The Jamestown was a large sailing ship which was abandoned and ran aground near the Icelandic village of Hafnir on 26 June 1881.

After being battered by the seas for several weeks, the captain and crew were rescued by the Anchor Line steamer Ethiopia and left the Jamestown to drift at 43°06′N 22°00′W / 43.10°N 22°W / 43.10; -22.

[1] The crew arrived safely in Glasgow on 16 February 1881, but their ship didn't reach its final resting place for another four months.

On the morning of 26 June, residents of Hafnir woke to find that the enormous vessel had run aground the night before.

The cargo of timber was particularly valuable in Iceland, which suffered almost complete deforestation in the several hundred years following the initial Viking settlement in 874.