List of shipwrecks in 1902

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

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January[]

2 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1902
Ship Country Description
Bristol  United Kingdom During a voyage from Ladysmith, British Columbia, to the Treadwell gold mine in the Territory of Alaska with a cargo of coal, the 1,274-ton steamer was stranded on a reef in Chatham Strait off , north of Dundas Island on the coast of British Columbia, during a gale. She slid off the reef and sank in 204 feet (62 m) of water on the morning of 3 January with the loss of seven lives. There were 21 survivors.[1]
 United States The motor schooner was destroyed by fire in Mississippi Sound.[2]
 United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with the barque ( France) 11 miles (18 km) north of Cape Mendocino, California. 20 passengers and 16 crewmen killed.[3][4]

3 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1902
Ship Country Description
Alert  United States The steamer damaged her propeller and tail shaft when she struck a submerged log while entering the harbor at Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska. She sank while tied up at a dock overnight. She was raised and repaired.[5]
 United States The fishing steamer sprung a leak in the Atlantic Ocean off Atlantic City, New Jersey and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by the steamer ( United States).[6]

4 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1902
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The steamer was sunk in a collision with or ( Spain) off Aveiro, Portugal in thick fog. Her captain was the sole survivor. He was rescued by ( Portugal). 19 crewmen killed.[7][8]
 Spain The steamer was sunk in a collision with ( United Kingdom) off Aveiro, Portugal in thick fog. One crewman killed. Survivors rescued by ( Portugal).[7][9]

6 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck an obstruction in the Chattahoochee River in and sank.[10]

12 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The passenger steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Fall River, Massachusetts.[11]
 United States The pleasure steamer was crushed by ice and sank at Allegheny, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny River, a total loss.[12]

14 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1902
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The trawler was sunk in a storm in , Iceland. Eight crewmen were killed.[7][13]

17 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer went ashore 150 feet (46 m) north of the North Pier, Ludington, Michigan due to a rudder problem. Passengers and crew rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. Refloated, repaired and returned to service.[14][15]

18 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck a deadhead and sank in the Mobile River in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water. Later raised and repaired.[2]

20 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Kimball's Mill, Apalachicola, Florida.[10]
 United States The tow steamer heeled over due to strong tide and before she recovered she was swamped by the wake of a passing vessel and sank in 26 feet (7.9 m) of water in the East River off the foot of East Thirty-Sixth street.[16]
 United States The steamer struck a sunken flat and sank in the Monongahela River and was abandoned.[12]
Lautaro  Colombian National Navy
Lautaro sinking.
Thousand Days War: Operating in support of the Colombian Conservative Party, the steamer was sunk in action with the Colombian Liberal Party steamer Admiral Padilla ( Colombian National Navy) in Panama Bay off Panama City, Colombia.
 United States The steamer sank in a collision in fog in Mobile Bay with ( United States). Raised and repaired.[2]

21 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The anchored steamer foundered in a storm near Otter Creek, North Carolina.[17]

26 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer ran aground in the Ohio River near Caseyville, Kentucky and afterwards was wrecked by ice, a total loss.[18]
 United States The steamer was sunk by ice at Creston, West Virginia on the Little Kanawha River. Raised and repaired.[19]

29 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The tow steamer struck a submerged object while tying up for the night at Dows Stores, Brooklyn, New York. She sank overnight. Later raised.[16]

31 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 31 January 1902
Ship Country Description
 France The sailing ship sank 80 nautical miles (150 km; 92 mi) north west of Ushant, Belgium. 21 crew died, 1 survivor.[7][20]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown January 1902
Ship Country Description
 Norway The barque sank in the North Sea in early January. 22 drowned.[7]
Glenbervie  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked at near Coverack, Cornwall, laden with 600 barrels of whisky, 400 barrels of brandy and barrels of rum.[21]A lifeboat saved her 16 crewmen.[22]

February[]

1 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in 11 feet (3.4 m) of water in near the .[23]

2 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1902
Ship Country Description
Antelope  United States The barge foundered off Fire Island after losing her towline to ( United States) in heavy seas. Lost with all hands.[16]
Belle of Oregon  United States The barge foundered off Fire Island after losing her towline to ( United States) in heavy seas. Lost with all hands, her captain's body washed ashore.[16]
 United States The steamer foundered four miles (6.4 km) off Sandy Hook, New Jersey in heavy seas in 15 fathoms (90 ft; 27 m) of water. Crew rescued by ( Germany).[16]
 United States The steamer foundered two miles (3.2 km) northeast of in a severe storm after her forecastle house broke away and she filled with water. Crew rescued by ( Germany).[16]
 United States The canal boat sank at dock in Brighton, New York on Staten Island possibly caused by ice. Later raised.[24]
 United States The sailing ship was driven ashore at Long Beach, New York on Long Island after losing steerage in a severe storm and hitting a submerged wreck just off shore. Later refloated.[16]
Mystic Belle  United States The barge washed ashore after losing her towline to ( United States) in heavy seas off Fire Island.[16]

3 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The canal boat caught fire from a fire at Dock G of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and was sunk by the fire department's attempts to put out the fire. Not repaired.[24]

5 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1902
Ship Country Description
Ethel Quinn  United States The coal boat sank in a collision with ( United States) off The Battery.[24]
 United States The tug sank in Erie Basin, Brooklyn, New York when ice punctured her hull. Later raised.[24]
 United States The tow steamer burned to the waterline and sank after her boiler exploded below Lock No. 2 in the Monongahela River opposite the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, Braddock, Pennsylvania. Later raised. Two or six crewmen killed.[12][25]

9 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1902
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The steamer ran aground and was wrecked off , Halifax, Nova Scotia.[7][26]

10 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank at Oak Point, Washington in the Columbia River.[27]

11 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was sunk by ice at Browns Station in the Monongahela River.[12]

12 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1902
Ship Country Description
The schooner was run down and sunk by steamer Prince Rupert (flag unknown) while anchored in the shipping channel in fog at St. John's, Newfoundland, a total loss. Later raised and beached at high tide.[28]

18 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner sank in a collision with ( United States) near the mouth of the Neuse River.[17]

22 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1902
Ship Country Description
Condor  Germany The steamer was sunk in a collision with ( Austria-Hungary) in the harbour of Catania.[29]
Lichtenfels Brothers  United States The barge sank in harbor at New York, New York after being stressed by weather at sea.[24]
Mary Whitridge  United States The barge sank 12 miles (19 km) off Asbury Park, New Jersey in a storm. Lost with all four hands.[24]
Resolute  United States The steamer sank at dock in North Boston. Raised and repaired.[30]

23 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank in a hurricane off .[31]

24 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1902
Ship Country Description
 Spanish Navy The gunboat was sunk by a boiler explosion off Samil beach, Vigo Galicia, Spain.[7][32]

25 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1902
Ship Country Description
Liverpool  United Kingdom The iron-hulled four-masted sailing ship was en route from Antwerp to San Francisco with general cargo when she sailed slowly onto the rocks at Hommeaux Florains, on the northeastern tip of Alderney in the Channel Islands in fog. There was no loss of life.[33][34]
 United States The steamer sank at the City Wharf at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania[35] in the Monongahela River. Later raised.[12]

26 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was sunk by ice three miles (4.8 km) above Chester, Illinois in the Mississippi River. Raised and repaired.[36]
 United States The steamer sank in the Apalachicola River at Blountstown, Florida in shallow water. Shortly thereafter the part still above water was destroyed by fire.[10]

27 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at Bordentown, New Jersey.[6]

28 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The passenger steamer was sunk by ice at the at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania[35] in the Monongahela River. Later raised.[12]
 United States The steamer was wrecked near Bakers Island in fog.[30]
 United States The ferry was carried away by flooding and ice in the Allegheny River at Verona, Pennsylvania and wrecked downstream and abandoned.[12]

Unknown February[]

List of shipwrecks: unknown February 1902
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The passenger liner left the River Clyde for St. John's, Newfoundland on 11 February and was never seen again. A message found in a bottle on the coast of Londonderry, Northern Ireland stated the ship sank in a gale, message was authenticated. Probably sank on 12 or 13 January with all hands.[7][37]
 France The sailing ship was lost on the French coast sometime in February. 80 killed.[7]

March[]

1 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1902
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The 4,193-gross register ton steamer was wrecked without loss of life on the bar 1,500 to 1,800 feet (457 to 549 m) off Jones Inlet off the south coast of Long Island, New York, during a storm. Her wreck sank in 25 feet (8 m) of water.[38]
Onward  United States The tow steamer sank at a dock by the Market Street Bridge, Newark, New Jersey. Later raised.[24]

5 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1902
Ship Country Description
Unknown barges  United States The barges drifted ashore and sank after losing their towline to ( United States) in the Swash Channel off Romer Shoal in a snowstorm. Crews left in dories and were picked up by Richmond.[24]
 United States The steamer collided with the steamer ( United Kingdom) off Anglesey, United Kingdom and sank with the loss of two passengers.[39][40]

7 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1902
Ship Country Description
Welcome  United States The sternwheel passenger paddle steamer ran aground on the north flats of the Coquille River in Oregon during a squall. She was refloated undamaged that night and returned to service.

10 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The bark struck an uncharted rock off in the , between the Indian Ocean and the Flores Sea, was a total loss.[41]
 United States The steamer burned while being used as a hospital during a smallpox and cholera epidemic in Detroit. She was abandoned in the "Boneyard".[42]

12 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer capsized and sank in a severe gale off Ion Landing, . 5 passengers and 14 crewmen killed.[31]

19 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer burned at Reeds Landing in the Savannah River.[43]

22 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire off . The crew were rescued by New Orleans ( United States).[6]

24 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The tow steamer struck a rock on Randalls Island in the East River causing a list, when the tide rose she filled and sank.[44]

25 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1902
Ship Country Description
John Ewin  United Kingdom The schooner got into difficulties in the Teifi Estuary. Her crew were taken off by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was subsequently wrecked.[45]

28 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1902
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The steamer was sunk in a collision with ( United Kingdom) 175 miles (282 km) west of Fastnet Rock in/near dense fog.[7][46]

29 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The 227-foot (69 m), 1,133-net ton screw steamer ran aground in fog without loss of life off the coast of Massachusetts on off Cuttyhunk Island. She later was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[47]

30 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was caught by wind and current in the Ohio River at Advance Coal Landing was capsized and sunk/wrecked and abandoned.[12]

31 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank in Boston harbor after grounding on the edge of a channel and then sliding down the slope. Later raised.[30]

April[]

1 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1902
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The steamer was sunk in a collision with ( United Kingdom) near the Nab Lightship.[7][48]
 United States The schooner barge was sunk in a collision with (flag unknown). Wreck dispersed with explosives I June.[49]

3 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The ferry sank in a collision with the tug ( United States), probably in the vicinity of Albany, New York.[50]
 United States The steamer sank at dock in Duluth, Minnesota due to an open seacock. Raised and repaired.[51]

9 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The wrecking steamer was caught by wind and current in the Ohio River at Advance Coal Landing and was capsized and sunk. Her captain and one crewman were killed.[12]
 United States The steamer was sunk when a loaded car (RR?) ran off the end of a barge and crashed through the deck submerging the forecastle, Probably in area of St. Louis, Missouri. Scheduled to be raised later.[52]

11 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1902
Ship Country Description
 Chile The passenger steamer was wrecked at , Colombia.[7][53]
 United States The steamer sank in a collision with a barge near Pollock Rip Shoals.[30]

13 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1902
Ship Country Description
 Belgium The steamer collided with the steamer (flag unknown) off the Newarp Lightvessel ( United Kingdom) and sank.[54]

15 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The 58-gross register ton steam screw tug was towing the steamer ( United States) on Lake Erie when she struck a large piece of ice which stopped her forward progress. Wilkesbarre then collided with Acme, causing Acme to capsize and sink, a total loss. All four people aboard Acme survived.[55][56]
 United States The dredge was sunk in a collision with ( United States) in the Savannah River.[17]

20 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer burned in the Ohio River near Ogden's Landing, Kentucky, a total loss. 43 passengers and 21 crew were killed.[18]
Viking  United States Carrying a 220-ton cargo of salt, lumber, and provisions from San Francisco, California, to Unga, Territory of Alaska, the 146-ton, 108-foot (33 m) schooner dragged her anchors in a gale and was wrecked at Popoff Island Point off Unga. Her crew of seven survived. She later was raised, repaired, and returned to service.[57]

21 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1902
Ship Country Description
Lettie  United States The schooner was lost at (55°59′30″N 160°34′30″W / 55.99167°N 160.57500°W / 55.99167; -160.57500 (Port Moller)), Territory of Alaska.[58]

22 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 April 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The laid up steamer burned to the waterline and sank at on the Great Kanawha River, a total loss.[19]
 United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in the Mobile River off Mobile, Alabama in eight feet (2.4 m) of water. Raised and repaired.[59]

23 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1902
Ship Country Description
 Norway The steamer was sunk in a collision with ( Australia) two miles (3.2 km) south of the Tyne River. Seven crewmen were killed. Survivors climbed aboard Dilkera as Hekla sank.[7][60]
Unknown barge  United States The barge, under tow of Plymouth ( United States), was damaged in a collision with Spartan (flag unknown) in fog in Massachusetts Bay, sinking three hours later.[61]

24 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The tow steamer was destroyed when her boiler exploded at Newtown Creek. One crewman killed, two men injured.[62]

25 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[31]

26 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1902
Ship Country Description
Cornelia Soule  United States During a voyage from Maine to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a cargo of cut granite jetty stones, the 306-gross register ton three-masted schooner ran aground during a gale on the south of Long Island, New York. Her six-man crew was rescued on 27 April, but she broke up and sank in 25 feet (8 m) of water at 40°25.992′N 073°10.620′W / 40.433200°N 73.177000°W / 40.433200; -73.177000 (Cornelia Soule). Her wreck is known as the "Granite Wreck."[63]
 United States The schooner foundered in a gale off Point Pelee. Three lost.[64]
Mayflower  United States The scow foundered in a gale between Mount Clemens, Michigan and Algonac, Michigan, a total loss.[64]
Monterey  United States The steamer was caught by wind in the Monongahela River near Glassport, Pennsylvania, and capsized and sank. She later was raised.[12]
 United States The schooner sank in a gale while at anchor at South Bass Island in Lake Erie. Her captain, his wife and son, and one crewman drowned.[7][65]

27 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1902
Ship Country Description
Concordia  United States The 110-ton schooner was wrecked 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) west of the (51°13′N 128°14′W / 51.217°N 128.233°W / 51.217; -128.233 (Virgin Rocks)) on the coast of British Columbia, Canada.[66]
 United States The laid up towboat was destroyed by fire at Stapleton, New York on Staten Island.[62]

28 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sprung a leak in Boston lower harbor and was beached. She then caught fire and became a total loss.[67]

30 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1902
Ship Country Description
Henry Hughes  United States The barge, under tow of Volunteer ( United States), swamped and sank in rough seas 1⁄4 mile (0.40 km) south west of Bridgeport, Connecticut. One crewman killed.[68]
Wm. E. Baxter  United States The barge, under tow of Volunteer ( United States), swamped and sank in rough seas 1⁄4 mile (0.40 km) south west of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her captain and a stewardess were killed.[68]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date April 1902
Ship Country Description
Maggie Elizabeth  United States The 11-gross register ton schooner was stranded in the Chesapeake Bay at Cedar Point on the coast of Maryland at the mouth of the Patuxent River. Both people on board survived.[69]

May[]

2 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 May 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck rocks and sank at Catlettsburg, Kentucky on the Big Sandy River. Her machinery was salvaged.[19]
Vesta  United States The steamer capsized and sank in the Monongahela River near Glenwood, Pennsylvania, during a storm. She later was raised.[12]

5 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer smashed her bow on the lock wall at the Davis Island Dam on the Ohio River and sank. Later raised.[70]

6 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1902
Ship Country Description
Camorta  United Kingdom The passenger ship sank in the Irrawaddy Delta in a cyclone with the loss of all 737 passengers and crew.[71]
 United States The towboat was sunk in a collision with ( United States) in the East River.[62]

7 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The naptha launch sank in a collision with the steamer ( United States) on the Maumee River near Toledo, Ohio. Seven killed.[72]

9 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 May 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The Buffalo Police Department steamer struck a submerged object in the harbor at Buffalo, New York and sank.[56]

10 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer burned in the Missouri River between Running Water, South Dakota and Yankton, South Dakota.[73]

13 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer smashed her bow in a collision with Twilight ( United States) on the Monongahela River and sank.[70]

21 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer caught fire in the St. Clair River or Lake St. Clair off Star Island and was beached on the Canadian side and burned to the waterline. Raised on 10 July and towed to Algonac, Michigan where her machinery was removed. In May 1905 she was towed to Fort William, Ontario where she was converted into a lighter.[74][75]

22 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer burned at New Orleans, Louisiana, a total loss.[31]

24 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank at dock at . Promptly raised.[43]
 Belgium The steamer was wrecked off Takoradi, Gold Coast.[39]

27 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer capsized and sank near Entiat, Washington, in the Columbia River, a total loss. One crewman killed.[76]
HMS Recruit  Royal Navy The Brazen-class destroyer struck rocks one-half mile (0.80 km) north of Cape Cornwall. Refloated and towed to Penzance by tugs.[77]

28 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank in 25 feet (7.6 m) of water after a plank got knocked out of place. Raised and repaired.[73]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in May 1902
Ship Country Description
 Norway The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay. Her crew were rescued by lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire, United Kingdom to Cape Town.[78]

June[]

2 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1902
Ship Country Description
Mataafa  United States The bulk carrier was stranded in fog on in Lake Superior. She later was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[79]

5 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The tow steamer was sunk at dock when struck by the barge Aurora at Cleveland, Ohio.[56]

6 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sprung a leak and was beached on . Later pumped out and refloated.[80]

7 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1902
Ship Country Description
George G. Hadley  United States The steamer was damaged in a collision with the steamer Thomas Wilson ( United States) and beached. Later refloated, taken to West Superior, Wisconsin for temporary repairs and then to Milwaukee for permanent repairs.[81]
Thomas Wilson  United States
Three capstans at the stern of the wreck of Thomas Wilson on 15 August 2007
The whaleback cargo ship sank off the harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, in 70 feet (21 m) of water after a collision with the steamer George G. Hadley ( United States). Nine crew were killed.[81]

10 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1902
Ship Country Description
Comet  United States The steamer foundered at dock in Burlington, Iowa in a severe storm.[73]

11 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1902
Ship Country Description
Richard Roach or Bernard Roach  United States The canal boat was sunk in a collision with ( United States) off Pier 6 in the East River. A child was killed.[62]

12 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1902
Ship Country Description
Advance  Australia
Advance
The schooner was wrecked at Henry's Point, Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
 United States The steamer capsized in a sudden severe windstorm in the eight miles (13 km) above Dubuque, Iowa. Raised, taken to Stillwater, Minnesota and repaired. Her master and three crewmen killed.[51]
 United States The steamer struck a sunken barge loaded with steel rails causing her to capsize and sink in the Ohio River at Rising Sun, Indiana. Raised and repaired.[82]
Unknown sailboat  United States The small sailboat capsized when it changed course turning under the bow of ( United States) at Bath, Maine. A number of people drowned, including three women, the wife and daughter of the man operating the boat included.[50]

22 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1902
Ship Country Description
 Imperial Chinese Navy The Kai Che-class unprotected cruiser was sunk by an accidental internal explosion at Nanking, China, and became a total loss. 148 killed.[83][7]

24 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The tow steamer was sunk off Communipaw, New Jersey when ( United States) passed so close to the scow she had lashed alongside, that the scow rolled severely, dumping her load of sand. When the scow righted she came down with such force on John A. Griswald that the tow steamer sank.[84]

27 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was lost with all hands, probably in the Virginia area.[85]

28 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1902
Ship Country Description
Gustav Adolph  Norway The barque ran onto rocks near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, just west of the Palmiet River and was wrecked.

29 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank in a gale on Lake Erie near Kellys Island. Seven crewmen killed, only the captain and his wife and daughter survived. The wreck was dispersed with dynamite in October.[72][86]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date June 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The 31-gross register ton screw steamer was stranded in on the coast of Washington. All three people on board survived.[87]

July[]

1 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The yacht burned to the waterline at Linden Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey.[84]

2 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 July 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The freighter sprung a leak and sank in the Little Wabash River at Decker's Landing. Raised and repaired.[18]
 United States The steamer sank at dock in Beaumont, Texas after being damaged earlier in a collision while underway with Lawrence ( United States) in the Neches River 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) below the town.[2]

3 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 July 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The laid up steamer broke loose from her dock during a sudden rise in the Allegheny River at Kittanning, Pennsylvania and was swept downstream and was wrecked and abandoned.[70]
 Australia The cutter sank in Spencer Gulf.[88]

6 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 July 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The tug was destroyed by fire at dock over night at New Baltimore, New York.[50]

7 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 July 1902
Ship Country Description
Cumberland  United States The steamer was damaged in a collision in dense fog in Boston Harbor with ( United States) and beached to prevent sinking.[67]

8 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 July 1902
Ship Country Description
J. N. Coombs  United States The 17-gross register ton schooner sank at , Florida. All three people on board survived.[89]

10 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck a rock and sank in the Flint River, a total loss.[10]

15 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 July 1902
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The paddle wheel passenger/cargo ferry was wrecked on Sheep Island off Port Ellen, Scotland.[90]

20 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1902
Ship Country Description
Fleetwing  United States After her gasoline engine broke down, the 14-gross register ton, 36.8-foot (11.2 m) motor vessel was driven ashore and wrecked at the mouth of the Snake River at Nome, Territory of Alaska. She filled with water and was abandoned.[91]
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Bordentown, New Jersey.[92]

24 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer burned, a total loss, probably at New Orleans, Louisiana.[31]
 United States The steamer burned, a total loss, when , tied up alongside, burned, probably at New Orleans, Louisiana.[31]
Henry J. Johnson  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with ( United States) ten miles (16 km) below , off Spectacle Reef and the Ninemile Point Light in Lake Huron.[74][93]

25 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck rocks in the Ohio River at Osborne, Pennsylvania and sank.[70]

28 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer caught fire off and was beached for a total loss.[76]
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at Punta Gorda, Florida.[10]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: unknown July 1902
Ship Country Description
 Sweden The passenger steamer sank in the Elbe River. 112 killed.[7][94]

August[]

3 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was destroyed by a boiler explosion at .[31]
 United States The steamer sank at her dock in the Chicago River.[14]

4 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1902
Ship Country Description
Wordsworth  Belgium The ship was wrecked off Assu Torre, Bahia, Brazil.[95][39]

5 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1902
Ship Country Description
City of Venice  United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with ( Canada) on Lake Erie off Rondeau, Ontario. Three crewmen killed.[56]

6 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 August 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at the J. M. Guffey Wharf, Port Arthur, Texas.[2]
 United States The steamer sank over night at Wood Island, California. Later pumped out.[96]

7 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The passenger steamer caught fire in the Raritan River and was beached and burned to the waterline.[97]

10 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1902
Ship Country Description
Northern Belle  United States The steamer dropped onto a snag when the river level dropped puncturing the hull and causing her to sink in the . Her machinery was salvaged.[98]

13 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1902
Ship Country Description
Billy  United States The 16-ton scow dragged her anchor three nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) north of (55°11′30″N 131°11′00″W / 55.19167°N 131.18333°W / 55.19167; -131.18333 (Point Alava)) at the southern tip of Revillagigedo Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska during a storm and was washed onto rocks, where she became a total loss.[1]
Jacob Kuper  United States The tow steamer was sunk when her boiler exploded off Tompkinsville, New York, Staten Island. Three of her crew and one crewman of the barge she was pulling were killed.[97][99]
 United States The tow steamer caught fire at and was beached. She burned to the waterline.[97]

17 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1902
Ship Country Description
 Imperial Chinese Navy The Kai Che-class unprotected cruiser was sunk in a collision with Empress of India ( Canada) off Hong Kong.[100]

20 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1902
Ship Country Description
 Brazil The steamer ran aground and was wrecked .[101]
Will H. Isom  United States The 983-gross register ton, 183.8-foot (56.0 m) sternwheel paddle steamer and two barges she was towing were forced ashore and wrecked at , Territory of Alaska. Will H. Isom's hulk was refloated and moved to St. Michael, Alaska, where it rotted away on the beach.[102]

22 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with ( United States) in dense fog in Long Island Sound east of Watch Hill Light. Crew rescued by James S. Whitney.[97]

24 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck a rock in the Merrimack River above Lowell, Massachusetts and sank.[67]
 United States The tug burned in drydock at Athens, New York, a total loss.[50]

25 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer filled with water in the Monongahela River at Braddock, Pennsylvania and sank. Raised and repaired.[103]
 United States The steamer struck a stump in three miles (4.8 km) above Des Allemands, Louisiana sinking in shallow water from the stern to the front of the boiler. Raised on 6 September.[31]

31 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The yacht sank a half hour after striking a submerged wreck along the coast of Maine. Her crew reached Libby Island, Maine in boats.[68]

September[]

1 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1902
Ship Country Description
 Italy The Great Gale of 1902: The barque was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa. Her captain and six crew died.[104][105]
 Germany The Great Gale of 1902: The barque was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa.[104][106]
Cavaliere Michele Russo  Italy The Great Gale of 1902: The ship broke in two and sank in the gale off North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa. 17 crew died.[104]
 United Kingdom The Great Gale of 1902: The tug was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa.[104][107]
 Norway The Great Gale of 1902: The barque was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa. Her captain and six crew died.[104][108]
 Norway or  Sweden The Great Gale of 1902: The barque was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa.[104][109]
 Germany The Great Gale of 1902: The barque was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa. Refloated in 1903, repaired and returned to service.[104][110]
 United Kingdom The Great Gale of 1902: The tug was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa.[104]
 Germany The Great Gale of 1902: The barque was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa.[104][111]
 United Kingdom The Great Gale of 1902: The schooner was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa.[104][112]
 Germany The Great Gale of 1902: The barque was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa. Refloated in 1903, repaired and returned to service.[104][113]
 Norway The Great Gale of 1902: The barque was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa. Two crew died.[104][114]
 United Kingdom The Great Gale of 1902: The sailing ship sank in the gale off North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa.[104][115]
 Norway The Great Gale of 1902: The sailing ship was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa.[104][116]
Kimara The Great Gale of 1902: The vessel was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa.[104]
 Sweden The Great Gale of 1902: The barque was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa. Eight crew killed.[104][117]
 United States The steamer capsized and sank in the harbor of Duluth, Minnesota-West Superior, Wisconsin. Her engineer was killed.[118]
 Germany The Great Gale of 1902: The barque was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa. Her captain and 11 crew killed.[104][119]
 United Kingdom The Great Gale of 1902: The sailing vessel was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa.[104][120]
 United Kingdom The Great Gale of 1902: The barque was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa.[104][121]
Scotia  United Kingdom The Great Gale of 1902: The cargo ship was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa.[104][122]
Scotia  United Kingdom The Great Gale of 1902: The steam lighter was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa.[123]
 Germany The Great Gale of 1902: The schooner was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa.[104][124]
 Norway The Great Gale of 1902: The barque was wrecked in the gale on North End Beach, Algoa Bay, South Africa breaking in two. Her captain and seven crew died.[104][125]

3 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The yacht was wrecked near Sturgeon Bay, Michigan.[14]

4 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire while lying in the Chicago Drainage Canal.[14]

6 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1902
Ship Country Description
Crête-à-Pierrot Haiti Haitian Navy
Crête-à-Pierrot

The gunboat was scuttled by the deliberate detonation of her aft magazine at Gonaïves, Haiti, to prevent her capture by the gunboat SMS Panther ( Imperial German Navy). All five crew remaining on board at the time of the explosion were killed, along with an admiral and a surgeon. Panther then fired 30 shots into her wreck to complete her destruction. $50,000 in gold was looted from the wreck before 1907, her guns salvaged in 1907. The wreck was scheduled to be destroyed in 1907.[126][127][128]

J. B. Ward  United States Carrying two passengers, three crewmen and a cargo of 15 tons of general merchandise, the 28-gross register ton, 48.2-foot (14.7 m) schooner was wrecked without loss of life in (56°39′N 157°27′W / 56.650°N 157.450°W / 56.650; -157.450 (Inunudah Bay)) on the coast of Umnak Island in the Aleutian Islands after her anchor chains parted during a gale. The revenue cutter USRC Manning (Ensign of the United States Revenue-Marine (1868).png United States Revenue Cutter Service) rescued all on board.[129]

7 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1902
Ship Country Description
Courtney Ford  United States During a voyage from St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, to Port Townsend, Washington, and San Francisco, California, the 401.11-gross register ton, 146.3-foot (44.6 m) three-masted schooner – a converted brigantine – was wrecked on (55°18′N 162°55′W / 55.300°N 162.917°W / 55.300; -162.917 (Glen Island)) off the Bering Sea coast of the Alaska Peninsula. There were six survivors.[66]
Unknown scow  United States The scow, under tow of ( United States), was sunk in a collision with a scow under tow of ( United States) in the harbor of New York City.[130]

8 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Alexandria Bay.[72]
 United States The steamer struck a dock and sank at Sandusky, Ohio.[72]
William H. Stevens  United States The steamer was destroyed by fire that started in the Engine Room 25 miles (40 km) from Clear Creek on Lake Erie.[131]

9 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank at dock at the Arch Street wharf in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania due to a leak in the stern bearings.[92]
 United States The steamer sank at her dock in Detroit. Two crewmen killed.[132]

10 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1902
Ship Country Description
Unknown scow  United States The scow, under tow of ( United States), foundered in a storm off the Fire Island Lighthouse.[130]

11 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 September 1902
Ship Country Description
City of Rome  United States The steamer sprung a leak in a heavy gale 15 miles (24 km) north of the . She was beached in on Point Isabel. Later refloated and towed to Cleveland, Ohio for repairs.[98]
Good Hope  United States The 12-ton, 34-foot (10.4 m) or 39.9-foot (12.2 m) schooner slipped her anchor and was driven ashore and wrecked with the loss of both people on board 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) west of in the roadstead at Nome, Territory of Alaska.[133]
 United States The fishing steamer sprung a leak on Lake Erie and was beached and abandoned near Ashtabula, Ohio.[56]

15 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer burned to the waterline at .[92]

17 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1902
Ship Country Description
Cottage City  United States The 1,885-gross register ton, 293-foot (89.3 m) steamer was stranded without loss of life on a shelf of rock off (56°06′N 132°21′W / 56.100°N 132.350°W / 56.100; -132.350 (Island Point)) on Etolin Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska, losing her stem, forefoot, and 40 feet (12.2 m) of her keel. Several hours later, the steamer Spokane ( United States) took off her 150 passengers, and lighters removed her cargo. She was refloated three weeks after the wreck and proceeded to Seattle, Washington, under her own steam.[66]

20 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1902
Ship Country Description
Lurline  United States The steamer struck rocks in the Columbia River 1,000 feet (300 m) above , Washington, in heavy fog and was beached.[134]

27 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank at dock in Wilmington, North Carolina.[17]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date September 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The 11-gross register ton motor yacht burned at Harpswell, Maine. All three people on board survived.[135]

October[]

3 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1902
Ship Country Description
General Siglin  United States During a voyage from Nome, Territory of Alaska, to Puget Sound, Washington, with a scheduled stop at Dutch Harbor on Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Islands, the 81-ton, 80-foot (24.4 m) two-masted schooner was last seen off Unimak Island outside the entrance to False Pass. She never arrived at Dutch Harbor. Her entire crew of eight perished.[133]

6 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank in a collision with a barge at Marchants Landing, Florida on the Apalachicola River.[2]
 United States The schooner was disabled in a gale on 25 September. She was abandoned by her crew on 6 October and were rescued by USS Princeton ( United States Navy). The derelict and drifting vessel was wrecked later that day on rocks on off Formosa.[96][136]

7 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was wrecked in a storm at Kincardine, Ontario. Her captain, two crewmen, the female cook, and one in the rescue party were killed.[7][137][138]

9 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was damaged in a collision with Iroquois ( United States) in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina. She was then grounded in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water until emergency repairs could be made.[17]
 United States The steamer caught fire off and was beached for a total loss.[76]
Columbia  United States The steamer struck a rock in in the Columbia River and sank.[134]

10 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck a reef in the near the entrance to the Niagara River on Lake Erie and sank.[131]
 United States The steam barge was destroyed by fire in the Saginaw River.[74][139]
 Japan The steamer caught fire in the and was abandoned. She then drifted ashore at Kagoshima, Japan.[140]

11 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at McKenzies Landing, Florida on the Manatee River.[2]
 United States The steamer struck a snag or submerged piling at the mouth of the Cowlitz River and sank.[134]
 United States The yacht burned and sank in the Raritan River.[130]

13 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The fishing steamer suffered a broken steam pipe on Lake Erie 13 miles (21 km) north north east of Fairport, Ohio and dropped anchor in a gale with heavy seas. Shortly after dropping anchor she sprung a leak and sank. Her crew abandoned ship in two boats. Part of her crew was rescued from one boat by a passing steamer, the other boat was found capsized the next day, ten crewmen drowned.[56]
 United States The ferry burned to the waterline and sank at Gallipolis, Ohio overnight, a total loss.[19]

14 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The yacht sank near the Ice Pier, Gallipolis, Ohio. Raised and repaired.[19]

15 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer missed the harbor at Holland, Michigan and ran ashore and was wrecked.[14][141]
 United States The steamer destroyed by fire at Texas City, Texas.[2]

16 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1902
Ship Country Description
Eight unknown barges  United States The eight barges, all loaded with coal, under tow of ( United States), were sunk after the tow steamer ( United States) grounded on Twelve Pole Bar in the Ohio River then turned across the channel in front of Fred Wilson resulting in a collision. The barges were abandoned after some coal was recovered. They were later removed by the US Government snag boat ( United States).[19]
Unknown barges  United States The three barges, of 22 barges and 1 flat, all loaded with coal, under tow of ( United States), were sunk after Gleaner grounded on Twelve Pole Bar in the Ohio River then turned across the channel in front of ( United States) resulting in a collision. The barges were later raised and some coal recovered.[19]
Unknown barges  United States The two barges, both loaded with coal, under tow of ( United States), were sunk after Sam Brown grounded on Sand Creek Bar in the Ohio River. Some coal was recovered.[19]

18 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck Thompsons Bar in the Columbia River causing a severe leak and was beached in eight feet (2.4 m) of water.[76]
Unknown barge  United States The barge, under tow of Empire ( United States), was sunk in a collision with the ferry ( United States) off Pier 13 in the North River.[130]

19 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner was wrecked on Reef, a total loss.[142][143]
Unknown canal boat  United States The canal boat, under tow of Media ( United States), was sunk in a collision with a car float under the tow of Unity ( United States) in the harbor of New York City.[130]

22 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The passenger paddle steamer was lost by burning at Grand Tower, Illinois.[52][144]
 United States The steamer was sunk at dock at New Orleans, Louisiana when struck by ( United States). Later raised and repaired.[10]

23 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck a snag in the Skagit River and sank. Later raised and repaired.[76]

27 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1902
Ship Country Description
Ventnor  New Zealand The steamer left Wellington for Hong Kong on 26 October 1902.[145]At about 12:30 am the next morning it struck a reef off Cape Egmont[146]leading to damage. The ship sank about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) off the coast, in 147-metre-deep (482 ft) water, near Hokianga Heads on 27 October, with 13 crew killed as their lifeboat capsized.[147]

28 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was damaged in a collision with ( United Kingdom) and beached.[76]

29 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer burned at Stockton, Alabama and was abandoned.[59]

31 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck a snag and sank at Grape Island, West Virginia. Immediately raised and taken to Parkersburg, West Virginia for repairs.[12]
 Spain The steamer was sunk in a collision with ( United Kingdom) off Dungeness, England. 27 crew killed, 3 rescued by St Regulus.[7][148]
 United States The motor vessel struck a snag in the Sacramento River near Bowens Landing, sinking at Clarksburg, California. Had not been raised as of early 1903.[96]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1902
Ship Country Description
Louise  United States The small schooner was wrecked on the beach at Nome, Territory of Alaska.[58]

November[]

3 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1902
Ship Country Description
Choctaw  United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) below Greenwood, Mississippi in the Yazoo River, a total loss.[10]

4 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The cargo schooner was sunk in a collision with Admiral Sampson ( United States) in Massachusetts Bay in dense fog. Her captain and three crewmen killed.[6]

5 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The yacht struck a jetty entering Sandusky Bay and sank.[72]

7 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The tug, docked at the Minnesota Ore Docks, Superior, Wisconsin, was hit and sunk by ( United States). One of her firemen was scalded in the sinking and died on 13 November.[118]

8 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1902
Ship Country Description
Unknown barge  United States The barge, under tow of ( United States), was sunk in a collision with a Barge under tow of ( United States) off , New York in the East River.[61]

9 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1902
Ship Country Description
Elingamite  Australia The passenger ship ran aground and was wrecked on West Island in the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand, in thick fog due to inaccurate maps. 28 passengers and 17 crew died out of 136 passengers and 58 crew.[7][149]
 United States The fishing steamer burned to the waterline and sank in Casco Bay.[11]

10 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1902
Ship Country Description
Unknown barge  United States The barge, under tow of ( United States), was sunk in a collision with a barge under tow of ( United States) in the Harlem River.[61]

13 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The Steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Montague, Michigan.[150]

14 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The rail ferry sank at Ashland, Kentucky when a run away rail car smashed into her forecastle. Raised and repaired.[19]

15 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sank in 14 feet (4.3 m) of water at Dock, Pittsburgh. Raised and repaired.[103]
Sadie  United States The 11-gross register ton schooner sank off Cutler, Maine. Both people on board survived.[151]

16 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The 80-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a rock in the Rogue River in Oregon one-half mile (0.80 km) below the mouth of the Illinois River, destroying her rudder. The helpless vessel drifted three miles (4.8 km) downstream before hitting another rock, which caused her to capsize and sink. All three people on board survived.[135][134]

17 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1902
Ship Country Description
Robert Wallace  United States The steamer foundered 20 miles (32 km) from Superior, Wisconsin due to a broken stern pipe.[118]

18 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1902
Ship Country Description
Bosnia The steamer sank in the Black Sea. 150 drowned.[7]
 United Kingdom The steamer collided with the steamer (flag unknown) near Gourock Bay and Cloch Point in the River Clyde. One man missing.[152]

19 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1902
Ship Country Description
Raven  United States The steamer struck a submerged log destroying her prop causing her to drift onto a reef and capsizing. Later righted and refloated and taken to Vancouver, British Columbia.[76]

20 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1902
Ship Country Description
 Denmark The steamer was sunk in a collision with ( United Kingdom) off the Black Middens in the Tyne River. Her captain and six crewmen died. Four were rescued.[7][153]
 United States The passenger paddle steamer was lost to fire at Pembina, North Dakota.[154]

22 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was sunk in a collision with ( United States) at New Orleans, a total loss.[10][155]

23 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was damaged in a collision with ( United States) in the channel in the Detroit River and was beached to prevent sinking.[132]
 United States The laid up steamer sank as a result of a rusted through supply pipe at . Raised and repaired.[82]

25 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer sprung a leak off Lorain, Ohio on Lake Erie and drifted ashore. Deemed a total loss.[56]

28 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The passenger steamer was destroyed by fire between New Baltimore, New York and Troy, New York.[50]
 United States The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with ( United States) off Bedloes Island, New York City.[61]

29 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer ran onto a bar and was swung into rocks causing her to sink at on the Big Sandy River, a total loss.[19]

30 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner barge, under tow of ( United States), was cut loose by her tow in a gale on Lake Huron. Her wreckage was found near on Cockburn Island. Lost with all eight hands.[7][156]
 United States The steamer became unmanageable in a terrific gale and snowstorm after losing her rudder on Lake Superior and was abandoned by her crew. She was wrecked on , a total loss. The crew made it to shore in boats.[98][157]
 United States The paddle steamer sank at Greenwood, Mississippi.[158]

December[]

3 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The sloop was sunk in a collision with ( United States) in the East River.[30]
 United States The steamer was destroyed at the , San Francisco, California when 400 barrels of fuel oil in a fuel oil tank being fitted exploded. Broken up later. Six shipyard employees and six crewmen killed.[27][159]

5 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer burned and sank at Pier 18 South, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[92]

9 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The tow steamer became disabled off Mount Desert Rock and the vessel drifted ashore and was wrecked. 17 of 18 crewmen made it ashore on Mount Desert Rock, the mess boy was found frozen to death. They were rescued after seven days by ( United States).[68]
Pontiac  United States The tug was sunk when pierced by ice between Albany, New York and Troy, New York.[50]

10 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The schooner sank in the south channel to Absecon Inlet between Heinz Pier and Steel Pier in eight feet (2.4 m) of water. The wreck was blown up with dynamite on 22–23 June 1905.[160]

11 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1902
Ship Country Description
Belle Wooster  United States The 479-gross register ton schooner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean 60 nautical miles (110 km; 69 mi) east of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. All seven people on board survived.[161]

13 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steam barge sank in a severe storm near the on Lake Ontario. Lost with all hands, believed to be nine.[72]

14 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1902
Ship Country Description
Unknown barge  United States The barge, under tow of ( United States), sank in a storm off Barnegat, New Jersey. crew rescued by Tormentor.[61]

16 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 December 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The laid up passenger steamer broke loose from her dock at Covington, Kentucky and was swept downstream and sank when she struck the Southern Railroad bridge, a total loss.[19]

17 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1902
Ship Country Description
Frank A. Palmer  United States Carrying a cargo of coal, the 274-foot (84 m), 2,014-gross register ton four-masted schooner collided with the schooner Louise B. Crary ( United States) in Massachusetts Bay north of Cape Cod off Gloucester, Massachusetts, during a gale and sank in 360 feet (110 m) of water with the loss of 11 of the 21 crew members aboard the two ships.[162]
Louise B. Crary  United States Carrying a cargo of coal, the 267-foot (81 m), 2,231-gross register ton five-masted schooner collided with the schooner Frank A. Palmer ( United States) in Massachusetts Bay north of Cape Cod off Gloucester, Massachusetts, during a gale and sank in 360 feet (110 m) of water with the loss of 11 of the 21 crew members aboard the two ships.[163]

23 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer struck a snag and sank in the Little Kanawha River below the Hughes River.[19]

24 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The bark was wrecked on in the China Sea.[164]
 United States The steamer struck the pier of the Ninth Street Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the Monongahela River and sank taking two flats down with her. One person reported missing. Later raised.[103]

26 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1902
Ship Country Description
Stella  United States The tow steamer filled and sank over night at the Atlantic Dock in Brooklyn, probably from the vessel catching under the dock on a rising tide. No leak found when she was raised.[30]

27 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 December 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States The steamer was sunk by ice 20 miles (32 km) below Dyersburg, Tennessee, a total loss.[165]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in December 1902
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was wrecked whilst on a voyage from Hamburg, Germany to the Clyde.[166]
 United Kingdom The fishing steamer disappeared at sea. It was last seen 25 December 265 miles (426 km) north west of the .[167]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1902
Ship Country Description
 United States After being abandoned in July 1900 at a slip on the Kinnickinnic River in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, following years of service as a lumber carrier and later as a "floating church" and "gospel ship," the three-masted schooner was towed out onto Lake Michigan and scuttled sometime in the summer of 1902.[168]
 United States The fishing schooner was last seen off Cape Sable Island on the 17th. Lost with all 14 crew.[169][170]
Chance  New Zealand
Chance
The ship was driven ashore at Bluff.
Coggeswell  United States The barge sank in the Hudson River sometime in the Spring. Some wreckage was removed by grappling on 23 July 1906.[171]
George Rennie  Australia
George Rennie
The paddle steamer was scuttled to form a breakwater at Picnic Bay, Queensland, Australia.
Louis Walsh  United States The 1,433-ton ship broke loose from her moorings during a gale and was washed ashore on the spit at Dutch Harbor, Territory of Alaska. She was stripped and abandoned, and her hull eventually broke up.[58]
Nor'West  United States While laid up for the winter, the 8-gross register ton, 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 (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.[172]
 Imperial German Navy The torpedo boat sank after a collision. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[173]
 United States The tug burned and sank in the Hudson River sometime in the Spring. Some wreckage was removed by grappling on 23 July 1906.[171]

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Ship events in 1902
Ship launches: 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907
Ship commissionings: 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907
Ship decommissionings: 1898 1899 1902 1904 1905 1906
Shipwrecks: 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907
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