List of shipwrecks in 1913
The list of shipwrecks in 1913 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1913.
January
12 January
- Uranium (
United Kingdom): The passenger ship ran aground on Shoal Point, Chebucto Head, Nova Scotia, Canada. All on board, over 900 people, survived. She was later refloated and taken in to New York, United States for repairs.[1]
14 January
- Werner Kunstmann (
Germany): She ran aground at Lindisfarne, Northumberland. United Kingdom and was wrecked.[2]
20 January
- Brodland ( United Kingdom): The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Talbot, Glamorgan. Her 42 crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot to Punta Arenas, Chile.[3]
February
8 February
- Âsâr-ı Tevfik (
Ottoman Navy): First Balkan War: The ironclad ran aground during operations against Bulgarian forces near Yalıköy. The grounded vessel was destroyed by seas and Bulgarian artillery over the next few days.
13 February
- Epidauro (
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Austria-Hungary): The steamship ran aground at Overton, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[3] - Pisagua (
Norway): She was stranded at Low Island, South Shetland Islands.
15 February
- Bluebell ( United Kingdom): The steamship struck rocks in Culver's Hole and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by the Port Eynon Lifeboat.[3]
April
- Hector (
United States): The small steamer was worked as a cannery tender and a tug boat in the San Juan Islands and on Puget Sound. Immediately following a boiler refit, she was off Purdy Spit when there was a coal gas explosion and fire. Hector was towed to shore and burned out.
May
23 May
- Cromdale ( United Kingdom): She was wrecked on Bass Point, Cornwall without loss of life.[4]
June
6 June
- Kurland ( Germany): She collided with Deventia (flag unknown) and sank 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) off St Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.[5]
11 June
- Cañonero General Concha (
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Spanish Navy): The gunboat (Third Class Cruiser) ran aground due to dense fog in de facto hostile Moroccan territory near Alhucemas during the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco. In an ensuing fight against Moroccan cabilas' assaulters (guerrillas) the largely outnumbered General Concha's crew of 53 managed to defend the ship throughout fifteen hours of gunfire combat until all survivors and deceased aboard were successfully evacuated to several rescuing Spanish warships, which subsequently shelled the now fleeing rebels and sank the wreck of the General Concha (repair was deemed impractical) to avoid her looting by the hostiles. The final toll for the General Concha's crew was 16 men dead, 17 injured and 11 made prisoners by the hostiles; casualties suffered by the attackers are not known.[6]
- Toanui ( United Kingdom): The Glasgow ship was lost on the Seven Stones Reef, between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Wreckage was washed up around Land's End and Tol Pedn.[7]
July
8 July
- Vivid ( United Kingdom): The Royal Technical College, Glasgow training ship ran aground and wrecked at Colonsay en route from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Stornoway on her maiden voyage as a civilian training ship.[8]
August
14 August
- Susanna (flag unknown): Wrecked on Zantman's Rock, Isles of Scilly.
27 August
- Bakana ( United Kingdom): The Elder Dempster 2,802 grt cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked at Half Assinie, Ivory Coast in West Africa. She was carrying a cargo of wood from the West coast of Africa to Liverpool.[9]
September
9 September
- Agnes G. Donahue (
Canada): The schooner was wrecked near the Point Prim Lighthouse, Nova Scotia. Her seven crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Annapolis, Nova Scotia to Saint John, New Brunswick.[10]
20 September
- Tongrier (
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Belgium): Ran aground off Saaremaa, Estonia. Raised and towed to Antwerp but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.[11]
November
4 November
- HMS Empress of India (
Royal Navy): The Royal Sovereign-class battleship was sunk as a target in Lyme Bay, Dorset.
8 November
- Louisiana ( United States): Great Lakes Storm: The steamboat sank in Lake Michigan. All crew members survived.
9 November
- Hydrus ( United States: Great Lakes Storm: The ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all 28 crew.[12][13]
- Isaac M. Scott ( United States: Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all 28 crew.[14][13]
- John A. McGean ( United States: Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of 24 or 28 crew.[14][13]
- Wexford (
France): Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all ten crew.
10 November
- Henry B. Smith ( United States): Great Lakes Storm: The lake freighter sank in Lake Superior with the loss of all twenty-five crew.
- LV 82 (
United States Lighthouse Service): Great Lakes Storm: The lightship sank in Lake Erie with the loss of six crew. LV 82 was subsequently salvaged, repaired and returned to service.[14][13] - Regina ( Canada): Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all twenty crew.
11 November
- James Carruthers ( Canada): Great Lakes Storm: The lake freighter sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all twenty-two crew.
19 November
- Leonora ( United Kingdom): The ketch was in collision with the tug Atlas ( United Kingdom) in the Bristol Channel and was abandoned by her crew. Leonora drove ashore at Rotherslade, Glamorgan the next day and was wrecked.[3]
Unknown date
The Great Lakes Storm claimed twelve ships in total, with an estimated further thirty-one ships beached in the Great Lakes.[15][12]
- Argus ( United States): The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all 24 crew.[12]
- Charles S. Price ( United States: The cargo ship capsized in Lake Huron with the loss of all 28 crew. She sank after 15 November.[14][12]
- Leafield ( Canada: The cargo ship sank in Lake Superior with the loss of all eighteen crew.[14][12]
- Plymouth ( United States: The schooner barge sank in Lake Michigan with the loss of all seven crew.[14][12]
December
5 December
12 December
- Kwango ( Norway): The barque ran aground off Bryon Island, St Lawrence River, Canada and wrecked.[5]
References
- ↑ "Uranium - 1913". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z". Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
- ↑ Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Belgian Merchant H-O". Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
- ↑ Anca Alamillo, Alejandro (2006). "Naufragios de la Armada Española y otros sucesos marítimos acaecidos durante el siglo XX" (in Spanish). pp. 30–41.
- ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
- ↑ "SS Vivid". Wrecksite. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
- ↑ "SS Bakana (I) (+1913)". Wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
- ↑ "Agnes G. Donahue - 1913". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G". Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 "Shipwrecks". Centennial Anniversary Storm of 1913. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Great Lakes Region. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Johnson, Mark (7 November 2013). "100th Anniversary: Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913 deadliest winter storm in northern Ohio history". Newsnet5. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 Hancock, Paul (18 November 2013). "THE GREAT STORM OF 1913". Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ↑ "Remembering the November 1913 "White Hurricane"". Weather-Ready Nation. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
- ↑ Knudsen, Reidar (2011), "RS 24 ”Risør” 100 år - Dystert mysterium", Båtmagasinet (in Norwegian) 5, retrieved 24 May 2014
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