List of shipwrecks in 1910

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The list of shipwrecks in 1910 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1910.

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1910
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1910
Ship Country Description
Katie Darling  United Kingdom The ketch foundered off Cardigan. Two crew were rescued by Elizabeth Austin ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[1]

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1910
Ship Country Description
Farallon  United States The passenger liner sank in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Her crew survived for a month on an island until rescued.

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1910
Ship Country Description
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]

February

23 February

List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1910
Ship Country Description
La Boulonaisse  France The 67 ton ship carrying cement from Boulogne to Saint Malo sank on a reef of the Chausey Islands Channel Islands 5 men were saved.[3]

28 February

List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1910
Ship Country Description
SV Nordenskjold  Russia The Russian wooden brigantine, on voyage from La Rochelle to Llanelly with a cargo of pit props, was wrecked in Belgrave Bay (Belle Grève), Guernsey Channel islands.[4]

March

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1910
Ship Country Description
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)[5]

31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1910
Ship Country Description
Pericles  United Kingdom The ocean liner struck an uncharted rock near Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia, and sank. All 238 passengers and 163 crew members abandoned ship safely.

April

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1910
Ship Country Description
Notre Dame de Lourdes  France The ketch was driven ashore at Rhosilli, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew survived but the vesses subsequently broke up.[6]

18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1910
Ship Country Description
Minnehaha  United Kingdom The ocean liner ran aground on rocks in the Isles of Scilly. Refloated on 13 May and returned to service after repairs were made.
Brabo  Belgium The steamer ran aground on Hoborgsriff, off the coast of Sweden. Refloated and towed to Oscarshamn, where she was sold for scrap.[7]

May

15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1910
Ship Country Description
Wear  United Kingdom The British steel cargo ship Wear, built in 1905 by Austin S. P. & Son Ltd. and owned at the time of her loss by Witherington & Everett SS Co., on voyage from Sunderland to Saint-Servan with a cargo of coal, was wrecked on the west coast of Guernsey Channel Islands. There were no casualties.[3][8]

17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1910
Ship Country Description
Forel  Imperial Russian Navy The submarine sank accidentally. All crew members escaped. Forel later was salvaged and scrapped.

30 May

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1910
Ship Country Description
Olivia  United Kingdom The fishing trawler was hit by the torpedo boat destroyer HMS Quail ( Royal Navy) off Porthallow, Cornwall. Four men from the village of Flushing died.[9]

June

7 June

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1910
Ship Country Description
Felix de Abasolo  Spain Carrying a cargo of coal, she ran aground in dense fog on Les Boufresses reef just north of Île de Raz Alderney Channel Islands and broke her back.[10][11]

11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1910
Ship Country Description
Rap  Norway The Norwegian cargo ship was on a voyage from Newcastle to Gibraltar with a cargo of coal, when she was wrecked, off Alderney, Channel Islands.[12]
Terra  United Kingdom En route from the Port of Tyne to Genoa with a cargo of coal. She ran aground in fog at Chateau Letoc, Alderney Channel Islands [11][13]

18 June

List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1910
Ship Country Description
SS Linn O-Dee  United Kingdom The British iron cargo ship, on voyage from Portsmouth to Guernsey in ballast, ran aground in fog and was wrecked at La Lague on Burhou Island, close to Alderney, Channel Islands.[14]
SS Cheapside  United Kingdom Collier collided with the armoured cruiser HMS King Alfred off start point and sank. King Alfred received little damage.[15][16][17]

23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1910
Ship Country Description
Zelandia  Belgium Sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea 100 nautical miles (190 km) off the Danish coast.[18]

July

20 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1910
Ship Country Description
Dode  United States
Dode
The steamboat struck a rock and sank off Marrowstone Island, Washington.

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1910
Ship Country Description
USRC Commodore Perry (1884) United States Revenue Cutter Service Ran aground during dense fog off Tonki Point, St. Paul Island in the Pribilof Islands. All hands were rescued.[19]

August

2 August

List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1910
Ship Country Description
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

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1910
Ship Country Description
Princess May Canada Canada
Princess May

The passenger ship ran aground near the Sentinel Island Light, Alaska, United States. She later was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1910
Ship Country Description
USS Marcellus  USA The United States Navy collier was rammed by the Norwegian-flagged fruit steamer Rosario di Gregario about 60 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. She sank 10 hours later with no loss of life. Deemed too expensive to salvage, Marcellus was struck from the Navy list on 22 September 1910.

31 August

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1910
Ship Country Description
Marie-Reine  Belgium Caught fire at Thessalonika, Greece and sank.[20]

September

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1910
Ship Country Description
William Cory  United Kingdom
SS William Cory aground at Pendeen

The cargo steamship, carrying a cargo of timber from Uleaborg to Newport, South Wales was wrecked at Pendeen.[21]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1910
Ship Country Description
Chester  United Kingdom A collision in the River Elbe with a Swedish steamer which resulted in her being badly damaged. She was beached to prevent sinking.[22] However, she sank quickly into the soft moving sand and became a total wreck, the water having flooded her holds.[23]

October

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1910
Ship Country Description
Olympe  United Kingdom The schooner was beached at Gunwalloe Church Cove, Cornwall.[24]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1910
Ship Country Description
James and Agness  United Kingdom The schooner was lost in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, Devon with the loss of all five crew.[6]

November

6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1910
Ship Country Description
Preussen  Germany
Preussen

Was accidentally rammed by SS Brighton ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel off Dover, and beached without loss of life.

8th November

List of shipwrecks: 8th November 1910
Ship Country Description
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.[25]

December

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1910
Ship Country Description
Stirling Castle  United Kingdom The cargo steamer, which also used the name SS Nord America, ran aground off Morocco. She was refloated and towed to Genoa, Italy, where she was laid up before being scrapped in 1911.

9 December

List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1910
Ship Country Description
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.[26]

10 December

List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1910
Ship Country Description
Olympia  United States
The wreck of Olympia.
The steamship 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".[27]

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1910
Ship Country Description
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).[18]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1910
Ship Country Description
Baltique  Belgium The steamship 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 / 51.42500; 3.58944) with the loss of six of her sixteen crew.[7]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1910
Ship Country Description
Febrero flag unknown The ore carrying ship hit an unnamed rock to the north-east of the Runnel Stone, near Land's End, Cornwall All hands lost bar the cook.[28]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1910
Ship Country Description
Loch Katrine  United Kingdom The ship was dismasted and abandoned. She was later towed to Sydney, Australia and hulked.[29]
Lothair  Peru The composite clipper was lost.

References

  1. ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  2. ↑ Pollard, Chris (2007). The Book of St Mawes. Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove. ISBN 978 1 84114 631 7.
  3. 1 2 Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
  4. ↑ "SV Nordenskjold (Rus.) (+1910)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 Aug 2015.
  5. ↑ Leach, Nicholas (2003). Sennen Cove Lifeboats: 150 years of lifesaving. Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7524-3111-0.
  6. 1 2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  7. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  8. ↑ "SS Wear [+1910]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 Aug 2015.
  9. ↑ "Bad day for trio of destroyers". Falmouth Packet. 29 March 2006. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
  10. ↑ "SS Felix de Abasolo [+1910]".
  11. 1 2 John Elsbury. "SHIPWRECKS NEAR ALDERNEY".
  12. ↑ "SS Rap [+1910]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 27 Aug 2015.
  13. ↑ "SS Terra [+1910]".
  14. ↑ "SS Linn O-Dee [+1910]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 Aug 2015.
  15. ↑ "Naval Matters – Past and Prospective: Devonport Dockyard". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 33. August 1910. p. 11.
  16. ↑ "SS Cheapside [+1910]". Wrecksite. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  17. ↑ "Cheapside". Clyde Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  18. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  19. ↑ "Perry (Commodore Perry), 1884" (PDF). U.S. Coast Guard History Program. U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  20. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  21. ↑ "SS William Cory (+1910)". Retrieved 16 November 2011.
  22. ↑ "The Great Central Railway Company’s steamer Chester…". Aberdeen Journal. Scotland. 30 September 1910. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  23. ↑ "Grimsby Steamer wrecked in the Elbe". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. England. 3 October 1910. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  24. ↑ Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
  25. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 19.
  26. ↑ "The Times - Feared Loss of a British Steamer". Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  27. ↑ "Outside News of Alaskan Doings", Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner. January 14, 1911. Page A1.
  28. ↑ Liddiard, John. "The Undiscovered Runnel Stone". Retrieved 31 October 2011.
  29. ↑ "LOCH KATRINE". Clydesite. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
Ship events in 1910
Ship launches: 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
Ship commissionings: 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
Ship decommissionings: 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
Shipwrecks: 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915
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