List of shipwrecks in 1902

The list of shipwrecks in 1902 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1902.

January

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Glenbervie	United Kingdom	The barque was wrecked at Lowland Point near Coverack, Cornwall, laden with 600 barrels of whisky, 400 barrels of brandy and barrels of rum.[1] The 16 crewmen were saved by lifeboat.[2]

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Perseverance	Belgium	The steamer collided with Andreas in the River Usk, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom and was severely damaged. Later repaired and returned to service.[3]

February

25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Liverpool	United Kingdom	The iron-hulled four-masted sailing ship was on route from Antwerp to San Francisco with general cargo when she sailed slowly onto the rocks at Hommeaux Florains, on the northeastern tip of Alderney in the Channel Islands in fog. There was no loss of life.[4][5]

March

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Waesland	United States	The steamer collided with the steamer Harmonides ( United Kingdom) off Anglesey, United Kingdom and sank with the loss of two passengers.[6][7]

7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Welcome	United States	The sternwheel passenger paddle steamer ran aground on the north flats of the Coquille River in Oregon during a squall. she was refloatd undamaged that night and returned to service.

25 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1902

Ship	Country	Description
John Ewin	United Kingdom	The schooner got into difficulties in the Teifi Estuary. Her crew were taken off by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was subsequently wrecked.[8]

April

13 April

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Legia	Belgium	The steamer collided with the steamer Julia (flag unknown) off the Newarp Lightvessel ( United Kingdom) and sank.[3]

May

6 May

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Camorta	United Kingdom	The passenger ship sank in the Irrawaddy Delta with the loss of all 737 passengers and crew.

24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Stanleyville	Belgium	The steamer was wrecked off Takoradi, Gold Coast.[6]

27 May

List of shipwrecks: May 27 1902

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Recruit	Royal Navy	The Brazen-class destroyer struck rocks half a mile north of Cape Cornwall. Refloated and towed to Penzance by tugs.[9]

June

7 June

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Thomas Wilson	United States	Three capstans at the stern of the wreck of Thomas Wilson on 15 August 2007. The whaleback cargo ship sank in the harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, after a collision with the steamer George Hadley ( United States). Nine crew were killed.

12 June

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Advance	Australia	Advance The schooner was wrecked at Henry's Point, Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia.

28 June

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Gustav Adolph	Norway	The barque ran onto rocks near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, just west of the Palmiet River and was wrecked.

August

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Wordsworth	Belgium	The ship was wrecked off Assu Torre, Bahia, Brazil.[10][6]

September

6 September

List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Crête-à-Pierrot	Haitian Navy	Crête-à-Pierrot The gunboat was scuttled at Gonaïves to prevent her capture by SMS Panther ( Kaiserliche Marine). All five crew on board were killed.

October

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Yoshina Maru	Japan	The steamer caught fire in the Van Diemen Strait and was abandoned. She then drifted ashore at Kagoshima, Japan.[11]

November

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Elingamite	Australia	The passenger ship sank near the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand, with the loss of 45 passengers and crew.

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Greenock	UK	The steamer collided with the steamer Ape (flag unknown) near Gourock Bay and Cloch Point in the River Clyde. One man missing.[12]

December

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1902

Ship	Country	Description
Frank A. Palmer	United States	The four-masted schooner collided with the schooner Louise B. Crary ( United States) in the Atlantic Ocean off Gloucester, Massachusetts, during a gale and sank with the loss of 11 of the 21 crew members aboard the two ships.
Louise B. Crary	United States	The five-masted schooner collided with the schooner Frank A. Palmer ( United States) in the Atlantic Ocean off Gloucester, Massachusetts, during a gale and sank with the loss of 11 of the 21 crew members aboard the two ships.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1902

Ship	Country	Description
George Rennie	Australia	George Rennie The paddle steamer was scutlled to form a breakwater at Picnic Bay, Queensland, Australia.

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