List of shipwrecks in 1890#January

The list of shipwrecks in 1890 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1890.

January

=2 January=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Czarowitz

|flag={{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brigantine was hit by the White Star Line ocean liner {{SS|Britannic|1874|2}} ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the Crosby Channel as she was about to enter the River Mersey. She was bound for Runcorn loaded with china clay from Fowey.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Collisions at Sea |department=News |date=4 January 1890 |page=6 |issue=32900 |column=D }}

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=3 January=

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|ship= {{SS|Norge|1881|2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The passenger ship ran aground in the Kristianiafjord in thick fog. Sent to Gothenburg for repairs.{{cite web |url=http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=norgm |title=S/S Norge, Scandinavian America Line |publisher=norwayheritage.com |accessdate=1 December 2020}}

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=11 January=

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|ship={{SS|Aberdare|1883|2}}

|flag={{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamer (wrongly initially identified by some as "Labarrouere"), arriving with iron ore at Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, collided with the steamer Ardanbhan ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the mouth of the Usk Lighthouse. No lives were lost and Aberdare was raised on 13 January.{{cite news |title=Glasgow Vessel in Collision |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/18900113/244/0006 |access-date=22 April 2025 |work=Scotsman |issue=14516 |date=13 January 1890 |location=Edinburgh |page=6|via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite news |title=Local and District |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002977/18900115/108/0005 |access-date=22 April 2025 |work=Swansea and Glamorgan Herald |issue=2396 |date=15 January 1890 |page=5|via=British Newspaper Archive}}

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=13 January=

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|ship={{SV|Ben Hur||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on Blanche Point, Nova Scotia. Crew saved.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}}

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=14 January=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Sacrobosco||2}}

|flag= {{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamer burned to the waterline at Baltimore, Maryland. Several lives lost. Wreck bought by Red Star Line, salvaged, rebuilt and returned to service as {{SS|Conemaugh||2}} ({{flag|Belgium}}).{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?153391 |title=Conemaugh (+1904) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=10 September 2019}}

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=18 January=

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|ship={{SV|Gleaner||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on Murder Island near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Later pulled off and taken to Yarmouth, heavily damaged. Crew saved after spending two days in a hut on the island.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}}

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=22 January=

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|ship=Dispatch

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=While towing a barge, the 10.27-ton steamer dragged her anchor during a storm and was wrecked on the east shore of Seymour Canal on the coast of Admiralty Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska, {{convert|15|nmi}} northwest of the mouth of the canal. Her crew of three survived.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-d/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (D)]

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=23 January=

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|ship=Ambassador

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque was run into by the full-rigged ship Cambrian Duchess ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) off The Mumbles, Glamorgan. She was declared a constructive total loss.{{cite web |url=http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf |title=A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks |first=Ron |last=Tovey |publisher=Swansea Docks |access-date=21 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222065415/http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf |archive-date=22 December 2014 }}

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=24 January=

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|ship=Amazon

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The barge, under the tow of {{SS|Harold||2}} ({{flag|United States|1877}}) lost her tow line in high wind and heavy seas causing her to fill and sink in Long Island Sound. Her captain drowned.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu09189980&view=1up&seq=251 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1890 |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=13 February 2020}}

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=25 January=

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|ship= Thorne

|flag={{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The three-masted barque was driven into the rocks off Onchan Head, Isle of Man.{{cite web |url=https://www.isleofman.com/visitor-guide/6473/2991/the-barque-thorne-wreck |title=The Barque Thorne Wreck}}

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=26 January=

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|ship=Ashlowe

|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada

|desc=The barque ran aground off The Mumbles, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was abandoned by her eleven crew. They were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat.

}}

=27 January=

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|ship= Howard A Turner

|flag={{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Canada

|desc= A derelict barque was seen being towed by a steamer off Sennen Cove, Cornwall, with no signs of crew on board. At around 20:00 an unmanned New Brunswick barque came ashore on rocks at Penzer Point, near Lamorna Cove. The barque was carrying timber for Dublin and was believed to have been abandoned ten days before, and the crew landed at Liverpool.{{cite news |title=Stranding of a derelict at Lamorna |work=The Cornishman |issue=604 |date=30 January 1890 |page=4}}

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=28 January=

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|ship={{SS|DeSoto||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The steamer burned to the waterline {{convert|1|mi|spell=in}} below Owensboro, Kentucky. Two crewmen died.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu09189980&view=1up&seq=251 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1890 |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=13 February 2020}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Irex||2}}

|flag={{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked on her maiden voyage at Scratchell's Bay, Isle of Wight, England.

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=Unknown date=

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|ship={{SV|Alice M. Strople||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The schooner was believed to have sunk in a gale, described as a hurricane, on 9 January. Lost with all 14 crew.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/alicem.htm |title=The Alice M. Strople |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Dreadnaught||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc= The fishing schooner left Saint Pierre Island on 16 January and vanished, probably lost in a gale and snowstorm that night. Lost with all seven crew and one passenger.{{cite web |url=https://gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/404/LOST-AT-SEAAPR?bidId= |title=Lost at sea |publisher=gloucester-ma.gov |access-date=25 May 2021 |archive-date=6 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506124722/https://gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/404/LOST-AT-SEAAPR?bidId= |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?214756 |title=Isaac A. Chapman (+1890) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=25 May 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/isaac.htm |title=The Isaac A. Chapman |publisher=downtosea.com |access-date=25 May 2021}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Isaac A. Chapman||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The schooner left Saint Pierre and Miquelon on 16 January and vanished. Probably sank in a snowstorm and gale that night. Lost with all seven crew and one passenger.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/isaac.htm |title=The Isaac A. Chapman |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Loch Moidart

|flag= {{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc= The 2,000-ton iron ship was driven ashore at Collandsoog, while approaching the port of Hamburg. Only two crew survived.{{cite news |title=Loss of a Penzance Captain, his ship, and most of his crew |work=The Cornishman |issue=604 |date=30 January 1890 |page=4}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Unnamed fishing vessels

|flag={{flagcountry|China|civil}}

|desc= Towards the end of January, three thousand fishermen were believed to have drowned during a hurricane off the Chinese coast.{{cite news |title=Great Storm in China. Fully Three Thousand Fisherman Drowned. |work=The Cornishman |issue=608 |date=27 February 1890 |page=7}}

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February

=8 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Spyridion Vagliane

|flag= {{flag|Greece}}

|desc= The vessel struck The Manacles, off the Lizard, Cornwall and sank almost immediately. Eight of the crew landed on nearby Godrevy beach.{{cite news |title=Wreck at the Manacles. Captain drowned. Thirteen of the crew missing |work=The Cornishman |issue=606 |date=8 February 1890 |page=8}}

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=10 February=

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|ship= {{SS|Port Eads||2}}

|flag= {{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc= The steamer struck Bridge Pier No. 2 and sank in {{convert|70|ft}} of water at Memphis, Tennessee. Seven crewmen died. Survivors were rescued by {{SS|C. B. Bryan||2}}, {{SS|Welcome||2}}, and {{SS|May Flower||2}} (all {{flag|United States|1877}}), plus skiffs from shore.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu09189980&view=1up&seq=251 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1890 |publisher=Columbia University |accessdate=13 February 2020}}

}}

=11 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Wachusett||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The fishing schooner was wrecked in Fell's Cove near Burin, Newfoundland.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}} The vessel was later pulled off and taken to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia heavily damaged. The crew were saved after spending two days in a hut on the island.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

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=16 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Nautique||2}}

|flag={{Flagcountry|France}}

|desc=The steamer, bound from Le Havre, France, for Baltimore, Maryland, foundered in mid-Atlantic Ocean shortly after the crew were rescued by the steamer {{SS|Manitoban|1865|2}} (flag unknown).{{cite news|title=Epitome of General News|work=Leicester Chronicle and the Leicestershire Mercury|issue=4128|date=22 March 1890|location=Leicester|page=3}}

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=19 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Highgate

|flag=

|desc=The steamer collided with Sovereign (flag unknown) and sank off Lundy. Thirteen of the crew were landed at Milford Haven and a boat with six crew was reported missing.{{cite news |title=Accidents |work=The Cornishman |issue=608 |date=27 February 1890 |page=6}}

}}

=21 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Agnes||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The fishing schooner was wrecked on Vanquero Island, Miquelon. Crew saved.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}}

}}

=22 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{ship||Susie|1886|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1888}}

|desc=The steamer burned at Devils Elbow, Apalachicola, Florida.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6j6kjZQReqkC&dq=ships+sunk+in+the+carrabelle%2C+fla.+1899+hurricane&pg=PA35 |last=Singer |first=Stephen D. |title=Shipwrecks of Florida: A Comprehensive Listing |publisher=Pineapple Press |location=Sarasota, Florida |edition=Second |orig-year=1992 |year=1998 |isbn=1-56164-163-4 |pages=32}}

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=23 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William Henry

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The crew abandoned ship and the vessel is believed to have foundered a few miles off the Wolf Rock.{{cite news |title=Twice Collided. |work=The Cornishman |issue=608 |date=27 February 1890 |page=8}}

}}

=25 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{ship|French torpedo boat|Avant-Garde|1897|2}}

|flag={{navy|France}}

|desc=The torpedo boat was wrecked.Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, {{ISBN|0-8317-0302-4}}, p. 328.].

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=28 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{RMS|Quetta||2}}

|flag={{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamer struck an uncharted rock in the Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia, and sank with the loss of 134 lives.

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=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Duburg||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The steamer was lost in a typhoon, possibly on 17 February, off the coast of China. 400 killed.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308678&view=1up&seq=457 |title=American Marine Engineer September, 1912 |publisher=National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States |via=Haithi Trust |accessdate=30 November 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?293270 |title=Duburg (+1890) |publisher=Wrecksite |accessdate=30 November 2020}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed vessel

|flag=

|desc=The dhow, carrying powder and ammunition, exploded on a Ugandan lake killing 12 Arab chiefs and 200 fighting slaves.{{cite news |title=Horrible Massacre |work=The Cornishman |issue=607 |date=20 February 1890 |page=6}}

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March

=1 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Colonist|1861|2}}

|flag={{flag|New South Wales}}

|desc=The passenger-cargo schooner sank with the loss of one life off Bradleys Head, Sydney Harbour, Australia, after colliding with the steamer {{SS|Adelaide||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Adelaide rescued two survivors and the skiff half-decker Young Oscar (flag unknown) rescued three others.

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=12 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{ship||Agnes|1875|2}}

|flag={{Flag|New South Wales}}

|desc=The schooner foundered off the Brunswick River, New South Wales, Australia.

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=19 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Comet|1883|2}}

|flag={{flag|New South Wales}}

|desc=The coastal cargo steamer was wrecked on the Richmond River spit, New South Wales, Australia.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?50408 |title=Comet (+1890) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=9 March 2025}}

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=21 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ethel Gwendoline

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The Dundee steamer foundered off Battray-head, Aberdeenshire with the loss of seven of the ten crew.{{cite news |title=Wreck and Loss of Seven Lives |work=The Cornishman |issue=612 |date=30 March 1890 |page=6}}

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=28 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Benamain

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the east coast of Lundy Island, Devon. She was refloated the next day but consequently foundered in the Bristol Channel {{convert|7|nmi|km}} off The Mumbles, Glamorgan. Her twelve crew were rescued by the pilot cutter Rival ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Benamain was on a voyage from Swansea to Le Treport, Seine-Inférieure, France.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship='Dieppois

|flag={{flagcountry|France|civil}}

|desc=The crew landed at Sennen Cove, in their own boat, when the steamer hit rocks near the Land's End.{{cite news |title=A French Steamer Sunk Off The Land's End |work=The Cornishman |issue=613 |date=3 April 1890 |page=7}}

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=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lizzie D Small

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The schooner, with a cargo of timber, caught fire and was abandoned. The captain and six men were rescued by Choate {{Convert|15|mile}} southeast of Thatcher Island and landed them at Gloucester, Massachusetts on 9 March.{{cite news |title=Vessel Gone: Crew Saved |work=The Cornishman |issue=612 |date=30 March 1890 |page=6}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Virent

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The 1,086-ton steamer was abandoned when the shaft broke. The mate and fourteen men drowned while the captain and eight crew were landed at Ferrol.{{cite news |title=Mate and 14 Men Lost |work=The Cornishman |issue=612 |date=30 March 1890 |page=6}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|William W. Rice||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1912}}

|desc= The fishing schooner was lost on a halibut fishing trip to Iceland in March or April. All 16 crew were killed.{{cite web |url=https://gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/404/LOST-AT-SEAAPR?bidId= |title=Lost at sea |publisher=gloucester-ma.gov |access-date=6 May 2021 |archive-date=6 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506124722/https://gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/404/LOST-AT-SEAAPR?bidId= |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?214673 |title=William W. Rice (+1890) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=6 May 2021}}

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April

=21 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Brankelow||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The Liverpool steamer, chartered by the Russian government, went ashore on Loe Bar, Cornwall during a gale while bound for Kronstadt from Cardiff. She was carrying 3,000 tons of coal which was salvaged along with her engines.{{cite book |last=Treglown |first=Tony |title=Porthleven in Years Gone by; Local Shipwrecks |year=2011 |publisher=Tony Treglown |location=Ashton}} }}

=23 April=

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|ship=Corea

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=After the 564.62-ton, {{convert|133.4|ft|m|1|adj=on}} bark – carrying 97 passengers, 19 crewmen, and a cargo of 500 tons of cannery supplies and merchandise – grounded in bad weather on a sandbar {{convert|6|nmi}} south of Kalgin Island in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the District of Alaska, was refloated, and began flooding, she sailed {{convert|25|nmi}} in a sinking condition and was beached on the eastern shore of Cook Inlet. Everyone on board survived, but she was deemed a total loss.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-c/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (C)]

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=26 April=

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|ship=Onieda

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=During a voyage from San Francisco, California, to Thin Point ({{coord|54.9628|N|162.5672|W|name=Thin Point}}), District of Alaska, with 127 passengers, a crew of 28, and a cargo of 550 tons of merchandise and provisions aboard, the 1,130-gross register ton, {{convert|179|ft|m|1|adj=on}} wooden ship sank in the North Pacific Ocean after striking "Harnings Rock" – probably a rock that was named Onieda Rock ({{coord|54|28|20|N|162|55|40|W|name=Onieda Rock}}) in 1901 – {{convert|10|nmi}} southwest of Sanak Island in the Aleutian Islands. Seventy-seven Chinese men aboard as passengers perished.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-o/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (O)] }}

=29 April=

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|ship={{SS|H. B. Plant||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The steamer burned on Lake Beneford, Florida. Two crewmen and one passenger died.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu09189980&view=1up&seq=251 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1890 |publisher=Columbia University |accessdate=13 February 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/26930 |title=Steamer "H. B. Plant" shortly after completion at Wilmington, Delaware |publisher=Florida memory |accessdate=13 February 2020}}

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=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|William W. Rice||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1912}}

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May

=5 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Osipee||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The schooner struck on the South-East Breaker at Isaac's Harbour, Nova Scotia. Crew saved.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}}

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=14 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Norseman||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at All Right Island, Magdalen Islands. Crew saved.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}}

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=15 May=

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|ship={{SV|Hattie S. Clark||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The schooner capsized is a squall off Frying Pan Shoals. One crewman saved that day, another the next day, rest were lost.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}}

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=19 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Belle A. Nauss||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked near Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Crew saved.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}}

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=21 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Mountain Girl||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The steamer sank in the Gulf of Mexico while under tow to Central America. Two crewmen died.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu09189980&view=1up&seq=251 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1890 |publisher=Columbia University |accessdate=13 February 2020}}

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=23 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Lotus||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The yacht capsized, or swamped, and sank attempting to enter the mouth of the Merrimack River. Two crewmen drowned.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu09189980&view=1up&seq=251 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1890 |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=13 February 2020}}

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=25 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unknown launch

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The steam launch capsized in Ipswich Bay. Two crewmen drowned.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}}

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July

=11 July=

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|ship= {{SS|Tioga|1885|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The steam barge blew up and sank partially submerged in {{convert|14|ft}} of water in the Chicago River at the foot of Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois after a crewman with a lantern accidentally ignited fumes from her cargo of naptha and benzine. She was raised the next day, but suffered another explosion of her cargo and sank again. Raised later, repairs completed and returned to service in September. At least 25 killed, 3 or 4 crew and the rest were stevedores unloading cargo.{{cite web |url=https://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/details.asp?ID=55220 |title=Tioga (Propeller), U145405, explosion, 11 Jul 1890 |publisher= maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes |access-date=4 December 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308610&view=1up&seq=32 |title=American Marine Engineer January, 1911 |publisher=National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=4 December 2020}}

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=13 July=

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|ship=Sea Wing

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The steamer capsized in a storm in the Mississippi River, Lake Pepin. 98 died including the captain's wife and son. Raised, rebuilt and returned to service.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu09189980&view=1up&seq=271 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1891 |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=13 February 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2017/01/shipwrecked-lake-pepin-sea-wing-disaster/ |title=Shipwrecked in Lake Pippen: The Sea Wing disaster |publisher=Minnpost.com |access-date=13 February 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.postbulletin.com/magazines/rochester/the-sinking-of-the-sea-wing/article_058c7bb0-cc57-5956-9da3-ad05d21d0d70.html |title= The sinking of the Sea Wing |publisher=Rochester Magazine |access-date=13 February 2020}}

}}

=23 July=

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|ship=Mary Ellen

|flag={{flag|Canada|1868}}

|desc=The 77-ton schooner was wrecked on a reef at Sand Point, District of Alaska. She later was sold, refloated, and sold again.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-m/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (M)]

}}

=26 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Charles Morand|1884|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The 761-gross register ton iron-hulled screw steamer sank without loss of life in {{convert|160|ft|m|0}} of water in the North Atlantic Ocean east of Cape May, New Jersey, after colliding with the schooner Zacheus Sherman ({{flag|United States|1877}}).[https://njscuba.net/sites/chart_deep_sea.php#CharlesMorand njscuba.net Charles Morand]

}}

=28 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thomas Pope

|flag={{flag|United States|1890}}

|desc=The 226.86-ton, {{convert|100.6|ft|m|adj=on}} whaling bark was wrecked in the Chukchi Sea on the coast of the District of Alaska near Point Hope during a gale. Her 12 crew members all survived and were rescued by the steamer William Lewis and the brig F. A. Barstow (both {{flag|United States|1890}}).[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-t/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (T)]

}}

=31 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Oliver Ann||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1890}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Burin, Newfoundland.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}}

}}

August

=7 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Marion||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1890}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Esprit Island.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}}

}}

=8 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Admiral Tromp

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The barque was run down and sunk by British steamer Ching Wo in the Thames Estuary off The Nore. The wreck was dispersed by explosives April–July 1931.{{cite news|title=Disasters at Sea|work=The Times|issue=33087|date=11 August 1890|location=London|page=10}}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Submerged wrecks at the Nore |date=23 July 1931 |page=9 |issue=45882 |column=E }}

}}

=17 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Spencer F. Baird

|flag={{flag|United States|1890}}

|desc=During a voyage in the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands from Pauloff Harbor on Sanak Island to Tigalda Island with a crew of two and a cargo of {{frac|2|1|2}} tons of provisions and mining equipment, the 7.91-gross register ton, {{convert|31.8|ft|m|adj=on}} schooner was wrecked {{convert|2.5|nmi}} east of Sankin Island ({{coord|54|58|30|N|163|16|20|W|name=Sankin Island}}) during a gale. Both crewmen survived.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-s/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (S)]

}}

=18 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SV|Two Fannies||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1888}}

|desc=The barkentine foundered in a gale off Cleveland, Ohio. The crew were rescued by {{SS|City of Detroit||2}} ({{flag|United States|1888}}). The wreck was removed in 1893.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?176099 |title=Two Fannies (+1890) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=12 January 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/details.asp?ID=53197 |title=Fayette Brown (Schooner), U9748, sunk by collision, 4 Jun 1891 |publisher=maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes |access-date=12 January 2021}}

}}

September

=1 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Lizzie Griffin||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1890}}

|desc=The schooner was lost in a severe gale on the Grand Banks.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}}

}}

=6 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Honfleur|1873|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Foreland, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure, France to Southampton, Hampshire. She was refloated and completed her voyage.

}}

=18 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{ship|Ottoman frigate|Ertuğrul||2}}

|flag={{navy|Ottoman Empire|1844}}

|desc=The sailing frigate was wrecked on Oshima Island off Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, with the loss of 533 crew. }}

=23 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= I. A. Johnson

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=The two-masted scow schooner sank in {{convert|93|ft}} of water in Lake Michigan off Centerville, Wisconsin, {{convert|8|mi}} north of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, at {{coord|43.892163|N|087.651535|W|name=I. A. Johnson}} after colliding with the schooner Lincoln Dall {{nowrap|({{flag|United States|1877}})}} off the mouth of the Black River just south of Sheboygan. Lincoln Dall rescued her five-man crew. The wreck was included in the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary in 2021.{{cite web|url=https://nmssanctuaries.blob.core.windows.net/sanctuaries-prod/media/archive/wisconsin/wisconsin-proposed-deis-dmp.pdf|title=Proposed Wisconsin – Lake Michigan National Marine Sanctuary Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Draft Management Plan|publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of National Marine Sanctuaries|date=December 2016|access-date=November 6, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Vessel/Details/744?region=Index|title=I.A. Johnson (1867)|publisher=Wisconsin Shipwrecks|access-date=November 7, 2024}} }}

=25 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{ship||Denton Holme|1863 ship|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked off the coast of Western Australia. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Fremantle, Western Australia.{{cite web |url=http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=20 |title=Star of Denmark |publisher=The Yard |accessdate=18 February 2017}}

}}

October

=1 October=

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|ship={{ship||Melmerby|barque|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at New Glasgow, Canada with the loss of fifteen of her crew. She was on a voyage from Quebec, Canada to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{cite web |url=https://novascotia.ca/museum/wrecks/wrecks/shipwrecks.asp?ID=3326 |title=Melmerby - 1890 |publisher=Maritime Museum of the Atlantic |accessdate=19 January 2015}}

}}

=11 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Eliza

|flag={{flag|United States|1890}}

|desc=The 296.51-gross register ton, {{convert|109|ft|m|1|adj=on}} bark was wrecked without loss of life on Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea during a gale. The steamer Belvedere ({{flag|United States|1890}}) rescued her crew of 35 on 19 October.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-e/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (E)]

}}

=12 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Dartmoor|1882|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamer Dartmoor, of the Ipswich Steamship Company was transporting a cargo of burnt ore, bagged flour & malt from Ipswich to Newcastle, when she collided in calm conditions with another steamer, the Cobden from Middlesbrough. Whilst the Cobden suffered damage, the Dartmoor foundered and was lost 6 miles ESE of Flamborough Head, in calm conditions. She had nine crew and one passenger. {{cite web |title=Dartmoor SS (1882~) |url=https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?177148 |website=Wrecksite |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=11 April 2023}}

}}

=13 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John F. Warner

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc= File:John F. Warner.jpgThe wooden schooner was driven ashore on the coast of Lake Huron near Alpena, Michigan, where she broke in half and sank in {{convert|9|ft|m}} of water at {{coord|45.050833|-83.435467|name=John F. Warner}}.{{cite web|url=https://thunderbay.noaa.gov/shipwrecks/john_f_warner.html|title=John F. Warner|work=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|access-date=November 16, 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://greatlakeships.org/2907656/data?n=7|title=John F. Warner|work=Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library|access-date=November 16, 2019}}

}}

=14 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=A. S. Piper

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc= While her crew was ashore, the {{convert|54|ft|adj=on}}, 21.11-gross register ton steam screw tug caught fire during the evening while moored to a wharf at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The tug Mosher {{nowrap|({{flag|United States|1877}})}} pulled her away from the wharf, but the fire burned out of control and destroyed A. S. Piper, which drifted ashore and became a total loss. Her wreck sank near the channel at the head of Sturgeon Bay and was documented as lying at {{coord|44|50.079|N|087|22.915|W|name=A. S. Piper}} in April 1904.[https://www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Vessel/Details/3?region=Index Wisconsin Shipwrecks: A.S. PIPER (1880) Accessed 3 July 2021]

}}

=17 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= 105S

|flag={{navy|Kingdom of Italy}}

|desc=The torpedo boat foundered in the Piombino Channel off the coast of Italy during a storm.Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, {{ISBN|0-8317-0302-4}}, p. 358.].

}}

=19 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Alberta|1888|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The 3,168-gross register ton cargo steamship, laden with coal on a voyage from Japan to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ran aground on Sutherland Reef south of Fingal Head Light, New South Wales, Australia. Her crew of 36 reached Tweed Heads in the ship's lifeboats.{{cite book |year=2000 |title=Tweed Heads Shipwrecks |place=Sydney |publisher=Government of New South Wales, Heritage Branch |isbn=1-876415-42-8 |page=2 |url= http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/heritagebranch/maritime/shipwreckstweedheads.pdf |accessdate=15 September 2014}}

}}

=28 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Benton

|flag=

|desc=The 77-ton schooner survived hitting the Pollard Rock in the Seven Stones Reef, made it to Falmouth, Cornwall, England, full of water and with her cargo of china clay intact.{{cite book|last=Larn|first=Richard|title=The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly|year=1992|publisher=Thomas & Lochar|location=Nairn|isbn=0-946537-84-4}}

}}

=31 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fannie C

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The schooner caught fire in the English Channel and was beached at Chesil Cove, Dorset.{{cite web |url=http://www.burtonbradstock.org.uk/History/Wrecks%20off%20Burton%20Bradstock/Historical%20list%20of%20wrecks.htm |title=Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis |publisher=Burton Bradstock Online |accessdate=27 December 2014}} }}

November

=6-7 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Kishon

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque parted her tow by the steam tug Australia (flag unknown) off Trevose Head, Cornwall, England, and was driven ashore near Bude breakwater. Her crew of eight was saved by the rocket lifesaving crew.{{cite news|title=Severe Gale in Scotland and England|work=Aberdeen Weekly Journal|issue=11158|date=8 November 1890|location=Aberdeen|page=6}}{{cite web|title=Kishon|url=http://www.pastscape.org/hob.aspx?hob_id=906076&sort=2&rational=a&county=1306804&place=Bude&recordsperpage=10&source=text&p=5&move=n&nor=168&recfc=0|work=Pastscape|publisher=English Heritage|access-date=2014-01-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202092826/http://www.pastscape.org/hob.aspx?hob_id=906076&sort=2&rational=a&county=1306804&place=Bude&recordsperpage=10&source=text&p=5&move=n&nor=168&recfc=0#|archive-date=2014-02-02|url-status=dead}} }}

=10 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{HMS|Serpent|1887|6}}

|flag={{navy|UK}}

|desc=The torpedo cruiser ran aground off Cape Vilan in northwest Spain in a violent storm, killing 173 of the 176 aboard.{{cite magazine|title=The Loss of H.M.S Serpent|magazine=The Engineer|date=14 November 1890|page=398|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/1/19/Er18901114.pdf#8}}{{cite web|title=Aniversario del naufragio del "HMS Serpent"|work=El Ideal Gallego|date=8 February 2015|url=http://www.elidealgallego.com/articulo/coruna/aniversario-naufragio-hms-serpent/20150207234038228626.html|accessdate=2 October 2015}} }}

=12 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Messenger

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=After the wooden steam barge caught fire in Rogers City, Michigan, she was towed out onto Lake Huron, where she sank in {{convert|194|ft|m|0}} of water at {{coord|45.483333|-83.85|name=Messenger}}.{{cite web|url=https://thunderbay.noaa.gov/shipwrecks/messenger.html|title=Messenger|work=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|access-date=November 17, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://greatlakes.bgsu.edu/item/437970|title=Messenger|work=Bowling Green State University|access-date=November 17, 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://greatlakeships.org/2907414/data?n=6|title=Messenger|work=Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library|access-date=November 17, 2019}} }}

=18 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Cuxhaven|1882|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamer, from Hamburg, was damaged when driven into the cargo steamer {{SS|Equity||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the Goole Channel after her anchor lifted during a heavy swell; she was then beached to avoid sinking. Refloated the following day, she entered Goole for discharge and repairs.{{cite news |title=Shipping Casualties |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000453/18901118/059/0003 |access-date=22 April 2025 |work=Evening Telegraph |issue=4285 |date=18 November 1890 |location=Dundee |page=3|via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004234/18901121/016/0002 |access-date=22 April 2025 |work=Howdenshire Gazette |issue=1361 |date=21 November 1890 |location=Goole |page=2|via=British Newspaper Archive}}

}}

=20 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hudiksvall

|flag={{flagcountry|Sweden|civil}}

|desc=The Swedish barque was under tow when the line parted and she foundered on Carmel Point on the Isle of Anglesey. The crew was saved, but the vessel was lost.{{cite news |author= |date=21 November 1890 | page=5 |title=Shipping Disasters |url= |work=Liverpool Mercury |location= |access-date=}}

}}

=21 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Nurjahan|1884|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The cargo ship was wrecked near Cape Comorin, India. She was on a voyage from Bombay to Calcutta.{{cite web |url=http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=173 |title=Nurjahan |publisher=The Yard |accessdate=19 February 2017}}

}}

=23 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Uppingham||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The cargo steamship lost power, drifted onto rocks 4 miles west of Hartland Point, Devon and became a wreck; eight of her 28 crew were lost. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to Port Said with coal.{{cite book |title=Returns of Vessels Totally Lost, Condemned, &c: 1st October to 31st December 1890 |date=28 February 1891 |page=7|publisher=Lloyd's Register of British & Foreign Shipping |location=London |url=https://lloyds-production.s3.amazonaws.com/_file/general/1890-casualty-returns.pdf |access-date=29 August 2022}}{{cite news |title=The Loss of the Steamer Uppingham |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000508/18910106/048/0007 |access-date=29 August 2022 |work=Devon & Exeter Daily Gazette |issue=13,784, Vol.CXIX |date=6 January 1891 |location=Exeter |page=7|via=British Newspaper Archive}}

}}

=25 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Spy

|flag={{flag|United States|1890}}

|desc=The 17.96-gross register ton, {{convert|41|ft|m|adj=on}} sloop was crushed by ice and broken into pieces at Point Barrow on the Arctic Ocean coast of the District of Alaska. All on board survived.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-s/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (S)]

}}

December

=1 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Alice||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1890}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked in a gale at Lingan Head, Nova Scotia.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=23 June 2021}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Maud Sammons||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1877}}

|desc=With no one on board, the 18-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Michigan′s St. Helena Island in Lake Michigan just west of the Straits of Mackinac.[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3330071 Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Navigation Thirty-Ninth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States for the Year Ending June 30, 1907, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907, p. 379.]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Thanemore||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The passenger-cargo ship sailed from Baltimore, Maryland and passed Cape Henry on 26 November for Liverpool, with general cargo and cattle, and was posted missing.{{cite book |title=Returns of Vessels Totally Lost, Condemned, &c: 1st January to 31st March 1891 |date=7 July 1891 |page=6|publisher=Lloyd's Register of British & Foreign Shipping |location=London |url=https://lloyds-production.s3.amazonaws.com/_file/general/1890-casualty-returns.pdf |access-date=29 August 2022}} The official inquiry concluded that Thanemore was the ship seen burning on 1 December by the steamer Lero, {{convert|1500|nmi}} from the American coast.{{cite news |title=The Thanemore - A Supposed Cotton Fire |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004035/18910506/070/0006 |access-date=29 August 2022 |work=Liverpool Journal of Commerce |issue=9213 |date=6 May 1891 |page=6|via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite news |title=Loss of the Steamer Thanemore - The Inspector's Report |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004035/18910525/064/0005 |access-date=29 August 2022 |work=Liverpool Journal of Commerce |issue=9229 |date=25 May 1891 |page=5|via=British Newspaper Archive}}

}}

=3 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{ship||John Pew|1852|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1888}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked {{convert|15|mi}} east of the East Pass, Santa Rosa Island.

}}

=11 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Plymouth Rock||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1890}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at La Blanche Point, Cape Negro, Nova Scotia.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=23 June 2021}}

}}

=15 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Grace C. Young||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1890}}

|desc=The schooner was dismasted in a gale on Banquereau and became waterlogged. As the crew prepared to abandon ship on 17 or 18 December they were rescued by {{SS|Elbrug||2}} ({{flagcountry|German Empire}}).{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=23 June 2021}}

}}

=23 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Eastern Light

|flag={{flag|United States|1888}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Caucus Shoal ({{coord|30|18|54|N|87|19|27|W|name=Eastern Light}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Ferdinand Vandertaelen||2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The steamer foundered in the Mediterranean Sea at ({{coord|37|N|06|E|name=Ferdinand Vandertaelen}}), with all the crew rescued.{{cite web |url=http://www.belgischekoopvaardij.net/belgian%20merchant%20A-G%2023.5.04.pdf |title=Belgian Merchant A-G |publisher=Belgische Koopvaardij |accessdate=1 October 2010 }}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

}}

=25 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Shanghai||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The passenger/cargo steamer burned near the Mud Fort, Wuhu, China. 200 to 300 people were killed.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308678&view=1up&seq=457 |title=American Marine Engineer September, 1912 |publisher=National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States |via=Haithi Trust |accessdate=30 November 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?212555 |title=Shanghai (+1890) |publisher=Wrecksite |accessdate=30 November 2020}}

}}

=26 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|A. H. Hurlburt||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1890}}

|desc=The coastal schooner was wrecked on Black Point, about {{convert|3|mi}} south of Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island. Her captain and two crewmen died, the rest of the crew were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=23 June 2021}}

}}

=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Admiral||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1890}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on Bryon Island, Magdalen Islands on 11 or 16 December. The crew was picked up from the island by a steamer three weeks later.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/1890.htm |title=1890 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=23 June 2021}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Coptic|1881|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamer ran aground on Main Island at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while departing for a voyage to Plymouth, England. Her forward compartments flooded, but were repaired by local engineers, and she returned to service."SS Coptic," de Kerbrech, Richard (2009). Ships of the White Star Line. Surrey, UK: Ian Allan Publishing. pp. 34–36. {{ISBN|978-0-7110-3366-5}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|William D. Daisley||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1890}}

|desc=The schooner sailed from Gloucester, Massachusetts for the Fortune Bay, Newfoundland and vanished. She was probably lost in a gale in December.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/williamd.htm |title=The William D. Daisley |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=22 June 2021}}

}}

Unknown date

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Assaye|ship|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque disappeared during a voyage from London to Wellington, New Zealand, after being spoken to near the equator on 16 March. She was due in Wellington in May.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Dunedin|ship|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship disappeared with the loss of all 35 people on board after departing Oamaru, New Zealand, on 19 March.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Dunluce|1883|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The cargo ship was wrecked on the Wijkesgrund.{{cite web |url=http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=159 |title=Dunluce |publisher=The Yard |accessdate=18 February 2017}}

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|ship=George

|flag={{flagcountry|Netherlands|civil}}

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic and the crew landed at Queenstown, Ireland, by Emily ({{flagcountry|Norway|civil}}) on 14 February.{{cite news |title=Rescued in Time |work=The Cornishman |issue=607 |date=20 February 1890 |page=6}}

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|ship=Hugo

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The 1,500-ton vessel foundered in the Sunda Strait with the loss of all crew. She was heading to Marseille from Singapore.{{cite news |title=Loss of a vessel with all hands |work=The Cornishman |issue=605 |date=6 February 1890 |page=7}}

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|ship=Lawrence McKenzie

|flag=

|desc=The schooner was lost opposite Forked River, New Jersey.{{Cite web |url=https://njscuba.net/sites/site_lavallette.php |title=njscuba.net "Lavallette Wreck" |access-date=2020-03-01 |archive-date=2020-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223173713/https://njscuba.net/sites/site_lavallette.php |url-status=dead }}

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|ship= Louise Ernest

|flag={{flagcountry|France|civil}}

|desc=While en route for Nantes, France, from Falmouth, Cornwall, England, the ketch was unable to round the Lizard and turned back. She hit Castle Point, St Mawes, Cornwall, and the crew of five men and a boy were taken off by the lifeboat Jane Whittington (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution) of the Falmouth Lifeboat Station.{{cite book|last1=Pollard|first1=Chris|title=The Book of St Mawes|date=2007|publisher=Halsgrove|location=Wellington, Somerset|isbn=978-1-84114-631-7}}

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|ship={{ship||Marlborough|1876 ship|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The refrigerated full-rigged ship disappeared after being sighted off the coast of New Zealand on 13 January while on a voyage from Lyttelton, New Zealand, to London. Possibly subsequently wrecked on the coast of Chile with the loss of all on board.

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|ship={{ship||Talookdar|1885 ship|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship collided with Libussa (flag unknown) off the Cape of Good Hope and foundered.{{cite web |url=http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=183 |title=Talookdar |publisher=The Yard |accessdate=19 February 2017}}

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|ship=Webster

|flag={{flag|United States|1912}}

|desc=The vessel was lost at Atka Island in the Andreanof Islands – part of the Aleutian Islands – in the District of Alaska.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-w/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (W)]

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References

1890