The list of shipwrecks in 1886 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1886 .
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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1886
Ship
State
Description
Axel
Sweden
The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean , according to a message in a bottle that washed up at Cádiz , Spain in December.[ 1]
Boyne
United Kingdom
The sailing ship was wrecked without loss of life on False Point , India . She was on a voyage from Suva , Fiji , to Calcutta , India.
Catherine
United Kingdom
The whaler , a brig , was wrecked at "Cumberland Gulf", Greenland. Her 24 crew survived.[ 2] [ 3]
Eagle
Flag unknown
The yacht was driven ashore and wrecked at Kingsville, Ontario , Canada during the last week of March or on 1 April.[ 4]
Ferntower
United Kingdom
The ship foundered in the Saigon River with the loss of fifty lives.[ 5]
René
France
The ship was wrecked at Overton Cliffs , Glamorgan , United Kingdom . There were five survivors.[ 6]
Seth Stockbridge
United States
The fishing schooner was lost off Greenland early in the Summer with all fourteen hands.[ 7]
Thornton
Canada
The sealing schooner was battered to pieces at Unalaska on Unalaska Island in the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands , Department of Alaska sometime during or after 1886.[ 8]
Tsengora
Canada
The full-rigged ship was lost at Spring Lake , New Jersey , United States.[ 9]
W. C. Warner
Flag unknown
The brig was lost at Mantoloking, New Jersey , United States.[ 9]
Western Shore
United States
The sloop was lost in Bristol Bay in the Department of Alaska.[ 10]
References
Shipwrecks 1880–89, by month
1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889