List of shipwrecks in April 1884

The list of shipwrecks in April 1884 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during April 1884.

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1 April

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1884
Ship State Description
Augvald  Norway 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  Denmark The ship departed from Akassa, Africa for a European port. No further trace, reported missing.[2]
Isabella  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore near Drummore, Wigtownshire. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Girvan, Ayrshire.[1]
James Cann  United Kingdom The Thames barge collided with the schooner Carmenta ( United Kingdom) and sank in the River Thames at Cliffe, Kent.[1]
Herald  United Kingdom 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

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1884
Ship State Description
Helikon  Germany 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

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1884
Ship State Description
Alba  Denmark 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  Belgium 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  United States 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

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1884
Ship State Description
Viking  United States The schooner was lost at "Newcomb's Hollow". Her crew were rescued.[9]

5 April

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1884
Ship State Description
Flying Cloud, or
Flying Foam 		 United Kingdom 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 ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). The brig was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Quebec City, Canada.[10][11]

6 April

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1884
Ship State Description
Odysseus  Greece The brig collided with the steamship Nigel ( United Kingdom) and sank in the Sulina branch of the Danube between 35 and 36 nautical miles (65 and 67 km) from its mouth.[12]

8 April

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1884
Ship State Description
Malacca  France 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  United Kingdom The ship ran aground at Cardiff, Glamorgan.[13]

9 April

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1884
Ship State Description
Fornix  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the fishing trawler Contest ( United Kingdom). Fornix was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Christiania, Norway.[14]

10 April

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1884
Ship State Description
Azorean  United Kingdom 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

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1884
Ship State Description
Merrie England  United Kingdom The steam yacht ran aground at Fort Genoves, Spain. She was refloated with the assistance of the steamship Alacrity ( United Kingdom).[16]

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1884
Ship State Description
Lady Dalhousie  United Kingdom 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  United Kingdom The schooner foundered off Belmullet, County Mayo. Her crew were rescued.[15]

14 April

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1884
Ship State Description
Little Sleightholm Canada Canada The ship foundered at sea. Her crew were rescued by the barque Nerji ( Austria-Hungary). Little Sleightholm was on a voyage from Bahia, Brazil to Halifax, Nova Scotia.[18]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1884
Ship State Description
Speke Hall  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground in the Hooghly River. She was refloated.[19]

19 April

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1884
Ship State Description
Ponema, and
State of Florida 		Canada Canada
 United Kingdom 		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 ( United Kingdom) rescued 24 crew of State of Florida.[24] The barque Theresa also rescued survivors from the State of Florida.[25]

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1884
Ship State Description
Hebe  Denmark The ship ran aground at Burghead, Moray, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Tromsรธ to Lossiemouth, Moray. She was later refloated and taken in to Lossiemouth in a severely leaky condition.[26]

22 April

List of shipwrecks: 22 April 1884
Ship State Description
Attila  Norway The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her nine crew were rescued by the barque Altcar ( Norway). Attila was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.[27]
Marion  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground at Lerwick, Shetland Islands. She was refloated and taken in to Lerwick in a leaky condition.[28]

23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1884
Ship State Description
Fanny  United Kingdom 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  United Kingdom The Thames barge was run into by the steamship City of Truro ( United Kingdom) and sank in the River Thames near Gravesend, Kent.[28]
Sjofna  Norway The steamship was driven ashore on Nรคrsholmen, Gotland, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Riga, Russia.[28]

25 April

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1884
Ship State Description
Diamanten  Sweden 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  Sweden The steamship was driven ashore at "Marsholm", Gotland. She was later refloated with assistance.[26]
Rajah Brooke  Sarawak The steamship collided with the steamship Glencarn ( United Kingdom) and sank at Penang, Straits Settlements.[29]

28 April

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1884
Ship State Description
Saint Paul  United States 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

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1884
Ship State Description
Falmouth  United States The passenger ship burned and sank at dock in Portland, Maine. Three crew were killed.[7][31]
Several unnamed vessels  Argentina The lighters were sunk by a freshet at Buenos Aires.[26]
Unnamed  France The schooner was run down and sunk off Saint Pierre and Miquelon with the loss of twelve of her nineteen crew.[32]

30 April

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1884
Ship State Description
Unnamed Flag unknown The steamship was destroyed by fire off the coast of the Cape Colony.[33]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in April 1884
Ship State Description
Albert  France The schooner was wrecked on the coast of Iceland. Her 24 crew survived.[34]
Assyrien  France 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 Paranรก River. She was refloated and taken in to Buenos Aires, Argentina in a leaky condition.[28]
Glenhaven  United Kingdom The ship capsized in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Darien, Georgia, United States to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[35]
Horrox  Belgium 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  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and damaged at "Perac", Ottoman Empire. She was on a voyage from Brฤƒila, Romania to Antwerp, Belgium. She was later refloated and taken in to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire.[29]
Island  Norway The schooner was driven ashore west of Dysart, Fife, United Kingdom and sank.[28]
Minatitlรกn  Mexico The steamship was destroyed by fire at Coatzacoalcos.[28]
Modesto Flag unknown The ship ran aground in the Paranรก River. She was refloated and taken in to Buenos Aires in a leaky condition.[28]
Napier  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Maassluis, South Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated on 1 May.[26]
Niord  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on the West Rocks, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex.[37]
USS Ohio  United States 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  United Kingdom The ship ran aground at Antigua. She was later refloated.[26]
Shadwan  United Kingdom 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 Paranรก River. She was refloated and taken in to Buenos Aires in a leaky condition.[28]
Thorly  United Kingdom 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 ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[37]
Varnaes  Norway 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 Paranรก River. She was refloated and taken in to Bueno Aires in a leaky condition.[28]
Wallachia  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore on Sherbro Island before 14 April. She was refloated eight days later.[41]

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