List of shipwrecks in May 1923
The list of shipwrecks in May 1923 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during May 1923.
May 1923 | ||||||
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Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
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7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |||
References |
3 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alioth | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in West Bay, Dorset.[1] |
United Kingdom | The cargo ship collided with ( United Kingdom) in the North Sea off Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland. She was beached at South Shields.[2] |
4 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Japan | The cargo ship collided with ( Japan) at Shimonoseki and sank.[3] |
7 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sweden | The car ship collided with ( Germany) in the North Sea off the ( Germany) and sank. Her crew were rescued.[4] |
9 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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United States | The ran aground on the Umatilla Reef off Cape Flattery, Washington. She broke in two and was a total loss.[5][6] | |
United States | The cargo ship ran aground at Sari Siglar, Turkey.[7] She was refloated on 17 May.[8] | |
Thailand | The cargo ship was severely damaged by fire at Singora with the loss of six crew. She was consequently beached.[5][7] |
10 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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United Kingdom | The cargo ship foundered in the English Channel 32 nautical miles (59 km) north east by north of Alderney, Channel Isles.[9] | |
United Kingdom | The passenger ship came ashore near (approximately 16°N 120°E / 16°N 120°E).[5] She was refloated on 22 May.[10] |
14 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Italy | The cargo ship ran aground off Munxar, Malta.[11] She was refloated on 18 May.[8] | |
David | Panama | The cargo ship collided with ( United States) in the Gulf of Panama 50 nautical miles (93 km) off Panama City and was beached at Bucaro.[12] |
United Kingdom | The cargo ship ran aground in the Paraná River, Argentina.[12] She was refloated on 21 May.[13] |
16 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ottoman Empire | The cargo ship ran aground at Cape Jason.[14] She was refloated on 22 May.[13] | |
Denmark | The cargo ship ran aground in the Northumberland Strait.[14] She was refloated on 23 May.[15] | |
Olga | United States | The 76-gross register ton motor schooner was stranded on a sand bar on the west-central coast of the Territory of Alaska opposite the mouth of (64°29′N 164°45′W / 64.483°N 164.750°W). During the spring of 1923, she was crushed by ice and then wrecked by a gale.[16] |
Belgium | Ran aground on Adler Grund, off Bornholm, Denmark. Refloated 23 May and towed to Stettin, Germany where repaired.[17] |
19 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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United Kingdom | The salvage vessel was wrecked at St. Esprit, Nova Scotia, Canada whilst going to the aid of ( United Kingdom).[18] |
20 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Apex No. 8 | United States | While no one was on board, the 32-ton scow was wrecked in (54°45′30″N 132°00′00″W / 54.75833°N 132.00000°W) on the coast of Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska after she broke free of her mooring to a dolphin during a gale. She was deemed a total loss.[19] |
21 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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United Kingdom | The cargo ship ran aground at , Newfoundland.[20] She was refloated on 24 May.[15] | |
United Kingdom | The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Louisburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.[20] | |
Rosa | United Kingdom | The coaster ran aground at Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.[20] She was refloated on 28 May.[21] |
22 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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United Kingdom | The ocean liner struck the Capr Freel Rock off St. Shott's, Newfoundland and sank. All 436 people on board were rescued.[22] | |
Japan | The cargo ship ran aground on , Kuril Islands and was abandoned by her crew.[21] |
26 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Royal Navy | The Fly-class gunboat collided with a pontoon bridge over the Tigris at Baghdad, Iraq and sank with the loss of six crew.[23][24] | |
France | The tug foundered in the Atlantic Ocean (48°32′N 7°00′W / 48.533°N 7.000°W).[25] |
27 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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United Kingdom | The cargo ship collided with Metagama ( United Kingdom): in the River Clyde at Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire and was beached.[26] She subsequently sank,[27] but was refloated in late July 1924.[28] |
29 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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United Kingdom | The schooner sprang a leak and sank off Port Maria, Jamaica.[25] | |
United Kingdom | The cargo ship capsized at Nantes, Loire-Atlantique.[29] |
31 May[]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Japan | The cargo liner ran aground at Tsingtao, China. All passengers and crew were rescued.[30] She was refloated on 5 June.[31] |
References[]
- ^ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ^ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43332. London. 4 May 1923. col E, p. 14.
- ^ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43333. London. 5 May 1923. col G, p. 8.
- ^ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43336. London. 9 May 1923. col E, p. 22.
- ^ a b c "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43338. London. 11 May 1923. col D, p. 25.
- ^ "Reinsurance rates". The Times. No. 43339. London. 12 May 1923. col E, p. 20.
- ^ a b "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43337. London. 10 May 1923. col G, p. 23.
- ^ a b "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43345. London. 19 May 1923. col G, p. 6.
- ^ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43340. London. May 1923. col B, p. 21.
- ^ "Reinsurance rates". The Times. No. 43348. London. 23 May 1923. col B, p. 19.
- ^ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43341. London. 15 May 1923. col E, p. 8.
- ^ a b "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43342. London. 16 May 1923. col F-G, p. 24.
- ^ a b "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43348. London. 23 May 1923. col C, p. 19.
- ^ a b "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43343. London. 17 May 1923. col F, p. 16.
- ^ a b "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43350. London. 25 May 1923. col E, p. 14.
- ^ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (O)
- ^ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43346. London. 21 May 1923. col D, p. 14.
- ^ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (A)
- ^ a b c "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43347. London. 22 May 1923. col F, p. 19.
- ^ a b "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43353. London. 29 May 1923. col G, p. 24.
- ^ "Lost Canadian liner". The Times. No. 43348. London. 23 May 1923. col C, p. 10.
- ^ "Floods in Iraq". The Times. No. 43352. London. 28 May 1923. col E, p. 11.
- ^ "Baghdad bridge victims". The Times. No. 43353. London. 29 May 1923. col F, p. 13.
- ^ a b "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43355. London. 31 May 1923. col E, p. 25.
- ^ "Liner in collision". The Times. No. 43352. London. 28 May 1923. col E, p. 9.
- ^ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43361. London. 7 June 1923. col F, p. 23.
- ^ "Brazilian steamer refloated". The Times. No. 43712. London. 24 July 1924. p. 10.
- ^ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43354. London. 30 May 1923. col G, p. 21.
- ^ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43358. London. 4 June 1923. col A, p. 21.
- ^ "Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43362. London. 8 June 1923. col C-D, p. 22.
Ship events in 1923 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 |
Ship commissionings: | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1926 | 1927 | |||
Shipwrecks: | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 |
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