The ship ran aground off , Nova Scotia, Canada, with the loss of eighteen of her 27 crew. She was on a voyage from , Newfoundland to New York, United States.[1]
The steamer was sunk in a collision with at Norfolk, Virginia.[3]
4 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The ship was in collision with Rathlin (United Kingdom) in the River Thames at Woolwich, London and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Christiania, Norway to London. She was consequently condemned and scrapped.[4]
5 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Bordentown, New Jersey.[5]
The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged south of Cape George, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, to Guysborough, Nova Scotia.[7]
8 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The canal boat sank between Jersey City, New Jersey and New York City, possibly by ice.[8]
10 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was sunk in a collision with (United States) in the Mississippi River 40 miles (64 km) below Memphis, Tennessee. Later raised. A fireman on L. E. Patton was fatally scalded f[9]
12 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was sunk in a collision with a barge in the Mississippi River while backing out of a dock at Caruthersville, Missouri, a total loss. Four crewmen killed.[10]
United States
The passenger steamer laid up by the bank caught fire, burned to the waterline and sank one mile (1.6 km) above Evansville, Indiana.[11]
13 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The was run down and sunk off Cape Cod by . Nine crewmen killed.[12][13]
15 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was blown ashore in a gale, probably in the New Orleans, Louisiana area, sprung a leak but saved from sinking by throwing cargo overboard.[14]
16 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was sunk in a collision with (United States) in Chesapeake Bay near .[15]
The steamer filled and sank while lying at Chattanooga, Tennessee.[30]
11 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The lighter struck the bar at the Rockaway Bell Buoy and sprung a leak. She blew off the bar in high wind, filled and sank.[31]
14 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer caught fire while loading oil at on the Schuylkill River and was beached and sank.[32]
15 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug sprung a leak off Red Hook Flats, Brooklyn, New York. She ran to German American Stores, Brooklyn where she sank in 17 feet (5.2 m) of water. Raised on 16 February.[33]
The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at .[35]
21 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sank at dock at the foot of Hanover Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[36]
United States
The steamer was damaged in a collision with the barge Beaufort, being towed by , at Norfolk, Virginia. She was beached to prevent sinking, but burned to the water's edge when lime in her cargo ignited.[37]
22 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[38]
24 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug keeled over onto her port side due to ice buildup, filled and sank off Sixty-Eighth Street, New York City in the North River.[39]
25 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a log and sank opposite Martinsburg, Kentucky in three feet (0.91 m) of water in the Cumberland River. Raised and repaired.[40]
The steam schooner sprang a leak in a heavy gale. The rising water put out her fires and she was wrecked near , a total loss.[41][42]
29 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 February 1896
Ship
Country
Description
Ailsa
United Kingdom
The steamer was rammed and sunk by the French linerLa Bourgogne while anchored at the entrance to New York Harbor in fog. All on board were rescued.[43]
During a voyage from Goteburg, Sweden, to Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa, with a cargo of Balticpinetimber, the barque was wrecked without loss of life on the coast of South Africa near the mouth of the Bushman River.
7 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1896
Ship
Country
Description
Lincoln
United States
The two-mastedschooner departed Seattle, Washington, bound for Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska with 37 people on board and was never heard from again. She probably sank in a severe storm that struck the Gulf of Alaska during the first week of April.[49]
United States
The steamer struck a snag and sank at Morten's Landing, Kentucky in three feet (0.91 m) of water. Raised, taken to Cincinnati, Ohio and repaired.[50]
The tug was damaged in a collision with Express (United States) off Pier 39, New York in the East River. She made a run for her dock but sank off Pier 11.[58]
26 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer caught fire, burned to the waterline, and sank a short distance below New Albany, Indiana in the Ohio River, a total loss.[59]
27 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1896
Ship
Country
Description
Ellen
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire while lying at .[60]
28 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug sprang a leak and sank at dock over night in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Later raised.[61]
The steamer was wrecked when she struck a pier of the Eleventh Street Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the .[63]
10 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
On a trip from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Central America the steamer broke the crank pin in her engine causing a leak that caused her to sink. Three crew killed.[64]
11 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer was destroyed by fire in Lake Michigan near Chicago, Illinois.[65]
Imperial German Navy
The S43-class torpedo boat sank with the loss of five lives after colliding during a storm with the torpedo boat (Imperial German Navy) in the Jade in Germany.[66][67][68][69]
12 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sank at on the Monongahela River. Raised, repaired, and returned to service. One crewman killed, one injured.[70]
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at Campbell's Landing, 125 miles (201 km) above Memphis, Tennessee.[71]
17 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug burned off One Hundred Fifty-Second Street, New York City in the North River, a total loss.[72]
18 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at Evansville, Indiana when an unidentified large wharf boat caught fire and the fire spread.[73]
Unknown wharf boat
United States
The large wharf boat caught fire and was destroyed at Evansville, Indiana. Four other vessels were destroyed when the fire spread.[74]
Unknown wharf boats
United States
Two small wharf boats were destroyed by fire at Evansville, Indiana when a large wharf boat caught fire and the fire spread.[75]
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at Evansville, Indiana when an unidentified large wharf boat caught fire and the fire spread.[76]
The tow steamer was turning two lighters around, but caught on her tow line amidships, she capsized and sank in the St. Johns River nine miles (14 km) below Jacksonville, Florida. Later raised.[78]
The tug caught fire at , Astoria, New York. The city's fire department filled her with water until she sank.[80]
28 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The passenger steamer was sunk in a collision with the anchored USS Columbia at Newport News, Virginia. She had 107 passengers and 42 crew onboard, of which two passengers and one crewman drowned, and one crewman died of injuries in the hospital.[81]
29 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was damaged in a collision with (United States) six miles (9.7 km) above Evansville, Indiana. She proceeded to the bank, where she sank later.[82]
May[]
2 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a snag and sank at Plaquemine, Louisiana. Later raised.[83]
3 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug caught fire off South Amboy, New Jersey. She was beached and burned to the water's edge.[84]
5 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
Fountain City
United States
The steamer caught fire at dock in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Her mooring lines burned through and she drifted onto a mud bank near the Leathem and Smith dock, a total loss.[85][86]
6 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
Columbia
United States
The lighter caught fire at Pier 14, New York City in the North River. She was towed to mid-stream where she burned to the waterline and sank.[87]
7 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer filled and sank while lying at the bank two miles (3.2 km) above Danville in the Tennessee River when she lost a plug in her hull. Later raised.[88]
10 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was sunk when her boiler exploded at Ursina Landing in the Mississippi River. Ten crew lost.[89]
11 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sprung a leak and sank at dock at New Orleans, Louisiana a total loss.[90]
17 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The lumber schooner was damaged in a collision with Onoko (United States) in dense fog and rain in Lake Michigan off Grosse Point, Michigan. Several hours later she was taken under tow by (United States), but sank shortly after that off Racine, Wisconsin. Her captain and four crew were killed, two were rescued by City of Duluth.[91][92]
18 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was sunk in a collision with (United States) in Baltimore Harbor.[93]
20 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
Choctaw
United States
The steamer was sunk in a collision with (United States) in the . Refloated on 1 June and taken to Cleveland, Ohio for repairs.[94]
United States
The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at the Wilmington and Northern Railroad Dock, Wilmington, Delaware.[95]
21 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a snag and sank at Crabapple Bluff on the Chattahoochee River, later raised.[96]
The ocean liner ran aground in heavy fog on Saints Rest Beach shortly after departing Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, without loss of life. She was declared a total loss.
24 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer burned while lying at Palatka, Florida, a total loss.[97]
26 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was capsized by a tornado at Cairo, Illinois. Raised and repaired. 11 lives lost.[98]
1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The steamer was sunk at St. Louis during a tornado when the steamer Pittsburgh (United States) and an unknown wharf boat that had broken free of their moorings struck her causing her to capsize, they passed over her hull.[108][109]
1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The steamer was moored at the foot of Biddle Street, St. Louis when a tornado broke her loose from her moorings. She drifted one mile (1.6 km) down river before sinking. Her captain, his wife and two children were lost.[114][115]
28 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The sand dredge sprung a leak and sank in Lake Erie at Lorain, Ohio and was abandoned as a total loss.[116]
Unknown schooner
The schooner was sunk in a collision with the steamer Nutmeg State (United States) off Catherine Street, New York City in the East River.[117]
30 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1896
Ship
Country
Description
Ben Franklin
United States
The pleasure launch was sunk when she struck Car Float No. 4 (United States) at the Harlem River Bridge, Harlem, New York in the Harlem River. Three women on board drowned.[118]
The ship was wrecked on the east coast of Eastern Fields, British New Guinea, just east of the entrance to Torres Straits. The crew of the captain's boat was picked up by a steamer while the mate's boat managed to reach the coast of New Guinea.[134]
The ferry filled and sank over night at dock in the Ohio River at Shawneetown, Illinois. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[137]
United States
The steamer struck a rock near Pasque Island in Vineyard Sound and was leaking badly enough that she was beached on the island to prevent sinking. Refloated and taken to New York City for repairs.[138]
12 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in five feet (1.5 m) of water in the Mississippi River near Fishers Island. Raised and repaired.[139]
United States
The steamer struck a rock and broke in two in Box Canyon on the Kootenay River, a total loss.[140]
The steamship was damaged in a collision with a barge towed by (United States) in the tearing a hole in her side. She was beached where she filled with water. The next day she was patched and pulled off and taken to Erie Basin, Brooklyn.[144]
The laid up steamer foundered at dock in New Orleans, Louisiana. Later raised.[152]
22 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Cora Plantation, above Donaldsonville, Louisiana, a total loss.[153][154]
23 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1896
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial German Navy
The gunboat sank in the East China Sea off China′s Shandong Peninsula near Tsingtao during a typhoon with the loss of 77 lives. There were 11 survivors.[155][156][157]
24 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1896
Ship
Country
Description
Hidalgo
United States
After being forced ashore by ice about 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) west of Cape Thompson on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska on 21 July, the 175-ton, 101-foot (30.8 m) brigantine broke up when the ice washed away. The revenue cutterUSRC Bear ( United States Revenue Cutter Service) rescued her entire crew of 27.[158]
Messenger
United States
The steamer burned to the waterline at St. Helens, Oregon, a total loss.[159]
25 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug was towing the schooner (United States). When she stopped at Riker's Island to pick up a second tow she was run down, rolled, and sunk by Lamprey. Raised the next day.[160]
United States
The steamer struck a rock near Shoemaker's Chain, she ran to Government Island where she sank in four feet (1.2 m) of water. Raised and repaired.[161]
The tow steamer filled and sank overnight lying at the bank of the Ohio River above Evansville, Indiana, a total loss.[163][164]
United States
The steamer struck an obstruction, capsized and sank in the Mississippi River at Wys's Landing, or sunk in the Missouri River 26 miles (42 km) above Jefferson City, Missouri.[165][166]
United States
The steamer ran aground on the south east end of Fishers Island, New York in thick fog. Refloated on 1 August.[167]
While en route from Singapore to Kuching, the cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked on Victory Island in the South China Sea between Singapore and Borneo.[168]
United States
The schooner was sunk in a collision with (United States) off Cornfield Shoal.[169]
August[]
1 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The yacht broke loose from her moorings, drifted down river striking an empty barge at the Pittsburgh City Docks on the Monongahela River causing her to capsize. Her cabin was wrecked and her boiler dropped out. Her hull and boiler were recovered, repaired, and returned to service.[170]
5 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The yacht was sunk in a collision with Iowa (United States) in Chicago Harbor near the government breakwater.[171]
During a voyage in ballast from Charlevoix, Michigan, to Kenosha, Wisconsin, with a cargo of tamarackbark, the 111.4-foot (34 m), 127.9-gross register ton three-mastedschoonercapsized in Lake Michigan during a squall 20 to 25 nautical miles (37 to 46 km; 23 to 29 mi) southeast of Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin. Her crew of four abandoned ship safely and rowed to Baileys Harbor in a yawl. The tugSydney Smith (United States) and schooner Nancy Dell (United States) righted Emeline on 9 August, but she capsized again that night, and by 22 August had sunk off Anclam Pier in Baileys Harbor in 21 feet (6.4 m) of water, with only two of her masts, her spars, and her gunwales above the surface. By January 1897, the wreck had broken apart, with the stern section moving 600 feet (180 m) north of the bow section. The wreck was deemed a hazard to navigation and dynamited in September 1903.[173] An unidentified wreck lying in an average of 18 feet (5.5 m) of water at 45°04.103′N087°07.110′W / 45.068383°N 87.118500°W / 45.068383; -87.118500 (Unidentified wreck) probably is that of Emeline.[174]
United States
The cargo liner steamer/barkentine was wrecked in thick fog off , California, near Pebble Beach, California a total loss. The crew and much of her cargo of livestock were rescued by .[175][176]
9 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer stranded on the bar at the mouth of the Chagrin River and broke up.[177]
11 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug was sunk in a collision with Float No. 31 being towed by (United States) off Palmer's Dock, Brooklyn.[178]
United States
The steamer caught fire at dock at the foot of Forty-sixth Street, New York City in the North River. She was towed to mid stream by a Fire Department New Yorkfireboat that then filled her with water, sinking her off Pier 1. Wreck removed by 19 August.[179][180]
14 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was sunk in a collision with (United States) in the southern end of Lake St. Clair. Later raised.[181]
or
United States
The steamer was sunk in a collision with (United States) in the southern end of Lake St. Clair. Later raised, repaired and returned to service.[182][183]
18 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was lying by the bank for the night, but careened, filled with water and sank at Harmar on the Ohio River when the river level dropped and she got hung up on the bank. Raised, repaired, and returned to service.[184]
21 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck an obstruction and sank at Johnson's Landing, Arkansas in the Black River. Raised and repaired.[185]
23 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer caught on a wreck off Mispillion River, careened and filled.[186]
United States
The steamer struck an obstruction and sank at Island No. 40 in the Mississippi River, a total loss.[187]
The ferry was sunk when wind blew her against the dock in Baltimore, Maryland.[190]
United States
The steamer was sunk in a collision with the ferry Oregon (United States) in the East River off South Fifth Street, Brooklyn, or Broome Street, New York City. Raised by Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Co.[191][192]
6 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer capsized and sank in the Niagara River off Hickory Reef. A male and a female passenger died.[193]
9 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was wrecked near Manchester. Crew saved.[194]
The former White Star Line passenger liner ran aground on Terschelling Island in the Netherlands. She was declared a total loss. After refloating, she was auctioned for scrap on 9 December 1896 and towed to Amsterdam, where she was broken up
United States
The canal boat, being towed by (United States), struck the anchored yachtNarada (United States) in the North River and sank.[206]
The steamer burned at Dighton, Massachusetts, probably destroyed.[212]
United States
The tow steamer was damaged in a collision with tow boat (United States) in the Hudson River and was run aground to prevent sinking.[213]
Sumatra
United States
The barge, under tow by (United States), sprung a leak in high seas on Lake Michigan and lost her hatches off South Point, Milwaukee, Wisconsin causing her to founder. Two of the crew was rescued by (United States), her captain was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service, and the rest were lost.[214]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown September 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The passenger steamer was sunk when she struck a rock in the Hudson River. Raised, repaired, and returned to service.[215]
October[]
1 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The passenger steamer was destroyed by fire while lying by the bank of the Cumberland River two miles (3.2 km) above Nashville, Tennessee. She burned to the waterline and sank in ten feet (3.0 m) of water.[216]
5 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sprung a leak and sank at the mouth of the Detroit River in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water.[217]
6 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
Columbia
United States
The steamer struck a snag and sank below Raymond City, West Virginia in the Great Kanawha River. Raised, taken to Charleston, West Virginia and repaired.[218]
8 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steam barge caught fire at dock in the Black River, Michigan, and burned to the water's edge.[219][220]
9 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire while anchored in the Warwick River.[221]
On a trip from Green Bay, Wisconsin to Buffalo, New York the steamer was sunk in a collision with (United States) one mile (1.6 km) north of the in 23 feet (7.0 m) of water. Her machinery was salvaged. The wreck was later blown up with dynamite. The crew were rescued by Livingstone.[226][227]
United States
The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with steamer (United States) off Vesey Street, New York in the North River. Four crewmen killed.[228]
The steamer caught fire in Lake Michigan eight miles (13 km) east of Cana Island and her crew abandoned her. The tug took her under tow four hours later near Jacksonport, Wisconsin and towed her to shore and scuttled her by ramming in 15 feet (4.6 m) of water south of Cave Point, but the water was shallow enough that she continued to burn until she was a total loss.[229][230]
19 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a stump and sank opposite Coal Bluff on the Monongahela River. Raised and repaired.[231]
20 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sank after being damaged in high seas on an incomplete breakwater inside the bar at Coos Bay, Oregon sinking in five fathoms (30 ft; 9.1 m) of water, a total loss. Nine crew and four passengers lost. Survivors were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[232][233]
22 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sprung a leak and sank 30 miles (48 km) above Natchez, Mississippi in the Mississippi River. Later raised.[234]
23 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer was sunk at dock overnight in the Gowanus Canal at the foot of Smith Street, Brooklyn in 12 feet (3.7 m) of water when her boiler blew up. Her engineer, the only one on board, was killed. The wreck was removed by the Hudson River Lighterage Company between 11–17 January 1897.[235][236]
25 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
Toledo
United States
The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Yamhill River. She was raised, but while waiting to be taken to Portland, Oregon for repairs she broke loose from her moorings and was wrecked, a total loss.[237]
26 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
Rossia
Imperial Russian Navy
The cruiser ran aground off Cronstadt. She was refloated on 15 December and taken in to Cronstadt.[238]
29 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The yacht struck an obstruction and sank opposite Star Landing, Mississippi, a total loss. Her crew of five abandoned ship in her boat.[239]
30 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer collided with the Kentucky Pier of the Central Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio, sinking in 10 feet (3.0 m) of water. Raised and repaired.[240]
The schooner sank in Lake Superior without loss of life after dragging her anchors and running into a breakwater during a storm at Two Harbors, Minnesota.
31 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The canal boat was sunk in a collision with the barge Enterprise (United States), under tow of (United States), off in the Hudson River due to a steering problem on May Queen.[241]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: unknown October 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The fishing smack was lost in the equinoctial storms in the middle of October. Eleven crew lost.[242]
November[]
2 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was sunk when she was struck at dock by Lycoming (United States) at the St. Paul elevator, Chicago, Illinois.[243]
3 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer burned and sank at dock at Spanish Fort, Louisiana on Lake Pontchartrain. Later raised.[244]
The steamship ran aground and sank at Sheringham, Norfolk. All seventeen people on board were rescued by the Sheringham Lifeboat. The wreck was dispersed by explosives in 1902.[245]
United States
The sailing vessel was sunk in a collision with (United States) off the Bush's Bluff lightship.[246]
8 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The laid up steamer burned and sank at dock at New Orleans, Louisiana, a total loss.[247]
9 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The canal boat was destroyed by fire in the Erie Canal at Brighton, New York.[248]
12 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with (United States) that she was towing when L. B. Johnson crossed V. H. Ketcham's bow and was hit, rolled over and sank in Lake Michigan near Chicago Harbor in smoky weather.[249]
16 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The fishing schooner went ashore at Green Island near Portland, Maine. Crew saved.[250]
17 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship was wrecked in , County Cork with the loss of nine of her crew. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Avonmouth, Somerset.[251]
19 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug was destroyed by fire between Albany, New York and Troy, New York, a total loss.[252]
21 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steam barge caught fire on Lake Superior 20 miles (32 km) off the Portage Lake Canal, off Ontonagon, Michigan. The crew was forced to go to the barge James Mowatt that she was towing and cut the tow line. She eventually drifted ashore near the mouth of Salmon Trout River and burned to the waterline.[253][254]
United States
The passenger steamer struck an obstruction and sank at Craigheads Point, Arkansas 70 miles (110 km) above Memphis, Tennessee. Raised and repaired.[255]
The collier went ashore north of Point Arena and broke in two, a total loss. Six lost. Survivors rescued by the United States Life Saving Service and boats from and , two swam to shore.[257][258]
25 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sprung a leak and sank over night at East Liverpool, Ohio on the Ohio River. Raised, repaired, and returned to service.[259]
27 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a rock and sank at the Mouth of the . She was raised and taken to Portland, Oregon for repairs.[260]
28 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was sunk crossing the Cape Fear bar.[261]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown November 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was heavily damaged and beached when part of her cargo consisting of gasoline exploded at Salem, Massachusetts, fortunately the 300 cases of dynamite on board did not detonate. Her cook suffered burns.[262]
The three-masted schooner capsized in the Atlantic Ocean after departing Brunswick, Georgia, and drifted onto the outer sand bar off Ormond Beach, Florida, where she ran aground. Two crewmen and a civilian rescuer were killed during the incident.[264]
The sailing ship struck a reef off Saldanha Bay, South Africa, and was wrecked with 471 Indian indentured labourers on board. Eighteen crew were killed; there were only four survivors.
The steamer struck a submerged log in Rancocas Creek and was beached to prevent sinking.[267]
13 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The freighter was destroyed by fire at Preston's Landing, Kentucky on the Big Sandy River.[268]
20 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The fishing schooner was heavily damaged by a huge sea breaking over her on 18 December drowning one crewman and fatally injuring another. She was abandoned and the survivors taken off on 20 December by the ocean linerColorado.[269]
22 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a submerged obstruction in a thick snowstorm in Newcastle, Pennsylvania and sank.[270]
United States
The steamer filled and sank over night lying at in six feet (1.8 m) of water. Later raised.[271]
23 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug was sunk in a collision with the tug (United States) in the East River off Grand Street, New York.[272]
26 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer was destroyed by fire at Clark's Dock, Jacksonville, Florida.[273]
28 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The ferry caught fire at dock in Jersey City, New Jersey. Attempts to put out the fire failed and she was towed out into the North River, sinking off Liberty Island.[274]
31 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
During a voyage from Glasgow, Scotland, to St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, carrying general cargo, the 316-foot (96 m), 2,527-gross register tonbarquentine-riggedsteamer was wrecked in a storm at night on , a reef that is part of the , in the Bay of Fundy off Grand Manan, 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) south-southeast of Southwest HeadLight at 44°29.0′N066°51.0′W / 44.4833°N 66.8500°W / 44.4833; -66.8500 (Warwick). Her entire crew of 52 abandoned ship in two lifeboats and was rescued by the fishingschoonerGeorge S. Bontwell (United States), which put to sea into the storm from a nearby anchorage to render assistance.[275]
The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Ouessant, Finistère, France.[276]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1896
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The tug was wrecked in the River Clyde sometime in 1896.[277]
United States
The paddle wheel passenger steamer struck rocks off Key Largo and sank 19 miles (31 km) off Key West, off Loggerhead Key on either 20 January or 20 February.[278][279]
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