List of shipwrecks in 1910
The list of shipwrecks in 1910 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1910.
January
1 January
- Katie Darling (
United Kingdom): The ketch foundered off Cardigan. Two crew were rescued by Elizabeth Austin (
Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[1]
22 January
- 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]
Unknown date
- Farallon (
United States): Sank in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Crew survived for a month on an island until rescued.
March
13 March
- 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)[3]
April
15 April
- Notre Dame de Lourdes (
France): The ketch was driven ashore at Rhosilli, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew survived but the vesses subsequently broke up.[4]
18 April
- Minnehaha ( United Kingdom): She ran aground on rocks in the Isles of Scilly. Refloated on 13 May and returned to service after repairs were made.
- Brabo (
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Belgium) ran aground on Hoborgsriff, off the coast of Sweden. Refloated and towed to Oscarshamn where she was sold for scrap.[5]
May
Unknown date
- Olivia ( United Kingdom): The trawler was hit by HMS Quail (
Royal Navy) off Porthallow, Cornwall. Four men from the village of Flushing died.[6]
June
23 June
- Zelandia ( Belgium): Sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea 100 nautical miles (190 km) off the Danish coast.[7]
July
20 July
- Dode ( United States): The steamboat struck a rock and sank off Marrowstone Island, Washington.
27 July
- USRC Commodore Perry (
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United States Revenue Cutter Service): Lost on this date. Location and circumstances unknown.[8]
August
2 August
- James Rolph ( USA): 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
Princess May
- Princess May (
Canada): The passenger ship ran aground near the Sentinel Island Light, Alaska, United States.
31 August
September
5 September
SS William Cory aground at Pendeen
- William Cory ( United Kingdom): The cargo steamship, carrying a cargo of timber from Uleaborg to Newport, South Wales was wrecked at Pendeen.[10]
October
10 October
- Olympe ( United Kingdom): The schooner was beached at Gunwalloe Church Cove, Cornwall.[11]
19 October
- James and Agness ( United Kingdom): The schooner was lost in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, Devon with the loss of all five crew.[4]
November
6 November
Preussen
- Preussen (
Germany): Was accidentally rammed by SS Brighton ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel off Dover, and beached without loss of life.
Unknown date
- 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.[12]
December
9 December
- 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.[13]
10 December
- Olympia ( United States): She 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".[14]
21 December
- Russia ( Belgium): Her cargo of Esparto Grass caught fire and she was abandoned 100 nautical miles (190 km) SW of Ouessant, France. All forty-one crew rescued by Hampshire ( United Kingdom).[7]
25 December
- Baltique ( Belgium): She 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) with the loss of six of her sixteen crew.[5]
Unknown date
- Febrero (flag unknown): The ore carrying ship hit an un-named rock to the north-east of the Runnel Stone, near Land's End, Cornwall All hands lost bar the cook.[15]
References
- ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ Pollard, Chris (2007). The Book of St Mawes. Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove. ISBN 978 1 84114 631 7.
- ↑ Leach, Nicholas (2003). Sennen Cove Lifeboats: 150 years of lifesaving. Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7524-3111-0.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Belgian Merchant A-G". Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
- ↑ "Bad day for trio of destroyers". Falmouth Packet. 29 March 2006. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Belgian Merchant P-Z". Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ↑ http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/USCG_Cutter_Losses.asp
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O". Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
- ↑ "SS William Cory (+1910)". Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- ↑ Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
- ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 19.
- ↑ "The Times - Feared Loss of a British Steamer". Retrieved 2 September 2013.
- ↑ "Outside News of Alaskan Doings", Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner. January 14, 1911. Page A1.
- ↑ Liddiard, John. "The Undiscovered Runnel Stone". Retrieved 31 October 2011.
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