The list of shipwrecks in August 1885 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1885.
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Ship | State | Description |
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Dunalistair | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore at Skegersta Ness, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dundee, Forfarshire to Cardiff, Glamorgan. [1] She had become a wreck by 5 August. [2] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Unnamed | ![]() |
A
pilot cutter was run into by the
steamship
Clan Lamont (![]() |
Ship | State | Description |
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Kandy | ![]() |
The schooner was driven ashore at Carnlough, County Antrim. She was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Carnlough. [3] |
St. Andrew's Bay | ![]() |
The steamship ran aground in Lough Foyle. [3] She was refloated and taken in to Londonderry. [4] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Roscius | ![]() |
The schooner was abandoned in the Irish Sea 6 nautical miles (11 km) off the Hook Lighthouse, County Waterford. Her four crew survived. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. [2] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Humacao | ![]() |
The steamship was wrecked on the Wallace Ledge, off Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the West Indies to Saint John, New Brunswick. When tweve wreckers later went aboard Humacao to salvage her, however, her wreck broke up, slid off the reef, and sank 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) south-southeast of Southwest Head Lighthouse ( 44°31.9′N 066°52.5′W / 44.5317°N 66.8750°W), killing eleven of the wreckers. [5] |
Neptune | ![]() |
The steamship ran aground on the Holm Sands, in the Humber. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to King's Lynn, Norfolk. She was refloated with the assistance of a tug and put back to Hull. [2] |
Unnamed | ![]() |
A
barge was run down and sunk at
Limehouse,
Middlesex by the
steamship Anitlles (![]() |
Ship | State | Description |
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Hannah | ![]() |
The brigantine was driven ashore at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Plymouth, Devon. [4] |
Mary Stewart | ![]() |
The
schooner was run into by the
steamship Claymore (![]() |
Sardinian | ![]() |
The steamship ran aground in the Saint Lawrence River downstream of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was refloated and taken in to Quebec City. [7] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Hermann Friedrich | ![]() |
The ship was sighted whilst on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom eo Wilmington, Delaware, United States. No further trace,. [8] reported missing. [9] |
Oakland | ![]() |
The
steamship collided with the
despatch vessel Blitz (![]() |
Ship | State | Description |
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George and Susan | ![]() |
The
whaling
bark dragged her
anchor, collided with the whaling bark Mabel (![]() ![]() |
Mabel | ![]() |
The
whaling,
bark was lost after the whaling bark George and Susan (![]() ![]() |
Ship | State | Description |
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Batley | ![]() |
The steamship struck the pier at Fécamp, Seine-Inférieure, France and was damaged. She put back to Fécamp. [13] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Octavia Stella | ![]() |
The barque ran aground in the Helford River. She was refloated with the assistance of a tug but ran aground again. She was refloated the next day. [14] |
Welcome Home | ![]() |
The Thames barge collided with the steamship Hilda and sank in the River Thames. Her crew survived. [15] |
Unnamed | Flag unknown | A barque was driven ashore on Flat Holm, in the Bristol Channel. [15] |
Unknown | Flag unknown | The ship was wrecked on the Welsh Grounds, in the Bristol Channel. Three crew were rescued by the Clevedon Lifeboat. [15] |
Ship | State | Description |
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City of Quebec | ![]() |
The ship ran aground in the River Ouse near Goole, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Talcahuano, Mexico to Goole. [15] |
Edgworth | ![]() |
The
steamship was run into by the steamship Isis (![]() ![]() |
Unnamed | ![]() |
A barge was driven ashore at Lossiemouth, Moray. [15] |
Unnamed | ![]() |
A fishing boat sank in the North Sea off the coast of Aberdeenshire with the loss of all seven crew. [18] |
Unnamed | ![]() |
A fishing boat foundered in the North Sea off the coast of Caithness with the loss of all five crew. [18] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Crystal | ![]() |
The steamship ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. [19] She was on a voyage from London to Leith, Lothian. [18] She was refloated with assistance and resumed her voyage. [16] |
Georg | ![]() |
The
barque was abandoned in the North Sea (
56°00′N 5°25′E / 56.000°N 5.417°E). Her crew were rescued by the
steamship Onward (![]() |
Ship | State | Description |
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City of Manatee | ![]() |
The ship sank off Pickens Point, Pensacola, Florida. [21] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Ernst Wilhelm | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore on Hartsmal Island, Outer Hebrides. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Copenhagen, Denmark. [20] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Forsoget | ![]() |
The
barque sailed from
Quebec City,
Canada for
Grimsby,
Lincolnshire,
United Kingdom on 29 July 1885, and was abandoned in position 44°N 41°W in the
Atlantic Ocean on 18 August.
[22]
[23] Her crew were rescued by Albion (![]() |
Ship | State | Description |
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Haddingtonshire | ![]() |
The barque became a total wreck off Point Reyes, California, United States with the loss of eighteen of her twenty crew. She was on a voyage from Portland, Oregon, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire. [25] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Cornwallis | ![]() |
The whaler, a barque, was crushed by ice and sank in the Davis Strait. Her crew survived. [26] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Labrador | ![]() |
The ship was sighted off Bic, Quebec, Canada whilst on a voyage from Quebec City to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. No further trace, reported missing. [8] |
Lincoln | ![]() |
The ship was wrecked at "El Arrastrathdero", Mexico. [27] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Catherine Chalmers | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore in a hurricane at Savannah, Georgia, United States. She was refloated and found to be severely leaky. [28] [29] She was subsequently taken in to Savannah in a waterlogged condition. [30] |
Flid | ![]() |
The barque was in collision with two other vessels and drove ashore in a hurricane at Charleston, South Carolina, United States. [31] |
Marion | ![]() |
The steamship was driven ashore in a hurricane at Savannah. She was refloated with the assistance of a tug. [28] [29] |
Meddor | ![]() |
The barque was wrecked in a hurricane at Charleston. [29] |
N. Mosher |
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The barque was driven ashore in a hurricane at Savannah. [28] [29] |
Propitious | ![]() |
The steamship struck the quayside at Sunderland, County Durham and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Savona, Italy. She put back to Sunderland for repairs. [28] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Achilles | ![]() |
The steamship ran aground at Grimsby, Lincolnshire. [28] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Ange Gardieu | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Caloe Point, Morbihan. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Vannes, Morbihan. [32] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Herald |
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The ship was sighted off "New Anjer", Netherlands East Indies whilst on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States to Hiogo, Japan. No further trace, [33] reported missing. [34] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Dorothea, and Resolute |
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The schooner Dorothera broke from her moorings at Great Yarmouth and collided with the steamship Resolute, which was forced from her moorings. Both vessels became wedged under the Haven Bridge and were severely damaged. [32] |
Sigrid | ![]() |
The ship struck a sunken wreck and foundered in the
Dogger Bank with the loss of all but one of her crew. The survivor was rescued by the
fishing smack Albatross (![]() |
Wakefield | ![]() |
The steamship caught fire and was beached on the Spijkerplaat, off the coast of Zeeland, Netherlands. Her passengers were taken off. She was on a voyage from Grimsby, Lincolnshire to Antwerp, Belgium. The fire was extinguished and she was refloated. [32] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Activ | ![]() |
The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 6 August. [36] |
Adelheid | ![]() |
The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Thisted, Denmark. [16] |
Albert | ![]() |
The steamship was wrecked on the Île de Batz, Finistère. [28] |
Amandus | ![]() |
The galiot was driven ashore and wrecked at Lemvig, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Papenburg to Königsberg. [16] |
Annie | ![]() |
The steamship ran aground at Bordeaux, Gironde, France. [16] |
Architect | ![]() |
The steamship was driven ashore at Pensacola, Florida, United States. She was on a voyage from Pensacola to Liverpool, Lancashire. [16] |
Attilio | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore at Akyab, Burma. [13] |
Aurora | ![]() |
The brig was driven ashore on Heligoland. She subsequently sank but her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the west coast of Africa to Harburg, Germany. [16] [20] |
Azalea | ![]() |
The steamship ran aground in the Sligo River. She was refloated on 4 August and taken in to Sligo. [2] |
Billy | ![]() |
The barque was wrecked on a reef in Spanish East Indies waters. Her crew were rescued. [37] |
British Statesman | ![]() |
The steamship was wrecked before 19 August with much loss of life. There were ten survivors; seventeen people were reported missing. [38] [39] [40] |
Burdwan | ![]() |
The ship was wrecked in the Macclesfield Straits before 24 August. Her crew were rescue. [40] |
Chatsworth | ![]() |
The steamship ran aground at Quillebeuf-sur-Seine, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was on a voyage from Rouen, Seine-Inférieure to Santander, Spain. She was refloated with assistance. [6] |
Cilurnum | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship caught fire at sea and was abandoned with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from the River Tyne to San Francisco, California. [41] [29] |
Clan Matheson | ![]() |
The steamship ran aground in the Suez Canal. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Calcutta, India. [1] She was refloated. [3] |
Comet | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) north of Ballantrae, Ayrshire. [20] |
Dryad | ![]() |
The schooner ran aground in Carnarvon Bay. She was on a voyage from Jersey, Channel Islands to Liverpool. [3] |
Elise | ![]() |
The schooner foundered off Ibiza, Spain. She was on a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône to Bayonne, Loire-Inférieure. [32] |
Elizabeth | ![]() |
The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Islandmagee, County Antrim. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Belfast to Larne. [28] |
Embla | ![]() |
The steamship ran aground at Grangemouth, Stirlingshire. [2] She was refloated and resumed her voyage. [6] |
Felix | ![]() |
The ship was wrecked at Gothenburg. [20] |
Granville | ![]() |
The steamship was driven ashore on Storgrundet, in the Luleå Archipelago, Sweden. She was refloated and resumed her voyage. [16] |
James Groves | ![]() |
The steamship was driven ashore on Saltholmen, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Söderhamn, Sweden to West Hartlepool, County Durham. [16] |
Jarvis Lord | ![]() |
The lake freighter sank in Lake Michigan on 17 or 18 August. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from St. Ignace, Michigan to Chicago, Illinois. |
Johannes | ![]() |
The schooner was driven ashore at Fort Ruyter, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium to Riga. [15] |
John Samuels | ![]() |
The smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Islandmagee. Her crew were rescued. [28] |
Julie | ![]() |
The brig was driven ashore at "Sandrus", Denmark. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Gävle, Sweden. [16] |
M. A. Dixon | ![]() |
The steamship was wrecked at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. All on board were rescued. [4] |
Panormos | ![]() |
The ship collided with an Italian ship in the Sea of Marmara and was severely damaged. She put in to Gallipoli, [32] and was subsequently towed in to Constantinople. [42] |
Peer of the Realm | ![]() |
The barque was wrecked on Lundy Island, Devon. The wreck was towed in to Penarth, Glamorgan on 14 August. [16] |
Phineas P. Henderson | ![]() |
The ship was destroyed by fire at Manila, Spanish East Indies. [4] |
Raven | ![]() |
The sloop was abandoned in the River Mersey at New Brighton, Cheshire. The tug Pathfinder subsequently put two people on board, but she capsized with their loss. [15] Raven was on a voyage from Rhyl, Denbighshire to Runcorn, Cheshire. [20] |
Rogaland | ![]() |
The
barque capsized in a
hurricane in the
Atlantic Ocean with the loss of five of her nine crew. Survivors took to a
raft; they were rescued a few days later, on 12 August, by the barque John R. Stanhope (![]() |
Salvador | ![]() |
The
steamship collided with the steamship
Memnon (![]() |
Sjælland | ![]() |
The steamship ran aground in the Scheldt. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Saint Petersburg, Russia. She was refloated and resumed her voyage, but pu tin to Helsingør in a leaky condition. [4] |
Stanley | ![]() |
The
Thames barge collided with the
steamship Tern (![]() |
Tangier | ![]() |
The steamship ran aground in the Great Bitter Lake. She was on a voyage from Bushire, Persia to London. She was refloated and resumed her voyage. [13] |
Tomma | ![]() |
The schooner was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Oskarshamn to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom. She was refloated and put in to Gothenburg in a leaky condition. [16] |
Tunstall | ![]() |
The steamship was wrecked on the Baldayo Bank, off the north coast of Spain. She was on a voyage from London to Yokohama, Japan. [39] [28] |
Vision | ![]() |
The ship was wrecked in Wick Bay. Her crew were rescued. [15] |
Washington | ![]() |
The
brig was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the
steamship Nicosian (![]() |
Wendola | ![]() |
The schooner ran aground and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Neder Kalix, Sweden to Cowes, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. She was refloated and towed in to Stockholm, Sweden in a waterlogged condition. [2] |
Willy | ![]() |
The barque was wrecked on the Fiery Cross Reef, in the Indian Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hong Kong to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France. [15] |
Unnamed | ![]() |
A buggalow was wrecked in the Gulf of Aden before 25 August with the loss of more than 100 lives. [40] |