List of shipwrecks in January 1939

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The list of shipwrecks in January 1939 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during January 1939.

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1 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Turkey The cargo ship ran aground in a storm at .[1]
 United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground off the Kelsnor Lighthouse, Langeland, Denmark.[2] Refloated on 5 January but damaged and leaking.[3]
 Turkey The cargo ship ran aground in a storm at Bender Eregli.[1][3]
 Turkey The cargo ship ran aground in a storm at Bender Eregli.[1] Refloated on 8 January.[4]
 Turkey The cargo ship sank in a storm at Bender Eregli.[3][5]
 Turkey The cargo ship sank in a storm at Bender Eregli. Only two crew survived.[5]
 Turkey The cargo ship ran aground in a storm at Bender Eregli.[1][4] Refloated on 21 January.[6]
 Greece The cargo ship sank in a storm at Bender Eregli.[3][5] Refloated on 9 January.[7]
 Turkey The cargo ship ran aground in a storm at Bender Eregli.[1][4] Refloated 18 January.[8]
 Turkey The cargo ship ran aground in a storm at Bender Eregli.[9] Refloated on 26 January.[10]
 Turkey The cargo ship sank in a storm at Bender Eregli. Refloated on 9 January.[5][7]
 Turkey The cargo ship ran aground in a storm at Bender Eregli.[1][3] Refloated on 6 January.[11]
 Turkey The cargo ship ran aground in a storm at Bender Eregli.[1][4] Refloated on 8 January.[7]

2 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Norway The cargo ship was driven ashore on Saltholm, Copenhagen, Denmark.[9] Refloated on 5 January.[3]
 Norway The tanker ran aground at Dragør, Denmark.[9]
 Finland The cargo ship was driven ashore at Setúbal, Portugal.[9] She was refloated the next day after 350 tons of oil was discharged.[12] Refloated undamaged on 5 January.[3]

4 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1939
Ship Country Description
Chief Wawatam  United States The train ferry ran aground on the North Graham Shoal in the Straits of Mackinac.[3] Refloated on 9 January.[13]

5 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The tanker ran aground at Spodsbjerg, Denmark. Later refloated undamaged.[3]
 United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground in the River Moy, County Mayo, Ireland.[3] Refloated undamaged the next day.[11]
 Japan The cargo ship was driven ashore in a gale at Muroran, Hokkaidō.[7] Later refloated.[14]
 Japan The cargo ship was driven ashore in a gale at Muroran.[7] Later refloated.[14]

6 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Panama Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk at Alicante by Nationalist aircraft. Refloated in 1939 and seized by the Spanish Government, repaired and returned to service as Alhucemas.[15]
 Spanish Republican Navy Spanish Civil War: The auxiliary patrol ship was lost on this date.[16]
 Japan The cargo ship ran aground on the Miyako Luchu Islands.[11] Refloated 3 February.[17]

7 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Germany The cargo ship ran aground entering Pasajes Harbour, Portugal developed a leak.[4]
 United Kingdom The cargo liner ran aground at Montufar Point, San Bernardino Strait, Philippines.[4][18] The ship was later abandoned by her crew.[19] The ship broke up on 17 February.[20]
 Norway The cargo ship ran aground at Oslo and was damaged.[4]
 United Kingdom The tanker ran aground at Nantes, France.[4] Refloated later that day but severely damaged.[7]

8 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Norway The cargo ship foundered in the North Sea 95 nautical miles (176 km) south west of Utsire island with the loss of one crew member.[21]
 France The cargo ship ran aground off Pauillac, Gironde.[4] Later refloated.[7]
 Greece The cargo ship ran aground in the Martin Garcia Channel, Argentina.[4] Refloated the next day.[7]
 Netherlands The cargo ship ran aground at Asnæs, Denmark.[4] Refloated on 10 January having sustained some damage to her bottom.[13]

10 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 United States The cargo ship ran aground in the Kennebec River. She was later refloated with a damaged bottom.[19]
 United Kingdom The cargo ship was driven ashore in a gale at Niigata, Japan.[19] Refloated on 25 January.[10]
 United States The cargo ship collided with the St George's Bridge over the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal at St. Georges, Delaware and demolished the bridge, blocking the canal.[13] Two people were killed.[19]

11 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Estonia The cargo ship ran aground at Turku, Finland.[19] Declared a total loss.[14]

12 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Yavaros, Mexico.[22] Later refloated undamaged.[23]
 Finland The cargo ship foundered off Den Helder, Netherlands.[24]

13 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Venezuela The tanker exploded and sank at the Caripito San Juan river terminal while loading oil products

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14 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Spain Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk at Tarragona by Spanish Nationalist aircraft.[25]

15 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Japan The cargo ship ran aground north of , Philippines.[23]
 United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with ( Italy) in the English Channel 6 nautical miles (11 km) off the and sank.[23] All nine crew were rescued by Monte Santo and landed at Vlissingen, Netherlands.[14]
 Norway The cargo ship suffered an explosion in her engine room. She came ashore at Mandal and broke in three, with the midsection sinking. Elsie was declared a total loss, all sixteen crew survived.[23][26][27]
 Norway The cargo ship was driven ashore at Pensacola, Florida.[23] Refloated later that day.[14]

16 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The cargo ship foundered in the Indian Ocean at 18°19′N 70°40′E / 18.317°N 70.667°E / 18.317; 70.667.[14]
 Japan The cargo ship ran aground at .[14]
 Finland The cargo ship ran aground on Harmaja, Helsinki.[14]

17 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The auxiliary schooner was driven ashore at Maroubra Bay, New South Wales, Australia and was wrecked.[26]
 United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground in the River Thames at Grays Thurrock, Essex.[28] Refloated the next day.[29]

18 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Regia Marina The naval tanker ran aground in the Rooka Channel, Shatt el Arab, Iraq.[8] Refloated on 20 January after discharging 3,000 tons of oil.[30]
Herzogin Cecilie  Finland The barque capsized and sank at Starehole Bay, Devon, United Kingdom.
 United Kingdom The cargo ship caught fire off Gibraltar. The crew were saved and the ship was towed by Spanish Nationalist vessels to Barcelona.[15]

19 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Norway The tanker broke in two at approximately 35°N 46°W / 35°N 46°W / 35; -46. All 37 crew rescued by ( Norway).[31] Stern section reported afloat on 30 January at 35°00′N 39°49′W / 35.000°N 39.817°W / 35.000; -39.817.[32] Reported on 7 February at 35°25′N 31°44′W / 35.417°N 31.733°W / 35.417; -31.733.[33] The stern section was taken in tow by Thames ( Netherlands) on 11 February. Reported to be heading for Horta, Azores, Portugal,[34] which was reached on 14 February with assistance from Seefalke ( Germany).[35] The stern section departed Horta under tow for Rotterdam, Netherlands on 22 February,[36] where it arrived on 11 March.[37]
 United Kingdom The schooner ran aground in the Nantucket Sound, United States.[30]
 Spanish Republican Navy Spanish Civil War: The auxiliary patrol ship was lost on this date.[16]

20 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Finland The cargo ship ran aground at Lyngsodde, Fredericia, Denmark. Refloated later that day.[6]

21 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Estonia The cargo ship ran aground in the Uruguay River, Uruguay.[6] Refloated on 27 January after 1,700 tons of cargo was discharged.[38]
 United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Guayaquil, Ecuador.[6]
 Spanish Republican Navy Spanish Civil War: The auxiliary patrol ship was lost on this date.[16]
 United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Wicca Pool, Zennor, Cornwall, UK with the loss of all hands.[39][40]

22 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 France The cargo ship reported passing Ouessant, Finistère whilst on a voyage from Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône. No further trace, presumed foundered as the bodies of two crew members were later washed up.[41][42]
 Netherlands The cargo ship ran aground entering Margate Harbour, Kent, United Kingdom.[6] Refloated the next day.[43]
 United Kingdom The cargo ship caught fire and sank at New York, United States.[44] Later refloated, departed under tow on 23 April for Sunderland, Co Durham.[45] Arrived on 18 May.[46]
 United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground near Cape Cornwall, Cornwall with the loss of all 30 crew.[47]

23 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk at Barcelona by Nationalist aircraft. Two crew were killed.[48] She was refloated on 18 April 1939 and seized by the Spanish Government, repaired and returned to service as Castillo Montjuich.[49]
Argentina  Spain Spanish Civil War: The passenger ship was bombed and sunk at Barcelona. Later raised and scrapped.[50]
 Spanish Republican Navy Spanish Civil War: The C1-class motor launch was lost on this date.[51]
Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution The St Ives lifeboat launched to go to the aid of a steamship off Cape Cornwall, United Kingdom. She capsized three times; off Clodgy Point, The Island and Godrevy Point. Only one crew member survived.[52]
 United Kingdom The passenger ship collided with ( Italy) off Callao, Peru and was beached.[53] Later refloated, arrived at Lima on 17 February.[54]
 Lithuania The cargo ship was driven ashore at Christiansø, Denmark. Refloated later that day.[53]
 Estonia The cargo ship was driven ashore on Christiansø, Denmark.[43]
 Estonia The cargo ship ran aground at Nantes, France.[43]
 Spanish Republican Navy Spanish Civil War: The auxiliary patrol ship was lost on this date.[16]

24 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Brazil The cargo ship ran aground at Victoria, sprang a leak and was beached.[53]
 United Kingdom Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk at Barcelona by Nationalist aircraft. Refloated in 1940, confiscated by the Spanish Government but scrapped in 1944.[15]
 Spanish Navy Spanish Civil War: The minesweeper was sunk by mines.[55]
 United Kingdom The schooner caught fire and was abandoned at 47°47′N 6°55′W / 47.783°N 6.917°W / 47.783; -6.917.[53]
 Greece The tanker ran aground at Lysersori.[53] Refloated on 26 January.[56]

25 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 France Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk at Sant Feliu de Guíxols by Nationalist aircraft. Refloated in 1940, confiscated by the Spanish Government and returned to service as Castillo Javier.[15]
 United Kingdom The cargo ship came ashore at Annapolis, Maryland, United States and was a total loss.[57]
 Panama The cargo ship struck rocks and sank in Wenchow Bay, China (28°16′N 121°38′E / 28.267°N 121.633°E / 28.267; 121.633). All crew were rescued.[10]
Supetar  Yugoslavia The cargo ship ran aground at Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey. Refloated later that day.[10]

26 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The coaster ran aground at the entrance to Holyhead Harbour, Anglesey.[10]
 United States The tanker ran aground on Shooters Island, New York.[10] Refloated later that day.[56]
 Spanish Republican Navy Spanish Civil War: The auxiliary patrol ship was lost on this date.[16]
 France Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk at Barcelona by Nationalist aircraft.[15]

27 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom Spanish Civil War: The tanker was bombed and damaged at Valencia. She capsized and sank the next day.[38] She was refloated on 23 November, repaired and entered Spanish service as Castillo Riaza.[58]
 Japan The coastal tanker capsized and sank off Kushiro.[56]
 United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Swatow, China.[56] Refloated undamaged the next day.[38]
 Greece Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and severely damaged at Valencia.[38]

28 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom Spanish Civil War: The steamer, already abandoned and beached in the bay of Palamós after being damaged by air attack on 6 August 1938, was shelled and wrecked by the Spanish Nationalist auxiliary cruiser Mar Negro ( Spanish Navy) at 41°50′49.90″N 03°07′08.85″E / 41.8471944°N 3.1191250°E / 41.8471944; 3.1191250.[59][60]
 United States The tug collided with ( United States) in the Oakland Estuary, California and sank.[38]

29 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Spanish Republican Navy Spanish Civil War: The auxiliary patrol ship was lost on this date.[16]

30 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Finland The cargo ship ran aground in the North Sea off the mouth of the Tees. She was refloated and consequently scrapped. Her crew survived.[61]
Julie  United Kingdom The sailing ship was abandoned in a sinking condition 15 nautical miles (28 km) south south east of the Eddystone Lighthouse. The crew were rescued by the trawler Roger Robert ( Belgium).[32]

31 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 31 January 1939
Ship Country Description
 Norway The cargo ship ran aground off Foundiougne, French West Africa.[62] Refloated the next day.[63]
 United States The tug collided with ( Belgium) at New Orleans, Louisiana and was beached.[64]
 Poland The cargo ship ran aground north of the , Netherlands. Refloated the next day.[63]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1939
Ship Country Description
 Spanish Republican Navy Spanish Civil War: The auxiliary patrol ship was lost sometime in January.[16]
 United Kingdom The fishing vessel ran aground and sank.[65]
HMS Medea  Royal Navy The decommissioned and sold for scrap minesweeper/training ship, a former M15-class monitor, parted her tow on her way to the breaker's yard and was driven ashore at , Cornwall or Padstow, Cornwall and was wrecked on 23 or 28 January.[66][43]
 Spanish Republican Navy Spanish Civil War: The auxiliary patrol ship was lost sometime in January.[16]

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Ship events in 1939
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Ship commissionings: 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Ship decommissionings: 1934 1935 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
Shipwrecks: 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944
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