The steamer capsized and sank at Van Anda, British Columbia, Canada, killing seven people. She was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
10 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
James T. Staples
United States
The sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by a boiler explosion on the Tombigbee River in Alabama. The explosion killed 26 people and injured 21. Survivors were rescued by the sternwheel paddle steamer John Quill (United States).
12 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Uranium
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The passenger ship ran aground on Shoal Point, Chebucto Head, Nova Scotia, Canada. All on board, over 900 people, survived. She was later refloated and taken in to New York, United States for repairs.[1]
14 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
California
Grand Duchy of Finland
The barque was wrecked on St Mary's Island, Northumberland, United Kingdom with the loss of eight of her crew. She was under tow from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.[2]
Werner Kunstmann
German Empire
She ran aground at Lindisfarne, Northumberland and was wrecked.[3]
16 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Estonia
Russian Empire
The passenger ship caught fire and was abandoned in the Red Sea off Port Sudan, Egypt. The derelict hulk was sunk by explosives on 23 January.[4]
Veronese
United Kingdom
The 7,877-grt Lamport and Holt Line general cargo/passenger vessel. Sailing from Liverpool with stop in Vigo (Spain) and carrying 221 people on board to Venezuela , Brazil and Argentina, collided in fog with rocks near Leça da Palmeira, Portugal. The rescue lasted more than 48 hours due to sea state using cables back and forth and two rescue boats to recover those who threw themselves into the sea. There were 38 casualties, 5 of them crewmen.[5]
20 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Brodland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Talbot, Glamorgan. Her 42 crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot to Punta Arenas, Chile.[6]
22 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Ulstermore
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The cargo ship was wrecked on Taylor's Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.[7]
First Balkan War: The ironclad ran aground during operations against Bulgarian forces near Yalıköy. The grounded vessel was destroyed by seas and Bulgarian artillery over the next few days.
13 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Epidauro
Austria-Hungary
The steamship ran aground at Overton, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[6]
Pisagua
Norway
She was stranded at Low Island, South Shetland Islands.
15 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Bluebell
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The steamship struck rocks in Culver's Hole and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by the Port Eynon Lifeboat.[6]
March[]
7 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Alum Chine
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The steamship exploded at Baltimore, Maryland, United States killing 30 people and injuring 60.[8]
Atlantic
United States
The tug was sunk at Baltimore by the explosion of Alum Chine (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland).[8]
April[]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: April 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Hector
United States
The small steamer was worked as a cannery tender and a tug boat in the San Juan Islands and on Puget Sound. Immediately following a boiler refit, she was off Purdy Spit when there was a coal gas explosion and fire. Hector was towed to shore and burned out.
May[]
1 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1913
Ship
Country
Description
SV Agenoria
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The British wooden schooner AGENORIA, on voyage from St. Sampson, Guernsey, to Rochester with a cargo of stone, was wrecked on Flat Rock (La Platte), off Saint Sampson, Guernsey.[9][10]
23 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Cromdale
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
She was wrecked on Bass Point, Cornwall, without loss of life.[11]
June[]
6 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Kurland
German Empire
She collided with Deventia (flag unknown) and sank 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) off St Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.[12]
The gunboat (Third Class Cruiser) ran aground due to dense fog in de facto hostile Moroccan territory near Alhucemas during the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco. In an ensuing fight against Moroccan cabilas' assaulters (guerrillas) the largely outnumbered General Concha's crew of 53 managed to defend the ship throughout fifteen hours of gunfire combat until all survivors and deceased aboard were successfully evacuated to several rescuing Spanish warships, which subsequently shelled the now fleeing rebels and sank the wreck of the General Concha (repair was deemed impractical) to avoid her looting by the hostiles. The final toll for the General Concha's crew was 16 men dead, 17 injured and 11 made prisoners by the hostiles; casualties suffered by the attackers are not known.[13]
15 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Paul Palmer
United States
The five-masted schooner caught fire, burned to the waterline, and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Massachusetts. All 11 people on board were rescued by the fishing schooner Rose Dorothea (flag unknown).
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: unknown date June 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Toanui
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The Glasgow-registered salvage tug sailed from Gourock on 3 June 1913 on delivery to New Zealand and was lost on the Seven Stones Reef, between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Wreckage, first found on 11 June, was washed up on the North Cornwall coast and around Land's End and Tol Pedn.[14][15][16]
The Royal Technical College, Glasgowtraining ship ran aground and wrecked at Colonsay en route from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Stornoway on her maiden voyage as a civilian training ship.[17]
August[]
14 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Susanna
flag unknown
Wrecked on Zantman's Rock, Isles of Scilly.
27 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Bakana
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The Elder Dempster 2,802 grt cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked at Half Assinie, Ivory Coast in West Africa. She was carrying a cargo of wood from the West coast of Africa to Liverpool.[18]
30 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Amaranth
United States
The four-masted barquentine was wrecked on the southeastern shore of Jarvis Island in the Pacific Ocean.
September[]
9 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Agnes G. Donahue
Canada
The schooner was wrecked near the Point Prim Lighthouse, Nova Scotia. Her seven crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Annapolis, Nova Scotia to Saint John, New Brunswick.[19]
20 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Tongrier
Belgium
Ran aground off Saaremaa, Estonia. Raised and towed to Antwerp but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.[20]
The Uranium Linepassenger-cargo ship caught fire in mid-Atlantic and was abandoned; 510 passengers and crew were rescued, but 136 died. The derelict ship was scuttled on 18 October in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Great Lakes Storm: The lake freighter sank in Lake Superior with the loss of all twenty-five crew.
LV 82
United States Lighthouse Service
Great Lakes Storm: The lightship sank in Lake Erie with the loss of six crew. LV 82 was subsequently salvaged, repaired and returned to service.[22][23]
Great Lakes Storm: The lake freighter sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all twenty-two crew.
19 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Leonora
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The ketch was in collision with the tug Atlas (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) in the Bristol Channel and was abandoned by her crew. Leonora drove ashore at Rotherslade, Glamorgan the next day and was wrecked.[6]
Unknown date[]
The Great Lakes Storm claimed twelve ships in total, with an estimated further thirty-one ships beached in the Great Lakes.[21][24]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Leafield
Canada
The cargo ship sank in Lake Superior with the loss of all eighteen crew.[21][23]
The passenger steamer caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean. The ocean liner Pannonia (United Kingdom) rescued 103 people from Balmes, which was towed to St. George's, Bermuda, by the tugs Gladisfen (flag unknown) and Powerful (flag unknown), convoyed by Pannonia.
Florence J.
United States
The oil service vessel capsized in Puget Sound immediately after being launched at Dockton, Washington, in either 1913 or 1914. She was righted, completed, and eventually entered service.
Iris
United States
The schooner ran aground and sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Washington Island in Door County, Wisconsin, United States.[27]
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Grand Duchy of Finland
German Empire
Russian Empire
United Kingdom
Ottoman Navy
Austria-Hungary
Norway
Spanish Navy
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Belgium
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France
United States Lighthouse Service
Spain