The list of shipwrecks in 1906 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1906.
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.[2] |
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.[5][6] |
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.[10] There were 29 survivors and 10 deaths. The ship was salvaged on 1 August 1906 and returned to service after repairs.[11] |
July
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.[2] |
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.[18] |
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.[19] |
August
4 August
List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1906
Ship | Country | Description |
Sirio |
Italy |
The passenger steamer was wrecked on the Punta Hormigas, a reef off Hormigas Island east of Cape Palos, Cartagena, Spain, with the loss of at least 150 – and perhaps as many as 400 – lives.[20][21][22] The steamer Marie Louise ( France) and the merchant ships Joven Migeul and Vicente Llicano (both flag unknown) were among ships rescuing survivors. |
October
4 October
List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1906
Ship | Country | Description |
HMS Landrail |
Royal Navy |
The decommissioned Curlew-class torpedo gunvessel was sunk as a target.[28] |
November
26 November
List of shipwrecks: 26 November
Ship | Country | Description |
Alsternix |
Germany |
The barque departed from Callao, Peru for Melbourne, Australia. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Pacific Ocean with the loss of all hands.[32] |
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.[34][35][36] |
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- ↑ "300 Sink With Ship, Blessed by Bishop; Liner Sirio, with 800 on Board, Strikes a Reef Off Cape Palos. Captain's Suicide Reported. Italian Immigrants Fight Women with Knives and Drive Them from the Lifeboats" (PDF). The New York Times. 6 August 1906. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
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ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 110.
- ↑ "View Shipwreck - Montebello". Commonwealth of Australia, Department of the Environment.
- ↑ Newell, Gordon, R, ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 119, 120, 127, 308, 324, 348, 410, and 567, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
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ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 358.
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