List of shipwrecks in 1907

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

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1907
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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 steamer broke her moorings on the Coquille River on Oregon during high water, drifted into trees, and was wrecked.

17 January

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Prinz Waldemar  Germany 4,658 GRT ocean liner ran aground on a reef east of Plum Point lighthouse while attempting to enter the Kingston harbor. The lighthouse was not working due to a recent earthquake contributing to the disaster.

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Patricia  Greece Collided with Moringen ( Norway) off the Haisboro' Light, England and sank.[1]

19 January

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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
ShipCountryDescription
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
ShipCountryDescription
Jean Bart  French Navy The protected cruiser was wrecked at Ras Nouadhibou, French West Africa.

17 February

List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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]

20 February

List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Hugoma  United States The 2,183 GRT cargo steamer was rammed in the Mississippi River off New Orleans by the French cruiser Kléber, and subsequently sank in 100 feet of water. 7 people died in the collision.

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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.

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Gjøa  Norway The 3,645 GRT steamship on a passage from Port Talbot for Iquique with a cargo of dynamite and coal ran aground on Maio island and was wrecked. Attempts to refloat her failed and she broke up and was abandoned in early April.

March

3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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. At her launch she and her sister SS Minnesota were the largest passenger ships ever built in the United States.

4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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
ShipCountryDescription
Gymnote  French Navy The submarine ran aground. She was refloated, but became a total loss when she sank on 19 June while drydocked for repairs.

7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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
ShipCountryDescription
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 ( French Navy) in an adjacent drydock.

17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Suevic  United Kingdom
The wreck of Suevic

The White Star Line passenger ship 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 Institution 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
ShipCountryDescription
Jebba  United Kingdom The steamer ran aground at Bolt Tail and wrecked.[7]

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Kilbrennan  United Kingdom The 3,640 GRT steamer on a voyage from Barry to Diego Suarez with coal ran aground on Fish Point, near Port Alfred and subsequently wrecked.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Fairhaven  United States 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
ShipCountryDescription
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.

16 April

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Lucifer  United Kingdom The 3,823 GRT steam tanker on a voyage from New York City to Dublin and Belfast with a cargo of oil sprang a leak on 8 April in the Atlantic Ocean about 870 miles from New York and was abandoned and eventually foundered on 16 April. The crew was saved by steamer SS Sagami and landed at Falmouth on 28 April.

19 April

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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 HMS Bruiser ( Royal Navy).[8]

May

1 May

List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Silverlip  United Kingdom The 7,492 GRT steam tanker on a voyage from Singapore to the UK with a cargo of benzine exploded in the Bay of Biscay and was abandoned while on fire and eventually sank.

15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Marie-Therese  Belgium Foundered 60 nautical miles (110 km) off Toulon, France.[9]

20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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

4 June

List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Navarra  United Kingdom The 3,066 GRT steamer on a voyage from Fernandina to Colon with a cargo of timber ran aground and wrecked on Old Providence Island Reef.

10 June

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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]

17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Midgard  Germany 4,222 GRT steamer on a passage from Newport to Venice with a cargo of coal ran aground and was wrecked on Sorelli Rocks near Malta.

19 June

List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Gymnote  French Navy The submarine sank while being drydocked for repairs after her hatch was left open while the drydock was being filled. Deemed a total loss, she was scrapped.[11]

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1907
ShipCountryDescription
HM Torpedo Boat 99  Royal Navy The torpedo boat sank without loss of life during steam trials in the English Channel off Torquay, England, after her propeller shaft broke and punctured her hull. Her crew was rescued by the torpedo gunboat HMS Dryad ( Royal Navy).[12]

July

4 July

List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Arthur  Norway The barque was wrecked off Bremnes, Norway.[1]

6 July

List of shipwrecks: 6 July 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Denewell  United Kingdom The 3,091 GRT steamer on a voyage from Larnes to Rotterdam with a cargo of iron ore ran aground and wrecked on Bajo Carraca, 2 miles north of Cape Finisterre.

16 July

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Toro  Argentina The cargo ship was wrecked off Chile.[13]

19 July

List of shipwrecks: 19 July 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Fido  Norway
Fido aground off Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia.

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 and Queensland in Australia.[14]

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Columbia  United States
Columbia sinking after colliding with San Pedro

The San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company passenger-cargo ship 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. San Pedro rescued Columbia′s survivors and transferred them to the coastal liner George W. Elder ( United States) and the steamship Roanoke ( United States).[15]

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Brothers  United Kingdom The ketch foundered off Cardigan. Her three crew were rescued by Elizabeth Austin ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[16]

August

9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1907
ShipCountryDescription
City of Carthage  United Kingdom The 5,524 GRT steamship while on passage from Philadelphia to Hiogo with cargo of case oil ran aground and wrecked at Kamodasaki, Awa prefecture.

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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.[17]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date August 1907
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Commonwealth  Royal Navy The King Edward VII-class battleship ran aground. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[18]

September

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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 / 45.5287194; -80.4073917. All aboard swam to safety.

October

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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.[19]

11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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
ShipCountryDescription
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
ShipCountryDescription
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.[20] Remains dynamited two years later.[21]

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Queen Cristina  United Kingdom The 4,268 GRT steamer on a passage from San Francisco to Portland in ballast ran aground during heavy fog and was wrecked on North Seal Rock, off Crescent City

November

1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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.[22]

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Jane  United Kingdom The ketch was wrecked in Pwll Du Bay. Her two crew survived.[2]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1907
ShipCountryDescription
Monohansett  United States
The propeller of Monohansett, wrecked in Lake Huron on 23 November 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.[23]

December

2 December

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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
ShipCountryDescription
Becquet  France The 200-ton ship was lost in the Chausey Islands.[24]

14 December

List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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. There were two survivors.

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1907
ShipCountryDescription
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
ShipCountryDescription
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
ShipCountryDescription
Coronel  Norway Ran aground at Foreness Point, Broadstairs, Kent, United Kingdom. Later refloated and returned to service.[25]

References

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  2. 1 2 3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
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  11. ↑ Anonymous, "Torpedo Boat Sunk," Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11045, 10 August 1907.
  12. ↑ Anonymous, "Torpedo Boat Sunk," Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11045, 10 August 1907.
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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
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