List of shipwrecks in 1902
The list of shipwrecks in 1902 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1902.
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References |
January
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Glenbervie | United Kingdom | The barque was wrecked at Lowland Point near Coverack, Cornwall, laden with 600 barrels of whisky, 400 barrels of brandy and barrels of rum.[1] The 16 crewmen were saved by lifeboat.[2] |
12 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Perseverance | Belgium | The steamer collided with Andreas in the River Usk, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom and was severely damaged. Later repaired and returned to service.[3] |
February
25 February
Ship | State | Description |
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Liverpool | United Kingdom | The iron-hulled four-masted sailing ship was en route from Antwerp to San Francisco with general cargo when she sailed slowly onto the rocks at Hommeaux Florains, on the northeastern tip of Alderney in the Channel Islands in fog. There was no loss of life.[4][5] |
March
5 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Waesland | United States | The steamer collided with the steamer Harmonides ( United Kingdom) off Anglesey, United Kingdom and sank with the loss of two passengers.[6][7] |
7 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Welcome | United States | The sternwheel passenger paddle steamer ran aground on the north flats of the Coquille River in Oregon during a squall. She was refloated undamaged that night and returned to service. |
25 March
Ship | State | Description |
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John Ewin | United Kingdom | The schooner got into difficulties in the Teifi Estuary. Her crew were taken off by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was subsequently wrecked.[8] |
April
13 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Legia | Belgium | The steamer collided with the steamer Julia (flag unknown) off the Newarp Lightvessel ( United Kingdom) and sank.[3] |
May
6 May
Ship | State | Description |
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Camorta | United Kingdom | The passenger ship sank in the Irrawaddy Delta with the loss of all 737 passengers and crew. |
24 May
Ship | State | Description |
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Stanleyville | Belgium | The steamer was wrecked off Takoradi, Gold Coast.[6] |
27 May
Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Recruit | Royal Navy | The Template:Sclass- struck rocks half a mile north of Cape Cornwall. Refloated and towed to Penzance by tugs.[9] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Ryvingen | Norway | The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay. Her crew were rescued by lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire, United Kingdom to Cape Town.[10] |
June
7 June
Ship | State | Description |
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Thomas Wilson | United States | The whaleback cargo ship sank in the harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, after a collision with the steamer George Hadley ( United States). Nine crew were killed. |
12 June
Ship | State | Description |
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Advance | Australia | The schooner was wrecked at Henry's Point, Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia. |
22 June
Ship | State | Description |
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Kai Che | Imperial Chinese Navy | The unprotected cruiser was sunk by an accidental internal explosion at Nanking, China, and became a total loss.[11] |
28 June
Ship | State | Description |
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Gustav Adolph | Norway | The barque ran onto rocks near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, just west of the Palmiet River and was wrecked. |
August
4 August
Ship | State | Description |
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Wordsworth | Belgium | The ship was wrecked off Assu Torre, Bahia, Brazil.[12][6] |
September
6 September
Ship | State | Description |
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Crête-à-Pierrot | Haitian Navy |
The gunboat was scuttled at Gonaïves to prevent her capture by SMS Panther ( Imperial German Navy). All five crew on board were killed. |
October
10 October
Ship | State | Description |
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Yoshina Maru | Japan | The steamer caught fire in the Van Diemen Strait and was abandoned. She then drifted ashore at Kagoshima, Japan.[13] |
November
5 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Elingamite | Australia | The passenger ship sank near the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand, with the loss of 45 passengers and crew. |
18 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Greenock | UK | The steamer collided with the steamer Ape (flag unknown) near Gourock Bay and Cloch Point in the River Clyde. One man missing.[14] |
December
17 December
Ship | State | Description |
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Frank A. Palmer | United States | The four-masted schooner collided with the schooner Louise B. Crary ( United States) in the Atlantic Ocean off Gloucester, Massachusetts, during a gale and sank with the loss of 11 of the 21 crew members aboard the two ships. |
Louise B. Crary | United States | The five-masted schooner collided with the schooner Frank A. Palmer ( United States) in the Atlantic Ocean off Gloucester, Massachusetts, during a gale and sank with the loss of 11 of the 21 crew members aboard the two ships. |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Broughton | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship was wrecked whilst on a voyage from Hamburg, Germany to the Clyde.[15] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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George Rennie | Australia | The paddle steamer was scuttled to form a breakwater at Picnic Bay, Queensland, Australia. |
SMS S42 | Imperial German Navy | The torpedo boat sank after a collision. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[16] |
References
- ^ Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
- ^ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 10.
- ^ a b "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "sv Liverpool".
- ^ John Elsbury. "SHIPWRECKS NEAR ALDERNEY".
- ^ a b c "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "The Sinking of the Waesland". Norway Heritage. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
- ^ "Cardigan & District shipwrecks and lifeboat service". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ^ Leach, Nicholas (2003). Sennen Cove Lifeboats. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-3111-0.
- ^ "Tenasserim". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ^ Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 396.]
- ^ "SS Wordsworth". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 23 Feb 2016.
- ^ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Clyde Shipwrecks page 31 by Peter Moir
- ^ "Broughton". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ^ Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 263.].