The ship was leaving Alderney Channel Islands harbour when it suffered steering problems and ran aground on the Grois Reef. Floating free she was anchored but broke up in a storm on 11 January and became a total loss.[1]
29 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Wiln
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The schooner was in collision with the steamship Irena (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) in the Bristol Channel and foundered with the loss of four of her six crew. She was on a voyage from Devonport, Devon to Llanelli, Glamorgan.[2]
The Mousehole, lugger sank about 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off the Longships when she collided with the Lowestoft sailing trawler Trevone (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland). All but one of the crew scrambled aboard the trawler.[4]
March[]
2 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Cingetorix
Belgium
Wrecked 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) south of Hartland Point, Devon.[5]
3 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Cap Spartel
Belgium
Departed Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom bound for Palermo, Spain. No further trace.[5]
22 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Bruce
Canada
While en voyage from Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland to Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, she was driven on the rocks by ice, off Portnova Islands, (Main-a-Dieu Passage), southwest of Scatarie Island. Two crew members died.[6]
The decommissioned second-class battleship (ex-USS Texas) was sunk as a gunnery target in shallow water in Tangier Sound off Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay by the battleship USS New Hampshire (United States Navy).
Sank in the Strait of Georgia off Sidney, British Columbia, Canada, after her cargo, having been poorly stowed, shifted when she encountered a squall.[8] Twenty-one people died as a result of the accident and her captain was charged with, but acquitted of, manslaughter.[9]
21 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1911
Ship
Country
Description
O. D. Witherell
United States
O. D. Witherell aground on 21 April 1911.
On or prior to this date, the sailing ship – a cargo ship – ran aground on the coast of Delaware 3½ miles (5.6 kilometers) south of Bethany Beach.[10]
The ocean liner ran aground in foggy conditions and was wrecked in the East China Sea near Taichow Islands, Wenzhou, China. Once all of the crew and passengers had been safely rescued, the ship was looted by local fishermen, who subsequently burnt its remains.
29 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Craigoswald
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Struck the Low Lee Rock, off Mousehole, Cornwall.[11] While on a journey from Barry Docks to Venice, with 4,000 tons of coal, she took a detour to drop off in Penzance the Chief Engineer who was ill. Later refloated.[12]
The Ward Line liner was in collision in dense fog with fruit steamship Admiral Farragut (flag unknown) and sank off Cape Charles, Virginia with the loss of $2,000,000 of Mexican gold, silver, copper and jewels. All 319 people were saved, with only one serious injury.
June[]
6 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Bayard
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The sailing ship, in use as a coaling ship in Ocean Harbour, South Georgia, lost her mooring during a severe gale and ran aground on the southern side of the harbor, where her wreck was abandoned.
July[]
10 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Minister Delbeke
Belgium
Collided with Gadeby (flag unknown) at New York, United States. Continued in service.[13]
August[]
3 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Frau Mini Peterson
Norway
The 180 ton schooner was wrecked, after a collision, near the Seven Stones Reef, off the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom.[14]
9 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Fifeshire
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The ocean liner ran aground 20 nautical miles (37 km) south of Cape Guardafui, Italian Somaliland. Six of her crew took to a lifeboat to seek assistance. They were rescued five days later by Ardandearg (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland). The 99 passengers and crew later abandoned ship in four lifeboats, the last leaving on 11 August. Survivors from two of the boats were rescued by Adour (France). Twenty-four lives were lost.[15]
The Soldato-classdestroyer ran aground on a rock off Sardinia. She was refloated, repaired, relaunched on 1 November 1913, and returned to service.[18]
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Preveza: The torpedo boat was shelled and destroyed by Italian destroyers near Nicopolis, Greece. Nine of the crew were killed, including the captain.
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Preveza: The torpedo boat was shelled and sunk by Italian destroyers in the harbour of Preveza, Greece.
Swarland
Denmark
The cargo ship disappeared while steaming from Rostock, Germany, to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with the loss of all 15 crew members.
October[]
1 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Solo
Netherlands
Driven ashore at Terheiden during a storm. Refloated 17 March 1912, repaired and returned to service.[13]
Ixion
Netherlands
The cargo ship caught fire and sank off the coast of the Netherlands East Indies, killing 24 crew members. Good Hope (United Kingdom) rescued the 24 survivors.
30 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Sicie
France
The brigantine foundered in the Bristol Channel 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of the Helwick Lightship (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland). She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Lorient, Morbihan.[2]
November[]
3 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Fairhaven
United States
Fairhaven
The sternwheel passenger paddle steamer sank at her moorings in Seattle, Washington. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
12 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Angele
flag unknown
The brigantine ran aground on the Doom Bar, Padstow, Cornwall.[20]
23 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1911
Ship
Country
Description
USLHT Lily
United States Lighthouse Service
The lighthouse tender hit a snag and sank on the Missouri River. The wreck has now silted up to the extent that an island has formed known as "Lily Island."[21]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Hansy
Norway
The sailing ship was wrecked at Penolver on the eastern side of the Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Three men were saved by the lifeboat and the rest were taken off by the rocket apparatus.[22]
December[]
4 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1911
Ship
Country
Description
Maryland
United States
The barge, previously the paddle steamer General Slocum, sank without loss of life in the Atlantic Ocean off the southeast coast of New Jersey near Strathmere and Sea Isle City during a storm while carrying a cargo of coal.[23][24]
The 1,132 ton Antwerp steamer collided with the Seven Stones Reef reef while carrying oranges from Valencia to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Eighteen of the crew escaped in a lifeboat which capsized killing the captain and thirteen men. The steamer refloated herself, drifted in the English Channel with four men still on board, and was taken in tow by the collier Ashtree (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland), which made a failed attempt to take the vessel in tow. The four crew launched a raft and reached the Ashtree. The derelict was taken in tow by the Lyonesse and Greencastle (both United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland), and was beached at Penzance on 8 December. She was later returned to service.[14][26]
The Christiansand barque was wrecked at Cudden Point in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[28] The ship was a total loss but the Newlyn lifeboat saved the crew of 13 men. The ship was bound for the West Indies.[29]