List of shipwrecks in 1897
The list of shipwrecks in 1897 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1897.
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January
[edit]1 January
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Favorite | The vessel was wrecked on this date in Australia.[1] |
2 January
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Commodore | ![]() | The steamboat was wrecked, or sprung a leak and sank, off Mosquito Inlet, Florida with the loss of either one or seven lives.[2] |
3 January
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Quickstep | ![]() | The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Lake Washington.[3] |
6 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Job T. Wilson | ![]() | The tugboat was sunk by Howard (![]() |
7 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Belle of the Coast | ![]() | The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Carrollton, Louisiana.[5][6] |
Peankeshaw No. 108 | ![]() | The steamer was crushed by ice in mid-channel between Evansville, Indiana and the Green River, a total loss. Her chief engineer drowned.[7] |
9 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Belle of Brownsville | ![]() | The ferry burned to the waterline at Cairo, Illinois.[7] |
Elsa | ![]() | The steamer was wrecked on Colorado Reef on a trip from New Orleans to Central America.[5] |
14 January
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RIMS Warren Hastings | ![]() | The troopship was wrecked off the coast of Réunion with the loss of two lives. |
21 January
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Yosemite | ![]() | The fishing schooner went ashore on Ram Island, near Lockeport, Nova Scotia. Her Cook drowned when she struck, a crewman broke both legs and died on the island before crew was able to get to shore.[8] |
28 January
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Argo | ![]() | The yacht was sunk in a collision with Albert Dumois (![]() |
29 January
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Maggie and Lilly | ![]() | The fishing schooner foundered on the Georges Bank. Her crew taken off by Edith M. McInnes (![]() |
30 January
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Iron Cliff | ![]() | The steamer sprung a leak and sank at Greenville, Mississippi, a total loss.[11] |
Unknown date
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Lizzie J. Greenleaf | ![]() | The fishing schooner was last seen 11 January on Banquereau and probably sank in a gale on 26 January. Lost with all 19 crew.[12][13] |
February
[edit]1 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Alice | ![]() | The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Amite River Later raised.[5] |
City of Athens | ![]() | The steamer sprung a leak and sank at Port Thompson, Florida.[14] |
H. M. Townsend | ![]() | The laid up steamer was sunk by ice 1 mile (1.6 km) below Memphis, Tennessee, a total loss.[11] |
2 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Imbros | ![]() | The steamship ran aground on the Helwick Bank, in the Bristol Channel. She was subsequently refloated and beached at The Mumbles, Glamorgan.[15] |
4 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Roy Lynds | ![]() | The ferry's port side was crushed by ice and she sank opposite Lexington, Missouri in the Missouri River, a total wreck.[2] |
7 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Maggie Paden | ![]() | The steamer was sunk by ice while harbored at the mouth of the Little Kanawha River, a total loss. Her machinery was salvaged.[16] |
8 February
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Eugene | ![]() | The steamer struck a snag near Clayton's Landing and sank in shallow water. The vessel was pumped out and taken to Pine Bluff, Arkansas for repair.[11] |
9 February
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Josephine | ![]() | The ferry sank lying at Glenwood, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River when a pipe froze and burst. Later raised.[17] |
11 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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A. C. Van Raalte | ![]() | The tow steamer's bow was damaged by ice in Lake Michigan, she made it in to the Calumet River and sank.[18] |
General Franz Sigel | ![]() | The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with tow steamer New York Central Lighterage Co. No. 19 (![]() |
12 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Rapid | ![]() | The ketch ran aground and was wrecked at Cardigan.[19] |
13 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Edna | ![]() | The steamer struck something holing her and she sank at Gretna, Louisiana, a total loss.[20] |
14 February
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Mike Dougherty | ![]() | The tug sank at Brown's Station, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River when a pipe froze and burst. Later raised.[17] |
21 February
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T. W. Ferry | ![]() | The fishing steamer was sunk at dock at the Pere Marquette Railway Company dock, Ludington, Michigan when struck by Pere Marquette (![]() |
22 February
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Lucille | ![]() | The laid up launch foundered in a gale at dock in New Orleans, Louisiana. Later raised.[22] |
23 February
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C. W. Batchelor | ![]() | The passenger steamer was forced onto the bank by ice at St. Louis and sank, a total loss.[23] |
26 February
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Eagle | ![]() | The passenger steamer burned at Lexington, Missouri, a total loss.[23] |
March
[edit]2 March
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Cyril | ![]() | The ketch, registered at Falmouth, England, with official number 62042, went missing in Bristol Channel with the loss of her captain, master mariner Thomas G. R. Cooper, and his 17-year-old son Norman Copper, both of Middle Terrace, Falmouth.[citation needed] |
Favorite | ![]() | The steamer struck a tree that had collapsed into the Big Sandy River causing her to careen and sink up to the hurricane deck, from which the passengers climbed onto the tree and from there they were taken to shore in boats. Her machinery was salvaged, otherwise a total loss.[16] |
4 March
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Loy B. | ![]() | The passenger steamer was blown from her moorings at Kimmswick, Missouri sinking in the Mississippi River, a total loss.[23] |
5 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Rialto | ![]() | The cargo ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean 500 miles (800 km) off the coast of Ireland in a hurricane. Her 3rd engineer was killed in an explosion. The rest of the crew was rescued, when she was abandoned on 5 March, by Cartheginian (![]() |
8 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Dauntless | ![]() | The steamer struck a pier of the Union Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, rolled on one side and sank in the Allegheny River. Raised and repaired.[26] |
9 March
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Beverly | ![]() | The ferry struck a bridge entering her slip and sank at Camden, New Jersey.[27] |
12 March
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Occident | ![]() | The steamer struck bottom crossing the bar into Nehalem River bringing down her smokestack and breaking the steam pipe disabling the ship. She was anchored and her crew went ashore. During the night she dragged anchor and went ashore, a total loss.[28] |
14 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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C. O. | ![]() | The steamer, under tow of Oakland (![]() |
Hawk | ![]() | The steamer careened and capsized in the Ohio River in a gale near Jack's Run. Her pilot was killed. The vessel was raised and repaired.[26] |
15 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Ville de Saint Nazaire | ![]() | The 2,640-gross register ton steamer foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during a storm with the loss of 80 lives. The 648-gross register ton schooner Hilda (![]() |
17 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Sunol | ![]() | The sternwheel passenger steamer was capsized and sunk in a collision with barque Olympic (![]() |
Unidentified schooner | ![]() | International intervention in Crete: Attempting to reach Crete with a cargo of munitions and manned by Cretan insurgents, the schooner was sunk off Cape Dia, Crete, in an exchange of gunfire with the torpedo cruiser SMS Sebenico (![]() |
18 March
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Little Sandy | ![]() | The steamer was carried by wind and current into a lock wall at Lock No. 2 on the Kentucky River. She was towed off, but sank a short distance down river.[33] |
19 March
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Willapa | ![]() | The steamer was stranded on Regatta Reef in Southeast Alaska.[3] |
22 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Fidget | ![]() | The steamer was sunk in a collision with Asa W. Hughes (![]() |
25 March
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Fred Nellis | ![]() | The steamer burned at Brooklyn, Illinois, a total loss.[11] |
28 March
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Amelia | ![]() | The sloop foundered during a storm off the Bell Buoy in Pensacola Bay, Florida. Eight of nine people aboard lost.[34] |
30 March
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El Rio Rey | ![]() | The steamer filled and sank at the Memphis Wharf at the foot of Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, in a violent storm, a total loss.[35] |
Kinkora | ![]() | During a voyage with a cargo of lumber from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to London, the merchant ship — an iron-hulled sailing ship — was wrecked on a reef off Clipperton Island in the Pacific Ocean. All 23 hands reached shore safely. On 17 May, seven crewmen set out on a 700-nautical-mile (1,300 km; 810 mi) voyage in an open boat to Acapulco, Mexico, which they reached on 3 June after 15 days at sea. The third-class cruiser HMS Comus (![]() |
31 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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City of Columbus | ![]() | The steamer struck rocks and sank in Smith's Bend two miles (3.2 km) above Gordon, Alabama on the Chattahoochee River, a total loss.[14][38] |
April
[edit]1 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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J. F. C. Griggs | ![]() | The steamer struck an embedded log and sank at Barnett's Landing in the Chattahoochee River, a total loss. Her chief engineer and two other crewmen were killed. Her machinery was salvaged.[14][38] |
2 April
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Clifton | ![]() | The steamer sank overnight at the Pittsburgh Wharf. Raised and repaired.[26] |
3 April
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R. T. Coles | ![]() | The steamer took a shear in King's Eddy and struck the bluff tearing a hole in her starboard side and she sank in 10 feet (3.0 m) of water in the Cumberland River.[16] |
5 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Assaye | ![]() | The cargo ship was wrecked on Blonde Rock, off Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.[39] |
John W. Hart | ![]() | The steamer struck an obstruction in the Cumberland River near Granville, Tennessee and was beached. She caught fire and burned to the water's edge.[16] |
7 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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James and Agnes | ![]() | The schooner struck the Scarweather Sands, in the Bristol Channel and was consequently beached in Black Rock Bay. Her five crew were rescued.[15] |
9 April
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Bonita | ![]() | The fishing schooner foundered off the Plymouth Light. Her crew was saved.[8] |
Nellie Smith | ![]() | The barkentine was sunk in a collision in thick fog with steamer La Grande Duchesse (![]() |
11 April
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Yaquina | ![]() | The freighter grounded on a bar off a wharf at Hueneme, California causing her to flood and sink, abandoned as a total loss.[28] |
12 April
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Howard P. Simmons | ![]() | The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Crooked River. Later raised.[14] |
16 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Charles H. Taylor | ![]() | The fishing schooner wrecked on Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Her crew rowed to safety in her dories.[8] |
Ibex | ![]() | The GWR-owned ship struck the Noirmontaise rocks off Jersey, Channel Islands and was beached in Portlet Bay, Jersey. She was refloated and re-entered service. |
17 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Therese | ![]() | Carrying a cargo of about 10 tons of general merchandise, seven passengers, and a crew of six, the 74.45-gross register ton, 77.8-foot (23.7 m) schooner was wrecked without loss of life at 57°43′N 155°28′W / 57.717°N 155.467°W in Puale Bay (57°41′N 155°29′W / 57.683°N 155.483°W), sometimes also called "Cold Bay," on the coast of the District of Alaska during a gale.[41] |
19 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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ARA Santa Fe | ![]() | The Corrientes-class destroyer was wrecked in the River Plate off Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.[42] |
27 April
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Wanderer | ![]() | The steamer burned to the waterline at dock when a nearby burning warehouse exploded and she was enveloped in flames at Newport News, Virginia. Two crewmen drowned.[43] |
29 April
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Ada | ![]() | The ketch was wrecked at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. |
Unknown date
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Barga | ![]() | The steamer was declared missing, having departed Huelva, Spain, for Antwerp, Belgium, on 30 March.[44] |
May
[edit]1 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Ability | ![]() | The ketch was driven ashore along with four other ships at Cape Hawke Bay, Australia, during a storm. |
3 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Bruxelles | ![]() | The steamer ran aground on St. Pierre Island, Seychelles, a total loss.[44] |
Collynie | ![]() | The coasters Collynie and Girnigoe (![]() |
L. B. Gilchrist | ![]() | The barge, under tow of Right Arm (![]() |
5 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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General Siglin | ![]() | The 81-ton, 80-foot (24.4 m) sealing schooner was sighted by the sealing schooner Willard Ainsworth (![]() ![]() |
Talfer | ![]() | The schooner-yacht was sunk in a collision in thick fog with steamer City of Fitchburg (![]() |
6 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Plow Boy | ![]() | The passenger steamer struck a snag below De Witt, Missouri and sank in the Missouri River, a total loss. Her machinery was salvaged.[33] |
8 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Gwendoline | ![]() | The steamer struck rocks and the wrecked Ruth ![]() |
Maggie | ![]() | The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Conway, South Carolina.[4] |
Ruth | ![]() | The steamer struck rocks in the Upper Kootenai River going through "Jennings Canyon" five miles (8.0 km) above Jennings, Montana when a log jammed her rudder, a total loss.[28] |
9 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Annie E. Rudolph | ![]() | The schooner was sunk in a collision with the tug Paoli (![]() |
10 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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May | ![]() | The steamer sank in a gale at Bolivar Point, Galveston Bay, Texas, a total loss.[14] |
16 May
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Alfred Mosher | ![]() | The 70.8-foot (21.6 m), 37.74-gross register ton steam screw tug caught fire while moored to a pier at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The tug Nelson (![]() |
18 May
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Ida | ![]() | The canal boat, under tow by steamer G. H. Notter (![]() ![]() |
20 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Florida | ![]() | The steamer was sunk in a collision in dense fog with George W. Roby (![]() |
31 May
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Arctic | ![]() | The Alaska Commercial Company sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed at Circle City, District of Alaska, by the spring breakup of ice on the Yukon River.[55] |
June
[edit]2 June
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Pottsville | ![]() | The steamer grounded at a wharf in Beverly, Massachusetts and filled. Raised and repaired.[47] |
9 June
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Aden | ![]() | The steamship sank on the eastern coast of Socotra while carrying passengers from Colombo, Ceylon, to London.[56] |
12 June
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Gangut | ![]() | The coast defense ship struck an uncharted rock and sank in the Gulf of Finland. |
14 June
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Lulu B. Crammer | ![]() | The steamer's condenser pipe developed a leak and she was put ashore on Tinicum Island to make repairs. She caught fire and burned to the waterline.[27] |
15 June
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Clara Cavett | ![]() | The steamer struck a snag near Pittsburgh in the Ohio River springing a bad leak. She was run onto a bar and sank up to her main deck. Raised and repaired.[26] |
16 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Foudroyant | ![]() | ![]() |
18 June
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David Kemps | ![]() | The steamer was destroyed by fire in Black Creek off the St. Johns River.[2][57] |
20 June
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Hattie | ![]() | The schooner was sunk in a collision with Dorchester (![]() |
21 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Cadet | ![]() | The steamer grounded at a wharf in Lynn, Massachusetts and sank. Raised and repaired.[47] |
25 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Christie and Mabel | ![]() | The fishing sloop was sunk in a collision with State of Maine (![]() |
William O. Lowery | ![]() | The schooner was sunk in a collision with the tug Chicago (![]() |
30 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Harry F. Browder | ![]() | The steamer was sunk in a collision with the barge D. H. Keyes, under tow by Joe D. Dudley (both ![]() |
July
[edit]1 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Dove | ![]() | The steamer was wrecked three miles (4.8 km) off Cape Tribulation. Raised in November, repaired and returned to service as Jessie.[59] |
5 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Heathmore | ![]() | The Liverpool steamer ran into the Seven Stones Reef at full speed while en route from Santander to Glasgow with 2,400 tons of iron-ore. She floated clear at 8 am and anchored two miles away with the crew pumping water all day. By evening they took to the boats and were picked up by Lady of the Isles as Heathmore sank in 40 fathoms (240 ft; 73 m).[60] |
9 July
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Anna L. Russell | ![]() | The schooner was damaged in a collision with Seth Chapman (![]() |
15 July
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Jim Montgomery | ![]() | The steamer sprung a leak and sank at dock at Madison, Indiana. Later raised.[7] |
17 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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A. R. Gray | ![]() | The steamer burned to the waterline while lying at Andalusia, Pennsylvania.[27] |
19 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Seth Chapman | ![]() | The tug was passing through Hell Gate when a towline got hung up in her wheel, she drifted onto Mill Rock and sank.[40] |
20 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Concha | ![]() | The steamer collided with Saint Fillans (![]() |
J. W. Eviston | ![]() | The steamer was burned to the waterline in the harbor at Duluth, Minnesota.[33] |
25 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Hester Thomas | ![]() | The vessel struck an obstruction in the Wabash River and sank in three feet (0.91 m) of water. Later raised and repaired.[11] |
26 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Advance | ![]() | While anchored off New South Wales, Australia, in Botany Bay at the entrance to Cooks River, the schooner was driven ashore on Lady Robinsons Beach during a fierce squall after her port anchor chain parted and she dragged her starboard anchor chain. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. |
Benton | ![]() | The passenger steamer struck a bridge at Sioux City, Iowa and sank with two holes in her hull, a total loss.[33] |
28 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Gleaner | ![]() | The sloop was sunk in a collision with City of Gloucester (![]() |
Gypsy | ![]() | The steamer struck a snag in the Upper Willamette River four miles (6.4 km) above Salem, Oregon sinking in eight feet (2.4 m) of water.[28] |
31 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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William M. McDonald | ![]() | The fishing schooner wrecked at Great Point, Nantucket. Crew Saved.[8] |
August
[edit]3 August
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Fleming | ![]() | The schooner was sunk in Chesapeake Bay. Work to remove the wreck was completed on 18 November 1897.[61] |
4 August
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River Queen | ![]() | The steamer was sunk at dock in Detour, Michigan when struck by the barge Martha (flag unknown). Raised and repaired.[21] |
5 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Leo | ![]() | The steamer was dragged down and sunk while tied up alongside Mattie Winters (![]() |
Mattie Winters | ![]() | The steamer filled and sank over night due to a leak at Greenville, Mississippi, a total loss. She dragged down Leo (![]() |
Mexico | ![]() | During a voyage from Sitka, District of Alaska, to Victoria, British Columbia, and ports in Puget Sound in Washington with 70 passengers, 71 crewmen, and a cargo of three tons of general merchandise on board, the 1,797-gross register ton, 265-foot (80.8 m) steam schooner sank in 510 feet (155 m) of water two hours after striking West Devil Rock (54°40′N 131°36′W / 54.667°N 131.600°W) in Dixon Entrance on the Canada-United States border between British Columbia and the District of Alaska. Everyone on board reached safety in the ship′s boats.[62] |
9 August
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Oakland | ![]() | The passenger cargo ship ran aground on the bar at Ballina, New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. |
12 August
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Katy Smith | ![]() | The tow boat sprang a leak over night and sank at dock in Port Richmond, New York. Raised the next day.[40] |
Navarch | ![]() | Trapped in pack ice in the Chukchi Sea off Icy Cape, District of Alaska, since July 1897, the 494-ton steam whaling bark was abandoned off Blossom Shoals (71°23′29″N 156°28′00″W / 71.39139°N 156.46667°W). Sixteen of her crewmen died while trying to cross the ice and reach shore. Her 16 surviving crewmen were rescued by the revenue cutter USRC Bear (![]() ![]() |
Unknown coal boat | ![]() | The coal boat was sunk in a collision with the excursion barge Carrier, under the tow of Hot Spur ( both ![]() |
13 August
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Nat Sutton | ![]() | The tow steamer burned at Providence Dry Dock, Providence, Rhode Island, a total loss.[47] |
16 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Onward | ![]() | The tow boat burned at Lucas Landing in the Monongahela River, a total loss.[64] |
18 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Gov. John A. Dix | ![]() | The steamer foundered lying at New Orleans, Louisiana, a total loss.[22] |
21 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Marathon | ![]() | The fishing schooner sprung a leak and sank off Cape North, Nova Scotia. Crew rowed to safety in her boats.[8] |
Ralph | ![]() | The steamer struck a snag and sank in the St. Francis River two miles (3.2 km) above the mouth of the L'Anguille River. Raised and repaired.[16] |
24 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Felix | ![]() | The barge, under tow of Nathan Hale (![]() |
25 August
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White Beaver | ![]() | The steamer was destroyed by fire at Brownsville, Minnesota.[33] |
31 August
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Three Brothers | ![]() | The schooner was sunk in a collision with Potomac (![]() |
September
[edit]1 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Geo. L. Bass | ![]() | The steamer foundered at Cabin Point, Louisiana when her seams open. Later raised.[22] |
6 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Unknown barge | ![]() | The barge, under the tow of William K. Stevenson (![]() |
7 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Hueneme | ![]() | During a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to St. Michael, District of Alaska, carrying two passengers, nine crew, and 600 tons of cargo consisting of a steam launch and the lumber and materials to construct two river steamers and a barge, the 346.77-net register ton, 142.3-foot (43.4 m) schooner was wrecked without loss of life in rain and fog at Cape Khituk (54°24′15″N 164°47′30″W / 54.40417°N 164.79167°W) on Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands.[66] |
11 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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City of Brunswick | ![]() | The steamer burned to the waterline at dock in Mayport, Florida.[2] |
12 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Florence | ![]() | 1897 Hurricane No. 2: The steamer sank at dock in a hurricane at Sabine Pass.[14] |
Henrietta | ![]() | The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in four feet (1.2 m) of water in the Ohio River at Five Mile, Ohio. Raised and repaired.[16] |
John P. Smith | ![]() | 1897 Hurricane No. 2: The tug broke free from the barge Mexico (flag unknown), capsized and sank in a hurricane in Sabine Pass, later located in Sabine Lake. All on board, her captain, the pilot, and one other crewman died.[14] |
J. V. Guillotte | ![]() | 1897 Hurricane No. 2: The steamer sank at dock in a hurricane.[14] |
13 September
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Lillie | ![]() | The steamer burned at dock in Nantasket, Massachusetts, a total loss.[58] |
14 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Belle Memphis | ![]() | The passenger steamer struck an obstruction below Chester, Illinois and sank in the Mississippi River, a total loss.[33] |
15 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Catskill | ![]() | The steamer was sunk in a collision with St. Johns (![]() |
16 September
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Cordova | ![]() | The fishing schooner went ashore at Pass Island, Newfoundland. Crew saved.[8] |
18 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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John Rourke | ![]() | The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in the Satilla River.[4] |
20 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Gazelle | ![]() | The steamer sank at dock in Yalaha, Florida in a storm when she got caught under the dock over night. Raised the next day.[2] |
21 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Edna | ![]() | The yacht was sunk at dock in the Milwaukee River when struck by Coe (![]() |
James B. Schuyler | ![]() | The steamer caught fire at dock over night at East Twenty-First Street, New York City. The New York City Fire Department was unable to put out the fire and she sank.[40] |
Jessie H. Freeman | ![]() | The steam whaling bark was crushed by ice in the Seahorse Islands off Point Franklin, District of Alaska in the Arctic Ocean, Two days later she was accidentally set on fire by natives and burned to the water's edge. The whaling steamer Belvedere (![]() |
Orca | ![]() | The 628-ton three-masted steam whaling bark was crushed by ice in the Seahorse Islands off Point Franklin, District of Alaska, in the Arctic Ocean, sinking three or four days later. The whaling steamers Jessie H. Freeman and Belvedere (both ![]() |
22 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Jessie H. Freeman | ![]() | The 516-ton steam whaling bark was crushed in ice and abandoned in the Chukchi Sea off the Seahorse Islands (70°53′N 158°42′W / 70.883°N 158.700°W) off the coast of the District of Alaska. Her crew survived. Eskimos later accidentally burned the vessel, and she sank.[70] |
R. L. Mabey | ![]() | The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Brunswick, Georgia.[4] |
SMS S26 | ![]() | The S24-class torpedo boat sank in a storm at the mouth of the Elbe off Cuxhaven, Germany.[71] |
28 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Glance | ![]() | The steamer was crowded by Gazelle (![]() |
29 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Lynx | ![]() | The Ferret-class destroyer ran aground on Dodman Point, Cornwall, England, in fog. She managed to refloat herself and limped to Devonport.[72] |
HMS Thrasher | ![]() | The Quail-class destroyer ran aground on Dodman Point, Cornwall, England, in fog. She was escorted to Falmouth, Cornwall, and eventually made it to Devonport for repairs.[72] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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John M. Abbott | ![]() | The laid up steamer sprung a leak and sank at Phillip, Mississippi. Total loss.[73] |
October
[edit]1 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Idaho | ![]() | The 81-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Great Gull Isle on the coast of Maine. All three people on board survived.[74] |
2 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Mary Morton | ![]() | The passenger steamer struck an obstruction at Tower Island, Illinois and sank, a total loss.[33] |
3 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Rowena Lee | ![]() | The steamer struck a snag and sank in 12 feet (3.7 m) of water at Ashleys Point, Arkansas. Raised and repaired.[16] |
6 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Commodore Duryea | ![]() | The steamer was sunk in a collision with City of Chester (![]() |
Sallie | ![]() | The steamer was sunk in a collision with Old Point Comfort (![]() |
7 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Antelope | ![]() | During a voyage under tow by the steamer Hiram W. Sibley (![]() |
Mary Me | ![]() | The schooner was wrecked in a gale on the west end of St. George Island, Florida.[34] |
8 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Bart E. Linehan | ![]() | The steamer struck a snag and sank one-quarter mile (0.40 km) above Buena Vista, Iowa in eight feet (2.4 m) of water. Raised and repaired.[33] |
Clyde | ![]() | The tug burned to the waterline and sank while anchored at Tavenier Key, a total loss.[14] |
E. B. Hale | ![]() | The steamer foundered after suffering engine failure in a gale on Lake Huron and got caught in the wave troughs 37 miles (60 km) above Pointe aux Barques Light. After failed attempts to pass tow lines her crew was rescued by Nebraska (![]() |
10 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Ouida | ![]() | The steamer foundered on Grand Lake, Louisiana in a gale. Boiler and machinery were scheduled to be salvaged.[22] |
12 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Daisy | ![]() | The steamer burned near Clinton, Washington.[3] |
May Bryan | ![]() | The laid up steamer sank at Washington, Missouri in the Missouri River due to dried out seams, a total loss.[33] |
16 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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C. W. Wells | ![]() | The steamer caught fire on Lake Erie three miles (4.8 km) from Bar Point Shoal Light and burned to the waterline.[65] |
New Mattie | ![]() | The steamer struck a snag and sank near Star Landing, Mississippi in the Mississippi River. Raised and repaired.[16] |
17 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Alfred A. | ![]() | The Sloop foundered off Marblehead, Massachusetts in a gale. Two crew died.[8] |
19 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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George R. Ford | ![]() | The dredge was sunk when her boilers exploded at Charleroi, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River, a total loss. Her captain and steward were killed.[64] |
21 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Ida Smith | ![]() | The steamer caught fire over night, burned to the waterline and sank at Letart Falls, Ohio, a total loss.[16] |
23 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Caspar | ![]() | The steam schooner was wrecked on Saunders Reef four miles (6.4 km) south of Point Arena in a gale causing her to capsize and go ashore, a total loss. 13 crew were killed, her captain and 1 crewman survived.[28][80] |
Richard H. Vandecar | ![]() | The tug was destroyed by fire at dock in Watervliet, New York.[27] |
24 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Pelican | ![]() | Carrying a crew of 40 and a cargo of railroad ties, the 2,338-gross register ton, 327-foot (99.7 m) tramp steamer departed Port Gamble, Washington, on 3 October[81] or Port Townsend, Washington on 12 October[82] (sources disagree) bound for Taku, China, via Yokohama, Japan, and was never seen again after passing Cape Flattery, Washington[82] (although one source claims she was last sighted on 16 October[44]). A message in a bottle later found washed ashore on the coast of the District of Alaska on the Alaska Peninsula in Portage Bay (50°34′N 155°35′W / 50.567°N 155.583°W) on 15 May 1899[83] was from a man known to be aboard Pelican, and it stated that Pelican was sinking in the North Pacific Ocean about 120 nautical miles (220 km; 140 mi) south of Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands at 57°N 175°W / 57°N 175°W and that those aboard were abandoning ship in "frail" lifeboats.[81] Another message in a bottle from the same man found on "Ukomok Island"[84] (probably Chirikof Island in the Gulf of Alaska)[81] on 9 February 1900 identified the date of the sinking as 24 October 1897.[81][84] Other ships reported a severe gale in the area in which Pelican sank at the time she sank.[83] |
28 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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John W. Dodge | ![]() | The oyster boat sank at dock at East Providence, Rhode Island when an unknown person boarded and opened her seacock. Raised and found undamaged.[47] |
29 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Fusō | ![]() | When a strong gale struck while she was anchored in the Seto Inland Sea off Nagahama, Shikoku, Japan, the central battery ironclad's anchor chain broke and she drifted across the harbor, collided with the ram of the protected cruiser Matsushima, and then struck the protected cruiser Itsukushima (both ![]() |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Anne and Mary | ![]() | The fishing schooner vanished after leaving Southwest Harbor, Maine in mid October, one source believes sank in a gale on the Georges Bank or Grand Banks on 12 November. Lost with all 14 crew.[88][89] |
Hustler | ![]() | The fishing schooner reported lost on 19 October on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, or was last sighted on 22 November 25 miles (40 km) south east of Sable Island heading for home. All 18 crew were killed.[90][91] |
November
[edit]1 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Progress | ![]() | The dredge burned and sank at the foot of Twenty-Second Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River.[64] |
5 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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H. D. Mould | ![]() | The steamer struck a dike at Reedy Island knocking a hole in her bottom and was beached at Port Penn, Delaware.[47] |
6 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Idaho | ![]() | The steamer foundered in a heavy gale of rain and hail in Lake Erie 12 miles (19 km) above Long Point, Ontario in 7 fathoms (42 ft; 13 m) of water. Her Captain and 18 crew died. Two crewmen were rescued by Mariposa (flag unknown) from her mast.[65][92][93] |
7 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Castalia | ![]() | The steamer struck a piling below a bridge at Sioux City, Iowa in the Missouri River and sank. Later raised and repaired.[33] |
8 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Vision | ![]() | The yacht was wrecked in a gale near the Pass A L'Outre Light, Louisiana, a total loss.[22] |
11 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Hattie T. Brown | ![]() | The steamer foundered at anchor in a gale in Saginaw Bay.[78] |
12 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Shirley | ![]() | The steamer struck an obstruction and sank to just over her main deck below Portsmouth, Ohio in the Ohio River. Declared a total loss after several unsuccessful attempts to raise her.[17] |
13 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Rover | ![]() | The steamer struck a snag and sank at Van Lane, Mississippi, a total loss.[14] |
17 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Progress | ![]() | The steamer struck the pier of a railroad bridge and sank at Point Perry in the Monongahela River. Raised and repaired.[64] |
Ondawa | ![]() | The tug was destroyed by fire at dock in Watervliet, New York.[47] |
18 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Bluff City | ![]() | The sternwheeler passenger/cargo steamer burned at Chester, Illinois in the Mississippi River, a total loss.[33][94] |
Truckee | ![]() | The steamer was caught in a three-daygGale that began on 16 November. she developed a significant leak on 17 November and was wrecked when rising water put out her fires after crossing the bar into Umpqua River on 18 November and went ashore, a total loss. All on board were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[28][95][96] |
22 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Dreadnaught | ![]() | The schooner was sunk in a collision with the tug Col. John F. Gaynor (![]() |
F. A. Pike | ![]() | The schooner was sunk in a collision with Menemsha (![]() |
Telegraph | ![]() | The passenger steamer struck the bank 15 miles (24 km) above Louisville, Kentucky with such force that she sank, a total loss.[7] |
23 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Flirt | ![]() | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Burton Bradstock, Dorset with the loss of three of her six crew.[98] |
24 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Dove | ![]() | The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Toledo, Ohio.[5] |
25 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Jennie B. | ![]() | The yacht capsized and sank in the Yazoo River. Her machinery was salvaged.[14] |
26 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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H. E. Runnells | ![]() | The steamer stranded on Point Abbaye in Lake Superior in a snowstorm. Pulled off on 30 November.[99]{[21] |
27 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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J. R. Silliman | ![]() | The barge, under tow of Gertrude (![]() ![]() |
Lottie | ![]() | The schooner was sunk in a collision with the barge J. R. Silliman, under tow of Gertrude (both ![]() |
29 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Frank A. Low | ![]() | The steamer burned to the waterline at Norfolk, Virginia.[43] |
Nahant | ![]() | The steamer caught fire at the Chicago and North West Dock No. 4 at Escanaba, Michigan. The dock caught fire and was destroyed along with 30 ore cars, and she was burned out. Two crewmen killed.[100][101][21] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Anne and Mary | ![]() | The fishing schooner vanished after leaving Southwest Harbor, Maine in mid October, one source believes sank in a gale on the Georges Bank or Grand Banks on 12 November. Lost with all 14 crew.[88][89] |
Carrie E. Lane | ![]() | The schooner sank on the LeHave Bank in the gale of 12–13 November. Crew taken off by J. W. Collins.[8] |
Edith H. Koyen | ![]() | The schooner sank in the vicinity of the Kewaunee, Wisconsin Life Saving Station. Salvage started, with assistance of the United States Life Saving Service, on 21 September 1898 and hauled onto the ways on 28 September.[102] |
Hustler | ![]() | The fishing schooner was reported lost on 19 October on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, or was last sighted on 22 November 25 miles (40 km) south east of Sable Island heading for home. All 18 crew were killed.[90][91] |
Innisfallen | ![]() | The ship sank in a storm in the English Channel near the Goodwin Sands with the loss of eight lives. |
John H. McKenzie | ![]() | The schooner was spoken to a few days before the gale of 12–13 November and probably sank in it. Lost with all 16 hands.[8] |
Susan R. Stone | ![]() | The schooner left Provincetown, Massachusetts on 25 November and vanished. Lost with all 19 hands.[103] |
December
[edit]2 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Friend to all Nations | ![]() | The Margate surfboat capsized with the loss of nine of her 13 crew.[104] She was going to the assistance of Persian Empire (![]() |
Persian Empire | ![]() | The ship collided with a steamship and was beached on the Margate Sands, Kent. Her crew were rescued by the lifeboat Quiver (![]() |
Prince Albert de Belgique | ![]() | The steamer collided at Antwerp, Belgium, with the sailing ship Larnaca (![]() |
5 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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George W. Morley | ![]() | The steamer, also known as Geo. W. Morley, caught fire from a lantern exploding in the engine room. She was run aground 100 yards (91 m) off Greenwood Avenue, Evanston, Illinois and burned to the waterline, a total loss. Her engine was salvaged in 1898. Her wreck remains where it sank to this day.[21][107][108] |
Nor'Wester | ![]() | The 32.52-ton fishing schooner was blown onto rocks and wrecked in Clarence Strait in Southeast Alaska. All on board abandoned ship in a small boat and survived.[63] |
6 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Cleveland | ![]() | The steamer broke her shaft off the Columbia River and drifted ashore at Lyall Point, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Refloated and taken to Quartermaster Harbor arriving on 5 January 1898. Her crew abandoned ship in her boats. One died of exposure. One boat with eight crew aboard disappeared and was lost. 13 crew and 2 passengers survived.[3] |
Moro | ![]() | The freighter broke her rudder crossing the bar into Coquille River and went ashore, a total loss.[28] |
7 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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C. L. Marchal | ![]() | The lighter filled and sank at dock at the foot of Sixteenth Street, New York City, New York, in the East River due to a tank being allowed to overfill. Raised and drydocked.[27] |
9 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Winifrede | ![]() | The steamer caught fire over night, burned to the waterline and sank just below Plymouth, West Virginia in the Great Kanawha River, total loss.[17] |
13 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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W. K. Phillips | ![]() | The steamer destroyed by fire in the Cumberland River three miles (4.8 km) above Dover, Tennessee.[16] |
14 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Pargoud | ![]() | The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River near the mouth of the Red River, a total loss.[14] |
Stella Wilds | ![]() | The steamer struck a snag at Ober's Landing, Cross's Post Office, or Schleicher's Landing, 25 miles (40 km) below Natchez, Mississippi in the Mississippi River. Her bow was run onto the bank with the stern sunk in four feet (1.2 m) of water. Later raised.[14][109] |
Susan P. Thurlow | ![]() | During a voyage from Hillsborough, New Brunswick, Canada, to New York City with a cargo of plaster rock, the 126-foot (38 m), 460-gross register ton three-masted schooner was wrecked during a gale at night on a reef off the south end of Cushing Island in Casco Bay off the |