The list of shipwrecks in 1896 includes all ship

Ship

Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...

s sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1896.

2 March

• Rosstrevor
  TSS Rosstrevor (1895)
  TSS Rosstrevor was a steam turbine passenger and cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1895 to 1923, and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from 1923 to 1926.-History:...
  
  ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) grounded at Carlingford Lough
  Carlingford Lough
  Carlingford Lough is a glacial fjord or sea inlet that forms part of the border between Northern Ireland to the north and the Republic of Ireland to the south. On its northern shore is County Down and on its southern shore is County Louth...
  
  . Refloated on 7 March, repaired and returned to service.

10 April

• ( Belgium) caught fire at Antwerp and gutted. Later repaired and returned to service.

5 June

Steamship ( Belgium) and sailing ship ( Sweden) collided in the Bay of Biscay

Bay of Biscay

The Bay of Biscay is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea. It lies along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border, and the northern coast of Spain west to Cape Ortegal, and is named in English after the province of Biscay, in the Spanish...

 (45°50′N 9°30′E. Both ships sank.

27 August

HHS Glasgow

HHS Glasgow

His Highness' Ship Glasgow was a royal yacht belonging to the Sultan of Zanzibar. She was built in the style of the British frigate HMS Glasgow which had visited the Sultan in 1873. The Glasgow cost the Sultan £32,735 and contained several luxury features but failed to impress the Sultan and she...

( Zanzibar

Zanzibar

Zanzibar ,Persian: زنگبار, from suffix bār: "coast" and Zangi: "bruin" ; is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, in East Africa. It comprises the Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of numerous small islands and two large ones: Unguja , and Pemba...

) sunk by Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 during Anglo-Zanzibar War

Anglo-Zanzibar War

The Anglo-Zanzibar War was fought between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar on 27 August 1896. The conflict lasted 38 minutes and is the shortest war in history. The immediate cause of the war was the death of the pro-British Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini on 25 August 1896 and the subsequent succession...

. All crew rescued.

26 September

• Alexander Yeats ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) ran aground at Gurnard's Head
  Gurnard's Head
  Gurnard's Head is a prominent headland on the north coast of the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is near the hamlet of Treen in the parish of Zennor....
  
  . Crew of 19 rescued.

27 September

• The Adgar and Baron Holberg wrecked off Folkestone
  Folkestone
  Folkestone is the principal town in the Shepway District of Kent, England. Its original site was in a valley in the sea cliffs and it developed through fishing and its closeness to the Continent as a landing place and trading port. The coming of the railways, the building of a ferry port, and its...
  
  . All crew from both vessels saved by the Hythe
  Hythe, Kent
  Hythe , is a small coastal market town on the edge of Romney Marsh, in the District of Shepway on the south coast of Kent. The word Hythe or Hithe is an Old English word meaning Haven or Landing Place....
  
   lifeboat.

5 December

The Nathan F Cobb grounded on the outer sand bar off the coast of Ormond Beach, FL. The schooner

Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

 capsized after leaving port from Brunswick, Georgia

Brunswick, Georgia

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 and drifted to Ormond Beach in Northeast Florida. Two crewman and a civilian rescuer were killed during the incident.

8 December

• British Peer
  British Peer (ship)
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   ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) struck a reef off Saldanha Bay
  Saldanha Bay
  Saldanha Bay is a natural harbour on the south-western coast of South Africa, north west of Cape Town. The town that developed on the northern shore of the bay, also called Saldanha, was incorporated with five other towns into the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality in 2000. The current population of...
  
  , South Africa. Eighteen crew killed.