The whaleback barge sank in a gale in Nantucket Sound five miles (8.0 km) northwest of Handkerchief Lightship in 36 feet of water. Two crew killed, the other 3 crew rescued by her tow vessel.[1][10][11]
The oil tanker on her voyage from Monterrey, Mexico, to Portland, Oregon ran into gale of the mouth of the Columbia River and went aground on Peacock Spit. The vessel broke into two and sank with the loss of 30 or 33 of her 36 crew.[13][14]
The sternwheel paddle steamer, registered as Jas. T. Staples, was destroyed by a boiler explosion on the Tombigbee River in Alabama six miles (9.7 km) above the current day Coffeeville Lock and Dam. The explosion killed 26 people, including her captain, and injured 21. Survivors were rescued by the sternwheel paddle steamer John Quill (United States).[8][15]
Chebucto Head, Nova Scotia. All on board, over 900 people, survived. She was later refloated and taken to Halifax, Nova Scotia where temporary repairs were done 26 January–10 February. She then sailed to New York City for permanent repairs.[17][18]
The 7,877 GRTLamport and Holt Line general cargo/passenger vessel. Sailing from Liverpool with a stop in Vigo, Spain, and carrying 221 people on board to Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina, collided in fog with rocks near Leça da Palmeira, Portugal. The rescue lasted more than 48 hours due to sea state using cables back and forth and two rescue boats to recover those who threw themselves into the sea. There were 38 casualties, 5 of them crewmen.[24]
First Balkan War: The Âsâr-ı Tevfik-class ironclad ran aground on a rock during operations against Bulgarian forces near Yalıköy, Istanbul. The grounded vessel was destroyed by seas and Bulgarian artillery over the next few days.
The schooner sank in the long Island Sound one mile (1.6 km) east south east of Shippan Point. Part of her cargo was salvaged. Wreck raised on 23 July 1913. Her spars were removed and she was resunk in deep water.[11]
Boston, Massachusetts. Wreck stripped by the salvage company. Wreckage washed ashore on Deer Island removed in July, another piece washed ashore there in October and was burned.[31][32][11]
A barge/scow was sunk at Baltimore, Maryland, by the explosion of Alum Chine (United Kingdom). She was alongside transferring the cargo of dynamite.[35]
Lau islands of Fiji. All survived, after abandoning the barely floating hull, on 1 May 1913, and making for Kabara using sailing scows that the crew had made themselves. The hull and part of the cargo of lumber were salvaged.[43][44][45]
The schooner ran on the rocks at Nahant, Massachusetts. Salvage operations were abandoned shortly after they were begun, owing to the unfavorable conditions at the location of the wreck.[36]
The steamer struck a railroad bridge in the Tensas River at Clayton, Louisiana. After striking she bounced off, struck it again, and careened over filling with water. The swift flood current carried her 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) down river before fully sinking. 14 or 22 drowned, with 107 persons saved, many by getting on the bridge.[13][51]
guerrillas attacked her, and her badly outnumbered crew of 53 defended her successfully for 15 hours until all of her survivors and dead had been transferred to several other Spanish Navy warships, which subsequently drove off the Moroccans with gunfire and then sank General Concha – deemed beyond repair – with gunfire to prevent the Moroccans from looting her wreck. General Concha's crew suffered 16 men dead, 17 wounded, and 11 captured during the engagement; the attacking Moroccans' casualties are not known.[58]
The Schooner burned and sank in the St. Clair River abreast the coal docks at Algonac, Michigan. The wreck was removed in November, or site is a popular dive site.[55][66]
motor trading schooner was stranded near Cape Avinoff, Territory of Alaska. All six people aboard abandoned ship and survived a five-day voyage to St. Michael, Alaska, in a dory without food or water. During the autumn of 1913, the abandoned Wasp suffered severe ice damage, dragged her anchor during a storm, and sank near the mouth of the Kuskokwim River.[79]
The Elder Dempster 2,802 GRT cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked at Half Assini, Ghana in West Africa. She was carrying a cargo of wood from the West coast of Africa to Liverpool.[80]
The tow steamer was sunk when her boilers exploded opposite Glenfield, Pennsylvania, seven miles (11 km) below Pittsburgh in the Ohio River 200 feet (61 m) above Lock No. 2. The ship was later raised. Eight people were killed, six injured.[81][82][83]
The launch was sunk in a collision with schooner Rhodora in the harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Three people were killed and two survivors were rescued by Rhodora.[85]
While anchored off Nome, Territory of Alaska, with no cargo or crew aboard, the 39-ton barge broke loose from her moorings during a gale, was driven ashore on a beach 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) west of Nome, and was broken apart by waves.[77]
After departing St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, on 9 October bound for the Kuskokwim River under tow by the motorboatNora (United States) with a cargo of about 10 tons of general merchandise aboard, the 16 GRT, 41.4-foot (12.6 m) schooner was found washed up on the beach bottom-up in Norton Sound, apparently having been blown there by a storm. All three people aboard both vessels were lost.[102]
The schooner barge was sunk and broke up in a gale south east of the Highland Light after being cut loose by her tow vessel Paoli (United States). Two people were killed.[107]
The steamer ran aground in a gale off False Presque Isle. She was scuttled to prevent pounding to pieces. She was pulled off by two wrecking tugs on 23 October.[108]
The steamer struck a submerged obstruction off Long Point, Ontario on Lake Erie in a gale. She was beached just above Long Point Lighthouse, a total loss.[109]
The schooner sank in Long Island Sound five miles (8.0 km) from the Stratford Light in 15 fathoms (90 ft; 27 m) of water with her mast tops above water. On 5 February 1914 all parts of the wreck with in 35 feet (11 m) of the surface was removed by the lighter Panuco (United States).[11]
The 12 GRT, 40-foot (12 m) fishing vessel was stranded on an island 1.33 nautical miles (2.46 km; 1.53 mi) west of Metlakatla in Southeast Alaska. Both crewmembers survived. Winnie later was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[79]
lightship for Buffalo, New York sank off that port in Lake Erie with the loss of six crew. LV 82 was salvaged in mid-1915, repaired and returned to service.[130][122][144]
Thunder Bay, in Lake Superior during a gale. The crew were taken off the next day. She broke in two on 29 November while being towed. The vessel was refloated on 13 December and salvaged in 1914. The steamer was repaired and returned to service as Inland (Canada).[148][149][150]
The C-classsubmarine sank without loss of life after colliding with the hopper bargeHopper No. 27 (flag unknown) in Plymouth Sound. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
The schooner barge was cut loose in heavy weather by its tow vessel
Barnegat, New Jersey. She was anchored just offshore and was dashed to a sinking mass by contact with Undaunted that she was still tied to, with the loss of all five hands.[157][158]
The barge had sunk by August in Frankford Creek, Pennsylvania 50 feet (15 m) above the drawbridge of Bridge Street, Philadelphia. Wreck removal was finished by 16 October.[3]
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