List of shipwrecks in 1906

The list of shipwrecks in 1906 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1906.

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1906
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Unknown date

January

12 January

List of shipwrecks: January 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Itata	United Kingdom	Itata The barque was destroyed by fire at Newcastle, New South Wales.

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Aquidabã	Marinha do Brasil	sank after an explosion in her magazines with the loss of 212 lives.

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Valencia	United States	Ran aground off Pachena Point, British Columbia with the loss of at least 136 lives.

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Agnes	Australia	Sank after collision, Sydney Harbour.

February

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1906

Ship	Country	Description
L'Avenir	Belgium	Wrecked 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Flamborough Head, England.[1]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Stainburn	United Kingdom	The Workington collier almost wrecked on the Runnelstone, off Gwennap Head, Cornwall and caught fire. Managed to make her way to Penzance where she was repaired.[2]
Buller	United Kingdom	St Ives pilot boat, with seven pilots on board, capsized, in St Ives Bay, Cornwall when she was hit by a schooner, throwing all her occupants into the water. No fatalities.[3]

March

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Ocean Queen	United Kingdom	Wrecked on south coast of Guernsey. Sailing from London to Jersey with cement and general.[4][5]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1906

Ship	Country	Description
xxxx	Norway	The ship foundered off Cardigan Island, Cardiganshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[6] -->

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Olympian	United States	Wrecked at Possession Bay, Chile.

18 March

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Athen	Germany	Wrecked at Portland Bill, United Kingdom.

April

30 April

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Courier II	United Kingdom	struck Les Anons a rock south of Jethou.[7] There were 29 survivors and 10 deaths. The ship was salvaged on 1 August 1906 and returned to service after repairs.[8]

May

19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Training ship Comte de Smet de Meyer	Belgium	Foundered in the Bay of Biscay (47°12′N 12°10′W / 47.200°N 12.167°W) on her second voyage with the loss of 33 crew.[9]

29 May

List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Leros	Germany	On route from Newcastle to Lisbon with a cargo of Singer sewing machines when she ran aground in thick fog on Tasse de la Frette Rocks, NW Burhou near Alderney Channel Islands.[10][11]

30 May

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1906

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Montagu	Royal Navy	HMS Montagu aground on Lundy Island The battleship ran aground on Lundy Island and wrecked. Salvage abandoned in 1907 and scrapped in situ.

July

11 July

List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Angola	United Kingdom	The Elder Dempster 1,811 grt steamship was on a voyage from Vera Cruz to Montreal when she ran aground and was wrecked when 6 nautical miles (11 km) East of Louisburg, Nova Scotia.[12]

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Maggie Schultz	Belgium	Foundered 80 nautical miles (150 km) off Bilbao, Spain.[1]

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Marjorie J. Sumner	Canada	The schooner capsized at Eatonville, Nova Scotia during unloading. Subsequently salvage, repaired and returned to service.[13]

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Socoa	France	Socoa aground off Cadgwith. Plumes of steam from pumps being used to refloat her can be seen. She was stranded off Kildonan Point, Lizard in dense fog. She was re-floated after jettisoning 50,000 barrels of cement and beached in Cadgwith Cove. She was later towed round to Falmouth and repaired.[14]

August

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Forth	United Kingdom	Ran aground in thick fog and was wrecked on Long Pierre Rock off Herm, Channel Islands, whilst on passage from Middlesbrough to St. Malo.[15][16]

23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Primrose	United Kingdom	on a journey from her home port of Garston with coal, hit the Low Lee rocks, Mount's Bay in thick fog one mile from her destination, Newlyn.[17]

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Princess	Canada	Foundered off George Island, Manitoba.

September

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1906

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Phoenix	Royal Navy	Foundered alongside a coaling pier in Hong Kong in a typhoon.

October

25 October

List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Peter Iredale	United Kingdom	Peter Iredale, 1906 Ran aground at Clatsop Spit, Oregon and was wrecked.

November

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Galena	United Kingdom	Galena The barquentine was wrecked at the mouth of the Columbia River.

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Dix	United States	Sank after a collision with steam-powered schooner Jeannie ( United States). Over 45 lives lost.

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Montobello	France	Ran aground in South Australia on the south coast of Kangaroo Island near the mouth of the Stun Sail Boom River, whilst on passage from Hobart to Port Pirie.[18]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Little Malta	United Kingdom	The steam trawler sank in the Teifi Estuary.[6]

December

16 December

List of shipwrecks: 16 December 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Prinzessin Victoria Luise	Germany	Ran aground off Kingston, Jamaica, declared a constructive total loss.

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Cap Juby	Belgium	Sank after collision with Arlington ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel 15 nautical miles (28 km) off Dungeness, Kent, United Kingdom.[9]

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Tilley	United Kingdom	The ketch sprang a leak in the Bristol Channel and was abandoned. Her three crew were rescued by Ragusa 2 ( United Kingdom).[19]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1906

Ship	Country	Description
Bergen	Norway	The lifeboat was lost during a rescue operation off Stave, Andøya, Norway.[20]

References

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14. "Timeline; merchant and navy ship events 1900-1913". Retrieved 2011-11-16.
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19. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
20. Knudsen, Reidar (2011), "RS 24 "Risør" 100 år - Dystert mysterium", Båtmagasinet (in Norwegian) 5, retrieved 24 May 2014

See also

Ship events in 1906
Ship launches:	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911
Ship commissionings:	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911
Ship decommissionings:	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911
Shipwrecks:	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911