The passenger ship caught fire and sank in Delaware Bay. Two hundred and seventy passengers were rescued by ( United States Coast Guard) and an American tug.[2][3]
The cargo ship came ashore near Cap Gris Nez, Pas-de-Calais, France. She broke in two on 12 January and was declared a total loss.[4] She was refloated on 23 March and beached at Boulogne.[5]
4 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship struck a breakwater at Fishguard, Pembrokeshire and was consequently beached at .[1] She was refloated on 12 January.[6]
Emmanuel
Greece
The cargo ship was driven ashore at St David's, Pembrokeshire and was wrecked. All 25 crew were rescued.[1] She was refloated on 24 March.[7]
6 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground in the Yangtze 70 nautical miles (130 km) upstream of Hankow, China.[1] She was refloated on 12 January.[8]
The schooner ran aground at Holyhead, Anglesey. Her crew were rescued.[12]
United Kingdom
The auxiliary schooner was driven ashore at Arthurstown, County Wexford, Ireland.[12] She was refloated on 27 January.[18]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship was driven ashore at Seven Heads, County Cork, Ireland and was wrecked with the loss of all hands.[12][13]
18 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Sweden
The cargo ship ran aground on Soay, Skye, United Kingdom. She broke in two and was a total loss.[19][20]
Raita
France
The sailing ship was wrecked at Carmannah whilst on a voyage from Port Gamble, Washington, United States to Papeete, Tahiti. All ten crew were rescued.[21]
19 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground at Vlissingen, Netherlands.[22] She was refloated on 22 January.[23]
United Kingdom
The three-masted schooner came ashore at , Pembrokeshire and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.[22]
20 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Archangel
United Kingdom
The passenger ferry ran aground at Hook of Holland, Netherlands. Passengers were landed by three tugs.[21]
The coastal tanker foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of eight of her nine crew.[25] The survivor was rescued by (France).[26]
21 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1925
Ship
Country
Description
France
The cargo liner came ashore at Pirio Press, Cotonou, French Dahomey.[27] Her passengers were taken off by (Netherlands).[28] She was refloated on 25 January.[29]
23 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Mars
France
The cargo ship struck rocks off the , Ille-et-Vilaine and was beached at Dinard. She was later refloated and taken to Saint-Malo.[16]
The Motor Launch suffered an engine explosion and sank at Hankow, China.[30]
25 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1925
Ship
Country
Description
George Jr.
United States
During a voyage from Petersburg to Juneau, Territory of Alaska, the 27-gross register tonmotor vessel sank in a snowstorm with high seas and strong winds in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska between Taku Harbor and Gastineau Channel. All four men on board – three crewmen and a passenger – perished.[31]
United States
The auxiliary schooner caught fire in the Pacific Ocean off the Swiftsure Reef, British Columbia, Canada and was abandoned.[32]
26 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The schooner struck a submerged object in the Bristol Channel and sprang a leak. An attempt was made to reach Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire but she foundered off Dale Point.[32]
28 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground in the Singapore Strait at Pulo Angup whilst on a voyage from Port Said, Egypt to Hakodate, Japan.[33] She was refloated on 2 February.[34]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship sprang a leak and put into Larne, County Antrim.[35] She was beached there the next day.[36]
29 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The schooner was driven ashore at , New Jersey. Some of her crew were taken off by a United States Coast Guard vessel.[37] She was refloated on 1 February.[38]
The cargo ship arrived at Tenerife, Canary Isles, Spain with her cargo on fire and was beached.[50]
22 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The coaster passed Prawle Point, Devon bound for Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. No further trace, presumed foundered in the English Channel with the loss of all hands.[51]
23 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground in the Paraná River, Argentina.[52] She was refloated on 8 March.[53]
The cargo ship foundered off the coast of Japan.[54]
25 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Norway
The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank at New York, United States.[46]
Spain
The cargo ship sank in the English Channel 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France,[46] with the loss of all hands. Seven lifeboatmen were also lost attempting a rescue. She broke up the next day in a gale and was a total loss.[56]
USS Huron
United States Navy
The Pennsylvania-classcruiser ran aground off , Netherlands East Indies.[43] She was refloated the next day.[57]
Panama
United States
During a voyage in Southeast Alaska from to Ketchikan with three crewmen and a cargo of 25 tons of fresh herring aboard, the 25-gross register ton, 50.1-foot (15.3 m) fishing vessel sank in three minutes in Clarence Strait in the Alexander Archipelago between and Guard Island after her seams opened.[58]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship caught fire in the North Sea. She was abandoned 6 nautical miles (11 km) off the Dutch coast. All her crew were rescued by a Dutch pilot boat.[59]
France
The cargo ship struck rocks off the Isle of Skye and was beached in .[59] She was refloated on 12 March.[60]
27 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Montlaurier
Canada
The ocean liner developed a fault in her steering gear whilst on a voyage to Canada. She returned to Cobh, County Cork, Ireland where she was beached and her passengers were taken off.[61] Subsequently refloated and towed to Liverpool, Lancashire for repairs.
28 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Denmark
The cargo ship ran aground in the Paraná River, Argentina.[62] She was refloated on 9 March.[63]
Spain
The cargo ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off Land's End, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by (United Kingdom). She came ashore at Bude.[62]
March[]
1 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1925
Ship
Country
Description
James M. Hudson
United States
The barge, being towed by (United States), was lost two miles (3.2 km) south south east of the Boston Light. Lost with all four hands and the captain's daughter.[64]
4 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship caught fire in the Indian Ocean and was abandoned 40 nautical miles (74 km) off Tandjung Priok, Netherlands East Indies with the loss of nine of her crew. Although reported to have sunk,[65] she was towed into Batavia later that day.[66]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship collided with (Norway) off Vlissingen, Netherlands and was beached at .[65] She was refloated on 1 April.[67]
8 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Netherlands
The cargo ship collided with (United States) in the Atlantic Ocean 25 nautical miles (46 km) south of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Although abandoned by her crew, she was later reboarded.[68]
9 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Netherlands
The tug was driven onto the south breakwater at Hook of Holland, Netherlands whilst going to the assistance of (Netherlands). She sank with the loss of eight of her fifteen crew. The survivors were rescued by rocket apparatus.[69]
Netherlands
The cargo ship was driven onto the north breakwater at Hook of Holland. Lifeboats rescued 48 crew, leaving her officers on board.[69] They were rescued the next day.[70] Although salvage operations were reported to have been abandoned on 13 March,[71] she was cut in two. A 350-foot (110 m) section of her 430-foot (130 m) length was refloated by 9 April and towed to Rotterdam.[72] The bow section sank on 16 April and was a total loss.[73][74]
11 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The four-masted barque departed Adelaide, South Australia for the United Kingdom. Reported missing on 6 August.[75]
Stella Maris
United Kingdom
The sealer was crushed by ice in Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland.[76] Her crew were rescued by Prospero (United Kingdom).[77]
The passenger ship foundered off Kyushu with the loss of 102 of the 118 people on board.[78]
13 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Denmark
The cargo ship passed Gibraltar bound for Civitavecchia, Italy. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of all hands.[79]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground on the Brake Sands, Thames Estuary. Her crew were rescued by the Ramsgate Lifeboat and she was subsequently towed into Ramsgate, Kent by (United Kingdom).[80]
The cargo ship was abandoned in the Tyrrhenian Sea 15 nautical miles (28 km) west of Capri.[85]
Italy
The cargo ship ran aground in the Paraná River at Rosario, Argentina.[84] She was refloated on 20 March.[83]
19 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The cargo ship caught fire at New Orleans, Louisiana and was beached.[85][86] She was refloated on 22 March. Her hull was intact but her superstructure was destroyed.[87]
20 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Norway
The whaler foundered on a voyage from South Georgia to Cape Town, South Africa. Her crew were rescued.[88]
Sweden
The cargo ship collided with (United States) in the Atlantic Ocean 125 nautical miles (232 km) south of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States and sank.[88] Her crew survived.[86]
21 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Cité de Verdun
France
The steam-trawler struck Rosevear an island in the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly during a snowstorm. The crew of thirty landed, lit a fire and sent distress signals which were answered by the St Mary'slifeboatElsie ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). The nameboards of the trawler can still be seen in the Mermaid and Atlantic public houses on St Mary's.[89]
The cargo ship ran aground at Les Baleines, Loire-Inférieure, France.[5] Her crew were taken off by the tug Atlas (France) on 26 March and she was declared a total loss on 30 March.[92][93]
27 March[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Ethel
United Kingdom
The coaster capsized and sank in Liverpool Bay. All seven crew were rescued by (United Kingdom).[94]
The cargo liner caught fire in the Bay of Biscay off the coast of Finistère, France, and was abandoned.[103][104] She was declared a constructive total loss.[105]
4 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Italy
The cargo ship caught fire at Brindisi, Libya and was a total loss.[104][106]
The cargo ship ran aground 30 nautical miles (56 km) of Cap St. James, French Indochina. She broke up and was a total loss.[108]
Netherlands
The cargo ship collided with (United Kingdom) in the Scheldt and sank with the loss of fifteen of her 24 crew. Survivors were rescued by Clan Monroe and a tug.[102]
Germany
The cargo ship ran aground 10 nautical miles (19 km) west of Karachi, India and was severely damaged.[102][109]
12 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Norway
The cargo ship collided with (Germany) and sank in the English Channel at a position between the (United Kingdom) and Dungeness, Kent, United Kingdom.[110] Her crew were rescued by Volos.[108]
13 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Challenge
United Kingdom
The Thames barge collided with (Norway) in the English Channel off Cherbourg, France, and sank with the loss of three of the four people on board.[108]
Italy
The cargo ship caught fire at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and was beached.[108]
Italy
The schooner was driven ashore at Benghazi, Libya and was wrecked. Her crew survived.[111]
14 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Marion
United Kingdom
The schooner ran aground on Splough Rock, off , County Louth, Ireland and was wrecked.[111]
Montlaurier
United Kingdom
The ocean liner caught fire at Birkenhead, Cheshire whilst under repair and was severely damaged.[112] She was subsequently repaired and returned to service in July 1925 as Montnairn.
16 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Spain
The cargo ship collided with (United Kingdom) in the Mediterranean Sea off Cartagena, Murcia and sank. Her 28 crew were rescued by Millgate.[73][113][114]
17 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground near , Chile and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by (Norway).[114]
21 April[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1925
Ship
Country
Description
O-2
Imperial Japanese Navy
The Type U-43submarine foundered off Japan in a storm. (Some sources claim O-2 was scrapped in 1922.)
The gunvessel foundered in the Firth of Forth. She was refloated on 23 September.[118]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship collided with (Sweden) in the Great Bitter Lake, Suez Canal over the Easter weekend and was beached.[109]
May[]
1 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground at , Nova Scotia, and was a total loss.[119]
Norway
The cargo ship ran aground at , Nova Scotia, and was wrecked.[119]
2 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 May 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The barge capsized in Lake Erie near Point Pelee when crewmen, without orders, removed a 16-inch (410 mm) suction hose and plate flooding the barge. Nine crewmen killed, seven rescued by the tug (United States).[64]
The cargo ship collided with (Japan) off Shimonoseki and was beached.[122]
11 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Orion
Sweden
The schooner collided with (Germany) in the Baltic Sea off Ystad and sank with the loss of three crew.[124]
12 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The cargo ship caught fire at Jacksonville, Florida, and was beached.[128]
14 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 May 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The coaster was rammed and sunk in the English Channel off Beachy Head, East Sussex, by (Sweden). Her crew were rescued by Lyngern.[129]
15 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship collided with (United Kingdom) in the River Thames and was beached.[81] She was refloated later that day.[130]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground in the River Neva at Leningrad, Soviet Union.[130] She was refloated on 19 May.[131]
18 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground in the Bay of Biscay 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off Roscoff, Finistère, France. Her crew were rescued.[132] She later capsized and was a total loss.[133]
United States
The tow steamer capsized and sank during the night in the Cumberland River just above Lock No.2. The crew was surprised in their cabins, three crew and the wife of the fireman drowned, five crew survived. Later raised.[64]
During a gale, the 17-gross register ton, 41-foot (12 m) fishing vessel struck rocks and became stranded at Long Island in on the coast of Southeast Alaska. After Louisiana (United States) pulled Vis off the rocks, Vis sank in deep water in Kasaan Bay. Her two-man crew survived.[136]
21 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1925
Ship
Country
Description
France
The cargo ship ran aground at , Turkey.[131] She was refloated on 25 May.[137]
The cargo ship struck a rock off , A Coruña, Spain and was beached.[138] She was refloated on 26 May.[139]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground at Cape Cée, Corcubión, Spain.[140] She was declared a total loss on 26 May.[141]
23 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Norway
The cargo ship ran aground in , Spain and was a total loss.[142]
United Kingdom
The coaster foundered in the North Sea 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) south south west of Findochty, Morayshire. All five crew survived.[142]
Turkey
The coaster foundered in the Bosporus with the loss of 44 of the 49 people on board.[142][143]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground at , South Africa.[142] She broke her back on 27 May and was a total loss.[144]
24 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Cyrenia
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground at Whanganui, North Island, New Zealand.[137] She broke in two on 28 May.[145]Cyrenia was subsequently scrapped in situ.[146]
Norway
The cargo ship ran aground at Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.[137] She was refloated on 28 May.[145]
The cargo ship ran aground at , Turkey.[137] She was refloated on 27 May.[145]
25 May[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Fiona
United Kingdom
The coaster ran aground on Trinity Ledge, Nova Scotia. She refloated, capsized and sank. Her crew survived.[147]
Young America
United States
The 34-gross register ton, 51-foot (16 m) fishing vessel was destroyed by a fire at Sitka, Territory of Alaska, that began with a gasoline explosion that occurred just after she finished taking on fuel. There was no loss of life.[148]
The cargo ship ran aground at Gijón, Asturias and was wrecked.[149]
7 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Essu
United States
The 9-gross register ton, 32-foot (9.8 m) fishing vessel burned and sank without loss of life while moored at the wharf at Port Alexander, Territory of Alaska. She later was salvaged and returned to service.[159]
The Design 1013 cargo ship struck a submerged object in the Atlantic Ocean and was beached at Nantucket, Massachusetts. She was refloated the next day.
12 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Greece
The cargo ship ran aground at Maryport, Cumberland.[135] She was refloated on 13 June and was then beached.[161]
The coaster collided with (United Kingdom) in the North Sea off the (United Kingdom) and was beached at Horsey, Norfolk.[164]
Europe
France
The Boulogne steam-trawler struck Rosevear, an island in the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly in fog. As the tide rose the trawler floated off the rocks and made for Dunkirk with slight damage.[89]
13 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship collided with (United Kingdom) in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and sank with the loss of two crew. The survivors were rescued by Burnside.[161]
While under tow by Katherine D (United States) from Port Moller to Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska, the 35-gross register ton, 56.4-foot (17.2 m) motorfishingschooner's towline parted in high winds and heavy seas and she sank in the Bering Sea at 54°55′N165°50′W / 54.917°N 165.833°W / 54.917; -165.833 (Virginius). No one was aboard Virginius and she was carrying no cargo.[136]
16 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The retired cargo ship, portraying the fictional ocean linerMandalay, was deliberately blown up by First National Pictures in the North Atlantic Ocean 45 nautical miles (83 km; 52 mi) east of Harvey Cedars, New Jersey, during filming of the 1925 movie The Half-Way Girl. Her forward section sank in 140 feet (43 m) of water, but her stern remained afloat after the explosion and the United States Coast Guard had to sink it.[165][166]
United States
The cargo ship ran aground in Lake Erie.[167] She was refloated on 30 June[168] or 8 July,[169] according to conflicting reports.
The cargo ship came ashore 260 nautical miles (480 km) north of Vladivostok, Soviet Union.[177] Although declared a total loss, she was refloated on 29 July.[178]
The cargo ship ran aground in the Banka Strait.[182] She was refloated on 6 July.[183]
United States
The Design 1013 ship ran aground on Maio, Cape Verde Islands.[181] Most of her passengers and crew were taken off in early July by (United States).[184] She was refloated on 2 October.[185]
29 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Spain
The cargo ship collided with (France) in the Strait of Gibraltar and sank.[186]
United States
The schooner was rammed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 300 nautical miles (560 km) off Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada by (United Kingdom) with the loss of fifteen of her 24 crew. Survivors were rescued by Aurania.[187]
The tug was struck by (United Kingdom) at Lagos, Nigeria and sank with the loss of six crew.[184][188]
10 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1925
Ship
Country
Description
France
The cargo ship ran aground at Pernambuco, Brazil.[189] She was refloated on 30 August.[190]
United States
The cargo ship struck rocks in the East River, New York and was beached.[189] She was refloated the next day.[191]
11 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship struck rocks in the Yangtze 250 nautical miles (460 km) downstream of Hankow, China and was beached.[191] She was refloated the next day.[192]
13 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 July 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Italy
The cargo ship ran aground on the Shumna Reef off Massowah, Italian Somaliland. She was refloated on 26 July.[183][193]
14 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 July 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground in the River Plate, South America.[194] She was refloated on 28 August.[195]
The cargo ship suffered a failure of her steering gear and came ashore on the coast of Rio Grande do Sul.[204] She was refloated on 1 September.[190]
Ram
United States
The 14-gross register ton, 41.8-foot (12.7 m) motorcargo vessel was wrecked on the Siberian coast of the Soviet Union about 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) southwest of East Cape (now Cape Dezhnev) after her gasoline engine failed and she was blown ashore. Her crew of four survived.[205]
24 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship was driven ashore at Goswick, Northumberland and was wrecked. Her crew survived.[204]
25 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Norway
The cargo ship ran aground at Dennis Head, North Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom.[203] She was refloated on 28 July.[206]
27 July[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The coaster ran aground at Penmaenmawr, Caernarfonshire.[207] She was refloated on 4 August.[208]
The submarine sank in the Mediterranean Sea after colliding with the steamer (Italy) off Cape Passero, Sicily.[217]
7 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Alfonso
Italy
The sailing ship sprang a leak and foundered in the Mediterranean Sea off Hammamet, Tunisia. Her crew were rescued.[215]
Montrose
United Kingdom
The ocean liner ran aground in the Saint Lawrence River, Canada.[218] She was refloated on 10 August and drydocked for repairs to her rudder and port propeller.[215][219]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground north east of the Gunfleet Lighthouse, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex.[218] She was refloated on 11 August.[220]
9 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship foundered in a cyclone whilst on a voyage from Hoihow, China to Hong Kong.[221]
The cargo ship ran aground at Buitra Point, near , Spain and was a total loss.[227][228]
17 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1925
Ship
Country
Description
France
The ferry collided with (United Kingdom) in the Seine at Rouen, Seine-Inférieure and was beached.[216][229]
Denmark
The schooner sprang a leak and sank in the Baltic Sea off Skanör, Scania, Sweden. Her crew were rescued.[216]
21 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The schooner collided with the ketchBoy Will (France) in . Both vessels were severely damaged and were beached at Salcombe, Devon where they broke up.[230]
23 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Finland
The barque collided with the fishing vessel Christina Catarina (Netherlands) in the North Sea (approximately 55°N4°E / 55°N 4°E / 55; 4) and sank with the loss of her captain. Survivors were rescued by Christina Catarina.[231]
The fishing junk was in collision with Talthybius (United Kingdom) off Waglan Island, Hong Kong and sank. She was fishing at night with no lights and no blame was laid on Talthybius.
24 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Southland
United States
The cargo ship was destroyed by fire in Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana.[232]
26 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Esther
Sweden
The schooner collided with (Sweden) off Malmö and sank. Her crew were rescued by Maolner.[232]
President Garfield
United Kingdom
The ocean liner ran aground at Nantucket, Massachusetts.[233] She was refloated the next day.[195]
28 August[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1925
Ship
Country
Description
France
The cargo ship ran aground 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) off La Jument, Ouessant, Finistère and was wrecked. Her crew survived.[234]
The Battle-class trawler sank in the Pipestem Inlet, Barkley Sound. She was later salvaged, repaired and returned to service.
3 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Italy
The cargo ship ran aground at Ceuta, Spain.[238] She was refloated on 8 September.[239]
4 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The coaster collided with (United Kingdom) in the River Thames near Gravesend, Kent and sank with the loss of two of the fourteen people on board. Survivors were rescued by Acasta.[240]
5 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The cargo ship ran aground on the Ioula Ledge, Philippines.[241] She was refloated on 10 September.[242]
8 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship sprang a leak and was beached at Dunfanaghy, County Londonderry.[239] Her crew were taken off on 10 September and the ship was further damaged in a gale.[242]
The cargo ship foundered in the South China Sea west of Formosa with the loss of all hands.[247]
21 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 21 September 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Norway
The cargo ship collided with (Norway) in the North Sea off Haugesund, Norway and sank with the loss of all hands.[249]
United States
The four-masted schooner collided with a United States Navy warship in the Atlantic Ocean off Norfolk, Virginia and sank.[249] Survivors were rescued by USS Milwaukee (United States Navy).[250]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship struck a reef off Bawean, Netherlands East Indies and sank. Her crew were rescued.[249]
23 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Italy
The tanker ran aground at Faraman.[118] She was refloated on 26 September.[251]
Mercedes
Chile
The coaster foundered in the Pacific Ocean whilst on a voyage from Coronel to Valparaíso with the loss of all hands.[252]
24 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground in the Paraná River, Argentina.[253] She was refloated on 27 September.[254]
The minesweeperUSS Falcon (United States Navy) assisting in the salvage of USS S-51.
The S-classsubmarine was rammed accidentally by the steamerCity of Rome (United States) in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Rhode Island 14 nautical miles (26 km; 16 mi) east of Block Island and sank immediately in 135 feet (41 m) of water with the loss of 33 members of her 36-man crew at 41°14′30″N71°16′16″W / 41.24167°N 71.27111°W / 41.24167; -71.27111 (USS S-51).[255] She was raised on 5 July 1926 and scrapped in 1930.
The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada.[251]
28 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Salmo
United States
During a voyage in the waters of the Territory of Alaska from Kenai to Seldovia and intermediate ports with six passengers, three crewmen, and a cargo of 1+1⁄2 tons of miscellaneous merchandise aboard, the 14-gross register ton, 36-foot (11 m) fishing vessel was destroyed in Cook Inlet at the mouth of the Kasilof River by a fire that began with a gasoline explosion aft. All on board were rescued by a watchman from a nearby cannery in a small boat.[256]
29 September[]
List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Italy
The cargo ship sprang a leak, caught fire and foundered in the Mediterranean Sea 25 nautical miles (46 km) off Gozo, Malta. Her crew survived[257][258]
The cargo ship struck rocks off La Rocque, Jersey, Channel Islands and sank. All fifteen crew survived.[261][262]
United Kingdom
The Thames barge was in collision with a steamship in the River Thames at East Greenwich, London and sank.[263]
3 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Inger
United States
The 7-net register tonfishing vessel caught fire in Tongass Narrows when her gasoline enginebackfired and was beached on Gravina Island in the Gravina Islands of the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska when the fire went out of control. Her crew of two survived, but the fire destroyed her on the beach.[264]
Magnetic
United Kingdom
The passenger tender was beached at Liverpool after a fire broke out on board. She was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[265]
4 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1925
Ship
Country
Description
flag unknown
The cargo ship came ashore at Vaasa, Finland and was wrecked with the loss of a crew member.[263]
Jane
United Kingdom
The coaster struck the Swilley Rocks in the Menai Strait. She was refloated but subsequently foundered off Garth Point, Bangor, Caernarfonshire.[266]
The schooner came ashore at Lysefyrt, Latvia and was wrecked with the loss of two crew.[268]
8 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Greece
The cargo ship foundered in the Indian Ocean 20 nautical miles (37 km) off the mouth of the Great Fish River, South Africa with the loss of all hands.[267]
9 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The whaler foundered in the Caribbean Sea 10 nautical miles (19 km) off Saint Lucia. Her crew survived.[269]
Undine
Germany
The auxiliary sailing ship capsized in the Baltic Sea off Memel, East Prussia. Her crew survived.[270]
10 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship caught fire and capsized at Liverpool, Lancashire.[271] She was refloated on 25 October.[272]
13 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1925
Ship
Country
Description
France
The concrete ship sprang a leak and sank at Saigon, French Indochina.[269]
14 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Emily
United Kingdom
The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off Bermuda. Her crew were rescued by (United Kingdom).[273]
Norway
The cargo ship was beached at Rørvik, Norway.[274] She was refloated on 17 October.[275]
15 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The coaster departed St. Anthony, Newfoundland for Málaga, Spain. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands.[276]
Netherlands
The cargo liner ran aground on the Race Rocks in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. She was refloated and beached on Bentinck Island, British Columbia, Canada.[277] She was refloated on 19 October.[278]
The ironclad, used as a storeship, was driven ashore at Cronstadt. She was refloated in 1927, repaired and returned to service.[279]
Sliny
Soviet Navy
The destroyer was driven ashore at Cronstadt. She was scrapped in December.[279]
Soviet Navy
The destroyer was driven ashore and wrecked at Cronstadt.[279]
18 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The ocean liner caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean 6 nautical miles (11 km) off Mayport, Florida with the loss of ten of the 166 people on board. Survivors were rescued by the tanker and the pilot boatMota (both United States). She was towed into Jacksonville, where she was beached in an extensively damaged condition.[275][280][281][282]
19 October[]
List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground in the Paraná River, Argentina.[283] She was refloated on 26 October.[284]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground in the Paraná River.[275] She was refloated on 29 October.[285]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship caught fire at Oran, Algeria and was scuttled.[278] She was refloated on 24 October.[286]
The R-class submarine collided with the minesweeperUSS Widgeon (United States Navy), losing her periscopes and suffering the destruction of her bridge and damage to her radio antenna supports. She was repaired and returned to service.
November[]
1 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo shpip ran aground off Buchan Ness, Boddam, Aberdeenshire. She broke her back and was a total loss. All 48 crew were rescued.[295][297]
Denmark
The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Idaho (United Kingdom).[298]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship caught fire at Oran. Algeria and was beached.[295] She was refloated the next day.[299]
2 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Germany
The ocean liner ran aground in the Río Grande do Sul, Brazil.[300] She was refloated on 6 November.[301]
The barge sank in a gale and heavy seas when she lost her towline while towed by (United States) near in Lake Superior. Lost with all seven hands.[303]
The sailing ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Cefn Sidan, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom.
6 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The coaster departed Granville, Manche, France for Liverpool, Lancashire. No further trace, presumed to have foundered with the loss of all hands.[304]
9 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Netherlands
The cargo ship ran aground at Gravelines, Nord, France.[305] She was refloated on 13 November.[306]
Virginia
United States
The four-masted schooner came ashore at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Her crew were rescued.[307]
11 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Italy
The cargo ship sprang a leak and was beached at Vigo, Galicia, Spain.[298]
Ruth
Denmark
The cargo ship sprang a leak and was beached at Skagen.[298] She was refloated on 21 November.[308]
12 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United States Coast Guard
The lightship was rammed and sunk off the coast of Massachusetts by (Denmark).[306]
The canal barge, towed by (United States), broke loose in a gale and was wrecked on the breakwater at Buffalo, New York. Three barges were wrecked in total, with four crew were killed between them.[309]
Denmark
The schooner ran aground in Liverpool Bay and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by the (United Kingdom):[310] She was refloated the next day and beached at Tranmere, Cheshire severely damaged.[311]
Jerry B. Petrie
United States
The canal barge, towed by (United States), broke loose in a gale and was wrecked on the breakwater at Buffalo, New York. Between three barges wrecked, four crew were killed.[312]
Sherman V. Petrie
United States
The canal barge, towed by (United States), broke loose in a gale and was wrecked on the breakwater at Buffalo, New York. Between three barges wrecked, four crew were killed.[313]
16 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United States Coast Guard
The cutter was sunk in collision with a USN vessel off Atlantic City, NJ.[314]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground on , Greece.[315] She was refloated on 20 November.[316]
Original caption: Obotrite ashore at Ostende. Three masted barque on the sands before breaking up; spectators on the beach.
The barque was driven ashore at Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium and was subsequently wrecked.
Veidirjalla
Iceland
The auxiliary sailing vessel was wrecked on the south coast of Iceland.[317]
17 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United States
The cargo ship came ashore at Bitokakku, near Keelung, Formosa and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.[3]
Marathon
United States
The 25-gross register tonmotor vessel was wrecked at Kodiak, Territory of Alaska, when she dragged her anchor during a gale. Her crew of two survived.[318]
The coaster departed Blyth, Northumberland for London. Presumed foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.[328][329]
25 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship came ashore at Codroy, Newfoundland.[316] She was declared a total loss on 2 December.[330]
Santon
United Kingdom
The sailing ship came ashore at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued.[325]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship came ashore at Donna Nook.[325] She refloated but subsequently foundered off Saltfleet, Lincolnshire.[316]
26 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Netherlands
The tug was driven ashore at Delfzijl, Groningen. Her crew were rescued.[316]
Germany
The cargo ship was driven ashore on Terschelling, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued.[316] She was refloated on 9 December.[326]
27 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Spain
The cargo ship ran aground at Arrecife, Canary Islands.[331] She was refloated on 14 December.[332]
United Kingdom
The coaster departed Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire for Antwerp, Belgium.[329] Believed foundered in Cardigan Bay with the loss of all hands. Wreckage from the ship washed up at Penbryn on 1 December.[333]
Italy
The cargo ship ran aground in the Paraná River, at , Argentina.[331] She was refloated on 22 December.[334]
28 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship issued an SOS in the Indian Ocean 75 nautical miles (139 km) south west of Algoa Bay, South Africa.[331] Believed foundered with the loss of all hands.[328]
The cargo ship issued a distress signal whilst on a voyage from Charleston, South Carolina to Havana, Cuba. Believed to have foundered on this date with the loss of all 32 crew.[336] In 1985 an unknown shipwreck was found off St Augustine, Florida; in 2020 it was identified as the remains of the SS Cotopaxi[337]
The coaster was rammed and sunk by (United States) in the Scheldt with the loss of four of the ten people on board.[342]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground in the Paraná River, Argentina.[343] She was refloated on 15 December.[332]
United Kingdom
The three-masted schooner came ashore south of Flamborough Head, Yorkshire.[343] Her crew were rescued by the Bridlington Lifeboat.[344] She was refloated on 15 December.[332]
7 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1925
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The cargo ship ran aground in the Saint Lawrence River, Quebec, Canada.[345] She was refloated on 14 December.[346]
Italy
The cargo ship ran aground in the Adriatic Sea whilst on a voyage from Mali Lošinj to Zadar, Yugoslavia.[343] She was refloated on 15 December.[332]
8 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Montclair
United States
The 23-ton motor vessel dragged her anchor during a gale and was wrecked on the beach in a cove on the south shore of Etolin Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of three survived.[318]
9 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Isle of Man
The coaster was holed and consequently beached at Derbyhaven.[326]
Finland
The auxiliary schooner came ashore at Husby, Norway and was wrecked.[326]
10 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Spain
The cargo ship ran aground and sank off Ceuta.[347][348]
The cargo ship ran aground 40 nautical miles (74 km) north of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her crew were rescued.[348]
United Kingdom
The cargo ship arrived at Larne, County Antrim with a fire in her cargo and was beached. She was refloated later that day.[348]
United States
The tanker was abandoned in the Caribbean Sea with the loss of nine crew.[332] She was subsequently discovered derelict 17 nautical miles (31 km) north west of Maracaibo, Venezuela.[350]Pamir later came ashore on San Carlos Island.[332] She was declared a total loss.[351]
The cargo ship ran aground in the Bosporus and was a constructive total loss.[350]
13 December[]
List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Sweden
The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Styrso.[332]
France
The passenger ship ran aground in the Paraná River, Argentina. Her passengers were taken off.[350] She was refloated the next day.[332]
Honduras
The passenger ship ran aground at Cape Engaño, Dominican Republic. She was a total loss. Some of her 825 passengers were landed, others were transferred to (Japan).[332][351]
The passenger ship collided with (United Kingdom) off the coast of British Columbia, Canada and sank. All 45 people on board were rescued by Lady Cynthia.
The four-masted schooner came ashore at , Cuba. Her crew were rescued.[363]
United Kingdom
The passenger ship struck a rock and foundered in the Indian Ocean off , Ceylon with the loss of four lives.[364][365]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Poseidon
Germany
The cargo ship foundered in the Baltic Sea off Gotland, Sweden. All fourteen crew were rescued by three people drowned whilst attempting the rescued.[366]
France
The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off Oporto, Portugal. Her seven crew were rescued by (United Kingdom) and landed at Falmouth, Cornwall on 26 December.[357]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1925
Ship
Country
Description
Berg No. 1
United States
The barge reportedly was wrecked at Cape Saint Elias on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska sometime in 1925, but the report may be in error and actually refer to a scow of the same name lost there in May 1935.[151]
The ocean liner collided with the vessel Hampshire Coast (United Kingdom) in the Mersey in England.
Columbus
United States
The 44-ton barge was wrecked and sank on the Yukon River in the Territory of Alaska.[367]
France
The cargo ship foundered in the North Sea off Hook of Holland, the Netherlands. A box containing the ship's papers washed up at on Jersey in the Channel Islands in May.[368]
The fisherypatrol boat ran aground on Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands without loss of life. She was discovered 10 days later by the cutterUSCGC Haida ( United States Coast Guard), which pulled her free. She had suffered only minor damage.[370]
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