List of shipwrecks in 1911

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The list of shipwrecks in 1911 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1911.

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1911
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1911
Ship Country Description
Burton  United Kingdom 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 The schooner was in collision with the steamship Irena ( United Kingdom) 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]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1911
Ship Country Description
Ardencraig  United Kingdom Wrecked off the Gunners, Isles of Scilly.[3]

February

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1911
Ship Country Description
Weatherall  United Kingdom 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). 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 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]
USS San Marcos  United States Navy 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).

23 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1911
Ship Country Description
Yongala United Kingdom Australia Sank off the Whitsunday Islands with the loss of all 122 passengers and crew.

24 March

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1911
Ship Country Description
Sechelt  United States Sank in Strait of Juan de Fuca during a gale with the loss of thirty-seven passengers and crew.

29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1911
Ship Country Description
Buteshire  United Kingdom The barque foundered whilst on a voyage from Pisagua, Chile to Hamburg, Germany.[7]

April

10 April

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1911
Ship Country Description
Iroquois Canada Canada
SS Iroquois
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]

23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1911
Ship Country Description
Doric  United Kingdom 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 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]

May

12 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1911
Ship Country Description
Merida  United States 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 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 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). 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]

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1911
Ship Country Description
Lyndhurst  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship caught fire and was abandoned off Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She was subsequently shelled and sunk by HMS Pandora ( Royal Navy).[16]

September

4 September

List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1911
Ship Country Description
Tucapel  Chile The steamship ran aground about 20 miles south of Lima, Peru, killing about 32 people.[17]

25 September

List of shipwrecks: 25 September 1911
Ship Country Description
Liberté  French Navy
Liberté,

The Liberté-class battleship was destroyed by a magazine explosion in Toulon harbour, killing about 300 people.

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1911
Ship Country Description
Three Brothers  United States The cargo ship sprang a leak in heavy weather and sank in Lake Michigan off South Manitou Island. All 14 of her crew were saved.

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1911
Ship Country Description
Despatch  Australia The lighthouse tender struck the pier at Lakes Entrance, Victoria and consequently foundered.[18]
Tokat  Ottoman Navy 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.

30 September

List of shipwrecks: 30 September 1911
Ship Country Description
Alpagot  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Preveza: The torpedo boat was shelled and sunk by Italian destroyers in the harbour of Preveza, Greece.
Hamid-Abad  Ottoman Navy 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). 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.[19]

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."[20]

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.[21]

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.[22][23]

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1911
Ship Country Description
Chesapeake  United Kingdom The tanker caught fire and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean (40°20′N 48°40′W / 40.333°N 48.667°W / 40.333; -48.667). She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Algiers, Algeria and Venice, Italy.[24]
Van Dyck  Belgium 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), 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), and was beached at Penzance on 8 December. She was later returned to service.[14][25]

13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1911
Ship Country Description
Saluto  Norway The Christiansand barque was wrecked at Cudden Point in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[26] The ship was a total loss but the Newlyn lifeboat saved the crew of 13 men. The ship was bound for the West Indies.[27]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1911
Ship Country Description
HMS A1  Royal Navy The A-class submarine sank in Bracklesham Bay off West Sussex, England, while running submerged but unmanned under automatic pilot.
Amisia  Germany The steamship was driven ashore at Sully Island, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew survived.[2]
Kings County Canada Canada The four-masted barque was wrecked in the River Plate.

References

  1. ↑ "Wreck Report for 'Burton', 1911".
  2. 1 2 3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 22.
  4. ↑ "100 Years Ago". The Cornishman. 10 February 2011. p. 18.
  5. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  6. ↑ "SS Bruce (I) (+1911)".
  7. ↑ "BUTESHIRE". Clydesite. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  8. ↑ http://www.uasbc.com/data/newsletters/2001-02.pdf Tagging what's left of the Iroquois; by Peter Ross
  9. ↑ Chown, Diana (23 May 2011). "1911 Sinking of SS Iroquois". North Saanich Online. Archived from the original on 2011-11-04.
  10. ↑ James D. Meehan; Harold E. Dukes (1998). Bethany Beach Memoirs: A Long Look Back (Fourth Printing ed.). Harold E. Dukes. p. 58.
  11. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 17.
  12. ↑ Larn, R. and Larn, B. (1991) Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
  13. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  14. 1 2 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  15. ↑ "FIFESHIRE". Clydesite. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  16. ↑ "LYNDHURST". Clydesite. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  17. ↑ "32 Drowned, 90 Saved When Ship Hits Rock". The San Francisco Call. San Francisco, CA. September 7, 1911. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  18. ↑ "DESPATCH". Clydesite. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  19. ↑ "BBC special report on Padstow Lifeboat". BBC. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
  20. ↑ http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Lily_1875.pdf
  21. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 7.
  22. ↑ Anonymous, Shipwrecks of the Mid-Atlantic: Maryland, Delaware & Southern New Jersey (poster), Sealake Products USA, undated.
  23. ↑ New Jersey Scuba Diving: General Slcoum
  24. ↑ "CHESAPEAKE". Clydesite. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  25. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  26. ↑ Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
  27. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 16.
Ship events in 1911
Ship launches: 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916
Ship commissionings: 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916
Ship decommissionings: 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916
Shipwrecks: 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916
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