List of shipwrecks in 1906
The list of shipwrecks in 1906 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1906.
January
12 January
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Itata
- Itata (
United Kingdom): The barque was destroyed by fire at Newcastle, New South Wales.
21 January
- Aquidabã (
Marinha do Brasil): sank after an explosion in her magazines with the loss of 212 lives.
22 January
- Valencia (
United States): Ran aground off Pachena Point, British Columbia with the loss of at least 136 lives.
27 January
February
19 February
- L'Avenir (
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Belgium): Wrecked 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Flamborough Head, England.[1]
Unknown date
- Stainburn ( United Kingdom) : The Workington collier almost wrecked on the Runnelstone, off Gwennap Head, Cornwall and caught fire. Managed to make her way to Penzance where she was repaired.[2]
- Buller ( United Kingdom): St Ives pilot boat, with seven pilots on board, capsized, in St Ives Bay, Cornwall when she was hit by a schooner, throwing all her occupants into the water. No fatalities.[3]
March
13 March
- Olympian ( United States): Wrecked at Possession Bay, Chile.
18 March
- Athen (
Germany): Wrecked at Portland Bill, United Kingdom.
May
19 May
- Training ship Comte de Smet de Meyer ( Belgium): Foundered in the Bay of Biscay (47°12′N 12°10′W / 47.200°N 12.167°W) on her second voyage with the loss of 33 crew.[4]
30 May
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HMS Montagu aground on Lundy Island
- HMS Montagu (
Royal Navy): The battleship ran aground on Lundy Island and wrecked. Salvage abandoned in 1907 and scrapped in situ.
July
11 July
- Angola (
United Kingdom) : The Elder Dempster 1,811 grt steamship was on a voyage from Vera Cruz to Montreal when she ran aground and was wrecked when 6 nautical miles (11 km) East of Louisburg, Nova Scotia.[5]
26 July
30 July
- Marjorie J. Sumner (
Canada): The schooner capsized at Eatonville, Nova Scotia during unloading. Subsequently salvage, repaired and returned to service.[6]
31 July
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Socoa aground off Cadgwith. Plumes of steam from pumps being used to refloat her can be seen.
- Socoa (
France): She was stranded off Kildonan Point, Lizard in dense fog. She was re-floated after jettisoning 50,000 barrels of cement and beached in Cadgwith Cove. She was later towed round to Falmouth and repaired.[7]
August
23 August
- Primrose ( United Kingdom) on a journey from her home port of Garston with coal, hit the Low Lee rocks, Mount's Bay in thick fog one mile from her destination, Newlyn.[8]
24 August
- Princess ( Canada): Foundered off George Island, Manitoba.
September
18 September
- HMS Phoenix ( Royal Navy): Foundered alongside a coaling pier in Hong Kong in a typhoon.
October
Peter Iredale, 1906
25 October
- Peter Iredale ( United Kingdom): Ran aground at Clatsop Spit, Oregon and was wrecked.
November
13 November
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Galena
- Galena ( United Kingdom): The barquentine was wrecked at the mouth of the Columbia River.
18 November
- Dix ( United States): Sank after a collision with steam-powered schooner Jeannie ( United States). Over 45 lives lost.
Unknown date
- Little Malta ( United Kingdom): The steam trawler sank in the Teifi Estuary.[9]
December
16 December
- Prinzessin Victoria Luise ( Germany): Ran aground off Kingston, Jamaica, declared a constructive total loss.
17 December
- Cap Juby ( Belgium): Sank after collision with Arlington ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel 15 nautical miles (28 km) off Dungeness, Kent, United Kingdom.[4]
21 December
- Tilley ( United Kingdom): The ketch sprang a leak in the Bristol Channel and was abandoned. Her three crew were rescued by Ragusa 2 ( United Kingdom).[10]
Date unknown
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Belgian Merchant H-O". Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
- ↑ Carter, Clive (1998). The Port of Penzance. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications. ISBN 0-9533028-0-6.
- ↑ "100 years ago". The Cornishman. 2 March 2006.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Belgian Merchant A-G". Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
- ↑ Lettens, Jan; Allen, Tony (23 December 2013). "SS Angola (+1906)". Wreck Site.
- ↑ "Marjorie J. Sumner - 1906". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ↑ "Timeline; merchant and navy ship events 1900-1913". Retrieved 2011-11-16.
- ↑ Larn, R; Larn, B (1991). Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
- ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ↑ Knudsen, Reidar (2011), "RS 24 ”Risør” 100 år - Dystert mysterium", Båtmagasinet (in Norwegian) 5, retrieved 24 May 2014
See also
| Ship events in 1906 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 |