List of shipwrecks in October 1890

The list of shipwrecks in October 1890 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during October 1890.

1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1890
Ship State Description
Melmerby  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at New Glasgow, Canada with the loss of fifteen of her crew. She was on a voyage from Quebec, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire.[1]

2 October

List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1890
Ship State Description
Unnamed Austria-Hungary A brigantine caught fire, ran agound on the Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom and became a total wreck. Her crew were rescued.[2]
Unnamed France The schooner foundered off The Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her captain and a boy were landed at Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom by the steamship Tyne (United Kingdom).[3]

3 October

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1890
Ship State Description
Larissa  United Kingdom The collier, a brig, ran aground on the Shipwash Sand. Her eight crew were rescued by the Harwich Lifeboat.[4][5]

11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1890
Ship State Description
Eliza United States The 296.51-gross register ton, 109-foot (33.2 m) bark was wrecked without loss of life on Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea during a gale. The steamship Belvedere (United States) rescued her crew of 35 on 19 October.[6]

12 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1890
Ship State Description
Dartmoor  United Kingdom The steamship Dartmoor, of the Ipswich Steamship Company was transporting a cargo of burnt ore, bagged flour & malt from Ipswich to Newcastle, when she collided in calm conditions with another steamship, the Cobden ( United Kingdom) from Middlesbrough. Whilst the Cobden suffered damage, the Dartmoor foundered and was lost 6 miles ESE of Flamborough Head, in calm conditions. She had nine crew and one passenger.[7]

13 October

List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1890
Ship State Description
John F. Warner United States
John F. Warner
The wooden schooner was driven ashore on the coast of Lake Huron near Alpena, Michigan, where she broke in half and sank in 9 feet (2.7 m) of water at 45°03′03″N 83°26′08″W / 45.050833°N 83.435467°W / 45.050833; -83.435467 (John F. Warner).[8][9]
Thyra  Germany The steamship collided with the steamship Ursula ( United Kingdom) and sank in the English Channel off Beachy Head, Sussex, United Kingdom. Thyra was on a voyage from St. Ubes, Portugal to Hamburg.[10][11]

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1890
Ship State Description
A. S. Piper United States While her crew was ashore, the steam tug caught fire during the evening while moored to a wharf at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The tug Mosher ( United States) pulled her away from the wharf, but the fire burned out of control and destroyed A. S. Piper, which drifted ashore and became a total loss. Her wreck sank near the channel at the head of Sturgeon Bay and was documented as lying at 44°50.079′N 087°22.915′W / 44.834650°N 87.381917°W / 44.834650; -87.381917 (A. S. Piper) in April 1904.[12]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1890
Ship State Description
105S  Regia Marina The torpedo boat foundered in the Piombino Channel off the coast of Italy during a storm.[13]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1890
Ship State Description
Alberta  United Kingdom The 3,168-gross register ton cargo steamship, laden with coal on a voyage from Japan to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ran aground on Sutherland Reef south of Fingal Head Light, New South Wales, Australia. Her crew of 36 reached Tweed Heads in the ship's lifeboats.[14]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1890
Ship State Description
Benton The 77-ton schooner survived hitting the Pollard Rock in the Seven Stones Reef, made it to Falmouth, Cornwall, England, full of water and with her cargo of china clay intact.[15]

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1890
Ship State Description
Cornelius Hargreaves, and
Vizcaya 		United States
Spain 		The schooner Cornelius Hargreaves collided with the steamship Vizcaya 6 nautical miles (11 km) off Barnegat Lighthouse, on the New Jersey coast; both vessels sank within five minutes. Ninety lives were lost.[16]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1890
Ship State Description
Fannie C  United Kingdom The schooner caught fire in the English Channel and was beached at Chesil Cove, Dorset.[17]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in October 1890
Ship State Description
Achilles  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was refloated with assistance from the tug Harwich ( United Kingdom and the Harwich Lifeboat Duke of Northumberland ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and towed in to Harwich, Essex.[4]
Drofa Norway The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were landed at Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[18]
Dunelm  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on the Shipwash Sand. She was refloated with assistance from the tug Harwich ( United Kingdom).[4]

References

  1. ^ "Melmerby - 1890". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  2. ^ "An Austrian brigantine ...". The Cornishman. 9 October 1890. p. 3.
  3. ^ "Shipping". The Cornishman. 9 October 1890. p. 3.
  4. ^ a b c Benham, Hervey (1980). The Salvagers. Colchester: Essex County Newspapers Ltd. p. 199.
  5. ^ "The barque Larissa ...". The Cornishman. 9 October 1890. p. 3.
  6. ^ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (E)
  7. ^ "Dartmoor SS (1882~)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  8. ^ "John F. Warner". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  9. ^ "John F. Warner". Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  10. ^ Renno, David (2008). Beachy Head Shipwrecks of the 19th Century. Sevenoaks: Amherst Publishing. p. 411.
  11. ^ "The Great Storm". Belfast News-Letter. No. 23253. Belfast. 15 January 1890.
  12. ^ Wisconsin Shipwrecks: A.S. PIPER (1880) Accessed 3 July 2021
  13. ^ Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 358.
  14. ^ Tweed Heads Shipwrecks (PDF). Sydney: Government of New South Wales, Heritage Branch. 2000. p. 2. ISBN 1-876415-42-8. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  15. ^ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  16. ^ "Terrible Collision at Sea". The Cornishman. No. 644. 6 November 1890. p. 6.
  17. ^ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  18. ^ "The crew of the ...". The Cornishman. No. 640. 9 October 1890. p. 3.

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