List of shipwrecks in 1908
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
List of shipwrecks in 1908 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1908.
1908 | |||
---|---|---|---|
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
Unknown date |
January
7 January
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Lizzie R Wilce | United Kingdom | The schooner was wrecked on Porthminster Beach, St. Ives, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued.[1] |
8 January
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Mary Barrow | United Kingdom | The schooner was beached on Porthminster beach, St. Ives, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued.[1] Refloated a week later.[2] |
19 January
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Epirus | Greece | The cargo ship collided with the ocean liner Finland ( Belgium) off Terneuzen, The Netherlands (51°24′N 3°45′E / 51.400°N 3.750°E), and sank. |
February
5 February
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Favorite | United States |
14 February
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Emily Reed | United States Navy | The down Easter was wrecked on the northwest coast of Oregon at the mouth of the Nehalem River with the loss of eight lives. |
18 February
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
HMS Hero | Royal Navy | The decommissioned Conqueror-class ironclad battleship was sunk as a target in the North Sea off the Kentish Knock. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Magnus Mail | United Kingdom | The cargo ship ran aground outside Garston Docks, Liverpool, England. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. |
March
12 March
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Newark Castle | United Kingdom | The Union-Castle Line passenger/cargo ship ran aground in calm weather 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) from Richard's Bay, South Africa[3] |
29 March
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Bega | Australia | Illawarra & South Coast Steam Navigation Co's 567 GRT steamship sank off Tathra, New South Wales.[4] |
April
2 April
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
HMS Tiger | Royal Navy | The three-funnel 30-knot destroyer was sliced in two when she crossed the bows of the armoured cruiser HMS Berwick ( Royal Navy) during night exercises and Berwick collided with her. Both sections of her hull sank, although her bow section remained afloat long enough for 22 members of her crew to be rescued. Thirty-six members of her crew were lost. |
9 April
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Eva | United States | The paddle steamer struck a snag, was beached, and sank without loss of life on the Umpqua River near Scottsburg, Oregon. |
24 April
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Ben Macdui | Belgium | Foundered off Egerö, Norway.[5] |
25 April
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
HMS Gladiator | Royal Navy | The protected cruiser collided with the ocean liner Saint Paul ( USA) and sank in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight with the loss of 128 of her crew. |
27 April
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
HMS Gala | Royal Navy | The Yarrow-Type River-class destroyer was sliced in two when the scout cruiser HMS Attentive ( Royal Navy) collided with her during night exercises. Gala′s stern section sank immediately with the loss of one life; her bow section sank later during an attempt to tow it to shallow water. Attentive then also collided with the destroyer HMS Ribble ( Royal Navy), holing Ribble below the waterline and forcing her to return to base. |
30 April
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Matsushima | Imperial Japanese Navy | The Matsushima-class protected cruiser was lost due to an accidental explosion at Mako, Pescadores. A total of 206 crew killed. |
May
3 May
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
FV Auguste & Jean | Belgium | Rammed and sunk by Iris ( Belgium) 8 nautical miles (15 km) south west of the Noordhinder Lightship ( Netherlands). Three of her four crew were lost.[6] |
31 May
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Loanda | United Kingdom | The Elder Dempster 2,702 GRT cargo ship was sunk while travelling from Hamburg to South Africa after hitting the Russian steamer Junona. The cargo was: Hundreds of cases of gin, rum, champagne and barrels of gunpowder. Thousands of newly minted shillings were presumed aboard but not borne out by manifest.[7] |
June
7 June
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
City of Medicine Hat | Canada |
17 June
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Egga | United Kingdom | The Elder Dempster 1,445 GRT cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked off Lagos Bar, Nigeria.[8] |
20 June
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
St Lewis | France | Douarnenez crabber struck the Seven Stones Reef and foundered.[9] |
July
18 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Aeon | United Kingdom | The steamer was wrecked in the Pacific Ocean near Christmas Island (now Kiritimati). |
21 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Cap Tarifa | Belgium | Foundered off the Burlings Lighthouse, Portugal.[5] |
22 July
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Dodo | United Kingdom | The Elder Dempster 531 GRT cargo ship was stripped and her hull scuttled off Forçados River, Nigeria.[10] |
August
29 August
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Verajean | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Rhoose Point, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued. Although later refloated and taken in to Barry, Glamorgan, she was declared a total loss.[11] |
September
1 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Amazon | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked west of Port Talbot, Glamorgan with the loss of twenty of her 28 crew. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot to Iquique, Chile.[11] |
16 September
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Rosella' | United Kingdom | The ship was on a voyage from Penarth to Granville, Manche carrying a cargo of coal, when she was wrecked at Roches Douvres Rocks, 15 nautical miles (28 km) from La Corbière, Jersey Channel Islands [12] [13] |
October
4 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Alice Marie | France | The steel barque hit the Runnelstone, drifted and sank in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, where it is now a dive site.[14] |
17 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Velasquez | United Kingdom | The Lamport and Holt Line 7,452-grt General Cargo/Passenger ship. On 17 October 1908 soon after leaving Santos harbour and heading N with a cargo of coffee, post and passengers, on the route New York to Buenos Aires, she entered an area of intense fog and eventually hit the rocks at Ponta da Sela (Ilhabela) suffering serious damage. All passengers and crew managed to leave the ship and took shelter on a nearby beach (Praia do Veloso) being rescued the day after by another vessel.[15] |
30 October
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Taif | Ottoman Empire | Sank after collision with Bagdad off Seraglio Point, Constantinople.[16] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Enterprise | United Kingdom | The brigantine collided with the passenger-cargo steamer Derwent ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel off Folkestone, England, and sank with the loss of all but one of her crew. |
Neustria | France | The passenger ship disappeared without trace after departing New York City on 27 October bound for Marseilles, France. There were no passengers aboard, but all 38 crew members were lost. |
Yarmouth | United Kingdom | The cargo ship foundered in the North Sea off the Outer Gabbard Lightship ( United Kingdom) with the loss of all 22 people on board. She was on a voyage from Hoek van Holland, South Holland, Netherlands to Harwich, Essex. |
November
4 November
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Schelde | Belgium | Wrecked 20 nautical miles (37 km) north of Sapienza, Italy.[16] |
14 November
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Falls of Halladale | United Kingdom | The barque ran aground near Peterborough, Victoria, Australia in a fog. All 29 crew reached safety. |
15 November
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
France | France | The cargo schooner foundered on the Minquiers south of Jersey Channel Islands when on route from Dunkirk, France, for Granville, France, with a cargo of Scoria.[17] |
December
4 December
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
USS Yankee | United States Navy | On 23 September 1908, during a training exercise, she ran aground on Spindle Rock near Hen and Chickens lightship. She remained there until refloated on 4 December. However while being subsequently towed to New Bedford, Massachusetts she sank in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts later that day. |
12 December
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Ellen | Australia |
25 December
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Advance | Australia | The steam tug collided in fog with Inverna (flag unknown) and sank off Catherine Hill Bay, New South Wales, Australia. |
29 December
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Dahomey | United Kingdom | The Elder Dempster 2,854 GRT cargo/passenger ship ran aground at Abaco. She was refloated and beached 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) from Nassau, Bahamas as a total loss. She was on route from Newport News for Vera Cruz with a cargo of coal.[19] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Kwarra | United Kingdom | The Elder Dempster 812 GRT cargo ship, used in the West Africa coastal feeder service, was lost in the Forçados River, Nigeria.[20] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
---|---|---|
Kittiwake | United Kingdom | The Elder Dempster 241 GRT cargo ship used in the Lagos creeks service ran aground on Lagos Bar, Nigeria.[21] |
Sacramento | flag unknown | The steamer sank in the Great Lakes after colliding with the iron ore carrier Mataafa ( United States). |
References
- 1 2 "1893–1920". St. Ives Trust. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
- ↑ Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
- ↑ "SS Newark Castle [+1908]".
- ↑ Cameron, Stuart; Robinson, George. "SS Bega". Clydebuilt Database. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
- 1 2 "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
- ↑ "SS Loanda [+1908]". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- ↑ "SS Egga (+1908)". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
- ↑ "SS Dodo (hull) (+1908)". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- 1 2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ↑ "SS Rosella (+1908)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 25 Aug 2015.
- ↑ "Wreck Report for 'Rosella', 1908".
- ↑ "Dive Sites". Undersea Adventures Ltd. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
- ↑ "SS Velasquez (1908)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 23 Feb 2016.
- 1 2 "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ↑ "SV France (+1908)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 27 Aug 2015.
- ↑ Christopher, P., (1990), South Australian Shipwrecks 1802 – 1989, Society for Underwater Historical Research, North Adelaide, South Australia, page 49.
- ↑ "SS Dahomey (+1908)". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- ↑ "SS Kwarra (I) (+1908)". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- ↑ "SS Kittiwake [+1908]". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
Ship events in 1908 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 |
Ship commissionings: | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 |
Shipwrecks: | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 |
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/22/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.