List of shipwrecks in 1901
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The list of shipwrecks in 1901 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1901.
January
16 January
- HMS Sybille (1890) (
Royal Navy) : The Apollo-class cruiser ran aground at Lambert's Bay, South Africa.[1]
Unknown date
- Hannah (
United Kingdom): The schooner was abandoned in the Irish Sea, She came ashore on 28 January at Mwnt, Cardiganshire and was wrecked.[2]
February
2 February
- Goonlaze ( United Kingdom): The schooner was wrecked near Peppercombe Castle, Devon with the loss of three crew.[3]
19 February
- Julien Marie (
France) : The brigantine ran aground at St. Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The crew were rescued by lifeboat [4][5]
22 February
- City of Rio De Janeiro (
United States) : The Pacific Mail Steamship Company owned passenger ship struck rocks and sank at Golden Gate, San Francisco, California. Approx 135 were lost
March
7 March
- Voorspoed (
Netherlands) : The barquentine was lost on a voyage to Newfoundland at Perranporth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[6] All aboard were lost [7]
21 March
- Rose ( United Kingdom): The brigantine ran aground on the Res Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Kent, and sank with the loss of four of her seven crew. Survivors were rescued by Eliza Harriet (
Royal National Lifeboat Institution.[8]
April
- USAT Rawlins ( United States): The United States Army Transport sank at Brooklyn Army pier with deck awash from volume of water pumped from six engines, two trucks and three fireboats responding to engine room fire. Damage was estimated at $20,000 to refloat and $50,000 to repair.[9]
May
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June
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July
12 July
- Walter Thomas ( United Kingdom): The 2,213 grt steamship sank after a collision with Romney off Europa Point, Straits of Gibraltar on a voyage from Penarth to Derindje
August
3 August
- HMS Viper ( Royal Navy) : The TBD Torpedo Boat Destroyer, Viper-class destroyer foundered on rocks at Alderney during naval manoeuvers. All survived.[10] [11]
15 August
- Islander ( United Kingdom) : The Canadian Pacific Steam Navigation Co owned twin screw steamer struck an iceberg and sank near Juneau, Alaska, united States. Forty passengers and crew were killed.
25 August
- Noranmore (
Belgium) : The W Johnston & Co. owned cargo ship capsized and sank off Athens, Greece.[12]
September
4 September
- SMS Wacht (
Kaiserliche Marine) : The Wacht-class aviso sank after a collision off Germany. All crew survived.
19 September
- HMS Cobra ( Royal Navy) : The destroyer broke her back and sank due to design weakness near Cromer, Norfolk. Sicty-seven crew were lost.
October
19 October
- L'Esperance ( Belgium) : The F Alexander owned cargo ship was wrecked off the Skalskar Lighthouse, Finland.[12]
November
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December
7 December
- Rodney ( United Kingdom) : The cargo ship was wrecked on the coast of Cornwall.[13]
31 December
- Hero (
Norway) : The Kjaer & Isdal, (Bergen) owned cargo ship ran aground between Baltimore, Ohio and Colón, Panama. The wreck was later refloated and sold.[12]
References
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- ↑ Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 28-29
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- ↑ cite web|url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?462 |title=HMS Viper [+1901] |publisher=wrecksite.eu
- ↑ cite web |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=PBH19010916.2.44 |title=HMS Viper wrecked |publisher=Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9253, 16 September 1901, Page 4
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| Ship events in 1901 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 |
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