List of shipwrecks in 1912
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The list of shipwrecks in 1912 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1912.
January
7 January
- 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
- Calderon (
United Kingdom): Collided with Musketeer ( United Kingdom) in the Crosby Channel. Beached but broke in two, a total loss.[1]
February
12 February
- Maud ( United Kingdom): The Fleetwood trawler drifted ashore at Kynance Cove, Cornwall, when her tow broke.[2]
17 February
- Charioteer ( United Kingdom): The tug foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all five crew.[3]
24 February
- 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
- 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.[4]
12 March
- 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.[5]
21 March
- City of Cardiff ( United Kingdom) Wrecked at Nanjizal on the west coast of Cornwall.[6]
April
6 April
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- Gunvor (
Norway): Wrecked on the Pedn-Men-an-Mor rocks, Black Head, The Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew scrambled to safety.[7][8] - Mildred ( United Kingdom): The Barquentine struck rocks at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall in dense fog and sank with her sails set. No lives lost.[7]
7 April
- SS Rhenania (
Netherlands): She was wrecked on Burhou Island, Channel Islands when on route from Rotterdam for Bilbao.[9] [10]
15 April
- RMS Titanic (
United Kingdom): 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
20 May
- USLHT Armeria (
United States Lighthouse Service): Lighthouse tender was wrecked off of Cape Hinchinbrook Light, Alaska, while landing supplies.[11]
June
2 June
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- Friendship (
New South Wales): The cargo ship was wrecked at Tweed Heads.
8 June
- 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
- Naniwa (
Imperial Japanese Navy): Grounded on coast the of Urup, Kurile islands.
July
Unknown date
- 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.[12]
August
26 August
- Marnix (
Belgium): Struck uncharted rocks at Umba, Russia (Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.) and wrecked.[13]
31 August
- Kursk (
Denmark): Ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, Netherlands. Thirty-two people killed.[14]
September
1 September
- HMS Waterwitch (
Royal Navy): The British Admiralty survey vessel, rammed by the governor's launch while anchored in Singapore Harbour.
5 September
- 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.[3]
28 September
- Kiche Maru (
Japan): Lost off the coast of Japan in a storm with over 1,000 dead.
October
16 October
- Ralph Creyke ( United Kingdom): Owned by the Ouse Steamship Company she sank near Flushing after a collision with the Danish steamer Viking.[15]
31 October
- 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
- Nicaragua (
United States): Wrecked on Padre Island, Texas while travelling the Gulf of Mexico.
November
21 November
- 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
- 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.[5]
26 December
- 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.[16]
30 December
- Vigilant ( United Kingdom): The ship was driven ashore at Breaksea Point, Glamorgan. Her seven crew were rescued.[3]
References
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- ↑ http://www.st-keverne.com/Treleague/wrecks.html A Diver's Guide to the Shipwrecks of The Lizard
- ↑ cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?2871 |title=SS Rhenania [+1912] |publisher=wrecksite.eu
- ↑ cite |title=Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche |published=2008 |author=YvesDufiel
- ↑ http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Armeria1890.pdf
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| 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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