List of shipwrecks in 1921

The list of shipwrecks in 1921 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1921.

February

11 February

• Bombardier ( Belgium): Foundered in the Atlantic Ocean ().^[1]

19 February

• Ioanna ( Greece): Sunk by barratry off Cape Tiñoso, Spain^[2]

March

5 March

• Italier ( Belgium): Collided with Madimba ( Belgium), which sank.^[1] The location was off the Ruytingen Lighthouse (). All 43 crew on board Madimba were lost.^[3]

June

13 June

• UC-97 ( United States): Sunk about 20 miles east of Highland Park, IL in Lake Michigan as a target ship by the USS Wilmette ( United States Navy). Records indicate the location of its sinking at .

23 June

• Monte Bianco ( Italy) caught fire in the Pacific Ocean () and abandoned.^[3]

July

18 July

• Frankfurt ( United States): Sunk as a target ship by aircraft as part of demonstrations by Billy Mitchell

21 July

• U-117 ( United States Navy): Sunk off the coast of Virginia, near Cape Charles as a target ship by aircraft as part of demonstrations by Billy Mitchell
• USS Ostfriesland ( United States Navy): Sunk as a target ship by aircraft as part of demonstrations by Billy Mitchell

September

21 September

• Woolsey ( United States Navy): Sunk near Panama in the Pacific Ocean in a collision with the merchant SS Steel Inventor

27 September

• Alabama ( United States Navy): Sunk in Chesapeake Bay as a target ship by aircraft as part of demonstrations by Billy Mitchell

October

8 October

• Rowan ( United Kingdom): Rammed from astern by West Camak ( USA) in fog in the North Channel. Passengers mustered on deck. Clan Campbell ( United Kingdom) then rammed her from starboard and cut her in two. Rowan sank with the loss of twenty lives.^[4]

November

• steamship Jannakis (Greek: Γιαννάκης) ( Greece): travelling in ballast from Rouen to Fowey and stranded on the eastern side of Praa Sands, Cornwall, UK. Driven further ashore by successive gales, she was refloated in January 1922 and towed to Penzance by The Lady and Greencastle, two Little Western Salvage vessels.^[5][6]

References

See also

Ship events in 1921
Ship launches:	1916	1917	1918	1919	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926
Ship commissionings:	1916	1917	1918	1919	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926
Ship decommissionings:	1916	1917	1918	1919	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926
Shipwrecks:	1916	1917	1918	1919	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926