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List of shipwrecks in April 1914

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The list of shipwrecks in April 1914 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during April 1914.

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1 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Gungner  Norway The schooner sprang a leak and was abandoned in the North Sea 50 nautical miles (93 km) off the Naze, Essex, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[1]
Othello  Sweden The cargo ship ran aground at Kyrenia, Cyprus.[1] She was refloated on 8 April.[2]
358  French Navy The torpedo boat struck rocks and sank in the Mediterranean Sea west of Saint-Tropez, Var. Her crew were rescued.[3]

2 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1914
Ship Country Description
USRC Hartley Ensign of the United States Revenue-Marine (1868) United States Revenue Cutter Service The harbor vessel sank alongside her wharf at San Francisco. Later raised, but never repaired, she was sold on 1 August 1919.[4]
Kate  Australia The steam tug collided with the ferry Bellubera ( Australia) in Sydney Harbour off Dobroyd Head, New South Wales, Australia, and sank; the lighter Kate was towing capsized. Bellubera rescued Kate's four-man crew.
Maine flag unknown The coaster collided with José de Aramburu ( Spain) in the English Channel and sank. Her crew were rescued by José de Aramburu.[5]
Normand  France The coaster ran aground in the English Channel on the Beagle Rock, Cornwall, United Kingdom and sank. Her crew were rescued.[5]

3 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1914
Ship Country Description
"Frederick"  United States The Barge was wrecked on the Bar/ North Jetty at the Mouth of the Siuslaw River.[6]

5 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Gannet  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The coaster collided with Minna Schuldt ( German Empire) in the River Thames at Erith, Kent and sank. Her crew were rescued.[7] She was refloated on 8 April and beached.[2]

6 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Croydon  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The cargo ship was driven ashore on Barbuda and wrecked.[8]
Maritime  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The cargo ship passed Fernando de Noronha, Brazil on this date bound for Campana, Argentina.[9] Believed to have foundered on or before 12 April at 20°58′S 40°00′W / 20.967°S 40°W / -20.967; -40 with the loss of all hands.[10]

7 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Umzimvubu  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The coaster ran aground at Port St. Johns, South Africa.[11] She was refloated on 13 April.[12]

8 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Template:SV  Norway The barque was sunk in a collision with Peter H. Crovell (flag unknown) in the Atlantic Ocean in 17 fathoms (102 ft; 31 m) of water 20 miles (32 km) off Barnegat, New Jersey. Three killed. Her masts were removed with explosives on 17 May as a hazard to navigation by a crew from USRC Mohawk.[13][14]

9 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Cairnhill  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The cargo ship was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean 100 nautical miles (190 km) off New Ireland following the breaking of her propeller shaft.[15] Six weeks later, she was towed in to Namantanai, New Guinea.[16]

15 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Template:SV  United States The lumber schooner was wrecked at Long Beach, New Jersey in a gale after dragging anchor. The captain's wife, mate (his brother) and two other crewmen died when the vessel's boat swamped. The captain was killed when the deck cargo broke loose. Five more crew died of exposure, there was only one survivor.[17][18]
Mabel L. Stevens  United States The steamer sank in Five Mile River near South Norwalk, Connecticut.[19]
Median  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The cargo ship ran aground on the Salmedina Bank, Cartagena, Colombia.[20] She was refloated on 23 April.[21]

16 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Calabria  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The cargo ship was wrecked at Esbjerg, Denmark.[22]

17 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Highland Piper  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The ocean liner ran aground on the English Bank, Montevideo, Uruguay and was severely damaged. She was refloated on 29 April.[22][23]

19 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1914
Ship Country Description
La Roserina flag unknown The cargo ship ran aground in the River Plate. She was refloated on 27 April.[24]

20 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Kathleen  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The cargo ship ran aground on Castle Island, Bermuda.[25] She was refloated on 27 April.[24]

21 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Edith  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The ketch collided with Thirlby ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) in the Bristol Channel and sank with the loss of a crew member. The survivors were rescued by Thirlby.[26]
Envermeu  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The cargo ship ran aground on the Kimmeridge Ledge, in the English Channel off Swanage, Dorset.[21] She was refloated on 1 May.[27]

22 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Carbineer  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The cargo ship collided with the protected cruiser HMS Isis ( Royal Navy) and consequently sank in the English Channel 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) south south east of the Owers Lightship ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland). Her crew were rescued by HMS Isis.[28]
Glencoe  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The Thames barge foundered in Studland Bay. Her crew were rescued.[29]

23 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Loire  Belgium The coaster foundered in the English Channel off Sept Îles, Côtes-du-Nord, France. Her crew survived.[21]

27 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Kometa  Russian Empire The tanker exploded and sank in the Mediterranean Sea 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) west of Algiers, Algeria with the loss of fifteen of the 30 people on board.[24][30]
Montana  United States After running onto a reef, floating free without damage, and anchoring off a small island fronting Redoubt Bay (56°55′30″N 135°22′00″W / 56.925°N 135.3666667°W / 56.925; -135.3666667 (Redoubt Bay)), about 8.75 nautical miles (16.2 km; 10.1 mi) south-southeast of Sitka Sound in Southeast Alaska, the 65-gross register ton motor halibut schooner was set on fire when her gasoline engine backfired. The motor vessels Niagara and Star towed her to the beach, but she became a total loss. Her crew of 15 survived.[31]
Werner  German Empire The coaster collided with Rolandsbeck ( German Empire) at Glückstadt, Schleswig-Holstein and sank.[24]
Yurimaguas  Peru The coaster foundered in the Purus River.[24]

28 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Benjamin Noble  United States The steamer foundered in a gale with all 16 hands in Lake Superior. The wreck was located in 2004.[32][33][34][35]
Template:SV  United States The lumber schooner ran aground on the south spit of the Suislaw River Bar in heavy seas. Refloated 2 May, her cargo was lost. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[36]
Penelope Error creating thumbnail:  Kingdom of Greece The cargo ship ran aground near Cape Bougaroni, Algeria. Salvage operations were abandoned on 13 May.[37]
Werner  German Empire The cargo ship collided with Rolandseck ( German Empire) and sank in the River Elbe at Glückstadt.[38]

29 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Cleo I  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The Admiralty-requisitioned cargo ship was scuttled in Water Sound, Scapa Flow as a blockship.[39][40]

30 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1914
Ship Country Description
Ystad  Sweden The cargo ship collided with Liv ( Norway) at Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany and sank with the loss of one life. Her crew were saved.[41]

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Casualty reports". 2 April 1914. p. 24. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Casualty reports". 9 April 1914. p. 22. 
  3. ↑ "French torpedo-boat sunk". 2 April 1914. p. 7. 
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Hartley_1875.pdf. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Two total losses". 3 April 1914. p. 24. 
  6. ↑ "Annual report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army 1914". U. S. Government. 1914. https://books.google.com/books?id=w51AAQAAMAAJ&q=ship%3A+Tolmie%2C+1913&pg=PA3054. 
  7. ↑ "Casualty reports". 6 April 1914. p. 24. 
  8. ↑ "A wreck at the Leewards". 7 April 1914. p. 24. 
  9. ↑ "Search for an overdue steamer". 6 May 1914. p. 24. 
  10. ↑ "Fear for the Maritime". 12 May 1914. p. 24. 
  11. ↑ "Casualty reports". 8 April 1914. p. 22. 
  12. ↑ "Casualty reports". 15 April 1914. p. 22. 
  13. ↑ "American Marine Engineer June, 1914". National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308791&view=1up&seq=272. Retrieved 10 November 2020. 
  14. ↑ "Orellana (+1914)". Wrecksite. https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?180032. Retrieved 10 November 2020. 
  15. ↑ "Steamers ashore, on fire, and adrift". 5 May 1914. p. 24. 
  16. ↑ "An "arrival."". 12 June 1914. p. 23. 
  17. ↑ "Annual report of the United States Life Saving Service, Year ending June 30, 1914". Government Printing Office, Washington. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015020609155&view=1up&seq=74. 
  18. ↑ "Charles K. Buckley (+1914)". Wrecksite. https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?196694. 
  19. ↑ "Records of the T. A. Scott co.". mysticseaport.org. 20 May 2016. https://research.mysticseaport.org/coll/coll001/. 
  20. ↑ "Casualty reports". 18 April 1914. p. 24. 
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 "Another wreck in the fog". 24 April 1914. p. 24. 
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Nelson liner ashore". 18 April 1914. p. 24. 
  23. ↑ "Marine losses in April.". 5 May 1914. p. 21. 
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 "Loss of two foreign steamers". 28 April 1914. p. 24. 
  25. ↑ "Casualty reports". 21 April 1914. p. 24. 
  26. ↑ "Casualty reports". 22 April 1914. p. 24. 
  27. ↑ "Casualty reports". 2 May 1914. p. 24. 
  28. ↑ "Cruiser in collision". 23 April 1914. p. 10. 
  29. ↑ "Casualty reports". 23 April 1914. p. 24. 
  30. ↑ "Petrol cargo blown up". 28 April 1914. p. 7. 
  31. ↑ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (M)
  32. ↑ "American Marine Engineer June, 1914". National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308791&view=1up&seq=290. Retrieved 10 November 2020. 
  33. ↑ "Benjamin Noble (+1914)". Wrecksite. https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?169260. Retrieved 10 November 2020. 
  34. ↑ "Early lake casualties". 1 May 1914. p. 24. 
  35. ↑ https://www.gendisasters.com/minnesota/16111/two-harbors-mn-lake-superior-steamer-benjamin-noble-wrecked-apr-1914 [bare URL]
  36. ↑ "Annual report of the United States Life Saving Service, Year ending June 30, 1914". Government Printing Office, Washington. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015020609155&view=1up&seq=116. 
  37. ↑ "Loss of a turret steamer". 14 May 1914. p. 24. 
  38. ↑ "The Marine Insurance Market". 4 May 1914. p. 23. 
  39. ↑ "Block Ships of Scapa Flow". Scapa Flow Wrecks. http://www.scapaflowwrecks.com/wrecks/blockships/. Retrieved 12 July 2019. 
  40. ↑ "wrecks of Scapa Flow". North Link Ferries. https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/orkney-blog/wrecks-of-scapa-flow/. 
  41. ↑ "Casualty reports". 1 May 1914. p. 24. 
Ship events in 1914
Ship launches: 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
Ship commissionings: 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
Ship decommissionings: 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
Shipwrecks: 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
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