The Odomari-class icebreaker ran aground at Oniwaki, Rishiri Island off the coast of Hokkaido in bad weather. Refloated and in drydock for repair by 4 February.[9]
The schooner was in collision with William Mitchell (United Kingdom) of the Norwegian Coast. No further trace, presumed sunk with the loss of all but one of her crew. The survivor managed to clamber aboard William Mitchell.[8]
The cargo ship, which had departed Oran, Algeria for Rouen, Seine-Inférieure on 3 January, issued a distress call in the Atlantic Ocean. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[18][19]
The cargo ship ran aground in the North Sea off Sizewell, Suffolk.[25] Although she was refloated on 19 January,[32] she was declared a total loss.[33]
The Denver-class cruiser ran aground on the Blanquilla Reef off Veracruz, Mexico. During attempts at refloating over the following week, four crew were lost. Declared a total loss, she was stricken on 7 February and sold for scrap on 5 September.
The cargo ship suffered a fractured propeller shaft, which punctured her hull. She foundered in the Irish Sea off Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland.[16]
The cargo ship came ashore at Cape St. Vincent, Portugal and was wrecked.[54] She was abandoned on 9 February with the loss of seven of her 29 crew.[50][55]
The cargo ship came ashore on the Amherst Rock at the mouth of the Yangtze, China. She was beached on the Tungsha Spit.[54]Persia was refloated on 10 February.[50]
The cargo ship ran aground off St. David's Lighthouse, Bermuda in heavy weather. No casualties and her cargo was salvaged.[55] She was abandoned on 14 February,[64] She later broke in two and was a total loss.[65][66]
The cargo ship was driven ashore 22 nautical miles (41 km) west of the Quéquen Lighthouse, Argentina.[113] She was a total loss. Her crew were rescued.[111]
The cargo ship caught fire at Adelaide, South Australia. A fireman was killed by an onboard explosion whilst fighting the fire.[129] Having sunk, she was refloated on 5 May.[137]
The freighter's hull split in two after her seams opened up and she sank in a storm in Lake Superior between Michipicoten Island and Whitefish Point. Most of the crew abandoned ship in her lifeboats, ten in one and nine in the other. One person in each boat died of exposure. The Captain, chief engineer and helmsman remained on board and died.[159]
The coaster struck the Oxcar Rocks in the Firth of Forth and was beached. Her crew were rescued.[170] She sank on 2 June.[171] She was refloated on 9 July and beached at Cramond, Lothian.[172]
The cargo ship was abandoned in the North Sea 230 nautical miles (430 km) east north east of the mouth of the River Tyne due to her cargo shifting. Her crew were rescued by the drifter Cheviotdale (United Kingdom). Olga Elisabeth sank on 6 June.[174]
The cargo liner capsized 8 nautical miles (15 km) south of the Drogden Lightship (Denmark) with the loss of eleven of the 25 people on board.[194][195]
The cargo ship arrived at Karachi, India with defective boilers. Attempts to tow her into port were unsuccessful and she dragged ger anchors and came ashore.[172][200] She was refloated on 6 December.[202]
The coaster capsized in the Irish Sea 15 nautical miles (28 km) off Newtown Head, County Waterford, Ireland with the loss of eighteen of her nineteen crew.[204][205][206]
The cargo ship ran aground in the Forcados River, Nigeria.[208] She was abandoned by her crew on 15 July,[209] but was later reboarded.[210]Martha Woermann was finally abandoned on 23 July,[211] and was declared a total loss on 28 July.[212]
While under tow by the vessel Meteor (United States) from St. Michael to Bethel, Territory of Alaska, with two crewmen aboard, the 370-ton river barge flooded in the Bering Sea 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) off the mouth of the Yukon River. Her house was washed overboard and her hull became submerged, but Meteor rescued her crew and towed her submerged lower hull to St. Michael for salvage.[70]
The passenger ferry ran aground at Berneval-le-Grand, Seine-Inférieure, France. Her 125 passengers were able to walk ashore at low tide.[234] She was refloated on 14 August.[235]
The cargo ship ran aground in the Hai River 60 nautical miles (110 km) upstream of the Taku Forts, Tianjin, China.[246] She was refloated on 23 August.[243]
Hurricane No. 3: The fishing schooner sank in the hurricane, had been anchored off the Nantucket Lightship the night before. Lost with all six crew.[255][256]
The refrigerated cargo ship ran aground on The Stags, off Lizard Point, Cornwall. Her crew were taken off, but her officers later reboarded the ship.[261] On 8 September, they were taken off by a lifeboat.[263]Bardic was refloated on 29 September. She was towed to Falmouth, Cornwall and was beached.[264]
The cargo ship became mired in ice in the Arctic Ocean off Point Barrow in early August.[265] She was abandoned on 22 August,[253] but her crew later returned to the ship as they were unable to reach land.[266] By 21 August, she was 45 nautical miles (83 km) east of Point Barrow.[267] She had sunk by 16 September.[268]
The coaster put into Holyhead, Anglesey with a fractured main steam pipe. She was later driven ashore in Church Bay and was wrecked. All eight crew were rescued by rocket apparatus.[284]
The passenger ship put back into Heysham, Lancashire in a gale and became stranded on the north breakwater. Her passengers were transferred to Brier (United Kingdom).[288] She was refloated on 25 September.[289]
The 26.98-gross register tonschooner was wrecked on the north bank of the Snake River at Nome, Territory of Alaska, after she dragged her anchor. Deemed a threat to navigation and an obstacle to the construction of new jetties, her wreck was refloated in August 1925 and deliberately grounded on a mud flat along the river's north bank, where it was abandoned.[302]
The four-masted schooner came ashore 20 nautical miles (37 km) east of Pensacola, Florida. Her crew were rescued.[296] She was refloated on 13 October.[305]
The cargo ship ran aground 12 nautical miles (22 km) from the Manora Breakwater Lighthouse, near Karachi, India.[310] She was refloated on 22 October.[311]
Carrying five passengers, a crew of four, and a cargo of 12 tons of general merchandise, the 32-gross register ton, 54.8-foot (16.7 m) motorschooner became frozen in ice in Kotzebue Sound about 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) off the coast of the Territory of Alaska and about 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) from Cape Espenberg and was abandoned without loss of life, becoming a total loss.[41]
While anchored in the roadstead at Nome, Territory of Alaska, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) west of the mouth of the Snake River with no cargo or crew aboard, the 39-ton barge broke loose from her moorings during a gale, was driven ashore, and was broken apart by waves.[41]
The barge sank in a gale after her tug Kingfisher's (United States) steering became disabled between New York City and Rockland, Maine. Her crew abandoned ship in a lifeboat, but were lost.[345]
The barge sank in a gale after her tug Kingfisher's (United States) steering became disabled between New York City and Rockland, Maine. Her crew was rescued by Kingfisher.[346]
The steam passenger ferry struck the breakwater in the harbor at Newhaven, Sussex, stern-first. The tugsAlert and Richmere (both United Kingdom) came to her assistance, but Richmere was disabled, dashed against the harbor wall, and sunk. Dieppe docked five hours later. She was repaired and returned to service.[359]
The tug was disabled when a cable became entangled around her propeller while she was coming to the assistance of the steam passenger ferry Dieppe (United Kingdom), which had struck the breakwater in the harbor at Newhaven, Sussex. Richmere was dashed against the harbor wall, and sank. Her crew was rescued by the Newhaven Lifeboat Sir Fitzroy Clayton (Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Richmere later was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[359]
The barque collided with the fishing vessel Ibis (Sweden) off Skagen, Denmark and sank with the loss of seven crew. Survivors were rescued by Ibis.[202]
The cargo ship was driven aground on the Big Rock, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.[389] All crew except her officers were taken off.[388] She was refloated on 8 February 1925.[390]
The cargo ship ran aground at Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland.[391] She was driven further up the shore on 27 December.[392] She was refloated on 9 May 1925.[393]
The 63-ton barge was wrecked at "Bluff Point" on the coast of the Territory of Alaska. The wreck report does not specify at which of many locations of the name the wreck took place.[409]
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