List of shipwrecks in 1903

The list of shipwrecks in 1903 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1903.

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1903
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Unknown date

January

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Crosby	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked at Bempton Cliffs, Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.[1]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1903

Ship	Country	Description
USS Leyden	United States Navy	While on a return passage from Puerto Rico the tug foundered in heavy fog off Block Island, Rhode Island.

31 January

List of shipwrecks: 31 January 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Maskelyne	Belgium	The ship foundered at 41°35′N 34°40′W / 41.583°N 34.667°W.[2]

February

1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1903

Ship	Country	Description
James Stevens	Royal National Lifeboat Institution	The lifeboat capsized at the mouth of the River Afan with the loss of six of her fourteen crew.[3]

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Berwick	United Kingdom	of Newcastle wrecked on the Runnelstone; the crew took to two boats one of which reached land and the other with five crew taken to Penzance in the Sennen Cove Lifeboat Station Ann Newbon ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution)[4]
Espingole	French Navy	The Durandal-class destroyer hit a rock and sank. She was sold as scrap in December 1909.

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Southern Cross	Canada	The schooner capsized at Port Greville, Nova Scotia. She was later salvaged, repaired and returned to service.[5]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Ruby Schultz	Belgium	The ship was wrecked 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) north west of Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.[1]

26 February

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Ottercaps	United Kingdom	The ship wrecked off Feunteun Aod, Finistère, France. Built in Sunderland 1878. [6]

27 February

List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Mouse	United Kingdom	The smack got into difficulties off Cardigan. All four people on board were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[7]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Ambriz	France	The Cie Française Charbonnage et de la Batelage ("French Coaling & Shipping Co.") vessel was wrecked off the coast of Madagascar while serving as a coal depot ship
Luna	United Kingdom	The barque was on passage from New Zealand to Liverpool when she lost part of her mast and head gear off the Pendeen Lighthouse, and drifted onto the Brisons in a north–west–by–west gale. All the crew were lost.[4]
Scorpion	Royal Navy	The turret ship sank under tow in the Caribbean.

March

9 March

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Alexandra	flag unknown	Alexandra Cyclone Leonta: The cargo ship was driven ashore at Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Albion	United Kingdom	The schooner was wrecked in West Bay, Dorset.[8]

31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Shamrock	United Kingdom	Sprang a leak at Catherine Hill Bay, New South Wales, Australia and sank. Scrapped in situ after it was found she was too badly damaged to repair.[2]

April

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Freia	Norway	wrecked near Scharhörn on her passage from Kristiana to Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands.[9]

May

26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Huddersfield	United Kingdom	On leaving Antwerp she was in collision in the River Scheldt with the Norwegian steamer Uto. All 22 of the passengers were drowned. They were emigrants from Galicia on their way to Canada. [10]

29 May

List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Nord	France	Ran aground and was wrecked on Burhou Island off Alderney Channel Islands on a voyage from Boulogne to Bayonne with general cargo.[11]

June

10 June

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Rubens	Belgium	Capsized and sank in the North Sea. Eleven crew killed, four rescued by Privo ( Norway).[1]

17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Scorpion	Royal Navy	The decommissioned ironclad turret ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean while under tow from the United Kingdom to the United States for scrapping.

July

18 July

List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1903

Ship	Country	Description
North Pacific	United States	She went off course and struck a rock in fog at Marrowstone Island, Washington state.

August

2 August

List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Tennie and Laura	United States	The schooner capsized and sank 9 nautical miles (17 km) off Port Washington, Wisconsin.

September

10 September

List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Glenfeadon	United Kingdom	The schooner was driven ashore at The Mumbles, Glamorgan. She was refloated the next day.[3]
Ierne	United Kingdom	The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Dublin.[3]
J. K. Allport	United Kingdom	The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel.[3]

26 September

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Harold	United States	The barge sank off Staten Island, New York.

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Bida	United Kingdom	The Elder Dempster 1,477 grt cargo ship was on fire in the North Sea and abandoned when 45 nautical miles (83 km) south by east of the Maas lightship ( Belgium) when en route from Lagos to Hamburg with a cargo of palm kernels.[12]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Enterprise	United Kingdom	lost her sails and wrecked in hurricane force winds off St Ives, Cornwall. The three crew were rescued by lifeboat.[13]
Moonlight	United States	The ship sank of the coast of Michigan Island, Wisconsin.

October

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Carnsew	United Kingdom	The coastal steamer collided with the SS Everest and sank off Bull Point, North Devon, United Kingdom. All the crew survived.[14]

25 October

List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Emma Maria	Russia	The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[8]

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Patria	Norway	The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[8]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Marquette	United States	She sank in Lake Michigan.
Paradox	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked off Les Sables-d'Olonne, France. Later salvaged, repaired, sold and returned to service.[1]

November

27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Alwina	Netherlands	The ship passed Pointe Saint-Mathieu, Finistère, France bound for Rotterdam, no further trace.[1]

December

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Warrington	United Kingdom	Ran aground and was lost on the sands near Happisburgh on the Norfolk Coast.[15]

7 December

List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Ann & Betsey	United Kingdom	The smack got into difficulties off Cardigan. Her crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). They later returned to the smack and took her in to Cardigan.[7]

22 December

List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Brugia	Belgium	The ship was wrecked near Beadnell, United Kingdom.[16]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1903

Ship	Country	Description
Vega	United Kingdom	The ship sank in Melville Bay, Greenland

References

1. "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
2. "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
3. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
4. Leach, Nicholas (2003). Sennen Cove Lifeboats. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-3111-0.
5. "Southern Cross - 1903". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
6. "SS Ottercaps (1903)". wrecksite.eu.
7. "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
8. "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
9. "SV Freia (+1903)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
10. "Twenty-two Emigrants Drowned". Leeds Mercury (England). 30 May 1903. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
11. "SS Nord (+1903)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 27 Aug 2015.
12. "Loss of SS Bida". Retrieved 3 September 2013.
13. "1893 - 1920". St Ives Trust. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
14. "Bell from Harvey's ship given by divers to heritage centre". The Cornishman. 15 October 2015. p. 5.
15. "The Loss of a G.C.R. Steamer". Hull Daily Mail (England). 10 December 1903. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
16. "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 30 September 2010.

Ship events in 1903
Ship launches:	1898	1899	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908
Ship commissionings:	1898	1899	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908
Ship decommissionings:	1898	1899	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908
Shipwrecks:	1898	1899	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908

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