Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and (both Regia Marina) near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.[6]
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and (both Regia Marina) near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.[7]
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Kastamonu-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and (both Regia Marina) near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.[8]
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and (both Regia Marina) near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.[9]
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and (both Regia Marina) near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.[10]
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The armed yacht was sunk by Piemonte and (both Regia Marina) near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.[11]
8 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Annie F. Kimball
United States
The 401-gross register tonschooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All seven people on board lost their lives.[12]
Annie L. Russell
United States
The 49-gross register tonschooner was stranded in Hereford Inlet on the coast of New Jersey. All three people on board lost their lives.[12]
Empress
United States
The 120-gross register tonschooner was stranded at Cape Elizabeth, Maine. All four people on board survived.[12]
United States
The 85-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Cairo, Illinois. All four people on board survived.[4]
9 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Alabama
United States
The 881-gross register tonschooner barge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All four people on board lost their lives.[12]
United States
The 10-gross register tonmotor vessel was stranded at Stonington, Maine. Both people on board survived.[13]
Pocomoke
United States
The 827-gross register tonschooner barge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All four people on board survived.[13]
Sterling
United States
The 2,364-gross register tonschooner barge foundered off Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island. All six people on board survived.[13]
United States
The 6-gross register tonmotor vessel was stranded on the coast of Mexico at . The only person on board survived.[13]
10 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 2,241-gross register tonsteel-hulledscrew steamer was stranded on Metinic Island on the coast of Maine. Raised 17 August, repaired and returned to service. All 27 people on board survived.[13][14]
Jennie Thelin
United States
The 145-gross register tonschooner was stranded at on the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. All eight people on board survived.[1]
United States
With no one on board, the 17-gross register tonmotor vessel foundered in Ocracoke Inlet on the coast of North Carolina.[2]
11 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1912
Ship
Country
Description
W. E. Morrissey
United States
The 123-gross register tonschooner was stranded on the coast of Newfoundland. All eight people on board survived.[13]
13 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Admiral
United States
The 683-gross register tonschooner was stranded on the Oregon bank of the Columbia River. All 12 people on board survived.[12]
The 432-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The only person on board survived.[2]
23 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
Collided with (United Kingdom) in the Crosby Channel. Beached but broke in two, a total loss.[18]
Ebony
United States
The lighter sank at the wharf of the , Everett, Massachusetts. Later raised.[19]
26 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship was wrecked on the Tein Reef, off Bornholm, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Belfast, County Antrim.[20]
27 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 15-gross register tonscrew steamer was lost in a collision with the screw steamer (United States) at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. All four people on board survived.[4]
United States
The 91-gross register tonmotor vessel was lost in a collision with the screw steamer (United Kingdom) on the Mississippi River off Poverty Point in Louisiana. All 13 people on board survived.[2]
29 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 21-gross register tonscrew steamer foundered in Baltimore Harbor off the coast of Maryland. All four people on board survived.[2]
31 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 31 January 1912
Ship
Country
Description
J. C. Austin
United States
The canal boat struck a rock and sank at Northport, New York.[21]
Warner Miller Co
United States
The canal boat was sunk by ice at Northport, New York.[22]
The A-classsubmarine was accidentally rammed and sunk by the submarine tenderHMS Hazard (Royal Navy) in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight with the loss of all hands. Subsequently refloated and sunk as a gunnery target.
With no one on board, the 145-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at La Center, Washington.[4]
4 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The British steamer, laden with cotton from Galveston, Texas, for Hamburg, Germany, caught fire and sank approximately 40 miles (64 km) south of Cape Henry. All crew were rescued.[24]
Frank M. Low
United States
The 542-gross register tonschooner burned off Cape Romain, South Carolina. All six people on board survived.[12]
Josie M
United States
The 16-gross register tonschooner was stranded at New Orleans, Louisiana. All three people on board survived.[1]
12 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Elzada
United States
The 24-gross register tonschooner was stranded at Pensacola, Florida. All three people on board survived.[12]
United Kingdom
The Fleetwood trawler drifted ashore at Kynance Cove, Cornwall, when her tow broke.[25]
The 17-gross register tonschooner foundered off , Florida. All three people on board survived.[12]
16 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 228-gross register tonsteel-hulledscrew steamer was stranded in the Mississippi River in South Pass on the coast of Louisiana. All 16 people on board survived.[2]
17 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Charioteer
United Kingdom
The tug foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all five crew.[26]
18 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Charles K. Mulford
United States
The barge was sunk by ice on the west side of the channel at New Haven, Connecticut.[27]
The full-rigged ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of ten of her nineteen crew. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to Buenos Aires, Argentina.[28]
19 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Marion E. Bulley
United States
The barge was sunk by ice near City Point, New Haven, Connecticut.[29]
21 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner went ashore in a gale on , Connecticut.[30]
22 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Carolina
United States
The 334-gross register tonbarge was lost in a collision with the barge Ellen S. Jennings (United States) in the Chesapeake Bay off Poplar Island off the coast of Maryland. Both people on board survived.[15]
Ellen S. Jennings
United States
The 330-gross register tonbarge was lost in a collision with the barge Carolina (United States) in the Chesapeake Bay off Poplar Island off the coast of Maryland. Both people on board survived.[15]
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Beirut: The hulked former Avnillah-class casemate ironclad coast defense vessel was damaged by gunfire by armoured cruisersFrancesco Ferruccio and Giuseppe Garibaldi (both Regia Marina) and then torpedoed and sunk with her decks awash in Beirut harbour by Giuseppe Garibaldi. 58 crewmen killed, 108 wounded.[33][34]
Unidentified lighters
Ottoman Empire
Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Beirut: Six lighters were sunk by a torpedo while tied up to the Mole in Beirut harbour by the armored cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi (Regia Marina).[35]
26 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Mildred V. Nunan
United States
The 79-gross register tonschooner was stranded at Cape Porpoise, Maine. All 10 people on board survived.[1]
27 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 681-gross register tonscrew steamer was stranded on the off the coast of Delaware. All 14 people on board survived.[4]
The 139-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was crushed by ice on the Ohio River at Waverly, West Virginia. All 29 people on board survived.[4]
28 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Carrie B. Schwing
United States
The 98-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned in in Louisiana. All eight people on board survived.[13]
29 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 February 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 242-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Belle River, Louisiana, killing 10 of the 45 people on board.[4]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date February 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Blanche
United States
With no one on board, the 15-gross register tonbarge was crushed by ice on the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia.[15]
March[]
1 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Float No. 1
United States
The 592-gross register tonbarge foundered in Mobjack Bay on the coast of Virginia. Both people on board survived.[15]
2 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Bob Blanks
United States
The 265-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at , Louisiana. All 70 people on board survived.[13]
3 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Kingdom of Italy
The Barque was sunk in a collision with "Princess Anne" (United States) in a snowstorm off in Hampton Roads, sinking in 40 feet of water.[36][37]
United States
The 42-gross register tonscrew steamer was lost when she struck a log in Currituck Sound off the coast of North Carolina. All 11 people on board survived.[2]
5 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Bessie
United Kingdom
The Truro-registered three-masted schooner was forced to shelter in Newquay Bay, Cornwall in a strong north wind and drifted ashore when her anchor fouled. Two of the crew were saved by breeches buoy, the others clambered up the 100 ft (30 m) cliff on the cliff ladder. She was on a voyage from , County Cork to Penryn.[38]
Helen Thomas
United States
The 1,470-gross register tonschooner was stranded on the off the coast of Virginia. All 11 people on board survived.[1]
Illawarra
Norway
The full-rigged ship was abandoned whilst on a voyage from Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom to Coquimbo, Chile.[39]
6 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 10-gross register tonmotor vessel was lost in a collision with the screw steamerColumbia (United States) in Coos Bay off North Bend, Oregon. The only person on board survived.[13]
8 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Louisa R
United States
The 7-gross register tonsloop burned in in Texas. Both people on board survived.[1]
9 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 48-gross register tonscrew steamer burned on the Atchafalaya River at Berwick, Louisiana. All three people on board survived.[4]
11 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 623-gross register tonsteel-hulledscrew steamer was crushed by ice at Chicago, Illinois. All 30 people on board survived.[4]
12 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
John W. Hall
United States
The 346-gross register tonschooner was stranded at Ocean City, Maryland. All seven people on board survived.[1]
The passenger liner sank after a collision with Pisagua (Germany) off Beachy Head, Sussex.
Wendur
United Kingdom
The Glasgow sailing vessel struck the southernmost rock of the Seven Stones Reef while carrying grain from Plymouth, Devon. Three of the twenty-one crew lost their lives. She held the record for the fastest voyage between Newcastle and Valparaiso.[41]
13 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Jessie Lena
United States
The 347-gross register tonschooner was stranded on in Maine. All seven people on board survived.[1]
15 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 64-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Dekoven, Kentucky. All seven people on board survived.[4]
Patrician
United States
The 125-gross register tonschooner was stranded at Jordan Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada. Ten of the 20 people on board lost their lives.[13]
St. Leon
United States
The 83-gross register tonschooner was stranded in Pigeon Hill Bay on the coast of the Maine. All three people on board survived.[13]
Thaxter
United States
The 843-gross register tonschoonerbarge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) southeast of Shinnecock, Long Island, New York. All four people on board lost their lives.[13]
16 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was sunk in a collision with (United States), near in the Chesapeake Bay. Lost with four hands killed.[42]
The passenger, cargo, and mail steamer disappeared in a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia during a voyage from Port Hedland to Broome with the loss of all 150 people on board.
21 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
Wrecked at Nanjizal on the west coast of Cornwall.[43] All on board were rescued.[44]
22 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Captain Ed Riley
United States
The canal boat, under tow of the canal boat (United States), was wrecked on Bartletts Reef near New London, Connecticut and went to pieces.[45]
United States
The 42-gross register tonscrew steamer was stranded at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. All five people on board survived.[4]
23 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Pollux
Sweden
Sunk in the Skaggerak, near Hanstholm in collision with German battleship Elsass
24 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Elm City
United States
The 672-gross register tonschooner foundered off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, with the loss of two lives. There were five survivors.[12]
25 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Gaston
United States
The 1,442-gross register tonschoonerbarge was stranded on on the coast of Virginia. All four people on board survived.[12]
S. D. Carleton
United States
The 1,874-gross register tonschoonerbarge was stranded on on the coast of Virginia. All five people on board survived.[13]
United States
The 33-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer foundered in the Mississippi River at New Orleans, Louisiana. All seven people on board survived.[2]
27 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Florence
United States
The 9-gross register tonsloop foundered in the mouth of the on the coast of Texas. The only person on board survived.[12]
28 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The fishing steamer sank at the Oneco Works Wharf in New London, Connecticut. Later raised.[46]
Josefina
United States
The 9-gross register tonsloop was stranded at Guánica, Puerto Rico. Both people on board survived.[1]
April[]
2 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
With no one on board, the 12-gross register tonmotorpaddle vessel burned at Carrollton, Kentucky.[4]
The school ship sank at her berth at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. She was refloated six months later and was burned as a means of disposal and scrapping in 1913.
3 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Augusta
United States
The 7-gross register tonsloop foundered in Galveston Bay off the coast of Texas. The only person on board survived.[47]
Margery
United States
The barge sank at the entrance to the harbor at Lynn, Massachusetts.[48]
4 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
With no one on board, the 19-gross register tonmotor vessel burned at Mandarin, Florida.[2]
5 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
G. W. Watson
United States
The 452-gross register tonschooner was stranded on the coast of Tahiti. All nine people on board survived.[12]
United States
The 13-gross register tonmotor vessel burned at in California, killing one of the four people on board.[2]
6 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Gunvor
Norway
Gunvor wrecked
Wrecked on the Pedn-Men-an-Mor rocks, Black Head, The Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew scrambled to safety.[49][50]
Mildred
United Kingdom
The barquentine struck rocks at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall in dense fog and sank with her sails set. No lives lost.[49]
7 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Gladys
United States
The 26-gross register tonsloop foundered off Charleston, South Carolina. All three people on board survived.[1]
Netherlands
She was wrecked on Burhou Island, Channel Islands when en route from Rotterdam for Bilbao.[51][52]
8 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 14-gross register tonmotorpaddle vessel foundered in the Arkansas River in Arkansas. Both people on board survived.[13]
United States
The steamer caught fire and ran ashore at Montauk Point, New York. 29 women and children passengers were taken off by the tug (United States) while the crew remained aboard to fight the fire.[53][54]
12 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Fredericka Schepp
United States
The 268-gross register tonschooner was stranded in the Cape Verde Islands. All nine people on board survived.[12]
P G #1
United States
Under tow along with the scowsP G #4 and P G #5 (both United States), the 33-ton scow was wrecked on rocks at Montague Island at the entrance to Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska after her towing line parted in a gale.[55]
P G #4
United States
Under tow along with the scowsP G #1 and P G #5 (both United States), the 7-ton scow was wrecked on rocks at Montague Island at the entrance to Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska after her towing line parted in a gale.[55]
P G #5
United States
Under tow along with the scowsP G #1 and P G #4 (both United States), the 7-ton scow was wrecked on rocks at Montague Island at the entrance to Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska after her towing line parted in a gale.[55]
14 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
RMS Titanic
United Kingdom
RMS Titanic.
The Olympic-classocean liner, the largest ship launched at the time, sank during her maiden voyage after colliding with an iceberg late on 14 April. A total of 1,514 lives were lost; 710 people survived. The survivors were picked up by the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia (United Kingdom).
18 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 6-gross register tonmotor vessel burned on the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois. All three people aboard survived.[4]
20 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Addie and Carrie
United States
The wrecking lighter sank southwest of Shagwong Reef in Long Island Sound.[56]
United States
The 23-gross register tonmotoryacht was lost when she struck a dock at Charleston, South Carolina. All seven people on board survived.[4]
21 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Joseph Russ
United States
The 247-gross register ton, 124-foot (37.8 m) schooner was wrecked with the loss of one life on the northeast coast of Chirikof Island in the Gulf of Alaska. Her 35 survivors reached the island. Six of them sailed to Chignik Bay on the Alaska Peninsula in two dories with news of the wreck, and the steamerDora (United States) arrived at Chirikof Island soon thereafter to rescue the 29 survivors who remained there.[1][57]
25 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 386-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost in a collision with the screw steamer (United States) off Seattle, Washington. All 18 people on board survived.[2]
27 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
With no one on board, the 42-gross register tonmotor vessel was stranded on the TillamookBar off the coast of Oregon.[2]
28 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Winnie Lawry
United States
The 246-gross register tonschooner was stranded at Rockport, Massachusetts. All five people on board survived.[13]
29 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
Italo-Turkish War: The passenger/cargo ship was sunk by a mine in the entrance to the Gulf of Smyrna. 65 passengers and crew were killed and 70 rescued.[58][59]
30 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
James Duffield
United States
The 187-gross register tonschooner was stranded at Cape Henlopen, Delaware. All six people on board survived.[1]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date April 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
With no one on board, the 12-gross register tonmotor vessel foundered at Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska.[4]
May[]
5 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
With no one on board, the 41-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Proctorville, Ohio.[4]
Lottie
United States
The 19-gross register tonschooner burned in Choctawhatchee Bay on the coast of Florida. All four people on board survived.[1]
8 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Estelle
United States
The 182-gross register tonbarge was lost in a collision with the screw steamer (United Kingdom) on the Delaware River off New Castle, Delaware. Both people on board survived.[15]
10 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Hayden Brown
United States
The barge, under tow by Pioneer (United States), was cut loose by the tug in a heavy gale off Cape St. Elias to save herself. The barge was driven ashore and seven of eight crew died.[60]
The 864-gross register tonbark was stranded on Montague Island in the Gulf of Alaska off the southcentral coast of the Territory of Alaska with the loss of seven lives. There was one survivor.[1]
Walter P. Goulart
United States
The 84-gross register tonschooner was stranded at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, with the loss of one life. There were 13 survivors.[13]
13 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 11-gross register tonmotor vessel burned in Puget Sound off Sandy Point, Washington. All three people on board survived.[4]
14 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 May 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Henry May
United States
The 188-gross register tonschooner was stranded at Apple River, Nova Scotia. All five people on board survived.[1]
The lighthouse tender was wrecked on an uncharted rock while tending the Cape Hinchinbrook Light. She was declared a total loss and the wreck was sold.[62]
United States
The 93-gross register tonscrew steamer burned at Cairo, Illinois. All five people on board survived.[4]
21 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship was wrecked on Cobbler's Reef, Barbados. She was on a voyage from Norfolk, Virginia, United States to Barbados.[63]
24 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 65-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer foundered in the Yazoo River in Mississippi. All 27 people on board survived.[4]
29 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 14-gross register tonscrew steamer burned on Buffalo Bayou in Texas. All four people on board survived.[4]
USLHT Armeria aground. She flies the United States flag upside down as a distress signal.
The 1,502-displacement tonlighthouse tender was wrecked on an uncharted submerged rock off the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska either on 15 May on the southern tip of Montgaue Island while rescuing the sole survivor of the bargeHaydn Brown (United States) or on 20 May off of Cape Hinchinbrook Light near the southern end of Hinchinbrook Island adjacent to Prince William Sound while landing supplies. All 37 people aboard – her crew of 36 plus the lone survivor of Haydn Brown – survived and were rescued up by the steamerAdmiral Sampson (United States).[61][64][65][66][67][68]
Haydn Brown
United States
Under tow by the tugPioneer (United States) from Akutan on Akutan Island in the Aleutian Islands to , Territory of Alaska, and Seattle, Washington, with a crew of six, two stowaways, and a cargo of 30 tons of coal aboard but cut loose by Pioneer off Cape Saint Elias on Kayak Island on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska during a storm on either 10 or 16 May, the 864-gross register ton 162-foot (49.4 m) barge, a converted bark, drifted onto rocks at the southern tip of Montague Island and was wrecked on either 12 or 18 May with the loss of both stowaways and five members of her crew. The lighthouse tenderUSLHT Armeria ( United States Lighthouse Service) rescued her sole survivor.[64][68]
The decommissioned screw steamer was burned and sunk in San Francisco Bay off Hunter's Point, San Francisco, California, by the United States Navy in early May as a means of disposal.
The Pluviôse-classsubmarine was rammed near Cherbourg by the battleship Saint Louis (French Navy) and sank with the loss of twenty-five sailors.
9 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 June 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Judge Pennewill
United States
The 439-gross register tonschooner foundered off Charleston, South Carolina. All seven people on board survived.[1]
12 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 35-gross register tonmotor vessel burned at Port Monmouth, New Jersey. All nine people on board survived.[2]
13 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Laclabell
United States
The 12-gross register ton, 41.3-foot (12.6 m) motorpassenger vessel sank 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) west of Guard Island in Southeast Alaska.[71]
The 494-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at New Orleans, Louisiana. The only person on board survived.[4]
20 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Canada
The hydrographic survey ship was sunk in Lock No. 22 in the Welland Canal when a handling line parted and she crashed into the upper gate. Two men on shore were drowned when the gate gave way causing a large wave that swept them away. The vessel was raised on 25 June and taken to Port Dalhousie, Ontario, for repairs. Returned to service by 28 July.[72]
21 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Anna Kenney
United States
The 103-gross register toncanal boat foundered in the Hudson River 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Poughkeepsie, New York. The only person on board survived.[15]
24 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Long Island City
United States
The barge sank at the wharf of the , East Providence, Rhode Island. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[73]
United States
The 10-gross register tonmotor vessel burned at Stone Harbor, New Jersey. All 14 people on board survived.[2]
25 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Dredge #4
United States
The dredge was sunk in a collision with an unknown steamer in the St. Croix River three miles (4.8 km) below Calais, Maine. Later raised.[74]
Unknown scow
United States
The scow caught fire at dock in the East River near One hundred and seventh Street, New York City. Her mooring lines burned through and she drifted out into the river fully involved. Two men on board were forced overboard by the fire and were rescued from the water by two New York City Police Department officers who later received the United States Life Saving Service's Life saving Medal.[75]
The 2,220-gross register tonscrew steamer burned on Green Bay 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) northeast of Pensaukee, Wisconsin. All 15 people on board survived.[2]
28 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 172-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost when she struck a bridge on the Columbia River at Pasco, Washington. All 13 people on board survived.[2]
29 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Ranger
United States
The 24-gross register tonschooner foundered in Vineyard Sound off Gay Head, Massachusetts. All 10 people on board survived.[13]
July[]
11 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Frances Elizabeth
United States
An explosion destroyed the 30-gross register tonschooner at Southport, North Carolina. The only person on board died.[47]
13 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 July 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Geneva
United States
The 874-gross register tonschooner was stranded on Itaparica Island on the coast of Brazil. All nine people on board survived.[47]
United States
The motor boat sank at the wharf of the Sealshipt Oyster Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[76]
With no one on board, the 138-gross register tonschooner foundered in the Providence River in Rhode Island, or in the harbor at Providence, Rhode Island. As the owners abandoned the vessel, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office had to provide for her removal. The salvage company, the Scott Company, retained the schooner for its own use after raising her.[47][78]
24 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1912
Ship
Country
Description
C. W. Seward
United States
The 18-gross register tonschooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer (United States) in the Chesapeake Bay with the loss of one life. There was one survivor.[47]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The North Shields ship in ballast from St Nazaire to the Tyne for coal went ashore in thick fog, to the south of Mousehole, Cornwall. The salvage steamer Lady of the Isles hauled her clear and she resumed her journey undamaged.[79]
The cargo ship ran aground on a rocky islet in Georgian Bay near Beausoleil Island, Ontario, Canada. She was refloated and repaired, and she returned to service about two months later.[82]
United States
The steamer was buried in a landslide in the Panama Canal. It took two months to dig her out, then she was repaired and returned to service.[83]
19 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Addie Fuller
United States
The 217-gross register tonschooner was stranded on on the coast of Maine. All five people on board survived.[47]
21 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Alianza
United States
The 6-gross register tonschooner foundered off Jacaboa, Puerto Rico, with the loss of one life. There were three survivors.[47]
23 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Falcon
United States
The fishing steamer sank near off Cape Cod, Massachusetts after colliding with the fishing steamer (United States) near , south of Chatham, Massachusetts.[84][85]
The decommissioned Holland-class submarine foundered while under tow. She was salvaged for use as a gunnery target.
5 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Anna I. Gale
United States
The 38-gross register tonschooner was stranded in the Chesapeake Bay at Sandy Point on the coast of Maryland. All three people on board survived.[47]
Esperance
France
The schooner capsized in the Bristol Channel. Her five crew and the ship's dog were rescued by the trawler Picton Castle (United Kingdom). Esperance was on a voyage from Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais to Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[26]
10 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Endeavor
United States
The 565-gross register tonschooner was stranded on in the Fiji Islands with the loss of one life. There were eight survivors.[47]
13 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Scow #2
United States
The scow sank at Belle Dock, New Haven, Connecticut.[91]
14 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Imperial German Navy
The torpedo boat was sunk in a collision with SMS Zähringen (Imperial German Navy) in the North Sea. Seven crewmen killed.[92]
K-8
United States
The scow sank in Canal Channel near Onset, Massachusetts.[93]
21 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 September 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Canada
The schooner went ashore on Fishers Island, New York.[94]
26 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship was sunk in a collision in . Raised and scrapped at Briton Ferry on 25 October.[95]
28 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner sank in Broad Sound near Deer Island, Massachusetts.[96]
The B-classsubmarine collided with the passenger liner Amerika (Germany) while surfacing in the North Sea northeast of Dover, England, and sank with the loss of 14 of her crew of 15.
The canal boat was run ashore near Quonochontaug, Rhode Island to prevent her sinking. Her cargo of coal and her boiler were salvaged.[98]
13 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Advent
United States
The 548-gross register tonschooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer (United States) in the Pacific Ocean 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) off Fort Bragg, California. All nine people on board survived.[47]
16 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Andrew Johnson
United States
The 13-gross register tonschooner was lost in a collision with the schooner Bessie Reed (United States) in Baltimore Harbor off the coast of Maryland. Both people on board survived.[47]
The Ouse Steamship Company passenger-cargo ship sank near Flushing after a collision with the steamer Viking (Denmark).[99]
19 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1912
Ship
Country
Description
J. J. Loggie
United States
The 220-gross register ton Lumber schooner was wrecked on rocks one mile (1.6 km) south of Point Argello, California. 18 crew rescued; one seaman swept overboard managed to reach shore alive but badly cut and bruised. The J.J. Loggie was wrecked on the same place that the steamer Santa Rosa had been wrecked a year before.[100]
The yacht burned and sank near Manchester, Massachusetts. Items were salvaged from the wreck.[106]
Arrow
United States
The 30-gross register tonschooner was stranded at , Newfoundland. All four people on board survived.[47]
Sesnon #13
United States
The 24-ton barge sank with no loss of life at Nome, Territory of Alaska.[107]
6 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Hattie Wells
United States
The 376-gross register tonschooner foundered in Lake Michigan. All six people on board survived.[47]
United Kingdom
The ocean liner ran aground nine miles (14 km) below Quebec City, Quebec. Refloated on 23 November, repaired and returned to service.[108][109]
7 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The Tug was wrecked on a shoal at the entrance to the Harbor of Charlotte Harbor, Florida, eventually breaking up. A 100 foot section of her starboard hull drifted to where it was a hazard to navigation. The section was blown loose, dragged ashore and burned 24-31 July, 1913.[110]
8 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1912
Ship
Country
Description
De Mory Gray
United States
The 401-gross register tonschooner was stranded in on the coast of Long Island, New York. All seven people on board survived.[47]
Hustler
United States
The 13-gross register tonschooner burned on Lake Michigan. Both people on board survived.[47]
First Balkan War: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by a Greek torpedo boat at Avila, north of Smyrna.[111]
12 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1912
Ship
Country
Description
E. K. Wood
United States
The 519-gross register tonschooner was stranded on , British Columbia, Canada. All nine people on board survived.[47]
United Kingdom
Oravia
The passenger ship ran aground off Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. She was abandoned on 16 November. Oravia was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Callao, Peru.[112]
13 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Estelle
United States
The schooner ran ashore on Fishers Island, New York after mistaking the beacon lights of the stranded schooner (United States) for those of Little Gull Island and Race Rock, New York.[113]
United States
The schooner ran ashore on Fishers Island, New York.[114]
15 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The tug struck a rock off Napatree Point, Rhode Island. Refloated and returned to service.[115]
The cargo ship ran aground and sank at the entrance to the Tweed River at Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia. There were no injuries or fatalities among her crew.[121]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Chief No. 2
United States
The barge sank off the end of Arrietta Street, Staten Island. Raised in June 1914.[122]
December[]
3 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1912
Ship
Country
Description
West Point
United States
The barge sank near the dock of Pardie and Young, Fall River, Massachusetts. The vessel's cargo was salvaged.[123]
6 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Bessie C. Beach
United States
The 341-gross register tonschooner was stranded at on Long Island, New York. All six people on board survived.[47]
The steamer was lost on rocks known as Old Bess, within the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. Her crew was lost and the wreck went unnoticed for three days when thousands of oranges were washed up on St Agnes along with wreckage.[41]
15 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 December 1912
Ship
Country
Description
S. O. Co. No. 87
United States
The tanker barge's towline parted from her tow ship, (flag unknown), in a severe gale in the Gulf of Mexico between Tampico, Mexico and on 12 December. By the time Perfection could reach her she had capsized and her crew of nine lost. She sank on 15 December.[125][126]
20 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The Schooner was wrecked on , lower New York Bay. Masts fell in Winter of 1913/1914. Probably wreck removed in 1914.[127][128]
21 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The fishing smack went ashore near Orient, New York.[129]
23 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1912
Ship
Country
Description
Golden Fleece
United States
The 47-gross register tonschooner burned at in California. Both people on board survived.[47]
24 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1912
Ship
Country
Description
786
United States
The barge, under tow of (United States), went ashore on , New London, Connecticut.[130]
791
United States
The barge, under tow of (United States), went ashore on , New London, Connecticut.[131]
United States
The tug went ashore on , New London, Connecticut.[132]
26 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1912
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The vessel was wrecked on Loe Bar, near Porthleven, Cornwall in 100 mph (161 km/h) winds. Nearly all the crew were saved but the ship was a total loss.[133]
The schooner was blown ashore on a mud flat near the mouth of the , Bridgeport, Connecticut sometime in December and abandoned by the owners. In July/August 1913 she was raised, moved out of the way of traffic and resunk.[134]
^Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, eds., Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, ISBN0-8317-0302-4, p. 160.