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The list of shipwrecks in 1917 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1917 .
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Ship
Country
Description
AG-13
Imperial Russian Navy
The AG-class submarine sank accidentally. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service as AG-16 .
Ariel
United States
The schooner was wrecked off the Inubōsaki Lighthouse , Japan.
Aurora
United Kingdom
The ship was presumed to have been sunk by a mine with the loss of all hands in the second half of 1917. She was on a voyage from Sydney , New South Wales to Iquique , Chile.
United Kingdom
The ship sank near Bude , Cornwall .[1]
Catherine
United States
The steamer was reported lost at Ugashik , Territory of Alaska .[2]
French Navy
The naval trawler was lost sometime in 1917.[3]
Harriet G
United States
During a voyage from Puget Sound to Hawaii with a cargo of lumber , the 252-ton brig capsized in the Pacific Ocean off Cape Flattery , Washington . The halibut schooner Sumner ( United States ) salvaged Harriett G , which was re-rigged as a three-masted schooner and plaved back in service as Esther ( United States ).[4] [5] [6] [7]
Key West
United States
The vessel was lost in Unimak Pass in the Aleutian Islands near Scotch Cap on the southwest croner of Unimak Island .[8]
Mary Sachs
United States
The 30-ton, 60-foot (18.3 m) twin-screw schooner was wrecked on Banks Island near off the coast of Canada′s Northwest Territories .[9]
Orthes
Norway
The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean . She subsequently foundered.[10]
Prince John
United States
The steamer was lost in Wrangell Narrows in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska .[11]
Reuben L. Richardson
United States
The 92-net ton schooner was wrecked in Clarence Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska .[12]
Norway
The fishing steamer, a former whaler , suffered an engine malfunction and sank in a storm off Tromsø , Norway. No lives were lost in the shipwreck. The wreck was located by divers at a depth of 20 m (66 ft) in 2014, after a search initiated by Sandefjord Museum .[13]
Spokane
United States
The steamer became a total loss at (55°11′40″N 133°04′45″W / 55.19444°N 133.07917°W / 55.19444; -133.07917 (Barren Islands ) ) off northeastern in Southeast Alaska .[14]
United Kingdom
World War I : The coaster struck a mine and sank in the North Sea east of the Shetland Islands with the loss of nine crew. This was either during July 1917 or August 1917.[15]
SM U-50
Imperial German Navy
World War I: The Type U 43 submarine is believed to have struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Terschelling , Friesland , Netherlands on or after 31 August.
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Shipwrecks 1914–18, by month
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