List of shipwrecks in 1912
Appearance
The list of shipwrecks in 1912 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1912.
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January
[edit]1 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Jessie A. Bishop | ![]() |
The 754-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Nassau Inlet on the coast of Florida. All eight people on board survived.[1] |
4 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Stella | ![]() |
The 18-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer foundered at Mudds Landing, Illinois. All three people on board survived.[2] |
5 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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James Thomas | ![]() |
The 36-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Delaware Bay. All four people on board survived.[1] |
New Boxer | ![]() |
The 60-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Isle au Haut, Maine. The only person on board survived.[1] |
6 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Alabama | ![]() |
The barge, under tow of Margeret (![]() |
Emily B | ![]() |
The 43-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded in Mosquito Inlet on the coast of Florida. All three people on board survived.[4] |
Hattie F. Knowlton | ![]() |
The 36-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Boston, Massachusetts. All four people on board survived.[1] |
7 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Ayintab | ![]() |
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and Artigliere (both ![]() |
Bafra | ![]() |
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and Artigliere (both ![]() |
Gökcedag | ![]() |
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and Artigliere (both ![]() |
Kastamonu | ![]() |
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Kastamonu-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and Artigliere (both ![]() |
Muha | ![]() |
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia. |
Ordu | ![]() |
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and Artigliere (both ![]() |
Refahiye | ![]() |
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and Artigliere (both ![]() |
Sipka | ![]() |
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The armed yacht was sunk by Piemonte and Artigliere (both ![]() |
8 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Annie F. Kimball | ![]() |
The 401-gross register ton schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All seven people on board lost their lives.[5] |
Annie L. Russell | ![]() |
The 49-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Hereford Inlet on the coast of New Jersey. All three people on board lost their lives.[5] |
Empress | ![]() |
The 120-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Cape Elizabeth, Maine. All four people on board survived.[5] |
Jos. L. Stephens | ![]() |
The 85-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Cairo, Illinois. All four people on board survived.[4] |
9 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Alabama | ![]() |
The 881-gross register ton schooner barge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All four people on board lost their lives.[5] |
Creedmoor | ![]() |
The 10-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded at Stonington, Maine. Both people on board survived.[6] |
Pocomoke | ![]() |
The 827-gross register ton schooner barge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All four people on board survived.[6] |
Sterling | ![]() |
The 2,364-gross register ton schooner barge foundered off Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island. All six people on board survived.[6] |
Tourist | ![]() |
The 6-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded on the coast of Mexico at Point San Miguel. The only person on board survived.[6] |
10 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Carolyn | ![]() |
The 2,241-gross register ton steel-hulled screw steamer was stranded on Metinic Island on the coast of Maine. Raised 17 August, repaired and returned to service. All 27 people on board survived.[6][7] |
Jennie Thelin | ![]() |
The 145-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Punta Maria on the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. All eight people on board survived.[1] |
Nellie | ![]() |
With no one on board, the 17-gross register ton motor vessel foundered in Ocracoke Inlet on the coast of North Carolina.[2] |
11 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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W. E. Morrissey | ![]() |
The 123-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the coast of Newfoundland. All eight people on board survived.[6] |
13 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Admiral | ![]() |
The 683-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the Oregon bank of the Columbia River. All 12 people on board survived.[5] |
F. B. Williams | ![]() |
The 86-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on Bayou Teche at Belle River, Louisiana. All 11 people on board survived.[4] |
T. T. Co. No. 11 | ![]() |
The 395-gross register ton barge was abandoned in the Gulf of Mexico. The only person on board survived.[8] |
Whale Bay | ![]() |
The 12-gross register ton motor vessel burned on the Mississippi River at New Orleans, Louisiana. All four people on board survived.[2] |
William R. Wilson | ![]() |
The 1,385-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Pickles Reef off the coast of Florida. All 10 people on board survived.[6] |
16 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Hattie C. Luce | ![]() |
The 335-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean at 32°38′N 069°12′W / 32.633°N 69.200°W. All seven people on board survived.[1] |
18 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Corozal | ![]() |
The 283-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at New Orleans, Louisiana. The only person on board survived.[6] |
Harry Prescott | ![]() |
The 433-gross register ton schooner foundered off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All seven people on board survived.[1] |
19 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Mary E | ![]() |
The 11-gross register ton motor paddle vessel was crushed by ice at Paris Landing, Indiana. Both people on board survived.[4] |
20 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Adonis | ![]() |
The tugboat was sunk by ice at the wharf of the Stone Express Company, in Lynn, Massachusetts.[7] |
North Star No. 1 | ![]() |
The 8-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded in Coos Bay on the coast of Oregon with the loss of all six people on board.[2] |
21 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Bayardo | ![]() |
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S. B. Duncan | ![]() |
The 432-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The only person on board survived.[2] |
23 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Calderon | ![]() |
Collided with Musketeer (![]() |
Ebony | ![]() |
The lighter sank at the wharf of the New England Coal and Coke Company, Everett, Massachusetts. Later raised.[7] |
26 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Black Head | ![]() |
The cargo ship was wrecked on the Tein Reef, off Bornholm, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Belfast, County Antrim.[11] |
27 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Esther | ![]() |
The 15-gross register ton screw steamer was lost in a collision with the screw steamer No. 17 M.F.D. (![]() |
Paul | ![]() |
The 91-gross register ton motor vessel was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Heredia (![]() |
29 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Morris L. Keen | ![]() |
The 21-gross register ton screw steamer foundered in Baltimore Harbor off the coast of Maryland. All four people on board survived.[2] |
31 January
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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J. C. Austin | ![]() |
The canal boat struck a rock and sank at Northport, New York.[12] |
Warner Miller Co | ![]() |
The canal boat was sunk by ice at Northport, New York.[12] |
February
[edit]2 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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HMS A3 | ![]() |
The A-class submarine collided with the submarine tender HMS Hazard (![]() |
Ida McKay | ![]() |
The 187-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean at 40°59′N 130°41′W / 40.983°N 130.683°W. All seven people on board survived.[1] |
3 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Lawrence Redican | ![]() |
The barge sank in the Thames River off Allyns Point, Connecticut.[7] |
Leona | ![]() |
With no one on board, the 145-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at La Center, Washington.[4] |
4 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Consols | ![]() |
The British steamer, laden with cotton from Galveston, Texas, for Hamburg, Germany, caught fire and sank approximately 40 miles (64 km) south of Cape Henry. All crew were rescued.[13] |
Frank M. Low | ![]() |
The 542-gross register ton schooner burned off Cape Romain, South Carolina. All six people on board survived.[5] |
Josie M | ![]() |
The 16-gross register ton schooner was stranded at New Orleans, Louisiana. All three people on board survived.[1] |
12 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Elzada | ![]() |
The 24-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Pensacola, Florida. All three people on board survived.[5] |
Maud | ![]() |
The Fleetwood trawler drifted ashore at Kynance Cove, Cornwall, when her tow broke.[14] |
Number Sixteen | ![]() |
The 929-gross register ton schooner barge was stranded in Nantucket Sound at Great Point on the coast of Massachusetts. All five people on board survived.[5] |
15 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Emerald | ![]() |
The 17-gross register ton schooner foundered off Bay Keys, Florida. All three people on board survived.[5] |
16 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Taurus | ![]() |
The 228-gross register ton steel-hulled screw steamer was stranded in the Mississippi River in South Pass on the coast of Louisiana. All 16 people on board survived.[2] |
17 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Charioteer | ![]() |
The tug foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all five crew.[15] |
18 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Charles K. Mulford | ![]() |
The barge was sunk by ice on the west side of the channel at New Haven, Connecticut.[7] |
Erne | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of ten of her nineteen crew. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to Buenos Aires, Argentina.[16] |
19 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Marion E. Bulley | ![]() |
The barge was sunk by ice near City Point, New Haven, Connecticut.[7] |
21 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Leora M. Thurlow | ![]() |
The schooner went ashore in a gale on Goshen Point, Connecticut.[7] |
22 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Carolina | ![]() |
The 334-gross register ton barge was lost in a collision with the barge Ellen S. Jennings (![]() |
Ellen S. Jennings | ![]() |
The 330-gross register ton barge was lost in a collision with the barge Carolina (![]() |
Julia M. Dempsey | ![]() |
The barge went ashore on Middle Pond Island, Rhode Island.[7] |
23 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Ada V | ![]() |
With no one on board, the 23-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Ripley, Ohio.[6] |
Carrier Dove | ![]() |
The 92-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded in Discovery Passage on the coast of British Columbia, Canada. All 15 people on board survived.[6] |
Lolo | ![]() |
The 13-gross register ton schooner foundered off Maunabo, Puerto Rico. All three people on board survived.[1] |
Nearchus | ![]() |
The 1,271-gross register ton barge burned at Point Judith, Rhode Island. All four people on board survived.[8] |
24 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Ankara | ![]() |
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Beirut: ![]() ![]() |
Avnillâh | ![]() |
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Beirut: The hulked former Avnillah-class casemate ironclad coast defense vessel was damaged by gunfire by armoured cruisers Francesco Ferruccio and Giuseppe Garibaldi (both ![]() |
Unidentified lighters | ![]() |
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Beirut: Six lighters were sunk by a torpedo while tied up to the Mole in Beirut harbour by the armored cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi (![]() |
26 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Mildred V. Nunan | ![]() |
The 79-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Cape Porpoise, Maine. All 10 people on board survived.[1] |
27 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Goldsboro | ![]() |
The 681-gross register ton screw steamer was stranded on the Brandywine Shoals off the coast of Delaware. All 14 people on board survived.[4] |
H. K. Bedford | ![]() |
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28 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Carrie B. Schwing | ![]() |
The 98-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned in Bayou Natchez in Louisiana. All eight people on board survived.[6] |
29 February
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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J. E. Trudeau | ![]() |
The 242-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Belle River, Louisiana, killing 10 of the 45 people on board.[4] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Augsburg | ![]() |
On 2 February the 4,287 GRT cargo steamship left New York for Durban with a crew of 37 or 39 men.[19] She was listed as overdue, and a search by SMS Bremen, and the Hamburg America Line ships Ypiranga and Caledonia failed to find any trace of her.[20][21][22] |
Blanche | ![]() |
With no one on board, the 15-gross register ton barge was crushed by ice on the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia.[8] |
March
[edit]1 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Float No. 1 | ![]() |
The 592-gross register ton barge foundered in Mobjack Bay on the coast of Virginia. Both people on board survived.[8] |
2 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Bob Blanks | ![]() |
The 265-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Raccourei Landing, Louisiana. All 70 people on board survived.[6] |
3 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Rosalia d'Ali | ![]() |
The Barque was sunk in a collision with "Princess Anne" (![]() |
Undine | ![]() |
The 42-gross register ton screw steamer was lost when she struck a log in Currituck Sound off the coast of North Carolina. All 11 people on board survived.[2] |
5 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Bessie | ![]() |
The Truro-registered three-masted schooner was forced to shelter in Newquay Bay, Cornwall in a strong north wind and drifted ashore when her anchor fouled. Two of the crew were saved by breeches buoy, the others clambered up the 100 ft (30 m) cliff on the cliff ladder. She was on a voyage from Ballincurragh, County Cork to Penryn.[25] |
Helen Thomas | ![]() |
The 1,470-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the Cape Charles Shoals off the coast of Virginia. All 11 people on board survived.[1] |
Illawarra | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship was abandoned whilst on a voyage from Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom to Coquimbo, Chile.[26] |
6 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Curlew | ![]() |
The 10-gross register ton motor vessel was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Columbia (![]() |
8 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Louisa R | ![]() |
The 7-gross register ton sloop burned in Palacios Bayou in Texas. Both people on board survived.[1] |
9 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Jennie B | ![]() |
The 48-gross register ton screw steamer burned on the Atchafalaya River at Berwick, Louisiana. All three people on board survived.[4] |
11 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Flora M. Hill | ![]() |
The 623-gross register ton steel-hulled screw steamer was crushed by ice at Chicago, Illinois. All 30 people on board survived.[4] |
12 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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John W. Hall | ![]() |
The 346-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Ocean City, Maryland. All seven people on board survived.[1] |
L. B. Shaw | ![]() |
The steam barge was stranded on rocks on the West Island Bar, Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts.[7] |
Leo | ![]() |
The 37-gross register ton motor vessel burned off Thacher Island off Cape Ann on the coast of Massachusetts. All eight people on board survived.[4] |
Oceana | ![]() |
The passenger liner sank after a collision with Pisagua (![]() |
Wendur | ![]() |
The Glasgow sailing vessel struck the southernmost rock of the Seven Stones Reef while carrying grain from Plymouth, Devon. Three of the twenty-one crew lost their lives. She held the record for the fastest voyage between Newcastle and Valparaiso.[27] |
13 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Jessie Lena | ![]() |
The 347-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Timber Island in Maine. All seven people on board survived.[1] |
15 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Enos Taylor | ![]() |
The 64-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Dekoven, Kentucky. All seven people on board survived.[4] |
Patrician | ![]() |
The 125-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Jordan Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada. Ten of the 20 people on board lost their lives.[6] |
St. Leon | ![]() |
The 83-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Pigeon Hill Bay on the coast of the Maine. All three people on board survived.[6] |
Thaxter | ![]() |
The 843-gross register ton schooner barge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) southeast of Shinnecock, Long Island, New York. All four people on board lost their lives.[6] |
16 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Herbert D. Maxwell | ![]() |
The schooner was sunk in a collision with Gloucester (![]() |
20 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Koombana | ![]() |
The passenger, cargo, and mail steamer disappeared in a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia during a voyage from Port Hedland to Broome with the loss of all 150 people on board. |
21 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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City of Cardiff | ![]() |
Wrecked at Nanjizal on the west coast of Cornwall.[29] All on board were rescued.[30] |
22 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Captain Ed Riley | ![]() |
The canal boat, under tow of the canal boat William E. Cleary (![]() |
Fawn | ![]() |
The 42-gross register ton screw steamer was stranded at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. All five people on board survived.[4] |
23 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Pollux | ![]() |
Sunk in the Skaggerak, near Hanstholm in collision with German battleship Elsass |
24 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Elm City | ![]() |
The 672-gross register ton schooner foundered off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, with the loss of two lives. There were five survivors.[5] |
25 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Gaston | ![]() |
The 1,442-gross register ton schooner barge was stranded on Cobb Island on the coast of Virginia. All four people on board survived.[5] |
S. D. Carleton | ![]() |
The 1,874-gross register ton schooner barge was stranded on Cobb Island on the coast of Virginia. All five people on board survived.[6] |
Wade | ![]() |
The 33-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer foundered in the Mississippi River at New Orleans, Louisiana. All seven people on board survived.[2] |
27 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Florence | ![]() |
The 9-gross register ton sloop foundered in the mouth of the Galveston Jetties on the coast of Texas. The only person on board survived.[5] |
28 March
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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James M. Gifford | ![]() |
The fishing steamer sank at the Oneco Works Wharf in New London, Connecticut. Later raised.[7] |
Josefina | ![]() |
The 9-gross register ton sloop was stranded at Guánica, Puerto Rico. Both people on board survived.[1] |
April
[edit]2 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Loula E. Dedrick | ![]() |
With no one on board, the 12-gross register ton motor paddle vessel burned at Carrollton, Kentucky.[4] |
USS Santee | ![]() |
The school ship sank at her berth at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. She was refloated six months later and was burned as a means of disposal and scrapping in 1913. |
3 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Augusta | ![]() |
The 7-gross register ton sloop foundered in Galveston Bay off the coast of Texas. The only person on board survived.[31] |
Margery | ![]() |
The barge sank at the entrance to the harbor at Lynn, Massachusetts.[7] |
4 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Rose | ![]() |
With no one on board, the 19-gross register ton motor vessel burned at Mandarin, Florida.[2] |
5 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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G. W. Watson | ![]() |
The 452-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the coast of Tahiti. All nine people on board survived.[5] |
Pegg | ![]() |
The 13-gross register ton motor vessel burned at Rock Slough in California, killing one of the four people on board.[2] |
6 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Gunvor | ![]() |
![]() Wrecked on the Pedn-Men-an-Mor rocks, Black Head, The Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew scrambled to safety.[32][33] |
Mildred | ![]() |
The barquentine struck rocks at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall in dense fog and sank with her sails set. No lives lost.[32] |
7 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Gladys | ![]() |
The 26-gross register ton sloop foundered off Charleston, South Carolina. All three people on board survived.[1] |
Rhenania | ![]() |
She was wrecked on Burhou Island, Channel Islands when en route from Rotterdam for Bilbao.[34][35] |
8 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Arkinsaw | ![]() |
The 14-gross register ton motor paddle vessel foundered in the Arkansas River in Arkansas. Both people on board survived.[6] |
Ontario | ![]() |
The steamer caught fire and ran ashore at Montauk Point, New York. 29 women and children passengers were taken off by the tug Tasco (![]() |
12 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Fredericka Schepp | ![]() |
The 268-gross register ton schooner was stranded in the Cape Verde Islands. All nine people on board survived.[5] |
P G #1 | ![]() |
Under tow along with the scows P G #4 and P G #5 (both ![]() |
P G #4 | ![]() |
Under tow along with the scows P G #1 and P G #5 (both ![]() |
P G #5 | ![]() |
Under tow along with the scows P G #1 and P G #4 (both ![]() |
15 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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RMS Titanic | ![]() |
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18 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Kittee | ![]() |
The 6-gross register ton motor vessel burned on the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois. All three people aboard survived.[4] |
20 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Addie and Carrie | ![]() |
The wrecking lighter sank southwest of Shagwong Reef in Long Island Sound.[7] |
Geisha | ![]() |
The 23-gross register ton motor yacht was lost when she struck a dock at Charleston, South Carolina. All seven people on board survived.[4] |
21 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Joseph Russ | ![]() |
The 247-gross register ton, 124-foot (37.8 m) schooner was wrecked with the loss of one life on the northeast coast of Chirikof Island in the Gulf of Alaska. Her 35 survivors reached the island. Six of them sailed to Chignik Bay on the Alaska Peninsula in two dories with news of the wreck, and the steamer Dora (![]() |
25 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Telegraph | ![]() |
The 386-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Alameda (![]() |
27 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Vida | ![]() |
With no one on board, the 42-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded on the Tillamook Bar off the coast of Oregon.[2] |
28 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Winnie Lawry | ![]() |
The 246-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Rockport, Massachusetts. All five people on board survived.[6] |
29 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Texas | ![]() |
Italo-Turkish War: The passenger/cargo ship was sunk by a mine in the entrance to the Gulf of Smyrna. 65 passengers and crew were killed and 70 rescued.[39][40] |
30 April
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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James Duffield | ![]() |
The 187-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Cape Henlopen, Delaware. All six people on board survived.[1] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Laclabell | ![]() |
With no one on board, the 12-gross register ton motor vessel foundered at Ketchikan, District of Alaska.[4] |
May
[edit]5 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Katie Mc | ![]() |
With no one on board, the 41-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Proctorville, Ohio.[4] |
Lottie | ![]() |
The 19-gross register ton schooner burned in Choctawhatchee Bay on the coast of Florida. All four people on board survived.[1] |
8 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Estelle | ![]() |
The 182-gross register ton barge was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Antaeus (![]() |
10 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Hayden Brown | ![]() |
The barge, under tow by Pioneer (![]() |
12 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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HMS A3 | ![]() |
The refloated wreck of the A-class submarine was sunk as a gunnery target in the English Channel near Portland Bill. |
Walter P. Goulart | ![]() |
The 84-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, with the loss of one life. There were 13 survivors.[6] |
13 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Jennette | ![]() |
The 11-gross register ton motor vessel burned in Puget Sound off Sandy Point, Washington. All three people on board survived.[4] |
14 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Henry May | ![]() |
The 188-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Apple River, Nova Scotia. All five people on board survived.[1] |
15 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Annie M. Nixon | ![]() |
The motor schooner was wrecked in Dixon Entrance in Southeast Alaska. She became a total loss.[42] |
20 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Armeria | ![]() |
The lighthouse tender was wrecked on an uncharted rock while tending the Cape Hinchinbrook Light. She was declared a total loss and the wreck was sold.[43] |
Frances | ![]() |
The 93-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Cairo, Illinois. All five people on board survived.[4] |
21 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Lord Lansdowne | ![]() |
The cargo ship was wrecked on Cobbler's Reef, Barbados. She was on a voyage from Norfolk, Virginia, United States to Barbados.[44] |
24 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Lucile | ![]() |
The 65-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer foundered in the Yazoo River in Mississippi. All 27 people on board survived.[4] |
29 May
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Fannie | ![]() |
The 14-gross register ton screw steamer burned on Buffalo Bayou in Texas. All four people on board survived.[4] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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USLHT Armeria | ![]() |
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Haydn Brown | ![]() |
Under tow by the tug Pioneer (![]() ![]() |
USS Pensacola | ![]() |
The decommissioned screw steamer was burned and sunk in San Francisco Bay off Hunter's Point, San Francisco, California, by the United States Navy in early May as a means of disposal. |
Semendar | ![]() |
Italo-Turkish War: The minelaying naval tugboat was sunk by mines in the Dardanelles in the middle of the month.[50] |
June
[edit]2 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Friendship | ![]() |
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4 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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George Curtis | ![]() |
The fishing steamer stranded on Long Island, New York, near the Ditch Plain Life-Saving Station.[7] |
8 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Gertrude Summers | ![]() |
The 64-gross register ton schooner foundered in the Gulf of Mexico. All 15 people on board survived.[5] |
Vendémiaire | ![]() |
The Pluviôse-class submarine was rammed near Cherbourg by the battleship Saint Louis (![]() |
9 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Judge Pennewill | ![]() |
The 439-gross register ton schooner foundered off Charleston, South Carolina. All seven people on board survived.[1] |
12 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Nelson C. Smith | ![]() |
The 35-gross register ton motor vessel burned at Port Monmouth, New Jersey. All nine people on board survived.[2] |
13 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Laclabell | ![]() |
The 12-gross register ton, 41.3-foot (12.6 m) motor passenger vessel sank 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) west of Guard Island in Southeast Alaska.[51] |
14 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Precurser | ![]() |
The 57-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Port Jefferson, New York. All four people on board survived.[2] |
17 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Imperial | ![]() |
The 494-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at New Orleans, Louisiana. The only person on board survived.[4] |
20 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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La Canadienne | ![]() |
The hydrographic survey ship was sunk in Lock No. 22 in the Welland Canal when a handling line parted and she crashed into the upper gate. Two men on shore were drowned when the gate gave way causing a large wave that swept them away. The vessel was raised on 25 June and taken to Port Dalhousie, Ontario, for repairs. Returned to service by 28 July.[52] |
21 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Anna Kenney | ![]() |
The 103-gross register ton canal boat foundered in the Hudson River 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Poughkeepsie, New York. The only person on board survived.[8] |
24 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Long Island City | ![]() |
The barge sank at the wharf of the Sealshipt Oyster Company, East Providence, Rhode Island. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[7] |
Stone Harbor | ![]() |
The 10-gross register ton motor vessel burned at Stone Harbor, New Jersey. All 14 people on board survived.[2] |
25 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Dredge #4 | ![]() |
The dredge was sunk in a collision with an unknown steamer in the St. Croix River three miles (4.8 km) below Calais, Maine. Later raised.[7] |
Unknown scow | ![]() |
The scow caught fire at dock in the East River near One hundred and seventh Street, New York City. Her mooring lines burned through and she drifted out into the river fully involved. Two men on board were forced overboard by the fire and were rescued from the water by two New York City Police Department officers who later received the United States Life Saving Service's Life saving Medal.[53] |
26 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Naniwa | ![]() |
The Naniwa-class protected cruiser was wrecked on the coast of Uruppu (46°30′N 150°10′E / 46.500°N 150.167°E) in the Kurile Islands.[54] |
27 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Sydney C. McLouth | ![]() |
The 2,220-gross register ton screw steamer burned on Green Bay 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) northeast of Pensaukee, Wisconsin. All 15 people on board survived.[2] |
28 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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W. R. Todd | ![]() |
The 172-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost when she struck a bridge on the Columbia River at Pasco, Washington. All 13 people on board survived.[2] |
29 June
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Ranger | ![]() |
The 24-gross register ton schooner foundered in Vineyard Sound off Gay Head, Massachusetts. All 10 people on board survived.[6] |
July
[edit]11 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Frances Elizabeth | ![]() |
An explosion destroyed the 30-gross register ton schooner at Southport, North Carolina. The only person on board died.[31] |
13 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Geneva | ![]() |
The 874-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Itaparica Island on the coast of Brazil. All nine people on board survived.[31] |
Town Harbor | ![]() |
The motor boat sank at the wharf of the Sealshipt Oyster Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[55] |
17 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Compeer | ![]() |
The 347-gross register ton, 140.5-foot (42.8 m) three-masted schooner was wrecked at Cape Chichagof (58°20′N 157°32′W / 58.333°N 157.533°W) near Egegik on the Bristol Bay coast of the District of Alaska. All 30 people aboard survived.[31][56] |
18 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Pioneer | ![]() |
The motor launch sank at Port Wells (60°48′N 148°14′W / 60.800°N 148.233°W) in the District of Alaska.[37] |
21 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Clara E. Comee | ![]() |
With no one on board, the 138-gross register ton schooner foundered in the Providence River in Rhode Island, or in the harbor at Providence, Rhode Island. As the owners abandoned the vessel, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office had to provide for her removal. The salvage company, the Scott Company, retained the schooner for its own use after raising her.[31][57] |
24 July
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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C. W. Seward | ![]() |
The 18-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer City of Norfolk (![]() |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Transporter | ![]() |
The North Shields ship in ballast from St Nazaire to the Tyne for coal went ashore in thick fog, to the south of Mousehole, Cornwall. The salvage steamer Lady of the Isles hauled her clear and she resumed her journey undamaged.[58] |
August
[edit]7 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Machado 2° | ![]() |
The 204-gross register ton trawler was stranded 15 miles (24 km) north of Mogador, Morocco while fishing.[59] |
8 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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G W Wolff | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship was wrecked on Prime Seal Island, Tasmania with the loss of her captain.[60] |
HMS Holland 5 | ![]() |
The decommissioned Holland-class submarine sank in the English Channel off Beachy Head while under tow to the breaker's yard. |
12 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Norumbega | ![]() |
The steamer stranded on Clarks Point, Southwest Harbor, Maine.[55] |
17 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Leafield | ![]() |
The cargo ship ran aground on a rocky islet in Georgian Bay near Beausoleil Island, Ontario, Canada. She was refloated and repaired, and she returned to service about two months later.[61] |
Newport | ![]() |
The steamer was buried in a landslide in the Panama Canal. It took two months to dig her out, then she was repaired and returned to service.[62] |
19 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Addie Fuller | ![]() |
The 217-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Cutler Head on the coast of Maine. All five people on board survived.[31] |
21 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Alianza | ![]() |
The 6-gross register ton schooner foundered off Jacaboa, Puerto Rico, with the loss of one life. There were three survivors.[31] |
23 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Falcon | ![]() |
The fishing steamer sank near Shovelful Shoal Lightship off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, after colliding with the fishing steamer Amagansett (![]() |
26 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Marnix | ![]() |
Struck uncharted rocks at Umba, Russia (66°21′N 35°36′E / 66.350°N 35.600°E) and wrecked.[64] |
29 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Florida | ![]() |
The Barge was sunk in a collision in Hampton Roads off Fort Wool. Wreck removal finished 18 July 1913.[65][66] |
31 August
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Kursk | ![]() |
Ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, Netherlands. Thirty-two people killed.[67] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Seneca | ![]() |
The barge went ashore on Shelter Island, New York, sometime in August.[68] |
September
[edit]1 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Waterwitch | ![]() |
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3 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Holland 4 | ![]() |
The decommissioned Holland-class submarine foundered while under tow. She was salvaged for use as a gunnery target. |
5 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Anna I. Gale | ![]() |
The 38-gross register ton schooner was stranded in the Chesapeake Bay at Sandy Point on the coast of Maryland. All three people on board survived.[31] |
Esperance | ![]() |
The schooner capsized in the Bristol Channel. Her five crew and the ship's dog were rescued by the trawler Picton Castle (![]() |
10 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Endeavor | ![]() |
The 565-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Agna Reef in the Fiji Islands with the loss of one life. There were eight survivors.[31] |
13 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Scow #2 | ![]() |
The scow sank at Belle Dock, New Haven, Connecticut.[68] |
14 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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SMS G171 | ![]() |
The G169-class torpedo boat was sunk in a collision with SMS Zähringen (![]() |
K-8 | ![]() |
The scow sank in Canal Channel near Onset, Massachusetts.[68] |
21 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Calabria | ![]() |
The schooner went ashore on Fishers Island, New York.[57] |
26 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Volturno | ![]() |
The cargo ship was sunk in a collision in Hull Roads. Raised and scrapped at Briton Ferry on 25 October.[69] |
28 September
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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F. A. Smith | ![]() |
The schooner sank in Broad Sound near Deer Island, Massachusetts.[68] |
Kiche Maru | ![]() |
The steam passenger ship sank off the coast of Japan during a typhoon with over 1,000 dead. |
October
[edit]4 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Addie M. Story | ![]() |
The 61-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Rocky Harbour on the coast of Newfoundland. All six people on board survived.[31] |
HMS B2 | ![]() |
The B-class submarine collided with the passenger liner Amerika (![]() |
5 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Henry Weiler | ![]() |
The 400-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean at 33°50′N 075°35′W / 33.833°N 75.583°W. All seven people on board survived.[31] |
7 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Charles A. Campbell | ![]() |
The schooner ran ashore on Cape Cod near Nauset, Massachusetts.[68] |
12 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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John B. Dallas | ![]() |
The canal boat was run ashore near Quonochontaug, Rhode Island, to prevent her sinking. Her cargo of coal and her boiler were salvaged.[68] |
13 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Advent | ![]() |
The 548-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer St. Helens (![]() |
16 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Andrew Johnson | ![]() |
The 13-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the schooner Bessie Reed (![]() |
Nicaragua | ![]() |
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Ralph Creyke | ![]() |
The Ouse Steamship Company passenger-cargo ship sank near Flushing after a collision with the steamer Viking (![]() |
19 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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J. J. Loggie | ![]() |
The 220-gross register ton Lumber schooner was wrecked on rocks one mile (1.6 km) south of Point Argello, California. 18 crew rescued; one seaman swept overboard managed to reach shore alive but badly cut and bruised. The J.J. Loggie was wrecked on the same place that the steamer Santa Rosa had been wrecked a year before.[71] |
20 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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No. 9 and No. 10 | ![]() |
Italo-Turkish War: The No. 1-class motor gunboats were lost on this date. |
23 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Oakland | ![]() |
Shortly after departing Dry Bay (59°08′N 138°25′W / 59.133°N 138.417°W) in Southeast Alaska bound for Seattle, Washington, with a cargo of 25 tons of canned salmon and supplies and a deck load of empty oil drums, the 146-gross register ton, 103-foot (31.4 m) steamer was wrecked at the entrance of Dry Bay in a gale and snowstorm. Her entire crew of 11 survived.[72] |
24 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Crown | ![]() |
The 9-gross register ton sloop was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean east of the North Carolina–Virginia border at 36°35′N 075°11′W / 36.583°N 75.183°W. Both people on board survived.[31] |
29 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Corsair | ![]() |
Carrying a crew of two and a 14-ton cargo of general wares, the 15.74-ton, 53.8-foot (16.4 m) steamer ran aground during a gale at Point Martin (60°10′N 144°36′W / 60.167°N 144.600°W) near Katalla, Territory of Alaska, and was destroyed by a subsequent fire. Her captain survived; her engineer perished.[56] |
Nashua | ![]() |
The barge sank near the Wilkes-Barre Pier, Providence, Rhode Island. Raised and broken up.[73] |
31 October
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Feth-i Bülend | ![]() |
First Balkan War: The accommodation hulk, a former Feth-i Bülend-class ironclad coast defense vessel, was torpedoed and sunk in Thessaloniki harbour by NF-11 (![]() |
Teleorman | ![]() |
The longboat Teleorman sank in the Danube River. 44 soldiers died. |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Admiral Lazarev | ![]() |
The Admiral Lazarev-class monitor foundered in the Baltic Sea whilst under tow to Germany for scrapping.[74] |
Unnamed | ![]() |
The scow sank in Massachusetts Bay sometime in October.[73] |
November
[edit]1 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Arion | ![]() |
The yacht burned and sank near Manchester, Massachusetts. Items were salvaged from the wreck.[73] |
Arrow | ![]() |
The 30-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Cordory, Newfoundland. All four people on board survived.[31] |
Sesnon #13 | ![]() |
The 24-ton barge sank with no loss of life at Nome, Territory of Alaska.[75] |
6 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Hattie Wells | ![]() |
The 376-gross register ton schooner foundered in Lake Michigan. All six people on board survived.[31] |
Royal George | ![]() |
The ocean liner ran aground nine miles (14 km) below Quebec City, Quebec. Refloated on 23 November, repaired and returned to service.[76][77] |
7 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Monarch | ![]() |
The Tug was wrecked on a shoal at the entrance to the Harbor of Charlotte Harbor, Florida, eventually breaking up. A 100 foot section of her starboard hull drifted to where it was a hazard to navigation. The section was blown loose, dragged ashore and burned 24–31 July 1913.[78] |
8 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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De Mory Gray | ![]() |
The 401-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Northport Bay on the coast of Long Island, New York. All seven people on board survived.[31] |
Hustler | ![]() |
The 13-gross register ton schooner burned on Lake Michigan. Both people on board survived.[31] |
10 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Seddulbahir | ![]() |
First Balkan War: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by a Greek torpedo boat at Avila, north of Smyrna. |
12 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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E. K. Wood | ![]() |
The 519-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Barrier Island, British Columbia, Canada. All nine people on board survived.[31] |
Oravia | ![]() |
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13 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Estelle | ![]() |
The schooner ran ashore on Fishers Island, New York, after mistaking the beacon lights of the stranded schooner Maggie Ellen (![]() |
Maggie Ellen | ![]() |
The schooner ran ashore on Fishers Island, New York.[73] |
15 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Harriet | ![]() |
The tug struck a rock off Napatree Point, Rhode Island. Refloated and returned to service.[73] |
21 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Balloon | ![]() |
The barge sank near Duck Island, Connecticut.[73] |
23 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Gypsum Emperor | ![]() |
The schooner went ashore on Bonnet Point near Saunderstown, Rhode Island. Refloated and returned to service.[73] |
Rouse Simmons | ![]() |
24 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Pioneer | ![]() |
The barge stranded near Point Judith, Rhode Island. The vessel broke up before salvage could take place.[73] |
Typhoon | ![]() |
The barge stranded near Point Judith, Rhode Island. Refloated and returned to service.[73] |
25 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Hortensia | ![]() |
The schooner went ashore on Savin Rock near New Haven, Connecticut.[73] |
28 November
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Friendship | ![]() |
The cargo ship ran aground and sank at the entrance to the Tweed River at Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia. There were no injuries or fatalities among her crew.[82] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Chief No. 2 | ![]() |
The barge sank off the end of Arrietta Street, Staten Island. Raised in June 1914.[83] |
December
[edit]3 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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West Point | ![]() |
The barge sank near the dock of Pardie and Young, Fall River, Massachusetts. The vessel's cargo was salvaged.[73] |
6 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Bessie C. Beach | ![]() |
The 341-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Nepeague Beach on Long Island, New York. All six people on board survived.[31] |
7 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Lena | ![]() |
The launch was lost off Grassy Island (60°55′20″N 147°37′00″W / 60.92222°N 147.61667°W) between Galena Bay (60°56′30″N 146°41′55″W / 60.9417°N 146.6986°W) and Jack Bay (61°02′34″N 146°38′47″W / 61.0427°N 146.6465°W) on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska with the loss of two crewmen. Her captain survived.[51] |
Uncle Sam | ![]() |
The 24-gross register ton, 25-foot (7.6 m) steamer was wrecked in the harbor at Seward, Territory of Alaska. No one was aboard her at the time.[84] |
8 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Antonios | ![]() |
The steamer was lost on rocks known as Old Bess, within the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. Her crew was lost and the wreck went unnoticed for three days when thousands of oranges were washed up on St Agnes along with wreckage.[27] |
15 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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S. O. Co. No. 87 | ![]() |
The tanker barge's towline parted from her tow ship, Perfection (flag unknown), in a severe gale in the Gulf of Mexico between Tampico, Tamaulipas, and Sabine, Texas, on 12 December. By the time Perfection could reach her she had capsized and her crew of nine lost. She sank on 15 December.[85][86] |
20 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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L. Herbert Taft | ![]() |
The Schooner was wrecked on Romer shoal, lower New York Bay. Masts fell in Winter of 1913/1914. Probably wreck removed in 1914.[87][88] |
21 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Conquest | ![]() |
The fishing smack went ashore near Orient, New York.[73] |
23 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Golden Fleece | ![]() |
The 47-gross register ton schooner burned at Warm Springs Landing in California. Both people on board survived.[31] |
24 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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786 | ![]() |
The barge, under tow of Lehigh (![]() |
791 | ![]() |
The barge, under tow of Lehigh (![]() |
Lehigh | ![]() |
The tug went ashore on Bartletts Reef, New London, Connecticut.[73] |
26 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Tripolitania | ![]() |
The vessel was wrecked on Loe Bar, near Porthleven, Cornwall in 100 mph (161 km/h) winds. Nearly all the crew were saved but the ship was a total loss.[89] |
30 December
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Vigilant | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore at Breaksea Point, Glamorgan. Her seven crew were rescued.[15] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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Margaret Ann | ![]() |
The schooner was blown ashore on a mud flat near the mouth of the Yellow Mill Channel at Bridgeport, Connecticut, sometime in December and abandoned by the owners. In July/August 1913 she was raised, moved out of the way of traffic and resunk.[90] |
Unknown date
[edit]Ship | State | Description |
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City of Adelaide | ![]() |
The coal storage hulk was burned out by a several-day-long fire at Townsville, Australia. |
Emily F. Whitman | ![]() |
The schooner was lost at Nushagak in either the District or Territory of Alaska.[91] |
USS Ericsson | ![]() |
The decommissioned torpedo boat was sunk as a target in ordnance tests.[92] |
Fox | ![]() |
The steamer was wrecked on the coast of Greenland. |
Pelayo | ![]() |
The battleship was badly damaged in Fonduko Bay due to a navigational error. |
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- ^ "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1912". Penn State University. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
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