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 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
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 of Great Britain and Ireland
The Brixham trawler was stranded at Porthcurno, Cornwall and taken in tow by the Sennen Cove lifeboatAnn Newbon (Royal National Lifeboat Institution)[5]
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]
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 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]
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 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
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]
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
Princess May
The passenger ship ran aground near the Sentinel Island Light, Alaska, United States. She later was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
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.
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 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
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
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
German Empire
Preussen
Was accidentally rammed by SS Brighton (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
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]
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 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]
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 of Great Britain and Ireland).[18]