List of shipwrecks in 1903

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The list of shipwrecks in 1903 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1903.

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1903
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1903
Ship Country Description
Crosby  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked at Bempton Cliffs, Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.[1]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1903
Ship Country Description
USS Leyden  United States Navy While on a return passage from Puerto Rico, the tug foundered in heavy fog in the Atlantic Ocean off Block Island, Rhode Island.

31 January

List of shipwrecks: 31 January 1903
Ship Country Description
Maskelyne  Belgium The steamship foundered at 41°35′N 34°40′W / 41.583°N 34.667°W / 41.583; -34.667.[2]

February

1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1903
Ship Country Description
James Stevens Royal National Lifeboat Institution The lifeboat capsized at the mouth of the River Afan with the loss of six of her fourteen crew.[3]

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1903
Ship Country Description
Berwick  United Kingdom The Newcastle steamer was wrecked on the Runnelstone. Her crew took to two lifeboats, one of which reached land and the other, with five crew members on board, was taken to Penzance in the Sennen Cove Lifeboat Station lifeboat Ann Newbon ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution)[4]
Espingole  French Navy The Durandal-class destroyer hit a rock and sank. Her wreck was sold as scrap in December 1909.

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1903
Ship Country Description
Southern Cross  Canada The schooner capsized at Port Greville, Nova Scotia. She was later salvaged, repaired and returned to service.[5]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1903
Ship Country Description
Ruby Schultz  Belgium The steamship was wrecked 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) north west of Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.[1]

26 February

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1903
Ship Country Description
Ottercaps  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked off Feunteun Aod, Finistère, France.[6]

27 February

List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1903
Ship Country Description
Mouse  United Kingdom The smack got into difficulties off Cardigan. All four people on board were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[7]

28 February

List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1903
Ship Country Description
Etruria  United Kingdom The ocean liner ran aground on sand and mud in the entrance to Gedney Channel while leaving New York City. She was refloated late the same day, found to be undamaged, and proceeded with her voyage.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1903
Ship Country Description
Ambriz  France The Cie Française Charbonnage et de la Batelage ("French Coaling & Shipping Co.") vessel was wrecked off the coast of Madagascar while serving as a coal depot ship.
Luna  United Kingdom The barque was on passage from New Zealand to Liverpool when she lost part of her mast and head gear off the Pendeen Lighthouse, and drifted onto the Brisons in a northwest–by–west gale and was wrecked. All the crew were lost.[4]

March

9 March

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1903
Ship Country Description
Alexandra flag unknown
Alexandra

Cyclone Leonta: The cargo ship was driven ashore at Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1903
Ship Country Description
Albion  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked in West Bay, Dorset.[8]

31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1903
Ship Country Description
Shamrock  United Kingdom The steamer sprang a leak at Catherine Hill Bay, New South Wales, Australia, and sank. She was scrapped in situ after it was found she was too badly damaged to repair.[2]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date March 1903
Ship Country Description
Hougomont Flag unknown The barque ran aground at Allonby, Cumbria, England. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

April

21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1903
Ship Country Description
Freia  Norway The steamer was wrecked near Scharhörn on her passage from Kristiana to Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands.[9]

May

26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1903
Ship Country Description
Huddersfield  United Kingdom On leaving Antwerp, the passenger-cargo ship was in collision in the River Scheldt with the steamer Uto ( Norway). All 17 members of her crew were saved but all 22 of her passengers – emigrants from Galicia on their way to Canada – drowned.[10]
Oakland  Australia The passenger-cargo ship foundered in mountainous seas in the Tasman Sea near Cabbage Tree Island off New South Wales, Australia, with the loss of 11 lives. The steamer Bellinger (flag unknown) rescued her seven survivors.

29 May

List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1903
Ship Country Description
Nord  France The steamer ran aground and was wrecked on Burhou Island off Alderney Channel Islands on a voyage from Boulogne to Bayonne with general cargo.[11]

June

10 June

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1903
Ship Country Description
Rubens  Belgium The steamer capsized and sank in the North Sea. Eleven crew killed, four rescued by Privo ( Norway).[1]

17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1903
Ship Country Description
HMS Scorpion  Royal Navy The decommissioned Scorpion-class ironclad turret ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean while under tow from the United Kingdom to the United States for scrapping.

July

18 July

List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1903
Ship Country Description
North Pacific  United States
North Pacific sinking with an insurance launch alongside.
The sidewheel paddle steamer went off course and struck a rock in fog and sank off Marrowstone Island, Washington.

August

2 August

List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1903
Ship Country Description
Tennie and Laura  United States The schooner capsized and sank in Lake Michigan 9 nautical miles (17 km) off Port Washington, Wisconsin. One of her two-man crew died.

23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1903
Ship Country Description
Narara  Australia The screw steamer burned to the waterline and was scuttled at her moorings at Sackville, New South Wales, Australia. Her crew survived. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

September

10 September

List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1903
Ship Country Description
Glenfeadon  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at The Mumbles, Glamorgan. She was refloated the next day.[3]
Ierne  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Dublin.[3]
J. K. Allport  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel.[3]

26 September

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1903
Ship Country Description
Harold  United States The barge sank off Staten Island, New York.

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1903
Ship Country Description
Bida  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 1,477 grt cargo ship caught fire in the North Sea during a voyage from Lagos, Southern Nigeria Protectorate, to Hamburg, Germany, with a cargo of palm kernels and was abandoned 45 nautical miles (83 km) south by east of the Maas lightship ( Belgium).[12]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1903
Ship Country Description
Enterprise  United Kingdom The ship lost her sails and was wrecked in hurricane-force winds off St Ives, Cornwall, England. The three crew were rescued by lifeboat.[13]
Moonlight  United States The schooner sank in Lake Superior off Michigan Island, Wisconsin.

October

15 October

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1903
Ship Country Description
Marquette  United States The lake freighter sank in Lake Michigan about 5 nautical miles (9.25 km) east of Michigan Island.

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1903
Ship Country Description
Carnsew  United Kingdom The coastal steamer collided with the steamer Everest (flag unknown) and sank off Bull Point, North Devon, United Kingdom. All the crew survived.[14]

25 October

List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1903
Ship Country Description
Emma Maria  Russia The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[8]

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1903
Ship Country Description
Patria  Norway The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.[8]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1903
Ship Country Description
Paradox  United Kingdom The steamship was wrecked off Les Sables-d'Olonne, France. She later was salvaged, repaired, sold, and returned to service.[1]

November

27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1903
Ship Country Description
Alwina  Netherlands The steamship passed Pointe Saint-Mathieu, Finistère, France. bound for Rotterdam, the Netherlands, then disappeared without trace.[1]

December

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1903
Ship Country Description
Warrington  United Kingdom The passenger-cargo ship was wrecked on the sands near Happisburgh on the coast of Norfolk, England.[15]

7 December

List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1903
Ship Country Description
Ann & Betsey  United Kingdom The smack got into difficulties off Cardigan. Her crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). They later returned to the smack and took her in to Cardigan.[7]

22 December

List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1903
Ship Country Description
Brugia  Belgium The steamship was wrecked near Beadnell, United Kingdom.[16]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1903
Ship Country Description
Loch Bredan  United Kingdom The barque disappeared without trace after departing Adelaide, South Australia, in September 1903.
Vega  United Kingdom The barque sank in Melville Bay, Greenland

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Belgian Merchant H-O" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  4. 1 2 Leach, Nicholas (2003). Sennen Cove Lifeboats. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-3111-0.
  5. ↑ "Southern Cross - 1903". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "SS Ottercaps (1903)". wrecksite.eu.
  7. 1 2 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  9. ↑ "SV Freia (+1903)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  10. ↑ "Twenty-two Emigrants Drowned". Leeds Mercury. England. 30 May 1903. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  11. ↑ "SS Nord (+1903)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 27 Aug 2015.
  12. ↑ "Loss of SS Bida". Retrieved 3 September 2013.
  13. ↑ "1893 - 1920". St Ives Trust. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
  14. ↑ "Bell from Harvey's ship given by divers to heritage centre". The Cornishman. 15 October 2015. p. 5.
  15. ↑ "The Loss of a G.C.R. Steamer". Hull Daily Mail. England. 10 December 1903. Retrieved 10 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  16. ↑ "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
Ship events in 1903
Ship launches: 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
Ship commissionings: 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
Ship decommissionings: 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
Shipwrecks: 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
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