List of shipwrecks in 1913

The list of shipwrecks in 1913 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1913.

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January

3 January
List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1913
ShipCountryDescription
C. R. Bennett  United States The 32-gross register ton schooner was stranded at the Delaware Breakwater on the coast of Delaware. Both people on board survived.[1]
El Dorado  United States The passenger/cargo ship sank in a gale in the Atlantic Ocean south of Cape Hatteras with all 39 hands.[2][3]
Future  United States The 613-gross register ton schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean east of North Carolina at 34°08′N 075°10′W with the loss of three lives. There were five survivors.[1]
Indrakuala  United Kingdom The steamer was damaged in a collision in thick fog with Julia Luckenbach ( United States) in Chesapeake Bay. After the incident she either anchored or was beached to prevent sinking.[4][5]
USS Jamestown  United States Navy The decommissioned sloop-of-war was destroyed by fire at Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Julia Luckenbach  United States The ocean liner was sunk in a collision in thick fog with Indrakuala ( United Kingdom) in Chesapeake Bay. Her captain, his wife, and 13 crew were killed. Survivors were rescued by Indrakuala and Pennsylvania ( Netherlands).[6][7]

7 January
List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Cheslakee  Canada
Cheslakee undergoing salvage.
The steamer capsized and sank at Van Anda, British Columbia, killing seven people. She was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
Rosecrans  United States Oil tanker on her voyage from Monterrey to Portland ran into gale of the mouth of Columbia River and went aground on Peacock Spit. The vessel broke into two and sank with the loss of 33 men of her 36 crew.

10 January
List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Clara Jane  United States The 124-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Eastern Point at Gloucester, Massachusetts. All four people on board survived.[1]
James T. Staples  United States The sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by a boiler explosion on the Tombigbee River in Alabama. The explosion killed 26 people and injured 21. Survivors were rescued by the sternwheel paddle steamer John Quill ( United States).

12 January
List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Uranium  United Kingdom The passenger ship ran aground on Shoal Point, Chebucto Head, Nova Scotia. All on board, over 900 people, survived. She was later refloated and taken to Halifax, Nova Scotia where temporary repairs were done 26 January–10 February. She then sailed to New York City for permanent repairs.[8][9]

13 January
List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Cobequid  United Kingdom The passenger ship was wrecked in a severe storm on Trinity Rock near Grand Manan and broke up.[10][11]

14 January
List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1913
ShipCountryDescription
California Grand Duchy of Finland The barque was wrecked on St Mary's Island, Northumberland, United Kingdom with the loss of eight of her crew. She was under tow from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.[12]
Werner Kunstmann  Germany The vessel ran aground at Lindisfarne, Northumberland and was wrecked.[13]

16 January
List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Estonia  Russia The passenger ship caught fire and was abandoned in the Red Sea off Port Sudan, Egypt. The derelict hulk was sunk by explosives on 23 January.[14]
Veronese  United Kingdom The 7,877 GRT Lamport and Holt Line general cargo/passenger vessel. Sailing from Liverpool with stop in Vigo (Spain) and carrying 221 people on board to Venezuela , Brazil and Argentina, collided in fog with rocks near Leça da Palmeira, Portugal. The rescue lasted more than 48 hours due to sea state using cables back and forth and two rescue boats to recover those who threw themselves into the sea. There were 38 casualties, 5 of them crewmen.[15]

20 January
List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Brodland  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales. Her 42 crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Port Talbot to Punta Arenas, Chile.[16]

22 January
List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Ulstermore  United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked on Taylor's Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.[17]

24 January
List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Helen  United States The launch was lost in Galena Bay (60°55′20″N 146°37′00″W) on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska after a line fouled her propeller in rough seas. Two men on board lost their lives.[18]
Mermaid  United States The launch was lost in Valdez Narrows (61°03′15″N 146°40′30″W) on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska with the loss of one life. Alaska Natives in a bidarka rescued her sole survivor.[19]

February

1 February
List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Helen Story  United States The 58-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the Matagorda Peninsula on the coast of Texas. All eight people on board survived.[1]

2 February
List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1913
ShipCountryDescription
City of Georgetown  United States The 599-gross register ton schooner was lost in collision with the screw steamer Prinz Oskar ( Germany) off the Delaware Capes at the entrance to Delaware Bay. All eight people on board survived.[1]

8 February
List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Âsâr-ı Tevfik  Ottoman Navy First Balkan War: The Âsâr-ı Tevfik-class ironclad ran aground on a rock during operations against Bulgarian forces near Yalıköy. The grounded vessel was destroyed by seas and Bulgarian artillery over the next few days.[20]

10 February
List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Borealis  United States The 764-gross register ton schooner was stranded in the Friendly Islands (now Tonga). All 11 people on board survived.[1]

13 February
List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Althea Franklin  United States The 36-gross register ton schooner departed Pensacola, Florida, bound for the Campeche Banks off the coast of Mexico with eight people on board and was never heard from again.[1]
Epidauro  Austria-Hungary The steamship ran aground at Overton, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[16]
Pisagua  Norway She was stranded at Low Island, South Shetland Islands.

15 February
List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Bluebell  United Kingdom The steamship struck rocks in Culver's Hole and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by the Port Eynon Lifeboat.[16]

16 February
List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Advent  United States The 431-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Coos Bay on the coast of Oregon. All eight people on board survived.[1]

March

1 March
List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Almira  United States The 26-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Sand Island on the coast of Alabama. All four people on board survived.[1]

7 March
List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Alum Chine  United Kingdom The steamship's cargo of dynamite exploded at Baltimore, Maryland in the Patapsco River killing 30 people and injuring 60.[21]
Atlantic  United States The tug was sunk at Baltimore, Maryland, by the explosion of Alum Chine ( United Kingdom). Her captain and mate were killed.[21][22]
Unknown barge  United States The barge/scow was sunk at Baltimore, Maryland, by the explosion of Alum Chine ( United Kingdom). She was alongside transferring the cargo of dynamite.[23]

26 March
List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1913
ShipCountryDescription
General Scott  United States The 83-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Quoddy Bay on the coast of Maine. All three people on board survived.[1]

27 March
List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Antioch  United States The 986-gross register ton barkentine was stranded at Oquan Beach on the coast of New Jersey. All 10 people on board survived.[1]

April

2 April
List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Clifford N. Carver  United States The 1,101-gross register ton four-masted schooner was wrecked on Tennessee Reef in the Florida Keys. All nine people on board survived.[1][24]

15 April
List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Lyman D. Foster  United States The 778-gross register ton schooner, when caught in a hurricane, was dismasted, lost all its boats and deck cargo, and was partially filled with water, in the Lau islands of Fiji. All survived, after abandoning the barely floating hull, on 1 May 1913, and making for Kabara using sailing scows that the crew had made themselves. The hull and part of the cargo of lumber were salvaged. [25][26][27]

16 April
List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Alice Holbrook  United States The 722-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Hillsboro Inlet on the coast of Florida. All eight people on board survived.[1]

20 April
List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Burnside  United States The 855-gross register ton schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, New York, 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) south of the Fire Island Lightship. All four people on board survived.[1]

21 April
List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Helena  United States The 184-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the coast of Maine near Port Clyde. All six people on board survived.[1]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date April 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Curacao  United States The 1,503-gross register ton, 241.3-foot (73.5 m) steam schooner ran aground on Boulder Spit on Fish Egg Island in the Territory of Alaska. The survey ship USC&GS Thomas R. Gedney and launches USC&GS Cosmos and Launch 117 (all United States Coast and Geodetic Survey) pulled her off on 29–30 April.[28] She returned to service.[29]
Hector  United States The small steamer, which operated as a cannery tender and tugboat in Washington in the San Juan Islands and on Puget Sound, was off Purdy Spit immediately following a boiler refit when she suffered a coal gas explosion and fire. She was towed to shore and burned out.

May

1 May
List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Agenoria  United Kingdom The wooden schooner on voyage from St. Sampson, Guernsey, to Rochester with a cargo of stone, was wrecked on Flat Rock (La Platte), off Saint Sampson, Guernsey.[30][31]

23 May
List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Cromdale  United Kingdom She was wrecked on Bass Point, Cornwall, without loss of life.[32]

30 May
List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Arcadia  United States The 127-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Wolf Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada. All 18 people on board survived.[1]
Dolorito  United States The 6-gross register ton sloop was stranded on Roncador Shoal off Fajardo, Puerto Rico. All three people on board survived.[1]
Fred C. Holden  United States The 137-gross register ton schooner foundered off Damariscotta Island on the coast of Maine. All six people on board survived.[1]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown May 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Kiyocya  Ottoman Navy Balkan Wars: The armed steamer was lost sometime in May.[33]

June

6 June
List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Kurland  Germany The ship collided with Deventia (flag unknown) and sank 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) off St Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.[34]

11 June
List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Cañonero General Concha  Spanish Navy The gunboat — officially classified as a third-class cruiser — ran aground in dense fog on the coast of the Spanish protectorate in Morocco near Alhucemas. Moroccan guerrillas attacked her, and her badly outnumbered crew of 53 defended her successfully for 15 hours until all of her survivors and dead had been transferred to several other Spanish Navy warships, which subsequently drove off the Moroccans with gunfire and then sank General Concha – deemed beyond repair – with gunfire to prevent the Moroccans from looting her wreck. General Concha's crew suffered 16 men dead, 17 wounded, and 11 captured during the engagement; the attacking Moroccans' casualties are not known.[35]
Yukon  United States During a voyage from Goodnews Bay, Territory of Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, with three passengers, a crew of 42, and a cargo of 300 pounds (140 kg) of electrical materials aboard, the 688-gross register ton, 205-foot (62.5 m) steamer was wrecked in thick fog without loss of life at Petrof Point on Sanak Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands. The revenue cutter USRC Tahoma ( United States Revenue Cutter Service) rescued her passengers and crew.[36]

13 June
List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Hustler  United States The 14-gross register ton schooner foundered off Youngs Island, South Carolina. Both people on board survived.[1]

15 June
List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Paul Palmer  United States The five-masted schooner caught fire, burned to the waterline, and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Massachusetts. All 11 people on board were rescued by the fishing schooner Rose Dorothea (flag unknown).

21 June
List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Curacao  United States Carrying 39 passengers, 51 crewmen, and a 200-ton cargo of general merchandise, the 1,503-gross register ton, 241.3-foot (73.5 m) steam schooner was wrecked on an uncharted rock on a reef – thereafter known as Curacao Reef (55°39′20″N 133°28′10″W) – 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) west-southwest of Culebra Island in Tonowak Bay in Southeast Alaska. The survey ship USC&GS Thomas R. Gedney ( United States Coast and Geodetic Survey) rescued everyone on board. Curacao was deemed a total loss.[29]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: unknown date June 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Toanui  United Kingdom The Glasgow-registered salvage tug sailed from Gourock on 3 June 1913 on delivery to New Zealand and was lost on the Seven Stones Reef, between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Wreckage, first found on 11 June, was washed up on the North Cornwall coast and around Land's End and Tol Pedn.[37][38][39]

July

8 July
List of shipwrecks: 8 July 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Vivid  United Kingdom The Royal Technical College, Glasgow training ship ran aground and wrecked at Colonsay en route from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Stornoway on her maiden voyage as a civilian training ship.[40]

13 July
List of shipwrecks: 13 July 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Jack Horner  United States The 50-gross register ton, 72-foot (21.9 m) fishing vessel was destroyed by fire in Lynn Canal in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of six survived.[41]

15 July
List of shipwrecks: 15 July 1913
ShipCountryDescription
K #4  United States The 15-ton scow broke loose from her moorings and was wrecked at N Clock Point in Southeast Alaska.[42]

August

10 August
List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Corson  United States The motor vessel was lost at Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska.[29]

14 August
List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Susanna The vessel was wrecked on Zantman's Rock, Isles of Scilly.

15 August
List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Seddon  United States The 14-gross register ton, 52-foot (15.8 m) passenger steamer sank in Kotzebue Sound off the Territory of Alaska. All three people on board survived.[43]
Sudden  United States The motor vessel was wrecked at Kotzebue, Territory of Alaska.[43]

17 August
List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1913
ShipCountryDescription
State of California  United States Carrying 74 passengers, a crew of 76, and a cargo of about 500 tons of general merchandise, the 2,266-gross register ton, 300-foot (91.4 m) iron passenger steamer sank in Gambier Bay (57°28′N 133°55′W) in Southeast Alaska after striking an uncharted rock. Thirty-two of the 150 people on board perished. Launches from shore and from the steamer Jefferson ( United States) rescued the 118 survivors.[43]

25 August
List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Transit  United States While departing Barrow, Territory of Alaska, on 6 August bound for Seattle, Washington, with a cargo of 100 tons of general merchandise and a crew of 11 on board, the 547-gross register ton, 165.2-foot (50.4 m) schooner was trapped by ice. On 25 August, the ice crushed her and she was beached about 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) south-southwest of Cape Smyth (71°17′35″N 156°47′15″W) to prevent her from sinking. All on board survived.[44]
Wasp  United States After departing Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea with four crewmen and two passengers aboard, the 17-gross register ton, 42.2-foot (12.9 m) motor trading schooner was stranded near Cape Avinoff, Territory of Alaska. All six people on board abandoned ship and survived a five-day voyage to St. Michael, Alaska, in a dory without food or water. During the autumn of 1913, the abandoned Wasp suffered severe ice damage, dragged her anchor during a storm, and sank near the mouth of the Kuskokwim River.[45]

26 August
List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Kayak  United States During a voyage from Seldovia, Territory of Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, the 115-gross register ton, 91-foot (27.7 m) tug was wrecked during a gale at Point Carrew (59°33′30″N 139°50′15″W) in Yakutat Bay on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. Her crew of 10 abandoned ship in lifeboats and survived.[42]

27 August
List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Bakana  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 2,802 GRT cargo ship ran aground and was wrecked at Half Assinie, Ivory Coast in West Africa. She was carrying a cargo of wood from the West coast of Africa to Liverpool.[46]

30 August
List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Alice  United States The tow steamer was sunk when her boilers exploded opposite Glenfield, Pennsylvania, seven miles (11 km) below Pittsburgh in the Ohio River 200 feet (61 m) above Lock No. 2. The ship was later raised. Eight people were killed, six injured.[47][48][49]
Amaranth  United States The 1,109-ton, four-masted barkentine was wrecked on the southeastern shore of Jarvis Island in the Pacific Ocean. She became a total loss.[50]

September

6 September
List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Kittiwake  United States The 23-gross register ton, 44.2-foot (13.5 m) fishing vessel was lost off Cape Dezhnev on the coast of Siberia.[42]

9 September
List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Agnes G. Donahue  Canada The schooner was wrecked near the Point Prim Lighthouse, Nova Scotia. Her seven crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Annapolis, Nova Scotia to Saint John, New Brunswick.[51]

23 September
List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Elvira  United States With a 25-ton cargo of furs and ship's stores on board, the 60-net register ton Arctic motor trading vessel capsized and sank in the Beaufort Sea 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) north of Humphrey Point (69°58′45″N 142°31′30″W) on the coast of the Territory of Alaska after she became trapped in ice during a gale. Her crew of 20 survived.[52]

20 September
List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Tongrier  Belgium Ran aground off Saaremaa, Estonia. Raised and towed to Antwerp but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.[53]

October

5 October
List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Louisa  United States The 5-gross register ton schooner dragged her anchor during a gale and was wrecked on the beach at Chinik, Territory of Alaska. Her crew of three survived.[54]

6 October
List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1913
ShipCountryDescription
E. L. Dwyer  United States After lying on the beach at Teller, Territory of Alaska, since 14 August 1912 without anyone coming aboard to perform maintenance and already in a partially wrecked condition, the 54-gross register ton motor vessel was destroyed by a gale.[52]
Sesnon #3  United States The 21-ton barge was wrecked at Nome, Territory of Alaska.[43]
Sesnon #21  United States While anchored off Nome, Territory of Alaska, with no cargo or crew aboard, the 39-ton barge broke loose from her moorings during a gale, was driven ashore on a beach 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) west of Nome, and was broken apart by waves.[43]
Swallow  United States The 9-gross register ton, 40-foot (12.2 m) sternwheel paddle steamer sank at Nome, Territory of Alaska.[43]

9 October
List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Volturno  United Kingdom
Volturno
The Uranium Line passenger-cargo ship caught fire in mid-Atlantic and was abandoned; 510 passengers and crew were rescued by ships including Kroonland ( United States) and Minneapolis ( United Kingdom), but 136 died. The derelict ship was scuttled on 18 October in the North Atlantic Ocean.[55][56]
Yorkey  United States The 7-gross register ton, 31-foot (9.4 m) motor vessel sank at Nome, Territory of Alaska. Both people on board survived.[36]

10 October
List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Sophia  United States The 10-gross register ton 35-foot (10.7 m) motor vessel sank at Nome, Territory of Alaska. Her crew of four survived.[43]

12 October
List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Nora  United States After departing St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, on 9 October bound for the Kuskokwim River towing the schooner Princess ( United States), the motorboat was found washed up on the beach bottom-up in Norton Sound, apparently having been blown there by a storm. All three people aboard both vessels were lost.[57]
Princess  United States After departing St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, on 9 October bound for the Kuskokwim River under tow by the motorboat Nora ( United States) with a cargo of about 10 tons of general merchandise aboard, the 16-gross register ton, 41.4-foot (12.6 m) schooner was found washed up on the beach bottom-up in Norton Sound, apparently having been blown there by a storm. All three people aboard both vessels were lost.[58]

17 October
List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Ellida  United States Carrying a 20-ton cargo of salt, lumber, and general merchandise and a crew of three, the 19-gross register ton motor vessel was dismasted and wrecked without loss of life on the northeast coast of Unga Island in the Territory of Alaska's Shumagin Islands during a gale and was declared a total loss.[52]

21 October
List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1913
ShipCountryDescription
C. W. Elphicke  United States The steamer struck a submerged obstruction off Long Point, Ontario on Lake Erie in a gale. She was beached just above Long Point Lighthouse, a total loss.[59]

November

4 November
List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1913
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Empress of India  Royal Navy The Royal Sovereign-class battleship was sunk as a gunnery target in Lyme Bay, Dorset, England, by the light cruiser HMS Liverpool and battleships HMS Thunderer, HMS Orion, HMS King Edward VII, HMS Neptune, HMS King George V, and HMS Vanguard (all  Royal Navy).

8 November
List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Louisiana  United States Great Lakes Storm: The steamboat sank in Lake Michigan. All crew members survived.
John A. McGean  United States Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all crew, last seen on 8 or 9 November, 14 miles (23 km) north of Tawas Point.[60]

9 November
List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Charles S. Price  United States
SS Charles S. Price
Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship capsized in Lake Huron with the loss of all 28 crew. She sank 18 November, 7 or 10 miles (11 or 16 km) north of Port Huron.[61][62][63][64]
Hydrus  United States Great Lakes Storm: The ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all 28 crew.[61][65]
Isaac M. Scott  United States Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all 28 crew.[65][62]
James Carruthers  Canada Great Lakes Storm: The lake freighter sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all twenty-two crew.[66]
Leafield  Canada Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Superior, probably off the Angus Rocks about 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Port Arthur, Ontario, or wrecked on Angus Island with the loss of all 15 or 18 crew.[61][62][67][68]
Regina  Canada Great Lakes Storm: The lake freighter sank in Lake Huron 10 miles (16 km) north of Point Edward with the loss of 32 crew.[69]
Wexford  Canada
Bodies from Wexford washed ashore near Goderich, Ontario.
Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all 17 or 24 crew.[70]
Winnie  United States The 12-gross register ton, 40-foot (12 m) fishing vessel was stranded on an island 1.33 nautical miles (2.46 km; 1.53 mi) west of Metlakatla in Southeast Alaska. Both crewmembers survived. Winnie later was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[45]

10 November
List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Henry B. Smith  United States Great Lakes Storm: The lake freighter sank in Lake Superior near Marquette, Michigan with the loss of all twenty-five crew.[71]
LV 82 United States Lighthouse Service Great Lakes Storm: The lightship for Buffalo, New York sank off that port in Lake Erie with the loss of six crew. LV 82 was salvaged in the Summer of 1915, repaired and returned to service.[65][62][72]
Louisiana  United States Great Lakes Storm: The ship was driven ashore on Washington Island in Lake Michigan. She caught fire and burned, a total loss.[73]
Regina Canada Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship sank in Lake Huron with the loss of all twenty crew.

11 November
List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Hydrus  United States Great Lakes Storm: The ship sank in Lake Huron in 160 feet (49 m) of water with the loss of 24 crew. Wreck located 2015.[74]
Plymouth  United States Great Lakes Storm: The ship sank in Lake Michigan off Poverty Island with the loss of seven crew.[75][76]

19 November
List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Leonora  United Kingdom The ketch was in collision with the tug Atlas ( United Kingdom) in the Bristol Channel and was abandoned by her crew. Leonora drove ashore at Rotherslade, Glamorgan the next day and was wrecked.[16]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: unknown November 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Argus  United States Great Lakes Storm: The cargo ship broke in two and sank in Lake Huron on 9, 10 or 12 November, with the loss of all 24 crew.[61][77]

December

1 December
List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Bender Brothers  United States The 80-net register ton, 77.5-foot (23.6 m) schooner was destroyed by fire at Seattle, Washington.[78]
Uralets  Imperial Russian Navy The gunboat ran aground at Sevastopol and was wrecked by surf.[79]

2 December
List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Hoche  French Navy The battleship was sunk as a target by the battleship Jauréguiberry and the armored cruiser Pothuau (both  French Navy).[80]

5 December
List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Risør  Norway The lifeboat with four crew members disappeared in a storm off Risør, Norway.[81]

10 December
List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1913
ShipCountryDescription
HMS C14  Royal Navy The C-class submarine sank without loss of life after colliding with the hopper barge Hopper No. 27 (flag unknown) in Plymouth Sound. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

12 December
List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Kwango  Norway The barque ran aground off Bryon Island, St Lawrence River, Canada and wrecked.[34]

15 December
List of shipwrecks: 15 December 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Narvik  Germany The cargo ship capsized off Borkum, Germany.[82]

19 December
List of shipwrecks: 19 December 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Jeanie The steamer was wrecked in Queen Charlotte Sound on the south end of Calvert Island in British Columbia.[41]

22 December
List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1913
ShipCountryDescription
J. H. Crockett  United States The 15-gross register ton, 64.6-foot (19.7 m) motor vessel was destroyed by fire in Smugglers Cove (55°34′30″N 131°56′00″W) in Helm Bay (55°37′30″N 131°57′40″W) in Southeast Alaska.[41]

28 December
List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Union  United States The 8-gross register ton, 38-foot (11.6 m) motor vessel and her crew of two disappeared during what was to have been a five-hour voyage in the Territory of Alaska from Lituya Bay to Dixon Harbor.[83]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1913
ShipCountryDescription
Balmes  Spain The passenger steamer caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean. The ocean liner Pannonia ( United Kingdom) rescued 103 people from Balmes, which was towed to St. George's, Bermuda, by the tugs Gladisfen (flag unknown) and Powerful (flag unknown), convoyed by Pannonia.
USS Craven  United States Navy The torpedo boat was sunk as a target.[84]
Florence J.  United States The oil service vessel capsized in Puget Sound immediately after being launched at Dockton, Washington, in either 1913 or 1914. She was righted, completed, and eventually entered service.
Iris  United States The schooner ran aground and sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Washington Island in Door County, Wisconsin, United States.[85]
Kommandøren  Norway The passenger-cargo steamer ran aground in Herdlefjorden, Norway. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
Northwind  United States The schooner was wrecked at Wrangell, Territory of Alaska, and became a total loss.[57]
USS Santee  United States Navy The decommissioned frigate was burned at Boston, Massachusetts, as a means of disposal and to ease the recovery of copper and brass in her hull.

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Ship events in 1913
Ship launches: 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
Ship commissionings: 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
Ship decommissionings: 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
Shipwrecks: 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
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