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The list of shipwrecks in 1897 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1897.(This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.)

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  • The list of shipwrecks in 1897 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1897.(This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.) (en)
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  • The steamer was burned to the waterline in the harbor at Duluth, Minnesota. (en)
  • During a voyage from Hillsborough, New Brunswick, Canada, to New York City with a cargo of plaster rock, the , 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 coast of Maine with the loss of six lives. Ove crewman survived. (en)
  • The schooner was sunk in a collision with the tug Paoli off Cape Cod, or Nauset Light, in of water with her mast tops above water, but a total loss. Her captain and two crewmen died. Two crewmen were rescued by Paoli. (en)
  • The steamer sank at dock in Yalaha, Florida in a storm when she got caught under the dock over night. Raised the next day. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk in a collision with City of Chester in dense fog at Norfolk, Virginia. (en)
  • The Margate surfboat capsized with the loss of nine of her 13 crew. She was going to the assistance of Persian Empire . (en)
  • The ketch was wrecked at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The steamer foundered at anchor in a gale in Saginaw Bay. (en)
  • The steamer foundered after suffering engine failure in a gale on Lake Huron and got caught in the wave troughs above Pointe aux Barques Light. After failed attempts to pass tow lines her crew was rescued by . (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The passenger cargo ship ran aground on the bar at Ballina, New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. (en)
  • The steam schooner was wrecked on Saunders Reef 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. (en)
  • The passenger steamer was blown from her moorings at Kimmswick, Missouri sinking in the Mississippi River, a total loss. (en)
  • The 212-ton, whaling vessel was lost at Hakodate, Japan, during the whaling season of 1897. (en)
  • The passenger steamer struck an obstruction at Tower Island, Illinois and sank, a total loss. (en)
  • The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with tow steamer in the East River off Baltic street, Brooklyn. Raised and repaired. crew rescued by New York Central Lighterage Co. No. 19. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag at Ober's Landing, Cross's Post Office, or Schleicher's Landing, below Natchez, Mississippi in the Mississippi River. Her bow was run onto the bank with the stern sunk in of water. Later raised. (en)
  • The yacht was sunk at dock in the Milwaukee River when struck by . (en)
  • The passenger steamer struck a snag below De Witt, Missouri and sank in the Missouri River, a total loss. Her machinery was salvaged. (en)
  • The steamer burned to the waterline at dock in Mayport, Florida. (en)
  • The steamer foundered on Grand Lake, Louisiana in a gale. Boiler and machinery were scheduled to be salvaged. (en)
  • The steamer was stranded on Regatta Reef, south east Alaska Territory. (en)
  • 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 , which was operating as part of the International Squadron intervening in the Cretan rebellion against rule by the Ottoman Empire. The schooner's crew suffered no casualties and swam to shore on Crete. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk in a collision with off Fifty-Eighth Street, New York City, New York in the North River. Crew and passengers were rescued by St. Johns and a tug. One boy possibly died. Raised, rebuilt and returned to service as . (en)
  • The steamer struck a pier of the Union Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, rolled on one side and sank in the Allegheny River. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The steamer sank overnight at the Pittsburgh Wharf. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The schooner was sunk in a collision with in Boston Harbor in of water on the north side of the Main Channel, south of Governor's Island. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk in a collision with in dense fog at Norfolk, Virginia. (en)
  • The oyster boat sank at dock at East Providence, Rhode Island when an unknown person boarded and opened her seacock. Raised and found undamaged. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The schooner was sunk in a collision with near Smiths Point Light. (en)
  • The steamer sank in a gale at Bolivar Point, Galveston Bay, Texas, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River near the mouth of the Red River, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Crooked River. Later raised. (en)
  • The was wrecked in the River Plate off Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. (en)
  • The steamer, under tow of Oakland , struck "The Big Eddy" off Hickman, Tennessee, parted her towlines, turned sideways, capsized and sank in of water, a total loss. (en)
  • thumb|right|HMS FoudroyantThe training ship, a former ship-of-the-line, was driven ashore at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, and wrecked. (en)
  • The steamer was dragged down and sunk while tied up alongside when she filled and sank at Greenville, Mississippi. Later raised. (en)
  • The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in of water in the Ohio River at Five Mile, Ohio. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • 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 , and then struck the protected cruiser . To keep her from sinking in deeper water, she was run onto a reef, where she sank in shallow water. She was refloated in July 1898 and returned to service in 1900. (en)
  • The fishing sloop was sunk in a collision with near Monhegan Island. Her crew of two were saved by State of Maine. (en)
  • The steamer took a shear in King's Eddy and struck the bluff tearing a hole in her starboard side and she sank in of water in the Cumberland River. (en)
  • The passenger steamer struck the bank above Louisville, Kentucky with such force that she sank, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer struck a piling below a bridge at Sioux City, Iowa in the Missouri River and sank. Later raised and repaired. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk in a collision with , Philadelphia. Crew rescued by Asa W. Hughes. (en)
  • The fishing schooner went ashore at Pass Island, Newfoundland. Crew saved. (en)
  • The Welsh schooner from Port Dinorwic was lost at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall. (en)
  • The steamer, , caught fire from a lantern exploding in the engine room. She was run aground off Greenwood Avenue, Evanston, Indiana and burned to the waterline, a total loss. Her engine was salvaged in 1898. Her wreck was removed in 1918. (en)
  • The bugeye was sunk in a collision with at Norfolk, Virginia. (en)
  • The dredge burned and sank at the foot of Twenty-Second Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River. (en)
  • The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Carrollton, Louisiana. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire in Black Creek off the St. Johns River. (en)
  • The steamboat was wrecked, or sprung a leak and sank, off Mosquito Inlet, Florida with the loss of either one or seven lives. (en)
  • The steamer grounded at a wharf in Beverly, Massachusetts and filled. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The steamer was wrecked off Cape Tribulation. Raised in November, repaired and returned to service as . (en)
  • The steamer caught fire over night, burned to the waterline and sank just below Plymouth, West Virginia in the Great Kanawha River, total loss. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank in of water at Ashleys Point, Arkansas. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank near Star Landing, Mississippi in the Mississippi River. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The ship collided with a steamship and was beached on the Margate Sands, Kent. Her crew were rescued by the lifeboat Quiver (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Conway, South Carolina. (en)
  • The ketch ran aground and was wrecked at Cardigan. (en)
  • The steamer burned near Clinton, Washington. (en)
  • The vessel was wrecked on this date in Australia. (en)
  • The steamer foundered in a heavy gale of rain and hail in Lake Erie above Long Point, Ontario in of water. Her Captain and 18 crew died. Two crewmen were rescued by from her mast. (en)
  • The steamer burned to the waterline while lying at Andalusia, Pennsylvania. (en)
  • The tugboat was sunk by in the Patapsco River. Her cook and engineer drowned. (en)
  • The steamer destroyed by fire in the Cumberland River above Dover, Tennessee. (en)
  • The steamer burned to the waterline at Norfolk, Virginia. (en)
  • The sloop was sunk in a collision with in the harbor of Boston, Massachusetts. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • Trapped in pack ice in the Chukchi Sea off Icy Cape, Territory of Alaska, since July 1897, the 494-ton steam whaling bark was abandoned off Blossom Shoals . Sixteen of her crewmen died while trying to cross the ice and reach shore. Her 16 surviving crewmen were rescued by the revenue cutter and the steamer Thrasher . Navarch eventually drifted in the ice as a derelict to the vicinity of Point Barrow, where she ultimately was burned by salvors in January 1898. (en)
  • The schooner was sunk in a collision with the tug near the Bartlett Reef Lightship. (en)
  • The tug was destroyed by fire at dock in Watervliet, New York. (en)
  • The steamer struck rocks and sank in Smith's Bend above Gordon, Alabama on the Chattahoochee River, a total loss. (en)
  • The passenger steamer burned at Lexington, Missouri, a total loss. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank at Van Lane, Mississippi, a total loss. (en)
  • The sloop foundered during a storm off the Bell Buoy in Pensacola Bay, Florida. Eight of nine people aboard lost. (en)
  • The steam whaling bark was crushed by ice in the Seahorse Islands off Point Franklin, Territory 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 rescued her crew. (en)
  • The tow steamer's bow was damaged by ice in Lake Michigan, she made it in to the Calumet River and sank. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The steamer ran aground on St. Pierre Island, Seychelles, a total loss. (en)
  • The passenger steamer struck an obstruction below Chester, Illinois and sank in the Mississippi River, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer struck rocks and the wrecked an hour after Ruth had wrecked in the Upper Kootenai River going through "Jennings Canyon" above Jennings, Montana. Later raised and taken to Jennings for repair. (en)
  • The yacht capsized and sank in the Yazoo River. Her machinery was salvaged. (en)
  • The tug was destroyed by fire while lying at Coeymans, New York. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The barge, under the tow of America , foundered in a heavy gale near Chincoteague Lighthouse. (en)
  • The fishing schooner was lost off Newfoundland in a gale. All seven crew were killed. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk in a collision in dense fog with in Lake Huron between False Presque Isle and Middle Island in of water. (en)
  • The , 37.74-gross register ton steam screw tug caught fire while moored to a pier at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The tug Nelson towed Alfred Mosher away from the pier, after which he was sprayed with water until she filled and sank in the vicinity of , a total loss. Her boiler was salvaged in August 1912, and part of her stern was dredged to the surface in 1933, at which time her steam engine was salvaged before the stern was allowed to sink again. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Brunswick, Georgia. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The barge, under tow of , sank near Quicks Ledge. The crew were rescued by Nathan Hale. (en)
  • The ship sank in a storm in the English Channel near the Goodwin Sands with the loss of eight lives. (en)
  • The 516-ton steam whaling bark was crushed in ice and abandoned in the Chukchi Sea off the Seahorse Islands off the coast of the Territory of Alaska. Her crew survived. Eskimos later accidentally burned the vessel, and she sank. (en)
  • The ferry sank lying at Glenwood, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River when a pipe froze and burst. Later raised. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • 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 . (en)
  • The steamer foundered at Cabin Point, Louisiana when her seams open. Later raised. (en)
  • The approximately sternwheel paddle steamer was carried away and wrecked in the breakup of ice on the Yukon River in the Territory of Alaska in the spring of 1897, ending up on a stump about into the forest at the back of a blind slough about above the trading post at Pelly. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank in the St. Francis River above the mouth of the L'Anguille River. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The schooner was sunk in a collision with the barge J. R. Silliman, under tow of between Watch Hill, Rhode Island and Fall River, Massachusetts. The crew were rescued by Gertrude. (en)
  • The steamer struck the pier of a railroad bridge and sank at Point Perry in the Monongahela River. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The tug sank at Brown's Station, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River when a pipe froze and burst. Later raised. (en)
  • The sternwheel passenger steamer was capsized and sunk in a collision with barque in San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island. All 45 passengers and 16 crew transferred to Olympic before she sank by stepping across the decks. Later raised. (en)
  • The dredge was sunk when her boilers exploded at Charleroi, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River, a total loss. Her captain and steward were killed. (en)
  • The steamer lost an engine causing her to go over Dam No. 4 on the Monongahela River, and was sunk/wrecked. (en)
  • The canal boat, under tow by steamer was sunk in a collision with a car float under tow by the steamer off Roosevelt Street, New York City, New York, in the East River. (en)
  • The 81-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Great Gull Isle on the coast of Maine. All three people on board survived. (en)
  • The laid up steamer sank at Washington, Missouri in the Missouri River due to dried out seams, a total loss. (en)
  • The schooner struck the Scarweather Sands, in the Bristol Channel and was consequently beached in Black Rock Bay. Her five crew were rescued. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Amite River Later raised. (en)
  • The tug was passing through Hell Gate when a towline got hung up in her wheel, she drifted onto Mill Rock and sank. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank above Buena Vista, Iowa in of water. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk in a collision with the barge D. H. Keyes, under tow by , in the harbor at Duluth, Minnesota. (en)
  • The sank in a storm at the mouth of the Elbe off Cuxhaven, Germany. (en)
  • The Alaska Commercial Company sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed at Circle City, Territory of Alaska, by the spring breakup of ice on the Yukon River. (en)
  • The schooner-yacht was sunk in a collision in thick fog with steamer off Falkner Island in Long Island Sound. The crew were rescued by City of Fitchburg after abandoning ship in her boat. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The passenger steamer was forced onto the bank by ice at St. Louis and sank, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer collided with off the Owers Lightship, English Channel and sank. (en)
  • The 628-ton three-masted steam whaling bark was crushed by ice in the Seahorse Islands off Point Franklin, Territory of Alaska, in the Arctic Ocean, sinking three or four days later. The whaling steamers and Belvedere rescued her crew. (en)
  • The steamer caught fire over night, burned to the waterline and sank at Letart Falls, Ohio, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer struck rocks in the Upper Kootenai River going through "Jennings Canyon" above Jennings, Montana when a log jammed her rudder, a total loss. (en)
  • The laid up steamer was sunk by ice below Memphis, Tennessee, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer caught fire on Lake Erie from Bar Point Shoal Light and burned to the waterline. (en)
  • The steamer struck something holing her and she sank at Gretna, Louisiana, a total loss. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk by ice while harbored at the mouth of the Little Kanawha River, a total loss. Her machinery was salvaged. (en)
  • The vessel struck an obstruction in the Wabash River and sank in of water. Later raised and repaired. (en)
  • The fishing schooner wrecked on Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Her crew rowed to safety in her dories. (en)
  • The passenger steamer struck a bridge at Sioux City, Iowa and sank with two holes in her hull, a total loss. (en)
  • The barge, under tow of , sank southeast of Montauk Point. The crew were rescued by Right Arm. (en)
  • The cargo ship was wrecked on Blonde Rock, off Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. (en)
  • The coasters Collynie and Girnigoe were in collision about off the Girdle Ness Lighthouse, Aberdeen Bay, Scotland. Collynie sank quickly. The master was the sole suvivor; his wife and two young sons as well as the crew of eight drowned. (en)
  • The tug burned to the waterline and sank while anchored at Tavenier Key, a total loss. (en)
  • During a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to St. Michael, Territory 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, schooner was wrecked without loss of life in rain and fog at Cape Khituk on Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in the Satilla River. (en)
  • The fishing schooner sprung a leak and sank off Cape North, Nova Scotia. Crew rowed to safety in her boats. (en)
  • The sternwheeler passenger/cargo steamer burned at Chester, Illinois in the Mississippi River, a total loss. (en)
  • The schooner was damaged in a collision with off Goose Island and was beached to prevent sinking. One crewman was declared missing. (en)
  • The ferry's port side was crushed by ice and she sank opposite Lexington, Missouri in the Missouri River, a total wreck. (en)
  • The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Burton Bradstock, Dorset with the loss of three of her six crew. (en)
  • The steamer struck a dike at Reedy Island knocking a hole in her bottom and was beached at Port Penn, Delaware. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The schooner went ashore at Cape Negro, Nova Scotia. Crew saved. (en)
  • The fishing schooner wrecked at Great Point, Nantucket. Crew Saved. (en)
  • The laid up steamer sprung a leak and sank at Phillip, Mississippi. Total loss. (en)
  • The coast defense ship struck an uncharted rock and sank in the Gulf of Finland. (en)
  • The steamer was crowded by that was trying to pass in Buffalo Creek causing her to tip enough to fill and sink. Her engineer was killed. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire at Brownsville, Minnesota. (en)
  • The yacht was sunk in a collision with in the Mississippi River below New Orleans, Louisiana. Two passengers, reporters for the Times Picayune, were killed. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The ferry burned to the waterline at Cairo, Illinois. (en)
  • The steamer filled and sank over night due to a leak at Greenville, Mississippi, a total loss. She dragged down tied up alongside. (en)
  • The ketch was driven ashore along with four other ships at Cape Hawke Bay, Australia, during a storm. (en)
  • The fishing schooner foundered off the Plymouth Light. Her crew was saved. (en)
  • The tow steamer burned at Providence Dry Dock, Providence, Rhode Island, a total loss. (en)
  • The ferry struck a bridge entering her slip and sank at Camden, New Jersey. (en)
  • The fishing steamer was sunk at dock at the Pere Marquette Railway Company dock, Ludington, Michigan when struck by . (en)
  • The schooner was wrecked in a gale on the west end of St. George Island, Florida. (en)
  • Anchored for two years out of commission off Goose Island — more commonly called Aiaktalik Island — in the Geese Islands in the Territory of Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago off the south end of Kodiak Island, the 7.66-ton, schooner dragged her anchor during a gale and became a total loss. All three people on board survived. (en)
  • The cargo ship was lost at the entrance to the harbor at Nuevitas, Cuba, in an accident caused by strong tides and currents. (en)
  • The steamer was crushed by ice in mid-channel between Evansville, Indiana and the Green River, a total loss. Her chief engineer drowned. (en)
  • The laid up launch foundered in a gale at dock in New Orleans, Louisiana. Later raised. (en)
  • The fishing schooner foundered on the Georges Bank. Her crew taken off by . (en)
  • The steamer grounded at a wharf in Lynn, Massachusetts and sank. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The steamer burned at dock in Nantasket, Massachusetts, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer was wrecked on Colorado Reef on a trip from New Orleans to Central America. (en)
  • The steamer burned at Brooklyn, Illinois, a total loss. (en)
  • The 109-ton sealing schooner caught fire and exploded in the North Pacific Ocean off Ucluelet, British Columbia. Her crew of four abandoned ship just before the explosion and survived. (en)
  • The destroyer ran aground on Dodman Point, Cornwall, England, in fog. She managed to refloat herself and limped to Devonport. (en)
  • The steamer sprung a leak and sank at Port Thompson, Florida. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk at dock in Detour, Michigan when struck by the barge Martha . Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The tow steamer filled and sank at dock at the foot of One Hundred Thirty Third Street, New York City, New York in the Harlem River due to a tank being allowed to overfill. (en)
  • The yacht was wrecked in a gale near the Pass A L'Outre Light, Louisiana, a total loss. (en)
  • The barge, under the tow of , foundered in the Niagara River near Strawberry Island. One crewman was killed. (en)
  • The steamer filled and sank at the Memphis Wharf at the foot of Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, in a violent storm, a total loss. (en)
  • The freighter broke her rudder crossing the bar into Coquille River and went ashore, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer sprung a leak and sank at dock at Madison, Indiana. Later raised. (en)
  • The steamer foundered lying at New Orleans, Louisiana, a total loss. (en)
  • The barkentine was sunk in a collision in thick fog with steamer off the Fenwick Shoal Lightship. Three crew rescued by La Grande Duchesse; her captain and four crewmen killed. (en)
  • The laid up steamer caught fire, burned to the waterline and sank in of water at Paint Creek near Paintsville, Kentucky in the Big Sandy River, a total loss. Her machinery was salvaged and installed in the mill boat Ray. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The steamship ran aground on the Helwick Bank, in the Bristol Channel. She was subsequently refloated and beached at The Mumbles, Glamorgan. (en)
  • The barge, under tow of , was sunk in a collision with between Watch Hill, Rhode Island and Fall River, Massachusetts. Her captain and a crewman drowned. (en)
  • The destroyer ran aground on Dodman Point, Cornwall, England, in fog. She was escorted to Falmouth, Cornwall, and eventually made it to Devonport for repairs. (en)
  • Carrying a cargo of about 10 tons of general merchandise, seven passengers, and a crew of six, the 74.45-gross register ton, schooner was wrecked without loss of life at in Puale Bay , sometimes also called "Cold Bay," on the coast of the Territory of Alaska during a gale. (en)
  • The Sloop foundered off Marblehead, Massachusetts in a gale. Two crew died. (en)
  • The coal boat was sunk in a collision with the excursion barge Carrier, under the tow of , at "Glass House" in the Ohio River. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Toledo, Ohio. (en)
  • The freighter grounded on a bar off a wharf at Hueneme, California causing her to flood and sink, abandoned as a total loss. (en)
  • The tow boat burned at Lucas Landing in the Monongahela River, a total loss. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The tow boat sprang a leak over night and sank at dock in Port Richmond, New York. Raised the next day. (en)
  • 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. (en)
  • The steamer was on a voyage from Odessa to Rotterdam with a cargo of grain. The vessel met a gale off Cape St Vincent, the cargo shifted and the vessel sank with the loss of sixteen lives. (en)
  • The steamer sprung a leak and sank at Greenville, Mississippi, a total loss. (en)
  • The schooner was sunk in a collision with the tug near Poplar Island in Chesapeake Bay. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag in the Upper Willamette River above Salem, Oregon sinking in of water. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Lake Washington. (en)
  • During a voyage from Sitka, Territory 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, steam schooner sank in of water two hours after striking West Devil Rock in Dixon Entrance on the Canada-United States border between British Columbia and the Territory of Alaska. Everyone on board reached safety in the ship′s boats. (en)
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