List of shipwrecks in 1912

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The list of shipwrecks in 1912 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1912.

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1912
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1912
Ship Country Description
Ayintab  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Bafra  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Gökcedag  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Kastamonu  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Muha  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Ordu  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Refahiye  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1912
Ship Country Description
Calderon  United Kingdom Collided with Musketeer ( United Kingdom) in the Crosby Channel. Beached but broke in two, a total loss.[1]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1912
Ship Country Description
Black Head  United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked on the Tein Reef, off Bornholm, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Belfast, County Antrim.[2]

February

2 February

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1912
Ship Country Description
HMS A3  Royal Navy The A-class submarine was accidentally rammed and sunk by the submarine tender HMS Hazard ( Royal Navy) in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight with the loss of all hands. Subsequently refloated and sunk as a gunnery target.

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1912
Ship Country Description
Consols  United Kingdom British steamer laden with cotton from Galveston for Hamburg, caught fire and sank approximately 40 miles south of Cape Henry. All crew were rescued.[3]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1912
Ship Country Description
Maud  United Kingdom The Fleetwood trawler drifted ashore at Kynance Cove, Cornwall, when her tow broke.[4]

17 February

List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1912
Ship Country Description
Charioteer  United Kingdom The tug foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all five crew.[5]

18 February

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1912
Ship Country Description
Erne  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of ten of her nineteen crew. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, United States to Buenos Aires, Argentina.[6]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1912
Ship Country Description
Angora  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Beirut: The torpedo boat was shelled and sunk in Beirut harbour by the cruisers Francesco Ferruccio and Giuseppe Garibaldi (both  Regia Marina).
Avnillâh  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Beirut: The casemate corvette was shelled and sunk Beirut harbour by the cruisers Francesco Ferruccio and Giuseppe Garibaldi (both  Regia Marina).

29 February

List of shipwrecks: 29 February 1912
Ship Country Description
H. K. Bedford  United States
H. K. Bedford
The passenger steamer became caught in an ice floe and sank in the Ohio River 8 miles (13 km) upstream from Marietta, Ohio.

March

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1912
Ship Country Description
Bessie  United Kingdom The Truro registered three-masted schooner was forced to shelter in Newquay Bay, Cornwall in a strong north wind and drifted ashore when her anchor fouled. Two of the crew were saved by breeches buoy, the others clambered up the 100 ft (30 m) cliff on the cliff ladder. She was on a voyage from Ballincurragh, County Cork to Penryn.[7]
Illawarra  Norway The full-rigged ship was abandoned whilst on a voyage from Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom to Coquimbo, Chile.[8]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1912
Ship Country Description
Oceana  United Kingdom Sank after a collision with Pisagua ( Germany) off Beachy Head, East Sussex.
Wendur  United Kingdom The Glasgow sailing vessel struck the southern most rock of the Seven Stones Reef while carrying grain from Plymouth, Devon. Three of the twenty-one crew lost their lives. She held the record for the fastest voyage between Newcastle and Valparaiso.[9]

20 March

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1912
Ship Country Description
Koombana  Australia The passenger, cargo, and mail steamer disappeared in a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia during a voyage from Port Hedland to Broome with the loss of all 150 people on board.

21 March

List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1912
Ship Country Description
City of Cardiff  United Kingdom Wrecked at Nanjizal on the west coast of Cornwall.[10] All on board were rescued.[11]

23 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1912
Ship Country Description
Pollux  Sweden Sunk in the Skaggerak, near Hanstholm in collision with German battleship Elsass

April

2 April

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1912
Ship Country Description
USS Santee  United States Navy The school ship sank at her berth at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. She was refloated six months later and was burned as a means of disposal and scrapping in 1913.

6 April

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1912
Ship Country Description
Gunvor  Norway
Gunvor wrecked

Wrecked on the Pedn-Men-an-Mor rocks, Black Head, The Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew scrambled to safety.[12][13]

Mildred  United Kingdom The Barquentine struck rocks at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall in dense fog and sank with her sails set. No lives lost.[12]

7 April

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1912
Ship Country Description
Rhenania  Netherlands She was wrecked on Burhou Island, Channel Islands when on route from Rotterdam for Bilbao.[14][15]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1912
Ship Country Description
Cathcartpark  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground and sank off Iona.[16]
RMS Titanic  United Kingdom
RMS Titanic.
The Olympic-class ocean liner, the largest ship launched at the time, sank during her maiden voyage. A total of 1,514 lives were lost; 710 people survived.

May

12 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1912
Ship Country Description
HMS A3  Royal Navy The refloated wreck of the A-class submarine was sunk as a gunnery target in the English Channel near Portland Bill.

20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1912
Ship Country Description
USLHT Armeria United States Lighthouse Service Lighthouse tender was wrecked off of Cape Hinchinbrook Light, Alaska, while landing supplies.[17]

21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1912
Ship Country Description
Lord Lansdowne  United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked on Cobbler's Reef, Barbados. She was on a voyage from Norfolk, Virginia, United States to Barbados.[18]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date May 1912
Ship Country Description
USS Pensacola  United States Navy The decommissioned screw steamer was burned and sunk in San Francisco Bay off Hunter's Point, San Francisco, California, by the United States Navy in early May as a means of disposal.

June

2 June

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1912
Ship Country Description
Friendship  New South Wales
Friendship aground in June 1912.
The cargo ship ran aground at Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1912
Ship Country Description
Vendémiaire  French Navy A submarine, rammed near Cherbourg by the battleship Saint Louis ( French Navy) and sank with the loss of twenty-five sailors.

26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1912
Ship Country Description
Naniwa  Imperial Japanese Navy The Naniwa-class protected cruiser was wrecked on the coast of Uruppu in the Kurile Islands.

July

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1912
Ship Country Description
Transporter  United Kingdom The North Shields ship in ballast from St Nazaire to the Tyne for coal went ashore in thick fog, to the south of Mousehole, Cornwall. The salvage steamer Lady of the Isles hauled her clear and she resumed her journey undamaged.[19]

August

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1912
Ship Country Description
G W Wolff  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was wrecked on Prime Seal Island, Tasmania with the loss of her captain.[20]
HMS Holland 5  Royal Navy The decommissioned Holland-class submarine sank in the English Channel off Beachy Head while under tow to the breaker's yard.

17 August

List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1912
Ship Country Description
Leafield  Canada The cargo ship ran aground on a rocky islet in Georgian Bay near Beausoleil Island, Ontario, Canada. She was refloated and repaired, and she returned to service about two months later.[21]

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1912
Ship Country Description
Marnix  Belgium Struck uncharted rocks at Umba, Russia (66°21′N 35°36′E / 66.350°N 35.600°E / 66.350; 35.600 (SS Marnix)) and wrecked.[22]

31 August

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1912
Ship Country Description
Kursk  Denmark Ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, Netherlands. Thirty-two people killed.[23]

September

1 September

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1912
Ship Country Description
HMS Waterwitch  Royal Navy
HMS Waterwitch
The British Admiralty survey vessel sank after she was rammed by the governor's launch while anchored in Singapore Harbour.

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1912
Ship Country Description
Esperance  France The schooner capsized in the Bristol Channel. Her five crew and the ship's dog were rescued by the trawler Picton Castle ( United Kingdom). Esperance was on a voyage from Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais to Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[5]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1912
Ship Country Description
Kiche Maru  Japan The steam passenger ship sank off the coast of Japan during a typhoon with over 1,000 dead.

October

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1912
Ship Country Description
HMS B2  Royal Navy The B-class submarine collided with the passenger liner Amerika ( Germany) while surfacing in the North Sea northeast of Dover, England, and sank with the loss of 14 of her crew of 15.

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1912
Ship Country Description
Nicaragua  United States
The wreck of SS Nicaragua on Padre Island in June 1913.
The cargo ship was wrecked on Padre Island, Texas, during a storm in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ralph Creyke  United Kingdom The Ouse Steamship Company passenger-cargo ship sank near Flushing after a collision with the steamer Viking ( Denmark).[24]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1912
Ship Country Description
Feth-i Bülend  Ottoman Navy First Balkan War: The accommodation hulk was torpedoed and sunk in Thessaloniki harbour by a Greek torpedo boat. Seven crew members died in the sinking.

November

12 November

List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1912
Ship Country Description
Oravia  United Kingdom The passenger ship ran aground off Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. She was abandoned on 16 November. Oravia was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Callao, Peru.[25]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1912
Ship Country Description
Rouse Simmons  United States The three-masted schooner sank during a storm on Lake Michigan off Two Rivers, Wisconsin, with the loss of all hands.

28 November

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1912
Ship Country Description
Friendship  New South Wales The cargo ship ran aground and sank at the entrance to the Tweed River at Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia. There were no injuries or fatalities among her crew.[26]

December

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1912
Ship Country Description
Antonios  Greece The steamer was lost on rocks known as Old Bess, within the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. Her crew was lost and the wreck went unnoticed for three days when thousands of oranges were washed up on St Agnes along with wreckage.[9]

26 December

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1912
Ship Country Description
Tripolitania  United Kingdom Wrecked on Loe Bar, near Porthleven, Cornwall in 100 mph winds. Nearly all the crew were saved but the ship was a total loss.[27]

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1912
Ship Country Description
Vigilant  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Breaksea Point, Glamorgan. Her seven crew were rescued.[5]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1912
Ship Country Description
City of Adelaide  Australia The coal storage hulk was burned out by a several-day-long fire at Townsville, Australia.
Fox  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked on the coast of Greenland.
Pelayo  Spanish Navy The battleship was badly damaged in Fonduko Bay due to a navigational error.

References

  1. ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  2. ↑ "Black Head". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "Steamer Consols Goes to Bottom". The Times Dispatch. Richmond, VA. February 5, 1912.
  4. ↑ Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. A History. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
  5. 1 2 3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "ERNE". Clydesite. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "Wreck of the Bessie". Newquay Old Cornwall Society. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "ILLAWARRA". Clydesite. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  9. 1 2 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  10. ↑ "City of Cardiff". Cornish Wreck Chart.
  11. ↑ "Stunning images of shipwrecks taken by one family over 130 years". The Vintage News. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  12. 1 2 Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
  13. ↑ http://www.st-keverne.com/Treleague/wrecks.html A Diver's Guide to the Shipwrecks of The Lizard
  14. ↑ "SS Rhenania [+1912]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  15. ↑ Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
  16. ↑ McKenzie, Steven. "Lost ships and aircraft recorded in sea off Scotland". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  17. ↑ http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Armeria1890.pdf
  18. ↑ "Lord Lansdowne". The Yard. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  19. ↑ Larn, R; Larn, B (1991). Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
  20. ↑ "G W Wolff". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  21. ↑ "Maritime History of the Great Lakes". Retrieved 2017-02-12.
  22. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  23. ↑ "Koninklijke Nederlandse Bibliotheek". Koninklijke Nederlandse Bibliotheek. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
  24. ↑ "Goole Steamer Beached. Total Loss of the Ralph Creyke". Hull Daily Mail. England. 18 October 1912. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  25. ↑ "Oravia". The Yard. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  26. ↑ "SS Friendship (+1912)". Wrecksite.eu. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  27. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 15.
Ship events in 1912
Ship launches: 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917
Ship commissionings: 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917
Ship decommissionings: 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917
Shipwrecks: 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917
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