List of shipwrecks in 1908

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This list of shipwrecks in 1908 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1908.

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January[edit]

1 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1908
Ship State Description
E. M. Dutlield  United States The 92-gross register ton schooner foundered at Bridgeport, Connecticut. All three people on board survived.[1]

2 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1908
Ship State Description
Julia Davis  United States The 58-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the barge Valentine in the eastern end of Long Island Sound off Fishers Island on the coast of New York. All three people aboard survived.[2][3]

3 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1908
Ship State Description
Abram P. Skidmore  United States The tug was sunk in the East River off Corlear's Hook in a collision with a car float towed by New York Central No. 8 ( United States). Crew rescued by New York Central No. 8.[3]
Eugene Batty  United States The 19-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the Quartermaster Corps screw steamer General Timothy Pickering (United States United States Army) off Tampa, Florida. All three people on board survived.[4]
Geo. R. Hand or George R. Hand  United States The 34-gross register ton screw steamer was totally destroyed by fire at dock at the Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Michigan. All three people on board survived.[5][3]
Northern Eagle  United States The 36-gross register ton schooner departed Key West, Florida, bound for Tampico, Mexico, with nine people on board and was never heard from again.[2]

4 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1908
Ship State Description
Bluefields  United States The 736-gross register ton steel-hulled screw steamer foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All 18 people on board lost their lives.[6]
Manistique, Marquette, and Northern 1  United States The steamer struck an unknown obstruction entering Harbor at Manistique, Michigan. She made it to her dock where she sank.[3]

7 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1908
Ship State Description
D. Corson, jr.  United States With no one on board, the 19-gross register ton schooner was wrecked at Newport News, Virginia.[1]
Helen  United States The 388-gross register ton barge was stranded on Fishers Island in New York at the eastern end of Long Island Sound after losing her towline to C. B. Sanford ( United States). The only person on board survived.[7][8]
Julia  United States The 388-gross register ton barge was stranded on Fishers Island in New York at the eastern end of Long Island Sound after losing her towline to C. B. Sanford ( United States).[7][8]
Lizzie R Wilce  United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on Porthminster Beach, St. Ives, Cornwall, England. Her crew were rescued.[9]

8 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1908
Ship State Description
John F. Miller  United States With 30 fishermen, a crew of seven, and a cargo of 220 tons of salt and provisions aboard, the 170- or 179-gross register ton (sources disagree), 107-foot (32.6 m) schooner was wrecked with the loss of ten lives in either East Anchor Cove (54°41′30″N 163°04′00″W / 54.69167°N 163.06667°W / 54.69167; -163.06667 (East Anchor Cove)) or Bear Harbor (sources disagree) on the coast of Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands after her anchor chains broke during a gale that struck while her crew was attempting to salvage the schooner Glen ( United States), which had been wrecked there on 30 September 1907.[4][10][11]
Leonora  United States The 458-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the Diamond Shoals off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, with the loss of five lives. There were two survivors.[2]
Mary Barrow  United Kingdom The schooner was beached on Porthminster beach, St. Ives, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued.[9] Refloated a week later.[12]

9 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1908
Ship State Description
Josephine Ellicott  United States The 391-gross register ton schooner departed New York City bound for Mayport, Florida, with seven people on board and was never heard from again.[2]

10 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1908
Ship State Description
John E. Devlin  United States The 1,107-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Metomkin Island on the coast of Virginia. All nine people on board survived.[4]

11 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1908
Ship State Description
Eclipse  United States The ship was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean on a voyage from Newcastle, Australia to San Francisco, California. The next day one of the life boats capsized and two crewmen died of exposure as a result.[3]

12 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1908
Ship State Description
Two Brothers  United States The steamer sank at dock over night in the Ohio River at Legionville, Pennsylvania when her siphon pump was shut off. Later raised.[3]

13 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1908
Ship State Description
City of Hartford  United States The 29-gross register ton Launch vessel was destroyed by fire on Lake Salvador, in Louisiana. All six people on board survived.[6][3]

14 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1908
Ship State Description
Malden  United States The 537-gross register ton schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off the Southeastern United States at 30°20′N 075°54′W / 30.333°N 75.900°W / 30.333; -75.900 (Malden). All eight people on board survived.[2]
Mary L. Newhall  United States The 1,310-gross register ton schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) north of Bermuda. All 10 people on board survived.[2]

15 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1908
Ship State Description
Lafayette  United States With no one on board, the 77-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer foundered at Mount Carmel, Illinois.[13]

17 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1908
Ship State Description
Anne Comber  United States The 39-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Royal Shoal on the coast of North Carolina. All four people on board survived.[1]

18 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1908
Ship State Description
USS Sioux United States Navy The Tug went ashore on Gull Rocks, Newport, Rhode Island. Refloated and returned to service.[8]

19 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1908
Ship State Description
Epirus  Greece The 3,276 GRT cargo ship, on passage from Sulina to Antwerp with a cargo of cotton, was run down in early morning fog by the Red Star Line ocean liner Finland ( Belgium) in the Scheldt off Terneuzen (51°24′N 3°45′E / 51.400°N 3.750°E / 51.400; 3.750) and subsequently sank.[14][15]

20 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1908
Ship State Description
Sayre  United States The tug struck bottom, or an obstruction, in the East River and sprang a leak. She sank at a pier at the foot of Third Street, New York City.[3]

22 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1908
Ship State Description
Ada May  United States While no one was on board, the 26-gross register ton schooner foundered in Pungoteague Creek in Virginia.[1]
Baltimore  United States The 692-gross register ton bark departed Hampton Roads, Virginia, bound for Savannah, Georgia, with nine people on board and was never heard from again.[1]

23 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1908
Ship State Description
Greyhound  United States The steamer struck a floating obstruction between Latanier Landing and Melville, Louisiana holing her hull. She sank with the top of her cabin roof above water. Passengers and crew made it to shore.[3]
V. L. Watson  United States The steamer sank in Bayou Willow, Louisiana while tied to the bank, later raised. One crewman killed.[3]

24 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1908
Ship State Description
Custus W. Wright  United States The 113-gross register ton schooner foundered at Newport News, Virginia, with the loss of all four people on board.[1]
Fannie  United States The 948-gross register ton iron-hulled barge sank off Barnegat, New Jersey after her tow line parted in a heavy gale and blinding snow storm . All six people on board survived.[7][3]
Grafton  United States The 531-gross register ton schooner barge or scow barge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Rhode Island 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) southwest of Block Island, with the loss of all three people on board.[4]
Gwennie  United States The 1,087-gross register ton schooner barge or scow barge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) northeast of Barnegat, New Jersey, after her tow line parted in a heavy gale and blinding snow storm with the loss of all five people on board.[4][3]
White Band  United States The 1,186-gross register ton schooner barge or scow barge lost her tow in a blinding snowstorm and heavy winds and foundered off Cape Henlopen on the coast of Delaware, part of her hull discovered washed on shore 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) north west of Overrfalls Shoals spar buoy the next day. Loss of all six people, four men and two women, on board.[6][3]

25 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1908
Ship State Description
Fall River  United States The 850-gross register ton schooner barge or scow barge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Rhode Island 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) southwest of Block Island. All three people on board survived.[4]

26 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1908
Ship State Description
Helen G. Moseley  United States The 566-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) east of Cape Henry, Virginia. All nine people on board survived.[4]
Mascot  United States The 349-gross register ton barge foundered in the Chesapeake Bay at Thimble Shoal off the coast of Virginia. All four people on board survived.[7]

27 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1908
Ship State Description
Edgar F. Luckenbach  United States The tug was sunk in a collision with Pawnee ( United States) between Governor's Island and The Battery in New York Harbor. One crewman killed. Survivors rescued by P. R. R. No. 9 ( United States).[3]
George R. Vreeland  United States The 423-gross register ton schooner departed Hampton Roads, Virginia, bound for New York City with seven people on board and was never heard from again.[4]
Matanzas  United States The 1,579-gross register ton schooner barge or scow barge was stranded at Montauk, New York. All five people on board survived.[2]

28 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1908
Ship State Description
Bart E. L. Molo  United States The steamer sank at dock at Hickman, Kentucky. Raised and repaired.[3]
Mary F. Golden  United States The 37-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned to the waterline on Bayou Teche in Louisiana. Both people on board survived.[5][3]
Resignacion  United States The 9-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Guanica, Puerto Rico. All three people on board survived.[2]

29 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1908
Ship State Description
Helen E. Taft  United States The 1,197-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Uppland ( Sweden) off Cape Lookout on the coast of North Carolina. All ten people on board survived.[4]
Lotus  United States The 9-gross register ton sternwheel motor paddle vessel foundered in the Ohio River at Newburgh, Indiana. Both people on board survived.[5]

30 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 30 January 1908
Ship State Description
Edward J. Berwind  United States The 1,141-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean east of North Carolina at 35°25′N 071°58′W / 35.417°N 71.967°W / 35.417; -71.967 (Edward J. Berwind). All nine people on board survived.[4]
Gem  United States The steamer sank in the Beouff River one mile (1.6 km) above Brown's Landing.[3]

31 January[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 31 January 1908
Ship State Description
Industry  United States The 26-gross register ton schooner foundered in Bodkin Creek in Maryland. All three people on board survived.[4]
New York Central No. 24  United States The tug was sunk in a collision with Colorado ( United States) off Governor's Island in New York Harbor. One crewman killed. Survivors rescued by Towanda ( United States).[3]

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February[edit]

1 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1908
Ship State Description
Julia Baker  United States The 108-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Milbridge, Maine. All three people on board survived.[17]
Waldron Holmes  United States The 59-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Point Francis, Maine. All four people on board survived.[18]

2 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1908
Ship State Description
Windsor  United Kingdom The 2,892-gross register ton steam cargo ship was wrecked on Half Moon Reef, Houtman Abrolhos islands off the coast of Western Australia. Five of her crew of 37 were lost.[19]

3 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1908
Ship State Description
Roda  United Kingdom The 2,516-gross register ton steam cargo ship was wrecked in dense fog on Jones Beach Island off the south coast of Long Island, New York. Her crew survived. Her wreck sank in 20 feet (6 m) of water.[20]

4 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1908
Ship State Description
Abby Morse  United States The 34-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Narraguagus Bay on the coast of Maine. Both people on board survived.[1]
Emelie E. Birdsall  United States The 491-gross register ton schooner was lost on Winter Quarter Shoal off the coast of Virginia when she collided with the screw steamer Jefferson ( United States). Of the seven people aboard Emelie E. Birdsall, three lost their lives.[4]

5 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1908
Ship State Description
Favorite  United States The steamboat sank at her moorings at Coquille, Oregon. She was later refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
George  United States The 29-gross register ton sloop either was lost at Nome, Alaska, or sank off Dauphin Island on the coast of Alabama, according to different sources. Both people on board survived.[4][10]

6 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1908
Ship State Description
S. O. Co. No. 7  United States The tug stranded on Nonamesett Island in Vineyard Sound after her prop hit rocks. Later raised and repaired.[3]

7 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1908
Ship State Description
Any One  United States With no one on board, the 9-gross register ton sternwheel motor paddle vessel foundered off Prairietown, Indiana.[18]

8 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1908
Ship State Description
F. L. Lowell  United States The 5-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Rodicks Island on the coast of Maine. Both people on board survived.[4]

8 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1908
Ship State Description
Jewel  United States The steamer, while laid up for the winter at the mouth of the Muskingum River, caught on gorged ice, she careened when pulled off and sank in 12 feet (3.7 m) of water.[3]

10 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1908
Ship State Description
Addie B. Bacon  United States The 422-gross register ton barge was stranded at Flynns Knoll, New York. All seven people on board survived.[21]

11 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1908
Ship State Description
Kate McNamara  United States The 65-gross register ton schooner burned in the Choptank River off Tilghman Island in Maryland. All four people on board survived.[2]

13 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1908
Ship State Description
Dudley Pray  United States The 215-gross register ton screw steamer was wrecked on the breakwater at Rockport, Massachusetts in thick weather, a total loss. All 11 people on board survived.[5][22][3]
Mollie S. Look  United States The 572-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Hillsboro Inlet on the coast of North Carolina. All eight people on board survived.[2]
Robert Pettis  United States The oyster steamer was holed by ice in the Providence River and beached off Field's Point.[3]

14 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1908
Ship State Description
Emily Reed  United States The 1,564-gross register ton full-rigged ship — a Down Easter — was stranded on the beach at Nehalem, Oregon, at the mouth of the Nehalem River. Of the 16 people aboard, 11 lost their lives.[4]
Robt. Taylor  United States The steamer was sunk by ice in the Ohio River while laying at Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. Later raised.[3]

15 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1908
Ship State Description
Bruce  United States The 358-gross register ton barge was stranded at Galveston, Texas. The only person on board survived.[7]
Edward F. Cullen  United States The 292-gross register ton barge was stranded at New Haven, Connecticut. All four people on board survived.[7]
Helen R. Cullen  United States The 295-gross register ton barge was stranded at New Haven, Connecticut. All three people on board survived.[7]
Helene  United States The 19-gross register ton motor yacht burned at New Berlin, Florida. All four people on board survived.[5]
H. H. Conklin  United States The 350-gross register ton barge went aground between Hatchetts Reef and Saybrook, Connecticut in heavy weather after losing her towline to her tow vessel Nathan Hale ( United States) off Horton's Point, Long Island Sound. Refloated by Wreckers. Everyone on board survived.[7][3]
Hope  United States The 350-gross register ton barge went aground between Hatchetts Reef and Saybrook, Connecticut in heavy weather after losing her towline to her tow vessel Nathan Hale ( United States) off Horton's Point, Long Island Sound. Refloated by wreckers. Everyone on board survived.[7][3]
Howard B. Peck  United States The 472-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Fire Island on the coast of Long Island, New York. All eight people on board survived.[4]
Joseph W. Drayton  United States The 437-gross register ton barge was stranded at New Haven, Connecticut. The only person on board survived.[7]
Juno  United States The 41-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Charleston, South Carolina. All five people on board survived.[5]
Melrose  United States The 693-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Cape Hatteras. North Carolina. All eight people on board survived.[2]
Rosalie M  United States The steamer was forced into the bank by a storm causing a leak that sank her in ten minutes in the New Orleans area.[3]
S. W. Pring  United States The 350-gross register ton barge sank in heavy weather after losing the towline to her tow vessel Nathan Hale ( United States) off Horton's Point, Long Island Sound. Both people on board survived.[3]
Wm. H. Skinner  United States The 262-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean 45 nautical miles (83 km; 52 mi) east-northeast of Frying Pan Shoals off the coast of North Carolina. All six people on board survived.[6]

18 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1908
Ship State Description
Anspach  United States The 15-gross register ton screw steamer foundered in a severe snowstorm when the weight of slush ice forced her down enough to fill and sink off Waukegan, Illinois, a total loss. Two crewmen lost. There were four survivors.[6][3]
HMS Hero  Royal Navy The decommissioned Conqueror-class ironclad battleship was sunk as a target in the North Sea off the Kentish Knock.

19 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1908
Ship State Description
Frank Sessoms  United States The steamer developed a leak in a gale at Waverly Creek in South Carolina. She was run aground on a mud bank and the passengers evacuated on the lifeboat. Ship's cook drowned.[3]

21 February[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1908
Ship State Description
Albatross  United States The 8-gross register ton sloop was "cut down by ice" at Great Kills on Staten Island in New York City. Both people on board survived.[1]
Imperial  Canada The steamer filled and sank while loading cargo at Chicago. Afterwards pumped out and raised.[3]
Whisper  United States The ferry sank at dock at Augusta, Kentucky.[3]

Unknown date[edit]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date February 1908
Ship State Description
Magnus Mail  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground outside Garston Docks, Liverpool, England. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.
Molly  United States The 6-gross register ton sloop foundered in the Chesapeake Bay. Both people on board survived.[17]

March[edit]

3 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1908
Ship State Description
Thomas B. Hambleton  United States With no one on board, the 20-gross register ton schooner foundered in Hunting Creek in Virginia.[6]

7 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1908
Ship State Description
Stella Moren  United States While attempting to enter the lock at Government Lock and Dam No. 2 on the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania about 11 miles (18 km) above Pittsburgh with two or three (sources disagree) 1,000-ton, approximately 175-foot (53.3 m) coal boats in tow, the 215-gross register ton, approximately 150-foot (45.7 m) sternwheel paddle steamer lost control of her tow, was swept over the dam, and sank in 30 feet (9.1 m) of water about 200 feet (61 m) below the dam with the loss of three crewmen, a total loss. There were 12 survivors. The coal boats also went over the dam and broke up downstream.[3][21][23][24]

8 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1908
Ship State Description
Traveler  United States The 9-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Pelican Island off Galveston, Texas. The only person on board survived.[6]

12 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1908
Ship State Description
Newark Castle  United Kingdom The Union-Castle Line passenger/cargo ship ran aground in calm weather 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) from Richard's Bay, South Africa[25]

13 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1908
Ship State Description
Bear  United States The 11-net register ton, 38.7-foot (11.8 m) schooner dragged her anchor in bad weather and was wrecked on rocks at Kashega (53°28′50″N 167°10′30″W / 53.48056°N 167.17500°W / 53.48056; -167.17500 (Kashega)) on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands, 80 nautical miles (150 km; 92 mi) from Unalaska. Her crew of three survived.[1][26]
Berwick  United States The 100-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded on the Siuslaw River Bar on the coast of Oregon, a total loss. Her machinery and cargo was salvaged. All seven people on board survived.[6][3]
SMS S12  Imperial German Navy The torpedo boat sank after a collision at the mouth of the Elbe at Cuxhaven, Germany.[27]

14 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1908
Ship State Description
Silvia  Dominion of Newfoundland During a voyage from New York City to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, the 1,794-gross register ton cargo liner was wrecked during a gale at night without loss of life on the east side of Sow and Pigs Reef off Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, at 41°23′58″N 070°57′55″W / 41.39944°N 70.96528°W / 41.39944; -70.96528 (Silvia).[28]

16 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1908
Ship State Description
Mildred  United States The 464-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Grays Harbor on the coast of Washington. All nine people on board survived.[2]

17 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1908
Ship State Description
John Dippel  United States The tug was swept under a barge by swift current and sunk in the Allegheny River at the foot of Sixteenth Street Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Later raised and returned to service.[3]
USS Monongahela  United States Navy The store ship was destroyed by fire at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Pomona  United States The 1,264-gross register ton iron-hulled screw steamer struck a rock and was wrecked on a reef at Fort Ross, California during a failed attempt to beach her, a total loss of vessel and cargo. All 147 people on board made it to shore in her boats.[5][3]
Teddie  United States The tug sprung a leak and sank off Portsmouth, Virginia.[3]

20 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1908
Ship State Description
Saratoga  United States During a voyage in the waters of the Territory of Alaska from Valdez to Cordova with a crew of 78 and a cargo of 300 tons of copper ore and general merchandise aboard, the 2,820-gross register ton, 298-foot (90.8 m) steel-hulled screw steamer was wrecked on the southwest end of Busby Island (60°53′30″N 146°42′00″W / 60.89167°N 146.70000°W / 60.89167; -146.70000 (Busby Island)) in Prince William Sound in Southcentral Alaska during a snowstorm. The steamer Elsie ( United States) took off her passengers, and all 118 people on board survived.[5][29]

21 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1908
Ship State Description
Wabash  United States The 7-gross register ton sternwheel motor paddle vessel foundered at Mount Carmel, Illinois. The only person on board survived.[7]

23 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1908
Ship State Description
Edward Annan  United States The tug caught fire in the starboard coal bunker and was beached in Spuyten Duyvil Creek just north of the bridge. Crew abandoned ship in the lifeboat. Steamer Hustler ( United States) came alongside and put out the fire and towed her to Brooklyn, where she was repaired.[3]
Matsu Maru  Japan The steamer was sunk in a collision off Hakodate. 300 killed.[30][31]

25 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1908
Ship State Description
Columbia  United States The 197-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost while navigating when she struck the wall of Lock 18 in the Ohio River near Marietta, Ohio.[6][3]

28 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1908
Ship State Description
Christina  United States The 11-gross register ton motor paddle vessel burned on the Ohio River at Lawrenceburg, Indiana. All three people on board survived.[6]

29 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1908
Ship State Description
Bega  Australia The Illawarra & South Coast Steam Navigation Company 567 GRT steamship sank off Tathra, New South Wales, Australia.[32]

30 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1908
Ship State Description
Lydia  United States The 39-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Chippewa ( United States) off Point No Point, Washington. Two of the 10 people on board lost their lives.[2]
T. G. Lester  United States The 257-gross register ton schooner barge or scow barge foundered at Detroit, Michigan. The only person on board survived.[6]

31 March[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1908
Ship State Description
Deborah T. Hill  United States The 37-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with a barge in the East River off 46th Street in New York City. Both people on board survived.[1]

April[edit]

2 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1908
Ship State Description
HMS Tiger  Royal Navy The three-funnel 30-knot destroyer was sliced in two when she crossed the bows of the armoured cruiser HMS Berwick ( Royal Navy) during night exercises and Berwick collided with her. Both sections of her hull sank, although her bow section remained afloat long enough for 22 members of her crew to be rescued. Thirty-six members of her crew were lost.

4 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1908
Ship State Description
George McCaffrey  United States The 172-gross register ton canal boat foundered on Penfield Reef in Long Island Sound. The only person on board survived.[21]

6 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1908
Ship State Description
Lady  United States The 20-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the coast of Oahu in the Territory of Hawaii. Both people on board survived.[2]

7 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1908
Ship State Description
A. Gerdes & Bro  United States The 8-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded at Petit Pass in Louisiana. All four people on board survived.[6]

8 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1908
Ship State Description
H. E. Thompson  United States The 683-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Anegada in the British Virgin Islands. All 10 people on board survived.[4]

9 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1908
Ship State Description
Eva  United States The paddle steamer struck a snag, was beached, and sank without loss of life on the Umpqua River near Scottsburg, Oregon.
J. H. Chaffee  United States The 130-gross register ton schooner departed Boston, Massachusetts, bound for New York City with four people on board and was never heard from again.[33]

10 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1908
Ship State Description
Jennie  United States The motor boat was wrecked and sunk by ice in the Missouri River at Mondak, Montana.[3]

11 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1908
Ship State Description
Persia  United Kingdom The tug collided with the steamship Huguenot ( United Kingdom) and sank near the Sunk Lightvessel, off the coast of Essex, England.[34]

12 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1908
Ship State Description
Mary  United States With no one on board, the 360-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Boston, Massachusetts.[5]

13 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1908
Ship State Description
Lake City  United States The 17-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer foundered at Togo, Arkansas. All five people on board survived.[13]

14 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1908
Ship State Description
H. G. Johnson  United States The 1,082-gross register ton bark was stranded on the Cumberland Bar on the coast of Georgia. All 12 people on board survived.[4]

15 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1908
Ship State Description
Addie F. Cole  United States The 76-gross register ton schooner foundered in the North Anclote Channel in Florida. All 23 people on board survived.[33]

16 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1908
Ship State Description
Lizzie  United States The 29-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Penobscot Bay on the coast of Maine with the loss of one life. There was one survivor.[2]

18 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1908
Ship State Description
Orient  United States The 93-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Cape Lookout on the coast of North Carolina. All 18 people on board survived.[2]

19 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1908
Ship State Description
Clara C  United States The 46-gross register ton motor vessel burned off Cape Scott in Washington. All 11 people on board survived.[6]

20 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1908
Ship State Description
J. A. Watkins  United States The 15-gross register ton Bugeye was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Alabama ( United States) in the Chesapeake Bay off Seven Foot Knoll on the coast of Maryland. Both people on board survived.[3]

21 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1908
Ship State Description
Eulallie C.  United States The steamer burned to the waterline at Morgan City, Louisiana, probably a total loss.[3]

23 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1908
Ship State Description
Gracie Kent  United States The steamer struck an obstruction and sank in one minute in Bayou Teche 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) below Baldwin, Louisiana in 11 feet (3.4 m) of water. One crewman missing.[3]
May D.  United States The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Gibraltar, Michigan.[3]
Stonewall  United States The 13-gross register ton sloop foundered off Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina. Both people on board survived.[6]
Xibalda  United States The 13-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Choctawhatchee Bay on the coast of Florida. Both people on board survived.[6]

24 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1908
Ship State Description
Ben Macdui  Belgium The vessel foundered off Egerö, Norway.[35]
Katherine  United States The 94-gross register ton barge foundered 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) west of Ship Shoal on the coast of Virginia. All three people on board survived.[7]
Kittiwake  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 241 GRT cargo ship used in the Lagos creeks service ran aground on Lagos Bar, Nigeria.[36][37] Declared total wreck on 28 April 1908.

25 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1908
Ship State Description
Duchess  Canada The fishing steamer sank at dock at Peoria, Illinois. Later raised.[3]
HMS Gladiator  Royal Navy The Arrogant-class protected cruiser collided with the ocean liner Saint Paul ( United States) and sank in the English Channel, or beached off Black Rock Buoy, off the Isle of Wight, with the loss of 28 of her crew. Refloated and scrapped.[38]

26 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1908
Ship State Description
Maud Spurling  United States The 53-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Pensacola Bay on the coast of Florida. All seven people on board survived.[2]
Miriam  United States The steamer was wrecked by a cyclone in the Mississippi River near Hardin's Point, Arkansas, a total loss. Nine passengers and two crew killed.[3]

27 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1908
Ship State Description
Flora  United States The 5-gross register ton schooner foundered off Key Largo in the Florida Keys off the coast of Florida. Both people on board survived.[33]
HMS Gala  Royal Navy The Yarrow Type River-class destroyer was sliced in two when the scout cruiser HMS Attentive ( Royal Navy) collided with her during night exercises. Gala's stern section sank immediately with the loss of one life; her bow section sank later during an attempt to tow it to shallow water. Attentive then also collided with the destroyer HMS Ribble ( Royal Navy), holing Ribble below the waterline and forcing her to return to base.
Rob Roy  United States The 97-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Arthur Bay on the coast of Wisconsin. All five people on board survived.[2]
Scott  United States The canal boat sank in a collision with Nashotah ( United States) at Chicago.[3]

28 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1908
Ship State Description
Argo  United States The steamer grounded in the Eel River, California. Refloated on 11 July.[3]
Chignik No. 1 (or Chignik #1)  United States The 70-gross register ton scow sank off Cape Cleare (59°45′N 148°54′W / 59.750°N 148.900°W / 59.750; -148.900 (Cape Cleare)) on the south end of Montague Island on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. The only person on board survived.[21][39]
William H. Wessels  United States The 277-gross register ton barge was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Islander ( United States) off Sands Point, New York. The only person on board survived.[7]

29 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1908
Ship State Description
Miriam  United States The 65-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer capsized in the Mississippi River off Hardin Point, Arkansas, killing 11 of the 65 people on board.[5]

30 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1908
Ship State Description
Matsushima  Imperial Japanese Navy The Matsushima-class protected cruiser was lost due to an accidental magazine explosion at Mako, Pescadores. A total of 206 crew killed.[40]
Peter Rickmers  Germany
Peter Rickmers
The full-rigged ship was driven ashore on Fire Island, New York, United States.

Unknown date[edit]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1908
Ship State Description
Archangel  Russia The ferry sank in the Neva River sometime in April. 39 died.[41]

May[edit]

1 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1908
Ship State Description
Nellie  United States The barge sank near the mouth of the Patapsco River in a gale and high seas. Her crew survived.[3]
R. H. Becker  United States The 140-gross register ton schooner capsized in the harbor at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. All five people on board survived.[2]
Victor  United States The 35-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island. All 14 people on board survived.[6]

2 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 2 May 1908
Ship State Description
Minnie E. Kelton  United States The 632-gross register ton screw steamer was stranded at Yaquina Head on the coast of Oregon with the loss of 11 lives. There were 10 survivors.[13]

3 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1908
Ship State Description
Albion  United Kingdom The vessel was stranded on Carromeiro Chico Rock when entering Corcubión on passage from Bahia Blanca for Rotterdam with grain, broke amidships and sunk.[42]
Auguste & Jean  Belgium The fishing vessel was rammed and sunk by Iris ( Belgium) 8 nautical miles (15 km) southwest of the Noordhinder Lightship ( Netherlands). Three of her four crew were lost.[43]
Trenton  United States The steamer sank at dock at Alexandria, Virginia. An infant passenger died. Later raised.[3]

6 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1908
Ship State Description
Clarence  United States The steamer caught fire and was destroyed while laid up for the night on the east side of the Mobile River.[3]
Hellas  Greece The 3,613 GRT freighter ran aground and was wrecked at Cape Malea on passage Sulina for Liverpool with a cargo of wheat.[44]

8 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1908
Ship State Description
David E. Baxter  United States The 173-gross register ton barge foundered off St. George, Staten Island, New York. The only person on board survived.[7]
Nautilus  United States The steamer sank at dock in a storm when she listed to starboard, filling through an open valve at Burlington, Iowa. Later raised.[3]

10 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1908
Ship State Description
Albert Nickel  United States The 35-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Hungry Creek in Virginia. Both people on board survived.[1]
Pyrgos  Germany The 1,927 GRT freighter with a cargo of grain on passage from Ibrail to Hamburg collided with the steamer Violet ( United Kingdom) during fog in the river Elbe. The German steamer sank and one crew member was badly injured.[45]

11 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1908
Ship State Description
Haze  United States The 58-gross register ton schooner foundered off Bonacca off the coast of Honduras. All eight people on board survived.[4]
Penobscot  United States The 358-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Two Bush Island on the coast of Maine. All six people on board survived.[2]

13 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1908
Ship State Description
J. N. Harbin  United States The steamer struck a snag in the Arkansas River near Coco Landing and was beached on a bar and sank. Later raised.[3]

14 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 14 May 1908
Ship State Description
J. C. Austin  United States The canal boat struck an obstruction and sank in the East River near the mouth of Newtown Creek and Twenty-Sixth Street.[3]

15 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1908
Ship State Description
William Baylies  United States The 380-gross register ton, 118.5-foot (36.1 m) steam screw whaling bark was crushed by ice and lost in Anadyr Bay off the coast of Siberia at 63°36′N 179°51′W / 63.600°N 179.850°W / 63.600; -179.850 (William Baylies). Her entire crew of 43 survived and was rescued by the steamer Bowhead ( United States).[7][46][47]
William McGee  United States The 85-gross register ton schooner foundered off Sea Isle City, New Jersey. All four people on board survived.[6]

17 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1908
Ship State Description
Nordsee  Germany The 4,439 GRT freighter with a cargo of iron ore on passage from Narvik to Rotterdam was struck by the steamer Avoca ( United Kingdom) off Nieuwe Waterweg. The German steamer sank with a loss of one crew and a pilot.[48] Avoca had her bow smashed in and had to be beached to avoid sinking.[49]

20 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1908
Ship State Description
Fevue Arland  United States The 7-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded at Galveston, Texas. All four people on board survived.[5]
George Weems  United States The 416-gross register ton screw steamer burned and sank in the Atlantic Ocean at the Frying Pan Shoals off Cape Fear on the coast of North Carolina. The crew made it to the Frying Pan Shoals Lightship in a lifeboat where they saw the ship sink.[5][3]

22 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1908
Ship State Description
H. T. Hedges  United States The 239-gross register ton schooner foundered off Whitestone, Queens, New York. All five people on board survived.[4]
Unknown  United States A schooner, adrift on the tide, collided with an anchored barge off Whitestone, Queens, New York and was beached to prevent sinking.[3]

23 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1908
Ship State Description
Agnes E. Boyd  United States The 31-gross register ton, 55-foot (16.8 m) sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by the spring break-up of ice on the Kobuk River in the northern Territory of Alaska. All six people on board survived.[18][50]
Cosmos  United States The 47-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Baker Island Bar on the coast of Maine. All 10 people on board survived.[1]
H. M. Whitney  United States The steamer went aground in the East River on the south west end of Ward's Island. She was able to back off, but hit Flood Rock and sank. Later refloated, but still in place on 2 June.[3]
Scorpion  United States With no one on board, the 14-gross register ton sloop-rigged yacht burned at Erie, Pennsylvania.[2]

24 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1908
Ship State Description
Arthur Clifford  United States The 84-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision in thick fog with the screw steamer Governor Dingley ( United States) near Thacher Island on the coast of Massachusetts off Cape Ann. Both people on board survived.[1][3]

25 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1908
Ship State Description
Mineola  United States With no one on board, the 15-gross register ton schooner foundered in Mobile Bay off Daphne, Alabama.[17]
Wanderer  United States The steam yacht ran aground on Black Ledge, near Niantic, Connecticut. The next day she suddenly backed off the rocks and collided with salvage vessels trying to haul her off.[51]

26 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1908
Ship State Description
Lamyron  Greece During a voyage from Taganrog, Russia, with a cargo of grain, the 2,408-gross register ton cargo ship was stranded on Corticeiras Rock off Corcubión, Spain, and became a total loss.[52]
Reindeer  United States The 21-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Bordentown, New Jersey. All four people on board survived.[5]

27 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1908
Ship State Description
Arminza  Spain The 2,501 GRT freighter with a cargo of ore on passage from Bilbao for Middlesbrough struck a rock off La Vendree, five miles (8.0 km) west of Cap de la Chèvre, and came off but subsequently sunk in deep water and became a total loss.[53]
Lizzie Cochran  United States The 188-gross register ton schooner departed Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, bound for Machias, Maine, with five people on board and was never heard from again.[2]

28 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1908
Ship State Description
Bertha C  United States The 11-gross register ton screw steamer foundered in the Atchafalaya River at Butte La Rose, Louisiana. After sinking she slid down slope 60 feet (18 m) out in 60 feet of water. All three people on board survived.[6][3]
Fame  United States The 130-gross register ton schooner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean with the loss of 18 lives after colliding with the screw steamer Boston ( United Kingdom) 70 nautical miles (130 km; 81 mi) off the coast of Maine. There were two survivors.[4]

29 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1908
Ship State Description
Helen  United States With no one on board, the docked 31-gross register ton screw steamer was struck by lightning and burned at Detroit Michigan, a total loss.[5][3]
Maggie  United States The 19-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Mulat, Florida. All four people on board survived.[5]

30 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1908
Ship State Description
Carrie H. Annis  United States The 24-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Pawtuxet, Rhode Island. Both people on board survived.[1]
Jerome  United States The steamer was struck by a storm while tied to the bank at Port Hickory, Louisiana causing her to list , fill with water, and sink in 9 feet of water. Had not been raised by end of the year.[3]
Jerome May  United States The 12-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded at Buttonwoods, Rhode Island. Both people on board survived.[5]

31 May[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 31 May 1908
Ship State Description
Jordan Wooley  United States The 37-gross register ton schooner foundered in Long Island Sound off the coast of New York. Both people on board survived.[4]
Loanda  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 2,702 GRT cargo ship was sunk while travelling from Hamburg to South Africa after hitting the Russian steamer Junona ( Russia). The cargo was: Hundreds of cases of gin, rum, champagne and barrels of gunpowder. Thousands of newly minted shillings were presumed aboard but not borne out by manifest.[54]
Phebe  United States The 6-gross register ton catboat was stranded at Dennis, Massachusetts. Both people on board survived.[18]

June[edit]

1 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1908
Ship State Description
Boothbay  United States The steamer snagged on her dock on a rising tide causing her to fill and sink at Bath, Maine.[3]
Guide  United States The steamer had her seams open in strong winds and sank in 10 feet (3.0 m) of water in Albemarle Sound.[3]

3 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1908
Ship State Description
Blythville  United Kingdom The 1,325 GRT steamer went ashore on the rocks near the Rhinns of Islay Lighthouse on Orsay in the Inner Hebrides in dense early-morning fog. She subsequently slipped off the rocks and sank in deep water.[55] The ship was on passage from Stornoway for Swansea in ballast.
E. Stearns  United States With no one on board, the 39-gross register ton sloop foundered at New York City.[33]

6 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1908
Ship State Description
Tom Dowling  United States The steamer sank at the Wisconsin Central Railway Ore Dock at Ashland, Wisconsin in 20 feet (6.1 m) of water due to an open seacock. Later raised.[3]
Viva  United States The 38-gross register ton yacht grounded and sank on the south bar in Absecon Inlet on the coast of New Jersey, a total loss. All four people on board survived.[7][3]

7 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1908
Ship State Description
City of Medicine Hat  Canada
City of Medicine Hat
The sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the South Saskatchewan River after striking the Traffic Bridge in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Lady Eileen  Canada The 921 GRT coaster ran ashore in Newport, Baie de Chaleur, on passage Campbellton, New Brunswick for Gaspé, Quebec.[56]
Michael  Greece The 2,994 GRT steamer collided with the steamer Constanza ( Romania) and sank off Lisbon while on passage from Cardiff for Genoa with a cargo of coal.[57]

8 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1908
Ship State Description
Deer  United States The 47-gross register ton screw steamer burned in Saginaw Bay off the coast of Michigan. All four people on board survived.[6]

16 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1908
Ship State Description
Norman  United States The 365-gross register ton schooner was stranded at L'Archeveque, Nova Scotia. All seven people on board survived.[17]

17 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1908
Ship State Description
Egga  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 1,445 GRT cargo ship carrying cargo from steamship Falaba ran aground on the bar at Lagos, Nigeria. Attempts to refloat the ship failed and she was declared a total wreck.[58][59]
Friedrich Retzlaff  Germany The 1,938 GRT freighter foundered 35 nautical miles (65 km) from A Coruña on passage from Huelva to Stettin with a cargo of iron ore.[60][61]
Ida Schnauer  United States The 215-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the bar at Tillamook Bay on the coast of Oregon. All seven people on board survived.[4]
Unknown  United States A house boat capsized, sank, and broke in two when an attempt was made to tow it out of Barnegat Inlet.[3]

20 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1908
Ship State Description
Cornelius W. Desmond  United States The 32-gross register ton fishing steamer caught fire and was destroyed at dock in Erie, Pennsylvania when a building adjoining the dock burned down. All 10 people on board survived.[6][3]
St Lewis  France The Douarnenez crabber struck the Seven Stones Reef and foundered.[62]
W. J. McCarter  United States With no one on board, the 18-gross register ton fishing steamer caught fire and was destroyed at dock in Erie, Pennsylvania when a building adjoining the dock burned down.[6][3]

21 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1908
Ship State Description
City of Allegan  United States The motor vessel destroyed by fire over night at dock at Allegan, Michigan. Probable arson where she had not been used for several days.[3]
Kylerea  United Kingdom The 1,590 GRT freighter on a passage from Tyne to Cannes with a cargo of coal was cut down to below the waterline in collision with the steamer Filinia ( Greece) and quickly sank.[63]
O. K.  United States With no one on board, the 59-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Missouri River at Fort Benton, Montana.[21]

23 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1908
Ship State Description
Chippewa  United States During a voyage from Jacksonville, Florida, to Boston, Massachusetts, carrying general cargo, the 2,696 GRT cargo ship ran aground on the southern shore of Long Island, New York, about three miles (4.8 km) west of Montauk Point Light. She later was refloated on 6 August, repaired, and returned to service.[3]
Petronia  Russia The 4,847 GRT cargo ship arrived at Aden with her bunkers on fire, and was scuttled in 33 feet (10 m) of water after attempts to extinguish the fire failed. Her No.1, No.2, No.3, and No.4 holds as well as her chart room, bridge, and poop deck were destroyed by fire. The ship was later raised and sold for scrap.[63]

25 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1908
Ship State Description
Konoura Maru  Japan The 2,185 GRT freighter ran aground and wrecked near Kinkwazan.[64]
Thomas and Henry  United States The 31-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Long Point in Maryland. All three people on board survived.[18]

26 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1908
Ship State Description
City of Allegan  United States The 18-gross register ton sternwheel motor paddle vessel burned at Allegan, Michigan. All three people on board survived.[13]
Edna B. King  United States The tug sank at dock at Riley's Dock in Jersey City, New Jersey from a broken condenser pipe. Refloated same day and dry docked.[3]

27 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1908
Ship State Description
Annie R. Wood  United States The tow steamer hung up on her dock on a rising tide, filling and sinking at Dyer Street Dock, Providence, Rhode Island. Was raised and back in service before 11 August.[3]

30 June[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1908
Ship State Description
O. K.  United States The steamer was destroyed by fire in the Missouri River at Fort Benton, Montana.[3]

July[edit]

1 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1908
Ship State Description
Beachley  United States The small steamer was lost at Nome, Alaska.[26]

5 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1908
Ship State Description
Julia Costa  United States The 107-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the schooner Miranda ( United States) off Highland Light on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. All 20 people on board survived.[17]
Little Fred  United States The steamer sank at dock in the Monongahela River at Glenwood Landing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after filling with water through a siphon. Later raised and returned to service.[3]
Minnie R  United States The 9-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Willow Springs, Illinois. All five people on board survived.[13]

6 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 6 July 1908
Ship State Description
Noordwijk  Netherlands The 2,054 GRT steamer stranded on Tete du Chat on a passage from Santander for Rotterdam with a cargo of iron ore and wrecked.[65]

7 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 7 July 1908
Ship State Description
Fulton  United States The 256-gross register ton schooner barge at Toledo, Ohio. All five people on board survived.[33]

8 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 8 July 1908
Ship State Description
Dolphin  United States The pleasure steamer was destroyed in a general conflagration along the waterfront of East Boston, Massachusetts.[3]
James G. Blaine  United States The 555-gross register ton schooner barge was stranded in Lake Ontario at Oswego, New York. All seven people on board survived.[17]
L. B. Curtis  United States With no one on board, the 177-gross register ton barge burned in Boston Harbor off the coast of Massachusetts.[21]
Trader  United States The 291-gross register ton scow foundered in the Niagara River off Strawberry Island, New York. All four people on board survived.[21]

14 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 14 July 1908
Ship State Description
Mentor  United States The 22-gross register ton screw steamer burned in the lagoon at Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois, a total loss. All four people on board survived.[13][3]

17 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1908
Ship State Description
Frontenac  United States The 626-gross register ton screw steamer burned at Lorain, Ohio. All 16 people on board survived.[13]

18 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1908
Ship State Description
Aeon  United Kingdom The steamer was wrecked in the Pacific Ocean near Christmas Island (now Kiritimati).
Buffalo  United States The 482-gross register ton sloop barge sprung a leak and sank in Fishers Island Sound 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) south of the Cornfield Lightship off the coast of New York. All three people on board survived.[33][3]
Unknown A schooner was sunk in a collision with El Norte ( United States) 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) north west of Fort Hamilton. The crew, seeing collision was unavoidable, abandoned ship just before the collision in her boat and were pick up by a tug.[3]

20 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1908
Ship State Description
Charles A. Street  United States The 512-gross register ton screw steamer burned in Lake Huron 11 miles above Port Sanilac, Michigan, total loss. All 13 people on board survived.[18][3]

21 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1908
Ship State Description
Cap Tarifa  Belgium Foundered off the Burlings Lighthouse, Portugal.[66]

22 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1908
Ship State Description
Dodo  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster 531 GRT cargo ship was stripped and her hull scuttled off Forçados River, Nigeria.[67]
Hagan  United States The 17-gross register ton tow steamer burned after being struck by lightning and beached at Bridesburg, Pennsylvania. All four people on board jumped overboard after beaching.[13][3]
Menawa  United States The 211-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the presidential yacht USS Mayflower ( United States Navy) in Long Island Sound. All six people on board survived.[17]

23 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1908
Ship State Description
Don Matias  Chile The 2,213 GRT steamer, on a passage from Tocopilla for Lota with a cargo of copper ore, foundered almost immediately after being run down by the cargo-passenger ship Victoria ( United Kingdom) in dense fog in Bay of Arauco.[68][69]
José Olaverri  United States The 661-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Bull Island on the coast of South Carolina. All eight people on board survived.[17]
Mabel W  United States The 178-gross register ton motor yacht was lost in a collision with the screw steamer George N. Orr ( United States) off Chicago, Illinois. All three people on board survived.[13]

24 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 24 july 1908
Ship State Description
Auberndale  United States The 663-gross register ton barkentine departed the Turks Islands in the Caribbean bound for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with 10 people on board and was never heard from again.[33]
Charles Woolsey  United States The schooner was sunk in a collision with Maine ( United States) in dense fog between New York and New Bedford, Massachusetts. Crew rescued by Maine.[3]
Governor Safford  United States The 307-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer foundered from flooding in high seas off Bogue Inlet, North Carolina in 7 fathoms (42 ft; 13 m) of water. All ten people on board abandoned ship in her boat and were rescued by her tow vessel Katahdin ( United States).[13][3]
W. M. Gladden  United States The steamer sank in the Arkansas River near Martins Landing when a dropping river lever caused her guard to snag on the shore causing a list. Later raised.[3]

25 July[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1908
Ship State Description
Charley Woolsey  United States The 207-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Maine ( United States) off Cornfield Light on the coast of

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