List of shipwrecks in 1911
This list of shipwrecks in 1911 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1911.
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January[edit]
1 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Saint Anthony | ![]() | During a voyage to Metlakatla, District of Alaska, with seven passengers, three crewmen, and no cargo aboard, the 7-gross register ton, 31-foot (9.4 m) motor passenger vessel was wrecked on a reef in Nichols Passage in Clarence Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska about 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) northwest of Metlakatla and was destroyed by a fire that broke out when her gasoline tank exploded. All on board survived and were rescued by the motorboat Eagle (![]() |
7 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Burton | ![]() | The ship was leaving Alderney Channel Islands harbour when it suffered steering problems and ran aground on the Grois Reef. Floating free she was anchored but broke up in a storm on 11 January and became a total loss.[2] |
10 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Treverton, Corbin, and Pine Forest | ![]() | The coal barges broke their tow from Lykens (![]() |
11 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Glenbank | ![]() | A cyclone wrecked the Finnish-owned steel-hulled sailing ship off Legendre Island on the Pilbara Coast with the loss of 19 of her 20 crew.[4][5] |
Mary E. Oyls | ![]() | The schooner went aground on Edgartown Flats off Edgartown, Massachusetts.[6] |
25 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Rosario di Giorgio | ![]() | The 1,037 GRT cargo ship ran aground the reef at the northern end entrance to Manchioneal Harbour on her way from Baltimore, Maryland, to load a cargo of bananas. An attempt to refloat the vessel was attempted on 11 February, but proved to be unsuccessful, and she was abandoned. |
28 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Stephen G. Hart | ![]() | The barkentine was wrecked on Cuttyhunk Island. Apparently salvaged and returned to service.[7] |
29 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Wiln | ![]() | The schooner was in collision with the steamship Irena (![]() |
Unknown date[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Ardencraig | ![]() | The vessel was wrecked off the Gunners, Isles of Scilly.[9] |
Ella M. Goodwin | ![]() | The fishing schooner probably lost in a gale later in the day after leaving the Bay of Islands on 21 January. All ten crew were killed.[10][11] |
Knocker | ![]() | With no one on board, the 9-gross register ton motor vessel burned on the Atchafalaya River at Morgan City, Louisiana.[12] |
February[edit]
2 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Allegheny | ![]() | The steamer was wrecked 100 miles (160 km) off Norfolk, Virginia in a heavy snowstorm. All crew were rescued from her boats after four hours.[13] |
15 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Czarina | ![]() | The 230-gross register ton, 116-foot (35.4 m) schooner was wrecked during a gale on the east coast of Nagai Island in the District of Alaska's Shumagin Islands. Her crew of ten survived.[14] |
18 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Laura Sutcliffe | ![]() | The 42-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Atchafalaya River at Berwick, Louisiana. All six people on board survived.[12] |
Unknown date[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Weatherall | ![]() | The Mousehole lugger sank about 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off the Longships, Cornwall, United Kingdom, when she collided with the Lowestoft sailing trawler Trevone (![]() |
March[edit]
2 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Cingetorix | ![]() | The vessel was wrecked one nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south of Hartland Point, Devon.[16] |
3 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Blue Bonnett | ![]() | The barge, under the tow of Sarah E. McWilliams (![]() |
Blue line | ![]() | The barge, under the tow of Sarah E. McWilliams (![]() |
Cap Spartel | ![]() | The vessel departed Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom bound for Palermo, Italy. No further trace.[17] |
Jewel | ![]() | The 32-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost when she struck a snag on Bayou Macon in Louisiana. All 13 people on board survived.[12] |
Sarah E. McWilliams | ![]() | The tugboat went aground on Crane's Reef in Long Island Sound.[6] |
14 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Hope | ![]() | The schooner was sunk in a collision with schooner Hattie S. Heckman in Gloucester, Massachusetts Harbor. Four crewmen killed.[18] |
15 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Silver Spray | ![]() | The fishing tug foundered on the breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio in a snowstorm. Refloated by June. Repaired and returned to service as Charlotte. All nine crew froze to death in the water.[19][20] |
20 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Bessie Smith | ![]() | The 127-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Parkersburg, West Virginia. All four people on board survived.[21] |
22 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Bruce | ![]() | While en voyage from Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland to Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, the vessel was driven on the rocks by ice, off Portnova Islands, (Main-a-Dieu Passage), southwest of Scatarie Island. Two crew members died.[22] |
USS San Marcos | ![]() | The target ship, a former battleship, was sunk as a gunnery target in shallow water in Tangier Sound off Tangier Island in Chesapeake Bay by the battleship USS New Hampshire (![]() |
23 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Yongala | ![]() | The passenger ship sank without trace off the Whitsunday Islands in a cyclone with the loss of all 122 passengers and crew, on a voyage from Melbourne to Cairns. The wreck was found in 1958.[23][24] |
24 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Sechelt | ![]() | The steamboat sank in Strait of Juan de Fuca during a gale with the loss of 24 passengers and crew.[25] |
29 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Buteshire | ![]() | The barque foundered whilst on a voyage from Pisagua, Chile to Hamburg, Germany.[26] |
April[edit]
4 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Lewiston | ![]() | The 11-gross register ton motor vessel burned in Port Madison in Puget Sound off the coast of Washington. All four people on board survived.[12] |
O. D. Witherell | ![]() | ![]() The Schooner ran aground on the coast of Delaware 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) south of Bethany Beach, 1.5 miles north of the Fenwick's Island Life-Saving Station.[27][28] |
7 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Jabez Howes | ![]() | The 1,648-gross register ton, 218.8-foot (66.7 m) three-masted sloop, operating as a cannery tender, dragged her anchor during a storm and was stranded in Anchorage Bay (56°19′N 158°23′W / 56.317°N 158.383°W) near Chignik, District of Alaska. All on board – a ship′s crew of 37 and a cannery crew of 87 Chinese men – survived. Jabez Howes later slipped into deeper water and sank, becoming a total loss.[29] |
8 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Azor | ![]() | The Azor-class torpedo boat was sunk in a collision with Orión (![]() |
10 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Iroquois | ![]() |
21 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Scow #2 | ![]() | The Boston Sanitary Department scow capsized and sank in the main ship channel at Boston, Massachusetts.[32] |
23 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Doric | ![]() | The ocean liner ran aground in foggy conditions and was wrecked in the East China Sea near Taichow Islands, Wenzhou, China. Once all of the crew and passengers had been safely rescued, the ship was looted by local fishermen, who subsequently burnt its remains. |
27 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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The North Erin | ![]() | The steamer went ashore in fog on Long Island between the Tiana and Quoque Lights.[6] |
29 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Craigoswald | ![]() | Struck the Low Lee Rock, off Mousehole, Cornwall.[33] While on a journey from Barry Docks to Venice, with 4,000 tons of coal, she took a detour to drop off in Penzance the chief engineer who was ill. Later refloated.[34] |
30 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Sadie Willcut | ![]() | The 365-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the schooner George D. Edmands (![]() |
Unknown date[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Helena F | ![]() | The 11-gross register ton schooner was lost after she collided with the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad bridge in Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. All three people on board survived.[35] |
May[edit]
3 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Rex | ![]() | The barge sank seven miles (11 km) west of Point Judith, Rhode Island.[6] |
5 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Wm. Edenborn | ![]() | The 239-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank off Naples, Louisiana. All 10 people on board survived.[36] |
12 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Koyukuk | ![]() | The 260-gross register ton, 120.9-foot (36.9 m) sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Tanana River in the District of Alaska. All 14 people on board survived.[12][37] |
Merida | ![]() | The Ward Line liner was in collision in dense fog with American fruit steamship Admiral Farragut and sank 55 miles (89 km) off Cape Charles, Virginia in 210 feet (64 m) of water with the rumored loss of $2,000,000 of Mexican gold, silver, copper and jewels. All 319 people were saved by Admiral Farragut, with only one serious injury. Various attempts to salvage the treasure were attempted.[38] |
16 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Shawnee | ![]() | The schooner barge sank near the west breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio. The wreck removed 14 October 1914.[39][40] |
18 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Tampico | ![]() | The steamer sprung a leak at the Pacific Coast Coal Company dock in Elliott Bay, Seattle, Washington. She was towed away from the deep water slip and sank in shallow water off the Stetson-Post Lumber Mill around midnight on 18/19 May or just after midnight on 19 May. Refloated on 25 June.[41][42] |
20 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Nettie A. Ruark | ![]() | The 14-gross register ton motor vessel burned in the Chesapeake Bay off Poplar Island off the coast of Maryland. All four people on board survived.[36] |
26 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Angler | ![]() | The 93-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Duck Island in Long Island Sound off the coast of Connecticut. Both people on board survived.[43] |
Unknown date[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Unknown derrick | ![]() | The 75-ton floating crane/derrick sank at the Boston Navy Yard some time in May. Later raised.[44] |
June[edit]
1 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Fly Away | ![]() | The 159-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Spruce Island in off the coast of New Brunswick in Canada. All seven people on board survived.[43] |
3 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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North West | ![]() | The passenger ship caught fire at dock in the City Ship Canal at the foot of Tifft Street, Buffalo, New York. Most everything made of wood in the iron-hulled ship burned. The ship filled by water being pumped onto her by firefighters and sank in shallow water with most of the hull above water. Refloated on 15 June.[45][46] |
6 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Bayard | ![]() | The sailing ship, in use as a coaling ship in Ocean Harbour, South Georgia, lost her mooring during a severe gale and ran aground on the southern side of the harbor, where her wreck was abandoned. |
7 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Alida B | ![]() | The 118-gross register ton canal boat sank in Long Island Sound off Great Captain Island on the coast of Connecticut. The only person on board survived.[47] |
9 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Plumie E. Smith | ![]() | The 16-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer City of Milford (![]() |
10 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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P. R. R. 720 | ![]() | The barge ran aground in the Taunton River near Dighton, Massachusetts. Later raised and taken to Fall River, Massachusetts[48] |
18 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Governor Andrew | ![]() | The 495-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at East Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, killing two of the 23 people on board.[12] |
28 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Signal | ![]() | The 475-gross register ton screw steamer was stranded at San Francisco, California. All seven people on board survived.[36] |
29 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Catherine and Ellen | ![]() | The 145-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Nacoochee (![]() |
Unknown date[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Edward Harrigan | ![]() | The 107-gross register ton canal boat was lost in a collision with an unidentified vessel off Sorel, Quebec. The only person on board survived.[47] |
July[edit]
1 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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USS Samar | ![]() | The gunboat ran aground in mud in the Yangtze off Kichau, China. She broke free of the mud two weeks later without damage and returned to service. |
Sonoma | ![]() | The 1,063-gross register ton schooner sank off Point Reyes, California. All nine people on board survived.[21] |
3 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Juno | ![]() | The 13-gross register ton motor vessel burned at Lindenhurst, Long Island, New York. Both people on board survived.[12] |
4 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Julia and Martha | ![]() | The 117-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts, a total loss. Cargo and some gear was salvaged. All five people on board survived.[35][49] |
Mary | ![]() | The 27-gross register ton screw steamer burned on the James River in Virginia. All five people on board survived.[12] |
5 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Uriah Timmons | ![]() | The 24-gross register ton schooner sank off Springfield Bluff, Georgia. All three people on board survived.[21] |
7 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Grayling | ![]() | The 121-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Cape Amalia on the coast of Greenland. All 18 people on board survived.[35] |
Lady Ilka | ![]() | The 25-gross register ton schooner burned at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. All four people on board survived.[35] |
Santa Rosa | ![]() | The 2,416-gross register ton iron-hulled screw steamer was wrecked at Point Arguello, California in fog, a total loss. A boat overturned with the loss of four lives. There were 278 survivors.[36][50][51] |
8 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Harriet E. Ford | ![]() | The 50-gross register ton schooner was stranded in the Chesapeake Bay at Love Point Light on the coast of Maryland with the loss of two lives. There was one survivor.[35] |
River Queen | ![]() | The 578-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Washington, D.C. All 15 people on board survived.[36] |
9 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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John Mitchell | ![]() | The 4,468-gross register ton steel-hulled screw steamer was lost in a collision with the screw steamer W. H. Mack (![]() |
Kershaw | ![]() | The steamer went aground on Shovelfull Shoal off Cape Cod.[6] |
14 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Robert T. Graham | ![]() | The 70-gross register ton schooner was destroyed by an explosion and fire off Fire Island on the coast of Long Island, New York. All 12 people on board survived.[21] |
16 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Maine | ![]() | The 332-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Marine City, Michigan. All 11 people on board survived.[12] |
18 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Tampa | ![]() | The 1,972-gross register ton screw steamer was lost in a collision with the screw steamer John W. Gales (![]() |
19 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Roebuck | ![]() | The rail car ferry ran aground after leaving St. Helier. Refloated on 28 July, repaired and returned to service four months later.[52] |
20 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Magnolia | ![]() | The 12-gross register ton motor vessel burned on the Delaware River at Paulsboro, New Jersey. Both people on board survived.[12] |
Theresa | ![]() | The 18-gross register ton motor vessel sank off Pico Island in the Azores. All three people on board survived.[36] |
22 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Alice | ![]() | The 19-gross register ton schooner sank off Punta de Caballitos, Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. All four people on board survived.[43] |
23 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Brilliant | ![]() | The 319-gross register ton barge sank off Fort Adams at Newport, Rhode Island. Both people on board survived.[47] |
Dredge Hester | ![]() | The 206-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Clearwater, Florida. All 19 people on board survived.[12] |
Vencedor | ![]() | The 18-gross register ton sloop-rigged yacht was stranded in Lake Michigan on Fisherman Island off the coast of Michigan. All 10 people on board survived.[21] |
24 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Elva | ![]() | The 69-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Sturgeon Bay on the coast of Wisconsin. All four people on board survived.[43] |
Romania | ![]() | The 24-gross register ton motor yacht was stranded at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. All five people on board survived.[36] |
25 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Rappahannock | ![]() | The 2,380-gross register ton screw steamer sank in Jackfish Bay on the coast of Ontario, Canada, off Lake Superior. All 18 people on board survived.[36] |
28 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Almeda Willey | ![]() | The 547-gross register ton schooner was abandoned off Swan's Island, Maine. All seven people on board survived.[43] |
Catawamteak | ![]() | The schooner ran aground on Peaked Hill bars near Provincetown, Massachusetts.[53] |
Henry Chase | ![]() | The 44-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Port Clyde, Maine. All three people on board survived.[35] |
Lewie Warren | ![]() | The 17-gross register ton motor vessel sank off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with the loss of all five people on board.[12] |
Nokomis | ![]() | The 32-gross register ton motor vessel sank off Nantucket, Massachusetts, with the loss of five lives. There were four survivors.[36] |
Tyre | ![]() | The 13-gross register ton motor vessel burned at Jacksonville, Florida. Both people on board survived.[36] |
29 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Eugene H. Cathrall | ![]() | The 42-gross register ton schooner sank at Ship John Shoal in Delaware Bay. All three people on board survived.[43] |
Mary A. Downs | ![]() | The 12-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded on Vinalhaven Island off the coast of Maine. All five people on board survived.[36] |
31 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Abbie A. Morton | ![]() | The 9-gross register ton sloop was stranded on Vinalhaven Island on the coast of Maine. All three people on board survived.[43] |
Unknown date[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Cup Hunter | ![]() | The 9-gross register ton sloop was stranded on Parris Island on the coast of South Carolina. All three people on board survived.[43] |
Virginia C | ![]() | The 102-gross register ton canal boat was lost in a collision with an unidentified vessel in the Saint Lawrence River off Chambly, Quebec, Canada. The only person on board survived.[47] |
August[edit]
1 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Sirius | ![]() | The 22-gross register ton screw steamer sank in the Saint Lawrence River off Massena, New York, with the loss of seven lives. There were 48 survivors.[36] |
2 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Susie | ![]() | The 25-gross register ton motor paddle vessel sank in the Missouri River at LeBeau, South Dakota. All five people on board survived.[36] |
3 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Frau Mini Peterson | ![]() | The 180-ton schooner was wrecked, after a collision, near the Seven Stones Reef, off the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom.[54] |
Jessie Minor | ![]() | Carrying a cargo of 200 tons of salt and empty barrels and a crew of 11, the 261-gross register ton, 129-foot (39.3 m) schooner was blown ashore during a gale and wrecked without loss of life in Nelson Lagoon on the Alaska Peninsula in the District of Alaska.[29] |
5 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Rena | ![]() | The 42-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Boston Harbor on the coast of Massachusetts. Both people on board survived.[21] |
8 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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F. H. Prince | ![]() | The 2,047-gross register ton screw steamer burned on Lake Erie off Kelleys Island, Ohio. All 17 people on board survived.[12] |
Stephen E. Babcock | ![]() | The 46-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Bridgeport, Connecticut. All four people on board survived.[36] |
9 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Eleazer Boynton | ![]() | The 88-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Camden (![]() |
Fifeshire | ![]() | The ocean liner ran aground 20 nautical miles (37 km) south of Cape Guardafui, Italian Somaliland. Six of her crew took to a lifeboat to seek assistance. They were rescued five days later by Ardandearg (![]() ![]() |
10 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Sarah D. Fell | ![]() | The 578-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Fear on the coast of North Carolina. All seven people on board survived.[21] |
11 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Frances and Louisa | ![]() | The 27-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Crooked Isle off the coast of Florida. All six people on board survived.[43] |
Theresa Wolf | ![]() | The 307-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Cape Cod on the coast of Massachusetts. All seven people on board survived.[21] |
12 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Henry H. Stanwood | ![]() | The 44-gross register ton screw steamer was lost in a collision with the British screw steamer Stephans (![]() |
San Giorgio | ![]() | The armored cruiser ran aground on a reef in the Tyrrhenian Sea off Naples-Posillipo, Italy and was badly damaged.[56] She was eventually refloated and repaired, but did not rejoin the fleet until June 1912.[57] |
15 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Priscilla | ![]() | The 26-gross register ton motor vessel burned at Texas City, Texas. All three people on board survived.[36] |
16 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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SMS T21 | ![]() | The torpedo boat sank after colliding with the torpedo boat SMS T38 (![]() |
17 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Jennie | ![]() | The 10-gross register ton sloop was destroyed by an explosion at Staten Island in New York City. Both people on board survived.[35] |
Willie H. Child | ![]() | The 626-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Beach Gull Shoal on the coast of North Carolina. All eight people on board survived.[21] |
18 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Tourist | ![]() | The 66-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Calumet River at Riverdale, Illinois. All four people on board survived.[36] |
19 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Bertha | ![]() | The whaling bark went aground on Sow and Pigs Reef off Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts.[6] |
F. S. Redfield | ![]() | Carrying a crew of 23 and a cargo of 350 tons of general merchandise, the 469-gross register ton, 159.6-foot (48.6 m) motor cargo vessel was wrecked without loss of life on the coast of the District of Alaska 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) east of Cape Prince of Wales after she dragged her anchors during a gale. The revenue cutter USRC Bear (![]() |
20 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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J. W. Swayze | ![]() | The 86-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank at Jonesville, Louisiana. The only person on board survived.[12] |
Wild Duck | ![]() | The 15-gross register ton motor vessel was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Archie Crossman (![]() |
21 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Warrington | ![]() | The 375-gross register ton screw steamer was stranded at Charlevoix, Michigan. All 12 people on board survived.[36] |
24 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Lyndhurst | ![]() | The full-rigged ship's crew abandoned her off Port Elizabeth, South Africa, after she caught fire. The cruiser HMS Pandora (![]() |
Tacora | ![]() | The Schooner was wrecked off Gorontalo, Celebes, Netherlands East Indies.[61] |
25 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Albert | ![]() | With no one on board, the 135-gross register ton barge sank in Atchafalaya Bay in Louisiana.[47] |
J. N. Harbin | ![]() | The 142-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded at Lake Landing in the Mississippi River. All 23 people on board survived.[12] |
Massachusetts | ![]() | The 501-gross register ton schooner departed Wiggins, South Carolina, bound for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with seven people on board and was never heard from again.[35] |
26 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Edwina | ![]() | Charleston-Savannah hurricane: The 459-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Charleston, South Carolina. All seven people on board survived.[43] |
James Davidson | ![]() | Charleston-Savannah hurricane: The 451-gross register ton schooner sank off Charleston, South Carolina. All six people on board survived.[35] |
Margaret A. May | ![]() | Charleston-Savannah hurricane: The 536-gross register ton schooner sank off Kiawah Island on the coast of South Carolina. All 10 people on board lost their lives.[35] |
Vixen | ![]() | The 14-gross register ton motor vessel burned at Silver Springs, Florida. All seven people on board survived.[36] |
27 August[edit]
28 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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George T. Clark | ![]() | The 20-gross register ton screw steamer sank off Savannah, Georgia. All four people on board survived.[12] |
Ruth E. Godfrey | ![]() | The 597-gross register ton schooner departed Tocopilla, Chile, bound for Port Townsend, Washington, with nine people on board and was never heard from again.[21] |
29 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Charles H. Valentine | ![]() | The 639-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Cape Fear on the coast of North Carolina. All seven people on board survived.[43] |
Fannie E. Moffat | ![]() | The 14-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded at Chadwick, New Jersey. All six people on board survived.[12] |
John Rose | ![]() | The 626-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean at 33°12′N 77°00′W / 33.200°N 77.000°W. All eight people on board survived.[35] |
30 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Comet | ![]() | The 429-gross register ton schooner was stranded on San Miguel Island in the Channel Islands off the coast of California with the loss of one life. There were seven survivors.[43] |
Josie R. Burt | ![]() | The 760-gross register ton schooner sank off Barnegat, New Jersey. All nine people on board survived.[35] |
31 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Rye | ![]() | The 392-gross register ton barge sank off Point Judith, Rhode Island. The only person on board survived.[47] |
W. D. Brimmer | ![]() | The 334-gross register ton barge sank in Narragansett Bay off the coast of Rhode Island. The only person on board survived.[47] |
"William D. Brinnier" | ![]() | The Barge sunk near Saunderstown, Rhode Island, (could be same barge listed above).[62] |
September[edit]
3 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
David Faust | ![]() | The 216-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Port Clyde, Maine. All six people on board survived.[43] |
4 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Tidy Adly | ![]() | The 13-gross register ton motor vessel burned in Boston Harbor off the coast of Massachusetts. All three people on board survived.[36] |
Tucapel | ![]() | The steamship ran aground about 20 miles south of Lima, Peru, killing about 32 people.[63] |
5 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Papanui | ![]() | ![]() |
6 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Mary F. Smith | ![]() | The 33-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded on Green Island in the Tusket Islands off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. All nine people on board survived.[36] |
8 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Iron City | ![]() | The 118-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on the Laurie Bar in the Ohio River. All 14 people on board survived.[12] |
9 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Stephen G. Hart | ![]() | The barkentine was abandoned in a gale off Cape Henry, Virginia. Reported floating half submerged off the coast of Canada on 24 September. The crew were rescued by Bermudian (flag unknown).[64][65] |
10 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Ramona | ![]() | During a voyage from Hunter Bay in the District of Alaska to Seattle, Washington, with 23 passengers, 52 crewmen, and 405 tons of salmon and general cargo on board, the 1,061-gross register ton, 195-foot (59.4 m) passenger screw steamer went off course in fog and was wrecked on an uncharted reef off Middle Spanish Island (55°57′N 134°07′W / 55.950°N 134.117°W) in Christian Sound in Southeast Alaska. All on board survived and were rescued by the steamers Grand, Northwestern, and Delhi (flags unknown).[36][66] |
14 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Capt. C. W. Howell | ![]() | The US Army Corps of Engineers dredge was lost at sea off Texas.[67] |
Pontiere | ![]() | The Soldato-class destroyer ran aground on a rock off Sardinia. She was refloated, repaired, relaunched on 1 November 1913, and returned to service.[68] |
15 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Hastings | ![]() | The 84-gross register ton schooner was lost in the harbor at Rockland, Maine. All three people on board survived.[35] |
Youtsey | ![]() | The 8-gross register ton motor paddle vessel was destroyed by an explosion and fire on the Ohio River at Chilo, Ohio. The only person on board survived.[36] |
16 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Peggy | ![]() | The yacht sank on the west side of the Connecticut River off Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Later raised.[6] |
18 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Harmony | ![]() | The 96-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost when she struck a pier at Lock No. 5 on the Ohio River. All nine people on board survived.[12] |
Jessie Minor | ![]() | The 261-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Nelson Lagoon on the Alaska Peninsula in the District of Alaska. All 11 people on board survived.[35] |
Stella B. Kaplan | ![]() | The 1,078-gross register ton schooner was stranded in the Chesapeake Bay on the coast of Virginia. All nine people on board survived.[21] |
19 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Eustathius | ![]() | The destroyer ran aground off Constanţa, Romania. She was refloated and taken in to Sevastopol.[69] |
Panteleimon | ![]() | The destroyer ran aground off Constanţa. She was refloated and taken in to Sevastopol.[69] |
22 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Joliet | ![]() | The 1,935-gross register ton steel-hulled steam screw cargo ship sank while she was anchored off Port Huron, Michigan, in the St. Clair River on the United States-Canada border between Michigan and Ontario, after the steam screw cargo ship Henry Phipps (![]() |
23 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Naulahka | ![]() | With no one on board, the 16-gross register ton motor vessel burned on the Guadalupe River in Texas.[36] |
24 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Ana Rita | ![]() | The 7-gross register ton sloop sank off Piñones, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. All four people on board survived.[43] |
25 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Helen W. Martin | ![]() | The schooner went aground on Eastern Point near Gloucester, Massachusetts. Later salvaged.[6] |
Liberté | ![]() | ![]() The Liberté-class battleship was destroyed by a magazine explosion in Toulon harbor, killing about 300 people. |
Stephen G. Hart | ![]() | The 605-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) west of Bermuda. All eight people on board survived.[21] |
Thomas Cranage | ![]() | The 2,219-gross register ton screw steamer was stranded on Watcher Island in Georgian Bay off the coast of Ontario, Canada. All 17 people on board survived.[36] |
26 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Edna Mae | ![]() | The 6-gross register ton motor vessel was destroyed by an explosion at Manteo, North Carolina. All 10 people on board survived.[12] |
Oliver Mitchell | ![]() | The 320-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Millinocket (![]() |
PCS Co. #1 (or P. C. S. Co. No.1) | ![]() | While under tow from Nome to Cripple River (64°32′N 165°48′W / 64.533°N 165.800°W) along the Bering Sea coast of the District of Alaska, the empty 40-gross register ton barge sank about 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) offshore in Norton Sound southwest of Cripple River after her towline parted. All four people on board survived.[47][74] |
27 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Three Brothers | ![]() | The 583-gross register ton steam screw cargo ship sprang a leak in heavy weather and sank in Lake Michigan off South Manitou Island. All 14 of her crew were saved.[36] |
29 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Despatch | ![]() | The lighthouse tender struck the pier at Lakes Entrance, Victoria, Australia, and consequently foundered.[75] |
Itinerant | ![]() | The 38-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the barge Keystone (![]() |
Morgan | ![]() | The 51-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Haddux Ferry, Kentucky. All nine people on board survived.[36] |
Tokat | ![]() | Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Preveza: The torpedo boat was shelled, beached, and destroyed by Italian destroyers near Nicopolis, Greece. Nine of the crew were killed, including the captain. |
W. C. Kirwan | ![]() | The 39-gross register ton schooner sank in the Chesapeake Bay off Sandy Point, Maryland. All three people on board survived.[21] |
30 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Alpagot | ![]() | Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Preveza: The Akhisar-class torpedo boat was shelled and sunk by Artigliere and Corazziere (both ![]() |
Hamidiye | ![]() | Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Preveza: The Hamidiye-class torpedo boat was shelled and sunk by Artigliere and Corazziere (both ![]() |
Swarland | ![]() | The cargo ship disappeared while steaming from Rostock, Germany, to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with the loss of all 15 crew members. |
Trablus | ![]() | Italo-Turkish War: The armed yacht was lost. |
October[edit]
1 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Ixion | ![]() | The cargo ship caught fire and sank off the coast of the Netherlands East Indies, killing 24 crew members. Good Hope (![]() |
2 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
A. L. Hopkins | ![]() | Bound from Bayfield, Wisconsin, for Buffalo, New York, with a crew of 13 and a cargo loaded both in her hold and on deck of 360,000 board feet (849.6 m3) of lumber and 300,000 board feet (708 m3) of lath, the 174-foot (53 m), 639-gross register ton screw steam barge nearly capsized and became waterlogged when she encountered heavy seas and a rain squall on Lake Superior off Ontonagon, Michigan. One man was washed overboard and one man was alone aboard the ship's lifeboat when it was washed away while the crew attempted to abandon ship, but both survived and managed to get back aboard the partially submerged A. L. Hopkins. The ore carrier Dinkey (![]() ![]() |
No. 4 | ![]() | Italo-Turkish War: The No. 1-class motor gunboat was lost. |
3 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Oliver J. Olson | ![]() | The 667-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Cape False on the coast of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. All 10 people on board survived.[21] |
4 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Jura | ![]() | The 227-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Lake Michigan near Cross Village, Michigan. All six people on board survived.[35] |
6 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Occidental | ![]() | The 22-gross register ton motor vessel burned in Holmes Harbor, an inlet of Saratoga Passage on the coast of Washington. All five people on board survived.[36] |
7 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Penn | ![]() | The 476-gross register ton barge sank in Long Island Sound off Race Rock Light. The only person on board survived.[47] |
9 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Wm. Nottingham | ![]() | The 1,204-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean off Cape Disappointment, Washington. All 11 people on board survived.[21] |
William K. Park | ![]() | The 1,252-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Newfoundland at 45°N 50°W / 45°N 50°W. All nine people on board survived.[21] |
10 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
M. H. Read | ![]() | The 160-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Boston, Massachusetts. All five people on board survived.[35] |
Perdita | ![]() | The 286-gross register ton motor vessel burned at the Ludlow Rocks in Washington. All 25 people on board survived.[36] |
12 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Freccia | ![]() | Italo-Turkish War: The Lampo-class destroyer was wrecked at the entrance to the harbor at Tripoli on the coast of Ottoman Tripolitania.[77] |
13 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
E. Hempstead | ![]() | The 19-gross register ton schooner sank in East Pass on the coast of Florida. All five people on board survived.[43] |
17 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
USLHT Lily | ![]() | The lighthouse tender struck a snag and sank, or was beached, near Washington, Missouri, or Wellington, Missouri, in the Missouri River. Raised, temporary repairs finished by 31 October.[78][79] |
McKinley | ![]() | The 66-gross register ton screw steamer burned in Wollochet Bay in Puget Sound off the coast of Washington. All four people on board survived.[12] |
18 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Arundel | ![]() | The 339-gross register ton iron-hulled screw steamer burned at Douglas, Michigan. All 24 people on board survived.[21] |
Mignon | ![]() | The 14-gross register ton screw steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Rock Island, Illinois. Both people on board survived.[36] |
19 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Elizabeth E. Vane | ![]() | The 405-gross register ton barge was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Columbia (![]() |
20 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Majestic | ![]() | The 17-gross register ton motor vessel sank at New Orleans, Louisiana, with the loss of one life. There were eight survivors.[12] |
23 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Western Belle | ![]() | The barge stranded on Race Rock, Fisher's Island, New York. Pumped out and repaired.[48] |
24 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Herald | ![]() | The schooner went on the rocks at the east end of Wicopesset near Fisher's Island. Later pumped out, pulled off and taken to Stonington, Connecticut and Stamford, Connecticut for repairs.[6] |
25 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
George May | ![]() | The 654-gross register ton schooner was stranded in the Bahamas. All seven people on board survived.[43] |
26 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Oliver Mitchell | ![]() | The schooner was sunk in a collision with Millinocket (flag unknown) in Long Island Sound.[80][81] |
Star of the Sea | ![]() | The 967-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the Florida Reefs off the coast of Florida. All 11 people on board survived.[21] |
27 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
George L. Bass | ![]() | The 53-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost when she struck a snag at Sheppardstown, Mississippi. All 22 people on board survived.[12] |
Multnomah | ![]() | The 312-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Iroquois (![]() |
Winfield S. Shuster | ![]() | The 1,481-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Isaac Shoal off the coast of Florida. All 11 people on board survived.[21] |
28 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Willie Wallace | ![]() | The 22-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the Florida Reefs off the coast of Florida. All three people on board survived.[21] |
30 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Emily A. Staples | ![]() | The 86-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Port Clyde, Maine. Both people on board survived.[43] |
Flora Condon | ![]() | The schooner was abandoned after being rammed by schooner Jost (flag unknown) west of Point Judith. She drifted aground on Fisher's Island 29 August 1914.[6] |
Sicie | ![]() | The brigantine foundered in the Bristol Channel 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of the Helwick Lightship (![]() |
Sunbeam | ![]() | The 255-gross register ton bark was stranded on Sapelo Island on the coast of Georgia. All eight people on board survived.[21] |
31 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
D. Leuty | ![]() | The 646-gross register ton screw steamer was stranded at Marquette, Michigan. All 13 people on board survived.[21] |
Florence | ![]() | The 14-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded on Annisquam Bar off Gloucester, Massachusetts. All three people on board survived.[12] |
November[edit]
1 November[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Susan and Mary | ![]() | The 124-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Point Allerton on the coast of Massachusetts. All 18 people on board survived.[21] |
2 November[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Libbie Shearn | ![]() | The 59-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Aransas Pass on the coast of Texas. All 11 people on board survived.[35] |
Lois V. Chaples | ![]() | The 230-gross register ton schooner sank in Nantucket Sound off the coast of Massachusetts. All five people on board survived.[35] |
3 November[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Fairhaven | ![]() | ![]() |
5 November[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Antalia | ![]() | Italo-Turkish War: The Antalya-class torpedo boat was scuttled at Preveze. Salvaged and put in service as Nikopolis (![]() |
Tokad | ![]() | Italo-Turkish War: The Antalya-class torpedo boat was scuttled at Preveze. Salvaged and put in service as Totoi (![]() |
6 November[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
G. W. North | ![]() | The 9-gross register ton schooner was lost when she struck an obstruction in Baltimore Harbor on the coast of Maryland. All five people on board survived.[43] |
7 November[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Dena H | ![]() | The 13-gross register ton motor vessel burned in Matagorda Bay off Alamo Beach, Texas. All four people on board survived.[12] |
Nellie | ![]() | With no one on board, the 14-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Mobile, Alabama.[36] |
9 November[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Eastern Light | ![]() | The 85-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Pumpkin Rock at Boothbay Harbor, Maine. All three people on board survived.[43] |
10 November[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Julia Howard | ![]() | The barge sank on the southwest side of Shelter Island, New York.[48] |
11 November[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
City of Kalamazoo | ![]() | The 729-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Manistee, Michigan. All 22 people on board survived.[21] |
Della May | ![]() | The 7-gross register ton sloop was lost in a collision with the schooner Au Revoir (![]() |
12 November[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
A. R. Hall | ![]() | The 60-gross register ton screw steamer sank off Greenville, Mississippi. All five people on board survived.[21] |
Angele | The brigantine ran aground on the Doom Bar, Padstow, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[82] | |
Bertha F. Walker | ![]() | The schooner was wrecked on Pasque Island, Massachusetts.[43][83][84] |
Genia | ![]() | The 14-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded at Brooklyn, New York. Both people on board survived.[12] |
Pottsville | ![]() | The 72-gross register ton screw steamer burned off Wilson Point, Connecticut. All nine people on board survived.[36] |
Samuel J. Goucher |