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The list of shipwrecks in 1896 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1896.(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 1896 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1896.(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 sunk when her boiler exploded at Ursina Landing in the Mississippi River. Ten crew lost. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Pascagoula River, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer sprung a leak and sank at the mouth of the Detroit River in of water. (en)
  • The steamer sprung a leak and sank above Natchez, Mississippi in the Mississippi River. Later raised. (en)
  • The steamer was lying by the bank for the night, but careened, filled with water and sank at Harmar on the Ohio River when the river level dropped and she got hung up on the bank. Raised, repaired, and returned to service. (en)
  • The steamer was struck by a violent storm in the Mississippi River near Harrisonville, Illinois and went ashore. (en)
  • The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with that she was towing when L. B. Johnson crossed V. H. Ketchams bow and was hit, rolled over and sank in Lake Michigan near Chicago Harbor in smoky weather. (en)
  • The yacht was sunk in a collision with in Chicago Harbor near the government breakwater. (en)
  • The steamer collided with the Kentucky Pier of the Central Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio, sinking in of water. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk in a collision with the ferry Oregon in the East River off South Fifth Street, Brooklyn, or Broome Street, New York City. Raised by Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Co. (en)
  • The two-masted schooner departed Seattle, Washington, bound for Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska with 37 people on board and was never heard from again. She probably sank in a severe storm that struck the Gulf of Alaska during the first week of April. (en)
  • The steamer struck a submerged obstruction in a thick snowstorm in Newcastle, Pennsylvania and sank. (en)
  • The schooner sank in a storm in Pensacola Bay, Florida. (en)
  • The barge, after being cut loose in a gale by her tow boat , drifted onto the Saybrook, Connecticut breakwater and broke up. (en)
  • The schooner was sunk in a collision with the steamer Nutmeg State off Catherine Street, New York City in the East River. (en)
  • The laid up steamer foundered at dock in New Orleans, Louisiana. Later raised. (en)
  • The steamer caught fire in Lake Michigan east of Cana Island and her crew abandoned her. The tug took her under tow four hours later near Jacksonport, Wisconsin and towed her to shore and scuttled her by ramming in of water south of Cave Point, but the water was shallow enough that she continued to burn until she was a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer struck an obstruction and sank at Johnson's Landing, Arkansas in the Black River. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The barge, under tow of , grounded on Blackwell's Island. She was pulled off and taken to Newtown Creek where she sank. (en)
  • The schooner was beached east of the East Pass of St. Andrew's Bay, Florida. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank at Plaquemine, Louisiana. Later raised. (en)
  • The steam barge caught fire at dock in the Black River, Michigan, and burned to the water's edge. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire while lying at Hog Island, Florida. (en)
  • The ocean liner ran aground in heavy fog on Saints Rest Beach shortly after departing Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, without loss of life. She was declared a total loss. (en)
  • The tow steamer burned while lying at Palatka, Florida, a total loss. (en)
  • The fishing schooner went ashore at Blanche Point near Port La Tour, Nova Scotia. Crew saved. (en)
  • The tug was damaged in a collision with Express off Pier 39, New York in the East River. She made a run for her dock but sank off Pier 11. (en)
  • The S43-class torpedo boat sank with the loss of five lives after colliding during a storm with the torpedo boat in the Jade in Germany. (en)
  • The steamer sprung a leak and sank over night at East Liverpool, Ohio on the Ohio River. Raised, repaired, and returned to service. (en)
  • The steamer caught fire at dock in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Her mooring lines burned through and she drifted onto a mud bank near the Leathem and Smith dock, a total loss. (en)
  • thumb|right|The wreck of Samuel P. Ely on 14 June 2008.The schooner sank in Lake Superior without loss of life after dragging her anchors and running into a breakwater during a storm at Two Harbors, Minnesota. (en)
  • The tow steamer was damaged in a collision with tow boat in the Hudson River and was run aground to prevent sinking. (en)
  • The canal boat was sunk in a collision with the barge Enterprise , under tow of , off Verplank's Point in the Hudson River due to a steering problem on May Queen. (en)
  • The steamship ran aground and sank at Sheringham, Norfolk. All seventeen people on board were rescued by the Sheringham Lifeboat. The wreck was dispersed by explosives in 1902. (en)
  • The steamer struck a railroad bridge in a gale and sank in Escambia Bay, later raised. (en)
  • The steamer sank at dock in a gale at the Government Wharf, Broadwater, Virginia. (en)
  • The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with steamer off Vesey Street, New York in the North River. Four crewmen killed. (en)
  • The tug was sunk when blew into her in a severe gale at Paducah, Kentucky. Later raised. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank near Liverpool, Florida. Later raised. (en)
  • While en route from Singapore to Kuching, the cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked on Victory Island in the South China Sea between Singapore and Borneo. (en)
  • The tow steamer caught fire, burned to the waterline, and sank a short distance below New Albany, Indiana in the Ohio River, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk in a collision with a barge in the Mississippi River while backing out of a dock at Caruthersville, Missouri, a total loss. Four crewmen killed. (en)
  • The steamer struck a rock and sank at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. (en)
  • The steamer burned and sank at dock at Spanish Fort, Louisiana on Lake Pontchartrain. Later raised. (en)
  • The steamer sank at dock at the foot of Hanover Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (en)
  • The ship ran aground at Gurnard's Head. Crew of 19 rescued. (en)
  • The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at the Wilmington and Northern Railroad Dock, Wilmington, Delaware. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk in a collision with in the southern end of Lake St. Clair. Later raised, repaired and returned to service. (en)
  • The steamer sank from being overloaded at Big Eddy in the St. Francis River. (en)
  • The large wharf boat caught fire and was destroyed at Evansville, Indiana. Four other vessels were destroyed when the fire spread. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed in the Pascagoula River when her boiler exploded. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire at Evansville, Indiana when an unidentified large wharf boat caught fire and the fire spread. (en)
  • The canal boat, being towed by , struck the anchored yacht Narada in the North River and sank. (en)
  • The vessel was wrecked in the harbour of Townsville, Australia. (en)
  • The collier went ashore north of Point Arena and broke in two, a total loss. Six lost. Survivors rescued by the United States Life Saving Service and boats from and , two swam to shore. (en)
  • The lighter struck the bar at the Rockaway Bell Buoy and sprung a leak. She blew off the bar in high wind, filled and sank. (en)
  • The barge, after being cut loose in a gale by her tow boat , was able to anchor near the Cornfield Lightship, but sank the next day. (en)
  • The steamer filled and sank while lying at the bank above Danville in the Tennessee River when she lost a plug in her hull. Later raised. (en)
  • The smack was wrecked at Poppit, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare . (en)
  • The passenger steamer laid up by the bank caught fire, burned to the waterline and sank above Evansville, Indiana. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank up to the main deck opposite Bloch's Landing on the Ohio River. Raised, repaired, and returned to service. (en)
  • The schooner was sunk in a squall off Long Island, New York. Lost with all nine hands. (en)
  • The schooner sank after hitting an obstruction southeast of Pensacola Bay, Florida. (en)
  • The fishing schooner went ashore at Green Island near Portland, Maine. Crew saved. (en)
  • The schooner sank in a storm off Pensacola, Florida in Pensacola Bay. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Savannah River. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire at Gretna, Louisiana while tied up alongside that had caught fire and spread. (en)
  • The steamer struck an obstruction, capsized and sank in the Mississippi River at Wys's Landing, or sunk in the Missouri River above Jefferson City, Missouri. (en)
  • The steamer struck a rock near Pasque Island in Vineyard Sound and was leaking badly enough that she was beached on the island to prevent sinking. Refloated and taken to New York City for repairs. (en)
  • The steamer was rammed and sunk by the French liner while anchored at the entrance to New York Harbor in fog. All on board were rescued. (en)
  • The steamer sprung a leak and sank in the Atlantic Ocean . The crew were rescued by the bark . (en)
  • The steamer was wrecked when she struck a pier of the Eleventh Street Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the Alleghany River. (en)
  • The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in of water in the Mississippi River near Fishers Island. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The fishing schooner was sunk in a collision with steamship in thick fog south west of Gay Head. (en)
  • The ship was wrecked in the Teifi Estuary. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk crossing the Cape Fear bar. (en)
  • The torpedo boat sank after a collision. (en)
  • The lumber schooner was damaged in a collision with in dense fog and rain in Lake Michigan off Grosse Point, Michigan. Several hours later she was taken under tow by , but sank shortly after that off Racine, Wisconsin. Her captain and four crew were killed, two were rescued by City of Duluth. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Tallahatchie River, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank below Raymond City, West Virginia in the Great Kanawha River. Raised, taken to Charleston, West Virginia and repaired. (en)
  • The steamer burned to the waterline overnight at Newport, Oregon. (en)
  • The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Ouessant, Finistère, France. (en)
  • The steamer filled and sank over night lying at Henderson Island in of water. Later raised. (en)
  • The steamer settled on a submerged piling when the river level dropped at Bismarck, North Dakota and sank, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer was swamped and sunk at dock at Louisville, Kentucky by the wake of a passing steamer. Later raised. (en)
  • The tug was destroyed by fire at dock at Superior, Wisconsin. (en)
  • During a voyage from Karluk, Territory of Alaska, to San Francisco, California, with four passengers, a crew of 13, and a cargo of 27,333 cases of canned salmon aboard, the 670-gross register ton, bark was wrecked in fog on Tugidak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago without loss of life. (en)
  • The tug keeled over onto her port side due to ice buildup, filled and sank off Sixty-Eighth Street, New York City in the North River. (en)
  • The steamer burned to the waterline at St. Helens, Oregon, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk in a collision with at Norfolk, Virginia. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk when she was struck at dock by at the St. Paul elevator, Chicago, Illinois. (en)
  • The schooner was heavily damaged and beached when part of her cargo consisting of gasoline exploded at Salem, Massachusetts, fortunately the 300 cases of dynamite on board did not detonate. Her cook suffered burns. (en)
  • The schooner was sunk in a collision with in Chesapeake Bay near Smith's Point Light. (en)
  • The ship was in collision with Rathlin in the River Thames at Woolwich, London and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Christiania, Norway to London. She was consequently condemned and scrapped. (en)
  • The steamer was damaged in a collision with the barge Beaufort, being towed by , at Norfolk, Virginia. She was beached to prevent sinking, but burned to the water's edge when lime in her cargo ignited. (en)
  • The laid up steamer sank at dock at Velasco, Texas near the mouth of the Brazos River. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire while lying at Gretna, Louisiana. (en)
  • The passenger steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Cumberland River in of water, a total loss. (en)
  • The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged south of Cape George, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, to Guysborough, Nova Scotia. (en)
  • The barque was wrecked on Santa Rosa Island, Florida . (en)
  • The tug burned to the waterline and sank in the Mississippi River near Cairo, Illinois, a total loss. (en)
  • The passenger steamer was destroyed by fire while lying by the bank of the Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennessee. She burned to the waterline and sank in of water. (en)
  • The tug was towing the schooner . When she stopped at Riker's Island to pick up a second tow she was run down, rolled, and sunk by Lamprey. Raised the next day. (en)
  • The sailing ship struck a reef off Saldanha Bay, South Africa, and was wrecked with 471 Indian indentured labourers on board. Eighteen crew were killed; there were only four survivors. (en)
  • The passenger steamer was crowded by ice and struck a reef in the Hudson River off New Hamburg, New York and sank. (en)
  • The tug sprang a leak and sank at dock over night in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Later raised. (en)
  • The steamship was damaged in a collision with a barge towed by in the Swash Channel tearing a hole in her side. She was beached where she filled with water. The next day she was patched and pulled off and taken to Erie Basin, Brooklyn. (en)
  • The passenger steamer was sunk in a collision with the anchored at Newport News, Virginia. She had 107 passengers and 42 crew onboard, of which two passengers and one crewman drowned, and one crewman died of injuries in the hospital. (en)
  • During a voyage from Glasgow, Scotland, to St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, carrying general cargo, the , 2,527-gross register ton barquentine-rigged steamer was wrecked in a storm at night on Yellow Murr Ledge, a reef that is part of the Murr Ledges, in the Bay of Fundy off Grand Manan, south-southeast of Southwest Head Light at . Her entire crew of 52 abandoned ship in two lifeboats and was rescued by the fishing schooner George S. Bontwell , which put to sea into the storm from a nearby anchorage to render assistance. (en)
  • thumb|Nathan F. Cobb The three-masted schooner capsized in the Atlantic Ocean after departing Brunswick, Georgia, and drifted onto the outer sand bar off Ormond Beach, Florida, where she ran aground. Two crewmen and a civilian rescuer were killed during the incident. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank at Crabapple Bluff on the Chattahoochee River, later raised. (en)
  • The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at New Orleans, Louisiana. (en)
  • The steamer struck an obstruction and sank at Island No. 40 in the Mississippi River, a total loss. (en)
  • The ship was wrecked on the east coast of Eastern Fields, British New Guinea, just east of the entrance to Torres Straits. The crew of the captain's boat was picked up by a steamer while the mate's boat managed to reach the coast of New Guinea. (en)
  • The steamer filled and sank while lying at Chattanooga, Tennessee. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk in a collision with off Sailor's Snug Harbor, New York due to poor visibility from heavy smoke blowing from the New Jersey shore. (en)
  • The steamer sprung a leak and sank over night at dock in Charleston, West Virginia. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The steamer caught fire while loading oil at Gibson's Point on the Schuylkill River and was beached and sank. (en)
  • The tug burned off One Hundred Fifty-Second Street, New York City in the North River, a total loss. (en)
  • The tug sank at dock in East Boston, Massachusetts due to ice and high winds. Later raised. (en)
  • On a trip from Green Bay, Wisconsin to Buffalo, New York the steamer was sunk in a collision with north of the Colchester Shoal Light in of water. Her machinery was salvaged. The wreck was later blown up with dynamite. The crew were rescued by Livingstone. (en)
  • The canal boat was destroyed by fire in the Erie Canal at Brighton, New York. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Yazoo River at Bartonia, Mississippi, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire at Ladd's Island in the White River below Batesville, Arkansas, a total loss. (en)
  • The passenger steamer struck an obstruction and sank at Craigheads Point, Arkansas above Memphis, Tennessee. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The schooner was wrecked on Little Lorraine Island near Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. One crewman killed. (en)
  • The tug was sunk in a collision with the tug in the East River off Grand Street, New York. (en)
  • The steamer struck a rock and broke in two in Box Canyon on the Kootenay River, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk when she struck a log in Occoquan Creek, Virginia. (en)
  • The tow steamer was destroyed by fire at Clark's Dock, Jacksonville, Florida. (en)
  • The steamer sank at dock over night at San Francisco when someone ran a hose from a fire hydrant to the ship and flooded her. Later raised. (en)
  • The ferry caught fire at dock in Jersey City, New Jersey. Attempts to put out the fire failed and she was towed out into the North River, sinking off Liberty Island. (en)
  • The tug was destroyed by fire between Albany, New York and Troy, New York, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer burned to the water's edge at South Point, Ohio, a total loss. (en)
  • The passenger steamer was destroyed by fire while lying at the bank in the Ohio River at Golconda, Illinois, a total loss. (en)
  • The fishing schooner was run down and sunk off Cape Cod by . Nine crewmen killed. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire opposite L'Argent Landing, Mississippi at the mouth of the Big Sunflower River. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Cora Plantation, above Donaldsonville, Louisiana, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer capsized and sank in the Niagara River off Hickory Reef. A male and a female passenger died. (en)
  • thumb|right|The tips of the masts and funnel of Glasgow at Zanzibar Town harbour in 1902 Anglo-Zanzibar War: The royal yacht was sunk by the Royal Navy. All crew rescued. (en)
  • The laid up steamer burned and sank at dock at New Orleans, Louisiana, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamship collided with the sailing ship in the Bay of Biscay (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank at Knob Coal Works on the Monongahela River. Raised, repaired, and returned to service. (en)
  • The schooner was beached on the west shore of Pensacola Bay, Florida, in a storm and broke up. (en)
  • The steamer struck a pier of the Great Northern Railroad on the Skagit River and sank. (en)
  • The cargo ship was wrecked in Dunlough Bay, County Cork with the loss of nine of her crew. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Avonmouth, Somerset. (en)
  • The fishing schooner was sunk near Point Judith, Rhode Island. The crew were rescued. (en)
  • The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Bordentown, New Jersey. (en)
  • The lighter caught fire at Pier 14, New York City in the North River. She was towed to mid-stream where she burned to the waterline and sank. (en)
  • The canal boat was sunk in a collision with the ferry in the North River. (en)
  • The steamer struck a submerged log in Rancocas Creek and was beached to prevent sinking. (en)
  • The gunboat sank in the East China Sea off China′s Shandong Peninsula near Tsingtao during a typhoon with the loss of 77 lives. There were 11 survivors. (en)
  • The steamer caught fire in the St. Clair River below Marine City, Michigan and burned to the water's edge. (en)
  • The steamer was blown ashore in a gale, probably in the New Orleans, Louisiana area, sprung a leak but saved from sinking by throwing cargo overboard. (en)
  • The tug caught fire off South Amboy, New Jersey. She was beached and burned to the water's edge. (en)
  • The pleasure launch was sunk when she struck Car Float No. 4 at the Harlem River Bridge, Harlem, New York in the Harlem River. Three women on board drowned. (en)
  • The canal boat sank between Jersey City, New Jersey and New York City, possibly by ice. (en)
  • The steam barge caught fire on Lake Superior off the Portage Lake Canal, off Ontonagon, Michigan. The crew was forced to go to the barge James Mowatt that she was towing and cut the tow line. She eventually drifted ashore near the mouth of Salmon Trout River and burned to the waterline. (en)
  • The steamer struck a rock off Pointe aux Barques Light and was beached to prevent sinking. (en)
  • The tug was wrecked in the River Clyde sometime in 1896. (en)
  • The ferry filled and sank over night at dock in the Ohio River at Shawneetown, Illinois. Raised, repaired and returned to service. (en)
  • The ship ran aground off Isaacs Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, with the loss of eighteen of her 27 crew. She was on a voyage from Pelley Island, Newfoundland to New York, United States. (en)
  • The yacht struck an obstruction and sank opposite Star Landing, Mississippi, a total loss. Her crew of five abandoned ship in her boat. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank at Belzonia, Mississippi on the Yazoo River. Later raised. (en)
  • The steamer caught fire at dock at Erie, Pennsylvania and was destroyed. (en)
  • The freighter was destroyed by fire at Preston's Landing, Kentucky on the Big Sandy River. (en)
  • Two small wharf boats were destroyed by fire at Evansville, Indiana when a large wharf boat caught fire and the fire spread. (en)
  • The tow steamer was destroyed by fire in Lake Michigan near Chicago, Illinois. (en)
  • The barge, under tow by , sprung a leak in high seas on Lake Michigan and lost her hatches off South Point, Milwaukee, Wisconsin causing her to founder. Two of the crew was rescued by , her captain was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service, and the rest were lost. (en)
  • The passenger steamer was sunk when she struck a rock in the Hudson River. Raised, repaired, and returned to service. (en)
  • The steamer struck a stump and sank opposite Coal Bluff on the Monongahela River. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The steam elevator was sunk in a collision with in New York Bay. (en)
  • The sand dredge sprung a leak and sank in Lake Erie at Lorain, Ohio and was abandoned as a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer was wrecked in thick fog off the Pigeon Point Lighthouse, California, a total loss. (en)
  • The tug was sunk in a collision with Float No. 31 being towed by off Palmer's Dock, Brooklyn. (en)
  • The tug caught fire off Glenwood, New York and was beached. (en)
  • The steamer burned to the water line and sank at dock over night at Parkersburg, West Virginia in the Little Kanawha River, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer sank after being damaged in high seas on an incomplete breakwater inside the bar at Coos Bay, Oregon sinking in of water, a total loss. Nine crew and four passengers lost. Survivors were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. (en)
  • The tow steamer filled and sank overnight lying at the bank of the Ohio River above Evansville, Indiana, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer struck a rock and sank at the Mouth of the Windy River. She was raised and taken to Portland, Oregon for repairs. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire while anchored in the Warwick River. (en)
  • The steamer caught fire off Beverly, New Jersey and was beached, she burned to the waterline. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Elizabeth River off Money Point. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank at Morten's Landing, Kentucky in of water. Raised, taken to Cincinnati, Ohio and repaired. (en)
  • The sailing vessel was sunk in a collision with off the Bush's Bluff lightship. (en)
  • The tug caught fire at Ward's Shipyard, Astoria, New York. The city's fire department filled her with water until she sank. (en)
  • thumb|The wreck of HMS Vixen on 12 July 2010. The gunboat was scuttled as a blockship at Bermuda. (en)
  • The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at Darraghville, Louisiana. (en)
  • The steamer struck a log and sank opposite Martinsburg, Kentucky in of water in the Cumberland River. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The tug burned at the Abby Dock, Albany, New York, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer was capsized by a tornado at Cairo, Illinois. Raised and repaired. 11 lives lost. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Yamhill River. She was raised, but while waiting to be taken to Portland, Oregon for repairs she broke loose from her moorings and was wrecked, a total loss. (en)
  • The steam schooner sprang a leak in a heavy gale. The rising water put out her fires and she was wrecked near McKenzie Head, Washington, a total loss. (en)
  • The canal boat was sunk when she struck the yacht off Thirty-Forth Street, New York City in the North River. (en)
  • The cargo liner steamer/barkentine was wrecked in thick fog off Point Punos Lighthouse, California, near Pebble Beach, California a total loss. The crew and much of her cargo of livestock were rescued by . (en)
  • On a trip from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Central America the steamer broke the crank pin in her engine causing a leak that caused her to sink. Three crew killed. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk in a collision with in the Mississippi River below Memphis, Tennessee. Later raised. A fireman on L. E. Patton was fatally scalded f (en)
  • The steamer foundered in a gale on Catahoula Lake. Later raised. (en)
  • The barge was destroyed by fire at dock at Taylor's Bridge, Delaware. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk in a collision with in the southern end of Lake St. Clair. Later raised. (en)
  • The vessel was wrecked on Santa Rosa Island, Florida. (en)
  • The steamer struck a rock near Shoemaker's Chain, she ran to Government Island where she sank in of water. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The yacht broke loose from her moorings, drifted down river striking an empty barge at the Pittsburgh City Docks on the Monongahela River causing her to capsize. Her cabin was wrecked and her boiler dropped out. Her hull and boiler were recovered, repaired, and returned to service. (en)
  • The canal boat was sunk in a collision with the tug off The Battery, New York. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire at Campbell's Landing, above Memphis, Tennessee. (en)
  • The steamer broke loose from her moorings at Everett, Washington and went on the beach. Two hours later she burned, a total loss. (en)
  • The tow steamer was turning two lighters around, but caught on her tow line amidships, she capsized and sank in the St. Johns River below Jacksonville, Florida. Later raised. (en)
  • The ferry was sunk when wind blew her against the dock in Baltimore, Maryland. (en)
  • The fishing schooner was wrecked near highland Light, Cape Cod. The crew were saved. (en)
  • The fishing smack was lost in the equinoctial storms in the middle of October. Eleven crew lost. (en)
  • The schooner was wrecked near Manchester. Crew saved. (en)
  • The ship was wrecked off Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom. All crew saved by the Hythe Lifeboat. (en)
  • The steamer ran aground at Ushant, France, and sank with the loss of 242 crew and passengers. (en)
  • The yacht got caught in a wave trough while answering a distress call on Lake Winnebago and sank near shore. (en)
  • The steamer was destroyed by fire in the Merrimac River. (en)
  • The laid up tugboat sunk overnight at dock in Perth Amboy, New Jersey during a storm. (en)
  • The steamer sprung a leak and sank at dock at New Orleans, Louisiana a total loss. (en)
  • The schooner was sunk in a collision with off Cornfield Shoal. (en)
  • The steamer burned at Dighton, Massachusetts, probably destroyed. (en)
  • The steamer was sunk in a collision with in Baltimore Harbor. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag and sank near Simsport, Louisiana in the Atchafalaya River. Later raised. (en)
  • The steamer struck a snag near Newark, West Virginia on the Little Kanawha River and sank. (en)
  • The steamer was damaged in a collision with above Evansville, Indiana. She proceeded to the bank, where she sank later. (en)
  • The tow steamer stranded on the bar at the mouth of the Chagrin River and broke up. (en)
  • The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with in Chicago Harbor in of water. Raised and repaired. (en)
  • The steamer caught on a wreck off Mispillion River, careened and filled. (en)
  • During a voyage from Goteburg, Sweden, to Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa, with a cargo of Baltic pine timber, the barque was wrecked without loss of life on the coast of South Africa near the mouth of the Bushman River. (en)
  • The tow steamer caught fire in Prince's Bay, Staten Island and was run ashore where she burned to the water's edge. (en)
  • The steamer sank at Tremont Coal Works on the Monongahela River. Raised, repaired, and returned to service. One crewman killed, one injured. (en)
  • During a voyage from "Wood Island" to "Seldoria C. I." , the 8.8-gross register ton, schooner was wrecked in fog on a rock in the Barren Islands off the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska, becoming a total loss. Her crew of two survived. (en)
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