List of shipwrecks in 1950

The list of shipwrecks in 1950 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1950.

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1950
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1950
Ship Country Description
HMS Truculent  Royal Navy The T-class submarine was sunk in collision with oil tanker Divina ( Sweden). A total of 64 crew killed. Submarine later salvaged and scrapped.

15 January

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1950
Ship Country Description
HMS Thermopylae  Royal Navy The T-class submarine ran aground on Stevenson Rock, off Skerryvore, Inner Hebrides.[1]

17 January

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1950
Ship Country Description
USS Missouri  United States Navy
USS Missouri aground in Chesapeake Bay

The Iowa-class battleship ran aground in Chesapeake Bay. Refloated on 1 February.

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1950
Ship Country Description
Delta  Netherlands The coaster was in collision with the collier Colonel Crompton ( United Kingdom) in the River Thames near Tower Bridge, London and sank.

29 January

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1950
Ship Country Description
Edirne  Turkey The cargo ship ran aground on the Ortach Reef, Alderney, Channel Islands. Floated free and sank the next day.[2] All 50 crew were rescued.[3]

31 January

List of shipwrecks: 31 January 1950
Ship Country Description
Fidamas  West Germany The coaster struck a mine and sank off Langeoog, Netherlands with the loss of eight of her sixteen crew.[4] The survivors were rescued by the tug Rumania ( United Kingdom).[5]
Rask  Norway The coaster ran aground at Scremerston, Northumberland, United Kingdom. All sixteen on board were rescued.[6]

February

1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1950
Ship Country Description
William Ashburner  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground in the River Severn off Chepstow, Monmouthshire and was wrecked.[7][8]

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1950
Ship Country Description
Marchioness  United Kingdom The collier was in collision with Durmitor ( Yugoslavia) in the Thames Estuary at Greenhithe, London and sank. All twelve crew were rescued.[9]

11 February

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1950
Ship Country Description
Karhula  Finland The cargo ship sank off Texel, Netherlands with the loss of eleven of her 27 crew. The two stowaways on board were rescued.[10]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1950
Ship Country Description
Stag  United Kingdom The tug capsized and sank 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) south of the mouth of the River Wear whilst towing unfinished ocean liner City of Manchester ( United Kingdom). Four of her six crew were killed.[11]
Wing Hing  Hong Kong caught fire, beached at Chilang Point, Hong Kong. Constructive total loss.

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1950
Ship Country Description
Clam  United Kingdom The tanker ran aground near the Reykjanes Lighthouse, Reykjavík, Iceland. Twenty-seven of her 50 crew were drowned when their lifeboats capsized.[12] Declared a total loss on 5 March.[13]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1950
Ship Country Description
Benledi  United Kingdom The cargo ship caught fire east of Malta and was abandoned. Later repaired and returned to service.
Empire Gladstone  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground 8 nautical miles (15 km) north of Twofold Point, New South Wales, Australia (35°56′S 149°57′E / 35.933°S 149.950°E / -35.933; 149.950) and was declared a total loss.[14]

March

15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1950
Ship Country Description
Sainte Anne  France Last communication from the ship off the Balearic Islands, no further trace.[15]

26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1950
Ship Country Description
Voorwarts  Netherlands The coaster on route from Littlehampton to Saint Malo in ballast ran aground on the Paternoster Reef, off Jersey, Channel Islands and was abandoned and sank.[16]

April

10 April

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1950
Ship Country Description
Halladale  United Kingdom The ferry ran aground at Calais, France. Refloated later that day.[17]

18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1950
Ship Country Description
Sandra  Costa Rica The small freighter was declared overdue, apparently lost in bad weather while en route from Savannah to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.[18]

May

7 May

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1950
Ship Country Description
City of Lincoln  United Kingdom The hulk of the cargo liner was sunk as a target by the South African Air Force off Cape Town.[19]

26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1950
Ship Country Description
Cabo Espartel  Spain The cargo ship collided with Felspar ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent. All 37 crew were rescued. Felspar was beached south of Deal, Kent.[20]

June

1 June

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1950
Ship Country Description
Sand Runner  United Kingdom The coaster ran aground at St. Ives Head. All crew saved. Ship refloated the following day.[21]

23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1950
Ship Country Description
Fairwind  Australia The survey vessel foundered off New South Wales with the loss of all seventeen crew.

July

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1950
Ship Country Description
Barnet  United Kingdom standing guard overnight under the Warspite’s bows, at Prussia Cove, Cornwall was holed in the engine room, towed off and eventually drifted ashore at Long Rock, a few miles to the west.[22][23]

9 July

List of shipwrecks: 9 July 1950
Ship Country Description
Ranheim  Norway The cargo ship was wrecked off Kapp Borthen, Svalbard.[24]

12 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1950
Ship Country Description
Franconia  United Kingdom The ocean liner ran aground at Orleans, Ontario, Canada.[25] Refloated on 16 July.[26] All 1,272 passengers and crew rescued.[27]

August

13 August

List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1950
Ship Country Description
Mayakovsky steamer in Riga, Latvian SSR

23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1950
Ship Country Description
Jeep Hee  United Kingdom The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Yangtze, China.[28]

25 August

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1950
Ship Country Description
USS Benevolence  United States Navy The hospital ship collided with Mary Luckenbach ( United States) off San Francisco, California and sank with the loss of 23 of her 505 crew.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1950
Ship Country Description
Capitaine Frankignoul  Belgium The Liberty Ship ran aground south east of Zanzibar, refloated after four days and returned to service.[29][30]
Quebec  Canada The cruise ship caught fire in the St Lawrence River, a total loss.[31]

September

12 September

List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1950
Ship Country Description
Clan Chatton  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground on the Shipwash Sands, 20 nautical miles (37 km) off Harwich, Essex.[32]

15 September

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1950
Ship Country Description
Happy Harry  United Kingdom The schooner foundered at Southport and was dismantled in situ.[33]

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1950
Ship Country Description
Colonial  Portugal The ocean liner was driven ashore on the Argyllshire coast in a storm. She was being towed from Lisbon, Portugal to the Clyde for scrapping and had a skeleton crew of eight on board. They were rescued by breeches buoy.[34]
La Place  Marine Nationale The Tacoma-class frigate struck a mine in the Baie de la Fresnaie off St Malo and sank with the loss of 51 of her 92 crew.[35]

22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1950
Ship Country Description
Energi  Sweden The cargo ship struck a mine and sank off the Åland Islands, Finland with the loss of eleven of her seventeen crew.[36]

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1950
Ship Country Description
Liberté  France The ocean liner ran aground in the Solent. Later refloated.[37]

October

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1950
Ship Country Description
Orwell  United Kingdom The Thames barge collided with the motor barge Betty Hudson ( United Kingdom) in the Thames Estuary and sank 36 nautical miles (67 km) downstream of London Bridge.[38]

12 October

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1950
Ship Country Description
USS Pirate  United States Navy Operation Wonsan: The Admirable-class minesweeper struck a mine and sank off Sin-Do, Korea with the loss of thirteen crew.
USS Pledge  United States Navy Operation Wonsan: The Admirable-class minesweeper struck a mine and sank off Sin-Do, Korea.

15 October

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1950
Ship Country Description
Ernesto Tornquist  Argentina The passenger ship ran aground on South Georgia. All 250 on board were rescued.[39]

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1950
Ship Country Description
Alcantara  Panama The cargo ship ran aground in the Scheldt and broke up. All crew rescued.[40]

November

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1950
Ship Country Description
Seniority  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Leinish Point, Inner Hebrides. Sank the next day off Bo Vich Chuan Rock, Inner Hebrides.

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1950
Ship Country Description
Masterman  United Kingdom The tug struck Hogus Rocks, Cornwall.The tug Tradesman ( United Kingdom) was damaged in assisting to free Masterman and had to be taken in tow by tug Superman ( United Kingdom).[23]

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1950
Ship Country Description
Skeldergate  United Kingdom The cargo ship was driven ashore near Puri, India in a cyclone. She broke her back and was declared a total loss.[41]

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1950
Ship Country Description
Santagata  Italy The cargo ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom and was wrecked.[14]

26 November

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1950
Ship Country Description
Selnes  Norway The cargo ship collided with City of Bristol ( United Kingdom) in the Thames Estuary and was beached on the West Barrow Sands, where she was declared a total loss.

30 November

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1950
Ship Country Description
Regent Lion  United Kingdom The tanker ran aground in the Firth of Forth. Refloated the next day.[42]

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1950
Ship Country Description
I P Suhr  Denmark The collier capsized and sank in the Baltic Sea 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) off Sandhammaren, Sweden with the loss of 20 crew.

11 December

List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1950
Ship Country Description
Bechuana  South Africa The Channel Tanker ran aground at Port Nolloth, South Africa. A total loss.

15 December

List of shipwrecks: 15 December 1950
Ship Country Description
Etivebank  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Licata, Italy after her anchor chain broke in heavy weather. Later refloated and returned to service.

24 December

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1950
Ship Country Description
Santagata  Italy The cargo ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. She broke in two and was declared a total loss. All 32 crew were rescued by the Walmer Lifeboat.

References

  1. ↑ "Submarine Captain Charged" The Times (London). Thursday, 6 April 1950. (51659), col F, p. 4.
  2. ↑ "Loss Of Turkish Ship" The Times (London). Tuesday, 31 January 1950. (51603), col D, p. 4.
  3. ↑ "Welfare Of Edirne's Crew" The Times (London). Saturday, 4 February 1950. (51607), col D, p. 8.
  4. ↑ "German Steamer Sunk By Mine" The Times (London). Wednesday, 1 February 1950. (51604), col D, p. 4.
  5. ↑ "News In Brief" The Times (London). Monday, 6 February 1950. (51608), col E, p. 5.
  6. ↑ "Crew Saved By Breeches Buoy" The Times (London). Wednesday, 1 February 1950. (51604), col F, p. 4.
  7. ↑ "William Ashburner". Through Mighty Seas. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  8. ↑ "Widespread Gales" The Times (London). Thursday, 2 February 1950. (51605), col E, p. 4.
  9. ↑ "Steamer Sunk In Thames Estuary" The Times (London). Saturday, 11 February 1950. (51613), col D, p. 4.
  10. ↑ "Finnish Steamer Lost" The Times (London). Monday, 13 February 1950. (51614), col F, p. 6.
  11. ↑ "Bodies Of Tug Crew Still Missing" The Times (London). Monday, 13 February 1950. (51614), col F, p. 6.
  12. ↑ "27 Of Tanker Crew Lost" The Times (London). Wednesday, 1 March 1950. (51628), col G, p. 6.
  13. ↑ "Loss of 27 Men In Ship's Boats" The Times (London). Tuesday, 11 July 1950. (51740), col C, p. 3.
  14. 1 2 Mitchell, W H, and Sawyer, L A (1995). The Empire Ships. London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. p. not cited. ISBN 1-85044-275-4.
  15. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  16. ↑ "Dutch Coaster On Reef" The Times (London). Monday, 27 March 1950. (51650), col F, p. 4.
  17. ↑ "Barge Sunk Off The Nore Sands" The Times (London). Tuesday, 11 April 1950. (51662), col D, p. 6.
  18. ↑ "Physics 3333 / CFB 3333 Sandra Story". webcache.googleusercontent.com. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
  19. ↑ "Liner Hulk Sunk" The Times (London). Monday, 8 May 1950. (51685), col C, p. 3.
  20. ↑ "Ships Collide In Channel Fog" The Times (London). Saturday, 27 May 1950. (51702), col B, p. 2.
  21. ↑ "1946-62". St. Ives Trust. Retrieved 15 March 2008.
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  23. 1 2 "Visitors to Mount’s Bay. The Last days of HMS WARSPITE". Hearts of Oak. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
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  25. ↑ "Franconia Still Aground" The Times (London). Friday, 14 July 1950. (51743), col C, p. 6.
  26. ↑ "Franconia Refloated" The Times (London). Monday, 17 July 1950. (51745), col F, p. 4.
  27. ↑ "Stranding Of The Liner Franconia" The Times (London). Saturday, 30 September 1950. (51810), col C, p. 3.
  28. ↑ "News In Brief" The Times (London). Thursday, 24 August 1950. (51778), col D, p. 3.
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  30. ↑ "Marine Casualty Database Southern African Coast". Oocities. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  31. ↑ "Ships Lost In August" The Times (London). Monday, 11 September 1950. (51793), col G, p. 9.
  32. ↑ "Ship Aground" The Times (London). Thursday, 14 September 1950. (51796), col F, p. 3.
  33. ↑ "HAPPY HARRY September 1950". Martyn Griff. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  34. ↑ "80 M.P.H. Gusts" The Times (London). Monday, 18 September 1950. (51799), col E, p. 4.
  35. ↑ "French Ship Blown Up" The Times (London). Monday, 18 September 1950. (51799), col E, p. 4.
  36. ↑ "Steamer Sinks After Striking Mine" The Times (London). Saturday, 23 September 1950. (51804), col C, p. 5.
  37. ↑ "Liner's Mishap Off Southampton" The Times (London). Thursday, 28 September 1950. (51808), col E, p. 4.
  38. ↑ "Gelignite Barge Sunk In Thames" The Times (London). Saturday, 7 October 1950. (51816), col C, p. 6.
  39. ↑ "Argentine Ship Lost" The Times (London). Thursday, 19 October 1950. (51826), col B, p. 3.
  40. ↑ "6,470-ton Steamer Runs Aground" The Times (London). Wednesday, 24 October 1950. (51831), col E, p. 3.
  41. ↑ "Cyclone Damage in Bengal" The Times (London). Tuesday, 21 November 1950. (51854), col C, p. 3.
  42. ↑ "News In Brief" The Times (London). Saturday, 2 December 1950. (51864), col C, p. 3.
Ship events in 1950
Ship launches: 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
Ship commissionings: 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
Ship decommissionings: 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
Shipwrecks: 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
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