While the 6-gross register ton 28-foot (8.5 m) sloop, carrying a cargo of 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg) of fish and fishing gear and a crew of two, was transiting Lynn Canal in the Territory of Alaska in darkness during a voyage from Juneau to Hunter Bay, a squall struck which blew her onto a rock. The rock holed her, and she flooded, sank, and was battered to pieces on rocks. Her crew survived.[1]
5 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The packet struck a snag and sank in the Coosa River near Gadsden, Alabama. Raised and repaired.[2]
7 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1904
Ship
Country
Description
France
The schooner sank just north of the Chausey Islands in the Channel Islands.[3]
The steamer sprung a leak in a storm, plus had a broken porthole, causing her to fill, capsize and sink between Port Townsend, Washington and Victoria, British Columbia. 40 passengers and 10 crewmen were killed. 22 crewmen and 9 passengers were rescued by (flag unknown).[4][5][6]
United States
The steamer struck a submerged wreck two miles (3.2 km) south east of . She was brought into Bridgeport, Connecticut and beached.[7]
16 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The packet struck a snag and sank in the Coosa River near Gadsden, Alabama. Raised and repaired.[8]
18 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was sunk in a collision with (United States) in the Red Fish Channel. Total loss. The crew were rescued by boats from Vaquero.[9]
19 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Norway
The full-rigged sailing ship was wrecked in the Chandeleur Islands. Refloated in 1917 and rebuilt as a bark and put in service as John H. Kirby (United States).[10]
The barge sank in a collision with Barge No. 1 while anchored in Bayou St. John, Louisiana, during a storm. One crewman from each barge was killed.[13]
United States
The steamer sunk by ice at Paden City, West Virginia.[14]
United States
The steamer sunk by ice at Paden City, West Virginia or Steubenville, Ohio.[15][16][17]
23 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer burned to the waterline at Wheeling, West Virginia.[18]
United States
The steamer was crushed by ice in the Schuylkill River at the Walnut Street Wharf, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[19]
24 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug was sunk by ice one-half mile (0.80 km) off Lorain, Ohio.[20]
United States
The laid up steamer was set on fire in the Allegheny River above the Sixth Street Bridge at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when (United States), that she was tied up along side, caught fire. She was cut loose drifting down to the wooden Union Bridge setting it on fire also. She was then beached by a tug and burned out.[21][22]
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at Indian Village in Bayou Plaquemine.[23]
United States
The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire in the Allegheny River above the Sixth Street Bridge at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, setting (United States), tied up along side, on fire also.[24][25]
The ferry was sunk by ice at the mouth of the . Total loss.[27]
Unknown canal boat
United States
The canal boat was sunk in a collision between and (both United States), probably under tow by one of them, above Lock No. 4 in the Monongahela River.[28]
26 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was sunk at dock by ice at . Total loss. Her master and two crewmen killed.[29]
Unidentified barges
United States
Eight barges, under tow of (United States), foundered in a heavy storm 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km; 0.6 mi) west of the Penfield Reef Light.[30]
28 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Maryland
United States
The barge was wrecked after losing her towline to (United States) in a gale in the Galveston, Texas, area.[31]
29 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Columbia
United States
The laid-up steamer sank at dock at Cramp's Wharf in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She probably got caught under the pier on a rising tide, filled up, and sank.[32]
The steamer was sunk by ice at Louisville, Kentucky. Later raised.[35]
February[]
1 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Twilight
United States
The tow steamer was driven on to rocks in Little Hell Gate in the East River by a squall and sank.[36]
2 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was holed and sunk by ice at dock in .[37]
Wasp
United States
The barge, under tow of (United States), sprang a leak and sank off in a gale with heavy seas.[38]
3 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a snag in the Savannah River near Augusta, Georgia, and sank.[39]
Puritan
United States
The barge sprang a leak and sank 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) south of Cape Henlopen, Delaware, in a gale with heavy seas.[40]
6 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The car ferry ran aground on Fox Point, Wisconsin, or one mile (1.6 km) north of it, in Lake Michigan in dense fog and heavy ice. Refloated on 19 February, almost declared a total loss.[41][42]
Robert V. Rider
United States
The 10-gross register tonsloop burned at , North Carolina. All three people on board survived.[43]
8 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The laid up steamer was sunk at dock by ice in the Licking River at Newport, Kentucky. Raised and repaired.[44]
United States
The steamer burned to the waterline and sank at Pier 35 in the East River, a total loss. Wreckage was removed by a wrecking company. One crewman killed.[45][46][47]
9 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Germany
The cargo ship, owned by Reederei Emil R. Retzlaff., foundered 66 nautical miles (122 km) north east of Cape Vilano.[48]
Russo-Japanese War: After suffering damage in the Battle of Chemulpo Bay, the Korietz-class gunboat was blown up by detonation of her ammunition magazines at Chemulpo, Korea, to avoid capture by the Japanese.
United States
The schooner's bow was holed by ice off in the Delaware River and was beached.[49]
Retvizan
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Battle of Port Arthur: After a torpedo fired by an Imperial Japanese Navydestroyer struck her while she was anchored in the outer harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, the Retvizan-class battleship got underway and ran aground in the narrow channel between the outer and inner harbors while trying to steam into the inner harbor. Five members of her crew died in the torpedo explosion.[50] She was refloated on 8 March and moved into the inner harbor, where repairs were completed on 3 June.
Startle
United States
The 19-gross register tonsloop sank off Newport, Rhode Island. All eight people on board survived.[51]
Tsesarevich
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Battle of Port Arthur: After a torpedo fired by an Imperial Japanese Navydestroyer struck her while she was anchored in the outer harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, the Tsesarevich-class battleship got underway and steamed into the narrow channel into the inner harbor, where tugs took her in tow, but she ran aground in the channel before reaching the inner harbor.[50] One member of her crew died as a result of the torpedo hit. She was refloated and moved into the inner harbor, where repairs were completed on 7 June.
Russo-Japanese War: After suffering damage in the Battle of Chemulpo Bay, the Varyag-class protected cruiser was scuttled at Chemulpo, Korea, to avoid capture by the Japanese. The Japanese later salvaged her and placed her in service as the protected cruiser Soya (Imperial Japanese Navy).
11 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer dragged anchor and beached in a heavy gale at Port Orford, Oregon. One crewman was killed by falling deck cargo.[52]
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The minelayer exploded and sank in Dalian Bay off Dalniy, Manchuria, China, after striking one of her own mines. Her commanding officer refused to leave her and went down with the ship.[53]
12 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Boyarin
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The Boyarin-class protected cruiser struck a mine in Dalian Bay off Dalniy, Manchuria, China, on 11 February, killing ten crewmen, and was abandoned immediately. When she did not sink, her commanding officer ordered a destroyer to torpedo her, reaffirming the order twice when the destroyer′s commanding officer questioned scuttling a ship that was not in obvious danger of sinking. Both torpedoes fired at her missed, and she was left to drift as a derelict. Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers found her still afloat on 12 February and boarded her to remove some of her gear, again leaving her to drift unmanned in the bay. She finally sank in a storm on the evening of 12 February. An Imperial Russian Navy court of inquiry into her loss later found her commanding officer′s conduct in abandoning his ship so quickly and making no effort to save her despite her apparent continued seaworthiness to have been "irregular."[53]
United States
The steamer struck rocks at Middle Francis Bend in the Chattahoochee River and sank in six feet (1.8 m) of water. Raised immediately.[54]
Juniata
United States
The steamer was sunk by ice at Madison, Indiana, a total loss.[55]
1904 Japanese illustration "Sinking of the Nakanoura Maru."
Russo-Japanese War: During a voyage to Otaru, Japan, the 1,804-ton merchant ship was sunk by gunfire in the Sea of Japan off the Tsugaru Strait by a cruisersquadron consisting of the armored cruisersGromoboi, Rossia, and Rurik and the protected cruiserBogatyr (all Imperial Russian Navy).[56][57]
United States
The steamer was damaged by ice and beached on Plum Point, Virginia. Refloated and towed to Baltimore, Maryland for repairs.[58]
Belgium
The steamship was wrecked three nautical miles (5.6 km) north west of Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.[59]
14 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was sunk by ice at Norwalk, Connecticut.[60]
21 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer filled with water and sank at dock at Glenwood Landing. Raised, repaired and returned to service by early April.[61]
22 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Thomas McNally
United States
The canal boat was sunk in a collision with Baltimore (United States) off Seventeenth Street, New York City in thick fog.[62]
23 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Bushu Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: Approaching the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, to be sunk as a blockship in the entrance, the 1,249-gross register tontransport was sunk with a scuttling charge outside the entrance by her crew, which had become disoriented by the glare of Russian searchlights and believed they had reached the entrance and that the blockship Jinsen Maru had scuttled herself up at the planned location and that they were in the correct scuttling place relative to Jinsen Maru's position.[63][64] Sources differ as to casualties and the rescue of the crews of the five blockships. Casualties among the five blockships combined either was one killed[63] or three wounded.[64] Either each blockship crew was rescued by its ship's designated escort/rescue vessel.[64] – Bushu Maru's was the torpedo boat[63] (Imperial Japanese Navy) – or the designated escort/rescue vessels rescued three of the blockship crews and the other two crews escaped in their ship's boats.[63]
Buyo Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: Approaching the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, to be sunk as a blockship in the entrance, the 1,153-gross register tontransport was sunk with a scuttling charge outside the entrance by her crew, which had become disoriented by the glare of Russian searchlights and believed they had reached the entrance and that the blockship Jinsen Maru had scuttled herself up at the planned location and that they were in the correct scuttling place relative to Jinsen Maru's position.[63] Sources differ as to casualties and the rescue of the crews of the five blockships. Casualties among the five blockships combined either was one killed[63] or three wounded.[64] Either each blockship crew was rescued by its ship's designated escort/rescue vessel.[64] – Buyo Maru's was the torpedo boat[63] (Imperial Japanese Navy) – or the designated escort/rescue vessels rescued three of the blockship crews and the other two crews escaped in their ship's boats.[63]
Hokoku Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: Approaching the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, to be sunk as a blockship in the entrance, the 2,776-gross register tontransport came under fire by the stranded battleshipRetvizan (Imperial Russian Navy). Retvizan's gunfire disabled her steering gear, cut the detonator wires to her scuttling charge, and set her on fire, and she ran aground just outside the west end of the harbor entrance. Her crew abandoned her, leaving her in flames.[63][64] Sources differ as to casualties and the rescue of the crews of the five blockships. Casualties among the five blockships combined either was one killed[63] or three wounded.[64] Either each blockship crew was rescued by its ship's designated escort/rescue vessel.[64] – Hokoku Maru's was the torpedo boat[63] (Imperial Japanese Navy) – or the designated escort/rescue vessels rescued three of the blockship crews and the other two crews escaped in their ship's boats.[63]
Jinsen Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: Approaching the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, to be sunk as a blockship in the entrance, the 2,331-gross register tontransport ran hard aground on a rock outside the entrance. Her crew sank her with a scuttling charge and abandoned her.[63] Sources differ as to casualties and the rescue of the crews of the five blockships. Casualties among the five blockships combined either was one killed[63] or three wounded.[64] Either each blockship crew was rescued by its ship's designated escort/rescue vessel.[64] – Jinsen Maru's was the torpedo boat[63] (Imperial Japanese Navy) – or the designated escort/rescue vessels rescued three of the blockship crews and the other two crews escaped in their ship's boats.[63]
Mary and Ida
United States
The 174-net register ton, 110.2-foot (33.6 m) cod-fishingschooner dragged her anchor during a gale and was wrecked at Unga Island in the Shumagin Islands off the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula. Her entire crew of eight survived.[65]
Tenshu Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: Steaming toward Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, to be sunk as a blockship in the entrance to the harbor there, the 2,943-gross register tontransport ran aground and was wrecked 3 miles (4.8 km) from the entrance.[63] Casualties among the five blockships combined either was one killed[63] or three wounded.[64] Either each blockship crew was rescued by its ship's designated escort/rescue vessel.[64] – Tenshu Maru's was the torpedo boat[63] (Imperial Japanese Navy) – or the designated escort/rescue vessels rescued three of the blockship crews and the other two crews escaped in their ship's boats.[63]
24 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was pushed by ice and current into an obstruction at McKeesport, Pennsylvania causing her to sink. Raised and repaired.[66]
United States
The steamer was sunk by a piling while docked, Norfolk, Virginia. Raised and repaired.[67]
25 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Russian Navy
The torpedo boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea during a storm.[68][69]
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The destroyer was sunk by gunfire in in on the southwestern end of the Liaotung Peninsula, Manchuria, China, by the protected cruisersChitose, Kasagi, Takasago, and Yoshino (all Imperial Japanese Navy).[70][71][72]
27 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer's bow was holed by an obstruction off Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania in the Delaware River and sank in shallow water. Later raised.[73]
The 11-gross register ton, 38.2-foot (11.6 m) schooner dragged her anchors during a storm and was wrecked in Lynn Canal in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of two survived.[75]
Unknown[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date February 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Canada
The schooner was abandoned at sea sometime in February.[76]
March[]
2 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The laid up steamer was sunk at dock by ice at Cincinnati, Ohio. Total loss.[77]
Monterey
United States
The steamer was caught in a heavy windstorm in the Ohio River and sank near Diamond Island, Kentucky. Raised and repaired.[78]
3 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer burned to the waterline and sank at dock in Lebanon, Delaware. Wreck removed by 8 July with pieces of the wreckage pulled up above the high tide mark.[79][80]
United States
The tow steamer listed in a squall causing her to fill and sink in the North River.[81]
Unidentified barge
United States
The barge, under tow of (United States), sank in a collision with the ferryChicago (United States) off the Packer Dock, Jersey City, New Jersey.[82]
4 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Belgium
The cargo ship foundered in the North Sea, off Ramsgate, England.[83]
United States
The launch, and the launch (United States), were towing the schooner (United States) when Wolverine's tow line parted and fouled Hyack's propeller. Queen then ran down and sank Hyack, probably somewhere around Seattle, Washington.[84]
6 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The freighter caught fire at Pier 8 in the East River. She sank after being towed to the Jersey flats.[85]
9 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Hailar
Russia
Russo-Japanese War: The steamer was reported on 15 March 1904 to have been scuttled as a blockship at the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, by the Imperial Russian Navy during March.[86]
Harbin
Russia
Russo-Japanese War: The Chinese Eastern Railwaysteamer was reported on 15 March 1904 to have been scuttled as a blockship at the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, by the Imperial Russian Navy during March.[86]
10 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck the lock gates of Lock No. 4 in the Monongahela River and sank.[87]
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: Badly damaged and having suffered heavy casualties in combat with four Imperial Japanese Navydestroyers in the Lau-ti-shan Channel near Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, the destroyer surrendered to the Japanese destroyers. However, her crew had opened the ship's Kingston valves in order to scuttle her, and two crewmen locked themselves in her engine room, sacrificing their lives to ensure that the Japanese could not enter, close the valves, and take the ship as a prize of war. The Japanese attempted to tow the sinking destroyer, but the towline broke, and she sank with the loss of all hands.[88][89][90]
Sunshine
United States
The steamer burned between Memphis, Tennessee and Cincinnati, Ohio, probably close to Memphis, a total loss. One crewman killed.[91]
11 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer while stuck in ice caught fire in the engine room and was destroyed off the Conneaut, Ohio breakwater. One crewman killed.[92]
13 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1904
Ship
Country
Description
City of Boston
United States
The ferry struck a waterlogged and abandoned mud scow adrift in the channel in Boston Harbor off Boston, Massachusetts. and was beached to prevent her from sinking.[93]
17 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer capsized at the mouth of the Big Sandy River. Total loss. Two crewmen killed.[94]
The Holland-class submarine was accidentally rammed by (United Kingdom) and sunk with the loss of all eleven crew in The Solent. She was later raised, repaired, and returned to service.
19 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Unidentified barge
United States
The dumper barge, under tow of (United States), sank in a collision with (United States) off the Scotland Lightship.[95]
23 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer struck a bridge pier and sank at Memphis, Tennessee, a total loss.[96]
25 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Columbia
United States
The steamer sank after striking a snag near Charleston, West Virginia. Raised and repaired.[97]
Russo-Japanese War: The 64- or 76-gross register ton (sources disagree) steamer was seized by a force of Imperial Russian Navy warships and after the removal of her crew and passengers was sunk by gunfire by Russian destroyers in Lau-ti-shan Channel just off the .[57][98]
27 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Chiyo Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The crew of the 1,746-gross register tontransport used an explosive charge to scuttle her as a blockship just outside and to the west of the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, in a failed attempt to block the entrance.[99]
Fukui Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The 2,943-gross register tontransport was torpedoed by Russian forces in the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, as she maneuvered to her planned scuttling position so that her crew could sink her in the entrance as a blockship. Her crew then used an explosive charge to scuttle her just outside and to the west of the entrance but failed to block it.[99]
Yahiko Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The transport's crew used an explosive charge to scuttle her as a blockship just inside the west side of the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, in a failed attempt to block the entrance.[99]
Yoneyama Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The 2,693-gross register tontransport was torpedoed by Russian forces while her crew prepared to scuttle her as a blockship at the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China. She sank just outside and east of the entrance and failed to block it.[99]
31 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug was sunk in a collision with (United States) in the North River.[100]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Ninguta
Russia
Russo-Japanese War: The steamer was reported on 15 March 1904 to have been scuttled as a blockship at the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, by the Imperial Russian Navy during March.[86]
Sungari
Russia
Russo-Japanese War: The steamer was reported on 15 March 1904 to have been scuttled as a blockship at the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, by the Imperial Russian Navy during March.[86]
April[]
8 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner ran aground and was wrecked on the south end of .[101]
The steamer was damaged on and was beached at . A total loss.[104]
United States
The tug was wrecked at when her steering gear broke. The vessel was a total loss. Three crewmen were killed and two were rescued by life saving crew stationed on the point.[105]
12 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Alice
United States
The barge was sunk in a collision with the steamer (United Kingdom) off the Eddystone Wharf at Eddystone, Pennsylvania.[106]
Russo-Japanese War: The Petropavlovsk-classbattleship struck a mine in Korea Bay off Port ArthurManchuria, China. The mine's detonation caused the explosions of several ammunition magazines and boilers in a chain reaction, and she sank in about a minute with the loss of 646 lives. Vice AdmiralStepan Makarov, commander-in-chief of the Russian Pacific Squadron, was among the dead. Her 89 survivors were rescued by Russian warships.[107]
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The destroyer was sunk by six Imperial Japanese Navytorpedo boats in Korea Bay off the Elliot Islands.[88][89]
14 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Belgium
The SA Tonnage, Antwerpcargo ship struck rocks and sank at Cape Blanc, Bizerte, Tunisia.[108]
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire in the Escambia River.[109]
16 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1904
Ship
Country
Description
No. 185
United States
The barge was sunk off the Horse Shoe Buoy[where?] in a gale.[110]
18 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Unknown dredge
United States
The dredge sank in a collision with tow steamer (United States) in the Bay Ridge Channel in the harbor of New York City.[111]
20 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was sunk when she tried to cut between two barges being towed in Pollock Rip slue.[112]
23 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was wrecked when forced onto Egg Island, near Bermuda, by a strong current.[113]
Russo-Japanese War: With a cargo of fish on board, the 600-gross register tonmerchant ship was boarded, searched, torpedoed, and sunk by Imperial Russian Navytorpedo boats in the harbor at Gensan, Korea.[57][114]
Russo-Japanese War: The 219- or 220-gross register tonmerchant ship was sunk in the Sea of Japan off Korea by a squadron consisting of the armored cruisersGromoboi and Rossia, the protected cruiserBogatyr, and torpedo boats (all Imperial Russian Navy).[57][114]
Steaming in fog, the protected cruiser overshot the entrance to the Yangtze River and was wrecked on a pinnacle rock just off the Shengsi Islands in Hangzhou Bay on the coast of China. Chinese customscruisers rescued her crew.
26 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Kinshu Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
"Last scene on board the Japanese transport Kinshu Maru." (1904 Japanese illustration)
Russo-Japanese War: The armed transport was stopped in the Sea of Japan off Gensan, Korea, by a squadron consisting of the armored cruisersGromoboi and Rossia, the protected cruiserBogatyr, and torpedo boats (all Imperial Russian Navy). Her crew surrendered and was removed, but a company of Imperial Japanese Army infantry on board refused to surrender, so the Russians torpedoed her with the soldiers still on board. The soldiers then opened rifle fire on the nearest cruiser, and the Russian squadron opened gunnery fire on Kinshu Maru and sank her in about 15 minutes, Rossia receiving the credit for the sinking. The Japanese soldiers continued to fire until Kinshu Maru sank beneath them.[115][116]
Two barges, under the tow of (United States), sank in a collision with an anchored flatboat in the East River.[118]
30 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Pocahontas
United States
The steamer burned to the waterline at Richmond, Virginia.[119]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: unknown April 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Carrie
United States
The coal barge sank at the entrance to Little Egg Harbor Bay, New Jersey sometime in April. Wreck removed with dynamite by 4 September.[120]
May[]
3 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Aikoku Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: Approaching the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, where she was to be scuttled as a blockship, the 1,781-gross register tontransport struck a mine 110 yards (100 m) off the entrance and sank instantly, failing in her attempt to block the entrance. Eight of her 24 crewmen were left missing.[121]
Asagao Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The 2,464-gross register tontransport was scuttled as a blockship just outside the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, in a failed attempt to block the entrance. Her entire crew of 18 was left missing.[121]
Mikawa Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The 1,967-gross register tontransport was scuttled as a blockship just inside the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, in a failed attempt to block the entrance. One of her 18 crewmen was killed.[121]
Odaru Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The 2,547-gross register tontransport was scuttled as a blockship at the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, in a failed attempt to block the entrance. Her entire crew of 18 men was left missing.[121]
Sagami Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The 1,926-gross register tontransport was scuttled as a blockship at the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, in a failed attempt to block the entrance. One member of her crew was killed, and her other 23 crewmen were left missing.[121]
Sakura Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The 2,978-gross register tontransport was scuttled as a blockship just outside the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, in a failed attempt to block the entrance. One member of her crew was killed, and her other 19 crewmen were left missing.[121]
Totomi Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The 1,953-gross register tontransport was scuttled as a blockship just inside the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, in a failed attempt to block the entrance. Three of her 18-man crew were left missing.[121]
Yedo Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The 1,724-gross register tontransport was scuttled as a blockship at the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, in a failed attempt to block the entrance. Two of her 18-man crew were killed.[121]
12 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1904
Ship
Country
Description
No. 48
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The torpedo boat struck a mine and sank in Kerr Bay on the Korea Bay coast of the Liaotung Peninsula with the loss of seven of her crew.[122]
13 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Ottawa
United States
The steamer became waterlogged 2+1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) off the . She was towed into the canal basin and sank. The crew made it to shore in small boats.[123]
14 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 May 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sank at anchor in Sandusky Bay when caulking worked out of her butts.[124]
Russo-Japanese War: The Miyako-class unprotected cruiser struck a mine and sank in the harbor off Dalniy, Manchuria, China, with the loss of two crewmen.
United States
The schooner was sunk in a collision in thick fog with Morro Castle (United States).[125]
Russo-Japanese War: The Bogatyr-classprotected cruiser ran aground in a rock in Amur Bay near Vladivostok, Russia. She was later refloated and docked at Vladivostok, but was too badly damaged to be repaired until after the Russo-Japanese War ended in 1905.
Russo-Japanese War: The dispatch vessel, a former unprotected cruiser, ran aground in the Elliot Islands in Korea Bay. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[127][128]
Russo-Japanese War: The Yoshino-class protected cruiser capsized and sank after she was accidentally rammed by the armored cruiserKasuga (Imperial Japanese Navy) in fog in Korea Bay. A total of 318 sailors were lost; of her 101 survivors, Kasuga's boats picked up 96 and other Japanese vessels rescued five.[129][130]
16 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 May 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Balclutha
United States
During a voyage from San Francisco, California, to Karluk, Territory of Alaska, carrying 80 fishermen, 20 crewmen, and a cargo of cannery supplies, sheep and cattle, the 1,554-ton, 256.3-foot (78.1 m) ship was wrecked in fog and darkness without loss of life on a reef in the in the Kodiak Archipelago. She later was sold, refloated, repaired, and returned to service with the name Star of Alaska (United States).[131]
17 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The destroyer struck a mine and sank off Dalniy, Manchuria, China.[116][132]
The small pleasure craft was destroyed when it ran under the wheel of Sunshine (United States) in the Louisville, Kentucky area.[133]
24 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The freighter foundered in rough weather in San Francisco Bay. Salvaged and converted into an oil barge.[134]
25 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug struck a sunken wreck in the basin at Albany, New York and sank.[135]
26 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer was destroyed when her boilers exploded at West Louisville, Kentucky. 17 crewmen were killed or mortally wounded, 5 were wounded, with 10 uninjured survivors.[136][137]
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The destroyer ran aground either on a rock in or off in off the coast of the Liaotung Peninsula, Manchuria, China. The destroyer (Imperial Russian Navy) destroyed her with a torpedo to prevent her capture by Japanese forces.[70][71][138][139]
29 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The vessel caught fire at dock at Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, when a kerosene lamp exploded. The fire was put out by the fire department. When a fireman went to check to hold to make sure the fire was out there was an explosion that sank the vessel and mortally wounding the fireman who died on 31 May. The vessel was raised the next day.[140]
30 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Portage Lake, Michigan.[141]
United States
The tug capsized and sank in the south branch of the Chicago River.[142]
Westford
United States
The steamer burned to the waterline in Georgian Bay.[143]
June[]
3 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a rock reef at on the Tennessee River and sank due to an aide to navigation being out of place.[144]
4 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was wrecked in fog and heavy seas on off the north shore of Lake Superior and broke up. Her boiler and machinery were salvaged. Her crew was rescued by the tug (United States).[145][146]
5 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer burned at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, a total loss.[147]
Unknown barge
United States
The barge, under tow of (United States), sank in a collision with (United States) near the west entrance to Vineyard Sound. Her captain was killed, the other three crewmen were rescued by Tallahassee.[148]
11 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner ran ashore at the mouth of the Siuslaw River. She was salvaged, repaired and returned to service.[149]
13 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Unknown motor launch
United States
The motor launch was sunk in a collision with Nautilus (United States) at Burlington, Iowa. Two drowned, four were rescued by Nautilus.[150]
United States
The steamer sank in the St. Johns River. Her engineer jumped overboard and drowned.[151]
15 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was sunk in the Harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, when her hull was slashed by the prop of (United States). Later raised.[152]
Fireboats (left) fight the fire aboard the wreck of General Slocum (right).
The excursion paddle steamer caught fire and burned out on the East River in New York City before beaching herself and sinking in shallow water off North Brother Island just off the shore of the Bronx, New York. A total of 1,021, or 958, lives were lost, 180 injured.[153]
Russo-Japanese War, Hitachi Maru Incident: The armed transport was sunk by gunfire by the armored cruiserGromoboi (Imperial Russian Navy) in the southern Korean Strait with the loss of 1,086 passengers and crew; 152 survived.[116]
Izumi Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Hitachi Maru Incident: The armed transport, operating as an unmarked hospital ship, was sunk by gunfire from the armored cruiserGromoboi (Imperial Russian Navy) in the southern Korean Strait.[116]
Russo-Japanese War: The 105-gross register tonsailing vessel was captured and sunk in the Sea of Japan near the Oki Islands by a squadron consisting of the armored cruisersGromoboi, Rossia, and Rurik (all Imperial Russian Navy).[154]
Russo-Japanese War: The schooner was captured and sunk in the Sea of Japan by a squadron consisting of the armored cruisersGromoboi, Rossia, and Rurik (all Imperial Russian Navy).[154]
Sado Maru
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Hitachi Maru Incident: The auxiliary cruiser, operating as a troopship, grounded on Okinoshima 30 hours after the armored cruiserRurik (Imperial Russian Navy) torpedoed her twice in the southern Korean Strait, killing 239 of her passengers and crew.
Russo-Japanese War: The 114-gross register tonsailing vessel was captured and sunk in the Sea of Japan by a squadron consisting of the armored cruisersGromoboi, Rossia, and Rurik (all Imperial Russian Navy).[154]
Russo-Japanese War: The 198-gross register tonsailing vessel was captured and sunk in the Sea of Japan near the Oki Islands by a squadron consisting of the armored cruisersGromoboi, Rossia, and Rurik (all Imperial Russian Navy).[154]
17 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground at Plum Point, Jamaica. She later was refloated and towed to New York City in the United States. She subsequently was scrapped.[155]
During fleet exercises off the coast of China, the destroyer struck an uncharted rock in the East China Sea off the mouth of the Yangtze and sank without loss of life.
18 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer burned to the waterline and sank in the Santee River 25 miles (40 km) above Georgetown.[156]
20 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a log and sank at Broadfields Landing, West Virginia, in five feet (1.5 m) of water.[157]
The Aldebaran-class torpedo boat sank after colliding with the torpedo boats and (both Regia Marina).[158][159]
United States
The tow boat caught fire in the Passaic River and was beached and the fire put out.[160]
23 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The freighter struck an obstruction off the Cleveland, Ohio breakwater and was beached.[161]
Norway
The passenger ship struck and sank. 585 passengers and 45 crew were killed. 127 survivors were rescued, 27 by the trawler Sylvia, 32 by (flag unknown), her captain and 69 others were rescued from a lifeboat by (flag unknown).[162][163]
26 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was sunk in the harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, by a large chunk of coal that was dropped into her hold.[164]
Russo-Japanese War: The 122-gross register tonmerchant ship was sunk by Imperial Russian Navytorpedo boats at Gensan, Korea.[154]
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The torpedo boat ran aground off Gensan, Korea, and was blown up by her crew to prevent her capture by Japanese forces.[165]
July[]
2 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 July 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer while at dock unloading cargo took on a list breaking 1 of her deadlights through which water filled her and she sank at dock in Salem, Massachusetts. Later raised with no damage.[166]
4 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock over night at Vicksburg, Mississippi.[167]
5 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer burned in Sullivan's Slough, Puget Sound.[168][169]
The steamer grounded on the bottom of the Nushagak River and started leaking. She freed herself four hours later and either sank in seven fathoms (42 ft; 13 m) of water. Reportedly was saved.[170]
The fishing steamer was wrecked on a rock in .[173]
10 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The fishing steamer caught fire eight miles (13 km) off Fairport, Ohio in Lake Erie and was beached.[174]
11 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck an obstruction 35 miles (56 km) below Natchez, Mississippi tearing a hole in her hull. Total loss.[175]
13 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 July 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The No. 208-class torpedo boat struck a mine and sank off near Vladivostok, Russia.[176]
15 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 July 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug was sunk in a collision with USS Apache (United States Navy) off Pier 5 in the East River.[177]
United States
The tug capsized in a collision with a float being towed by (United States) off Pier 3 in the East River.[178]
16 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Hipsang
United Kingdom
Russo-Japanese War: During a voyage from Newchwang to Chefoo, China, with a cargo that included provisions, the 1,659-ton merchant ship was torpedoed and sunk by the destroyer (Imperial Russian Navy) after she refused to stop for inspection.[179]
Unknown barges
United States
Eight barges, under the tow of (United States), foundered in a heavy storm 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) west of the Penfield Reef Light.[180]
17 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Unknown motor launch
United States
The motor launch was sunk in a collision with (United States) in the Potomac River at Washington, D.C. One person died.[181]
Russo-Japanese War: The 91-gross register tonschooner was captured and sunk in the Pacific Ocean near the Tsugaru Strait by a squadron consisting of the armored cruisersGromoboi, Rossia, and Rurik (all Imperial Russian Navy).[179]
United States
The steamer was attempting to land at a dock at Catawba Island on Lake Erie in heavy seas when she was thrown into the dock, breaking her bulwarks. She then listed, losing part of her cargo of stone, and sank. Her engine and gear were salvaged, then she was towed off and abandoned, eventually washing ashore on the island again.[182][183]
Russo-Japanese War: The 140-gross register tonsailing vessel was captured and sunk in the Pacific Ocean near the Tsugaru Strait by a squadron consisting of the armored cruisersGromoboi, Rossia, and Rurik (all Imperial Russian Navy).[179]
Russo-Japanese War: Carrying a cargo of 160 boxes of gunpowder for use in mining and 589 bales of miscellaneous goods, the 319-gross register tonmerchant ship was captured and sunk off the Tsugaru Strait by a squadron consisting of the armored cruisersGromoboi, Rossia, and Rurik (all Imperial Russian Navy).[179]
The steamer struck a hidden obstruction at Mitlocks Bar in the Cumberland River and sank in five feet (1.5 m) of water.[185]
22 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer caught fire shortly after leaving Kingston, Ontario due to a failure in her furnace. She was beached after the fire was extinguished. with light damage.[186]
Russo-Japanese War: The 121-gross register tonschooner was captured and sunk in the Pacific Ocean near Tokyo Bay by a squadron consisting of the armored cruisersGromoboi, Rossia, and Rurik (all Imperial Russian Navy).[187]
Russo-Japanese War: The 199-gross register tonschooner was captured and sunk in the Pacific Ocean near Tokyo Bay by a squadron consisting of the armored cruisersGromoboi, Rossia, and Rurik (all Imperial Russian Navy).[187]
Knight Commander
United Kingdom
Russo-Japanese War: During a voyage from New York City to Chemulpo, Korea, with a cargo of general and railway material, the 4,306-gross register tonmerchant ship was captured and sunk in the Pacific Ocean 75 nautical miles (139 km) southwest of Yokohama, Japan, by a squadron consisting of the armored cruisersGromoboi, Rossia, and Rurik (all Imperial Russian Navy).[187]
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The destroyer was torpedoed and sunk in on the coast of China east of Port Arthur by picket boats from the battleshipsMikasa and Fuji (both Imperial Japanese Navy).[70]
25 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The fishing steamer burned at McKees Harbor, Lopez Island.[188]
Thea
Germany
Russo-Japanese War: During a voyage to Yokohama with a cargo of fish manure and fish oil, the 1,613-gross register tonmerchant ship was captured and sunk in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan by a squadron consisting of the armored cruisersGromoboi, Rossia, and Rurik (all Imperial Russian Navy).[187]
United States
The tug struck a sunken wreck in the basin at Albany, New York, and sank.[189]
26 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer ran aground in dense fog on the , , Maine. Her pumps could not keep up and she drifted onto the Northwest Ledge and sank. Raised and repaired.[190]
28 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer burned in . The vessel's crew escaped in her boat.[191]
United States
The steamer was sunk at dock when (United States) lost the tow line to her tow causing her to veer off course and strike a scow tied up at the same dock and pushing it into the Hopkins at the Lake Street Bridge, Chicago sinking her. Raised and repaired.[192]
Russo-Japanese War: The gunboat's crew scuttled her by blowing her up on the Liao River in China to prevent her capture by approaching Imperial Japanese Army forces.[196]
3 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was wrecked in dense fog on rocks between and off Beverly, Massachusetts, a total loss.[197]
4 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Viking
United States
Carrying a 200-ton cargo of general merchandise and lumber on a voyage from San Francisco, California, to Wales, Teller, and Unalaska in the Territory of Alaska, the 146-ton, 108-foot (32.9 m) schooner dragged her anchors in a gale and was stranded off Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, becoming a total loss. Her crew of six survived and unloaded her cargo with the help of Alaska Natives.[1]
5 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner ran aground and was wrecked at the entrance to Little Egg Harbor Bay, New Jersey in eight feet (2.4 m) feet of water. Wreck removed with dynamite by 28 September. The vessel's bowsprit towed to Atlantic City, while the rest of the wreckage was pulled ashore for use as firewood.[198]
6 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was sunk in a collision in thick fog with (United States) off Cape Cod. Four killed, one survivor rescued by Nantucket.[199]
7 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
City of Berlin
United States
The steamer was sunk in a collision with (United States) at Detroit.[200]
8 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Elizabeth
United States
While under tow by the steamerIrene (United States) from Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands to St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, with a cargo of 190 tons of cargo including 40 tons of coal and 100 cords of wood, the 327-ton scow sank in the Bering Sea 270 nautical miles (500 km; 310 mi) north-northwest of (54°00′50″N166°40′20″W / 54.01389°N 166.67222°W / 54.01389; -166.67222 (Cape Cheerful)) on Unalaska Island. Elizabeth's only crewman was aboard Irene when Elizabeth sank.[201]
Belgium
The T Nolson & Co. 474-ton cargo ship was wrecked at Hell's Mouth, Llŷn Peninsula, Caernarfonshire. Ganda broke from her moorings, and one of her ropes tangled around her propeller, as her captain tried to get his ship away from the jetty. She drifted helplessly onto the rocky shore.[202]
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The improvised gunboat was sunk by a mine near Port Arthur, Manchuria, China.[116]
United States
The 12-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on the Missouri River at Decatur, Nebraska. Both people on board survived.[203]
9 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Long Island in the St. Lawrence River.[204]
10 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sprung a leak, she then caught on a barge, careened and sank at Jefferson City, Missouri, a total loss.[205][206]
11 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The destroyer ran aground in the Yellow Sea off Shantung, China. Her crew blew her up to prevent her capture by Japanese forces.[70][207]
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The destroyer was blown up and abandoned by her crew at Chefoo, China, but did not sink. The Japanese captured her the next day, repaired her, and commissioned her as the destroyer Yamabiko (Imperial Japanese Navy).[88][89]
The Daring-classdestroyer was in collision with the destroyer HMS Arun (Royal Navy) off the Isles of Scilly and sank. One crew member was lost.[208]
Dunsinane
United Kingdom
The ship, carrying granite, set sail at 7pm and ran into strong tides forcing it onto the Black Rock outside St Sampsons' harbour, Guernsey. The next few days the planking was removed from the hull and the cargo removed into waiting carts.[209][210]
Recreation
United States
The 25-foot (7.6 m) motorboat capsized on the Potomac River off the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., drowning 10 of the 14 people on board.[211]
Russo-Japanese War, Battle off Ulsan: The armored cruiser was scuttled to avoid capture after suffering heavy damage in action with the armored cruisers Iwate, Izumo, Tokiwa, and Azuma (all Imperial Japanese Navy). Japanese ships rescued about 625 survivors.[212]
Dunsinane
United Kingdom
The barquentine, carrying a cargo of granite, set sail from Saint Sampson, Guernsey, in the Channel Islands at 7:00 p.m. and ran into strong tides which forced her onto Black Rock outside the harbour. Over the next few days, the planking was removed from her hull and her cargo removed and transferred to waiting carts.[213][210]
The Narvhvalen-class torpedo boat collided with (Royal Danish Navy) and sank in the Great Belt. Her crew were rescued. Subsequently salvaged, repaired and returned to service.[215]
18 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: Siege of Port Arthur: The armored gunvessel sank after striking a mine near Port Arthur, Manchuria, China.[139][216]
19 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The passenger steamer sprung a leak and sank off Barkers Landing, Delaware. Pumped out and towed to Philadelphia.[217]
20 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Novik
Imperial Russian Navy
Novik after scuttling.
Russo-Japanese War: After the Novik-class protected cruiser suffered serious damage from gunfire from the protected cruiser Tsushima (Imperial Japanese Navy) during the Battle of Korsakov, her crew scuttled her in shallow water on a sandbank off Korsakov, Sakhalin Island, Russia. The protected cruiser Chitose (Imperial Japanese Navy) entered the harbor on 21 August and further damaged the wreck with gunfire. The Japanese refloated her in 1906, repaired her, and commissioned her into service as the avisoSuzuya (Imperial Japanese Navy).
21 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The torpedo boat was wrecked near Vladivostok, Russia.[218][139]
22 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cable ship ran aground and was wreck off Belle Isle, Labrador.[219]
24 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The destroyer was sunk by a mine off Port Arthur, China.[70][71]
25 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Mischief
United States
The tug struck a hidden obstruction in New York Harbor off New York City, the momentum of her tow rolled her to starboard, she filled and sank. She was raised the same day.[220]
28 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer capsized at Wilmington, North Carolina, when the tide dropped with her railing hung up on the dock.[221]
31 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Lady Kindersley
Canada
The motorschooner was crushed by ice in the Arctic Ocean off Point Barrow, Territory of Alaska. The schooner Boxer (United States) rescued her crew.[65]
September[]
1 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The barque ran aground at Miramar, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. She was refloated on 12 October 1904.[222]
Lily L
United States
During a storm, the schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of the Russian Empire at East Cape on the Chukchi Peninsula in Siberia.[223]
2 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 September 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 16-gross register tonmotor vessel burned on the Nanticoke River in Delaware. Both people on board survived.[224]
Lewie
United States
The 11-gross register tonschooner sank at Two Harbors, Minnesota. Both people on board survived.[225]
3 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The destroyer struck an Imperial Russian Navymine and sank with the loss of 17 lives in Korea Bay off on the Liaotung Peninsula, Manchuria, China.[116][226]
4 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sank at dock in South Jacksonville, Florida. Probably raised.[227]
Sadie
United States
During a voyage along the coast of the Territory of Alaska from to Kotzebue Sound and intermediate ports with 16 passengers, a crew of 22, and a cargo of 50 tons of general merchandise and coal on board, the 276-gross register ton, 150-foot (45.7 m) sidewheel paddle steamer struck a rock and settled on the bottom in 6 feet (1.8 m) of water in the Bering Sea near (65°30′N167°41′W / 65.500°N 167.683°W / 65.500; -167.683 (York City)). The motorschoonerAugusta C (United States) took off some passengers on 4 September. The crew and remaining passengers abandoned ship and fled to shore when a gale struck on 6 September, and waves began to break over the ship continually on 7 September. The steamerSeddon (United States) arrived on 9 September and departed with the remaining passengers on 10 September. No lives were lost, but salvage efforts failed and the ship became a total loss.[75]
5 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The freighter struck an uncharted rock in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Tigil River. A total loss.[228]
9 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sprung a leak and foundered off Cape Cod, Highland Light. Her 16 crew abandoned ship in her boats.[229][230]
10 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Lucia
United Kingdom
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: A news article dated 10 September reported that the 658-gross register tonsailing ship had been sunk by a mine at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China. Only one member of her crew survived.[231]
United States
The steamer sank at the mouth of Eagle Lake in 17 feet (5.2 m) of water.[232]
11 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 September 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sank at dock at Seattle, Washington. raised and pumped out by 29 October.[233]
14 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Alaska
United States
1904 Hurricane No. 2: The fishingsteamer broke loose from her moorings, colliding with the dock and fishing steamer (United States), then filled and sank at dock at Lewes, Delaware.[234]
United States
1904 Hurricane No. 2: The tow steamer was lying at dock at the Iron Pier at the Delaware Breakwater in Delaware Bay when the hurricane hit. Her crew abandoned her, except for one who could not get to shore. She drifted ashore. Refloated on 15 or 16 September.[235]
Majestic
United States
1904 Hurricane No. 2: The tow steamer was driven ashore on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River just above Alloway Creek opposite Reedy Island when the hurricane hit. She drifted ashore. Refloated on 15 September.[236]
United States
1904 Hurricane No. 2: The schooner became waterlogged and was abandoned off Virginia.[237]
Osaka
United Kingdom
The clipper ship was wrecked on 14 September 1904 on Kuril Islands on a voyage from Tsingtao to Nicolaieosk with general cargo.[238]
William H. Archer
United States
The 95-gross register tonschooner sank during a voyage from Bangor, Maine, to Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, with the loss of all four people aboard.[239]
15 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
1904 Hurricane No. 2: The fishing steamer, at dock in Lewes, Delaware, broke loose and was driven ashore.[240]
United States
The steamer struck a snag and sank, probably at Norfolk, Virginia.[241]
Dependence
United States
With no one on board, the 14-gross register tonmotor vessel burned at Tampa, Florida.[239]
Georgie D. Loud
United States
The 175-gross register tonschooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) northeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. All five people on board survived.[242]
United States
1904 Hurricane No. 2: The fishing steamer was driven high and dry when the hurricane hit. Later pulled off.[243]
United States
1904 Hurricane No. 2: The tow steamer suffered superstructure damage, then filled and sank 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) off and below the mouth of the Christiana River. Eight of the ten crewmen were killed.[244]
United States
The steamer dragged anchor in a gale and was wrecked on Peaked Hill bar, off Cape Cod, where she was broken up by the waves.[245]
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The armored gunboat struck an Imperial Russian Navymine and sank in five minutes with the loss of 196 lives off Reef Island in off the southwest end of the Liaotung Peninsula, Manchuria, China. Imperial Japanese Navy forces discovered four survivors on Reef Island on 19 September.[116][246]
22 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Vesta
United States
The tug was in a collision with the steamer (United States) in Boston Harbor off Boston, Massachusetts, and was beached to prevent her from sinking in deep water.[247]
25 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 September 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Netherlands
The ship was wrecked southeast of Burhou, Alderney, Channel Islands.[248]
The Star-class destroyer lost a propeller blade at speed. The blade pierced the hull and the ship foundered in the Gulf of Patras without loss of life.
Osaka
United Kingdom
Russo-Japanese War: Japanese forces found the 546-gross register tonsailing vessel stranded on Etorofu in the Kuril Islands and captured her. She had run aground during a voyage from Shanghai, China, to Vladivostok, Russia.[249]
United States
The steamer was sunk in a collision with (United States) in the St. Johns River1⁄4 mile (0.40 km) south of the Mandarin Dock, Jacksonville, Florida.[250]
29 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sank at dock over night at Norfolk, Virginia.[251]
The barquentine was driven into the wreck of Colonist and sank at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. All 32 crew were rescued.
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: September date 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Willard Mudgett
United States
The bark sailed from Newport News, Virginia on 10 September to Bangor, Maine with a cargo of coal. It was last reported on 13 September from a location "30 miles east-southeast from Fenwicks Island".[252]Willard Mudgett perhaps "foundered in the heavy southeast gale that prevailed on 13 September"[253] or was caught in the second hurricane of the 1904 season as it worked its way up the eastern coast. With a crew of ten men, Captain Fred Blanchard was in command of the ship at the time of its disappearance. His father, Captain William H. Blanchard, was a passenger.
October[]
1 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: The torpedo boat was sunk in a collision near Vladivostok, Russia.[254]
United States
The tow steamer struck a submerged object one-half mile (0.80 km) below and was beached. The hole was patched and the vessel was pulled off.[255]
Volunteer
United States
The 23-gross register tonschooner was stranded in "Bdat" Harbor in Michigan. All three people on board survived.[256]
3 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sprung a leak and sank in Saginaw Bay.[257]
United States
The steamer burned and sank at dock at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[258][259]
4 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The lumber steamer burned at anchor in a gale at South Manitou Island and sank in 165 feet (50 m) of water.[260][261][262]
United States
The ferry burned to the waterline at the Ferry House of the Philadelphia and Billingsport Ferry Company in Billingsport, New Jersey.[263]
United States
The launch was sunk in a collision with a barge in the Christiana River.[264]
United States
The steamer grounded on a shoal in the Yukon River seven miles (11 km) above . She backed off the shoal and sank with the bow in four feet (1.2 m) of water and the stern in six feet (1.8 m). Raised fairly soon after.[265]
United States
The steamer in fog and rain struck a rocky ledge off in Lake Superior. The ship was beaten to pieces over the next couple days. Her boilers were salvaged and towed to Grand Marais, Minnesota in the Fall of 1906 where they remained submerged until brought up in July 1907.[266][267][268][269]
United States
The laid up ferry burned to the waterline at the Ferry House of the Philadelphia and Billingsport Ferry Company in Billingsport, New Jersey.[270]
5 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer caught fire at dock at Grand Marais, Michigan and burned to the waterline, a total loss.[271]
United States
The steamer struck a log at and sank. Raised and repaired.[272]
8 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The Elder Dempster 1,862-gross register ton passenger-cargo ship was holed and beached on the coast of Liberia.[273]
10 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was sunk by a snag near Kenova, West Virginia. Raised and repaired.[274]
11 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a hidden obstruction near Smithland, Kentucky, and sank in six feet (1.8 m) of water. Later raised.[275]
12 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1904
Ship
Country
Description
C. H. Bradley
United States
The tug became a total loss at St. Michael, Territory of Alaska.[276]
Russo-Japanese War, Dogger Bank incident: The steamfishing trawler was sunk by gunfire by ships of the Second Pacific Squadron (Imperial Russian Navy) near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea with the loss of her captain and first mate after the Russian warships mistook a fleet of British fishing trawlers from Kingston upon Hull for Imperial Japanese Navytorpedo boats during the early morning hours of darkness.[187]
The steamer sank over night at Clark's Dock, Jacksonville, Florida.[282]
25 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The gunboat was sunk by Imperial Japanese Armyartillery fire at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China.[254]
26 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer burned in Lake Huron off Lexington, Michigan.[283]
27 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer burned to the waterline at Kenova, West Virginia.[284]
United States
The steamer was sunk in a collision with the tug (United States) off West Point Light in Puget Sound in dense fog.[285][286]
United States
The steamer struck a snag and sank five miles (8.0 km) above the mouth of in six feet (1.8 m) of water. Probably raised.[287]
28 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was loading cargo from the river bank near , when she was caught on a snag tilting her till she filled and sank. Later raised and was undamaged.[288]
29 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sank at City dock, Louisville, Kentucky when her seams opened up. Later raised.[289]
30 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The auxiliary cruiser was sunk by Imperial Japanese Armyfield guns at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China.[290]
November[]
2 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer caught fire in the engine room at dock at Escanaba, Michigan and burned to the waterline.[291]
Canada
The schooner was wrecked off Lingan Bar, Bridgeport.[292]
4 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Columbia
United States
The ferry collided with the steamerCity of Lowell (United States) in dense fog on the East River in New York City, pushing her toward the Brooklyn shore, where she sank. She was raised and repaired.[293]
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The Maya-class gunboat was wrecked on the coast of the Liaotung Peninsula near Port Arthur, Manchuria, China.[294]
Panther
United States
The laid-up pleasure steamer was destroyed at Provuncher's Shipyard in East Providence, Rhode Island, by a fire that spread from a nearby building.[295]
7 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The lime schooner caught fire off Willapa, Washington and put into port, but was a total loss.[296]
10 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer sprung a leak and sank at dock at Escanaba, Michigan. Raised, temporarily repaired and taken to Cleveland, Ohio for repairs.[297]
United States
The railroad ferry attempted to leave dock in Ogdensburg, New York with two insecure loaded rail cars. One of them broke loose and rolled where it was dangling off the stern causing the ferry to begin filling with water. She was run onto the bar and sank in 14 feet (4.3 m) of water. Raised and repaired.[298]
11 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a log near the Red River near Green Bay, Wisconsin. She was beached in the Red River and was patched and refloated.[299]
12 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The pleasure yacht was destroyed by fire at St. Martin Island.[300]
United States
The steamer sprang a leak and sank in Lake Huron eight miles (13 km) east of .[301]
13 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
C. T. No. 5
United States
The 177-gross register tonbarge sank in Long Island Sound. The only person on board survived.[302]
United States
The tug foundered in a gale and heavy seas in Lake Erie just off the breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. The harbor pilot and captain were killed.[303]
Missouri
United States
The 15-gross register tonschooner sank in Pamlico Sound on the coast of North Carolina with the loss of all three people on board.[43]
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The destroyer struck an Imperial Russian Navy mine and sank in Korea Bay off Port Arthur, China.[88][89][304]
14 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tow steamer sank at dock at Philadelphia, possibly her stern was caught under the dock with a rise in water level. Raised on 18 November and found to be undamageed. The vessel was back in service by 23 November.[305]
Texas
United States
The barge was sunk in a collision with Dorchester (United States) at the entrance to the harbor of Providence, Rhode Island.[306]
15 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug was sunk while tied up at the Ascension Coal Fleet Dock in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, when a coal boat struck her. She was a total loss.[307]
Kitty Horr
United States
The 17-gross register tonschooner was stranded at Marco, Florida. The only person on board survived.[225]
16 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Manistee, Michigan.[308]
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War: After her crew was put ashore, the destroyer was blown up by her commanding officer at Chefoo, China, apparently to avoid any possibility of Imperial Japanese Navy forces entering the harbor and capturing her.[88][89][309][310]
United States
The steamer was destroyed by fire at Cairo, Illinois.[311]
United States
The schooner was sunk in a collision with (United States) six miles (9.7 km) off Cape Elizabeth, Maine. One crewman was lost, while the rest of the crew were rescued by Walter A. Luckenbach.[312]
17 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The laid up steamer burned to the water's edge at St. Louis, Missouri, probably a total loss.[313]
18 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Mohawk
United States
The freighter burned off the in Long Island Sound. One crewman killed. Survivors rescued by (United States).[314]
19 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Canada
The schooner was wrecked off , Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia.[315]
United States
The steamer burned in Lake Erie 8 miles (13 km) east of Marblehead, Ohio and was abandoned by her crew who made it to shore in her boats. She sank in 45 feet (14 m) of water 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Chickenole Reef, 8 miles off Middle Island.[316][317][318]
21 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a snag and sank at Bickers Landing in the Arkansas River. Raised and repaired.[319]
22 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Marie
United States
The tug sank at dock overnight in East Boston, Massachusetts due to an open syphon pipe. Later raised.[320]
United States
The tug sank in a collision with the tug (United States) near the wharf in East Boston, Massachusetts.[321]
23 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck an uncharted rock in Eagle River Harbor and was beached. Repaired quickly and proceeded on its way.[322]
United States
The tug capsized and sank near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Total loss. One crewman killed.[323]
24 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck an obstruction leaving dock at Au Sable, twisting her stern post, she filled and sank.[324]
Massasoit
United States
The 842-gross register tonschoonerbarge or scow barge was stranded at on the Niagara River in New York. All six people aboard survived.[51]
Wm. Henry
United States
The 52-gross register tonschooner was stranded at , Virginia. All three people aboard survived.[239]
26 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Marie
United States
The launch was sunk in a collision with the steamer (United States) in the East River in New York City.[325]
28 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Kelsey
United States
The 203-gross register tonbarge sank at New York City. The only person on board survived.[302]
The schooner sank in the Cohansey River, New Jersey sometime in November. The wreck was removed with dynamite, with the work completed by 13 June 1905.[332]
Rex
United States
With no one on board, the 18-gross register tonscow was stranded at Bellingham, Washington.[302]
The steamer struck a hidden obstruction in fog and sank three miles (4.8 km) below Fort Adams, Mississippi.[334]
3 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Santiago
United States
The 1,918-gross register tonschooner barge or scow barge at anchor and without lights was lost when struck by screw steamerPhiladelphia (United States) at 2:50 A.M. in heavy rain off the Delaware Breakwater north of Cape Henlopen, Delaware. All four people aboard were rescued by boats from Philadelphia.[51][335]
4 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Gustavo
United States
The 12-gross register tonsloop sank at Salinas, Puerto Rico. Both people on board survived.[225]
5 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Poltava
Imperial Russian Navy
Japanese postcard of Poltava sunk at Port Arthur.
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The Poltava-class battleship was set afire by five hits from Imperial Japanese Armyartillery and sank in shallow water at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, after the magazine for her 12-inch (305 mm) guns exploded, blowing a hole in her bottom. The Japanese refloated and repaired her and put into service as Tango (Imperial Japanese Navy).
6 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Retvizan
Imperial Russian Navy
Retvizan sunk at Port Arthur.
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The battleship was sunk in shallow water at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, by Imperial Japanese Army artillery fire. The Japanese refloated and repaired her and put into service as Hizen (Imperial Japanese Navy).
7 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Pearl
United States
The 87-gross register ton, 95.5-foot (29.1 m) schooner departed San Francisco, California, bound for Sanak Island in the Sanak Islands subgroup of the Fox Islands group of the Aleutian Islands with 28 fisherman and a crew of eight aboard and was never heard from again. Many months later, the schooner John F. Miller (United States) found evidence of her wreck on a reef northeast of (54°23′30″N162°25′30″W / 54.39167°N 162.42500°W / 54.39167; -162.42500 (Caton Island)) in the Sanak Islands.[336][337]
Peresvet
Imperial Russian Navy
Peresvet after scuttling.
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: After suffering damage from Imperial Japanese Army artillery fire over the course of several weeks, the Peresvet-classbattleship was scuttled in shallow water at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China. The Japanese refloated and repaired her and put into service as Sagami (Imperial Japanese Navy).
Russo-Japanese WarSiege of Port Arthur: The Peresvet-class battleship was sunk in shallow water at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, by Imperial Japanese Navyartillery fire. The Japanese refloated and repaired her and put into service as Suwo (Imperial Japanese Navy).
8 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The gunboat was sunk at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, by Imperial Japanese Armyartillery fire.[254]
Pallada (left) and the battleshipPobeda after they were sunk at Port Arthur.
Russo-Japanese WarSiege of Port Arthur: The Pallada-classprotected cruiser was sunk in shallow water at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, by Imperial Japanese Armyartillery fire. The Japanese refloated and repaired her and put into service as Tsugaru (Imperial Japanese Navy).
9 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Bayan
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The Bayan-classarmored cruiser was sunk at her moorings at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, by Imperial Japanese Armyartillery fire. The Japanese refloated and repaired her and put into service as Aso (Imperial Japanese Navy).
10 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Belgium
The G Albrecht cargo ship ran aground on the River Scheldt. She was refloated in 1905 and scrapped in Antwerp.[108]
The steamer was wrecked one mile (1.6 km) north of Twin River Point Light in Lake Michigan in a blinding snowstorm after she was disabled in heavy seas. She broke in two, a total loss[339][340]
United States
The tug struck a sand bar at Kellogg's Landing, capsized and sank in ten feet (3.0 m) of water.[341]
The 24-gross register tonschooner was stranded in on the in Maine. All four people on board survived.[342]
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The torpedo boat was sunk off Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, during an attack on the battleshipSevastopol (Imperial Russian Navy).[116]
15 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Baker
United States
The coalbarge sprang a leak and sank at Pier 2, South wharves, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[343]
Imperial Japanese Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: During an attack on the battleshipSevastopol (Imperial Russian Navy), the No. 39-class torpedo boat was sunk off Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, by the destroyer (Imperial Russian Navy).[116][344]
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The torpedo gunboat was sunk at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, by Imperial Japanese Armyartillery fire. The Japanese refloated and repaired her and commissioned her into service as Makikumo (Imperial Japanese Navy).[254][345]
16 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The passenger ship — a 238-foot (73 m), 328-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer — burned in Long Island Sound at a location identified both as east of and as off Glen Cove, New York, inside of , about 100 yards (91 m) offshore. Two passengers and seven crew were killed. Her 21 survivors escaped in her lifeboats. She sank in 15 to 25 feet (4.6 to 7.6 m) of water.[346][347][348]
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The destroyer was torpedoed by an Imperial Japanese Navytorpedo boat at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China, and beached.[88][89]
18 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Russian Navy
Amur
Russo-Japanese War: Siege of Port Arthur: The minelayer was sunk by Imperial Japanese Army 11-inch (279 mm) howitzers while drydocked at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China.[349][350]
Laura
United States
The towsteamer sank at dock at Pier 63, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when her guard was caught under the dock during a rise in the water level.[351]
19 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The freighter sank in the East River while tied up at Pier 3 after probably being damaged by ice while en route from South Amboy, New Jersey. Later raised.[352]
22 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a stump and sank between Memphis, Tennessee and , or sank off , or , Arkansas during a rising of the river level.[353][354][355]
The scow, under tow by the steamer (United States), sank in a collision with Umbria (United Kingdom) off New York City.[357]
25 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
During a voyage from New York City to Swansea, Wales, with a cargo of copper, steel, oil, leadingots, and a luxury automobile, the 3,625-gross register tonsteamcargo ship was wrecked during a snowstorm on the bar about 0.75 nautical miles (1.4 km; 0.9 mi) off Fire Island off the south coast of Long Island, New York. Her entire crew of 30 survived. She broke up during a gale on 28–29 December, and her wreck sank in 20 feet (6 m) of water. Her wreck became known as the "Fire Island Wreck" and the "Quadrant Wreck."[358][359][360][361][362]
United States
The steamer burned while docked on the Yazoo River at Yazoo City, Mississippi. She was declared a total loss.[363]
26 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial Russian Navy
Russo-Japanese War, Siege of Port Arthur: The gunboat, already badly damaged by Imperial Japanese Armyartillery and then stripped and demolished by her crew, was sunk by additional hits by Japanese artillery.[196][364]
27 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 December 1904
Ship
Country
Description
Lesnoy
United States
The 8-gross register ton, 35-foot (10.7 m) schooner was wrecked during a gale on the northwest end of Wosnesenski Island in the Shumagin Islands off the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula.[223]
United States
The steamer was wrecked and broke up on shoals near Cape Hatteras due to navigation errors during a gale with rain and high seas.[365]
Two Brothers
United States
The 10-gross register tonschooner was lost when she collided with the screw steamerCambridge (United States) in the Chesapeake Bay off Claiborne, Maryland. All five people on board survived.[256][366]
With no one on board, the 84-gross register tonscrew steamer was lost in Honduras. Sources disagree on whether she sank in the Patuca River on 13 September[373] or was blown out to sea by a hurricane on 1 October and dashed to pieces on a bar offshore.[374]
Norseman
United States
The 7-gross register tonsloop was stranded at , Maine. The only person on board survived.[43]
The dredge sank off Port Hope, Ontario sometime in 1904.[375]
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