List of shipwrecks in 1900

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The list of shipwrecks in 1900 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1900.

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1900
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Ibex  United Kingdom The passenger and mail ship hit the Platte Fougere reef off Guernsey in the Channel Islands in bad visibility and sank with two fatalities.[1]

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Lady Elizabeth  United Kingdom Carrying barrels of naphtha and petrol, the ship burned at the Cattewater in Plymouth, United Kingdom.[2]

February

16 February

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Cashier  Belgium The schooner sank off Green Scar, St Brides Bay.[3]

25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Ethiopia  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan. She was refloated several days later.[4]

March

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Hermann Köppen  Germany The steamer ran aground on the rocks at Barsier, west of Alderney in the Channel Islands, and was wrecked.[5][6]

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Ugie  United Kingdom The steamer sank following a collision with another ship.[7]
Concord  United Kingdom The ship sank on the Triggs, just outside her home port, Porthleven, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[2]

April

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Seham  Ottoman Navy The torpedo boat sank with the loss of 27 lives in the outer harbor at Beirut after a boiler explosion.[8]

May

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in May 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Iolani  United States The full-rigged ship collided with Argus ( United Kingdom) and foundered off Astoria, Oregon, United States.[9]

June

15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Tivyside  United Kingdom The ship ran aground at Overton, Glamorgan. All thirteen people on board survived.[4]

30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Bremen  Germany 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire: The Norddeutscher Lloyd ocean liner was set on fire at Hoboken, New Jersey, by windspread fire after cotton bales on a wharf caught fire, then ignited turpentine and oil barrels. She broke free of her moorings, ran aground on the Weehawken flats in the Hudson River, and burned. The tug Nettie Tice ( United States) rescued about 100 people from the ship. The combined death toll aboard Bremen, Main, and Saale (all  Germany) was over 300 lives. Bremen was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[10]
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse  Germany 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire: The Norddeutscher Lloyd ocean liner was set on fire in several places at Hoboken, New Jersey, by wind-spread fire after cotton bales on a wharf caught fire, then ignited turpentine and oil barrels. She suffered only moderate damage and all aboard got off the ship safely. She was repaired and returned to service.[10]
Main  Germany 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire: The Norddeutscher Lloyd ocean liner was set on fire at Hoboken, New Jersey, by wind-spread fire after cotton bales on a wharf caught fire, then ignited turpentine and oil barrels. She broke free of her moorings, ran aground on the Weehawken flats in the Hudson River, and burned with the loss of 44 crew members. Fifteen crew members survived by taking refuge in an empty coal bunker while the fire raged and were rescued after it was put out. Main was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[10]
Saale  Germany 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire: The Norddeutscher Lloyd ocean liner was set on fire at Hoboken, New Jersey, by wind-spread fire after cotton bales on a wharf caught fire, then ignited turpentine and oil barrels. She broke her moorings, drifted into the Hudson River, burned, and sank. The remains of 99 people killed aboard Saale were recovered from her interior later; the combined death toll aboard Saale, Bremen, and Main (all  Germany) was over 300 lives. Saale was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[10]

August

11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Framée  France The Framée-class destroyer was sunk in a collision.

16 August

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Futami Maru  Japan The steamship went aground on a reef at Mindoro Island, near Manila, while on a voyage from Australia to Eastern ports.[11] All the crew and 150 passengers were taken to shore, and a consignment of gold bullion was salvaged.[12]

22 August

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Antoinette  France The Dundee-class yacht, en route from Saint-Cast-Le-Guildo, Brittany, France, to Denmark loaded with wheat, was lost with all hands south of Guernsey in the Channel Islands.[13]

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Mataura New Zealand The refrigerated barque was dismasted and abandoned in the Pacific Ocean. She subsequently foundered. Mataura was on a voyage from Levuka, Fiji, to NantesLoire-Atlantique, France.[14]

September

1 September

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Bouët-Willaumez  French Navy The torpedo boat sank in 25 fathoms (150 feet; 45.7 meters) of water without loss of life after striking a rock in fog in the English Channel off the harbor at Cherbourg, France, on the evening of 31 August. Salvage efforts failed.[15][16]

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1900
ShipCountryDescription
American  United States The tug collided with Minnehaha ( United Kingdom) and sank in New York Harbour. Two of the tug's crewmen were killed. Later salvaged and recommissioned.

24 September

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Suffolk  United Kingdom 5,364 GRT refrigerated cargo steamship on a voyage from Fiume to Port Elizabeth with a cargo of 930 horses ran aground off Tsitsikamma Point and eventually foundered. All 130 people on board were saved by steamer SS Lake Erie and safely landed at Port Elizabeth.[4]

October

1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Borgo  Imperial Russian Navy The torpedo boat sank in the Yellow Sea after colliding with the torpedo boat Ussuri ( Imperial Russian Navy).[17][18]

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Narvik  Norway The cargo ship struck an object and sank in the White Sea.[19]

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1900
ShipCountryDescription
A. A. Shaw Unidentified The schooner sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the mouth of the Delaware Bay after colliding with the steamship Hamilton. Hamilton rescued all seven crew members.[20]

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1900
ShipCountryDescription
City of Monticello  United Kingdom The paddle steamer foundered in the Bay of Fundy 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada with the loss of 36 of her 40 crew. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada to Yarmouth.[21]

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Kommandøren  Norway The passenger-cargo ship ran aground near Tjugum, Balestrand, Norway. She was refloated and returned to service.

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Bee  United Kingdom The steamship sank off Queensland, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

November

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Mouse  United Kingdom The smack was wrecked at Cardigan, Wales. Her three crew were rescued by the lifeboat Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Chester, Cheshire, England, to Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales.[22]

16 November

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Pyrenees  United Kingdom The ship caught fire and was beached on Sanatul Island in the Mangareva Islands in French Polynesia. She was on a voyage from Tacoma, Washington, United States, to Leith, Lothian, Scotland. She was abandoned as a total loss, but was sold in situ in 1902. She subsequently was refloated, repaired. and returned to service.[23]
T. H. Camp  United States The overloaded tugboat took on a heavy list and sank in Lake Superior between Madeline Island and Basswood Island after her cargo shifted in choppy seas.

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Fife Canada Canada On her maiden voyage, the steamer ran aground and sank at Twin Island, St John's Bay, Strait of Belle Isle.[24]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Carmen  Germany The steamer collided with Hernosand (flag unknown) and sank in the Baltic Sea (54°43′N 12°52′E / 54.717°N 12.867°E / 54.717; 12.867).[7]

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Agot  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on the Whitford Sands, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by the Llanelli pilot boat.[4]
USS Yosemite  United States Navy The auxiliary cruiser was heavily damaged in a typhoon off Guam and was scuttled in mid-November after the collier USS Justin ( United States Navy) took off her crew.

December

2 December

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Pyrenees  United Kingdom After her cargo of wheat caught fire during November due to spontaneous combustion while she was in the Pacific Ocean during a voyage from Tacoma, Washington, in the United States to Leith, Scotland, in the United Kingdom, the steel-hulled bark was beached on Mangareva in the Gambier Islands in the Tuamotu Archipelago and abandoned. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service under the name Manga Reva.[25][26]

4 December

List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Rossgull  United Kingdom On a voyage from Plymouth to Jersey in the Channel Islands, the ship ran aground at night off Corbiere, Jersey, in a gale. Eleven of her crew were saved but nine men in one lifeboat drowned.[27][28]

10 December

List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Nordland  Norway The lifeboat ran aground and was wrecked near Kjelvik, Norway. All crew members survived.[29]

16 December

List of shipwrecks: 16 December 1900
ShipCountryDescription
SMS Gneisenau  Imperial German Navy During a storm, the Bismarck-class corvette suffered a failure of her propulsion machinery, dragged her anchors, was wrecked on the harbor mole at Málaga, Spain, and sank with the loss of 40 lives.

23 December

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Cariddi  Regia Marina The gunboat was wrecked in the Red Sea on the coast of Italian Eritrea 70 nautical miles (80.5 miles; 130 km) north of Massawa.[30]

24 December

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Brunswick  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground off Black Nore Point, Somerset, England, and sank with the loss of seven of her crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, England, to Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.[31]

28 December

List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Croisine  France The brigantine sank within minutes after stranding to the west of Les Sables-d'Olonne. Only one of the eight crew survived.[32]
Enocuri  Spain The steamer was driven on to the breakwater at Weymouth.[33]
Gabriel  France The Rouen fishing smack was wrecked off the Casquets in the Channel Islands. The six crew took to the ship's boat and were driven across the English Channel to a mud bank near Hurst Castle, Hampshire, where captain and one crew member was rescued by the coastguard. The fate of the other four crew is not known.[34]
Jewess  United Kingdom The Belfast schooner was driven ashore at Larne, Ireland.[34]
Neptune  United Kingdom The Portmadoc schooner broke up at Milford.[33]
Pegasus  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Lavernock Point, Glamorgan with the loss of four of her crew. She was on a voyage from San Francisco, California, United States to Sharpness, Gloucestershire. Pegasus was later refloated and taken to Sharpness for repairs.[4]
Primrose Hill  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of South Stack off Holyhead, Wales, with the loss of 33 lives. One member of crew survived[35][36]
Ragna  United Kingdom The barque with coal from Cardiff for Brazil, went ashore at Trevine, near St David's Head. The captain and eight crew were saved by the rocket apparatus and three others drowned.[33]
Seine  France The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Perranporth, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[37]
Tregorgina  United Kingdom The small Bristol craft foundered at the mouth of the River Avon. The crew were saved.[33]
Zefiro  Italy The barque was in collision with the steamship King's County (Canada Canada) in the Bristol Channel off the English and Welsh Grounds Lightship ( United Kingdom) and was consequently beached at Clevedon, Somerset.[4]
Unnamed  United Kingdom Seven or eight ships were driven ashore at Watchet, Somerset.[33]
Unnamed  United Kingdom Five lighters sank at Grangemouth, Scotland.[34]
Unnamed  United Kingdom Five vessels were driven ashore at Torryburn, Scotland.[34]
Unnamed  United Kingdom A harbour steam launch and four fishing boats were wrecked in the harbour at Larne, Ireland.[34]
Unnamed  France Nine fishing smacks were wrecked near Calais.[32]

29 December

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Penpol  United Kingdom The Falmouth, Cornwall steamer was driven ashore between Briton Ferry and Aberavon. The crew were safe.[38]

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1900
ShipCountryDescription
B.T.B.  United Kingdom The vessel from Par, Cornwall ran ashore off Aldeburgh, Suffolk while carrying coal from Boston to London. The crew were brought ashore by the rocket apparatus.[39]
Sento  Japan The dredger foundered in a gale 6 miles (9.7 km) off Queenstown. Five crew rescued by the Cork pilot cutter and twelve drowned.[40]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Capricorno  Austria-Hungary The barque was wrecked at Bude, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[41]
Copenhagen  United Kingdom The steamer sank near Pompano Beach, Florida.
Manchester  United Kingdom The four-masted barque disappeared after departing New York City for Yokohama, Japan, on 21 August 1900 and was wrecked on an unknown date, probably in late 1900, on Bikar Atoll in the Marshall Islands with the loss of all hands. Her wreck was discovered in July 1901.
St Petroc.  United Kingdom The iron ketch left Liverpool for Padstow on 18 December and has not been heard of since.[33]
Star of Scilly  United Kingdom The ketch was wrecked on Porthminster Point, St. Ives, Cornwall, crew rescued by lifeboat.[42]
Suihsiang  Germany The river steamer was wrecked 60 miles (97 km) above Ichang. All survived except the captain.[43]
Welbury  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Hartland Point, Devon.[4]
W.R.T.  United Kingdom The fore-and-aft schooner sank in Morecambe Bay with the loss of her crew.[33]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Brighton  New South Wales The paddle steamer collided with the collier Brunner ( New South Wales) off Newcastle. Her passengers were evacuated and she was beached. Subsequently repaired and returned to service.[44]

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Ship events in 1900
Ship launches: 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905
Ship commissionings: 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905
Ship decommissionings: 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905
Shipwrecks: 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905
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