List of shipwrecks in 1908
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List of shipwrecks in 1908 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1908.
January
7 January
- Lizzie R Wilce (
United Kingdom): The schooner was wrecked on Porthminster Beach, St. Ives, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued.[1]
8 January
- Mary Barrow ( United Kingdom): The schooner was beached on Porthminster beach, St. Ives, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued.[1] Refloated a week later.[2]
19 January
- Epirus (
Greece): She was struck by Finland (
Belgium) off Terneuzen, Netherlands (Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.) and sank.
February
8 February
- Favorite (
United States): The steamboat sank at Coquille, Oregon. She was later refloated, repaired and returned to service.
March
12 March
- Newark Castle ( United Kingdom): The Union-Castle Line passenger/cargo ship ran aground in calm weather 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) from Richard's Bay, South Africa[3]
29 March
- Bega (
Australia): Illawarra & South Coast Steam Navigation Co's 567 GRT steamship sank off Tathra, New South Wales.[4]
April
24 April
- Ben Macdui ( Belgium): Foundered off Egerö, Norway.[5]
25 April
- HMS Gladiator (
Royal Navy): Collided with Saint Paul ( USA) and sank off the Isle of Wight. A total of 128 crew killed.
30 April
- Matsushima (
Imperial Japanese Navy): She was lost after an accidental explosion at Mako, Pescadores. A total of 206 crew killed.
May
3 May
- FV Auguste & Jean ( Belgium): Rammed and sunk by Iris ( Belgium) 8 nautical miles (15 km) south west of the Noordhinder Lightship (
Netherlands). Three of her four crew were lost.[6]
31 May
- Loanda ( United Kingdom): The Elder Dempster 2,702 GRT cargo ship was sunk while travelling from Hamburg to South Africa after hitting the Russian steamer Junona. The cargo was: Hundreds of cases of gin, rum, champagne and barrels of gunpowder. Thousands of newly minted shillings were presumed aboard but not borne out by manifest.[7]
June
7 June
- City of Medicine Hat (
Canada): The sternwheeler sank after striking the Traffic Bridge in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
17 June
- Egga ( United Kingdom): The Elder Dempster 1,445 GRT cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked off Lagos Bar, Nigeria.[8]
20 June
- St Lewis (
France): Douarnenez crabber struck the Seven Stones Reef and foundered.[9]
July
21 July
- Cap Tarifa ( Belgium): Foundered off the Burlings Lighthouse, Portugal.[5]
22 July
- Dodo ( United Kingdom): The Elder Dempster 531 GRT cargo ship was stripped and her hull scuttled off Forçados River, Nigeria.[10]
August
29 August
- Verajean ( United Kingdom): The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Rhoose Point, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued. Although later refloated and taken in to Barry, Glamorgan, she was declared a total loss.[11]
September
1 September
- Amazon ( United Kingdom): The ship was driven ashore and wrecked west of Port Talbot, Glamorgan with the loss of twenty of her 28 crew. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot to Iquique, Chile.[11]
16 September
- SS Rosella' ( United Kingdom): The ship was on a voyage from Penarth to Granville, Manche carrying a cargo of coal, when she was wrecked at Roches Douvres Rocks, 15 miles from La Corbière, Jersey Channel Islands [12] [13]
October
- Yarmouth ( United Kingdom): The Cargo ship foundered in the North Sea off the Outer Gabbard Lightship (
United Kingdom) with the loss of all 22 people on board. She was on a voyage from Hoek van Holland, South Holland, Netherlands to Harwich, Essex.
4 October
- Alice Marie ( France): The steel barque hit the Runnelstone, drifted and sank in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, where it is now a dive site.[14]
30 October
- Taif (
Ottoman Empire): Sank after collision with Bagdad off Seraglio Point, Constantinople.[15]
November
4 November
14 November
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- Barque Falls of Halladale United Kingdom): The barque ran aground near Peterborough, Victoria, Australia in a fog. All 29 crew reached safety.
15 November
- France ( France): The cargo Schooner that foundered on the Minquiers South of Jersey Channel Islands when on route from Dunkirk, France for Granville, France with a cargo of Scoria.[16]
December
4 December
- USS Yankee (
United States Navy): On 23 September 1908, during a training exercise, she ran aground on Spindle Rock near Hen and Chickens lightship. She remained there until refloated on 4 December. However while being subsequently towed to New Bedford, Massachusetts she sank in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts later that day.
12 December
- Ellen ( Australia): a coastal freighter and trawler, was wrecked in Gulf St Vincent at Morgan’s Beach near Cape Jervis, South Australia.[17]
29 December
- Dahomey ( United Kingdom): The Elder Dempster 2,854 GRT cargo/passenger ship ran aground at Abaco. She was refloated and beached 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) from Nassau, Bahamas as a total loss. She was on route from Newport News for Vera Cruz with a cargo of coal.[18]
Unknown date
- Kwarra ( United Kingdom): The Elder Dempster 812 GRT cargo ship, used in the West Africa coastal feeder service, was lost in the Forçados River, Nigeria.[19]
Unknown date
- Kittiwake ( United Kingdom): The Elder Dempster 241 GRT cargo ship used in the Lagos creeks service ran aground on Lagos Bar, Nigeria.[20]
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- ↑ cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?175154 |name=SS Rosella (+1908) |publisher=wrecksite.eu |accessdate= 25 Aug 2015
- ↑ cite web |url=http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports2002/19526.asp |title=Wreck Report for 'Rosella', 1908
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- ↑ Christopher, P., (1990), South Australian Shipwrecks 1802 – 1989, Society for Underwater Historical Research, North Adelaide, South Australia, page 49.
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| Ship commissionings: | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 |
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