The list of shipwrecks in 1918 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1918.
| ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | |
May | Jun | Jul | Aug | |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Unknown date | ||||
References |
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Barge No. 739 and Barge No. 740 | United States Army | The barges sank off Black Point, Connecticut before 28 September. [1] |
Fairhaven | United States | Fire destroyed the sternwheel passenger paddle steamer at her moorings in Seattle, Washington. |
Diana | Germany | The cargo ship was sunk off the coast of Norway following a boiler explosion in January or early February. [2] |
Dorothy Barrett | United States | The tugboat was wrecked by ice in January–February at Richardson's Landing. Her machinery was salvaged in the Spring. [3] |
Elisha | United States | The tugboat was wrecked by ice in January–February. Raised and repaired. [4] |
Hazel Watson | United States | The tugboat was wrecked by ice in January–February. [5] |
Isabella | United States | The icebreaker was wrecked by ice in January–February. [6] |
Kaisei Maru | Japan | Impounded in Sealing Cove ( 57°03′N 135°22′W / 57.050°N 135.367°W) on the coast of Japonski Island in Sitka, Territory of Alaska, since 1909 or 1910 for illegal seal hunting, the ship sank ca. 1918 after becoming waterlogged. [7] |
Norian | The vessel ran aground on the mattress sill at the head of Pass a Loutre, Louisiana in fog. Refloated 18 days later. [8] | |
Pastime | United States | The wreck of the yacht was reported as an obstruction on 7 September in the Cheboygan River opposite the City Park, Cheboygan, Michigan and work to remove it was finished on 19 October. [9] |
Sénégamble | France | The ship collided with another vessel and sank in February or early March. [10] |
Success | Australia | The sailing vessel, a fake museum ship, supposedly of an earlier career as an Australian prison ship, was sunk by ice at Carrollton, Kentucky in January–February 1918, though some sources say 1917 or 1919. [11] |
SM UB-107 | Imperial German Navy | World War I: The Type UB III submarine struck a mine and sank in the North Sea ( 54°08′N 0°00′E / 54.133°N 0.000°E) between 27 July and 3 August with the loss of all 38 crew. |
SM UC-79 | Imperial German Navy | World War I: The Type UC II submarine struck a mine and sank in the English Channel off Cap Gris Nez, Pas-de-Calais, France in late March or early April. |
Vulcan | United States Army | The condemned and stripped US Army Corps of Engineers dipper dredge was disposed of by scuttling in the St. Louis, Missouri District. [12] |
Wabash | United States | The tugboat was wrecked by ice in January–February. [13] |
The list of shipwrecks in 1918 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1918.
| ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | |
May | Jun | Jul | Aug | |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Unknown date | ||||
References |
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Barge No. 739 and Barge No. 740 | United States Army | The barges sank off Black Point, Connecticut before 28 September. [1] |
Fairhaven | United States | Fire destroyed the sternwheel passenger paddle steamer at her moorings in Seattle, Washington. |
Diana | Germany | The cargo ship was sunk off the coast of Norway following a boiler explosion in January or early February. [2] |
Dorothy Barrett | United States | The tugboat was wrecked by ice in January–February at Richardson's Landing. Her machinery was salvaged in the Spring. [3] |
Elisha | United States | The tugboat was wrecked by ice in January–February. Raised and repaired. [4] |
Hazel Watson | United States | The tugboat was wrecked by ice in January–February. [5] |
Isabella | United States | The icebreaker was wrecked by ice in January–February. [6] |
Kaisei Maru | Japan | Impounded in Sealing Cove ( 57°03′N 135°22′W / 57.050°N 135.367°W) on the coast of Japonski Island in Sitka, Territory of Alaska, since 1909 or 1910 for illegal seal hunting, the ship sank ca. 1918 after becoming waterlogged. [7] |
Norian | The vessel ran aground on the mattress sill at the head of Pass a Loutre, Louisiana in fog. Refloated 18 days later. [8] | |
Pastime | United States | The wreck of the yacht was reported as an obstruction on 7 September in the Cheboygan River opposite the City Park, Cheboygan, Michigan and work to remove it was finished on 19 October. [9] |
Sénégamble | France | The ship collided with another vessel and sank in February or early March. [10] |
Success | Australia | The sailing vessel, a fake museum ship, supposedly of an earlier career as an Australian prison ship, was sunk by ice at Carrollton, Kentucky in January–February 1918, though some sources say 1917 or 1919. [11] |
SM UB-107 | Imperial German Navy | World War I: The Type UB III submarine struck a mine and sank in the North Sea ( 54°08′N 0°00′E / 54.133°N 0.000°E) between 27 July and 3 August with the loss of all 38 crew. |
SM UC-79 | Imperial German Navy | World War I: The Type UC II submarine struck a mine and sank in the English Channel off Cap Gris Nez, Pas-de-Calais, France in late March or early April. |
Vulcan | United States Army | The condemned and stripped US Army Corps of Engineers dipper dredge was disposed of by scuttling in the St. Louis, Missouri District. [12] |
Wabash | United States | The tugboat was wrecked by ice in January–February. [13] |