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

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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 3,276 GRT cargo ship, on passage from Sulina to Antwerp with a cargo of cotton, was run down in early morning fog by the Red Star Line ocean liner Finland ( Belgium) in the Scheldt off Terneuzen (51°24′N 3°45′E / 51.400°N 3.750°E / 51.400; 3.750) and subsequently sank.[3][4]

February

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1908
Ship State Description
Favorite  United States 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 Template:Sclass- 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[5]

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1908
Ship State Description
SMS S12  Imperial German Navy The torpedo boat sank after a collision at the mouth of the Elbe at Cuxhaven, Germany.[6]

17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1908
Ship State Description
USS Monongahela  United States Navy The store ship was destroyed by fire at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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.[7]

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.[8]

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 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.[9][10] Declared total wreck on April 28, 1908.

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 Template:Sclass- 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
Auguste & Jean  Belgium The fishing vessel was rammed and sunk by Iris ( Belgium) 8 nautical miles (15 km) southwest of the Noordhinder Lightship ( Netherlands). Three of her four crew were lost.[11]
Albion  United Kingdom Stranded on Carromeiro Chico Rock when entering Corcubión on passage from Bahia Blanca for Rotterdam with grain, broke amidships and sunk.[12]

6 May

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1908
Ship State Description
Hellas  Greece The 3,613 GRT freighter ran aground and was wrecked at Cape Malea on passage Sulina for Liverpool with a cargo of wheat.[13]

10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1908
Ship State Description
Pyrgos  Germany The 1,927 GRT freighter with a cargo of grain on passage from Ibrail to Hamburg collided with the steamer Violet ( United Kingdom) during fog in the river Elbe. The German steamer sank and one crew member was badly injured.[14]

17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1908
Ship State Description
Nordsee  Germany The 4,439 GRT freighter with a cargo of iron ore on passage from Narvik to Rotterdam was struck by the steamer Avoca ( United Kingdom) off Nieuwe Waterweg. The German steamer sank with a loss of one crew and a pilot.[15] Avoca had her bow smashed in and had to be beached to avoid sinking.[16]

26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1908
Ship State Description
Lamyron  Greece The 2,408 GRT freighter with a cargo of grain on passage from Taganrog stranded on Corticeiras Rock off Corcubión and became a total loss.[17]

27 May

List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1908
Ship State Description
Arminza  Spain The 2,501 GRT freighter with a cargo of ore on passage from Bilbao for Middlesbrough struck a rock off La Vendree, five miles west of Cap de la Chèvre, and came off but subsequently sunk in deep water and became a total loss.[18]

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.[19]

June

3 June

List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1908
Ship State Description
Blythville  United Kingdom The 1,325 GRT steamer went ashore on the rocks near Rhinns of Islay Lighthouse during early morning dense fog, subsequently slipped off and sunk in deep water.[20] The ship was on passage from Stornoway for Swansea in ballast.

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.
Lady Eileen Canada Canada The 921 GRT coaster ran ashore in Newport, Baie de Chaleur, on passage Campbellton, New Brunswick for Gaspé, Quebec.[21]
Michael  Greece The 2,994 GRT steamer collided with the steamer Constanza ( Romania) and sunk off Lisbon while on passage from Cardiff for Genoa with a cargo of coal.[22]

17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1908
Ship State Description
Egga  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 1,445 GRT cargo ship carrying cargo from steamer Falaba ran aground on the bar at Lagos, Nigeria. Attempts to refloat the ship failed and she was declared a total wreck.[23][24]
Friedrich Retzlaff  Germany The 1,938 GRT freighter foundered 35 nautical miles (65 km) from A Coruña on passage from Huelva to Stettin with a cargo of iron ore.[25][26]

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1908
Ship State Description
St Lewis  France The Douarnenez crabber struck the Seven Stones Reef and foundered.[27]

21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1908
Ship State Description
Kylerea  United Kingdom The 1,590 GRT freighter on a passage from Tyne to Cannes with a cargo of coal was cut down to below the waterline in collision with the steamer Filinia ( Greece) and quickly sank.[28]

23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1908
Ship State Description
Petronia  Russia The 4,847 GRT freighter was put back to Aden with her bunkers on fire, and was scuttled in 33 feet (10 m) of water after attempts to extinguish the fire failed. No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 holds as well as her chart room, bridge and poop deck were destroyed by fire. The ship was later raised and sold for breakup.[28]

25 June

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1908
Ship State Description
Konoura Maru  Japan The 2,185 GRT freighter ran aground and wrecked near Kinkwazan.[29]

July

6 July

List of shipwrecks: 6 July 1908
Ship State Description
Noordwijk  Netherlands The 2,054 GRT steamer stranded on Tete du Chat on a passage from Santander for Rotterdam with a cargo of iron ore and wrecked.[30]

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.[8]

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.[31]

23 July

List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1908
Ship State Description
Don Matias  Chile The 2,213 GRT steamer, on a passage from Tocopilla for Lota with a cargo of copper ore, foundered almost immediately after being run down by the cargo-passenger ship Victoria ( United Kingdom) in dense fog in Bay of Arauco.[32][33]

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1908
Ship State Description
Mareeba  Australia The 1,747 GRT steamer, on a passage from Brisbane for Newcastle with a cargo of general goods, sugar and wood ran aground 10 miles north of Stockton. During the night of 3 August she was broken by gale.[34][35]

August

5 August

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1908
Ship State Description
Kirkwall  United Kingdom The 2,582 GRT steamer, on a passage from Huelva for Hamburg with a cargo of iron ore, was run down late at night by an unknown barque off Ameland and sunk.[36]

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1908
Ship State Description
Zwyndrecht  Netherlands The 2,090 GRT steamer, on a passage from Havana for London with a cargo of molasses, sprang a leak and foundered in the position 38°32′N 38°32′W / 38.533°N 38.533°W / 38.533; -38.533. 27 members of the crew including the captain were saved by Italian barque Silver Stream and landed in London on 23 August.[37]

13 August

List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1908
Ship State Description
Nereo  Austria-Hungary The 3,739 GRT steamer, on a passage from South Shields for Trieste with a cargo of coal, went ashore on Keller Rock off Ushant. An attempt to refloat her failed and the ship sunk in deep water.[38][39]

14 August

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1908
Ship State Description
John Fothergill  United Kingdom The 2,730 GRT steamer, on a passage from Poti for Garston with a cargo of iron ore, was run down by the steamer Oural ( Belgium) off Kavak Point and sunk.[40]

15 August

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1908
Ship State Description
Beby  Greece The 2,052 GRT steamer, on a passage from Piraeus for Marmora in ballast ran aground on Psara and subsequently sunk in deep water.[40]

29 August

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1908
Ship State Description
Lycourgos  Greece The 218 GRT steamer sank off Port Vathy, Samos.[41]
Mount Lebanon  United Kingdom The 2,420 GRT steamer on passage from Glasgow for Alexandria with coal and a general cargo sprang a leak during a heavy gale and sank four hours later approximately 70 miles west of Scilly.[42]

September

1 September

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1908
Ship State Description
Amazon  United Kingdom
Amazon
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.[43]
Verajean  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship on passage from Cardiff to Mollendo was driven ashore and wrecked at Rhoose Point, Glamorgan during "The great storm of 1908". Her crew were rescued. She was refloated and towed to Porthkerry harbor, and later taken in to Barry, Glamorgan, but was declared a total loss and sold for scrap in November 1908.[43][44]

9 September

List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1908
Ship State Description
Pacific  United Kingdom The 2,919 GRT steamer on passage from Sunderland for Buenos Aires with a cargo of coal ran aground on Outer Dowsing Shoal and sunk at 9:00. 18 men of the crew were landed in Grimsby by the Limewold, one crew was killed and four were missing.[45]

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1908
Ship State Description
Rosella  United Kingdom The 1,305 GRT steamer on a voyage from Penarth to Granville, Manche carrying a cargo of coal struck Roches Douvres Rocks, 15 nautical miles (28 km) from La Corbière, Jersey Channel Islands at 06:10 and subsequently sunk at 08:30.[46][47]

20 September

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1908
Ship State Description
Star of Bengal  United States The barque was wrecked on Coronation Island, Alaska with the loss of about 110 lives.

23 September

List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1908
Ship State Description
USS Yankee  United States Navy The training ship ran aground on Spindle Rock near Hen and Chickens lightship. She remained there until refloated on 4 December, but she sank later that day.

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1908
Ship State Description
Sir John Jackson  United Kingdom The 4,231 GRT steamer on passage from Saigon for the continent with a cargo of rice and maize ran aground on Brennus Shoal (Ceylon) and got holed in the forepeak. Attempts to lighten and refloat her failed due to stormy weather and she was abandoned as a total loss on 9 October 1908.[48][49]

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.[50]
Amethyst  United Kingdom The 552 GRT steamer collided early morning in dense fog with cargo ship Daisy (flag unknown) off Wicklow Head and sunk almost immediately. Her crew was saved by Daisy and landed in Dublin on 5 October 1908.[51]

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1908
Ship State Description
Lambert  Germany The 5,967 GRT steamer on passage from Chile to Bremen with general cargo caught fire and was destroyed off Río Negro. The captain, 43 crew members and 2 passengers were saved and landed at Punta Rubio.[52]

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 north 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.[53]

22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1908
Ship State Description
Cramligton  United Kingdom The 1,824 GRT steamer on a passage from Newcastle for Seville with a cargo of coal and coke collided early morning with cargo ship Cadeby (flag unknown) in the mouth of the Humber. The vessel was struck near amidships and began to fill almost immediately. She was beached on Sand Hale Flat to prevent the sinking but later had broken in two amidships and was declared a total loss.[54][55]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1908
Ship State Description
Girnigoe  United Kingdom The 321 GRT steamer on a passage from Cherbourg for Poole with a cargo of stone ran into heavy seas mid-Channel which shifted her cargo. The vessel had to be abandoned and she foundered around 04:30. The crew was saved by the schooner Malpas Belle and landed in Falmouth.[56]

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1908
Ship State Description
Saint Andre  France The 1,121 GRT steamer on a passage from Caen for Grangemouth with a cargo of iron ore ran aground off Farne Islands in the early morning and subsequently broke up and became a total wreck.[57]

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1908
Ship State Description
Taif  Ottoman Empire Sank after a collision with Bagdad (flag unknown) off Seraglio Point, Constantinople.[58] This ship was originally named Tycho Brahe. In 1891 ownership transferred to Charles Deville Wells, (known as 'the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo'), who renamed the vessel Palais Royal. After Wells was declared bankrupt in 1893 it was sold to a Turkish owner.

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.[58]

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 en route from Dunkirk, France, for Granville, France, with a cargo of Scoria.[59]

December

3 December

List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1908
Ship State Description
SMS Huszár  Austro-Hungarian Navy The Template:Sclass- ran aground near Traste on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. She sank on 12 December.

4 December

List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1908
Ship State Description
USS Yankee  United States Navy Aground since 23 September, the training ship was refloated, but sank while under tow in Buzzards Bay off the coast of Massachusetts later in the day.

11 December

List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1908
Ship State Description
Urfa  Ottoman Navy The Template:Sclass- foundered in a storm off Selonik.[60]

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.[61]

18 December

List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1908
Ship State Description
Daghestan  United Kingdom The 3,466 GRT steamer on a passage from New York City to Marseille with a cargo of grain collided with the freighter Catalone ( United Kingdom) just outside the harbor and sank in deep water.[62]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 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.

26 December

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1908
Ship State Description
Telefon  Norway The 1,538 GRT steamer on a passage from Rotterdam to the South Shetland Islands with a cargo of coal ran aground at the entrance of Admiralty Bay and subsequently wrecked.[63]

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 en route from Newport News for Vera Cruz with a cargo of coal.[64]

31 December

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1908
Ship State Description
Grange  United Kingdom The 1,519 GRT cargo/passenger steamer on a passage from Grangemouth to London with general cargo and passengers ran into heavy weather, sprang a leak forward and foundered at 10:20 about 35 nautical miles (65 km) northeast of Tyne piers. All 55 people including crew and passengers were saved by trawler Eleazer and landed safely in South Shields.[65]

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.[66]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1908
Ship State Description
Sacramento flag unknown The steamer sank in the Great Lakes after colliding with the iron ore carrier Mataafa ( United States).

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