List of shipwrecks in 1910
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The list of shipwrecks in 1910 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1910.
January
1 January
- Katie Darling (
United Kingdom): The ketch foundered off Cardigan. Two crew were rescued by Elizabeth Austin (
Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[1]
5 January
- Farallon (
United States): Sank in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Crew survived for a month on an island until rescued.
22 January
- Indefatigable ( United Kingdom): Under tow from Falmouth, Cornwall to Cardiff by the tug Challenge, they hit heavy weather at Land's End and returned to Falmouth. During the night Indefatigable dragged her anchors and drifted ashore under St Mawes Castle. She was pulled off the rocks by tugs Briton, Dragon and Marian, towed to Falmouth Docks and sold for scrap.[2]
February
23 February
- La Boulonaisse (
France): The 67 ton ship carrying cement from Boulogne to Saint Malo sank on a reef of the Chausey Islands Channel Islands 5 men were saved.[3]
28 February
- SV Nordenskjold (
Russia): The Russian wooden brigantine, on voyage from La Rochelle to Llanelly with a cargo of pit props, was wrecked in Belgrave Bay (Belle Grève), Guernsey Channel islands.[4]
March
13 March
- Harry ( United Kingdom): The Brixham trawler was stranded at Porthcurno, Cornwall and taken in tow by the Sennen Cove lifeboat Ann Newbon (
Royal National Lifeboat Institution)[5]
April
15 April
- Notre Dame de Lourdes ( France): The ketch was driven ashore at Rhosilli, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew survived but the vesses subsequently broke up.[6]
18 April
- Minnehaha ( United Kingdom): She ran aground on rocks in the Isles of Scilly. Refloated on 13 May and returned to service after repairs were made.
- Brabo (
Belgium) ran aground on Hoborgsriff, off the coast of Sweden. Refloated and towed to Oscarshamn where she was sold for scrap.[7]
May
15 May
- SS Wear ( United Kingdom): The British steel cargo ship WEAR, built in 1905 by Austin S. P. & Son Ltd. and owned at the time of her loss by Witherington & Everett SS Co., on voyage from Sunderland to Saint-Servan with a cargo of coal, was wrecked on the west coast of Guernsey Channel Islands. There were no casualties. .[3][8]
30 May
- Olivia ( United Kingdom): The trawler was hit by HMS Quail (
Royal Navy) off Porthallow, Cornwall. Four men from the village of Flushing died.[9]
June
7 June
- Felix de Abasolo (
Spain): Carrying a cargo of coal, she ran aground in dense fog on Les Boufresses reef just north of Île de Raz Alderney Channel Islands and broke her back.[10][11]
11 June
- SS Rap (
Norway): The Norwegian cargo ship was on a voyage from Newcastle to Gibraltar with a cargo of coal, when she was wrecked, off Alderney, Channel Islands.[12] - Terra ( United Kingdom): En route from the Port of Tyne to Genoa with a cargo of coal. She ran aground in fog at Chateau Letoc, Alderney Channel Islands [11][13]
18 June
- SS Linn O-Dee ( United Kingdom): The British iron cargo ship, on voyage from Portsmouth to Guernsey in ballast, ran aground in fog and was wrecked at La Lague on Burhou Island, close to Alderney, Channel Islands.[3][14]
23 June
- Zelandia ( Belgium): Sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea 100 nautical miles (190 km) off the Danish coast.[15]
July
20 July
- Dode ( United States): The steamboat struck a rock and sank off Marrowstone Island, Washington.
27 July
- USRC Commodore Perry (
United States Revenue Cutter Service): Lost on this date. Location and circumstances unknown.[16]
August
2 August
- James Rolph ( USA): The four-masted schooner ran aground in San Pablo Bay, near San Francisco. No lives lost and the ship was later stripped of salvageable components and abandoned.
5 August
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Princess May
- Princess May (
Canada): The passenger ship ran aground near the Sentinel Island Light, Alaska, United States.
31 August
- Marie-Reine ( Belgium): Caught fire at Thessalonika, Greece and sank.[17]
September
5 September
- William Cory ( United Kingdom): The cargo steamship, carrying a cargo of timber from Uleaborg to Newport, South Wales was wrecked at Pendeen.[18]
28 September
- Chester ( United Kingdom): A collision in the River Elbe with a Swedish steamer which resulted in her being badly damaged. She was beached to prevent sinking.[19] However, she sank quickly into the soft moving sand and became a total wreck, the water having flooded her holds.[20]
October
10 October
- Olympe ( United Kingdom): The schooner was beached at Gunwalloe Church Cove, Cornwall.[21]
19 October
- James and Agness ( United Kingdom): The schooner was lost in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, Devon with the loss of all five crew.[6]
November
6 November
- Preussen (
Germany): Was accidentally rammed by SS Brighton ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel off Dover, and beached without loss of life.
8th November
- Wimborne ( United Kingdom): The steamer was wrecked under Carn Barra Point near Land's End, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The crew were rescued by rocket lines from the shore.[22]
December
9 December
- Axim ( United Kingdom): The Elder Dempster 2,804 grt cargo ship left London on 9 December, bound for the Canary Islands but did not arrive. There were reports from another British ship that left Liverpool around the same time of violent storms, so it was presumed that she foundered and sank.[23]
10 December
- Olympia ( United States): She ran aground on Bligh Reef off Alaska's Prince William Sound and sank without loss of life. Following the sinking, steamboat inspectors accused "Captain Daniels," of "unskillful navigation".[24]
21 December
- Russia ( Belgium): Her cargo of Esparto Grass caught fire and she was abandoned 100 nautical miles (190 km) SW of Ouessant, France. All forty-one crew rescued by Hampshire ( United Kingdom).[15]
25 December
- Baltique ( Belgium): She was accidentally rammed and sunk by Finland ( Belgium) in the Flushing Roads (Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.) with the loss of six of her sixteen crew.[7]
Unknown date
- Febrero (flag unknown): The ore carrying ship hit an unnamed rock to the north-east of the Runnel Stone, near Land's End, Cornwall All hands lost bar the cook.[25]
References
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- ↑ cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?217614 |name=SV Nordenskjold (Rus.) (+1910) |publisher=wrecksite.eu |accessdate= 26 Aug 2015
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- ↑ cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?83005 |name=SS Wear [+1910] |publisher=wrecksite.eu |accessdate 26 Aug 2015
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- ↑ cite web |url=title=SS Linn O-Dee [+1910 |publisher=wrecksite.eu |accessdate= 26 Aug 2015
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- ↑ http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/USCG_Cutter_Losses.asp
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- ↑ "Outside News of Alaskan Doings", Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner. January 14, 1911. Page A1.
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| Ship events in 1910 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 |
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