| A-1 HMS | The first British designed and built submarine to join the Royal Navy (completed 23rd July 1903 and joining shortly afterwards). 200 tons. Lost with all hands after being accidentally rammed off the Nab light vessel at the eastern entrance to Spithead, by the 5.883 ton Union and Castle ship Berwick Castle. The Captain thought he had struck a practice torpedo and did not stop. She was raised during August and put back into service for training and experimental work. | |
| A-10 | [Michael Tolhuisen:] A-10, torpedoboat, built by Vulcan Werft in 1915; 46x6m;displ. 80 ton; Single screw; 15knots; She was in service in Ostend from 1915 till 1918 for the Deutsche Kaiserliche Marine, until she hit a mine, not far from her Ostend home port. | |
| A-10 HMS | British A-class submarine from WWI, built by Vickers Armstrong; 100x11.5x11.5 ft. Displacement 165 tons (185 submerged). On 17th March 1917 she sunk after water entered the torpedo tubes. | |
| A-13 | [Tony Allen:]A-13, German, A1 class Torpedo Boat Bombed during night raid at Ostend by British Handley-Page 0/100 aircraft. | |
| A-15 | A-1 class torpedoboat, 110 brt (137 brt) built by Stettiner Oderwerke, Stettin, Germany; Ships number 668. (10.07.1915). 41,58x4,60x1,52 m Armament: one 5.2 cm SKL/55 (TK - 5L/40 (120), two 45 cm T.T., 4 mines & sweeping material. One propellor 1.8 meter diameter. Basis Oostende. On 22nd August 1915 Kapt. z. s. Gutermann, reported 2 torpedoboats near the Middelkerkebank. They were the French ORIFLAMME and BRANLEBAS. The A-15 tried to go for cover under the German coast defence, but was sunk after only 15 minutes. The range of fire was 1.600 meter and A-15 was hit by a dozen of direct hits and sunk aft first, where she was hit by a torpedo. Nine crew were rescued near the Oostendebank by A-12. (Chart position: 51°18' N - 02°49' E. ) | |
| A-19 | A-19, German, A1 class Torpedo Boat. Sunk by British destroyers off the Flanders coast with 19 dead. See A-15 for pictures. | |
| A-2 | [Tony Allen:]A-2, German, A1 class Torpedo Boats Sunk by the British destroyers HMS Laforey, Lawford, Leonidas and Lark after they (A-2 and A-6) had sunk a British trawler in the North Sea. | |
| A-3 HMS | Lost with all hands after a collision with HMS Hazard, depot ship, during exercises near the East Princes buoy, Bembridge, Isle of Wight. | |
| A-50 | [Tony Allen:]A-50, German, Class A26 Torpedo Boat Mined in the North Sea with 18 dead. | |
| A-58 | [Tony Allen:]A-58, German A56 Class Motor Torpedo Boat. Mined off the Flanders Coast. 3 dead. | |
| A-6 | [Tony Allen:]A-6, German, A1 class Torpedo Boats. Sunk by the British destroyers HMS Laforey, Lawford, Leonidas and Lark after they (A-2 and A-6) had sunk a British trawler in the North Sea. | |
| A-60 | [Tony Allen:]A-60, German, A26 class Torpedo Boat Mined off the Flanders coast with 17 dead. | |
| A-7 | [Tony Allen:]A-7 sunk by the French destroyers Bouclier and Capitaine Mehl off the Belgian coast with the loss of 23 crew. | |
| A-7 HMS | [Other Source:]Royal Navy submarine. Lost with all eleven hands from a so-far unknown cause in Whitsand Bay while exercising with surface ships, but it is suspected that there may have been an accident involving the hydroplanes which were being tested at the time.[Tony Allen:]Vessel is 94 feet in length. | |
| A-73 | [Tony Allen:]A73, German, Torpedo Boat, Mined in the North Sea with 40 dead. | |
| A-75 | [Tony Allen:]German Motor Torpedo Boat mined in the North Sea 12 dead. | |
| A-77 | [Tony Allen:]A-77, German, A56 class Torpedo Boat Mined in the North Sea with 33 dead. | |
| A-79 | [Tony Allen:]A-79, German A56 Class Torpedo Boat. Mined North Sea. 53 dead. | |
| A-8 HMS | Sank in Plymouth Sound after an explosion, during exercises. | |
| Aase SS | [Tony Allen:]Aase was a Danish Steam Freighter built in 1924. She was on route from VALENCIA for BRISTOL carrying fresh fruit when she was torpedoed bu U-37. 15 crew lost 1 crew saved. | |
| Abbe Garos | French trawler sunk in dec 1991 in the Mellick project ; 14m; 35 tons. | |
| Abbotsford SS (+1875) | [Tony Allen:]Ran aground at Wylfa Head, Anglesey, Wales in fog on the 21st July 1875. | |
| Abbotsford SS (+1940) | [Marcel Bul:]Abbotsford SS, SD-2; ex-Cyrille Daneels. Owned by George Gibson & Co. Leith.Built by Goole Ship Building & Repairing Co Ltd at Goole in 1924, dimensions: 76.40m length, 11.58m-beam & 4.40m draught. Engine Triple expansion 240hp & speed of 10.5-knots Torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-14 (Wohlfarth)in the North Sea N of Zeebruge, while sailing independently on a voyage from Ghent to Grangemouth, with a cargo of steel and flax. The ship was damaged by a torpedo at 23:30 CET, 9 March 1940, in German naval grid AN 8730. U-14 then proceeded and sank the SS Akeld at 23:45 CET. NE of Zeebrugge, which was following the other ship. The master and eleven crewmembers from SS Akeld were lost. At 23:55 CET SS Abbotsford was hit with a torpedo finishing shot. The ship sank on 10 March shortly after midnight. The ship was reported missing on 11 March. The sinking could only have been done by U-14 which at that time was operating in that area. The Master Alexander John Watson, and crew of 17 were lost. Casualties from the SS Abbotsford are commemorated is on the Tower Hill Memorial on Panel No. 1. [Marcel Bul Deutsch:]Bei Unternehmungen vor Cross Sand und in den Hoofden versenkt am U-14 (Kptlt. Wohlfarth) 4 Schiffe mit 5302 BRT: De Vecht (7-3-40), Borthwick(9-3-40) SS Abbotsford (10-3-40), SS Akeld (10-3-40). Abbotsford 1585 BRT 1924 gebaut, wurde durch U-14 mit Torpedo auf Pos 51.44 N 03.22 E versenkt. | |
| Abeja | [Tony Allen:]Abeja was a sailing vessel of 174grt and a British Merchant ship. On the 9th March 1917 when 20 miles SW ½ S from Start Point, Devon she was captured by submarine and sunk by gunfire. | |
| Abeona SS | Built 1880; sunk due to collision 10th September 1883 with the Beryl; | |
| Aberdeenshire SS | [Tony Allen:]Aberdeenshire SS; 213 grt; 1900 by Mackie & Thomson, Govan; single-screw; 50 hp triple expansion, single boiler; for Shire Steam Fishing Co. Ltd., Govan; The Aberdeen steam trawler Aberdeenshire, under the command of Captain J Wells, ran aground between Craig Snow and Dundonnie, 1 mile south of Boddam on the 21st October 1910, her crew of nine were rescued. | |
| Abessinia SS | [HSAC:]5.753 ton German steamer, built 1900. 541ftx51ft. 642hp triple-expansion engines. Abessinia was en route with general cargo from Chile for Germany, when, on 3th September 1921, she sunk, after hitting Knivestone Rock in Farne Islands. | |
| Abosso SS | [Tony Allen:]Abosso SS, South African merchant ship, Owned by the Elder-Dempster Line. Built 1912. She was torpedoed and sunk west of Fastnet, Ireland. Loss of 65 lives. | |
| Aboukir HMS | British Navy armoured cruiser, built in 1900 by Fairfield Co. 12.000 tons, 154mx33m, 21.000 ihp 21.6 knots, triple expansion engines, Belleville boilers, two 9,2 in guns, twelve 6 in, twelve 12 pdr, three 3 pdr, 2TT. Torpedoed on 22nd sept 1914 by U-9. The U-9 was responsible for the killing of 1459 man in one single day, sending Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue or a total of 36.000 tons to the bottom. See documents for more info. | |
| Abukir SS | [Other Source:] Ministry of Shipping (General Stm Nav. Co.); 1920; Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson; 694 tons; 173.5x28.1x12.9 ft; 97 nhp; triple expansion engines. The Egyptian ship Abukir came under British flag early in the Second World War and was managed by the General Steam Navigation Co. She was torpedoed and sunk by a German motor torpedo boat on May 28th, 1940, in the North Sea. [Arnaud Collard:] Dans la nuit du 28 au 29 mai les britaniques perdirent 2 navires de transports : le thuringia et l'abukir.l'Abukir (commandé par R-M.Wolfenden) sortait du port d'Oostende´ou il avait évacué 210 soldat britaniques, un nombre inconnu d'aviateur belge paeti ce battre en angleterre ainsi que des religieuses britaniques d'un couvent bruggeois. Il fut coulé par un schnellboot : le S-34 sous le commandement du ''Oblt.z.S.Obermaier.''. l'attaque commença a quelque milles de la boué du westhinder; le schnellboot tira 3 torpilles en vain : l'aboukir les evita toutes. mais la 4° fut la bonne et l'aboukir sombra en quelque minutes . il n'y a eu que 32 survivants dont le commandant et 2 religieuses recueilli par le H.M.S. JAGUAR , H.M.S. CODRINGTON , H.M.S. JAVELIN ET H.M.S. GRENADE qui etaient en route pour dunkerke . | |
| Aburi SS | [Tony Allen:]Aburi SS, South African merchant ship, built in 1906 and owned by the Elder Dempster Line. Torpedoed and sunk off Ireland; loss of 25 lives. | |
| Acadian SS | [Tony Allen:]Acadian, 2,305grt, defensively-armed British Merchantman on the 16 September 1918, was torpedoed and sunk 11 miles SW by W from Trevose Head, Cornwall, UK. 25 lives lost including Master. | |
| Acasta HMS | British navy destroyer; 1927; John Brown & Co; 1.350 tons; 101x10 m, 34.000 ihp, 35 knots, turbine engines, 3 drum boilers, four 4.7 in guns, two 2pdr, 5m.g., 8 TT. The destroyers Acasta and Ardent were escorting aircraft carrier Glorious off Narvik, when the German battleships Gneisenau ans Sharnhorst surprised them and sunk all three of them. The loss of life was serious, 1,515 men lost their lives. Two merchantman Orama and Oil Pioneer were sunk at the same time. (see also Glorious HMS) | |
| Acclivity | [Tony Allen:]Small oil tanker that went down in 1952, still intact. | |
| Acheron HMS | British Navy Destroyer; 1927; Thornycraft & Co; 1.350 tons; 99x10 m; 34.000shp; 35 knots; turbine engines; 3 drum boilers; four 4,7 in guns, two 2pdr, 5 m.g., 8TT. The destroyer Acheron, Lt. R. J. Wilson, hit a mine and sank off the Isle of Wight on December 17th, 1940 with the loss off 6 officers, incl Lt. Wilson and 145 ratings. Two officers and 13 ratings were wounded. | |
| Achille Adam SS | British steamer; 460 tons; 60m | |
| Achilles 2 | ACHILLES (2) was built in 1900 by Scott & Co. at Greenock with a tonnage of 7043grt, a length of 442ft, a beam of 52ft 7in and a service speed of 10 knots. Costing £89,142 she entered service in 1900. In April 1915 she was requisitioned for Admiralty duties carrying Indian troops between Alexandria and the Dardanelles during which time she came under attack from Turkish batteries when two persons were killed. She next acted as a reception ship for wounded troops and later rescued 29 survivors from the torpedoed troopship Royal Edward which had sunk in the Aegean Sea on 13th August 1915 with the loss of 132 lives. On 31st march 1916, during a voyage from Sydney and Cape Town to London and Liverpool with cereals and wool, she was torpedoed and sunk by U-44 ninety miles west north west of Ushant with the loss of five lives. | |
| Acorn | [Tony Allen:]Acorn, a sailing vessel of 97grt was captured and sunk by gunfire 26th September 1917, 20 miles S by E from Start Point, Devon. | |
| Activ (+1983) | Een bijzonder zware tocht maakte de 'Suzanna' op 1 februari 1983, toen tijdens een zware noordwesterstorm met uitschieters tot windkracht twaalf de Deense schoener 'Activ' op circa vijftien mijl noordwestnoord van Den Helder met man en muis verging. Om tien voor twee 's-middags gaf het schip noodseinen. Hierop vertrokken helikopters van de MLD en de 'Suzanna' van Den Helder en ook het fregat Hr.Ms. Evertsen spoedde zich naar de plaats des onheils. Schipper Kramer van de Suzanna besloot via het Westgat naar buiten te gaan. Er stond een geweldige zee en dwars van de Zuiderhaaksboei werd de 'Suzanna' door zware grondzeeën twee maal plat op haar zij gegooid. De slagzij werd op circa 100° geschat en de motoren waren door de automatische kwikschakelaars gestopt. De bemanning kreeg de motoren weer snel aan de praat en de boot kon met alleen wat schade aan de mast haar tocht voort zetten . Van het fregat kreeg men het bericht dat de 'Activ' inmiddels gezonken was en er niets meer te redden viel. Wel haalde een heli nog iemand uit het water, maar die bleek al overleden. Vanwege de wel zeer zware zeegang kon de 'Suzanna' niet door de zeegaten terug naar binnen. De storm werd buiten af gereden en pas na 27 uur na haar vertrek kon de Suzanna behouden te Den Helder terug keren. | |
| Activ SS (+1881) | Steamer of 337 tons, 146.4 ftx21.1 ftx12.2 ft Sunk: Foundered 1881 | |
| Adamantious-J Pithis SS | [Tony Allen:]Adamantious-J Pithis SS. (Pithos) Greek ship, built Glasgow 1908. (ex Baron Minto). 385'x 51'x 26'ft. Vessel was on route from Rosario to Sharpness loaded with grain when she ran aground. | |
| Adamantious-Lemos SS | Adamantious Lemos - formerly known as 'Rockabill' - sank 25-1-1921 - admiralty numbers 49-26-290/2-54-690 (accurate). L90m B12.2m D5.8m 2.485 tons. | |
| Adams SS | [Other Source:]Sunk on 17th October 1917 by U-62 12 miles south of Helston, Cornwall.[Tony Allen:]Adams SS, a 2.223 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 17/10/1917, 6 miles SE by E from the Lizard, Cornwall. | |
| Adansi SS | [Tony Allen:]Adansi SS, built 1901, owned by the Elder-Dempster Line. Torpedoed and sunk off Ireland. | |
| Adder | Netherlands Navy, monitor ram; 1871; Rijkswerf Amsterdam; 1.566 tons; 210x42; 9 knots; pne 11 in. Gun, several smaller. The Dutch monitor-ram Adder, Lt. Cdr E.S. van der Aa, foundered in a gale in the North Sea off Scheveningen on July 7th, 1882. The vessel probably capsized, as she was of low freeboard with a heavy gun turret of 9 in. thickness of iron forward. Her complement was about 150 officers and men, of whom 65 were drowned. [Hans van der Weide:]Gebouwd in 1871 door Rijkswerf Amsterdam. Een ram-monitor, een laag op het water liggend gepantserd vaartuig bestemd voor de verdediging van de Nederlandse kustgaten. Ze had één 11 in gun. Volgens een verslag uit 1880 waren monitors geen zeeschepen maar drijvende batterijen. De eerste 5 waren in Engeland gebouwd, de volgende 6 in Nederland. Tijdens een opkomende storm sloegen de dekluiken eraf. De ramp kostte 65 mensen (van de 150) het leven. Ze was een zusterschip van de ''Buffel'' die momenteel in Rotterdam ligt. Niemand heeft de ramp gezien, door een comunicatiefout werd het schip ook niet vermist. Op 8 juli 1881 spoelde het stoffelijk overschot van een van de opvarenden aan bij Ter Heijden, waarna men pas besefte wat er was gebeurd. Deze ramp was de aanleiding om in 1883 'het houden van een uitkijk en het rapporteren van in nood verkerende schepen' op te dragen aan het personeel van de Kustverlichting, dus in feite het begin van de Kustwacht.'' | |
| Adept | [Tony Allen:]Adept was 156.5 feet in length. | |
| Adgiluus | [Tony Allen:]Adgiluus was a barque rigged ship | |
| Adieu Va | French dundee; 64 tons; Sunk by submarine gunfire on 15/03/1917 | |
| Admiral | [Tony Allen:]""Admiral"" was a tug of 102grt. On the 2 July 1918, 2 miles N from Flamborough Head, she was captured by a submarine, sunk by gunfire. | |
| Admiral Courbet | [Tony Allen:]Admiral Courbet, Steel barque, 2.233 tons. Built at Nantes, France, 1900. Dimesions 277.9 x 40.6 x 22.6 feet. From Cork, Ireland, to Albany, Western Australia, stranded and lost on the Irish coast near Cork, 20 October 1915. | |
| Admiral Gardner | 813 tons. Foundered of Goodwin Sands on outward leg of journey. Coins are alleged to be on the vessel dating from 1808. C/O William Eastfield. | |
| Admiral Moorsum SS | [Tony Allen:]Admiral Moorsum was built in 1860. Operated as a ferry between Holyhead-and Dublin. In 1885 sunk in collision on route. Sank in the Irish Sea. Was owned by the London & North Western Railway Company. | |
| Admiralengracht | [Hans Van der Weide:]Sunk after a collision in fog with the British MS Dewsbury on route from Antwerp to London. | |
| Adolf Vinnen | 5 Masted Schooner (262 ftx34 ftx19.2 ft) of 1.525 tons. Sunk: 1923, Driven aground. | |
| Adroit | Launched 1st April 1927. This destroyer took part on the expedition of Flessingue 10th May. She was nominated twice in the French Army. Dimensions: 107,2x9,8 m. She was built in the 1923/24 period . She weighted 1.900 tons brt and had a speed of 33 knots. Armament: four 130mm, two 37mm A.A., six T.T. Complement: 7 officers and 133 crew. On May 20th, around 23hrs, she was waiting the exit of big petrol ship SALOME (finished in Chantiers de France) , in company of two other destroyers, when German planes attacked. One plane hit her with a bomb that transversed her and created an explosion just before the bridge. One third of the ship was ripped off and she was beached for Malo-les-Bains at 0hrs35 where she was on fire. As she had just been reloaded with ammunition and torpedoes for a mission on the Scheldt estuary, the crew abandonned ship and locals of Malo-les-Bains were also evacuated. At 2hrs30 the ship was destroyed by seven explosions. The impressive wreck was later the object of photographers. Captain Dupin de Saint-Cyr and crew joined fort Mardyck to continue service on the coast battery (194 mm). The Adroit was later heavily salvaged. | |
| Advent SS | Steamer; 848 tons; 70m; Sunk on 27/09/1917 | |
| Affleck HMS | HMS Capel 1.089 tons and HMS Affleck 1.300 tons, destroyer escorts were both sunk by U-486 in English Channel. Survivors were picked up by American MTB's and taken to captured German naval hospital at Cherbourg. | |
| Affray HMS | [Other Source:] Royal Navy Submarine, lost in English Channel, lying in 330 feet. The exact cause has not been established beyond doubt but the snorkel mast was found to have broken off. Further salvage operations had to be were abandoned as the safety of the salvers could not be guaranteed. [Tony Allen:] Failed to surface after a training exercise. Crew of 75 lost. A Class submarine built 12 Apr 1945. | |
| Afghanistan SS | Built by Richardson, Duck & Co for the British & Eastern Shipping Co in 1888. The iron, four-masted barque with a crew of 32 was bound from Hamburg to San Diego, when -on the night of 3rd June 1905- she encountered dense fog off Dungeness. She dropped anchor and sounded the fog bell. At the same time, the Channel fleet was crossing that area at a speed of 12knots. The battleship Caesar (flagship) collided with the Afghanistan and Afghanistan sunk immediately. The loss of life amounted to 18 (including Capt. Craigie), mostly Scandinavian and Dutch seamen. At the same time, the battleship Hannibal fouled the German schooner Emma Louise and the battleships Triumph and Swiftsure came into collision. This was the worst series of accidents to a British squadron for many years. | |
| Afric SS | [Tony Allen:] The ''Afric'' was built by Harland & Wolff Ltd. in Belfast for the White Star Line's Australian trade in 1899. Her tonnage was 11,948 tons gross, 11,183 under deck and 7,804 net. She was 550.2 feet long, 63.3 foot beam and holds 31.9 feet deep. She had one funnel, four masts, 3 decks, and refrigerated cargo space for the carriage of frozen meat. She had a quadruple expansion engine built by Harland & Wolff, with 8 cylinders of 22, 31 1/2, 46 & 67 inches diameter each pair and stroke 51 inches. The engine delivered 642 nominal horsepower with twin screws and a speed of 14 knots. There was accommodation for 350 single-class passengers. She commenced her maiden voyage on 8th Feb. 1899 when she left Liverpool on a trial run to New York, after which she returned to Belfast for some months to allow alterations to be carried out. On 9th Sept. 1899 she sailed from Liverpool for Cape town, Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. She carried troops for the Boer War. She continued on the Australia service until 12th Feb. 1917 when she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UC-66 off the Eddystone Rock in the English Channel with the loss of 22 people. Call sign: QRJD. Official registration #: 110537. Owners: ''Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. (Ismay, Imrie & Co., managers)''. Port of was Liverpool. | |
| African Transport SS | [Tony Allen:]African Transport, 4,482grt, 385 feet, defensively-armed, 25 June 1918, 3 miles North from Whitby, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 3 lives lost. | |
| Afridi | [Tony Allen:]Have Wk as 250 feet and 872 tons. | |
| Afton SS | [Tony Allen:]Afton was a 1.156grt British Nerchant ship. On the 15th February 1917 when 23 miles N by E from Strumble Head, Wales she was captured by submarine, sunk by bombs. | |
| Agate | [Tony Allen:]Agate ran aground of the Isles of Islay, Hebrides in 1940. Vessel was 397 tons and 199.4 feet in length. | |
| Agberi SS | [Tony Allen:]Agberi SS. Built 1905. Torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Wales, united Kingdom. No loss of life. | |
| Agios Minas | [Tony Allen:]Agios Minas was 1395 tons and 307.5 feet in length. Ran aground in 1968. | |
| Agnita | Agnita; Cargo ship; 1931; 3522 tons; by Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd; Owner: NV Petroleum Maatschappij LA CORONA | |
| Agnus Dei | French small wooden trawler; 10m. Sunk after hitting a buouy. | |
| Agricola | [Tony Allen:] Agricola as a sailing vessel of 49grt. On 12th September 1917, 15 miles WNW from Lundy Island, Bristol Channel, she was captured by a submarine and sunk by bombs. | |
| Aguila SS | [Tony Allen:]On the 27th March 1915 AGUILA Steam liner was 47 miles S.W. of Smalls Light House, Pembrokeshire outward bound for Lisbon and Canary's when she was torpedoed by U-28 and sunk. Aguila was 2.114grt. 8 lives lost. | |
| Ahdeek | [Tony Allen:]Ahdeek hit a reef and sank in 1898. Vessel was 998 tons and 245.6 feet. | |
| Ailsa Craig SS | British armed steamer sunk in 1918. | |
| Ailsa SS | [Tony Allen:]Ailsa SS was built originally as Rose in 1867 by Blackwood & Gordon of Glasgow. Owned by Ayr Steam & Shipping Cpy. Carrying a general cargo plus 1 passenger at the time of the grounding. | |
| Aircraft Graveyard | The Aircraft Graveyard: A World War Two mystery lies about a mile out to sea from the westerly tip of Burgh Island. | |
| Ajax (+1854) | Sunk: 1854, Ran aground. | |
| Ajax (+1940) | Koninkl. Nederl. Stoomb. Maats. N.V.; 1923; Hamburger-Elbe Schiffsw.; 942 tons; 221.1x34.5x13.4; 126 nhp; triple expansion engines. The Dutch ship Ajax was on her way via Southampton to Falmouth, when she was bombed and sunk by German aircraft on August 8th, 1940, between Southampton and Falmouth. Four of the crew were killed. | |
| Akaroa | [Ole Felix Dahl:]Akaroa was build for Albion line in 1881 by Osborne Sunderland. She was sold to my grandfathers norwegian company (Engelhart Steam Ship Co.) in 1904. Akaroa was sunk by a german submarine, whitch used three torpedoes to sink the sail vessel. While sailing underneith Akaroa the sub managed to destroy its periscope. The whole crew at Akaroa went into the two life boats. They sailed and rowed towards the French coast and reached the shore after 36 hours. | |
| Akeld SS | [Martien Slaats:]Akeld was torpedoed by U-14 while in convoy. See also Borthwick and Abbotsford. [Tony Allen:]Akeld was built in 1922 and was 643 tons. She was carrying a general cargo from ROTERDAM for NEWCASTLE when she was torpedoed by U-14. 13 crew lost. | |
| Akka | [HSAC:]5.409 ton, 12,5 knots, oil engines. Swedish motor vessel, built 1942. 434ftx56ft. Twin six-cylinder oil engines. Iron ore, Oxeloesund, Sweden for Glasgow. 9 April, 1956, by striking Gantock Rocks, Firth of Clyde due to steering problems. Six killed out of crew of 33. | |
| Akranes SS | [British Diver:]Akranes SS; 1929 Cochrane & Sons Ktd., Selby; Royal Navy ; 358 tons; 42.77 x 7.62 x 4.01 m; 3cyl. triple expansion; Deck gun; The fishing trawler Akranes, originally registered at grimsby, and owned by Consolidated Fisheries Ltd, was hired by the admiralty as a mine sweeper from August 1939, which foundered following attack by german aircraft. After being taken into Royal Navy service, she was made command vessel of a group of three mine sweeping trawlers, employed in sweeping the channel between Flamborough Head and Sheringham. This trawler was at anchor off Danes Dyke, south of Flamborough Head at night, with the trawlers Sandringham and Almandine, following the days mine sweeping work. The Almandine was guard ship for the night, shortly after midnight a German aircraft approached very low, the gunners assumed it to be an allied plane returning from a raid, they soon discovered otherwise. The plane dropped two bombs, neither of which exploded, but cannon fire ripped through Akranes deck and caused her to sink, leaving her wheelhouse and forecastle awash. The crew escaped in their own lifeboat. | |
| Aksai SS | Steamer, 281.3 ftx33.2 ftx21.7 ft. Sunk in 1875. Ran aground. | |
| Alabama CSS | [CERES:]Three masted steaming American barque, built in wood with a cupper protection, in 1862 at Laird's yard in Birkenhead, England with the name ''290''. Dimensions: 64x9,8x5,25m, displacement 1.023 tons. The wreck was found in November 1984 by Pascal Palmer, with the minesweeper Circe, under the command of Capt. Duclos. (There is a large story description in ''disaster at sea during the age of steam''.)[Le Grizzly:]Alabama CSS; Américain (sudiste);Corvette;Deux machines horizontales de 150 CH; 154 tx; 66,77 x 9,61 m; combat naval, le 19/06/1864; 49° 44.685’ N - 1° 42.142’ W; | |
| Alarm SS | [Tony Allen:]The Alarm was built by W.H. Potter & Sons, in Liverpool, 1885. This iron hulled vessel was owned by Mersey Docks & Harbour Board. She was built as a steam watch vessel; moreover, she was to act as a mobile navigation warning system. In 1899 her boiler and steam engine were removed. She was converted to a static light-vessel and was positioned as the North West light. Her transformation also included being fitted with a clockwork-operated light and a steam-operated fog horn, as well as a large 3cwt bell for use as an additional fog warning. On August of 1911 the Alarm received severe damage to her port side after colliding with the steamer Pacuare. All 18 of the crew got off safely before she sank; which took about 3 minutes. The wreck is upright and has a rudder but no prop. Remains of her large foghorns are visible and, while part of her port side has collapsed, her hull is still intact. | |
| Alastor SS | [Tony Allen:]In 1927, yacht builders Camper and Nicholson had launched the Vita, a luxury motor yacht, largely designed by Tommy Sopwith. To suit this man of speed, it was meant to be fast, but was perhaps not fast enough for him, as within two years he had sold her to Sir John Shelley-Rolls. He renamed her Alastor, after a poem by his ancestor, Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Ministry of War Transport acquired her for use as a stores ferry, carrying supplies out to Naval vessels at the entrance to Strangford Loch for refuelling and reprovisioning. She carried out this service throughout the war, but on 11 March, 1946, it was decided that the shabby vessel needed repainting before being handed back to her owner. She was moored some 80m off Ringhaddy Quay for her crew to start work. Whether the fire that broke out in the galley was the result of a pre-paint brew-up, no one appears to know, but it destroyed the interior and the Alastor sank five days later. All six crew escaped unhurt. | |
| Alaunia SS | 13.405 ton Cunard liner, built 1913. 520ftx64ft. 1324hp quadruple-expansion engines. 8.000 tons general, New York to London. 180 passengers landed at Falmouth. Of 166 crew, two killed. 19 October, 1916 by hitting a German mine. | |
| Albanian SS | [Tony Allen:]Albanian SS was 1417 tons. Dimensions: 292x31x23 feet. Sank in collision with the vessel Nydia on 18/11/1877. | |
| Albany | [Tony Allen:]Albany ran aground in 1908 on Tangytavil, North Machrihanis, Kintrye, Scotland. 120 feet in length. | |
| Albert C Field SS | Upper Lakes & St. Lawrence Transp. Co.; 1923; Furness S.B. Co; 1.764 tons; 252.5x43.3x17.8; 111 nhp; triple expansion engines. The Canadian ship Albert C. Field was torpedoed by a German aircraft on June 18th, 1944 off St. Catherine's Point. She sank in 3 minutes. Four of the crew and some other personnel was lost. | |
| Albertville SS | Cie. Maritime Belge (Loyd Royal) S.A.; 1928; Ateliers & Chantiers de la Loire; 11.047 tons; 521.8x62x24; 1.556 nhp; quadruple expansion engines. The Belgian steamship Albertville was a passengership and was bombed and sunk by German aircraft off Le Havre on June 11th 1940. There were no casualties. | |
| Albia SS | [Tony Allen:]Albia SS was built 1890 by Tynr Iron Shipbuilding Cpy of Necastle upon Tyne. Grossed 1806 ton and measured 260'x36.7'x18.8' feet. Powered by a three cylinder triple expansion steam engine generating 184HP. She was carrying a cargo of copper ore from Euelva to Derry when she hit the south side of Allen Rock. | |
| Albuerra | British tanker 3477 tons, sunk off Dungeness by German Motor Torpedo Boat S-36. | |
| Alcantara AMS SS | [Tony Allen:]Sunk by the German cruiser Greif in the North Sea. PA 70 miles NE of the Shetlands. | |
| Alcedo SS | [Tony Allen:]Alcedo SS was built in 1891 by Scott & Co,Bowling. Measurements were 164 tons 32x6.12x2.66 metres. Powered by a 2 cylinder compound steam engine. Ran aground on her maiden voyage, carrying a cargo of coal from Carrickfergus to Glasgow. | |
| Alcoa Leader | [Tony Allen:]Alcoa Leader; Sank off Normandy. | |
| Alcyone | [Tony Allen:]Alcyone SS, a sailing vessel of 116 grt, was captured by a submarine and sunk by charges, October 7th 1917, 12 miles WNW from Boulogne. | |
| Aldershot SS | [Tony Allen:]Probably this must be Aldershot SS instead of Aldershort SS.[Other soucrce:]British steamer, built by Ropner & Son for the Watts & Co Ltd, 1897, 2.177 tons; 83.35x12.8x5.58m; 201 hp; iron; triple expansion engines; complement of 27. On 19th September 1918, Aldershort, Capt. Henry Hunter, quit Glasgow to Nantes with a cargo of 2.830 tons coal and 2 boilers. On 23rd at 17h10, while sailing between St Nazaire and Nantes at 7 knots, she was torpedoed amidships at her port side by UB-113. She was at 5 miles E by SE from Dartmouth. Her engines were stopped immediately and the engine room was quicky evacuated as water poored in. At 17h20 all crew was evacuated in the life boats, except for one man who was thrown over board by the huge water wave from the explosion. Very quickly some patrol boats came on the site and a number of dept-charges were send down. Airplane DH-6 dropped charges on what he believed to be a periscope. After 10 minutes, ALDERSHORT went down. The survivors were taken on board of the patrol boats ML-490 & 461 and landed at Dartmouth. After that date, nothing was ever heard of UB-113, the DH-6 might have hit her. In 1989, remains of a submarine were found not far away from the ALDERSHORT. | |
| Alert HMS (+1945) | The Cableship ''Alert'' was launched in 1918 and was constructed by Messrs Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson. Along with the new cableship ''Monarch'', the ''Alert'' was designed to operate in shallow waters only. Her gross tonnage was 941 and the 105 horse power engines were able to drive the twin-screws up to a maximum speed of 10.5 knots. The ship was constructed from steel and had a clipper stem with cable sheaves and a cruiser type stern. Originally she was coal-fired, but was converted to oil fuel in 1920. Three cable tanks of 10.160 cubic feet total capacity were fitted. These could hold up to 81 miles of single core cable, 54 of 4 core or 35 of 6 or 7 core. As a result of other demands during World War I she had to be equipped with the very old and almost broken down cable gear from the first Cableship ''Alert''. This largely impeded her operational capabilities until it was replaced in 1921 by more modern gear. After 27 years service, on 24 February 1945, shortly before VE Day, the Cableship ''Alert'' was sunk while repairing the Dumpton Gap - La Panne cable in the Straits of Dover. All 59 hands - officers and men - were lost. | |
| Alex Van Opstal | The Alex van Opstal MV, 5.965 tons was built in 1937 for CMB and was the first victim of the war. She was torpedoed and sunk on 15th September 1939, two weeks into the 2nd World War. She had oil burning engines and a top speed of 15 knots. Her captain received orders to proceed to Weymouth to be inspected by the British Authorities before continuing her voyage. On board were her crew of 49 and 8 passengers. On the 15th September 1939, she had arrived just south of Portland when at 5:55pm, there was an explosion near the number two hatch. She lifted 6-7 feet out of the water as a result, fell back and broke her back between the front of the bridge and the number three hold. It is thought that she hit a mine. | |
| Alfonso Tercero | Cargo of 692 brt, built in 1960 by Ast. del Cadugua, Bilbao, for Cia. Maritima Golfo de Viscaya, Bilbao, Spain. Op 11th March, 1969 she was sunk 5 miles North of the Lightship NOORD-HINDER, after collision in dense fog with the Swedish MS BRASILIA (10.228 brt, 1960); She was on voyage Antwerp-Bilbao, with general cargo and textile. | |
| Alfred Earlandsen | [Tony Allen:]Alfred Earlandsen was 954 tons and 207.6 feet. | |
| Algarve | [Tony Allen:] Algarve, 1.274grt, defensively armed, 20 October 1917, 15 miles WSW from Portland Bill, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 21 lives lost including Master. | |
| Algerian SS | British steamer, defensively armed merchantman of 3.837 tons, 364x45x45 was sunk by a mine in 1916. | |
| Algiers SS | [Tony Allen:]Algiers was a 2.361grt defensively-armed British Merchant ship. On the 26th February 1917 when 3 miles S from Owers Light Vessel, English Channel she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 8 lives lost. | |
| Alice Williams | [Tony Allen:]Alice Williams was a two masted Schooner of 132 tons and 83 x 23 feet. She was carrying coal and was wrecked at Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales. | |
| Alicia | [Tony Allen:]Alicia was built in 1880 by E. Withy & Co., West Hartlepool. She was owned by the Ropner Shipping Cpy. Ex Alicia, 1887 purchased from Middleton & Co. not renamed. In 1895 she foundered after collision with SS. NETLEY ABBEY off Cromer, Norfolk, UK. | |
| Alida SCH-31 | Nets full of sand made this ship capsize. Some crewmembers went down with her. | |
| Alison SS | 28th November 1916 boarded by UB sailors and charges set. | |
| Alkmini | [Tony Allen:]Alkmini. Sank following a collision with the Spanish MV Duro Seis when on passage from Antwerp for Oran carrying paper and scrap iron. | |
| Allegrity | [Tony Allen:]Allegrity; 798 tons; 193x31; Built in 1945 as a coastal Tanker. Requisioned by MOWT and managed by Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. In 1946 renamed SOBAT and purchased by Van Castricum & Co, London. In 1951 renamed ALLEGRITY purchased by F.T.Everard & Sons, London. On the 22nd December 1961 she capsized after grounding near Falmouth. She was a total loss. | |
| Almeda Star SS | [Tony Allen:]Passenger Liner owned by the Blue Star Line under Cpt. H C Howard. On route from Liverpool to the River Plate when she was torpedoed by U-96 Cpt. Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock. | |
| Almond HMS | [Tony Allen:]Almond HMS. Built 20/8/1940. Mined off Falmouth, Cornwall on the 2nd February 1941. | |
| Aloa | French trawler sunk in dec 1991 in the Mellick project ; 14m; 29 tons. | |
| Aloha TSMY | Steel motoryacht built in 1938 at Cockerill Yards in Hoboken for Baron de Launoit from Luik; 38,5x4m; displacement of 257 tons. In May 1940 she was requisisioned by the Marine Corps. She was used to defence the coast and enter suspected cargos. During the night between 20th and 21st May, the Aloha struck a mine or was sunk by an airplane. There were no survivors. | |
| Alondra SS | [Tony Allen:]Alondra SS; Steamer; Tonnage 2.244 tonnes; LOA 91 m; Beamwidth 12.5 m; Year Built 1899; Place Built Shipyard: D.J. Dunlop; Year Sunk 29.12.1916; Place Sunk the Kedges, outside Baltimore Harbour, Cork Cause of Sinking: Ran aground in fog | |
| Alpajo | Small french vessel. | |
| Alpheraz | French polyester trawler; 11m; 9 tons. Sunk 21st November 1991 due to a fire. | |
| Alster SS | [Tony Allen:]Alster SS, a 964 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 14 January 1918, 5 miles ESE from Noss Head, Shetland. | |
| Altmark | Lost in a storm. Cargo consisted of clay. | |
| Alto SS | [Tony Allen:]Alto, 2.266grt, 16 July 1916, 4 miles off Kessingland, Suffolk, mined and sunk. | |
| Alwaki SS | [Tony Allen:]Alwaki was a Dutch Steam Freighter of 4.533 tons , built in 1922 for VAN NIEVELT, GOUDRIAAN & CO'S Stoomvaartmaatschappij, NV. She was torpedoed without warning by U-61 and sunk. | |
| Amalie | [Tony Allen:]Amalie was wrecked at Chesil Cove, Portland Bill. | |
| Amazon SS | [Tony Allen:]Amazon was a 10,037grt defensively-armed British Merchant Steamer. On the 15 March 1918 when 30 miles N by W from Malin Head, Ireland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Amazonense SS | [Tony Allen:]Amazonense SS was a steamship which sank in 1879. Weight 1791 tons, 287 feet long and 35 feet wide. A heavy fog was prevailing as she hit the rocks, and it was so sudden that one of the crew died of shock. | |
| Amber SS | [Tony Allen:]Amber SS, steamer cargo. Built by Scott & Co, Bowling for William Robertson of Glasgow. Grossed 401 tons. Dimensions: 43.40x7.64x3.25 metres. Powered:66HP two cylinder compound steam engine. Captured and scuttled by German Sub; | |
| Amberley | [HSAC:]2.405 ton mv collier, built 1953. 262ftx38ft. Eight-cylinder oil engine. Cargo: 2.290 tons coal. Goole, Humber, for Shoreham, Sussex.Coal shifted on 2 April 1973 in Force 9 off Norfolk. Sank after crew airlifted in heroic RAF helicopter rescue. | |
| Ambient SS | [Tony Allen:]Ambient was a 1.517grt British Merchant ship. On the 12th March 1917 when off Aldeburgh, Suffolk she hit a mine and sank. | |
| Ambrose Fleming | British coaler torpedoed and sunk by german e-boat. | |
| Ameland SS | Nederlandse Stoomvaart Maatschappij; 48 crew; Was torpedoed by U-10 (Over Ltn. Joachim Preuss) while sailing from Rotterdam to India with general cargo. One torpedoe was enough to make the Ameland sink. | |
| Amerskerk | [Other Source:]Vereenigde Nederl. Stoomv. Maats. 1941, 7.900 tons, oil engines. The motor vessel Amerskerk, under German control, was torpedoed and sunk by British aircraft on June 15th 1944, N. Of Schiermonikoog. (not sure if this is the same Amerskerk, to be verified, also not sure about the picture). [Willy Van Es:]Foto van Amerskerk klopt niet ik heb van 1964 t/m 1967 op de Amerskerk gevaren, die van de foto dus.[Wrecksite] Oude foto weggehaald, nieuwe foto toegestuurd door Arie De Lange, is wel correct. | |
| Amienois | French cargo; 3.713 tons. Deliberately sunk on 25th June 1940. | |
| Ammersee | The Ammersee was abandonned by her crew. As she had a cargo of 300 tons of explosives, she was gunned down by the Champenois. | |
| Amoco Cadiz | [Tony Allen:]Amoco Cadiz Tanker (1f). L/B/D: 1,095.5 × 167.6 × 85.9 (334m × 51.1m × 26.2m). Tons: 109,700 grt; 233,690 dwt. Hull: steel. Comp.: 44. Mach.: diesel, 30,400 hp, 1 screw; 15 kts. Built: Astilleros Españoles, SA, Cadiz; 1974. The very large crude carrier (VLCC) Amoco Cadiz was built to carry oil between the Persian Gulf and Europe. In early February 1978, she loaded 121,157 tons of oil at Ras Tanara, Saudi Arabia, and then topped off with 98,640 tons at Kharg Island, Iran. (A ton of crude is 7.3 barrels, or 306.6 gallons.) She left the Persian Gulf on February 7, bound for Rotterdam, via Lyme Bay, England, a customary stop to lighten tankers before the passage up the North Sea. Rounding the Cape of Good Hope on the 28th, she made a fueling stop at Las Palmas on March 11. Three days later Amoco Cadiz began to encounter heavy weather, which continued through March 16, by which point she was entering the English Channel, due into Lyme Bay later that day. At about 0916, the tanker was about eight miles north of Ushant when her steering gear failed. Although Captain Pasquale Bandari hoisted the international signal for ''Not Under Command'' almost immediately, he did not request assistance until 1120! Then his engineer determined that the damage was irreparable. The German salvage tug Pacific, under command of Captain Weinert, arrived on the scene at 1220. The first tow was secured at 1425 but parted at 1719. As Amoco Cadiz drifted toward shore, the port anchor was let go at about 2004, but it did not hold. A second tow was secured at 2023, but the sheer mass of Amoco Cadiz in the teeth of Force 10 weather conditions made it impossible for Pacific to do more than slow the ship's coastward drift. At 2104, Amoco Cadiz touched bottom for the first time, and her hull and storage tanks were ripped open. Half an hour later she grounded on Men Goulven Rocks in 48°36N, 4°46W. Her crew were rescued by helicopter. At 1000 on March 17 the vessel broke in two, spilling 223,000 tons of crude oil. The oil slick spread across 125 miles of the coast of Brittany, destroying fisheries, oyster and seaweed beds, and bathing beaches despite the efforts of 10,000 French soldiers deployed to clean the beaches. The storm continued to pound the ship, and on March 28 she broke into three sections. The French Navy subsequently destroyed the remains of the ship with depth charges. It would be another ten years before the resulting lawsuits were wound up, and in 1988 a U.S. federal judge ordered Amoco Oil Corporation to pay $85.2 million in fines—$45 million for the costs of the spill and $39 million in interest. | |
| Amor SS (+1940) | Koninkl. Nederl. Stoom Mij, 1911, Werf Ryckee & Co., Rotterdam, 2.325 tons. Sunk 11th March, 1940 near the WEST-HINDER by a mine (laid on 9th May 1940 by Schiff 11) in position 51°24'N-02°09'E(Wk29) Voyage: West-India – Amsterdam. | |
| Amphion HMS | [Steven Holt:]Amphion HMS. British Active Class Scout Cruiser; Built by the Pembroke Dockyard; Laid Down 13.3.1911 Launched 4.12.1911; Completed March 1913; 3440 displacement tons with normal load and 4000 displacement tons deep load; 406ft Length 41ft 6ins beam 15ft 7ins depth; Powered by 4 shaft Parsons turbines, 12 Yarrow boilers giving 18,000shp speed 25knots; She was equipped with ten 4inch 50calB1 MkVIII guns Four 3pdr guns and two 18inch torpedo tubes. Her complement was between 321-325; On the 5th August 1915 she was in action against the German minelayer Konigin Luise after she had sewn mines in the Thames Estuary. After the battle the Konigin Luise was sunk and Amphion together with her escort destroyers turned for home. Unfortunately the minefied was of the tethered variety and although the destroyers passed safely over it the Amphion, following them and with a much greater depth was struck. Many of the British crew were lost as well as those rescued from the Konigin Luise. | |
| Amphitrite | The three-masted Amphitrite departed on 26th August 1833 for a voyage from Woolwich to Sydney. Next to her cargo, 108 female prisoners and their 12 children were on board. After 4 days of no wind, suddenly, a westerly gale drove the ship aground on sandbanks, near Boulogne. Though the ship was lost, Captain Hunter refused to give orders to abandon ship. One French fishing boat tried to help, but captain Hunter refused any help. Another French villager swam a connecting rope from ship to shore, but the rope was found to be not large enough. Finally, the ship broke in two pieces. Out of the 137 people on board, only 3 crew managed to swim ashore and survived. The Captain, all prisoners and the children drawned. | |
| Amstel SS | [Michael Tolhuisen] SS Amstel; 1893; P.A.van Es & Co., Rotterdam; 590 tons. Lost in 1895 after leaving Rotterdam for Hamburg; 15 died. Another Amstel of the same comany was sunk by a mine in 1915. | |
| Amstelland SS | [Michael Tolhuisen] SS Amstelland; 1920; 8156 tons; Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Newcastle for the Koninklijke Hollandse Lloyd. On voyage from Falmouth to Buenos Aires Februari 26th 1941, she was attacked and heavily damaged by German planes. She sunk 28th at the Southern entrance of the Irish Sea. 1 casualty. | |
| Amstelstroom (+1948) | [Michael Tolhuisen] Amstelstroom; 1935; no.638 C.v.d.Giessen & Zn. Krimpen aan de IJssel for Hollandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij, Amsterdam; 395 tons; 55,7x8,9m; 750hp; 10kn; Amstelstrrom sunk on Juli 18th, 1948 after running aground on the rocks of Lundy Island. The crew was saved. | |
| Amstelstroom SS (+1917) | [Didier De Waele:] SS Amstelstroom; built 1910 by My voor Scheeps- & Werktuigbouw, Rotterdam;879 net tons; 86x11,3x5,6m; Triple expansion engines; 1.700hp; 13knots; Cargo and passenger ship for 12 1st class passengers; SS Amstelstroom was en route from Amsterdam to London, when on March 23rd 1917, she was attacked by German torpedoboats V-44, G-86 and G-87, 40 miles NW from Ijmuiden. 3 people died in the attack. Heavily damaged, she continued floating for 4 days, when on March 27th, she was found by UB-10, 20 miles ESE from lightship Noordhinder. UB-10 subsequently torpedoed her. | |
| Amsterdam (+1749) | [Jan Lettens:] A Dutch East Indiaman, Built in 1748, Ran aground Jan 26th 1749 near Hastings after leaving Texel on her maiden voyage en - route to Indonesia. Almost immediately she sank into the soft mud and sand on the beach, this ensured the hull and contents were preserved Depth: Can be seen at low spring tides. [Archeological diving unit :] The Amsterdam, a Dutch East Indiaman built in 1748, ran aground on January 26th, 1749 near Hastings shortly after leaving Texel on her maiden voyage en-route to Indonesia. Almost immediately she sank into the soft mud and sand of the beach which curtailed contemporary salvage and ensured that the hull and its contents were well preserved. Although the wreck was known to many people it was not until it was attacked by a mechanical excavator in 1969 that it came to wider notice. Visible at low tide her vulnerability to unscientific interference was one of the causes of the passing of the Protection of Wrecks Act in 1973. As a result of this interference Peter Marsden began non-intrusive investigation and the site was designated in 1974. In 1975 the VOC-Schip Amsterdam Foundation was formed in the Netherlands in order to study the site further and assess the feasibility of raising the remains and returning them to Amsterdam. Under licence the Foundation began a programme of professionally run excavations between 1984 and 1986, at first under the direction of Peter Marsden, and then Jerzy Gawronski and Jon Adams. The work concentrated on investigating the layers previously disturbed by the mechanical excavator and studying the stratigraphy within the stern. An excellent selection of both academic and popular publications have been produced by the licensees which stand as a model for others to follow. | |
| Amsterdam (+1781) | [Tony Allen:]Amsterdam ran aground at Bexington, Chesil Beach Dorset. Five crew lost so was most of her cargo of raisins. | |
| Amsterdam II HMS | [Tony Allen:]Amsterdam II HMS hit a mine off Juno Beach, Normandy. []Amsterdam was built in 1930 for the Hull & Netherlands Steamship Company for the Harwich-Hook of Holland Route. In 1941 she was sold to Ministry of War Transport. In 1944 mined and sunk off Normandy. | |
| Amulree SS | [Tony Allen:]AMULREE was an 86 ton pleasure steam yacht hired as a Harbour Defence Patrol Craft and sank following a collision on 1 June 1940 off Dover. Built 1938, RN owned her at the time of loss. | |
| Andalusian SS | [Tony Allen:]Andalusian, 2,349grt, 12 March 1915, 25 miles WNW from Bishop Rock, Cornwall, UK. Captured by submarine and scuttled | |
| Andaman SS | [Tony Allen:] Andaman SS, owned by London & NW Railway Co. Was used an an Auxillary Hospital Ship. Mined by UC-5. 129 people killed. | |
| Andania SS | [Tony Allen:]Andania SS was built by Scotts of Greenock in 1913, she was owned by the Cunard Line and grossed 13.405 tons and measured 520x64x43 feet. Had a 1x4'' stern gun. Torpedoed by U-46. 7 crew died. | |
| Andola | [Dirk Eekelers:] The Andola, a 2.093 ton, 275ft three-masted sailing ship, encountered storm after storm on her way home with 2.000 tons of wheat from Seattle. It took her 185 days to reach Falmouth. But there was to be no rest for Captain Passmore and his crew as they anchored there on 29 January, 1895. For they were ordered to sail again for Hull as soon as they had taken aboard fresh water and food. They cleared Falmouth on the evening tide, and ran straight into more contrary winds as they tried to head up Channel. The tacks of the Andola grew larger and larger and soon they were crossing the entire Channel from side to side. And when they spotted the Lizard light close by they realised they were actually going backwards! Then it started to snow. However, it was only when they heard the Manacle Bell tolling mournfully very close that Captain Passmore tried to alter course. He was too late and shortly afterwards the Andola struck the thin slate outcrop aptly named Shark's Fin. The striking had been seen and the Porthoustock lifeboat was launched. But Captain Passmore didn't know this and ordered the firing of distress signals. However, the flares only fizzled, and the ship's boy was ordered to get some rockets from the stores. As he did so, he managed somehow to drop one of the fizzing flares into the locker among the rockets. In a panic, he slammed the lid of the locker down. One of the exploding rockets slammed shrapnel into his thigh, then the whole charthouse roared into flame. Even so, the Porthoustock lifeboat was quickly beside her and managed to save all 28 aboard. | |
| Andromeda (+1915) | [Other Source:] Four master barque of 1.762 tons, 271.3ftx40ftx23.6ft. Sunk: 1915. Ran aground. [Tony Allen:]Was carrying a cargo of 2.500 tons of wheat. | |
| Andromeda (+1916) | Andromeda (ex Equinox) was captured by german submarine and sunk by gunfire. | |
| Angela | [Tony Allen:]Angela was 211 tons and 167.3 feet in length. | |
| Anglesea SS | [Tony Allen:]Anglesea, 4.534grt, defensively-armed, 24 April 1917, 160 miles W from Bishop Rock, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Anglia SS (BR) | The auxiliary hospital ship ANGLIA was crossing the Channel from France on November 17, 1915, with a large number of wounded, when she struck a mine and sank one mile east of Folkestone Gate. The steamship struck the mine on the port side, forward of the bridge, the violence of the explosion blowing the Master, Capt Manning, from his position on the bridge to the deck below. Fortunately he remained in possession of his senses and at once ordered the lifeboats to be swung out, the first of which got away safely with about 50 survivors. After this the ship took a heavy list and sank within ten minutes, taking with her four army officers, one nurse and 129 soldiers and crew. The total number of wounded on board was 13 officers and 372 other ranks, in addition to whom were the usual medical staff and ship's company. The disaster occurred about 1230 and was seen from the collier LUSITANIA (voyaging from London to Lisbon), which steamed to the ANGLIA's assistance and lowered two boats. These had scarcely cast off when the LUSITANIA herself struck a mine and began to sink. LUSITANIA's boats therefore returned and took off the remainder of her company, there being no loss of life. | |
| Anglia SS (NL) | [Michael Tolhuisen] SS Anglia; 1870; Wm.H.Muller & Co., Rotterdam; 832 tons. Lost with 18 crew during a storm near Borkum, North Netherlands. | |
| Angloman SS | [Tony Allen:]Angloman SS was a steel schooner rigged Steamship built in 1892 by Laird Bros, Birkenhead and was of 4892 tons; 403x45 ft; Angloman was powered by 600 hp triple expansion engine. She ran under the Dominion Line and was owned by British & N Atlantic Nav Co and managed by D Richards. Angloman was carrying a cargo of 700 cattle, 1500 sheep plus horses. Crew totalled 56 plus 28 cattle tenders. Vessel ran agound in thick fog. | |
| Anguila SS | [Tony Allen:]Anguila SS was in convoy OG-71 on route from Gibraltar to Liverpool when torpedoed by U-201 off the coast of Ireland. | |
| Anlaby SS | [Tony Allen:]Anlaby SS. Ran aground in thick fog. | |
| Anna Broere | [Martien Slaats:]Anna Broere; EIGENAAR: GEBR. BROERE B.V DORDRECHT; WERF: HEINRICH BRAND SCHIFFSWERFT GMBH&CO./198 BOUWJAAR 1976 brt: 1597; nrt: 1135; draagv: 2649; lengte: 82.50 meter; breedte: 12.73 meter; holte: 6.61 meter vermogen: 2.100 pk; snelheid: 13.5 knoop imonummer: 7419054; roepsein: PCRB te water 20-3-1976; proefvaart 8-4-1976 in dienst:10-4-1976; MUTATIE: 27-5-1988 op reis dordrecht-grangemouth 70 mijl west van ijmuiden na aanvaring met het zweeds MS ATLANTIC COMPASS geheel overvaren en vergaan in positie 52°36N-03°10W, waarbij 1 bemanningslid is omgekomen. 1-7-1988 wrak in twee stukken gezaagd door bergers smit tak in opdracht van rijkswaterstaat daarna berging wrak in twee stukken en op ponton giant 2 geplaatst 10-8-1988 wrak gearriveerd te rotterdam 20-8-1988 wrak verkocht voor sloop te schiedam voorschip en machinekamer doorverkocht naar werf in belgie 1995 uiteindelijk toch gesloopt. | |
| Anna Catharina | On 3rd February 1735 around 2pm, the Anna Catharina (a VOC ship) departed on voyage from Rammekens (Zeeland) to Batavia, (the Dutch East Indies) with 175 soldiers and passengers and was heavily laden with cargo. She was in company of the famous 't Vliegent Hart, a bigger ship and a pilot boat, the Mercurius. Short after departure, around 5pm she was of course during a SE gale and ran aground on the sandbanks around Duerloo Channel. In two hours time, she was completely destroyed by the storm and all crew and passengers were drowned. The 't Vliegent Hart' with a complement of 256, would soon follow the same fate. | |
| Anna Sofie SS | [Tony Allen:]Anna Sofie, 2,577grt, defensively-armed British Merchantman on the 23 July 1918 was torpedoed and sunk 4 miles W from Trevose Head, Cornwall, UK. 1 life lost. | |
| Annagher SS | [Tony Allen:]Annagher SS, built by J Lewis & Sons in 1923 and owned by J Kelly of Belfast. Dimensions 165.2'x27'x11.2' feet and 586tons. Powered by triple expansion engine of 83rhp at 10 knots. Bound from Belfast to Llanelli with a cargo of 619tons scarp metal & 16tons lead. Load shifted in heavy weather. Captained turned the vessel around and made for land but load shifted even more with the decks becoming awash. Eventually foundered. Only one survivor. Salvage attempts failed and she was dispered by explosives. | |
| Anne | Historic wreck. A British warship, a 70 gun Ship of the line, launched in 1678 at Chatham, lost at the battle of Beachy Head in 1690. Sunk: 1690 at the Battle of Beachy Head. [Archaeologic Diving Unit:] This wreck, believed to be the British warship Anne, was designated after attempts to loot the site in 1974. The Anne, a 70 gun ship-of-the-line launched in 1678 at Chatham, formed an important part of Pepys' Restoration Navy but was lost after the Battle of Beachy Head in 1690. A brief archaeological survey in 1974 demonstrated that a significant portion of the lower part of the hull survives. | |
| Anne Longton | [Tony Allen:]Fully rigged ship ""Anne Longton"" foundered on the Goodwin Sands. | |
| Annesley | [Tony Allen:]Annesley, three masted iron barque, 1694 tons. Built as the British Enterprise at Stockholm, 1876. Dimensions 246 x 40.1 x 23.9 feet. Owned by Shaw Saville and Co. Though a very fast ship, she had the reputation for taking a life on almost every voyage in the last few years of her service. From Australia to England, wrecked on Tuskar South Rock off the Irish coast, December 1910. All saved. Her master was washed overboard and drowned during the same voyage. | |
| Ansgir SS | Steamer of 6.483 tons, 438.5 ftx57.1 ftx28.1 ft Sunk: 1920, Ran aground. | |
| Ant Cassar SS | [Tony Allen:]Ant Cassar was a 3,544grt, defensively-armed steamship. On the 27 August 1918, 30 miles NNW from Strumble Head, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Anthony Hope | British trawler sunk on 16th November 1916 after hitting a mine. | |
| Antiope SS (I) | Bombed and sunk by german aircraft. | |
| Antiope SS (II) | Bombed and sunk by german aircraft. | |
| Antonio | [Tony Allen:]Antonio, 2.652grt, 7 March 1917, 7 miles from Dartmouth, probably mined and sunk, 11, including Master. | |
| Antony SS | [Tony Allen:]Antony was a 6.446grt defensively-armed Britsih Merchant ship. On the 17th March 1917 when 19 miles W by N from Coningbeg Light Vessel, Ireland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 55 lives lost. | |
| Antwerpen SS | S.S. ANTWERPEN NEKC 1916-1916. 8.1916 Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News; 7.955 brt; 140x18x11 m; Quadruple 4 cil. steamer, 4.000 hp; 11 kn; SS Antwerpen was torpedoed during her maiden trip on 12th September 1916 by UB-18, some 30 miles from the Scilly Islands. She was on her way from New York to London. The crew was saved by the British destroyer Cameleon. | |
| Anu SS | [Tony Allen:]Anu was built in 1883 and was on route from GOTHENBURG and ABERDEEN for DUNDEE carrying a general cargo when she was mine by U-13 off the Rver Tay, Scotland. 7 crew were lost. | |
| Aorangi SS | [Tony Allen:]Aorangi SS was a 4.268 ton ship. She once blocked the channel into Kirk Sound. In 1920 she was raised and re-sunk off Kirk Holm. | |
| Apache | Owner J. Vandewalle. Sunk by fire after an accident in the kitchen with fuel. | |
| Apapa SS | [Tony Allen:]Apapa, 7.832grt, defensively armed, 28 November 1917, 3 miles N by E from Lynas Point, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 77 lives lost | |
| Aparima SS | [Tony Allen:]Aparima SS; 131.22x16.55x8.69m; 5.704grt; Built 1902 by W. Denny & Bros, Dumbarton; 6 cylinder triple expansion engine; 389hp; Armament: 1x4.7 in. QF stern mounted; Owned by Doorley. Torpedoed by the German submarine UB-40 while en voyage from London to Barry. The explosion took place at 00.50 a.m. without warning, the vessel sinking in five minutes, giving the crew no time to launch the boats. A total of 26 European and 30 native crew members were lost, the one passenger, who survived, being a pilot. Twenty-six crew were picked up by the norwegian Selun SS and landed at St. Helen’s, sixteen were picked up by a patrol vessel, the rest landing at Saint Alban’s Head, presumably in a boat. | |
| Apollo SS (+1900) | [HSAC:]495 ton, three-masted steamship, built 1874. 182ftx24ft. Granite kerb stones, Aberdeen to Newport. Sunk: 15 August, 1900, by hitting Bono Reef, Balvicar, near Oban, in fog. All saved. | |
| Apollo SS (+1916) | [Didier De Waele:] Apollo SS; 488 nt tons; 61,4x9,2x4m; 1905 by Mij Fijenoord; 550hp; 8,5kn; Apollo SS, en route from Lisboa to Amsterdam, was sunk on Jan 21st 1916, after hitting a mine, 1 mile NE from the Galloper bank lightship; 3 people died. | |
| Appolonian Wave | Petrol tanker of 100m, sunk on 1st December 1976 | |
| Aquarius | Aquarius was mined, while on route from Grimsby to fishing grounds. | |
| Aqueity | [Tony Allen:]Belgrave was built in 1945 as a Coastal Tanker. MOWT In 1947 she was renamed AQUEITY, and purchased by F.T. Everard & Sons, London. On 11th November 1947 she was mined and sunk at 53.32N 05.02E. | |
| Aquila | [Tony Allen:]Yeoward Bros. ship, she was torpedoed on May 27th by a German U-boat 47 miles south-west of the Smalls Lighthouse. | |
| Arabic SS | [Tony Allen:]Arabic was a 15.801 grt passenger ship of the White Star Line. On the 19th August 1915, 50 miles S by W ½ W from Old Head of Kinsale, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 44 lives lost. On route from Liverpool to New York. | |
| Arandora Star SS | [Tony Allen:]Arandora Star was built in 1927 and owned by the BLUE STAR LINE LTD. She was on route from LIVERPOOL for CANADA when she was torpedoed by U-47. A total of 740 lives were lost. 868 were saved. | |
| Archimedes SS | [Marcel Stubbe] The Archimedes was one of the first steamships, built in 1846 in the shipyard Thomas Marshall in South Shields for the Elbe-Humber Dampfschiffahrtge-Gesellschaft. When trying to get through a storm, her 80hp engine could not maintain course and she ran aground. The crew was saved. The wreck was later sold ''in bits and pieces''. | |
| Ardencraig | [Tony Allen:]Ardencraig, 2.153 tons. Built 1886. 277.7x40x24.9 ft Owned by Edmiston & Mitchell; in 1907 by Crawford & Rowat. From Melbourne to Falmouth with grain, called at Queenstown, Ireland in January 1911; struck Crim Rocks in the Scilly Islands in foggy weather, January 1911. All saved. | |
| Ardent HMS (+1916) | [Tony Allen:]HMS Ardent, British, Acasta class Destroyer. Lost in the Battle of Jutland. | |
| Ardent HMS (+1940) | British navy destroyer; 1927; Scott's Shipbuilding Co; 1.350 tons; 99x10 m, 34.000 ihp, 35 knots, turbine engines, 3 drum boilers, four 4.7 in guns, two 2pdr, 5m.g., 8 TT. The destroyers Acasta and Ardent were escorting aircraft carrier Glorious off Narvik, when the German battleships Gneisenau ans Sharnhorst surprised them and sunl all three of them. The loss of life was serious, 1,515 men lost their lives. Two merchantman Orama and Oil Pioneer were sunk at the same time. (see also Glorious HMS and Acasta) | |
| Ardmore SS | [Tony Allen:]Ardmore SS, a 1.304 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 13 November 1917, 13 miles WSW from Coningbeg Ligh Vessel. 19 lives were lost. | |
| Areal SS | 2.200 ton 300ft Steamer, two master transporting wheat to Varna, Hamburg Sunk: 10th June 1892. Collided with the Lancashire in fog on her way to Liverpool from London. | |
| Arendskerk | [Tony Allen:]Arendskerk was a Dutch Freighter built 1938 and owned by HOLLAND-OOST-AZIE LIJN NV DIRECTIE-EN-ARGENTUUR MAATSCHAPPU. She was on route from ROTTERDAM and ANTWERP for DURBAN carrying a cargo of galvanised sheets, nails, brass tubes when she was torpedoed by U-44. All the crew were saved. | |
| Areta | [Martien Slaats:]Areta was a sailing brig, on the way from Newcastel to Schiedam with a cargo of coals, when she collided with the anchored Jane Ghandie. 4 people died | |
| Arethusa (+1838) | [Tony Allen:]Arethusa was a sailing ship bound for Antigua, when a severe gale drove her back up the channel. She was wrecked on Chesil Beach , Dorset near Fleet. All souls perished. | |
| Arethusa HMS (+1916) | [Tony Allen:]HMS Arethusa, British, Arethusa class Light Cruiser. Mined near Felixstowe by a mine laid by the German submarine UC-7. Hit under the machinery spaces the ship eventually broke in two. | |
| Argo Delos | [Tony Allen:]Argo Delos registered in Piraeus, Greece. Bound Glasgow for Cuba to load sugar cargo for China. | |
| Argo SS | [Tony Allen:]British defensively armed Merchantman Argo, 1,.20grt, 8 February 1916, 4½ miles NW froin Boulogne Pier, mined and sunk, 1 life lost. | |
| Argonaut SS (+1918) | Torpedoed by a submarine on 05/06/1918 | |
| Argonaut SY (+1908) | [Hastings Sub Aqua Club:] Luxury Steam Yacht, Length 334ft, Beam 40ft. Sunk 29th Sept. 1908 after a collision with the Newcastle steamer Kingswell. After the incident the Kingswell was beached West of Hythe to prevent her from floundering. The Argonaut owned by the Co-operative cruising company was less fortunate. It was around 8.30 a.m. at the time of the collision many of the passenger would have been taking breakfast. She was badly damaged by the bow of the Kingswell and rapidly took on water. The local press reported that the passengers were evacuated into lifeboats amid perfect order and in the shortest time possible. The Crew, Stewards, and Captain were the last to leave the Argonaut, as water began washing under the bridge on the upper deck. The crew of the Argonaut were thrown into unemployment after the sinking and a fund was opened for their assistance, with contributions from passengers who had previously been on voyages on the yacht. Each crew member also received a gift of £1 from the Co-operative Cruising Company. [M.J. Gibson:] Five sailors were lost. My father was Engineer Officer of the Sturdy. Casualties are buried in Soroby Burial ground, Tiree. M.J.Gibson, Lt.Cdr. R.N.(Rtd.) | |
| Argyll (+1893) | [Tony Allen:]Argyll was 139.9 feet in length. | |
| Argyll HMS (+1915) | [Tony Allen:]HMS Argyll, British, Devonshire class Armoured Cruiser Wrecked on rocks during a storm near Dundee whilst returning to Scapa Flow. | |
| Argyllshire | Cargo of coals. | |
| Ariadne (+1914) | [Tony Allen:]Ariadne, German, Gazelle class Light Cruiser. Lost in the Battle of Heligoland Bight. | |
| Ariadne HMS (+1917) | [Tony Allen:]HMS Ariadne, British, Diadem class Protected Cruiser. Torpedoed by the German submarine UC-65 off Beachy Head, English Channel. | |
| Ariana | Het finse met erts geladen vrachtschip ariana verging in 1952 ten zuiden van ''de plaat baarland''. | |
| Ariel HMS (+1918) | [Tony Allen:]HMS Ariel was part of the 20th Destroyer Flotilla that was undertaking a mine laying operations in the Heligoland Bight. HMS Vehement was hit by a mine which caused a magazine explosion blowing off her bow. Attempts to tow her failed and her remains were scuttled. Whilst attempting to leave the minefield that had sunk Vehement, HMS Ariel also had her bow blown off by a mine and she sank in less than an hour. | |
| Ariel SS (+1892) | [Tony Allen:]Ariel SS sank on 10th June 1892 after a collision with the vessel Lancashire in thick fog. She was on route from London to Liverpool. | |
| Aries HMS | British warship. | |
| Aris SS | [Tony Allen:]Aris was formerly called in MICHALIS POUTOUS in 1936. She was built in 1914 and was owned by MICHAEL M XYLAS. When on route from TROON for HAMPTON ROADS in ballast she was torpedoed by U-37 ans sunk. 2 crew lost. | |
| Aristos | [Tony Allen:]Aristos was on passage from Antwerp to Pirzus when involved in a collison with the vessel Linde. | |
| Armas | [Yves Dufeil:]Le cargo grec Armas, Capt. G. Kalfas, se rendait de Grèce via Nantes au Havre et Hambourg quand le 26 Novembre 1973 au matin, il vint s'échouer à la côte d'Aurigny sur le récit de Great Nannels. Il se cassa en deux quelques jours plus tard et devint une perte totale. Un marin trouva la mort dans cet accident.[Yves Dufeil:]Armas, capt. G.Kalfas was on a voyage from Greece to Nantes, Le Havre and Hamburg when on the morning of Nov.26, 1973 she stranded on Great Nannels reefs, Alderney. She subsequently broke in two a few days later and became a total loss. One man was lost.[Other Source:]Hit a reef west of Burhou and abandoned, but could have been salved. | |
| Armenian SS (+1865) | [Tony Allen:]Armenian SS. Built 1855. In 1857 the Elder Dempster Line purchased the vessel from Potter & Co, Glasgow. In 1865 wrecked in fog on Arklow Bank, Ireland; loss of 66 lives. | |
| Armenian SS (+1915) | [Tony Allen:]Armenian was a 8.825grt passenger ship of the leyland Line on route from Newport News to Avonmouth, uk. On the 28th June 1915, 20 miles W from Trevose Head, captured by submarine, sunk by torpedo, 29 lives lost. | |
| Arne Kjode | [Tony Allen:]Manager: Jacob Kjøde A/S, Sandefjord Tonnage: 11 019 gt; Built in Hamburg 1938. Captain: Bernt Ingebrektsen. Torpedoed by U-41 (Mugler) northwest of Scotland on November 12-1939 (58 51N 08 07W) en route from Aruba to Nyborg, Denmark (both neutral at the time), via Kirkwall with cargo of gas oil. Forepart sank 59 06N 06 55W, afterpart sank 59 20N 07 12W. 5 men, including the captain died. Survivors were taken to Newcastle. | |
| Arnemuiden AR-27 | [Nederlands Visserij Register:] AR-27 sunk in a storm on 18th July 1927. | |
| Arno SS | [Tony Allen:]Arno SS was a steam collier, wrecked near Selsey Bill. 13 dead. | |
| Arnold | [Tony Allen:]Arnold was 704 tons and was 231 feet in length. | |
| Arran III | [Tony Allen:]Arran III was 49 tons and 100 feet in length. | |
| Artemas Ward | [Tony Allen:]Artemas Ward. Deliberatly sunk off Normandy. | |
| Artemus Ward SS | [Tony Allen:]Deliberately sunk off Normandy. Position unknown. | |
| Artist SS | [Tony Allen:]Artist was a 3.570grt, defensively-armed British Merchant Ship. On the 27th January 1917 when 58 miles W ½ S from the Smalls, South Wales she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 35 lives lost including Master. | |
| Asaba SS | [Tony Allen:]Asaba SS. Built 1900 for Elder-Dempster Line. In 1912 operated a London - Continent feeder service. Torpedoed and sunk off the Lizard, Cornwall, English Channel. Loss of 16 lives. | |
| Asborg SS | A/S To; 1896; Short Bros.; 2.750 tons; 321x43.1x21.9; 252 nhp; triple expansion engines. The Norwegian steamship Asborg was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine (UC-75) on January 3rd, 1918 in the English Channel. | |
| Asger Ryg SS | Built 1902 by Schomer & Jensen; ex-Mimi Horn; 10knots; 1101grt; 66,5x10m; Reported lost on 4th April 1916, presumably mined. | |
| Ash | Naval tug, sunk by a mine in the Thames Estuary. | |
| Ashbury | [Tony Allen:]Launched at West Hartlepool in 1924 as the Nitedal. A year later she was the Cairnhill. In 1935 she was bought by ""the flying bug line"", the Alexander Shipping Line, which used a busy bee on its blue house flag. It renamed the vessel Ashbury. 42 persons on board drowned when she ran aground in a gale. | |
| Ashford | [Tony Allen:]1211 ton British steamer Ashford, a collier built in Sunderland in 1881. In collision,15 miles south-west of Beachy Head. The German barque Pirat romping up the Channel with most sails set on route for Hamburg ploughed into the Ashford's stern near her propeller, on 25 June, 1906. The 275ft-long Ashford was less fortunate. Though she was taken in tow by the steam tug Dominion, she was filling rapidly and in two hours, before they reached water shallow enough to beach her, the tow had to be cast off. She rolled over and sank. | |
| Ashmore | Ashmore struck a mine on 12th September 1941 in the Thames Estuary. She was carrying a cargo of maize. 4 people died. | |
| Aska | [Tony Allen:]Aska was 3.995 tons and 44.6 feet in length. Attacked by a German Bomber aircraft and sunk. | |
| Asperity | Asperity, a Cormarsh freighter,from Empire Newcomen, was sunk while in convoy north west of Cromer by the German 4th MTB flotilla. | |
| Assi Euro Link | Assi Euro Link sunk in collision with the Swedish Seawheel Line on 25th January 2003. The Assi Euro Link sunk in half an hour time, the crew was saved. | |
| Associacion | [HSAC:]Associacion; 1459 tons; 90-gun man o' war, built Portsmouth, 1697. 165 x 45 ft. Flagship of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. A vast treasure in chests of gold and silver coins and plate put on board in Gibraltar by British merchants trading in Spain and Portugal. More chests contained government funds for war with France, Sir Cloudesley's own wealth and many regimental funds and silverware. Estimated value today: £5 million. Sunk: 22 October, 1707, by navigation error when she ran into the Scilly rocks in the dark. Sir Cloudesley and crew of 650 lost. More than 1000 lost from other ships following flagship. | |
| Association | [Tony Allen:]Association; 1.459 ton 90-gun man o' war, built Portsmouth, 1697. 165ft x 45ft. Flagship of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. Cargo: A vast treasure in chests of gold and silver coins and plate put on board in Gibraltar by British merchants trading in Spain and Portugal. More chests contained government funds for war with France, Sir Cloudesley's own wealth and many regimental funds and silverware. Estimated value today: £5 million. Sunk on the 22nd October 1707, by navigation error when she ran into the Scilly rocks in the dark. Sir Cloudesley and crew of 650 lost. More than 1000 lost from other ships following flagship. | |
| Assurance (+1755) | In April 1755 the 44-gun frigate Assurance was returning from the West Indies with the retiring Governor of Jamaica and his accumulated fortune of some £40,000 in gold coins. The nine year old vessel was under the control of the sailing master and whilst he was negotiating the tricky and treacherous Needles Channel the vessel struck an uncharted rock, within days it was a total wreck. As previously related there was some suggestion that the Islanders were less than helpful in making safe the cargo of wrecked vessels! | |
| Assurance SS (+1941) | [Tony Allen:]Assurance SS was a Royal Navy Tug of 700 tons measuring 156,75x33,25x10,5 feet. Built by Cochrane & Holmes of Selby and launched 23rd may 1940. Armed with 1x3'' deck gun. Specially fitted for Deep Ocean Towing. | |
| Asterix | [Mark Page 2004:] The St. Peter Port 'harbour mouth' wrecks are well known in Guernsey. Basically, a famous Guernsey diver called Richard Keen was diving in the Harbour mouth on Christmas day in 1982 for scallops when he found the remains of a very old wreck. This is known in Guernsey as 'Asterix' as it is thought to be a Roman cargo vessel. There are actually 3 or 4 old wrecks in the harbour mouth, gradually getting uncovered by the turbulence caused by the ferries. The roman cargo ship could be as old as mid 13th century ! The ship was probably at anchor or grounded when the fire broke out. This opens up the possibility that the cargo had already been unloaded. | |
| Astrologer SS | [Tony Allen:]Astrologer, 912grt, 26 June 1916, 5 miles SSE from Lowestoft, mined and sunk, 11, including Master | |
| Astronomer (+1886) | [Tony Allen:]Astronomer of 1.119 tons was built at Liverpool, 1859. She measured 191x34.2x23 ft. Sailing from Adelaide to Dublin with wheat she was lost on Poole Rocks, Freshwater Bay near Milford Haven,Wales on 21st March 1886. Heavy seas soon destroyed all chances of salvage and she quickly broke her back before going to pieces. | |
| Astronomer HMS (+1940) | [Tony Allen:]Astronomer HMS was built in 1917 - D & W Henderson & Co Ltd, Partick, Glasgow (Yard number 494) and owned by HARRISON, THOS & JAS. CHARENTE STEAMSHIP CO LTD. Powered by steam quadruple expansion - single screw. She was requisioned on government service as a boom defence carrier from Rosyth to Scapa Flow. She carried 48 naval officers and ratings and a cargo of 2 to 3000 tons of naval stores and was Captained by John James Egerton. She was torpedoed by U-58 and sunk. 4 dead from a complement of 105 officers and ratings. The Master, 51 crew, 1 gunner and 48 naval officers and ratings were rescued by the trawlers HMS Stoke City (FY.232) (Lt-Cdr N.C.H. Scallan) and HMS Leicester City (FY.223) (Lt. A.R. Cornish) and landed at Rosyth. | |
| Atalante | Sailing yacht of 9m sunk in 1982. | |
| Athenia SS (+1917) | [Tony Allen:]Athenia was a 8.668 grt, defensively-armed British Merchantship of the Anchor Done Line. On the 16th August 1917 when 7 miles North from Inishtrahull she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 15 lives lost. On route from Montreal to Glasgow. | |
| Athenia SS (+1939) | [Tony Allen:]Athenia was a British Steam Merchantship built in 1923 for the DONALDSON ATLANTIC LINE LTD. She was on route from the LYDE & LIVERPOOL for MONTREAL, Canada when she was torpedoed by U-30 and sunk. She was carrying a general cargo & passengers. 93 passengers and 19 crew were lost. | |
| Athos | [Tony Allen:]Athos is 265 feet in length. | |
| Atlas SS | [Tony Allen:]Atlas SS, a 989 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 13 November 1917, 5 miles SE from Owers Light Vessel. | |
| Atos SS | [Tony Allen:]Atos was built in 1902. She was formerly called UPPLAND (1924) MARIE (1917). She was owned by BJORJESSON, ALLAN. REDARI-A/B ATOS. When on route from LIVERPOOL and GLASGOW for PETSAMO she was carrying a general cargo 1700 tons when torpedoed by U-57. 7 crew lost from 28 on board. | |
| ATR-15 USS | [Tony Allen:]USS ATR-15 Lost by grounding off Normandy, France, 19 June 1944. | |
| Au Revoir | Torpedoed by a submarine on 27/02/1916. Not sure about the pictures. One says it's a trawler, but on the photos we see a paddlesteamer ! | |
| Aud SS | [Tony Allen:]Aud SS was scuttled by crew when captured by HMS Bluebell. She was built in 1907 by Bergens Mek, Vaerks, Bergen, Norway. | |
| Audacious | [Tony Allen:]Audacious was the former Italian vessel Belvedere. Sunk off Normandy. | |
| Audacious HMS | Sailing barque, foundered in a gale. | |
| Audacious HMS | [Other Source:]A King George V class Super-Dreadnought Battleship, she measured 596ft in length, grossed 23.000 tons and had a crew of 900. Armoury included ten 13.5 inch guns, sixteen 4 inch guns, three 21 inch torpedo tubes. She was the first principal casualty in the First World War. Struck a mine laid by German liner ''SS Berlin''. While leaving Lough Swilly at 08.45 on a gunnery exercise she struck the mine on her port side just forward of her aft engine romm bulkhead. Unsuccessful attempts were made to tow her back into Lough Swilly. Her crew were evacuated on to ''HMS Liverpool'' and the White Star liner ''SS Olympic''. She eventually sank at 21.00. No lives were lost. Commander was Captain Dampier. The mine was laid by the Norddeutscher Lloyd liber Berlin, fitted out as an auxiliary cruiser and minelayer. [Tony Allen:]Built in 1913 by Cammell Laird & Co Ltd of Birkenhead. A King Geroge V Class Super Dreadnought Battleship. 181.66x27.12x8.35 metres, 23000T and carried a crew of 900. Armoury was 10x13.5'' guns,15x4''guns, 4x3 pounders & 21 inch Torpedo Tubes. Sunk after hitting a german mine on her port side side laid by the Grman Liner SS Berlin. No lives lost. | |
| Audax | [Tony Allen:]Three masted Schooner defensively armed. | |
| Auguste | Auguste was a German iron hulled three masted barque of 1.298 tons, built in 1871. She measured 208.3x40x25.6 ft. Sailing from Fremantle to London with a cargo of Jarrah timber, she was wrecked at Atherfield, Isle of Wight, 15th February 1900. | |
| Augustenberg | [Tony Allen:]Augustenberg, 3.639 ton motor ship sunk in collision in 1962. Lies in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight. | |
| Aurania SS | [HSAC:]13.936 ton Cunard liner, built 1917, used as troopship. 520ftx65ft. Steam turbines. 15.5 knots. In ballast, Liverpool to New York. Sunk: 5 February, 1918, under tow after torpedo from UB-67 hit port side of engine room. Eight firemen killed. Driven ashore by gale at Caliach Point, Isle of Mull. | |
| Aurelie | Dundee of 88 tons. Sunk by gunfire from a submarine on 22/01/1917. | |
| Auretta SS | British tanker (steamer); 4.571 tons, built in 1935 by Burntisland Shipbuilding. Co., Burntisland for the Chellew Steam Ship Co. (Mgrs. F.C. Perman), London, owners of the ship till 1941. Changed owner to W.H. Cockerline & Co. Ltd., Hull, Britain. Was rebuild in WWII as a transport ship. On 26th February, 1945, the Auretta was in the convoy named T.A.M.-91 with 12 other ships and accompanied by 5 ships. They were on voyage to Antwerp. There was a gale of 8 beaufort from the SW and due to the heavy seas, the convoy was spread in an area of 6 miles. On 2nd March 9am, the Auretta hit a mine. After the evacuation of the crew, the ship quicky sank. | |
| Aurora | [Tony Allen:]Aurora, an iron ship of 1.857 tons was built at Greenock, in 1874 for the Orient Line. She measured 261.9x39.5x23.6 feet. Fire, caused by spontaneous combustion in the cargo of wool, caused the Aurora to be abandoned in flames, with her fore and mainmasts gone. She sank 9 August 1875. | |
| Australier SS | [Diving Sussex:]Australier SS; Lloyd Royal Belge, 1906, Bartram & Sons, 3.687 tons, 105x15 m , 315 nhp, 10 knots, triple expansion engines. The Belgian steamship Australier was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine six mikes SW of Dungeness on 29 April 1918. Five man died, the captain survived. | |
| Austria | [Tony Allen:]Austria is 1083 tons and 257 feet in length. | |
| Avalanche | [HSAC:]Shaw Savill & Co; 1974; A. Hall & Co; 1.210 tons; 66x11 m. The three-masted iron sailing ship, left London in September 1877 for Wellington, New Zealand, under command of Capt. E. Williams,. She carried 63 passengers, with a crew of 34. At about 9/30 on the evening of Tuesday, the 11th the ship being in charge of a pilot, she was run down by a sailing ship Forest, 1.488 tons of Windsor NS in ballast for Sandy Hook, New York. Of those on board, only three managed to save themselves by clambering to the other ship. The impact was of such a violence that the Forest was unable to keep the water under control and she also sank one hour after the Avalanche. At the time the sea was very high, with violent squalls of wind and three boats were swamped so that out of the 24 on board, including the three from Avalanche, only 12 got ashore. Capt. E. Lockhart and eight of the crew of the Forest were among the survivors with the three men from the Avalanche. The cargo was general, including much pottery and glass. Public subscriptions raised money to build a church at Southwell as memorial. | |
| Aventurine | Aventurine, a British trawler was sunk off Beachy Head while in convoy by the German MTB S-142 of the 5th German MTB Flotilla. | |
| Avetoro | Avetoro (ex-Valdes), a Yeoward Bros. ship was torpedoed on 17th February 17th 1917 and sunk. The wreck is at 7 miles south of Portland Bill, Dorset. | |
| Aviemore SS | [Tony Allen:]Aviemore was built in 1920. In 1935 transferred from Johnston Line to Furness-Warren Line. In 1939 she was torpedoed and sunk off Lands End. | |
| Avondale SS (Park) | [Jan Lettens:]Avondale, a freighter of 2.878 tons was sunk on May 7th 1945 by German submarine U-2386 off the Firth of Forth. [Tony Allen:]Torpedoed by U-2336 of the Firth Offorth, Scotland. | |
| Axwell SS | [Tony Allen:]Axwell SS, built in 1909 as a Steamship. Dimensions: 240x36.6x16.6 feet. Powered by a triple expansion engine. Carrying a cargo of coal from Amble to Rouen. Torpedoed. Axwell, 1,442grt, defensively-armed, 13 November 1917, 3 miles WSW from Owers Light Vessel, English Channel. Torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 2 lives lost. | |
| Aylevarroo SS | [Tony Allen:]Aylevarroo SS, a defensively armed 908 grt merchant steamer, was sunk (by a torpedo ?) in October 1917, off South Ireland. 20 lives ware lost including the Captain. | |
| Ayrmer Cove | 50 ton trawling Ketch, sank in 1899, driven ashore by onshore winds. | |
| Azemmour SS | French steel steamer 205ftx33ft and 897 tons, torpedoed in 1918 by UB-59. | |
| Azuero | Ran aground on 24th december 1968. | |
| B-2 HMS | Sank after being accidentally rammed by the Holland-Amerika liner, Amerika, 23.000 tons, about 4 miles north east of Dover. There was one survivor. | |
| Bad Lad | [Tony Allen:]Built Dublin,Ireland. Trawler. | |
| Baden SMS | [Mark Page:]SMS Baden - German WW1 battlecruiser. Was scuttled by Germans in Scapa Flow in 1919, but refloated by the British Navy and used for a gunnery target in the English channel 17-8-1921. 28.075 tons L 170m B 30.2m. More info on: http://www.inspired-training.com/badensms.htm | |
| Badger SS | [Tony Allen:]Badger; 89grt, 3 August 1916, 30 miles SW ½ S from St Catherine's Point, captured by submarine, sunk by gunfire. | |
| Baialoide | [Tony Allen:]Baialoide vessel was the former Italian vessel Liana. Sunk off Normandy. | |
| Baidar | Samuel Hough; 1871; Humphrys &Co; 1.010 tons; 232x28x15,6; 95rhp; compound engines; The British cargo ship Baidar was wrecked November 1897, off Schouwen eiland, while on voyage from Rotterdam to Dunkirk in ballast. | |
| Balholm | [Tony Allen:]The Balholm was a 240 ton vessel on its way to Ireland, got into engine trouble and drifted towards Crow Rock on Jan 26th 1979. The Angle lifeboat took people off, it dropped anchor half a mile west of Crow Rock, where it remained for a few days and then vanished! The seas were moderate and no reason could be seen why she had vanished. Lifejackets were washed up on Lydstep beach, 15 miles away, and a lifeboat washed up 43 miles W, NW of Linney Head. | |
| Ballarat SS | [Tony Allen:]Ballarat was built 1911. in 1917 she was torpedoed and sunk in English Channel while trooping; no loss of life. 11,120 tons | |
| Ballister | [Jan Lettens:]Also reported as Ballista.. | |
| Baloeran | MS BALOERAN was built 1930 by the Schelde, Vlissingen for the Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd. Rott NGJS. Dimensions: 1688x21,4x9,1 , 16.981 tons. 10 cyl diesel Engine 14.000 hp Sulzer Maiden voyage on 16th April 1930 Rotterdam to India. During WWII the ship was taken by the Germans. Renamed as MS STRASSBURG 1941 she was used as a generator. She was then rebuilt to a hospitalship and used from 20-07-1941 till 30-05-1943 as a hospitalship. On 1st September 1939, she hit a mine near Ijmuiden, while on voyage from Rotterdam to Hamburg. She was grounded 3km North of the Noorder pier in IJmuiden. The ship was set on fire during a British raid on 19-20 September 1943. | |
| Baltanglia SS | [Tony Allen:]Baltanglia was a British Freighter built in 1921 and of 1523 tons carrying general cargo from HOMMELVIK for TYNE and ROCHESTER. She was torpedoed by U-19 on the 23rd january 1940. All the crew were saved. | |
| Balzac | [Tony Allen:]Built by Odense Staalskibsværft, Odense in 1921 for A/S Ganger Rolf (Fred. Olsen), Oslo. 65.53m single steel propeller powered by a 6 cyl. oil/diesel engine 4 SCSA, developing 225 hp. Aft machinery built by Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen. One deck, a 42 m poop-deck and a 9.4 m forecastle. While anchored about 2 1/2 n. miles off Sunderland pier and waiting for the convoy (north of Hendon Rock), an explosion occurred underneath her, a little aft of amidships towards the port side. The ship did have degaussing installed, but it was believed that the (German laid) mine had exploded just as the engine was stopped. | |
| Bamse SS | [Tony Allen:]Bamse, 1,001grt, defensively-armed. Sunk 2 October 1918, 5 miles E ¾ N from the Lizard, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 11 lives lost. | |
| Barbara SS | [Tony Allen:]Barbara was a 3,740grt Merchantship. On the 20 October 1916 when 25 miles S from Isle of Wight was captured by submarine and sunk by gunfire. | |
| Barcombe HMS | Barcombe HMS was 730 tons and 173.7 feet in length. | |
| Bardic SS | [Tony Allen:]Bardic, a steel steamship of 8.010 ton, built at Belfast, 1919. She measured 450.4x58.4x37.2 ft. On route from Australia to England, she was wrecked on Fastnet Rock off Ireland, 2nd September 1924 | |
| Bardini Reever MV | [Tony Allen:]Bardini Reever MV was at anchor waiting to go into dry dock when fire broke and vessel burnt for 3 days before sinking. Used as a fishing vessel factory ship. | |
| Barge | Built: 1939 Sunk (ammunition on board) | |
| Barge concrete | Concrete barge 70ft long. Sunk whilst under tow 1980 | |
| Barham HMS | British Navy, dreadnought-battleship; 1914; John Brown & Co; 31.000 tons; 644x104x33,5; 75.000shp; 25 knots; turbine engines; 3-drum boilers; eight 15 in. Guns, twelve 6 in, eight 4 in, four 3 pdr, 15 mg, 2 T.T. 1 aircraft. In 1914 the Battleship Barham, Capt. G.C. Cooke, was the flagship of Vice-Admiral H.O. Pridham-Whippell, commanding the Eastern Mediterranean. On Novermber 25th, 1941, at about 4:25pm, the battle-squadron consisting of Barham, Queen Elisabeth and Valiant was carrying out exercises off the Egyptian coast. The force had left Alexandria to cover an air-operation against an Italian convoy. The vessels were in the act of altering course together, the speed being 17 knots, when a submarine U-331 managed to penetrate the destoyer screen and press home her attack. The U-331 was sighted from Valiant at a distance of 700 yards. She fired three torpedoes at Barham, all of which appeared to strike. The battleship rolled over on her side and sank in five minutes, her magazines causing an enormeous explosion as she went down. Only about 300 were saved, including the Admiral. Those lost numbered 56 officers, incl. The Captain, 658 ratings and 134 mariners, a total of 848. Many men had scrambled on the upturned hull as she 'turned turtle'. The Valiant made an unsuccessful attempt to ram the submarine. | |
| Barmston | Steamer of 1.451 tons. Sunk in 1918 after running aground. | |
| Barn Hill SS | 5439 - ton Steamer, 390ftx52ft. Cargo: Canned food, Aluminium ingots, to London from Halifax Nova Scotia. Sunk: Set on fire 20 March 1940. German Dornier dropped a bomb down the funnel. Beached near Langney Point, Eastbourne while burning. 35 crew saved, Five died. | |
| Baron Ailsa SS (+1918) | [Tony Allen:]Baron Ailsa was a Collier on Hire to the Admiralty. When 18 miles W.N.W. of Smalls, Wales she was torpedoed by enemy U-Boat and sunk. | |
| Baron Ailsa SS (+1940) | Baron Ailsa SS has a load of 6.800 tons of iron ore. | |
| Baron Ardrosson | [Tony Allen:]Baron Ardrosson sank in 1898 after running aground in fog off Porthgrain. | |
| Baron Garioch SS | [Tony Allen:]Baron Garioch SS. 1,831grt, defensively-armed, built 1895. 28 October 1917, 5 miles SE from Anvil Point, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 2 lives lost. Lies in 30 to 40 metres. | |
| Baron Glamis | [Tony Allen:]Baron Glamis was 2.432 tons and was 301 feet in length. | |
| Barracuda | French wooden trawler; 9m; 9 tons; 145 hp diesel. Sunk due to a leakage. The crew managed to escape on a rescue raft and was saved the next day by the ferry PRIDE OF LE HAVRE | |
| Barrister SS (+1917) | [Tony Allen:]Barrister was a 3.679grt defensively-armed British Merchant ship. On the 11th May 1917 when 7 miles SW from Mine Head, Waterford, Ireland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Barrister SS (+1918) | [Tony Allen:]Barrister was 4,952grt and a defensively-armed steamship. On the 19 September 1918, 9 miles W ½ N from Chicken Rock, Nr Liverpool she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 30 lives lost. | |
| Barrister SS (+1943) | [Tony Allen:]Barrister SS was built in 1919 in Glasgow by Lithgows she grossed 6.348 tons.She measured 445,5x56,5x29,6 feet and was powered by a triple expansion three cyclinder steam engine with turbine giving 867 nhp. At the time of the loss she was owned by the Charente Steamship Co and was in ballast and in convoy from South Africa when she suffered an engine breakdown and drifted onto the rocks on the west side of Inishark Island. She broke in two shortly after going aground. All the crew were saved. | |
| Barrowmore SS | [Tony Allen:]Barrowmore was a 3,832grt defensively-armed British Merchant Steamship, built in 1911 for the Johstone Line. On the 19 February 1918 when 53 miles NW by W ¼ W from Bishop Rock she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 25 lives lost including Master. | |
| Basil SS | [HSAC:]Boot S.S. Co; 1895; Workman, Clark & Co; 3.223 tons; 338x43.7x26.1; 334 nhp; triple expansion engines. The British steamship Basil was sunk in collision on November 11th, 1917, S.E. of the Owen Light. She was carrying ammunition form Southampton to Boulogne. | |
| Basilisk HMS | British Navy destroyer; 1930; John Brown &Co; 1.360 tons; 323x32x12; 34.000 shp; 35 knots; turbine engines; 3 drum boilers; four 4,7 in guns; two 2 pdr; 5 mg; 8 TT. The destroyer Basilisk (H11), Cdr. M. Richmond, was among the very large number of ships engaged in evacuating the British Army from Dunkirk. At about 8:30 am, June 1st, 1940, when off La Panne in company with destroyer Keith and the minesweepers Salamander and Skipjack, the force was subjected to intensive bombing by about 40 German aircraft. The Keith and Skipjack were sunk, the latter with a heavy loss of life, and the Basilisk was badly damaged as she was an easy target (she got stuck on sand bank Trapegeer in front of the Panne and had a damaged propellor). On June 1st the Basilisk was hit aft and was ton in two at the main mast. A french trailor tried to save her, but finally released her during a second air raid. When the crew was taken on board of the trailor and HMS Whitehall, Whitehall sunk her with torpedoes. | |
| Basuta SS | Torpedoed by a submarine on 08/02/1918 | |
| Batavier II SS | [Martien Slaats:]SS BATAVIER II 1897-1917 VRACHT EN PASSAGIERSCHIP NGRTB GEBOUWD 1897, GOURLEY BROS&CO., DUNDEE (176) 1.096 BRT 670 NRT 74.38X10.20 X.X3.74; 2 3-VUURS SCHOTSE KETELS, V.O.344M2 11.9ATM., GOUNSLAG BROTHERS & CO DUNDEE; 30 passagiers, 14.5 kn; 1.700 ipk, Q 4 cyl, de werf. 17-8-1897 te water gelaten, 5-10-1897 proefvaart opgeleverd als BATAVIER II aan nederlandsche stoomboot mij rotterdam in beheer bij wm.h.muller & co; 1908 t/m12-1908 verbouwd verlenkt en nieuwe ketels geplaatst bij n.v.wilton's machinefabriek & scheepswerf rotterdam, 2 2-vuurs schotse ketels,v.o .410m 2,12.65 atm., wilton 1,406 brt, 836 nrt, 970dwt, 79,66x10,27x.x3,240,14 kn; 24-9-1916 tijdens een reis van rotterdam naar londen door duitse onderzeeboot UB-6 aangehouden door een prijsbemanning opgebracht naar zeebrugge. 27-7-1917 tijdens een reis van zeebrugge naar hamburg met een duitse bemanning bij texel, 1 mijl ten noorden van de noordboei molengat ernstig beschadigt en binnen de nederlandse territoale wateren gezonken. | |
| Batavier SS | [Michael Tolhuisen] SS Batavier; 1872; NSM, Rotterdam; 567 tons was on voyage from London to Rotterdam when she collided with the Clark in the Thames. | |
| Bath City SS | [Tony Allen:]The vessel Bath City was built in 1899 and ran aground on rocks off Lundy Island, Bristol Channel, UK and sank.She was owned by the the Bristol City Line which operated a service to New York & Canada. | |
| Batoum SS | [Tony Allen:]Batoum was a 4.054grt defensively armed Britsih Merchant steamship. On the 19th June 1917 when 6 miles South from the Fastnet, Ireland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 1 life lost. | |
| Bay of Panama | [Tony Allen:]Four-masted squared rigged steel barque, built 1883 by Harland & Wolff, 2.282 tons; 89.61x12,89m; On 10th March 1891, the Bay of Panama run ashore in Cornwall and sunk. | |
| Bay SS | [Tony Allen:] Bay was built in 1940 as Collier. MOWT managed by J.Constantine SS Co. 15.1.42 Bombed and sunk, Tees Bay off Middlesborough. | |
| Bayano HMS | Elders & Fyffles; 1913; A.Stphen & Sons; 5.948 tons; 416x53 x30; 584nhp; 14 knots; triple expandion engines. The liner Bayano was taken over early in the First World War for service as an auxiliary cruiser. On March 11th, 1915, the vessel, under command of Cdr. H.C. Carr, was on her way to Liverpool to coal when she was intercepted ten miles NW by W of Corsewall Point by submarine U-27, Lt.Cdr. Wegener. The attack took place at 5.15am. The Bayano sank very rapidly and only four officers and 22 ratings were saved. Fourteen officers, including Cdr. Carr and 181 ratings were killed. The SS Castlereagh, Capt. McGarrick, arrived on the scene shortly after, but although she saw much wreckage and many dead bodies, she was chased away by the submarine and prevented from making a search. | |
| Baychattan SS | [Tony Allen:]Baychattan SS, a 3.758 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by UC-50 on October 11th 1917, ½ a mile SSW from Prawle Point, Devon. | |
| Baygitano SS | [Mark Page] Armed steamer. [Tony Allen:] Topedoed by UC-77. | |
| Beacon | [Tony Allen:]Beacon was built in 1941 as a Coaster. Requisioned as MOWT. On 5th April 1942 hes was mined and sunk at 51.41N 05.10W. | |
| Beagle SS | [Tony Allen:]Beagle SS, cargo built in 1864 by McGregor, Partick; Hull material : iron | |
| Beauport SS | [Mark Page:] Beauport was a steamer which sunk in the Little Russel channel in 1930 after hitting the reef 'Boue Agenor' She was partially refloated and towed to a sandy bottom just off St. Peter Port harbour, where she sank into soft sand. Salvors could not raise her, so she was blown to pieces with explosives, some sections were towed into deeper water and sunk. | |
| Beautemps Beaupre | Hydrographical yacht; 103,7m; 1.969 tons. Sunk on 24th June 1940. | |
| Beaverburn SS (OA-84) | [Tony Allen:]Vessel was Canadian owned but British Registered. Built in 1927 and owned by CANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIPS LTD. She was on route from LONDON for ST JOHNS New Brunswick carrying a general cargo including turbine parts, raw skins, briar pipes, carpets. One crew lost. She was torpedoed by U-41. | |
| Bedale SS | [Tony Allen:]Bedale SS a 2.116 grt defensively armed merchantman was torpedoed without warning on October 6th 1917, 25 miles SE by S from MineHead, N Devon. 3 lives were lost. | |
| Beechtree SS | [Tony Allen:]Beechtree was a 1.277grt British Merchant ship. On the 10th February 1917 when 11 miles SE from Start Point, Devon, she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by a submarine. | |
| Beechwood | Captured by german submarine and sunk by gunfire. | |
| Begona SS | Built 1880 by Mitchell & Co; chenged many times from onwers: ex-Sheikh, ex-Gambia; ex-Emma-K;ex Carmen Roca; ex Carsie; ex-Vincente; ex-Teodoro; Sunk on 15th July 1927, in collision with El Dorado; El Dorado also sank; | |
| Beignon SS | [Tony Allen:]Beignon was built in 1939 and owned by MOREL LTD. NOLISEMENT STEAMSHIP CO LTD. She was on route from FREMANTLE for THE TYNE carrying a cargo of 8816 tons of wheat when she was torpedoed by U-30 and sunk. 3 crew were lost from a total of 33. | |
| Belfast | [Tony Allen:]Belfast ran aground on Bogha Dale Rocks on the West Coast of Colonsay, Scotland. Vessel was 1293 tons and 265.6 feet. | |
| Belford | [Tony Allen:]Belford was 2076 tons and 325 feet in length. | |
| Belgian Prince | [Tony Allen:]Built in 1904 as the Mohawk, 1912 purchased from North Atlantic SS Co, Bristol renamed Hungarian Prince, 1915 renamed Belgian Prince, 1917 torpedoed and sunk off Ireland. Owned by the Prince Line. | |
| Belgian Prince | [Tony Allen:]Built in 1904 as the Mohawk, 1912 purchased from North Atlantic SS Co, Bristol renamed Hungarian Prince, 1915 renamed Belgian Prince, 1917 torpedoed and sunk off Ireland. Owned by the Prince Line. | |
| Belgian SS | [Tony Allen:]Belgian was a 3.657grt defensively-armed British Merchant steamship. On the 24th May 1917 when 50 miles W ½ S from the Fastnet, Ireland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 2 lives lost. | |
| Bellavista SS | [Tony Allen:]Bellavista SS, a 3.527 ton Panamanian steamship was lost on the July 29th 1948, after running aground on Papa Westray with a cargo of iron ore. | |
| Belle Virtue | [Tony Allen:] West German Container Ship on route from Waterford to Rozenburg. Collision in dense fog. | |
| Bellucia SS | [Tony Allen:] Bellucia, a 4.368 ton British steamer, which was torpedoed by UB-31, 2km out in the Channel east of Bass Point on 7 July, 1917, while homeward bound in a convoy to London with a cargo of flour from Montreal. The convoy, of which Bellucia, captained by James Kiddie, was part, was aware that U-boats were about, and the convoy commander in the destroyer HMS Lyra brought the ships as close to the Lizard as he dared. The weather was squally with a rough sea. At 3pm one of the Bellucia's crew shouted that he had seen a periscope about 300 yards off the port beam. His warning came too late. A torpedo struck in the port side in the engine room, killing the third engineer, two firemen and the chief steward. Bellucia did not sink at once and the rest of the crew got clear in boats and rafts and were picked up. The ship was blown in and finally grounded, tipped over on her port side and sank, leaving her starboard side just above water. Later, holes were cut in the exposed side of the hull and tons of flour salvaged. | |
| Ben Cruachan SS | [Tony Allen:]Ben Cruachan was a 3,092grt, Merchantship. On the 30 January 1915 when 15 miles NW from Morecambe Light House, English Channel she was captured by submarine and sunk by bombs.[Jan Lettens:]Also reported as Ben Cruchan | |
| Benbrack SS | Joseph Hoult & Co.; 1862; Smith & Roger; 1.944 tons; 300x34x24; 220 hp; compound engines; The British steamship Benbrack was wrecked January 1889 at Texel. She was on voyage from Savannah to Bremen, carrying cargo of cotton. | |
| Beneficent SS | [Tony Allen:]Beneficent was a 1.963grt defensively-armed British Merchant ship. On the 24th February 1917 when off the Mouth of Tees she hit a mine and sank. 3 lives lost. | |
| Benghazi | [Tony Allen:]Benghazi was 257 tons and 125 feet in length. | |
| Benjamin Contee | [Tony Allen:]Benjamin Contee. Deliberate sinking off Normandy. | |
| Berbice | [Tony Allen:]The 4 masted square rigged wooden barque Berbice was on route from Greenock to Havana with a cargo of coal, when she ran aground in a gale. | |
| Berenice SS | [Tony Allen:]Berenice, a freighter of 1.177 tons was on route from Istanbul to Amsterdam when she was torpedoed without warning by U-65 and sunk. 47 lives lost. She was carrying 1.000 tons of manganese ore. | |
| Berkeley HMS | British Navy destroyer; 1939; Cammell Laird; 904 tons; 272x28x8; 19.000shp; 27.5 knots; turbine engines; 3 drum boilers; four 4 in. Guns, eight smaller. The destroyer Berkeley, Lt.J.J.S. Yorke, took part in the Dieppe Raid on August 19th, 1942. At about 4.50am, the landing on six beaches in Dieppe began, the Navy covering the troops with gun fire, and the air force providing air cover. The raid had for its objectives: 1) testing of what was known as a heavily defended section of the coast on a large scale, 2) destruction of German batteries and important radio-location station, 3) destruction of German mimitary personnel and equipment and the capture of prisoners for interrogation. The troops employed were entirely Canadian, and the fighting was extremely fierce, the Canadians running their tanks ashore from landing craft and forcing their way into the centre of the town, followed by their infantry. A British force destroyed a 6 in. Howitzer battery 4 1/2 miles W from Dieppe, but a second force was driven back by German E-boats. At approximately 12.50pm, Berkeley received a direct hit by a heavy bomb which broke her back and flooded the engine room. She sank with the loss of 15 ratings. The Canadian losses amounted to 170 killed, 633 wounded and 2547 missing, from a military force of about 5.000. | |
| Berlin SS | [Other Source:]Great Eastern Railway Co; 1894; Earle's Co; 1.775 tons; 302x36x16; 5.800 ihp; 18 knots; triple expansion engines. The G.E.R. steamship Berlin left Harwich for the Hoek of Holland Wednesday night, February 20th, 1907. The vessel encountered a violent north-westerly gale immediately on leaving Harwich, but on arriving off the Hoek in the early morning all on board imagined that their trouble was over. The ship was struck by heavy sea several times and broke in two pieces. Several rescue operations only accounted for one person saved. The next day, another 14 persons were saved. [A.H. Jansen:] Correction: Berlin SS beached on 21st Februari 1907 around 05:45 a.m. on the top of the Noorderpier. She then broke in two pieces. | |
| Bermuda | [Tony Allen:]Bermuda was under tow, when lost and drifted ashore. | |
| Berry Britagne | [Tony Allen:]The French fishing vessel Berry Britagne presumed to have been illegally fishing as she went down near the wreck of the ''Lochgarry''. Later found that trawls and doors are on the Lochgarry so the french fishing vessel will be close by. All 12 of the crew were rescued by a passing coaster. | |
| Berta kienass | Der deutsche Küstenfrachter ''Berta Kienass'' läuft in der Nordsee auf eine Mine und sinkt; 14 Seeleute ertrinken | |
| Berwyn | [Tony Allen:]Berwyn hit under water obstruction and sank. Was 960 tons and 195x30x12 feet in dimension. | |
| Betsy Anna SS | Dutch steel steamer of 880 tons, owned by N.V H.W Berghuijs kolenhandel, Amsterdam, built 1892, sank under tow in 1926 after running aground at Eddystone. | |
| Bettann | Danish Coaster of 500 tons | |
| Betty SS | [Tony Allen:]Betty was a British Steamn Freighter built in 1918 and was formerly called CN in 1940. She was on route from SAIGON for LIVERPOOL carrying 2726 tons of rice when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-59. She was sunk 35 miles North of TORY ISLAND, Co.Donegal, Ireland. | |
| Biarritz SS | [Tony Allen:]Biarritz was built in 1922 and was 1752 tons. She was on route from ANTWERP for OSLO when she was torpedoed by U-14 and sunk with the loss of 25 crew. She was carrying a cargo of wollen cloth. | |
| Biarritz SS | [Bram de Willigen:]Het is een schip van de Fred Olson Line, gebouwd in 1928 en gezonken in 1940 doordat het op een mijn was gelopen (dat is op het wrak goed te zien). [Martien Slaats:]d/s Biarritz is in 1922 gebouwd bij Akers Mekaniske Verksted Oslo Norge Reder Fred Olsen&co thuishaven was Oslo Noorwegen. lengte 255.7 meter breedte 39.7 BRT:6183 motor een tripel Dampmaskin m/tre Cilinder 206 Ihk Biarritz vaarde van Antwerpen-Oslo 25-1-1940 vaarde ze op een mijn had 57 personen aan boord 26 manschappen en 11 passagiers kwamen om andere zijn gered door het schip Borgholm van de zelfde reder aan boord kwamen 21 geredde en 3 doden en is toen naar Ijmuiden gevaren. | |
| Biesbosch SS | 1916 J. Thomas Wilmink & Co., Groningen; Hollandsche Algem. Atlant. Maats. ; 492 tons; 46.25x7.69x3.74m; Screw, 3cyl. triple expansion;Seized by the U.S. Government in about March 1918, she was taken over by the Navy in August of that year, converted to a salvage ship and placed in commission in mid-November as USS Biesbosch (ID # 2499). By that time the First World War had been over for a week, but the ship continued preparation for active service and, in December 1918, steamed south to her new base at Key West, Florida. Biesbosch began her salvage work late in that month, beginning the two week job of refloating the freighter Bedminster, which was aground on the Georgia coast. In February 1919 she assisted the Navy tanker W.L. Steed, stranded in the Bahamas; the S.S. Novian, aground near the mouth of the Mississippi River; and the S.S. Paloma, which had run aground in Cuban waters. Her last major task was in late March and early April, refloating the French steamer Boieldieu. USS Biesbosch returned north in late April 1919 and was decommissioned at Staten Island, New York, in mid-May. Following return to her owners she resumed her commercial career, which lasted, under both the Dutch and Belgian flags, until 1923. On December 29 1923, the crew of SS Biesbosch discovered a leak while off Flamborough Head. The vessel anchored inside the headland while the crew tried to repair the leak, at 20.00 hrs it was clear to all that they were fighting a losing battle. The crew of SS Biesbosch abandoned the ship in their own life boats, they rowed to a safe spot near Bridlington harbour and anchored until daylight. A strong south easterly wind brought heavey seas and the Biesbosch foundered during the night. | |
| Binnendijk SS | Holland-Amerika Lijn; 1921; N.V. Werf De Noord Alblasserdam; 6.875 tons; 400.4x54.3x36.6; 648 nhp; turbine engines; The Dutch steamship Binnendijk struck a mine (laid by the U-26) and sunk on October 8th, 1939, three miles S.E. of the Shambles light. She was on voyage from New York to Rotterdam. | |
| Birch HMT | Built 1912; requisisioned as a mine sweeper; On 23rd August 1917 she struck a mine from UC-1 and sank; | |
| Birgitte | [Tony Allen:]Birgitte. Departed Southampton in the afternoon of November 17th 1942 in Convoy PW-250 bound for Swansea for orders. They proceeded to Corfe Roads, then continued towards Swansea at 10:30 a.m. on the 18th. Attacked at about 03:10 on November 19th 1942 by S-116, one of a group of 6 E-boats of the 5th S-Flottille under kapitänleutnant Klug, '5 miles south of Eddystone Lighthouse on a course West-half-North' according to the captain's statements at the subsequent hearings. | |
| Birkenfels MV | The Birkenfels was the third ship called ''Birkenfels'' (FIRST: 1910 - 1914 seized by Britain, renamed Tandem. 5.639 tons, SECOND: 1922-1940 mined and sunk in River Schelde, 6.317 tons), FOURTH: 1967- still in service, 9.600 tons) 10.869 shp, 12 knots. Dimensions: 156,8x18,6x8,0 m. On 7th April, 1966 Birkenfels was on voyage from Bremen to Khorramshahr (Perzian Gulf) with a cargo of 8.750 tons steel and general cargo when, around noon, she came in collision with the German MV Marie Luise Bolten in dense fog at 1 mile South of Noordhinder Lightship at 51° 38'39'' N - 02°31'07'' E. All crew was rescued by Marie Luise B and were transferred to Rotterdam. | |
| Birkenfels SS | Deutsche Dampf. Ges. Hansa; 1922; Act. Ges. Weser; 6.322 tons; 431x56x30; 430 nhp; triple expansion engines & L.P. turbines. The steamer Birkenfels was torpedoed and sunk by a British submarine on December 18th, 1940, off the mouth of the Scheldt. | |
| Birtley SS | [Tony Allen:]Birtley SS, a 1.438 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was psosibly torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 4 January 1918, 8 miles N from Flamboro' Head. 18 people perished, incl the Captain. | |
| Biruta SS | [Tony Allen:]Biruta was 1,733grt and a defensively-armed steamship. On the 6 August 1918, 8 miles NW ¾ W from Calais, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 12 lives lost including Master. | |
| Bisco 9 | [Tony Allen:]Bisco 9 was 5.218 tons and 449.8 feet in length. | |
| Bishopston SS | [Tony Allen:]Bishopston SS, a 2.513 grt defensively armed steamer was torpedoed on 4 September 1917, 30 miles S by E from St Catherines, without warning by a German submarine, 2 lives lost | |
| Bismarck | German Navy; dreadnought-battleship; 1939; Blohm & Voss; 35.000 tons; 792x118x26; 30 knots; turbine engines; eight 15 in guns, twelve 5.9 in, six 4.1 in, 4 aircraft. Sunk in action with superior British force, 27 May 1941, at 48º 10´ north, 16º 12´ west. 2106 men lost, 115 survivors (110 captured). There is so much information about this wreck on this site, that we have put everything in the document 'All details of the Bismarck'. | |
| Bisp SS | [Tony Allen:]Delivered in February 1889 from Sunderland Shipbuilding Co., Sunderland as Truno City to C. W. Furness, Hartlepool. 209.2' x 30.1' x 13.6', Triple exp. (Northeast Mar. Eng. Co., Ltd.). Purchased as Bisp from A. Jacobsen & C. Andersen jr, Bergen in 1933, by D/S A/S Bisp (O. Kvilhaug), Haugesund. Believed torpedoed by U-18 when on route with a cargo of coal from Sunderland to for Åndalsnes, Norway. U-18 reports the position of the attack as above. | |
| Bittern HMS | British Navy Destroyer; 1897; Vickers; 360 tons; 5.700 ihp; 30 knots; triple expansion engines; Thornycroft boilers; one 12 pdr gun, five 6pdr; 2 T.T. The destroyer Bittern collided with the s.s. Kenilworth off Portland Bill on April 4th, 1918. The destroyer's official complement was 60. | |
| Bizon SS | Bizon, 783 tons, 219’x30’.7x14. German steamer, sunk in 1944 on route to Guernsey. SS Bizon - sank 8-5-1944 by three french MTB's. | |
| Bjørnvik SS | [Tony Allen:]Built at Selby, UK 1918. Previous names: Runa, Reias, Flynarthen, Kildre. On route from Newport, Wales to Fowey, Cornwall with a cargo of fuel. Late in the afternoon of the 28th, about 2.8 nautical miles from Lizard Head, Cornwall she was suddenly attacked by German aircraft and bombed resulting in her sinking in 30 to 40 seconds. | |
| Black Diamond SS | [Tony Allen:]Black Diamond SS was built at Troon in 1864 by Portland Shipbuilding Cpy, she grossed 259 tons and was powered by a two cylinder steam engine by Coates Works of belfast. At the time of the wrecking, she was owned by Howden Bros of Larne who purchased her in 1888. She was en route from Troon to Belfast with a cargo of coal. | |
| Black Hawk (stern) SS | 7.191 ton US Liberty ship, built 1943. 441ftx57ft. Gun on stern. In ballast, Cherbourg for Fowey. Position: In two parts: stern at 50°26'17N - 2°25'30W, bow at 50°36'68N - 02°12'43W Sunk: 29 December, 1944, by torpedo from U-772, which blew off stern. Forepart stayed afloat but was towed into Worbarrow Bay and beached. | |
| Black Prince HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Black Prince, British, Duke of Edinburgh class Armoured Cruiser. Lost in the Battle of Jutland. | |
| Blackburn Rovers HMS | [Gert-Jan Bisschop:]Blackburn Rovers HMS (FY-116) was built in 1934 for Consolidated Fisheries and was commissioned in 1939. The 158 ft trawler weighted 233 bruto tons and had a 422 tons displacement. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty and used as an anti-submarine trawler. She took part to the Dunkirk evacuation witha crew of 17, during which she was either mined or torpedoed. She sunk on 2nd June 1940. One crew member died. | |
| Blackburn SS | Sunk after collision with S.S. Rock | |
| Blackhill | [Martien Slaats:]Blackhill werd ook Cherry genoemd. Op een mijn gelopen in de Thames Estuary. | |
| Blackwater HMS | Sunk in collision with HMS Hero. | |
| Blackwood HMS | [Other Source:] HMS Blackwood - British destroyer sunk 15-6-1944; [Rick Jenkins:] From uboat.net: leased from the US on 27 March, 1943. On 15 June 1944, the frigate HMS Blackwood (Lt.Cdr. L.T. Sly, RNR) was on patrol as part of the 4th Escort Group in the west end of the English Channel to protect the ships of the Normandy landings, when she was hit by a Gnat from U-764 off Brittany. She foundered while under tow off Portland Bill the following day. | |
| Blairhall SS | [Tony Allen:]Blairhall was a 2,549grt, defensively-armed steamship. On the 26 July 1918, 3½ miles ENE from Sunderland, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 1 life lost. | |
| Blairlogie SS | [Tony Allen:]Blairlogie was a British Steam Freighter built in 1929. She was formerly called GROVEDENE (1936) and PORTFIELD (1935). She was owned by CLYDESDALE NAVIGATION CO LTD and was on route from PORTLAND (MAINE) for LANDS END, Cornwall awaiting then further Port instructions. She was carrying a cargo of scrap iron and steel when she was torpedoed and sunk by gunfire from U-30. All the crew were rescued. | |
| Blanche HMS | British Destroyer; 1928; Hawthorn Lesley & Co. 1.360 tons; 323x32x12; 34.000 shp; 35 knots; turbine engines; 3 drum boilers; four 4.7 in guns; two 2pdr; 5 mg; 8 T.T. The Blanche was sunk by a magnetic mine in the Thames Estuary, the first ship to be sunk by these new developments, whilst escorting HMS Adventure which had earlier been damaged by a mine. She was the first Royal Navy destroyer to be sunk in the war. Had been turning at high speed when a the mine exploded well aft. The main dynamo was destroyed and the ship was plunged into darkness. She took a 20 degree list and sank two hours later. One rating was killed and three officers and 12 ratings injured. | |
| Blanefield SS | [Other Source:]Blanefield SS, 3.411 ton Steamer Sunk: 1st may 1906 in collision with the Kate Thomas 36 died. [Tony Allen:]Blanefield SS, steamship of 3.411 tons. Dimensions: 107x14 metres. Powered: Triple expansion engine. On route from Junin to Dover when in collision with the vessel Kate Thomas. 36 died. | |
| Blazer | Blazer was sunk in 1918, after running aground. Tug vessel was 283 tons and 130 feet in length. | |
| Bleamoor | [Tony Allen:] Bleamoor, 3.755grt, defensively armed, 27 November 1917, 4 miles SSE from Berry Head, was on passage from Hull to Falmouth carrying 5.300 tons coal, when she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 8 lives lost | |
| Blencowe SS | Built 1881; sunk on 25th May 1900 in collision with the British Rio Tinto SS; | |
| Blenheim SS | [Tony Allen:]Blenheim SS. Sank in the Porsanger Fiord, Norway. | |
| Blesk SS | The Blesk was the first tanker to cause an ecological catastrophe with oil splill on the 1st December 1896. The captain made a serious navigation error and the ship ran aground on Greystone Rock, Devon coast. | |
| Blue Jacket SS | [Tony Allen:]Blue Jacket SS struck Longships reef Lands End, Cornwall. | |
| Blütcher | [Tony Allen:]Blücher, German, Blücher class Armoured Cruiser Sunk at the Battle of Dogger Bank. | |
| Boadicea HMS | British destroyer; 1930; Hawthorn Leslie & Co; 1.360 tons; 323x32x12; 34.000 shp; 35 knots; turbine engines; 3-drum boilers; three '.7 in guns; one 3 in A.A., six smaller ; 4 T.T. The destroyer Boadicea, Lt.Cdr.F.W. Hawkins, was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine off Portland, on June 13th, 1944. Nine officers, including Lt.Cdr. Hawkins and 166 ratings were killed and one officer wounded. | |
| Bobby SS | [Diving Sussex:]Bobby SS; Panamanian steamer, 325ft, beam of 47ft, renamed from the Eastbury in 1927 the name on her bell. Sunk 25th April 1940 in collision with the Dutch steamer Midsland. | |
| Bogo SS | [Tony Allen:]Bogo was built in 1920 and was on route from GOTHENBURG for METHIL in ballast when she was torpedoed by U-59. 17 crew lost. | |
| Bohera | Cargo of coals. | |
| Bokn SS | [Tony Allen:]Departed Barry Docks on July 7th 1942 with a cargo of coal for Portsmouth and joined eastbound coastal convoy WP-183. Attacked by E-boats of 2nd S-Flottille on July 9 when in Lyme Bay between Dartmouth and Portland. Was sunk by a torpedo from S-70 (Klose) | |
| Bolette SS | [Tony Allen:]Bolette SS. Hit by 2 bombs from a German aircraft on April 16th 1941 off St. Ives, Cornwall near Lands End on a voyage from Workington for Devonport with a cargo of coal. | |
| Boltonhall SS | [Tony Allen:]Boltonhall was 3,535grt and a defensively-armed steamship. On the 20 August 1918, 34 miles SW by W ¼ W from Bardsey Island, N. Wales she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 5 lives lost. | |
| Boma SS | [Tony Allen:]Boma was built in 1920 for the ELDER DEMPSTER LINES LTD. She was on route from CARDIFF for LAGOS with a 1000 tons of coal when she was torpedoed by U-58. 3 crew missing from a total of 58. | |
| Boma SS | [Tony Allen:]Boma SS was carrying a cargo of potatoes on route from Belfast to the Isle of Wight, when she was torpedoed by UB-80. | |
| Bombardons | Small cargo. | |
| Bonafide | Barque with three masts. | |
| Bonhomme Richard | In september 1779, period in history when the American colonies were fighting for their independence from England, a battle took place off Flamborough Head, between American squadron of John Paul Jones and two British ships of war, Serapis (capt. Pearson) and the Countess of Scarborough, escorting a fleet of 41 merchantman. John Paul Jones' squadron comprised the Bonhomme Richard with 40 guns, the Alliance 36 guns, the Pallas with 32 guns, the Cerf with 18 guns and the Vengeance with 12 guns. In the close battle the Serapis struck into the Bonhomme Richard, leaking badly, but Captain Pearson gave up his gallant defence and surrendered to the Bonhomme Richard. Attempts to save the ship failed and the Serapis set sail with Jones in command. He died in 1792 aged forty-five in Paris, neglected and almost forgotten and was buried in an obscure cemetery. The American people began to consider John Paul Jones to be the Father of the American Navy. His grave was discovered later and on 26th Jan 1913 the remains of John Paul Jones were re-interred with an impressive naval ceremony in a marble sarcophagus at the Naval Academy Chapel at Annapolis, Maryland. | |
| Bonita MV | MV Bonita - sank 13-12-1981 | |
| Bonne Sainte Rita | Sunk on 29/12/1986 while on load with its nets. Iron boat from 1965 equipped to drag shells from the seabed. | |
| Bordeaux SS | [Michael Tolhuisen] SS Bordeaux; 1851; James Smith & Zn., Rotterdam; 516 tons; The Bordeau was on voyage from Rotterdam to Bordeau when she ran aground on Ile de Dieu on December 27th 1875. | |
| Bordeaux SS | The Glasgow steamer Bordeaux sank with all hands on November 29, 1897 on the South Smithic off Bridlington. A violent north north westerly gale blew that day, and the 333 ton vessel sought shelter in bridlington bay. She ran ashore south of Flamborough Head drifted off and sank on the south smithic sandbank, her two masts could be seen from the shore. | |
| Border Knight | [Tony Allen:] Border Knight, 3.724grt, defensively armed, 4 November 1917, 1½ miles ESE from the Lizard, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 1 life lost | |
| Bore 3 | Finnish cargo, sunk by a mine on 04/05/1951. | |
| Borealis HMS | Steel motor vessel of 451 tons, bombed by aircraft in 1940 off the Isle of Wight, English Channel. | |
| Borga SS | [Tony Allen:]Borga was a 1,046grt defensively-armed British Merchant Steamer. On the 1 March 1918 when 9 miles S E by S from Beer Head she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 5 lives lost. | |
| Borgny SS | [Other Source:]Steel steamer of 1.149 tons, mined in 1918. [Martien Slaats:] Sunk while heading up channel, near the Isle of Wight, on 26th February 1918, carrying 1.500 tons of coal from Newport for Rouen. | |
| Borodino HMS | [Tony Allen:]Sunk as blockship at Zeebrugge, Belgium. | |
| Borthwick SS | [Martien Slaats:]Borthwick SS. Torpedoed by U-14 while in convoy. See also Abbotsforth and Akeld. [Tony Allen:]Borthwick SS was on route with a general cargo from ANTWERP and ROTTERDAM for LEITH. She was built in 1920. | |
| Boscawen SS | [Tony Allen:]Boscawen was a 1,936grt, defensively-armed steamship. On the 21 August 1918, 23 miles WNW from Bardsey Island, N. Wales, UK was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 1 life lost. | |
| Boscobel SS | Steaming trawler, built in 1906 by J. Duthie & Sons, Aberdeen for J.A. Robertson from Fleetwood (Active Fishing Co. Ltd.). 232 tons. Sold to J.A. Marr and later to T. Walker from Aberdeen. Sold in 1932 to J. Falconer from Aberdeen, rebuilt and used as a cargo. Boscobel sunk on 29th May 1937 near to the Lightship Wandelaar on voyage from Antwerp to London with a cargo of iron fence wire. Official position is 51°21.50 N - 02°50.75 E. | |
| Boston City SS | [Tony Allen:]Boston City SS, a 2.711 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 2 January 1918, 11 miles W ½ N from St Ann's Head | |
| Bostonian SS | [Tony Allen:]Bostonian SS was a 5.736 grt armed merchantman, torpedoed 10th October 1917, 34 miles S by E ½ E from Start Point, Devon. 4 people were killed. | |
| Bosworth HMS | [Tony Allen:]Sunk as blockship. | |
| Bothal SS | [Tony Allen:]Bothal was built in 1920 and was 2109 tons. She was on route from FREDERIKSHAVN for BLYTH in ballast when she was torpedoed by U-19. Of the crew of 20, 15 were lost. | |
| Bottle wreck | [Diving Sussex:]Unknown | |
| Boughate-34 | [Martien Slaats:]Boughate-34, een kleine vissers cutter is 29-6-1945 gezonken. | |
| Boulderpool SS | [Tony Allen:]Boulderpool was built in 1928 by Smiths Dock Co., Middlesbrough. She was owned by the Ropner Shipping Cpy. In 1941 torpedoed and sunk by German E Boat off Norfolk Coast. | |
| Bournemouth | Paddle Steamer of 283 tons, 208x22x7.5ft Sunk in 1886 when running aground. | |
| Bourrasque | French Navy Destroyer; 1925; Chantiers de France; Dunkirk; 1.458 tons; 347x33x13.7; 33.000 ihp; 33 knots; turbine engines; four 5 in guns, two 37mm; 6 T.T. The Bourrasque, Cdr. C.F. Fouque, was used in May 1940 to evacuate Dunquerque. On May 30th, the Bourrasque was on its way with 600 French soldiers on board when it got shot by a coastal gunsection at Nieuwpoort. Approx. 5 miles from the Nieuwpoortse buoy, the ship was hit and water was running into the ship. The crew of the Branlebas heard a heavy explosion nearby. It appears to be on the sternsection of the Bourrasque, which was sinking fast. Panic made crew and passengers jumping over board and into the live boats. By a number of ships were 559 people saved. The last 15 were completely covered with oil. | |
| Bowman | [Tony Allen:]Bowman was built in 1942 and requisioned by MOWT and managed by Hain SS Co, St.Ives. 30.3.43 Torpedoed and sunk by U.404 at 47.26N 15.53W | |
| Bowsprite | British dredger of 1.503 tons, built in 1964 for Southcoast Shipping Co. Was sunk in heavy weather when her bows collapsed. Four crew went down with her. (see story) | |
| Boxer HMS | British 'A' Class destroyer; 1894; Thornycroft; 280 tons; 200x19x9; 4.000 ihp; 27 knots; triple-expansion engines; Thornycroft boilers; onze 12 pdr gun; five 6 pdr; 2 T.T.. Boxer sunk in the English Channel on February 8th, 1918. after a collision in bad weather with the SS St.Patrick. Her official complement was about 55, but it is probable that there was a larger number than this on board at the time of her loss. (dive sussex: sunk in collision with HMS decoy 1918 ?) | |
| Boyne | 1.800 tons, 180 ft long, sunk in 1795 due to a fire. | |
| Boynton SS | [Tony Allen:]Boynton SS, 2.578 grt, defensively armed merchantman was torpedoed without warning by a German U-boat, 24th September 1917, 5 miles WNW from Cape Cornwall. 23 lives, including the Master were lost. | |
| BR-16 Andre | [Philippe Mahieu:] Capsized while trawling a wreck | |
| BR-19 Vrouwe Anna | [Didier De Waele:]Gebouwd in 1905, de BR-19, Vrouwe Anna uit Breskens, een garnalenvisser met zeilen aangedreven, liep op een mijn. De 4 bemanningsleden kwamen om en zijn nadien aan de kust aangespoeld | |
| BR-36 Neeltje Elisabeth | [Didier De Waele:]BR-36, Neeltje Elisabeth; Built 1955; by Hakvoort; Cutter; 20x5,33x2,3; 49,7 grt; 310hp; Sunk on 30th September 1981. | |
| BR-40 De Jonge henk | [Didier De Waele:] Built in 1957, BR-40, De jonge Henk was sunk after hitting the wreck of the Panagathos on 25th March 1991. The crew was saved by the boat Johannes Frederik. | |
| BR-50 Johanna | Small wooden fishing vessel. 19.20 tons gross weight; Collided in 1959 with an unknown object, near Westkapelle. All crew were saved. | |
| BR-9 Sara Magdalena | [Didier De Waele:] Sara Magdalena BR-9; ex-'De Jonge Willem WR-88'; built 1954 by Scheepswerf Vooruit, West Graftdijk for Cornelis Kosten; 14,3x3,7m; 10,25 net tons; 6 cyl Deutz; 140hp;Sara Magdalena capsized in 1958 a first time, when trying to salvage the turkish ship Aydin in a storm. The crew was saved and the boat returned to service. She capsized a second time in 1960. In this accident, one of the crew was drowned. | |
| Braatt II SS | Steel steamer of 1.834 tons, 265 feet, torpedoed in 1918. | |
| Braeglen SS | [Tony Allen:]Braeglen SS was 367 tons. Was in collision with the vessel SARAH BROUGH and sank. | |
| Braga MS | M/S Braga NS; Fred. Olsen & Co., Oslo 1671 gt Built in Gothenburg, Sweden 1938. Delivered in Nov-1938 from Lindholmens Varv AB, Gothenburg (961) as Braga to Den Norske Middelhavslinje A/S (Fred. Olsen & Co.), Oslo. Steel hull, 297.3’x42.3’x18.3’, 1671 gt, 2740 tdwt, engine: Sulzer 1950bhp. WW II: According to ''Nortraships flåte'' Braga announced she was the subject of a U-boat attack in 34 34N 70 58W around midnight on June 18-1942, but reached her destination safely. This incident is not mentioned in Rohwer. POST WAR: Ran her bow into a quay at Dieppe on Febr. 7-1961 upon departure for Southampton (general cargo). No damage could be seen so she continued her voyage, but after a while she sprang a leak in heavy seas and developed a list. Her crew was saved by vessels that came to before she sank in the Channel, position 50 12N 00 36E, east of Dieppe. (Pre war and post war details from T. Eriksen, Norway - his source: ''Skipet'' / Thor B. Melhus). | |
| Brakelow SS | [Tony Allen:]Brakelow SS, a 1.661 tons brigantine rigged steamship, was built in 1882 and ran aground at Loe Bar on 21st April 1890. | |
| Brandon SS | [Tony Allen:]Brandon was a British Steam Cargo vessel built in 1917. She was formerly called BREDON (1923) and HOLLBROOK (1923). She was owned by THE SOUTH GEORGIA CO LTD and was on route from CARDIFF for PORT EVERGLADES, FLORIDA when she was torpedoed by U-48. 9 crew were lost. | |
| Branham | Branham, defensively armed British Merchantship. Hit mine 10 miles Eby S Lizard and sank. | |
| Branksome Chine | [Tony Allen:]Branksome Chine was torpedoed 6 miles east by 3/4 south of Beachy Head. | |
| Branlebas | French destroyer, Branlebas class, built in 1907; 58x5.53x2.36m; 399 tons; one canon, 6 torpedoes, 2 T.T. On the night of 28th-29th September 1915, Branlebas (Capt. Lt. Wackernie) was on patrol near the Middelkerkebank in company of the ''Obusier'' when her propellor hit a German mine. Five officers were immediately killed. Despite efforts of the crew to save the ship, she was abandonned as water was pouring in fast. Obusier picked up the survivors and returned to Dunkirk. 48 hours later the French discovered the mine field. (Just one month before the sinking Branlebas was able to send German torpedoboot A-15 down.) | |
| Brat | 265ftx42ft and 1.834 tons. Sunk: Torpedoed in 1918 | |
| Braunton | 4.575 tons 380ft British Merchantman Sunk: 7th April 1916 Torpedoed by UB-29 | |
| Bravore | [Tony Allen:]Bravore. Built by Kockums Mekaniska Verkstads A/B, Malmö, Sweden in 1916. She had the previous names Belibrook, Polberg and Bergvik. Departed Tyne in the evening of April 20th 1940 in convoy for Rouen with a cargo of 1991 tons coal. According to ""Nortraships flåte"" she had a crew of 19 and 5 French soldiers. At the mouth of the Thames on the 22nd the convoy was split up, with some of the ships heading for London, while Bravore and 4 other vessels (2 of which were French, 1 British) continued to The Downs. Captain Tjørve became the first Nortraship captain to die when Bravore struck an aerial mine about 4 nautical miles off Ramsgate. | |
| Brazen HMS | [Diving Sussex:]British Navy Destroyer; 1928; Palmer & Co; 1.360 tons; 323x32x12; 34.000 shp; 35 knots; turbine engines; 3 drum boilers; four 4.7 in guns; rwo 2 pdr; five m.g.; 8 T.T The destroyer Brazen was engaged in convoy work in the North Sea when she was attacked by German bombers on July 21st, 1940. She shot down three aircraft before she was hit and badly damaged. An attempt was made to tow her but this proved impossible and she was abandoned and sank some hours after the attack. The Brazen was commanded by Lt. Cdr. Sir Michael Culme-Seymour and carried a complement of 138, of whom one stoker petty-officer died of wounds and four stokers were wounded. | |
| Brechin Castle | [Tony Allen:]Brechin Castle was a barque of 371 tons. Built at Dundee, 1844. Master T.R.Baxter. She left Adelaide for Swansea and London late in October 1846 with passengers and a cargo of copper ore, but was wrecked on the Welsh coast near Mumbles Head, 20 February 1847. All passengers and crew lost, estimated to number between twenty and twenty-six. | |
| Breda | [Tony Allen:]Breda was 546 tons and 285 feet in length. | |
| Breda SS | [HSAC:]Breda SS, a 6.941 ton single-funnel Dutch steamer, built in Holland, 1921. 418ftx58ft. Armed: 4.7in on stern. 3.000 tons cement, 175 tons tobacco and cigarettes, three Hawker biplanes, 30 De Havilland Tiger Moths, spare parts for the aircraft, Army lorries and spares, NAAFI crockery, copper ingots, rubber-soled sandals, 10 horses and nine dogs, London for Bombay. Sunk: 23 December, 1940, by near-misses from German Heinkel 111 bomber. Bombs broke piping in engine room and ship flooded. Taken in tow and beached in Ardmucknish Bay. Little salvage before Breda slipped into deep water. | |
| Brentwood SS | [Tony Allen:]Brentwood SS, 1,192grt, 12 January 1917, 4 miles ENE from Whitby, mined and sunk, 2 lives lost. | |
| Brestois SS | French iron steamer of 348 tons, sank following collision in 1918. | |
| Bretagne SS | [Philippe Mahieu:] Bretagne SS (ex Flandria SS) Passenger ship-Liner - IMO: (-), Callsign: (-) 1922, Barclay Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow, UK (no. 594) LxBxH: 137.19x18.03x12.67 m - 10.171 brt - 1.160 pass. 2 Brown-Curtis stoommachines - 5.450 apk - 14.5 kn Netherlands. 1922: gebouwd als Flandria voor de Kon. Hollandse Lloyd te Amsterdam; 1935: Opgelegd te Amsterdam; 1936: verkocht naar Frankrijk en verbouwd te le Havre. 1939: In het kanaal getorpedeerd door duitse U-45. Zeven slachtoffers. | |
| Bretagne SS | Shipping Controller (Capper, Alexander & Co); 1903; Nylands Vaerksed; 1.439 tons; 231.6x35.2x14.7; 106 nhp; triple expansion engines. The Bretagne was sailing under the British flag on August 10th, 1918, when she came into collision with the Renee Marthe in fog. Bretagne was struck on the port side and as the ships parted, she was lost. First officer Henri Watterson returned to the ship to recover some valuables and documents as a seawave made a door slam, hereby taking him down with her. She was carrying coal from Barry to Rouen. | |
| Breydel | Belgian Fishing vessel reported by divers | |
| Bridge | [Tony Allen:]Bridge was built in 1941 as a Coaster. Requisioned as MOWT and managed by Springwell Shipping Co. 9.4.46 Struck wreck of s/s FORT MASSAC while salvaging cargo and sank at 51.53N 01.32E | |
| Brigadier | [Tony Allen:]Brigadier was 268 tons and 114 feet in length. | |
| Brighton Belle | P. & A. Campbell; 1900; J. Scott & Co; 396 tons; 200x24x8.2; 141 nhp; 17 knots; compound engines. Launched as Lady Eveleyn, she was named after the wife of a director of the Furness Railway. She was rebuilt in 1904 by Vickers Sons & Maxim at Barrow in Furness, when she was lengthened by some 30 ft and her open foredeck was plated in. She was purchased by Tuckers in 1919 and later by Campbell's in 1922. She was renamed Brighton Belle in 1923. In 1936 she was transferred from the Bristol Channel to the South Coast, which was in more in keeping with her new name. During the war, the Brigthon Belle was adjusted for wartime: a walking bridge before the funnel and an A.A. gun. She was renamed NF-17. In 1940 she went to the Dunkirk evacuation and after picking up 800 men she struck a submerged wreck which had been mined a few hours earlier. Fortunately all the men were rescued, along with the crew and the Captain's dog. They were picked up by the Medway Queen, who went alongside as she was sinking. | |
| Brighton Marina | Historic Wreck. Unidentified armed vessel, a number of guns have been raised. Dated approx sixteenth century, discovered in 1974 | |
| Brighton Queen SS | [Tony Allen:]Brighton Queen SS. Built by John Brown Clydebank - 1905 for Barry Railway Co (1905-1910) - Bristol Channel Passenger Boats Ltd (1910-1912) - Furness Railway (1912-1914) - W H Tucker (1918-1922) - P&A Campbell Ltd (1922-1940) Previous Names: ""Gwalia"" (1905-1912) - ""Lady Moyra"" (1912-1933) - ""Brighton Queen II"". Sunk by german aircraft during operation Dynamo in the English Channel. | |
| Brighton SS | Paddlesteamer 250 tons. Sank after hitting the Brayes reef. | |
| Brika SS | [Tony Allen:]Brika was a 3.549grt defensively-armed British Merchant ship. On the 13th March 1917 when 13 miles SE by S from Coningbeg LV, Ireland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 2 lives lost. | |
| Brinkburn SS | Century Shipping Co.; 1894; Richardson, Duck & Co.; 3.222 tons; 330x43.1x18; 273 nhp; triple expansion engines. The British steamship Brinkburn was wrecked in December, 1898 on Maiden Bower Rocks, Scilly. She was on voyage from Galveston to Le Havre with a cargo of cotton and cottonseed. | |
| Briseis SS | French steamer; 2.965 tons; Cargo of wine. Sunk on 01/10/1937 | |
| Britannia | [Tony Allen:] Britannia, 765grt, defensively armed, October 1917, English Channel, possibly torpedoed without warning by submarine, date uncertain, listed as 19th, 22 lives lost including Master. | |
| Britannia HMS | British Navy; 1st class battleship; 1904; Portsmouth Dockyard; 16.350 tons; 453.7x78x26.7; 18.000 ihp; 18.9 knots; triple-expansion engines; Babcock boilers; four 12in guns; four 9.2 in, ten 6 in; twelve 3pdr; two m.g. 4 T.T. The old battleship Britannia had the melancholy distinction of being the last British warship to be lost in WWI. She was steaming toward Gibraltar from westward in company with two destroyers, when, on the morning of November 9th, 1918, at about 7.15am, she was attacked by a submarine. Two torpedoes were fired, both of which missed the target, but a third struck her amidships and exploded a quantity of cordite within the ship. She sank some three hours later, with a loss of 40 of her complement. The submarine which sank Brittania, the UB-50, Cdr. H. Kukat, was escaping from the Mediterranean with other submarines which had been operating there since the Dardanelles campaign. | |
| Britannia III | Captured by german sub and sank with gunfire | |
| Britannia SS | [Tony Allen:]Britannia SS, vessel built in Leith in 1885. On 25 September, 1915, she was sailing from Newcastle to Leith with a general cargo which included British army supplies, when she ran into thick fog around the Farne Islands. To add to the captain's problems, he knew that he was close to the most easterly of the Farnes, where a reef made up of the Crumstone and Callers Rocks provides a deadly trap for shipping, even in daylight. The Crumstone is never awash, but is very low in the water. The Callers are even lower and covered at high water. The Longstone Light was usually fair warning of the Crumstone, but a wartime blackout had been imposed, and the Britannia lookout saw nothing before she struck. The 210ft-long ship ran well up on the rock and stuck hard. It was a calm night, so calm that the First Officer rowed into Seahouses for help. At first light the wreck was spotted by local fishermen, who took the other 18 crew and two passengers off before starting to salvage her cargo. The next day the weather worsened and a swell began to pound the reef. The Britannia 's back broke very quickly, but nothing slowed the salvage. Eventually she broke up and slide into deeper water. | |
| British Prince | [Tony Allen:]British Prince, ex- Sutherland, 1936 purchased from B. J. Sutherland, Newcastle, 1941 bombed and sunk Thames Estuary. Owned by Rio Cape Line / J. Gardiner & Co. | |
| British Commerce | British Commerce was a 4 masted barsue of 1.463 tons, built in Glasgow, 1874. She measured 246.2x37.2x21.4ft. Bound from London to Melbourne, she sank in the English Channel following a collision with the SS County of Aberdeen (sailing from Calcutta to London) on 24th April 1883. Twenty-five lives were lost; The County of Aberdeen, also a 4 masted steamer rescued the captain and boatswain, the only survivors. | |
| British Enterprise | [Tony Allen:]British Enterprise was a three masted iron barque (ex-Annesley), lost off the Irish coast, 1910 | |
| British Influence | [Tony Allen:]BRITISH INFLUENCE was a British Motor Tanker built in 1939 and owned by BRITISH TANKER CO LTD. She was on route from ABADAN for HULL carrying 1200 tons of disel and oil fuel when she was torpedoed and sunk by gunfire from U-29. | |
| British Inventor SS | [Tony Allen:]British Inventor SS was on route to Abadan when she hit a mine. Only the bow part sand and the remainder was towed away for repair. | |
| British Navy | [Tony Allen:]British Navy was a vessel of 1.263 tons, built in 1869. She measured 216x35.5x25.2 feet and was registered at Liverpool. Sailing from London to Sydney, she sank off Deal on 25th November 1881 following a collision with the Larnaca. Several of her passengers and crew were drowned. | |
| British Prince | [Tony Allen:]ex- Sutherland, 1936 purchased from B. J. Sutherland, Newcastle renamed British Prince, 1941 bombed and sunk Thames Estuary. Owned by Rio Cape Line / J. Gardiner & Co. | |
| British Viscount SS | [Tony Allen:]British Viscount was a 3,287grt British Merchant Steamer that was defensively-armed. On the 23 February 1918 when 12 miles N by W ½ W from the Skerries, Anglesey, England she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 6 lives lost. | |
| Britsum SS | [Dirk Eekelers:]Built in 1929; 5.255 gross tons; 128mx17mx8; She sank on the 4th July 1940. [Tony Allen:]On route from Fowey , Cornwaal to Hull when a german Dornier 17 aircraft came out of the clouds and bombed her with a direct hit. Vessel caugh on fire and the Captain ran her aground and the eastern end of Pullar Bank hoping she could be salvaged. She was wrecked in a severe storm and now lies in 10 metres of water | |
| Britta | [Jan Lettens:]Torpedoed by a submarine on 06/12/1939. [Tony Allen:]Built in Helsingør, Denmark 1928. Torpedoed and sunk by U-47 (Capt. Gunther Prien) on December 6th 1939 when 45 n. miles southwest of Longships Light, on a voyage from Antwerp to Curaçao. 6 died. | |
| Brittania SS | Steel steamer of 765 tons, torpedoed in 1917. | |
| Brizeux | [Tony Allen:]Brizeux, French sailing ship, torpedoded and sunk by German submarine UB-18 while on passsage from Le Havre to Buenos Aires. | |
| Broderick SS | [Trevor Boreham:]Broderick, steel screw steamer, of London, 4,321 tons gross, 2.786 tons net, built in 1890 by Ropner & Son, at Stockton, length 364,8 ft, breadth 47 ft., depth 26,9 ft. owned by Broderick S.S. Co. Ltd. (Blue Star Line Ltd., present address: Albion House, 34, Leadenhall St. London, E.C.3.). The Broderick was sunk by a submarine on April 29, 1918, she was en voyage from London & Dunkirk to Puerto Caballo, in ballast, but with cattle on board. The crew were all saved. [Other Source]4.321ton 365ft British Steamer. Sunk: on 29th April 1918 by two torpedoes from UB-57 | |
| Brodfield SS | Blue Star Line; 1899; Hawthorn Leslie & Co.; 5.685 tons; 420.4x54x28.6; 569 nhp; triple expansion engines; The British steamship Brodfield was wrecked on November 13th, 1916, near Church Point, Scilly. | |
| Brookby SS | [Tony Allen:]Brookby was a British Merchantship Steamer built in 1905 by Ropner & Son, Stockton, who were the owners. In 1917 she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-60 near Fastnet. | |
| Broomhill SS | [Tony Allen:]Broomhill, 1,392grt, 10 May 1917, 9 miles SW from Portland Bill, captured by submarine, sunk by bombs, 2 lives lost. | |
| Bruges | Sunk in an air raid in June 1940. | |
| Brummer SMS | [Jan Lettens:]Built in 1913 by Vulcan, Brummer SMS was a minelayer, carrying 360 mines and therefore less guns than usual. She was scuttled by her crew at Scapa Flow on 21st June 1919. [Tony Allen:]Vessel carried three times as many mines as German Minelayers. She was armed by 4 x 5.9 inch and 2 x 3.4 inch guns. She had a speed of 28 knots. | |
| Brunhilda | [Tony Allen:] Brunhilda, torpedoed without warning. | |
| Bruno heinemann Z8 | German destroyer built in 1936 in Bremen; 119x11,3x4,23m; 3.110 tons. The Bruno Heinemann was used for escorting (whereunder the famous Prinz Eugen and the Scharnhorst) and mine-laying operations. The destroyer escaped many times torpedo attacks and air raids. On 24th January, 1942 she was on voyage in company in 5th Destroyer Flotille (with Z-4, Z-5, Z-7 and Z-8) from Kiel to France. On 25th January 1942 around 23u15 she hit two mines in ‘Dover Narrows’ and sunk. The second mine tore off the bow, just before the second canon. This was the main reason why the ship went down just in a few minutes. 93 of the complement of 325 drowned. The survivors were picked up by escorting destroyers ''Paul Jacobi'' and ''Richard Beitzen''. | |
| Brynmill SS | cargo: 780 tons of coal, bombed by german aircraft, was taken in tow, but tow broke and vessel was abandoned. | |
| Buccaneer SS | The Buccaneer was an 840 ton, 165ft long British armed tug and was accidentally sunk on the 26th August 1946. Built in 1937 by Flemming & Ferguson, she was equipped with a three cylinder, triple expansion engine which powered a single screw. Her armaments consisted of a 3in gun, mounted on her bow. She was in Lyme Bay towing a floating target for gunnery practise by HMS St James when she received a direct hit from one of the St James' 4.5 inch shells. | |
| Bucentaure | Sunk after capsizing on 24/01/1970 | |
| Buchaness SS | Buchaness - 4.363 tons. Position unreliable. Lost propellor shaft nut off Start Point, drifted across channel and was wrecked on the Casquets/Burhou. formerly known as Netherpark. | |
| Buffalo SS | [Tony Allen:]Buffalo was a 4.106 grt British defensively armedMerchantship of the Wilson Line. On the 18th June 1917 when 80 miles NW by N ½ N from Cape Wrath she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. On route from Hull to New York. No lives lost. | |
| Buitenzorg | [Tony Allen:]Buitenzorg was 4.520 tons and 445.7 feet in length. | |
| Bullger SS | [Tony Allen:]Bullger SS. Launched as the CARTMEL, 304 tons built for Furness Railway Co., Barrow Dimensions 128.0 x 25.8 A tug built by Vickers, Sons & Maxim, Ltd., Barrow completed in October 1907 as Yard No.358 Official No.125902. In 1923 owned by London, Midland & Scottish Railway, Barrow. In 1934 renamed BULLGER by Leith Salvage & Towage Co., Ltd., Leith Mined and sunk, 13 March 1941, in Druridge Bay near Amble, Northumberland at 55 15 190N 001 32 340W Mine said to have been laid by an aircraft. | |
| Bulwark HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Bulwark, British, London class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship. Exploded whilst lying at anchor at Sheerness with only 12 survivors. During that day she had been taking on board ammunition and it was thought that the shells had been stacked too close together and too close to a boiler room which caused some of them to ignite and cause a magazine explosion. | |
| Burgemeester De Wael SS | [Arie De Lange and Fred Groen:] The Burgemeester De Wael SS was a Belgian steamer on voyage from Antwerp to Koningsbergen with a cargo of iron. During a storm, she was of course and ran aground on the Krabbenplaat. The tug Wodan tried to free the ship. The next day, 18th November 1883, the ship got loose from the bank and ran aground to the dutch coastside at Westerschouwen (Krabbengat) at the heads of Schouwen. The crew was saved by rescue vessel Willem III and tug Zuid-Holland. This ship was wrongly named ''Duitse landingsboot'' in the wrecksite. (Arie De Lange). | |
| Burgerdijk SS | [Tony Allen:]Burgerdijk was a Dutch Steam Cargo vessel built in 1921 and owned by NEDERLANDSCHE-AMERIKAANSCHE STOOMVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ NV. She was on route from NEW YORK for ROTTERDAM carrying mainly wheat and maize when she was torpedoed by U-48. All the crew were saved. | |
| Burgos SS | [Stuart Wilson] Burgos SS; 1920; Nylands Vaerksted Oslo, for A/S Ganger Rolf; steamer; 11 knots; Originally named Brabant, she was renamed Burgos. On 28th March, she struck a mine East of Dudgeon Shoal | |
| Burma SS | [Tony Allen:]Burma, 706grt, 23 June 1916, 5 miles N by E ½ E from Shipwash Light Vessel, mined and sunk, 7 lives lost. | |
| Burnby SS | [Tony Allen:]Burnby was built in 1894 by Ropner & Son, Stockton by who she was owned. In 1894 she was stranded in Pendeen Cove, Cornwall, refloated but foundered and sank. Exact location in the area unknown. | |
| Burnstone SS | [Tony Allen:]Burnstone was a 2,340grt defensively-armed British Merchant Steamer. On the 19 March 1918 when 44 miles N from Farn Islands she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 5 lives lost. | |
| Burton | [Tony Allen:]Burton; 6.966 tons; 428x57x22 ft. Built in 1941. Requisioned by MOWT. 19.9.41 Torpedoed and sunk by U.74 at 61.30N 35.11W | |
| Busby SS | [Tony Allen:]The Busby a Steamship of 3276 tons was on her second voyage headed for Civitavecchia, when she ran into the cliffs in thick fog near the Coastguard station at Pendeen. All the crew were rescued some by breeches buoy and others by the ships boat. The ship remained aground for another three weeks until she was floated by salvours, after being towed out to deeper water it was discovered the pumps could not keep up with the leaks. And after being cut loose she sank 1 mile off the lighthouse in 30 metres of water. | |
| Bussum SS | SS Bussum; 1883; S.M. Oostzee, Amsterdam; 1160 tons; Ran aground near Dunkerque after an engine failure. | |
| Busy Bee SS | [Arie De Lange:]Op zaterdag namiddag 11-2-1896 om 16.30 uur tussen de zwarte boeien 1 en 2 heeft een aanvaring plaats gehad in de lijn van de geleidelichten van Nieuwe Sluis een aanvaring plaats tussen het Duitse SS Lindenfels op weg van Antwerpen naar Calcutta met het Engels SS Busy Bee o.l.v. Kapitein Goundy van New York naar Antwerpen in dikke mist. De Busy Bee kreeg schade, een groot gat aan stuurboord bij het achterschip ter hoogte van het achterluik. Hierdoor kwam de Busy Bee met het achterschip op de zeebodem. Het voorschip bleef boven water tot ± 21.00 uur waarna het wegzonk. De bemanning van 36 koppen werd overgenomen door de SS Lindenfels terwijl het schip nog met de steven in de Busy Bee zat. Wel verdronken er 43 paarden die aan boord waren. De Engelse bergingsmaatschappij Hubbart en Pears uit Whistable zouden de lading bergen. | |
| Butetown SS | [Tony Allen:]Butetown SS, a 1.829 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 29 January 1918, 1½ miles South from Dodman Point, Cornwall. 2 crew died. | |
| Buzuzlo SS | SS Buzuzlo / Buzulzo - sank 20-12-1896 | |
| Byms 2030 | Dredger; 40m; 207 tons. Sunk on 9th October 1944. | |
| Byron Darton | [Tony Allen:]Byron Darnton; American liberty ship; 7.176 tons; 441 ft; On 16th March 1946 she went ashore at Sanda Island in position 55°17N 05°35W, she broke in two and was a total loss . | |
| C-11 HMS | Lost after a collision with the 3.850 ton steamer Eddystone of Farrar Groves and Co. off Happisburgh, twelve miles s. of Cromer, Norfolk. Only 3 survivors. | |
| C-16 HMS | Sunk in collision with the destroyer HMS Melampus off Harwich, with all hands. | |
| C-27 HMS | Scuttled off Helsingfors (Helsinki) to prevent capture. (See E1). In the case of this boat because of the difficulties experienced with the explosive charges in E8 and C35, which had failed to explode, it was decided to allow her and C35 to flood. They were both first trimmed down by the bow and then the fore hatches and the bow and rear doors of the forward torpedo tubes were opened. As the water rushed in the scuttling parties made the hasiest possible exit up the conning tower and out of the boats. | |
| C-3 HMS | [Martien Slaats:]Iphgena HMS and Interpid HMS were minelaying destroyers, sunk as a blockship in the port of Zeebrugge in the battle of the Muhle. In the same action, C-3 HMS was used to destroy the bridge between the Muhle and the mainland in Zeebrugge, using 5 tons of explosives. | |
| C-31 | [Martien Slaats:] Staat als u-boot op naf, maar ik denk dat het de c-31 is die op een mijn is gelopen in de eerste wereld oorlog en is een war grave. | |
| Cabo Espartel SS | [Diving Sussex:]4.000 ton, 348 ft Spanish steamer, sunk 26th May 1950 in collision with Falspar from Glasgow. | |
| Cadeby SS | [Tony Allen:]Cadeby, 1,130grt, 27 May 1915, 20 miles SW by S from Wolf Rock, Cornwall. Captured by submarine, sunk by gunfire. | |
| Cadmus SS | [HSAC:]1911 S B Irvines & Dry Dock Co. Ltd; Christian Salvesen & Co. ; 1.879 tons; 85.04x12.21x5.61m; Screw, 3cyl. triple expansion; 175hp; 1x12 pdr. 18 cwt. stern gun; Capt M Morilla. Empty used shellcases for renovation in Britain. Dunkirk to Blyth. Sunk: 18 October, 1917, by torpedo 20 miles south of Flamborough Head. No deaths. | |
| Caduceus | Barque of 405 tons, 124ft long, sunk in 1881. | |
| Cairndhu SS | Cairns & Noble & Co; 1911; W. Doxford & Sons; 4.019 tons; 370x51x24.6; 292 nhp; 10 knots; triple-expansions engines. The Cairndhu, an armed merchantman was on his way to Gibraltar from Tyne with cargo, when she was torpedoed by UB-40, 25 miles W of Beachy Head on April 15th, 1917. UB-40 surfaced and rammed one of the two lifeboats killing 11 men. The captain was among the survivors. | |
| Cairnglen SS | [Tony Allen:]Cairnglen SS was 5019 tons and 40 feet in length. | |
| Cairnmona SS | [Tony Allen:]Cairnmona was built in 1918 for CAIRN LINE OF STEAMSHIPS LTD. She was on route from MONTREAL and HALIFAX for TYNE and LEITH carrying a general cargo and wheat when she was torpedoed by U-13 and sunk. 3 crew lost. | |
| Cairnross SS | [Tony Allen:]Cairnross was built in 1921 by Doxford & Co.Sunderland 425'x 55'x 26' 3 steam turbines, 3 single-ended boilers, single screw. Owned by Cairn Line. First British cargo ship to be fitted with steam-turbines. Cargo: coal + 50 tons general cargo inc. earthenware on route from Liverpool to St. Johns, Canada. Shortly after leaving Liverpool she struck a mine at 5.20pm 6.5miles from the Bar Light vessel. 48 crew's lives lost. | |
| Cairnsmuir | [Tony Allen:]Cairnsmuir was 1123 tons and 290.3 feet in length. | |
| Caisson AX177 | [Arnaud Collard] Type AX caisson used by the English in WWII for making artificial ports. They ware also used later for repairing damages to the dikes of the Dutch coast after the 1953 disaster. | |
| Calabria | [Tony Allen:]Empire Inventor; 9.515 tons; 480x58; Built in 1922 as the WERRA for the North German Lloyd, Bremen. In 1935 she was renamed the CALABRIA and purchased by Lloyd Triestino, Trieste. In 1940 she was to be renamed the EMPIRE INVENTOR. She was torpedoed and sunk by U-103 at 52°43N 10°07W before being renamed to EMPIRE INVENTOR. | |
| Calburga | [Tony Allen:]Calburga was a wooden Sailing Ship that ran aground on Pen Brush Point. | |
| Calcium SS | [Tony Allen:]Calcium SS was built 1918 by G.Brown of Greenock, 180'x 28'x 11'. Single boiler, triple-compound engine & owned by ICI(Alkali)Ltd. She struck a mine en-route Fleetwood to Llandulas in ballast. Sister ship Sodium took her in tow but Calcium was stern-down and filling and eventually sank. One casualty of the 9 man crew. | |
| Caleb Sprague | [Tony Allen:]Caleb Sprague, on passage from London to Newport when torpedoed. | |
| Caledonia SS | [Michael Tolhuisen] SS Caledonia; 1870; Wm. H. Müller & Co ., Rotterdam; 355 tons; Ran aground at Katwijk, Holland. | |
| Calgarian HMS | Allan line S.S. Co. 1914; Fairfiled Co; 17.515 tons; 568.8x70.3x41.6; 21.000 shp; 20 knots; turbine engines. The Calgarian was taken over by the Admiralty in 1914 and assigned to the 9th Cruiser Squadron, which was composed of the Royal Navy and five auxiliary cruisers. The prime duty of this squadron was the patrol of the Mid-Atlantic. In company of HMS Vindictive, the Calgarian blockaded the mouth of the Tagus to prevent the escape of German liners lying there and later, she was employed in guarding trans-Atlantic convoys. On March 1st, 1918, under the command of Capt. R.A. Newton, the ship was engaged in convoying 30 merchantmen off the N-coast of Ireland. In addition to her convoy duties, she was carrying a number of naval ratings who were being transferred to other stations or were going on leave. The German Admiralty had just initiated an intensive submarine campaign against Allied shipping passing through the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland and the Calgarian was the first victim of this concentration. She was torpedoed by the German submarine U-19 off Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland. Initially this was not enough to sink her and the crew managed to contain the damage, but the U boat Captain (Johann Speiss) pressed home his attack even though the cruiser was by then surrounded by destroyers and other ships, and torpedoed her again. The Calgarian received 4 topedoes in total and sank in a very short time, taking with her two officers and 47 ratings. | |
| California SS | [Tony Allen:]California was a 8.669 grt, defensively-armed British Merchantship of the Anchor Line. On the 7th February 1917 when 38 miles W by S from Fastnet she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 43 lives lost. She was on route from New York to Glasgow. | |
| Callisto MS | The MS CALLISTO, captain J. van der Zwan, was on her way from Pepel, West-Africa to Rotterdam with a cargo of 9.600 tons iron, when on 24th Februari 1959, she encountered thick fog as she was approaching the lightship Noordhinder. She took every precaution necessary (machines were set to slow, the horn was sounded). The Callisto had spotted a vessel on starboard, but when the Liberian Liberty ship ANDROS STREAM doomed out of the fog with a speed of 10 knots, it was too late. Andros Stream plowed herself into the Callisto bow in an angle of 90°. When the ships were freed, the Callisto started to sink, but Andros Stream disappeared and did not offer any assistance to the Callisto. Captain Van der Zwam ordered to abandon ship and the crew of 34 was later saved by the coaster JULIA. | |
| Cambank SS | [Tony Allen:]Cambank, 3,112grt, 20 February 1915, 10 miles E from Point Lynas,Anglesey and torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 4 lives lost. | |
| Camberwell SS | Well line; 1903; J.L. Thompson & Sons; 4.078 tons; 368x49.6x19; 409 nhp; 10 knots; triple expansion engines. The steamship Camberwell struck a mine and sank six miles S.E. by E. off Dunnose Head, Isle of Wight, on May 18th, 1917. Seven men were killed. The captain was among the survivors. | |
| Cambro SS | [Tony Allen:]Cambro SS, a cargo steamship of 1918 tons, 282x40 ft, sank in 1913. 1913 May 24th. CAMBRO. (CARDIFF) Steamship of 1918 tons. Ran aground on Smalls Rock. South side. 51.43.07.N. 05.40.10.W. On route from Spain to Garston with iron ore. | |
| Cameron HMS | British Navy Destroyer; 1919; Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp; 1.190 tons; 311x30x9.3; 27.000shp; 35 knots; turbine engines; four 4 in guns; one 3 in A.A.; 12 T.T. The destroyer Cameron was originally the USS Welles and was transfered to the British Navy under the Lease-Lend agreement. The vessel was lost owing to marine cause (during air raid while at Portsmouth ?) on December 15th, 1940. Her normal complement was 122. | |
| Campania HMS | [Dirk Eekelers:]Cunard Line; 1893; Fairfield & Co.; 12.884 tons; 601x65.2x37.8; 30.000 shp; 22 knots; triple expandion engines. This Royal Navy seaplane carrier which was a former Cunard liner was at anchor in the Firth of Forth when in severe weather she dragged her anchor and after striking the bows of the battleship HMS Revenge later foundered. (see story) | |
| Campine (La) SS | La Campine was originally a Belgian steaming tanker, 2.595 tons; 309.7x39.0ft; Built for F. Speth & Co., Antwerp, transferred to Palmers' SB. & Iron Co., Ltd., Newcastle; transferred to American Petroleum Co., Rotterdam. While on voyage from Rotterdam to New York on the North Sea, La Campine was captured, shelled and sunk by UC-50 on March 13th 1917. (Painting by A. Jacobsen of the ''La Campine'' under Belgium Flag) | |
| Camswan SS | Osborne S.S. Co.; 1917; Blyth S.B. & D.D. Co.; 3.426 tons; 335.2x50.7x22.9; 298 nhp; triple expansion engines. The British ship Camswan was sunk in a collision with the Polbrai on October 19th, 1917, eight miles west by South of St. Catherine's Point. She was on a voyage from Blyth to Naples with a cargo of coal. | |
| Canadian SS | [Tony Allen:]Canadian was a 9.309 grt, defensively-armed British Merchanship of the Leyland Line. On the 5 April 1917 when 47 miles NW by W from the Fastnet she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 1 life lost - the Master. She was on route from Boston to Liverpool. | |
| Canons | Iron canons, no vessel found | |
| Cantabria SS | [Stuart Wilson] Built 1919 as War chief; J. Coughlan & sons, Canada for the Shipping Controller, London; triple expansion engines. In 1919 purchased by and renamed Alfonso Perez, Santander. Requisisioned in 1937 by the Spanish governement and renamed Cantabria. On 2nd Nov 1938, while on voyage from London to Sunderland she was attcked by the armed merchantman Cuidad de Valencia | |
| Canton | [Tony Allen:]Canton was a Swedish Motor Freighter built in 1922 and owned by BROSTROM & SON , AXEL. A/B SVENSKA OSTASIATISKA KOMPANIET. She was on route from Calcutta for Liverpool carrying 3000 tons pig iron. 2700 tons linseed, 1034 tons hessian. 1152 ton general cargo when she was torpedoed by U-30 off Tory Island, North West Donegal, Ireland. 16 crew of the 32 were lost. | |
| Cantonad MV | MV Cantonad - 2200 ton greek freighter sank 4-1-1979. | |
| Cap Breton | French cargo, 1.464 tons, torpedoed by a sub on 14th July 1918. | |
| Cap d-Antifer HMS | French minesweeper, ex Belgian trawler ''Compas'' seized by admiralty (03/07/1940) Sunk by a german e-boat. | |
| Capable | Another small vessel that came to grief in Spithead. This was the Capable, a mere 216 ton coaster which was a very familiar sight around the coasts during the 1920/30s. Early in June 1940 it left Alderney with a cargo of stone for Portsmouth; but on the 5th when almost in sight of the harbour it struck a mine and foundered with the loss of its five-man crew and two Territorial gunners. This seemed a particularly sad end for such a doughty little vessel, especially as ten years earlier it had grounded on Atherfield Ledge off the Isle of Wight. Although not many vessels managed to escape from this dangerous spot, the Capable was finally refloated and repaired, despite being badly damaged. It continued steadily to ply its trade until that fateful day off Bembridge. | |
| Cape Finisterre | [Tony Allen:] Cape Finisterre, 4,380grt, defensively armed, 2 November 1917, 1 mile SSE from Manacles Buoy, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 35 lives lost including Master. | |
| Cape Spartel HMS | bombed by german aircraft | |
| Capel HMS | []British Navy frigate; 1943; United states; 1.085 tons; 289x35; 6.000 shp; 20 knots; diesel engines; three 3 in guns; four 20mm. The frigate Capel, Lt. B.B. Heslop, DSC, was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine off Cherbourg on December 26th, 1944. Nine officers, including Lt. Heslop and 68 ratings were killed. []HMS Capel 1.089 tons and HMS Affleck 1.300 tons, destroyer escorts were both sunk by U-486 in English Channel. Survivors were picked up by American MTB's and taken to captured German naval hospital at Cherbourg. | |
| Capitaine Cook | French fishing vessel, 13m. Sunk 27th March 2000 due to a leakage. | |
| Capitaine Edmond Laborie | [Tony Allen:]Mined and sunk 2 miles East of the INNER DOWSING Light Vessel. On route from BORDEAUX for THE TYNE. | |
| Capri | Leisure boat. | |
| Captain HMS | HMS Captain, the Navy's first turreted ironclad, capsized off Cape Finisterre in September 1870 with the loss of 483 officers and men. | |
| Captain McClintock SS | [Tony Allen:]Captain McClintock SS was 267 tons. Dimensions: 154x22x11 feet. Carrying a cargo of coal | |
| Captain Niko | Was carrying ammonium sulphate fertilizer and sank under tow after taking on water in heavy weather. | |
| Carantan HMS | [HSAC:]407 ton French submarine chaser, taken over by Royal Navy at fall of France, built 1939. 116ftx18ft. Armed with 75mm field gun, one 2-pounder, two 20mm Oerlikons, four machine guns and depth charges. Sunk: 21 December, 1943, when capsized in south-westerly gales off Anvil Point, Dorset, while escorting submarine HMS Rorqual, Portland for Portsmouth. Six of Free French crew of 23 saved. | |
| Carare SS | [HSAC:]Elders & Fyffes; 1925; Cammell Laird & Co; 6.878 tons; 425x55x30; 622 nhp; 14 knots; triple-expansion engines. The liner Carare, Capt. D.A. Jack struck a magnetic mine and sank in the Bristol channel on May 28th, 1940, while in ballast (banana boat), on route Avonmouth to Jamaica and Colombia. Seven of 97 crew and three of 29 passengers were killed. Capt. Jack was among the survivors. | |
| Caravelle (la) | French trawler sunk in dec 1991 in the Mellick project ; 20m; 96 tons. | |
| Carbineer SS | (not sure) Fisher-Renwick Manchester-London Steamers; 1907; Tyne I.S.B. Co.; 1.266 tons; 220x33.1x14.8; 144 nhp; triple-expansion engines. The British cargo ship Carbineer was sunk in a collision on April 22nd, 1914, off the Owers Light on a voyage from London to Manchester. | |
| Carbon | [Tony Allen:]Carbon is 72 x 17 feet. Ran aground when tow line parted. | |
| Carentan | Capsized in a storm. (not sure if this is really the Carentan) | |
| Cargo (le) | [Plongeurs de Dunkerque:]Le ''Cargo'' et ''la Fred'' sont deux épaves quasi identiques de type Sperrbrecher. Il n'y a que deux Sperrbrecher coulés au large de Dunkerque et recensés dans le ''GRONER 3'', livre répertoriant les flottes allemandes: Sperrbrecher 174, ex ''Tindjefjell'', coulé le 28/05/42 sur une mine. Sperrbrecher 171, ex ''Jason'', coulé le 20/02/42. Reste à savoir qui est qui? La chasse aux indices est ouverte.... | |
| Carica Milica SS | [Tony Allen:]Carica Milica was a Jugoslavian Steam Freighter of 6371 tons on route from TYNE for DUBROVNIK carrying coal when she hit a mine laid by U-19, 3.5 miles 5 degrees from the SHIPWASH Light Vessel. She was owned by JUGOSLAVENSKI LLOYD ACKIONARSKO DRUSTVO. | |
| Carl | Sunk in 1901. | |
| Carlisle Castle | [British Merchant Navy:] Carlisle Castle was built in 1913 by Northumberland Shipbuilding Co at Newcastle with a tonnage of 4.325 grt, a length of 400ft, a beam of 53ft and a service speed of 10 knots. She was built as the Holtye for F. S. Holland & Co. and purchased by Union-Castle in 1915 who renamed her Carlisle Castle. On 14th February 1918 during a voyage from Portland, Maine to London with grain and general cargo, she was torpedoed by UB-57 near to the Royal Sovereign lightship in the English Channel. Amazingly, six weeks later, the UB-57 sank Blue Star's Broderick which settled on top and across the wreck of the Carlisle Castle. | |
| Carlo SS | [Tony Allen:]Carlo SS, a 3.040 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 13/11/1917, 7 miles S by W from Coningbeg Light Vessel. 2 lives were lost. | |
| Carmalina SS | [Tony Allen:]Carmalina SS was a steel steamer, sank off the Lizard, Cornwall. | |
| Carmarthen | [Tony Allen:] Carmarthen was torpedoed by UC-50, when on passage from Genoa to The Tees in ballast; | |
| Carnarvon SS | [Tony Allen:]Built in 1920 by W Gray & Co of West Hartlepool. She ran aground in dense fog on 1st Nov 1925 while en route from Leith to Montreal with a general cargo, including coal, coke and rags.[Jan Lettens:] Also reported as Cairnavon | |
| Caroline | Still remaining to be found. | |
| Caroline Susan | Motor Yacht of 23 tons. Sunk: 1940 | |
| Carona | Swiss cargo of 2351 brt and 109 m length. On 28th February 1964 Carona sunk after a collision in thick fog with the Liberian ship Evangelista. The 34 crew and 2 female passengers manage to row to the lightship ''Terschellinger bank''. They were picked up later by the rescue vessel Carlot. | |
| Caroni River | [Yves Dufeil:]Detonated a mine previously laid by U-34 (Kplt W.Rollmann. Owner British Empire Steam Navigation CO. Built 1928. | |
| Carpathia RMS | [Tony Allen:]The CARPATHIA was built in 1902 by C.S.Swan & Hunter, Wallsend-on-Tyne (engines by Wallsend Slipway Co Ltd) for the Cunard SS Co. She was a 13.555 gross ton ship, length 540ftxbeam 64,5ft, one funnel, four masts, twin screw and a speed of 14 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 204-2nd class and 1.500-3rd class. Launched on 6/8/1902, she sailed on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Queenstown (Cobh) and Boston on 5/5/1903. After this voyage, she transferred to the Liverpool - Queenstown - New York service on 28/5/1903. On 24/11/1903 she commenced her first New York - Trieste sailing with 1st and 3rd class passengers and on 17/5/1904 resumed New York - Queenstown - Liverpool. On 29/11/1904 she went back to the New York - Trieste route and on 30/5/1905 resumed the New York - Queenstown - Liverpool service. She started her last voyage on this route on 19/9/1905 and was then refitted to carry 100-1st, 200-2nd and 2.250-3rd class passengers. She resumed sailings between Trieste, Fiume, Palermo and New York on 27/10/1905 and on 18/4/1912 arrived in New York with 700 Titanic survivors. She commenced her last Piraeus - Messina - Palermo - Naples - Genoa - Lisbon - New York voyage on 13/4/1915 and transferred to the Liverpool - New York service in July 1915. On 17/7/1918 she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U.55, 170 miles west by north of Fastnet, with the loss of 5 lives. | |
| Carrabin | [Tony Allen:]Carrabin, a sailing vessel of 2.739 grt, was torpedoed 1st October 1917, 10 miles South from Daunts Rock, Southern Ireland by a submarine. | |
| Carthaginian SS | [Tony Allen:]Carthaginian was a 4.444 grt British Merchantship defensively armed of the Allan Line. On the 14th June 1917 when 2½ miles NW from Innistrahul Light House, she hit a mine laid by U-79 and sunk. She was on route from Glasgow to Montreal. No lives lost. | |
| Casamance | [Tony Allen:]Casamance was 391 feet in length. | |
| Castillian SS | Steel cargo steamer built in 1919 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Middlesborough. 3.067 tons; 345x47 ft; Triple expansion engines. Single screw. Sunk when running aground on East Platters reef. | |
| Castle Crag SS | [Tony Allen:]Castle Crag. Iron steamer of 2.428 tons, sank off Brook in 1883. | |
| Castle Eden SS | [Tony Allen:]Castle Eden SS was built in 1914 by the Irvine Shipbuilding Cpy of West Hartlepool, she groosed 1.919 tons, and measured 86,25x12,21x5,61 metres. Powered by a 175 hp triple expansion steam engine. Carrying a cargo of 1929 tons welsh steam coal for the Royal Navy from the Clyde to Loch Swilly. Torpedoed by U-110. | |
| Castleford SS | [Tony Allen:]Castleford was a 1,741grt defensively-armed British Merchant Steamer. When 2 miles E by N from S Cheek, Robin Hood Bay, Yorkshire, England she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine on the 4th March 1918. | |
| Castor SS | ss Castor 1870-1894 KNSM, 1870 Inglis Glasgow. Sunk in 1894 after a collision with a german Barque off Dungeness. Castor SS was en voyage from Algeria to Amsterdam, transporting valuable antiquities. Part of the cargo, marble sculptures were found in 1994 and returned to Turkey, through the receiver of wrecks. | |
| Caterham SS | [Tony Allen:]Caterham, Steamship of 3.411 tons Dimension: 107x14 metres. Powered: Triple expnsion engine. | |
| Catharina Duyvis YM-60 | The Catharina Duyvis YM-60 was a steamer, built in 1929 at Cochrane in Selby for NV Visserij De Vem in Ijmuiden. She disappeared with her crew of 16 together with another 8 ships in the worst storm of the century in february 1953. [Aad Kleijn:] Zoals in het verslag staat opgetekend is daar in de middag nog contact mee geweest en daarna niet meer. Wat wil nu het feit dat in diezelfde nacht mijn vader ook op zee zat op een logger. Diezelfde nacht is er nog onderling contact geweest met in de buurt liggende vissermannen die ook met het slechte weer op zee zaten en aan het steken waren. Het probleem deed zich echter voor dat de schipper van de IJM 60 meldde dat er een deel van zijn brug was weggeslagen en ivm motorproblemen (tekort brandstof/ kolen?) meedeelde dat hij rond wilde gaan en IJmuiden binnen wilde lopen, omdat hij het schip niet langer op de wind kon houden. Waarschijnlijk is hij bij het rondgaan de grond in gegooid. Het wrak is later bij toeval ondekt toen men het vermiste lijntoestel van de KLM ondekte zo'n 10 mijl west van Egmond. In de nabijheid lag ook de IJM 60. Vliegtuigcrash Noordzee (IJmuiden) Op 28 augustus 1954 stort de KLM Douglas DC-6B PH-TFO Willem Bontekoe op een lijnvlucht van het Ierse Shannon naar Schiphol in zee voor de kust bij IJmuiden. Het was slecht weer met regen en zware zeegang. Alle 12 passagiers en de 9 bemanningsleden komen om. De oorzaak van de ramp is nooit vast komen te staan. | |
| Cato HMS | British minsweeper, 890 tons, twin screw, torpedoed by German one-man torpedo on 6th July 1944. | |
| Cato SS | [Tony Allen:]Cato was a British Steam Cargo Vessel built in 1914 and was on route from DUBLIN for BRISTOL with 400 tons of general cargo when she hit a mine and sank. 13 crew lost from a total crew 15. | |
| Cavallo SS | [Tony Allen:]Cavallo SS, a 2.086 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 1 February 1918, 6 miles NW from Trevose Head, Cornwall. 3 lives were lost. | |
| Cecil Rhodes | [Tony Allen:]Cecil Rhodes was a spritsail barque, foundered off hald a mile off Margate, English Channel. | |
| Celebes | [Michael Tolhuisen] Celebes; 1937; by E.J. Smit & Zn, Westerbroek for R.J. Kajuiter, Groningen; 300hp; 10kn; 453 tons; 43,7x8x3m; Lost with her 7 crew since 1941. | |
| Celtic Monarch SS | [Tony Allen:]Celtic Monarch was a British Merchantship of the White Star Line. Ran aground and was wrecked at Roche's Point, Co Cork, Ireland. On route from New York to Liverpool. 0 lives lost. | |
| Centaure | French trawler; 9m; 4 tons. Sunk in June 1991. | |
| Centurion | [Tony Allen:]Centurion was a sailing vessel of 1.828grt and a British Merchant ship. On the 19th February 1917 when 15 miles SE from the Lizard, Cornwall she was captured by submarine and sunk by bombs. | |
| Ceramic SS | Shaw Savill & Albion Co; 1913; Harland & Wolff; 18.713 tons; 655x69.4x43.8; 7.750 ihp; 15 knots; triple-expansion engines & L.P. turbine. The Ceramic, Capt. H.C. Elford, with 378 passengers and a crew of 278 was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-515, Capt. Lt. W. Henke, West of Azores on the night of December 6th, 1942. Rescue ships at St. Michael's were unable to put to sea because of the heavy weather. Only one man survived, Sapper A.E. Munday of the Royal Engineers, who was picked up by a German submarine the following day after the rescue boat he was in, capsized due to the heavy seas. Mr. Sapper was interned at the German POW camp at Marlag-Milag-Nord and the British government only found out about the sinking when the POW wrote home to his family. Some months later, the U-515 was sunk by US destroyers, which captured the commander and 43 of his crew. Capt. Lt. Henke was killed when endeavouring to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp. | |
| Cerons | [Jean Jacques Leblond] l''histoire du cérons est assez connue sur la ville de Veules les roses. un monument dédié à sa mémoire est même installé sur la falaise avec un canon de ce navire. Toutefois, il apparait que l'épave de ce batiment n'éxiste plus, seul deux morceaux de structure reste visibles à marée basse en grande marées. Leur position sur les cartes du shom sont du reste fausses car l'épave d'origine à été dynamitée il y a queques années du fait de sa dangerosité pour la navigation et par rapport aux enfants qui allaient y jouer au moment des grandes marées au péril de leur vie. | |
| Ceta | [Diving Sussex:]Ceta; Dutch motor vessel sunk 22 January 1969 in collision. (from Marco Dogger:) I have a picture for you of the CETA. My father, G.J. Smit, was captain of the CETA. He died with it, together with a sailorman. An Italian tanker named PUNTA CERVO was sailed into the CETA. The rest of the crue was rescued by the PUNTA CERVO. It is sunk on 22th January 1969. The weight was 399 tons gross, 525 tons carrying capacity length 50.29mtr, width 7.98mtr. | |
| Chagres SS | [Tony Allen:]The 400 ft long Chagres was a British steamship of 5,406 tons built by Stephen and Sons of Glasgow in 1927. She was on voyage from Victoria , Nigeria to Garston with a cargo of 1.500 tons of bananas when she hit a mine on 9 February 1940. Of the crew of 62, two were lost and seven were reported injured. | |
| Chanteloupe | Wrecked at the base of the Thurlestone Rock on September 1772. | |
| Char ? | [Tony Allen:]Still not identified. Believed to be the Char, an admiralty tug lost in 1915, after being rammed by a trawler. | |
| Charing Cross SS | [Tony Allen:]Charing Cross, 2,534grt, defensively-armed steamship on the 1 July 1918, when 4 miles E by N from Flamborough Head was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Charkow SS | [Tony Allen:]Charkow was built in 1913 and was on route from MANCHESTER 12 MAR 40. KIRKWALL 19 MAR 40 for METHIL & ESBJERG and was in ballast when she was torpedoed by U-19 on the 19th March 1940. | |
| Charlemagne | [Tony Allen:]Charlemagne was 1014 tons and 135 feet lib length. Ran aground on her maiden voyage and sank in 12 metres of water, about 200 metres from the shore. | |
| Charles | British Sailing yacht; 56 tons. Sunk by a submarine on 24/08/1917 | |
| Charles D. McIver | [Tony Allen:]Charles D. McIver; Built in 1943 WSA (Marine Transport Lines, NY) 23rd March 1945 she was mined or torpedoed and sunk off Ostend at 51°23N 03°05E. | |
| Charles Martel | Merchant ship. | |
| Charles Morgan SS | [Dirk Eekelers:]Charles Morgan SS; Built in 1943 for WSA (United Fruit Co, Boston); Bombed and sunk in a German air raid on 10th June 1944. 8 people were killed in the air attack. | |
| Charles W. Eliot SS | [Tony Allen:]Charles W. Eliot SS. Hit a mine and sank off Normandy. No casulaties. | |
| Charybdis HMS | British Navy, cruiser; 1940; Cammell Laird; 5.450 tons; 506x51.5x14; 62.000 shp; 33 knots; turbine engines; 3-drum boilers; ten 5.25 in guns; 16 smaller; 6 T.T. The cruiser Charibdis, Capt. G.A.W. Voelcker, accompanied by the destroyer Limbourne, Cdr. W.J. Phipps, O.B.E. and five other vessels (Grenville, Rocket, Talybont, Stevenstone and Wensleydale) was engaged in an offensive sweep off the French coast between Ushant and the Channel Islands on the night of Saturda, October 23rd, 1943. However, the Force had been tracked with great accuracy by German radar and the torpedo boats knew exactly where it was. The Naval Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, Admiral Little, had been advised beforehand by Commander Roger Hill, DSO, of HMS Grenville, of the efficiency of this radar and had recommended a different course from that directed and used in previous sweeps, but had been over-ruled. Visibility was poor and the vessels ran into an enemy light force (T-27 and T-23 of the German 4th TB Flotilla) which managed to avoid their fire and to discharge a salvo of torpedoes with disastrous effect. The Charybdis was struck on port side by a torpedo, followed at an interval of about five minutes by another. She turned over to port and sank by the stern. Thirthy officers, incl Capt. Voelcker and 432 ratings were killed. Four officers and 103 ratings were saved. The Limbourne was torpedoed and badly damaged, having one officer and 41 ratings killed. She was sunk by ships in company as it was not possible to take her in tow. | |
| Chateau Yquem SS | [Tony Allen:]Chateau Yquem SS was traveling from Dunkirk to Barry in ballast, when torpedoed on the 30th June 1917. She sits upright at 44 metres standing 16 metres proud. | |
| Chatwood SS | Load was 3.750 tons of coals. In 1994 the 'Desert Star' tried salvaging the wreck. | |
| Cheerful HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Cheerful, British, 30-knotter class Destroyer Mined off the Shetlands. On the 30th June 1917, northern Scottish waters, 6 miles SSE of Lerwick, Mainland, Shetland Islands (c 60.00’N, 01.00’W) - mined once. Cheerful HMS hit a mine, presumably German U-boat-laid, off Helli Ness, Cunningsburgh on the SE side of the main Shetland island. Her normal crew was 60, 18 men were saved | |
| Chelsea | Sunk in collision with SS Kirkcaldy. | |
| Chevington SS | Built 1923, sunk by torpedo of a German E-boat. | |
| Cheviot Range SS | [Tony Allen:]Cheviot Range was a 3,691grt British Merchant Steamer. On the 21 February 1918 when 25 miles South from the Lizard, Cornwall, England she was captured by submarine, sunk by gunfire. 27 lives lost including Master. | |
| Chevycase SS | load 4.153 tons of coal | |
| Chicago SS | [Tony Allen:]Chicago was a 7,709grt, defensively-armed steamship. On the 8 July 1918, 4 miles NE from Flamborough Head she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 3 lives lost. | |
| Childwall | John Edgar & Co.; 1868; G.G.Clover & Co; 1.334 tons; 213x37.1x23.3. The iron barque Childwall came into collision with the Belgian Red Star liner Noordland on January 1st 1892 around 7 p.m. The Noordland struck her on the port side to within six feet of her starboard side, between the fore and main mast. The Childwall sank in two minutes, taking 15 of her crew with her. The survivors clung to the mizzin-rigging as the barque had sunk in shallow water. The Noordland lowered boats, but couldn't find anyone. As she was leaking badly, she put out to Flushing. At 11 p.m. the s.s. Ipswich heard cries of the men in the mizzen mast ant took them off. There were only nine survivors, incl. Capt. Richardson. (more info: disasters at sea) | |
| Chingford | [Tony Allen:]Chingford was 1517 tons and 264.5 feet in length. | |
| Chloris SS | [Bruce Young] My great grandfather was the master of the ''Chloris'' (out of Glasgow) which UB-107 apparently sunk. The Master of the Chloris was Captain John Young (born March 22, 1858 Aberdeen, died July 27, 1918) from Peterhead in Scotland. He had retired from a carrer in the merchant marine and had reentered service due to the war. He is listed in the memorial chapel at Edinburgh castle and on the Merchant Marine monument opposite the Tower of London. I have his medals and some papers in my posession but very little info on his career or death. His widow recorded that one of the seaman who survived the torpedoing stated he was last seen in the radio room with the radio operator destroying the code books while the ship was sinking. He was lost along with the radio operator. The others lost were and R. Burn and W.I Lillley.[Tony Allen:]Chloris was 984grt. She was defensively-armed steamship. On the 27 July 1918, 17 miles S by E from Flamborough Head, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 3 lives lost including Master. | |
| Chorley SS | [Tony Allen:]Chorley was a 3.828grt Britsih Merchant ship. On the 22nd March 1917 when 25 miles E by S from Start Point, Devon she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Chris Christensen | [Tony Allen:]Chris Christensen was a Victorian Steel Hulled Sailing Barque, 250.6 feet in length. | |
| Chrisimas | French trawler sunk in dec 1991 in the Mellick project ; 9m; 6 tons. | |
| Christ_yanne | French trawler; 14,5m. Sunk in July 1994. | |
| Christiaan Huygens | NV Stoomv Maats. Nederland; 1927; Nederands Scheeps. Maats; 16.287 tons; 551.4x 68.8x36.2; 2.490 nhp; 17 knots; oil engines. The Dutch passengercarrier Christiaan Huygens weighted 16.287 Brt and was built in 1927. The ship was used during World War 2 by the allied forces as a trooptransport vessel. This way the ship made 261.000 miles. During the summer of 1945, the ship was revised at Antwerp and should go to Rotterdam to pick up a bunch of children for a stay in a foreign country. On August 26th 1945, the ship ran in to a mine at the Steendiep. Water was running in the engineroom and deck 1. The damage was substantial. To prevent that the ship sank, it was stranded on the South-Steenbank. Unfortunately, on September 5th 1945, the hull broke and all recovery attempts were stopped. | |
| Christianssund SS | [Diving Sussex:]Det Forenede Dampskibs. Selsk; 1912; Helsingors Jernsk. & Msk; 1.017 tons; 226.2x35.1x21.1; 150 nhp; triple-expansion engines. The Danish steamship Christianssund hit a mine and sank in the English Channel on March 24th, 1916. [Other Source:]DFDS - Det forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S (The United Steamship Company) Formed in Copenhagen in 1866 by the merger of several small Danish companies as Det forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S (The United Steamship Co), the company became an important feeder service for emigrants travelling via the UK. Numerous Scandinavian companies were taken over, but one important company was the Thingvalla Line in 1898 which was reformed as the Scandinavia-America Line. In 1903, French and Russian subsidiary companies were formed and ships transferred to them. DFDS still operates passenger services between the Baltic and Norway, Faroe Islands, Iceland and the UK and freight routes to North and South America and the Mediterranean. | |
| Cimaise | Sailing yacht of 11m, sunk in April 1985 | |
| Cimbria | Hamburg-America line; 1867; J. Caird & Co; 3.037 tons; 329x39x33; 1.300ihp; 12.5 knots; compound engines. Sunk in collision with Sultan in dense fog, off the island of Borkum. There were 402 passengers and 120 crew. 65 people were saved, nearly all of 72 women and 87 children on board were lost. The Sultan didn't make an attempt to send down boats, as the captain estimated correctly that her situation was very serious too (this proved to be correct). -more info in document - | |
| Cita MV | [Tony Allen:]On 26 March 1997, the 300-ft merchant vessel, MV Cita pierced its hull when running aground on rocks off the south coast of the Isles of Scilly in gale-force winds en route from Southampton to Belfast. The incident happened just after 3 am when the German-owned, Antiguan-registered 3,083 tonne vessel hit Newfoundland Point, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. Many containers were washed up on the rocks and beaches of the Isles of Scilly, and many were found in the Celtic Sea, travelling as far as Cornwall. Locals were thankful that the wreck was mostly cargo, so the risk of pollution was much less than it could have been. A specialist salvage vessel, the Salvage Chief removed 90 tonnes (98%) of fuel from the Cita before she sank, causing only a minor oil slick. Oiled sand on Porth Hellick beach, part of the Isles of Scilly SSSI was removed by excavation. Three tugs were summoned to collect the containers drifting around the Celtic Sea. The wreck stayed above the surface for several days before sinking off the ledge into the deeper water further from the coast | |
| Cito SS | Wilsons & North Eastern Railway Shipping Co; 1899; Earle's Co.; 819 tons; 219.1x30.1x16.5; 144 nhp; 9.5 knots; triple expansion engines. The steamship Cito was intercepted by German torpedo boat destroyers S-53 and V-73, 20 miles East of Noordhinder lightship on May 17th, 1917. The destroyers sank the steamship with gunfire. The captain and ten of the crew were killed. | |
| Citrine MV | [Tony Allen:] Foundered in a gale with a cargo of limestone when front hatch was stove in. Ten crew rescued by Coverack & Lizard lifeboats. | |
| Citrine SS | [HSAC:]582 ton British steamer, built 1921. 165ftx27ft. In ballast, Belfast to Trevor. Sunk: 17 March, 1931, by running aground in thick fog. Ten of 12 crew lost. | |
| City of Birmingham SS | [Tony Allen:]City of Birmingham SS was built in 1917. She was reported to have been carrying 2250 tons of copper. | |
| City of Brisbane SS | 7.094 ton 451ft by 57beam Steamship. Sunk: 14th August 1918 Torpedoed by the UB-57, her last victim. | |
| City of Brussels SS | Built 1869 at Glasgow by Tod & McGregor. Owned by Inman Line. 390'x 40.2'x 27.1'. Triple expansion engines 359 nhp. Re-engined in 1876 with 4 cylinder compound-engine and a second funnel was added along with a promenade-deck. Held fastest Atlantic crossing for 3months. On Jan 7th, 1883, the ship was inbound from New York to Liverpool with 167 persons on board of whom 20 were cabin passenge rs, 50 steerage and 97 crew, Captain Land being in charge. When abreast of Great Orme the weather turned to thick fog and her speed was reduced to dead-slow and she then finally stopped. At 5.30 another ship's siren was heard but before any response was possible she was struck on the starboard bow by the Kirby Hall. Boats were lowered from both vessels and 10 lives were lost; 8 crew + 2 passeng ers. Kirby Hall was on her maiden voyage to India. | |
| City of Chicago | [Tony Allen:]City of Chicago; Built by C Connell of Glasgow in 1883. Dimensions 430'x45' and was 5202Tons. Powered by a three cyclinder compound steam engine. Ran aground in fog. All passengers saved. Capt was shorebound for 9 months for speeding in fog and not checking the depth. | |
| City Of Cobe SS | Built in 1924 by Ramage & Ferguson for the Ellerman Lines Ltd; ex-Malvernian; She struck a mine laid by U-60 on 19th December 1929; | |
| City of Corinth (+1888) | [Tony Allen:]City of Corinth sank after collision with the vessel Tasmania near Dungeness, Kent. | |
| City of Corinth SS (+1917) | [Tony Allen:]City of Corinth was a 5.870grt defensively-armed British Merchant steamship. On the 21st May 1917 when 12 miles SW from the Lizard, Cornwall she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| City of Dresden SS | [Diving Sussex:]Palgrave, Murphy & Co; 1873; Bowder, Chaffer &Co; 1.170 tons; 246.5x31.3x17.7; 164 nhp; compound engines. The Irish cargo ship City of Dresden sank in collision on January 19th, 1907, off Dungeness. She was on voyage from Swansea to Hamburg with copper and general cargo. | |
| City of Ghent SS | [Tony Allen:]City of Ghent, 199grt, 5 September 1916, 18 miles SE from Cape Barfleur, captured by submarine, sunk by bombs | |
| City of London | [Other Source:]City of London, 6.311 ton 410 ft . Some confusion as to here name possibly the Ikeda or City of London Built in Newcastle in 1891. Position: 50°42'18N - 00°14'17W Sunk: If the Ikeda: 21 March 1918 by torpedo from UB-40. On here way to Galveston Texas from London.[Tony Allen:]May be two Wks here. Possible the Ikeda of the City of London which was built in Newcastle 1891. If the WK is the Ikeda she was sunk on the 21 March 1918 by torpedo from UB-40 on here way to Galveston ,Texas from London. | |
| City of Swansea | City of Swansea, 1.375 grt was torpedoed without warning by a German submarine on 25th September 1917, 15 miles ENE from Berry Head. 2 lives were lost. | |
| City of Waterford SS | Built by Caldon Ship & Engineering Co. Ltd, Dundee Scotland, for the Clyde Shipping Co Ltd, for service on the Liverpool to Waterford, Southern Ireland passenger service. 1.344 tons, 270' long by 37' wide. She had accommodation for about 40 passengers. She was sold off in 1946 to Palgrave Murphy, shipowners of Dublin, when she was re-named as the City of Waterford. She gave just three years service between Dublin and the Continent (Belgium, Holland and Germany), when in she was involved in a collision in thick fog some 8 miles off Brighton, with a much larger steamer, the Marpessa, a 5,478 ton Greek owned ship, on April 14th 1949. She had 1.000 tons of general cargo on board. | |
| City of Westminster SS | [HSAC:]City of Oran s.s. Co (Hall line); 1916; Flensburger Schiffsb. Ges.; 6.094 tons; 470.5x62.1x25.3; 701 nhp; triple expansion engines. 6094 ton former German steamer Rudelsburg, handed over to Britain at end of WWI as part of reparations. Maize, Belfast to Rotterdam. Sunk: 8 October, 1923, by striking the Runnel Stone rock in thick fog so hard that she broke her back and knocked the top of the stone right off. All aboard saved by Sennen and Penlee lifeboats. | |
| City of Winchester | British Sailing yacht; 83 tons. Sunk by gunfire by a submarine on 24/08/1918 | |
| Clan Mac Millan SS | [Dirk Eekelers:]Clan Mac Millan; 1901; steamer; 396.5x48.2x27; Triple expansion engines. Clan Mac Millan was sunk on 23rd March 1917 by 2 torpedoes from a German U-boot, while in ballast from London to Glasgow. The German U-boot interrogated the screw, but left them alone. A patrol trawler picked up Captain Young and his crew. 6 hours after the first torpedo, the Clan Mc Millan broke in two pieces and finally sunk. [Tony Allen:] Built in 1901 as a steamship. Dimensions:396.5x48.2 feet. Powered; Triple expansion engine. On route from Cittagong to Clyde via London. Clan Macmillan, 4.525grt, defensively-armed, 23 March 1917, 5 miles SW from Newhaven, Engish channel. Torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Clan Mac Naughton HMS | [Other Source:]Clan Mac Naughton HMSCayzer, Irvine & Co (Clan line); 191 ; A. Stephen & Sons; 4.985 tons; 429.8x53.7x34.6; 497 nhp; 14 knots; triple expansion engines. The Clan Mac Naughton was taken over by the Admiralty at the beginning of the First World War and commissioned as an auxiliary cruiser in December 1914, being commanded by Com. Robert Jeffreys. In the early days of February 1915 she was on patrol duty and was last heard of on February 3rd. There was bad weather prevailing at the time and a search of the area where the Clan had been cruising revealed a quantity of wreckage but no signs of the ship. Her ship's company numbered 20 officers and 261 ratings. [Other Source:]This armed merchant cruiser (AMC) is presumed to have been mined with the loss of all 261 on board including the Captain Commander Robert Jeffreys RN. Nothing is known about the circumstances, some wreckage was found but nothing else. | |
| Clan Macphee SS | [Tony Allen:]Clan Macphhe was built in 1911 and owned by CLAN LINE STEAMERS LTD. She was on route from GLASGOW and LIVERPOOL for BOMBAY and MALABAR COAST carrying a General Cargo of 6700 tons when she was torpedoed by U-30 and sunk. 67 crew were lost from a total of 91 crew. | |
| Clan Macvey SS | [Mark Page:]Steel steamer of 5.818 tons, torpedoed in 1918. 7 lives lost including master. [Tony Allen:]Clan Macvey was a 5,815g defensively-armed merchantship. On the 8 August 1918 when ½ mile SE from Anvil Point, English Channel she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 7 lives lost. | |
| Clan Malcolm SS | [Other Source:] Steamer of 5.994 tons, 405.1 ftx53.3 ft. Sunk: 1935. Ran aground. [Tony Allen:] On passage from London to the Clyde. Struck TREGWIN ROCKS in thick fog. | |
| Clan Morrison SS | [Stuart Wilson] Clan Morisson SS; 1918; Ayrshire Dockyard Co. for the Clan Line Steamers; Triple expansion engine; 12 knots; Requisisioned by the Admiralty, she was sunk on voyage from Southampton to Blyth on 24th Februari 1940. She struck a mine. | |
| Clan Murray SS | [Tony Allen:]Clan Murray was a 4.835grt, defensively-armed Britsih Merchant steamship. On the 29th May 1917 when 40 miles W by S from Fastnet, Ireland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 64 lives lost including Master. | |
| Clan Shaw SS | [Tony Allen:]Clan Shaw was a 3.943grt, defensively-armed British Merchantship. On the 23rd January 1917 when near the Mouth of the River Tay, England she hit a mine and sank. 2 lives lost. | |
| Clapham | [Tony Allen:]Sank in 1943 south of St. Anns Head after hitting another vessel. | |
| Claremont SS | [Tony Allen:]Claremont. Iron steamer of 1.129 tons sank close to Whale Chine, Chale Bay Isle of Wight in 1881. | |
| Claudia SS | [Tony Allen:]Claudia was 1,144grt. On the 30 July 1916 when 8½ miles SE by S ½ S from Lowestoft, UK she struck a mine and sank, 3 lives lost. | |
| Claverly | [Tony Allen:] Claverley, 3.829grt, defensively armed, 20 August 1917, 4 miles SE from the Eddystone, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine UB-38, 10 lives lost. | |
| Clearton SS | [Tony Allen:]Clearton was built in 1919 and owned by CHAPMAN & SONS, R. When on route from ROSARIO for MANCHESTER carrying 7320 tons cereal, offal and grain she was torpedoed and sunk by U-102. 8 crew killed from a total crew of 34. | |
| Cleddy SS | Iron steamer of 2.173 tons, sank following collision in 1889 off the Isle of Wight, English Channel. | |
| Cliftonian SS | [Tony Allen:]Cliftonian was a 4.303grt defensively-armed British Merchant ship. On the 6th February 1917 when 4½ miles S ¾ E from Galley Head, Ireland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Clodmoor SS | [Dirk Eekelers:]Clodmoor SS Built: 1902, sunk in 1917. Steamer, 42.7x46.6x24.8ft, triple expansion engines, 8.5 knots. [Tony Allen:]Clodmore SS, built in 1902 as a Steamship of 3.753 ton Dimensions: 342.7x46.6x24.8 feet. powered: Triple expansion engine 300nhp. Speed 8.5 knots. Carrying a cargo of wheat. Launched on the 29th Nov 1902 and commissioned by the Admiralty from the 2oth March of the same year as a collier. She was transferred to the Italian Goverment hauling steel & oats from the 21st march until her temporary release from service on the 3rd July 1916. Took up Collier duties again in 1916. From 19th January 1917 Clodmoor held a Royal Commission to trasport wheat. On the 3rd May 1917 whilst on route from Bahia Blanca for Newcastle with a cargo of wheat she was torpedoed 5 miles south of Newhaven. | |
| Clough | [Tony Allen:]Clough; 6.147 tons; 406x54x19 ft; Built in 1942. Requisioned as MOWT and managed by Larrinaga SS Co. On the 10/6/1942 she was torpedoed and sunk on maiden voyage by U-94 at 51°50N 35°00W | |
| CMB-1 | Duitse Hafenschutzboot / op een mijn gelopen | |
| Coalgas SS | [Tony Allen:]Coalgas was a 2,257grt defensively-armed British Merchant Steamer. On the 5 March 1918 when 5 miles S by W from Shipwash Light Vessel she hit a mine and sank. | |
| Coaster Is. of Wight | WW1 Coaster Depth 30m, Just off Sandown bay, Isle of Wight. Diving: Sitting up right, Rifle shell cases. | |
| Cobra HMS | Sunk due to a boiler explosion. Broke in two in heavy weather. | |
| Codrington HMS | British Navy Destroyer; 1929; Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson; 1.540 tons; 332x33.7x12.2; 39.000 shp; 35 knots; turbine engines; 3-drum boilers; five 4.7 in guns, two 2pdr. Pompom, 5 m.g.; 8 T.T. The destroyer Codrington was bombed and sunk by German aircraft during an attack on Dover on July 27th, 1940. The vessel's normal complement was 185, but it is probable that she was carrying a larger number than this at the time of her loss. | |
| Colchester SS | [Stuart Wilson] Colchester SS; steam collier; 1927; S.P. Austin & Son Ltd for Cory Colliers Ltd; Triple expansion engine; Colchester SS collided in rough weather with the 7.000 tons City Of Sidney. Colchester was cut in two pieces ans sunk. City of Sidney stood by for assistance and launched lifeboats. | |
| Collier | Collier, 150ft long. Position: latitude:50 43' 37''N longitude:01 03' 05''W | |
| Colonian | [Tony Allen:]Colonian was a British Merchantship of the Leyland Line. On route from Boston to London when wrecked on the Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly, English Channel. No lives lost. | |
| Colossus HMS | [Tony Allen:]On December 10, 1798, while HMS Colossus was anchored at St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly, a strong gale occurred, her anchor cabled parted and the ship ran aground. No lives were lost in this incident. | |
| Colsay HMS | Naval Trawler ‘Isles’ class; 545 tons; 150x27,6 ft; built in 1943 by Cook, Welton & Gemmel Holmes, England. CD holmes engine giving 850 HP and a speed of 12 knots. The Colsay was used as a mine sweeper and coastal patrol. She was sunk by a ‘Biber’ (a very small submarine with a torpedo) in 2/11/1944 near the port of Ostend. | |
| Columbus/PDMJ | [Wouter Groenewegen:]Columbus/PDMJ, in 1927 in de vaart gekomen als MASCOTTE voor Westers-Groningen; In 1936 ANIMO, D.Vellinga - Groningen; In 1941 HENRIETTE, R. Eerkens - Groningen; In 1943 naar E. Eerkens - Groningen; In 1943 door Duitsers in beslag genomen. In 1945 zwaar beschadigd terug in Delfzijl, gerepareerd bij Gebr. Sander; In 1946 terug bij E. Eerkens; In 1954 naar P. de Haas - Zwijdrecht; In 1956 COLUMBUS , Nautic - Groningen; In 1957 naar Salomons & Eefting; In 1958 nieuwe motor: 2TE 2 cil. App.Brons (220x380) 120 rpk en 8 knopen; In 1959 naar Henneman-Rotterdam Op 21 april 1963 na schuiven van een lading ijzer in slecht weer gezonken bij lichtschip''Goeree''. Bemanning werd gered. | |
| Combatante (la) A | Mined and broke in two and sank. Originally 'hunt' class destroyer (H.M.S.Haldon) before beeing loaned to the french forces. | |
| Combatante (la) F | Mined and broke in two and sank. Originally 'hunt' class destroyer (H.M.S.Haldon) before beeing loaned to the french forces. | |
| Comet | [Tony Allen:]Comet ; 6.914 tons; 433x56x17 ft; Built in 1941. She was requisioned as MOWT. ont the 19.2.42 Torpedoed and sunk by U-136 at 58°15N 17°10W | |
| Commerce de Paris | Still remaining to be found. | |
| Commonwealth SS | [Tony Allen:]Commonwealth was a 3,353grt, defensively-armed British Merchant Steamer. On the 19 February 1918 when 5 miles NE from Flamborough Head, United Kingdom she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 14 lives lost. | |
| Conde | French cruiser of 4.000 tons. | |
| Conlea | [Tony Allen:]Conlea; 261 tons; 129x23 ft; Built in 1939 as the GUNTHER HARTMANN, German owners. In 1945 she was seized by Allies and renamed the EMPIRE CONLEA and requisioned as MOWT. In 1950 she was renamed CONLEA and purchased by Jeppesen, Heaton Ltd, London. On the 10.2.56 she sank in heavy weather off Corbiere, Jersey. | |
| Connaught SS | [Tony Allen:]Connaught was a 2.646grt British Merchant ship. On the 3rd March 1917 when 29 miles S by W ½ W from Owers Light Vessel, English Channel she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 3 lives lost. | |
| Cononley | [Tony Allen:]Cononley; 190 tons; 106x25 ft; Built in 1922 as an Auxiliary 3-masted schooner called LUCY (barge) 19?? she was renamed MIDGARD I then in 19?? renamed MIDGARD IV then in 19?? she was renamed ELISABETH. In 1935 she was renamed DOROTHY WEBER, and purchased by H.J.G.Weber, Hamburg, Germany. In 1945 she was seized by Allies at Guernsey, Channel Islands and renamed5 EMPIRE CONONLEY and requisioned as MOWT. In 1947 she was renamed COVERACK and purchased by R.H.Hunt & Sons. In 1953 she was renamed RIVER WITHAM, and purchased by the Hull Gates Shipping Co, Hull. In 1955 she was renamed RIVERGATE, by the same owner. On the 28.7.59 she sank near Inner Dowsing Light Vessel after grounding off Lowestoft. | |
| Conqueror | Trawler of 1.100 tons, 240 ft. Sunk: 1977. Ran aground. | |
| Constance SS | [Other Source:]Steamer of 880 tons, 209 ft long, sunk in 1888 when running aground in fog . [Tony Allen:]The vessel was on passage from Antwerp to Plymouth when she hit the Shagstone reef in fog. The vessel was carrying a cargo of hides. | |
| Constantia | 8.686 tons water tanker en route from Amsterdam to Gibraltar, ran aground on the Casquets reef and sank there. | |
| Consul Horn SS | H.C. Horn; 1904; Harland & Wolff; 8.384 tons; 453.8x56.4x30.5; 808 nhp; quadruple expansion engines. The Geramn steamship, Consul Horn struck a mine and sank on July 20th, 1942, N.E. of Borkum. | |
| Contest HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Contest, British, Acasta class Destroyer Torpedoed by a German submarine in the English Channel. | |
| Conway HMS | [Tony Allen:]Conway HMS. At 8.15am on Wed 14th April 1953 HMS Conway slipped her mooring off Plas Newydd in the Menai Strait and was taken under tow on the first stage of her return to Birkenhead for a refit. A little over two hours later, under the fearful gaze of the thousands who waited to cheer her through Menai Suspension Bridge, she would be driven ashore by an unexpectedly powerful tide, and as that tide fell it would reduce Britain’s last commissioned, massively built floating wooden walled Ship-of-the-Line to a total constructive loss within a matter of hours. For over three years her flooded, broken hull would haunt the banks of the Strait until, in a last fitting blaze of glory, she caught fire in unexplained circumstances and burned to the waterline. | |
| Coonagh | Sunk on 13/03/1917 by a U-boat, while en voyage to Rouen. | |
| Copain d-abord (le) | [Philippe Mahieu:] Gillnet fisher | |
| Copenhagen | Copenhagen (1907) Great Eastern railway Co; 343x26x43ft; 2.410 tons; 1hp and 2lp parson turbines; Boilers: 5se, 190lb/sq in; 10.000 s.h.p.; 20kt. The Copenhagen and her sister ship the Munich were the first turbine steamers on the North Sea and the first flush-deckers in the GER fleet. Passenger accommodation was spread over three decks amidships with sleeping berths for 320 in the first class, over 200 of which were in double cabins. Public rooms included a smoke room on the awningdeck, and below this a ladies’ room, whilst the full-width 62-seat dining saloon was situated on the lower deck. Second class accommodation was arranged aft on the main and lower decks with berthing for 130. After the outbreak of the war the Copenhagen remained on the North Sea service for a while carrying Belgian refugees, later being used as a trooper until 1 January 1916 when she was taken up as an ambulance carrier. Her Career as such was brief as she was torpedoed (by the UC 61) without warning on 5 March 1917 about eight miles east of the North Hinder light vessel with the loss of six lives. (out of “North Sea passenger steamers” and “de Westerschelde bij storm en mist”) | |
| Coquetdale SS | British steamer, 254ftx37ft and 1.597 tons. Sunk: Hit by Stuka in 1940. | |
| Coquette HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Coquette, British, 30-knotter class Destroyer. Mined in the North Sea. | |
| Corbet Woodall SS | [Tony Allen:]Corbet Woodall was an armed steamer with a cargo of coal hit a mine, 1.5 miles east of the Nab Light Vessel. | |
| Cordene SS | Built 1924 by Swan Hunter; Attacked by German aircraft. Sistership of SS Corduff, sunk near in the area. | |
| Corduff SS | Built 1923 by Swan Hunter, Newcastle; Sunk by German E-boat S-28; Sistership of SS Cordene, sunk near in the area. | |
| Cork SS | [Tony Allen:]Cork SS, a 1.232 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by U-103 on 26 January 1918, 9 miles NE from Lynas Point. 12 crew were killed. Carring a general Cargo. | |
| Cormarsh SS | British coaler in ballast. | |
| Cormoran | [Tony Allen:]Cormoran was 74 tons and 120.8 feet in length. | |
| Cormorant SS | [Tony Allen:]Cormorant. Iron steamer of 2.255 tons, sank close to Whale Chine, Chale Bay, Isle of Wight in 1886. | |
| Cornelia | Dutch schooner, captured and sunk by a German U-boat on 07/06/1917. | |
| Cornelia Maersk SS | The Cornelia Maersk was a Danish steamship build by A.S.D.S. Svenborg and A.P. Moller at Copenhagen. The ship was launched on April 17th 1925 and was 85,5 meters long and 12,20 meters wide. The displacement was 1892 BRT. The Cornelia Maersk was bombed by English fighterplains on January 5th 1942. All crewmembers survived the disaster and the sloop was picked up by a German patrolboat. | |
| Cornelia SS | [Tony Allen:]Cornelia was a 903grt British Merchant ship. On the 6th March 1917 when 9 miles WNW from the Skelligs, Co Kerry, Ireland she was captured by submarine and sunk by gunfire. | |
| Cornucopia | Cargo, sunk on 04/15/1917 by U-38 ; built in 1887 as the Tafna, renamed Cornucopia in 1897 and renamed again as the ''Aghios Nikolaos''. | |
| Coronation | The Coronation was as 2nd rate British warship built 1685, she sank 1691 in a storm whilst attempting to get into Plymouth Sound Round shot. More info: http://www.threeh.demon.co.uk/SitesCoronation.htm and submerged productions. | |
| Corry USS | Sunk by a mine on 06/06/1944. | |
| Corsham SS | [Tony Allen:]Corsham was a 2,760grt defensively-armed Britsih Merchant Steamer. On the 8 March 1918 when 6 miles ESE from entrance to River Tees, she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 9 lives lost. | |
| Corsican Prince | [Tony Allen:]Corsican Prince was a 2,776grt Bristih Merchant ship. On the 7th February 1917 when 3 miles E from Whitby, UK she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 1 life lost. | |
| Corton | Struck by a drifting mine 21st June 1916; 5 crew died | |
| Corvus | [Tony Allen:]Corvus departed Garston on February 23rd 1945 on route for Plymouth with a cargo of 1.800 tons of coal, via Mumbles to change convoy. The vessel left Mumbles Head in the morning of February 26th and joined convoy BTC 81 near Scarwater Lightship (station in the rear of starbord column). She was torpedoed at 10:15 BST on February 27th 1945 by U-1018 (Burmeister), about 7. miles 253° from the Lizard (49 55N 05 22W). Her starboard side was ripped open, she developed a heavy list and sank within a couple of minutes. Out of a crew of 22 and 3 gunners, 6 crew and 2 gunners were killed or drowned. | |
| Cotovia | [Tony Allen:]UC-49 was once more active off Orkney one month after the sinking of Tosto and it was one of her mines that sank the 4020 ton Cotovia on the 22/07/1917. | |
| Cottingham | [Tony Allen:]On 26 December 1915, 16 miles SW ½ W from Lundy Island, Bristol Channel, Cottingham was captured by a submarine and sunk by gunfire, 7 lives lost. | |
| Counsellor SS | [Tony Allen:]Counsellor was a 4,958grt Merchanstship. On the 14 September 1916 when 5 miles W ½ S from Galley Head, Ireland she struck a mine and sank. | |
| Counsellor SS | [Tony Allen:]Counsellor was a British Steam Cargo ship built in 1926 by C Connell & Co Ltd, Glasgow. She was owned by Charente Steamship Co Ltd (Thos & Jas Harrison (Harrison Line), Liverpool) and was on route from New Orleans to Liverpool via Halifax in Convoy HX-22 carrying a cargo of general cargo including cotton. She was Captained by Capt. Harold Coates when she hit a mine laid by U-30. The complement of 70 crew were saved. The ship sailed in convoy HX-22 (35 ships). The Master and Commodore Rear Admiral H.G.C. Franklin, RN, crew of 69 and 7 naval staff were rescued by HM destroyer Walpole (F.150) (Lt. C.H.G. Bowerman) and landed at Liverpool. The vessel sank on the 9 March, at 53.37.44N-03.23.06W The mine field was laid on 6 January 1940 in Grid AM 9324 by U-30. The U-boat started laying this barrier at 23:00 CET (12 mines). Other ships that struck a mine in that barrier were El Oso, Gracia, Cairnross, Munster and Chagres. Technical Data: General cargo vessel; Steam - single screw; 5,068 GRT - 8,030 DWT; 409' x 52'6"" x 24'11""; Service speed 12 knots; | |
| Count D-Aspremont SS | [Tony Allen:]Count D'Aspremont, a coastal steamship of 452 tons, sank on Dec 15th 1903, after hitting Horse Rock in the middle of the Ramsey Sound. | |
| Countess of Erne | Iron paddle steamer; 830 tons; 80m; Sunk in September 1935 after hitting the harbour wall. | |
| Courageous HMS | British Navy Aircraft Carrier; 1916; Armstrong; 22.500 tons; 786.2x100x28.3; 90.000 shp; 30 knots; turbine engines; Yarrow boilers; sixteen 4.7 in guns; four 3 pdr; 17 smaller; 48 aircraft. [Other Source:] Originally constructed as a battle-cruiser in ww1, reconstructed as aircraft carrier in 1926. Sunk by German submarine U-29 off the south west coast of Ireland, while being escorted by 4 destroyers, who were looking for a reported submarine. Two minutes before 8.00pm she was struck on the port side by two torpedoes. It was an opportunist attack as U-29 (Kptlt. Otto Schuhart) was principally lying in wait for merchant shipping in the area, but it was no less skillful for that. Courageous (Capt. W.T. Makeig-Jones) went down 17 minutes after the first torpedo struck. In spite of the speed of the sinking 687 of the crew of 1202 survived. Aircraft carriers were afterwards withdrawn from anti-submarine patrols. The entire crew of the U-29 was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd. class, when the boat made it safely back to Wilhelmshaven, the first time this decoration was awarded to members of the U-boat service. The U-29 survived the war and was scuttled on May 4, 1945. | |
| Courageous SS | [Tony Allen:]Courageous SS. Diliberate sinking off Normandy. | |
| Courbet | The Courbet ended in a way the ship unworthy. As her engines were failing she was dismantled of her main armament and tugged over the Channel from Weymouth in order to be used as an obstruction to the waves, facilitating the landing of the Allied troops. At the same time, she became a false target to mislead the German bombers who later claimed to have her sunk. | |
| Cragsman | [Tony Allen:]Cragsman was 68 tons and was 100.4 feet in length. | |
| Crane jib | According to local diver this could be a crane-jib.… | |
| Crayford SS | [Tony Allen:]Crayford was a 1,209grt defensively-armed British Merchant Steamer. On the 13 March 1918 when 110 miles W by S from Skudesnes, Norway she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 1 life lost. | |
| Crèche Promontory | Near the French Navy position protecting Boulogne-sur-Mer harbour. 4 wrecks stranded on the beach below the cliffs (medium height 40 m). Their origins or names (if any) are unknown. See more info in the document ''Wrecks at Crèche Promontory''. | |
| Creofield SS | [Jan Lettens:]Built 1928 by Goole SHipbuilding; (ex-Athelstane); Torpedoed by U-59 on 2nd February 1940;[Tony Allen:]Creofield was built in 1928 and was on route from LONDON 30th January 1940 for MIDDLESBROUGH carrying creosote oil in bulk. She was torpedoed by U-59. 17 crew lost. | |
| Cresswell SS | [Tony Allen:]Cresswell SS, a 2.829 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 5 February 1918, 18 miles E by N ¼ N from Kish Light Vessel, Ireland. | |
| Cressy SS | British Navy, armoured cruiser; 1899; Fairfield & Co; 12.000 tons; 454x69.5x25.1; 21.000 ihp; 20.7 knots; triple expansion engines; Belleville Boilers; two 9.2 in guns; twelve 6 in; twelve 12pdr; three 3 pdr; 2 T.T. Cressy, capt R.W. Johnson was torpedoed by U-9. The U-9 was responsible for the killing of 1459 man in one single day, sending Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue to the bottom. See documents for more info. | |
| Crested Eagle PSS | General Steam Navigation Co.; 1925; J. Samuel Whithe & Co; 1.100 tons; 299.7x34.6x11X1; 538 nhp; 18.8 knots; triple expansion diagonal engines The well-known Thames paddle-steamer Crested Eagle was taken over by the Admiralty during WWII to be used as a minesweeper. On May 29th 1940, when assisting in the evacuation of the British Army from the Dunkirk beaches, she was bombed by German aircraft. At the time of the attack, the Crested Eagle was carrying about 600 troops in addition to the crew. She was set on fire and was run ashore, over 300 of those on board being either killed or drowned. | |
| Crestflower HMS | H.M.Trawler. Steel trawler of 35 tons converted for Admiralty use, she was bombed by German aircraft and sunk in 1940. | |
| Crichtoun SS | Built 1920; 1.125 tons; 11kn; Attacked and sunk by German E-boats on 19th March 1945; 22 of 25 perished; | |
| Criscilla | [Tony Allen:]Criscilla is 350 tons and was 135.4 feet in length. | |
| Crocodile HMS | [Tony Allen:]Crocodile HMS was a 24-gun frigate, wrecked in thick fog on Prawle Point, Devon, UK (next to De Boot site) in 1784. | |
| Cromdale | Barque, ran aground in fog in 1913 in Cornwall. See for more details the document. | |
| Cross Sand | Light ship reported by divers | |
| Crown of Castile SS | [Tony Allen:]Crown of Castile, 4,505grt, 30 March 1915, 31 miles SW from Bishop Rock, Cornwall. Captured by submarine, sunk by bombs. | |
| Crown Point SS | [Tony Allen:]Crown Point was a 5.218grt, defensively-armed British Merchant ship. On the 6th February 1917 when 55 miles W from Scilly Isles, UK she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 7 lives lost including Master. | |
| Croxteth Hall SS | Ellerman Lines; 1909; Rickmers A.G.; 4.243 tons; 367x47.7x27.3; 327 nhp; triple expansion engines The British steamship Croxteth Hall struck a sandbank and sank off Wandelaar lightship on February 27th 1929. She was on voyage from Port Sudan to Antwerp carrying general cargo. | |
| Cuba | [HSAC:]Ministry of War Transport; 1923; Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardspn; 11.420 tons; 476x62.3x35.1; 10.300shp; 15.5 knots; turbine engines. [Other Source:]French liner, built Newcastle 1923, taken as war prize by Royal Navy, used as troopship. 223 crew, 29 gunners, 10 Army staff and three signallers. Le Havre to Southampton. Sunk: 6 April, 1945, when in convoy VWP 16, by a single torpedo from U-1195 (Kapitanleutnant Ernst Cordes, who had sunk the James Eagan Layne a few days earlier. (Cordes was killed with 30 of his crew when depth charged by destroyer scort). 6th Apr. 1945. The HMS Watchman (D26) destroyer sinks the U-1195 which had attacked convoy VWP.160 | |
| Cumberland SS | [Tony Allen:]Cumberland SS was built by Bremer Vulcan Schiffsbau, Vagesack in 1917, she grossed 10.939 tons and measures 520x64.2x37.6 feet. Powered by 1270 nhp triple expansion engines and a low pressure turbine generating 14 knots. Owned by the Federal Steam Navigation Cpy. Formerly known as the ''Wenderland''. Torpedoed by U-57 whilst carrying 9.000 tons of steel and general cargo from Liverpool to Curacao in a 32 ship convoy no OB.202 54 Out of the crew of 58 were saved including the Captain E A J Williams. | |
| Curacoa HMS | Anti-aircraft cruiser. Struck by the RMS Queen Mary (81237 tons, bigger than the Titanic !) off The Bloody Foreland, Donegal, Ireland. She was cut in two and sank in 5 to 6 minutes with a large loss of life. | |
| Cuttlefish | Trawler made in 1959; | |
| Cyclone | Tug of 40m. | |
| Cycloop SS | [Martien Slaats:] De Cycloop was een stoomsleepboot die door de Duisters in WWII als vorpostenboot is gebruikt. | |
| Cyrus H. McCormick | [Tony Allen:]Cyrus H. McCormick; Built in 1942 WSA (American President Lines, San Francisco); On 18th April 1945, she was torpedoed and sunk by U-1107 at 48°05N 06°28W. | |
| Czar SS | [HSAC:]Samuelson & Co; 1858; Hull; 937 tons; 180 hp. British iron steamer, with 1.600 tons military stores from Woolwich Arsenal, Lancaster guns, shot and shell, uniforms, hides, spirits, oil, sugar and spices. Woolwich for Malta, Corfu, Patras and Alexandria. She struck on the Vroge Rock, near the Lizard, Cornwall in the afternoon of January 22nd, 1859, in a strong westerly gale due to the boilers being out of action. Broke in two behind funnel. The ship sank immediately with the loss of Captain Robert Jackson, his wife, son and 10 of the crew. About 20 persons were saved. | |
| Czestochowa SS | Torpedoed and sunk by german e-boat. Cargo: cement. | |