List of shipwrecks in 1906

The list of shipwrecks in 1906 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1906.

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1906
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Unknown date

January

12 January

List of shipwrecks: January 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Itata	United Kingdom	Itata The barque was destroyed by fire at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. She later was scuttled in Saltpan Creek, Middle Harbour, Sydney, Australia.

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Aquidabã	Marinha do Brasil	The battleship sank after an explosion in her magazines with the loss of 212 lives.

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Valencia	United States	SS Valencia The passenger steamer ran aground off Pachena Point, British Columbia, Canada, with the loss of at least 136 lives.

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Regulator	United States	Regulator The sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by an explosion and fire while undergoing an overhaul on the ways at St. Johns, Oregon. Two crew members were killed.

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Agnes	Australia	The launch sank after a collision in Sydney Harbour.

February

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1906

Ship	Country	Description
L'Avenir	Belgium	The steamer was wrecked 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Flamborough Head, England.[1]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Stainburn	United Kingdom	The Workington collier almost wrecked on the Runnelstone, off Gwennap Head, Cornwall and caught fire. Managed to make her way to Penzance where she was repaired.[2]
Buller	United Kingdom	St Ives pilot boat, with seven pilots on board, capsized, in St Ives Bay, Cornwall when she was hit by a schooner, throwing all her occupants into the water. No fatalities.[3]

March

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Ocean Queen	United Kingdom	The steamer was wrecked on the south coast of Guernsey during a voyage from London to Jersey carrying cement and general argo.[4][5]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1906

Ship	Country	Description
xxxx	Norway	The ship foundered off Cardigan Island, Cardiganshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[6] -->

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Olympian	United States	The sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked at Possession Bay, Chile, while under tow by the steamer Zealandia (flag unknown).

18 March

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Athen	Germany	The cargo ship was wrecked at Portland Bill, United Kingdom.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date March 1906

Ship	Country	Description
SMS Albatross	Kaiserliche Marine	The collier foundered in a storm.

April

30 April

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Courier II	United Kingdom	The steamer struck Les Anons, a rock south of Jethou.[7] There were 29 survivors and 10 deaths. The ship was salvaged on 1 August 1906 and returned to service after repairs.[8]

May

19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Comte de Smet de Meyer	Belgium	The training ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay (47°12′N 12°10′W / 47.200°N 12.167°W) on her second voyage with the loss of 33 crew.[9]

29 May

List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Leros	Germany	The steamer was en route from Newcastle to Lisbon with a cargo of Singer sewing machines when she ran aground in thick fog on Tasse de la Frette Rocks, NW Burhou near Alderney Channel Islands.[10][11]

30 May

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1906

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Montagu	Royal Navy	HMS Montagu aground on Lundy Island The Duncan-class battleship was wrecked on Lundy Island. Salvage was abandoned in 1907 and the ship was scrapped in situ.

July

11 July

List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Angola	United Kingdom	The Elder Dempster 1,811 grt steamship was on a voyage from Vera Cruz to Montreal when she ran aground and was wrecked when 6 nautical miles (11 km) East of Louisburg, Nova Scotia.[12]

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Maggie Schultz	Belgium	The steamer foundered 80 nautical miles (150 km) off Bilbao, Spain.[1]

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Marjorie J. Sumner	Canada	The schooner capsized at Eatonville, Nova Scotia during unloading. Subsequently salvage, repaired and returned to service.[13]

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Socoa	France	Socoa aground off Cadgwith. Plumes of steam from pumps being used to refloat her can be seen. The three-masted full-rigged sailing ship was stranded off Kildonan Point, Lizard Point, in dense fog. She was re-floated after jettisoning 50,000 barrels of cement and beached in Cadgwith Cove. She was later towed round to Falmouth and repaired.[14]

August

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Sirio	Italy	Painting The Sinking of the SS Sirio, by Benedito Calixto. The passenger steamer was wrecked on the Punta Hormigas, a reef off Hormigas Island east of of Cape Palos, Cartagena, Spain, with the loss of at least 150 – and perhaps as many as 400 – lives.[15][16][17] The steamer Marie Louise ( France) and the merchant ships Joven Migeul and Vicente Llicano (both flag unknown) were among ships rescuing survivors.

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Forth	United Kingdom	The steamer ran aground in thick fog and was wrecked on Long Pierre Rock off Herm, Channel Islands, whilst on passage from Middlesbrough to St. Malo.[18][19]

23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Primrose	United Kingdom	On a journey from her home port of Garston with a cargo of coal, the steamer hit the Low Lee rocks, Mount's Bay in thick fog one mile from her destination, Newlyn.[20]

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Princess	Canada	The steamboat foundered off George Island in Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in August 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Cingalese	Norway	The full-rigged ship was dismasted and abandoned in the Indian Ocean. She was on a voyage from Zanzibar to Hamburg, Germany. Cingalese was later towed in to East London, South Africa, where she was scrapped in 1907.[21]

September

13 September

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Oregon	United States	The coastal passenger/cargo ship was wrecked on the coast at Cape Hinchinbrook, Alaska, without loss of life. A small party took a lifeboat to Valdez, Alaska, to seek help; the remaining 110 people stranded aboard the wreck were rescued by the cutter USRC Columbine ( United States Revenue Cutter Service).

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1906

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Phoenix	Royal Navy	HMS Phoenix The Phoenix-class steel screw sloop foundered alongside a coaling pier in Hong Kong during a typhoon.

25 September

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Columbian	Canada	The sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by an explosion and fire on the Yukon River at Eagle Rock in the Yukon Territory in Canada, killing six members of the 25-man crew.

October

25 October

List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Peter Iredale	United Kingdom	Peter Iredale, 1906 The barque was wrecked at Clatsop Spit, Oregon.

November

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Galena	United Kingdom	Galena The barquentine was wrecked at the mouth of the Columbia River.

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Dix	United States	The steamboat sank after a collision with the steam-powered schooner Jeannie ( United States). Over 45 lives lost.

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Montobello	France	The barque ran aground in South Australia on the south coast of Kangaroo Island near the mouth of the Stun Sail Boom River, whilst on passage from Hobart to Port Pirie.[22]

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Lurline	United States	The paddle steamer was rammed and sunk at Rainier, Oregon, by the steam schooner Cascade. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[23][24]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Little Malta	United Kingdom	The steam trawler sank in the Teifi Estuary.[6]

December

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Monarch	United States	The bow section of SS Monarch. The passenger-package freighter strayed off course and was wrecked when she ran into the palisade area on the north side of Blake Point on Isle Royale in Lake Superior at full speed at night with the loss of one life. All other passengers and crew evacuated safely onto Isle Royale, where they camped for four days until rescued on 10 December 1906. During the night of 11–12 December 1906, the wreck broke into two pieces, leaving only the bow section visible.[25][26][27]

16 December

List of shipwrecks: 16 December 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Prinzessin Victoria Luise	Germany	The passenger ship ran aground off Kingston, Jamaica, and was declared a constructive total loss.

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Cap Juby	Belgium	The steamer sank after colliding with the steamer Arlington ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel 15 nautical miles (28 km) off Dungeness, Kent, United Kingdom.[9]

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Tilley	United Kingdom	The ketch sprang a leak in the Bristol Channel and was abandoned. Her three crew were rescued by Ragusa 2 ( United Kingdom).[28]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Bergen	Norway	The lifeboat was lost during a rescue operation off Stave, Andøya, Norway.[29]
Ina Mactavish	United Kingdom	The coaster sank. She was refloated, lengthened and repaired, and returned to service.
Polly	United States	The steam tug sank in the Yukon River.

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See also

Ship events in 1906
Ship launches:	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911
Ship commissionings:	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911
Ship decommissionings:	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911
Shipwrecks:	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911