List of shipwrecks in 1906
The list of shipwrecks in 1906 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1906.
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January
12 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Itata | United Kingdom |
The barque was destroyed by fire at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. She later was scuttled in Saltpan Creek, Middle Harbour, Sydney, Australia. |
21 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Aquidabã | Brazilian Navy | The battleship sank while anchored off Jacarepaguá, Brazil, after her ammunition magazines exploded. The explosion and sinking killed 212 people. Of her 98 survivors, 36 were injured. |
22 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Valencia | United States | The passenger steamer ran aground off Pachena Point, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, with the loss of at least 126 of the 164 people on board.[1] |
24 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Regulator | United States | The sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by an explosion and fire while undergoing an overhaul on the ways at St. Johns, Oregon. Two crew members were killed. |
27 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Agnes | Australia | The launch sank after a collision in Sydney Harbour. |
February
19 February
Ship | State | Description |
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L'Avenir | Belgium | The steamer was wrecked 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Flamborough Head, England.[2] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Stainburn | United Kingdom | The Workington collier almost wrecked on the Runnelstone, off Gwennap Head, Cornwall and caught fire. Managed to make her way to Penzance where she was repaired.[3] |
Buller | United Kingdom | St Ives pilot boat, with seven pilots on board, capsized, in St Ives Bay, Cornwall when she was hit by a schooner, throwing all her occupants into the water. No fatalities.[4] |
March
2 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Ocean Queen | United Kingdom | The steamer was wrecked on the south coast of Guernsey during a voyage from London to Jersey carrying cement and general argo.[5][6] |
12 March
Ship | State | Description |
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xxxx | Norway | The ship foundered off Cardigan Island, Cardiganshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[7] --> |
13 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Olympian | United States | The sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked at Possession Bay, Chile, while under tow by the steamer Zealandia (flag unknown). |
18 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Athen | Germany | The cargo ship was wrecked at Portland Bill, United Kingdom. |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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SMS Albatross | Imperial German Navy | The collier foundered in a storm. |
April
17 April
Ship | State | Description |
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HM Torpedo Boat 84 | Royal Navy | The torpedo boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea after colliding with the destroyer HMS Ardent ( Royal Navy.[8][9] |
30 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Courier II | United Kingdom | The steamer struck Les Anons, a rock south of Jethou.[10] There were 29 survivors and 10 deaths. The ship was salvaged on 1 August 1906 and returned to service after repairs.[11] |
May
17 May
Ship | State | Description |
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HM Torpedo Boat 56 | Royal Navy | The torpedo boat foundered in the Mediterranean Sea off Damietta, Egypt, while under tow by the cruiser Arrogant ( Royal Navy).[8][12] |
19 May
Ship | State | Description |
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Comte de Smet de Meyer | Belgium | The training ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay (47°12′N 12°10′W / 47.200°N 12.167°W) on her second voyage with the loss of 33 crew.[13] |
29 May
Ship | State | Description |
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Leros | Germany | The steamer was en route from Newcastle to Lisbon with a cargo of Singer sewing machines when she ran aground in thick fog on Tasse de la Frette Rocks, NW Burhou near Alderney Channel Islands.[14][15] |
30 May
Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Montagu | Royal Navy |
The Template:Sclass- battleship was wrecked on Lundy Island. Salvage was abandoned in 1907 and the ship was scrapped in situ. |
June
10 June
Ship | State | Description |
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Etolia | United Kingdom | The cargo ship was wrecked off Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia Canada. Her crew survived.[16] |
July
11 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Angola | United Kingdom | The Elder Dempster 1,811 GRT steamship was on a voyage from Veracruz, Mexico, to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, when she ran aground and was wrecked 6 nautical miles (11 km) east of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada.[17] |
26 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Maggie Schultz | Belgium | The steamer foundered 80 nautical miles (150 km) off Bilbao, Spain.[2] |
30 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Marjorie J. Sumner | Canada | The schooner capsized at Eatonville, Nova Scotia during unloading. Subsequently salvage, repaired and returned to service.[18] |
31 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Socoa | France |
The three-masted full-rigged sailing ship was stranded off Kildonan Point, Lizard Point, in dense fog. She was re-floated after jettisoning 50,000 barrels of cement and beached in Cadgwith Cove. She was later towed round to Falmouth and repaired.[19] |
August
4 August
Ship | State | Description |
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Sirio | Italy | The passenger steamer was wrecked on the Punta Hormigas, a reef off Hormigas Island east of Cape Palos, Cartagena, Spain, with the loss of at least 150 – and perhaps as many as 400 – lives.[20][21][22] The steamer Marie Louise ( France) and the merchant ships Joven Migeul and Vicente Llicano (both flag unknown) were among ships rescuing survivors. |
7 August
Ship | State | Description |
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Forth | United Kingdom | The steamer ran aground in thick fog and was wrecked on Long Pierre Rock off Herm, Channel Islands, whilst on passage from Middlesbrough to St. Malo.[23][24] |
23 August
Ship | State | Description |
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Primrose | United Kingdom | On a journey from her home port of Garston with a cargo of coal, the steamer hit the Low Lee rocks, Mount's Bay in thick fog one mile from her destination, Newlyn.[25] |
24 August
Ship | State | Description |
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Princess | Canada | The steamboat foundered off George Island in Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
31 August
Ship | State | Description |
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USAT Sheridan | United States Army | The passenger ship ran aground on Barber's Point, Hawaii. Refloated on 2 October 1923, subsequently scrapped.[26] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Cingalese | Norway | The full-rigged ship was dismasted and abandoned in the Indian Ocean. She was on a voyage from Zanzibar to Hamburg, Germany. Cingalese was later towed in to East London, South Africa, where she was scrapped in 1907.[27] |
September
13 September
Ship | State | Description |
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Oregon | United States | The coastal passenger/cargo ship was wrecked on the coast at Cape Hinchinbrook, Alaska, without loss of life. A small party took a lifeboat to Valdez, Alaska, to seek help; the remaining 110 people stranded aboard the wreck were rescued by the cutter USRC Columbine ( United States Revenue Cutter Service). |
18 September
Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Phoenix | Royal Navy | The Template:Sclass- steel screw sloop foundered alongside a coaling pier in Hong Kong during a typhoon. |
25 September
Ship | State | Description |
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Columbian | Canada | The sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by an explosion and fire on the Yukon River at Eagle Rock in the Yukon Territory in Canada, killing six members of the 25-man crew. |
October
4 October
Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Landrail | Royal Navy | The decommissioned Template:Sclass- torpedo gunvessel was sunk as a target.[28] |
25 October
Ship | State | Description |
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Peter Iredale | United Kingdom |
The barque was wrecked at Clatsop Spit, Oregon. |
November
13 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Galena | United Kingdom |
The barquentine was wrecked at the mouth of the Columbia River. |
18 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Dix | United States | The steamboat sank after a collision with the steam-powered schooner Jeannie ( United States). Over 45 lives lost. |
Montobello | France | The barque ran aground in South Australia on the south coast of Kangaroo Island near the mouth of the Stun Sail Boom River, whilst on passage from Hobart to Port Pirie.[29] |
21 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Lurline | United States | The paddle steamer was rammed and sunk at Rainier, Oregon, by the steam schooner Cascade. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[30][31] |
26 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Alsternix | Germany | The barque departed from Callao, Peru for Melbourne, Australia. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Pacific Ocean with the loss of all hands.[32] |
29 November
Ship | State | Description |
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137S | Regia Marina | The torpedo boat was wrecked off Favignana, Sicily.[33] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Little Malta | United Kingdom | The steam trawler sank in the Teifi Estuary.[7] |
December
6 December
Ship | State | Description |
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Monarch | United States | The passenger-package freighter strayed off course and was wrecked when she ran into the palisade area on the north side of Blake Point on Isle Royale in Lake Superior at full speed at night with the loss of one life. All other passengers and crew evacuated safely onto Isle Royale, where they camped for four days until rescued on 10 December 1906. During the night of 11–12 December 1906, the wreck broke into two pieces, leaving only the bow section visible.[34][35][36] |
16 December
Ship | State | Description |
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Prinzessin Victoria Luise | Germany | The passenger ship ran aground off Kingston, Jamaica, and was declared a constructive total loss. |
17 December
Ship | State | Description |
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Cap Juby | Belgium | The steamer sank after colliding with the steamer Arlington ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel 15 nautical miles (28 km) off Dungeness, Kent, United Kingdom.[13] |
21 December
Ship | State | Description |
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Tilley | United Kingdom | The ketch sprang a leak in the Bristol Channel and was abandoned. Her three crew were rescued by Ragusa 2 ( United Kingdom).[37] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Bergen | Norway | The lifeboat was lost during a rescue operation off Stave, Andøya, Norway.[38] |
Ina Mactavish | United Kingdom | The coaster sank. She was refloated, lengthened and repaired, and returned to service. |
Polly | United States | The steam tug sank in the Yukon River. |
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