List of shipwrecks in 1907

The list of shipwrecks in 1907 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1907.

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1907
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Unknown date

January

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Alice Gertrude	United States	The wooden steamship was wrecked while attempting to enter Clallam Bay, Washington, during a severe snowstorm. All passengers and crew were rescued by the tugs Lorne and Wyadda and the passenger steamer Rosalie (all  United States).
Welcome	United States	The sternwheel passenger paddle steamerbroke her moorings on the Coquille River on Oregon during high water, drifted into trees, and was wrecked.

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Patricia	Greece	Collided with Moringen ( Norway) off the Haisboro' Light, England and sank.[1]

19 January

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Marie Thérese	France	The brigantine was wrecked on the Helwick Sands, in the Bristol Channel. Her eight crew survived. She was on a voyage from Arcachon, Loire-Atlantique to Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[2]
Naworth Castle	United Kingdom	The steamer collided with the ocean liner Vaderland ( Belgium) in the English Channel off the Goodwin Sands and sank.[1]

February

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Portland	United Kingdom	The Clyde Shipping Company owned cargo ship collided with and was run down by Welshman near Greenock. She was carrying a cargo of whisky valued at £8,000[3]

11 February

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Jean Bart	French Navy	The protected cruiser was wrecked at Ras Nouadhibou, French West Africa.

17 February

List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Marguerite Mirabaud	France	The barque ran aground and was wrecked in fog close to Glenledi, on the southeast coast of New Zealand, while carrying wine and coal briquettes from La Rochelle to Tahiti. All lives saved.[4]

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Berlin	United Kingdom	The steam ferry ran aground, broke apart, and sank on the granite breakwater at the entrance to the New Waterway, Hook of Holland. 128 souls lost, 15 saved.

March

3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Dakota	United States	SS Dakota The Great Northern Steamship Company steamer was wrecked on a reef in the Pacific Ocean off Yokohama, Japan. All passengers and crew were evacuated using her lifeboats. She later was scrapped on site.

4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Congo	United Kingdom	The Elder Dempster 1,687 grt cargo/passenger ship was sunk after colliding with an unknown vessel near Borkum, Netherlands.[5]

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Gymnote	French Navy	The submarine ran aground. She was refloated, but later sank while drydocked for repairs, was deemed uneconomical to repair, and was scrapped.

7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Dundonald	United Kingdom	The barque ran aground on Disappointment Island in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand and sank. Twelve of crew drowned, and one other subsequently died. The remaining 15 crew members were shipwrecked for seven months until rescued by the government steamer NZGSS Hinemoa ( New Zealand).

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Iéna	French Navy	The battleship was destroyed by an on-board explosion caused by the spontaneous ignition of nitrocellulose while in drydock at Toulon, France, killing 118. Burning fragments started a small fire aboard the battleship Suffren in an adjacent drydock.

17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Suevic	United Kingdom	The wreck of Suevic White Star Line vessel ran aground on Lizard Point, Cornwall, England on 17 March 1907. Four lifeboats saved 456 people from the wreck, the largest number ever saved by the Royal Naval Lifeboat Instituton from a single vessel. Her wreck later was blown in half by salvagers using dynamite. Her stern section was taken to Southampton to be attached to a new bow. The old bow was left on the rocks.[6]

18 March

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Jebba	United Kingdom	The steamer ran aground at Bolt Tail and wrecked.[7]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Fairhaven	USA	The sternwheel paddle steamer was blown onto the dock at Coupeville, Washington, during a gale, and then on to the shore, suffering substantial damage. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

April

1 April

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Hereford	Norway	The barque was wrecked at Hatteras Island, North Carolina, United States with the loss of three of her crew. Survivors were rescued by Olivemore (flag unknown). Hereford was on a voyage from Pensacola, Florida to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

19 April

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1907

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Ariel	Royal Navy	The destroyer was wrecked when she struck a breakwater outside Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta. All of her crew survived and were rescued by the destroyer Bruiser ( Royal Navy).[8]

May

15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Marie-Therese	Belgium	Foundered 60 nautical miles (110 km) off Toulon, France.[9]

20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Chanzy	French Navy	The Amiral Charner-class armored cruiser was wrecked without loss of life in heavy fog on rocks off Ballard Island in the Chusan Islands while departing Shanghai, China. Her crew abandoned the wreck on 1 June, and French Navy cruisers demolished it on 12 June.
Izaro	Spain	The steamer ran aground at the foot of Tomlin Rock, St Bees.[10]

June

10 June

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Bougainville	France	The schooner sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Bristol Channel 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Oxwich Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. She subsequently foundered.[2]

July

4 July

List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Arthur	Norway	The barque was wrecked off Bremnes, Norway.[1]

16 July

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Toro	Argentina	The cargo ship was wrecked off Chile.[11]

19 July

List of shipwrecks: 19 July 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Fido	Norway	Fido aground off Tweed Heads, NSW The 1,433 GRT cargo and passenger ship was wrecked on a reef off Cook's Island, near Tweed Heads on the border between New South Wales Queensland.[12]

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Columbia	United States	Columbia sinking after colliding with San Pedro San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company, collided with the steam schooner San Pedro ( United States) in dense fog off Shelter Cove, California. Columbia subsequently sank, killing 88 people. Although badly damaged and flooded, San Pedro remained afloat. The survivors of the Columbia were rescued by the San Pedro and transferred to the coastal liner George W. Elder ( United States) and the steamship Roanoke ( United States).[13]

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Brothers	United Kingdom	The ketch foundered off Cardigan. Her three crew were rescued by Elizabeth Austin ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[14]

August

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Silberhorn	United Kingdom	The barque was sighted on fire and abandoned. She was on a voyage from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia to Iquique, Chile. Presumed subsequently foundered.[15]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date August 1907

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Commonwealth	Royal Navy	The King Edward VII-class battleship ran aground. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[16]

September

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Metamora	Canada	The wreck of Metamora on 27 August 2010. The tug struck a shallow shoal in Georgian Bay just west of Turning Island, near Pointe au Baril, Ontario, Canada, caught fire, and sank at 45°31′43.39″N 80°24′26.61″W / 45.5287194°N 80.4073917°W. All aboard swam to safety.

October

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Volund	Norway	The ship ran aground at Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia, Dominion of Canada. She was on a voyage from Windsor, Nova Scotia to New York, United States.[17]

11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Aagot	Norway	Aagot The three-masted square-rigged sailing ship was wrecked on Wardang Island in the Spencer Gulf off the western coast of the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.
Cyprus	United States	The lake freighter sank in Lake Superior with the loss of 22 crew members.

13 October

List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Pedro Nunes	Portuguese Navy	The decommissioned training ship, a composite clipper ship, was sunk as a torpedo target in the Atlantic Ocean off Cascais, Portugal.

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Ina Mactavish	United Kingdom	The coaster was wrecked at Amble, Northumberland, England. Two people drowned.
Susan Elizabeth	United Kingdom	The schooner was wrecked on Porthminster Beach, St Ives, Cornwall, England. Crew rescued by lifeboat.[18] Remains dynamited two years later.[19]

November

1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Baltic	United Kingdom	The Thames barge ran onto St Clement's Isle, Mousehole en route to Newlyn with cement for the harbour works. Her crew were saved by Mousehole fishermen who were unimpressed with the non–appearance of the lifeboat stuck in the mud at Penzance. The Baltic ended her days as a hulk in an Essex creek.[20]

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Jane	United Kingdom	The ketch was wrecked in Pwll Du Bay. Her two crew survived.[2]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Monohansett	United States	The propeller of the Monohansett, shipwrecked in Lake Huron on November 23, 1907. The wooden steam barge sank after catching fire near Thunder Bay Island in Lake Huron. As the wreck took place near the island's Life Saving Station, no lives were lost.[21]

December

2 December

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Mount Temple	United Kingdom	Mount Temple. The cargo liner ran aground on West Ironbound Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. All on board survived. She was refloated in 1908, repaired and returned to service.

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Becquet	France	The 200ton ship was lost in the Chausey Islands. [22]

14 December

List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Thomas W. Lawson	United States	The seven-masted steel-hulled schooner was wrecked on Hellweather′s Reef in the Scilly Isles during a storm with a loss of 17 lives. Two survivors.

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Cap Lopez	Belgium	The cargo ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, in the English Channel. Her crew were rescued.

27 December

List of shipwrecks: 27 December 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Dei Gratia	Canada	The brigantine was wrecked on Black Rock, Dale, Pembrokeshire, England, after breaking her moorings in a storm.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1907

Ship	Country	Description
Coronel	Norway	Ran aground at Foreness Point, Broadstairs, Kent, United Kingdom. Later refloated and returned to service.[23]

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Ship events in 1907
Ship launches:	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912
Ship commissionings:	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912
Ship decommissionings:	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912
Shipwrecks:	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912