ship was on a voyage from Singapore to Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales, when she capsized off Nash Point, Glamorgan, Wales. Her crew survived.[23][119]
Ocean Beauty  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore at Aberavon, Glamorgan, Wales, with the loss of two of her 15 crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, to Valparaíso, Chile.[23]

16 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1886
Ship Country Description
Albert Wilhelm  Germany The brig sank at Hayle Towans, Cornwall, England.[120]

17 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1886
Ship Country Description
Sarah Anderson  United Kingdom The ship sank at Trebarwith Strand, near Tintagel, Cornwall, England, with the loss of all on board.[121]

24 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1886
Ship Country Description
Normanton  United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked in heavy wind and rain off the coast of what is now Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. The European officers and crew abandoned ship and reached safety, leaving the 12 Chinese and Indian crewman and all 25 Japanese passengers behind to fend for themselves. All the Japanese passengers died.
 United States The schooner was rammed and sunk ay anchor by Arabia ( United States) two miles (3.2 km) below Port Huron, Michigan in the St. Clair River in 30 feet (9.1 m) of water. The wreck was raised on 28 October. The vessel was repaired and returned to service in late 1887.[122][123]
 United States The steam barge caught fire off Grosse Point, Michigan. She was scuttled by the steam barge Cleveland ( United States) to prevent destruction.[124]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown October 1886
Ship Country Description
 Canada The steamer was wrecked on rocks in a gale 30 miles (48 km) from Port Arthur, Ontario off , Edward Island in Lake Superior late in the month. The crew was picked up from the island by a tug.[125]
 United Kingdom The iron barque was lost off Hartland Point, Devon, England. All that was found was a brass bound bucket on Lundy and a writing desk washed up near Ilfracombe.[126]

November[]

2 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1886
Ship Country Description
 Canada The steamer was sunk on a reef, today known as Myles Shoal, in the harbour of Kingston, Ontario. Refloated on 20 April 1887 and repaired and returned to service.[127][128]

November[]

4 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner sprung a leak and sank in 500 feet (150 m) of water in early November on the Great Lakes.[129][130][131][132]

5 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was sunk or wrecked at DeTour Village, Michigan in 30 feet (9.1 m) of water. Refloated in June 1887, repaired and returned to service.[133][134]
 United States The schooner was wrecked on Summer Island in Green Bay near the Door Peninsula, or on near .[135][136]
 United States The schooner was rammed and sunk while anchored three miles (4.8 km) off Mackinaw City (45°47′N 84°41′W / 45.783°N 84.683°W / 45.783; -84.683) in a storm by Severn or Muskoka, sinking in 15 fathoms (90 ft; 27 m) of water. The wreck was located in 1967.[137][138][139]

12 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The steam barge ran aground on a reef off Kelly's Island in Lake Erie. She caught fire and burned to the waterline. Rebuilt in 1887 and returned to service.[140][141]

13 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was wrecked on the Great Lakes.[142]

14 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1886
Ship Country Description
Flying Scud  United States The 25.96-gross register ton, 50.2-foot (15.3 m) schooner departed Douglas Station near (57°34′10″N 154°27′30″W / 57.56944°N 154.45833°W / 57.56944; -154.45833 (Cape Douglas)) on the north coast of Kodiak Island in the Territory of Alaska bound for Kodiak on the eastern end of the island with 26 people on board and was never heard from again. Wreckage and broken baidarkas were found weeks later, but the loss of Flying Scud did not finally became fully apparent until the spring of 1887.[143]

17 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1886
Ship Country Description
B. B. Buckout  United States The barge went aground in a blizzard at McDougall.[144][145]
B. M. Baker  United States The barge went aground in a blizzard at East Tawas, Michigan.[146][147]
 United States The steamer went aground in a blizzard opposite China Beach.[148]
City of New York  United States The steamer went aground in a blizzard near Cheboygan, Michigan at North Point in .[149][150]
 United States The schooner and two scows went aground in a blizzard in North Bay.[151]
 United States The schooner barge, being towed by Robert Wallace (flag unknown), went aground in a blizzard at Chocolay four miles (6.4 km) east of Marquette, Michigan, sinking the next day. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[152]
Emerald  United States The barge foundered in a blizzard near Kewaunee, Wisconsin. Her captain, three crewmen and female cook were lost.[153]
F. M. Dickinson  United States The barge foundered in a blizzard near Kewaunee, Wisconsin. Two crewmen and the female cook were lost.[154]
 United States The schooner slipped her anchor and was dashed to pieces against a dock at Marquette, Michigan in a blizzard. Her mate was crushed between her hull and the hull of the rescue tug ( United States).[155][156]
 United States The schooner went aground in a blizzard below China Beach.[157]
Golden Harvest  United States The barge went aground in a blizzard at East Tawas, Michigan.[158]
 United States The schooner barge went aground in a blizzard near Alpena, Michigan. Refloated and returned to service.[159]
 United States The schooner foundered in a blizzard on Lake Michigan about three miles (4.8 km) north of the Muskegon channel. Lost with all hands, four crewmen, her captain and his wife.[160][161]
 United States The schooner was wrecked in a blizzard on Lake Michigan and was wrecked near Frankfort, Michigan. Lost with all hands.[162][163][164]
 Canada The schooner went aground in a blizzard near Blenheim, Ontario.[165][166]
 United States The steamer went aground in a blizzard near Grass Island in Green Bay.[167]
 United States The schooner went aground in a blizzard in the St. Clair River.[168]
 United States The schooner went aground in a blizzard on St. Ignace, Michigan.[169]
 United States The schooner went aground in a blizzard near , Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Broke up over the next several days.[170][171]
Robert Wallace  United States The steamer went aground in a blizzard at Chocolay four miles (6.4 km) east of Marquette, Michigan, sinking the next day. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[172]
 United States The schooner went aground in a blizzard near , Ontario, Canada (44°10′N 77°06′W / 44.167°N 77.100°W / 44.167; -77.100).[173]
Star of the North  United States The barge foundered in a blizzard near East Tawas, Michigan in 14 feet (4.3 m) of water.[174]
 United States The schooner went aground in a blizzard at Oscoda, Michigan, later sinking off Fish Point in 14 feet (4.3 m) of water after being cut loose by her tug. Apparently raised, repaired and returned to service.[175]
Tonawanda  United States The barge went aground in a blizzard at McDougall.[176]
Unknown schooner The schooner went aground in a blizzard at St. Ignace, Michigan.[177]
 United States The schooner went ashore in a blizzard on , south of Pentwater, Michigan.[178][179]

18 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1886
Ship Country Description
 Canada The schooner was wrecked in Weller's Bay off Stony Point after rescuing the crew rescued by ( Canada). All on board rescued a day later by the Wellington Lifeboat.[180][181]
 Canada The schooner dragged anchor in a blizzard and was wrecked on a reef in Weller's Bay. Broke in two the next day. Crew rescued by .[182][183]
 Canada The schooner went aground in a blizzard near Goderich, Ontario.[184]
Lucerne  United States The schooner sank in a gale/snowstorm in Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior, in 17 feet (5.2 m) of water off the north side of Long Island at La Pointe, Wisconsin, with the loss of all hands.[185]
 United States The schooner, under tow by ( United States), lost her tow in a blizzard on Lake Michigan and was wrecked four miles (6.4 km) south of Frankfort, Michigan (44°32′N 86°13′W / 44.533°N 86.217°W / 44.533; -86.217). There was one survivor, the rest of her crew died, including her female cook and the cook's 13-year-old daughter.[186][187]
 Canada The schooner was wrecked on Stony Point in Weller's Bay. Reportedly went to pieces, but was pulled off in 1887 and taken to Kingston, Ontario, repaired and returned to service.[188][189]

19 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner, under tow by ( United States), lost her tow in a blizzard on Lake Michigan on 18 November and was wrecked four miles (6.4 km) south of Frankfort, Michigan the next day. The vessel was lost with all hands.[190][191]

20 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1886
Ship Country Description
Thames  United Kingdom The schooner was on a voyage from Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, to Bilbao, Spain, when she struck the Scarweather Sands in the Bristol Channel and consequently foundered off The Mumbles, Glamorgan. Her crew survived.[23]

27 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1886
Ship Country Description
 Regia Marina The 56S-class torpedo boat sank in the Bay of Biscay after colliding with the torpedo boat ( Regia Marina).[192][193]
 United States The steamer was damaged in a collision with steamer Alaska ( United States) and was beached on Bois Blanc Island to prevent sinking. Refloated on 29 November and taken to Detroit for repairs.[194]
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at the mouth of the Black River. Two crew died.[195]

29 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The tug went aground on a beach three miles (4.8 km) north of Manistee, Michigan and was abandoned. The Crew was saved.[196]

30 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner, under tow of ( Canada), went aground on a beach three miles (4.8 km) south of Manistee, Michigan. The crew was saved.[197]
 Canada The steamer went aground on a beach three miles (4.8 km) south of Manistee, Michigan. Refloated and returned to service. The crew was saved.[198]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown November 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing schooner sailed from Gloucester, Massachusetts on 30 November for the Georges Bank and vanished. Lost with all 12 hands.[199]
 United States The steam barge sank was sunk at L'Anse, Michigan in Lake Superior in early November.[200]
 United States The schooner was lost in the blizzard of 17–19 November near Ashland. Eight lives were lost.[201]

December[]

2 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1886
Ship Country Description
 Canada The schooner was wrecked in a gale in four miles (6.4 km) from Stony Point near Oswego, New York. Her captain drowned and two crewmen froze to death. Three survivors were rescued near death by the United States Life Saving Service.[202][203]

4 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1886
Ship Country Description
D.H. Ingraham  United States The vessel ran aground at Hereford Inlet on its way from Rockland, Maine to Richmond, Virginia. All crew were saved before the ship caught fire.[204][205]

9 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1886
Ship Country Description
Alliance  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the seaward side of the Albert Pier, Penzance, Cornwall, England.[126]
Eliza Fernley Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution After launching from Southport, England, the lifeboat capsized during a gale in the Irish Sea with the loss of 14 of her 16 crew while trying to reach the crew of the barque Mexico ( German Empire), which had wrecked off Southport.
Laura Janet Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution After launching from St Annes, England, the lifeboat capsized during a gale in the Irish Sea with the loss of all 13 of her crew while trying to reach the crew of the barque Mexico ( German Empire), which had wrecked off Southport, England.
Mexico  Germany
Mexico
The barque was wrecked at Southport, England, during a gale in the Irish Sea. All 12 of her crew were saved by the lifeboat Charles Biggs (Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution) from Lytham. Mexico later was repaired and returned to service.

13 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at Saint Maurice Plantation on the Mississippi River. Five passengers and five crew died.[206]

21 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Red River at Shady Grove Landing, 15 miles (24 km) above Shreveport, Louisiana, a total loss. One crew died.[207]

24 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1886
Ship Country Description
Annie C. Maguire  United Kingdom Sailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a cargo of miscellaneous freight, the 188-foot (57 m), 1,363-ton three-masted barque ran onto rocks on the ledge at Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, during a storm and sank in up to 30 feet (9.1 m) of water.[208] Today, letters painted on the rocks below the lighthouse commemorate the wreck and the Christmas Eve rescue of her crew.

30 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1886
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was wrecked at North Chatham, Massachusetts. The crew were saved.[209]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1886
Ship Country Description
Unebi  Imperial Japanese Navy The cruiser disappeared without trace in the South China Sea with the loss of all hands.

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1886
Ship Country Description
Allahabad  United Kingdom The iron sailing ship was on a voyage from Glasgow, Scotland, to Dunedin, New Zealand, with a cargo primarily of coal when she disappeared without trace after last being spoken to by the crew of the ship South Australian (flag unknown) in the Atlantic Ocean at (29°S 28°W / 29°S 28°W / -29; -28) on 4 September.
Belliqueuse  French Navy The broadside ironclad was sunk as target during 1886 sometime after being stricken from the naval register on 3 May.
Boyne  United Kingdom The sailing ship was wrecked without loss of life on False Point on the coast of India during a voyage from Suva, Fiji, to Calcutta, India.
 United States The fishing schooner was lost with all 14 hands off Greenland early in the Summer.[210]
Thornton  Canada The 29-ton sealing schooner was battered to pieces at Unalaska on Unalaska Island in the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands sometime during or after 1886.[211]
Tsengora The full-rigged ship was lost at Spring Lake, New Jersey.[212]
W. C. Warner The brig was lost at Mantoloking, New Jersey.[212]
Western Shore  United States The sloop was lost in Bristol Bay in the Territory of Alaska.[213]
Young America  United States Bound from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Fiume, the clipper ship disappeared without trace after passing the Delaware Breakwater outbound on 17 February.

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Ship events in 1886
Ship launches: 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891
Ship commissionings: 1882 1884 1885 1889 1890 1891
Ship decommissionings: 1882 1884 1886
Shipwrecks: 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891
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