List of shipwrecks in 1905

The list of shipwrecks in 1905 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1905.

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1905
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

January

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Sevastopol	Imperial Russian Navy	Russo-Japanese War: The Petropavlovsk-class battleship was scuttled off Port Arthur, Manchuria, China.

3 January

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Haudaudine	France	Ran aground and sank off New Caledonia with no loss of life.

15 January

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Lodalen	Norway	The lake steamer was thrown some 350 m (1,150 ft) ashore by a flood wave created by a large rockfall into the lake Loenvatnet. The wreck of Lodalen was thrown a further 150 m (490 ft) inland by another flood wave in 1936.[1]

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Optima	Germany	Ran aground on Haisborough Sands, off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. A total loss.

31 January

List of shipwrecks: 31 January 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Skidby	United Kingdom	The ship ran aground on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Baltimore, Maryland, United States.[2]

February

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Ice Boat No. 3	United States	Struck a submerged shipwreck and sank in National Harbor of Refuge, Delaware, US.

17 February

List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1905

Ship	Country	Description
RMS Orizaba	United Kingdom	Orizaba in 1910. Went aground on Five Fathom Bank off Fremantle, Western Australia.

March

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Khyber	United Kingdom	The 1,967 ton barque was wrecked under the cliff at Tol-Pedn-Penwith, Cornwall. Neither the Penzance or Sennen Lifeboats could reach the ship and twenty-three crew lost their lives.[3]

25 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Parisian	United Kingdom	The ship collided with Albano (flag unknown) whilst on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She reached Halifax, where she sank from damage sustained in the collision.[4]

April

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Bristol Packet	United Kingdom	The ketch was driven ashore and wrecked at Oxwich, Glamorgan.[5]
Indefatiguable	United Kingdom	The tug struck rocks in the Bristol Channel She was abandoned two days later.[5]

May

List of shipwrecks: May 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Benguela	United Kingdom	The Elder Dempster 1,796 grt cargo ship was wrecked in May 1905 at Nana Kroo, Sierra Leone. She was on a voyage to Hamburg with palm kernels and oil.[6]

4 May

List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Hesper	United States	Sank in Silver Bay, Lake Superior.[7]

11 May

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Maiko Maru	Japan	Russo-Japanese War: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank off the Elliot Islands, China.[8]

14 May

List of shipwrecks: 14 May 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Miyako	Imperial Japanese Navy	Russo-Japanese War: The cruiser struck a mine and sank in Dairen Harbor with the loss of two crewmen.

27 May

List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Knyaz Suvorov	Imperial Russian Navy	Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
Imperator Aleksandr III	Imperial Russian Navy	Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
Borodino	Imperial Russian Navy	Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
Oslyabya	Imperial Russian Navy	Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
Navarin	Imperial Russian Navy	Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
Ural	Imperial Russian Navy	Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.

28 May

List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Admiral Nakhimov	Imperial Russian Navy	Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
Admiral Ushakov	Imperial Russian Navy	Russo-Japanese War: Sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
Sissoi Veliky	Imperial Russian Navy	Russo-Japanese War: Scuttled after the Battle of Tsushima.
Vladimir Monomakh	Imperial Russian Navy	Russo-Japanese War: Scuttled after the Battle of Tsushima.
Dmitrii Donskoi	Imperial Russian Navy	Russo-Japanese War: Scuttled after the Battle of Tsushima.

29 May

List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Izumrud	Imperial Russian Navy	Ran aground near Vladivostok.

June

15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Hydrangea	United Kingdom	The Milford Haven steam trawler was heading for the fishing grounds off the Isles of Scilly but was off course and hit the Seven Stones Reef. Her crew reached the Sevenstones Lightship.[9]

25 June

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Cousins Arbib	Belgium	Collided with IJmuiden ( Netherlands) 20 nautical miles (37 km) off Flamborough Head, England. Later raised, repaired and sold, re-entering service in 1909.[10]

July

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Farfadet	French Navy	Sank at Sidi Abdullah, Tunisia with the loss of four lives.
Newlyn lugger Diana	United Kingdom	Steamed into the Hamburgans Rocks off Penzance promenade, Cornwall when the watchman fell asleep after a nights fishing. Floated on the late afternoon tide.[11]

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1905

Ship	Country	Description
USS Bennington	United States Navy	USS Bennington. Suffered a boiler explosion and was holed, beached at San Diego. Later repaired and returned to service.

August

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1905

Ship	Country	Description
The 400 ton steel barque Noisiel	France	Noisiel Was blown ashore in a violent storm at Praa Sands, Cornwall, United Kingdom. She was en route from Cherbourg to Savona with a 600-ton cargo of armour plate from gun turrets of obsolete battleships.[12][13]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Albatross	United Kingdom	The small ketch sank in the Solent when her cargo of oil barrels exploded.[11]

September

2 September

List of shipwrecks: 2 September 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Pretoria	United States	The wooden schooner sank in a storm on Lake Superior near the Apostle Islands.[14]
Sevona	United States	The steamboat sank in a storm on Lake Superior near Sand Island (Wisconsin).

26 September

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Cantabria	Philippines	Sank at the north end of Ticao Island, Philippines in a typhoon. Total loss of ship and all sixty-nine on board drowned.[15]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Loch Vennachar	United Kingdom	Sank at West Bay, Kangaroo Island, Australia some time between 6 and 29 September.

October

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Noquebay	United States	The wooden schooner caught fire and sank in Lake Superior off the coast of Stockton Island, in Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin.

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Zelandia	Belgium	Wrecked off Warkworth, England.[16]

November

2 November

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Appomattox	United States	The wooden steamship ran aground in smoke and fog near Milwaukee, Lake Michigan. Abandoned as a constructive total loss.[17]

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Blackadder	Norway	The clipper ship foundered off Bahia, Brazil.[18]

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Hilda	United Kingdom	Hilda Ran aground on La Pierre des Portes reef, Saint-Malo, France with the loss of 125 lives.

28 November

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1905

Ship	Country	Description
Madeira	United States	Sank in Lake Superior.

December

11 December

List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1905

Ship	Country	Description
LV-58	United States Lighthouse Service	Sank off Nantucket.[19]

References

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2. "Skidby - 1905". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
3. Corin, J; Farr, G (1983). Penlee Lifeboat. Penzance: Penlee & Penzance Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. p. 120. ISBN 0-9508611-0-3.
4. "Parisian - 1905". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
5. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
6. "Benguela". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
7. "Hesper". Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
8. "Maiko Maru (4001499)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 28 June 2015. (subscription required (help)).
9. Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
10. "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
11. Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. A History. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
12. Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 16
13. Larn, R. and Larn, B. (1991) Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
14. "Final Voyage". Wisconsin Shipwrecks. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
15. Shipwrecks of the Philippines, Tom Bennett, 2012
16. "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
17. "Final Voyage". Wisconsin Shipwrecks. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
18. "Blackadder (1063573)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 24 November 2013. (subscription required (help)).
19. http://www.uscg.mil/history/cutters/WLV/LV58.asp

Ship events in 1905
Ship launches:	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910
Ship commissionings:	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910
Ship decommissionings:	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910
Shipwrecks:	1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910

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