The schooner developed a leak in the gale on 11/12 February off Newfoundland. The crew was taken off just before she sank by the schooner Sylth (Canada).[11]
Abington The steamship collided with the steamship Activa (Germany) and sank in the Scheldt at Antwerp, Belgium. Abington was on a voyage from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Antwerp. The wreck was raised and scrapped in 1893.[17]
The schooner was rammed, and cut in two, and sunk by Estella (United States) off the mouth of the harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Both crewmen on board were rescued by Estella.[23]
Bound from gravel pits north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Milwaukee itself with a cargo of gravel, the 57.4-foot (17.5 m), 26-gross register tonscowschoonercapsized in heavy seas off Milwaukee after her hold filled with water. Her three-man crew clung to her overturned hull until rescued by the fishing schooner Prince (United States). Alma then drifted ashore onto rocks and probably broke up there in 15 to 20 feet (4.6 to 6.1 m) of water.[25]
The steamship ran onto the Runnel Stone, off Land's End, Cornwall, United Kingdom and quickly sank. Her crew abandoned ship and eventually reached shore in the ship's boats. She was on a ballast voyage from Looe, Cornwall to Neath, Glamorgan, Wales.[26][27]
During a voyage from Chicago, Illinois, to Escanaba, Michigan, either in ballast or carrying a cargo of either coal or wood (according to various sources), the 136-foot (41 m), 292.86-gross register tonscrew steamer sank without loss of life in Lake Michigan in 300 feet (91 m) of water 18 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi) off Milwaukee, Wisconsin, within three minutes of colliding in heavy fog with the steamerDouglas (United States). Douglas rescued her crew. A wreck discovered in May 2015 appears to be that of Alice E. Wilds.[29]
The wooden, fully-rigged sailing ship was cut in two in a collision in fog with the steamer Trave (Germany) in the Atlantic Ocean 100 nautical miles (190 km) south east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States, with the loss of two of her 21 crew. The survivors were rescued by Trave. The stern section came ashore at Wells, Maine, United States on 7 August. The bow section drifted ashore on the coast of North Carolina, United States, between Bodies Island and Carrituck Inlet.[31][32]
The partially stripped wreck of the steamer, aground on rocks at Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, since 17 July 1888, sank after being struck by the wake of the passing steamer Yosemite.
The 300-foot (91 m), 2,392-ton lake freighter suffered a structural failure, broke in two, and sank in a gale 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Whitefish Point in 600 feet (180 m) of water in Lake Superior with the loss of 31 lives, including her owner and his family. There was one survivor. The wreck was located in mid 2024.[40][41]
The 14.3-ton, 41.2-foot (12.6 m) schooner was wrecked in "Marosco Bay, Cold Harbor," probably a reference to Morozovski Bay – a name commonly used for Cold Bay at the time – on the Alaska Peninsula in the District of Alaska. Her crew of eight survived.[20]
The barque was wrecked alongside North Pier at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, during a storm. Her entire crew of 11 survived by jumping onto the pier.
The schooner barge went ashore five miles (8.0 km) from Point Pelee, Ontario. Reported a week later as going to pieces, but salvaged in July 1893 and taken to Port Huron, Michigan, with repairs finished on 19 September 1893.[59][60]
The schooner was damaged in a collision with an unknown schooner in a snowstorm eight miles (13 km) off Sambro, Nova Scotia. She filled and sank. The crew took to her boats and were rescued six hours later by a pilot boat.[64]
The steam barge caught fire at L'Anse, Michigan when a kerosene lamp was dropped in a possible arson fire. The fire destroyed the vessel, dock, and warehouse. She was scuttled off the dock in 10–15 feet (3.0–4.6 m) of water.[66]
The steam passenger ship struck a reef in the Taiwan Strait off Sand Island in the Pescadores during a typhoon and foundered with the loss of 125 of the 150 people on board. She was on a voyage from Shanghai, China, to Hong Kong.
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