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List of shipwrecks in 1908 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1908.

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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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References


January

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1908
Ship State Description
Lizzie R Wilce  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on Porthminster Beach, St. Ives, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued.[1]

8 January

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1908
Ship State Description
Mary Barrow  United Kingdom The schooner was beached on Porthminster beach, St. Ives, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued.[1] Refloated a week later.[2]

19 January

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1908
Ship State Description
Epirus  Greece The cargo ship collided with the ocean liner Finland ( Belgium) off Terneuzen, The Netherlands (51°24′N 3°45′E / 51.400°N 3.750°E / 51.400; 3.750), and sank.

February

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1908
Ship State Description
Favorite  United States
Favorite being raised.
The steamboat sank at her moorings at Coquille, Oregon. She was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

14 February

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1908
Ship State Description
Emily Reed  United States Navy The down Easter was wrecked on the northwest coast of Oregon at the mouth of the Nehalem River with the loss of eight lives.

18 February

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1908
Ship State Description
HMS Hero  Royal Navy The decommissioned Conqueror-class ironclad battleship was sunk as a target in the North Sea off the Kentish Knock.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date February 1908
Ship State Description
Magnus Mail  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground outside Garston Docks, Liverpool, England. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

March

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1908
Ship State Description
Newark Castle  United Kingdom The Union-Castle Line passenger/cargo ship ran aground in calm weather 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) from Richard's Bay, South Africa[3]

29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1908
Ship State Description
Bega  Australia Illawarra & South Coast Steam Navigation Co's 567 GRT steamship sank off Tathra, New South Wales.[4]

April

2 April

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1908
Ship State Description
HMS Tiger  Royal Navy The three-funnel 30-knot destroyer was sliced in two when she crossed the bows of the armoured cruiser HMS Berwick ( Royal Navy) during night exercises and Berwick collided with her. Both sections of her hull sank, although her bow section remained afloat long enough for 22 members of her crew to be rescued. Thirty-six members of her crew were lost.

9 April

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1908
Ship State Description
Eva  United States The paddle steamer struck a snag, was beached, and sank without loss of life on the Umpqua River near Scottsburg, Oregon.

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1908
Ship State Description
Ben Macdui  Belgium Foundered off Egerö, Norway.[5]

25 April

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1908
Ship State Description
HMS Gladiator  Royal Navy The protected cruiser collided with the ocean liner Saint Paul ( USA) and sank in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight with the loss of 128 of her crew.

27 April

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1908
Ship State Description
HMS Gala  Royal Navy The Yarrow-Type Template:Sclass2- destroyer was sliced in two when the scout cruiser HMS Attentive ( Royal Navy) collided with her during night exercises. Gala′s stern section sank immediately with the loss of one life; her bow section sank later during an attempt to tow it to shallow water. Attentive then also collided with the destroyer HMS Ribble ( Royal Navy), holing Ribble below the waterline and forcing her to return to base.

30 April

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1908
Ship State Description
Matsushima  Imperial Japanese Navy The Matsushima-class protected cruiser was lost due to an accidental explosion at Mako, Pescadores. A total of 206 crew killed.

May

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1908
Ship State Description
FV Auguste & Jean  Belgium Rammed and sunk by Iris ( Belgium) 8 nautical miles (15 km) south west of the Noordhinder Lightship ( Netherlands). Three of her four crew were lost.[6]

31 May

List of shipwrecks: 31 May 1908
Ship State Description
Loanda  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 2,702 GRT cargo ship was sunk while travelling from Hamburg to South Africa after hitting the Russian steamer Junona. The cargo was: Hundreds of cases of gin, rum, champagne and barrels of gunpowder. Thousands of newly minted shillings were presumed aboard but not borne out by manifest.[7]

June

7 June

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1908
Ship State Description
City of Medicine Hat Canada Canada
City of Medicine Hat
The sternwheel paddle steamer sank after striking the Traffic Bridge in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1908
Ship State Description
Egga  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 1,445 GRT cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked off Lagos Bar, Nigeria.[8]

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1908
Ship State Description
St Lewis  France Douarnenez crabber struck the Seven Stones Reef and foundered.[9]

July

18 July

List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1908
Ship State Description
Aeon  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked in the Pacific Ocean near Christmas Island (now Kiritimati).

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1908
Ship State Description
Cap Tarifa  Belgium Foundered off the Burlings Lighthouse, Portugal.[5]

22 July

List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1908
Ship State Description
Dodo  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 531 GRT cargo ship was stripped and her hull scuttled off Forçados River, Nigeria.[10]

August

29 August

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1908
Ship State Description
Verajean  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Rhoose Point, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued. Although later refloated and taken in to Barry, Glamorgan, she was declared a total loss.[11]

September

1 September

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1908
Ship State Description
Amazon  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked west of Port Talbot, Glamorgan with the loss of twenty of her 28 crew. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot to Iquique, Chile.[11]

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1908
Ship State Description
Rosella'  United Kingdom The ship was on a voyage from Penarth to Granville, Manche carrying a cargo of coal, when she was wrecked at Roches Douvres Rocks, 15 nautical miles (28 km) from La Corbière, Jersey Channel Islands [12] [13]

October

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1908
Ship State Description
Alice Marie  France The steel barque hit the Runnelstone, drifted and sank in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, where it is now a dive site.[14]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1908
Ship State Description
Velasquez  United Kingdom The Lamport and Holt Line 7,452-grt General Cargo/Passenger ship. On 17 October 1908 soon after leaving Santos harbour and heading N with a cargo of coffee, post and passengers, on the route New York to Buenos Aires, she entered an area of intense fog and eventually hit the rocks at Ponta da Sela (Ilhabela) suffering serious damage. All passengers and crew managed to leave the ship and took shelter on a nearby beach (Praia do Veloso) being rescued the day after by another vessel.[15]

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1908
Ship State Description
Taif  Ottoman Empire Sank after collision with Bagdad off Seraglio Point, Constantinople.[16]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1908
Ship State Description
Enterprise  United Kingdom The brigantine collided with the passenger-cargo steamer Derwent ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel off Folkestone, England, and sank with the loss of all but one of her crew.
Neustria  France The passenger ship disappeared without trace after departing New York City on 27 October bound for Marseilles, France. There were no passengers aboard, but all 38 crew members were lost.
Yarmouth  United Kingdom The cargo ship foundered in the North Sea off the Outer Gabbard Lightship ( United Kingdom) with the loss of all 22 people on board. She was on a voyage from Hoek van Holland, South Holland, Netherlands to Harwich, Essex.

November

4 November

List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1908
Ship State Description
Schelde  Belgium Wrecked 20 nautical miles (37 km) north of Sapienza, Italy.[16]

14 November

List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1908
Ship State Description
Falls of Halladale  United Kingdom
Falls of Halladale.

The barque ran aground near Peterborough, Victoria, Australia in a fog. All 29 crew reached safety.

15 November

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1908
Ship State Description
France  France The cargo schooner foundered on the Minquiers south of Jersey Channel Islands when on route from Dunkirk, France, for Granville, France, with a cargo of Scoria.[17]

December

4 December

List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1908
Ship State Description
USS Yankee  United States Navy On 23 September 1908, during a training exercise, she ran aground on Spindle Rock near Hen and Chickens lightship. She remained there until refloated on 4 December. However while being subsequently towed to New Bedford, Massachusetts she sank in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts later that day.

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1908
Ship State Description
Ellen  Australia
Ellen
The coastal cargo ship and fishing trawler was wrecked in Gulf St Vincent at Morgan’s Beach near Cape Jervis, South Australia.[18]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1908
Ship State Description
Advance  Australia The steam tug collided in fog with Inverna (flag unknown) and sank off Catherine Hill Bay, New South Wales, Australia.

29 December

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1908
Ship State Description
Dahomey  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 2,854 GRT cargo/passenger ship ran aground at Abaco. She was refloated and beached 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) from Nassau, Bahamas as a total loss. She was on route from Newport News for Vera Cruz with a cargo of coal.[19]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1908
Ship State Description
Kwarra  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 812 GRT cargo ship, used in the West Africa coastal feeder service, was lost in the Forçados River, Nigeria.[20]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1908
Ship State Description
Kittiwake  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 241 GRT cargo ship used in the Lagos creeks service ran aground on Lagos Bar, Nigeria.[21]
Sacramento flag unknown The steamer sank in the Great Lakes after colliding with the iron ore carrier Mataafa ( United States).

References

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  2. ^ Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
  3. ^ "SS Newark Castle [+1908]".
  4. ^ Cameron, Stuart; Robinson, George. "SS Bega". Clydebuilt Database. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  6. ^ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  7. ^ "SS Loanda [+1908]". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  8. ^ "SS Egga (+1908)". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  9. ^ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  10. ^ "SS Dodo (hull) (+1908)". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  11. ^ a b Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  12. ^ "SS Rosella (+1908)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 25 Aug 2015.
  13. ^ "Wreck Report for 'Rosella', 1908".
  14. ^ "Dive Sites". Undersea Adventures Ltd. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  15. ^ "SS Velasquez (1908)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 23 Feb 2016.
  16. ^ a b "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  17. ^ "SV France (+1908)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 27 Aug 2015.
  18. ^ Christopher, P., (1990), South Australian Shipwrecks 1802 – 1989, Society for Underwater Historical Research, North Adelaide, South Australia, page 49.
  19. ^ "SS Dahomey (+1908)". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  20. ^ "SS Kwarra (I) (+1908)". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  21. ^ "SS Kittiwake [+1908]". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
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