List of shipwrecks in 1910
The list of shipwrecks in 1910 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1910.
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January[edit]
1 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Katie Darling | ![]() | The ketch foundered off Cardigan. Two crew were rescued by Elizabeth Austin (![]() |
Mill Boy | ![]() | The steamer was sunk by ice in the Missouri River two miles (3 km) east of Washington, Missouri.[2] |
3 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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New Haven | ![]() | The steamer was destroyed by ice at Uniontown, Kentucky.[3] |
4 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Emily | ![]() | The laid up steamer was sunk by ice at Portsmouth, Ohio.[3] |
5 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Farallon | ![]() | During a voyage from Valdez, District of Alaska, to Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands and way ports with eight passengers, a crew of 30, and a cargo of 30 tons of general merchandise aboard, the 749-gross register ton, 158.5-foot (48.3 m) passenger steamer was wrecked without loss of life on a reef in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the District of Alaska. Her passengers and crew survived for 29 days on an island until rescued by the steamer Victoria (flag unknown) on 3 February 1910.[4][5] |
6 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Dallas | ![]() | The U. S. Government steamer burned in the Trinity River just south of Dallas, Texas.[6] |
Edwin Terry | ![]() | The steamer ran aground in heavy fog on Man of War Rock in the East River off 42nd Street, New York City, New York, and sank.[7] |
7 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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J. C. Mallonee | ![]() | The steamer burned at Darien, Georgia.[2] |
8 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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American | ![]() | The tow steamer was sunk in a collision in the Delaware River off the League Island Navy Yard with Chicago (![]() |
9 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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New Haven | ![]() | The steamer struck a heavy drift and sank in the Tombigbee River just below Demopolis, Alabama.[9][10] |
10 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Edna | ![]() | The towing steamer, tied up at Pier 15 in the North River off 42nd Street, New York City, was holed by ice and sank. Later raised and repaired.[7] |
Leader | ![]() | The steamer was sunk by ice at Brandenburg, Kentucky, on the Ohio River.[3] |
11 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Hadrian | ![]() | The steamer was anchored in the Humber off Grimsby when it was struck by the German mail steamer Mecklenburg and sank within twenty minutes. One crew member, William Oliver, a fireman, drowned.[11] |
12 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Czarina | ![]() | The steamer foundered in heavy seas crossing the Coos Bay Bar. 23 crewmen and 1 passenger killed. One crewman was the sole survivor.[12] |
14 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Chatham | ![]() | The cargo ship sank partially submerged at the entrance to the St. Johns River, Florida, after striking the North Jerry.[13] |
City of Providence | ![]() | The steamer was pushed on to the river bank by ice in the Mississippi River just outside the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri. During an attempt to refloat her on 20 January she suddenly slipped off the bank and sank.[2] |
Florence | ![]() | The ferry steamer was pushed on to the river bank and wrecked by ice in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[2] |
15 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Annie O'Donnell | ![]() | The coal boat was sunk by ice off Barren Island, Brooklyn, in New York Bay.[14] |
16 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Tourist | ![]() | The steamer filled with water and sank at her dock on the Calumet River.[15] |
17 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Estelle Randall | ![]() | The steamer burned at Norfolk, Virginia. One crewman killed.[2] |
Florence Belle | ![]() | The laid up tow steamer was sunk by ice at Creighton, Pennsylvania, on the Allegheny River.[15] |
18 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Daylight | ![]() | The schooner was sunk in a collision with Anna W. (![]() |
Willard | ![]() | The steam tug was sunk by ice at Ambridge, Pennsylvania, on the Ohio River.[15] |
19 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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H. P. Dilworth | ![]() | The laid up tow steamer burned at Rices Landing, Pennsylvania.[15] |
Unknown scow | ![]() | A scow had to be beached after a collision with W. N. Bavier (![]() |
22 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Indefatigable | ![]() | Under tow from Falmouth, Cornwall to Cardiff by the tug Challenge, they hit heavy weather at Land's End and returned to Falmouth. During the night Indefatigable dragged her anchors and drifted ashore under St Mawes Castle. She was pulled off the rocks by tugs Briton, Dragon and Marian, towed to Falmouth Docks and sold for scrap.[17] |
James Moren | ![]() | The tow steamer collided with the wall of lock No. 5 at Freedom, Pennsylvania, and sank. Raised and repaired.[3] |
23 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Mertie B. Crowley | ![]() | Carrying a cargo of coal, the 297-foot (91 m), 2,824-gross register ton six-masted schooner was wrecked on Wasque Shoal off Wasque Point, or on Skiffs Island Shoal off Chappaquiddick, Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts. She broke up 2 February. Her captain, his wife and the rest of the crew were rescued from her masts.[18][19][20] |
Newburgh | ![]() | The barge was sunk in a collision with a lighter in the East River at Pier 52 in New York City.[16] |
24 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Archibald Watt | ![]() | The towing steamer was sunk in a collision with the propeller of Re D' Italia (![]() |
25 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Lloyd | ![]() | The motor vessel was crushed by ice in Carroll County, Missouri one mile (1.6 km) above Miami, Missouri.[2] |
26 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Unknown canal boat | ![]() | A canal boat, one of nine being towed by John Rugge (![]() |
29 January[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Echo | ![]() | The vessel struck a snag and sank at the entrance to the Trinity River. Raised on 2 February.[9] |
Southport | ![]() | The passenger steamer sank in a collision with Mercur (![]() |
February[edit]
1 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Betty Owen | ![]() | The steamer was damaged by grounding at Brookport, Illinois, but continued down stream. She was found later to be badly leaking and sank in shallow water and then caught fire and burned.[3] |
J. Henry Edmunds | ![]() | The schooner was sunk by a run away mud scow in the South Channel of New York Bay.[16] |
2 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Jewel | ![]() | The steamer burned at the mouth of the Green River.[3] |
3 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Diamond | ![]() | The passenger steamer grounded in the Ohio River near Elmsworth, Pennsylvania, she flooded and sank. Raised and repaired.[3] |
4 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Kentucky | ![]() | The steamer foundered off Hatteras, North Carolina, or over 200 miles (320 km) off Savanna, Georgia. All on board rescued by Alamo (![]() |
Rowena | ![]() | The steamer struck an obstruction at Ford's Island in the Cumberland River nine miles (14 km) below Burnside, Kentucky. She was beached on a sand bar and sank in shallow water. Raised, repaired and returned to service on 8 February.[2] |
5 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Tom Rees No. 2 | ![]() | The tow steamer sprung a leak in the Ohio River above Clusters Islands, she flooded and sank in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water.[3] |
6 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Martha Helen | ![]() | The towing steamer burned at Jacksonville, Florida. One crewman killed.[2] |
USS Nina | ![]() | The tugboat sank in a gale in 90 feet (27 m) of water on Fenwick Island Shoals 11 miles (18 km) north north east of Ocean City, Maryland. Lost with all 31 hands.[23][24][25] |
8 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Margaret Irving | ![]() | The canal boat was sunk by ice in Newark Bay between the Newark Bay Light and the Bell Buoy.[16] |
9 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Unknown barge | ![]() | A barge was sunk in a collision with A. C. Rose (![]() |
10 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Belle of the Bends | ![]() | The steamer either sank in a snowstorm, or ran aground in a snowstorm and sank after leaving Fitler's Landing, 20 miles (32 km) below Lake Providence, or after leaving Hayes Landing in the Mississippi River. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[23][26] |
Kentucky | ![]() | The steamer was abandoned in heavy seas in sinking conditions.[27] |
Restless | ![]() | The 9-gross register ton, 31-foot (9.4 m) yawl was wrecked off the northern end of Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. Her captain fell overboard and was lost about six hours before Restless was wrecked; the only other person aboard survived the wreck.[28] |
14 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Unknown barge | ![]() | The barge was damaged in a collision with City of Fall River (![]() |
16 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Magic City | ![]() | The steamer was sunk in a collision with Parthian (![]() |
Yucatan | ![]() | Sources differ on the details of the wreck of Yucatan. According to one source, during a voyage in the District of Alaska from Cordova to Juneau with 60 passengers and a crew of 84 aboard, the 3,525-gross register ton, 336-foot (102.4 m) schooner-rigged steamer was beached without loss of life to prevent her from sinking after an iceberg struck her bow and holed her hull while she was stopped off Mud Bay in Icy Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in the District of Alaska. Passengers were transferred to the steamer Georgia (![]() ![]() |
17 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Columbia | ![]() | The laid up passenger steamer burned at Camden, Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.[15] |
Minnie Georges | ![]() | The tug burned to the waterline in Sweet Bay Lake, Louisiana.[23] |
Queen City | ![]() | The steamer sank in the Chattahoochee River at a wharf at Columbus, Georgia.[27] |
19 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Arthur D. Bissell | ![]() | The canal boat was sunk by ice in the harbor at New Haven, Connecticut. Later raised.[32] |
21 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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C. H. Hugo | ![]() | The steamer sank at Memphis, Tennessee, from unknown causes.[3] |
23 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Champion | ![]() | The steamer sunk at her berth at Ironton, Ohio, due to a broke plank.[3] |
La Boulonaisse | ![]() | The 67-ton ship carrying cement from Boulogne to Saint Malo sank on a reef of the Chausey Islands Channel Islands. Five men were saved.[33] |
24 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Columbia | ![]() | The steamer burned at dock at Moss Side near Camden, Ohio.[23] |
25 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Orville A. Crandall | ![]() | The freighter was sunk by ice in the Branford River in eight feet (2.4 m) of water. Raised later.[32] |
Wisconsin | ![]() | The passenger-freighter burned to the waterline in the Chicago River.[34] |
26 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Columbia | ![]() | The steamer struck a snag and sank at Bayou Sara, Louisiana.[23] |
Unknown barges | ![]() | Three barges broke lose from their tow in Hell Gate and struck rocks causing one to sink near Hunt's Point and two of the barges to be beached.[16] |
27 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Earnest Rudolph | ![]() | The freighter burned and sank at the foot of 22nd Street, Bath Beach, New York.[14] |
Hugh J. Derby | ![]() | The barge foundered in heavy seas in Long Island Sound 1+1⁄4 miles (2 km) southeast of Bridgeport Light. Raised later.[32] |
Mamie | ![]() | The steamer sank at Memphis, Tennessee, from unknown causes. Raised 16 June.[3] |
28 February[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Nordenskjold | ![]() | The Russian wooden brigantine, on voyage from La Rochelle to Llanelly with a cargo of pit props, was wrecked in Belgrave Bay (Belle Grève), Guernsey Channel Islands.[35] |
March[edit]
2 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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M. Tuttle | ![]() | The laid up steam sand dredge was crushed by ice and sank at Perrysburg, Ohio, in the Maumee River.[36] |
3 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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No. 21 | ![]() | The canal boat was sunk in a collision with New York City Fire Department fireboat The New Yorker (![]() |
Tinsley Brothers | ![]() | The canal boat was sunk in a collision with New York City Fire Department Fireboat The New Yorker (![]() |
5 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Dove | ![]() | The motor boat caught fire and was scuttled at Enterprise, South Carolina.[2] |
6 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Geraldine | ![]() | The steamer was holed by a log in the Big Sandy River and was beached to prevent sinking.[3] |
7 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Hunter No. 2 | ![]() | The steamer burned in the Monongahela River above Dravosburg, Pennsylvania, due to a failure in the boiler.[15] |
Manhattan | ![]() | The steamer caught fire at Portland, Maine. She was towed away from dock and beached at South Portland where she burned to below the main deck. One crewman killed.[38] |
8 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Ann Arbor No. 1 | ![]() | The car ferry burned to the waterline while moored at Manitowoc, Wisconsin.[15][34][39][40] To extinguish the flames, she was scuttled in 15 feet (4.6 m) of water.[40] Deemed a hazard to navigation, she was refloated on 9 June 1911 and rebuilt as a sandsucker barge.[40] |
11 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Garrison | ![]() | The motor vessel was sunk by ice at Big Bend, North Dakota.[2] |
13 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Expansion | ![]() | The steamer was sunk by ice at Bismarck, North Dakota, on the Missouri River.[2] |
Harry | ![]() | The Brixham trawler was stranded at Porthcurno, Cornwall and taken in tow by the Sennen Cove lifeboat Ann Newbon (![]() |
15 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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R. L. Aubrey | ![]() | The steamer was sunk in the Ohio River when her boilers exploded off Arctic Springs, Indiana. One or 3 killed, and 3 or 5 injured.[42][39] |
21 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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William Fletcher | ![]() | The tow steamer's hull was holed by an unknown object causing her to sink in shallow water off Governor's Island. Later raised, repaired and returned to service.[37] |
25 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Frank | ![]() | The towing steamer sank at Jacksonville, Florida. Raised the next day.[2] |
28 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Stanley | ![]() | Carrying a cargo of 150 tons of salt, lumber, and provisions, the 355-gross register ton, 143.3-foot (43.7 m) schooner was wrecked at the entrance to Pavlof Harbor on Sanak Island in the Fox Islands in the eastern Aleutian Islands. Four of her eight crew members were lost.[43] |
30 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Iceland | ![]() | The sealer was crushed by ice off Newfoundland. As the crew abandoned her she was set on fire.[44][45] |
31 March[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Pericles | ![]() | The ocean liner struck an uncharted rock near Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia, and sank. All 238 passengers and 163 crew members abandoned ship safely. |
April[edit]
4 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Kensington | ![]() | The tow steamer was swept by a flood tide in Hell Gate into a dredge and scow at Mill Rock in the East River causing her to capsize and sink.[37] |
7 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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E. W. Edwards | ![]() | The steamer flooded and sank at Reedville, Virginia, due to water coming through the siphons. Refloated the next day[2] |
Estelle | ![]() | The motor launch was sunk in a collision with Pearl (![]() |
11 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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D. D. Calvin | ![]() | The steamer was destroyed by fire at Garden Island, Ontario.[46] |
12 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Unknown float | ![]() | A float sank in the East River at the foot of Grand Street, New York City from a hole in her hull.[37] |
15 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Notre Dame de Lourdes | ![]() | The ketch was driven ashore at Rhosilli, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew survived but the vessel subsequently broke up.[47] |
No. 6 | ![]() | The Type 6 submarine sank in 10 fathoms (60 ft; 18 m) of water in Hiroshima Bay off Kure due to a faulty ventilator valve. Lost with all 16 crew. Raised the next day, repaired and returned to service.[48] |
17 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Defiance | ![]() | The tow steamer, laid up at the foot of Court Street, Brooklyn, New York, was sunk when Henry Lee (![]() |
Henry Lee | ![]() | The tow steamer, laid up at the foot of Court Street, Brooklyn, New York, capsized on Defiance (![]() |
18 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Brabo | ![]() | The steamer ran aground on Hoburger, off the coast of Sweden.[49] |
Minnehaha | ![]() | The ocean liner ran aground on rocks in the Isles of Scilly. Refloated on 13 May and returned to service after repairs were made. |
19 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Gypsum | ![]() | The steamer struck rocks in the East River at Hell Gate and sank.[14] |
Reliable | ![]() | The tug ran aground in the harbor of East New Rochelle. She was then hit by three scows she was towing, causing her to over turn. This caused a stove to overturn and the resulting fire destroyed the tug.[32] |
Sonoma | ![]() | The steamer sank in 6 feet (1.8 m) of water below Luke Chute on the Muskingum River.[15] |
22 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Unknown motor boat | ![]() | A motor boat capsized and sank in a collision with a barge in the Cuyahoga River. One of five on board was killed.[50] |
25 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Kate | ![]() | The tug burned above the Soo Rapids.[46] |
29 April[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Bob Dudley | ![]() | The steamer sank at Nashville, Tennessee. Later raised and repaired.[3] |
May[edit]
3 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Santuree | ![]() | The steamer collided with Ligonier (![]() |
11 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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City of Saltillo | ![]() | The steamer struck rocks on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River near Glen Cove, Missouri, and sank. 7 passengers and 5 crewmen killed.[2] |
10 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Ford City | ![]() | The steamer rolled over and sank while being hauled out for dry docking at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Raised and repaired.[15] |
Lizzie S. Sorenson | ![]() | The 76.1-gross register ton, 84.2-foot (25.7 m) motor whaling schooner sank in Iphigenia Bay (55°26′15″N 133°24′15″W / 55.43750°N 133.40417°W) in Southeast Alaska 8 nautical miles (15 km) southwest of Cape Addington (55°26′28.1″N 133°49′03″W / 55.441139°N 133.81750°W) after a whale her crew had harpooned rammed her and stove in her hull. Her crew of seven reached shore in a ship's boat, and the tug Fearless (![]() |
13 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Eddie A. Minot | ![]() | The fishing schooner sank in a collision with J. S. T. Stranahan (![]() |
14 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Reliable | ![]() | The steamer sank at her dock in the Milwaukee River.[15] |
Saint Michael #6 | ![]() | The 240-ton barge was destroyed by ice on the Tanana River in the central part of the District of Alaska.[43] |
15 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Brittania | ![]() | The barge was stranded on Block Island, Rhode Island, after colliding with her tow, the Tug Bay City (![]() |
Wear | ![]() | The British steel cargo ship Wear, built in 1905 by Austin S. P. & Son Ltd. and owned at the time of her loss by Witherington & Everett SS Co., on voyage from Sunderland to Saint-Servan with a cargo of coal, was wrecked on the west coast of Guernsey Channel Islands. There were no casualties.[33][53] |
17 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Faustin | ![]() | The steamer sank in heavy weather in 14 feet (4.3 m) of water in Lake Erie off Barr Point one mile (1.6 km) east of the Barr Point Lightship. Ship was raised.[54] |
Forel | ![]() | The submarine sank accidentally. All crew members escaped. Forel later was salvaged and scrapped. |
18 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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J. Marhoffer | ![]() | The steamer burned 14 miles (23 km) north of the Yaquina Lighthouse on the Oregon coast. One crewman killed.[12] |
Uncle Sam | ![]() | The passenger steamer was beached and sank after a collision with a dredge and scow at Kansas City, Missouri.[2] |
19 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Cisco | ![]() | The fishing tug caught fire ten miles (16 km) west of Sleeping Bear Point, Lake Michigan. Her crew was unable to put out the fire and the vessel was run aground one-half mile (0.8 km) offshore.[15][46] |
C. M. Johnston | ![]() | The steamer sank at the mouth of the White River.[3] |
20 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Union | ![]() | The steamer burned in Hood's Canal, Thorndyke Bay.[14] |
21 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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John B. Ketchum No.2 | ![]() | The steamer struck the east crib of the Neebish Cut in the St. Marys River and sank. Raised and taken to Bay City, Michigan, for repairs.[50] |
23 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Frank H. Goodyear | ![]() | The steamer broke in two and sunk in a collision in thick fog with James B. Wood (![]() |
James S. T. Stranahan | ![]() | The steamer caught fire in the East River, and was abandoned. She drifted near Clasons Point, Bronx and sank.[14] |
24 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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USS Dewey | ![]() | The drydock sank at the U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay, Philippines, while filled to receive a Torpedo Boat. Refloated on 29 June undamaged.[57][58] |
25 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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James T. Morse | ![]() | The steamer was sunk in a collision by Belfast (![]() |
Mizpah | ![]() | The 64-gross register ton, 70-foot (21.3 m) motor schooner was destroyed by an explosion and fire at Kvichak (58°58′N 156°56′W / 58.967°N 156.933°W) on the Bristol Bay coast of the District of Alaska.[59] |
26 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Pluviôse | ![]() | The submarine sank with the loss of her entire crew of 27 after colliding with the packet boat Pas de Calais (![]() |
28 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Paul L | ![]() | The steamer sank at a dock at Oshkosh, Wisconsin.[15] |
30 May[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Forward | ![]() | The schooner foundered in Kewaunee Bay, Lake Michigan.[46] |
Olivia | ![]() | The fishing trawler was hit by the torpedo boat destroyer HMS Quail (![]() |
June[edit]
1 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Evergreen | ![]() | The steamer sank with 4 feet (1.2 m) of water on her deck at Buffalo, West Virginia.[15] |
4 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Lucy V. | ![]() | The inland passenger steamer burned at Bucksport, South Carolina.[2] |
7 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Bertha | ![]() | The 13-gross register ton motor schooner was crushed in ice in the Bering Sea 22 nautical miles (41 km) west of Carter (59°17′N 161°56′W / 59.283°N 161.933°W) on the west-central coast of the District of Alaska. Her crew of three survived. She drifted ashore on 20 June and her gasoline engine was salvaged, but otherwise she was a total loss.[61] |
Biscayne | ![]() | The steamer sank in 3+1⁄2 feet (1 m) of water. Location unknown.[2] |
Felix de Abasolo | ![]() | Carrying a cargo of coal, she ran aground in dense fog on Les Boufresses reef just north of Île de Raz Alderney Channel Islands and broke her back.[62][63] |
8 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Rover | ![]() | The steamer was rolled and wrecked by a tow towed by Henry Lourey (![]() |
Unknown scow | ![]() | A scow was sunk by an obstruction off Round Rock, Branford, Connecticut.[32] |
9 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Apache | ![]() | The steam yacht sank in shallow water after hitting the breakwater while leaving Cleveland, Ohio.[50] |
10 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Black Prince | ![]() | The steamer struck a snag in the Skagit River and sank. Later raised and repaired.[14] |
Majestic | ![]() | The barge sank 14 miles (23 km) south southeast of the Highland Light, New Jersey. The barge's captain was killed when her lifeboat capsized, everyone else was rescued by the barge's tow steamer Harold (![]() |
11 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Cape Girardeau | ![]() | The steamer struck an obstruction in the Mississippi River near Turkey Island. She was beached, but sank.[2] |
Rap | ![]() | The Norwegian cargo ship was on a voyage from Newcastle to Gibraltar with a cargo of coal, when she was wrecked, off Alderney, Channel Islands.[64] |
Terra | ![]() | En route from the Port of Tyne to Genoa with a cargo of coal. She ran aground in fog at Chateau Letoc, Alderney Channel Islands[63][65] |
Unknown barge | ![]() | A barge sank in a collision with Bornu (![]() |
15 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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J. Dallas Marviel | ![]() | The sailing vessel was sunk in a collision with Everett (![]() |
16 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Norumbega | ![]() | The schooner collided with Mills (![]() |
18 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
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Cheapside | ![]() | The collier collided with the armoured cruiser HMS King Alfred off Start Point and sank. King Alfred received little damage.[66][67][68] |
Linn O-Dee | ![]() | The iron cargo ship, on voyage from Portsmouth to Guernsey in ballast, ran aground in fog and was wrecked at La Lague on Burhou Island, close to Alderney, Channel Islands.[69] |
19 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Lola | ![]() | The steamer filled with water after hitting bottom in Calumet Lake and sank in 3+1⁄2 feet (1.1 m) of water.[15] |
20 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
William C. Redfield | ![]() | The steamer burned at Athens, New York.[9] |
21 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Joe Mathews | ![]() | During a voyage from Nome to Golovin, District of Alaska, with 19 passengers, a crew of three, and a cargo of 15 tons of lumber on board, the 31-gross register ton, 45.8-foot (14.0 m) motor vessel was destroyed by ice in Norton Sound 3 nautical miles (6 km) northwest of Cape Darby (64°19′N 162°47′W / 64.317°N 162.783°W). All on board survived.[70] |
23 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Zelandia | ![]() | The vessel sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea 100 nautical miles (190 km) off the Danish coast.[71] |
24 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
C. W. Elphicke | ![]() | The tugboat was sunk at Michigan City when United States (![]() |
25 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
J. S. | ![]() | The steamer burned in the Mississippi River at Victory, Wisconsin. Two passengers killed.[2] |
26 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Poughkeepsie | ![]() | The steamer burned at Highland, New York.[9] |
27 June[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Albania | ![]() | The tugboat burned in the Sabine-Neches Canal.[27] |
Unknown date[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Bob | ![]() | The 8-ton, 33.9-foot (10.3 m) schooner sank at Juneau, District of Alaska, and became a total loss.[61] |
Raymond | ![]() | The Tug sank in the Connecticut River near Middlehaddam, Connecticut, probably in June.[52] |
July[edit]
9 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Annie E. Smale | ![]() | The schooner was wrecked in dense fog at Point Reyes, California. Everyone on board was rescued from their lifeboat by F. M. Plant (![]() |
10 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Charles Castle | ![]() | The steamer sank at her dock at the foot of Eighth Street, Detroit, Michigan.[15] |
11 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
USS Castine | ![]() | The submarine tender was beached near North Truro, Massachusetts, after a collision with USS Bonita (![]() |
13 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Helen Blair | ![]() | The steamer struck an obstruction in the Mississippi River 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) below Davenport, Iowa, and sank in 7 feet (2.1 m) of water. She was raised and repaired.[2] |
14 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
D. F. Skinner | ![]() | The tug caught fire one mile (1.6 km) off Hart's Island and was beached there, and was destroyed.[32] |
17 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Beatrice | ![]() | The motor boat was sunk in a collision with Sadie (![]() |
KSL Co. Barge No. 7 | ![]() | While under tow from Cape Blossom to Kiwalik, District of Alaska, the 23-ton barge flooded, parted her hawser, and sank in Kotzebue Sound five nautical miles (9 km) south of Chamisso Island.[72] |
19 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Admiral Clark | ![]() | The barge struck a sunken log in the Delaware River near the Bordentown Bar and sank.[8] |
C. F. Roe | ![]() | The tow steamer burned off Sewaren, New Jersey.[14] |
20 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Dode | ![]() | ![]() |
21 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Trude R. Wiehe | ![]() | The steamer ran aground on Parker's Reef in heavy smoke. Burned the next day. Crew rescued by Field (![]() |
22 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Mollie | ![]() | The tow steamer, laid up for repairs, burned in the Delaware River at Cramer Hill, New Jersey, from an exploding lamp.[73] |
25 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
San Joaquin No. 3 | ![]() | The steamer burned, probably in the San Francisco, California, area.[12] |
26 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Johnstown | ![]() | The laid up tow steamer sank at her dock at 10th Street, Hoboken, New Jersey.[14] |
27 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Arthur W. Palmer | ![]() | The tow steamer sank at her dock at Pacific Street, Brooklyn, New York.[14] |
USRC Commodore Perry | ![]() | The revenue cutter ran aground during dense fog off Tonki Point on St. Paul Island in the Pribilof Islands. All hands were rescued.[74] |
H. F. Bucs | ![]() | The tug sprang a leak in heavy weather on Lake Erie off Point Pelee and sank. Crew made it to shore in her yawl.[54][46] |
28 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
William H. McCleve | ![]() | The barge foundered 5 miles (8.0 km) off Noves Point, Rhode Island.[9] |
29 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Helen Johnson | ![]() | The 39-ton, 58-foot (17.7 m) fishing vessel sank in the Chukchi Sea seven nautical miles (13 km) east of Point Hope, District of Alaska, after being ground to pieces over the course of five days by ice she was trapped in during a gale. The revenue cutter USRC Bear (![]() |
30 July[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Grace Whitney | ![]() | The barge was sunk in a collision with Ogdensburg (![]() |
William Marvel | ![]() | The lighter was engaged in launching fireworks off the Manhattan Beach Hotel, New York that impaired visibility to the extent that she struck a rock and sank.[14] |
August[edit]
1 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Albion | ![]() | The freighter was damaged in a collision with Chippewa (![]() |
2 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
James Rolph | ![]() | The four-masted schooner ran aground in San Pablo Bay, near San Francisco. No lives lost and the ship was later stripped of salvageable components and abandoned. |
3 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Sea Gannett | ![]() | The yacht burned 22 miles (35 km) off Barnegat, New Jersey. All aboard rescued by Joseph A. Fordney (![]() |
4 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Newark | ![]() | The motor schooner was sunk in a collision with Crowley Launch No. 5 (![]() |
5 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Princess May | ![]() | ![]() |
9 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
USS Marcellus | ![]() | The collier was rammed by the fruit steamer Rosario di Giorgio (![]() |
13 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Martha Wilkes | ![]() | During a voyage from Anadyr on the Siberian coast of the Russian Empire to Nome, District of Alaska, with a crew of three and a cargo of 1,000 pounds (450 kg) of furs and hides on board, the 67-ton, 80-foot (24.4 m) schooner was wrecked in fog, high winds, and heavy seas on Cape Bering on the southwest coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in Siberia. Siberian natives rescued her crew on 14 August.[59] |
14 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Fidelio | ![]() | The yawl-rigged yacht sank in a collision with Vigilant (![]() |
16 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Sesnon #6 | ![]() | While anchored off Nome, District of Alaska, with no cargo or crew aboard, the 16-ton barge broke loose from her moorings during a gale, was driven onto the beach four nautical miles (7 km) west of Nome, and was broken apart by waves.[43] |
Sesnon #7 | ![]() | While anchored off Nome, District of Alaska, with no cargo or crew aboard, the 21-ton barge broke loose from her moorings during a gale and was pounded to pieces by waves against a wharf on the Nome waterfront.[43] |
17 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
SMS S32 | ![]() | The torpedo boat sank after colliding with the torpedo boat SMS S76 (![]() |
SMS S76 | ![]() | The torpedo boat sank after colliding with the torpedo boat SMS S32 (![]() |
19 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Walter Needham | ![]() | The steamer sank in 12 feet (3.7 m) of water at Metropolis, Illinois.[3] |
20 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Geraldine | ![]() | The steamer burned at the entrance to the Little Kanawha River at Petersburg, West Virginia.[15] |
Plymouth | ![]() | The steamer was holed by a log 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) from Greensboro, Maryland, and sank. Later raised.[2] |
21 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
HMS Bedford | ![]() | The Monmouth-class armoured cruiser was wrecked at Quelpart Island in the East China Sea with 18 men killed. The wreck was sold on 10 October for breaking up. |
C. G. Witbeck | ![]() | The laid up ferry burned in the canal basin in Watervliet, New York.[9] |
24 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Sun Ray | ![]() | The motor launch was sunk in Newark Bay in a collision with Majestic (![]() |
26 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Brazoria | ![]() | The freighter was struck by a large swell crossing the bar into Absecon Inlet resulting in the ship flooding and losing steerage. The ship hit a breakwater and broke in two after being abandoned by the crew.[73] |
Pearly Mae | ![]() | The steamer burned in North West Creek, North Carolina.[2] |
27 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Geo. Chambers | ![]() | The canal boat was sunk in a collision on the Stone House Bar.[9] |
28 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Mars | ![]() | The steamer struck an obstruction in the Mississippi River near St. Paul, Minnesota, and sank in six feet (1.8 m) of water. She was raised and repaired.[2] |
29 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
West Point | ![]() | The cargo steamship caught fire in the North Atlantic on 27 August, and her crew abandoned her in two lifeboats the next day. She sank on 29 August at position 42°20′N 44°10′W / 42.333°N 44.167°W or 45°43′N 40°41′W / 45.717°N 40.683°W (accounts differ). Devonian and RMS Mauretania rescued all of her crew.[81][82][83][84] |
31 August[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Louie | ![]() | The tug sprang a leak and sank at Baltimore, Maryland. Later raised.[2] |
Marie-Reine | ![]() | The ship caught fire at Thessalonika, Greece and sank.[85] |
September[edit]
1 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Leif Erickson | ![]() | The fishing schooner was sunk in a collision with Chesapeake (![]() |
2 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Breeze | ![]() | The passenger vessel sank in a collision with North America (![]() |
Luella | ![]() | The 8-gross register ton motor vessel was driven ashore by a gale and ice and wrecked at North Head in Saint Lawrence Bay on the coast of Siberia.[51] |
3 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Pauline | ![]() | The steamer sprung a leak off Fort Diamond, New York, and was beached.[86] |
4 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Bristol | ![]() | The barge sank in a collision in thick fog with Dunneman (![]() |
5 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Pastime | ![]() | The tow steamer sank at Pennsylvania Lock No. 5 in the Monongahela River, possibly from too much coal aboard. Raised immediately.[15] |
William Cory | ![]() | ![]() The cargo steamship, carrying a cargo of timber from Uleaborg to Newport, South Wales was wrecked at the foot of Boscaswell Cliff, near Pendeen Lighthouse.[87][88] |
6 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Robert White | ![]() | The laid up steamer sprung a leak and sank at the Atlantic Dock, Brooklyn, New York.[86] |
7 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Rosa | ![]() | The submarine HMS A11 (![]() |
8 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Kellogg | ![]() | The scow foundered at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 12 nautical miles (22 km) north west of Little Point au Sable.[46][90] |
9 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Pere Marquette 18 | ![]() | ![]() ![]() |
Protector | ![]() | The tug inadvertently flooded and sank when a seacock was accidentally left open at Charleston, South Carolina.[2] |
10 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
M. P. Howlett | ![]() | The canal boat foundered in Woodbury Creek.[73] |
11 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Pilot | ![]() | The tug was destroyed by fire somewhere in the Great Lakes.[76] |
12 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Joseph Peene Sr. | ![]() | The vessel was sunk by a broken sea valve at Yonkers, New York.[9] |
16 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Unknown scow | ![]() | A dump scow capsized and sank after being hit by a wake in Lake Erie off Buffalo, New York.[36] |
18 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Thomas Quayle | ![]() | The schooner was lost to fire at Cleveland, Ohio.[76][91] |
19 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Wildwood | ![]() | The steamer burned at Leschi Park in Lake Washington.[14] |
20 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
KSL Co. Barge No. 4 | ![]() | With no crew or cargo aboard, the 23-gross register ton barge parted her anchor line in strong winds and heavy seas and was stranded on the coast of the Disrict of Alaska in Willow Bay (66°05′N 162°21′W / 66.083°N 162.350°W) in Kotzebue Sound 12 nautical miles (22 km) northeast of Deering. Ice destroyed her during the winter of 1910–1911, ending her owner's hope of salvaging her in the spring of 1911.[72][92] |
22 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Dunbar | ![]() | The steamer sank in the Wolf River at Memphis, Tennessee. She was raised.[3] |
Duplin | ![]() | The inland passenger steamer sank at Sanderson's Mill, South Carolina, in the North East River, South Carolina.[2] |
Sallie Marmet | ![]() | The steamer sank in nine feet (2.7 m) of water in the Ohio River at Gallipolis Island after hitting an obstruction.[15] |
23 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Bethlehem | ![]() | The steamer ran aground in rain and fog on the west side of South Manitou Island, Michigan. Refloated on 4 October and taken to Manitowoc, Wisconsin.[15] |
24 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Brilliant | ![]() | The steamer sank at the Hunter's Point Bridge, Newtown Creek, when a water tank being filled overflowed and swamped the ship. Raised the next day.[80] |
25 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Rosamand | ![]() | The yacht burned at Moose Hollow, New York.[9] |
26 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Greenwood | ![]() | The steamer was holed by an obstruction and sank in 4+1⁄2 feet (1.4 m) of water at Riverton, Kentucky.[3] |
27 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
The Leader | ![]() | The tow steamer burned in the Ohio River at Economy, Pennsylvania.[15] |
28 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Chester | ![]() | The passenger-cargo ship was badly damaged in a collision in the River Elbe with a Swedish steamer and was beached to prevent her from sinking.[93] However, she sank quickly into the soft moving sand and became a total wreck, the water having flooded her holds.[94] |
29 September[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Catherine Davis | ![]() | The steamer sank in seven feet (2.1 m) of water at the foot of Ninth Street, Huntington, West Virginia, after hitting an obstruction.[15] |
Unknown date[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Arctic | ![]() | The vessel was lost off Cape Douglas of the coast of the District of Alaska. The wreck report does not specify whether the incident occurred off Cape Douglas (58°51′N 153°15′W / 58.850°N 153.250°W) on the northeast coast of the Alaska Peninsula or Cape Douglas (65°00′N 166°42′W / 65.000°N 166.700°W) on the Bering Sea 51 nautical miles (94 km) northwest of Nome.[95] |
California | ![]() | The steamer was wrecked in Ward Cove off the western coast of Revillagigedo Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[96] |
Luella | ![]() | The 115-gross register ton, 90-foot (27.4 m) sternwheel paddle steamer was lost on the Tanana River near Chena, District of Alaska.[51] |
October[edit]
1 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
L. L. Barth | ![]() | The steamer sprung a leak near Muskegon, Michigan. She put into harbor where she ran aground in 15 feet (4.6 m) of water.[15] |
New York | ![]() | The steamer foundered in Lake Huron 20 miles (32 km) off South Point, or Thunder Bay, Michigan, in Lake Huron. The crew was rescued by Mataafa and the barge Alex Holley (both ![]() |
2 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
New York | ![]() | The laid up steamer burned at Berkley Dock.[2] |
Phenix | ![]() | The steamer sprang a leak and was beached at South Bay Point, Lake Ontario and was abandoned. Later refloated and towed to Ogdensburg, New York.[36] |
4 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Frank L. Vance | ![]() | The steamer burned on Lake Superior off Ludington, Michigan.[15][76] |
6 October[edit]
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Muskegon | ![]() | The steamer burned at Michigan City, Indiana.[15] |