List of shipwrecks in 1875

The list of shipwrecks in 1875 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1875.

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1875
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1875
Ship Country Description
Surprize  United Kingdom The pilot cutter foundered in the Bristol Channel off Ilfracombe, Devon. Two crew were rescued by the schooner Britannia ( Sweden).[1]

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1875
Ship Country Description
Britannia  Sweden The schooner ran aground at Port Eynon, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[1]

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1875
Ship Country Description
Marie Reine  France The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[2]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875
Ship Country Description
Georgia Canada Canada The steamship foundered off Maine, United States.

February

14 February

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1875
Ship Country Description
Floresta  United Kingdom The 299 ton Sunderland barque grounded on the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall in fog and quickly sank; her crew of ten were landed at Falmouth, Cornwall by the St Malo lugger Josephine.[3]

16 February

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1875
Ship Country Description
SS Havre  United Kingdom the LSWR Channel Packet from Southampton, founders on Platte Boue rock, 92 survivors. Passengers put ashore on Amfroque; wreck found lying across that of the PSS Waverley ( United Kingdom), which had hit the same rock in 1873.[4] [5] [6]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1875
Ship Country Description
Gothenburg  United Kingdom The McMerkan, Blackwood and Co. owned steamship foundered off the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. At least nine-eight lives lost.

March

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875
Ship Country Description
Columbus  United States She was accidentally rammed and sunk by White Star Line ship SS Adriatic in the Crosby Channel at Liverpool.

Accident occurred on the 9th March 1875

May

7 May

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1875
Ship Country Description
Schiller  Germany The German Transatlantic Steam Navigation Line owned ocean liner ran aground in fog on the Retarrier Ledges, Isles of Scilly, with the loss of 335 lives.[7]

June

13 June

List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1875
Ship Country Description
Geffrard  Australia The Fred Davis (Melbourne) owned brig run aground on a sandbank after the anchor chain parted off Quindalup, Western Australia.[8]

24 June

List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1875
Ship Country Description
Caroline Phillips  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all four crew.[1]

July

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1875
Ship Country Description
Forfait  French Navy
An artist′s impression of Forfait sinking.
The screw corvette sank without loss of life in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the east coast of Corsica after colliding with the ironclad central battery ship Jeanne d'Arc ( French Navy) during naval exercises.[9]

August

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1875
Ship Country Description
Comet  United States The W. M. Hanna and George W. Chapin (Cleveland, Ohio) owned commercial wooden propeller collided with the Manitoba at Whitefish Bay of Lake Superior. Ten lives were lost.

September

Ellen Southard.

1 September

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1875
Ship Country Description
Vanguard  United Kingdom The Royal Navy Audacious class battleship sunk after a collision with HMS Iron Duke near Kish Bank, Ireland.

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1875
Ship Country Description
Ellen Southard  United States The TJ Southard (Maine) owned Full-rigged ship was wrecked in a hurricane at the mouth of the River Mersey, Liverpool. Twenty-seven first class gold Lifesaving Medals awarded by the United States Congress to the local lifeboat men.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875
Ship Country Description
Edith  United Kingdom The London and North Western Railway owned paddle steamer sunk after a collision with the paddle steamer Duchess of Sutherland off Holyhead, Wales. She was salvaged in 1877, rebuilt and returned to service.[10]

October

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1875
Ship Country Description
Cornelia  Belgium The Trawler was struck by Khedive and sunk in the River Scheldt, near Bath, Netherlands.[11]Khedive was undergoing sea trials prior to delivery.

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1875
Ship Country Description
Magenta  French Navy An accidental nighttime galley fire aboard the Magenta-class broadside ironclad while she was in port at Toulon, France, spread out of control and reached her after ammunition magazine, causing her to explode and sink 2 hours 55 minutes after the fire broke out.[12]

November

6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1875
Ship Country Description
Pacific  United States The Paddle steamer sunk after being in collision with Orpheus (flag unknown) off Cape Flattery, United States. At least 318 lives lost.

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1875
Ship Country Description
Alberta  United Kingdom The schooner foundered off Cardigan. Her crew survived.[13]

9 November

List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1875
Ship Country Description
City of Waco  United States The Mallory Line (New York) Steamship sunk after a fire aboard off Galveston, Texas. 56 lives were lost.

19 November

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1875
Ship Country Description
Johanna Antoinette  Netherlands The three-masted schooner was lost off Cardigan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by John Stuart ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[13]
Saladin  Netherlands The two-masted schooner was wrecked at Cardigan.[13]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1875
Ship Country Description
Foscolo  Kingdom of Italy The 452 ton ship from Naples struck the Seven Stones Reef while bound from Montevideo for Dundee with scrap iron and bones. She managed to reach Crow Bar in the Isles of Scilly and sank in the shallows. She was later salvaged and raised.[3]

December

6 December

Deutschland.
List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1875
Ship Country Description
Deutschland  Germany The Norddeutscher Lloyd Steamship ran aground on Kentish Knock sandbank. 78 lives were lost.

22 December

List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1875
Ship Country Description
HMS Goliath  Royal Navy The Vanguard-class ship of the line was destroyed by fire at Grays, Essex. Twenty-three of her crew were killed.
Jenny  Russia The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Pilton, Devon, United Kingdom and was wrecked. Her cew survived. She was on a voyage from Pensacola, Florida, United States to Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.[1]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1875
Ship Country Description
Khedive  Belgium The A Smyers & Co. owned cargo ship ran aground off Ameland, Netherlands. She was on her maiden voyage. She was eventually refloated on 31 December and towed to London by Cambria. Repaired and returned to service.[11]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875
Ship Country Description
Harvest Queen  United States The packet ship of the Black Ball Line sank in a collision with the steamer SS Adriatic in St George's Channel, Irish Sea.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1875
Ship Country Description
Dunbrody  United Kingdom The barque foundered off Labrador, Canada.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. 1 2 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  4. ↑ cite web |url=http://www.rnli.org.gg/lifeboat-timeline/lifeboat-timeline-1803-1899/ |title=1875
  5. ↑ cite |title=Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche |published=2008 |author=YvesDufiel
  6. ↑ "WRECKS of the _Havre_, off Guernsey". The Times. 17 February 1875. p. 5d.
  7. ↑ "Museum News". Scilly Up To Date. April 1999. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
  8. ↑ Wikisource link to Inquiry into the shipwreck of 'Geffrard'. Busselton, Western Australia: Court of Inquiry. Wikisource. 1875.
  9. ↑ dawlishchronicles.blogspot.com The ramming of the Forfait by the Jeanne d’Arc, 1875
  10. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  11. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  12. ↑ Gardiner, Robert, ed., Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 287.
  13. 1 2 3 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
Ship events in 1875
Ship launches: 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880
Ship commissionings: 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880
Ship decommissionings: 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880
Shipwrecks: 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880
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