List of shipwrecks in 1911

The list of shipwrecks in 1911 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1911.

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1911
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1911
Ship Country Description
Burton  United Kingdom The ship was leaving Alderney Channel Islands harbour when it suffered steering problems and ran aground on the Grois Reef. Floating free she was anchored but broke up in a storm on 11 January and became a total loss.[1]

29 January

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1911
Ship Country Description
Wiln  United Kingdom The schooner was in collision with the steamship Irena ( United Kingdom) in the Bristol Channel and foundered with the loss of four of her six crew. She was on a voyage from Devonport, Devon to Llanelli, Glamorgan.[2]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1911
Ship Country Description
Ardencraig  United Kingdom Wrecked off the Gunners, Isles of Scilly.[3]

February

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1911
Ship Country Description
Weatherall  United Kingdom The Mousehole, lugger sank about 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off the Longships when she collided with the Lowestoft sailing trawler Trevone ( United Kingdom). All but one of the crew scrambled aboard the trawler.[4]

March

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1911
Ship Country Description
Cingetorix  Belgium Wrecked 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) south of Hartland Point, Devon.[5]

3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1911
Ship Country Description
Cap Spartel  Belgium Departed Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom bound for Palermo, Spain. No further trace.[5]

11 March

List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1911
Ship Country Description
Sechelt  United States Sank in Strait of Juan de Fuca with the loss of thirty-seven passengers and crew.

22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1911
Ship Country Description
Bruce Canada Canada While en voyage from Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland to Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, she was driven on the rocks by ice, off Portnova Islands, (Main-a-Dieu Passage), southwest of Scatarie Island. Two crew members died.[6]
USS San Marcos  United States Navy The decommissioned second-class battleship (ex-USS Texas) was sunk as a gunnery target in shallow water in Tangier Sound off Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay by the battleship USS New Hampshire ( United States Navy).

23 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1911
Ship Country Description
Yongala United Kingdom Australia Sank off the Whitsunday Islands with the loss of all 122 passengers and crew.

April

10 April

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1911
Ship Country Description
Iroquois Canada Canada Sank in the Strait of Georgia off British Columbia. The ship's cargo, having been poorly stowed, shifted when the vessel encountered a squall.[7] Twenty-one people died as a result of the accident and the captain was convicted of manslaughter.

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1911
Ship Country Description
O. D. Witherell  United States
O. D. Witherell aground on 21 April 1911.
On or prior to this date, the sailing ship O. D. Witherell – a cargo ship – ran aground on the coast of Delaware 3½ miles (5.6 kilometers) south of Bethany Beach.[8]

23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1911
Ship Country Description
Doric  United Kingdom She ran aground in foggy conditions and was wrecked near Taichow Islands, Wenzhou, South China. Once all of the crew and passengers had been safely rescued, the ship was looted by local fishermen who subsequently burnt the remains of the vessel.

29 April

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1911
Ship Country Description
Craigoswald  United Kingdom Struck the Low Lee Rock, off Mousehole, Cornwall.[9] While on a journey from Barry Docks to Venice, with 4,000 tons of coal, she took a detour to drop off in Penzance the Chief Engineer who was ill. Later refloated.[10]

May

12 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1911
Ship Country Description
Merida  United States The Ward Line liner was in collision in dense fog with fruit steamship Admiral Farragut (flag unknown) and sank off Cape Charles, Virginia with the loss of $2,000,000 of Mexican gold, silver, copper and jewels. All 319 people were saved, with only one serious injury.

June

6 June

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1911
Ship Country Description
Bayard  United Kingdom Ran aground on South Georgia.

July

10 July

List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1911
Ship Country Description
Minister Delbeke  Belgium Collided with Gadeby (flag unknown) at New York, United States. Continued in service.[11]

August

3 August

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1911
Ship Country Description
Frau Mini Peterson  Norway The 180 ton schooner was wrecked, after a collision, near the Seven Stones Reef, off the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom.[12]

September

4 September

List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1911
Ship Country Description
Tucapel  Chile The steamship ran aground about 20 miles south of Lima, Peru, killing about 32 people.[13]

25 September

List of shipwrecks: 25 September 1911
Ship Country Description
Liberté  French Navy
Liberté,

The battleship exploded in Toulon harbour, killing about three hundred people.

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1911
Ship Country Description
Three Brothers  United States Sank off South Manitou Island, all fourteen crew saved.

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1911
Ship Country Description
Tokat  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Preveza: The torpedo boat was shelled and destroyed by Italian destroyers near Nicopolis, Greece. Nine of the crew were killed, including the captain.

30 September

List of shipwrecks: 30 September 1911
Ship Country Description
Alpagot  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Preveza: The torpedo boat was shelled and sunk by Italian destroyers in the harbour of Preveza, Greece.
Hamid-Abad  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Preveza: The torpedo boat was shelled and sunk by Italian destroyers in the harbour of Preveza, Greece.
Swarland  Denmark The Danish Cargo ship dissepeared while travelling from Rostock, Germany to Rotterdam, The Netherlands. All 15 crew members are presumed dead.

October

1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1911
Ship Country Description
Solo  Netherlands Driven ashore at Terheiden during a storm. Refloated 17 March 1912, repaired and returned to service.[11]
Ixion  Netherlands The Dutch Cargo ship caught fire and sank off the coast of Indonesia. There were 24 casualties.

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1911
Ship Country Description
Sicie  France The brigantine foundered in the Bristol Channel 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of the Helwick Lightship ( United Kingdom). She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Lorient, Morbihan.[2]

November

List of shipwrecks: November 1911
Ship Country Description
Hansy  Norway The sailing ship was wrecked at Penolver on the eastern side of the Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Three men were saved by the lifeboat and the rest were taken off by the rocket apparatus.[14]

12 November

List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1911
Ship Country Description
Angele flag unknown The brigantine ran aground on the Doom Bar, Padstow, Cornwall.[15]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1911
Ship Country Description
USLHT Lily United States Lighthouse Service The lighthouse tender hit a snag and sank on the Missouri River. The wreck has now silted up to the extent that an island has formed known as "Lily Island."[16]

December

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1911
Ship Country Description
Van Dyck  Belgium The 1,132 ton Antwerp steamer collided with the Seven Stones Reef reef while carrying oranges from Valencia to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Eighteen of the crew escaped in a lifeboat which capsized killing the captain and thirteen men. The steamer refloated herself, drifted in the English Channel with four men still on board, and was taken in tow by the collier Ashtree ( United Kingdom), which made a failed attempt to take the vessel in tow. The four crew launched a raft and reached the Ashtree. The derelict was taken in tow by the Lyonesse and Greencastle (both  United Kingdom), and was beached at Penzance on 8 December. She was later returned to service.[12][17]

13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1911
Ship Country Description
Saluto  Norway The Christiansand barque was wrecked at Cudden Point in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[18] The ship was a total loss but the Newlyn lifeboat saved the crew of 13 men. The ship was bound for the West Indies.[19]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1911
Ship Country Description
Amisia  Germany The steamship was driven ashore at Sully Island, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew survived.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Wreck Report for 'Burton', 1911".
  2. 1 2 3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 22.
  4. ↑ "100 Years Ago". The Cornishman. 10 February 2011. p. 18.
  5. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  6. ↑ "SS Bruce (I) (+1911)".
  7. ↑ http://www.uasbc.com/data/newsletters/2001-02.pdf Tagging what's left of the Iroquois; by Peter Ross
  8. ↑ James D. Meehan; Harold E. Dukes (1998). Bethany Beach Memoirs: A Long Look Back (Fourth Printing ed.). Harold E. Dukes. p. 58.
  9. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 17.
  10. ↑ Larn, R. and Larn, B. (1991) Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
  11. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  12. 1 2 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  13. ↑ "32 Drowned, 90 Saved When Ship Hits Rock". The San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA). September 7, 1911. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  14. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 7.
  15. ↑ "BBC special report on Padstow Lifeboat". BBC. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
  16. ↑ http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Lily_1875.pdf
  17. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  18. ↑ Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
  19. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 16.
Ship events in 1911
Ship launches: 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916
Ship commissionings: 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916
Ship decommissionings: 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916
Shipwrecks: 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916
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