List of shipwrecks in 1907

The list of shipwrecks in 1907 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1907.

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1907
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1907
Ship Country Description
Alice Gertrude  United States The wooden steamship was wrecked while attempting to enter Clallam Bay, Washington during a severe snowstorm.

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1907
Ship Country Description
Patricia  Greece Collided with Moringen ( Norway) off the Haisboro' Light, England and sank.[1]

19 January

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1907
Ship Country Description
Marie Thérese  France The brigantine was wrecked on the Helwick Sands, in the Bristol Channel. Her eight crew survived. She was on a voyage from Arcachon, Loire-Atlantique to Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[2]
Vaderland  Belgium Collided with Naworth Castle ( United Kingdom) off the Goodwin Sands. Naworth Castle sank.[1]

February

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1907
Ship Country Description
Portland  United Kingdom The Clyde Shipping Company owned cargo ship collided with and was run down by Welshman near Greenock. She carrying a cargo of whisky valued at £8,000[3]

11 February

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1907
Ship Country Description
Jean Bart  French Navy Ran aground at Ras Nouadhibou, French West Africa.

17 February

List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1907
Ship Country Description
Dundonald  United Kingdom Ran aground and sank on Disappointment Island one of Auckland Islands south of New Zealand. 12 of crew drowned, 1 subsequently died. A barque, she was carrying a cargo of wheat from Australia to England.

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1907
Ship Country Description
Berlin  United Kingdom Ran aground, broke apart and sank on the granite breakwater at the entrance to the New Waterway, Hook of Holland. 128 souls lost, 15 saved.

March

3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1907
Ship Country Description
Dakota  United States Great Northern Steamship Company, ran aground on reef in Yokohama, Japan on 3 March and began taking on water. All passengers were evacuated using the lifeboats. Ship later scrapped on site.

4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1907
Ship Country Description
Congo  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 1,687 grt cargo/passenger ship was sunk after colliding with an unknown vessel near Borkum, Netherlands.[4]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1907
Ship Country Description
Iéna  French Navy Onboard explosion caused by nitrocellulose self-igniting. 118 killed.
Suffren  French Navy Almost capsized by explosion on Iéna.

17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1907
Ship Country Description
Suevic  United Kingdom
Bow section of Suevic

White Star Line vessel ran aground on Lizard Point, Cornwall, England on 17 March 1907. Ship was blown in half by salvagers using dynamite. The stern section was taken to Southampton to be assembled to a new bow. The old bow was dispensed to the sea. Four lifeboats saved 456 persons from the wreck (the largest number ever saved by the RNLI from a single vessel).[5]

18 March

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1907
Ship Country Description
Jebba  United Kingdom Ran aground at Bolt Tail and wrecked.[6]

April

19 April

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1907
Ship Country Description
Ariel  Royal Navy Wrecked outside Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta.[7]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1907
Ship Country Description
Hereford  Norway Wrecked at Hatteras Island, North Carolina.

May

13 May

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1907
Ship Country Description
General Grant  United States Ran aground and sank in Auckland Islands south of New Zealand, with 68 (55 passengers and 13 crew) drowned. There have been several attempts to salvage the gold she was carrying.

15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1907
Ship Country Description
Marie-Therese  Belgium Foundered 60 nautical miles (110 km) off Toulon, France.[8]

20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1907
Ship Country Description
Izaro  Spain Ran aground at the foot of Tomlin Rock, St Bees.[9]

June

10 June

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1907
Ship Country Description
Bougainville  France The schooner sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Bristol Channel 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Oxwich Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. She subsequently foundered.[2]

July

4 July

List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1907
Ship Country Description
Arthur  Norway wrecked off Bremnes, Norway.[1]

16 July

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1907
Ship Country Description
Toro  Argentina The cargo ship was wrecked off Chile.[10]

19 July

List of shipwrecks: 19 July 1907
Ship Country Description
Fido  Norway
Fido aground off Tweed Heads, NSW

The 1,433 GRT cargo and passenger ship was wrecked on a reef off Cook's Island, near Tweed Heads on the border between New South Wales Queensland.[11]

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1907
Ship Country Description
Columbia  United States
Columbia sinking after colliding with San Pedro

San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company, collided with the steam schooner San Pedro ( United States) in dense fog off Shelter Cove, California. Columbia subsequently sank, killing 88 people. Although badly damaged and flooded, San Pedro remained afloat. The survivors of the Columbia were rescued by the San Pedro and transferred to the coastal liner George W. Elder ( United States) and the steamship Roanoke ( United States).[12]

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1907
Ship Country Description
Brothers  United Kingdom The ketch foundered off Cardigan. Her three crew were rescued by Elizabeth Austin ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[13]

October

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1907
Ship Country Description
Volund  Norway The ship ran aground at Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia, Dominion of Canada. She was on a voyage from Windsor, Nova Scotia to New York, United States.[14]

11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1907
Ship Country Description
Cyprus  United States Sank in Lake Superior. Twenty two crew drowned.

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1907
Ship Country Description
Ina Mactavish  United Kingdom Ran aground at Amble, Northumberland. Two people drowned.
Schooner Susan Elizabeth  United Kingdom Wrecked on Porthminster Beach, St Ives, Cornwall. Crew rescued by lifeboat.[15] Remains dynamited two years later.[16]

November

1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1907
Ship Country Description
Baltic  United Kingdom The Thames barge ran onto St Clement's Isle, Mousehole en route to Newlyn with cement for the harbour works. Her crew were saved by Mousehole fishermen who were unimpressed with the non–appearance of the lifeboat stuck in the mud at Penzance. The Baltic ended her days as a hulk in an Essex creek.[17]

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1907
Ship Country Description
Jane  United Kingdom The ketch was wrecked in Pwll Du Bay. Her two crew survived.[2]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1907
Ship Country Description
Monohansett  United States
The propeller of the Monohansett, shipwrecked in Lake Huron on November 23, 1907.

The wooden steam barge sank after catching fire near Thunder Bay Island in Lake Huron. As the wreck took place near the island's Life Saving Station, no lives were lost.[18]

December

2 December

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1907
Ship Country Description
Mount Temple  United Kingdom
Mount Temple.

The cargo liner ran aground on West Ironbound Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. All on board survived. She was refloated in 1908, repaired and returned to service.

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1907
Ship Country Description
Becquet  France The 200ton ship was lost in the Chausey Islands. [19]

14 December

List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1907
Ship Country Description
Thomas W. Lawson  United States Ran aground on Hellweather's Reef, Scilly Isles. Sixteen crew killed.

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1907
Ship Country Description
Cap Lopez  Belgium The cargo shipRan aground on the Goodwin Sands, in the English Channel. Her crew were rescued.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1907
Ship Country Description
Coronel  Norway Ran aground at Foreness Point, Broadstairs, Kent, United Kingdom. Later refloated and returned to service.[20]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Portland ? [+1907]". www.wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
  4. ↑ "SS Congo (II) (+1907)". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  5. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 10.
  6. ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  7. ↑ Kemp, Paul (1999). The Admiralty Regrets: British Warship Losses of the 20th Century. Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing. p. 3. ISBN 0-7509-1567-6.
  8. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  9. ↑ "Shipwrecks at St Bees". St Bees Publications. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
  10. ↑ "Toro (5617002)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 18 August 2014. (subscription required (help)).
  11. ↑ Tweed Heads Shipwrecks (PDF). Sydney: Government of New South Wales, Heritage Branch. 2000. p. 2. ISBN 1-876415-42-8. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  12. ↑ Belyk, Robert C (2001). Great Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast. New York: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-38420-8.
  13. ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  14. ↑ "Volund - 1907". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  15. ↑ "1893–1920". St. Ives Trust. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
  16. ↑ Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
  17. ↑ Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. A History. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
  18. ↑ "Monohansett". Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. NOAA.
  19. ↑ cite |title=Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche |published=2008 |author=YvesDufiel
  20. ↑ Lane, Anthony (2009). Shipwrecks of Kent. Stroud: The History Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-7524-1720-2.
Ship events in 1907
Ship launches: 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
Ship commissionings: 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
Ship decommissionings: 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
Shipwrecks: 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
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