List of shipwrecks in 1903
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The list of shipwrecks in 1903 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1903.
January
9 January
- Crosby (
United Kingdom): The ship was wrecked at Bempton Cliffs, Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.[1]
21 January
- USS Leyden (
United States Navy): While on a return passage from Puerto Rico the tug foundered in heavy fog off Block Island, Rhode Island.
31 January
- Maskelyne (
Belgium): The ship foundered at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found..[2]
February
1 February
- James Stevens (
Royal National Lifeboat Institution): The lifeboat capsized at the mouth of the River Afan with the loss of six of her fourteen crew.[3]
4 February
- Berwick ( United Kingdom) of Newcastle wrecked on the Runnelstone; the crew took to two boats one of which reached land and the other with five crew taken to Penzance in the Sennen Cove Lifeboat Station Ann Newbon (
Royal National Lifeboat Institution)[4] - Espingole (
French Navy): The Durandal-class destroyer hit a rock and sank. She was sold as scrap in December 1909.
8 February
- Southern Cross (
Canada): The schooner capsized at Port Greville, Nova Scotia. She was later salvaged, repaired and returned to service.[5]
12 February
- Ruby Schultz ( Belgium): The ship was wrecked 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) north west of Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.[1]
26 February
- Ottercaps ( United Kingdom):The ship wrecked off Feunteun Aod, Finistère, France. Built in Sunderland 1878. [6]
27 February
- Mouse ( United Kingdom): The smack got into difficulties off Cardigan. All four people on board were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[7]
Unknown date
- Ambriz (
France): The Cie Française Charbonnage et de la Batelage ("French Coaling & Shipping Co.") vessel was wrecked off the coast of Madagascar while serving as a coal depot ship - Luna ( United Kingdom): The barque was on passage from New Zealand to Liverpool when she lost part of her mast and head gear off the Pendeen Lighthouse, and drifted onto the Brisons in a north–west–by–west gale. All the crew were lost.[4]
- Scorpion (
Royal Navy): The turret ship sank under tow in the Caribbean.
March
9 March
- Alexandra (flag unknown): Cyclone Leonta: The cargo ship was driven ashore at Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
12 March
- Albion ( United Kingdom): The schooner was wrecked in West Bay, Dorset.[8]
31 March
- Shamrock ( United Kingdom): Sprang a leak at Catherine Hill Bay, New South Wales, Australia and sank. Scrapped in situ after it was found she was too badly damaged to repair.[2]
April
21 April
- Freia (
Norway) wrecked near Scharhörn on her passage from Kristiana to Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands.[9]
May
26 May
- Huddersfield (
United Kingdom);On leaving Antwerp she was in collision in the River Scheldt with the Norwegian steamer Uto. All 22 of the passengers were drowned. They were emigrants from Galicia on their way to Canada. [10]
29 May
- Nord ( France); Ran aground and was wrecked on Burhou Island off Alderney Channel Islands on a voyage from Boulogne to Bayonne with general cargo.[11]
June
10 June
- Rubens ( Belgium): Capsized and sank in the North Sea. Eleven crew killed, four rescued by Privo ( Norway).[1]
July
18 July
- North Pacific (
United States): She went off course and struck a rock in fog at Marrowstone Island, Washington state.
August
2 August
- Tennie and Laura ( United States): The schooner capsized and sank 9 nautical miles (17 km) off Port Washington, Wisconsin.
September
10 September
- Glenfeadon ( United Kingdom): The schooner was driven ashore at The Mumbles, Glamorgan. She was refloated the next day.[3]
- Ierne ( United Kingdom): The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Dublin.[3]
- J. K. Allport ( United Kingdom): The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel.[3]
26 September
- Harold ( United States): The barge sank off Staten Island, New York.
29 September
- Bida ( United Kingdom): The Elder Dempster 1,477 grt cargo ship was on fire in the North Sea and abandoned when 45 nautical miles (83 km) south by east of the Maas lightship ( Belgium) when en route from Lagos to Hamburg with a cargo of palm kernels.[12]
Unknown date
- Enterprise ( United Kingdom) lost her sails and wrecked in hurricane force winds off St Ives, Cornwall. The three crew were rescued by lifeboat.[13]
- Moonlight ( United States): The ship sank of the coast of Michigan Island, Wisconsin.
October
17 October
- Carnsew ( United Kingdom): The coastal steamer collided with the SS Everest and sank off Bull Point, North Devon, United Kingdom. All the crew survived.[14]
25 October
- Emma Maria (
Russia): The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[8]
26 October
- Patria ( Norway): The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[8]
Unknown date
- Marquette ( United States): She sank in Lake Michigan.
- Paradox ( United Kingdom): The ship was wrecked off Les Sables-d'Olonne, France. Later salvaged, repaired, sold and returned to service.[1]
November
27 November
- Alwina (
Netherlands): The ship passed Pointe Saint-Mathieu, Finistère, France bound for Rotterdam, no further trace.[1]
December
6 December
- Warrington ( United Kingdom): Ran aground and was lost on the sands near Happisburgh on the Norfolk Coast.[15]
7 December
- Ann & Betsey ( United Kingdom): The smack got into difficulties off Cardigan. Her crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). They later returned to the smack and took her in to Cardigan.[7]
22 December
Date unknown
- Vega ( United Kingdom): The ship sank in Melville Bay, Greenland
References
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| Ship events in 1903 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 |
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