List of shipwrecks in 1905

The list of shipwrecks in 1905 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1905.

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1905
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1905
Ship Country Description
Sevastopol  Imperial Russian Navy Russo-Japanese War: The Petropavlovsk-class battleship was scuttled off Port Arthur, Manchuria, China.

3 January

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1905
Ship Country Description
Haudaudine  France Ran aground and sank off New Caledonia with no loss of life.

15 January

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1905
Ship Country Description
Lodalen  Norway The lake steamer was thrown some 350 m (1,150 ft) ashore by a flood wave created by a large rockfall into the lake Loenvatnet. The wreck of Lodalen was thrown a further 150 m (490 ft) inland by another flood wave in 1936.[1]

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1905
Ship Country Description
Optima  Germany Ran aground on Haisborough Sands, off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. A total loss.

31 January

List of shipwrecks: 31 January 1905
Ship Country Description
Skidby  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Baltimore, Maryland, United States.[2]

February

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1905
Ship Country Description
Ice Boat No. 3  United States Struck a submerged shipwreck and sank in National Harbor of Refuge, Delaware, US.

17 February

List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1905
Ship Country Description
RMS Orizaba  United Kingdom
Orizaba in 1910.

Went aground on Five Fathom Bank off Fremantle, Western Australia.

March

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1905
Ship Country Description
Khyber  United Kingdom The 1,967 ton barque was wrecked under the cliff at Tol-Pedn-Penwith, Cornwall. Neither the Penzance or Sennen Lifeboats could reach the ship and twenty-three crew lost their lives.[3]

25 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1905
Ship Country Description
Parisian  United Kingdom The ship collided with Albano (flag unknown) whilst on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She reached Halifax, where she sank from damage sustained in the collision.[4]

April

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1905
Ship Country Description
Bristol Packet  United Kingdom The ketch was driven ashore and wrecked at Oxwich, Glamorgan.[5]
Indefatiguable  United Kingdom The tug struck rocks in the Bristol Channel She was abandoned two days later.[5]

May

List of shipwrecks: May 1905
Ship Country Description
Benguela  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 1,796 grt cargo ship was wrecked in May 1905 at Nana Kroo, Sierra Leone. She was on a voyage to Hamburg with palm kernels and oil.[6]

4 May

List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1905
Ship Country Description
Hesper  United States Sank in Silver Bay, Lake Superior.[7]

11 May

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1905
Ship Country Description
Maiko Maru  Japan Russo-Japanese War: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank off the Elliot Islands, China.[8]

27 May

List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1905
Ship Country Description
Knyaz Suvorov  Imperial Russian Navy Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
Imperator Aleksandr III  Imperial Russian Navy Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
Borodino  Imperial Russian Navy Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
Oslyabya  Imperial Russian Navy Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
Navarin  Imperial Russian Navy Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
Ural  Imperial Russian Navy Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.

28 May

List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1905
Ship Country Description
Admiral Nakhimov  Imperial Russian Navy Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
Admiral Ushakov  Imperial Russian Navy Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
Sissoi Veliky  Imperial Russian Navy Russo-Japanese War: Scuttled after the Battle of Tsushima.
Vladimir Monomakh  Imperial Russian Navy Russo-Japanese War: Scuttled after the Battle of Tsushima.
Dmitrii Donskoi  Imperial Russian Navy Russo-Japanese War: Scuttled after the Battle of Tsushima.

29 May

List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1905
Ship Country Description
Izumrud  Imperial Russian Navy Ran aground near Vladivostok.

June

15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1905
Ship Country Description
Hydrangea  United Kingdom The Milford Haven steam trawler was heading for the fishing grounds off the Isles of Scilly but was off course and hit the Seven Stones Reef. Her crew reached the Sevenstones Lightship.[9]

25 June

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1905
Ship Country Description
Cousins Arbib  Belgium Collided with IJmuiden ( Netherlands) 20 nautical miles (37 km) off Flamborough Head, England. Later raised, repaired and sold, re-entering service in 1909.[10]

July

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1905
Ship Country Description
Farfadet  French Navy Sank at Sidi Abdullah, Tunisia with the loss of four lives.
Newlyn lugger Diana  United Kingdom Steamed into the Hamburgans Rocks off Penzance promenade, Cornwall when the watchman fell asleep after a nights fishing. Floated on the late afternoon tide.[11]

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1905
Ship Country Description
USS Bennington  United States Navy
USS Bennington.

Suffered a boiler explosion and was holed, beached at San Diego. Later repaired and returned to service.

August

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1905
Ship Country Description
The 400 ton steel barque Noisiel  France
Noisiel

Was blown ashore in a violent storm at Praa Sands, Cornwall, United Kingdom. She was en route from Cherbourg to Savona with a 600-ton cargo of armour plate from gun turrets of obsolete battleships.[12][13]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1905
Ship Country Description
Albatross  United Kingdom The small ketch sank in the Solent when her cargo of oil barrels exploded.[11]

September

2 September

List of shipwrecks: 2 September 1905
Ship Country Description
Pretoria  United States The wooden schooner sank in a storm on Lake Superior near the Apostle Islands.[14]
Sevona  United States The steamboat sank in a storm on Lake Superior near Sand Island (Wisconsin).

26 September

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1905
Ship Country Description
Cantabria  Philippines Sank at the north end of Ticao Island, Philippines in a typhoon. Total loss of ship and all sixty-nine on board drowned.[15]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1905
Ship Country Description
Loch Vennachar  United Kingdom Sank at West Bay, Kangaroo Island, Australia some time between 6 and 29 September.

October

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1905
Ship Country Description
Noquebay  United States The wooden schooner caught fire and sank in Lake Superior off the coast of Stockton Island, in Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin.

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1905
Ship Country Description
Zelandia  Belgium Wrecked off Warkworth, England.[16]

November

2 November

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1905
Ship Country Description
Appomattox  United States The wooden steamship ran aground in smoke and fog near Milwaukee, Lake Michigan. Abandoned as a constructive total loss.[17]

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1905
Ship Country Description
Blackadder  Norway The clipper ship foundered off Bahia, Brazil.[18]

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1905
Ship Country Description
Hilda  United Kingdom
Hilda

Ran aground on La Pierre des Portes reef, Saint-Malo, France with the loss of 125 lives.

28 November

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1905
Ship Country Description
Madeira  United States Sank in Lake Superior.

December

11 December

List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1905
Ship Country Description
LV-58 United States Lighthouse Service Sank off Nantucket.[19]

References

  1. ↑ Starheim, Ottar (2009). "Lodalsulukkene 1905 og 1936". In Bjerkaas, Hans-Tore. Sogn og Fjordane Fylkesleksikon (in Norwegian). NRK.
  2. ↑ "Skidby - 1905". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  3. ↑ Corin, J; Farr, G (1983). Penlee Lifeboat. Penzance: Penlee & Penzance Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. p. 120. ISBN 0-9508611-0-3.
  4. ↑ "Parisian - 1905". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  5. 1 2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Benguela". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  7. ↑ "Hesper". Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
  8. ↑ "Maiko Maru (4001499)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 28 June 2015. (subscription required (help)).
  9. ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  10. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  11. 1 2 Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. A History. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
  12. ↑ Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 16
  13. ↑ Larn, R. and Larn, B. (1991) Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
  14. ↑ "Final Voyage". Wisconsin Shipwrecks. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
  15. ↑ Shipwrecks of the Philippines, Tom Bennett, 2012
  16. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  17. ↑ "Final Voyage". Wisconsin Shipwrecks. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
  18. ↑ "Blackadder (1063573)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 24 November 2013. (subscription required (help)).
  19. ↑ http://www.uscg.mil/history/cutters/WLV/LV58.asp
Ship events in 1905
Ship launches: 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910
Ship commissionings: 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910
Ship decommissionings: 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910
Shipwrecks: 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910
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