List of shipwrecks in August 1888

The list of shipwrecks in August 1888 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1888.

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1 August

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1888
Ship State Description
John Cowan  United States The fishing tug caught fire, burned and sank in Platte River Bay in Lake Michigan.[1][2]


3 August

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1888
Ship State Description
Fleetwing  United States The whaler, a barque, was wrecked on a reef 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) northeast of Point Barrow in the District of Alaska during a gale. Her entire crew of 37 survived.[3] Her crew was rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[4]
Jane Grey  United States The schooner was wrecked between Cape Smythe and Point Barrow during a gale.[5] Her crew were rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[4][6]
Ino  United States The schooner was wrecked between Cape Smythe and Point Barrow. Her crew were rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[6]
Mary and Susan  United States The whaler, a barque, was wrecked on a reef 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) south of Point Barrow during a gale.[7] Her crew were rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[4]
Young Phenix, or
Young Phoenix 		 United States The whaler, a barque, was crushed against the shore by ice and lost near Point Barrow. Her 38 crew survived.[8] Her crew was rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[4]

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1888
Ship State Description
Seagull  United Kingdom The Lowestoft lugger sank during a gale off Scarborough with the loss of all nine crew.[9]

6 August

List of shipwrecks: 6 August 1888
Ship State Description
Amphitrite  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and sank in the North Sea 140 nautical miles (260 km) north east by north of Spurn Head, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by Pandora ( United Kingdom). Amphitrite was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to "Neile".[10]
Cambrian, and
Etoile du Sud 		 United Kingdom
 France 		The barques collided at Valparaíso, Chile. Both vessels sank; Cambrian with the loss of fifteen of the seventeen people on board, Etoile du Sud with the loss of seven of her eleven crew.[11][12][13]
Glentilt  United Kingdom The ship collided with a coaster at Valparaíso and was severely damaged.[11] She was beached. Her crew survived.[13]
Success  United States The ship was wrecked at Valparaíso. Her crew were rescued.[11]
Four unnamed vessels Flags unknown The ships were wrecked at Valparaíso.[12]

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1888
Ship State Description
City of Hamburg  United Kingdom The steamship ran ashore at Bolt Head, Devon and was abandoned. Six of her 22 crew reached land in a boat. Nine in another boat were towed in to Salcombe by the Salcombe Lifeboat. Seven in a third boat were reported missing. City of Hamburg was on a voyage from Oporto, Portugal to Southampton, Hampshire.[11]

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1888
Ship State Description
Ino  United States The schooner dragged her anchor and was wrecked at Cape Smyth (71°17′35″N 156°47′15″W / 71.29306°N 156.78750°W / 71.29306; -156.78750 (Cape Smyth)) near Point Barrow in the District of Alaska during a gale. Her crew were rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue-Marine).[4]
Redewater  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore west of Dover, Kent. She was refloated with assistance.[14]

9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1888
Ship State Description
Gomes V  Portugal The steamship was driven ashore on Great Ganilly, Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Oporto.[14] She was declared a total loss.[15]
Mosca  Italy The ship departed from Pensacola, Florida, United States for Sharpness, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. No further trace, reported missing.[16]
Victoria  United Kingdom The tug struck a sunken rock and was wrecked off Cromer, Norfolk. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cromer to Great Yarmouth or vice versa.[14]

10 August

List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1888
Ship State Description
Warren  United States The steamship was blown ashore in a gale at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. One crewman was killed in a fall.[17]

12 August

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1888
Ship State Description
Bosphorus  United Kingdom The steamship collided with the barque Abbey Town ( United Kingdom) and sank in the English Channel off Start Point, Devon. Her 27 crew were rescued by Abbey Town. Bosphorus was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to London.[18]
Brownrigg, and
Etna 		 United Kingdom The full-rigged ship Brownrigg collided with the steamship Etna off the coast of Norfolk. Both vessels were severely damaged. Brownrigg was under tow of the tug Rose ( United Kingdom) on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Cardiff, Glamorgan. She was beached at Winterton-on-Sea with the assistance of Rose and two other tugs. She was consequently condemned. Etna was on a voyage from London to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. She was beached at Sea Palling but was refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth.[10][19][20]
Prosperity  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Ballygunton Point. She was on a voyage from Irvine, Ayrshire to "Kirkal".[10]

14 August

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1888
Ship State Description
Geiser, and
Thingvalla 		 Denmark The steamship Thingvalla ran into the steamship Geiser in the Atlantic Ocean 30 nautical miles (56 km) south of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Geiser was cut in two and sank with the loss of 105 of the 136 people on board. Survivors were rescued by Wieland ( Germany) Geiser was on a voyage from New York, United States to a European port. Thingvalla was severely damaged. Her 455 passengers were taken off by Wieland. Thingvalla put in to Halifax, Nova Scotia.[21][22]
Lancaster  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Owers Sandbank, in the English Channel off the coast of Sussex.[23] She was later refloated and towed in to Southampton, Hampshire.[20]
Queen of the Bay  United Kingdom The paddle steamer was holed by the anchor of a dredger at Cardiff. Her passengers were transferred to Earl of Bute ( United Kingdom) and she settled on the bottom.[19][24][25] The ship was refloated the same day.[26]

15 August

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1888
Ship State Description
Great Western  United Kingdom The paddle steamer ran aground at Weymouth, Dorset. She was on a voyage from the Channel Islands to Weymouth.[23]

21 August

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1888
Ship State Description
Gylfe  United Kingdom The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean by twelve of her fifteen crew. They were rescued by the steamship Persian Monarch ( United Kingdom). Gylfe was on a voyage from Quebec City, Canada to Greenock, Renfrewshire. She was taken in to Queenstown, County Cork in a waterlogged condition on 6 September.[6]

22 August

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1888
Ship State Description
City of Chester  United States
A painting of SS City of Chester (right) sinking after colliding with RMS Oceanic (left).
The passenger ship was in collision with RMS Oceanic ( United Kingdom) in fog in San Francisco Bay and sank with the loss of sixteen lives. She was on a voyage from San Francisco to Eureka, California[27][17]
Gov. Jackson  United States The barge, under tow of Raleigh ( United States), sank off Winter Quarter Shoal. One crewman was lost, survivors were rescued by Raleigh.[17]

23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1888
Ship State Description
Eliza  United Kingdom The ketch went ashore on the western end of the beach at Pentewan, Cornwall; the crew were saved.[28]

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1888
Ship State Description
South Moor  United Kingdom The steamship collided with the steamship Winston and sank in the River Thames at Limehouse, Middlesex. South Moor was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to London.[29]

25 August

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1888
Ship State Description
Albatross  United Kingdom The ship departed from Belize City, British Guiana for Goole, Yorkshire. No further trace, reported overdue.[16]
Bratsberg  United Kingdom The steamship struck a rock off Cape Chatte, Quebec, Canada and then ran aground at Saint-Félicien, Quebec. Three of the twenty people abandoned ship the next day. Fifteen of the remaining seventeen were lost on 27 August. The ship began to break up, and they took to a boat, which capsized.[30] Bratsberg was later refloated and taken in to Quebec City in a severely damaged condition.[31]

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1888
Ship State Description
Vanderbilt  United States The schooner was wrecked in a severe storm with heavy rain and high seas at Pirate Cove (55°21′40″N 160°21′25″W / 55.36111°N 160.35694°W / 55.36111; -160.35694 (Pirate Cove)) in the District of Alaska. Her crew of 27 survived.[32]

29 August

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1888
Ship State Description
Alexandria  United Kingdom The tug caught fire and sank in the Bristol Channel. Her crew survived.[33]
Dinapore  United Kingdom The barque was severely damaged by fire at Londonderry.[34]

30 August

List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1888
Ship State Description
C. Boschetti  Italy The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony. Her twelve crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Rangoon, Burma to Greenwich, Kent, United Kingdom.[35][36]
Dorothea  Germany The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Elizabeth. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus and a boat.[37][35]
Drie Emmas  Belgium The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Elizabeth.[37][35]
Elizabeth Stevens  United Kingdom The barquentine was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Elizabeth. Her crew were rescued.[37][35]
Eugénie Flag unknown The schooner collided with the full-rigged ship Erne ( United Kingdom) and sank off the Blackwater Lightship ( Trinity House) with the loss of two of her five crew. Survivors were rescued by Erne.[38]
Jane Harvey  Denmark The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Elizabeth.[37][35]
Lada  Austria-Hungary The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Elizabeth.[37][35]
Natal  Sweden The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Elizabeth. Her crew were rescued.[37][35]
Rosebud  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked in Mossel Bay. All on board were rescued.[37][35]
Wolseley  United Kingdom The barque was driven into the barque Drie Emmas ( Belgium), came ashore and was wrecked at Port Elizabeth with the loss of a crew member. There were about eleven survivors, who were rescued by rocket apparatus and the Port Elizabeth Lifeboat.[37][35]

31 August

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1888
Ship State Description
Andreas Rus Flag unknown The ship was wrecked at Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony. Her crew were rescued.[39]
Carin  Sweden The brigantine ran aground in the River Ouse. She was on a voyage from Härnösand to Goole, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.[33] She was refloated the next day and completed her voyage.[40]
C. Boschetto Flag unknown The ship was wrecked at Port Elizabeth with some loss of life.[39]
Pelham  United Kingdom The steamship foundered off Holyhead, Anglesey. Her crew were rescued by the fishing trawler Gipsy Queen ( United Kingdom).[40]
Snaresbrook  United Kingdom The steamship collided with the steamship Cairo ( United Kingdom) and sank 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) east of Tarifa, Spain. Ten of her crew were rescued by Cairo.[38]
Seven unnamed vessels Flags unknown The ships were wrecked at Port Elizabeth with the loss of at least three lives.[41]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in August 1888
Ship State Description
Active  United Kingdom The schooner foundered 7 nautical miles (13 km) off Sanda Island, Argyllshire. Her crew were rescued.[42]
Alicia  Spain The steamship ran aground in the River Lee.[43]
Angers  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Cockburn Reef, in the Torres Strait.[20] She was later refloated and resumed her voyage.[44]
Ansgaar  Denmark The barque was driven ashore on the south coast of Amack. She was later refloated with assistance.[45]
Auckland Castle  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Sandhamn, Sweden.[11]
Bentinck  United Kingdom The steamship foundered in the Baltic Sea. Her crew were rescued.[23]
Christiane  Norway The barque was driven ashore at Gothenburg, Sweden. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom to Cronstadt, Russia. She was a total loss.[34]
Christiansund  Denmark The steamship collided with the steamship Haakon Jarl ( Norway) and was severely damaged. Christiansund put in to Bergen, Norway.[46]
City of Philadelphia  United States The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Yloilo, Spanish East Indies to New York. She was refloated.[15]
Countess of Derby  United Kingdom The ship caught fire at Montevideo, Uruguay. The fire was extinguished.[15]
Countess of Devon  United Kingdom The barque caught fire at Montevideo. The fire was extinguished.[11]
Cuxhaven  Germany The steamship ran aground in the River Ouse. She was on a voyage from Goole, Yorkshire, United Kingdom to Hamburg.[42]
Diana  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Cronstadt. She was refloated with assistance.[46]
Domira  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore on Hveen, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Cronstadt.[23] She was refloated.[20]
Drie Zusters  Germany The kuff put in to Arendal, Norway in a waterlogged condition. She was on a voyage from Drammen, Norway to Altona.[46]
Emily  Norway The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the brig Adela ( United Kingdom) Emily was on a voyage from Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada to Pauillac, Gironde, France.[43]
Escalono  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore at Matane, Quebec, Canada. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Montreal, Quebec.[34] She was refloated with the assistance of a tug.[33]
Ernest  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Cemaes, Anglesey. She was on a voyage from Briton Ferry, Glamorgan to Cemaes.[46]
E. W. Gale  United Kingdom The brigantine was driven ashore. She was refloated and towed in to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada in a waterlogged condition.[44]
Florence  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire. She was on a voyage from Odessa, Russia to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.[15]
Gate City  United States The steamship was driven ashore at Boston, Massachusetts. She was later refloated.[11]
Gefle  Germany The steamship was driven ashore on Heligoland. She was on a voyage from Lerwick, Shetland Islands, United Kingdom to Hamburg.[45]
Général Chanzy  France The barque ran aground on the Caloot Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure.[34] She was later refloated and taken in to Vlissingen, Zeeland.[31]
General Trine  Norway The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 130 nautical miles (240 km) west of the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by a Norwegian barque.[10][19]
Giam Paolo  Italy The steamship was wrecked on the Acciteira Reef, off Tarifa, Spain.[34]
Gladys  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Elbe. She was on a voyage from Odessa to Hamburg.[10]
Hjalmar  Norway The ship ran aground in the Drogden. She was on a voyage from Kotka, Grand Duchy of Finland to Cherbourg, Manche, France.[11]
Itchen  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore near Hartland Point, Devon. She was a total loss.[30]
Izvor  Austria-Hungary The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 12 August. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France to Buenos Aires, Argentina.[47][48]
Jane  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in Plettenburg Bay.[34]
Johan Theodor  Netherlands The barque was driven ashore at Ternate, Netherlands East Indies. She was refloated and taken in to Ternate.[45]
Jules Chagot  France The steamship ran aground at Saint-Nazaire, Ille-et-Vilaine. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Saint-Nazaire. She was refloated and beached.[45]
Juliane  Norway The schooner collided with another vessel and sank off Skagen, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Charlestown, Cornwall, United Kingdom to Kallundborg, Denmark.[49]
Kostroma, and
Mars 		 Imperial Russian Navy
 Austria-Hungary 		The troopship Kostroma collided with the steamship Mars near Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. Both vessels were severely damaged. Mars was beached near Yenikale.[10]
Liberta  Norway The steamship ran aground and was wrecked at White Island, Nova Scotia. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Stettin, Germany.[50][51]
Lizzie Stewart  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Malmö, Sweden. She was refloated with assistance.[10]
Lord Warwick  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in Lough Foyle.[42]
Lydia  Russia The schooner ran aground on the Middelgrund, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Oulu, Grand Duchy of Finland to Copenhagen, Denmark.[43]
Maria  Netherlands The schooner foundered at Bandholm, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bandholm to Bordeaux, Gironde.[20]
Mobile Flag unknown The steamship was driven ashore on Zanzibar. She was later refloated.[43]
Nora  Sweden The steamship was driven ashore. She was refloated and taken in to Neder Kalix in a leaky condition.[23]
Ormelie  Norway The barque collided with the steamship Kovno ( United Kingdom) and was severely damaged. Ormelie was on a voyage from Sundsvall, Sweden to London, United Kingdom. She was towed in to Helsingør, Denmark in a waterlogged condition.[23]
Petersburg  Germany) The steamship collided with the steamship Free Lance ( United Kingdom) at Swinemünde and was beached. Petersburg was on a voyage from Königsberg to Stettin.[44]
Phœnix  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Yenisei between 23 and 30 August. She was later refloated.[52][53]
Princess  United Kingdom The steamship foundered off Gotska Sandön, Sweden before 9 August. Her crew were rescued.[14]
Sesanne  United Kingdom The brigantine ran aground on the Whiting Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was refloated but consequently sank. Her crew were rescued.[10]
Soneck  Germany The steamship ran aground. She was on a voyage from Jakobstadt, Grand Duchy of Finland to Barcelona, Spain. She was later refloated and taken in to Gävle, Sweden in a leaky condition.[10]
Sunlight  United Kingdom The steamship collided with a hopper barge in the River Mersey. She was beached between Egremont and New Brighton, Cheshire. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Liverpool, Lancashire.[43]
Terrible  United Kingdom The tugboat foundered off Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland. Her crew survived.[15]
Valkyrien  Norway The barque was driven ashore and severely damaged at "Stroque". She was on a voyage from Pernambuco, Brazil to "Meesoro".[46]
Westoe  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Danube 38 nautical miles (70 km) from its mouth.[44]
William Richards  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 25 August.[48]
Zarate  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Buenos Aires. She was later refloated and towed in to La Boca, Argentina.[11]
Zelica  United Kingdom The brigantine was wrecked at Natal, Brazil. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bahia, Brazil to Boston, Massachusetts.[10]
Unnamed  Russia The lighter sank at Cronstadt.[10]

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