List of shipwrecks in 1913

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The list of shipwrecks in 1913 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1913.

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1913
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1913
Ship Country Description
Cheslakee  Canada
Cheslakee undergoing salvage.
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 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
Werner Kunstmann  Germany She ran aground at Lindisfarne, Northumberland. United Kingdom and was wrecked.[2]

16 January

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1913
Ship Country Description
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[3]

20 January

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1913
Ship Country Description
Brodland  United Kingdom 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.[4]

February

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1913
Ship Country Description
Âsâr-ı Tevfik  Ottoman Navy 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.[4]
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 The steamship struck rocks in Culver's Hole and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by the Port Eynon Lifeboat.[4]

March

7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1913
Ship Country Description
Alum Chine  United Kingdom The steamship exploded at Baltimore, Maryland, United States killing 30 people and injuring 60.[5]
Atlantic  United States The tug was sunk at Baltimore by the explosion of Alum Chine ( United Kingdom).[5]

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 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.[6][7]

23 May

List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1913
Ship Country Description
Cromdale  United Kingdom She was wrecked on Bass Point, Cornwall, without loss of life.[8]

June

6 June

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1913
Ship Country Description
Kurland  Germany She collided with Deventia (flag unknown) and sank 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) off St Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.[9]

11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1913
Ship Country Description
Cañonero General Concha Spanish Navy 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.[10]

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 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.[11][12][13]

July

8 July

List of shipwrecks: 8 July 1913
Ship Country Description
Vivid  United Kingdom The Royal Technical College, Glasgow training ship ran aground and wrecked at Colonsay en route from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Stornoway on her maiden voyage as a civilian training ship.[14]

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 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.[15]

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.[16]

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.[17]

October

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1913
Ship Country Description
Volturno  United Kingdom The Uranium Line passenger-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.

November

4 November

List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1913
Ship Country Description
HMS Empress of India  Royal Navy The Royal Sovereign-class battleship was sunk as a gunnery target in Lyme Bay, Dorset, England, by the light cruiser HMS Liverpool and battleships HMS Thunderer, HMS Orion, HMS King Edward VII, HMS Neptune, HMS King George V, and HMS Vanguard (all  Royal Navy).

8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1913
Ship Country Description
Louisiana  United States Great Lakes Storm: The steamboat sank in Lake Michigan. All crew members survived.

9 November

List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1913
Ship Country Description
Hydrus  United States Great Lakes Storm: The ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all 28 crew.[18][19]
Isaac M. Scott  United States Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all 28 crew.[19][20]
John A. McGean  United States Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of 24 or 28 crew.[19][20]
Wexford  France Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all ten crew.

10 November

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1913
Ship Country Description
Henry B. Smith  United States 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.[19][20]
Regina Canada Canada Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all twenty crew.

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1913
Ship Country Description
James Carruthers Canada Canada 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 The ketch was in collision with the tug Atlas ( United Kingdom) in the Bristol Channel and was abandoned by her crew. Leonora drove ashore at Rotherslade, Glamorgan the next day and was wrecked.[4]

Unknown date

The Great Lakes Storm claimed twelve ships in total, with an estimated further thirty-one ships beached in the Great Lakes.[18][21]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1913
Ship Country Description
Argus  United States The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all 24 crew.[18]
Charles S. Price  United States
SS Charles S. Price
.The cargo ship capsized in Lake Huron with the loss of all 28 crew. She sank after 15 November.[18][20]
Leafield Canada Canada The cargo ship sank in Lake Superior with the loss of all eighteen crew.[18][20]
Plymouth  United States The schooner barge sank in Lake Michigan with the loss of all seven crew.[18][20]

December

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1913
Ship Country Description
Risør  Norway The lifeboat with four crew members disappeared in a storm off Risør, Norway.[22]

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1913
Ship Country Description
Kwango  Norway The barque ran aground off Bryon Island, St Lawrence River, Canada and wrecked.[9]

15 December

List of shipwrecks: 15 December 1913
Ship Country Description
Narvik  Germany The cargo ship capsized off Borkum, Germany.[23]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1913
Ship Country Description
Balmes  Spain 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 capsized Florence J., assisted by tug Stinson.
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.[24]
Kommandøren  Norway The passenger-cargo steamer ran aground in Herdlefjorden, Norway. She was reloated, repaired, and returned to service.

References

  1. ↑ "Uranium - 1913". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  3. ↑ "SS Veronese (1913)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 23 Feb 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Ship Destroyed by Dynamite Explosion". Popular Mechanics: 656. May 1913.
  6. ↑ "SV Agenoria [+1913]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  7. ↑ Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
  8. ↑ Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
  9. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  10. ↑ Anca Alamillo, Alejandro (2006). "Naufragios de la Armada Española y otros sucesos marítimos acaecidos durante el siglo XX" (in Spanish): 30–41.
  11. ↑ Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  12. ↑ "The Marine Insurance Market: A high rate on a new vessel". The Times (40238). London. 14 June 1913. p. 24.
  13. ↑ "The Marine Insurance Market: The voyage of the Toanui". The Times (40239). London. 16 June 1913. p. 22.
  14. ↑ "SS Vivid". Wrecksite. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
  15. ↑ "SS Bakana (I) (+1913)". Wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  16. ↑ "Agnes G. Donahue - 1913". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  17. ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Shipwrecks". Centennial Anniversary Storm of 1913. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Great Lakes Region. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
  19. 1 2 3 4 Johnson, Mark (7 November 2013). "100th Anniversary: Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913 deadliest winter storm in northern Ohio history". Newsnet5. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  20. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hancock, Paul (18 November 2013). "THE GREAT STORM OF 1913". Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  21. ↑ "Remembering the November 1913 "White Hurricane"". Weather-Ready Nation. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
  22. ↑ Knudsen, Reidar (2011), "RS 24 "Risør" 100 år - Dystert mysterium", Båtmagasinet (in Norwegian), 5, retrieved 24 May 2014
  23. ↑ "Narvik (5602490)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 1 July 2015. (subscription required (help)).
  24. ↑ "Iris (Shipwreck)". Landmark Hunter.com. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
Ship events in 1913
Ship launches: 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
Ship commissionings: 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
Ship decommissionings: 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
Shipwrecks: 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
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