The list of shipwrecks in 1892 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1892.
January
5 January
6 January
8 January
List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
Namchow
|
Straits Settlements
|
The steamer foundered off Cupchi Point, or four miles (6.4 km) off Breaker Point, China. 414 killed.[3][4][5]
|
25 January
List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
S. M. Lake
|
Canada
|
The schooner capsized at Black River in a heavy gale. The crew were saved.[6]
|
28 January
29 January
List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
Starry Flag
|
United States
|
The schooner was wrecked on Cape Island Rock, near Kennebunk, Maine. The crew were saved.[8]
|
February
1 February
List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
Morril Boy
|
United States
|
The schooner was wrecked at Pigeon Cove. The crew were saved.[9]
|
7 February
13 February
List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
H. A. Duncan
|
United States
|
The schooner developed a leak in the gale on 11/12 February off Newfoundland. The crew was taken off just before she sank by the schooner Sylth ( Canada).[11]
|
19 February
21 February
Unknown date
March
8 March
List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
County of Salop
|
United Kingdom
|
The steamer was wrecked at Wanson Mouth near Bude, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[16]
|
Elginshire
|
United Kingdom
|
The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Timaru, New Zealand.
|
16 March
20 March
Unknown date
April
12 April
20 April
List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
City of Cheboygan
|
United States
|
The schooner was wrecked by unknown schooner in the Detroit River. Refloated, repaired and returned to service.[21]
|
May
3 May
5 May
17 May
18 May
27 May
June
11 June
12 June
22 June
List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
City of Chicago
|
United Kingdom
|
The passenger ship ran aground off the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. All on board, including 1,100 passengers, were rescued. She broke up and sank a few days later.[30]
|
Fred B. Taylor
|
Canada
|
The wooden, fully-rigged sailing ship was cut in two in a collision in fog with the steamer Trave ( Germany) in the Atlantic Ocean 100 nautical miles (190 km) south east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States, with the loss of two of her 21 crew. The survivors were rescued by Trave. The stern section came ashore at Wells, Maine, United States on 7 August. The bow section drifted ashore on the coast of North Carolina, United States, between Bodies Island and Carrituck Inlet.[31][32]
|
27 June
List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
Champion
|
United States
|
The schooner was wrecked on Gull Rock, near Lockeport, Nova Scotia. She caught fire and was destroyed. The crew were saved.[33]
|
July
1 July
14 July
23 July
List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
Laura Sayward
|
United States
|
The schooner sprang a leak and sank. The crew made it to shore in her boats.[36]
|
25 July
Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date July 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
Beaver
|
Canada
|
The partially stripped wreck of the steamer, aground on rocks at Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, since 17 July 1888, sank after being struck by the wake of the passing steamer Yosemite.
|
August
6 August
List of shipwrecks: 6 August 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
Alabama
|
United States
|
The schooner was wrecked on Boon Island Ledge. The crew were saved.[38]
|
8 August
20 August
30 August
List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
Western Reserve
|
United States
|
The 300-foot (91 m), 2,392-ton lake freighter suffered a structural failure, broke in two, and sank in a gale 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Whitefish Point in 600 feet (180 m) of water in Lake Superior with the loss of 31 lives, including her owner and his family. There was one survivor. The wreck was located in mid 2024.[40][41]
|
31 August
List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
Active
|
United States
|
The 14.3-ton, 41.2-foot (12.6 m) schooner was wrecked in "Marosco Bay, Cold Harbor," probably a reference to Morozovski Bay – a name commonly used for Cold Bay at the time – on the Alaska Peninsula in the District of Alaska. Her crew of eight survived.[20]
|
September
8 September
17 September
October
1 October
6 October
9 October
18 October
26 October
List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
J. P. Allen
|
United States
|
The schooner was sunk by a whirlwind 55 miles (89 km) east of Pensacola, Florida.[46]
|
28 October
28–29 October
November
2 November
8 November
List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
Watergeus
|
United Kingdom
|
The steamer sank after a collision in Shanghai harbour.[3]
|
17 November
18 November
List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
Hattie Wells
|
United States
|
The schooner barge went ashore five miles (8.0 km) from Point Pelee, Ontario. Reported a week later as going to pieces, but salvaged in July 1893 and taken to Port Huron, Michigan, with repairs finished on 19 September 1893.[59][60]
|
24 November
27 November
30 November
Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: unknown November 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
Knights Templar
|
United States
|
The schooner was damaged in a collision with an unknown schooner in a snowstorm eight miles (13 km) off Sambro, Nova Scotia. She filled and sank. The crew took to her boats and were rescued six hours later by a pilot boat.[64]
|
December
7 December
7 December
9 December
11 December
List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
Northerner
|
United States
|
The steam barge caught fire at L'Anse, Michigan when a kerosene lamp was dropped in a possible arson fire. The fire destroyed the vessel, dock, and warehouse. She was scuttled off the dock in 10–15 feet (3.0–4.6 m) of water.[66]
|
18 December
20 December
28 December
List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1892
Ship |
State |
Description
|
Esther Ward
|
United States
|
The schooner went ashore on Cape Cod. The crew were saved.[67]
|
Unknown date
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