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

January[]

1 January[]

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

5 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1910
Ship Country Description
Farallon US flag 45 stars 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 Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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 Flag of France 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 Flag of Russia 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 Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The Brixham trawler was stranded at Porthcurno, Cornwall and taken in tow by the Sennen Cove lifeboat Ann Newbon (Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Royal National Lifeboat Institution)[5]

31 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1910
Ship Country Description
Pericles Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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 Flag of France 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 Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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 Flag of Belgium (civil) 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 Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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 Naval Ensign of Russia 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 Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The fishing trawler was hit by the torpedo boat destroyer HMS Quail (Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom 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 Flag of Spain 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 Flag of Norway 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 Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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 Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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 Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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 Flag of Belgium (civil) 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 US flag 45 stars United States
Dode wrecked 1910

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) Ensign of the United States Revenue-Marine (1868) 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 US flag 45 stars 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
SS Princess May 3c33388u

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 Flag of the United States 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 Flag of Belgium (civil) Belgium Caught fire at Thessalonika, Greece and sank.[20]

September[]

5 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1910
Ship Country Description
William Cory Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
SS William Cory aground

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 Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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 Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The schooner was beached at Gunwalloe Church Cove, Cornwall.[24]

19 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1910
Ship Country Description
James and Agness Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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 Flag of the German Empire German Empire
Preussen total wreck - SLV H99

Preussen

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

8th November[]

List of shipwrecks: 8th November 1910
Ship Country Description
Wimborne Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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 Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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 Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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 US flag 45 stars United States
SS Olympia

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 Flag of Belgium (civil) 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 (Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland).[18]

25 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1910
Ship Country Description
Baltique Flag of Belgium (civil) Belgium The steamship was accidentally rammed and sunk by Finland (Flag of Belgium (civil) Belgium) in the Flushing Roads (51°25′30″N 3°35′22″E / 51.425°N 3.58944°E / 51.425; 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 Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The ship was dismasted and abandoned. She was later towed to Sydney, Australia and hulked.[29]
Lothair Flag of Peru Peru The composite clipper was lost.

References[]

  1. ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. http://www.glen-johnson.co.uk/cardigan-district-shipwrecks-and-lifeboat-service/. Retrieved 1 February 2015. 
  2. ↑ Pollard, Chris (2007). The Book of St Mawes. Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove. ISBN 978 1 84114 631 7. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dufiel, Yves (2008) (in French). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche. 
  4. ↑ "SV Nordenskjold (Rus.) (+1910)". wrecksite.eu. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?217614. 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. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf. Retrieved 22 December 2014. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Belgian Merchant A-G". Belgische Koopvaardij. http://www.belgischekoopvaardij.net/belgian%20merchant%20A-G%2023.5.04.pdf. Retrieved 30 September 2010. 
  8. ↑ "SS Wear [+1910"]. wrecksite.eu. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?83005. Retrieved 26 Aug 2015. 
  9. ↑ "Bad day for trio of destroyers". 29 March 2006. http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/in_port/717176.Bad_day_for_trio_of_destroyers/. Retrieved 4 February 2012. 
  10. ↑ "SS Felix de Abasolo [+1910"]. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?2663. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 John Elsbury. "SHIPWRECKS NEAR ALDERNEY". http://www.judnick.com/judnick/ShipwrecksNearAlderney.htm. 
  12. ↑ "SS Rap [+1910"]. wrecksite.eu. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?2866. Retrieved 27 Aug 2015. 
  13. ↑ "SS Terra [+1910"]. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?2923. 
  14. ↑ "SS Linn O-Dee [+1910"]. wrecksite.eu. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?2728. Retrieved 26 Aug 2015. 
  15. ↑ "Naval Matters – Past and Prospective: Devonport Dockyard". August 1910. p. 11. 
  16. ↑ "SS Cheapside [+1910"]. Wrecksite. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?37217. Retrieved 13 May 2017. 
  17. ↑ "Cheapside". Clyde Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=12360&vessel=CHEAPSIDE. Retrieved 13 May 2017. 
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Belgian Merchant P-Z". Belgische Koopvaardij. http://www.belgischekoopvaardij.net/belgian%20Merchant%20%20P-Z.pdf. Retrieved 1 December 2010. [dead link]
  19. ↑ "Perry (Commodore Perry), 1884". U.S. Department of Homeland Security. https://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Perry1884.pdf. Retrieved 18 April 2017. 
  20. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O". Belgische Koopvaardij. http://www.belgischekoopvaardij.net/belgian%20merchant%20H-O%2024.5.04.pdf. Retrieved 31 October 2010. [dead link]
  21. ↑ "SS William Cory (+1910)". http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?136465. Retrieved 16 November 2011. 
  22. ↑ "The Great Central Railway Company’s steamer Chester…". Scotland. 30 September 1910. http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19100930/009/0002. 
  23. ↑ "Grimsby Steamer wrecked in the Elbe". England. 3 October 1910. http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19101003/202/0005. 
  24. ↑ Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". pp. 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". http://www.wrecksite.eu/doc/wrecks/axim1.jpg. 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". http://www.jlunderwater.co.uk/old_site/photoix/runnelstone/index.htm. Retrieved 31 October 2011. 
  29. ↑ "LOCH KATRINE". Clydesite. http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/abandoned-ships/LOCH_KATRINE_47.html. 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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