List of shipwrecks in 1910

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The list of shipwrecks in 1910 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1910.

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1910
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Katie Darling  United Kingdom The ketch foundered off Cardigan. Two crew were rescued by Elizabeth Austin ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[1]

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Farallon  United States The passenger liner sank in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Her crew survived for a month on an island until rescued.

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Indefatigable  United Kingdom Under tow from Falmouth, Cornwall to Cardiff by the tug Challenge, they hit heavy weather at Land's End and returned to Falmouth. During the night Indefatigable dragged her anchors and drifted ashore under St Mawes Castle. She was pulled off the rocks by tugs Briton, Dragon and Marian, towed to Falmouth Docks and sold for scrap.[2]

February

23 February

List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1910
ShipCountryDescription
La Boulonaisse  France The 67-ton ship carrying cement from Boulogne to Saint Malo sank on a reef of the Chausey Islands Channel Islands. Five men were saved.[3]

28 February

List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Nordenskjold  Russia The Russian wooden brigantine, on voyage from La Rochelle to Llanelly with a cargo of pit props, was wrecked in Belgrave Bay (Belle Grève), Guernsey Channel islands.[4]

March

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Harry  United Kingdom The Brixham trawler was stranded at Porthcurno, Cornwall and taken in tow by the Sennen Cove lifeboat Ann Newbon ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[5]

31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Pericles  United Kingdom The ocean liner struck an uncharted rock near Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia, and sank. All 238 passengers and 163 crew members abandoned ship safely.

April

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Notre Dame de Lourdes  France The ketch was driven ashore at Rhosilli, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew survived but the vessel subsequently broke up.[6]

18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Minnehaha  United Kingdom The ocean liner ran aground on rocks in the Isles of Scilly. Refloated on 13 May and returned to service after repairs were made.
Brabo  Belgium The steamer ran aground on Hoborgsriff, off the coast of Sweden. Refloated and towed to Oscarshamn, where she was sold for scrap.[7]

May

15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Wear  United Kingdom The British steel cargo ship Wear, built in 1905 by Austin S. P. & Son Ltd. and owned at the time of her loss by Witherington & Everett SS Co., on voyage from Sunderland to Saint-Servan with a cargo of coal, was wrecked on the west coast of Guernsey Channel Islands. There were no casualties.[3][8]

17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Forel  Imperial Russian Navy The submarine sank accidentally. All crew members escaped. Forel later was salvaged and scrapped.

30 May

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Olivia  United Kingdom The fishing trawler was hit by the torpedo boat destroyer HMS Quail ( Royal Navy) off Porthallow, Cornwall. Four men from the village of Flushing died.[9]

June

7 June

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Felix de Abasolo  Spain Carrying a cargo of coal, she ran aground in dense fog on Les Boufresses reef just north of Île de Raz Alderney Channel Islands and broke her back.[10][11]

11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Rap  Norway The Norwegian cargo ship was on a voyage from Newcastle to Gibraltar with a cargo of coal, when she was wrecked, off Alderney, Channel Islands.[12]
Terra  United Kingdom En route from the Port of Tyne to Genoa with a cargo of coal. She ran aground in fog at Chateau Letoc, Alderney Channel Islands [11][13]

18 June

List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Linn O-Dee  United Kingdom The British iron cargo ship, on voyage from Portsmouth to Guernsey in ballast, ran aground in fog and was wrecked at La Lague on Burhou Island, close to Alderney, Channel Islands.[14]
Cheapside  United Kingdom The collier collided with the armoured cruiser HMS King Alfred off Start Point and sank. King Alfred received little damage.[15][16][17]

23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Zelandia  Belgium Sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea 100 nautical miles (190 km) off the Danish coast.[18]

July

20 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Dode  United States
Dode
The steamboat struck a rock and sank off Marrowstone Island, Washington.

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1910
ShipCountryDescription
USRC Commodore Perry United States Revenue Cutter Service Ran aground during dense fog off Tonki Point, St. Paul Island in the Pribilof Islands. All hands were rescued.[19]

August

2 August

List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1910
ShipCountryDescription
James Rolph  United States The four-masted schooner ran aground in San Pablo Bay, near San Francisco. No lives lost and the ship was later stripped of salvageable components and abandoned.

5 August

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Princess May Canada Canada
Princess May

The passenger ship ran aground near the Sentinel Island Light, Alaska, United States. She later was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1910
ShipCountryDescription
USS Marcellus  United States Navy The United States Navy collier was rammed by the fruit steamer Rosario di Gregario ( Norway) about 60 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. She sank ten hours later with no loss of life. Deemed too expensive to salvage, Marcellus was struck from the Navy list on 22 September 1910.

17 August

List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1910
ShipCountryDescription
SMS S32  Imperial German Navy The torpedo boat sank after colliding with the torpedo boat SMS S76 ( Imperial German Navy) in the Baltic Sea.[20][21]
SMS S76  Imperial German Navy The torpedo boat sank after colliding with the torpedo boat SMS S32 ( Imperial German Navy) in the Baltic Sea. She was raised, repaired, and returned to service.[21][22]

21 August

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1910
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Bedford  Royal Navy The Monmouth-class armoured cruiser was wrecked at Quelpart Island in the East China Sea with 18 men killed. The wreck was sold on 10 October for breaking up.

31 August

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Marie-Reine  Belgium Caught fire at Thessalonika, Greece and sank.[23]

September

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1910
ShipCountryDescription
William Cory  United Kingdom
SS William Cory aground at Pendeen

The cargo steamship, carrying a cargo of timber from Uleaborg to Newport, South Wales was wrecked at Pendeen.[24]

7 September

List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Unidentified barge Unknown The barge sank after colliding with the submarine HMS A11 ( Royal Navy) while A11 was departing Portsmouth Harbour on the coast of England. Its two-man crew was rescued.

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Chester  United Kingdom The passenger-cargo ship was badly damaged in a collision in the River Elbe with a Swedish steamer and was beached to prevent her from sinking.[25] However, she sank quickly into the soft moving sand and became a total wreck, the water having flooded her holds.[26]

October

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Olympe  United Kingdom The schooner was beached at Gunwalloe Church Cove, Cornwall.[27]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1910
ShipCountryDescription
James and Agness  United Kingdom The schooner was lost in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, Devon with the loss of all five crew.[6]

November

6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Preussen  Germany
Preussen

The five-masted ship-rigged windjammer was accidentally rammed by Brighton ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel off Dover, England, and beached without loss of life.

8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Wimborne  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked under Carn Barra Point near Land's End, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The crew were rescued by rocket lines from the shore.[28]

December

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Stirling Castle  United Kingdom The cargo steamer, which also used the name Nord America, ran aground off Morocco. She was refloated and towed to Genoa, Italy, where she was laid up before being scrapped in 1911.

9 December

List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Axim  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 2,804 GRT cargo ship left London on 9 December, bound for the Canary Islands but did not arrive. There were reports from another British ship that left Liverpool around the same time of violent storms, so it was presumed that she foundered and sank.[29]

10 December

List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1910
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Elfin  Royal Navy While transporting Royal Navy sailors to the depot ship HMS Thames ( Royal Navy), the tender collided with the submarine HMS C8 ( Royal Navy) in the harbor at Harwich, England, and sank with the loss of five lives. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
Olympia  United States
The wreck of Olympia.
The steamship ran aground on Bligh Reef off Alaska's Prince William Sound and sank without loss of life. Following the sinking, steamboat inspectors accused "Captain Daniels," of "unskillful navigation".[30]

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Russia  Belgium Her cargo of Esparto Grass caught fire and she was abandoned 100 nautical miles (190 km) southwest of Ouessant, France. All forty-one crew rescued by Hampshire ( United Kingdom).[18]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Baltique  Belgium The steamship was accidentally rammed and sunk by Finland ( Belgium) in the Flushing Roads (51°25′30″N 3°35′22″E / 51.42500°N 3.58944°E / 51.42500; 3.58944) with the loss of six of her sixteen crew.[7]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Febrero flag unknown The ore carrying ship hit an unnamed rock to the north-east of the Runnel Stone, near Land's End, Cornwall All hands lost bar the cook.[31]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1910
ShipCountryDescription
Loch Katrine  United Kingdom The ship was dismasted and abandoned. She was later towed to Sydney, Australia and hulked.[32]
Lothair  Peru The composite clipper was lost.

References

  1. ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  2. ↑ Pollard, Chris (2007). The Book of St Mawes. Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove. ISBN 978 1 84114 631 7.
  3. 1 2 Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
  4. ↑ "SV Nordenskjold (Rus.) (+1910)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 Aug 2015.
  5. ↑ Leach, Nicholas (2003). Sennen Cove Lifeboats: 150 years of lifesaving. Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7524-3111-0.
  6. 1 2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  7. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  8. ↑ "SS Wear [+1910]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 Aug 2015.
  9. ↑ "Bad day for trio of destroyers". Falmouth Packet. 29 March 2006. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
  10. ↑ "SS Felix de Abasolo [+1910]".
  11. 1 2 John Elsbury. "SHIPWRECKS NEAR ALDERNEY".
  12. ↑ "SS Rap [+1910]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 27 Aug 2015.
  13. ↑ "SS Terra [+1910]".
  14. ↑ "SS Linn O-Dee [+1910]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 Aug 2015.
  15. ↑ "Naval Matters – Past and Prospective: Devonport Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 33. August 1910. p. 11.
  16. ↑ "SS Cheapside [+1910]". Wrecksite. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  17. ↑ "Cheapside". Clyde Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  18. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  19. ↑ "Perry (Commodore Perry), 1884" (PDF). U.S. Coast Guard History Program. U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  20. ↑ Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 263.].
  21. 1 2 wrecksite.eu S-32 (+1910)
  22. ↑ Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN 0-8317-0302-4, p. 264.].
  23. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  24. ↑ "SS William Cory (+1910)". Retrieved 16 November 2011.
  25. ↑ "The Great Central Railway Company's steamer Chester…". Aberdeen Journal. Scotland. 30 September 1910. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  26. ↑ "Grimsby Steamer wrecked in the Elbe". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 3 October 1910. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  27. ↑ Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
  28. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 19.
  29. ↑ "The Times - Feared Loss of a British Steamer". Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  30. ↑ "Outside News of Alaskan Doings", Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner. 14 January 1911. Page A1.
  31. ↑ Liddiard, John. "The Undiscovered Runnel Stone". Retrieved 31 October 2011.
  32. ↑ "LOCH KATRINE". Clydesite. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
Ship events in 1910
Ship launches: 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
Ship commissionings: 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
Ship decommissionings: 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
Shipwrecks: 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
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