List of shipwrecks in June 1888

The list of shipwrecks in June 1888 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during June 1888.

1 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1888
Ship State Description
Jersey   United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of the Phanar Lighthouse, Ottoman Empire.[1]
Maggie   United Kingdom The Thames barge was run into by the brigantine Dagmar (  Denmark) and sank in the English Channel 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Folkestone, Kent. Her crew survived. Maggie was on a voyage from London to Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex.[2]

2 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1888
Ship State Description
Ninea Flag unknown The schooner foundered in the North Sea. Her five crew were rescued on 4 June by Thomas and Mary (  United Kingdom). Ninea was on a voyage from Mömsteräs, Sweden to Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom.[3]

4 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1888
Ship State Description
Cromartyshire   United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore near Hooghly Point, India. She was on a voyage from Colombo, Ceylon to Calcutta, India. She was refloated with assistance.[4]
Élan   French Navy The despatch boat foundered off Dunkerque, Nord. Her crew survived.[5]
H. W. Crawford   United States The ship was beached during a storm three miles (4.8 km) west of the West Pass of St. Andrew's Bar.[6]
Unnamed Flag unknown The ship foundered 13 nautical miles (24 km) south of Cape Agulhas, Cape Colony with the loss of all on board. Witnessed by Drummond Castle (  United Kingdom).[7] She may have been Trevelyan (  United Kingdom), on a voyage from the Clyde to Otago, New Zealand.[8]

5 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1888
Ship State Description
Lovie   United Kingdom The fishing dandy foundered between the Eddystone Rocks and Rame Head, Cornwall with the loss of three of the four people on board. The survivor was rescued by the fishing dandy Mary Jane (  United Kingdom).[9]

6 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1888
Ship State Description
Ashdale   United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Clyde at Garvel, Ayrshire.[4] She was later refloated and resumed her voyage.[10]
Sir Bevis   United Kingdom The steamship collided with another vessel off the Royal Sovereign Lightship (  Trinity House) and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Bilbao, Spain to the River Tyne. She completed her voyage.[11]

7 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1888
Ship State Description
Gleam   United States The yacht was sunk in a collision with the steamship Joppa (  United States) in Chesapeake Bay near Seven Foot Knoll Light (39°09′26″N 76°24′12″W / 39.1572°N 76.4034°W / 39.1572; -76.4034), in the mouth of the Patapsco River with the loss of one life.[12]
Janet Douglas   United Kingdom The schooner ran aground on the Nigg Sands, off the coast of Cromartyshire.[10]
Onward   United Kingdom The schooner struck a rock off Cape Clear Island, County Cork and was wrecked. Her four crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Dingle, County Kerry.[10]
Raffaele Ligure   Italy The ship ran aground on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by the smack Increase (  United Kingdom).[10]

8 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1888
Ship State Description
Prussia   United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Clyde near Dumbarton.[11]

9 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 9 June 1888
Ship State Description
Libra   United Kingdom The steamship collided with the steamship Falcon (  United Kingdom) in the River Thames at Wapping, Middlesex and was severely damaged.[11]
Perseverance   United Kingdom The fishing trawler was driven ashore in Dublin Bay.[11]

10 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1888
Ship State Description
Unnamed Flag unknown The steamship was driven ashore on Amack, Denmark.[11]

12 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1888
Ship State Description
Cumeria   United Kingdom The ship was sighted in the South Atlantic whilst on a voyage from the River Tyne to Valparaíso, Chile. No further trace, reported missing.[13]

14 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 14 June 1888
Ship State Description
Niobe   United Kingdom The ship ran aground in the Bangka Strait 30 nautical miles (56 km) south of Muntok, Netherlands East Indies. She was on a voyage from Greenock, Renfrewshire to Singapore, Straits Settlements.[14]
Pony   United States The steamship capsized and sank during a turn on the Muskegon Lake. Her engineer drowned.[12]

15 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1888
Ship State Description
Drumlanrig   United Kingdom The ship ran aground in the Humber. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to San Francisco, California, United States.[15] She was refloated and put back to Hull.[16]

16 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1888
Ship State Description
Princess of Wales   United Kingdom The paddle steamer was run into by the steamship Balmoral Castle (  United Kingdom) and sank off Skelmorlie, Ayrshire with the loss of three lives.[17]

18 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1888
Ship State Description
Guglielmo   Austria-Hungary The barque caught fire at Cape Town, Cape Colony. She was scuttled.[18]

19 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1888
Ship State Description
Zadok   United Kingdom The ship was sighted in the Indian Ocean whilst on a voyage from the Spencer Gulf to Falmouth, Cornwall. No further trace, reported overdue.[19]

20 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1888
Ship State Description
Pioneer   United Kingdom The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Beachy Head, Sussex. Her eight crew survived. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex.[20]
Prima Donna   United Kingdom The fishing lugger was run into by the steamship Blonde (  United Kingdom) and was abandoned. Her crew subsequently reboarded her and she was taken in to Lowestoft, Suffolk in a severely leaky condition.[14]

23 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1888
Ship State Description
Ægean, and
Northampton
  United Kingdom
  Germany
The steamship Ægean and the full-rigged ship Northampton collided off the Longships, Cornwall and both vessels sank. Northampton lost two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by the schooner Grace Darling (  United Kingdom). Ægean was on a voyage from Bilbao, Spain to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.[21][22]
Olivette   United States The pleasure launch struck a dike in Newark Bay and capsized with the loss of six lives.[12]

24 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1888
Ship State Description
Werra   Germany The steamship was driven ashore at Dungeness, Kent, United Kingdom. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.[23]

27 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1888
Ship State Description
Dunvegan Castle   United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Corsewall Point, Wigtownshire. She was refloated and taken in to Loch Ryan in a leaky condition.[24]
Minerva   United Kingdom The steamship ran aground off Sanda Island. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Dantsic, Germany. She was later refloated and put back to Glasgow for repairs.[24]
Unnamed   United States The pleasure launch was sunk in a collision with the steamship James W. Baldwin (  United States) one mile (1.6 km) above Newburg, New York with the loss of two of the eight people on board.[12]

29 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1888
Ship State Description
Sensation   United Kingdom The tug was run into by the tug Victoria (  United Kingdom) 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off Sunderland, County Durham. Sensation was beached at Sunderland.[25]

30 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1888
Ship State Description
Alhambra   New South Wales The steamship collided with the derelict steamship John T. Berry (  United States), which she was trying to salvage, and sank off Newcastle, New South Wales. The steamship Tasmania (  United Kingdom) rescued her crew. The steamship Thetis (  United Kingdom) later sank John T. Berry as a danger to navigation.

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in June 1888
Ship State Description
Abo   Russia The steamship was driven ashore on Seskar. Her passengers were take off by the steamshihp Boy (  United Kingdom).[26]
Active   United Kingdom The Thames barge collided with another vessel and sank in the English Channel off Beachy Head, Sussex. Her seven crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Deptford, Kent to Plymouth, Devon.[20]
Anna   Norway The barque ran aground and was wrecked at Vardø. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Vardø.[10]
Auckland   United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore and sank at "Bronosound", south of Bodø, Norway.[24]
Aurora   Russia The schooner ran aground on the Middlegrunden, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Riga to La Rochelle, Charente-Inférieure, France. She was refloated with assistance.[11]
Berbice Flag unknown The ship was driven ashore at Newcastle, New South Wales. She was a total loss.[3]
Celestina Rocca   Italy The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at "Bancochico", Argentina. She was on a voyage from Gualeguaychú, Argentina to the English Channel.[14]
Chattanooga   United States The ship was wrecked at Boston, Massachusetts.[24]
Chrysolite   Norway The barque was driven ashore on Caribou Island, Canada. Her crew were rescued. She wa son a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France to Quebec City, Canada.[16]
Coban   Canada Canada The ship was driven ashore on Green Island. She was on a voyage from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Montreal, Quebec.[26]
Como   United Kingdom The steamship collided with the steamship Caloric (  United Kingdom) and sank in the Boca Channel, off Buenos Aires, Argentina.[11][16]
Confidence   United Kingdom The steamship ran aground and sank at Cullivoe, Yell, Shetland Islands.[14]
Daphne   France The barque was driven ashore at Pará, Brazil. She subsequently broke up.[25]
Einar   Norway The barque was driven ashore in the Rio Grande do Norte. She was a total loss. She was on a voyage from Macau to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[16]
Ellida   Norway The barque was wrecked at Danger Point, Cape Colony.[10]
Emma   Norway The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Grahamstown, Cape Colony with some loss of life.[4]
Emma   United Kingdom The ship was destroyed by fire at Hedon, Yorkshire.[16]
Emma   Germany The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Mahanoro, Madagascar. Her crew were rescued.[24]
Emily   United Kingdom The schooner collided with the steamship Manitoba (  United Kingdom) and sank at Antwerp, Belgium. Emily was on a voyage from Teignmouth, Devon to Antwerp.[11]
Essex   United Kingdom The steamship put in to Aden, Aden Governorate on fire. She was on a voyage from Sydney, New South Wales to London.[11]
Freischutz   Germany The brig was abandoned in the North Sea 7 nautical miles (13 km) south west of Lindesnes, Russia. Her crew were rescued by the brig Sylfide (  Norway).[14]
George   Russia The schooner ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. She was refloated on 6 June and taken in to Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom in a severely leaky condition.[4]
Guglielmo D.   Austria-Hungary The barque caught fire at Cape Town, Cape Colony. She was scuttled.[26]
Ino   United Kingdom The ketch foundered in the North Sea off Mundesley, Norfolk. Her crew survived.[27]
Joseph Nicholson   United Kingdom The schooner ran aground on the Leman Sands, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Fredrikstadt, Norway to London. She was refloated and assisted in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a leaky condition.[10]
Lancaster Castle   United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was driven ashore at Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She was on a voyage from Nanaimo, British Columbia to San Francisco, California, United States.[24]
Manitoba   United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore and damaged at Brunswick, Georgia, United States. She was refloated and taken in to Savannah, Georgia.[24]
Mary Ellen   United Kingdom The schooner sprang a leak off the Flannan Isles. She put in to the Bay of Kilda, where she foundered. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Reykjavík, Iceland.[15]
Murga   Spain The barque collided with the steamship Camma (  United Kingdom) and was severely damaged. She was towed in to Málaga.[14]
Norseman   United Kingdom The barque was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew took to the boats; they were rescued by the full-rigged ship Ardencraig (  United Kingdom).[16]
Sotera   United Kingdom The barque was abandoned at sea. Her fourteen crew were rescued by the barque Rewa (  United Kingdom). Sotera was on a voyage from Cochin, India to New York.[18]
St. Fillans   United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Saugor, India. She was refloated.[3]
Teno   Chile The hulk sprang a leak and was beached at Valparaíso.[16]
Vaides flag unknown The steamship was lost off Ouessant, Finistère, France.[27]
Waarbud   Norway The brigantine was driven ashore at Macau, Brazil. She was on a voyage from Macau to Rio de Janeiro.[26]
Warren   United Kingdom The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 11 June.[28]
Unnamed Flag unknown The schooner was wrecked by an onboard explosion 45 nautical miles (83 km) south east of the Delaware Capes, United States.[21]

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