The schooner stranded and sank off Quaker Head one mile (1.6 km) north of the Life Saving Station. Her cargo and various items salvaged. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service. A failed attempt to refloat occurred on 26 January after which she was abandoned.[2]
3 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Resolute
United States Army
The tugboat was sunk in a collision with the tow steamer (United States) in Boston Harbor, a total loss. Her wreck was removed by 9 January. Her engineer was drowned.[3][4]
4 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer sank at dock in Bayonne, New Jersey. Later raised.[5]
United States
The steamer dragged anchor and went on the rocks at Long Island in Puget Sound.[6]
The passenger and mail ship hit the Platte Fougere reef off Guernsey in the Channel Islands in bad visibility and sank with two fatalities.[7]
6 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at Briers Landing, Mississippi.[8]
7 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was sunk while breaking ice at Middleport, Ohio. Machinery was salvaged. Her hull was raised and converted into a barge.[9]
United States
The tugboat was caught by running ice on her starboard side causing her to list and sink off Riverton, New Jersey in 40 feet (12 m) of water.[10]
8 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a snag, filled and sank at Lewis Landing, Oregon and sank in the Lewis River. Later raised.[11]
16 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Townsend
United States
During a voyage in Southeast Alaska from Skagway to Haines Mission with eight passengers, a crew of 20, and no cargo aboard, the 450-gross register ton, 125-foot (38 m) steamer was wrecked on rocks in Lynn Canal halfway between Haines Mission and after her engine failed during a gale in 22 fathoms (132 ft; 40 m) of water. All on board reached shore safely in the ship's boats.[12][13][14]
18 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Atlanta
United States
The steamer sprang a leak and sank at Greenwood, Mississippi. Her boiler and machinery were salvaged.[15]
United States
The schooner stranded on ten miles (16 km) east north east of the Life Saving Station, a total loss. Her crew made it to shore in her boat.[2]
20 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sank in a collision with the barge Jerry in the Mobile River. One crewman killed.[16]
With no one on board, the 38-gross register tonschooner was stranded at Nome, Territory of Alaska.[28]
Lady Elizabeth
United Kingdom
Carrying barrels of naphtha and petrol, the ship burned at the Cattewater in Plymouth, United Kingdom.[29]
United States
The steamer was blown ashore and wrecked near Nome, Alaska near the mouth of the Snake River, or in Norton Sound near the mouth of the Yukon River on 10 August 1900, or 28 July 1900 or sometime in December 1899/January 1900.[30][31][32]
February[]
3 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Mischief
United States
The tug careened, filled with water, and sank while trying to pull (United States) off rocks near Hell Gate in the East River. Raised a few days later.[33]
United States
The tug went aground on rocks near Hell Gate in the East River.[34]
4 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a stump and sank in the Flint River above Horseshoe.[35]
5 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner, under tow of (United States), ran aground when Maggie ran aground at the mouth of the Siuslaw River 21 miles (34 km) north north west of the Umpqua River Life Saving Station. Refloated on 14 February.[2]
John Wilson, Sr.
United States
The barge, under tow of (United States) on a trip from to Bridgeport, Connecticut and New Haven, Connecticut sank in a gale while seeking shelter in Lloyd's Harbor, Long Island. Her captain and his wife died.[36]
United States
The steamer ran aground at the mouth of the Siuslaw River 21 miles (34 km) north north west of the Umpqua River Life Saving Station. Refloated on 1 March and towed up river to Florence, Oregon where she was beached for repairs.[2]
Mary Treyom
United States
The barge, under tow of (United States) on a trip from to Bridgeport, Connecticut and New Haven, Connecticut sank in a gale while seeking shelter in Lloyd's Harbor, Long Island.[37]
6 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The motor schooner capsized in a squall near , California. She drifted ashore near , a total loss. Her crew left in her lifeboat.[38][39]
7 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The steamer was wrecked on rocks one-half mile (0.80 km) south of Souter Point in a gale with hail and snow.[40]
8 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
During a voyage from Savannah, Georgia, to Boston, Massachusetts, the steamcargo ship was stranded in dense fog on a bar off the south coast of Long Island one mile (1.6 km) west of the United States Life-Saving Service station at Moriches, New York. She washed over the bar the next morning and stuck 200 yards (180 m) offshore. She was abandoned on 13 February as a total loss and sank in 20 to 25 feet (6 to 8 m) of water, although part of her cargo was salvaged. The United States Life-Saving Service rescued the 46 men and three women on board.[2][41]
9 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner stranded on Royal Shoal eight miles (13 km) north north west of the Portsmouth, North Carolina Life Saving Station. Stripped and abandoned on 20 February as a total loss. Crew rescued by the United States Life-Saving Service.[2]
10 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer burned at Gretna, Louisiana, a total loss.[42]
12 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was damaged in the Ohio River after striking the pier of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad bridge. She was beached, sinking in shallow water. One crewman killed. Raised and repaired.[43]
United States
The steamer struck an obstruction in the Monongahela River near California, Pennsylvania and sank. Later raised.[44]
16 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Belgium
The schooner sank off Green Scar, St Brides Bay.[45]
United States
The tug sprung a leak and sank at Pier 29 South, Philadelphia.[46]
17 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a snag, or the bank, in the White River at and sank. Two crewmen killed.[47]
19 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer burned to the water's edge at Camden, New Jersey overnight.[48]
United Kingdom
The sailing ship rolled on her beam ends on 15 February in a gale with sleet after leaving Leith earlier. On 16 February her crew was taken off by Friedensburg (flag unknown) and she was taken under tow by Ferrara (flag unknown). On 19 February the tow was abandoned about four miles (6.4 km) off Dunbar, Scotland, she drifted ashore and was wrecked.[49]
20 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer was sunk in 22 feet (6.7 m) of water by ice, one mile (1.6 km) from the harbor, off 12th street, Chicago, Illinois in Lake Michigan.[50]
23 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at Paducah, Kentucky.[51]
United States
The tug sprung a leak and sank in four fathoms (24 ft; 7.3 m) of water in Princess Bay, Staten Island. Raised and rebuilt.[52][53]
24 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
General Whiley
United States
The barge, under tow of (United States), sank in a gale off Whale Rock in Narragansett Bay. Her captain and his four children died.[54]
The steamer, while under tow, was struck by high winds, capsized and sank in the Mississippi River.[56]
28 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was swamped in a storm at Arkansas City, Arkansas and sank. Raised and repaired.[57]
United States
The steamer sank overnight at dock in Warren, Rhode Island when the watchman fell asleep while filling a water tank and it overflowed. Raised on 5 March.[58]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: unknown February 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The sailing ship departed Probolinggo, Java, Netherlands East Indies, for Newcastle, New South Wales and vanished. Lost with all 26 hands.[59]
United Kingdom
The steamer left Pensacola, Florida for Havana, Cuba on 20 February and was never seen again. Believed sunk during a storm on the night of 20 February south of Pensacola in the Gulf of Mexico.[60]
March[]
1 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer's well overflowed sinking her at Island No. 34 in the Mississippi River. Raised and repaired.[61]
5 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Germany
The steamer ran aground on the rocks at Barsier, west of Alderney in the Channel Islands, and was wrecked.[62][63]
6 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Coldwater River near Riverside Landing, Mississippi.[64]
United States
The steamer was sunk in a collision with (United States) at Pier 46 in the North River. Raised the next day.[65]
8 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Albatross
United States
The steamer struck a snag, or log, and sank at Richardson's Landing, Tennessee.[66]
9 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at Milford, Delaware overnight.[67]
10 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a stump and sank in the three and a half miles (5.6 km) above , a total loss.[68]
12 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Lizzie S. Sorenson
United States
The 83-ton, 84.2-foot (25.7 m) schooner was stranded on the reef at Killisnoo in Southeast Alaska. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[69]
14 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was holed by an obstruction while lying at Webster, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River and sank. Later raised and repaired.[70]
16 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The steamer sank following a collision with another ship.[71]
19 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer sank at dock in Cleveland, Ohio when the main supply pipe froze and burst.[72]
21 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The laid up steamer was sunk by high winds opposite Clarksville, Missouri. Later raised.[73]
United States
The tug was sunk when the ferry (United States) snagged her tow line to two dump barges causing one of them to lunge forward into the tug at the foot of Chambers Street in the North River.[74]
22 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The lighter filled and sank at dock at Pier 6 in the North River. Raised and drydocked.[75]
23 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck an iceberg in damaging her stern and bow. She was beached where temporary repairs were made.[76]
United States
The steamer was blown off course by high winds while making a landing at in the Illinois River, causing her to strike an obstruction and sink. Later raised.[77]
25 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The pleasure steamer struck a sunken log and sank 300 feet (91 m) off Catskill Point, New York.[78]
26 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The laid up steamer was stuck to frozen mud on the bottom when a sudden rise in river height flooded her at , above Havana, Illinois.[79]
27 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The fishing steamer sprung a leak and sank on Lake Erie off Vermilion, Ohio.[80]
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Mount Hope Bay, Rhode Island.[81]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Concord
United Kingdom
The ship sank on the Triggs, just outside her home port, Porthleven, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[29]
April[]
1 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was sunk in a collision with a barge under the tow of (United States) in Vineyard Sound off East Chop in 57 feet (17 m) of water. She had suffered a steering failure causing the collision.[82][83]
2 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at due to a defective flue in the galley.[84]
3 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer heeled over and sank while making a turn to port. Later raised.[85]
4 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck at Brown's Island in the Ohio River and sank. Raised and repaired.[86]
6 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Xantho
United States
The steamer was wrecked in a gale at Port Lavaca, Texas.[87]
7 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Lexington
United States
The steamer sprung a leak and sank in five feet (1.5 m) of water in the Great Kanawha River. Raised and repaired.[88]
10 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 01 April 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Little Verne
United States
The passenger barge was destroyed by fire at Rock Island, Illinois, (probably as a result of a fire on (United States)).[89]
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at Rock Island, Illinois as a result of a fire on (United States).[90]
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at Rock Island, Illinois as a result of a fire on (United States).[91]
United States
The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at Rock Island, Illinois.[92]
11 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Hudson
United States
The steamer caught fire off Verplanck's Point. She was beached and was destroyed by the fire.[93]
While under tow by the steamerExcelsior (United States), the small schooner's towline parted at the entrance to Lituya Bay on the coast of Southeast Alaska, and she and her crew of five were never heard from again. One body and wreckage from Dora B later were found off Yakutat, Territory of Alaska.[95]
16 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sprung a leak and sank in the Wolf River at Memphis, Tennessee. Raised and repaired.[96]
20 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer collided with the ferry (United States) causing her to careen, fill and sink off the foot of Fourteenth Street in the East River. Later raised.[97]
United States
The steamer, out of commission and being repaired, was destroyed by fire at dock in Calais, Maine.[98]
29 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The fishing steamer sprung a leak and sank in the Cuyahoga River.[99]
Excelsior
United States
The steamer struck an iceberg in Gastineau Channel near Juneau, Alaska damaging her hull. She was beached where temporary repairs were made.[100]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: unknown April 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The sailing ship departed Rio de Janeiro for Newcastle, New South Wales on 28 April and vanished. Lost with all 25 hands.[101]
May[]
1 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at West Superior, Wisconsin.[102]
3 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sank from unknown causes at Walnut Bend Landing, Arkansas. Her cook, a chambermaid (both female) and a fireman were killed.[103]
4 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sprung a leak and sank at Marietta, Ohio in the Muskingum River. Raised and returned to service.[104]
The steamer struck a wing dam at Dover Island in the Cumberland River and sank in ten feet (3.0 m) of water. Raised and repaired.[106]
United States
The steamer sank in eight feet (2.4 m) of water in the Mobile Ship Channel in Mobile Bay after hitting a dead-head. Later raised.[107]
17 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at .[108]
United States
The steamer struck a piling and sank in the harbor at Arkansas City, Arkansas. Raised and repaired.[109]
19 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Pioneer
United States
The tow steamer sprung a leak and sank off , Cuba.[110]
22 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The brick schooner was sunk in a collision with Ferry (United States) off Weehawken, New Jersey in the North River.[111]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in May 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The full-rigged ship collided with Argus (United Kingdom) and foundered off Astoria, Oregon, United States.[112]
June[]
4 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer settled on a snag when the river level dropped. She broke in two and sank at in the Coquille River, a total loss. Her boiler and machinery were salvaged.[113]
At the end of a voyage from San Francisco, California, to Nome, Territory of Alaska, with 41 passengers, a crew of 30, and a 300-ton cargo of coal, lumber, machinery, provisions, and liquors aboard, the 337-ton whalingbark was wrecked without loss of life at Nome during a gale. All on board escaped in lifeboats; the steamlaunchIslam (United States) towed the boats to the revenue cutterUSRC Bear (United States Revenue Cutter Service), which took the survivors aboard.[115] Among Alaska′s survivors was the sole survivor of the November 1899 wreck of the schoonerR. Eacrett (United States), which Alaska had rescued on 1 June.[115][116]
7 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Mississippi River at .[117]
10 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Comet
United States
The steamer struck a snag and sank in six feet (1.8 m) of water in the Mississippi River in near Burlington, Iowa. Later raised and repaired.[118]
11 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sprang a leak and sank in the Wolf River at Memphis, Tennessee, a total loss.[119]
United States
The steamer was wrecked on an obstruction two miles (3.2 km) below Independence, Oregon in the Willamette River, a total loss. Her boiler, machinery, equipment and cargo were salvaged. She was later burned as a hazard to navigation.[120]
Nelly
Canada
On a return voyage from Barbados to St. John's, Newfoundland, she became waterlogged, and was abandoned by Captain Baxter and crew in lat. 42.12. long. 54.12. The crew of the 187-ton ship, owned by S. March & Sons, were taken on board SS Maryland and brought to Philadelphia. Baxter was a replacement for the usual captain, Robert Austin Sheppard, who fell ill prior to departure from Newfoundland on 19 September 1899.[121] The register of Nelly (official number 70481, formerly Nelly Schneider) was closed 21 July 1900.[122]Nelly was famous for setting precedent for maritime law in the sale of minority interest in a ship (The Nelly Schneider, Admiralty, April 4 and 5, 1878, Sir R. Phillimore).[123]
15 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Tivyside
United Kingdom
The ship ran aground at Overton, Glamorgan. All thirteen people on board survived.[55]
16 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Dublin
The vessel sank between Eddystone and Start point after being run down by a full speed Newbiggin (United Kingdom) of Newcastle. Two fatalities, the survivors picked up and taken to Plymouth.[124]
Western Australia
The sailing lighter foundered off Fremantle, Western Australia.[125]
18 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with tow steamer (United States) off Pier 4 in the East River. Raised and taken to Gokey's Dock. In February 1901 the vessel was rebuilt at Peter Colon's shipyard, Jersey City, New Jersey.[126][127]
23 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sprung a leak in the Ohio River and sank in 12 feet (3.7 m) of water near , a total loss. One crewman killed.[128]
United States
The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Sunflower River at Choctaw Landing, Mississippi. Later raised. One crewman killed.[129]
Leslie D
United States
The 285-ton, 112-foot (34.1 m) barkentine was wrecked on a reef of boulders 0.75 nautical miles (1.4 km; 0.9 mi) off Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea. All 30 people aboard – 20 passengers and a crew of 10 – survived.[69]
United States
The schooner was sunk in a collision with steamer (United States) two miles (3.2 km) north east of the .[130]
29 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug sprang a leak and sank in Lake St. Clair due to a clogged siphon. Three of the crew of five died.[131][132]
30 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Bremen
Germany
1900 Hoboken Docks Fire: The Norddeutscher Lloydocean liner was set on fire at Hoboken, New Jersey, by windspread fire after cotton bales on a wharf caught fire, then ignited turpentine and oil barrels. She broke free of her moorings, ran aground on the Weehawken flats in the Hudson River, and burned. The tugNettie Tice (United States) rescued about 100 people from the ship. The combined death toll aboard Bremen, Main, and Saale (all Germany) was over 300 lives. Bremen was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[133]
1900 Hoboken Docks Fire: The Norddeutscher Lloyd ocean liner was set on fire in several places at Hoboken, New Jersey, by wind-spread fire after cotton bales on a wharf caught fire, then ignited turpentine and oil barrels. She suffered only moderate damage and all aboard got off the ship safely. She was repaired and returned to service.[133]
1900 Hoboken Docks Fire: The Norddeutscher Lloyd ocean liner was set on fire at Hoboken, New Jersey, by wind-spread fire after cotton bales on a wharf caught fire, then ignited turpentine and oil barrels. She broke free of her moorings, ran aground on the Weehawken flats in the Hudson River, and burned with the loss of 44 crew members. Fifteen crew members survived by taking refuge in an empty coal bunker while the fire raged and were rescued after it was put out. Main was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[133]
1900 Hoboken Docks Fire: The Norddeutscher Lloyd ocean liner was set on fire at Hoboken, New Jersey, by wind-spread fire after cotton bales on a wharf caught fire, then ignited turpentine and oil barrels. She broke her moorings, drifted into the Hudson River, burned, and sank. The remains of 99 people killed aboard Saale were recovered from her interior later; the combined death toll aboard Saale, Bremen, and Main (all Germany) was over 300 lives. Saale was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[133]
July[]
1 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer was in a collision with tow steamer (United States) on Lake Erie and had to be beached to prevent sinking due to hull damage inflicted by Peerless's prop.[134]
6 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 July 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sprung a leak and sank in seven feet (2.1 m) of water off .[135]
United States
The tug struck a rock and sank in the west channel at Coxsackie, New York in the Hudson River. Later raised.[136]
7 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 July 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Cleveland
United States
The steamer was sunk by an obstruction going through the Thropp Street, Chicago Drawbridge.[137]
The tow steamer was capsized when the barge she was towing sheared off course near Tonawanda, New York. Two crewmen killed.[143]
18 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Cache River. Had not been raised as of March 1901.[144]
21 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The barque was sunk in a collision with the ocean linerCampania (United Kingdom) 30 miles (48 km) north east of the in the Irish Channel.[145][146]
26 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Minnie
Canada
The 50-ton two-mastedschooner was wrecked in a dense fog on a reef off Ugamak Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands. Her entire crew abandoned ship in her lifeboats and was rescued by the steamerAlliance (flag unknown) and the schooner Walter L. Rich (flag unknown).[147]
The steamer ran aground and sank while trying to avoid a collision with the schooner (Canada) at in the Detroit River.[149]
29 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 July 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the mouth of the Wolf River at Memphis, Tennessee. Raised and repaired.[150]
H. W. Sage
United States
The barge, under tow of (United States), sank in the St. Clair River off Algonac, Michigan in a collision with Chicago (United States). One killed.[151]
30 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a rock and sank a few miles below near Rock Creek Rapids in the Columbia River.[152]
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Jersey City, New Jersey.[153]
France
The cargo ship was run aground and wrecked at Bath, England.[154]
United States
The tug was sunk when her boiler exploded at Baltimore, Maryland. Her engineer and pilot were killed.[155]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The barque departed Callao, Peru for Tocopilla on 18 July and vanished. Lost with all 17 hands.[156]
Monaco
The royal yacht sank in a hurricane in the Strait of Malacca. 150 crew killed. Three survivors rescued, but two died later.[157][158]
United States
The steamer was blown ashore and wrecked near Nome, Territory of Alaska, near the mouth of the Snake River, or in Norton Sound near the mouth of the Yukon River on 10 August 1900 or 28 July 1900 or sometime in December 1899/January 1900.[159][31][32]
August[]
1 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was sunk in a collision with (United States) in the Detroit River. Two crew members killed.[160]
3 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner sank in the St. Clair River off the Fort Gratiot Light in a collision with the schooner (United States). Wreck blown up as a hazard to navigation, probably in late September. One crewman killed.[161][162]
United States
The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with tow steamer Phoenix (United States) off Pier 5, Brooklyn. The crew was taken off by Phoenix.[163]
5 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire in the Mississippi River at New Orleans.[164]
9 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sank at dock at Windsor, Ontario after being damaged by pilings. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[165][166]
10 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Lexington
United States
The steamer struck a snag and sank in four feet (1.2 m) of water in the Great Kanawha River at Armstrongs Landing. Raised and repaired.[167]
During a voyage in ballast from Nome, Territory of Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, the 1,050-gross register ton, 193-foot (58.8 m) wooden ship was beached on Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands after she sprang a leak. Her entire crew of seven survived, but she was declared a total loss.[147]
13 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer's stern line parted in a storm causing her to swing broadside to the storm and sink. Later raised.[168]
The steamship went aground on a reef at Mindoro Island, near Manila, while on a voyage from Australia to Eastern ports.[171] All the crew and 150 passengers were taken to shore, and a consignment of gold bullion was salvaged.[172]
17 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer sank over night at dock in Port Richmond, Staten Island.[173]
Eclipse
United States
The laid up steamer broke free from her moorings during a severe windstorm and was blown onto a reef of rocks and sank in three feet (0.91 m) of water at LeClaire, Iowa. Later raised and repaired.[174]
United States
The steamer destroyed by fire in the Mississippi River 12 miles (19 km) above New Orleans.[175]
19 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Argonaut
United States
The steamer sprung a leak and sank in shoal water at Escanaba, Michigan.[176]
22 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Antoinette
France
The Dundee-class yacht, en route from Saint-Cast-Le-Guildo, Brittany, France, to Denmark loaded with wheat, was lost with all hands south of Guernsey in the Channel Islands.[177]
United States
The steamer sank in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water in a collision with (United States) in Lake Erie between Point Pelee and Pelee Island.[178]
23 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer careened and sank rounding a bend in the . Later raised.[179]
24 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer foundered while pumping out a sunken barge when the rising barge tipped the steamer and she flooded and sank at a Levee in Davenport, Iowa. Later raised.[180]
Mataura
New Zealand
The refrigeratedbarque was dismasted and abandoned in the Pacific Ocean. She subsequently foundered. Mataura was on a voyage from Levuka, Fiji, to Nantes, Loire-Inférieure, France.[181]
United States
The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with tow steamer (United States) on Lake Erie near Ashtabula, Ohio. One crewman killed.[182]
31 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Sophia Sutherland
United States
The 156-ton three-mastedschooner ran aground on the coast of Baillie Island in the Northwest Territories in Canada. A gale destroyed her there on 26 September before she could be refloated.[116][183]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Mayflower
United States
The sloop was wrecked with the loss of her entire crew of seven on Nelson Island near Hooper Bay in the Territory of Alaska.[147]
Research
United Kingdom
Stored on blocks at the Government Barracks in the harbor at St. Michael in the Territory of Alaska since her seizure by the United States Customs Service on 25 September 1899, the 26.5-ton iron sternwheel paddle steamer was thrown from the blocks against the bank of the harbor and wrecked during a gale.[184]
United States
The steamer was blown ashore and wrecked near Nome, Alaska near the Mouth of the Snake River, or in Norton Sound near the mouth of the Yukon River on 10 August 1900 or 28 July 1900 or sometime in December 1899/January 1900.[185][31][32]
September[]
1 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
French Navy
The torpedo boat sank in 25 fathoms (150 ft; 46 m) of water without loss of life after striking a rock in fog in the English Channel off the harbor at Cherbourg, France, on the evening of 31 August. Salvage efforts failed.[186][187]
3 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Caroline
United Kingdom
The ship schooner was driven ashore at Eastbourne, Sussex. Three crew were taken off by the Eastbourne Lifeboat James Stephens No.6 (Royal National Lifeboat Institution), her captain refusing to leave. He was later taken off by the Coastguard using a breeches buoy.[188]
Mayflower
United States
The ferry sank in shallow water after a collision with (United States) at .[189]
United States
The steamer broke free from her moorings and was blown ashore in a gale at Nome, Alaska.[190]
With a crew of nine and a cargo of dogs, reindeer, and skins aboard, the 92-ton, 91.3-foot (27.8 m) schooner was wrecked during a storm on the coast of the Territory of Alaska 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) west of Nome. Her crew survived.[138]
7 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Catherine Sudden
United States
The 386-ton barkentine was as driven ashore in a gale and wrecked at Cape Nome on the coast of the Territory of Alaska, becoming a total loss.[192]
Cyclone
United States
The steamer sank after striking a sunken crib in Charlotte.[193]
Sequoia
United States
The 341-gross register ton, 150-foot (46 m) schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Nome, Territory of Alaska. Her crew of eight survived. She may have been salvaged in 1902.[116]
Zenith
United States
The schooner was wrecked on the beach at Nome, Territory of Alaska.[194]
8 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Cumberland
United States
1900 Galveston Hurricane: The steamer broke loose from her moorings and sank at Galveston, Texas.[195]
United States
1900 Galveston Hurricane: The steamer sank on a trip from Clinton to Galveston, Texas, possibly raised. Two crewmen killed.[196]
United States
The sailing ship collided with the anchored USS Iowa (United States Navy) and then the bark (United States) and sank in San Francisco Bay.[197]
9 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a ledge in the inner channel near the causing her to be beached to prevent sinking. Pulled off later but sank in seven fathoms (42 ft; 13 m) of water while under tow to Boston for repairs.[198]
11 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
Great Storm of 1900: The schooner was sunk in a gale, the remnants of the hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas, on Lake Erie near Ashtabula, Ohio, a total loss. Nine crewmen killed, seven survivors.[199][200]
12 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Dusty Diamond
United States
The 101-gross register ton, 75-foot (22.9 m) sternwheel paddle steamer dragged her anchor during a gale and was wrecked at the northern end of Golovnin Bay on the west coast of the Territory of Alaska. Her crew of six survived, but she became a total loss.[95]
United States
The tug was destroyed by fire overnight at New Baltimore, New York.[201]
While moored with no one aboard, the 38-gross register ton, 54.4-foot (16.6 m) schooner was driven ashore and wrecked during a gale at Nome, Territory of Alaska.[203]
United States
Great Storm of 1900: The steamer was sunk in a gale, the remnants of the hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas, on Lake Erie near Ashtabula, Ohio, a total loss. Nine crewmen killed, seven survivors.[204][205]
Prosper
United States
The 23-gross register ton, 45-foot (13.7 m) schooner was wrecked during a gale on the coast of the Territory of Alaska near the mouth of the Penny River near Nome. Her captain was washed overboard and drowned, but the other six members of her crew survived. She may have been salvaged in 1902.[206]
Skookum
United States
The wreck of Skookum
While at anchor off Nome, Territory of Alaska, with 11 passengers, two crew members, and 200 tons of cargo including lumber and stores on board, the 1,981-ton schoonerbarge began to break up rapidly in heavy seas. Her crew slipped her anchors to allow her to drift ashore so that all on board could escape. All 13 people on board reached shore safely, but Skookum was wrecked.[116]
Three unidentified umiaks
United States
The three umiaks sank in the Bering Sea during a voyage from King Island to the mainland of the Territory of Alaska, drowning over 100 Alaska Natives on board them.[207]
14 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Edith Thomas
United States
The tug was wrecked on the beach at Nome, Territory of Alaska.[114]
United States
The tug was wrecked on the beach at Nome, Territory of Alaska.[208][209][210]
United States
The steamer snagged on her dock overnight on a rising tide, careened, filled and sank. Raised and repaired.[211]
15 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was lying by the beach in a heavy gale and was blown ashore at Nome, Alaska Territory, a total loss by wave action.[212]
United States
The steamer foundered in a heavy gale at Nome, Alaska Territory, a total loss. crew rescued by (United States).[213]
United States
The steamer was lying by the beach in a heavy gale and was blown ashore at Nome, Alaska Territory, a total loss by wave action.[214]
United States
The steamer broke free from her moorings in a heavy gale and was blown ashore at Nome, Alaska Territory, a total loss.[215]
United States
The steamer broke free from her moorings in a gale and was blown ashore in the Snake River, Alaska Territory, a total loss.[216]
United States
The steamer was lying by the beach in a heavy gale and was blown ashore at Nome, Alaska Territory, a total loss by wave action.[217]
17 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Orizaba
United States
Shortly after departing St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, to lay submarine cable for the United States Government with eight passengers, a crew of 46, and 285 tons of submarine cable aboard, the 967-gross register ton 205-foot (62.5 m) schooner was wrecked without loss of life near St. Michael on an uncharted reef – thereafter known as Orizaba Reef (63°31′10″N162°01′50″W / 63.51944°N 162.03056°W / 63.51944; -162.03056 (Orizaba Reef)) – 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) off .[218]
18 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
American (or America)
United States
The tug collided with the ocean linerMinnehaha (United Kingdom), or was capsized by a line to the ship that was too tight causing her to roll over, and sank in New York Harbor. Two of the tug's crewmen were killed. Later salvaged and recommissioned.[219]
The steamship was wrecked.in Karystos Bay, en route to Piraeus from Alexandria, Egypt during a gale. 18 passengers and 21 crew were lost, 60 were rescued.[220][221]
20 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Ellenora Van Dusen
United States
Carrying a cargo of stone, the 126-foot (38 m), 250-gross register ton three-mastedschooner caught fire and was towed into the harbor at Gloucester, Massachusetts, so that her cargo could be salvaged. She sank inside the Dog Bar breakwater in up to 40 feet (12 m) of water.[222]
21 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was destroyed by a fire that started on (United States) at St. Louis, Missouri.[223]
John Martin
United States
The schooner barge, under tow of (United States) sank in the St. Clair River off the Fort Gratiot Light in a collision with (United States) 400 feet (120 m) below the wreck of (United States). The wreck was blown up to open up the shipping channel. Her captain, two crewmen, and her female cook were killed. Four crewmen survived, one was rescued by a small boat, three by Yuma.[224][162]
United States
The steamer was lying at the bank for repairs at Caruthersville, Missouri when she burned, a total loss.[225][166]
22 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Letha R. Thomas
United States
The 7-net register ton, 37-foot (11.3 m) steamer was swamped by heavy seas during a gale and sank 2.25 nautical miles (4.2 km; 2.6 mi) off Nome, Territory of Alaska. The steamer Aloha (United States) rescued her crew of three.[69]
United Kingdom
The sailing ship capsized and sank in the Atlantic Ocean (39°50′N22°00′W / 39.833°N 22.000°W / 39.833; -22.000) in a gale from inadequate ballast. Her crew was rescued by (United Kingdom), Glengoil lost 1 crewman and both of her lifeboats in the rescue.[226]
The 5,364 GRT refrigerated cargo steamship on a voyage from Fiume to Port Elizabeth with a cargo of 930 horses ran aground off Tsitsikamma Point and eventually foundered. All 130 people on board were saved by steamer SS Lake Erie and safely landed at Port Elizabeth.[55]
26 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer caught fire at Pier B, Port Richmond, Philadelphia and was towed out on to the flats where she filled with water.[227]
27 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The ship was wrecked on Callantsoog, Groningen, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands. She was a total loss.[228]
The small schooner was driven ashore and pounded to pieces by the surf during a storm at Cape Nome of the coast of the Seward Peninsula in the Territory of Alaska on 7 or 8 September.[115]
Lydia Mayflower
United States
The schooner ran onto rocks on the coast of the Territory of Alaska at Cape Prince of Wales and was pounded to pieces by the surf. The schooner Alice (United States) rescued her crew.[69]
The schooner was wrecked on rocks on the coast of the Territory of Alaska at Cape Prince of Wales. The schooner Alice (United States) rescued her crew.[231]
York
United States
The 231-gross register ton, 131-foot (40 m) two-mastedschooner was wrecked on the beach at Nome, Territory of Alaska, sometime between 12 and 15 September.[232]
October[]
1 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Russian Navy
The Borgo-class torpedo boat sank in the Yellow Sea after colliding with the torpedo boat (Imperial Russian Navy).[233][234]
2 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Fleetwing
United States
The tug was sunk in a collision with (United States) at the mouth of the Schuylkill River. Two crewmen killed.[235]
United States
The canal boat was sunk in a collision with steamer Express (United States) in the Harlem River off One Hundred Twenty Sixth Street.[236]
The cargo ship struck an object and sank in the White Sea.[238]
United States
The steamer sank in the St. Clair River below Marine City, Michigan in a collision with (United States).[239]
6 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug burned below Albany, New York, a total loss.[240]
United States
The steamer sank at Grand Forks, North Dakota from unknown causes.[241]
Merom
United States
With a 500-ton cargo, including 12,574 cases of cannedsalmon, and a crew of 16 on board, the 1,158-gross register ton, 179.2-foot (54.6 m) bark was wrecked during a gale in the harbor at Karluk, Territory of Alaska, with the loss of one life, a crewman who refused to abandon ship.[147][242]
7 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the mouth of the Delaware Bay, or off the Scotland Lightship, or three miles (4.8 km) off the Northeast End Lightship, after being almost cut in two by the steamshipHamilton (United States) in fog. Hamilton rescued all seven crew members.[243][244][245]
10 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The paddle steamer foundered in the Bay of Fundy four nautical miles (7.4 km) off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada with the loss of 36 of her 40 crew. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada to Yarmouth.[246]
The steamer was sunk in a collision with (United States) when she sheared off course when passed by (United States) in the St. Marys River, sinking in 17 feet (5.2 m) of water near . Raised and taken to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan for temporary repairs on 25 October, and then proceeded to Manitowoc, Wisconsin on her own power arriving on 30 October for permanent repairs.[247]
16 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was wrecked when she drifted onto Plum Island after her tow steamer, (United States), became disabled in rough seas when her main steam pipe broke. A total loss.[248]
The tow steamer was disabled in rough seas when her main steam pipe broke. She and two vessels she was towing were wrecked when they drifted onto Plum Island, a total loss.[249]
United States
The steamer was wrecked when she drifted onto Plum Island after her tow steamer, (United States), became disabled in rough seas when her main steam pipe broke. A total loss.[250]
17 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Velma
United States
The 81-foot (25 m), 96-gross register tonschooner was wrecked during a gale and snowstorm in the Bay of Fundy on , a reef that is part of the , off the south side of Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada. One crewmen perished. The three survivors clung to the almost-submerged rocks of Cross Jack Ledge in the storm for 44 hours before men in a boat from rescued them.[251][252]
18 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was rammed while at anchor by the steamer (United States) in the harbor of New Haven, Connecticut, and sank in 26 feet (7.9 m) of water.[253]
The passenger-cargo ship ran aground near Tjugum, Balestrand, Norway. She was refloated and returned to service.
Maude
United States
Carrying a cargo of 878 sacks of coal totaling 65 tons, the 161-ton barge was wrecked on the coast of the Territory of Alaska near St. Michael, about 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) east of (63°27′N162°00′W / 63.450°N 162.000°W / 63.450; -162.000 (Lamont Point)) after the coal vessel towing her, Canarvin (United States), was forced to cut her loose during a storm. Her crew of three survived, but by 22 October the surf had broken her into three pieces on the beach.[147]
22 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Lincolnville, Maine.[254]
23 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Cleveland
United States
Carrying 10 cargo handlers, a crew of 29, and a cargo of 300 tons of coal, the 1,160-gross register ton, 258.2-foot (78.7 m) steamer was wrecked on (64°39′N165°24′W / 64.650°N 165.400°W / 64.650; -165.400 (Cape Rodney)) on the west-central coast of the Territory of Alaska in a snowstorm and sank with the loss of one life. The revenue cutterUSRC McCulloch (United States Revenue Cutter Service) rescued her 38 survivors from the beach.[192]
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Little River, California, a total loss.[255]
24 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Fischer Brothers
United States
The two-masted, 76-foot (23.2 m) schooner was blown onto a rock and wrecked on the west-central coast of the Territory of Alaska several miles northwest of (64°39′N165°24′W / 64.650°N 165.400°W / 64.650; -165.400 (Cape Rodney)) in bad weather. All eight people on board – one passenger and a crew of seven – reached shore, where her captain died of exposure several days later.[256]
United States
The motor schooner was destroyed by fire at New Orleans due to a defective lamp exploding.[257]
United States
The steamer burned and sank in the Ohio River near Saw Mill Run. Later raised and everything of value removed.[258]
26 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Martha
United States
The barge sank in a collision with (United States) in Lake St. Clair.[259]
28 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The passenger barge was destroyed by fire at Ellwood Landing on the Atchafalaya River.[260]
29 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was damaged by a sudden increase of wind that pushed her into the west pier of , St. Louis, Missouri. She was beached, but sank.[261]
31 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Joe Mathews
United States
The tug was wrecked on the beach at Nome, Territory of Alaska, during a storm.[203]
United States
The steamer sank while under tow in the Gulf of Mexico 35 miles (56 km) off Mobile Bay.[262]
Nome
United States
The barge was wrecked on the beach at Nome, Territory of Alaska, during a storm.[263]
The steamship sank off Queensland, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
United Kingdom
The sailing ship departed Yokohama, Japan for Port Townsend, Washington on 2 October and vanished. Lost with all 28 hands.[264]
United States
The schooner departed Gloucester, Massachusetts on 15 September and vanished. Believed to have sunk in a storm in October or November. Lost with all 13 crew.[265][266][267]
November[]
1 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Reuben L. Richardson
United States
The 97-gross register ton, 84.8-foot (25.8 m) schooner was wrecked without loss of life in Norton Sound on the coast of the Territory of Alaska 16 nautical miles (30 km; 18 mi) west of Cape Nome during a gale and snowstorm.[184]
2 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The lighter sank at dock at Constable Hook, New Jersey.[268]
3 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck an obstruction and sank two miles (3.2 km) below Memphis, Tennessee. Raised and repaired.[269]
7 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Mouse
United Kingdom
The smack was wrecked at Cardigan, Wales. Her three crew were rescued by the lifeboatLizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Chester, Cheshire, England, to Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales.[270]
9 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck Lower middle in Boston Harbor, heeled and filled with water. Later raised.[271]
No. 75
United States
The Empire Box, under tow of (United States), broke her tow line and sank between Constable Hook, New Jersey and the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn.[272]
13 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1900
Ship
Country
Description
No. 3
United States
The barge, under tow of , became waterlogged in a gale on Lake Erie near Long Point and sank.[273]
No. 4
United States
The barge, under tow of , became waterlogged in a gale on Lake Erie near Long Point and sank.[274]
16 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Pyrenees
United Kingdom
The ship caught fire and was beached on in the Mangareva Islands in French Polynesia. She was on a voyage from Tacoma, Washington, United States, to Leith, Lothian, Scotland. She was abandoned as a total loss, but was sold in situ in 1902. She subsequently was refloated, repaired. and returned to service.[275]
The overloaded tugboat took on a heavy list and sank in Lake Superior between Madeline Island and Basswood Island after her cargo shifted in choppy seas, or as result of her engines being shifted into reverse for unknown reasons.[276]
17 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Canada
On her maiden voyage, the steamer ran aground and sank at Twin Island, St John's Bay, Strait of Belle Isle.[277]
United States
The tug sank over night at South Street Wharf, Philadelphia.[278]
21 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Minna
United States
The steamer struck a snag and sank at Lake Point Landing on the Red River, a total loss.[279]
United States
The steamer foundered in a severe gale on Lake St. Clair. Raised and sold in 1901, repaired and returned to service in 1902. Crew rescued by (United States).[280][166]
The schooner was sunk in a collision with (United States) in the harbor of Portland, Maine.[282]
24 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sank at . An attempt to raise her resulted in the vessel breaking in two, a total loss except for salvaging her boiler and machinery.[283]
United States
The steamer caught fire at Harpswell, Maine where she had been hauled out for the Winter. She was launched off the ways and scuttled to extinguish the fire, then hauled back out and repaired.[284]
28 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug sank in a collision with a barge under tow of (United States) off . Her cook drowned.[285]
29 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Tillamook
United States
During a voyage from Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands to Seattle, Washington, carrying nine passengers, a crew of 19, and no cargo, the 265-gross register ton, 126.8-foot (38.6 m) steamscrewschooner was wrecked without loss of life on in the Gulf of Alaska near Kodiak, Territory of Alaska.[12]
30 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The out of commission steamer burned to the waterline at dock at in the Thames River[286]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Agot
United Kingdom
The barque was wrecked on the Whitford Sands, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by the Llanelli pilot boat.[55]
United Kingdom
The barque departed Callao, Peru for Portland, Oregon on 2 November and vanished. Lost with all 30 hands.[287]
United States
The schooner departed Gloucester, Massachusetts on 15 September and vanished. Believed to have sunk in a storm in October or November. Lost with all 13 crew.[265][266][267]
The auxiliary cruiser was heavily damaged in a typhoon off Guam and was scuttled in mid-November after the collierUSS Justin (United States Navy) took off her crew.
December[]
2 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
After her cargo of wheat caught fire during November due to spontaneous combustion while she was in the Pacific Ocean during a voyage from Tacoma, Washington, in the United States to Leith, Scotland, in the United Kingdom, the steel-hulled bark was beached on Mangareva in the Gambier Islands in the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia, burned out and abandoned. She was refloated in 1901, repaired in 1905, and returned to service under the name (United States).[288][289][290]
19 coal boats & 1 coal flat
United States
The tow steamer (United States) collided in dense fog with the tow steamer (United States) near sinking, between the two ships towage, 19 coal boats and one coal flat. Some of the boats were recovered when water levels dropped later.[291]
4 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Rossgull
United Kingdom
On a voyage from Plymouth to Jersey in the Channel Islands, the ship ran aground at night off Corbiere, Jersey, in a gale. Eleven of her crew were saved but nine men in one lifeboat drowned.[292][293]
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Columbus, Georgia.[294]
6 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a submerged rock off and started filling, she drifted ashore six miles (9.7 km) south of the point, a total loss.[295]
Idler
United States
The 10-gross register ton, 31-foot (9.4 m) schooner was wrecked on the north end of Coronation Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska after her anchor chain parted during a gale. Her crew of two survived.[208]
7 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug was damaged in a collision with the tug (United States) in Boston Harbor, due to steering problem on Jennie. She sank at dock that evening.[296]
United States
The fishing schooner was wrecked in a gale and broke up at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire three miles (4.8 km) south of the United States Life Saving Service Station. All five crew were killed.[297][298]
The steamer burned at St. Joseph, Michigan. Rebuilt and returned to service June 1901.[300]
10 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Nordland
Norway
The lifeboat ran aground and was wrecked near Kjelvik, Norway. All crew members survived.[301]
12 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer burned at Harbor Beach, Michigan.[302]
13 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River 12 miles (19 km) north of New Orleans, a total loss.[303]
16 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 December 1900
Ship
Country
Description
SMS Gneisenau
Imperial German Navy
During a storm, the Bismarck-classcorvette suffered a failure of her propulsion machinery, dragged her anchors, was wrecked on the harbor mole at Málaga, Spain, and sank with the loss of 40 lives.
17 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The ferry struck a stump and sank in the Ohio River going from Locust Street to Corks Run, Pittsburgh. Later raised.[304]
18 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1900
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a Government revetment in heavy fog and sank with her bow on the revetment at in the Columbia River. Raised and taken to Portland, Oregon for repairs.[305]
The tug sprung a leak, filled and sank at Brown's Wharf, San Francisco, California. Later raised.[307]
22 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Guy
United States
During a voyage from Skagway to Haines, Territory of Alaska, the small steamer was lost in Southeast Alaska 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) below Skagway.[202]
The cargo ship ran aground off Black Nore Point, Somerset, England, and sank with the loss of seven of her fourteen crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, England, to Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.[310][311]
28 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Croisine
France
The brigantine sank within minutes after stranding to the west of Les Sables-d'Olonne. Only one of the eight crew survived.[312]
Enocuri
Spain
The steamer was driven on to the breakwater at Weymouth.[313]
Gabriel
France
The Rouen fishing smack was wrecked off the Casquets in the Channel Islands. The six crew took to the ship's boat and were driven across the English Channel to a mud bank near Hurst Castle, Hampshire, where captain and one crew member was rescued by the coastguard. The fate of the other four crew is not known.[314]
Jewess
United Kingdom
The Belfast schooner was driven ashore at Larne, Ireland.[314]
The ship was driven ashore at Lavernock Point, Glamorgan with the loss of four of her crew. She was on a voyage from San Francisco, California, United States to Sharpness, Gloucestershire. Pegasus was later refloated and taken to Sharpness for repairs.[55]
United Kingdom
The barque was wrecked 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of South Stack off Holyhead, Wales, with the loss of 33 lives. One member of crew survived[315][316]
Ragna
United Kingdom
The barque with coal from Cardiff for Brazil, went ashore at Trevine, near St David's Head. The captain and eight crew were saved by the rocket apparatus and three others drowned.[313]
Seine
France
The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Perranporth, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[317]
Tregorgina
United Kingdom
The small Bristol craft foundered at the mouth of the River Avon. The crew were saved.[313]
Zefiro
Italy
The barque was in collision with the steamshipKing's County (Canada) in the Bristol Channel off the (United Kingdom) and was consequently beached at Clevedon, Somerset.[55]
Unnamed
United Kingdom
Seven or eight ships were driven ashore at Watchet, Somerset.[313]
Five vessels were driven ashore at Torryburn, Scotland.[314]
Unnamed
United Kingdom
A harbour steam launch and four fishing boats were wrecked in the harbour at Larne, Ireland.[314]
Unnamed
France
Nine fishing smacks were wrecked near Calais.[312]
29 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1900
Ship
Country
Description
Penpol
United Kingdom
The Falmouth, Cornwall steamer was driven ashore between Briton Ferry and Aberavon. The crew were safe.[318]
30 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1900
Ship
Country
Description
B.T.B.
United Kingdom
The vessel from Par, Cornwall ran ashore off Aldeburgh, Suffolk while carrying coal from Boston to London. The crew were brought ashore by the rocket apparatus.[319]
The four-masted barque disappeared after departing New York City for Yokohama, Japan, on 21 August 1900 and was wrecked on an unknown date, probably in late 1900, on Bikar Atoll in the Marshall Islands with the loss of all hands. Her wreck was discovered in July 1901.
St Petroc.
United Kingdom
The iron ketch left Liverpool for Padstow on 18 December and has not been heard of since.[313]
Star of Scilly
United Kingdom
The ketch was wrecked on Porthminster Point, St. Ives, Cornwall, crew rescued by lifeboat.[322]
Suihsiang
Germany
The river steamer was wrecked 60 miles (97 km) above Ichang. All survived except the captain.[323]
The 107-ton two-mastedschooner was reported lost in the waters of the Territory of Alaska. She may have been salvaged and returned to service by 1901.[115]
Challenge
United States
The 37-ton two-mastedmotorsealingschooner was wrecked at Nome, Territory of Alaska, during a storm and was declared a total loss.[192]
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United States
United States Army
United Kingdom
Belgium
Germany
Western Australia
United States Revenue Cutter Service), which took the survivors aboard.[115] Among Alaska′s survivors was the sole survivor of the November 1899 wreck of the schooner R. Eacrett (
Canada
Dublin
France
Monaco
France
Japan
New Zealand
Royal National Lifeboat Institution), her captain refusing to leave. He was later taken off by the Coastguard using a breeches buoy.[188]
United States
Imperial Russian Navy
Norway
United States
Imperial German Navy
Regia Marina
Spain
Italy
United Kingdom) and was consequently beached at Clevedon, Somerset.[55]
Austria-Hungary
