List of shipwrecks in 1912

The list of shipwrecks in 1912 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1912.

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1912
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Unknown date

January

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Ayintab	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Bafra	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Gökcedag	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Kastamonu	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Muha	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Ordu	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Refahiye	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Calderon	United Kingdom	Collided with Musketeer ( United Kingdom) in the Crosby Channel. Beached but broke in two, a total loss.[1]

February

2 February

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1912

Ship	Country	Description
HMS A3	Royal Navy	The A-class submarine was accidentally rammed and sunk by the submarine tender HMS Hazard ( Royal Navy) in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight with the loss of all hands. Subsequently refloated and sunk as a gunnery target.

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Consols	United Kingdom	British steamer laden with cotton from Galveston for Hamburg, caught fire and sank approximately 40 miles south of Cape Henry. All crew were rescued.[2]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Maud	United Kingdom	The Fleetwood trawler drifted ashore at Kynance Cove, Cornwall, when her tow broke.[3]

17 February

List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Charioteer	United Kingdom	The tug foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all five crew.[4]

18 February

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Erne	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of ten of her nineteen crew. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, United States to Buenos Aires, Argentina.[5]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Angora	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Beirut: The torpedo boat was shelled and sunk in Beirut harbour by the cruisers Francesco Ferruccio and Giuseppe Garibaldi (both  Regia Marina).
Avnillâh	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Beirut: The casemate corvette was shelled and sunk Beirut harbour by the cruisers Francesco Ferruccio and Giuseppe Garibaldi (both  Regia Marina).

29 February

List of shipwrecks: 29 February 1912

Ship	Country	Description
H. K. Bedford	United States	H. K. Bedford The passenger steamer became caught in an ice floe and sank in the Ohio River 8 miles (13 km) upstream from Marietta, Ohio.

March

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Bessie	United Kingdom	The Truro registered three-masted schooner was forced to shelter in Newquay Bay, Cornwall in a strong north wind and drifted ashore when her anchor fouled. Two of the crew were saved by breeches buoy, the others clambered up the 100 ft (30 m) cliff on the cliff ladder. She was on a voyage from Ballincurragh, County Cork to Penryn.[6]
Illawarra	Norway	The full-rigged ship was abandoned whilst on a voyage from Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom to Coquimbo, Chile.[7]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Oceana	United Kingdom	Sank after a collision with Pisagua ( Germany) off Beachy Head, East Sussex.
Wendur	United Kingdom	The Glasgow sailing vessel struck the southern most rock of the Seven Stones Reef while carrying grain from Plymouth, Devon. Three of the twenty-one crew lost their lives. She held the record for the fastest voyage between Newcastle and Valparaiso.[8]

20 March

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Koombana	Australia	The passenger, cargo, and mail steamer disappeared in a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia during a voyage from Port Hedland to Broome with the loss of all 150 people on board.

21 March

List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1912

Ship	Country	Description
City of Cardiff	United Kingdom	Wrecked at Nanjizal on the west coast of Cornwall.[9] All on board were rescued.[10]

April

6 April

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Gunvor	Norway	Gunvor wrecked Wrecked on the Pedn-Men-an-Mor rocks, Black Head, The Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew scrambled to safety.[11][12]
Mildred	United Kingdom	The Barquentine struck rocks at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall in dense fog and sank with her sails set. No lives lost.[11]

7 April

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Rhenania	Netherlands	She was wrecked on Burhou Island, Channel Islands when on route from Rotterdam for Bilbao.[13][14]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Cathcartpark	United Kingdom	The cargo ship ran aground and sank off Iona.[15]
RMS Titanic	United Kingdom	RMS Titanic. The Olympic-class ocean liner, the largest ship launched at the time, sank during her maiden voyage. A total of 1,514 lives were lost; 710 people survived.

May

12 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1912

Ship	Country	Description
HMS A3	Royal Navy	The refloated wreck of the A-class submarine was sunk as a gunnery target in the English Channel near Portland Bill.

20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1912

Ship	Country	Description
USLHT Armeria	United States Lighthouse Service	Lighthouse tender was wrecked off of Cape Hinchinbrook Light, Alaska, while landing supplies.[16]

June

2 June

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Friendship	New South Wales	Friendship aground in June 1912. The cargo ship ran aground at Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Vendémiaire	French Navy	A submarine, rammed near Cherbourg by the battleship Saint Louis ( French Navy) and sank with the loss of twenty-five sailors.

26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Naniwa	Imperial Japanese Navy	The Naniwa-class protected cruiser was wrecked on the coast of Uruppu in the Kurile Islands.

July

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Transporter	United Kingdom	The North Shields ship in ballast from St Nazaire to the Tyne for coal went ashore in thick fog, to the south of Mousehole, Cornwall. The salvage steamer Lady of the Isles hauled her clear and she resumed her journey undamaged.[17]

August

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1912

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Holland 5	Royal Navy	The decommissioned Holland-class submarine sank in the English Channel off Beachy Head while under tow to the breaker's yard.

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Marnix	Belgium	Struck uncharted rocks at Umba, Russia (66°21′N 35°36′E / 66.350°N 35.600°E) and wrecked.[18]

31 August

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Kursk	Denmark	Ran aground in a storm at Ouddorp, Netherlands. Thirty-two people killed.[19]

September

1 September

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1912

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Waterwitch	Royal Navy	HMS Waterwitch The British Admiralty survey vessel sank after she was rammed by the governor's launch while anchored in Singapore Harbour.

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Esperance	France	The schooner capsized in the Bristol Channel. Her five crew and the ship's dog were rescued by the trawler Picton Castle ( United Kingdom). Esperance was on a voyage from Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais to Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[4]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Kiche Maru	Japan	The steam passenger ship sank off the coast of Japan during a typhoon with over 1,000 dead.

October

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1912

Ship	Country	Description
HMS B2	Royal Navy	The B-class submarine collided with the passenger liner Amerika ( Germany) while surfacing in the North Sea northeast of Dover, England, and sank with the loss of 14 of her crew of 15.

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Nicaragua	United States	The wreck of SS Nicaragua on Padre Island in June 1913. The cargo ship was wrecked on Padre Island, Texas, during a storm in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ralph Creyke	United Kingdom	The Ouse Steamship Company passenger-cargo ship sank near Flushing after a collision with the steamer Viking ( Denmark).[20]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Feth-i Bülend	Ottoman Navy	First Balkan War: The accommodation hulk was torpedoed and sunk in Thessaloniki harbour by a Greek torpedo boat. Seven crew members died in the sinking.

November

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Rouse Simmons	United States	The three-masted schooner sank during a storm on Lake Michigan off Two Rivers, Wisconsin, with the loss of all hands.

28 November

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Friendship	New South Wales	The cargo ship ran aground and sank at the entrance to the Tweed River at Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia. There were no injuries or fatalities among her crew..[21]

December

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Antonios	Greece	The steamer was lost on rocks known as Old Bess, within the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. Her crew was lost and the wreck went unnoticed for three days when thousands of oranges were washed up on St Agnes along with wreckage.[8]

26 December

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Tripolitania	United Kingdom	Wrecked on Loe Bar, near Porthleven, Cornwall in 100 mph winds. Nearly all the crew were saved but the ship was a total loss.[22]

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1912

Ship	Country	Description
Vigilant	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore at Breaksea Point, Glamorgan. Her seven crew were rescued.[4]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1912

Ship	Country	Description
City of Adelaide	Australia	The coal storage hulk was burned out by a several-day-long fire at Townsville, Australia.
Fox	United Kingdom	The steamer was wrecked on the coast of Greenland.
Pelayo	Spanish Navy	The battleship was badly damaged in Fonduko Bay due to a navigational error.

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Ship events in 1912
Ship launches:	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917
Ship commissionings:	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917
Ship decommissionings:	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917
Shipwrecks:	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917