List of shipwrecks in April 1884
The list of shipwrecks in April 1884 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during April 1884.
April 1884 | ||||||
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Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
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7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
28 | 29 | 30 | Unknown date | |||
References |
1 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Augvald | ![]() | The barque collided with another vessel in the English Channel off St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Hamburg, Germany to Baltimore, Maryland, United States. She put in to Cowes, Isle of Wight in a leaky condition.[1] |
C. E. Suhr | ![]() | The ship departed from Akassa, Africa for a European port. No further trace, reported missing.[2] |
Isabella | ![]() | The schooner was driven ashore near Drummore, Wigtownshire. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Girvan, Ayrshire.[1] |
James Cann | ![]() | The Thames barge collided with the schooner Carmenta (![]() |
Herald | ![]() | The paddle steamer sank off North Head, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, after suffering a boiler explosion. Both men aboard escaped safely in one of her boats. |
2 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Helikon | ![]() | The ship was sighted off Dover, Kent, United Kingdom whilst on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Sydney, New South Wales. No further trace, reported missing.[3] |
3 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Alba | ![]() | The barque was wrecked at Sandwich, Kent, United Kingdom with the loss of fifteen of the nineteen people on board. She was on avoyage from Copenhagen to Greenland.[4] |
Daniel Steinmann | ![]() | The steamer ran aground on the Madrock Shoal, off Sambro Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, with the loss of 121 of her 130 passengers and crew.[5] She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Halifax, Nova Scotia and New York, United States.[6] |
Rebecca Everingham | ![]() | The steamboat burned to the waterline at Fitzgerald Landing, Georgia, 28 nautical miles (52 km) above Eufaula, Alabama, before her mooring lines parted allowing her to drift 100 yards (91 m) down stream in the Chattahoochee River before sinking with the loss of twelve lives.[7][8] |
4 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Viking | ![]() | The schooner was lost at "Newcomb's Hollow". Her crew were rescued.[9] |
5 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Flying Cloud, or Flying Foam | ![]() | The brig was driven ashore in Dundrum Bay. One of the ship's boats capsized and all the occupants drowned. The rest of the crew landed in a second ship's boat or were brought ashore by the Newcastle Lifeboat Farnley (![]() |
6 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Odysseus | ![]() | The brig collided with the steamship Nigel (![]() |
8 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Malacca | ![]() | The barque was wrecked in the Indian Ocean 22 nautical miles (41 km) south west of the Dapres Shoal. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Chittagong to Calcutta, India.[13] |
Mazeppa | ![]() | The ship ran aground at Cardiff, Glamorgan.[13] |
9 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Fornix | ![]() | The ship sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the fishing trawler Contest (![]() |
10 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Azorean | ![]() | The ship sprang a leak and foundered 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) west of the Smalls Lighthouse, Cornwall. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Caernarfon to Cork.[15] |
11 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Merrie England | ![]() | The steam yacht ran aground at Fort Genoves, Spain. She was refloated with the assistance of the steamship Alacrity (![]() |
12 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Lady Dalhousie | ![]() | The steamship struck the Chynoweth rock near The Manacles, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued.[17] She was on a voyage from London to Newport, Monmouthshire.[15] |
William | ![]() | The schooner foundered off Belmullet, County Mayo. Her crew were rescued.[15] |
14 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Little Sleightholm | ![]() | The ship foundered at sea. Her crew were rescued by the barque Nerji (![]() |
15 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Speke Hall | ![]() | The steamship ran aground in the Hooghly River. She was refloated.[19] |
19 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Ponema, and State of Florida | ![]() ![]() | The barque Ponema collided with the steamship State of Florida in the Atlantic Ocean 1,200 nautical miles (2,200 km) west of Ireland. Ponema sank with the loss of twelve of her fifteen crew. Survivors were rescued by the barque Theresa (Flag unknown). Ponema was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada. State of Florida sank with the loss of 123 of the 170 people on board. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to the Clyde.[20][21][22][23] The steamship Titania (![]() |
21 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Hebe | ![]() | The ship ran aground at Burghead, Moray, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Tromsø to Lossiemouth, Moray. She was later refloated and taken in to Lossiemouth in a severely leaky condition.[26] |
22 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Attila | ![]() | The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her nine crew were rescued by the barque Altcar (![]() |
Marion | ![]() | The schooner ran aground at Lerwick, Shetland Islands. She was refloated and taken in to Lerwick in a leaky condition.[28] |
23 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Fanny | ![]() | The smack sprang a leak and foundered 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Sanda Island, Inner Hebrides. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Glenarm, County Antrim to Campbeltown, Argyllshire.[28] |
Sibil | ![]() | The Thames barge was run into by the steamship City of Truro (![]() |
Sjofna | ![]() | The steamship was driven ashore on Närsholmen, Gotland, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Riga, Russia.[28] |
25 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Diamanten | ![]() | The ship was driven on to the Lark Sand, in the Bristol Channel. She was refloated and taken in to Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, United Kingdom in a waterlogged condition.[29] |
Ojofna | ![]() | The steamship was driven ashore at "Marsholm", Gotland. She was later refloated with assistance.[26] |
Rajah Brooke | ![]() | The steamship collided with the steamship Glencarn (![]() |
28 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Saint Paul | ![]() | The schooner was wrecked on the coast of the Alaska Peninsula near Nikolaief, Department of Alaska. Both crew survived. She was on a voyage from Belkofski to Kodiak, Department of Alaska.[30] |
29 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Falmouth | ![]() | The passenger ship burned and sank at dock in Portland, Maine. Three crew were killed.[7][31] |
Several unnamed vessels | ![]() | The lighters were sunk by a freshet at Buenos Aires.[26] |
Unnamed | ![]() | The schooner was run down and sunk off Saint Pierre and Miquelon with the loss of twelve of her nineteen crew.[32] |
30 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Unnamed | Flag unknown | The steamship was destroyed by fire off the coast of the Cape Colony.[33] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Albert | ![]() | The schooner was wrecked on the coast of Iceland. Her 24 crew survived.[34] |
Assyrien | ![]() | The steamship was wrecked on Providence Atoll, Seychelles before 25 April. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Toulon Var to the Seychelles.[29] |
Cometen | Flag unknown | The ship ran aground in the Paraná River. She was refloated and taken in to Buenos Aires, Argentina in a leaky condition.[28] |
Glenhaven | ![]() | The ship capsized in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Darien, Georgia, United States to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[35] |
Horrox | ![]() | The steamship ran aground at Santos, Brazil. She was on a voyage from Santos to New York City, United States. She was later refloated with assistance and resumed her voyage.[36] |
Hoselaw | Flag unknown | The steamship was driven ashore at Sproge, Gotland, Sweden. She was later refloated with assistance.[26] |
Incemore | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and damaged at "Perac", Ottoman Empire. She was on a voyage from Brăila, Romania to Antwerp, Belgium. She was later refloated and taken in to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire.[29] |
Island | ![]() | The schooner was driven ashore west of Dysart, Fife, United Kingdom and sank.[28] |
Minatitlán | ![]() | The steamship was destroyed by fire at Coatzacoalcos.[28] |
Modesto | Flag unknown | The ship ran aground in the Paraná River. She was refloated and taken in to Buenos Aires in a leaky condition.[28] |
Napier | ![]() | The steamship ran aground at Maassluis, South Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated on 1 May.[26] |
Niord | ![]() | The barque was wrecked on the West Rocks, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex.[37] |
USS Ohio | ![]() | The decommissioned ship-of-the-line broke loose from her moorings at Greenport, Long Island, New York, and ran aground on Fanning Point on the south coast of Long Island. She was burned to the waterline there to ease the recovery of her fittings, and her wreck sank in 20 feet (6 m) of water.[38][39][40] |
Rosalie | ![]() | The ship ran aground at Antigua. She was later refloated.[26] |
Shadwan | ![]() | The steamship caught fire at sea. She was on a voyage from the East Indies to Suez, Egypt. The fire was extinguished.[28] |
Temo | Flag unknown | The ship ran aground in the Paraná River. She was refloated and taken in to Buenos Aires in a leaky condition.[28] |
Thorly | ![]() | The brig was lost in the Middle Deep, off the coast of Essex. Eight of her crew were rescued by the Harwich Lifeboat Albert Edward (![]() |
Varnaes | ![]() | The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew werre rescued. She was on a voyage from Wilmington, Delaware to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.[13] |
Virgo Maria | Flag unknown | The ship ran aground in the Paraná River. She was refloated and taken in to Bueno Aires in a leaky condition.[28] |
Wallachia | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore on Sherbro Island before 14 April. She was refloated eight days later.[41] |
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