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List of shipwrecks in 1901

The list of shipwrecks in 1901 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1901.

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January edit

3 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1901
Ship State Description
Doretta   United States The steamer ran aground and sank in Ramshorn Creek in South Carolina. Later raised.[1]

7 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1901
Ship State Description
Tenzer   United Kingdom The ketch foundered off Padstow harbour after striking a rock. The crew landed on the ship's boat.[2]

8 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1901
Ship State Description
Sunrise   United States The steamer struck an obstruction in the Red River and sank off Caspiana Plantation, Louisiana. Later raised.[3]

10 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1901
Ship State Description
E. A. Hawes   United States The steamer sank at dock reportedly by being caught under the dock on a rising tide at Wilmington, North Carolina.[4]
Osceola   United States The steamer struck an obstruction in Grand Lake, Louisiana and sank off Pigeon Point, a total loss.[3]
Wenatchee   United States The 77 GRT sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Wenatchee, Washington. All five people on board survived.[5]

11 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1901
Ship State Description
Unknown   United States The Scow, under tow of Dewitt C. Ivins (  United States), sank off Sandy Hook, New Jersey. One crewman was killed.[6]

14 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1901
Ship State Description
Vigilancia   United States The steamer stranded on the Colorado Reef off the Coast of Cuba, west of Havana, Cuba. She was refloated 2 June 1901 and taken to New York city, declared a total loss, but repaired by 20 May 1902.[6][7]

16 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1901
Ship State Description
HMS Sybille   Royal Navy The Apollo-class protected cruiser was wrecked at Lambert's Bay, South Africa.[8]

17 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1901
Ship State Description
Beulah Benton   United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with Pilot Boy (  United States) near Rantowles Creek, South Carolina.[4]

18 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1901
Ship State Description
Kaisari   United Kingdom The London steamer was wrecked on the coast of Réunion during a cyclone. Nineteen Lascars drowned along with four British officers and the captain.[9]

19 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1901
Ship State Description
City of Louisville   United States The laid up steamer burned at Benton Harbor, Michigan, apparently a total loss. Her watchman was killed.[10][11]
Edna   United States The tug was wrecked on the east side of Chesapeake Bay after a line fouled her propeller.[4]
Marie Celine   France The schooner sank near Falmouth, Cornwall.[12]
Moen Tryvan   United Kingdom The sailing ship capsized and sank in the English Channel in a gale from shifting ballast. Ten crew died, 8 rescued by a French fishing boat.[13]

20 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1901
Ship State Description
Eli Shriver Jr.   United States The steamer sank at dock in Bayonne, New Jersey. Later raised and repaired.[14]

26 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1901
Ship State Description
Unnamed   Spain The fishing fleet lost one boat and twenty-three lives during a storm.[15]

28 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1901
Ship State Description
Buckeye State   United States The steamer burned in the Mississippi River off Barfield Point, Arkansas, a total loss. One crewman killed.[16]
Gardenia   United States The steamer was blown ashore by high winds and sunk in Capers Creek, South Carolina.[4]
Holland   United Kingdom The London steamer bound for Rotterdam sank near the Hook of Holland during a storm. Four passengers and eleven crew drowned.[15]
Lanarkshire   United Kingdom The barque was abandoned in the North Sea 6 nautical miles (11 km) north west of the Noord Hinder Lightship (  Netherlands). She subsequently foundered.[17]

29 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1901
Ship State Description
Vincennes   United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Wabash River at Vincennes, Indiana. Raised and repaired.[1]

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: Unknown January 1901
Ship State Description
Hannah   United Kingdom The schooner was abandoned in the Irish Sea. She came ashore on 28 January at Mwnt, Cardiganshire and was wrecked.[18]
Maxim   United States The 117 GRT schooner departed San Francisco, California, bound for Eureka, California, with six people aboard and was never heard from again.[19]

February edit

3 February edit

List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1901
Ship State Description
Daisy   United States The steamship was towing barges loaded with stone on the Warrior River, Alabama when she became unmanageable due to wind and tide and went over the dam at Lock #6. The loaded barges then fell upon her, resulting in a complete wreck. One crewman killed.[20]

4 February edit

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1901
Ship State Description
Goonglaze   United Kingdom The St Agnes, Cornwall schooner foundered near Peppercombe Castle, in Bideford Bay. Four bodies were washed ashore near Westward Ho!, Devon.[21][22]
Janie Vivian   United Kingdom The Padstow, Cornwall schooner was driven ashore, near her home port, on the sands below Bray Hill in the Camel estuary. She was taking grain to Cardiff and all the crew survived.[22]
McPherson   United States
 
The wrecked transport McPherson, looking from seaward.
The U.S. Army transport ran aground on a reef about 8 miles (13 km) west of Matanzas.[23] All crew and passengers rescued. Refloated later in the year and sold for scrap.

5 February edit

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1901
Ship State Description
Bob Connell   United States The steamer struck a sunken Flat in the Monongahela River near Woods Run and sank.[16]

6 February edit

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1901
Ship State Description
New York Central No. 11   United States The tow steamer caught fire at her slip at Sixty-Fifth Street in the North River. She was towed to the Weehawken Flats and flooded to put out the fire.[6]

12 February edit

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1901
Ship State Description
Scow No.38   United States The scow was lost off Scotland Lightship. One crewman killed.[14]

15 February edit

List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1901
Ship State Description
Gem   United States The steamer struck a snag in the Red River and sank. Later raised.[3]

16 February edit

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1901
Ship State Description
Rosa B.   United States The steamer was destroyed by fire while lying at Farmersville, Louisiana.[3]

19 February edit

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1901
Ship State Description
Julien Marie   France The brigantine ran aground at St. Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The crew were rescued by lifeboat[24][25]

20 February edit

List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1901
Ship State Description
Curlew   United States The tug was sunk in a collision with Robert S. Bradley (  United States) in Boston Harbor.[4]

21 February edit

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1901
Ship State Description
Alert   Australia The Tug foundered off Nambucca Heads.[26]

22 February edit

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1901
Ship State Description
City of Rio de Janeiro   United States The Pacific Mail Steamship Company-owned passenger ship struck rocks and sank off Fort Point, San Francisco in 320 feet (98 m) of water in dense fog near the entrance to San Francisco Bay. About 127–135 were lost, of whom 68 were passengers.[27][28][29]
Surprise   United States The steamer was blown ashore in a gale at Koloa, Island of Kauai, Territory of Hawaii, a total loss.[14]

25 February edit

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1901
Ship State Description
Iliamma   United States The disabled 17-ton, 40-foot (12.2 m) schooner – adrift with one man aboard since 25 November 1900, when she slipped her moorings at Unga on Unga Island in the Shumagin Islands off the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula in the Territory of Alaska – was wrecked on the coast of Kagalaska Island in the Andreanof Islands subgroup of the Aleutian Islands during a gale. The man on board her survived.[30]

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: unknown February 1901
Ship State Description
Commonwealth   United States The schooner left Gloucester, Massachusetts on 22 January. Believed lost in a blizzard in the first week of February on the Georges Bank. Lost with all 17 crew.[31][32][33]
County of Haddington   United Kingdom The Sailing ship departed New York City for Shanghai on 2 February and vanished. Lost with all 25 hands.[13]

March edit

1 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1901
Ship State Description
Indiana   United Kingdom Following a collision, the abandoned Hull steamer went ashore in the English Channel at Worthing.[34]

3 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1901
Ship State Description
Anna   United States After dragging her anchors during a storm, the 227-ton, 117-foot (35.7 m) schooner was blown ashore and wrecked at Company Harbor (54°29′N 162°49′W / 54.483°N 162.817°W / 54.483; -162.817 (Company Harbor)) on the western end of Sanak Island in the Aleutian Islands. Her crew of eight survived.[35]

8 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1901
Ship State Description
Aviona   United Kingdom The Glasgow vessel sank at the entrance to Bilbao harbour. Twenty-three of the crew lost their lives.[36]

14 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1901
Ship State Description
Voorspoed   Netherlands The Amsterdam schooner ran aground at Perranporth, near Chapel Rock. The crew escaped via the breeches buoy. The vessel was carrying coal and machinery from Cardiff to Brazil.[37][38]

16 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1901
Ship State Description
Willamette   United States The steamer was wrecked in thick fog at Village Point Reef, British Columbia. She was abandoned on 20 March.[39]

17 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1901
Ship State Description
Bee   Australia The steamship was wrecked in Picnic Bay, Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia.

19 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1901
Ship State Description
Transit   United States The steamer struck rocks at the Falls of the Ohio, Lexington, Kentucky and sank. Raised and repaired.[1]

21 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1901
Ship State Description
Rose   United Kingdom The brigantine ran aground on the Res Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Kent, and sank with the loss of four of her seven crew. Survivors were rescued by Eliza Harriet (  Royal National Lifeboat Institution).[40]

22 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1901
Ship State Description
Josie Siverly   United States The steamer was pushed onto the bank at Vicksburg, Mississippi when Belle of the Bends (  United States) tried to make a landing and swung in against her. She was then wrecked by a rising tide and high winds.[3]

26 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1901
Ship State Description
M. D. Wayman   United States The steamer struck an obstruction in the Allegheny River near Herrs Island Dam and sank in 18 feet (5 m) of water. Later raised.[16]

28 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1901
Ship State Description
Tay   United Kingdom The steamer collided with Chemuitz and sank off Flushing, while en route to Antwerp from London. There were three survivors out of sixteen on board.[41]

29 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1901
Ship State Description
Annie M. Bauer   United States The tow steamer sprang a leak and sank in New York Bay off Erie Basin, Brooklyn. Two crewmen killed. Survivors rescued by John L. Berwind (  United States).[14]
Edgewater   United States The lighter was sunk in a collision with Elizabeth (  United States) off Pier 13 in the North River.[14]

April edit

1 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1901
Ship State Description
Amelia   United States The steamer struck the ferry cable, capsized, and sank in the Suwanee River at Dudleyville, Florida. One crewman killed.[20]

2 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1901
Ship State Description
Upolu   United States The steamer struck a submerged rock at Puoko, Territory of Hawaii and was ordered abandoned by her owners the next day, a total loss.[14]

5 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1901
Ship State Description
Eillen   United States The steamer was capsized by a gale and sunk in the Mississippi River near Owens Bar.[16]

7 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1901
Ship State Description
Ivernia   United States The steam oyster boat sank at dock at American Oyster Company, Providence, Rhode Island. Raised shortly after.[4]

8 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1901
Ship State Description
Glenerie   United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with John McCausland (  United States) near the mouth of Rondout Creek.[4]

10 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1901
Ship State Description
USAT Rawlins   United States The United States Army Transport sank at Brooklyn Army pier with deck awash from volume of water pumped from six engines, two trucks and three fireboats responding to engine room fire. Damage was estimated at $20,000 to refloat and $50,000 to repair.[42]

13 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1901
Ship State Description
Awashonks   United States The laid up passenger steamer was destroyed by fire at Tiverton, Rhode Island, possibly by Arson.[4]
Majestic   United States The steamer struck an obstruction or wreck off Dan Baker and was beached off Delaware City where she sank. Pumped out the next day.[4]
Palos   United States The yacht was destroyed by fire at Detroit, Michigan.[16]

17 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1901
Ship State Description
City of Charleston   United States The steamer blown from her moorings in a severe windstorm at Bridgeport, Alabama and sunk.[16]

19 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1901
Ship State Description
Will J. Cummins   United States The steamer was blown in a severe windstorm onto shore at Beech Creek Island and sunk on an obstruction.[16]

20 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1901
Ship State Description
Alcedo   United States The steamer was sunk by a flat she was trying to land. Later raised.[43]
Karagola   United Kingdom The steamship burned in Akyab, Burma, and was scuttled to quench the fire. Her wreck was later raised, condemned, and scrapped.[44]
Robert McKinley   United States The steamer burned and sank in the Monongahela River near Fayette City, Pennsylvania.[43]

21 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1901
Ship State Description
Seham   Ottoman Navy The Nasir-class torpedo boat was sunk by a boiler explosion in the outer harbor of Beirut. 27 crewmen were killed.

22 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 22 April 1901
Ship State Description
Colorado   United States While under tow from Juneau, Territory of Alaska, to Tacoma, Washington, by the tug Pilot (  United Kingdom) and carrying a cargo of 1,098 tons of sulphurite concentrate, the 983-ton barge was wrecked on a reef in Wrangell Narrows opposite Anchor Point (56°38′15″N 132°55′35″W / 56.63750°N 132.92639°W / 56.63750; -132.92639 (Anchor Point)) in Southeast Alaska. She became a total loss.[45]

23 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1901
Ship State Description
Emma C. Knowles   United States The schooner was damaged in a collision with Allianca (  United States) off Barnegat Light. Crew taken off by Allianca. Still afloat the next morning, but in sinking condition with decks awash in bad weather.[14]
Samuel Ricker   United States The schooner was sunk in a collision in dense fog with Pilgrim (  United States) six miles (9.7 km) west of Cornfield Lightship in Long Island Sound. Her master was reported missing.[4]
Vulcan   United States The steamer was holed by a log and sunk in the Willamette River off Swan Island, Oregon.[39]

24 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1901
Ship State Description
Pilgrim   United States The steamer burned and sank at Ballard, Washington.[14]

May edit

7 May edit

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1901
Ship State Description
Tantallon Castle   United Kingdom The mail steamer was wrecked on Robben Island, approaching Cape Town, South Africa, from Southampton, United Kingdom in fog. All passengers and crew were rescued; the ship broke up in the following days.[46][47]

10 May edit

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1901
Ship State Description
Bon Voyage   United States The steamer caught fire between Ontonagon, Michigan and Hancock, Michigan. She was beached and burned to the waterline. four passengers killed. 33 survivors.[48]
France   France The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean (approximately 34°S 48°W / 34°S 48°W / -34; -48). Her crew were later rescued by Hebe (  Germany). France was on a voyage from North Shields, County Durham to Valparaiso, Chile. France was sighted on 13 May by Josefa (  Spain). Presumed subsequently foundered.[49]

11 May edit

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1901
Ship State Description
Climax   United States The two-thirds complete steamer burned at Wilmington, North Carolina by a spreading warehouse fire.[1]

12 May edit

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1901
Ship State Description
City of Paducah   United States The steamer struck a submerged obstacle and sank in 20 feet (6 m) of water at Brunckhorsts Landing, Illinois, a total loss. Two passengers killed.[50]

14 May edit

List of shipwrecks: 14 May 1901
Ship State Description
Owensboro   United States The steamer burned and sank at Calhoun, Kentucky. Two crewmen killed.[1]

18 May edit

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1901
Ship State Description
R. K. Wells   United States The steamer, laid up at Charleston, West Virginia sprung a leak and sank, then burned to the waters edge, then the lower section drifted away.[16]

21 May edit

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1901
Ship State Description
Zenith   United States The tug struck a rock, rolled over, and sank in 20 feet (6 m) of water at the Mesaba Ore Dock. Raised and repaired.[1]

24 May edit

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1901
Ship State Description
Baltimore   United States The steamer struck a Reef, broke in two foundered in a gale near Au Sable Township, Iosco County, Michigan on Gull Island Reef in Lake Huron. Her engine and boiler salvaged in Oct/Nov, 1901, rest of equipment salvaged in 1903. 13 crewmen killed.[51][52]
Dubuque   United States The steamer struck an obstruction in the Mississippi River three miles (4.8 km) below Keithsburg, Illinois between Buoy #192 and Buoy #193 and sank in seven and a half feet (2.3 m) of water. Later raised and repaired.[1]
Empire State   United States The steamer sprung a leak and was beached near Brockville, Ontario, Canada.[3]
Walston   United States The barge was punctured by an obstruction as the tide dropped off Roach's Shipyard, Chester, Pennsylvania and she sank.[4]

25 May edit

List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1901
Ship State Description
Louise   United States The steamer was sunk in the Black River near Poplar Bluff, Missouri by a falling tree.[16]

27 May edit

List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1901
Ship State Description
Dubuque   United States The steamer struck a submerged stump and sank in 7 1/2 feet of water in the Mississippi River 3 miles below Keithsburg, Illinois between Lights 192 and 193. Raised, taken to Dubuque, Iowa, and repaired.[53]

29 May edit

List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1901
Ship State Description
Unknown coal boats   United States Eight coal boats were sunk when their tow, Acorn (  United States), struck a bridge pier in fog at Kenova, West Virginia.[54]

June edit

1 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1901
Ship State Description
George S. Ross   United States The steamer was wrecked and abandoned after her boiler exploded at Bull Creek in the Allegheny River. Her Captain was killed.[54]

2 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1901
Ship State Description
Mataafa   United States The steamship ran aground on Knife Island Reef in Lake Superior. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

4 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1901
Ship State Description
Ranald   United Kingdom The steamship capsized and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Atlantic City, New Jersey, where she had anchored the previous day after her cargo of asphalt melted in hot weather and flowed throughout her holds, causing her to take on a dangerous list. Her crew made it to shore safely.[55][56]

7 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1901
Ship State Description
Balaena   United States The whaler was wrecked on an uncharted reef in thick fog three miles (4.8 km) south south east of Cape Chitnak, St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea.[39]

8 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1901
Ship State Description
John S. Heath   United States The tug capsized and sank while under tow by Wm. S. Anderson (  United States) in the Buttermilk Channel. A boilermaker on board making repairs to the boiler was killed. Survivors rescued by a passing steamer.[14]

11 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1901
Ship State Description
J. P. Gage   United States The steamer struck a log and sank in the Arkansas River between Dardanelle, Arkansas and St. Charles, Missouri.[16]

12 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1901
Ship State Description
Harry Waltz   United States The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Arkansas River between Dardanelle, Arkansas and Lockharts Landing, Arkansas. Raised and repaired.[16]

14 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 14 June 1901
Ship State Description
Northfield   United States The Ferry was damaged in a collision with Mauch Chunk (  United States) off The Battery, sinking off the end of Pier 9 in the East River. Five passengers killed. Survivors rescued by tugboats.[14]

17 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1901
Ship State Description
John B. Robinson   United States The steamer struck the bar at D'Arbonne Island in the Ouachita River and sank. Later raised.[3]

18 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1901
Ship State Description
Julia R.   United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at Six Mile Lake near Morgan City, Louisiana.[3]

23 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1901
Ship State Description
Unknown   United States The coal elevator Barge, under tow by Erie (  United States), capsized in a sudden squall between Elizabethport, New Jersey and Bayonne, New Jersey. One person drowned.[6]

26 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1901
Ship State Description
Lusitania   United Kingdom The ship was built by Laird Brothers in Birkenhead in 1871. Her original owners were the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. She was sold to Elder Dempster Line in 1900 and plied the Liverpool to Canada run. En route to Canada on 26 June 1901 she was lost in fog near the Newfoundland coast. Off course, the ship ended up on the rocks. Some of the crew threatened the passengers and a day later passengers began to panic. The crew then restored order. All occupants of the vessel survived.[57]

28 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1901
Ship State Description
Sir Luke   United States The steamer was wrecked in a Gale between Portage Bay and Vans Harbor, Michigan. Her boiler and machinery was salvaged.[58]

29 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1901
Ship State Description
Mohawk   United States The passenger steamer struck a reef and sank in the Huckleberry Channel, sinking in 13 feet (4 m) of water. Raised and returned to service.[14]

30 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1901
Ship State Description
Fern   United States The wrecking steamer sank while salvaging iron from wrecks on Eagle River Reef in Lake Superior. Lost with all five crew.[58]

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: unknown June 1901
Ship State Description
Omar D. Conger   United States The steamer burned and sank at dock in the Black River, Port Huron, Michigan on 23 or 27 June. Raised and rebuilt at Port Huron, Michigan.[10][59]

July edit

4 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1901
Ship State Description
Alert   United States The fishing steamer was punctured by an obstruction off Barnegat, New Jersey, she was then wrecked on near by shoals.[4]

5 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1901
Ship State Description
Orlando   United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the White River 2 miles above Peach Orchard Bluff, a total loss.[60]

6 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 6 July 1901
Ship State Description
Old Dominion   United States The passenger steamer ran aground at Rye Neck, New York in thick fog. Refloated and taken to New York City 10 August.[61]
Venice   United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Monongahela River near Fayette City, Pennsylvania. Vessel abandoned.[16]

12 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1901
Ship State Description
Lizzie Reid   United States The steamer burned at Gettysburg, South Dakota and sank in eight feet (2.4 m) of water, a total loss.[1]
Walter Thomas   United Kingdom The 2,213 GRT steamship sank after a collision with Romney off Europa Point, Straits of Gibraltar on a voyage from Penarth to Derindje

13 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 13 July 1901
Ship State Description
Charles D. Lane   United States While towing the schooner Vega (  United States), the 1,608-net register ton, 325.5-foot (99.2 m) fishing vessel was stranded in thick fog at Cape Mohican (60°12′N 167°25′W / 60.200°N 167.417°W / 60.200; -167.417 (Cape Mohican)) on the northwest end of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea. By the evening of 16 July, she had filled with sand and water, a total loss. Vega rescued all 53 people aboard Charles D. Lane.[45]

15 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 15 July 1901
Ship State Description
Blanche   United Kingdom The 234 GRT steamship was wrecked on Île-Tudy on voyage Cardiff, Wales, to Quimper, France.[62]
Oakland   United States With a crew of 12 and a cargo of 900 tons of lumber and shingles aboard, the 534 GRT 150.8-foot (46.0 m) bark was wrecked without loss of life on a reef 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) from the entrance to the harbor at Port Clarence, Territory of Alaska.[63]

16 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1901
Ship State Description
Tremont   United States The steamer was damaged in a collision with the yacht Wild Duck (  United States) two miles (3.2 km) west of Plum Island in Long Island Sound. She was towed to New London, Connecticut where she sank.[4]

18 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1901
Ship State Description
Grampus   United States The 326-ton steam whaling bark was beached on the coast of the Territory of Alaska near Point Barrow after suffering ice damage. She was condemned.[64]

20 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1901
Ship State Description
City of Metropolis   United States The laid up steamer, in custody of the United States Marshals Service, burned to the waterline in Quincy Bay, Illinois, a total loss.[1]
Peter Hontz   United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank near Rumsey, Kentucky in the Green River. Raised and repaired.[1]

24 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1901
Ship State Description
Stella   United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at Columbia, Louisiana on the Ouachita River.[3]

25 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1901
Ship State Description
Edna   United States The steamer struck a snag near Lockport, Louisiana and sank in Bayou Lafourche.[3]
Monhegan   United States The sailing Yacht was wrecked on Assatigue Beach, a total loss.[65]

26 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1901
Ship State Description
Empire   New South Wales The Bark caught fire in a gale while anchored in the Harbor of Mahukona, Territory of Hawaii, her anchor line parted and she drifted westward out to sea. She was abandoned by her crew after they were unable to extinguish the fire and she blew out to sea blazing, a total loss.[66]
Jos Goldsmith   United States The tug sank in a storm in Maumee Bay.[3]

29 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 29 July 1901
Ship State Description
Sagamore   United States The whaleback barge was rammed by the steamship Northern Queen (flag unknown) while at anchor in fog in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior, off the coast of Michigan and sank with the loss of three lives. Her five survivors were rescued by Northern Queen.

August edit

3 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1901
Ship State Description
HMS Viper   Royal Navy The Viper-class torpedo boat destroyer foundered on rocks at Alderney in the Channel Islands during naval manoeuvers. All aboard survived.[67][68]

4 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1901
Ship State Description
Ada Barrett   United States The steamer sank at dock in Duluth, Minnesota due to an open seacock.[1]
Ford City   United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Ohio River near Legionville, Pennsylvania. Later raised.[16]

6 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 6 August 1901
Ship State Description
Frank Pigeon Jr.   United States The tug sank at dock at Pusey & Jones' Wharf, Wilmington, Delaware. Pumped out the next day.[4]

7 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1901
Ship State Description
James Sennett   United States During a voyage in ballast from Nome and St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, to Port Townsend, Washington with a crew of 12 aboard, the 693 GRT, 194.5-foot (59.3 m) four-masted schooner was wrecked without loss of life in Unimak Pass just south of Sennett Point (54°29′00″N 164°54′30″W / 54.48333°N 164.90833°W / 54.48333; -164.90833 (Sennett Point)) and 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) north of Scotch Cap on the coast of Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands.[30]

8 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1901
Ship State Description
Dewing & Sons   United States The steamer sank near Lock #7 in the Monongahela River due to a supply pipe rusting through. Later raised.[16]

12 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1901
Ship State Description
Laura May   United States While under tow by the steamship Fram (  United States) and carrying a crew of 23 and a cargo of 90 tons of salted salmon in 800 barrels, the 234 GRT, 121.6-foot (37.1 m) three-masted schooner was wrecked without loss of life in the Kvichak River near the Bristol Bay coast of the Territory of Alaska.[69]

14 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1901
Ship State Description
Biloxi   United States 1901 Louisiana hurricane: The tug foundered in the storm near the Quarantine Station, Louisiana in the Mississippi River. Two crewmen killed.[3]
Maunsell White   United States 1901 Louisiana hurricane: The laid up steamer was wrecked during the storm at Quarantine Station, Louisiana in the Mississippi River.[3]

15 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1901
Ship State Description
Evelyn   United Kingdom 1901 Louisiana hurricane: The steamer went ashore 15 miles (24 km) west of the Santa Rosa Island, Florida Life Saving station during the storm. Later refloated.[70]
Islander   United Kingdom With 109 passengers and 62 crew members aboard, the Canadian Pacific Steam Navigation Company-owned twin-screw 240-foot (73.2 m) passenger-cargo steamship struck an iceberg and sank in 365 feet (111 m) of water off Douglas Island at the foot of Lynn Canal near Juneau, Territory of Alaska, United States. Newspapers reported that up to 70 people lost their lives, while official reports place the death toll at 45. She was refloated in 1934 and towed into shallow water.[71]
Neptune   United States 1901 Louisiana hurricane: The steamer foundered at dock in the storm at Milneburg, Louisiana in Lake Pontchartrain. Later raised.[3]
Tortugas   United States 1901 Louisiana hurricane: The lumber schooner was sunk in a collision at Pensacola, Florida while seeking refuge during the storm.[70]

18 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1901
Ship State Description
Vermont   United States The steamer burned at West Seattle, Washington.[14]

19 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1901
Ship State Description
City of Golconda   United States The steamer capsized in a severe windstorm near the Cottonwood Bar in the Ohio River between Elizabethtown, Illinois and Paducah, Kentucky. 11 passengers and 4 crewmen killed.[16]

21 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1901
Ship State Description
George Stauber   United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with Alexander McDougall (  United States) in the St. Clair River off Ft. Gratiot.[3]

23 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1901
Ship State Description
Rambler   United States The tug caught fire at Diamond Street Wharf, Wilmington, Delaware and was sunk by the fire department's efforts to fight the fire.[4]

24 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1901
Ship State Description
Dauntless   United States The steamer was damaged in a collision with Mary Garratt (  United States) near Kentucky Landing on the San Joaquin River and was beached to prevent sinking.[39]

25 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1901
Ship State Description
Noranmore   Belgium The W Johnston & Co.-owned cargo ship capsized and sank off Athens, Greece.[72]

26 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1901
Ship State Description
Oakland   New South Wales The passenger-cargo ship ran aground at the mouth of the Richmond River in New South Wales, Australia. Although declared a total loss, she was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

27 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1901
Ship State Description
George Law   United States The 414 GRT sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Camden, New Jersey. All nine people on board survived.[73]
Ida E. Comly   United States The sailing vessel sank after colliding with the steamship Endevor (  United States) in the Chesapeake Bay.[4]

28 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1901
Ship State Description
City of Trenton   United States The steamers' port boiler exploded and she caught fire in the Delaware River off Torresdale, Pennsylvania burning all woodwork, and was beached on the Pennsylvania side of the river. 24 killed.[74][75]

30 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1901
Ship State Description
Eliza H. Strong   United States The steamer sprang a leak and became waterlogged on Lake Superior. She was towed to Munising, Michigan and beached. Her crew was rescued by Courageous (  United States). Refloated and taken to Buffalo, New York for repairs.[76][77]
M. Sicken   United States The steamer was sunk at dock when Curry (  United States) swung wide and her stern hit M. Sicken in the Blackwell Canal, Buffalo, New York.[3]
Mary E. Justice   United States The steamer sprang a leak in the Delaware River off Brambles Point and sank in 11 feet (3 m) of water.[4]

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: Unknown August 1901
Ship State Description
City of Clifton   United States The steamer sank at 76 Landing a short distance above Grand Tower, Illinois sometime in August. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[78]
Neptune   Russia 1901 Louisiana hurricane: The barque sailed from Pensacola, Florida for Montevideo on 10 August and was probably sunk by the hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico on 12 August, never seen again.[79]
Unknown schooners   United States 1901 Louisiana hurricane: Four fishing schooners were sunk at Pensacola, Florida.[79]

September edit

3 September edit

List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1901
Ship State Description
Brigantine   United States The steamer sank in 12 feet (4 m) of water at a wharf in Atlantic City, New Jersey.[4]

4 September edit

List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1901
Ship State Description
Gold Dust   United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at Hardins Landing, Kentucky.[1]
Mary F. Perley   United States The paddle steamer burned at Alki Point in Puget Sound.[14][80]
SMS Wacht   Imperial German Navy The Wacht-class aviso sank after a colliding with the ironclad SMS Sachsen (  Imperial German Navy) off Germany. All crew survived.

8 September edit

List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1901
Ship State Description
Twilight   United States The steamer struck an obstruction entering Periwig and sank to her main deck. Pumped out on 11 September and towed to Camden, New Jersey for repairs.[4]

15 September edit

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1901
Ship State Description
Monitor   United States The 15 GRT screw steamer sank in the Grand River in Ohio, possibly at Grand River itself. All six people on board survived.[73][81]

16 September edit

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1901
Ship State Description
Hudson   United States The steamer foundered in a heavy gale eight miles (13 km) off Eagle River in Lake Superior. Lost with all 24 crew.[58][82]

18 September edit

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1901
Ship State Description
Seabright   United States The steamer dragged anchor and was wrecked at the mouth of the Cape Fear River in a heavy gale and broke up.[1]

19 September edit

List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1901
Ship State Description
HMS Cobra   Royal Navy The Cobra-class destroyer broke her back and sank due to design weakness near Cromer, Norfolk. 67 crew were lost.
Stewart   United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Ogdensburg, New York.[83]

20 September edit

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1901
Ship State Description
Fedora   United States The steamer was destroyed by fire between Duluth, Minnesota and Ashland.[1]
Hallette   United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Mississippi River.[16]

23 September edit

List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1901
Ship State Description
City of Clifton   United States The steamer struck an obstruction in the Mississippi River and sank in nine feet (3 m) of water. Raised and repaired.[1]
Highland   United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at the Marine Iron Works Dock in the Chicago River.[48]

24 September edit

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1901
Ship State Description
Edna   United States The ferry burned in the Missouri River off St. James, Nebraska, a total loss.[1]
Unknown scow   United States The dumper scow, under the tow of John Fleming (  United States), capsized and sank off the Sandy Hook Light.[84]

26 September edit

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1901
Ship State Description
Julia   United States The steamer struck an obstruction in the Snag Island Chute in the Mississippi River and sank in four feet (1.2 m) of water. Later raised.[1]

October edit

2 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1901
Ship State Description
James A. Morris   United States The tug was destroyed by fire off Sunnyside Island in the Hudson River.[4]
M.M. Drake   United States The steam barge sank in Lake Superior after colliding with the schooner barge Michigan (  United States), which she was towing, while she was taking Michigan's crew off after Michigan began to sink during a gale. All hands from M. M. Drake and all but one crew member from Michigan, who drowned leaving M.M. Drake, were rescued by the cargo ships Crescent City and Northern Wave (both   United States).[58]
Michigan   United States The schooner barge was abandoned when her seams parted and she began to sink during a gale with heavy seas on Lake Superior while she was under tow by the steam barge M.M. Drake (  United States). She collided while M. M. Drake while M. M. Drake was taking off her crew. Michigan was not seen again.[58]

4 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1901
Ship State Description
Unknown canal boat   United States The canal boat, under tow of E. C. Baker (  United States), was sunk in a collision with Goldsboro (  United States) off Wall Street, New York City, in the East River.[84]

6 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1901
Ship State Description
Nannine   United States The steamer burned at dock at Wilmington Island, Georgia.[1]

7 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1901
Ship State Description
Lafayette   United States The steamer caught fire off College Wharf in the Delaware River and was abandoned by her crew.[4]

10 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1901
Ship State Description
Gowanus   United States The steamer split a seam and sank at dock in Gowanus Creek. Later raised.[4]

13 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1901
Ship State Description
City of Paris   United States On 12 or 13 October the sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by fire while winter quarters on the Koyukuk River at Bergman, Territory of Alaska (66°30′N 152°53′W / 66.500°N 152.883°W / 66.500; -152.883 (Bergman, Alaska)). The fire reportedly was started by people who had boarded her in a search for liquor to steal.[45][65]

14 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1901
Ship State Description
Carrie Currens   United States The steamer foundered in a storm while under tow between Port Eads, Louisiana and Port Arthur, Texas.[20]

18 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1901
Ship State Description
State of Michigan   United States The steamer sprung a leak and sank two miles (3.2 km) offshore between Muskegon, Michigan and White Lake.[48]

19 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1901
Ship State Description
L'Esperance   Belgium The F Alexander-owned cargo ship was wrecked off the Skalskar Lighthouse, Finland.[72]
Samuel J. Christian   United States The tug collided with John J. Albright (  United States) and sank, a total loss. Her master, cook and fireman were killed.[85]
Swallow   United States The cargo steamer foundered in a gale 10 or 18 miles (29 km) west of Long Point in Lake Erie. The crew made it to the barge Manitu that she had been towing.[86][87]

20 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1901
Ship State Description
City of Cleveland   United States The steamer in fog struck a rock and sank opposite Ballards Reef in the Detroit River.[16]

22 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1901
Ship State Description
A. J. Goddard   United States The Klondike Gold Rush-era sternwheeler was named after Seattle businessman Albert J. Goddard. She was built for use on the Upper Yukon River in Canada. Her prefabricated components were built in San Francisco and shipped to Skagway, Alaska. She sank in a storm on Lake Laberge on 22 October 1901. Her wreck was discovered in 2008 by Doug Davidge.
Elizabeth   United States The ferry caught fire off Jersey City. She returned to her slip and evacuated passengers and then was beached on Communipaw Flats.[4]

26 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1901
Ship State Description
Helen Miller Gould   United States The auxiliary fishing motor schooner was destroyed by fire at North Sydney, Nova Scotia.[88][89]

29 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1901
Ship State Description
Bluestone   United States The tug sank at her dock when her bow was caught under the dock by a rising tide resulting her flooding through the bunker holes.[4]
Unknown barges   United States The barges, under tow of Thomas Purcell, Jr. (  United States), were damaged in a collision with Buenaventura (  United States) in the North River. They were towed to Communipaw Flats where they sank.[90]
Unknown scow   United States The scow capsized and sank off the Sandy Hook Light. One crewman killed.[4]
Walrus   United States The steamer burned between Edmonds, Washington and Ballard, Washington.[14]

November edit

2 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1901
Ship State Description
Phoenix   United States The tow steamer was swept by the tide into a collision with another vessel and sunk in San Francisco Bay. Raised and repaired. One crewman killed.[39]

4 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1901
Ship State Description
Ondine   United States The steamer struck an obstruction in the Mississippi River near Andalusia, Illinois and sank in seven feet (2.1 m) of water. Later raised and repaired.[1]

6 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1901
Ship State Description
Ida L. Tebo   United States The tug was sunk in a collision in Hell Gate with the tug Wrestler (  United States).[4]

7 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1901
Ship State Description
A. B. Taylor   United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at Grand Haven, Michigan.[48]

9 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1901
Ship State Description
G. W. Wright   United States The tow steamer caught fire and sank at a dock at Ninety Ninth Street in the North River.[4]
Oriole   United States While towing the barges Nome City and Reception (  United States), the 6 GRT, 33.7-foot (10.3 m) steamship was carried out by ice and wrecked on the beach on the coast of the Territory of Alaska at the entrance to Kotzebue Sound about 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) east of Cape Espenberg. Her crew survived.[63]

10 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1901
Ship State Description
S. S. Brewster   United States The steamer was trapped under a dock by the rising tide and was flooded and sunk at Georgetown, South Carolina.[1]

13 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1901
Ship State Description
Beauchamp   Royal National Lifeboat Institution The lifeboat capsized off Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, England, with the loss of eight lives. Three of her crew survived.

14 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1901
Ship State Description
Richmond   United States The passenger steamer burned at Fredericksburg, Virginia.[4]
Wenona   United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with Regulator (  United States) in the Willamette River off Post Office Bar, Oregon.[14]

16 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1901
Ship State Description
Paul Le Roux   United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Rensselaer, New York.[4]
Titania   United Kingdom The barquentine, owned by Bowring Brothers, was wrecked in Pound Bay, Trepassey, Newfoundland, with loss of one crewmenber.[91]

19 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1901
Ship State Description
Fred Hartweg   United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Mississippi River.[16]

20 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1901
Ship State Description
Vigilant   United States The dredge was destroyed by fire near Blair, Pennsylvania due to gas escaping from the river bed while dredging being ignited by her furnace.[16]

22 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1901
Ship State Description
Fritz   United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Mississippi River while on the way to assist Fred Hartweg. Raised and repaired.[16]

23 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1901
Ship State Description
Robert Haddon   United States The tug drifted onto the beach at Long Branch, New Jersey after losing her rudder. Total loss.[4]
Unknown barge   United States The barge, under the tow of Navigator (  United States), was cut loose by her tow when a gale hit them off Manasquon, New Jersey and was blown ashore.[90]

24 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1901
Ship State Description
Grant   United States The barge was driven ashore 12 miles (19 km) north of Barnegat, New Jersey in a severe storm after breaking loose from the tug Eureka (  United States). All crewmen killed.[4]
Wilmore   United States The barge was driven ashore 12 miles (19 km) north of Barnegat, New Jersey in a severe storm after breaking loose from the tug Eureka (  United States). One crewman killed.[4]

27 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1901
Ship State Description
John K. Speed   United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Mississippi River near Presidents Island three miles (4.8 km) below Memphis, Tennessee.[16]

28 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1901
Ship State Description
Merle Spalding   United States The laid up steamer burned at Read's Landing Bay, Wisconsin, a total loss.[92]

29 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1901
Ship State Description
O. A. Crandall   United States The tug was sunk by ice, probably near Albany, New York.[4]
Occoquan   United States The steamer burned in Occoquan Creek on the Potomac River.[4]

30 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1901
Ship State Description
Chilian   United States The 248 GRT bark was lost when she struck a rock on the south side of Dutch Harbor on Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Islands. She was abandoned and was sold at auction on 7 December.[93]
Fearless   United States The 248-ton steam whaling bark was lost when she struck a rock while at anchor on the south side of Dutch Harbor on Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Islands. Her crew of 28 survived.[93]
San Rafael   United States The ferry collided with Sausalito (  United States) and sank in San Francisco Bay in dense fog. One crewman and two passengers killed.[39]

December edit

1 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1901
Ship State Description
Skagit Chief   United States The steamer ran aground in thick fog on Orchard Rocks, Washington in Puget Sound and broke in two.[14]

3 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1901
Ship State Description
Clara Brown   United States The steamer broached and was driven ashore at Alki Point, Washington.[14]

4 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1901
Ship State Description
C.H. Wheeler   United States
 
C.H. Wheeler
The schooner-rigged unpowered barge, adrift in the Pacific Ocean since her tow line broke on 27 November, was wrecked on the coast of Oregon near Yaquina Bay with the loss of one life. The barge's three survivors were rescued by a United States Life-Saving Service ( ) crew on the beach.

7 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1901
Ship State Description
Rodney   United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked on the coast of Cornwall.[94]

8 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1901
Ship State Description
Idlehour   United States The steamer burned to the waterline at dock at Elmwood Beach in the Niagara River.[3]

9 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1901
Ship State Description
Unknown barge   United States The barge, under the tow of Transfer No. 4 (  United States), was sunk in a collision with coal boats under the tow of Robert Robinson (  United States) in the East River.[95]

13 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1901
Ship State Description
R. A. Speed   United States The steamer was destroyed by fire lying at Paducah, Kentucky.[16]

15 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 15 December 1901
Ship State Description
Agnes   United States The tow steamer filled with water and sank at the Atlantic Dock in Brooklyn. Later raised.[4]
L. F. Malini   United States The steamer was destroyed by fire in Harveys Canal, Louisiana.[20]
Sindia   United States During a voyage from Kobe, Japan, to New York City, with a cargo of china, porcelain vases, bamboo, camphor, and manganese, the 3,068 GRT bark ran aground at Ocean City, New Jersey, during a storm. Her crew of 34 was rescued and most of her cargo was salvaged. Her wreck was a tourist attraction for many years, but eventually became buried in the sand.[55][96][97]

17 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1901
Ship State Description
Luna   United States The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Red River off Shady Grove Landing.[20]
Ruth   United States The steamer struck a snag and sank in 15 feet (4.6 m) of water in the Willamette River off Corvallis, Oregon.[14]
San Blas   United States The steamer was wrecked five miles (8.0 km) north of La Libertad, El Salvador.[39]

18 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1901
Ship State Description
J. E. Rumbell   United States The steamer sank at dock at Marinette, Wisconsin.[58]
Oscoda   United States The steamer sank in the Chicago River due to a broke plank. Pumped out and raised.[48]

19 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 19 December 1901
Ship State Description
Charlie Stone   United States The steamer, tied up at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, sprung a leak, broke loose, capsized and drifted two miles (3.2 km) downstream before grounding.[16]
Geo. D. Purdy   United States The pleasure steamer was destroyed by fire at Verona, North Carolina.[1]
Kanawha Belle   United States The steamer ran over Dam #3 in the Great Kanawha River and sank in 20 feet (6 m) of water. Eight crewmen killed. The rest of the crew and four passengers were rescued by Calvert (  United States). One of the passengers died on Calvert.[16]

21 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1901
Ship State Description
Highland   United States The steamer was sunk by ice in the Pocomoke River.[98]
Pere Marquette 16   United States The steamer was scuttled at Ludington, Michigan after she bottomed on a bar in a gale 200 yards (180 m) off the channel for the harbor causing steam pipes to break, killing one crewman and injuring two. The surviving crew were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[99]

23 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1901
Ship State Description
James T. Easton   United States The barge was sunk in a collision by Allan Joy (  United States) in the Harbor Channel of Bridgeport, Connecticut.[100]

25 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1901
Ship State Description
Sun   United States The steamer burned and sank at Memphis, Tennessee. Four passengers, a woman and her child, plus a married couple, were killed.[16][101]
T. C. Woodard   United States The steamer burned to the water's edge at Spottsville, Kentucky.[102]

29 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1901
Ship State Description
Clifford   United States The anchored lighter was sunk when hit by Newburgh (  United States) in dense fog off Ninety-fifth Street in the North River, Brooklyn. Later raised and repaired.[4]

31 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1901
Ship State Description
Hero   Norway The Kjaer & Isdal, (Bergen)-owned cargo ship ran aground between Baltimore, Ohio and Colón, Panama. The wreck was later refloated and sold.[72]

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: Unknown December 1901
Ship State Description
HMS Condor   Royal Navy During a voyage from Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, to Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, the screw sloop-of-war disappeared after parting company with the armoured cruiser HMS Warspite (  Royal Navy) on 2 December off British Columbia. She presumably foundered with the loss of all hands during a strong storm somewhere off Cape Flattery, Washington, on or about 3 December. One of her boats and wreckage later washed up on the coast of Vancouver Island and along the shore of Queen Charlotte Sound.[103][104][105]
Matteawan   United States
 
Matteawan
The steamship left Nanaimo, British Columbia on 2 December and was never seen again. Lost with all 33 crew.[39]

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1901
Ship State Description
Aloha   United States The 445 GRT steamship was wrecked on the southeast tip of Hinchinbrook Island on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. She became a total loss[35]
Balaena   United States The 390-net register ton, 149.5-foot (45.6 m) whaling steamer was wrecked on an uncharted reef off Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea on either 1 May or 7 June, according to various sources. All 50 people on board – nine passengers and a crew of 41 – survived. Her captain and some crewmembers reach Nome, Territory of Alaska, with news of the wreck on 21 June, and the whaler Alexander immediately left Nome for Saint Lawrence Island, where she rescued the passengers and the rest of the crew from the beach.[106]
Gardner   United States The river steamer was lost at Jones Point (65°07′N 166°38′W / 65.117°N 166.633°W / 65.117; -166.633 (Jones Point)) on the west-central coast of the Territory of Alaska.[64]
Norman Sunde   United States The schooner was wrecked on Five Fingers Island (57°17′30″N 133°40′15″W / 57.29167°N 133.67083°W / 57.29167; -133.67083 (Five Fingers Island)) in Southeast Alaska in 1900 or 1901.[107]
Nor'West   United States While laid up for the winter, the 8 GRT, 35.4-foot (10.8 m) schooner dragged her anchor during either the winter of 1901–1902 or the winter of 1902–1903 and was blown so far inland at the head of "Wrangell Bay" in the Territory of Alaska – probably Wrangell Bay (57°01′N 156°31′W / 57.017°N 156.517°W / 57.017; -156.517 (Wrangell Bay)) on Kodiak Island but possibly the harbor at Wrangell in Southeast Alaska – that she could not be relaunched. She was declared a total loss and was stripped and abandoned.[107]
HMS Scorpion   Royal Navy The decommissioned Scorpion-class ironclad turret ship was sunk as a target. She was refloated in 1902 to be sold for scrap.

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