List of shipwrecks in 1911

This list of shipwrecks in 1911 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1911.

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January[edit]

1 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1911
Ship State Description
Saint Anthony  United States During a voyage to Metlakatla, Territory of Alaska, with seven passengers, three crewmen, and no cargo aboard, the 7-gross register ton, 31-foot (9.4 m) motor passenger vessel was wrecked on a reef in Nichols Passage in Clarence Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska about 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) northwest of Metlakatla and was destroyed by a fire that broke out when her gasoline tank exploded. All on board survived and were rescued by the motorboat Eagle ( United States).[1]

7 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1911
Ship State Description
Burton  United Kingdom The ship was leaving Alderney Channel Islands harbour when it suffered steering problems and ran aground on the Grois Reef. Floating free she was anchored but broke up in a storm on 11 January and became a total loss.[2]

10 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1911
Ship State Description
Treverton, Corbin, and Pine Forest  United States The coal barges broke their tow from Lykens ( United States) and were wrecked on Cape Cod. 17 killed.[3]

11 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1911
Ship State Description
Glenbank  Russia A cyclone wrecked the Finnish-owned steel-hulled sailing ship off Legendre Island on the Pilbara Coast with the loss of 19 of her 20 crew.[4][5]
Mary E. Oyls  United States The schooner went aground on Edgartown Flats off Edgartown, Massachusetts.[6]

25 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1911
Ship State Description
Rosario di Giorgio  Norway The 1,037 GRT cargo ship ran aground the reef at the northern end entrance to Manchioneal Harbour on her way from Baltimore, Maryland, to load a cargo of bananas. An attempt to refloat the vessel was attempted on 11 February, but proved to be unsuccessful, and she was abandoned.

28 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1911
Ship State Description
Stephen G. Hart  United States The barkentine was wrecked on Cuttyhunk Island. Apparently salvaged and returned to service.[7]

29 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1911
Ship State Description
Wiln  United Kingdom The schooner was in collision with the steamship Irena ( United Kingdom) in the Bristol Channel and foundered with the loss of four of her six crew. She was on a voyage from Devonport, Devon to Llanelli, Glamorgan.[8]

Unknown date[edit]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date January 1911
Ship State Description
Ardencraig  United Kingdom The vessel was wrecked off the Gunners, Isles of Scilly.[9]
Ella M. Goodwin  United States The fishing schooner probably lost in a gale later in the day after leaving the Bay of Islands on 21 January. All ten crew were killed.[10][11]
Knocker  United States With no one on board, the 9-gross register ton motor vessel burned on the Atchafalaya River at Morgan City, Louisiana.[12]

February[edit]

2 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1911
Ship State Description
Allegheny  Germany The steamer was wrecked 100 miles (160 km) off Norfolk, Virginia in a heavy snowstorm. All crew were rescued from her boats after four hours.[13]

15 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1911
Ship State Description
Czarina  United States The 230-gross register ton, 116-foot (35.4 m) schooner was wrecked during a gale on the east coast of Nagai Island in the Territory of Alaska's Shumagin Islands. Her crew of ten survived.[14]

18 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1911
Ship State Description
Laura Sutcliffe  United States The 42-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Atchafalaya River at Berwick, Louisiana. All six people on board survived.[12]

Unknown date[edit]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1911
Ship State Description
Weatherall  United Kingdom The Mousehole lugger sank about 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off the Longships, Cornwall, United Kingdom, when she collided with the Lowestoft sailing trawler Trevone ( United Kingdom). All but one of the crew scrambled aboard the trawler.[15]

March[edit]

2 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1911
Ship State Description
Cingetorix  Belgium The vessel was wrecked one nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south of Hartland Point, Devon.[16]

3 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1911
Ship State Description
Blue Bonnett  United States The barge, under the tow of Sarah E. McWilliams ( United States), went aground on Crane's Reef in Long Island Sound.[6]
Blue line  United States The barge, under the tow of Sarah E. McWilliams ( United States), went aground on Crane's Reef in Long Island Sound.[6]
Cap Spartel  Belgium The vessel departed Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom bound for Palermo, Italy. No further trace.[17]
Jewel  United States The 32-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost when she struck a snag on Bayou Macon in Louisiana. All 13 people on board survived.[12]
Sarah E. McWilliams  United States The tugboat went aground on Crane's Reef in Long Island Sound.[6]

14 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1911
Ship State Description
Hope  United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with schooner Hattie S. Heckman in Gloucester, Massachusetts Harbor. Four crewmen killed.[18]

15 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1911
Ship State Description
Silver Spray  United States The fishing tug foundered on the breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio in a snowstorm. Refloated by June. Repaired and returned to service as Charlotte. All nine crew froze to death in the water.[19][20]

20 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1911
Ship State Description
Bessie Smith  United States The 127-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Parkersburg, West Virginia. All four people on board survived.[21]

22 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1911
Ship State Description
Bruce Canada Canada While en voyage from Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland to Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, the vessel was driven on the rocks by ice, off Portnova Islands, (Main-a-Dieu Passage), southwest of Scatarie Island. Two crew members died.[22]
USS San Marcos  United States Navy The target ship, a former battleship, was sunk as a gunnery target in shallow water in Tangier Sound off Tangier Island in Chesapeake Bay by the battleship USS New Hampshire ( United States Navy).

23 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1911
Ship State Description
Yongala United Kingdom Australia The passenger ship sank without trace off the Whitsunday Islands in a cyclone with the loss of all 122 passengers and crew, on a voyage from Melbourne to Cairns. The wreck was found in 1958.[23][24]

24 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1911
Ship State Description
Sechelt  United States The steamboat sank in Strait of Juan de Fuca during a gale with the loss of 24 passengers and crew.[25]

29 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1911
Ship State Description
Buteshire  United Kingdom The barque foundered whilst on a voyage from Pisagua, Chile to Hamburg, Germany.[26]

April[edit]

4 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1911
Ship State Description
Lewiston  United States The 11-gross register ton motor vessel burned in Port Madison in Puget Sound off the coast of Washington. All four people on board survived.[12]
O. D. Witherell  United States
O. D. Witherell aground on 21 April 1911.

The Schooner ran aground on the coast of Delaware 3+12 miles (5.6 km) south of Bethany Beach, 1.5 miles north of the Fenwick's Island Life-Saving Station.[27][28]

7 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1911
Ship State Description
Jabez Howes  United States The 1,648-gross register ton, 218.8-foot (66.7 m) three-masted sloop, operating as a cannery tender, dragged her anchor during a storm and was stranded in Anchorage Bay (56°19′N 158°23′W / 56.317°N 158.383°W / 56.317; -158.383 (Anchorage Bay)) near Chignik, Territory of Alaska. All on board – a ship′s crew of 37 and a cannery crew of 87 Chinese men – survived. Jabez Howes later slipped into deeper water and sank, becoming a total loss.[29]

8 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1911
Ship State Description
Azor  Spanish Navy The Azor-class torpedo boat was sunk in a collision with Orión ( Spanish Navy) off Cadiz, Spain.

10 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1911
Ship State Description
Iroquois Canada Canada
SS Iroquois
The steamer sank in the Strait of Georgia off Sidney, British Columbia after her cargo, having been poorly stowed, shifted when she encountered a squall.[30] Twenty-one people died as a result of the accident and her captain was charged with, but acquitted of, manslaughter.[31]

21 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1911
Ship State Description
Scow #2  United States The Boston Sanitary Department scow capsized and sank in the main ship channel at Boston, Massachusetts.[32]

23 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1911
Ship State Description
Doric  United Kingdom The ocean liner ran aground in foggy conditions and was wrecked in the East China Sea near Taichow Islands, Wenzhou, China. Once all of the crew and passengers had been safely rescued, the ship was looted by local fishermen, who subsequently burnt its remains.

27 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1911
Ship State Description
The North Erin  United States The steamer went ashore in fog on Long Island between the Tiana and Quoque Lights.[6]

29 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1911
Ship State Description
Craigoswald  United Kingdom Struck the Low Lee Rock, off Mousehole, Cornwall.[33] While on a journey from Barry Docks to Venice, with 4,000 tons of coal, she took a detour to drop off in Penzance the chief engineer who was ill. Later refloated.[34]

30 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1911
Ship State Description
Sadie Willcut  United States The 365-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the schooner George D. Edmands ( United States) off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. All six people on board survived.[21]

Unknown date[edit]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date April 1911
Ship State Description
Helena F  United States The 11-gross register ton schooner was lost after she collided with the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad bridge in Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. All three people on board survived.[35]

May[edit]

3 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1911
Ship State Description
Rex  United States The barge sank seven miles (11 km) west of Point Judith, Rhode Island.[6]

5 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1911
Ship State Description
Wm. Edenborn  United States The 239-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank off Naples, Louisiana. All 10 people on board survived.[36]

12 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1911
Ship State Description
Koyukuk  United States The 260-gross register ton, 120.9-foot (36.9 m) sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Tanana River in the Territory of Alaska. All 14 people on board survived.[12][37]
Merida  United States The Ward Line liner was in collision in dense fog with American fruit steamship Admiral Farragut and sank 55 miles (89 km) off Cape Charles, Virginia in 210 feet (64 m) of water with the rumored loss of $2,000,000 of Mexican gold, silver, copper and jewels. All 319 people were saved by Admiral Farragut, with only one serious injury. Various attempts to salvage the treasure were attempted.[38]

16 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 16 May 1911
Ship State Description
Shawnee  United States The schooner barge sank near the west breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio. The wreck removed 14 October 1914.[39][40]

18 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1911
Ship State Description
Tampico  United States The steamer sprung a leak at the Pacific Coast Coal Company dock in Elliott Bay, Seattle, Washington. She was towed away from the deep water slip and sank in shallow water off the Stetson-Post Lumber Mill around midnight on 18/19 May or just after midnight on 19 May. Refloated on 25 June.[41][42]

20 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1911
Ship State Description
Nettie A. Ruark  United States The 14-gross register ton motor vessel burned in the Chesapeake Bay off Poplar Island off the coast of Maryland. All four people on board survived.[36]

26 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1911
Ship State Description
Angler  United States The 93-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Duck Island in Long Island Sound off the coast of Connecticut. Both people on board survived.[43]

Unknown date[edit]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date May 1911
Ship State Description
Unknown derrick  United States Navy The 75-ton floating crane/derrick sank at the Boston Navy Yard some time in May. Later raised.[44]

June[edit]

1 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1911
Ship State Description
Fly Away  United States The 159-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Spruce Island in off the coast of New Brunswick in Canada. All seven people on board survived.[43]

3 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1911
Ship State Description
North West  United States The passenger ship caught fire at dock in the City Ship Canal at the foot of Tifft Street, Buffalo, New York. Most everything made of wood in the iron-hulled ship burned. The ship filled by water being pumped onto her by firefighters and sank in shallow water with most of the hull above water. Refloated on 15 June.[45][46]

6 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1911
Ship State Description
Bayard  United Kingdom The sailing ship, in use as a coaling ship in Ocean Harbour, South Georgia, lost her mooring during a severe gale and ran aground on the southern side of the harbor, where her wreck was abandoned.

7 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1911
Ship State Description
Alida B  United States The 118-gross register ton canal boat sank in Long Island Sound off Great Captain Island on the coast of Connecticut. The only person on board survived.[47]

9 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 9 June 1911
Ship State Description
Plumie E. Smith  United States The 16-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer City of Milford ( United States) on the Potomac River off Alexandria, Virginia. Both people on board survived.[21]

10 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1911
Ship State Description
P. R. R. 720  United States The barge ran aground in the Taunton River near Dighton, Massachusetts. Later raised and taken to Fall River, Massachusetts[48]

18 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1911
Ship State Description
Governor Andrew  United States The 495-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at East Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, killing two of the 23 people on board.[12]

28 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1911
Ship State Description
Signal  United States The 475-gross register ton screw steamer was stranded at San Francisco, California. All seven people on board survived.[36]

29 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1911
Ship State Description
Catherine and Ellen  United States The 145-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Nacoochee ( United States) off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. All 23 people on board survived.[43]

Unknown date[edit]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date June 1911
Ship State Description
Edward Harrigan  United States The 107-gross register ton canal boat was lost in a collision with an unidentified vessel off Sorel, Quebec. The only person on board survived.[47]

July[edit]

1 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1911
Ship State Description
USS Samar  United States Navy The gunboat ran aground in mud in the Yangtze off Kichau, China. She broke free of the mud two weeks later without damage and returned to service.
Sonoma  United States The 1,063-gross register ton schooner sank off Point Reyes, California. All nine people on board survived.[21]

3 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 July 1911
Ship State Description
Juno  United States The 13-gross register ton motor vessel burned at Lindenhurst, Long Island, New York. Both people on board survived.[12]

4 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1911
Ship State Description
Julia and Martha  United States The 117-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts, a total loss. Cargo and some gear was salvaged. All five people on board survived.[35][49]
Mary  United States The 27-gross register ton screw steamer burned on the James River in Virginia. All five people on board survived.[12]

5 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1911
Ship State Description
Uriah Timmons  United States The 24-gross register ton schooner sank off Springfield Bluff, Georgia. All three people on board survived.[21]

7 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 7 July 1911
Ship State Description
Grayling  United States The 121-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Cape Amalia on the coast of Greenland. All 18 people on board survived.[35]
Lady Ilka  United States The 25-gross register ton schooner burned at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. All four people on board survived.[35]
Santa Rosa  United States The 2,416-gross register ton iron-hulled screw steamer was wrecked at Point Arguello, California in fog, a total loss. A boat overturned with the loss of four lives. There were 278 survivors.[36][50][51]

8 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 8 July 1911
Ship State Description
Harriet E. Ford  United States The 50-gross register ton schooner was stranded in the Chesapeake Bay at Love Point Light on the coast of Maryland with the loss of two lives. There was one survivor.[35]
River Queen  United States The 578-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Washington, D.C. All 15 people on board survived.[36]

9 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 9 July 1911
Ship State Description
John Mitchell  United States The 4,468-gross register ton steel-hulled screw steamer was lost in a collision with the screw steamer W. H. Mack ( United States) on Lake Superior off Vermilion Point on the coast of Michigan. Three of the 28 people on board lost their lives.[12]
Kershaw  United States The steamer went aground on Shovelfull Shoal off Cape Cod.[6]

14 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 14 July 1911
Ship State Description
Robert T. Graham  United States The 70-gross register ton schooner was destroyed by an explosion and fire off Fire Island on the coast of Long Island, New York. All 12 people on board survived.[21]

16 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1911
Ship State Description
Maine  United States The 332-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Marine City, Michigan. All 11 people on board survived.[12]

18 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1911
Ship State Description
Tampa  United States The 1,972-gross register ton screw steamer was lost in a collision with the screw steamer John W. Gales ( United States) on the Detroit River off Walkerville, Ontario, Canada. All 16 people on board survived.[36]

19 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 19 July 1911
Ship State Description
Roebuck  United Kingdom The rail car ferry ran aground after leaving St. Helier. Refloated on 28 July, repaired and returned to service four months later.[52]

20 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1911
Ship State Description
Magnolia  United States The 12-gross register ton motor vessel burned on the Delaware River at Paulsboro, New Jersey. Both people on board survived.[12]
Theresa  United States The 18-gross register ton motor vessel sank off Pico Island in the Azores. All three people on board survived.[36]

22 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1911
Ship State Description
Alice  United States The 19-gross register ton schooner sank off Punta de Caballitos, Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. All four people on board survived.[43]

23 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1911
Ship State Description
Brilliant  United States The 319-gross register ton barge sank off Fort Adams at Newport, Rhode Island. Both people on board survived.[47]
Dredge Hester  United States The 206-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Clearwater, Florida. All 19 people on board survived.[12]
Vencedor  United States The 18-gross register ton sloop-rigged yacht was stranded in Lake Michigan on Fisherman Island off the coast of Michigan. All 10 people on board survived.[21]

24 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1911
Ship State Description
Elva  United States The 69-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Sturgeon Bay on the coast of Wisconsin. All four people on board survived.[43]
Romania  United States The 24-gross register ton motor yacht was stranded at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. All five people on board survived.[36]

25 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1911
Ship State Description
Rappahannock  United States The 2,380-gross register ton screw steamer sank in Jackfish Bay on the coast of Ontario, Canada, off Lake Superior. All 18 people on board survived.[36]

28 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1911
Ship State Description
Almeda Willey  United States The 547-gross register ton schooner was abandoned off Swan's Island, Maine. All seven people on board survived.[43]
Catawamteak  United States The schooner ran aground on Peaked Hill bars near Provincetown, Massachusetts.[53]
Henry Chase  United States The 44-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Port Clyde, Maine. All three people on board survived.[35]
Lewie Warren  United States The 17-gross register ton motor vessel sank off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with the loss of all five people on board.[12]
Nokomis  United States The 32-gross register ton motor vessel sank off Nantucket, Massachusetts, with the loss of five lives. There were four survivors.[36]
Tyre  United States The 13-gross register ton motor vessel burned at Jacksonville, Florida. Both people on board survived.[36]

29 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 29 July 1911
Ship State Description
Eugene H. Cathrall  United States The 42-gross register ton schooner sank at Ship John Shoal in Delaware Bay. All three people on board survived.[43]
Mary A. Downs  United States The 12-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded on Vinalhaven Island off the coast of Maine. All five people on board survived.[36]

31 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1911
Ship State Description
Abbie A. Morton  United States The 9-gross register ton sloop was stranded on Vinalhaven Island on the coast of Maine. All three people on board survived.[43]

Unknown date[edit]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date July 1911
Ship State Description
Cup Hunter  United States The 9-gross register ton sloop was stranded on Parris Island on the coast of South Carolina. All three people on board survived.[43]
Virginia C  United States The 102-gross register ton canal boat was lost in a collision with an unidentified vessel in the Saint Lawrence River off Chambly, Quebec, Canada. The only person on board survived.[47]

August[edit]

1 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1911
Ship State Description
Sirius  United States The 22-gross register ton screw steamer sank in the Saint Lawrence River off Massena, New York, with the loss of seven lives. There were 48 survivors.[36]

2 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1911
Ship State Description
Susie  United States The 25-gross register ton motor paddle vessel sank in the Missouri River at LeBeau, South Dakota. All five people on board survived.[36]

3 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1911
Ship State Description
Frau Mini Peterson  Norway The 180-ton schooner was wrecked, after a collision, near the Seven Stones Reef, off the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom.[54]
Jessie Minor  United States Carrying a cargo of 200 tons of salt and empty barrels and a crew of 11, the 261-gross register ton, 129-foot (39.3 m) schooner was blown ashore during a gale and wrecked without loss of life in Nelson Lagoon on the Alaska Peninsula in the Territory of Alaska.[29]

5 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1911
Ship State Description
Rena  United States The 42-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Boston Harbor on the coast of Massachusetts. Both people on board survived.[21]

8 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1911
Ship State Description
F. H. Prince  United States The 2,047-gross register ton screw steamer burned on Lake Erie off Kelleys Island, Ohio. All 17 people on board survived.[12]
Stephen E. Babcock  United States The 46-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Bridgeport, Connecticut. All four people on board survived.[36]

9 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1911
Ship State Description
Eleazer Boynton  United States The 88-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Camden ( United States) in the harbor at Rockland, Maine. All four people on board survived.[43]
Fifeshire  United Kingdom The ocean liner ran aground 20 nautical miles (37 km) south of Cape Guardafui, Italian Somaliland. Six of her crew took to a lifeboat to seek assistance. They were rescued five days later by Ardandearg ( United Kingdom). The 99 passengers and crew later abandoned ship in four lifeboats, the last leaving on 11 August. Survivors from two of the boats were rescued by Adour ( France). Twenty-four lives were lost.[55]

10 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1911
Ship State Description
Sarah D. Fell  United States The 578-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Fear on the coast of North Carolina. All seven people on board survived.[21]

11 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1911
Ship State Description
Frances and Louisa  United States The 27-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Crooked Isle off the coast of Florida. All six people on board survived.[43]
Theresa Wolf  United States The 307-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Cape Cod on the coast of Massachusetts. All seven people on board survived.[21]

12 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1911
Ship State Description
Henry H. Stanwood  United States The 44-gross register ton screw steamer was lost in a collision with the British screw steamer Stephans ( United Kingdom) at New York City. All nine people on board survived.[12]
San Giorgio  Regia Marina The armored cruiser ran aground on a reef in the Tyrrhenian Sea off Naples-Posillipo, Italy and was badly damaged.[56] She was eventually refloated and repaired, but did not rejoin the fleet until June 1912.[57]

15 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1911
Ship State Description
Priscilla  United States The 26-gross register ton motor vessel burned at Texas City, Texas. All three people on board survived.[36]

16 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1911
Ship State Description
SMS T21  Imperial German Navy The torpedo boat sank after colliding with the torpedo boat SMS T38 ( Imperial German Navy).[58]

17 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1911
Ship State Description
Jennie  United States The 10-gross register ton sloop was destroyed by an explosion at Staten Island in New York City. Both people on board survived.[35]
Willie H. Child  United States The 626-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Beach Gull Shoal on the coast of North Carolina. All eight people on board survived.[21]

18 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1911
Ship State Description
Tourist  United States The 66-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Calumet River at Riverdale, Illinois. All four people on board survived.[36]

19 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1911
Ship State Description
Bertha  United States The whaling bark went aground on Sow and Pigs Reef off Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts.[6]
F. S. Redfield  United States Carrying a crew of 23 and a cargo of 350 tons of general merchandise, the 469-gross register ton, 159.6-foot (48.6 m) motor cargo vessel was wrecked without loss of life on the coast of the Territory of Alaska 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) east of Cape Prince of Wales after she dragged her anchors during a gale. The revenue cutter USRC Bear ( United States Revenue Cutter Service) rescued her crew on 22 August.[59]

20 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1911
Ship State Description
J. W. Swayze  United States The 86-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank at Jonesville, Louisiana. The only person on board survived.[12]
Wild Duck  United States The 15-gross register ton motor vessel was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Archie Crossman ( United States) in Newark Bay off the coast of New Jersey. All 41 people on board survived.[36]

21 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1911
Ship State Description
Warrington  United States The 375-gross register ton screw steamer was stranded at Charlevoix, Michigan. All 12 people on board survived.[36]

24 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1911
Ship State Description
Lyndhurst  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship's crew abandoned her off Port Elizabeth, South Africa, after she caught fire. The cruiser HMS Pandora ( Royal Navy) subsequently sank her with gunfire.[60]
Tacora  Norway The Schooner was wrecked off Gorontalo, Celebes, Netherlands East Indies.[61]

25 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1911
Ship State Description
Albert  United States With no one on board, the 135-gross register ton barge sank in Atchafalaya Bay in Louisiana.[47]
J. N. Harbin  United States The 142-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded at Lake Landing in the Mississippi River. All 23 people on board survived.[12]
Massachusetts  United States The 501-gross register ton schooner departed Wiggins, South Carolina, bound for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with seven people on board and was never heard from again.[35]

26 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1911
Ship State Description
Edwina  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: The 459-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Charleston, South Carolina. All seven people on board survived.[43]
James Davidson  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: The 451-gross register ton schooner sank off Charleston, South Carolina. All six people on board survived.[35]
Margaret A. May  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: The 536-gross register ton schooner sank off Kiawah Island on the coast of South Carolina. All 10 people on board lost their lives.[35]
Vixen  United States The 14-gross register ton motor vessel burned at Silver Springs, Florida. All seven people on board survived.[36]

27 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1911
Ship State Description
Advance  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: The 27-gross register ton sloop sank off Charleston, South Carolina. All four people on board survived.[43]
Alice  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: With no one on board, the 13-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded at Charleston, South Carolina.[21]
Daniels Island  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: With no one on board, the 18-gross register ton screw steamer sank at Charleston, South Carolina.[12]
Dora  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: The 13-gross register ton sloop sank off Charleston, South Carolina. Both people on board survived.[43]
Emma Sheppard  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: With no one on board, the 8-gross register ton sloop sank at Charleston, South Carolina.[43]
F. S. Redfield  United States The 469-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded at Cape Prince of Wales on the coast of the Territory of Alaska. All 23 people on board survived.[12]
Fannie E  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: With no one on board, the 10-gross register ton schooner sank at Charleston, South Carolina.[43]
Franklin Pierce  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: With no one on board, the 36-gross register ton screw steamer sank at Charleston, South Carolina.[12]
Imp  United States The 20-gross register ton motor yacht sank at Charleston, South Carolina. All three people on board survived.[12]
Janie  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: With no one on board, the 9-gross register ton motor vessel sank at Charleston, South Carolina.[12]
Marietta  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: The 7-gross register ton sloop sank off Charleston, South Carolina. Both people on board survived.[35]
Malcolm B. Seavey  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: On passage from Port Tampa, Florida, to Baltimore, Maryland, with a cargo of phosphate rock, the 1,247 GRT four-masted schooner encountered a hurricane off Cape Romain, South Carolina, on 26 August and foundered on 27 August in 36 ft (11 m) of water. One crew member was swept off the deck and drowned, but the other nine members of the crew were saved by the steamer Mohawk ( United States) on 29 August.[35]
Our Fritz  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: With no one on board, the 16-gross register ton sloop sank at Charleston, South Carolina.[21]
S. B. Latham  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: With no one on board, the 10-gross register ton sloop sank at Charleston, South Carolina.[21]
Samuel Brush  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: With no one on board, the 20-gross register ton motor vessel sank at Charleston, South Carolina.[36]
Sophie Amelia K  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: The 47-gross register ton sloop sank off Charleston, South Carolina. All five people on board survived.[21]
Susie Magwood  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: The 19-gross register ton screw steamer sank at Charleston, South Carolina. All five people on board survived.[36]
Thomas Morgan  United States Charleston-Savannah hurricane: With no one on board, the 52-gross register ton screw steamer sank at Charleston, South Carolina.[36]
Transport  United States The 164-gross register ton screw steamer sank in Washington Sound off the coast of Washington with the loss of one life. There were 16 survivors.[36]

28 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1911
Ship State Description
George T. Clark  United States The 20-gross register ton screw steamer sank off Savannah, Georgia. All four people on board survived.[12]
Ruth E. Godfrey  United States The 597-gross register ton schooner departed Tocopilla, Chile, bound for Port Townsend, Washington, with nine people on board and was never heard from again.[21]

29 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1911
Ship State Description
Charles H. Valentine  United States The 639-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Cape Fear on the coast of North Carolina. All seven people on board survived.[43]
Fannie E. Moffat  United States The 14-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded at Chadwick, New Jersey. All six people on board survived.[12]
John Rose  United States The 626-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean at 33°12′N 77°00′W / 33.200°N 77.000°W / 33.200; -77.000 (John Rose). All eight people on board survived.[35]

30 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1911
Ship State Description
Comet  United States The 429-gross register ton schooner was stranded on San Miguel Island in the Channel Islands off the coast of California with the loss of one life. There were seven survivors.[43]
Josie R. Burt  United States The 760-gross register ton schooner sank off Barnegat, New Jersey. All nine people on board survived.[35]

31 August[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1911
Ship State Description
Rye  United States The 392-gross register ton barge sank off Point Judith, Rhode Island. The only person on board survived.[47]
W. D. Brimmer  United States The 334-gross register ton barge sank in Narragansett Bay off the coast of Rhode Island. The only person on board survived.[47]
"William D. Brinnier"  United States The Barge sunk near Saunderstown, Rhode Island, (could be same barge listed above).[62]

September[edit]

3 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1911
Ship State Description
David Faust  United States The 216-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Port Clyde, Maine. All six people on board survived.[43]

4 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1911
Ship State Description
Tidy Adly  United States The 13-gross register ton motor vessel burned in Boston Harbor off the coast of Massachusetts. All three people on board survived.[36]
Tucapel  Chile The steamship ran aground about 20 miles south of Lima, Peru, killing about 32 people.[63]

5 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1911
Ship State Description
Papanui  United Kingdom
Papanui
The steamship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean. She was beached at Saint Helena on 11 September. All on board survived.

6 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1911
Ship State Description
Mary F. Smith  United States The 33-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded on Green Island in the Tusket Islands off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. All nine people on board survived.[36]

8 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1911
Ship State Description
Iron City  United States The 118-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on the Laurie Bar in the Ohio River. All 14 people on board survived.[12]

9 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1911
Ship State Description
Stephen G. Hart  United States The barkentine was abandoned in a gale off Cape Henry, Virginia. Reported floating half submerged off the coast of Canada on 24 September. The crew were rescued by Bermudian (flag unknown).[64][65]

10 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1911
Ship State Description
Ramona  United States During a voyage from Hunter Bay in the Territory of Alaska to Seattle, Washington, with 23 passengers, 52 crewmen, and 405 tons of salmon and general cargo on board, the 1,061-gross register ton, 195-foot (59.4 m) passenger screw steamer went off course in fog and was wrecked on an uncharted reef off Middle Spanish Island (55°57′N 134°07′W / 55.950°N 134.117°W / 55.950; -134.117 (Middle Spanish Island)) in Christian Sound in Southeast Alaska. All on board survived and were rescued by the steamers Grand, Northwestern, and Delhi (flags unknown).[36][66]

14 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1911
Ship State Description
Capt. C. W. Howell  United States The US Army Corps of Engineers dredge was lost at sea off Texas.[67]
Pontiere  Italian Royal Navy The Soldato-class destroyer ran aground on a rock off Sardinia. She was refloated, repaired, relaunched on 1 November 1913, and returned to service.[68]

15 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1911
Ship State Description
Hastings  United States The 84-gross register ton schooner was lost in the harbor at Rockland, Maine. All three people on board survived.[35]
Youtsey  United States The 8-gross register ton motor paddle vessel was destroyed by an explosion and fire on the Ohio River at Chilo, Ohio. The only person on board survived.[36]

16 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1911
Ship State Description
Peggy  United States The yacht sank on the west side of the Connecticut River off Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Later raised.[6]

18 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1911
Ship State Description
Harmony  United States The 96-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost when she struck a pier at Lock No. 5 on the Ohio River. All nine people on board survived.[12]
Jessie Minor  United States The 261-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Nelson Lagoon on the Alaska Peninsula in the Territory of Alaska. All 11 people on board survived.[35]
Stella B. Kaplan  United States The 1,078-gross register ton schooner was stranded in the Chesapeake Bay on the coast of Virginia. All nine people on board survived.[21]

19 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1911
Ship State Description
Eustathius  Imperial Russian Navy The destroyer ran aground off Constanţa, Romania. She was refloated and taken in to Sevastopol.[69]
Panteleimon  Imperial Russian Navy The destroyer ran aground off Constanţa. She was refloated and taken in to Sevastopol.[69]

22 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1911
Ship State Description
Joliet  United States The 1,935-gross register ton steel-hulled steam screw cargo ship sank while she was anchored off Port Huron, Michigan, in the St. Clair River on the United States-Canada border between Michigan and Ontario, after the steam screw cargo ship Henry Phipps ( United States) accidentally rammed her in dense fog. She sank almost directly over the railway tunnel between Sarnia, Ontario, and Port Huron. Wreck later blown up with dynamite to provide clearance for navigation. Remaining wreckage removed by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1963. All 20 people on board survived.[12][70][71][72][73]

23 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1911
Ship State Description
Naulahka  United States With no one on board, the 16-gross register ton motor vessel burned on the Guadalupe River in Texas.[36]

24 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1911
Ship State Description
Ana Rita  United States The 7-gross register ton sloop sank off Piñones, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. All four people on board survived.[43]

25 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 25 September 1911
Ship State Description
Helen W. Martin  United States The schooner went aground on Eastern Point near Gloucester, Massachusetts. Later salvaged.[6]
Liberté  French Navy
Liberté

The Liberté-class battleship was destroyed by a magazine explosion in Toulon harbor, killing about 300 people.

Stephen G. Hart  United States The 605-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) west of Bermuda. All eight people on board survived.[21]
Thomas Cranage  United States The 2,219-gross register ton screw steamer was stranded on Watcher Island in Georgian Bay off the coast of Ontario, Canada. All 17 people on board survived.[36]

26 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1911
Ship State Description
Edna Mae  United States The 6-gross register ton motor vessel was destroyed by an explosion at Manteo, North Carolina. All 10 people on board survived.[12]
Oliver Mitchell  United States The 320-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Millinocket ( United States) in Long Island Sound near Plum Island off the coast of Long Island, New York. All six people on board survived.[35]
PCS Co. #1 (or P. C. S. Co. No.1)  United States While under tow from Nome to Cripple River (64°32′N 165°48′W / 64.533°N 165.800°W / 64.533; -165.800 (Cripple River)) along the Bering Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska, the empty 40-gross register ton barge sank about 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) offshore in Norton Sound southwest of Cripple River after her towline parted. All four people on board survived.[47][74]

27 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1911
Ship State Description
Three Brothers  United States The 583-gross register ton steam screw cargo ship sprang a leak in heavy weather and sank in Lake Michigan off South Manitou Island. All 14 of her crew were saved.[36]

29 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1911
Ship State Description
Despatch  Australia The lighthouse tender struck the pier at Lakes Entrance, Victoria, Australia, and consequently foundered.[75]
Itinerant  United States The 38-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the barge Keystone ( United States) on the Great Wicomico River in Maryland. All four people on board survived.[35]
Morgan  United States The 51-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Haddux Ferry, Kentucky. All nine people on board survived.[36]
Tokat  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Preveza: The torpedo boat was shelled, beached, and destroyed by Italian destroyers near Nicopolis, Greece. Nine of the crew were killed, including the captain.
W. C. Kirwan  United States The 39-gross register ton schooner sank in the Chesapeake Bay off Sandy Point, Maryland. All three people on board survived.[21]

30 September[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 30 September 1911
Ship State Description
Alpagot  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Preveza: The Akhisar-class torpedo boat was shelled and sunk by Artigliere and Corazziere (both  Regia Marina) in the harbour of Preveza, Greece.
Hamidiye  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Preveza: The Hamidiye-class torpedo boat was shelled and sunk by Artigliere and Corazziere (both  Regia Marina) in the harbour of Preveza, Greece.
Swarland  Denmark The cargo ship disappeared while steaming from Rostock, Germany, to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with the loss of all 15 crew members.
Trablus  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: The armed yacht was lost.

October[edit]

1 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1911
Ship State Description
Ixion  Netherlands The cargo ship caught fire and sank off the coast of the Netherlands East Indies, killing 24 crew members. Good Hope ( United Kingdom) rescued the 24 survivors.

2 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 2 October 1911
Ship State Description
A. L. Hopkins  United States Bound from Bayfield, Wisconsin, for Buffalo, New York, with a crew of 13 and a cargo loaded both in her hold and on deck of 360,000 board feet (849.6 m3) of lumber and 300,000 board feet (708 m3) of lath, the 174-foot (53 m), 639-gross register ton screw steam barge nearly capsized and became waterlogged when she encountered heavy seas and a rain squall on Lake Superior off Ontonagon, Michigan. One man was washed overboard and one man was alone aboard the ship's lifeboat when it was washed away while the crew attempted to abandon ship, but both survived and managed to get back aboard the partially submerged A. L. Hopkins. The ore carrier Dinkey ( United States) rescued the entire crew on 3 October about 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) northeast of Michigan Island in the Apostle Islands. A. L. Hopkins did not sink for at least two weeks, and was last sighted about 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) east of Michigan Island by the steamer William F. Corey ( United States) on 17 October 1911. Her wreck lies in Lake Superior off Iron County, Wisconsin, at 46°52.463′N 090°18.499′W / 46.874383°N 90.308317°W / 46.874383; -90.308317 (A. L. Hopkins).[21][76]
No. 4  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: The No. 1-class motor gunboat was lost.

3 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1911
Ship State Description
Oliver J. Olson  United States The 667-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Cape False on the coast of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. All 10 people on board survived.[21]

4 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1911
Ship State Description
Jura  United States The 227-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Lake Michigan near Cross Village, Michigan. All six people on board survived.[35]

6 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 6 October 1911
Ship State Description
Occidental  United States The 22-gross register ton motor vessel burned in Holmes Harbor, an inlet of Saratoga Passage on the coast of Washington. All five people on board survived.[36]

7 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1911
Ship State Description
Penn  United States The 476-gross register ton barge sank in Long Island Sound off Race Rock Light. The only person on board survived.[47]

9 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1911
Ship State Description
Wm. Nottingham  United States The 1,204-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean off Cape Disappointment, Washington. All 11 people on board survived.[21]
William K. Park  United States The 1,252-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Newfoundland at 45°N 50°W / 45°N 50°W / 45; -50 (William K. Park). All nine people on board survived.[21]

10 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1911
Ship State Description
M. H. Read  United States The 160-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Boston, Massachusetts. All five people on board survived.[35]
Perdita  United States The 286-gross register ton motor vessel burned at the Ludlow Rocks in Washington. All 25 people on board survived.[36]

12 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1911
Ship State Description
Freccia  Regia Marina Italo-Turkish War: The Lampo-class destroyer was wrecked at the entrance to the harbor at Tripoli on the coast of Ottoman Tripolitania.[77]

13 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1911
Ship State Description
E. Hempstead  United States The 19-gross register ton schooner sank in East Pass on the coast of Florida. All five people on board survived.[43]

17 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1911
Ship State Description
USLHT Lily United States Lighthouse Service The lighthouse tender struck a snag and sank, or was beached, near Washington, Missouri, or Wellington, Missouri, in the Missouri River. Raised, temporary repairs finished by 31 October.[78][79]
McKinley  United States The 66-gross register ton screw steamer burned in Wollochet Bay in Puget Sound off the coast of Washington. All four people on board survived.[12]

18 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1911
Ship State Description
Arundel  United States The 339-gross register ton iron-hulled screw steamer burned at Douglas, Michigan. All 24 people on board survived.[21]
Mignon  United States The 14-gross register ton screw steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Rock Island, Illinois. Both people on board survived.[36]

19 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1911
Ship State Description
Elizabeth E. Vane  United States The 405-gross register ton barge was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Columbia ( United States) in Baltimore Harbor on the coast of Maryland. Both people on board survived.[47]

20 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1911
Ship State Description
Majestic  United States The 17-gross register ton motor vessel sank at New Orleans, Louisiana, with the loss of one life. There were eight survivors.[12]

23 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1911
Ship State Description
Western Belle  United States The barge stranded on Race Rock, Fisher's Island, New York. Pumped out and repaired.[48]

24 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1911
Ship State Description
Herald  United States The schooner went on the rocks at the east end of Wicopesset near Fisher's Island. Later pumped out, pulled off and taken to Stonington, Connecticut and Stamford, Connecticut for repairs.[6]

25 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1911
Ship State Description
George May  United States The 654-gross register ton schooner was stranded in the Bahamas. All seven people on board survived.[43]

26 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1911
Ship State Description
Oliver Mitchell  United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with Millinocket (flag unknown) in Long Island Sound.[80][81]
Star of the Sea  United States The 967-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the Florida Reefs off the coast of Florida. All 11 people on board survived.[21]

27 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1911
Ship State Description
George L. Bass  United States The 53-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost when she struck a snag at Sheppardstown, Mississippi. All 22 people on board survived.[12]
Multnomah  United States The 312-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Iroquois ( United States) off Seattle, Washington. All 19 people on board survived.[36]
Winfield S. Shuster  United States The 1,481-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Isaac Shoal off the coast of Florida. All 11 people on board survived.[21]

28 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1911
Ship State Description
Willie Wallace  United States The 22-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the Florida Reefs off the coast of Florida. All three people on board survived.[21]

30 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1911
Ship State Description
Emily A. Staples  United States The 86-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Port Clyde, Maine. Both people on board survived.[43]
Flora Condon  United States The schooner was abandoned after being rammed by schooner Jost (flag unknown) west of Point Judith. She drifted aground on Fisher's Island 29 August 1914.[6]
Sicie  France The brigantine foundered in the Bristol Channel 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of the Helwick Lightship ( United Kingdom). She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Lorient, Morbihan.[8]
Sunbeam  United States The 255-gross register ton bark was stranded on Sapelo Island on the coast of Georgia. All eight people on board survived.[21]

31 October[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1911
Ship State Description
D. Leuty  United States The 646-gross register ton screw steamer was stranded at Marquette, Michigan. All 13 people on board survived.[21]
Florence  United States The 14-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded on Annisquam Bar off Gloucester, Massachusetts. All three people on board survived.[12]

November[edit]

1 November[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1911
Ship State Description
Susan and Mary  United States The 124-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Point Allerton on the coast of Massachusetts. All 18 people on board survived.[21]

2 November[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1911
Ship State Description
Libbie Shearn  United States The 59-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Aransas Pass on the coast of Texas. All 11 people on board survived.[35]
Lois V. Chaples  United States The 230-gross register ton schooner sank in Nantucket Sound off the coast of Massachusetts. All five people on board survived.[35]

3 November[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1911
Ship State Description
Fairhaven  United States
Fairhaven
The sternwheel passenger paddle steamer sank at her moorings in Seattle, Washington. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

5 November[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1911
Ship State Description
Antalia  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: The Antalya-class torpedo boat was scuttled at Preveze. Salvaged and put in service as Nikopolis ( Hellenic Navy).
Tokad  Ottoman Navy Italo-Turkish War: The Antalya-class torpedo boat was scuttled at Preveze. Salvaged and put in service as Totoi ( Hellenic Navy).

6 November[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1911
Ship State Description
G. W. North  United States The 9-gross register ton schooner was lost when she struck an obstruction in Baltimore Harbor on the coast of Maryland. All five people on board survived.[43]

7 November[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1911
Ship State Description
Dena H  United States The 13-gross register ton motor vessel burned in Matagorda Bay off Alamo Beach, Texas. All four people on board survived.[12]
Nellie  United States With no one on board, the 14-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Mobile, Alabama.[36]

9 November[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1911
Ship State Description
Eastern Light  United States The 85-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Pumpkin Rock at Boothbay Harbor, Maine. All three people on board survived.[43]

10 November[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1911
Ship State Description
Julia Howard  United States The barge sank on the southwest side of Shelter Island, New York.[48]

11 November[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1911
Ship State Description
City of Kalamazoo  United States The 729-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Manistee, Michigan. All 22 people on board survived.[21]
Della May  United States The 7-gross register ton sloop was lost in a collision with the schooner Au Revoir ( United States) in Baltimore Harbor off the coast of Maryland. Two of the five people on board lost their lives.[43]

12 November[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1911
Ship State Description
A. R. Hall  United States The 60-gross register ton screw steamer sank off Greenville, Mississippi. All five people on board survived.[21]
Angele The brigantine ran aground on the Doom Bar, Padstow, Cornwall, United Kingdom.[82]
Bertha F. Walker  United States The schooner was wrecked on Pasque Island, Massachusetts.[43][83][84]
Genia  United States The 14-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded at Brooklyn, New York. Both people on board survived.[12]
Pottsville  United States The 72-gross register ton screw steamer burned off Wilson Point, Connecticut. All nine people on board survived.[36]
Samuel J. Goucher  United States The 2,547-gross register ton schooner was stranded in the Isles of Shoals on Duck Island off the coast of New Hampshire. All 13 people on board survived. Later refloated and became lodged on a breakwater at the Mouth of the Merrimack River. She later broke up with pieces washing ashore on Plum Island where they were buried by wave and tidal action.[21][85]