List of shipwrecks in 1908 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1908.
March
12 March
List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1908
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[5] |
April
2 April
List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1908
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. |
24 April
List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Ben Macdui |
Belgium |
Foundered off Egerö, Norway.[8] |
May
6 May
List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Hellas |
Greece |
The 3,613 GRT freighter ran aground and was wrecked at Cape Malea on passage Sulina for Liverpool with a cargo of wheat.[13] |
10 May
List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Pyrgos |
Germany |
The 1,927 GRT freighter with a cargo of grain on passage from Ibrail to Hamburg collided with the steamer Violet ( United Kingdom) during fog in the river Elbe. The German steamer sank and one crew member was badly injured.[14] |
17 May
List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Nordsee |
Germany |
The 4,439 GRT freighter with a cargo of iron ore on passage from Narvik to Rotterdam was struck by the steamer Avoca ( United Kingdom) off Nieuwe Waterweg. The German steamer sank with a loss of one crew and a pilot.[15] Avoca had her bow smashed in and had to be beached to avoid sinking.[16] |
26 May
List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Lamyron |
Greece |
The 2,408 GRT freighter with a cargo of grain on passage from Taganrog stranded on Corticeiras Rock off Corcubión and became a total loss.[17] |
27 May
List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Arminza |
Spain |
The 2,501 GRT freighter with a cargo of ore on passage from Bilbao for Middlesbrough struck a rock off La Vendree, five miles west of Cap de la Chèvre, and came off but subsequently sunk in deep water and became a total loss.[18] |
31 May
List of shipwrecks: 31 May 1908
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.[19] |
June
3 June
List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Blythville |
United Kingdom |
The 1,325 GRT steamer went ashore on the rocks near Rhinns of Islay Lighthouse during early morning dense fog, subsequently slipped off and sunk in deep water.[20] The ship was on passage from Stornoway for Swansea in ballast. |
17 June
List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Egga |
United Kingdom |
The Elder Dempster 1,445 GRT cargo ship carrying cargo from steamer Falaba ran aground on the bar at Lagos, Nigeria. Attempts to refloat the ship failed and she was declared a total wreck.[23][24] |
Friedrich Retzlaff |
Germany |
The 1,938 GRT freighter foundered 35 nautical miles (65 km) from A Coruña on passage from Huelva to Stettin with a cargo of iron ore.[25][26] |
21 June
List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Kylerea |
United Kingdom |
The 1,590 GRT freighter on a passage from Tyne to Cannes with a cargo of coal was cut down to below the waterline in collision with the steamer Filinia ( Greece) and quickly sank.[28] |
23 June
List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Petronia |
Russia |
The 4,847 GRT freighter was put back to Aden with her bunkers on fire, and was scuttled in 33 feet (10 m) of water after attempts to extinguish the fire failed. No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 holds as well as her chart room, bridge and poop deck were destroyed by fire. The ship was later raised and sold for breakup.[28] |
25 June
List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Konoura Maru |
Japan |
The 2,185 GRT freighter ran aground and wrecked near Kinkwazan.[29] |
July
6 July
List of shipwrecks: 6 July 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Noordwijk |
Netherlands |
The 2,054 GRT steamer stranded on Tete du Chat on a passage from Santander for Rotterdam with a cargo of iron ore and wrecked.[30] |
31 July
List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Mareeba |
Australia |
The 1,747 GRT steamer, on a passage from Brisbane for Newcastle with a cargo of general goods, sugar and wood ran aground 10 miles north of Stockton. During the night of 3 August she was broken by gale.[34][35] |
August
5 August
List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Kirkwall |
United Kingdom |
The 2,582 GRT steamer, on a passage from Huelva for Hamburg with a cargo of iron ore, was run down late at night by an unknown barque off Ameland and sunk.[36] |
13 August
List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Nereo |
Austria-Hungary |
The 3,739 GRT steamer, on a passage from South Shields for Trieste with a cargo of coal, went ashore on Keller Rock off Ushant. An attempt to refloat her failed and the ship sunk in deep water.[38][39] |
14 August
List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
John Fothergill |
United Kingdom |
The 2,730 GRT steamer, on a passage from Poti for Garston with a cargo of iron ore, was run down by the steamer Oural ( Belgium) off Kavak Point and sunk.[40] |
15 August
List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Beby |
Greece |
The 2,052 GRT steamer, on a passage from Piraeus for Marmora in ballast ran aground on Psara and subsequently sunk in deep water.[40] |
29 August
List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Lycourgos |
Greece |
The 218 GRT steamer sank off Port Vathy, Samos.[41] |
Mount Lebanon |
United Kingdom |
The 2,420 GRT steamer on passage from Glasgow for Alexandria with coal and a general cargo sprang a leak during a heavy gale and sank four hours later approximately 70 miles west of Scilly.[42] |
September
9 September
List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Pacific |
United Kingdom |
The 2,919 GRT steamer on passage from Sunderland for Buenos Aires with a cargo of coal ran aground on Outer Dowsing Shoal and sunk at 9:00. 18 men of the crew were landed in Grimsby by the Limewold, one crew was killed and four were missing.[45] |
27 September
List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Sir John Jackson |
United Kingdom |
The 4,231 GRT steamer on passage from Saigon for the continent with a cargo of rice and maize ran aground on Brennus Shoal (Ceylon) and got holed in the forepeak. Attempts to lighten and refloat her failed due to stormy weather and she was abandoned as a total loss on 9 October 1908.[48][49] |
October
4 October
List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1908
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.[50] |
Amethyst |
United Kingdom |
The 552 GRT steamer collided early morning in dense fog with cargo ship Daisy (flag unknown) off Wicklow Head and sunk almost immediately. Her crew was saved by Daisy and landed in Dublin on 5 October 1908.[51] |
7 October
List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Lambert |
Germany |
The 5,967 GRT steamer on passage from Chile to Bremen with general cargo caught fire and was destroyed off Río Negro. The captain, 43 crew members and 2 passengers were saved and landed at Punta Rubio.[52] |
17 October
List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1908
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 north 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.[53] |
22 October
List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Cramligton |
United Kingdom |
The 1,824 GRT steamer on a passage from Newcastle for Seville with a cargo of coal and coke collided early morning with cargo ship Cadeby (flag unknown) in the mouth of the Humber. The vessel was struck near amidships and began to fill almost immediately. She was beached on Sand Hale Flat to prevent the sinking but later had broken in two amidships and was declared a total loss.[54][55] |
28 October
List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Girnigoe |
United Kingdom |
The 321 GRT steamer on a passage from Cherbourg for Poole with a cargo of stone ran into heavy seas mid-Channel which shifted her cargo. The vessel had to be abandoned and she foundered around 04:30. The crew was saved by the schooner Malpas Belle and landed in Falmouth.[56] |
29 October
List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Saint Andre |
France |
The 1,121 GRT steamer on a passage from Caen for Grangemouth with a cargo of iron ore ran aground off Farne Islands in the early morning and subsequently broke up and became a total wreck.[57] |
30 October
List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Taif |
Ottoman Empire |
Sank after a collision with Bagdad (flag unknown) off Seraglio Point, Constantinople.[58] This ship was originally named Tycho Brahe. In 1891 ownership transferred to Charles Deville Wells, (known as 'the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo'), who renamed the vessel Palais Royal. After Wells was declared bankrupt in 1893 it was sold to a Turkish owner. |
November
4 November
List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Schelde |
Belgium |
Wrecked 20 nautical miles (37 km) north of Sapienza, Italy.[58] |
December
11 December
List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Urfa |
Ottoman Navy |
The Antalya-class torpedo boat foundered in a storm off Selonik.[60] |
18 December
List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Daghestan |
United Kingdom |
The 3,466 GRT steamer on a passage from New York City to Marseille with a cargo of grain collided with the freighter Catalone ( United Kingdom) just outside the harbor and sank in deep water.[62] |
31 December
List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1908
Ship | Country | Description |
Grange |
United Kingdom |
The 1,519 GRT cargo/passenger steamer on a passage from Grangemouth to London with general cargo and passengers ran into heavy weather, sprang a leak forward and foundered at 10:20 about 35 nautical miles (65 km) northeast of Tyne piers. All 55 people including crew and passengers were saved by trawler Eleazer and landed safely in South Shields.[65] |
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