The motor boat sank at Black Rock near Bridgeport, Connecticut.[1]
3 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The 32-gross register tonschooner was stranded at the Delaware Breakwater off Lewes, Delaware. Work removing the wreck finished 19 October. Both people on board survived.[2][3]
United States
The passenger/cargo ship sank in a gale in the Atlantic Ocean south of Cape Hatteras with all 39 hands.[4][5]
The steamer was damaged in a collision in thick fog with (United States) in Chesapeake Bay. After the incident she either anchored or was beached to prevent sinking.[6][7][8]
The decommissioned sloop-of-war was destroyed by fire at Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia.
United States
The ocean liner was sunk in a collision in thick fog with (United Kingdom) in Chesapeake Bay. Her captain, his wife, and 13 crew were killed. Survivors were rescued by Indrakuala and Pennsylvania (Netherlands).[9][10][11]
4 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Bombay
United States
The whaleback barge sank in a gale in Nantucket Sound five miles (8.0 km) northwest of Handkerchief Lightship in 36 feet of water. Two crew killed, the other 3 crew rescued by her tow vessel.[12][13][14]
Ellen W. Moore
United States
The canal boat sank in a gale inside the breakwater at Newhaven, Connecticut.[15]
United States
The fishing steamer sank at the wharf of the , Newport, Rhode Island.[16]
The oil tanker on her voyage from Monterrey, Mexico, to Portland, Oregon ran into gale of the mouth of the Columbia River and went aground on Peacock Spit. The vessel broke into two and sank with the loss of 30 or 33 of her 36 crew.[17][18]
10 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Clara Jane
United States
The 124-gross register tonschooner was stranded at at Gloucester, Massachusetts. All four people on board survived.[2]
The sternwheel paddle steamer, registered as Jas. T. Staples, was destroyed by a boiler explosion on the Tombigbee River in Alabama six miles (9.7 km) above the current day Coffeeville Lock and Dam. The explosion killed 26 people, including her captain, and injured 21. Survivors were rescued by the sternwheel paddle steamer John Quill (United States).[19][20]
12 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer stranded near Nixes Mate in the harbor at Boston, Massachusetts in a gale. refloated and returned to service.[21]
United Kingdom
The passenger ship ran aground on Shoal Point, Chebucto Head, Nova Scotia. All on board, over 900 people, survived. She was later refloated and taken to Halifax, Nova Scotia where temporary repairs were done 26 January–10 February. She then sailed to New York City for permanent repairs.[22][23]
13 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The passenger ship was wrecked in a severe storm on near Grand Manan and broke up.[24][25]
14 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Grand Duchy of Finland
The barque was wrecked on St Mary's Island, Northumberland, United Kingdom with the loss of eight of her crew. She was under tow from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.[26]
Germany
The vessel ran aground at Lindisfarne, Northumberland and was wrecked.[27]
16 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Russia
The passenger ship caught fire and was abandoned in the Red Sea off Port Sudan, Egypt. The derelict hulk was sunk by explosives on 23 January.[28]
Veronese
United Kingdom
The 7,877 GRTLamport and Holt Line general cargo/passenger vessel. Sailing from Liverpool with a stop in Vigo, Spain, and carrying 221 people on board to Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina, collided in fog with rocks near Leça da Palmeira, Portugal. The rescue lasted more than 48 hours due to sea state using cables back and forth and two rescue boats to recover those who threw themselves into the sea. There were 38 casualties, 5 of them crewmen.[29]
20 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Brodland
United Kingdom
The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales. Her 42 crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot to Punta Arenas, Chile.[30]
21 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Massachusetts
United States
The barge sank off near New London, Connecticut.[31]
22 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship was wrecked on Taylor's Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.[32]
The 58-gross register tonschooner was stranded on the Matagorda Peninsula on the coast of Texas. All eight people on board survived.[2]
2 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1913
Ship
Country
Description
City of Georgetown
United States
The 599-gross register tonschooner was lost in collision with the screw steamer (Germany) off the Delaware Capes at the entrance to Delaware Bay. All eight people on board survived.[2]
3 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Monarch
United States
The tow steamer sank in Tchula Lake, Mississippi. Five crew drowned.[35]
7 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was wrecked/sank at Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. The wreck was removed by June, 1914.[36][37]
First Balkan War: The Âsâr-ı Tevfik-class ironclad ran aground on a rock during operations against Bulgarian forces near . The grounded vessel was destroyed by seas and Bulgarian artillery over the next few days.[38]
10 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Borealis
United States
The 764-gross register tonschooner was stranded in the Friendly Islands (now Tonga). All 11 people on board survived.[2]
13 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Althea Franklin
United States
The 36-gross register tonschooner departed Pensacola, Florida, bound for the CampecheBanks off the coast of Mexico with eight people on board and was never heard from again.[2]
Epidauro
Austria-Hungary
The steamship ran aground at Overton, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[30]
She was stranded at Low Island, South Shetland Islands.
15 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Bluebell
United Kingdom
The steamship struck rocks in Culver's Hole and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by the Port Eynon Lifeboat.[30]
16 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Advent
United States
The 431-gross register tonschooner was stranded in Coos Bay on the coast of Oregon. All eight people on board survived.[2]
26 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner went ashore on near in Long Island Sound.[39]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date February 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Scow #2
United States
The scow sank sometime in February in the area of Boston, Massachusetts.[40]
March[]
1 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Almira
United States
The 26-gross register tonschooner was stranded at on the coast of Alabama. All four people on board survived.[2]
3 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner sank in the long Island Sound one mile (1.6 km) east south east of Shippan Point. Part of her cargo was salvaged. Wreck raised on 23 July 1913. Her spars were removed and she was resunk in deep water.[41]
6 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner barge broke in two after wrecking on Devils Back in Broad Sound, Boston, Massachusetts. Wreck stripped by the salvage company. Wreckage washed ashore on Deer Island removed in July, another piece washed ashore there in October and was burned.[42][43][44]
7 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The steamship's cargo of dynamite exploded at Baltimore, Maryland in the Patapsco River killing 30 people and injuring 60.[45]
Atlantic
United States
The tug was sunk at Baltimore, Maryland, by the explosion of (United Kingdom). Her captain and mate were killed.[45][46]
Unknown barge
United States
The barge/scow was sunk at Baltimore, Maryland, by the explosion of (United Kingdom). She was alongside transferring the cargo of dynamite.[47]
10 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship was wrecked on Ajax Reef off Key West, Florida.[48][49]
21 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steam schooner went ashore on a reef off in a storm and broke up.[50][51]
26 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1913
Ship
Country
Description
General Scott
United States
The 83-gross register tonschooner was stranded in on the coast of Maine. All three people on board survived.[2]
27 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Antioch
United States
The 986-gross register tonbarkentine was stranded at on the coast of New Jersey. All 10 people on board survived.[2]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown March 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The lighter was sunk in a collision in the Upper Bay Harbor of New York City. The wreck was removed and cargo salvaged between June and September.[52]
April[]
2 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Clifford N. Carver
United States
The 1,101-gross register ton four-mastedschooner was wrecked on Tennessee Reef in the Florida Keys. All nine people on board survived.[2][53]
7 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was sunk in a collision with in the harbor at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.[54]
The 778-gross register tonschooner, when caught in a hurricane, was dismasted, lost all its boats and deck cargo, and was partially filled with water, in the Lau islands of Fiji. All survived, after abandoning the barely floating hull, on 1 May 1913, and making for Kabara using sailing scows that the crew had made themselves. The hull and part of the cargo of lumber were salvaged.[55][56][57]
16 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Alice Holbrook
United States
The 722-gross register tonschooner was stranded in Hillsboro Inlet on the coast of Florida. All eight people on board survived.[2]
18 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Red Skin
United States
The lighter sank at the New Line Dock at Fall River, Massachusetts.[58]
The 855-gross register tonschooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, New York, 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) south of the Fire IslandLightship. All four people on board survived.[2]
21 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Helena
United States
The 184-gross register tonschooner was stranded on the coast of Maine near Port Clyde. All six people on board survived.[2]
The schooner ran on the rocks at Nahant, Massachusetts. Salvage operations were abandoned shortly after they were begun, owing to the unfavorable conditions at the location of the wreck.[61]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date April 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The dredge burned and sank in Sarasota Bay. The wreck was dragged ashore and burned from 13–20 October 1913.[62]
Curacao
United States
The 1,503-gross register ton, 241.3-foot (73.5 m) steamschooner ran aground on on in the Territory of Alaska. The survey shipUSC&GS Thomas R. Gedney and launchesUSC&GS Cosmos and Launch 117 (all United States Coast and Geodetic Survey) pulled her off on 29–30 April.[63] She returned to service.[64]
The small steamer, which operated as a cannery tender and tugboat in Washington in the San Juan Islands and on Puget Sound, was off Purdy Spit immediately following a boiler refit when she suffered a coal gas explosion and fire. She was towed to shore and burned out.[citation needed]
May[]
1 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Agenoria
United Kingdom
The wooden schooner on voyage from St. Sampson, Guernsey, to Rochester with a cargo of stone, was wrecked on Flat Rock (La Platte), off Saint Sampson, Guernsey.[65][66]
Harold
United States
The dredge burned and sank in the , Long Island, New York. The wreck was removed on 22 September 1913.[67]
2 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 May 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a railroad bridge in the Tensas River at Clayton, Louisiana. After striking she bounced off, struck it again, and careened over filling with water. The swift flood current carried her 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) down river before fully sinking. 14 or 22 drowned, with 107 persons saved, many by getting on the bridge.[68][69]
11 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Cadosia
United States
The barge sank in the harbor at Lynn, Massachusetts.[70]
13 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner barge was cut in two and sunk in a collision with Thomas F. Cole (United States) off Russell Island in 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1 m) of water in the St. Clair River, a total loss. The wreck was removed in July.[71][72]
23 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Cromdale
United Kingdom
She was wrecked on Bass Point, Cornwall, without loss of life.[73]
24 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Chemung
United States
The barge went ashore on in Long Island Sound after breaking from the tow of the tug (United States).[74]
Pohatcong
United States
The barge went ashore on in Long Island Sound after breaking from the tow of the tug (United States).[75]
Shickshinney
United States
The barge went ashore on in Long Island Sound after breaking from the tow of the tug (United States).[76]
26 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Tolmie
United States
The barge was wrecked/sunk in Lake St. Clair off Grosse Pointe, Michigan in a severe storm . The wreck was removed in September.[77]
30 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Arcadia
United States
The 127-gross register tonschooner was stranded at , Nova Scotia, Canada. All 18 people on board survived.[2]
Canada
The schooner ran aground off . Refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[78]
Dolorito
United States
The 6-gross register tonsloop was stranded on off Fajardo, Puerto Rico. All three people on board survived.[2]
Fred C. Holden
United States
The 137-gross register tonschooner foundered off on the coast of Maine. All six people on board survived.[2]
The gunboat — officially classified as a third-class cruiser — ran aground in dense fog on the coast of the Spanish protectorate in Morocco near Alhucemas. Moroccanguerrillas attacked her, and her badly outnumbered crew of 53 defended her successfully for 15 hours until all of her survivors and dead had been transferred to several other Spanish Navy warships, which subsequently drove off the Moroccans with gunfire and then sank General Concha – deemed beyond repair – with gunfire to prevent the Moroccans from looting her wreck. General Concha's crew suffered 16 men dead, 17 wounded, and 11 captured during the engagement; the attacking Moroccans' casualties are not known.[82]
Yukon
United States
During a voyage from Goodnews Bay, Territory of Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, with three passengers, a crew of 42, and a cargo of 300 pounds (140 kg) of electrical materials aboard, the 688-gross register ton, 205-foot (62.5 m) steamer was wrecked in thick fog without loss of life at on Sanak Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands. The revenue cutterUSRC Tahoma ( United States Revenue Cutter Service) rescued her passengers and crew.[83]
13 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Hustler
United States
The 14-gross register tonschooner foundered off , South Carolina. Both people on board survived.[2]
The 276-foot (84 m), 2,193-gross register ton five-mastedschooner caught fire, burned to the waterline, and sank in 85 feet (26 m) of water in Massachusetts Bay 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) northwest of Race Point, Provincetown, Massachusetts. All 11 people on board abandoned ship in lifeboats and were rescued by the fishing schooner Rose Dorothea (flag unknown). Paul Palmer's wreck lies in what is now the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.[84]
Unknown barge
United States
The barge broke up in high winds on the breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio after the towline snapped from tow vessel (United States). The only person on board was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service just before she struck.[85]
16 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1913
Ship
Country
Description
817
United States
The lighter sank at the Edison Electric Light Company dock, South Boston, Massachusetts.[86]
United States
The tug sank at the entrance to the Cape Cod Canal, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. Raised, repaired and returned to service.[87]
17 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The fishing schooner was sunk in a collision with Sagamore (United Kingdom) off Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Six crew killed.[88]
18 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Blue Boy
United States
The barge sank near Faulkners Island, Connecticut.[89]
The fishing schooner sank near Commonwealth Dock, South Boston, Massachusetts after being rammed by the steamer (flag unknown).[90]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: unknown date June 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Toanui
United Kingdom
The Glasgow-registered salvage tug sailed from Gourock on 3 June 1913 on delivery to New Zealand and was lost on the Seven Stones Reef, between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Wreckage, first found on 11 June, was washed up on the North Cornwall coast and around Land's End and Tol Pedn.[91][92][93]
July[]
5 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Drill boat #4
United States
The drill boat sank near the Commonwealth Dock at Boston, Massachusetts after catching and filling on a rising tide.[94]
6 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 July 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The Schooner burned and sank in the St. Clair River abreast the coal docks at Algonac, Michigan. The wreck was removed in November, or site is a popular dive site..[95][96]
The Royal Technical College, Glasgowtraining ship ran aground and wrecked at Colonsay en route from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Stornoway on her maiden voyage as a civilian training ship.[98]
9 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 July 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The fishing steamer went ashore on Sow and Pigs Reef, near Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts. Hauled off by USRC Acushnet ().[99]
10 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The lumber schooner ran aground due to a navigation error 1+1⁄4 miles (2.0 km) off the entrance to Ocracoke Inlet. Pulled off a week later.[100]
12 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Clinton Point
United States
The barge sank at the dock of the , Taunton, Massachusetts.[101]
United States
The schooner was rammed and sank at anchor off the Quarantine Station off Black Point, San Francisco, California. Her 12 crew were rescued. Salvage attempts over six months failed, and the wreck was either blown up by the United States Navy or removed under contract of the US Army Corps of Engineers with completion by 2 May 1914.[102][103]
13 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 July 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Jack Horner
United States
The 50-gross register ton, 72-foot (21.9 m) fishing vessel was destroyed by fire in Lynn Canal in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of six survived.[104]
United States
The schooner went ashore on Fishers Island, New York.[105]
15 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 July 1913
Ship
Country
Description
K #4
United States
The 15-ton scow broke loose from her moorings and was wrecked at N Clock Point in Southeast Alaska.[106]
20 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Naushon
United States
The yacht went on the rocks at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The vessel was hauled off.[107]
21 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Budget
United States
The barge sank at the wharf of , Providence, Rhode Island.[108]
25 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer was beached at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts after colliding with the steamer off .[109]
26 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Wolloston
United States
The dredge sank at the wharf at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.[110]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown July 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Wait-A-While
United States
The gasoline supply boat burned and sank in Gravesend Bay Harbor of New York City, near the entrance to Coney Island Creek. The wreck was removed in October.[111]
August[]
1 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner turned on her beam ends and went aground in the harbor at Duck Island, Connecticut.[112][113]
7 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The sloop was driven into a marsh in an unknown location in a heavy squall. Refloated.[114]
10 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Corson
United States
The motor vessel was lost at Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska.[64]
14 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Susanna
The vessel was wrecked on Zantman's Rock, Isles of Scilly.
15 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Dredge #1
United States
The dredge sank at the Raymond Brothers' dock, South Norwalk, Connecticut.[115]
Seddon
United States
The 14-gross register ton, 52-foot (15.8 m) passengersteamer sank in Kotzebue Sound off the Territory of Alaska. All three people on board survived.[116]
Sudden
United States
The motor vessel was wrecked at Kotzebue, Territory of Alaska.[116]
16 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner sank at Cleveland, Ohio. Wreck removed late 1914-early 1915.[117]
While departing Barrow, Territory of Alaska, on 6 August bound for Seattle, Washington, with a cargo of 100 tons of general merchandise and a crew of 11 on board, the 547-gross register ton, 165.2-foot (50.4 m) schooner was trapped by ice. On 25 August, the ice crushed her and she was beached about 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) south-southwest of (71°17′35″N156°47′15″W / 71.29306°N 156.78750°W / 71.29306; -156.78750 (Cape Smyth)) to prevent her from sinking. All on board survived.[118]
Wasp
United States
After departing Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea with four crewmen and two passengers aboard, the 17-gross register ton, 42.2-foot (12.9 m) motor trading schooner was stranded near , Territory of Alaska. All six people on board abandoned ship and survived a five-day voyage to St. Michael, Alaska, in a dory without food or water. During the autumn of 1913, the abandoned Wasp suffered severe ice damage, dragged her anchor during a storm, and sank near the mouth of the Kuskokwim River.[119]
The Elder Dempster 2,802 GRT cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked at Half Assinie, Ivory Coast in West Africa. She was carrying a cargo of wood from the West coast of Africa to Liverpool.[120]
The tow steamer was sunk when her boilers exploded opposite Glenfield, Pennsylvania, seven miles (11 km) below Pittsburgh in the Ohio River 200 feet (61 m) above Lock No. 2. The ship was later raised. Eight people were killed, six injured.[122][123][124]
The 1,109-ton, four-mastedbarkentine was wrecked on the southeastern shore of Jarvis Island in the Pacific Ocean. She became a total loss.[125]
September[]
2 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 September 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was wrecked on the North Carolina coast two miles (3.2 km) from the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station during a gale. The vessel grounded 1,200 to 1,500 feet (370 to 460 m) offshore and broke up. Two crew were killed while the rest of crew were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[126][127]
3 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
1913 Hurricane No. 4: The schooner was wrecked in a hurricane 500 yards (460 m) off Ocracoke Island, a total loss. The wreck was later burned. All 20 passengers and crew were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service before she broke up.[128][129]
United States
The schooner was wrecked in a storm near Portsmouth. Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[130]
The steamer sank in the Savannah River. The wreck was removed by the government.[131]
T & J Mulqueen
United States
The coal barge sank in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water east of the channel for the harbor of New York City. The wreck and cargo were removed in September.[132]
9 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Canada
The schooner was wrecked near the Point Prim Lighthouse, Nova Scotia. Her seven crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Annapolis, Nova Scotia to Saint John, New Brunswick.[133]
20 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Belgium
Ran aground off Saaremaa, Estonia. Raised and towed to Antwerp but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.[134]
22 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner went ashore on , off Chappaquiddick, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts in fog and a gale. Refloated, repaired and returned to service. All on board, 11 crew and the wives of the Captain and Steward, were rescued by (United States).[135][136]
The schooner was wrecked in . Her crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[138][139]
27 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner stranded on shoals at Chincoteague Inlet. Refloated.[140]
28 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The launch was sunk in a collision with schooner in the harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Three people were killed and two survivors were rescued by Rhodora.[141]
October[]
5 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Louisa
United States
The 5-gross register tonschooner dragged her anchor during a gale and was wrecked on the beach at Chinik, Territory of Alaska. Her crew of three survived.[142]
6 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1913
Ship
Country
Description
E. L. Dwyer
United States
After lying on the beach at Teller, Territory of Alaska, since 14 August 1912 without anyone coming aboard to perform maintenance and already in a partially wrecked condition, the 54-gross register tonmotor vessel was destroyed by a gale.[137]
United States
The power boat was wrecked on the jetty of the harbor of Cape May, New Jersey while assisting the United States Life Saving Service retrieve the disabled boat Dorothy (flag unknown). Her engine quit due to a bad generator.[143]
Sesnon #3
United States
The 21-ton barge was wrecked at Nome, Territory of Alaska.[116]
Sesnon #21
United States
While anchored off Nome, Territory of Alaska, with no cargo or crew aboard, the 39-ton barge broke loose from her moorings during a gale, was driven ashore on a beach 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) west of Nome, and was broken apart by waves.[116]
Swallow
United States
The 9-gross register ton, 40-foot (12.2 m) sternwheel paddle steamer sank at Nome, Territory of Alaska.[116]
9 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The fishing schooner went ashore on Cape Cod, Mass., near the and went to pieces.[144]
The passenger-cargo ship caught fire in mid-Atlantic and was abandoned; 510 passengers and crew were rescued by ships including Kroonland (United States) and (United Kingdom), but 136 died. The derelict ship was scuttled on 18 October in the North Atlantic Ocean.[145][146]
Yorkey
United States
The 7-gross register ton, 31-foot (9.4 m) motor vessel sank at Nome, Territory of Alaska. Both people on board survived.[83]
10 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Kitty
United States
The derrick barge sprang a leak and sank by the edge of the channel of Newtown Creek. The wreck was removed on 5 November.[147]
Sophia
United States
The 10-gross register ton 35-foot (10.7 m) motor vessel sank at Nome, Territory of Alaska. Her crew of four survived.[116]
After departing St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, on 9 October bound for the Kuskokwim River towing the schoonerPrincess (United States), the motorboat was found washed up on the beach bottom-up in Norton Sound, apparently having been blown there by a storm. All three people aboard both vessels were lost.[149]
Princess
United States
After departing St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, on 9 October bound for the Kuskokwim River under tow by the motorboatNora (United States) with a cargo of about 10 tons of general merchandise aboard, the 16-gross register ton, 41.4-foot (12.6 m) schooner was found washed up on the beach bottom-up in Norton Sound, apparently having been blown there by a storm. All three people aboard both vessels were lost.[150]
13 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner sank/swamped off , in Vineyard Sound. Refloated and taken to Vineyard Haven. Six crew was rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[151][152]
The barge was beached on near Woods Hole, Massachusetts.[155]
United States
The schooner barge was sunk and broke up in a gale south east of the Highland Light after being cut loose by her tow vessel Paoli (United States). Two people were killed.[156]
17 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Ellida
United States
Carrying a 20-ton cargo of salt, lumber, and general merchandise and a crew of three, the 19-gross register tonmotor vessel was dismasted and wrecked without loss of life on the northeast coast of Unga Island in the Territory of Alaska's Shumagin Islands during a gale and was declared a total loss.[137]
19 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer ran aground in a gale off False Presque Isle. She was scuttled to prevent pounding to pieces. She was pulled off by two wrecking tugs on 23 October.[157]
20 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The launch burned and sank three miles (4.8 km) north of Little Beach, New Jersey. The two men on board made it to an island where they were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.[158]
21 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer struck a submerged obstruction off Long Point, Ontario on Lake Erie in a gale. She was beached just above Long Point Lighthouse, a total loss.[159]
23 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Unknown barge
United States
The coal barge was wrecked on in the Kanawha River. The wreck was removed on 6 November.[160]
25 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Duke
United States
The barge ran aground at Promised Land, near New Haven, Connecticut.[161]
The schooner was wrecked 30 miles (48 km) off the coast off .[163]
30 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner sank in Long Island Sound off in 12 fathoms (72 ft; 22 m) of water with her mast tops above water. Parts of the wreck less than 40 feet (12 m) below water were removed in November.[164][165]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown October 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Unknown scow
The unregistered scow sank in the Rouge River, Michigan near the foot of Chase Street. The scow was towed out of the channel on 28 October.[166]
November[]
1 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The gasoline steamer, a salmon packer, was wrecked on the south spit at the mouth of the Columbia River and broke up.[167][168]
2 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was abandoned in the north Atlantic Ocean.[169]
4 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1913
Ship
Country
Description
HMS Empress of India
Royal Navy
The Royal Sovereign-classbattleship was sunk as a gunnery target in Lyme Bay, Dorset, England, by the light cruiserHMS Liverpool and battleships HMS Thunderer, HMS Orion, HMS King Edward VII, HMS Neptune, HMS King George V, and HMS Vanguard (all Royal Navy).
Great Lakes Storm: The steamer struck Gull Rock off Manitou Island near in Lake Superior during a gale, breaking in two. All on board, 22 men and 2 women, were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. Salvaged in 1914, repaired and return to service as (Canada).[171][172]
Louisiana
United States
Great Lakes Storm: The steamboat sank in Lake Michigan. All crew members survived.
The schooner sank in Long Island Sound five miles (8.0 km) from the Stratford Light in 15 fathoms (90 ft; 27 m) of water with her mast tops above water. On 5 February 1914 all parts of the wreck with in 35 feet (11 m) of the surface was removed by the lighter Panuco (United States).[175]
United States
Great Lakes Storm: The steamer ran aground off the , Michigan, solidly on the bottom. She pumped herself out the next night.[176]
Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship capsized in Lake Huron with the loss of all 28 crew. She sank on 18 November, 7 or 10 miles (11 or 16 km) north of Port Huron.[177][178][179][180]
United States
Great Lakes Storm: The lumber steamer dragged anchor and went ashore at Harbor Beach. Later refloated and taken to Detroit, Michigan, for repairs.[181]
Great Lakes Storm: The steamer was beached on Peach Island after being damaged in a collision with (flag unknown).[183]
United States
Great Lakes Storm: The steamer was wrecked on Port Austen Reef 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) offshore of , in Lake Huron during a gale. Nine crew made it to shore in her yawl, the rest were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service. Salvaged in 1915, repaired and return to service as (Canada).[184][185]
Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Superior, probably off the about 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Port Arthur, Ontario, or wrecked on with the loss of all 15 or 18 crew.[177][178][188][189]
United States
Great Lakes Storm: The steamer went on the rocks off in Lake Michigan. A wrecking tug salvaged part of her cargo of coal and took off her crew on 14 November. She was salvaged in 1914 and taken to Sarnia, Ontario for repairs.[190][191]
Bodies from Wexford washed ashore near Goderich, Ontario.
Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all 17 or 24 crew.[195]
United States
Great Lakes Storm: The steamer grounded in the St. Clair River at the entrance to the St. Clair Ship Canal.[196]
Winnie
United States
The 12-gross register ton, 40-foot (12 m) fishing vessel was stranded on an island 1.33 nautical miles (2.46 km; 1.53 mi) west of Metlakatla in Southeast Alaska. Both crewmembers survived. Winnie later was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[119]
The schooner barge was wrecked at , Beaufort, North Carolina after she sprung a leak in a gale and became waterlogged, a total loss. Her crew was rescued by her tug, (United States), except for her cook who drowned during the transfer.[200][201]
United States Lighthouse Service
Great Lakes Storm: The lightship for Buffalo, New York sank off that port in Lake Erie with the loss of six crew. LV 82 was salvaged in mid-1915, repaired and returned to service.[186][178][202]
The coal barge was wrecked at Lock No. 10 in the Kanawha River. The wreck was removed 24 November.[207]
19 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Leonora
United Kingdom
The ketch was in collision with the tugAtlas (United Kingdom) in the Bristol Channel and was abandoned by her crew. Leonora drove ashore at Rotherslade, Glamorgan the next day and was wrecked.[30]
22 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The gasoline boat went ashore on a rocky point two miles (3.2 km) north of Charlevoix, Michigan in dense fog. Refloated on 27 November.[208]
The barge went ashore on a rocky point two miles (3.2 km) north of Charlevoix, Michigan in dense fog. Refloated on 27 November.[210]
24 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Elmer D. Walling
United States
The canal boat sank near Watch Hill, Rhode Island. Later raised.[211]
26 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The fishing steamer went ashore on Groton Long Point, Connecticut.[212]
26 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The steamer stranded on , Thunder Bay, in Lake Superior during a gale. The crew were taken off the next day. She broke in two on 29 November while being towed. The vessel was refloated on 13 December and salvaged in 1914. The steamer was repaired and returned to service as (Canada).[213][214][215]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Canada
Great Lakes Storm: The steamer was stranded on a reef one mile (1.6 km) offshore off , in Thunder Bay, Lake Huron during a gale on 8 or 9 November. Refloated on 19 November and taken to Alpena, Michigan for repairs.[216]
The C-classsubmarine sank without loss of life after colliding with the hopper bargeHopper No. 27 (flag unknown) in Plymouth Sound. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
12 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Norway
The barque ran aground off , St Lawrence River, Canada and wrecked.[80]
The dredge sank at the entrance to Courtney Bay, Saint John, New Brunswick, after an anchor picked up by one of her buckets pierced one of her pontoons.[227]
26 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner barge was cut loose in heavy weather by its tow vessel (United States) four miles (6.4 km) north of Barnegat, New Jersey. She was anchored just offshore and was dashed to a sinking mass by contact with Undaunted that she was still tied to, with the loss of all five hands.[228][229]
United States
The schooner barge was cut loose in heavy weather by its tow vessel (United States) four miles (6.4 km) north of Barnegat, New Jersey. She was dashed by A. G. Ropes that she was still tied to, breaking in two with the loss of all five hands.[230][231]
28 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1913
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The fishing schooner went ashore on Ram Head in the harbor at Boston, Massachusetts.[232]
Union
United States
The 8-gross register ton, 38-foot (11.6 m) motor vessel and her crew of two disappeared during what was to have been a five-hour voyage in the Territory of Alaska from Lituya Bay to .[233]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1913
Ship
Country
Description
Balmes
Spain
The passenger steamer caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean. The ocean liner (United Kingdom) rescued 103 people from Balmes, which was towed to St. George's, Bermuda, by the tugsGladisfen (flag unknown) and Powerful (flag unknown), convoyed by Pannonia.
The oil service vessel capsized in Puget Sound immediately after being launched at Dockton, Washington, in either 1913 or 1914. She was righted, completed, and eventually entered service.
United States
The US Army Corps of Engineers Hopper Dredge burned and sank just north of the entrance to Freeport, Texas. The wreck was located in August 1988.[235][236]
Iris
United States
The schooner ran aground and sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Washington Island in Door County, Wisconsin, United States.[237]
The passenger-cargo steamer ran aground in Herdlefjorden, Norway. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
Mary Hagan
United States
The barge had sank by August in Frankford Creek, Pennsylvania 50 feet (15 m) above the drawbridge of Bridge Street, Philadelphia. Wreck removal was finished by 16 October.[238]
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