List of shipwrecks in 1906

The list of shipwrecks in 1906 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1906.

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1906
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
Unknown date


January

12 January

List of shipwrecks: January 1906
Ship Country Description
Itata  United Kingdom
Itata

The barque was destroyed by fire at Newcastle, New South Wales.

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1906
Ship Country Description
Aquidabã  Marinha do Brasil sank after an explosion in her magazines with the loss of 212 lives.

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1906
Ship Country Description
Valencia  United States Ran aground off Pachena Point, British Columbia with the loss of at least 136 lives.

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1906
Ship Country Description
Agnes  Australia Sank after collision, Sydney Harbour.

February

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1906
Ship Country Description
L'Avenir  Belgium Wrecked 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Flamborough Head, England.[1]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1906
Ship Country Description
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

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1906
Ship Country Description
Ocean Queen  United Kingdom Wrecked on south coast of Guernsey. Sailing from London to Jersey with cement and general.[4][5]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1906
Ship Country Description
xxxx  Norway The ship foundered off Cardigan Island, Cardiganshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[6] -->

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1906
Ship Country Description
Olympian  United States Wrecked at Possession Bay, Chile.

18 March

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1906
Ship Country Description
Athen  Germany Wrecked at Portland Bill, United Kingdom.

April

30 April

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1906
Ship Country Description
Courier II  United Kingdom struck Les Anons a rock south of Jethou.[7] There were 29 survivors and 10 deaths. The ship was salvaged on 1 August 1906 and returned to service after repairs.[8]

May

19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1906
Ship Country Description
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 / 47.200; -12.167) on her second voyage with the loss of 33 crew.[9]

29 May

List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1906
Ship Country Description
Leros  Germany On route from Newcastle to Lisbon with a cargo of Singer sewing machines when she ran aground in thick fog on Tasse de la Frette Rocks, NW Burhou near Alderney Channel Islands.[10][11]

30 May

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1906
Ship Country Description
HMS Montagu  Royal Navy
HMS Montagu aground on Lundy Island

The battleship ran aground on Lundy Island and wrecked. Salvage abandoned in 1907 and scrapped in situ.

July

11 July

List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1906
Ship Country Description
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.[12]

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1906
Ship Country Description
Maggie Schultz  Belgium Foundered 80 nautical miles (150 km) off Bilbao, Spain.[1]

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1906
Ship Country Description
Marjorie J. Sumner  Canada The schooner capsized at Eatonville, Nova Scotia during unloading. Subsequently salvage, repaired and returned to service.[13]

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1906
Ship Country Description
Socoa  France
Socoa aground off Cadgwith. Plumes of steam from pumps being used to refloat her can be seen.

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.[14]

August

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1906
Ship Country Description
Forth  United Kingdom Ran aground in thick fog and was wrecked on Long Pierre Rock off Herm, Channel Islands, whilst on passage from Middlesbrough to St. Malo.[15][16]

23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1906
Ship Country Description
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.[17]

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1906
Ship Country Description
Princess Canada Canada Foundered off George Island, Manitoba.

September

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1906
Ship Country Description
HMS Phoenix  Royal Navy Foundered alongside a coaling pier in Hong Kong in a typhoon.

October

25 October

List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1906
Ship Country Description
Peter Iredale  United Kingdom
Peter Iredale, 1906

Ran aground at Clatsop Spit, Oregon and was wrecked.

November

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1906
Ship Country Description
Galena  United Kingdom
Galena

The barquentine was wrecked at the mouth of the Columbia River.

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1906
Ship Country Description
Dix  United States Sank after a collision with steam-powered schooner Jeannie ( United States). Over 45 lives lost.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1906
Ship Country Description
Little Malta  United Kingdom The steam trawler sank in the Teifi Estuary.[6]

December

16 December

List of shipwrecks: 16 December 1906
Ship Country Description
Prinzessin Victoria Luise  Germany Ran aground off Kingston, Jamaica, declared a constructive total loss.

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1906
Ship Country Description
Cap Juby  Belgium Sank after collision with Arlington ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel 15 nautical miles (28 km) off Dungeness, Kent, United Kingdom.[9]

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1906
Ship Country Description
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).[18]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1906
Ship Country Description
Bergen  Norway The lifeboat was lost during a rescue operation off Stave, Andøya, Norway.[19]

References

  1. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  2. ↑ Carter, Clive (1998). The Port of Penzance. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications. ISBN 0-9533028-0-6.
  3. ↑ "100 years ago". The Cornishman. 2 March 2006.
  4. ↑ cite web |url=title=SS Ocean Queen [+1906 |publisher=wrecksite.eu
  5. ↑ cite web |url=http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports2002/18903.asp |title=Wreck Report for 'Ocean Queen', 1906
  6. 1 2 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  7. ↑ Guernseythrough the lens, including Alderney, Sark, Herm and Jethou: photographs taken before 1914 Victor Coysh, Carel Toms, 1978
  8. ↑ http://www.thisisguernsey.com/2006/08/07/a-story-of-survival/
  9. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  10. ↑ "SS Leros (+1906)".
  11. ↑ John Elsbury. "SHIPWRECKS NEAR ALDERNEY".
  12. ↑ Lettens, Jan; Allen, Tony (23 December 2013). "SS Angola (+1906)". Wreck Site.
  13. ↑ "Marjorie J. Sumner - 1906". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  14. ↑ "Timeline; merchant and navy ship events 1900-1913". Retrieved 2011-11-16.
  15. ↑ cite web |url=title=SS Forth [+1906 |publisher=wrecksite.eu
  16. ↑ cite web |url=http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports2002/19014.asp |title=Wreck Report for 'Forth', 1906
  17. ↑ Larn, R; Larn, B (1991). Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
  18. ↑ Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  19. ↑ 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
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