The ship struck a rock off Desolación Island, Chile. She was beached in Sealer's Cove and abandoned. The ship broke in two during March and was a total loss.[5]
The steamer struck an uncharted rock off the south east end of Lewis Island in the Arthur Passage, British Columbia and sank. Raised and towed to San Francisco, California for repairs.[8]
The tug sank in a severe gale three miles (4.8 km) east north east of the Sandy Hook Lightship. The crew were rescued by the tug D. S. Arnott (United States).[8]
The passenger/cargo steamer struck the bar entering St. Joseph, Michigan in a gale and was driven ashore 350 feet (110 m) west of the North Pier, was wrecked, and broke up.[4][12]
Steaming from Plymouth to the Channel Islands, the vessel was wrecked in bad weather and fog on the Black Rock, 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) off Guernsey. Forty were saved but 14 passengers and 5 crew were drowned.[16][17]
The steamer broke free from her dock in Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts during a severe gale and was wrecked on rocks, a total loss. One crewman killed.[18]
The steamer while laying at the bank at Holloway's Landing, Kentucky, across the river from Mound City, Illinois sprung a leak and sank. Total loss.[21]
The propeller shaft of Clara Nevada on the sea floor.The passenger steamer struck an uncharted rock several hundred yards north of Eldred Rock in Lynn Canal in the Territory of Alaska and sank immediately with the loss of all on board, approximately 12 passengers and 21 crewmen.[22]
The barge, under the tow of Henry Lowery (United States), struck a snag and sank off Fletchers Landing, Arkansas in the Mississippi River. Total loss[21]
The barque departed Nagasaki, Japan, bound for the United States West Coast sometime around 14 February and was never heard from again. She probably sank with the loss of all hands in a violent storm other ships reported encountering along the same route at around the same time.[27]
The tow steamer burned at Bacon Wharf in the St. Marys River. Total loss.[24]
Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date March 1898
Ship
State
Description
Bay of Panama
Unknown
The sailing ship was wrecked under Nare Head, near St Keverne, Cornwall, United Kingdom, during a great blizzard.[33] The ship carried jute from Calcutta; Eighteen of those on board died while nineteen were saved.[34]
The tug was sunk in a collision with Emma C. Knowles (United States) when the schooner's anchor holed her hull below the waterline in the Ashley River near the Bees Ferry Drawbridge.[24]
With a crew of 40 and 1,500 tons of general merchandise aboard, the 1,050.29-gross register ton, 193-foot (58.8 m) wooden ship was stranded in the harbor at Skagway, Territory of Alaska, after she dragged her anchor during a gale. She later was refloated and placed back in service as a barge.[27]
The steamer struck a pier of the old Aqueduct Bridge and sank in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny River. One crewman drowned. Raised afterwards.[21]
The steamer struck a sandbar in the Mississippi River one mile (1.6 km) above Chester, Illinois and sank. Raised, repaired, and returned to service.[24]
The bulk carrier burned in a gale between West Superior, Wisconsin and Prescott, Ontario when a man tripped with a lit candle. The crew were rescued by Alberta (Canada), that also saved two vessels she was towing.[37][38]
The tow steamer lost her pilot house, filled with water, and sank during a north east gale between Fenwicks Island and Chincoteague, Virginia. The crew were rescued by the schooner Alice M. Colbourne (United States).[25]
The steamer struck an obstruction in the Apalachicola River below Blountstown, Florida and sank. After an attempt at raising her failed, her machinery and cabin fixtures were salvaged.[30]
The Newlyn fishing lugger was run ashore on Great Crebawethan, Isles of Scilly after hitting the Crims and springing a leak. The St Agnes lifeboat, James and Caroline took off four of the crew and the fifth was saved by an island boat.[45]
The barge sank off the Aleutian Islands. Her towing vessel, Rival (United States), rescued the 12 men aboard General. The press reported on 1 September that the schoonerUranus (flag unknown) had found a wrecked barge on Unimak Island in the Aleutians with the word General marked on the bow.[48]
The tug was sunk in a collision with Robert L. Fulton (United States) in a heavy rainstorm when strong current swung her in front of Robert L. Fulton at Duluth, Minnesota. Raised and repaired.[24]
The steamer sank at dock in East Boston, Massachusetts when she got hung up on the dock on a rising tide and tipped enough to fill and sink. Raised later.[18]
With 42 passengers aboard, the 71-ton schooner was wrecked without loss of life on a small island 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) from the mouth of the Kobuk River in the Territory of Alaska.[27]
The schooner lost her steering as she was about to enter the harbor at White River, Michigan on Lake Michigan and went ashore. Refloated by the United States Life Saving Service, but sprung a leak and had to be beached on a sand bar to prevent sinking.[64]
RegulatorThe sternwheel paddle steamer struck a rock and sank in the Columbia River in Oregon just downstream from the Cascades Rapids with 160 passengers on board. There were no fatalities. She was eventually refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
Spanish–American War: Pursued by the gunboatUSS Eagle (United States Navy) while trying to run the United States Navyblockade of Cuba, the 5,000-displacement ton armed steamer took a number of 6-pounder shell hits from Eagle and ran aground on the southwest coast of Cuba on the point of a spit 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) east1/2 south of Punta Piedras. After the 66 men on board Santo Domingo fled aboard an unidentified sidewheel river paddle steamer, a boat crew from Eagle boarded Santo Domingo, shot livestock that they found aboard her, and set her on fire. She burned for at least a week, and the fire thoroughly destroyed her.[65]
The steamer was pushed by a sudden squall into the pier of the Chicago and North Western Railway Bridge at Winona, Minnesota, knocking a hole in her hull. She was beached in five feet (1.5 m) of water. The hole was patched, she was pumped out and taken to Eagle Point, Iowa for repairs.[24]
While under tow from Wrangell to Saint Michael in the Territory of Alaska by the vessel Fastnet (flag unknown), the sternwheel paddle steamer broke loose from her towline in rough weather in the Gulf of Alaska between Cross Point and Kodiak and broke up off Yakutat. The steamer Dora (flag unknown) discovered her wreck floating 75 nautical miles (139 km; 86 mi) off Kodiak on 5 August and rescued a dog from it, but found no sign of her crew. Fastnet had also lost the steamer Mono (United Kingdom), in tow along with Stikine Chief, due to a broken towline on 23 July.[20][70]
The sloopyacht ran aground on the south side bar of the channel into Corson Inlet. She was pounded by wind and heavy seas and washed over the bar into a slue. Total loss.[64]
The schooner went ashore three-quarters mile (1.2 km) north east of the Little Kinnakeet, North Carolina Life Saving Station and was wrecked. All eight crew rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[64]
The schooner stranded on Black Head four and a half miles (7.2 km) east north east of the Crumple Island Life saving Station. Her crew refloated her, but was leaking badly and in danger of sinking. She was towed to Jonesport, Maine and beached.[64]
The 2,843-ton Sunderland steamer hit Steeple Rock, in the Isles of Scilly and ripped open her hull. Her crew managed to lower the ship's boats and escape before she sank in twenty-five fathoms.[45]
The schooner was damaged in a collision with a steam barge three miles (4.8 km) south west of Point Betsie, Michigan Life Saving Station in Lake Michigan. She sank four hours later five miles (8.0 km) south west of the station. The crew, the captain and his son, escaped on a scow, and were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[64]
The hospital ship sank in 20 or 30 feet (6.1 or 9.1 m) of water while coaling in rough weather off the Quarantine Station at Fernandina, Florida. Refloated, repaired, and returned to commercial service.[79][80]
The steamer burned in the Delaware River above Delaware City, Delaware during a thunder storm when her master dropped a lamp when stunned by a lightning strike. The ship was totally destroyed.[25]
The steamer ran aground on the breakwater at Point Judith, Rhode Island. 149 passengers, (sick soldiers, nurses, and doctors), plus her crew of 52 taken off and she was pulled off by a tug. She was leaking badly and was beached. Refloated on 8 or 9 September and towed to Boston, Massachusetts, or Providence, Rhode Island, for repairs.[13][64]
The yacht was scuttled in the harbor of Stamford, Connecticut after she caught fire from a naptha explosion. Later raised. One crewman died of burns.[6]
The schooner went ashore when her tow steamer made a navigational error in Lake Superior while trying to enter the Michigan Ship Channel. She was grounded where she could not be pulled off. Remains of the wreck were blown up during widening of the canal in 1935.[64][82]
The cargo ship stranded on Eagle River Reef on Lake Superior after hitting the prop of a submerged wreck in smoky weather. Broke up in a storm on 24 September.[37][84]
The schooner went ashore one mile (1.6 km) west of the mouth of the Gratiot River. Her cargo was salvaged and she was pulled off on 26 September and taken to Houghton, Michigan where she was abandoned, a total loss.[64]
The schooner went ashore on Pollock Rip Shoal. She was refloated in two hours but was leaking badly and ran aground again in a failed attempt to beach her. She filled and sank, a total loss.[64]
The sloop yacht went ashore one-half mile (0.80 km) east south east of the Quonochontaug, Rhode Island Life Saving Station in thick fog. The two crewmen on board were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. She broke up, a total loss. Some furniture and $800 in lead ballast were salvaged.[86]
The schooner Bessie Maud crossed the bow of the steamship Virawa in the Port of Newcastle, New South Wales. The steamship struck the schooner, which sank with no loss of life.[88]
The tow steamer struck rocks in the Upper Rapids of the Mississippi River and sank in 4+1⁄2 feet (1.4 m) of water. Raised, and repaired at Le Claire, Iowa.[24]
The lime schooner's cargo caught fire in the harbor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire while anchored off Clarks Island. She was run aground on flats on 14 October and stripped of useful items.[89]
The wreck of Henry Chisholm, ca. 2008.The cargo steamer ran aground on a reef in Lake Superior off Rock of Ages Light, Isle Royale, without loss of life. She broke up and sank during a storm on 27 October.
Cutter No. 2, with a launch lashed to the starboard side, collided with a barge under tow by the tow steamer Pioneer (United States) at Norfolk, Virginia resulting in the capsizing of the cutter and launch, with the cutter sinking. One occupant of the launch drowned.[94]
The steamer, laying on the bank just above Lock No. 3 on the Monongahela River, was destroyed when her boiler exploded. Her captain was killed and seven crewmen wounded.[37]
The barge, under tow by Thos. J. Sculley (United States), sank in high winds and heavy seas four miles (6.4 km) west of the Cornfield Lightship after the tow line parted. The crew were rescued by Thos. J. Sculley.[18]
The barge, under tow by Thos. J. Sculley (United States), sank in high winds and heavy seas four miles (6.4 km) west of the Cornfield Lightship after the tow line parted. Her master and one crewman were killed. The survivors were rescued by Thos. J. Sculley.[18]
The barge, under tow by Thos. J. Sculley (United States), sank in high winds and heavy seas four miles (6.4 km) west of the Cornfield Lightship after the tow line parted. The crew were rescued by Thos. J. Sculley.[18]
The barge, under tow by Thos. J. Sculley (United States), sank in high winds and heavy seas four miles (6.4 km) west of the Cornfield Lightship after the tow line parted. The crew were rescued by Thos. J. Sculley.[18]
The steamer lost covering boards near her stern in a heavy snowstorm and sank between Duluth, Minnesota and Two Harbors, Minnesota. The crew boarded a barge she was towing and were rescued from it by City of London (United States) several hours later. Total loss.[24]
The steamer struck the side of the channel in the Detroit River at the Limekiln crossing and sank after being in a minor collision with Atlantis (United States).[37]
The coal schooner was running through The Race during a gale, was blown close to Plum Island, New York where she struck a rock and disabled her rudder. She was abandoned and drifted onto Bartlett Reef foundering in seventy feet of water on 23 or 25 October. Wreck located in 2012.[101][102]
The passenger/cargo ship burned and sank 18 miles (29 km) off Cape Charles, Virginia. Three crewmen, the wife of one of the dead crewmen, and one passenger were killed. Survivors left the ship in two of her lifeboats and a boat from schooner Alice E. Clark (United States).[25][103]
The schooner lost her tow vessel in heavy seas just off Ludington, Michigan, stranding in Lake Michigan three-quarters mile (1.2 km) north of the Life Saving Station and was wrecked, a total loss. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. Her rigging was salvaged.[89]
The schooner lost her tow on Lake Michigan off Chicago, Illinois in a heavy gale and grounded. she sprang a leak and sank, but was raised on 16 November. Her seven crewmen were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[89]
The lumber schooner lost her tow on Lake Huron in a heavy gale. She ran aground 7 miles (11 km) south of the Sand Beach Township, Michigan Life Saving Station. Attempts to refloat started on 11 November and continued until 9 December when salvage efforts were stopped and she was stripped and abandoned. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[89]
The steamer went ashore on the north coast of Lake Superior near the Mouth of the Baptism River in a severe snowstorm. Refloated after cargo was lightered and towed to Duluth, Minnesota for repairs.[21]
The steamer went ashore near Beaver Bay, Minnesota on Lake Superior in a severe gale and snowstorm. Given up as a total loss, but refloated and towed to Duluth, Minnesota by a wrecking company.[21]
The bulk carrier was wrecked two miles (3.2 km) south of Point Betsy in Lake Michigan in a heavy snowstorm. One crewman drowned when ship's yawl overturned. Survivors rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. She broke up on 9 December after a failed salvage attempt.[37][109][110]
The scow stranded one-quarter mile (0.40 km) from the Erie, Pennsylvania Life Saving Station on Lake Erie. Salvage work began immediately but were abandoned on 29 December and she broke up on 10 February 1899.[115]
Portland Gale: The schooner was anchored at Islesboro, Maine but broke her anchor chain and blow out to sea. She drifted for 20 miles (32 km) before she went ran aground on flats in Lobster Cove during the gale. After the storm she was hauled ashore in a cove and stripped.[123]
Portland Gale: The fishing schooner went adrift in the harbor at Gloucester, Massachusetts and was wrecked on Black Bess Rock, going to pieces. Crew saved by Ellie G. King.[10]
Portland Gale: The schooner was wrecked on Southern Island three miles (4.8 km) from the life saving station during the gale. After the storm she was stripped.[127]
Portland Gale: The barge was wrecked near Toddy Rocks near Point Allerton, Massachusetts and broke up during the gale. Three crewmen killed, her captain and one crewman made it to shore.[129]
Portland Gale: The lime schooner was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard at Vineyard Haven on the east side of the harbor. She sprung a leak causing her cargo of lime to ignite, burning until 19 December when everything above the waterline was consumed.[118][130][131]
Portland Gale: The schooner dragged anchor and was swept ashore on Dogfish Bar and broke up immediately during the gale. Six crewmen killed, one crewman made it to shore.[135]
Portland Gale: The schooner dragged anchor and was swept across Horse Shoe Shoal off Martha's Vineyard, sinking in 7 fathoms (42 ft; 13 m) of water in the ship channel. Her crew rescued from her masts after 19 hours by the steamer Nereus (United States). One crewman died of exposure during the wait.[117]
Portland Gale: The lime schooner was grounded on Martha's Vineyard on the east side of the Harbor at Vineyard Haven after losing her anchor. She sprung a leak causing her cargo of lime to ignite. Her crew was able to transfer to J. D. Ingraham (United States) when she drifted alongside.[118][131]
The schooner capsized in a storm in Muskeget Channel. Her captain, his wife, and four crewmen died. The mate, the sole survivor, was rescued by Captain James Wilber in a sailboat.[117]
Portland Gale: The fishing schooner foundered, she was last seen just before the storm 40 miles south east of Seguin Light. Wreckage drifted ashore near Race Point. Lost with all 15 hands.[144]
Portland Gale: The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on Fletcher's Neck, Maine during the gale. Two crew members were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service, one made if off on his own. Total loss.[146]
Portland Gale: The vessel was swept ashore on Martha's Vineyard after being torn from her moorings at Vineyard Haven. While drifting across the harbor she drifted alongside E. J. Willard (United States) giving an opportunity for E. J. Willard's crew to escape the burning vessel.[118][131]
Portland Gale: The fishing schooner dragged anchor and was driven ashore two miles (3.2 km) north north west of the Brant Rock, Massachusetts Lifesaving Station in Massachusetts Bay and broke up during the gale. Five crewmen killed, nine survivors made it to shore.[150]
Portland Gale: The schooner was wrecked on Fletcher's Neck, Maine during the gale. Two crew members, and a dog, were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. She broke up an hour after her crew was rescued.[127]
The schooner dragged anchor and stranded on the east side of Hooper's Island near Port Clyde, Maine. She was stripped and abandoned, a total loss.[159]
The schooner's towline parted and she stranded on the east side of the Harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio in a heavy snowstorm. She was abandoned, a total loss. Six crew members, five men and a woman, were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. Wreck abandoned to the insurance company.[89][161]
The schooner stranded on Norton's Island near White Head, Maine. She started to break up after pounding on the rocks and was abandoned after being stripped, a total loss. Two crew members were rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[162]
The fishing schooner went ashore on Goose Island, Beaver Harbour, Nova Scotia during a thick snow storm, and was a total loss. Crew saved, rowing to the mainland in their dories, after spending the night on an island.[10]
The tug tilted to port, filled and sank in the Harlem River when her tow schooner Joseph Murray's (United States) main sail caught a sudden strong gust of wind careening her to the point of upsetting the tug. The tug was later raised.[25]
The tow steamer burned in St. Louis Harbor. Total loss.[24]
15 December
List of shipwrecks: 15 December 1898
Ship
State
Description
Brinkburn
Unknown
The ship struck the Maiden Bower, Isles of Scilly in fog and sank, while bound for Le Havre from Galveston with cotton and cotton seed. Her crew of mainly lascars survived. An inspection of the wreck in 1966 found two other ships beneath her; one, Sussex, which sank in 1885 and an unknown warship.[45]
The steamer struck an obstruction leaving Avenue Landing, Missouri, and sprung a leak. She was beached on a bar across the river, but sank in 26 feet (7.9 m) of water, a total loss.[21]
The steamer became water logged 25 miles south west of the Michigan Ship Canal in Lake Superior on either 29 September or 29 October. She was towed to shore at the entrance to the Canal where she broke up in a strong wind, a total loss. The remains of the wreck were blown up during widening of the Canal in 1935.[64][82]
^Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN0-8317-0302-4, p. 329.
^Noall, Cyril (1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 15.
^Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN0-8317-0302-4, p. 396.
^Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN0-8317-0302-4, p. 264.
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United Kingdom
New South Wales
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