The cargo ship caught fire whilst ship berthed at Antwerp. Her hull was badly damaged and the ship was laid up. She was scrapped in 1923 at Hamburg, Germany.[8]
The schooner was abandoned and set afire in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. The fire was extinguished and Metamora was towed into Saint Michaels, Maryland, United States by Lages (Brazil).[10]
The cargo ship, on her maiden voyage, ran aground on the Kimmeridge Ledge, off the coast of Dorset and broke in two with the loss of 36 of her 43 crew. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Dundee, Forfarshire.[18]
The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay 80 nautical miles (150km) off Penmarc'h, Finistère, France (47°38′N6°10′W). Her crew were rescued by Docteur Pierre Benoit (France).[7][26]
The cargo ship came ashore at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom and was abandoned by her crew. She was later reboarded but attempts to refloat her in the early hours on 17 January were unsuccessful.[11]
The survey vessel/yacht suffered a breached hull on a sunken wreck and was beached to prevent sinking near St. Augustine, Florida. She was later destroyed by a storm before salvage could begin.[32]
The coaster sprang a leak and foundered in the Skaggerak 12 nautical miles (22km) north of hirtshals, Denmark with the loss of two of her twelve crew.[37]
The Novara-class cruiser sprang a leak in the Adriatic Sea and put into Brindisi, Apulia, Italy, where she sank.[46] She was refloated in early April.[47]Novara was subsequently repaired and entered service with the French Navy.
The cargo ship ran aground 5 nautical miles (9.3km) north of Scotston Head, Aberdeenshire. All fifteen crew were rescued.[50] She was refloated on 5 February.[51]
The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay 15 nautical miles (28km) west of Molène, Finistère, France with the loss of her captain. Survivors reached land in their lifeboats.[52][39]
While awaiting sale, the decommissioned submarine ran aground in Bomb Ketch Lake in Portsmouth Harbour on the coast of England and flooded. Her wreck was scrapped.
The passenger ship ran aground off Margate, Kent. She was refloated the next day by the tugsHMTFirm (Royal Navy), Java, Lady Brassey, Lady Duncan and Scotia (all United Kingdom).[54]
The cargo ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean (43°36′N36°10′W) after her cargo shifted. Six of her 31 crew were lost. Survivors were rescued by Monmouth (United States) and Oxonian (United Kingdom), which lost thirteen crew during the rescue when a lifeboat capsized.[60][63]
While trying to enter New York Harbor during a storm, the passenger ship ran aground on the Rockaway Shoals off Long Island, New York. A United States Life-Saving Servicelifeboat took her 32 passengers off on 7 February. Her crew of 74 remained aboard until she began to break up on 15 February, and her crew were taken off before she broke in two later that day. She sank in 20 feet (6m) of water and remained visible for many years before becoming buried in sand.[70][71][72][73]
The schooner sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean 20 nautical miles (37km) north north east of Castro, Spain. Her crew were rescued by Spanish fishing boats. Douglas Adams was later towed into Bilbao.[61]
The passenger ship ran aground at Kylios, Ottoman Turkey. She broke up and was a total loss. One hundred and fifty of her 200 passengers were rescued by rocket apparatus.[75]
The cargo ship was wrecked off Cape St. Thomas, Argentina with the loss of fifteen of her crew. Survivors were rescued by Carnarvonshire (United Kingdom).[84]
The cargo ship was reported to be 111 nautical miles (206km) south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. No further trace was found, and the ship presumed foundered with the loss of all 40 of her crew.[48][95]
The incomplete Fidonisy-classdestroyer was driven ashore and wrecked at Bolshoy Fontan whilst being towed from Nicholaieff to Odessa. She was refloated in September and towed to Nicholaieff. Subsequently completed and entered service with the Soviet Navy as Nezamozhnik.[99]
The cargo liner ran aground on the wreck of Manorbier Castle (United Kingdom). She refloated but was holed and sank. Her crew were rescued.[96] She was damaged by an explosion during salvage operations on 4 March.[103]Tinto was refloated in early June. She arrived at Grimsby, Lincolnshire for drydocking on 3 June.[104]
The beam trawler departed Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was not seen or heard from again. On 11 March, the trawler Lemberg (Canada) discovered two damaged dories in the Atlantic Ocean 86 nautical miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Halifax, one of them containing the body of one of Jutland's crew members. No trace of the other 20 men on board ever was found.[118][119]
The cargo ship suffered an onboard explosion in her cargo of benzine with the loss of a crew member. She caught fire and was beached at Townsville, Queensland, Australia.[116]
The cargo ship caught fire in the Gulf of Panama 100 nautical miles (190km) off Panama City, Colombia.[126] She was taken under tow by Gorgona (United States) Her crew abandoned on 17 March.[129]Olockson was beached at Balboa and the hull holed to fight the fires.[105][130]
During her first commercial trip from Nantes (region Pays de la Loire, France) to Rotterdam (Netherlands) loaded with iron ore, sank following a leak north of AlderneyChannel Islands. 19 perished, only 4 sailors were rescued by the Norwegian steamer Wacland.[137][138]
The H-classsubmarine ran aground on a reef off Margarita Island, Baja California, Mexico in stormy weather and high seas. She was pulled off by USSVestal (United States Navy) on 26 March and taken under tow but sank an hour later in 50 feet (15m) of water. Three crewmen drowned trying to reach shore and her captain was washed overboard from the conning tower and drowned. Survivors were rescued from shore by Mazatlan (flag unknown).[147][148][149]
The cargo liner ran aground on the Komuriya Reef, off the coast of Ceylon.[150] Her passengers were rescued by Arracan (United Kingdom).[151] She was declared a total loss on 30 March.[152] Her crew were rescued.[153]
The cargo ship collided with Prince Albert (United Kingdom) off Deadtree Point, British Columbia, Canada and was beached.[162] She was refloated on 8 April.[163]
The fisherypatrol vessel struck a rock in Keku Strait in the Territory of Alaska and was beached to prevent her from sinking. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[167]
The cargo ship probably foundered on this date.[178] She had issued a SOS that she was leaking in a severe storm and had lost her cargo hatches in the Atlantic Ocean (40°00′N65°50′W) which was answered by Baltic and Minniekahda (both United Kingdom), some debris was found. Lost with all 40 hands.[179][180][181]
While beached at Cordova, Territory of Alaska, to have her hull cleaned and copper painted, the fisherypatrol vessel settled into the gravel on the beach, rolled away from the shore onto her side, filled with water, and became partially submerged. She was refloated and returned to service.[216]
The cargo ship struck rocks off Sharbithat, Oman (17°50′N57°22′E): She refloated but consequently foundered. Her 54 crew were rescued by Katiagallus (flag unknown).[226][227]
The tug struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Terschelling, Netherlands with the loss of 16 of her 22 crew. Santa Theresa (Germany) rescued survivors.[230]
The auxiliary sailing vessel ran aground on the Sow and Pig Sands, in the North Sea off Blyth, Northumberland. She was abandoned by her crew, but was later boarded by some of the crew of the Blyth Lifeboat. Arkley was refloated and brought into Blyth Harbour.[232]
Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Loyev: The paddle gunboat was wrecked at Loyev with its paddle wheels broken. The ship was abandoned and later shelled by Polish artillery.[165]
The ship foundered in pack ice off Shannon Island, Greenland. Her crew survived, but a number of them died before they were rescued in September 1921.[296]
July 2001 sonar image of the wreck of S-5 The S-class submarine partially flooded due to a jammed valve in the Atlantic Ocean 40 miles (64km) off the Delaware Capes with her stern above water. All crew were rescued on 3 September. S-5 sank completely during an attempt to tow her to port on 3 September, 15 miles (24km) off the Delaware Capes.[147][300]
The cargo ship sank on the Middle Cross Sand, North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Lucient (United Kingdom and the Caister Lifeboat. She was a total loss.[302]
The passenger ship ran aground at Vigo, Galicia, Spain,[313] due to an error in navigation by her captain. Her 500 passengers were taken off on 10 September.[314] She was refloated on 30 September.[312]
The passenger ship struck a reef in Swanson Bay on the coast of British Columbia in Canada and was beached in a sinking condition. After her passengers and crew had been put ashore, she became almost completely submerged at high tide. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[322][323]
The cargo ship sank in the Gulf of Mexico during a hurricane. Everyone abandoned ship in her lifeboats, but eight died in the boats from exhaustion and privation.[333][334]
The cargo ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned (49°22′N4°32′W). Her crew were rescued by Goliath (United States).[351] She later broke in two, with both sections remaining afloat and coming ashore on the Cornish coast. Later scrapped.[352][353]
The cargo ship collided with Grandlieu (France) in the Atlantic Ocean 40 nautical miles (74km) off Vigo, Galicia, Spain and sank. Her crew were rescued.[356]
The crew of the armoured cruisermutinied and took over the ship off Kronstadt in late October. Commisars and officers were killed and the ship was scuttled. Later refloated and sold for scrap.[367]
Coast Battleship Number 1, ex-USS Indiana, after sinkingThe decommissioned Indiana-classbattleship (formerly USSIndiana) sank in shallow water in the Chesapeake Bay while in use as a target. Her wreck was sold for scrap.
Stored for the winter on blocks high on the beach at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, the 9-ton schooner was destroyed during a gale when an unusually high tide floated her off the blocks and she drifted away and was dashed to pieces on rocks and the beach.[220]
The tanker suffered an onboard explosion and caught fire at New York with the loss of a crew member. She was beached on Ellis Island.[377][378]El Mundo was refloated on 20 November.[379]
The barque ran aground north of Bergen, Norway and was severely damaged.[390] She was towed to Hindö for examination with the expectation that she would be condemned as a constructive total loss.[379]
The cargo ship issued an SOS in the Atlantic Ocean 240 nautical miles (440km) south east of Cape May, Newfoundland. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[393]
The auxiliary schooner foundered in the Irish Sea 5 nautical miles (9.3km) off the Smalls Lighthouse after her cargo shifted with the loss of one of her five crew. Survivors were rescued by the trawler Kirkland (United Kingdom).[373][394]
The vessel became stranded on the North Rock, Cloughey Bay, Country Down.[395] She was raised on 23 February 1921, repaired and returned to service[396]
The cargo ship ran aground on the Lethegus Ledge off the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom and was wrecked. All 24 crew were rescued by the St. Mary's Lifeboat.[416]
The auxiliary schooner broke free from her mooring and was wrecked at Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom in a gale with the loss of one of her ten crew. Survivors were rescued by the Fishguard Lifeboat or by rocket apparatus.[420][421]
The coaster was driven ashore near Clynnog Fawr, Caernarfonshire with the loss of four of her eight crew. Five of the thirteen crew of the Rhoscolyn Lifeboat were lost attempting to rescue her crew before she came ashore.[420][421]
The coal hulk was driven ashore 16 nautical miles (30km) west of Thurso, Caithness and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus.[420]
The schooner was driven ashore 6 nautical miles (11km) south of Johnshaven, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the Johnshaven Lifeboat, which later capsized with the loss of two of her crew and a lifeboatman.[432]
The cargo ship sprang a leak, broke in two, and sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Corsica and Elba, Italy. Her crew were rescued by Calliroi Saparis (Greece).[436]
The motor vessel was lost in "Strawberry Bay" near Katalla, Territory of Alaska – probably a reference to Strawberry Harbor, also known as Strawberry Cove (60°10′N144°23′W), 5 nautical miles (9.3km; 5.8mi) southeast of Katalla.[443]
The steam fishing trawler sailed from Grimsby on 22 July for North Sea fishing grounds and last seen on 28 July, apparently returning to Grimsby. Her crew of 11 were lost. It was supposed that she had struck a mine.[444]
The decommissionedfrigate, sold for scrap, was burned on the beach at Eastport, Maine, sometime during the first half of 1920 to ease the retrieval of valuable metals.[446]
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