During a voyage from Valdez, District of Alaska, to Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands and way ports with eight passengers, a crew of 30, and a cargo of 30 tons of general merchandise aboard, the 749-gross register ton, 158.5-foot (48.3 m) passengersteamer was wrecked without loss of life on a reef in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the District of Alaska. Her passengers and crew survived for 29 days on an island until rescued by the steamer Victoria (flag unknown) on 3 February 1910.[4][5]
The steamer was anchored in the Humber off Grimsby when it was struck by the German mail steamer Mecklenburg and sank within twenty minutes. One crew member, William Oliver, a fireman, drowned.[11]
The steamer was pushed on to the river bank by ice in the Mississippi River just outside the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri. During an attempt to refloat her on 20 January she suddenly slipped off the bank and sank.[2]
Under tow from Falmouth, Cornwall to Cardiff by the tug Challenge, they hit heavy weather at Land's End and returned to Falmouth. During the night Indefatigable dragged her anchors and drifted ashore under St Mawes Castle. She was pulled off the rocks by tugs Briton, Dragon and Marian, towed to Falmouth Docks and sold for scrap.[17]
The steamer was damaged by grounding at Brookport, Illinois, but continued down stream. She was found later to be badly leaking and sank in shallow water and then caught fire and burned.[3]
The steamer struck an obstruction at Ford's Island in the Cumberland River nine miles (14 km) below Burnside, Kentucky. She was beached on a sand bar and sank in shallow water. Raised, repaired and returned to service on 8 February.[2]
The steamer either sank in a snowstorm, or ran aground in a snowstorm and sank after leaving Fitler's Landing, 20 miles (32 km) below Lake Providence, or after leaving Hayes Landing in the Mississippi River. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[23][26]
Sources differ on the details of the wreck of Yucatan. According to one source, during a voyage in the District of Alaska from Cordova to Juneau with 60 passengers and a crew of 84 aboard, the 3,525-gross register ton, 336-foot (102.4 m) schooner-rigged steamer was beached without loss of life to prevent her from sinking after an iceberg struck her bow and holed her hull while she was stopped off Mud Bay in Icy Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in the District of Alaska. Passengers were transferred to the steamer Georgia (United States). Declared a constructive total loss, Yucatan was refloated, repaired, and returned to service as Shinkai Maru (Japan).[29] According to another source, Yucatan struck an iceberg between Goose Island and Gull Cove while underway in Icy Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in the District if Alaska in a snowstorm. After striking the iceberg she struck a reef and bounced off of it. She sank one mile (1.6 km) from the collision site in 35 feet (11 m) of water with her upper works above water. She was heavily damaged by storms from the time of her sinking until raised in June 1910. Repaired in 1911 at Hall Brothers Shipyard in Eagle Harbor, Washington.[30][31]
The steamer caught fire at Portland, Maine. She was towed away from dock and beached at South Portland where she burned to below the main deck. One crewman killed.[38]
The car ferry burned to the waterline while moored at Manitowoc, Wisconsin.[15][34][39][40] To extinguish the flames, she was scuttled in 15 feet (4.6 m) of water.[40] Deemed a hazard to navigation, she was refloated on 9 June 1911 and rebuilt as a sandsucker barge.[40]
The tow steamer's hull was holed by an unknown object causing her to sink in shallow water off Governor's Island. Later raised, repaired and returned to service.[37]
The Type 6 submarine sank in 10 fathoms (60 ft; 18 m) of water in Hiroshima Bay off Kure due to a faulty ventilator valve. Lost with all 16 crew. Raised the next day, repaired and returned to service.[48]
The tug ran aground in the harbor of East New Rochelle. She was then hit by three scows she was towing, causing her to over turn. This caused a stove to overturn and the resulting fire destroyed the tug.[32]
The British steel cargo ship Wear, built in 1905 by Austin S. P. & Son Ltd. and owned at the time of her loss by Witherington & Everett SS Co., on voyage from Sunderland to Saint-Servan with a cargo of coal, was wrecked on the west coast of GuernseyChannel Islands. There were no casualties.[33][53]
The fishing tug caught fire ten miles (16 km) west of Sleeping Bear Point, Lake Michigan. Her crew was unable to put out the fire and the vessel was run aground one-half mile (0.8 km) offshore.[15][46]
The submarine sank with the loss of her entire crew of 27 after colliding with the packet boatPas de Calais (France) in the Strait of Dover off Calais, France. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
Carrying a cargo of coal, she ran aground in dense fog on Les Boufresses reef just north of Île de Raz AlderneyChannel Islands and broke her back.[62][63]
The barge sank 14 miles (23 km) south southeast of the Highland Light, New Jersey. The barge's captain was killed when her lifeboat capsized, everyone else was rescued by the barge's tow steamer Harold (United States).[14]
The steamer struck an obstruction in the Mississippi River3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) below Davenport, Iowa, and sank in 7 feet (2.1 m) of water. She was raised and repaired.[2]
The barge was sunk in a collision with Ogdensburg (United States) three miles (5 km) east of Bar Point, Lake Erie. Wreck later blown up as a hazard to navigation. The captain's wife and son drowned trying to enter the lifeboat.[54][76]
The lighter was engaged in launching fireworks off the Manhattan Beach Hotel, New York that impaired visibility to the extent that she struck a rock and sank.[14]
The four-masted schooner ran aground in San Pablo Bay, near San Francisco. No lives lost and the ship was later stripped of salvageable components and abandoned.
Princess MayThe passenger ship ran aground near the Sentinel Island Light, Alaska, United States. She later was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
The collier was rammed by the fruit steamerRosario di Giorgio (Norway) about 60 nautical miles (110 km; 69 mi) off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. She sank ten hours later with no loss of life. Deemed too expensive to salvage, Marcellus was struck from the Navy list on 22 September 1910.
While anchored off Nome, District of Alaska, with no cargo or crew aboard, the 16-ton barge broke loose from her moorings during a gale, was driven onto the beach four nautical miles (7 km) west of Nome, and was broken apart by waves.[43]
While anchored off Nome, District of Alaska, with no cargo or crew aboard, the 21-ton barge broke loose from her moorings during a gale and was pounded to pieces by waves against a wharf on the Nome waterfront.[43]
The freighter was struck by a large swell crossing the bar into Absecon Inlet resulting in the ship flooding and losing steerage. The ship hit a breakwater and broke in two after being abandoned by the crew.[73]
The passenger vessel sank in a collision with North America (United States) in the Providence River a one-quarter mile (0.4 km) off Fox Point Dock. Crew and 13 passengers rescued by North America.[38]
Pere Marquette 18, with Pere Marquette 17 assisting. The train ferry sank in Lake Michigan from unknown causes. Her Captain and 27 crewmen killed. 33 survivors rescued by Pere Marquette 17 (United States). During the rescue a lifeboat was smashed on the side of Pere Marquette No.17 by heavy seas killing two rescuers.[27][76]
The passenger-cargo ship was badly damaged in a collision in the River Elbe with a Swedish steamer and was beached to prevent her from sinking.[93] However, she sank quickly into the soft moving sand and became a total wreck, the water having flooded her holds.[94]
1910 Cuba hurricane: The steamer capsized at Tampa, Florida, when a hurricane blew the water out of the bay. She flooded when the water returned. Raised before the end of the year.[27]
The cargo ship was wrecked on Sawtooth Reef, Lake Superior off Eagle River. Her bow broke off and sank in deep water. Her stern section was salvaged, towed to Detroit, Michigan, and declared beyond repair and resunk off Port Huron, Michigan, in Lake Huron. The stern was raised again in 1916 and used to build Sir Trevor Dawson, and machinery salvaged.[105][106]
The steamer struck a dock at Rondeau, Ontario, caught fire, burned to the waterline and sank, a total loss. Raised and beached in May 1911, probably scrapped. Crew rescued by another steamer.[76][109][110]
1910 Cuba hurricane: The cargo steamship departed New York City on 7 October for Havana, Cuba and was never heard from again. Possibly lost in a hurricane in the area of Cuba on 14 October. Lost with all 24 crew.[117]
The steamer was found to be leaking badly just after leaving Pontoosac, Illinois. She was beached, but sank in the Mississippi River in five feet (1.5 m) of water. Raised and repaired.[2]
The wreck of the 8-gross register ton, 34-foot (10.4 m) motorcargo vessel, crushed by ice, was found on the coast of the District of Alaska 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) northeast of Cape Prince of Wales. She had departed Anadyr, Siberia, on 1 November bound for Nome, District of Alaska. The bodies of the four men who had been on board – two crewmen and two passengers – were never found.[51]
The barge sank in a collision with an unknown sail vessel ten miles (16 km) west southwest of the Fire Island Lightship in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew was rescued by the sailing vessel and landed in Europe.[8]
The cargo steamer, which also used the name Nord America, ran aground off Morocco. She was refloated and towed to Genoa, Italy, where she was laid up before being scrapped in 1911.
The Elder Dempster 2,804 GRT cargo ship left London on 9 December, bound for the Canary Islands but did not arrive. There were reports from another British ship that left Liverpool around the same time of violent storms, so it was presumed that she foundered and sank.[130]
The steamer hull was damaged by ice while leaving the harbor of Grand Marais, Michigan, on Lake Superior. She sank after returning to the dock. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[50]
The motor launch was sunk in a collision with Kitsap (United States) in heavy fog in the area of Seattle harbor. One crewman killed, one rescued by Kitsap.[14]
The ketch, sailed from Ballinacurra, County Cork, for Dublin with malt, on 15 December and not seen again. She was believed lost in a hurricane off the Irish coast on the following day.[135]
The ketch sailed from Waterford, Ireland, for St. Helier, Jersey with malt, on 15 December and not seen again. She was believed lost in a hurricane off the Irish coast on the following day.[135]
The schooner sailed from Ballinacurra, County Cork, for Dublin, with oats, on 15 December and not seen again. She was believed lost in a hurricane off the Irish coast on the following day.[135]
Her cargo of Esparto grass caught fire and she was abandoned 100 nautical miles (190 km) southwest of Ouessant, France. All forty-one crew rescued by Hampshire (United Kingdom).[137]
The ore carrying ship hit an unnamed rock to the northeast of the Runnel Stone, near Land's End, Cornwall, England. All hands were lost except for the cook.[142]
^"American Marine Engineer July 1911". National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. Retrieved 10 December 2020 – via Haithi Trust.
^ abDufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
^ ab"American Marine Engineer March, 1910". National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. Retrieved 22 December 2020 – via Haithi Trust.
^ ab"American Marine Engineer April, 1910". National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. Retrieved 23 December 2020 – via Haithi Trust.
^"American Marine Engineer June, 1910". National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. Retrieved 24 December 2020 – via Haithi Trust.
^"American Marine Engineer June, 1910". National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. Retrieved 24 December 2020 – via Haithi Trust.
^"American Marine Engineer June, 1910". National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. Retrieved 29 December 2020 – via Haithi Trust.
^"American Marine Engineer July, 1910". National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. Retrieved 29 December 2020 – via Haithi Trust.
^Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN0-8317-0302-4, p. 263.
^Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN0-8317-0302-4, p. 264.
^"American Marine Engineer July, 1916". National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. Retrieved 2 November 2020 – via Haithi Trust.
^Clammer, Richard (2005). Cosens of Weymouth, 1848 to 1918 : a history of the Bournemouth, Swanage and Weymouth paddle steamers. Witney: Black Dwarf Publications. pp. 258–259. ISBN1-903599-14-8.
^"Maritime Intelligence". Lloyd's List. No. 22809. London. 2 November 1910. p. 14. Retrieved 18 February 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"WISSAHICKON (1876, Package Freighter)". Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library Northeast Michigan Oral History and Historical Photo Archive. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
^Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 19.
^"Maritime Intelligence". Shipping & Mercantile Gazette and Lloyd's List. 18 November 1910. p. 8 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"Maritime Intelligence". Shipping & Mercantile Gazette and Lloyd's List. 22 November 1910. p. 11 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^Roche, Jean-Michel. Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours (in French). Vol. II, 1870–2006 (2013 ed.). Millau: Rezotel-Maury. ISBN978-2-9525917-3-7.
^"Panther". superiortrips.com. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
.png){kind=small}
