List of shipwrecks in 1897

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|ship={{SS|Peankeshaw No. 108||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer was crushed by ice in mid-channel between Evansville, Indiana and the Green River, a total loss. Her chief engineer drowned.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066693086&view=1up&seq=58 |page=52 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1898 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1898|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=3 April 2020}}

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=9 January=

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|ship={{SS|Belle of Brownsville||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The ferry burned to the waterline at Cairo, Illinois.

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|ship={{SS|Elsa||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer was wrecked on Colorado Reef on a trip from New Orleans to Central America.

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=14 January=

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=1 February=

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|ship=Alice

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Amite River Later raised.

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|ship={{SS|City of Athens||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer sprung a leak and sank at Port Thompson, Florida.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066693086&view=1up&seq=80 |page=74 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1898 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1898|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=10 April 2020}}

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|ship={{SS|H. M. Townsend||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The laid up steamer was sunk by ice {{convert|1|mi}} below Memphis, Tennessee, a total loss.

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|ship={{SS|A. C. Van Raalte||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The tow steamer's bow was damaged by ice in Lake Michigan, she made it in to the Calumet River and sank.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066693086&view=1up&seq=67 |page=61 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1898 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1898|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=7 April 2020}}

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|ship={{SS|General Franz Sigel||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1891}}

|desc=The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with tow steamer {{SS|New York Central Lighterage Co. No. 19||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) in the East River off Baltic street, Brooklyn. Raised and repaired. crew rescued by New York Central Lighterage Co. No. 19.

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|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer careened and capsized in the Ohio River in a gale near Jack's Run. Her pilot was killed. The vessel was raised and repaired.

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=15 March=

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|ship=Ville de Saint Nazaire

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The 2,640-gross register ton steamer foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during a storm with the loss of 80 lives. The 648-gross register ton schooner Hilda ({{flag|United States|1896}}) rescued her four survivors from a lifeboat on 22 March; they were all that remained alive out of 38 people who had boarded the lifeboat when Ville de Saint Nazaire sank.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9154800/306865 Anonymous, "Terrible Sufferings at Sea," The Argus (Melbourne, Australia), 20 March 1897, p. 7.][https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18970323.2.4 Anonymous, "Wreck of the Steamer Ville de Saint Nazaire, Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 93, Number 29, March 23, 1897, p. .]

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=17 March=

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|ship={{SS|Sunol||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The sternwheel passenger steamer was capsized and sunk in a collision with barque {{SV|Olympic||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) in San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island. All 45 passengers and 16 crew transferred to Olympic before she sank by stepping across the decks. Later raised.{{cite web |url=http://vallejomuseum.blogspot.com/2010/03/ferry-sunol.html |title=The Ferry Sunol |date=30 March 2010 |publisher=Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum |access-date=31 March 2020}}

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|ship={{SS|El Rio Rey||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer filled and sank at the Memphis Wharf at the foot of Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, in a violent storm, a total loss.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066693086&view=1up&seq=60 |page=54 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1898 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1898|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=4 April 2020}}

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|ship={{SV|Kinkora||2}}

|flag={{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|desc=During a voyage with a cargo of lumber from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to London, the merchant ship — an iron-hulled sailing ship — was wrecked on a reef off Clipperton Island in the Pacific Ocean. All 23 hands reached shore safely. On 17 May, seven crewmen set out on a {{convert|700|nmi|adj=on}} voyage in an open boat to Acapulco, Mexico, which they reached on 3 June after 15 days at sea. The third-class cruiser {{HMS|Comus|1878|6}} ({{navy|United Kingdom}}) rescued the rest of the crew from Clipperton Island about 40 days after the wreck.[https://books.google.com/books?id=DikSYWpTuIkC&dq=1897+shipwreck+Kinkora&pg=PA720 Anonymous, "A Tale of Shipwreck and Adventure," The Juvenile Instructor, Volume 33, No. 21, November 1, 1898, pp. 720–722.][https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC18970721.2.120&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 Anonymous, "Were Stranded on Clipperton," San Francisco Call, July 21, 1897, p. 8.]

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=31 March=

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|ship={{SS|Assaye|1891|2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship was wrecked on Blonde Rock, off Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.{{cite web |url=http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=239 |title=Assaye |publisher=The Yard |access-date=19 February 2017}}

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=16 April=

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|ship={{SV|Charles H. Taylor||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc= The fishing schooner wrecked on Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Her crew rowed to safety in her dories.

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|ship= Ibex

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

|desc=The GWR-owned ship struck the Noirmontaise rocks off Jersey, Channel Islands and was beached in Portlet Bay, Jersey. She was refloated and re-entered service.

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|ship= {{ship||Ada|ship|2}}

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

|desc=The ketch was wrecked at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

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|ship= Lookout

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=File:Lookout ship.jpgThe three-masted schooner was on a voyage {{nautical term|in ballast}} from Chicago, Illinois, to Masonville in Little Bay de Noc, Michigan, when she was stranded during a gale on the coast of Lake Michigan {{convert|200|yd|m|0}} off Rawley Point on the coast of Wisconsin, approximately {{convert|5|mi|0}} north of Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Her crew of seven reached shore safely. Her wreck lies in {{convert|10|ft|0}} of water at {{coord|44|11.707|N|087|30.596|W|name=Lookout}}, and is within the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary.{{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/381?region=Index|title=Lookout (1855)|publisher=Wisconsin Shipwrecks|access-date=November 7, 2024}}

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=Unknown date=

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|ship= {{SS|Barga||2}}

|flag={{Flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The steamer was declared missing, having departed Huelva, Spain, for Antwerp, Belgium, on 30 March. }}

May

=1 May=

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|ship= {{Ship||Ability|1878|2}}

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

|desc=The ketch was driven ashore along with four other ships at Cape Hawke Bay, Australia, during a storm. }}

=3 May=

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|ship= {{SS|Bruxelles||2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The steamer ran aground on St. Pierre Island, Seychelles, a total loss.

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|ship= {{SS|Collynie||2}}

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

|desc=The coasters Collynie and Girnigoe ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) were in collision about {{convert|3|mi|spell=in}} off the Girdle Ness Lighthouse, Aberdeen Bay, Scotland. Collynie (Methil for Aberdeen with coal) sank quickly. The master was the sole survivor; his wife and two young sons as well as the crew of eight drowned.{{cite news |title=Loss of S.S. Collynie |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000575/18970505/119/0004 |access-date=12 March 2022 |work=Aberdeen Journal |issue=13,189 |date=5 May 1897 |pages=4–5 |via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite web |title=Collynie (+1897) |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?193744 |website=The Wrecksite |publisher=Adelante EBVBA, Affligem |access-date=12 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312210921/https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?193744 |archive-date=12 March 2022}}}}

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|ship=L. B. Gilchrist

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The barge, under tow of {{SS|Right Arm||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}), sank {{convert|5|mi|spell=in}} southeast of Montauk Point. The crew were rescued by Right Arm.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066693086&view=1up&seq=40 |page=34 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1898 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1898|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=1 April 2020}}

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=5 May=

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|ship=General Siglin

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The 81-ton, {{convert|80|ft|m|1|adj=on}} sealing schooner was sighted by the sealing schooner Willard Ainsworth ({{flag|United States|1896}}) in the North Pacific Ocean at {{coord|53|15|N|135|55|W|name=General Siglin}} in a waterlogged condition, dismasted, with her bulwarks stove in and her boats missing. Ordered to search for General Siglin after Williard Ainsworth reported the sighting, the revenue cutter {{USRC|Thomas Corwin|1876|6}} (22px United States Revenue Cutter Service) found her again on 14 June with the body of her first mate and a young boy on board, but the bodies of the other seven people who had been aboard were never found. General Siglin was salvaged and returned to service.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-g/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (G)]

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|ship={{SV|Talfer||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The schooner-yacht was sunk in a collision in thick fog with steamer {{SS|City of Fitchburg||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) off Falkner Island in Long Island Sound. The crew were rescued by City of Fitchburg after abandoning ship in her boat.{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030180/1897-05-06/ed-1/?sp=7&st=text&r=0.165,0.251,0.521,0.515,0 |title=Image 7 of New York journal and advertiser (New York [N.Y.]), May 6, 1897 |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=31 March 2020}}

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=6 May=

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|ship= {{SS|Plow Boy||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The passenger steamer struck a snag below De Witt, Missouri and sank in the Missouri River, a total loss. Her machinery was salvaged.

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=8 May=

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|ship={{ship||Gwendoline|sternwheeler|2}}

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

|desc=The steamer struck rocks and the wrecked {{SS|Ruth||2}} {{flag|United States|1896}} an hour after Ruth had wrecked in the Upper Kootenai River going through "Jennings Canyon" {{convert|5|mi|spell=in}} above Jennings, Montana. Later raised and taken to Jennings for repair.

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|ship= {{SS|Maggie||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Conway, South Carolina.

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|ship= {{HMS|Foudroyant|1798|6}}

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

|desc=File:HMS Foudroyant wreck.jpgThe training ship, a former ship-of-the-line, was driven ashore at Blackpool, Lancashire, England, and wrecked. }}

=18 June=

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|ship= {{SS|David Kemps||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer was destroyed by fire in Black Creek off the St. Johns River.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6j6kjZQReqkC&q=ship%3A++David+Kemps%2C+1897&pg=PA198 |title=Shipwrecks of Florida: A Comprehensive Listing |year=1998 |publisher=Googlebooks |isbn=9781561641635 |access-date=1 April 2020}}

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=20 June=

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|ship= {{SV|Hattie||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The schooner was sunk in a collision with {{SS|Dorchester||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) near Smiths Point Light.

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=21 June=

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|ship={{SS|Cadet||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer grounded at a wharf in Lynn, Massachusetts and sank. Raised and repaired.

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=25 June=

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|ship={{SV|Christie and Mabel||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The fishing sloop was sunk in a collision with {{SS|State of Maine||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) near Monhegan Island. Her crew of two were saved by State of Maine.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066693086&view=1up&seq=42 |page=36 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1898 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1898|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=1 April 2020}}

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|ship= {{SV|William O. Lowery||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The schooner was sunk in a collision with the tug {{SS|Chicago||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) near Poplar Island in Chesapeake Bay.

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=30 June=

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|ship= {{SS|Concha||2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The steamer collided with {{SS|Saint Fillans||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) off the Owers Lightship, English Channel and sank.

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|ship={{SS|Leo||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer was dragged down and sunk while tied up alongside {{SS|Mattie Winters||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) when she filled and sank at Greenville, Mississippi. Later raised.

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|ship={{SS|Mattie Winters||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer filled and sank over night due to a leak at Greenville, Mississippi, a total loss. She dragged down {{SS|Leo||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) tied up alongside.

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|ship=Mexico

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=During a voyage from Sitka, District of Alaska, to Victoria, British Columbia, and ports in Puget Sound in Washington with 70 passengers, 71 crewmen, and a cargo of three tons of general merchandise on board, the 1,797-gross register ton, {{convert|265|ft|m|1|adj=on}} steam schooner sank in {{convert|510|ft|m|0}} of water two hours after striking West Devil Rock ({{coord|54|40|N|131|36|W|name=West Devil Rock}}) in Dixon Entrance on the Canada-United States border between British Columbia and the District of Alaska. Everyone on board reached safety in the ship′s boats.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-m/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (M)]

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=9 August=

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|ship= {{SS|Oakland|1890|2}}

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

|desc=The passenger cargo ship ran aground on the bar at Ballina, New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. }}

=12 August=

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|ship={{SS|Katy Smith||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The tow boat sprang a leak over night and sank at dock in Port Richmond, New York. Raised the next day.

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|ship=Navarch

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=Trapped in pack ice in the Chukchi Sea off Icy Cape, District of Alaska, since July 1897, the 494-ton steam whaling bark was abandoned off Blossom Shoals ({{coord|71|23|29|N|156|28|00|W|name=Blossom Shoals}}). Sixteen of her crewmen died while trying to cross the ice and reach shore. Her 16 surviving crewmen were rescued by the revenue cutter {{USRC|Bear}} (22px United States Revenue Cutter Service) and the steamer Thrasher ({{flag|United States|1896}}). Navarch eventually drifted in the ice as a derelict to the vicinity of Point Barrow, where she ultimately was burned by salvors in January 1898.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-n/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (N)]

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|ship=Unknown coal boat

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The coal boat was sunk in a collision with the excursion barge Carrier, under the tow of {{SS|Hot Spur||2}} ( both {{flag|United States|1896}}), at "Glass House" in the Ohio River. Raised and repaired.

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=13 August=

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|ship={{SS|Nat Sutton||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The tow steamer burned at Providence Dry Dock, Providence, Rhode Island, a total loss.

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=16 August=

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|ship=Onward

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The tow boat burned at Lucas Landing in the Monongahela River, a total loss.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066693086&view=1up&seq=67 |page=61 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1898 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1898|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=6 April 2020}}

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=18 August=

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|ship={{SS|Gov. John A. Dix||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer foundered lying at New Orleans, Louisiana, a total loss.

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=21 August=

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|ship={{SV|Marathon||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc= The fishing schooner sprung a leak and sank off Cape North, Nova Scotia. Crew rowed to safety in her boats.

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|ship={{SS|Ralph||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer struck a snag and sank in the St. Francis River {{convert|2|mi|spell=in}} above the mouth of the L'Anguille River. Raised and repaired.

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=24 August=

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|ship=Felix

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The barge, under tow of {{SS|Nathan Hale||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}), sank near Quicks Ledge. The crew were rescued by Nathan Hale.

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=25 August=

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|ship={{SS|White Beaver||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer was destroyed by fire at Brownsville, Minnesota.

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=31 August=

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|ship={{SS|Florence||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=1897 Hurricane No. 2: The steamer sank at dock in a hurricane at Sabine Pass.

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|ship={{SS|Henrietta||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in {{convert|4|ft|spell=in}} of water in the Ohio River at Five Mile, Ohio. Raised and repaired.

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|ship={{SS|John P. Smith||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=1897 Hurricane No. 2: The tug broke free from the barge Mexico (flag unknown), capsized and sank in a hurricane in Sabine Pass, later located in Sabine Lake. All on board, her captain, the pilot, and one other crewman died.

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|ship={{SS|James B. Schuyler||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer caught fire at dock over night at East Twenty-First Street, New York City. The New York City Fire Department was unable to put out the fire and she sank.

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|ship={{SS|Jessie H. Freeman||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steam whaling bark was crushed by ice in the Seahorse Islands off Point Franklin, District of Alaska in the Arctic Ocean, Two days later she was accidentally set on fire by natives and burned to the water's edge. The whaling steamer Belvedere ({{flag|United States|1896}}) rescued her crew.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066693094&view=1up&seq=24 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1898 |publisher=Ohio State University |access-date=28 September 2019}}

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|ship=Orca

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The 628-ton three-masted steam whaling bark was crushed by ice in the Seahorse Islands off Point Franklin, District of Alaska, in the Arctic Ocean, sinking three or four days later. The whaling steamers {{SS|Jessie H. Freeman||2}} and Belvedere (both {{flag|United States|1896}}) rescued her crew.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-o/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (O)]

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=22 September=

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|ship=Jessie H. Freeman

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The 516-ton steam whaling bark was crushed in ice and abandoned in the Chukchi Sea off the Seahorse Islands ({{coord|70|53|N|158|42|W|name=Seahorse Islands}}) off the coast of the District of Alaska. Her crew survived. Eskimos later accidentally burned the vessel, and she sank.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-j/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (J)]

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|ship= {{SS|R. L. Mabey||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Brunswick, Georgia.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SMS|S26}}

|flag={{nowrap begin}}{{navy|German Empire}}{{nowrap end}}

|desc=The {{sclass|S24|torpedo boat}} sank in a storm at the mouth of the Elbe off Cuxhaven, Germany.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. 263.

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=28 September=

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|ship={{SS|Glance||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer was crowded by {{SS|Gazelle||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) that was trying to pass in Buffalo Creek causing her to tip enough to fill and sink. Her engineer was killed.

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=29 September=

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|ship= {{HMS|Lynx|1894|6}}

|flag={{Navy|UK}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Ferret|destroyer|0}} destroyer ran aground on Dodman Point, Cornwall, England, in fog. She managed to refloat herself and limped to Devonport.{{cite news|url=http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/in_port/717176.Bad_day_for_trio_of_destroyers/ |newspaper=Falmouth Packet |date=29 March 2006 |title=Bad day for trio of destroyers|access-date=28 January 2014}}

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|ship= {{HMS|Thrasher|1895|6}}

|flag={{Navy|UK}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Quail|destroyer|0}} destroyer ran aground on Dodman Point, Cornwall, England, in fog. She was escorted to Falmouth, Cornwall, and eventually made it to Devonport for repairs. }}

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|ship=Antelope

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=During a voyage under tow by the steamer {{SS|Hiram W. Sibley||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) from Sandusky, Ohio, to Ashland, Wisconsin, with a cargo of 1,000 tons of coal, the {{convert|186.8|ft|adj=on}}, 523.45-gross register ton three-masted schooner barge sank without loss of life in a reported {{convert|360|ft}} of water in Lake Superior a few miles from Michigan Island when her seams opened. Hiram W. Sibley rescued her crew. Her wreck was discovered on 2 September 2016.[https://www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Vessel/Details/30?region=Index Wisconsin Shipwrecks: ANTELOPE (1861) Accessed 9 July 2021][https://www.twincities.com/2016/09/14/remarkably-intact-1897-shipwreck-discovered-in-lake-superior/ Krueger, Andrew, "‘Spectacularly intact’ 1897 shipwreck discovered in Lake Superior," Forum News Service, September 15, 2016 Accessed 9 July 2021]

}}

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|ship= {{ship||Mary Me|1878|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked in a gale on the west end of St. George Island, Florida.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6j6kjZQReqkC&q=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=34}}

}}

=8 October=

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|ship={{SS|Bart E. Linehan||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer struck a snag and sank {{convert|1/4|mi|spell=in}} above Buena Vista, Iowa in {{convert|8|ft|spell=in}} of water. Raised and repaired.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Clyde||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The tug burned to the waterline and sank while anchored at Tavenier Key, a total loss.

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|ship={{SV|Alfred A.||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc= The Sloop foundered off Marblehead, Massachusetts in a gale. Two crew died.

}}

=19 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|George R. Ford||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The dredge was sunk when her boilers exploded at Charleroi, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River, a total loss. Her captain and steward were killed.

}}

=21 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Ida Smith||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer caught fire over night, burned to the waterline and sank at Letart Falls, Ohio, a total loss.

}}

=23 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Caspar||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1891}}

|desc=The steam schooner was wrecked on Saunders Reef {{convert|4|mi|spell=in}} south of Point Arena in a gale causing her to capsize and go ashore, a total loss. 13 crew were killed, her captain and 1 crewman survived.{{cite web |url=https://www.mendorailhistory.org/1_shipping/ship-info/ships_c.htm |title=Ships name beginning with C|publisher=Mendicino Coast model railroad & historical society|access-date=31 March 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Richard H. Vandecar||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1891}}

|desc=The tug was destroyed by fire at dock in Watervliet, New York.

}}

=24 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Progress||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer struck the pier of a railroad bridge and sank at Point Perry in the Monongahela River. Raised and repaired.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Ondawa||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The tug was destroyed by fire at dock in Watervliet, New York.

}}

=18 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Bluff City||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The sternwheeler passenger/cargo steamer burned at Chester, Illinois in the Mississippi River, a total loss.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?274037 |title=Bluff City (+1897) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=2 April 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Truckee||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer was caught in a three-daygGale that began on 16 November. she developed a significant leak on 17 November and was wrecked when rising water put out her fires after crossing the bar into Umpqua River on 18 November and went ashore, a total loss. All on board were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.{{cite web |url=https://www.truckeehistory.org/us-truckee.html |title=S S Truckee 1897 |publisher=Truckee-Donner historical society |access-date=31 March 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?255165 |title=Truckee (+1897) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=31 March 2020}}

}}

=22 November=

{{shipwreck list item

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

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The schooner was sunk in a collision with the tug {{SS|Col. John F. Gaynor||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) near the Bartlett Reef Lightship.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|F. A. Pike||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The schooner was sunk in a collision with {{SS|Menemsha||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) in Boston Harbor in {{convert|30|ft}} of water on the north side of the Main Channel, south of Governor's Island.{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VOahAAAAMAAJ&q=ship%3A++F.+A.+Pike%2C+1897&pg=RA11-PA2 |title=Notice to Mariners, No. 226, December, 1897 Treasury Department, US Coast & Geodesic Survey |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1897|via=Googlebooks |access-date=1 April 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Telegraph||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The passenger steamer struck the bank {{convert|15|mi}} above Louisville, Kentucky with such force that she sank, a total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=J. R. Silliman

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The barge, under tow of {{SS|Gertrude||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}), was sunk in a collision with {{SV|Lottie||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) between Watch Hill, Rhode Island and Fall River, Massachusetts. Her captain and a crewman drowned.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Lottie||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The schooner was sunk in a collision with the barge J. R. Silliman, under tow of {{SS|Gertrude||2}} (both {{flag|United States|1896}}) between Watch Hill, Rhode Island and Fall River, Massachusetts. The crew were rescued by Gertrude.

}}

=29 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Frank A. Low||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer burned to the waterline at Norfolk, Virginia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Nahant||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1891}}

|desc=The steamer caught fire at the Chicago and North West Dock No. 4 at Escanaba, Michigan. The dock caught fire and was destroyed along with 30 ore cars, and she was burned out. Two crewmen killed.{{cite web |url=http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/55897/data |title=Nahant (Propeller), U18766, fire, 29 Nov 1897 |publisher=maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes |access-date=7 April 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?240001 |title=Nahant (+1897)|publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=7 April 2020}}

}}

=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Anne and Mary||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Carrie E. Lane||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc= The schooner sank on the LeHave Bank in the gale of 12–13 November. Crew taken off by {{SV|J. W. Collins||2}}.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Edith H. Koyen||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The schooner sank in the vicinity of the Kewaunee, Wisconsin Life Saving Station. Salvage started, with assistance of the United States Life Saving Service, on 21 September 1898 and hauled onto the ways on 28 September.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015020619964&view=1up&seq=73 |title=Annual report of the United States Life Saving Service, Year ending June 30, 1899 |publisher=University of Michigan |access-date=28 October 2019}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Hustler||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc= The fishing schooner was reported lost on 19 October on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, or was last sighted on 22 November {{convert|25|mi}} south east of Sable Island heading for home. All 18 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=12 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 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Innisfallen|ship|2}}

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

|desc=The ship sank in a storm in the English Channel near the Goodwin Sands with the loss of eight lives.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|John H. McKenzie||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc= The schooner was spoken to a few days before the gale of 12–13 November and probably sank in it. Lost with all 16 hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Susan R. Stone||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc= The schooner left Provincetown, Massachusetts on 25 November and vanished. Lost with all 19 hands.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1876-1900/susanr.htm |title=The Susan R. Stone |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=13 June 2021}}

}}

December

=1 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Egyptian

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The wooden cargo ship, a bulk carrier, was on a voyage from Cleveland, Ohio, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a cargo of coal when she caught fire and sank in {{convert|230|ft|0}} of water in Lake Huron off Black River, Michigan, at {{coord|44.782539|-83.190078|name=Egyptian}}.{{cite web|url=https://thunderbay.noaa.gov/shipwrecks/egyptian.html|title=Egyptian|work=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|access-date=November 16, 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://greatlakeships.org/2900924/data?n=2|title=Egyptian|work=Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library|access-date=November 16, 2019}}

}}

=2 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Friend to all Nations}}

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

|desc=The Margate surfboat capsized with the loss of nine of her 13 crew.{{cite book | last = Bob Ogley, Ian Currie and Mark Davison| year = 1991| title = The Kent Weather Book| pages = 22| publisher = Froglets Publications Ltd| location = Brasted Chart| isbn = 1-872337-35-X}} She was going to the assistance of Persian Empire ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{cite book |title=Kent Shipwrecks |first=Alan |last=Bignell |publisher=Countryside Books |location=Newbury |year=2001|edition=Second |pages=57–62 |isbn=1-85306-719-9}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Persian Empire

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

|desc=The ship collided with a steamship and was beached on the Margate Sands, Kent. Her crew were rescued by the lifeboat Quiver (File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Prince Albert de Belgique||2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The steamer collided at Antwerp, Belgium, with the sailing ship {{ship||Larnaca|ship|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank. She was raised on 6 July 1900.{{cite web|url=http://www.belgischekoopvaardij.net/belgian%20Merchant%20%20P-Z.pdf |title=Belgian Merchant P-Z |publisher=Belgische Koopvaardij |access-date=1 December 2010 }}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

}}

=5 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|George W. Morley||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer, also known as Geo. W. Morley, caught fire from a lantern exploding in the engine room. She was run aground {{convert|100|yd}} off Greenwood Avenue, Evanston, Illinois and burned to the waterline, a total loss. Her engine was salvaged in 1898. Her wreck remains where it sank to this day.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?28029 |title=George W. Morley (+1897) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=7 April 2020}}{{cite web |url=http://www.nemoha.org/2903965/data |title=MORLEY, GEORGE W. (1888, Steambarge) |publisher=Alpina County George N. Fletcher Public Library N.E. Michigan Oral History and Historic Photo Archive |access-date=7 April 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nor'Wester

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The 32.52-ton fishing schooner was blown onto rocks and wrecked in Clarence Strait in Southeast Alaska. All on board abandoned ship in a small boat and survived.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-n/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (N)]

}}

=6 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cleveland

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer broke her shaft off the Columbia River and drifted ashore at Lyall Point, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Refloated and taken to Quartermaster Harbor arriving on 5 January 1898. Her crew abandoned ship in her boats. One died of exposure. One boat with eight crew aboard disappeared and was lost. 13 crew and 2 passengers survived.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{MV|Moro||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The freighter broke her rudder crossing the bar into Coquille River and went ashore, a total loss.

}}

=7 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|C. L. Marchal||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The lighter filled and sank at dock at the foot of Sixteenth Street, New York City, New York, in the East River due to a tank being allowed to overfill. Raised and drydocked.

}}

=9 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Winifrede||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer caught fire over night, burned to the waterline and sank just below Plymouth, West Virginia in the Great Kanawha River, total loss.

}}

=13 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|W. K. Phillips||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer destroyed by fire in the Cumberland River {{convert|3|mi|spell=in}} above Dover, Tennessee.

}}

=14 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Pargoud||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River near the mouth of the Red River, a total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Stella Wilds||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer struck a snag at Ober's Landing, Cross's Post Office, or Schleicher's Landing, {{convert|25|mi}} below Natchez, Mississippi in the Mississippi River. Her bow was run onto the bank with the stern sunk in {{convert|4|ft|spell=in}} of water. Later raised.{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30649545/stella-wilds-sinks-at-schleichers/ |title=Stella Wilds sinks at Schleicher's Landing in Concordia Parrish Louisiana (Cross' Post Office) 1897 |publisher=newspapers.com |access-date=10 April 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Susan P. Thurlow

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=During a voyage from Hillsborough, New Brunswick, Canada, to New York City with a cargo of plaster rock, the {{convert|126|ft|adj=on}}, 460-gross register ton three-masted schooner was wrecked during a gale at night on a reef off the south end of Cushing Island in Casco Bay off the coast of Maine with the loss of six lives. Ove crewman survived.{{Cite web| url=http://wreckhunter.net/DataPages/susanpthurlow-dat.htm |title=Susan P. Thurlow | publisher=Hunting New England Shipwrecks |access-date=25 February 2021 }}

}}

=18 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Belle||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The tow steamer filled and sank at dock at the foot of One Hundred Thirty Third Street, New York City, New York in the Harlem River due to a tank being allowed to overfill.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Grace L. Fears||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc= The fishing schooner was lost off Newfoundland in a gale. All seven 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=11 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?214644 |title=Grace L. Fears (+1894) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=11 May 2021}}

}}

=22 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alexandra

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=Anchored for two years out of commission off Goose Island — more commonly called Aiaktalik Island ({{coord|56|42|N|154|07|W|name=Aiaktalik Island}}) — in the Geese Islands in the District of Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago off the south end of Kodiak Island, the 7.66-ton, {{convert|35.6|ft|m|1|adj=on}} schooner dragged her anchor during a gale and became a total loss. All three people on board survived.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-a/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (A)]

}}

=23 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|W. R. Billups||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The bugeye was sunk in a collision with {{SS|Chesapeake||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) at Norfolk, Virginia.

}}

=24 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Galatia

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The barge, under the tow of America ({{flag|United States|1896}}), foundered in a heavy gale near Chincoteague Lighthouse.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hotspur

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The steamer lost an engine causing her to go over Dam No. 4 on the Monongahela River, and was sunk/wrecked.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066693094&view=1up&seq=24 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1899 |publisher=Ohio State University |access-date=5 October 2019}}

}}

|ship= Margaret and Mary

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

|desc= The Welsh schooner from Port Dinorwic was lost at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall.{{PastScape|mname=Margaret and Mary|mnumber=1113577|accessdate=2 February 2017}}}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Mortera

|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}

|desc=The cargo ship was lost at the entrance to the harbor at Nuevitas, Cuba, in an accident caused by strong tides and currents.[https://mundodelmar.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/sanchez-barcaiztegui-detalles-de-su-hundimiento/ mundodelmar.wordpress.com SANCHEZ BARCAIZTEGUI, detalles de su hundimiento] (Spanish)

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=New Racket

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The approximately {{convert|50|ft|m|1|adj=on}} sternwheel paddle steamer was carried away and wrecked in the breakup of ice on the Yukon River in the District of Alaska in the spring of 1897, ending up on a stump about {{convert|0.25|mi}} into the forest at the back of a blind slough about {{convert|4|mi|spell=in}} above the trading post at Pelly.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-n/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (N)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sapphire

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The 109-ton sealing schooner caught fire and exploded in the North Pacific Ocean {{convert|20|nmi}} off Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada. Her crew of four abandoned ship just before the explosion and survived.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-s/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (S)]

}}

References

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