List of shipwrecks in 1908

List of shipwrecks in 1908 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1908.

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1908
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Unknown date

January

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Lizzie R Wilce	United Kingdom	The schooner was wrecked on Porthminster Beach, St. Ives, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued.[1]

8 January

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Mary Barrow	United Kingdom	The schooner was beached on Porthminster beach, St. Ives, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued.[1] Refloated a week later.[2]

19 January

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Epirus	Greece	She was struck by Finland ( Belgium) off Terneuzen, Netherlands (51°24′N 3°45′E / 51.400°N 3.750°E) and sank.

February

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Favorite	United States	The steamboat sank at Coquille, Oregon. She was later refloated, repaired and returned to service.

18 February

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1908

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Hero	Royal Navy	The decommissioned Conqueror-class ironclad battleship was sunk as a target in the North Sea off the Kentish Knock.

March

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Newark Castle	United Kingdom	The Union-Castle Line passenger/cargo ship ran aground in calm weather 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) from Richard's Bay, South Africa[3]

29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Bega	Australia	Illawarra & South Coast Steam Navigation Co's 567 GRT steamship sank off Tathra, New South Wales.[4]

April

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Ben Macdui	Belgium	Foundered off Egerö, Norway.[5]

25 April

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1908

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Gladiator	Royal Navy	Collided with Saint Paul ( USA) and sank off the Isle of Wight. A total of 128 crew killed.

30 April

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Matsushima	Imperial Japanese Navy	She was lost after an accidental explosion at Mako, Pescadores. A total of 206 crew killed.

May

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1908

Ship	Country	Description
FV Auguste & Jean	Belgium	Rammed and sunk by Iris ( Belgium) 8 nautical miles (15 km) south west of the Noordhinder Lightship ( Netherlands). Three of her four crew were lost.[6]

31 May

List of shipwrecks: 31 May 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Loanda	United Kingdom	The Elder Dempster 2,702 GRT cargo ship was sunk while travelling from Hamburg to South Africa after hitting the Russian steamer Junona. The cargo was: Hundreds of cases of gin, rum, champagne and barrels of gunpowder. Thousands of newly minted shillings were presumed aboard but not borne out by manifest.[7]

June

7 June

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1908

Ship	Country	Description
City of Medicine Hat	Canada	The sternwheeler sank after striking the Traffic Bridge in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Egga	United Kingdom	The Elder Dempster 1,445 GRT cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked off Lagos Bar, Nigeria.[8]

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1908

Ship	Country	Description
St Lewis	France	Douarnenez crabber struck the Seven Stones Reef and foundered.[9]

July

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Cap Tarifa	Belgium	Foundered off the Burlings Lighthouse, Portugal.[5]

22 July

List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Dodo	United Kingdom	The Elder Dempster 531 GRT cargo ship was stripped and her hull scuttled off Forçados River, Nigeria.[10]

August

29 August

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Verajean	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Rhoose Point, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued. Although later refloated and taken in to Barry, Glamorgan, she was declared a total loss.[11]

September

1 September

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Amazon	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked west of Port Talbot, Glamorgan with the loss of twenty of her 28 crew. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot to Iquique, Chile.[11]

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Rosella'	United Kingdom	The ship was on a voyage from Penarth to Granville, Manche carrying a cargo of coal, when she was wrecked at Roches Douvres Rocks, 15 nautical miles (28 km) from La Corbière, Jersey Channel Islands [12] [13]

October

List of shipwrecks: October 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Yarmouth	United Kingdom	The Cargo ship foundered in the North Sea off the Outer Gabbard Lightship ( United Kingdom) with the loss of all 22 people on board. She was on a voyage from Hoek van Holland, South Holland, Netherlands to Harwich, Essex.

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Alice Marie	France	The steel barque hit the Runnelstone, drifted and sank in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, where it is now a dive site.[14]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Velasquez	United Kingdom	The Lamport and Holt Line 7,452-grt General Cargo/Passenger ship. On 17 October 1908 soon after leaving Santos harbour and heading N with a cargo of coffee, post and passengers, on the route New York to Buenos Aires, she entered an area of intense fog and eventually hit the rocks at Ponta da Sela (Ilhabela) suffering serious damage. All passengers and crew managed to leave the ship and took shelter on a nearby beach (Praia do Veloso) being rescued the day after by another vessel.[15]

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Taif	Ottoman Empire	Sank after collision with Bagdad off Seraglio Point, Constantinople.[16]

November

4 November

List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Schelde	Belgium	Wrecked 20 nautical miles (37 km) north of Sapienza, Italy.[16]

14 November

List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Falls of Halladale	United Kingdom	Falls of Halladale. The barque ran aground near Peterborough, Victoria, Australia in a fog. All 29 crew reached safety.

15 November

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1908

Ship	Country	Description
France	France	The cargo Schooner that foundered on the Minquiers South of Jersey Channel Islands when on route from Dunkirk, France for Granville, France with a cargo of Scoria.[17]

December

4 December

List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1908

Ship	Country	Description
USS Yankee	United States Navy	On 23 September 1908, during a training exercise, she ran aground on Spindle Rock near Hen and Chickens lightship. She remained there until refloated on 4 December. However while being subsequently towed to New Bedford, Massachusetts she sank in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts later that day.

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Ellen	Australia	a coastal freighter and trawler, was wrecked in Gulf St Vincent at Morgan’s Beach near Cape Jervis, South Australia.[18]

29 December

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Dahomey	United Kingdom	The Elder Dempster 2,854 GRT cargo/passenger ship ran aground at Abaco. She was refloated and beached 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) from Nassau, Bahamas as a total loss. She was on route from Newport News for Vera Cruz with a cargo of coal.[19]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Kwarra	United Kingdom	The Elder Dempster 812 GRT cargo ship, used in the West Africa coastal feeder service, was lost in the Forçados River, Nigeria.[20]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1908

Ship	Country	Description
Kittiwake	United Kingdom	The Elder Dempster 241 GRT cargo ship used in the Lagos creeks service ran aground on Lagos Bar, Nigeria.[21]

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20. "SS Kwarra (I) (+1908)". Retrieved 4 September 2013.
21. "SS Kittiwake [+1908]". Retrieved 4 September 2013.

Ship events in 1908
Ship launches:	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912	1913
Ship commissionings:	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912	1913
Ship decommissionings:	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912	1913
Shipwrecks:	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912	1913

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