The fishing lugger – registered in Peel, Isle of Man, owned by John Tear and others, and crewed by Scotsmen, the majority of them from Skye and unable to speak English – left Peel on the evening of 12 March heading to Kinsale, Ireland, to fish there, but sometime during the night collided with the steamer Caledonian (United Kingdom – apparently bound for Silloth in Cumbria, England – some miles west of the Calf of Man. The force of the collision was so great that Kate sank in a few minutes, carrying down with her four of her crew. The remainder were picked up by Caledonian and landed at Silloth.[8]
The 85-ton steamer hit the Low Lee rocks off Mousehole, Cornwall, England. With pumps working on full, she sank just a few metres short of Penzance harbour, her captain′s home town. Within six days bad weather had destroyed the wreck.[4]
The 193-ton brigantine – owned by Charles Odell – collided with the 2,983-ton P&O linerCathay (United Kingdom) at 2:50 a.m. in the English Channel off Beachy Head, East Sussex, England. She sank within four minutes with the loss of her captain William Thomas Odell (Charles Odell′s brother), William Penn Odell (son of William Thomas Odell), crew members Henry Woodford and Ernest Adams, and a passenger, John Kearley; all the dead were from Newport, Isle of Wight. Three men were rescued; Fred Churchill of Sandown swam to Cathay and was picked up, James Wallace of Cowes and Henry Jennings of Landport were rescued by boats from Cathay.[9]
The yawlZephyr launched to the aid of a stranded schooner on the Lower Barber Sand by the crew of the Caister Lifeboat resulting in the loss of eight out of the fifteen crew.
The cargo ship was stranded on Seal Rock in the Isles of Scilly near the Maiden Bower while travelling at normal cruising speed in heavy fog. Her crew abandoned ship safely, and she broke up in heavy seas during the night of 4–5 January 1886.[12]
A local cutter capsized off Yellow Ledges in the Isles of Scilly with the loss of one life while on her way to the assist the stranded steamer Sussex (United Kingdom) at Seal Rock.
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^Isle of Man Examiner, Saturday March 21, 1885, page 5
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