List of shipwrecks in 1909

List of shipwrecks in 1909 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1909.

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1909
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1909
Ship Country Description
Pendeen  United Kingdom The fishing vessel was lost in a gale. A search by the St Ives Lifeboat found no wreckage.[1]

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1909
Ship Country Description
RMS Republic  United Kingdom and Florida ( Italy) collided. A total of six people killed (3 passengers, 3 crew), Republic sank on 24 January. Over 1,500 rescued.

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1909
Ship Country Description
SS Mjølner  Norway The cargo ship was on a voyage from N. Shields to Napoli with a cargo of coal and coke, when she was wrecked, off Burhou, Alderney Channel Islands.[2]

February

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1909
Ship Country Description
Lobito  Portugal She sank at Ilha do Maio, Cape Verde on passage from St Vincent for Cape Verde.

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1909
Ship Country Description
Penguin  New Zealand struck Toms Rock in the Cook Strait and sank with the loss of 85 passengers and crew. Thirty survivors.
Australia  Belgium collided with a sailing ship and sank off Alboran, Mediterranean Sea.[3]

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1909
Ship Country Description
Renown  United Kingdom The East coast drifter went aground at Penzance railway station, Cornwall, UK after missing the harbour mouth in a fresh breeze and rough seas. The lifeboat Cape of Good Hope ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) passed a wire rope from the drifter to the Albert pier where hundreds of people hauled the ship off, and she was escorted into harbour.[4] 3 February according to Carter.[5]

March

29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1909
Ship Country Description
Ilorin  United Kingdom . The 946 GRT Elder Dempster cargo ship ran aground and sank on the bar at Forçados River, Nigeria while attempting to assist the Andoni.[6]

April

8 April

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1909
Ship Country Description
Mahratta  United Kingdom ran aground on Goodwin Sands, broke in half two days later and wrecked. One crew member committed suicide.
Dagenham  United Kingdom a British cargo steamer of 1,466 grt built in 1907 by John Crown & Sons for Furness, Withy & Co. On the 18th April 1909, when north-west Grunes, Cobo Bay, Guernsey Channel islands, she ran aground and was wrecked while on a voyage from the Tyne to Saint-Malo with a cargo of coal.[7] [8]

May

13 May

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1909
Ship Country Description
Palomares  Belgium Abandoned in the Gulf of Finland. Later salvaged, repaired and sold.[9]

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1909
Ship Country Description
Loango flag unknown The schooner was wrecked near St Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom[10] Four crew rescued[1]

June

11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1909
Ship Country Description
RMS Slavonia  United Kingdom The passenger ship ran aground at Punda dos Fenais, Flores, Azores, Portugal and was wrecked. All passengers were rescued by Prinzess Irene and Batavia (both  Germany).

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1909
Ship Country Description
Louise  Belgium foundered 28 nautical miles (52 km) off Ventimiglia, Italy.[11]

July

12 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1909
Ship Country Description
John B. Cowle  United States The 420 feet (130 m), 4,731 GRT Cowle was laden with 7,023 tons of iron ore loaded at Two Harbors, Minnesota and bound for Cleveland, Ohio, when she was rammed in dense fog by Isaac M. Scott. The Cowle sank in three minutes, taking 14 of her 24-man crew with her.

15 July

List of shipwrecks: 15 July 1909
Ship Country Description
HMS C11  Royal Navy sunk in collision with Eddystone ( United Kingdom) off Cromer. Three survivors

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1909
Ship Country Description
Waratah  United Kingdom . The Blue Anchor Line ocean liner was due to reach Cape Town on 29 July. No trace was ever found and over 750 passengers and crew lost.

August

5 August

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1909
Ship Country Description
Maori  United Kingdom wrecked near Llandudno, Cape Town with 32 crew killed.
Lucania  United Kingdom caught fire at Huskisson Dock at Liverpool. Sank at her moorings and later sold for scrap.

11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1909
Ship Country Description
Nezinscot  United States Navy The tug capsized and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Ann, Massachusetts.[12]

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1909
Ship Country Description
Adolphe  United Kingdom The ketch was wrecked in the Teifi Estuary.[13]

September

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1909
Ship Country Description
Eduard Bohlen  Germany The ship ran aground off of Namibia's Skeleton Coast in a heavy fog.

12 September

List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1909
Ship Country Description
Sarah Ann  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Porthgain, Pembrokeshire.[13]

15 September

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1909
Ship Country Description
Francesco Morosini  Regia Marina The decommissioned Ruggiero di Lauria-class ironclad battleship was sunk as a torpedo target at La Spezia, Italy.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date September 1909
Ship Country Description
USS Katahdin  United States Navy The decommissioned harbor defense ram was sunk as a gunnery target at Rappahannock Spit, Virginia.

October

23 October

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1909
Ship Country Description
Anne Marie  France Barge based Erquy (region of Brittany, France). Carrying cobblestone from its home port to Saint Malo (same area), was wrecked on the Minquiers Channel Islands tray..[14]

November

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1909
Ship Country Description
Alf  Norway The barque ran aground on Haisborough Sands and was wrecked. Crew of 16 rescued by the Cromer lifeboat Louisa Heartwell ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).

27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1909
Ship Country Description
Lancelot  United Kingdom The spritsail barge was driven ashore in West Bay, Dorset.[15]

29 November

List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1909
Ship Country Description
Ottawa  United States The tug caught fire off the coast of Russell, Bayfield County, Wisconsin after rescuing another vessel.

December

2 December

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1909
Ship Country Description
Whitewood  United Kingdom The Screw Collier left Hull 2 Dec 1909 bound for Bremen. Not heard of after this date.

3 December

List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1909
Ship Country Description
Ellan Vannin United Kingdom Isle of Man The paddle steamer sank in Liverpool Bay in a Force 11 gale. All 36 passengers and crew killed.

13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1909
Ship Country Description
Governor Ames  United States The 5-masted schooner was wrecked in a gale 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Cape Hatteras on the North Carolina coast. Thirteen of the fourteen aboard perished, including the master, Captain King, and his wife. The sole survivor was Joseph Speering of New York.

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1909
Ship Country Description
Congress  United Kingdom swamped by a wave off St. Ives, Cornwall. Three people swept overboard were rescued.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "1893–1920". St. Ives Trust. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
  2. ↑ cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?175588 |name=SS Mjølner (+1909) |publisher=wrecksite.eu |accessdate= 26 Aug 2015
  3. ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  4. ↑ Larn, R; Larn, B (1991). Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
  5. ↑ Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications. ISBN 0-9533028-0-6.
  6. ↑ Lettens, Jan; Allen, Tony (30 December 2010). "SS Andoni (+1917)".
  7. ↑ cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?4505 |title=SS Dagenham [+1909] |publisher=wrecksite.eu
  8. ↑ cite web |url=http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports2002/19569.asp?view=text |title=Wreck Report for 'Dagenham', 1909
  9. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  10. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 27.
  11. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  12. ↑ "Nezinscot". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History & Heritage Command. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  13. 1 2 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  14. ↑ cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?207010 |name=Anne Marie (+1909) |publisher=wrecksite.eu |accessdate= 27 Aug 2015
  15. ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
Ship events in 1909
Ship launches: 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914
Ship commissionings: 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914
Ship decommissionings: 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914
Shipwrecks: 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914
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