The 2,696 GRT steamer on a voyage from Boston to Charleston and Jacksonville with general cargo ran aground on Orleans Beach, near Orleans and got stranded. The ship was successfully refloated on 14 March, repaired and returned to service in April of the same year.
The steam screwcargo ship parted one of her wheel ropes while crossing the bar at Humboldt Bay on the North Coast of California. She lost steering and struck rocks off the North Jetty. She was backed off, but leaking water put out her boiler fire, causing her to lose propulsion. The United States Life Saving Service rescued her crew. She was stranded on the beach in Humboldt Bay. She was stripped and abandoned.[7][25][24]
The 4,658 GRT ocean liner ran aground on a reef east of Plum Point Lighthouse while trying to enter Kingston Harbour. The lighthouse was not working due to a recent earthquake, contributing to the disaster.
The laid up steamer was washed ashore at Buffalo, New York, when part of the harbor's breakwater was destroyed in a gale and snowstorm. The vessel was refloated on 15 July.[32]
The laid up steamer was washed ashore at Buffalo, New York, when part of the harbor's breakwater was destroyed in a gale and snowstorm. The vessel was refloated on 28 June.[32]
The tug was damaged in a collision with ferry Goshen (United States) in the North River off Twentieth Street, New York City. She headed for dock at Thirteenth Street, Hoboken, New Jersey, but sank in shoal water off Hoboken.[33]
The tug sank at Union Dock, Baltimore, Maryland. Raised on 4 February.[43]
3 February
List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1907
Ship
State
Description
Alpha
United States
The 300-gross register tonschooner was stranded on the coast of Oregon nine miles (14 km) north of the mouth of the Umpqua River. All eight people on board made it to shore on their own. After many failed attempts at refloating her, she was declared an economic total loss and abandoned in June or July 1907.[19][44]
The barge, under tow by the steamerWaltham (United States), sprung a leak before midnight on 5 February, and then sank on 6 February near Absecon, New Jersey, with the loss of all three hands.[49]
Darby
United States
The barge sprung a leak before midnight on 5 February. Her crew was rescued by her towsteamer, Waltham (United States), at 12:15 on 6 February. The barge then sank near Absecon, New Jersey.[49]
The steamer was stranded on Pine Tree Point three miles (4.8 km) miles west north west of the Benton Point, Rhode Island Life Saving Station. Her crew made it to shore on their own. The vessel was refloated on 5 March.[50]
The barque ran aground and was wrecked in fog close to Glenledi on the southeast coast of New Zealand while carrying wine and coal briquettes from La Rochelle, France, to Tahiti. All lives saved.[65]
The towsteamer sank in the Delaware River while docked at Pier 40 South in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when the rising tide caused the vessel to hang on the dock, tip, and fill with water.[49]
The steam ferry ran aground, broke in two, broke apart, and sank on the granitebreakwater at the entrance to the New Waterway, Hook of Holland in a gale, with the loss of 85 passengers and 48 crew, many from exposure or washed away by high waves. Eight people were rescued by the tugHellevoetsilius and three women by the tug Wodan.[63][68]
The 3,645 GRT steamship on a passage from Port Talbot for Iquique with a cargo of dynamite and coal ran aground on Maio island and was wrecked. Attempts to refloat her failed and she broke up and was abandoned in early April.
The motor vessel struck bottom and was damaged off the south jetty in Humboldt Bay on the coast of California after she went off course due to a missing buoy. She was beached to prevent her from sinking.[76]
The Elder Dempster 1,687 GRT cargo/passenger ship was sunk after colliding with Nerissa (flag unknown) near Borkum, Netherlands at the Mouth of the Ems River.[80]
The 295-gross register tonschooner dragged anchor in a heavy squall and snowstorm and struck the breakwater at Lewes, Delaware and sank. All six people on board survived.[1][82]
The barque ran aground on Disappointment Island in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand and sank. Twelve of crew drowned, and one other subsequently died. The remaining 15 crew members were shipwrecked for seven months until rescued by the government steamer NZGSS Hinemoa (New Zealand).
After the explosionThe battleship was destroyed by an on-board explosion caused by the spontaneous ignition of nitrocellulose while in drydock at Toulon, France, killing 118. Burning fragments started a small fire aboard the battleship Suffren (French Navy) in an adjacent drydock. Reduced to a hulk for ordnance trials, then sank on 2 December 1909.
The barge, under tow of M. E. Scully (United States), sprung a leak and sank in the Atlantic Ocean between Little Egg Harbor and Brigantine Shoal in a strong wind, rough seas, and fog. The crew were rescued by M. E. Scully.[87]
The tug was sunk in a collision in thick fog with the steamer Margaret (United States) at dock on the south side of Pier 1 in the North River in New York City. Raised and repaired.[75]
The steamer was stranded in thick fog on the coast of Long Island, New York, 12 miles (19 km) east of Fire Island Light, and 800 yards (730 m) southwest of the United States Life-Saving Service station at Blue Point, New York. The U.S. Life Saving Service rescued her crew. She was refloated on 23 March. One member of the wrecking crew died during the salvage operation.[82]
The 94-foot (29 m), 114- or 115-gross register tonsteam screw coastal cargo ship burned and sank either while tied up at a dock in the harbor at Sakonnet, Rhode Island, or while off Sakonnet Point on the coast of Rhode Island (sources differ). All six people on board survived.[7][88][89]
The steamer was fired upon by angry townspeople fearful that her wake would flood their homes during a high water event on the Kanawha River at Charleston, West Virginia. 15 rounds holed her hull causing her to be beached.[91]
JebbaThe steamer, on voyage from West Africa to Plymouth and Liverpool, ran aground at Bolt Tail in thick fog and heavy seas and was wrecked. All seventy-nine passengers, mostly soldiers, and her crew of seventy-six, were rescued by breeches buoy.[91][93][94]
The steamer ran aground near Cuckmere, England, in thick fog and heavy seas. Despite being declared a total loss, she was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[91][95]
The steamer ran aground on a reef when a storm pushed her onto a reef in Beatson Bay near Latouche. Refloated sometime in April.[91][96]
Tioga
United States
The tow canal boat, under tow of Alpha (United States), was pushed by an ebb tide in the cribbing of the Grays Ferry Bridge causing her to sink in the Schuylkill River in 15 feet (4.6 m) of water.[87]
The tug was sunk at dock when a car float broke loose from tug Sayre (United States) in the North River off Gansevoort Street striking her stern causing her to roll over and sink. Two rail cars were lost off the float.[97]
21 March
List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1907
Ship
State
Description
Minnette
United States
The 23-gross register tonschooner was lost off San Francisco, California, when she collided with the bargeRuth (United States). Both people on board survived.[8]
The sternwheel paddle steamer was blown onto the dock at Coupeville, Washington, during a gale, and then on to the shore, suffering substantial damage. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
The tug was sunk in a collision with the ferry Musconetcong (United States) in the North River off Christopher Street in New York City. Two crewmen were killed.[97]
The steamer struck a hidden obstruction off Twenty-Sixth Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the Allegheny River and sank. One crewman was killed.[101]
The 1,527-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer caught fire on the Hudson River off Yonkers, New York. While her crew fought the fire, she docked at Gould's Dock at Dobbs Ferry, New York, on the Hudson River and landed her passengers. All 124 passengers and crew survived, but the fire destroyed the vessel.[17][102][103]
The tugDixie (United States) abandoned five barges in the Chesapeake Bay between Wolf Trap and New Point, Virginia. One barge sank, killing two people on board, and one death occurred on another barge.[43]
10 April
List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1907
Ship
State
Description
Adolph Ohrig
United States
The 1,448-gross register tonbark departed New York City bound for San Francisco, California, with 18 people on board and was never heard from again.[19]
The steamer was running through heavy ice near East Jordan, Michigan, when ice cut through her hull and she sank. Raised and repaired. Crew was rescued.[105]
12 April
List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1907
Ship
State
Description
Chinook
United States
The 785-gross register tonbarge lost her tow on the bar at Coos Bay, Oregon, and was anchored in the breakers. All six people on board made it to shore in her Lifeboat. On the 13th she dragged anchor, went ashore and broke up. $1,000 worth of property was salvaged.[14][106]
The 230-gross register tonscrew steamer foundered in a wind and snowstorm off Big Sable, Michigan, on the east side of Lake Michigan between Manistee, Michigan, and Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Sources differ on the number of casualties, saying both that all 12 people on board lost their lives and that 11 people died, another that her captain, his wife, ten crewmen and another captain and his wife, who were passengers, all died.[45][107][16][105]
The 3,823 GRT steam tanker on a voyage from New York City to Dublin and Belfast with a cargo of oil sprang a leak on 8 April in the Atlantic Ocean about 870 miles from New York and was abandoned and eventually foundered on 16 April. The crew was saved by the steamer Sagami and landed at Falmouth on 28 April.
The barge, under tow of Elmer E. Keeler (United States), foundered three miles (4.8 km) west of the Cornfield lightship in Block Island Sound. Her captain died.[52]
The tug was swamped by a large wave in Chesapeake Bay causing her to careen, fill with water and sink off the Magothy River.[43]
Searchlight
United States
The fishing tug was lost with crew of five (or six) in Lake Michigan outside Harbor Beach, Huron County Michigan.[115][116] In November 1913 some of the wreckage and the remains of an unknown crewman were found at Harbor Beach after the Great Lakes Storm of 1913.[117]
The steamer was running through heavy ice in the Portage River in Michigan when ice stove in her hull and she sank in 16 feet (4.9 m) of water. Raised and repaired.[105]
Anna
United States
The 488-gross register tonschooner was stranded in thick fog on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, or on Nancy Ledge in Quoddy Bay three miles (4.8 km) east of the Quoddy Head, Maine Life Saving Station. She broke up when the tide came in, a total loss. Some property was salvaged. All seven people on board survived.[10][118]
The tug was sunk in a collision in fog with the passenger steamer C. W. Morse (United States) in the North River off Twenty-ninth Street. One crewman was killed. Survivors rescued by C. W. Morse and a tug.[121]
The schooner was damaged in a collision with schooner Alicia B. Crosby (United States) in the Atlantic Ocean six miles (9.7 km) west south west of the North End lightship. The vessel was towed to shore and beached inside the Delaware breakwater.[125]
4 May
List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1907
Ship
State
Description
Unidentified launch
United States
The motorlaunch was rammed and sunk by the steamyachtPriscilla (United States) when her reverse lever broke leaving the Commercial Wharf in the harbor at Baltimore, Maryland.[126]
The new steamer, fitting out at the Detroit Shipbuilding Company, Detroit, Michigan, caught fire, burned and partially sank at dock. Everything wood was consumed. Her hull and machinery survived. She was raised and repaired, entering service in 1908.[132][133]
Four barges in tow of Bulley (United States) foundered in a heavy gale in Long Island Sound approaching Norwalk, Connecticut. The master of one barge died. Three of the four barges were later raised.[56]
The Amiral Charner-classarmored cruiser was wrecked without loss of life in heavy fog on rocks off Ballard Island in the Chusan Islands while departing Shanghai, China. Her crew abandoned the wreck on 1 June, and French Navy cruisers demolished it on 12 June.
The schooner capsized and sank in a storm off Barbados. Her captain and 21 others reached Barbados. 28 passengers, including 12 women and children, drowned.[143][144]
The 263-gross register tonscrew steamer tried to proceed to sea from Needle Rock, California, in a storm, but she struck rocks and lost her rudder. She then drifted onto the rocks and was abandoned. All 19 people on board survived, but she was wrecked. Her boiler and machinery were salvaged.[17][145]
The steamer caught fire at Port Royal Dock in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. due to an exploding torch. She filled with water and sank. She later was raised and repaired.[149]
The Gymnote-class submarine sank while being drydocked for repairs after her hatch was left open while the drydock was being filled. She was refloated and deemed a total loss. The submarine was discarded in May 1908 and was scrapped.[150]
The schooner was damaged in a collision in fog with Two Brothers (United States) in Jamaica Bay causing leaks. Two Brothers towed her into shoal water on Coney Island Beach and took her crew off.[154]
The 232-gross register ton lighter was damaged when struck by the excursion steamer Theodore Roosevelt (United States) and then sank when she careened off the south abutment of the Clark Street Bridge, Chicago, Illinois, in 28 feet (8.5 m) of water. All six, or 12, people on board survived, but she was declared a total loss.[45][129][136]
The steamer was damaged in a collision with the steamer Prescott (United States) in Lock 1 in the Lachine Canal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and was beached to prevent her from sinking.[159]
The 3,091 GRT steamer on a voyage from Larnes to Rotterdam with a cargo of iron ore ran aground and wrecked on Bajo Carraca, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Cape Finisterre.
The tug caught fire while tied up to a stake boat in Newark Bay. She was cut loose and drifted ashore at West Twenty-Fifth Street, Bayonne, New Jersey and burned to the water's edge.[154]
The steamer was caught in a whirlwind and hurled against the Eads Bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, knocking a large hole in her side. She was beached.[166]
The tow steamer sank over night, found sunk on morning of 23 July. An attempt to raise her on 24 July wrecked her. Her hull was then beached. The vessel's boiler and engine were salvaged.[164]
The water tender capsized and sank after the steamerKennebeck (United States) struck her while she was tied up at Lincoln Wharf in the harbor at Boston, Massachusetts.[162]
The tug was sunk in a collision with Barnstable (United Kingdom) in Brewerton Channel off the Sparrow Point Channel buoy. Four crewmen, plus the captain of the dredge Standard, in tow by Gerry, who was on board at the time of the accident, were killed. Later raised and docked.[126]
The passenger steamer struck a reef in the St. Clair River, she floated off and was beached to prevent sinking. Passengers taken off by Frontenac (United States).[191]
The steamercapsized at Kenosha, Wisconsin, when a bin containing sand gave out, spilling the sand and causing a list that allowed the ship to fill, sinking in 15 feet of water. Two crewmen were killed. She was raised and taken to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for repairs and was back in service by mid-November.[183][200]
During a voyage from San Francisco, California, to the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean with a cargo of 65 tons of general merchandise, the 226-ton, 107.9-foot (32.9 m) schooner dragged her anchors during a gale and was stranded on the beach at Deering, District of Alaska, becoming a total loss. Her crew survived, and half her cargo was saved.[204]
The steamer foundered on 22 September, or went ashore on the north spit at the entrance to Grays Harbor, Washington, on 21 September, breaking in half the next day, a total loss.[200][207]
The new ocean liner capsized and sank at launch at C N R Shipyard, Riva Trigoso, Italy. Damaged beyond repair, her engines were salvaged and she was then scrapped.[200][208]
The steamer caught fire on the Flint River after leaving Jones Landing, Georgia, and was abandoned by her crew. Two crewmen were killed, and she was declared a total loss.[58]
The steamtug sank in the New York City area while assisting the steamer Bunker Hill (United States) when Bunker Hill's propeller slashed her hull.[209]
The steamer ran aground on Virginia Shoal, Florida. Refloated on 5 October and beached five miles (8.0 km) from Cape Florida. Temporary repairs made and refloated again on 14 October and taken to Key West, Florida, after further repairs take to New Orleans.[210]
The unmanned scow, under tow by the tug Nellie Tracy (United States), sank in a gale off Robin's Reef, in the harbor of New York City.[209]
J. J. McCullum
United States
The scow, under tow by tug Nellie Tracy (United States), sank in a gale off Robin's Reef, in the harbor of New York City. The only crewman on board died.[209]
Teutonic
United States
The 253-gross register ton barge, one of two barges under tow by the steamerGreenwich (United States), sank in a heavy storm in Long Island Sound off Greenwich, Connecticut. Her captain made it to the other barge, Pottsville (United States). The only other person aboard Teutonic – a woman – died.[64][179]
While trying to dock at Ashtabula, Ohio, in a gale and strong current without the assistance of a tug, the steamer tried to stop her forward movement by reversing her engines and dropping an anchor but ran over the anchor, puncturing her bottom and causing her to sink. She was refloated by lightering her cargo and was drydocked.[32]
1905 Russian Revolution: The torpedo boat was run aground at Vladivostok after being shelled by Czarist warships and shore batteries. 10 crew killed including a sailor and a female Revolutionary who had taken co-command of the ship, 7 taken captive.[219]
The scow, under tow by tow steamer Agnes (United States), sank in a collision with scows towed by tug Col. John F. Gaynor (United States) in the New York City area.[222]
The 4,268 GRT steamer on a passage from San Francisco to Portland in ballast ran aground during heavy fog and was wrecked on North Seal Rock, off Crescent City.
The 17-gross register ton, 44-foot (13.4 m) schooner sank in Kuskokwim Bay off the coast of the District of Alaska. Sources differ on whether two or five people – two passengers and a crew of three – were on board, but agree that all on board survived.[2][224]
The cargo ship was tied up alongside another vessel in the Schuylkill River at Campbell's Wharf in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when she was caught on a ridge on the bottom of the river when the tide went out, causing her to list, fill with water, and sink. She later was raised.[225]
The tug sank at Pier 6 at the Bush Docks in Brooklyn, New York.[226]
29 October
List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1907
Ship
State
Description
Alfred
United States
The barge, under tow by Leader (United States), was sunk in a collision with the barge Alice, under tow by Meteor (United States), in the Delaware River near the Greenwich Coal Piers, Philadelphia.[225]
The Thames barge ran onto St Clement's Isle, Mousehole en route to Newlyn with cement for the harbour works. Her crew were saved by Mousehole fishermen who were unimpressed with the non–appearance of the lifeboat stuck in the mud at Penzance. Baltic ended her days as a hulk in an Essex creek.[231]
The 25-gross register tonsteam screwtug lost her tow line to a scow she was towing while entering the Niagara River on the United States-Canada border between New York and Ontario and as she attempted to recover the scow her wheel chains parted and she drifted onto Bird Island Reef. All four people on board survived. She broke up before she could be refloated, becoming a total loss.[12][188]
William Voorhis
United States
The 89-gross register tonschooner was lost when she struck a dock at New York City. All four people on board survived.[45]
The steamer in a gale and snowstorm attempted to enter the Lake Superior Ship Canal but struck the south pier knocking a hole in the hull, sinking her. Later raised.[235]
The tow steamer struck a submerged object in the channel to Wilson Point, Connecticut, and was beached to prevent sinking. Later refloated and towed to drydock.[179]
The 5.5-ton sloop was forced ashore by ice at Smoky Point in the entrance to Ugashik Bay on the Bristol Bay coast of the District of Alaska. During the night of 28–29 November, ice crushed her cabin and pushed her farther up on the beach, and by the spring of 1908 she had been completely destroyed.[184]
The ship sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, on 23 October to Honolulu, Hawaii, with 2,600 tons of coal consigned for the United States Navy. On 24 November 1907, she was reported at 7°N26°W / 7°N 26°W / 7; -26, several hundred miles east of her normal route. This was her last reported sighting. One theory for her disappearance has her rounding Cape of Good Hope rather than Cape Horn and ultimately shipwrecked on Middleton Reef, Australia.[247] Captain Lewis S. Colley was in command of Bangalore when she disappeared, this being his first command of the ship and a last minute replacement for Captain Phineas Banning Blanchard.[248]
With no one on board, the laid-up 138-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed at Wabasha, Minnesota, by a fire that spread to her from the sternwheel paddle steamer Isaac Staples (United States). She was declared a total loss.[45][73]
The laid-up 228-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed at Wabasha, Minnesota, by a fire that spread to her from the sternwheel paddle steamer Isaac Staples (United States). All 24 people on board survived, but she was declared a total loss.[12][73]
The cargo liner ran aground on West Ironbound Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. All on board survived. She was refloated on 15 April 1908, repaired and returned to service.[249]
While tied up for the night on the Allegheny River at Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, the steamer sprang a leak, listed to starboard, and sank. She was raised, repaired, and returned to service.[193]
The barge, under tow by Hercules (United States), lost its tow when Hercules struck submerged wreckage in Block Island Sound and suffered a punctured hull. She drifted ashore at Pleasant View, Rhode Island, and broke up.[199]
The barge, under tow by Elmer A. Keeler (United States), lost its tow when the tow lines parted in a gale and she drifted ashore on the Norwalk Islands.[179]
The barge, under tow by Elmer A. Keeler (United States), lost its tow when the tow lines parted in a gale and she sank off the Norwalk Islands. Her crew was rescued by the tug D. S. Arnott (United States).[179]
The tug caught fire in the Napa River in California and was scuttled in 15 feet (4.6 m) of water to extinguish the fire. She later was raised and repaired.[252]
The tug anchored in seven feet (2.1 m) of water in the Elk River near Elkton, Maryland, when she was punctured and sunk by her own anchor. Raised and repaired.[72]
The 68-gross register tonbarge was lost in the North River at New York City when mooring posts on a pier the ocean linerMauretania (United Kingdom) was tied to give way in high winds while Ellis P. Rogers was lying alongside Mauretania to take off ashes from her. Mauretania went partially adrift and her bow struck Ellis P. Rogers. The only person aboard Ellis P. Rogers survived.[64][256]
The barge was sunk at dock when struck in fog by the steamerGeneral Joseph E. Johnston (United States) in the East River off 13th Street in New York City when General Joseph E. Johnston tried to tie up and wait out the fog.[255]
The brigantine was wrecked on Black Rock, Dale, Pembrokeshire, England, after breaking her moorings in a storm.
Estelle Phinney
United States
The 922-gross register tonschooner sank in 80 feet (24 m) of water in the North Atlantic Ocean when she collided with the five-masted schooner Elizabeth Palmer (United States) off Barnegat, New Jersey. One person aboard Estelle Phinney died. There were nine survivors.[81][258]
The 80-net register ton, 77.5-foot (23.6 m) schooner was wrecked on the coast of the District of Alaska. According to the wreck report, the schooner was stranded during a gale sometime in 1907 on the beach in Kuskokwim Bay on the west-central coast and was abandoned there because of the onset of the winter of 1907–1908, but another source places it on 25 October 1907 at Unalaska on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands. She reportedly was deemed a total loss, but may have been salvaged and returned to service until destroyed by a fire in December 1913.[203]
The United States Department of Commerce and Labor publication Thirty-Ninth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States for the Year Ending 30 June 1907, reported that the 8-gross register tonschooner was stranded at an unidentified location on an unidentified date. All four peoiple on board survived.[10]
In the previous years, the freighter Ivan Vassili was alleged to have suffered attacks by a demon that caused crew to kill each other and themselves. By 1907, no one would crew the ship. In the winter, some sailors set her afire off the docks of Vladivostok. As the ship finally sank after a night burning, several eyewitnesses recounted hearing a disembodied scream come from the ship.[264][265]
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