List of shipwrecks in 1912

The list of shipwrecks in 1912 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1912.

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1912
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec

January

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1912
Ship Country Description
Ayintab  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Bafra  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Gökcedag  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Kastamonu  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Muha  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Ordu  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Refahiye  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1912
Ship Country Description
Calderon  United Kingdom Collided with Musketeer ( United Kingdom) in the Crosby Channel. Beached but broke in two, a total loss.[1]

February

2 February

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1912
Ship Country Description
HMS A3  Royal Navy The A-class submarine submarine was accidentally rammed and sunk by the submarine tender HMS Hazard ( Royal Navy) in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight with the loss of all hands. Subsequently refloated and sunk as a gunnery target.

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1912
Ship Country Description
Consols  United Kingdom British steamer laden with cotton from Galveston for Hamburg, caught fire and sank approximately 40 miles south of Cape Henry. All crew were rescued.[2]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1912
Ship Country Description
Maud  United Kingdom The Fleetwood trawler drifted ashore at Kynance Cove, Cornwall, when her tow broke.[3]

17 February

List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1912
Ship Country Description
Charioteer  United Kingdom The tug foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all five crew.[4]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1912
Ship Country Description
Angora  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Beirut: The torpedo boat was shelled and sunk in Beirut harbour by the cruisers Francesco Ferruccio and Giuseppe Garibaldi (both  Regia Marina).
Avnillâh  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Beirut: The casemate corvette was shelled and sunk Beirut harbour by the cruisers Francesco Ferruccio and Giuseppe Garibaldi (both  Regia Marina).

March

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1912
Ship Country Description
Bessie  United Kingdom The Truro registered three-masted schooner was forced to shelter in Newquay Bay, Cornwall in a strong north wind and drifted ashore when her anchor fouled. Two of the crew were saved by breeches buoy, the others clambered up the 100 ft (30 m) cliff on the cliff ladder. She was on a voyage from Ballincurragh, County Cork to Penryn.[5]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1912
Ship Country Description
Oceana  United Kingdom Sank after a collision with Pisagua ( Germany) off Beachy Head, East Sussex.
Wendur  United Kingdom The Glasgow sailing vessel struck the southern most rock of the Seven Stones Reef while carrying grain from Plymouth, Devon. Three of the twenty-one crew lost their lives. She held the record for the fastest voyage between Newcastle and Valparaiso.[6]

21 March

List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1912
Ship Country Description
City of Cardiff  United Kingdom Wrecked at Nanjizal on the west coast of Cornwall.[7]

April

6 April

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1912
Ship Country Description
Gunvor  Norway
Gunvor wrecked

Wrecked on the Pedn-Men-an-Mor rocks, Black Head, The Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew scrambled to safety.[8][9]

Mildred  United Kingdom The Barquentine struck rocks at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall in dense fog and sank with her sails set. No lives lost.[8]

7 April

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1912
Ship Country Description
Rhenania  Netherlands She was wrecked on Burhou Island, Channel Islands when on route from Rotterdam for Bilbao.[10][11]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1912
Ship Country Description
Cathcartpark  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground and sank off Iona.[12]
RMS Titanic  United Kingdom
RMS Titanic.
The Olympic-class ocean liner, the largest ship launched at the time, sank during her maiden voyage. A total of 1,514 lives were lost; 710 people survived.

May

12 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1912
Ship Country Description
HMS A3  Royal Navy The refloated wreck of the A-class submarine submarine was sunk as a gunnery target in the English Channel near Portland Bill.

20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1912
Ship Country Description
USLHT Armeria United States Lighthouse Service Lighthouse tender was wrecked off of Cape Hinchinbrook Light, Alaska, while landing supplies.[13]

June

2 June

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1912
Ship Country Description
Friendship  New South Wales
Friendship

The cargo ship was wrecked at Tweed Heads.

8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1912
Ship Country Description
Vendémiaire  French Navy A submarine, rammed near Cherbourg by the battleship Saint Louis ( French Navy) and sank with the loss of twenty-five sailors.

26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1912
Ship Country Description
Naniwa  Imperial Japanese Navy Grounded on the coast of Urup, Kurile islands.

July

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1912
Ship Country Description
Transporter  United Kingdom The North Shields ship in ballast from St Nazaire to the Tyne for coal went ashore in thick fog, to the south of Mousehole, Cornwall. The salvage steamer Lady of the Isles hauled her clear and she resumed her journey undamaged.[14]

August

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1912
Ship Country Description
Marnix  Belgium Struck uncharted rocks at Umba, Russia (66°21′N 35°36′E / 66.350°N 35.600°E / 66.350; 35.600 (SS Marnix)) and wrecked.[15]

31 August

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1912
Ship Country Description
Kursk  Denmark Ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, Netherlands. Thirty-two people killed.[16]

September

1 September

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1912
Ship Country Description
HMS Waterwitch  Royal Navy The British Admiralty survey vessel, rammed by the governor's launch while anchored in Singapore Harbour.

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1912
Ship Country Description
Esperance  France The schooner capsized in the Bristol Channel. Her five crew and the ship's dog were rescued by the trawler Picton Castle ( United Kingdom). Esperance was on a voyage from Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais to Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[4]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1912
Ship Country Description
Kiche Maru  Japan Lost off the coast of Japan in a storm with over 1,000 dead.

October

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1912
Ship Country Description
Ralph Creyke  United Kingdom Owned by the Ouse Steamship Company she sank near Flushing after a collision with the Danish steamer Viking.[17]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1912
Ship Country Description
Feth-i Bülend  Ottoman Navy First Balkan War: The accommodation hulk was torpedoed and sunk in Thessaloniki harbour by a Greek torpedo boat. Seven crew members died in the sinking.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1912
Ship Country Description
Nicaragua  United States Wrecked on Padre Island, Texas while travelling the Gulf of Mexico.

November

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1912
Ship Country Description
Endurance  United Kingdom Shackleton's ship of the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition caught in ice and finally sank in the Weddell Sea.

December

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1912
Ship Country Description
Antonios  Greece The steamer was lost on rocks known as Old Bess, within the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. Her crew was lost and the wreck went unnoticed for three days when thousands of oranges were washed up on St Agnes along with wreckage.[6]

26 December

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1912
Ship Country Description
Tripolitania  United Kingdom Wrecked on Loe Bar, near Porthleven, Cornwall in 100 mph winds. Nearly all the crew were saved but the ship was a total loss.[18]

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1912
Ship Country Description
Vigilant  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Breaksea Point, Glamorgan. Her seven crew were rescued.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  2. ↑ "Steamer Consols Goes to Bottom". The Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA). February 5, 1912.
  3. ↑ Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. A History. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
  4. 1 2 3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "Wreck of the Bessie". Newquay Old Cornwall Society. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  6. 1 2 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  7. ↑ "City of Cardiff". Cornish Wreck Chart.
  8. 1 2 Leonard, Alan (2008). "Profiting from Shipwrecks". Picture Postcard Annual: 14–16.
  9. ↑ http://www.st-keverne.com/Treleague/wrecks.html A Diver's Guide to the Shipwrecks of The Lizard
  10. ↑ "SS Rhenania [+1912]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  11. ↑ Dufiel, Yves (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche (in French).
  12. ↑ McKenzie, Steven. "Lost ships and aircraft recorded in sea off Scotland". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  13. ↑ http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Armeria1890.pdf
  14. ↑ Larn, R; Larn, B (1991). Shipwrecks around Mounts Bay. Penryn: Tor Mark Press.
  15. ↑ "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  16. ↑ "Koninklijke Nederlandse Bibliotheek". Koninklijke Nederlandse Bibliotheek. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
  17. ↑ "Goole Steamer Beached. Total Loss of the Ralph Creyke". Hull Daily Mail (England). 18 October 1912. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  18. ↑ Noall, C (c. 1969). Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press. p. 15.
Ship events in 1912
Ship launches: 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917
Ship commissionings: 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917
Ship decommissionings: 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917
Shipwrecks: 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917
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