List of shipwrecks in 1915
The list of shipwrecks in 1915 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1915.
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A. T. Gifford
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United States | The whaler caught fire and sank off Coats Island, Northwest Territories, Canada in September or October 1915. |
Advance | United Kingdom | The auxiliary schooner was wrecked in Wreck Bay, New South Wales, Australia. |
Alexander Mackenzie | United States | The US Army Corps of Engineers dredge sank while under tow off the east coast. Five crew were killed.[1]
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British Empire | United Kingdom | World War I: The cargo ship was scuttled at İzmir, Ottoman Empire.[2] |
City of Adelaide | Australia | |
HMS Collingwood | Royal Navy | World War I: The dummy battleship was beached in the Dardanelles. Subsequently shelled and consequently scrapped due to damage sustained.[3] |
G. Thackle | United States | The motor vessel was wrecked on the southwest coast of Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[4]
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Grubstake | United States | The motor vessel was wrecked at "Cala Reef" – probably California Rock (55°18′55″N 131°36′05″W / 55.31528°N 131.60139°W) – in Southeast Alaska.[4]
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Houston | United States | The US Army Corps of Engineers dredge capsized, probably off Galveston, Texas, in a major storm. Two crew were killed.[5]
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Kapitan Belli | Russia | The incomplete Leningrad. Subsequently completed and entered service with the Soviet Navy in 1928 as Karl Liebknecht.[6]
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HMS Oruba | Royal Navy | World War I: The dummy battleship was scuttled as a breakwater at |
SM U-26 | Imperial German Navy | The Type U 23 submarine was lost in the Baltic Sea in September or October 1915.
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SM UB-3 | Imperial German Navy | The Gulf of Izmir on or after 23 May.
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SM UC-9 | Imperial German Navy | The Type UC I submarine was lost on patrol between 20 October and 12 November with the loss of all fourteen crew.[8] |
References
- ^ "The history of Dredging at the Port of Houston: ditching high and low to build a port" (PDF). westerndredging.org. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
- ^ "British Empire". The Yard. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- ^ "Michigan". The Yard. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- ^ a b alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (G)
- ^ "The history of Dredging at the Port of Houston: ditching high and low to build a port" (PDF). westerndredging.org. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
- ^ Chernyshev, Alexander Alekseevich (2012). Погибли без боя. Катастрофы русских кораблей XVIII–XX вв [They died without a fight. Catastrophes of Russian ships of the XVIII-XX centuries] (in Russian). Veche.
- ^ "Royal Mail Steam Packet Company / Royal Mail Lines Limited". The Ships List. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ^ "UC 9". Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 November 2012.