List of shipwrecks in 1900

The list of shipwrecks in 1900 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1900.

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1900
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec

January

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1900
Ship Country Description
SS Ibex  United Kingdom mail boat hit the Platte Fougere reef off Guernsey Channel Islands in bad visibility and sank with 2 fatalities.[1]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1900
Ship Country Description
Lady Elizabeth  United Kingdom carried barrels of naphtha and gasoline and caught fire at the Cattewater in Plymouth, UK.[2]

February

16 February

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1900
Ship Country Description
Cashier  Belgium sank of Green Scar, St Brides Bay.[3]

25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1900
Ship Country Description
Ethiopia  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan. She was refloated several days later.[4]

March

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1900
Ship Country Description
SS Hermann Köppen  Germany Ran aground on the rocks Barsier, west of Alderney Channel Islands and was wrecked.[5][6]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1900
Ship Country Description
Ugie  United Kingdom Sank following a collision with another ship.[7]
Concord  United Kingdom sank on the Triggs, just outside her home port, Porthleven, Cornwall, UK.[2]

June

15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1900
Ship Country Description
Tivyside  United Kingdom The ship ran aground at Overton, Glamorgan. All thirteen people on board survived.[4]

30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1900
Ship Country Description
in the 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire, the Norddeutscher Lloyd ships Bremen, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Main, and Saale all  Germany were set on fire at Hoboken, New Jersey by windspread fire after cotton bales on a wharf caught fire, then ignited turpentine and oil barrels. The Saale, Main, and Bremen burned and settled with the loss of over 300 lives, but were later raised, repaired and returned to service. The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse remained afloat and suffered only moderate damage.

August

16 August

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1900
Ship Country Description
Futami Maru  Japan The steamship went aground on a reef at Mindoro Island, near Manila, while on a voyage from Australia to Eastern ports.[8] All the crew and 150 passengers were taken to shore, and a consignment of gold bullion was salvaged.[9]

22 August

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1900
Ship Country Description
Antoinette  France The Dundee class yacht, en route from Saint-Cast-Le-Guildo (Brittany, France) to Denmark loaded with wheat, was lost with all hands at S of Guernsey Channel Islands.[10]

September

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1900
Ship Country Description
American  United States The tug collided with Minnehaha ( United Kingdom) and sank in New York Harbour. Two of the tug's crewmen were killed. Later salvaged and recommissioned.

October

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1900
Ship Country Description
Narvik  Norway The cargo ship struck an object and sank in the White Sea.[11]

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1900
Ship Country Description
City of Monticello  United Kingdom The paddle steamer foundered in the Bay of Fundy 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada with the loss of 36 of her 40 crew. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada to Yarmouth.[12]

November

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1900
Ship Country Description
Mouse  United Kingdom The smack was wrecked at Cardigan. Her three crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Chester, Cheshire to Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.[13]

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1900
Ship Country Description
Fife Canada Canada On her maiden voyage, she ran aground and was sunk at Twin Island, St John's Bay, Strait of Belle Isle.[14]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1900
Ship Country Description
Carmen  Germany collided with Hernosand (flag unknown) and sank in the Baltic Sea (54°43′N 12°52′E / 54.717°N 12.867°E / 54.717; 12.867).[7]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1900
Ship Country Description
Agot  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on the Whitford Sands, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by the Llanelli pilot boat.[4]

December

4 December

List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1900
Ship Country Description
Rossgull  United Kingdom The ship on a voyage from Plymouth to Jersey Channel Islands ran aground at night off Corbiere, Jersey in a gale. 11 were saved but 9 men in one lifeboat drowned[15][16]

28 December

List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1900
Ship Country Description
Pegasus  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Lavernack Point, Glamorgan with the loss of four of her crew. She was on a voyage from San Francisco, California, United States to Sharpness, Gloucestershire. Pegasus was later refloated an taken in to Sharpness for repairs.[4]
Zefiro  Italy The barque was in collision with the steamship King's County (Canada Canada in the Bristol Channel off the English and Welsh Grounds Lightship ( United Kingdom) and was consequently beached at Clevedon, Somerset, United Kingdom.[4]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1900
Ship Country Description
Capricorno  Austria-Hungary The barque was wrecked at Bude, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[17]

10 December

List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1900
Ship Country Description
Nordland  Norway The lifeboat ran aground and was wrecked near Kjelvik, Norway. All crew members survived.[18]

28 December

List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1900
Ship Country Description
Primrose Hill  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on South Stack off Holyhead, Wales, with the loss of 33 lives.[19]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1900
Ship Country Description
Copenhagen  United Kingdom sank near Pompano Beach, Florida.
Manchester  United Kingdom wrecked on Bikar Atoll, Marshall Islands. Wreckage discovered in July 1901.
Star of Scilly  United Kingdom The ketch was wrecked on Porthminster Point, St. Ives, Cornwall, crew rescued by lifeboat.[20]
Welbury  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Hartland Point, Devon.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Wreck Report for 'Ibex', 1900". plimsoll.org.
  2. 1 2 Carter, C. (1998). The Port of Penzance: a history. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
  3. ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "SS Hermann Köppen (+1900)". wrecksite.eu.
  6. ↑ Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
  7. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  8. ↑ "THE FUTAMI MARU DISASTER.". Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918) (Vic.: National Library of Australia). 30 August 1900. p. 3. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "THE WRECK OF THE FUTAMI MARU.". The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954) (Perth, WA: National Library of Australia). 6 September 1900. p. 7. Retrieved 23 October 2015.]
  10. ↑ "Antoinette (+1900)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 Aug 2015.
  11. ↑ "Narvik (5600037)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 1 July 2015. (subscription required (help)).
  12. ↑ "City of Monticello - 1900". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  13. ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  14. ↑ "SS Fife (+1900)".
  15. ↑ "Rossgull SS (+1900) document". www.wrecksite.eu.
  16. ↑ "THE WRECK OF THE ROSSGULL.". The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) (Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia). 11 December 1900. p. 3. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  17. ↑ Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 32
  18. ↑ Knudsen, Reidar (2011), "RS 24 "Risør" 100 år - Dystert mysterium", Båtmagasinet (in Norwegian) 5, retrieved 24 May 2014
  19. ↑ "The Shipwreck of the Primrose Hill in 1900 off South Stack, Holyhead.". Anglesey. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  20. ↑ "1893 - 1920". St. Ives Trust. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
Ship events in 1900
Ship launches: 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905
Ship commissionings: 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905
Ship decommissionings: 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905
Shipwrecks: 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905
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