List of shipwrecks in 1909
List of shipwrecks in 1909 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1909.
January
Unknown date
- Pendeen (
United Kingdom): The fishing vessel was lost in a gale. A search by the St Ives Lifeboat found no wreckage.[1]
23 January
- RMS Republic ( United Kingdom) and Florida (
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Italy) collided. A total of six people killed (3 passengers, 3 crew), Republic sank on 24 January. Over 1,500 rescued.
February
12 February
- Penguin (
New Zealand) struck Toms Rock in the Cook Strait and sank with the loss of 85 passengers and crew. Thirty survivors. - Australia (
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Belgium) collided with a sailing ship and sank off Alboran, Mediterranean Sea.[2]
21 February
- Renown ( United Kingdom): The East coast drifter went aground at Penzance railway station, Cornwall, UK after missing the harbour mouth in a fresh breeze and rough seas. The lifeboat Cape of Good Hope (
Royal National Lifeboat Institution) passed a wire rope from the drifter to the Albert pier where hundreds of people hauled the ship off, and she was escorted into harbour.[3] 3 February according to Carter.[4]
March
29 March
- Ilorin ( United Kingdom). The 946 GRT Elder Dempster cargo ship ran aground and sank on the bar at Forçados River, Nigeria while attempting to assist the Andoni.[5]
April
8 April
- Mahratta ( United Kingdom) ran aground on Goodwin Sands, broke in half two days later and wrecked. One crew member committed suicide.
May
13 May
- Palomares ( Belgium) Abandoned in the Gulf of Finland. Later salvaged, repaired and sold.[6]
Unknown date
- Loango (flag unknown): The schooner was wrecked near St Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom[7] Four crew rescued[1]
June
20 June
July
12 July
- John B. Cowle (
United States): The 420 feet (130 m), 4,731 GRT Cowle was laden with 7,023 tons of iron ore loaded at Two Harbors, Minnesota and bound for Cleveland, Ohio, when she was rammed in dense fog by Isaac M. Scott. The Cowle sank in three minutes, taking 14 of her 24-man crew with her.
15 July
- HMS C11 (
Royal Navy) sunk in collision with Eddystone ( United Kingdom) off Cromer. Three survivors
27 July
- Waratah ( United Kingdom). The Blue Anchor Line ocean liner was due to reach Cape Town on 29 July. No trace was ever found and over 750 passengers and crew lost.
August
5 August
- Maori ( United Kingdom) wrecked near Llandudno, Cape Town with 32 crew killed.
- Lucania ( United Kingdom), caught fire at Huskisson Dock at Liverpool. Sank at her moorings and later sold for scrap.
11 August
- Nezinscot ( United States Navy): The tug capsized and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Ann, Massachusetts.[9]
20 August
- Adolphe ( United Kingdom): The ketch was wrecked in the Teifi Estuary.[10]
September
5 September
- Eduard Bohlen (
Germany):The ship ran aground off of Namibia's Skeleton Coast in a heavy fog.
12 September
- Sarah Ann ( United Kingdom): The ship was wrecked at Porthgain, Pembrokeshire.[10]
November
24 November
- Alf (
Norway): The barque ran aground on Haisborough Sands and was wrecked. Crew of 16 rescued by the Cromer lifeboat Louisa Heartwell ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).
27 November
- Lancelot ( United Kingdom: The spritsail barge was driven ashore in West Bay, Dorset.[11]
29 November
- Ottawa ( United States): The tug caught fire off the coast of Russell, Bayfield County, Wisconsin after rescuing another vessel.
December
2 December
- Whitewood ( United Kingdom) : The Screw Collier left Hull 2 Dec 1909 bound for Bremen. Not heard of after this date.
3 December
- Ellan Vannin ( Isle of Man): The paddle steamer sank in Liverpool Bay in a Force 11 gale. All 36 passengers and crew killed.
13 December
- Governor Ames ( United States): The 5-masted schooner was wrecked in a gale 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Cape Hatteras on the North Carolina coast. Thirteen of the fourteen aboard perished, including the master, Captain King, and his wife. The sole survivor was Joseph Speering of New York.
Date unknown
- Congress United Kingdom swamped by a wave off St. Ives, Cornwall. Three people swept overboard were rescued.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "1893–1920". St. Ives Trust. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
- ↑ Larn, R; Larn, B (1991). Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
- ↑ Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications. ISBN 0-9533028-0-6.
- ↑ Lettens, Jan; Allen, Tony (30 December 2010). "SS Andoni (+1917)".
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 27.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
- ↑ "Nezinscot". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History & Heritage Command. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
| Ship events in 1909 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 |
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