List of shipwrecks in 1901

The list of shipwrecks in 1901 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1901.

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1901
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

January

16 January

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1901

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Sybille (1890)	Royal Navy	The Apollo-class cruiser ran aground at Lambert's Bay, South Africa.[1]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1901

Ship	Country	Description
Hannah	United Kingdom	The schooner was abandoned in the Irish Sea, She came ashore on 28 January at Mwnt, Cardiganshire and was wrecked.[2]

February

2 February

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1901

Ship	Country	Description
Goonlaze	United Kingdom	The schooner was wrecked near Peppercombe Castle, Devon with the loss of three crew.[3]

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1901

Ship	Country	Description
Julien Marie	France	The brigantine ran aground at St. Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The crew were rescued by lifeboat [4][5]

22 February

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1901

Ship	Country	Description
City of Rio De Janeiro	United States	The Pacific Mail Steamship Company owned passenger ship struck rocks and sank at Golden Gate, San Francisco, California. Approx 135 were lost

March

7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1901

Ship	Country	Description
Voorspoed	Netherlands	The barquentine was lost on a voyage to Newfoundland at Perranporth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[6] All aboard were lost [7]

21 March

List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1901

Ship	Country	Description
Rose	United Kingdom	The brigantine ran aground on the Res Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Kent, and sank with the loss of four of her seven crew. Survivors were rescued by Eliza Harriet ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution.[8]

April

List of shipwrecks: April 1901

Ship	Country	Description
USAT Rawlins	United States	The United States Army Transport sank at Brooklyn Army pier with deck awash from volume of water pumped from six engines, two trucks and three fireboats responding to engine room fire. Damage was estimated at $20,000 to refloat and $50,000 to repair.[9]

July

12 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1901

Ship	Country	Description
Walter Thomas	United Kingdom	The 2,213 grt steamship sank after a collision with Romney off Europa Point, Straits of Gibraltar on a voyage from Penarth to Derindje

August

3 August

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1901

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Viper	Royal Navy	The TBD Torpedo Boat Destroyer, Viper-class destroyer foundered on rocks at Alderney during naval manoeuvers. All survived.[10] [11]

15 August

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1901

Ship	Country	Description
Islander	United Kingdom	The Canadian Pacific Steam Navigation Co owned twin screw steamer struck an iceberg and sank near Juneau, Alaska, united States. Forty passengers and crew were killed.

25 August

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1901

Ship	Country	Description
Noranmore	Belgium	The W Johnston & Co. owned cargo ship capsized and sank off Athens, Greece.[12]

September

4 September

List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1901

Ship	Country	Description
SMS Wacht	Kaiserliche Marine	The Wacht-class aviso sank after a collision off Germany. All crew survived.

19 September

List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1901

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Cobra	Royal Navy	The destroyer broke her back and sank due to design weakness near Cromer, Norfolk. 67 crew were lost.

October

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1901

Ship	Country	Description
L'Esperance	Belgium	The F Alexander owned cargo ship was wrecked off the Skalskar Lighthouse, Finland.[12]

December

7 December

List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1901

Ship	Country	Description
Rodney	United Kingdom	The cargo ship was wrecked on the coast of Cornwall.[13]

31 December

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1901

Ship	Country	Description
Hero	Norway	The Kjaer & Isdal, (Bergen) owned cargo ship ran aground between Baltimore, Ohio and Colón, Panama. The wreck was later refloated and sold.[12]

References

1. Clowes, William Laird (1903). The Royal Navy: A History From the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria: Volume VII. Sampson Low, Marston and Company. p. 584.
2. "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
3. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
4. "1893 – 1920". St. Ives Trust. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
5. Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 27.
6. Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 28-29
7. Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
8. Bignell, Alan (2001). Kent Shipwrecks (Second ed.). Newbury: Countryside Books. pp. 63–66. ISBN 1 85306 719 9.
9. San Francisco Call (1901). "Army Transport In Flames Is Sunk At Brooklyn Pier" 87 (11 April 1901). San Francisco Call, San Francisco: 1. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
10. "HMS Viper [+1901]". wrecksite.eu.
11. "HMS Viper wrecked". Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9253, Page 4. 16 September 1901.
12. "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
13. "Rodney (1874)". Retrieved 2011-11-16.

Ship events in 1901
Ship launches:	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906
Ship commissionings:	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906
Ship decommissionings:	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906
Shipwrecks:	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906

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