# List of shipwrecks in 1896

The list of shipwrecks in 1896 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1896.
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## January
### 1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ealing | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground off Isaacs Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, with the loss of eighteen of her 27 crew. She was on a voyage from Pelley Island, Newfoundland to New York, United States. |
| Salina | United States | The steamer caught fire in the St. Clair River three miles (4.8 km) below Marine City, Michigan and burned to the water's edge. |

### 3 January

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| O. R. Whitney | United States | The steamer was sunk in a collision with Emily A. Foote at Norfolk, Virginia. |

### 4 January

List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Chevy Chase | United Kingdom | The ship was in collision with Rathlin ( United Kingdom) in the River Thames at Woolwich, London and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Christiania, Norway to London. She was consequently condemned and scrapped. |

### 5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Chesapeake | United States | The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Bordentown, New Jersey. |
| Mary Blue | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank near Liverpool, Florida. Later raised. |

### 6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Emperor of St. John | Canada | The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged south of Cape George, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, to Guysborough, Nova Scotia. |

### 8 January

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| William H. Cowper | United States | The canal boat sank between Jersey City, New Jersey and New York City, possibly by ice. |

### 10 January

List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Josie | United States | The steamer was sunk in a collision with L. E. Patton ( United States) in the Mississippi River 40 miles (64 km) below Memphis, Tennessee. Later raised. A fireman on L. E. Patton was fatally scalded f |

### 12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Congo | United States | The steamer was sunk in a collision with a barge in the Mississippi River while backing out of a dock at Caruthersville, Missouri, a total loss. Four crewmen killed. |
| Royal | United States | The passenger steamer laid up by the bank caught fire, burned to the waterline and sank one mile (1.6 km) above Evansville, Indiana. |

### 13 January

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Fortuna | United States | The fishing schooner was run down and sunk off Cape Cod by Barnstable. Nine crewmen killed. |

### 15 January

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Danube | United States | The steamer was blown ashore in a gale, probably in the New Orleans, Louisiana area, sprung a leak but saved from sinking by throwing cargo overboard. |

### 16 January

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| General Hancock | United States | The schooner was sunk in a collision with Chesapeake ( United States) in Chesapeake Bay near Smith's Point Light. |

### 24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Blanks Cornwell | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Tallahatchie River, a total loss. |

### 26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ellen | Queensland | The vessel was wrecked in the harbour of Townsville, Australia. |

## February
### 1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| New Crescent | United States | The passenger steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Cumberland River in six feet (1.8 m) of water, a total loss. |

### 5 February

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Cricket | United States | The steamer broke loose from her moorings at Everett, Washington and went on the beach. Two hours later she burned, a total loss. |
| Mary Potter | United States | The schooner was beached six miles (9.7 km) east of the East Pass of St. Andrew's Bay, Florida. |

### 6 February

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| City of Norwich | United States | The barge, after being cut loose in a gale by her tow boat Thomas J. Scully ( United States), was able to anchor near the Cornfield Lightship, but sank the next day. |
| Cornelia | United States | The laid up tugboat sunk overnight at dock in Perth Amboy, New Jersey during a storm. |
| Greenwich | United States | The steamer was sunk in a collision with Gypsum ( United States) off Sailor's Snug Harbor, New York due to poor visibility from heavy smoke blowing from the New Jersey shore. |
| Wamsutta | United States | The barge, after being cut loose in a gale by her tow boat Thomas J. Scully ( United States), drifted onto the Saybrook, Connecticut breakwater and broke up. |

### 7 February

List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Arthur Lambert | United States | The steamer was destroyed by fire at Gretna, Louisiana while tied up alongside J. P. Jackson ( United States) that had caught fire and spread. |
| Jim Montgomery | United States | The steamer was swamped and sunk at dock at Louisville, Kentucky by the wake of a passing steamer. Later raised. |
| J. P. Jackson | United States | The steamer was destroyed by fire while lying at Gretna, Louisiana. |

### 8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Claudia | United States | The steamer caught fire off Beverly, New Jersey and was beached, she burned to the waterline. |

### 9 February

List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Resolute | United States | The schooner was wrecked on Little Lorraine Island near Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. One crewman killed. |

### 10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Walter R. Love | United States | The steamer filled and sank while lying at Chattanooga, Tennessee. |

### 11 February

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Alfred Lister | United States | The lighter struck the bar at the Rockaway Bell Buoy and sprung a leak. She blew off the bar in high wind, filled and sank. |

### 14 February

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Paulina Wilbur | United States | The steamer caught fire while loading oil at Gibson's Point on the Schuylkill River and was beached and sank. |

### 15 February

List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Rescue | United States | The tug sprung a leak off Red Hook Flats, Brooklyn, New York. She ran to German American Stores, Brooklyn where she sank in 17 feet (5.2 m) of water. Raised on 16 February. |

### 18 February

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| City of Lynn | United States | The tug caught fire off Glenwood, New York and was beached. |

### 20 February

List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Edwin J. Wood | United States | The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at Darraghville, Louisiana. |

### 21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| James | United States | The steamer sank at dock at the foot of Hanover Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| Thomas Newton | United States | The steamer was damaged in a collision with the barge Beaufort, being towed by J. Alvah Clark, at Norfolk, Virginia. She was beached to prevent sinking, but burned to the water's edge when lime in her cargo ignited. |

### 22 February

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Jim Watson | United States | The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at New Orleans, Louisiana. |

### 24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| New York Central Lighterage Co. No. 6 | United States | The tug keeled over onto her port side due to ice buildup, filled and sank off Sixty-Eighth Street, New York City in the North River. |

### 25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Samuel H. Paul | United States | The steamer struck a log and sank opposite Martinsburg, Kentucky in three feet (0.91 m) of water in the Cumberland River. Raised and repaired. |

### 27 February

List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Mabel Taylor | Canada | The vessel was wrecked on Santa Rosa Island, Florida. |

### 28 February

List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Point Loma | United States | The steam schooner sprang a leak in a heavy gale. The rising water put out her fires and she was wrecked near McKenzie Head, Washington, a total loss. |

### 29 February

List of shipwrecks: 29 February 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ailsa | United Kingdom | The steamer was rammed and sunk by the French liner La Bourgogne while anchored at the entrance to New York Harbor in fog. All on board were rescued. |

## March
### 2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Rosstrevor | United Kingdom | The passenger-cargo ship grounded at Carlingford Lough. Refloated on 7 March, repaired and returned to service. |
| Sunshine | United States | The steamer sank at dock in a gale at the Government Wharf, Broadwater, Virginia. |

### 4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| John L. Hasbrouck | United States | The passenger steamer was crowded by ice and struck a reef in the Hudson River off New Hamburg, New York and sank. |

### 5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Kate | United States | The tug sank at dock in East Boston, Massachusetts due to ice and high winds. Later raised. |

### 6 March

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Volanta | United States | The steamer burned to the waterline overnight at Newport, Oregon. |
| Volo | Norway | During a voyage from Goteburg, Sweden, to Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa, with a cargo of Baltic pine timber, the barque was wrecked without loss of life on the coast of South Africa near the mouth of the Bushman River. |

### 7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Lincoln | United States | The two-masted schooner departed Seattle, Washington, bound for Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the District of Alaska with 37 people on board and was never heard from again. She probably sank in a severe storm that struck the Gulf of Alaska during the first week of April. |
| Silver Wave | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank at Morten's Landing, Kentucky in three feet (0.91 m) of water. Raised, taken to Cincinnati, Ohio and repaired. |

### 9 March

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Monohansett | United States | The steamer struck a rock and sank at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. |

### 11 March

List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| R. B. Kendall | United States | The steamer sprung a leak and sank over night at dock in Charleston, West Virginia. Raised and repaired. |
| T. K. Green | United States | The steamer foundered in a gale on Catahoula Lake. Later raised. |

### 13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Morse & Showdy | United States | The canal boat was sunk in a collision with the tug Pottsville ( United States) off The Battery, New York. |

### 16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hawk | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank at Knob Coal Works on the Monongahela River. Raised, repaired, and returned to service. |

### 18 March

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Volusia | United States | The steamer sprung a leak and sank in the Atlantic Ocean (32°00′N 74°00′W﻿ / ﻿32.000°N 74.000°W﻿ / 32.000; -74.000). The crew were rescued by the bark Linda Mordenrogen ( Russia). |

### 25 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Willie | United States | The tug was damaged in a collision with Express ( United States) off Pier 39, New York in the East River. She made a run for her dock but sank off Pier 11. |

### 26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Sam Brown | United States | The tow steamer caught fire, burned to the waterline, and sank a short distance below New Albany, Indiana in the Ohio River, a total loss. |

### 27 March

List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ellen | United States | The steamer was destroyed by fire while lying at Hog Island, Florida. |

### 28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| D. Roughan | United States | The tug sprang a leak and sank at dock over night in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Later raised. |

### 30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Isabel L. | United States | The steamer was destroyed in the Pascagoula River when her boiler exploded. |

## April
### 5 April

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hustler | United States | The steamer was wrecked when she struck a pier of the Eleventh Street Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the Alleghany River. |

### 10 April

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| City of Dallas | United States | On a trip from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Central America the steamer broke the crank pin in her engine causing a leak that caused her to sink. Three crew killed. |

### 11 April

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Peter Dalton | United States | The tow steamer was destroyed by fire in Lake Michigan near Chicago, Illinois. |
| SMS S48 | Imperial German Navy | The S43-class torpedo boat sank with the loss of five lives after colliding during a storm with the torpedo boat SMS S46 ( Imperial German Navy) in the Jade in Germany. |

### 12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Dave Wood | United States | The steamer sank at Tremont Coal Works on the Monongahela River. Raised, repaired, and returned to service. One crewman killed, one injured. |
| Emma Lee | United States | The steamer was destroyed by fire at Campbell's Landing, 125 miles (201 km) above Memphis, Tennessee. |

### 17 April

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| William J. Booth | United States | The tug burned off One Hundred Fifty-Second Street, New York City in the North River, a total loss. |

### 18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Alex Perry | United States | The steamer was destroyed by fire at Evansville, Indiana when an unidentified large wharf boat caught fire and the fire spread. |
| Unknown wharf boat | United States | A large wharf boat caught fire and was destroyed at Evansville, Indiana. Four other vessels were destroyed when the fire spread. |
| Unknown wharf boats | United States | Two small wharf boats were destroyed by fire at Evansville, Indiana when a large wharf boat caught fire and the fire spread. |
| W. L. Norton | United States | The steamer was destroyed by fire at Evansville, Indiana when an unidentified large wharf boat caught fire and the fire spread. |

### 20 April

List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| C. C. Martin | United States | The steamer struck a snag near Newark, West Virginia on the Little Kanawha River and sank. |

### 22 April

List of shipwrecks: 22 April 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Mermaid | United States | The tow steamer was turning two lighters around, but caught on her tow line amidships, she capsized and sank in the St. Johns River nine miles (14 km) below Jacksonville, Florida. Later raised. |

### 25 April

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Edward E. Webster | United States | The 98.8-gross register ton, 83.5-foot (25.5 m) sealing schooner departed Kodiak, District of Alaska, with a crew of 29 aboard and was never heard from again. She was last seen near the Trinity Islands (56°33′00″N 154°20′00″W﻿ / ﻿56.5500°N 154.3333°W﻿ / 56.5500; -154.3333﻿ (Trinity Islands)) by the sealing schooner Herman ( United States), with which she was hunting. Herman reported her lost at San Francisco, California, on 26 September. |

### 26 April

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Corona | United States | The tug caught fire at Ward's Shipyard, Astoria, New York. The city's fire department filled her with water until she sank. |

### 28 April

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Wyanoke | United States | The passenger steamer was sunk in a collision with the anchored USS Columbia at Newport News, Virginia. She had 107 passengers and 42 crew onboard, of which two passengers and one crewman drowned, and one crewman died of injuries in the hospital. |

### 29 April

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Louise | United States | The steamer was damaged in a collision with Rose Hite ( United States) six miles (9.7 km) above Evansville, Indiana. She proceeded to the bank, where she sank later. |

## May
### 2 May

List of shipwrecks: 2 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Billy Kilby | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank at Plaquemine, Louisiana. Later raised. |

### 3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Robert Robinson | United States | The tug caught fire off South Amboy, New Jersey. She was beached and burned to the water's edge. |

### 5 May

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Fountain City | United States | The steamer caught fire at dock in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Her mooring lines burned through and she drifted onto a mud bank near the Leathem and Smith dock, a total loss. |

### 6 May

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Columbia | United States | The lighter caught fire at Pier 14, New York City in the North River. She was towed to mid-stream where she burned to the waterline and sank. |

### 7 May

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Jennie Gilchrist | United States | The steamer filled and sank while lying at the bank two miles (3.2 km) above Danville in the Tennessee River when she lost a plug in her hull. Later raised. |

### 10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Harry Brown | United States | The steamer was sunk when her boiler exploded at Ursina Landing in the Mississippi River. Ten crew lost. |

### 11 May

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Sentinel | United States | The steamer sprung a leak and sank at dock at New Orleans, Louisiana a total loss. |

### 17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Mary D. Ayer | United States | The lumber schooner was damaged in a collision with Onoko ( United States) in dense fog and rain in Lake Michigan off Gross Point, Evanston, Illinois. Several hours later she was taken under tow by City of Duluth ( United States), but sank shortly after that off Chicago. Her captain William Williamson and four crew were killed (Charles Matson, mate, Henry Shira, seaman, Tom, deckhand, and Fitz, cook), two (William Grell, Alexander Sturen) were rescued by City of Duluth. |

### 18 May

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Decatur H. Miller | United States | The steamer was sunk in a collision with Bowden ( United States) in Baltimore Harbor. |

### 20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Choctaw | United States | The steamer was sunk in a collision with L. C. Waldo ( United States) in the Ste. Marie River. Refloated on 1 June and taken to Cleveland, Ohio for repairs. |
| Delaware | United States | The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at the Wilmington and Northern Railroad Dock, Wilmington, Delaware. |

### 21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Queen City | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank at Crabapple Bluff on the Chattahoochee River, later raised. |

### 22 May

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Andrew Jackson | United States | The coal barge (and former full-rigged ship), in tow from Norfolk, Virginia, was run into by steam tanker Vedra ( United Kingdom) and sank. The wreck was removed June–August 1896. |
| Belgravia | United Kingdom | The ocean liner ran aground in heavy fog on Saints Rest Beach shortly after departing Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, without loss of life. She was declared a total loss. |

### 24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Mermaid | United States | The tow steamer burned while lying at Palatka, Florida, a total loss. |

### 26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Katherine | United States | The steamer was capsized by a tornado at Cairo, Illinois. Raised and repaired. 11 lives lost. |

### 27 May

List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Andrew Christy | United States | 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The steamer was sunk at St. Louis in a tornado. |
| Arkansas City | United States | 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The steamer was sunk/wrecked at St. Louis in a tornado. |
| Bald Eagle | United States | 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The steamer was sunk at St. Louis in a tornado. |
| City of Cairo | United States | 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The steamer was sunk/wrecked at St. Louis in a tornado. |
| City of Monroe | United States | 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The steamer was sunk/wrecked at St. Louis in a tornado. |
| City of Quincy | United States | 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The steamer was sunk at St. Louis in a tornado. |
| Dolphin No. 2 | United States | 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The steamer was sunk at St. Louis during a tornado when the steamer Pittsburgh ( United States) and an unknown wharf boat that had broken free of their moorings struck her causing her to capsize, they passed over her hull. |
| Gazelle | United States | 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The steamer was sunk at St. Louis in a tornado. |
| Isabella | United States | 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The steamer was sunk at St. Louis in a tornado. |
| J. J. Odil | United States | 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The steamer was sunk at St. Louis in a tornado. |
| Jay Gould | United States | 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The steamer was sunk at St. Louis in a tornado. |
| Libbie Conger | United States | 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado: The steamer was moored at the foot of Biddle Street, St. Louis when a tornado broke her loose from her moorings. She drifted one mile (1.6 km) down river before sinking. Her captain, his wife and two children were lost. |

### 28 May

List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Transfer | United States | The sand dredge sprung a leak and sank in Lake Erie at Lorain, Ohio and was abandoned as a total loss. |
| Unknown schooner | | The schooner was sunk in a collision with the steamer Nutmeg State ( United States) off Catherine Street, New York City in the East River. |

### 30 May

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ben Franklin | United States | The pleasure launch was sunk when she struck Car Float No. 4 ( United States) at the Harlem River Bridge, Harlem, New York in the Harlem River. Three women on board drowned. |
| Ironsides | United States | The steamer struck Lee Creek bar in the Ohio River and sank up to the main deck. Raised 18 hours later and repaired in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |

### 31 May

List of shipwrecks: 31 May 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Wm. F. Munroe | United States | The steamer struck a pier of the Great Northern Railroad on the Skagit River and sank. |

## June
### 5 June

List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Princesse Clementine | Belgium | The steamship collided with the sailing ship Axel Wästfelt ( Sweden) in the Bay of Biscay (45°50′N 9°30′E﻿ / ﻿45.833°N 9.500°E﻿ / 45.833; 9.500. |

### 11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| C. A. Warfield | United States | The canal boat was sunk when she struck the yacht Corsair ( United States) off Thirty-Forth Street, New York City in the North River. |

### 12 June

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Henrietta | United States | The steamer sank from being overloaded at Big Eddy in the St. Francis River. |

### 16 June

List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Corrine No. 2 | United States | The tug burned to the waterline and sank in the Mississippi River near Cairo, Illinois, a total loss. |
| Drummond Castle | United Kingdom | The ocean liner ran aground at Ushant, France, and sank with the loss of 242 lives. |
| Rosebud | United States | The steamer settled on a submerged piling when the river level dropped at Bismarck, North Dakota and sank, a total loss. |

### 19 June

List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| J. W. Campbell | United States | The schooner was sunk in a squall off Long Island, New York. Lost with all nine hands. |

### 21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Buckeye Boy | United States | The steamer burned to the water's edge at South Point, Ohio, a total loss. |

### 23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Commerce | United States | The barge was destroyed by fire at dock at Taylor's Bridge, Delaware. |
| Lancaster | United States | The passenger steamer was destroyed by fire while lying at the bank in the Ohio River at Golconda, Illinois, a total loss. |

### 26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| May Queen | United States | The steamer was destroyed by fire in the Merrimac River. |

### Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown June 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| City of Oshkosh | United States | The steamer caught fire on 17 or 19 June in Lake Poygan, near Oshkosh, Wisconsin and drifted ashore, burning to the waterline, a total loss. |

## July
### 1 July

List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| John C. Munro | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the east coast of Eastern Fields, British New Guinea, just east of the entrance to Torres Straits. The crew of the captain's boat was picked up by a steamer while the mate's boat managed to reach the coast of New Guinea. |
| Pearl Hedges | United States | The tug was sunk when Josie ( United States) blew into her in a severe gale at Paducah, Kentucky. Later raised. |

### 7 July

List of shipwrecks: 7 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Eagle | United States | The schooner sank in a storm off Pensacola, Florida in Pensacola Bay. |
| Florence | United States | The schooner sank in a storm in Pensacola Bay, Florida. |
| Leroy | United States | The schooner was beached on the west shore of Pensacola Bay, Florida, in a storm and broke up. |
| Nelley Keyser | United States | The steamer struck a railroad bridge in a gale and sank in Escambia Bay, later raised. |

### 10 July

List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Audacieux | French Navy | The torpedo boat sank after a collision. |
| Jessie Wilson | United States | The ferry filled and sank over night at dock in the Ohio River at Shawneetown, Illinois. Raised, repaired and returned to service. |
| Pentagoet | United States | The steamer struck a rock near Pasque Island in Vineyard Sound and was leaking badly enough that she was beached on the island to prevent sinking. Refloated and taken to New York City for repairs. |

### 12 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Bella Mac | United States | The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in five feet (1.5 m) of water in the Mississippi River near Fishers Island. Raised and repaired. |
| Rustler | United States | The steamer struck a rock and broke in two in Box Canyon on the Kootenay River, a total loss. |

### 13 July

List of shipwrecks: 13 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Immanuel | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked in the Teifi Estuary. |

### 14 July

List of shipwrecks: 14 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Colombia | United States | The steamer was wrecked in thick fog off the Pigeon Point Lighthouse, California, a total loss. |
| Colorado | United States | The steamship was damaged in a collision with a barge towed by Charles Runyon ( United States) in the Swash Channel tearing a hole in her side. She was beached where she filled with water. The next day she was patched and pulled off and taken to Erie Basin, Brooklyn. |
| Daniel McCaffrey | United States | The canal boat was sunk in a collision with the ferry Plainfield ( United States) in the North River. |
| Lulu G. | United States | The yacht got caught in a wave trough while answering a distress call on Lake Winnebago and sank near shore. |

### 17 July

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| L. B. Johnson | United States | The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with Mary Mills ( United States) in Chicago Harbor in 30 feet (9.1 m) of water. Raised and repaired. |
| Sadie L. | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Pascagoula River, a total loss. |

### 19 July

List of shipwrecks: 19 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Anna Pepina | Austria-Hungary | The barque was wrecked on Santa Rosa Island, Florida (30°19′N 87°18′W﻿ / ﻿30.317°N 87.300°W﻿ / 30.317; -87.300). |
| Comrade | United States | The steamer caught fire at dock at Erie, Pennsylvania and was destroyed. |

### 20 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Blue Jay | United States | The fishing schooner was sunk near Point Judith, Rhode Island. The crew were rescued. |
| Ella Andrews | United States | The laid up steamer foundered at dock in New Orleans, Louisiana. Later raised. |

### 22 July

List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Paul Tulane | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Cora Plantation, above Donaldsonville, Louisiana, a total loss. |

### 23 July

List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| SMS Iltis | Imperial German Navy | The gunboat sank in the East China Sea off China′s Shandong Peninsula near Qingdao during a typhoon with the loss of 77 lives. There were 11 survivors. |

### 24 July

List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hidalgo | United States | After being forced ashore by ice about eight nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) west of Cape Thompson on the Chukchi Sea coast of the District of Alaska on 21 July, the 175-ton, 101-foot (30.8 m) brigantine broke up when the ice washed away. The revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue Cutter Service) rescued her entire crew of 27. |
| Messenger | United States | The steamer burned to the waterline at St. Helens, Oregon, a total loss. |

### 25 July

List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| A. J. Hoole | United States | The tug was towing the schooner J. S. Lamprey ( United States). When she stopped at Riker's Island to pick up a second tow she was run down, rolled, and sunk by Lamprey. Raised the next day. |
| Irene D. | United States | The steamer struck a rock near Shoemaker's Chain, she ran to Government Island where she sank in four feet (1.2 m) of water. Raised and repaired. |

### 28 July

List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Birdie Bailey | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Yazoo River at Bartonia, Mississippi, a total loss. |

### 29 July

List of shipwrecks: 29 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Gus Genin | United States | The tow steamer filled and sank overnight lying at the bank of the Ohio River above Evansville, Indiana, a total loss. |
| Pin Oak | United States | The steamer struck an obstruction, capsized and sank in the Mississippi River at Wys's Landing, or sunk in the Missouri River 26 miles (42 km) above Jefferson City, Missouri. |
| Tillie | United States | The steamer ran aground on the south east end of Fishers Island, New York in thick fog. Refloated on 1 August. |

### 30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hero | United States | During a voyage from "Wood Island" (probably Woody Island in the Kodiak Archipelago) to "Seldoria C. I." (probably Seldovia), the 8.8-gross register ton, 31-foot (9.4 m) schooner was wrecked in fog on a rock in the Barren Islands off the south-central coast of the District of Alaska, becoming a total loss. Her crew of two survived. |
| Rajah Brooke | Sarawak | While en route from Singapore to Kuching, the cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked on Victory Island in the South China Sea between Singapore and Borneo. |
| Vandalia | United States | The schooner was sunk in a collision with Massachusetts ( United States) off Cornfield Shoal. |

## August
### 1 August

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Dido | United States | The yacht broke loose from her moorings, drifted down river striking an empty barge at the Pittsburgh City Docks on the Monongahela River causing her to capsize. Her cabin was wrecked and her boiler dropped out. Her hull and boiler were recovered, repaired, and returned to service. |

### 5 August

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hawthorn | United States | The yacht was sunk in a collision with Iowa ( United States) in Chicago Harbor near the government breakwater. |

### 8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ceres | United States | The steam elevator was sunk in a collision with RMS Etruria ( United Kingdom) in New York Bay. |
| Emeline | United States | During a voyage in ballast from Charlevoix, Michigan, to Kenosha, Wisconsin, with a cargo of tamarack bark, the 111.4-foot (34 m), 127.9-gross register ton three-masted schooner capsized in Lake Michigan during a squall 20 to 25 nautical miles (37 to 46 km; 23 to 29 mi) southeast of Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin. Her crew of four abandoned ship safely and rowed to Baileys Harbor in a yawl. The tug Sydney Smith ( United States) and schooner Nancy Dell ( United States) righted Emeline on 9 August, but she capsized again that night, and by 22 August had sunk off Anclam Pier in Baileys Harbor in 21 feet (6.4 m) of water, with only two of her masts, her spars, and her gunwales above the surface. By January 1897, the wreck had broken apart, with the stern section moving 600 feet (180 m) north of the bow section. The wreck was deemed a hazard to navigation and dynamited in September 1903. An unidentified wreck lying in an average of 18 feet (5.5 m) of water at 45°04.103′N 087°07.110′W﻿ / ﻿45.068383°N 87.118500°W﻿ / 45.068383; -87.118500﻿ (Unidentified wreck) probably is that of Emeline. |
| St. Paul | United States | The cargo liner steamer/barkentine was wrecked in thick fog off Point Punos Lighthouse, California, near Pebble Beach, California a total loss. The crew and much of her cargo of livestock were rescued by Gipsy. |

### 9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Butcher Boy | United States | The tow steamer stranded on the bar at the mouth of the Chagrin River and broke up. |

### 11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| George S. Townsend | United States | The tug was sunk in a collision with Float No. 31 being towed by Transfer No. 6 ( United States) off Palmer's Dock, Brooklyn. |
| Lizzie Henderson | United States | The steamer caught fire at dock at the foot of Forty-sixth Street, New York City in the North River. She was towed to mid stream by a Fire Department New York fireboat that then filled her with water, sinking her off Pier 1. Wreck removed by 19 August. |

### 14 August

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ocianica | United States | The steamer was sunk in a collision with Wm. Chisholm ( United States) in the southern end of Lake St. Clair. Later raised. |
| Wm. Chisholm or William Chisholm | United States | The steamer was sunk in a collision with Ocianica ( United States) in the southern end of Lake St. Clair. Later raised, repaired and returned to service. |

### 18 August

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| C. H. Woods | United States | The steamer was lying by the bank for the night, but careened, filled with water and sank at Harmar on the Ohio River when the river level dropped and she got hung up on the bank. Raised, repaired, and returned to service. |

### 21 August

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Black Diamond | United States | The steamer struck an obstruction and sank at Johnson's Landing, Arkansas in the Black River. Raised and repaired. |

### 23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Aurelia | United States | The steamer caught on a wreck off Mispillion River, careened and filled. |
| City of Hickman | United States | The steamer struck an obstruction and sank at Island No. 40 in the Mississippi River, a total loss. |

### 27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| HHS Glasgow | Zanzibar | The tips of the masts and funnel of Glasgow at Zanzibar Town harbour in 1902 Anglo-Zanzibar War: The royal yacht was sunk by the Royal Navy. All crew rescued. |

### 30 August

List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Florence Shank | United States | The steamer burned to the water line and sank at dock over night at Parkersburg, West Virginia in the Little Kanawha River, a total loss. |

### 31 August

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| State of Michigan | United States | The steamer struck a rock off Pointe aux Barques Light and was beached to prevent sinking. |

## September
### 3 September

List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Orion | United States | The ferry was sunk when wind blew her against the dock in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| Rosedale | United States | The steamer was sunk in a collision with the ferry Oregon ( United States) in the East River off South Fifth Street, Brooklyn, or Broome Street, New York City. Raised by Chapman Derrick and Wrecking Co. |

### 6 September

List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Thomas Carter | United States | The steamer capsized and sank in the Niagara River off Hickory Reef. A male and a female passenger died. |

### 9 September

List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Elfin | United States | The schooner was wrecked near Manchester. Crew saved. |

### 10 September

List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| James A. Borland | United States | During a voyage from Karluk, District of Alaska, to San Francisco, California, with four passengers, a crew of 13, and a cargo of 27,333 cases of canned salmon aboard, the 670-gross register ton, 145-foot (44.2 m) bark was wrecked in fog on Tugidak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago without loss of life. |

### 12 September

List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| James Dever | United States | The fishing schooner was sunk in a collision with steamship Reading ( United States) in thick fog 14 miles (23 km) south west of Gay Head. |

### 14 September

List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Silver Dart | United States | The fishing schooner was wrecked near highland Light, Cape Cod. The crew were saved. |

### 15 September

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Fair Play | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank up to the main deck opposite Bloch's Landing on the Ohio River. Raised, repaired, and returned to service. |
| Rufus Ingalls | United States | The laid up steamer sank at dock at Velasco, Texas near the mouth of the Brazos River. |

### 17 September

List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Occoquan | United States | The steamer was sunk when she struck a log in Occoquan Creek, Virginia. |

### 18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ethel and Marion | United States | The steamer sank at dock over night at San Francisco when someone ran a hose from a fire hydrant to the ship and flooded her. Later raised. |
| New South | United States | The steamer was struck by a violent storm in the Mississippi River near Harrisonville, Illinois and went ashore. |

### 20 September

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Evie | United States | The tug burned at the Abby Dock, Albany, New York, a total loss. |
| Lula Prince | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank near Simsport, Louisiana in the Atchafalaya River. Later raised. |

### 22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Christiana | United Kingdom | The smack was wrecked at Poppit, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). |
| San Jose | Canada | The 55-ton sealing schooner was wrecked without loss of life on a rocky beach in "Akun Cove" – probably the body of water now known as Akun Bay (54°15′N 165°30′W﻿ / ﻿54.250°N 165.500°W﻿ / 54.250; -165.500﻿ (Akun Bay)) – on Akun Island near Unimak Pass in the Aleutian Islands during a gale. The steamer Dora (flag unknown) rescued her crew on 23 September, and before leaving San Jose her captain burned her wreck to prevent it from becoming a hazard to navigation. |

### 24 September

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hugo | Spain | The former White Star Line passenger liner ran aground on Terschelling Island in the Netherlands. She was declared a total loss. After refloating, she was auctioned for scrap on 9 December 1896 and towed to Amsterdam, where she was broken up |
| J. W. Hunt | United States | The canal boat, being towed by John B. Dallas ( United States), struck the anchored yacht Narada ( United States) in the North River and sank. |

### 26 September

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Alexander James Yeats | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground at Gurnard's Head. Crew of 19 rescued. |
| Katie | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Savannah River. |

### 27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Adgar | Flag unknown | The ship was wrecked off Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom. All crew saved by the Hythe Lifeboat. |
| Baron Holberg | | The ship was wrecked off Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom. All crew saved by the Hythe Lifeboat. |

### 28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Minnie Mees | United States | The tug was destroyed by fire at dock at Superior, Wisconsin. |

### 29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Robert Turner | United States | 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane: The steamer was sunk in the Savannah River during a hurricane. Her master, two crewmen, and one passenger died. |

### 30 September

List of shipwrecks: 30 September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| E. P. Shaw | United States | The steamer burned at Dighton, Massachusetts, probably destroyed. |
| Redfield | United States | The tow steamer was damaged in a collision with tow boat Edwin Terry ( United States) in the Hudson River and was run aground to prevent sinking. |
| Sumatra | United States | The barge, under tow by B. W. Arnold ( United States), sprung a leak in high seas on Lake Michigan and lost her hatches off South Point, Milwaukee, Wisconsin causing her to founder. Two of the crew was rescued by Simpson ( United States), her captain was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service, and the rest were lost. |

### Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown September 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Emeline | United States | The passenger steamer was sunk when she struck a rock in the Hudson River. Raised, repaired, and returned to service. |

## October
### 1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Clayton H. Webb | United States | The passenger steamer was destroyed by fire while lying by the bank of the Cumberland River two miles (3.2 km) above Nashville, Tennessee. She burned to the waterline and sank in ten feet (3.0 m) of water. |

### 5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Harry Cottrell | United States | The steamer sprung a leak and sank at the mouth of the Detroit River in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water. |

### 6 October

List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Columbia | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank below Raymond City, West Virginia in the Great Kanawha River. Raised, taken to Charleston, West Virginia and repaired. |

### 7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Loretta | United States | LorettaAfter the wooden steam barge caught fire while loaded with a cargo of chains, she was towed out onto Lake Huron off the coast of Michigan, where she sank in 7 feet (2.1 m) of water at 44°48′54″N 83°16′57″W﻿ / ﻿44.81505°N 83.282583°W﻿ / 44.81505; -83.282583﻿ (Loretta). |

### 8 October

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Loretta | United States | The steam barge caught fire at dock in the Black River, Michigan, and burned to the water's edge. |

### 9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| David B. Hill | United States | The steamer was destroyed by fire while anchored in the Warwick River. |

### 10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Dauntless | United States | The steamer was destroyed by fire at Ladd's Island in the White River 15 miles (24 km) below Batesville, Arkansas, a total loss. |
| John F. Allen | United States | The steamer was destroyed by fire opposite L'Argent Landing, Mississippi at the mouth of the Big Sunflower River. |

### 11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Yazonia | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank at Belzonia, Mississippi on the Yazoo River. Later raised. |

### 14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Smith Pettit | United States | The tow steamer caught fire in Prince's Bay, Staten Island and was run ashore where she burned to the water's edge. |

### 16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Grand Traverse | United States | On a trip from Green Bay, Wisconsin to Buffalo, New York the steamer was sunk in a collision with Livingstone ( United States) one mile (1.6 km) north of the Colchester Shoal Light in 23 feet (7.0 m) of water. Her machinery was salvaged. The wreck was later blown up with dynamite. The crew were rescued by Livingstone. |
| Niagara | United States | The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with steamer Magenta ( United States) off Vesey Street, New York in the North River. Four crewmen killed. |

### 17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Australasia | United States | The steamer caught fire in Lake Michigan eight miles (13 km) east of Cana Island and her crew abandoned her. The tug John Leatham took her under tow four hours later near Jacksonport, Wisconsin and towed her to shore and scuttled her by ramming in 15 feet (4.6 m) of water south of Cave Point, but the water was shallow enough that she continued to burn until she was a total loss. |

### 19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Little Bill | United States | The steamer struck a stump and sank opposite Coal Bluff on the Monongahela River. Raised and repaired. |

### 20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Arago | United States | The steamer sank after being damaged in high seas on an incomplete breakwater inside the bar at Coos Bay, Oregon sinking in five fathoms (30 ft; 9.1 m) of water, a total loss. Nine crew and four passengers lost. Survivors were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. |

### 22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| T. P. Leathers | United States | The steamer sprung a leak and sank 30 miles (48 km) above Natchez, Mississippi in the Mississippi River. Later raised. |

### 23 October

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| William Horre | United States | The tow steamer was sunk at dock overnight in the Gowanus Canal at the foot of Smith Street, Brooklyn in 12 feet (3.7 m) of water when her boiler blew up. Her engineer, the only one on board, was killed. The wreck was removed by the Hudson River Lighterage Company between 11–17 January 1897. |

### 25 October

List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Toledo | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Yamhill River. She was raised, but while waiting to be taken to Portland, Oregon for repairs she broke loose from her moorings and was wrecked, a total loss. |

### 26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Rossia | Imperial Russian Navy | The cruiser ran aground off Cronstadt. She was refloated on 15 December and taken in to Cronstadt. |

### 29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Eugene A. Galvin | United States | The yacht struck an obstruction and sank opposite Star Landing, Mississippi, a total loss. Her crew of five abandoned ship in her boat. |

### 30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Courier | United States | The steamer collided with the Kentucky Pier of the Central Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio, sinking in 10 feet (3.0 m) of water. Raised and repaired. |
| Samuel P. Ely | United States | The wreck of Samuel P. Ely on 14 June 2008.The schooner sank in Lake Superior without loss of life after dragging her anchors and running into a breakwater during a storm at Two Harbors, Minnesota. |

### 31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| May Queen | United States | The canal boat was sunk in a collision with the barge Enterprise ( United States), under tow of Edwin Terry ( United States), off Verplank's Point in the Hudson River due to a steering problem on May Queen. |

### Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown October 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| W. W. Story | United States | The fishing smack was lost in the equinoctial storms in the middle of October. Eleven crew lost. |

## November
### 2 November

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| China | United States | The steamer was sunk when she was struck at dock by Lycoming ( United States) at the St. Paul elevator, Chicago, Illinois. |

### 3 November

List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Cape Charles | United States | The steamer burned and sank at dock at Spanish Fort, Louisiana on Lake Pontchartrain. Later raised. |

### 7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Commodore | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground and sank at Sheringham, Norfolk. All seventeen people on board were rescued by the Sheringham Lifeboat. The wreck was dispersed by explosives in 1902. |
| Z. E. Beecham | United States | The sailing vessel was sunk in a collision with Northampton ( United States) off the Bush's Bluff lightship. |

### 8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| New Jennie | United States | The laid up steamer burned and sank at dock at New Orleans, Louisiana, a total loss. |

### 9 November

List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ridgeway | United States | The canal boat was destroyed by fire in the Erie Canal at Brighton, New York. |

### 12 November

List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| L. B. Johnson | United States | The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with V. H. Ketcham ( United States) that she was towing when L. B. Johnson crossed V. H. Ketcham's bow and was hit, rolled over and sank in Lake Michigan near Chicago Harbor in smoky weather. |

### 16 November

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Pathfinder | United States | The fishing schooner went ashore at Green Island near Portland, Maine. Crew saved. |

### 17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Memphis | United Kingdom | The cargo ship was wrecked in Dunlough Bay, County Cork with the loss of nine of her crew. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Avonmouth, Somerset. |

### 19 November

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Charles S. Many | United States | The tug was destroyed by fire between Albany, New York and Troy, New York, a total loss. |

### 21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| B. W. Arnold | United States | The steam barge caught fire on Lake Superior 20 miles (32 km) off the Portage Lake Canal, off Ontonagon, Michigan. The crew was forced to go to the barge James Mowatt that she was towing and cut the tow line. She eventually drifted ashore near the mouth of Salmon Trout River and burned to the waterline. |
| City of Osceola | United States | The passenger steamer struck an obstruction and sank at Craigheads Point, Arkansas 70 miles (110 km) above Memphis, Tennessee. Raised and repaired. |

### 22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Red Wing | United States | The schooner sank after hitting an obstruction 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Pensacola Bay, Florida. |
| San Benito | United States | The collier went ashore north of Point Arena and broke in two, a total loss. Six lost. Survivors rescued by the United States Life Saving Service and boats from Point Arena and Weott, two swam to shore. |

### 25 November

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ollie Neville | United States | The steamer sprung a leak and sank over night at East Liverpool, Ohio on the Ohio River. Raised, repaired, and returned to service. |

### 27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Dalles City | United States | The steamer struck a rock and sank at the Mouth of the Windy River. She was raised and taken to Portland, Oregon for repairs. |

### 28 November

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Levi Davis | United States | The steamer was sunk crossing the Cape Fear bar. |

### Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown November 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Emma J. Gott | United States | The schooner was heavily damaged and beached when part of her cargo consisting of gasoline exploded at Salem, Massachusetts, fortunately the 300 cases of dynamite on board did not detonate. Her cook suffered burns. |

## December
### 1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Blesk | Russia | The steamer, one of the earliest vessels specially constructed to carry oil, hit Greystone rock near Salcombe at full speed (10 knots). 43 crew were rescued by the Hope Cove Lifeboat, but the wreck was the first large scale ecological oil disaster on UK shores. |

### 3 December

List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Helen Smith | United States | The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Elizabeth River off Money Point. |

### 5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Nathan F. Cobb | United States | Nathan F. Cobb The three-masted schooner capsized in the Atlantic Ocean after departing Brunswick, Georgia, and drifted onto the outer sand bar off Ormond Beach, Florida, where she ran aground. Two crewmen and a civilian rescuer were killed during the incident. |
| Willie M. Stevens | United States | The fishing schooner went ashore at Blanche Point near Port La Tour, Nova Scotia. Crew saved. |

### 8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| British Peer | United Kingdom | The sailing ship struck a reef off Saldanha Bay, South Africa, and was wrecked with 471 Indian indentured labourers on board. Eighteen crew were killed; there were only four survivors. |

### 11 December

List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Delhi | United States | The barge, under tow of Aries ( United States), grounded on Blackwell's Island. She was pulled off and taken to Newtown Creek where she sank. |
| Marietta | United States | The steamer struck a submerged log in Rancocas Creek and was beached to prevent sinking. |

### 13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Champion | United States | The freighter was destroyed by fire at Preston's Landing, Kentucky on the Big Sandy River. |

### 20 December

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Fredonia | United States | The fishing schooner was heavily damaged by a huge sea breaking over her on 18 December drowning one crewman and fatally injuring another. She was abandoned and the survivors taken off on 20 December by the ocean liner Colorado. |

### 22 December

List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ella | United States | The steamer struck a submerged obstruction in a thick snowstorm in Newcastle, Pennsylvania and sank. |
| Lela | United States | The steamer filled and sank over night lying at Henderson Island in six feet (1.8 m) of water. Later raised. |

### 23 December

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Gen. George G. Meade | United States | The tug was sunk in a collision with the tug Herculus ( United States) in the East River off Grand Street, New York. |

### 26 December

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hustler | United States | The tow steamer was destroyed by fire at Clark's Dock, Jacksonville, Florida. |

### 28 December

List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| New Brunswick | United States | The ferry caught fire at dock in Jersey City, New Jersey. Attempts to put out the fire failed and she was towed out into the North River, sinking off Liberty Island. |

### 31 December

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Warwick | United Kingdom | During a voyage from Glasgow, Scotland, to St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, carrying general cargo, the 316-foot (96 m), 2,527-gross register ton barquentine-rigged steamer was wrecked in a storm at night on Yellow Murr Ledge, a reef that is part of the Murr Ledges, in the Bay of Fundy off Grand Manan, 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) south-southeast of Southwest Head Light at 44°29.0′N 066°51.0′W﻿ / ﻿44.4833°N 66.8500°W﻿ / 44.4833; -66.8500﻿ (Warwick). Her entire crew of 52 abandoned ship in two lifeboats and was rescued by the fishing schooner George S. Bontwell ( United States), which put to sea into the storm from a nearby anchorage to render assistance. |

### Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in December 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Douro | Brazil | The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Ouessant, Finistère, France. |

## Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1896 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Champion | United Kingdom | The tug was wrecked in the River Clyde sometime in 1896. |
| Shelter Island | United States | The paddle wheel passenger steamer struck rocks off Key Largo and sank 19 miles (31 km) off Key West, off Loggerhead Key on either 20 January or 20 February. |
| HMS Vixen | Royal Navy | The wreck of HMS Vixen on 12 July 2010. The accommodations vessel, a former gunboat, was scuttled as a blockship in a narrow channel off Daniel's Head, Bermuda. |