List of shipwrecks in 1908

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This list of shipwrecks in 1908 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1908.

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January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1908
Ship State Description
E. M. Dutlield  United States The 92-
gross register ton schooner foundered at Bridgeport, Connecticut. All three people on board survived.[1]

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1908
Ship State Description
Julia Davis  United States The 58-
gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the barge Valentine in the eastern end of Long Island Sound off Fishers Island on the coast of New York. All three people aboard survived.[2][3]

3 January

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1908
Ship State Description
Abram P. Skidmore  United States The tug was sunk in the
Corlear's Hook in a collision with a car float towed by New York Central No. 8 ( United States). Crew rescued by New York Central No. 8.[3]
Eugene Batty  United States The 19-
Quartermaster Corps screw steamer General Timothy Pickering (United States United States Army) off Tampa, Florida. All three people on board survived.[4]
Geo. R. Hand or George R. Hand  United States The 34-
gross register ton screw steamer was totally destroyed by fire at dock at the Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Michigan. All three people on board survived.[5][3]
Northern Eagle  United States The 36-
Key West, Florida, bound for Tampico, Mexico, with nine people on board and was never heard from again.[2]

4 January

List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1908
Ship State Description
Bluefields  United States The 736-
Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All 18 people on board lost their lives.[6]
Manistique, Marquette, and Northern 1  United States The steamer struck an unknown obstruction entering Harbor at Manistique, Michigan. She made it to her dock where she sank.[3]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1908
Ship State Description
D. Corson, jr.  United States With no one on board, the 19-
gross register ton schooner was wrecked at Newport News, Virginia.[1]
Helen  United States The 388-
gross register ton barge was stranded on Fishers Island in New York at the eastern end of Long Island Sound after losing her towline to C. B. Sanford ( United States). The only person on board survived.[7][8]
Julia  United States The 388-
gross register ton barge was stranded on Fishers Island in New York at the eastern end of Long Island Sound after losing her towline to C. B. Sanford ( United States).[7][8]
Lizzie R Wilce  United Kingdom The
St. Ives, Cornwall, England. Her crew were rescued.[9]

8 January

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1908
Ship State Description
John F. Miller  United States With 30 fishermen, a crew of seven, and a cargo of 220 tons of
gross register ton (sources disagree), 107-foot (32.6 m) schooner was wrecked with the loss of ten lives in either East Anchor Cove (54°41′30″N 163°04′00″W / 54.69167°N 163.06667°W / 54.69167; -163.06667 (East Anchor Cove)) or Bear Harbor (sources disagree) on the coast of Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands after her anchor chains broke during a gale that struck while her crew was attempting to salvage the schooner Glen ( United States), which had been wrecked there on 30 September 1907.[4][10][11]
Leonora  United States The 458-
Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, with the loss of five lives. There were two survivors.[2]
Mary Barrow  United Kingdom The
St. Ives, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued.[9] Refloated a week later.[12]

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1908
Ship State Description
Josephine Ellicott  United States The 391-
Mayport, Florida, with seven people on board and was never heard from again.[2]

10 January

List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1908
Ship State Description
John E. Devlin  United States The 1,107-
Metomkin Island on the coast of Virginia. All nine people on board survived.[4]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1908
Ship State Description
Eclipse  United States The ship was abandoned in the
Newcastle, Australia to San Francisco, California. The next day one of the life boats capsized and two crewmen died of exposure as a result.[3]

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1908
Ship State Description
Two Brothers  United States The steamer sank at dock over night in the Ohio River at Legionville, Pennsylvania when her siphon pump was shut off. Later raised.[3]

13 January

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1908
Ship State Description
City of Hartford  United States The 29-
gross register ton Launch vessel was destroyed by fire on Lake Salvador, in Louisiana. All six people on board survived.[6][3]

14 January

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1908
Ship State Description
Malden  United States The 537-
Mary L. Newhall  United States The 1,310-
gross register ton schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) north of Bermuda. All 10 people on board survived.[2]

15 January

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1908
Ship State Description
Lafayette  United States With no one on board, the 77-
gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer foundered at Mount Carmel, Illinois.[13]

17 January

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1908
Ship State Description
Anne Comber  United States The 39-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Royal Shoal on the coast of North Carolina. All four people on board survived.[1]

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1908
Ship State Description
USS Sioux United States Navy The Tug went ashore on Gull Rocks, Newport, Rhode Island. Refloated and returned to service.[8]

19 January

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1908
Ship State Description
Epirus  Greece The 3,276 GRT cargo ship, on passage from Sulina to Antwerp with a cargo of cotton, was run down in early morning fog by the Red Star Line ocean liner Finland ( Belgium) in the Scheldt off Terneuzen (51°24′N 3°45′E / 51.400°N 3.750°E / 51.400; 3.750) and subsequently sank.[14][15]

20 January

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1908
Ship State Description
Sayre  United States The tug struck bottom, or an obstruction, in the East River and sprang a leak. She sank at a pier at the foot of Third Street, New York City.[3]

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1908
Ship State Description
Ada May  United States While no one was on board, the 26-
gross register ton schooner foundered in Pungoteague Creek in Virginia.[1]
Baltimore  United States The 692-
Hampton Roads, Virginia, bound for Savannah, Georgia, with nine people on board and was never heard from again.[1]

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1908
Ship State Description
Greyhound  United States The steamer struck a floating obstruction between Latanier Landing and Melville, Louisiana holing her hull. She sank with the top of her cabin roof above water. Passengers and crew made it to shore.[3]
V. L. Watson  United States The steamer sank in Bayou Willow, Louisiana while tied to the bank, later raised. One crewman killed.[3]

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1908
Ship State Description
Custus W. Wright  United States The 113-
gross register ton schooner foundered at Newport News, Virginia, with the loss of all four people on board.[1]
Fannie  United States The 948-
Barnegat, New Jersey after her tow line parted in a heavy gale and blinding snow storm . All six people on board survived.[7][3]
Grafton  United States The 531-
gross register ton schooner barge or scow barge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Rhode Island 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) southwest of Block Island, with the loss of all three people on board.[4]
Gwennie  United States The 1,087-
Barnegat, New Jersey, after her tow line parted in a heavy gale and blinding snow storm with the loss of all five people on board.[4][3]
White Band  United States The 1,186-
gross register ton schooner barge or scow barge lost her tow in a blinding snowstorm and heavy winds and foundered off Cape Henlopen on the coast of Delaware, part of her hull discovered washed on shore 1+12 miles (2.4 km) north west of Overrfalls Shoals spar buoy the next day. Loss of all six people, four men and two women, on board.[6][3]

25 January

List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1908
Ship State Description
Fall River  United States The 850-
gross register ton schooner barge or scow barge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Rhode Island 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) southwest of Block Island. All three people on board survived.[4]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1908
Ship State Description
Helen G. Moseley  United States The 566-
Cape Henry, Virginia. All nine people on board survived.[4]
Mascot  United States The 349-
gross register ton barge foundered in the Chesapeake Bay at Thimble Shoal off the coast of Virginia. All four people on board survived.[7]

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1908
Ship State Description
Edgar F. Luckenbach  United States The tug was sunk in a collision with
Governor's Island and The Battery in New York Harbor. One crewman killed. Survivors rescued by P. R. R. No. 9 ( United States).[3]
George R. Vreeland  United States The 423-
Hampton Roads, Virginia, bound for New York City with seven people on board and was never heard from again.[4]
Matanzas  United States The 1,579-
gross register ton schooner barge or scow barge was stranded at Montauk, New York. All five people on board survived.[2]

28 January

List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1908
Ship State Description
Bart E. L. Molo  United States The steamer sank at dock at Hickman, Kentucky. Raised and repaired.[3]
Mary F. Golden  United States The 37-
gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned to the waterline on Bayou Teche in Louisiana. Both people on board survived.[5][3]
Resignacion  United States The 9-
Guanica, Puerto Rico. All three people on board survived.[2]

29 January

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1908
Ship State Description
Helen E. Taft  United States The 1,197-
gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Uppland ( Sweden) off Cape Lookout on the coast of North Carolina. All ten people on board survived.[4]
Lotus  United States The 9-
motor paddle vessel foundered in the Ohio River at Newburgh, Indiana. Both people on board survived.[5]

30 January

List of shipwrecks: 30 January 1908
Ship State Description
Edward J. Berwind  United States The 1,141-
gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean east of North Carolina at 35°25′N 071°58′W / 35.417°N 71.967°W / 35.417; -71.967 (Edward J. Berwind). All nine people on board survived.[4]
Gem  United States The steamer sank in the Beouff River one mile (1.6 km) above Brown's Landing.[3]

31 January

List of shipwrecks: 31 January 1908
Ship State Description
Industry  United States The 26-
gross register ton schooner foundered in Bodkin Creek in Maryland. All three people on board survived.[4]
New York Central No. 24  United States The tug was sunk in a collision with
Governor's Island in New York Harbor. One crewman killed. Survivors rescued by Towanda ( United States).[3]

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February

1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1908
Ship State Description
Julia Baker  United States The 108-
gross register ton schooner was stranded at Milbridge, Maine. All three people on board survived.[17]
Waldron Holmes  United States The 59-
gross register ton schooner was stranded at Point Francis, Maine. All four people on board survived.[18]

2 February

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1908
Ship State Description
Windsor  United Kingdom The 2,892-
gross register ton steam cargo ship was wrecked on Half Moon Reef, Houtman Abrolhos islands off the coast of Western Australia. Five of her crew of 37 were lost.[19]

3 February

List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1908
Ship State Description
Roda  United Kingdom The 2,516-
Long Island, New York. Her crew survived. Her wreck sank in 20 feet (6 m) of water.[20]

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1908
Ship State Description
Abby Morse  United States The 34-
gross register ton schooner was stranded in Narraguagus Bay on the coast of Maine. Both people on board survived.[1]
Emelie E. Birdsall  United States The 491-
gross register ton schooner was lost on Winter Quarter Shoal off the coast of Virginia when she collided with the screw steamer Jefferson ( United States). Of the seven people aboard Emelie E. Birdsall, three lost their lives.[4]

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1908
Ship State Description
Favorite  United States The steamboat sank at her moorings at Coquille, Oregon. She was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
George  United States The 29-
gross register ton sloop either was lost at Nome, Alaska, or sank off Dauphin Island on the coast of Alabama, according to different sources. Both people on board survived.[4][10]

6 February

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1908
Ship State Description
S. O. Co. No. 7  United States The tug stranded on Nonamesett Island in Vineyard Sound after her prop hit rocks. Later raised and repaired.[3]

7 February

List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1908
Ship State Description
Any One  United States With no one on board, the 9-
motor paddle vessel foundered off Prairietown, Indiana.[18]

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1908
Ship State Description
F. L. Lowell  United States The 5-
gross register ton schooner was stranded at Rodicks Island on the coast of Maine. Both people on board survived.[4]

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1908
Ship State Description
Jewel  United States The steamer, while laid up for the winter at the mouth of the Muskingum River, caught on gorged ice, she careened when pulled off and sank in 12 feet (3.7 m) of water.[3]

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1908
Ship State Description
Addie B. Bacon  United States The 422-
gross register ton barge was stranded at Flynns Knoll, New York. All seven people on board survived.[21]

11 February

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1908
Ship State Description
Kate McNamara  United States The 65-
gross register ton schooner burned in the Choptank River off Tilghman Island in Maryland. All four people on board survived.[2]

13 February

List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1908
Ship State Description
Dudley Pray  United States The 215-
gross register ton screw steamer was wrecked on the breakwater at Rockport, Massachusetts in thick weather, a total loss. All 11 people on board survived.[5][22][3]
Mollie S. Look  United States The 572-
gross register ton schooner was stranded in Hillsboro Inlet on the coast of North Carolina. All eight people on board survived.[2]
Robert Pettis  United States The oyster steamer was holed by ice in the
Field's Point.[3]

14 February

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1908
Ship State Description
Emily Reed  United States The 1,564-
gross register ton full-rigged ship — a Down Easter — was stranded on the beach at Nehalem, Oregon, at the mouth of the Nehalem River. Of the 16 people aboard, 11 lost their lives.[4]
Robt. Taylor  United States The steamer was sunk by ice in the Ohio River while laying at Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. Later raised.[3]

15 February

List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1908
Ship State Description
Bruce  United States The 358-
gross register ton barge was stranded at Galveston, Texas. The only person on board survived.[7]
Edward F. Cullen  United States The 292-
gross register ton barge was stranded at New Haven, Connecticut. All four people on board survived.[7]
Helen R. Cullen  United States The 295-
gross register ton barge was stranded at New Haven, Connecticut. All three people on board survived.[7]
Helene  United States The 19-
motor yacht burned at New Berlin, Florida. All four people on board survived.[5]
H. H. Conklin  United States The 350-
Saybrook, Connecticut in heavy weather after losing her towline to her tow vessel Nathan Hale ( United States) off Horton's Point, Long Island Sound. Refloated by Wreckers. Everyone on board survived.[7][3]
Hope  United States The 350-
Saybrook, Connecticut in heavy weather after losing her towline to her tow vessel Nathan Hale ( United States) off Horton's Point, Long Island Sound. Refloated by wreckers. Everyone on board survived.[7][3]
Howard B. Peck  United States The 472-
Long Island, New York. All eight people on board survived.[4]
Joseph W. Drayton  United States The 437-
gross register ton barge was stranded at New Haven, Connecticut. The only person on board survived.[7]
Juno  United States The 41-
gross register ton screw steamer burned at Charleston, South Carolina. All five people on board survived.[5]
Melrose  United States The 693-
gross register ton schooner was stranded at Cape Hatteras. North Carolina. All eight people on board survived.[2]
Rosalie M  United States The steamer was forced into the bank by a storm causing a leak that sank her in ten minutes in the New Orleans area.[3]
S. W. Pring  United States The 350-
gross register ton barge sank in heavy weather after losing the towline to her tow vessel Nathan Hale ( United States) off Horton's Point, Long Island Sound. Both people on board survived.[3]
Wm. H. Skinner  United States The 262-
gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean 45 nautical miles (83 km; 52 mi) east-northeast of Frying Pan Shoals off the coast of North Carolina. All six people on board survived.[6]

18 February

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1908
Ship State Description
Anspach  United States The 15-
gross register ton screw steamer foundered in a severe snowstorm when the weight of slush ice forced her down enough to fill and sink off Waukegan, Illinois, a total loss. Two crewmen lost. There were four survivors.[6][3]
HMS Hero  Royal Navy The decommissioned
Kentish Knock
.

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1908
Ship State Description
Frank Sessoms  United States The steamer developed a leak in a gale at Waverly Creek in South Carolina. She was run aground on a mud bank and the passengers evacuated on the lifeboat. Ship's cook drowned.[3]

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1908
Ship State Description
Albatross  United States The 8-
gross register ton sloop was "cut down by ice" at Great Kills on Staten Island in New York City. Both people on board survived.[1]
Imperial  Canada The steamer filled and sank while loading cargo at Chicago. Afterwards pumped out and raised.[3]
Whisper  United States The ferry sank at dock at Augusta, Kentucky.[3]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date February 1908
Ship State Description
Magnus Mail  United Kingdom The
Garston Docks, Liverpool
, England. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
Molly  United States The 6-
gross register ton sloop foundered in the Chesapeake Bay. Both people on board survived.[17]

March

3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1908
Ship State Description
Thomas B. Hambleton  United States With no one on board, the 20-
gross register ton schooner foundered in Hunting Creek in Virginia.[6]

7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1908
Ship State Description
Stella Moren  United States While attempting to enter the
gross register ton, approximately 150-foot (45.7 m) sternwheel paddle steamer lost control of her tow, was swept over the dam, and sank in 30 feet (9.1 m) of water about 200 feet (61 m) below the dam with the loss of three crewmen, a total loss. There were 12 survivors. The coal boats also went over the dam and broke up downstream.[3][21][23][24]

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1908
Ship State Description
Traveler  United States The 9-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Pelican Island off Galveston, Texas. The only person on board survived.[6]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1908
Ship State Description
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[25]

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1908
Ship State Description
Bear  United States The 11-
net register ton, 38.7-foot (11.8 m) schooner dragged her anchor in bad weather and was wrecked on rocks at Kashega (53°28′50″N 167°10′30″W / 53.48056°N 167.17500°W / 53.48056; -167.17500 (Kashega)) on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands, 80 nautical miles (150 km; 92 mi) from Unalaska. Her crew of three survived.[1][26]
Berwick  United States The 100-
motor vessel was stranded on the Siuslaw River Bar on the coast of Oregon, a total loss. Her machinery and cargo was salvaged. All seven people on board survived.[6][3]
SMS S12  Imperial German Navy The
Cuxhaven, Germany.[27]

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1908
Ship State Description
Silvia  Dominion of Newfoundland During a voyage from

16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1908
Ship State Description
Mildred  United States The 464-
gross register ton schooner was stranded in Grays Harbor on the coast of Washington. All nine people on board survived.[2]

17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1908
Ship State Description
John Dippel  United States The tug was swept under a barge by swift current and sunk in the Allegheny River at the foot of Sixteenth Street Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Later raised and returned to service.[3]
USS Monongahela  United States Navy The
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
.
Pomona  United States The 1,264-
hulled screw steamer struck a rock and was wrecked on a reef at Fort Ross, California during a failed attempt to beach her, a total loss of vessel and cargo. All 147 people on board made it to shore in her boats.[5][3]
Teddie  United States The tug sprung a leak and sank off Portsmouth, Virginia.[3]

20 March

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1908
Ship State Description
Saratoga  United States During a voyage in the waters of the
snowstorm. The steamer Elsie ( United States) took off her passengers, and all 118 people on board survived.[5][29]

21 March

List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1908
Ship State Description
Wabash  United States The 7-
motor paddle vessel foundered at Mount Carmel, Illinois. The only person on board survived.[7]

23 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1908
Ship State Description
Edward Annan  United States The tug caught fire in the starboard coal bunker and was beached in Spuyten Duyvil Creek just north of the bridge. Crew abandoned ship in the lifeboat. Steamer Hustler ( United States) came alongside and put out the fire and towed her to Brooklyn, where she was repaired.[3]
Matsu Maru  Japan The steamer was sunk in a collision off Hakodate. 300 killed.[30][31]

25 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1908
Ship State Description
Columbia  United States The 197-
gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost while navigating when she struck the wall of Lock 18 in the Ohio River near Marietta, Ohio.[6][3]

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1908
Ship State Description
Christina  United States The 11-
motor paddle vessel burned on the Ohio River at Lawrenceburg, Indiana. All three people on board survived.[6]

29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1908
Ship State Description
Bega  Australia The Illawarra & South Coast Steam Navigation Company 567 GRT steamship sank off Tathra, New South Wales, Australia.[32]

30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1908
Ship State Description
Lydia  United States The 39-
Point No Point, Washington. Two of the 10 people on board lost their lives.[2]
T. G. Lester  United States The 257-
Detroit, Michigan. The only person on board survived.[6]

31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1908
Ship State Description
Deborah T. Hill  United States The 37-
gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with a barge in the East River off 46th Street in New York City. Both people on board survived.[1]

April

2 April

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1908
Ship State Description
HMS Tiger  Royal Navy The
bow
section remained afloat long enough for 22 members of her crew to be rescued. Thirty-six members of her crew were lost.

4 April

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1908
Ship State Description
George McCaffrey  United States The 172-
gross register ton canal boat foundered on Penfield Reef in Long Island Sound. The only person on board survived.[21]

6 April

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1908
Ship State Description
Lady  United States The 20-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on the coast of Oahu in the Territory of Hawaii. Both people on board survived.[2]

7 April

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1908
Ship State Description
A. Gerdes & Bro  United States The 8-
motor vessel was stranded at Petit Pass in Louisiana. All four people on board survived.[6]

8 April

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1908
Ship State Description
H. E. Thompson  United States The 683-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Anegada in the British Virgin Islands. All 10 people on board survived.[4]

9 April

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1908
Ship State Description
Eva  United States The paddle steamer struck a snag, was beached, and sank without loss of life on the Umpqua River near Scottsburg, Oregon.
J. H. Chaffee  United States The 130-
Boston, Massachusetts, bound for New York City with four people on board and was never heard from again.[33]

10 April

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1908
Ship State Description
Jennie  United States The motor boat was wrecked and sunk by ice in the Missouri River at Mondak, Montana.[3]

11 April

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1908
Ship State Description
Persia  United Kingdom The tug collided with the steamship Huguenot ( United Kingdom) and sank near the Sunk Lightvessel, off the coast of Essex, England.[34]

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1908
Ship State Description
Mary  United States With no one on board, the 360-
Boston, Massachusetts.[5]

13 April

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1908
Ship State Description
Lake City  United States The 17-
gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer foundered at Togo, Arkansas. All five people on board survived.[13]

14 April

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1908
Ship State Description
H. G. Johnson  United States The 1,082-
gross register ton bark was stranded on the Cumberland Bar on the coast of Georgia. All 12 people on board survived.[4]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1908
Ship State Description
Addie F. Cole  United States The 76-
gross register ton schooner foundered in the North Anclote Channel in Florida. All 23 people on board survived.[33]

16 April

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1908
Ship State Description
Lizzie  United States The 29-
gross register ton schooner was stranded in Penobscot Bay on the coast of Maine with the loss of one life. There was one survivor.[2]

18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1908
Ship State Description
Orient  United States The 93-
gross register ton schooner was stranded at Cape Lookout on the coast of North Carolina. All 18 people on board survived.[2]

19 April

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1908
Ship State Description
Clara C  United States The 46-
motor vessel burned off Cape Scott in Washington. All 11 people on board survived.[6]

20 April

List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1908
Ship State Description
J. A. Watkins  United States The 15-
gross register ton Bugeye was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Alabama ( United States) in the Chesapeake Bay off Seven Foot Knoll on the coast of Maryland. Both people on board survived.[3]

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1908
Ship State Description
Eulallie C.  United States The steamer burned to the waterline at Morgan City, Louisiana, probably a total loss.[3]

23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1908
Ship State Description
Gracie Kent  United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in one minute in Bayou Teche 1+12 miles (2.4 km) below Baldwin, Louisiana in 11 feet (3.4 m) of water. One crewman missing.[3]
May D.  United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Gibraltar, Michigan.[3]
Stonewall  United States The 13-
Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina. Both people on board survived.[6]
Xibalda  United States The 13-
gross register ton schooner was stranded in Choctawhatchee Bay on the coast of Florida. Both people on board survived.[6]

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1908
Ship State Description
Ben Macdui  Belgium The vessel foundered off Egerö, Norway.[35]
Katherine  United States The 94-
gross register ton barge foundered 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) west of Ship Shoal on the coast of Virginia. All three people on board survived.[7]
Kittiwake  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 241 GRT cargo ship used in the Lagos creeks service ran aground on Lagos Bar, Nigeria.[36][37] Declared total wreck on 28 April 1908.

25 April

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1908
Ship State Description
Duchess  Canada The fishing steamer sank at dock at Peoria, Illinois. Later raised.[3]
HMS Gladiator  Royal Navy The Arrogant-class protected cruiser collided with the ocean liner Saint Paul ( United States) and sank in the English Channel, or beached off Black Rock Buoy, off the Isle of Wight, with the loss of 28 of her crew. Refloated and scrapped.[38]

26 April

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1908
Ship State Description
Maud Spurling  United States The 53-
gross register ton schooner was stranded in Pensacola Bay on the coast of Florida. All seven people on board survived.[2]
Miriam  United States The steamer was wrecked by a cyclone in the Mississippi River near Hardin's Point, Arkansas, a total loss. Nine passengers and two crew killed.[3]

27 April

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1908
Ship State Description
Flora  United States The 5-
gross register ton schooner foundered off Key Largo in the Florida Keys off the coast of Florida. Both people on board survived.[33]
HMS Gala  Royal Navy The Yarrow Type River-class destroyer was sliced in two when the scout cruiser HMS Attentive ( Royal Navy) collided with her during night exercises. Gala's stern section sank immediately with the loss of one life; her bow section sank later during an attempt to tow it to shallow water. Attentive then also collided with the destroyer HMS Ribble ( Royal Navy), holing Ribble below the waterline and forcing her to return to base.
Rob Roy  United States The 97-
gross register ton schooner was stranded in Arthur Bay on the coast of Wisconsin. All five people on board survived.[2]
Scott  United States The canal boat sank in a collision with Nashotah ( United States) at Chicago.[3]

28 April

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1908
Ship State Description
Argo  United States The steamer grounded in the Eel River, California. Refloated on 11 July.[3]
Chignik No. 1 (or Chignik #1)  United States The 70-
gross register ton scow sank off Cape Cleare (59°45′N 148°54′W / 59.750°N 148.900°W / 59.750; -148.900 (Cape Cleare)) on the south end of Montague Island on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. The only person on board survived.[21][39]
William H. Wessels  United States The 277-
gross register ton barge was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Islander ( United States) off Sands Point, New York. The only person on board survived.[7]

29 April

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1908
Ship State Description
Miriam  United States The 65-
capsized in the Mississippi River off Hardin Point, Arkansas, killing 11 of the 65 people on board.[5]

30 April

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1908
Ship State Description
Matsushima  Imperial Japanese Navy The
Pescadores. A total of 206 crew killed.[40]
Peter Rickmers  Germany
Fire Island, New York
, United States.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1908
Ship State Description
Archangel  Russia The ferry sank in the
Neva River sometime in April. 39 died.[41]

May

1 May

List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1908
Ship State Description
Nellie  United States The barge sank near the mouth of the Patapsco River in a gale and high seas. Her crew survived.[3]
R. H. Becker  United States The 140-
capsized in the harbor at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. All five people on board survived.[2]
Victor  United States The 35-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island. All 14 people on board survived.[6]

2 May

List of shipwrecks: 2 May 1908
Ship State Description
Minnie E. Kelton  United States The 632-
gross register ton screw steamer was stranded at Yaquina Head on the coast of Oregon with the loss of 11 lives. There were 10 survivors.[13]

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1908
Ship State Description
Albion  United Kingdom The vessel was stranded on Carromeiro Chico Rock when entering
Bahia Blanca for Rotterdam with grain, broke amidships and sunk.[42]
Auguste & Jean  Belgium The fishing vessel was rammed and sunk by Iris ( Belgium) 8 nautical miles (15 km) southwest of the Noordhinder Lightship ( Netherlands). Three of her four crew were lost.[43]
Trenton  United States The steamer sank at dock at Alexandria, Virginia. An infant passenger died. Later raised.[3]

6 May

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1908
Ship State Description
Clarence  United States The steamer caught fire and was destroyed while laid up for the night on the east side of the Mobile River.[3]
Hellas  Greece The 3,613 
Cape Malea on passage Sulina for Liverpool with a cargo of wheat.[44]

8 May

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1908
Ship State Description
David E. Baxter  United States The 173-
St. George, Staten Island, New York. The only person on board survived.[7]
Nautilus  United States The steamer sank at dock in a storm when she listed to starboard, filling through an open valve at Burlington, Iowa. Later raised.[3]

10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1908
Ship State Description
Albert Nickel  United States The 35-
gross register ton schooner was stranded at Hungry Creek in Virginia. Both people on board survived.[1]
Pyrgos  Germany The 1,927 
Ibrail to Hamburg collided with the steamer Violet ( United Kingdom) during fog in the river Elbe. The German steamer sank and one crew member was badly injured.[45]

11 May

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1908
Ship State Description
Haze  United States The 58-
Bonacca off the coast of Honduras. All eight people on board survived.[4]
Penobscot  United States The 358-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Two Bush Island on the coast of Maine. All six people on board survived.[2]

13 May

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1908
Ship State Description
J. N. Harbin  United States The steamer struck a snag in the Arkansas River near Coco Landing and was beached on a bar and sank. Later raised.[3]

14 May

List of shipwrecks: 14 May 1908
Ship State Description
J. C. Austin  United States The canal boat struck an obstruction and sank in the East River near the mouth of Newtown Creek and Twenty-Sixth Street.[3]

15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1908
Ship State Description
William Baylies  United States The 380-
Anadyr Bay off the coast of Siberia at 63°36′N 179°51′W / 63.600°N 179.850°W / 63.600; -179.850 (William Baylies). Her entire crew of 43 survived and was rescued by the steamer Bowhead ( United States).[7][46][47]
William McGee  United States The 85-
gross register ton schooner foundered off Sea Isle City, New Jersey. All four people on board survived.[6]

17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1908
Ship State Description
Nordsee  Germany The 4,439 GRT freighter with a cargo of iron ore on passage from Narvik to Rotterdam was struck by the steamer Avoca ( United Kingdom) off Nieuwe Waterweg. The German steamer sank with a loss of one crew and a pilot.[48] Avoca had her bow smashed in and had to be beached to avoid sinking.[49]

20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1908
Ship State Description
Fevue Arland  United States The 7-
motor vessel was stranded at Galveston, Texas. All four people on board survived.[5]
George Weems  United States The 416-
gross register ton screw steamer burned and sank in the Atlantic Ocean at the Frying Pan Shoals off Cape Fear on the coast of North Carolina. The crew made it to the Frying Pan Shoals Lightship in a lifeboat where they saw the ship sink.[5][3]

22 May

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1908
Ship State Description
H. T. Hedges  United States The 239-
Whitestone, Queens, New York. All five people on board survived.[4]
Unknown  United States A schooner, adrift on the tide, collided with an anchored barge off
Whitestone, Queens, New York and was beached to prevent sinking.[3]

23 May

List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1908
Ship State Description
Agnes E. Boyd  United States The 31-
gross register ton, 55-foot (16.8 m) sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by the spring break-up of ice on the Kobuk River in the northern Territory of Alaska. All six people on board survived.[18][50]
Cosmos  United States The 47-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Baker Island Bar on the coast of Maine. All 10 people on board survived.[1]
H. M. Whitney  United States The steamer went aground in the
Ward's Island. She was able to back off, but hit Flood Rock and sank. Later refloated, but still in place on 2 June.[3]
Scorpion  United States With no one on board, the 14-
gross register ton sloop-rigged yacht burned at Erie, Pennsylvania.[2]

24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1908
Ship State Description
Arthur Clifford  United States The 84-
gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision in thick fog with the screw steamer Governor Dingley ( United States) near Thacher Island on the coast of Massachusetts off Cape Ann. Both people on board survived.[1][3]

25 May

List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1908
Ship State Description
Mineola  United States With no one on board, the 15-
gross register ton schooner foundered in Mobile Bay off Daphne, Alabama.[17]
Wanderer  United States The steam yacht ran aground on Black Ledge, near Niantic, Connecticut. The next day she suddenly backed off the rocks and collided with salvage vessels trying to haul her off.[51]

26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1908
Ship State Description
Lamyron  Greece During a voyage from
gross register ton cargo ship was stranded on Corticeiras Rock off Corcubión, Spain, and became a total loss.[52]
Reindeer  United States The 21-
gross register ton screw steamer burned at Bordentown, New Jersey. All four people on board survived.[5]

27 May

List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1908
Ship State Description
Arminza  Spain The 2,501 GRT freighter with a cargo of ore on passage from Bilbao for Middlesbrough struck a rock off La Vendree, five miles (8.0 km) west of Cap de la Chèvre, and came off but subsequently sunk in deep water and became a total loss.[53]
Lizzie Cochran  United States The 188-
gross register ton schooner departed Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, bound for Machias, Maine, with five people on board and was never heard from again.[2]

28 May

List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1908
Ship State Description
Bertha C  United States The 11-
gross register ton screw steamer foundered in the Atchafalaya River at Butte La Rose, Louisiana. After sinking she slid down slope 60 feet (18 m) out in 60 feet of water. All three people on board survived.[6][3]
Fame  United States The 130-
North Atlantic Ocean with the loss of 18 lives after colliding with the screw steamer Boston ( United Kingdom) 70 nautical miles (130 km; 81 mi) off the coast of Maine. There were two survivors.[4]

29 May

List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1908
Ship State Description
Helen  United States With no one on board, the docked 31-
gross register ton screw steamer was struck by lightning and burned at Detroit Michigan, a total loss.[5][3]
Maggie  United States The 19-
gross register ton screw steamer burned at Mulat, Florida. All four people on board survived.[5]

30 May

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1908
Ship State Description
Carrie H. Annis  United States The 24-
Pawtuxet, Rhode Island. Both people on board survived.[1]
Jerome  United States The steamer was struck by a storm while tied to the bank at Port Hickory, Louisiana causing her to list , fill with water, and sink in 9 feet of water. Had not been raised by end of the year.[3]
Jerome May  United States The 12-
Buttonwoods, Rhode Island. Both people on board survived.[5]

31 May

List of shipwrecks: 31 May 1908
Ship State Description
Jordan Wooley  United States The 37-
gross register ton schooner foundered in Long Island Sound off the coast of New York. Both people on board survived.[4]
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 ( Russia). 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.[54]
Phebe  United States The 6-
gross register ton catboat was stranded at Dennis, Massachusetts. Both people on board survived.[18]

June

1 June

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1908
Ship State Description
Boothbay  United States The steamer snagged on her dock on a rising tide causing her to fill and sink at Bath, Maine.[3]
Guide  United States The steamer had her seams open in strong winds and sank in 10 feet (3.0 m) of water in Albemarle Sound.[3]

3 June

List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1908
Ship State Description
Blythville  United Kingdom The 1,325 GRT steamer went ashore on the rocks near the Rhinns of Islay Lighthouse on Orsay in the Inner Hebrides in dense early-morning fog. She subsequently slipped off the rocks and sank in deep water.[55] The ship was on passage from Stornoway for Swansea in ballast.
E. Stearns  United States With no one on board, the 39-
gross register ton sloop foundered at New York City.[33]

6 June

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1908
Ship State Description
Tom Dowling  United States The steamer sank at the Wisconsin Central Railway Ore Dock at Ashland, Wisconsin in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water due to an open seacock. Later raised.[3]
Viva  United States The 38-
gross register ton yacht grounded and sank on the south bar in Absecon Inlet on the coast of New Jersey, a total loss. All four people on board survived.[7][3]

7 June

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1908
Ship State Description
City of Medicine Hat  Canada
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
.
Lady Eileen  Canada The 921 
Baie de Chaleur, on passage Campbellton, New Brunswick for Gaspé, Quebec.[56]
Michael  Greece The 2,994 GRT steamer collided with the steamer Constanza ( Romania) and sank off Lisbon while on passage from Cardiff for Genoa with a cargo of coal.[57]

8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1908
Ship State Description
Deer  United States The 47-
gross register ton screw steamer burned in Saginaw Bay off the coast of Michigan. All four people on board survived.[6]

16 June

List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1908
Ship State Description
Norman  United States The 365-
gross register ton schooner was stranded at L'Archeveque, Nova Scotia. All seven people on board survived.[17]

17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1908
Ship State Description
Egga  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 1,445 GRT cargo ship carrying cargo from steamship Falaba ran aground on the bar at Lagos, Nigeria. Attempts to refloat the ship failed and she was declared a total wreck.[58][59]
Friedrich Retzlaff  Germany The 1,938 
Stettin with a cargo of iron ore.[60][61]
Ida Schnauer  United States The 215-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on the bar at Tillamook Bay on the coast of Oregon. All seven people on board survived.[4]
Unknown  United States A
house boat capsized, sank, and broke in two when an attempt was made to tow it out of Barnegat Inlet.[3]

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1908
Ship State Description
Cornelius W. Desmond  United States The 32-
gross register ton fishing steamer caught fire and was destroyed at dock in Erie, Pennsylvania when a building adjoining the dock burned down. All 10 people on board survived.[6][3]
St Lewis  France The Douarnenez crabber struck the Seven Stones Reef and foundered.[62]
W. J. McCarter  United States With no one on board, the 18-
gross register ton fishing steamer caught fire and was destroyed at dock in Erie, Pennsylvania when a building adjoining the dock burned down.[6][3]

21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1908
Ship State Description
City of Allegan  United States The motor vessel destroyed by fire over night at dock at Allegan, Michigan. Probable arson where she had not been used for several days.[3]
Kylerea  United Kingdom The 1,590 GRT freighter on a passage from Tyne to Cannes with a cargo of coal was cut down to below the waterline in collision with the steamer Filinia ( Greece) and quickly sank.[63]
O. K.  United States With no one on board, the 59-
gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Missouri River at Fort Benton, Montana.[21]

23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1908
Ship State Description
Chippewa  United States During a voyage from
Long Island, New York, about three miles (4.8 km) west of Montauk Point Light. She later was refloated on 6 August, repaired, and returned to service.[3]
Petronia  Russia The 4,847 
holds as well as her chart room, bridge, and poop deck were destroyed by fire. The ship was later raised and sold for scrap.[63]

25 June

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1908
Ship State Description
Konoura Maru  Japan The 2,185 GRT freighter ran aground and wrecked near Kinkwazan.[64]
Thomas and Henry  United States The 31-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Long Point in Maryland. All three people on board survived.[18]

26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1908
Ship State Description
City of Allegan  United States The 18-
motor paddle vessel burned at Allegan, Michigan. All three people on board survived.[13]
Edna B. King  United States The tug sank at dock at Riley's Dock in Jersey City, New Jersey from a broken condenser pipe. Refloated same day and dry docked.[3]

27 June

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1908
Ship State Description
Annie R. Wood  United States The tow steamer hung up on her dock on a rising tide, filling and sinking at Dyer Street Dock, Providence, Rhode Island. Was raised and back in service before 11 August.[3]

30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1908
Ship State Description
O. K.  United States The steamer was destroyed by fire in the Missouri River at Fort Benton, Montana.[3]

July

1 July

List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1908
Ship State Description
Beachley  United States The small steamer was lost at Nome, Alaska.[26]

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1908
Ship State Description
Julia Costa  United States The 107-
Cape Cod, Massachusetts. All 20 people on board survived.[17]
Little Fred  United States The steamer sank at dock in the Monongahela River at Glenwood Landing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after filling with water through a siphon. Later raised and returned to service.[3]
Minnie R  United States The 9-
gross register ton screw steamer burned at Willow Springs, Illinois. All five people on board survived.[13]

6 July

List of shipwrecks: 6 July 1908
Ship State Description
Noordwijk  Netherlands The 2,054 GRT steamer stranded on Tete du Chat on a passage from Santander for Rotterdam with a cargo of iron ore and wrecked.[65]

7 July

List of shipwrecks: 7 July 1908
Ship State Description
Fulton  United States The 256-
gross register ton schooner barge at Toledo, Ohio. All five people on board survived.[33]

8 July

List of shipwrecks: 8 July 1908
Ship State Description
Dolphin  United States The pleasure steamer was destroyed in a general conflagration along the waterfront of
East Boston, Massachusetts.[3]
James G. Blaine  United States The 555-
gross register ton schooner barge was stranded in Lake Ontario at Oswego, New York. All seven people on board survived.[17]
L. B. Curtis  United States With no one on board, the 177-
gross register ton barge burned in Boston Harbor off the coast of Massachusetts.[21]
Trader  United States The 291-
Strawberry Island, New York. All four people on board survived.[21]

14 July

List of shipwrecks: 14 July 1908
Ship State Description
Mentor  United States The 22-
Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois, a total loss. All four people on board survived.[13][3]

17 July

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1908
Ship State Description
Frontenac  United States The 626-
gross register ton screw steamer burned at Lorain, Ohio. All 16 people on board survived.[13]

18 July

List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1908
Ship State Description
Aeon  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked in the Pacific Ocean near Christmas Island (now Kiritimati).
Buffalo  United States The 482-
Lightship off the coast of New York. All three people on board survived.[33][3]
Unknown A schooner was sunk in a collision with El Norte ( United States) 1+12 miles (2.4 km) north west of Fort Hamilton. The crew, seeing collision was unavoidable, abandoned ship just before the collision in her boat and were pick up by a tug.[3]

20 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1908
Ship State Description
Charles A. Street  United States The 512-
gross register ton screw steamer burned in Lake Huron 11 miles above Port Sanilac, Michigan, total loss. All 13 people on board survived.[18][3]

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1908
Ship State Description
Cap Tarifa  Belgium Foundered off the Burlings Lighthouse, Portugal.[66]

22 July

List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1908
Ship State Description
Dodo  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 531 GRT cargo ship was stripped and her hull scuttled off Forçados River, Nigeria.[67]
Hagan  United States The 17-
Bridesburg, Pennsylvania. All four people on board jumped overboard after beaching.[13][3]
Menawa  United States The 211-
gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the presidential yacht USS Mayflower ( United States Navy) in Long Island Sound. All six people on board survived.[17]

23 July

List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1908
Ship State Description
Don Matias  Chile The 2,213 GRT steamer, on a passage from Tocopilla for Lota with a cargo of copper ore, foundered almost immediately after being run down by the cargo-passenger ship Victoria ( United Kingdom) in dense fog in Bay of Arauco.[68][69]
José Olaverri  United States The 661-
Bull Island on the coast of South Carolina. All eight people on board survived.[17]
Mabel W  United States The 178-
Chicago, Illinois. All three people on board survived.[13]

24 July

List of shipwrecks: 24 july 1908
Ship State Description
Auberndale  United States The 663-
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with 10 people on board and was never heard from again.[33]
Charles Woolsey  United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with Maine ( United States) in dense fog between New York and New Bedford, Massachusetts. Crew rescued by Maine.[3]
Governor Safford  United States The 307-
Bogue Inlet, North Carolina in 7 fathoms (42 ft; 13 m) of water. All ten people on board abandoned ship in her boat and were rescued by her tow vessel Katahdin ( United States).[13][3]
W. M. Gladden  United States The steamer sank in the Arkansas River near Martins Landing when a dropping river lever caused her guard to snag on the shore causing a list. Later raised.[3]

25 July

List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1908
Ship State Description
Charley Woolsey  United States The 207-
gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Maine ( United States) off Cornfield Light on the coast of Connecticut. All five people on board survived.[33]

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1908
Ship State Description
E. S. Booth  United States The tug struck Salt Rock in the harbor of Stamford, Connecticut filling and sinking. Raised and taken to New York.[3]
Neva  United States The 71-
Great Kanawha River. All 12 people on board survived.[3]

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1909
Ship State Description
Sandal  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked on Cross Island (Sosnovets Island) off Russian Lapland.[70][71][72]

28 July

List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1909
Ship State Description
Lady Antrim  United States The 11-
gross register ton schooner foundered in South Creek in North Carolina. Both people on board survived.[17]

29 July

List of shipwrecks: 29 July 1908
Ship State Description
Epoch  United States With no one on board, the 13-
gross register ton yawl burned at Blaine, Washington.[33]

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1908
Ship State Description
Restless  United States The 7-
gross register ton sloop-rigged yacht foundered in the Rocky River in Ohio. All three people on board survived.[18]
West Wind  United States The Launch was sunk in Maumee Bay in a collision with Greyhound ( United States) when she struck the steamer and was caught in her paddle wheel. One killed, five were rescued by the steamer.[3]

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1908
Ship State Description
Enterprise  United States The 40-
gross register ton screw steamer burned at Milton, Florida. All 15 people on board survived.[13]
Mareeba  Australia The 1,747 GRT steamer, on a passage from Brisbane for Newcastle with a cargo of general goods, sugar and wood ran aground 10 miles (16 km) north of Stockton. During the night of 3 August she was broken by gale.[73][74]
Nettie Allison  United States The bugeye was sunk in a collision with a lighter in the Norfolk, Virginia area. crew rescued by the tug Lauretta Spedding ( United States) that had been towing the lighter.[3]

August

1 August

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1908
Ship State Description
Siesta  United States With no one on board, the 10-
Patchogue, Long Island, New York.[21]

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1908
Ship State Description
Ella B.  United States The steamer sank at dock in the Monongahela River at Dravosburg, Pennsylvania after filling with water. Later raised and returned to service.[3]
Illinois  United States The fire steamer was sunk in the Chicago River at an elevator fire when the building at the foot of Sixteenth Street collapsed on her. Refloated, repaired and returned to service.[3]
Maria  United States The 7-
gross register ton sloop was scuttled off Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. All three people on board abandoned ship safely before she sank.[17]

5 August

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1908
Ship State Description
Harford  United States The tow steamer sank in the Delaware River near Tullytown, Pennsylvania. Raised the same day.[3]
Kirkwall  United Kingdom The 2,582 GRT steamer, on a passage from Huelva for Hamburg with a cargo of iron ore, was run down late at night by an unknown barque off Ameland and sunk.[75]

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1908
Ship State Description
Three Sisters  United States The 302-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Baker Island at the southwestern entrance to Frenchman Bay on the coast of Maine. All six people on board survived.[18]
Zwyndrecht  Netherlands The 2,090 GRT steamer, on a passage from Havana for London with a cargo of molasses, sprang a leak and foundered in the position 38°32′N 38°32′W / 38.533°N 38.533°W / 38.533; -38.533. 27 members of the crew including the captain were saved by Italian barque Silver Stream and landed in London on 23 August.[76]

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1908
Ship State Description
Maggie and May  United States The 122-
gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Frega ( Germany) off LaHave, Nova Scotia. Nine of the 13 people on board lost their lives.[17]

9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1908
Ship State Description
Columbia  United States The 92-
New Orleans, Louisiana. The only person on board survived.[13]

11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1908
Ship State Description
Annie R. Wood  United States The 25-
gross register ton screw steamer caught fire on the Taunton River in Massachusetts and was beached, a total loss. All four people on board swam to shore.[18][3]
Titania  United States The 73-
hulled screw steamer was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Kingston ( United Kingdom) off Charlotte, Rochester, New York. All 26 people on board survived.[21]

12 August

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1908
Ship State Description
Frankie  United States The barge struck a submerged object at a wharf at Reedy Island and was beached to prevent sinking.[3]

13 August

List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1908
Ship State Description
Guyandotte  United States The out of commission 43-
gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned to the waterline on the Ohio River at Catlettsburg, Kentucky.[13][3]
Nereo  Austria-Hungary The 3,739 GRT steamer, on a passage from South Shields for Trieste with a cargo of coal, went ashore on Keller Rock off Ushant. An attempt to refloat her failed and the ship sunk in deep water.[77][78]

14 August

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1908
Ship State Description
Caesar  United States The 10-
gross register ton, 36-foot (11.0 m) fishing vessel struck a rock and was wrecked at Port Frederick (58°13′N 135°30′W / 58.217°N 135.500°W / 58.217; -135.500 (Port Frederick)) in Icy Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of three survived. She later was salvaged and returned to service.[39]
Columbia  United States The laid up steamer burned in New Basin,
New Orleans, Louisiana, a total loss.[3]
John Fothergill  United Kingdom The 2,730 
Bosporous off Kavak Point in the Ottoman Empire, and sunk.[79]
Natalie  United States The yacht was sunk in a collision with the steamship Haida ( United States) off Erie Basin, Brooklyn. The crew was saved without loss.[3]

15 August

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1908
Ship State Description
Beby  Greece The 2,052 
Marmora in ballast ran aground on Psara and subsequently sunk in deep water.[79]

16 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1908
Ship State Description
Acme  United States The 36-
gross register ton screw steamer burned in Puget Sound off the coast of Washington. All four people on board survived.[18]
Belmont  United States The 29-
gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer foundered in the Wabash River in Indiana. All six people on board survived.[18]

17 August

List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1908
Ship State Description
Aberdeen  United States The steamer struck bottom on the Humboldt Bay Bar four times in thick fog and was beached because of the resulting leaks.[3]
J. T. Hatfield  United States The steamer struck a rock and sank in the
Eightmile Island, West Virginia. Immediately raised and taken for repairs.[3]

18 August

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1908
Ship State Description
Sarah Smith  United States The 45-
gross register ton screw steamer burned to the waterline off Minnesota Point in the harbor of Duluth, Minnesota, a total loss. All six people on board survived.[21][3]

19 August

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1908
Ship State Description
Lucile  United States Carrying either 150 people — 80
gross register ton, 200-foot (61.0 m) full-rigged ship was wrecked without loss of life on a spit at the entrance to the Ugashik River on the Bristol Bay coast of the Territory of Alaska after her moorings were carried away in high winds.[17][80]

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1908
Ship State Description
Adiramled  United States The steamer sprung a leak off Little Traverse Point in Lake Michigan. She returned to her dock at Harbor Springs, Michigan where she sank.[3]
H. P. Barnes  United States The 39-
gross register ton schooner foundered in Eastern Bay off the Chesapeake Bay on the coast of Maryland . All three people on board survived.[17]
Henry Wolcott  United States The 49-
Brooklyn, New York. All three people on board survived.[17]
Jessie Martin  United States The 42-
gross register ton schooner was stranded at Ludlington, Michigan. Both people on board survived.[17]

22 August

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1908
Ship State Description
Lee White  United States The 49-
gross register ton steam catamaran burned at dock on the Arkansas River at Lewisburg, Arkansas while being repaired, a total loss. All 13 people on board survived.[13][3]

23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1908
Ship State Description
Oregon  United States The 779-
Thessalon, Ontario, Canada, she then caught fire and was destroyed. All 13 people on board survived.[21][3][81]
Waneka  United States With no one on board, the 22-
St. Clair Flats in Michigan.[21]

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1908
Ship State Description
Margaret H. Vane  United States The 246-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Cobb Island in the Virginia Barrier Islands on the coast of Virginia. All six people on board survived.[17]

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1908
Ship State Description
Dunearn  United Kingdom While sailing through the
gross register ton ship sank with the loss of 51 of 53 crew members.[82]
Mosetta H  United States The 5-
gross register ton sloop was stranded at Saugatuck, Connecticut. The only person on board survived.[17]
Syracuse  United States The 85-
gross register ton screw steamer was stranded in the harbor at Maumee, Ohio. All four people on board survived. Or the dredge struck submerged piles causing heavy damage in Swan Creek, Toledo, Ohio, a total loss.[21][3]

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1908
Ship State Description
Crystal  United States The 12-
motor vessel was stranded in Boston Harbor on the coast of Massachusetts. Both people on board survived.[13]
Fort George  United States During a voyage from
hulled full-rigged ship reported for the last time. She was never heard from again.[33]
S. C. Baldwin  United States Loaded with a cargo of 693 short tons (619 long tons; 629 t) of stone and under
capsized and sank in Lake Michigan off Twin River Point, Wisconsin, during a southbound voyage from Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, with the loss of one life. There were two survivors. Her wreck was discovered in the mid-1970s. It lies at 44°10.873′N 087°29.179′W / 44.181217°N 87.486317°W / 44.181217; -87.486317 (S C. Baldwin) in 75 feet (23 m) of water, with its stem post rising 30 feet (9.1 m) from the bottom.[21][83][84] It was included within the boundaries of the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary in 2021.[85]

28 August

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1908
Ship State Description
Penguin  United States The out of commission 60-
gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer caught fire and was destroyed while lying on the bank on the Ohio River at Evansville, Indiana. Both people on board survived.[21][3]

29 August

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1908
Ship State Description
Gen. G. Mott  United States The tow steamer sank at dock in Christiana Creek, Wilmington, Delaware, possibly snagged on dock on a rising tide. The vessel was raised and placed on the dock.[3]
Lycourgos  Greece The 218 GRT steamer sank off Port Vathy, Samos.[86]
Mount Lebanon  United Kingdom The 2,420 
Scilly.[87]
Two States  United States The steamer struck a sunken lighter and sank at Augusta, Georgia. Raised and repaired.[3]

September

1 September

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1908
Ship State Description
Amazon  United Kingdom
Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, with the loss of twenty of her 28 crew. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot to Iquique, Chile.[88]
Ivy  United States The 135-ton or 142-
Point Barrow, Alaska, while at anchor and was abandoned. Her crew of seven survived.[17][89]
Seven Sisters  United States Carrying a cargo of
gross register ton, 97-foot (30 m) schooner was wrecked in a gale 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) east of Cape Espenberg on the Chukchi Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska after she dragged her anchor and her steering gear was carried away. All nine members of her crew survived.[18][29]
Verajean  United Kingdom The
Barry, Glamorgan, but was declared a total loss and sold for scrap in November 1908.[88][90]

2 September

List of shipwrecks: 2 September 1908
Ship State Description
Heck  United States The steamer struck a log and sank in 15 feet (4.6 m) of water in Peter's Creek off the St. Johns River. Raised and repaired.[3]
Thomas Chubb  United States The tug was destroyed by fire between Albany, New York and Troy, New York.[3]

3 September

List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1908
Ship State Description
Lina  United States The 31-
gross register ton screw steamer dragged her anchor in a gale, hit a pier, and sank in 8 feet (2.4 m) of water at Lewes, Delaware. She had not been raised as of the end of 1908. Both people on board survived.[18][3]
Patrick McCabe  United States The 35-
gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with a barge towed by the screw steamer Concord ( United States) 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) southeast of Winter Quarter Shoal off the coast of Virginia. All four people on board survived and boarded the barge.[18][3]
Wm. H. Yerkes, Jr.  United States The tug struck the wreck of schooner
Point Lookout Bar. She made it to dock at Point Lookout where she filled and sank. Pumped out the next day and taken to Alexandria, Virginia.[3]

4 September

List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1908
Ship State Description
Bessie  United States The 185-
gross register ton screw steamer burned on the Hudson River at Verplanck, New York. All six people on board survived.[18]

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1908
Ship State Description
Bennington  United States The 250-
gross register ton barge foundered off Whitefish Point on the coast of Michigan. Both people on board lost their lives.[21]
John McDermott  United States The 564-
gross register ton brig departed New York City bound for Fajardo, Puerto Rico, with seven people on board and was never heard from again.[33]
Uncle Paul  United States With no one on board, the 67-
Saint Lawrence River off New York's Fox Island in the Thousand Islands.[21]

6 September

List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1908
Ship State Description
Chauncy Hurlbut  United States The 1,009-
gross register ton screw steamer sprung a leak and was beached 10 miles (16 km) west of Whitefish Point on the coast of Michigan and broke up, a total loss. All 14 people on board survived.[13][3]
Wonder  United States The 99-
gross register ton screw steamer Dredge was stranded at Ashtabula, Ohio. All four people on board survived. Refloated on 12 September and sank in 22 feet (6.7 m) of water in a slip at Ashtabula, Ohio.[21][3]

9 September

List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1908
Ship State Description
Pacific  United Kingdom The 2,919 GRT steamer, on passage from Sunderland to Buenos Aires with a cargo of coal, ran aground on Outer Dowsing Shoal and sank at 9:00. Eighteen of the crew were landed in Grimsby by Limewold (flag unknown), one crew member was killed, and four were missing.[91]

11 September

List of shipwrecks: 11 September 1908
Ship State Description
Tennessee  United States The 374-
gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost when she struck a snag at Kansas City, Missouri. All 34 people on board survived.[21]

13 September

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1908
Ship State Description
Old Dominion  United States The 13-
Gay Head on the coast of Massachusetts. All five people on board survived.[21]

14 September

List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1908
Ship State Description
Mary B. Judge  United States The 472-
gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean at 26°18′N 71°00′W / 26.300°N 71.000°W / 26.300; -71.000 (Mary Sanford) with the loss of one life. There were six survivors.[17]
N. B. Starbuck  United States The tug caught fire at dock at
Long Island City, New York. The fire was put out by the fireboat David A. Boody (( United States)) of the New York City Fire Department, whose water probably caused her to sink. Later raised and repaired.[3]

15 September

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1908
Ship State Description
Annie C  United States The 9-
motor vessel was stranded at Kissimmee, Florida. Both people on board survived.[92]
Beulah McCabe  United States The 691-
Bahamas during a hurricane with the loss of seven lives. There was one survivor.[33]
Frederica  United States The 56-
gross register ton schooner foundered in Delaware Bay. All three people on board survived.[33]
John A. Matheson  United States The 154-
gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean at 26°26′N 070°05′W / 26.433°N 70.083°W / 26.433; -70.083 (John A. Matheson). All eight people on board survived.[17]
Robert Palmer  United States The auxiliary sloop burned in Fishers Sound due to a gasoline explosion, a total loss. The crew of three left in the ship's boat.[3]

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1908
Ship State Description
E. F. Keene  United States The 32-
gross register ton schooner was stranded in the Patuxent River in Maryland. Both people on board survived.[33]
Rosella  United Kingdom The 1,305 GRT steamer on a voyage from Penarth to Granville, Manche carrying a cargo of coal struck Roches Douvres Rocks, 15 nautical miles (28 km) from La Corbière, Jersey Channel Islands at 06:10 and subsequently sunk at 08:30.[93][94]

17 September

List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1908
Ship State Description
Granger  United States The 58-
gross register ton schooner foundered off San Mateo Beach, California. The only person on board survived.[17]

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1908
Ship State Description
Olga  United States While under charter to support the
gross register ton, 47-foot (14.3 m) schooner's mooring to Saratoga broke while no one was on board. The wind blew Olga across Valdez Arm, and she was wrecked on the west side of Valdez Arm near Point Fremantle (60°57′N 146°58′W / 60.950°N 146.967°W / 60.950; -146.967 (Point Fremantle)).[18][95]

19 September

List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1908
Ship State Description
Holiday  United States With no one on board, the 10-
motor vessel burned at Holland, Michigan.[13]
Magnet  United States The freight boat was damaged in a collision with the tug Bee (( United States)) in the East River off Catherine Street New York City, and was towed by Bee to Court Street, Brooklyn where she sank. Raised the next day and repaired.[3]
William Maxwell  United States The 43-
gross register ton screw steamer was stranded on a reef off Thunder Bay Island off the coast of Michigan, a total loss. All seven people on board survived.[21][3]

20 September

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1908
Ship State Description
Star of Bengal  United States

21 September

List of shipwrecks: 21 September 1908
Ship State Description
Ariel  United States The 54-
gross register ton sloop burned at New York City. Both people on board survived.[33]
Cornell  United States The tug sank overnight at Pier 39 in the North River. Raised and repaired.[3]
Ingleside  United States The steamer burned while lying on the bank near Caseyville, Kentucky.[3]
Thomas Chubb  United States The 34-
gross register ton screw steamer burned at Race Course Island in New York. All three people on board survived.[21]

23 September

List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1908
Ship State Description
Cheehegan  United States The schooner struck a rock and sank off Napatree Point off Newport, Rhode Island.[96]
USS Yankee  United States Navy The
lightship. She remained there until refloated on 4 December
, but she sank later that day.

25 September

List of shipwrecks: 25 September 1908
Ship State Description
DeVaux Powel  United States The tug suffered steering failure in
Governor's Island Gap and ran aground and sank. Raised and repaired.[3]

26 September

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1908
Ship State Description
Volund  Norway The 239-foot (72.8 m), 1,600-
Long Island, New York, off the west end of Fisher's Island between Fisher′s Island and Plum Island at 41°13.288′N 072°03.328′W / 41.221467°N 72.055467°W / 41.221467; -72.055467 (Volund). Commonwealth rescued all 16 people on board Volund – her master, his wife, and 14 crewmen.[3][97][98][99]

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1908
Ship State Description
Neshoto  United States The 2,255-
gross register ton screw steamer was wrecked in poor visibility due to smoke from forest fires in Lake Superior at Crisp Point on the coast of Michigan. Later broke up in a gale. All 16 people on board survived.[13][3][100]
Oleg  Imperial Russian Navy The
Cronstadt. She was refloated on 4 October with assistance from the tugs Forwards, Meteor and Vladimir (all  Russia) and taken in to Cronstadt for repairs.[101]
Race Horse  United States The 105-
gross register ton schooner was stranded in Casco Bay on the coast of Maine. All four people on board survived.[18]
Sir John Jackson  United Kingdom The 4,231 
Ceylon) and got holed in the forepeak. Attempts to lighten and refloat her failed due to stormy weather and she was abandoned as a total loss on 9 October 1908.[102][103]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1908
Ship State Description
Frontenac  United States The steamer stranded on Parisian Island in Whitefish Bay and sank.[3]
Lyman C. Smith  United States The steamer collided with the south pier abutment and sank while attempting to enter the Canadian Canal at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.[3]

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1908
Ship State Description
Ida  United States The 169-
capsized off Frankfort, Michigan. All six people on board survived.[17]

30 September

List of shipwrecks: 30 September 1908
Ship State Description
E. Waterman  United States The 107-
gross register ton schooner was stranded at St. Stephen, New Brunswick. All five people on board survived.[33]

October

1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1908
Ship State Description
Rob Roy  United States The 17-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on the coast of Oahu in the Territory of Hawaii. All three people on board survived.[18]

2 October

List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1908
Ship State Description
Brandon  United States The steamer struck an obstruction on the Tillamook, Oregon Bar and was beached on mud flats in Tillamook Bay in water logged condition because of the resulting leaks.[3]
May Flower  United States The 84-
Bahamas. All 12 people on board survived.[13]
Tempest  United States The tug burned to the water's edge, capsized and sank at Vicksburg, Mississippi.[3]

3 October

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1908
Ship State Description
Alamo  United States The 10-
gross register ton Tug burned at the Shell Bank off the coast of Nueces County, Texas, or in the Sabine River, a total loss. All five people on board survived.[18][3]
Emerson  United States The 192-
gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost in a collision with an unnamed Corps of Engineers barge (United States United States Army), or a mattress secured with a cable that snagged her wheel causing her to capsize and sink on the Mississippi River off Osceola, Arkansas, a total loss. A musician on board died, eight others survived.[13][3]
George Sturges  United States The 439-
gross register ton schooner was abandoned at sea in the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off the coast of Canada. All nine people on board survived.[33]
J. H. G. Perkins  United States The 59-
Cape Porpoise on the coast of Maine. Both people on board survived.[17]
Redwing  United States The 19-
gross register ton screw steamer burned at Brunswick, Georgia. All four people on board survived.[21]

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1908
Ship State Description
Alice Marie  France The steel barque hit the
Runnelstone, drifted and sank in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, where it is now a dive site.[104]
Amethyst  United Kingdom The 552 GRT steamer collided early morning in dense fog with cargo ship Daisy (flag unknown) off Wicklow Head and sunk almost immediately. Her crew was saved by Daisy and landed in Dublin on 5 October 1908.[105]

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1908
Ship State Description
Mary D  United States With no one on board, the 40-
gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer foundered in the Grand River in Oklahoma.[13]

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1908
Ship State Description
Lambert  Germany The 5,967 GRT steamer on passage from Chile to Bremen with general cargo caught fire and was destroyed off Río Negro. The captain, 43 crew members and 2 passengers were saved and landed at Punta Rubio.[106]

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1908
Ship State Description
Ida  United States The 11-
gross register ton schooner burned in Santa Rosa Sound on the coast of Florida. All three people on board survived.[17]
Nipponia  German Empire The liner
gross register ton cargo steamship in the North Sea off Texel in the Netherlands. Nipponia sank with the loss of her Captain and 12 members of her crew.[107]

12 October

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1908
Ship State Description
Stork  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked on Lisbon Shoals in Hudson Bay in severe weather and ice.[108][109]

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1908
Ship State Description
Egon  United States The steamer struck a hidden obstruction and sank in the Mississippi River near Bird's Point, Missouri. Raised and repaired.[3]
Sacramento  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with Mataafa ( United States) in the harbor at Duluth, Minnesota; raised, but sank again by 1 November; again raised and declared unseaworthy.[3][110]
W. B. Keen  United States The 30-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Milk Island in Massachusetts. All six people on board survived.[18]

15 October

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1908
Ship State Description
Victorine  United States The 9-
gross register ton schooner was stranded at Aransas Pass, Texas. The only person on board survived.[18]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1908
Ship State Description
Velasquez  United Kingdom The Lamport and Holt Line 7,452 GRT cargo passenger ship on a passage from New York to Buenos Aires with a cargo of coffee, post and passengers entered an area of intense fog soon after leaving Santos harbor, and eventually hit the rocks at Ponta da Sela (Ilhabela) suffering serious damage. All passengers and crew managed to leave the ship and took shelter on a nearby beach (Praia do Veloso) being rescued the day after by another vessel.[111]

18 October

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1908
Ship State Description
Clyde  United States The launch sank in Hay Lake, St. Marys River. One crewman killed.[112]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1908
Ship State Description
Lizzie A. Law  United States The 747-
gross register ton schooner barge was stranded in Lake Superior at Huron Island off the coast of Michigan. All seven people on board survived.[17]
Mary Me (or Mary Mc.)  United States The out of commission 22-
St. Louis, Missouri, a total loss. Both people on board survived.[13][3]

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1908
Ship State Description
Love Point  United States The 1,974-
hulled sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Hudson River off Newburgh, New York, killing four of the 52 people on board.[13]
New York  United States The passenger steamer was destroyed by fire at the T. S. Marvel & Co. shipyard, Newburgh, New York. Four killed.[3]

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1908
Ship State Description
Dessoug  United States The 1,382-
hulled schooner barge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia 17 nautical miles (31 km; 20 mi) northeast of Winter Quarter Shoal. All four people on board survived.[33]

22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1908
Ship State Description
Cramligton  United Kingdom The 1,824 GRT steamer on a passage from Newcastle for Seville with a cargo of coal and coke collided early morning with cargo ship Cadeby (flag unknown) in the mouth of the Humber. The vessel was struck near amidships and began to fill almost immediately. She was beached on Sand Hale Flat to prevent the sinking but later had broken in two amidships and was declared a total loss.[113][114]

23 October

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1908
Ship State Description
Flora Rogers  United States The 376-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Bodie Island on the coast of North Carolina. All seven people on board survived.[33]
Peshtigo  United States The 817-
gross register ton screw steamer was stranded in Lake Huron on Mackinac Island off the coast of Michigan. All 12 people on board survived.[21]

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1908
Ship State Description
Daniel B. Meacham  United States The steamer struck a reef north west of the Keweenaw Peninsula, 12 miles (19 km) east of the Great Lakes Ship Canal in Lake Superior. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[115][3]
Hunter No. 2  United States The steamer struck a submerged piling and sank while landing at the dock at the foot of Fifty-First Street Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny River. Later raised and returned to service.[3]
Mary D.  United States The steamer was tied to the bank in the Arkansas River near the mouth of the Grand River when a rapidly rising river caused the bank to cave resulting in trees cutting her in two, a total loss.[3]

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1908
Ship State Description
Elena  United States The 67-
gross register ton schooner was stranded at Media Luna, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. All nine people on board survived.[33]
Samuel Gedney  United States The steamer burned to the waterline at dock at the River and Harbor Improvement Company, Camden, New Jersey.[3]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1908
Ship State Description
Girnigoe  United Kingdom The 321 GRT steamer on a passage from Cherbourg for Poole with a cargo of stone ran into heavy seas mid-Channel which shifted her cargo. The vessel had to be abandoned and she foundered around 04:30. The crew was saved by the schooner Malpas Belle and landed in Falmouth.[116]

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1908
Ship State Description
Charles S. Hirsch  United States The 620-
gross register ton schooner was stranded at Paul Gamiels Hill, North Carolina, with the loss of two lives. There were six survivors.[33]
Saint Andre  France The 1,121 GRT steamer on a passage from Caen for Grangemouth with a cargo of iron ore ran aground off Farne Islands in the early morning and subsequently broke up and became a total wreck.[117]

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1908
Ship State Description
Comus  United States After departing
gross register ton, 30-foot (9.1 m) schooner was wrecked in Lynn Canal near Berners Bay in Southeast Alaska. The only person on board survived.[33][39]
H. A. Harvey, jr.  United States The 59-
gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer, or Tug, burned at Prophet Island, Louisiana, total loss. All seven people on board survived.[13][3]
Hartford and New York No. 76  United States The barge sprung a leak in a heavy blow off New Haven, Connecticut and brought into the harbor, filling and sinking in 3+12 fathoms (21 ft; 6.4 m) of water.[3]
Hawea  United Kingdom
Hawea
The steamship was driven ashore at Greymouth.
John M. Brown  United States The 452-
gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean east of Virginia at 37°N 071°W / 37°N 71°W / 37; -71 (John M. Brown). All seven people on board survived.[17]
Taif  Ottoman Empire The
Charles Deville Wells
, (known as 'the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo'), who renamed the vessel Palais Royal. After Wells was declared bankrupt in 1893 it was sold to a Turkish owner.

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1908
Ship State Description
Arleville H. Perry  United States The 311-
False Cape on the coast of Virginia. All six people on board survived.[33]
Frank Barnet  United States The 853-
gross register ton schooner burned in the Atlantic Ocean at 38°20′N 069°40′W / 38.333°N 69.667°W / 38.333; -69.667 (Frank Barnet). All eight people on board survived.[33]
Lulie L. Pollard  United States The 541-
gross register ton schooner burned in the Atlantic Ocean east of North Carolina at 35°39′N 074°10′W / 35.650°N 74.167°W / 35.650; -74.167 (Lulie L. Pollard). All seven people on board survived.[17]
Redwing  United States The steamer burned and sank at her dock at Brunswick, Georgia.[3]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1908
Ship State Description
Centennial  United States With no one on board, the 10-
gross register ton schooner sank in the harbor at Lynn, Massachusetts.[33]
Enterprise  United Kingdom The brigantine collided with the passenger-cargo steamer Derwent ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel off Folkestone, England, and sank with the loss of all but one of her crew.
Neustria  France The
Marseilles
, France. There were no passengers aboard, but all 38 crew members were lost.
Yarmouth  United Kingdom The
Harwich, Essex
.

November

1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1908
Ship State Description
Donca  United States The out of commission steamer sprang a leak and sank while lying on the bank at Broadway Hollow opposite Madison, Indiana in the Ohio River. Later raised.[3]

2 November

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1908
Ship State Description
Eliza Ellen  United States The 13-
gross register ton schooner was stranded in Blue Hill Bay on the coast of Maine. Both people on board survived.[33]

3 November

List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1908
Ship State Description
Henry L. Walt  United States The 39-
College Point, Queens, New York. All four people on board were rescued by a launch.[13][3]
R. D. Spear  United States The 352-
gross register ton schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 250 nautical miles (460 km; 290 mi) north of Bermuda. All seven people on board survived.[18]
Tar Heel  United States The steamer sank at dock over night, probably snagged by the dock on a rising tide at Georgetown, South Carolina.[3]
Wave  United States The 67-
gross register ton schooner burned at Tampa, Florida. All five people on board survived.[18]

4 November

List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1908
Ship State Description
Schelde  Belgium The steamer was wrecked 20 nautical miles (37 km) north of Sapienza, Italy.[119]

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1908
Ship State Description
A. C. Maxwell  United States The 469-
gross register ton schooner barge was sunk at dock in a collision with the steamer R. W. England ( United States) in the Sault Ste. Marie River in Michigan. All six people on board survived.[33][3]
H. M. Whitney  United States The ship attempted to avoid a collision with a tug and four barges off
Ward's Island and sank. Raised and repaired.[3]
James A. Brown  United States The 198-
gross register ton schooner foundered 60 nautical miles (110 km; 69 mi) southwest of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. All four people on board survived.[17]
Ruth  United States The 27-
gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned to the water's edge and sank in 20 feet of water at the "Cut-Off" in the Atchafalaya River in Louisiana. All six people on board survived.[21][3]

6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1908
Ship State Description
Henry Clausen, jr.  United States The 549-
gross register ton schooner was abandoned at sea during a voyage from Gulfport, Mississippi, to São Miguel Island in the Azores. All nine people on board survived.[17]
Howard Compton  United States The 583-
gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean east of North Carolina at 35°38′N 073°40′W / 35.633°N 73.667°W / 35.633; -73.667 (Horace P. Shares). All seven people on board survived.[17]

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1908
Ship State Description
Mabel W. Gouldman  United States The 33-
gross register ton screw steamer burned in the Chesapeake Bay. All 14 people on board survived.[13]
Pontón No. 5  Chilean Navy The barge broke from her moorings in a storm and sank in Gente Grande BayBaie Gente Grande [fr]. Her seven crew survived.[120][121]

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1908
Ship State Description
Holm  United States The dredge boat was sunk in a collision with the dredge boat Nerius ( 
Houston, Texas due to Nerius having steering problems. Raised and repaired.[3]
John C Pringle  United States The steamer sprung a leak in heavy weather off
Cleveland, Ohio and was beached to prevent sinking. Refloated on 19 November and taken into the harbor where she sank.[3]

12 November

List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1908
Ship State Description
Florence Shay  United States The 405-
gross register ton schooner was stranded at Virginia Beach, Virginia, with the loss of two lives. There were four survivors.[33]
Hampton  United States The steamer foundered in a storm in Pamlico Sound. Crew landed at Ocracoke, North Carolina.[3]

14 November

List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1908
Ship State Description
Andrew J. Bradshaw  United States The 25-
gross register ton schooner sank in the Chesapeake Bay. All three people on board survived.[33]
Falls of Halladale  United Kingdom
Falls of Halladale

The barque ran aground near Peterborough, Victoria, Australia in a fog. All 29 crew reached safety.

Independent  United States The 2,253-
Hog Island in the Virginia Barrier Islands on the coast of Virginia with the loss of all five people on board.[17]
Marie F. Cummins  United States The 548-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on the coast of Delaware 12 miles (19 km) south of the Delaware Breakwater. All seven people on board survived.[17]

15 November

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1908
Ship State Description
France  France The cargo schooner foundered on the Minquiers south of Jersey Channel Islands when en route from Dunkirk, France, for Granville, France, with a cargo of scoria.[122]
Seaman  United States The 181-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Pilot Island in Lake Michigan off the coast of Wisconsin. All six people on board survived.[18]

16 November

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1908
Ship State Description
Jennie Thomas  United States The 691-
Sandy Hook, New Jersey in heavy seas. All seven people on board were rescued by Afghanistan ( United Kingdom).[17][123]

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1908
Ship State Description
Pascal P. Pratt  United States The 1,927-
gross register ton screw steamer caught fire on Lake Erie off Long Point, Ontario and was beached, burning to the water's edge. All 18 people on board survived.[21][3]

20 November

List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1908
Ship State Description
Emerald  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with H. Houghten ( United States) at Detroit.[3]

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1908
Ship State Description
Alert  United States The steamer was wrecked on rocks near Limekiln Crossing in the Detroit River at Detroit. Later she slipped off the rocks, broke in two and sank.[3]
City of Mt. Clemens  Canada The steamer was sunk in a collision with James B. Neilson ( United States) at Detroit.[3]
H. M. Carter  United States The 97-
gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer's boiler exploded, she burned to the waterline and sank in the Mississippi River at Palo Alto, Louisiana or Plaquemine, Louisiana, killing 11 crewmen of the 41 people on board.[3]

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1908
Ship State Description
Berwyn  United States The 269-
Plum Island, Wisconsin. All seven people on board survived.[33]
Fann  United States The 5-
gross register ton schooner was stranded at China Point on the coast of Mexico. Both people on board survived.[33]
Gardetta  United States The 22-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Harbor Island in Muscongus Bay on the coast of Maine. Both people on board survived.[17]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1908
Ship State Description
J. M. Harvey  United States The 22-
motor vessel was stranded on Lake Michigan 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, a total wreck. All three people on board survived.[13][3]

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1908
Ship State Description
Horace W. Macomber  United States The 1,050-
Bahamas. All nine people on board survived.[17]
Hugh G.  United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with a mud scow off
Graves Light, Boston, Massachusetts. Lost with all five hands, plus one from the scow.[3]

25 November

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1908
Ship State Description
Sardinia  United Kingdom The passenger-cargo ship burst into flames minutes after leaving the Grand Harbour in Malta, and she ran aground off Fort Ricasoli. Only 33 people on board survived, and at least 118 were killed.[124][125]
North Star  United States The 2,476-
gross register ton screw steamer was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Northern Queen ( United States) three miles (4.8 km) below Port Sanilac, Ontario. All 22 people on board survived.[13][3]

26 November

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1908
Ship State Description
Aurora  United States The 9-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Tiger Island in Texas. Both people on board survived.[33]
Finance  United States The 2,603-
Sandy Hook, New Jersey. The other 144 people aboard Finance survived.[13][3]
Fred A. Lee  United States The tug sprung a leak over night and sank next to a dredge that she was tied up to at the foot of Amherst Street, Buffalo, New York.[3]

27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1908
Ship State Description
Aurora  Norway The barque was stranded on Brier Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, in fog, on a voyage from Annapolis, Nova Scotia, to Argentina, with timber; by mid-December the hull was breaking up.[126][127]

28 November

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1908
Ship State Description
Barbara C.  United States The launch was sunk in a collision with Packet John Quill ( United States) at Mobile, Alabama. Her occupants climbed up the steamer's wheel.[3]
Peri  United States The 13-
Canarsie, Brooklyn, New York. Both people on board survived.[21]

29 November

List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1908
Ship State Description
Patrick McGuirl  United States The tug was damaged in a collision in the East River off Pier 4 with the tug Transfer No. 1 ( United States). She sailed to a slip between Piers 4 and 5 and sank.[3]

30 November

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1908
Ship State Description
Brookhill  United States The steamer while tied up at dock was pushed by strong wind into a snag punching a hole in her hull and she sank at
Baton Rouge in 30 feet (9.1 m) of water. Raised and repaired.[128]
D. Cawley  United States The steamer hit a pier of a railroad bridge, capsized and sank at Arthur City, Texas. One crewman killed.[3]

Unknown November

List of shipwrecks: Unknown November 1908
Ship State Description
Missouri  United States The motor boat sank sometime during the month in a windstorm while tied up to the bank of the Missouri River, no specific location sited.[129]

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1908
Ship State Description
D. M. Clemson  United States During a voyage from
hulled screw steamer sank in a gale. She was reported near Whitefish Point on the coast of Michigan on 30 November. She subsequently disappeared, sinking somewhere in Lake Superior. Lost with all hands.[13][3]
Shawmut  United States The 468-
barkentine was stranded on Yellowhead Island in Machias Bay on the coast of Maine. All seven people on board survived.[18]

2 December

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1908
Ship State Description
Rye  United States The coal boat struck a rock in the East River off Lawrences Point by the entrance to the Casino Beach gas dock. She developed a leak and sank.[3]
Soo City  United States The 670-
Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of all 19 people on board.[21]

3 December

List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1908
Ship State Description
SMS Huszár  Austro-Hungarian Navy The Huszár-class destroyer ran aground near Traste on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. She sank on 12 December.
No. 101  United States The 457-
hulled schooner barge sank in a Gale in the Bay of Fundy off the coast of Maine 32 nautical miles (59 km; 37 mi) east of Seal Island with the loss of all seven people on board.[18][3]
Roy  United States The 12-
motor paddle vessel foundered in the Missouri River at Boonville, Missouri. Both people on board survived.[21]

4 December

List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1908
Ship State Description
James W. Husted  United States The tow steamer developed a leak and sank at the Port Reading, New Jersey Coal Dock.[3]
USS Yankee  United States Navy Aground since 23 September, the
Buzzards Bay off the coast of Massachusetts later in the day. Her boilers and other equipment were salvaged in 1917–1918.[130]

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1908
Ship State Description
City Belle  United States The 20-
gross register ton ferry was destroyed by fire at Port Deposit, Maryland, a total loss. Both people on board survived.[13][3]
Sunny Side  United States The 27-
West Penobscot Bay on the coast of Maine. Both people on board survived.[18]
Wioma  United States The tug sank at the Market Street Gas Works dock, Newark, New Jersey due to an open seacock. Raised the next day and taken to Perth Amboy, New Jersey for inspection and returned to service.[3]

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1908
Ship State Description
M. B. Stetson  United States The 120-
Cow Head, Newfoundland. All eight people on board survived.[17]

7 December

List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1908
Ship State Description
Virginia E.  United States The coal boat sank in high winds off Erie Basin, Brooklyn.[3]
Vivian  United States The steamer struck a submerged dock and sank in nine feet (2.7 m) of water at Waddington, New York. Later raised.[3]

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1908
Ship State Description
Anthracite  United States The tug sank in a collision with the ferry Maryland ( United States) off Pier A, North River. Two crewmen killed, five rescued by other vessels.[3]

9 December

List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1908
Ship State Description
Alma H  United States With no one on board, the 37-
motor vessel was totally destroyed by fire at St. Augustine, Florida. Fire is supposed Arson.[18][131]
Robin Hood  United States The 92-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Woods Island on the coast of Newfoundland. All six people on board survived.[18]

11 December

List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1908
Ship State Description
Isabelle  United States The steamer was destroyed by fire in Jack's Creek, North Carolina.[3]
Leader  United States The 26-
gross register ton screw steamer burned to the waterline near Oldmans Creek in New Jersey. All four people on board survived.[13][3]
Urfa  Ottoman Navy The Antalya-class torpedo boat foundered in a storm off Selonik.

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1908
Ship State Description
Ellen  Australia
Cape Jervis, South Australia.[132]
Isabelle  United States The 13-
motor vessel burned on Jacks Creek in North Carolina. All three people on board survived.[13]

13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1908
Ship State Description
Yale  United States The tug listed, filled with water, and sank in the harbor of Buffalo, New York when the steamer she was towing. Yale sheered off course causing her to careen.[3]

14 December

List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1908
Ship State Description
Coot  Iceland The steam trawler, towing fishing boat Kópanes, suffered propeller damage by her tow and both vessels drifted ashore on Vatnsleysuströnd at Keilisnes, about 5 miles west of Hafnarfjörður, becoming wrecks.[133]
Kópanes  Iceland The fishing boat was in tow of steam trawler Coot fishing boat Kópanes but damaged Coot's propeller. Both vessels drifted ashore on Vatnsleysuströnd at Keilisnes, about 5 miles west of Hafnarfjörður, becoming wrecks.[133]

15 December

List of shipwrecks: 15 December 1908
Ship State Description
City of Peoria  United States The steamer sunk at dock at Peoria, Illinois when a pipe froze and broke. Later raised.[3]

16 December

List of shipwrecks: 16 December 1908
Ship State Description
Eldorado  United States The 96-
gross register ton screw steamer burned to the waterline while tied up for the night at Phippsburg, Maine. Sources differ as to whether four people or no one was on board, but there was no loss of life.[13][3]
Thomas Parker  United States The 57-
gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Owensboro, Kentucky. All seven people on board survived.[21]

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1908
Ship State Description
Thos. Parker  United States The out of commission steamer was destroyed by fire while lying at the bank at Owensboro, Kentucky.[131]

18 December

List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1908
Ship State Description
Daghestan  United Kingdom Bound from
Sandy Hook, New Jersey, at the entrance to the Gedney Channel and sank in 70 feet (21 m) of water. She sank slowly enough for her entire crew of 35 men to abandon ship safely in her lifeboats.[134][135]

20 December

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1908
Ship State Description
William Neely  United States The 897-
gross register ton schooner departed Carteret, New Jersey, bound for Savannah, Georgia, with eight people on board and was never heard from again.[17]

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1908
Ship State Description
American Eagle  United States The steamer caught fire in the Maumee River at Toledo, Ohio and was beached. By the time the fire was put out she was a total loss.[3]
Eagle  United States The decommissioned passenger steamer was disposed of by burning in Lake Michigan two miles (3.2 km) off Chicago, Illinois.[136]
Irada  United Kingdom The 5,334-
gross register ton cargo steamship foundered on the cliffs at Mizen Head, the most southwesterly point of Ireland. Captain A Roberts, the stewardess and four men died. 65 men were rescued, after a night clinging to the cliff face, by the men building Mizen Head Fog Signal Station.[137]
R. Somers  United States The 7-
gross register ton schooner was stranded in the Back River on the coast of Virginia. All three people on board survived.[18]

22 December

List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1908
Ship State Description
Alma  United States The 17-
gross register ton screw steamer sank off Cape May, New Jersey. All five people on board survived.[18]
Jeanie Lippitt  United States The 742-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on Winter Quarter Shoal off the coast of Virginia with the loss of seven lives. There was one survivor.[17]
Jennie L. Smith  United States The 30-
motor vessel burned at South Somerset, Massachusetts. All five people on board survived.[13]
Nellie  United States The steamer sank in the Ohio River at Industry, Pennsylvania. A watchman died.[109]
Thomas Friant  United States With no one on board, the 81-
gross register ton screw steamer burned to the water's edge at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, a total loss.[21][3]
Wm. J. Lermond  United States The 887-
Currituck Beach, North Carolina. All nine people on board survived.[18]

24 December

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1908
Ship State Description
Harry Messer  United States The 627-
gross register ton schooner was stranded on the Handkerchief Shoal off the coast of Massachusetts. All eight people on board survived.[17]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1908
Ship State Description
Advance  Australia The steam tug collided in fog with Inverna (flag unknown) and sank off Catherine Hill Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
Gotoma  United States The 198-
gross register ton schooner was abandoned at sea off the harbor at Willapa, Washington. All eight people on board survived.[17]

26 December

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1908
Ship State Description
Rhine  United States The 10-
motor vessel foundered off Frankfort, Michigan. All four people on board lost their lives.[21]
Telefon  Norway The 1,538 GRT steamer on a passage from Rotterdam to the South Shetland Islands with a cargo of coal ran aground at the entrance of Admiralty Bay and subsequently wrecked.[138]

28 December

List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1908
Ship State Description
J. W. Branning  United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at Edenton, North Carolina.[3]
Myra W. Spear  United States The 156-
gross register ton schooner foundered with the loss of three lives 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) west of Highland Light on the coast of Massachusetts. There were two survivors.[17]

29 December

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1908
Ship State Description
Clara  United States The tow steamer sank at dock in the Delaware River at Philadelphia. Raised on 31 December.[3][131]
Dahomey  United Kingdom The
Vera Cruz with a cargo of coal.[139]
Modoc  United States The 189-
Cape Ann, Massachusetts. All seven people on board survived.[17]

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1908
Ship State Description
Pere Marquette 17  United States The car ferry ran aground three miles (4.8 km) south of Big Point Sable. Pulled off on 13 January 1909 and taken to Ludington, Michigan.[140][141]
Vera  United States The 110-
Cape Canso, Nova Scotia. All 16 people on board survived.[18]

31 December

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1908
Ship State Description
Grange  United Kingdom The 1,519 GRT cargo passenger steamer on a passage from Grangemouth to London with general cargo and passengers ran into heavy weather, sprang a leak forward and foundered at 10:20 about 35 nautical miles (65 km) northeast of Tyne piers. All 55 people including crew and passengers were saved by trawler Eleazer and landed safely in South Shields.[142]
Kwarra  United Kingdom The
Forcados River, Nigeria.[143][144]
Spring Garden  United States The 23-
gross register ton screw steamer was destroyed by fire at Cobhams Wharf on the James River in Virginia, a total loss. All five people on board survived.[21][3]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1908
Ship State Description
Ida Watts  United States The 98-ton two-
masted schooner was wrecked with the loss of one life at Sand Point, Alaska.[89]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1908
Ship State Description
Pride of Virginia  United States The 13-
motor paddle vessel burned on the Yazoo River at Yazoo City, Mississippi. All five people on board survived.[145]
Trader  United States The schooner became a total loss at Indian Point (now Cape Chaplino) on the Bering Sea coast of Siberia.[146]
Warren Gates  United States The 73-
Southold, Long Island, New York, on an unidentified date. All five people on board survived.[6]

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