# List of shipwrecks in May 1874

The list of shipwrecks in May 1874 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during May 1874.

## 1 May

List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Amelia | United Kingdom | The brig foundered in the North Sea 100 nautical miles (190 km) south west of Heligoland. Her six crew were rescued by an Italian vessel. Amelia was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to a Baltic port. |
| Kutty Rahiman | India | The brig foundered in the Bay of Bengal. Her nineteen crew took to a boat. They were rescued on 10 May by Evangeline ( Jersey). Kutty Rahiman was on a voyage from Galle, Ceylon to Chittagong. |
| Lizzie | United Kingdom | The brigantine was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Nolloth, Cape Colony. |
| Menzaleh | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground at Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Barrow-in-Furness to Quebec City, Canada. She was refloated on 4 May. |

## 3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Albert | United Kingdom | The steamship was run into by the steamship Martaban ( United Kingdom) and sank in the Clyde at Greenock, Renfrewshire. |
| Emulous | New Zealand | The 157-ton brigantine went ashore in a heavy swell at Oamaru. The schooner Ocean Wave stranded nearby but lifted clear at the next high tide. Although the Emulous was described as a wreck and sold as such at auction, she was refloated later in 1874, only to again run aground just north of Oamaru on 11 October. On this second occasion she was too badly wrecked to be repaired. |

## 4 May

List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Blue Jacket | United Kingdom | The smack was driven ashore and wrecked on Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands. Her crew survived. |

## 6 May

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Puno | United Kingdom | The ship struck rocks off the Isla de Flores, Uruguay. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Callao, Peru. She was refloated and put in to Monte Video, Uruguay. |
| Unnamed | Flag unknown | The steamship foundered in the North Sea 32 nautical miles (59 km) north north east of the Noord Hinder Lightship ( Netherlands) with the loss of all hands. |

## 7 May

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Clifton | United Kingdom | The barque was wrecked at Oeiras, Portugal. She was on a voyage from Malabar to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. |
| Concurrent | Netherlands | The ship was sunk by ice at Cronstadt, Russia. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Saint Petersburg, Russia. |

## 8 May

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ceres | United Kingdom | The fishing cutter was driven ashore on Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. |
| Clifton | United Kingdom | The barque was destroyed by fire at Lagos, Portugal with some loss of life. |
| Edgar | United Kingdom | The fishing cutter was driven ashore on Terschelling. Her crew were rescued. |
| Express | United Kingdom | The fishing cutter was driven ashore on Terschelling. Her crew were rescued. |
| Mizpah | United Kingdom | The fishing cutter was driven ashore on Terschelling. Her crew were rescued. |
| Times | United Kingdom | The tug collided with the steamship Emily ( United Kingdom) and sank in the River Thames at Greenwich, Kent. |

## 9 May

List of shipwrecks: 9 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Great Yarmouth | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground on the Newcombe Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was refloated. |
| Jolly Dogs | United Kingdom | The Thames barge capsized in The Downs. She was towed in to Ramsgate, Kent. |
| Maritana, and Retreiver | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship collided with the tug Retreiver off the Tuskar Rock and foundered with the loss of a crew member. Maritana was on her maiden voyage, from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to San Francisco, California, United States. Retreiver also sank. Her crew survived. Survivors from both vessels were rescued by the tug Universe ( United Kingdom). |

## 10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| HMS Endymion | Royal Navy | The screw frigate ran aground in Palermo Bay, Sicily, Italy. Refloated and sailed to Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy for assessment. |
| Eve | Italy | The brig collided with the steamship Alice ( United Kingdom) and sank at "Seraglio". Her crew were rescued. |
| HMS Narcissus | Royal Navy | The screw frigate ran aground in Palermo Bay suffering moderate damage. Refloated and sailed to Cagliari for assessment. |
| Pearl | United Kingdom | The schooner was sunk by a large marine animal off Galle, Ceylon with the loss of one of her six crew. Survivors were rescued by the steamship Strathowen ( United Kingdom. Pearl was on a voyage from Mauritius to Rangoon, Burma. |

## 11 May

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Derzhava | Imperial Russian Navy | The royal yacht, a paddle steamer, ran aground at Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Vlissingen to Gravesend, Kent, United Kingdom. She was refloated on 13 May. |
| Eliza Nelson | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked on the Domesnes Reef, in the Baltic Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Copenhagen, Denmark to Riga, Russia. |
| Zuova | Italy | The brig was driven ashore and wrecked on Nexø, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Cronstadt, Russia to Dundee, Forfarshire, United Kingdom. |

## 12 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Anna | Norway | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked in St Andrews Bay. Her six crew were rescued by the Saint Andrews Lifeboat Ladies' Own ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Anna was on a voyage from Dram to St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom. |
| Hilda | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Battery Point, in the Firth of Forth. She was on a voyage from Alloa, Clackmannanshire to Christiania, Norway. |
| Orlebar | United Kingdom | The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Richibucto, New Brunswick, Canada. |
| Severn | United Kingdom | The schooner sprang a leak and sank 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) north of Aberdovey, Merionethshire. |
| Viking | United Kingdom | The steamship was driven ashore at Father Point, Quebec, Canada. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Montreal, Quebec. |

## 13 May

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Pioneer | United Kingdom | The steamship was driven ashore at Hoek van Holland, South Holland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland to Bristol, Gloucestershire. She was refloated and put back to Rotterdam in a leaky condition. |

## 14 May

List of shipwrecks: 14 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Neride | Germany | The barque ran aground on the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was refloated with the assistance of some smacks and a tug and assisted in to Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom. |

## 15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Firefly | United Kingdom | The brigantine ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by Jane Cargill ( United Kingdom). Firefly was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands to South Shields, County Durham. She floated off and came ashore at Sea Palling, Norfolk. |
| Hanover | United Kingdom | The ship departed from Tianjin, China for Newcastle, New South Wales. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. |

## 17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Nore | Sweden | The steamship ran aground at Domsten. She was on a voyage from an English port at a Russian port. |

## 18 May

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Bonita | Belgium | The steamship ran aground and was wrecked at Vigo, Spain. Her crew were rescued. |

## 20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Sarah M. Sanders | United States | The fishing schooner sank off Dennis Port, Massachusetts. |
| Tegetthoff | Austria-Hungary | Tegethoff fast in the ice in the Barents Sea. Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition: The steamship was abandoned in the Barents Sea 275 nautical miles (509 km) off Franz Josef Land. |

## 21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| HMS Niobe | Royal Navy | The wreck of Niobe (centre). Illustration from the Illustrated London News, 18 July 1874.The Amazon-class sloop was wrecked in fog off Miquelon Island with the loss of one life. The gunvessel HMS Woodlark ( Royal Navy) saved the rest of her crew. |

## 22 May

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Agnes | New Zealand | The 23-ton cutter departed from Manukau Harbour for the Waikato River. She was not sighted again, although wreckage from her washed ashore near Raglan in late June. |
| Bezerra de Menezes | Imperial Brazilian Navy | The corvette ran aground in the River Thames at Blackwall, Middlesex, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from London, United Kingdom to Rio de Janeiro. She was refloated and resumed her voyage. |
| HMS Lively | Royal Navy | The despatch vessel ran aground at Ryde, Isle of Wight. She was refloated with assistance from the tug Camel ( United Kingdom). |

## 23 May

List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| British Admiral | United Kingdom | The passenger ship, travelling from Liverpool, Lancashire to Melbourne, Victoria was sunk after hitting rocks off King's Island, Tasmania. Only nine of the 88 passengers and crew were rescued. |
| Bezerra de Menezes | Imperial Brazilian Navy | The corvette ran aground in the River Thames. She was refloated and resumed her voyage. She was refloated and resumed her voyage |

## 24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ellen Stuart | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship was driven ashore at the South Foreland, Kent. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to London. |
| Quangtse | United Kingdom | The steamship ran ashore at the South Foreland. She was on a voyage from China to London. She was refloated the next day with the assistance of a tug. |

## 25 May

List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Coronet | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Cardiff, Glamorgan. She was refloated the next day and resumed her voyage. |
| Emu | New Zealand | The 27-ton ketch capsized and sank near Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula. |
| Maitland | United Kingdom | The clipper was wrecked on Huon Island with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Moreton Bay to Fuzhou, China. |
| Princess Clementine | United Kingdom | The steamship was driven ashore at the Abbot's Cliff, between Dover and Folkestone, Kent. She was on a voyage from Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France to Folkestone. She was refloated with the assistance of Queen of the Belgians ( United Kingdom). |

## 26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Agamemnon | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground at Hangkow, China. She was on a voyage from Hankow to a British port. She was refloated on 30 May. |
| Arab | United Kingdom | The schooner sank off Sea Palling, Norfolk. Her crew survived. |
| Gomos | United Kingdom | Cable ship stranded in Rio Grande do Sul on bar while transporting 204 nmi (378 km; 235 mi) of cable. No loss of life, but the ship and cable were lost. Replacement cable lost with some 58 lives on foundering of La Plata ( United Kingdom) on 29 November 1874. |
| Mary Thompson | New Zealand | The 49-ton collier schooner was driven onto a reef and wrecked at Omaha Bay, New Zealand. |

## 27 May

List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Elite | United Kingdom | The barquentine was wrecked on the Pallister Reef, off Barbuda. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Montserrat to London. |
| Rubenow | Germany | The ship was wrecked on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to the White Sea. |

## 28 May

List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Earl of South Esk | | The 336-ton barque, laden with a cargo of coal from Australia, hit Barrett's Reef while trying to enter Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, in a heavy sea. The crew abandoned ship and were saved, and Earl of South Esk slipped off the reef and sank minutes later. |
| Gogo | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground at Villareal, Spain. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Huelva, Spain. She was refloated the next day and resumed her voyage. |

## 29 May

List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Nabob | United States | The ship was sighted off Cape Horn, Chile whilst on a voyage from Portland, Oregon to Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. |

## Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in May 1874 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Anton Gerhard | Germany | The ship was wrecked at Alvarado, Mexico. |
| Aurelia | United Kingdom | The brig foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. |
| Ceres | Denmark | The full-rigged ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Drogheda | United Kingdom | The ship was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Quebec City, Canada. |
| Durham | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on "Variety Island". |
| Estrelle | Canada | The ship was wrecked on Inagua, Bahamas. She was on a voyage from New York to Cuba. |
| Ethiopia | United Kingdom | The steamship lost her propeller in the Atlantic Ocean before 8 May. Her passengers were taken off by the steamship State of Pennsylvania ( United States). |
| Euphegena, or Iphigenia | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. The wreck was plundered by the local inhabitants. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Pensacola, Florida, United States. |
| Georgia | United States | The ship was sunk by ice at Quebec City. |
| Helen | United Kingdom | The brig foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Montrose, Forfarshire. |
| Hydra | Germany | The ship struck a rock off Tamsui, Formosa before 12 May and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. |
| Idaho | United Kingdom | The steamship was driven ashore on Fire Island, New York before 26 May. She was refloated. |
| Iphigenia | United Kingdom | The barque was wrecked at "Cayames". |
| Leander | Germany | The brigantine was driven ashore at the Grauerort fortress, in the Elbe. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Africa. |
| Linda | United Kingdom | The steamship caught fire and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Saint John's, Newfoundland Colony. |
| Marie Vigilante | Canada | The ship was wrecked at Quebec City before 13 May. She was on a voyage from Cap-Saint-Ignace to Montreal. |
| Moss Rose | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Rangoon, Burma before 15 May. She was refloated and taken in to Akyab for repairs. |
| Napoleon III | United States | The ship was sunk by ice at Quebec City. |
| Norway | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground in the Danube. |
| Pacifico | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore at Roquetas de Mar, Spain. Her crew were rescued. |
| Racoon | United Kingdom | The Pearl-class corvette ran aground at Barbadoes. |
| River Plate | United Kingdom | The schooner ran aground and was wrecked at Port Alfred, Cape Colony. |
| Shandon | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground at Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada before 13 May. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Montreal, Quebec. She was refloated and resumed her voyage. |
| Sylvia | United States | The ship was wrecked on the Long Bank Reef. She was on a voyage from New York to Cárdenas, Cuba. |
| Teaser | Canada | The ship was wrecked in the Caicos Islands. Her cew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Inagua to Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
| Tenasserim | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground at "Buckeer", Burma. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Rangoon, Burma. She was refloated and completed her voyage. |
| William Cargill | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Barbadoes. She was on a voyage from Callao, Peru to Saint Vincent. |
| Unnamed | Flag unknown | The brig capsized in the North Sea. She was driven ashore on Sylt, Germany. |
| Unnamed | Carlists | Third Carlist War: The barque was scuttled near Portugalete, Spain. |