List of shipwrecks in 1903
The list of shipwrecks in 1903 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1903.
January
9 January
- Crosby (
United Kingdom): The ship was wrecked at Bempton Cliffs, Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.[1]
21 January
- USS Leyden (
United States Navy): While on a return passage from Puerto Rico the tug foundered in heavy fog off Block Island, Rhode Island.
31 January
- Maskelyne (
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Belgium): The ship foundered at 41°35′N 34°40′W / 41.583°N 34.667°W.[2]
February
1 February
- James Stevens (
Royal National Lifeboat Institution): The lifeboat capsized at the mouth of the River Afan with the loss of six of her fourteen crew.[3]
4 February
- Berwick ( United Kingdom) of Newcastle wrecked on the Runnelstone; the crew took to two boats one of which reached land and the other with five crew taken to Penzance in the Sennen Cove Lifeboat Station Ann Newbon ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution)[4]
- Espingole (
French Navy): The Durandal-class destroyer hit a rock and sank. She was sold as scrap in December 1909.
8 February
- Southern Cross (
Canada): The schooner capsized at Port Greville, Nova Scotia. She was later salvaged, repaired and returned to service.[5]
12 February
- Ruby Schultz ( Belgium): The ship was wrecked 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) north west of Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.[1]
26 February
- Ottercaps ( United Kingdom):The ship wrecked off Feunteun Aod, Finistère, France. Built in Sunderland 1878. [6]
27 February
- Mouse ( United Kingdom): The smack got into difficulties off Cardigan. All four people on board were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[7]
Unknown date
- Ambriz (
France): The Cie Française Charbonnage et de la Batelage ("French Coaling & Shipping Co.") vessel was wrecked off the coast of Madagascar while serving as a coal depot ship - Luna ( United Kingdom): The barque was on passage from New Zealand to Liverpool when she lost part of her mast and head gear off the Pendeen Lighthouse, and drifted onto the Brisons in a north–west–by–west gale. All the crew were lost.[4]
- Scorpion (
Royal Navy): The turret ship sank under tow in the Caribbean.
March
9 March
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- Alexandra (flag unknown): Cyclone Leonta: The cargo ship was driven ashore at Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
12 March
- Albion ( United Kingdom): The schooner was wrecked in West Bay, Dorset.[8]
31 March
- Shamrock ( United Kingdom): Sprang a leak at Catherine Hill Bay, New South Wales, Australia and sank. Scrapped in situ after it was found she was too badly damaged to repair.[2]
April
21 April
- Freia (
Norway) wrecked near Scharhörn on her passage from Kristiana to Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands.[9]
June
10 June
- Rubens ( Belgium): Capsized and sank in the North Sea. Eleven crew killed, four rescued by Privo ( Norway).[1]
July
18 July
- North Pacific ( United States): She went off course and struck a rock in fog at Marrowstone Island, Washington state.
August
2 August
- Tennie and Laura ( United States): The schooner capsized and sank 9 nautical miles (17 km) off Port Washington, Wisconsin.
September
10 Septembr
- Glenfeadon ( United Kingdom): The schooner was driven ashore at The Mumbles, Glamorgan. She was refloated the next day.[3]
- Ierne ( United Kingdom): The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Dublin.[3]
- J. K. Allport ( United Kingdom): The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel.[3]
26 September
- Harold ( United States): The barge sank off Staten Island, New York.
29 September
- Bida ( United Kingdom): The Elder Dempster 1,477 grt cargo ship was on fire in the North Sea and abandoned when 45 nautical miles (83 km) south by east of the Maas lightship ( Belgium) when en route from Lagos to Hamburg with a cargo of palm kernels.[10]
Unknown date
- Enterprise ( United Kingdom) lost her sails and wrecked in hurricane force winds off St Ives, Cornwall. The three crew were rescued by lifeboat.[11]
- Moonlight ( United States): The ship sank of the coast of Michigan Island, Wisconsin.
October
25 October
- Emma Maria (
Russia): The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[8]
26 October
- Patria ( Norway): The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[8]
October
- Marquette ( United States): She sank in Lake Michigan.
Unknown date
- Paradox ( United Kingdom): The ship was wrecked off Les Sables-d'Olonne, France. Later salvaged, repaired, sold and returned to service.[1]
November
27 November
- Alwina (
Netherlands): The ship passed Pointe Saint-Mathieu, Finistère, France bound for Rotterdam, no further trace.[1]
December
7 December
- Ann & Betsey ( United Kingdom): The smack got into difficulties off Cardigan. Her crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). They later returned to the smack and took her in to Cardigan.[7]
22 December
Date unknown
- Vega ( United Kingdom): The ship sank in Melville Bay, Greenland
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Belgian Merchant P-Z". Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Belgian Merchant H-O". Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Leach, Nicholas (2003). Sennen Cove Lifeboats. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-3111-0.
- ↑ "Southern Cross - 1903". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ↑ http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?13189
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ "SV Freia (+1903)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ↑ "Loss of SS Bida". Retrieved 3 September 2013.
- ↑ "1893 - 1920". St Ives Trust. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G". Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
| Ship events in 1903 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 |
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