List of shipwrecks in November 1914
The list of shipwrecks in November 1914 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during November 1914.
November 1914 | ||||||
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30 | Unknown date | |||||
References |
1 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Frederica | ![]() |
World War I: The cargo ship was shelled and set afire at Novorossiysk, Russia by Hamidiye (![]() |
HMS Good Hope | ![]() |
World War I: Battle of Coronel: The Drake-class cruiser was shelled and sunk in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile by SMS Scharnhorst (![]() |
HMS Monmouth | ![]() |
World War I: Battle of Coronel: The Monmouth-class cruiser was shelled and sunk in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile by SMS Gneisenau and SMS Nürnberg (both ![]() |
2 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth | ![]() |
World War I: The Kaiser Franz Joseph I-class cruiser was scuttled at Tsingtao, China. |
Van Dyck | ![]() |
World War I: The refrigerated cargo liner was scuttled in the Atlantic Ocean (approximately 1°S 4°W) by SMS Karlsruhe (![]() |
3 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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SMS Augustenburg | ![]() |
The Vorpostenboot was lost on this date.[3] |
Copious | ![]() |
World War I: The drifter struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk with the loss of nine of her ten crew.[4] |
HMS D5 | ![]() |
World War I: The D-class submarine struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth with the loss of twenty of her 25 crew. |
Fraternal | ![]() |
World War I: The drifter struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth with the loss of six of her ten crew.[4] |
HMT Ivanhoe | ![]() |
The naval trawler ran aground and was wrecked off Leith, Lothian.[5] |
Will and Maggie | ![]() |
World War I: The trawler struck a mine and sank in the North Sea 17 nautical miles (31 km) north east by north of Lowestoft, Suffolk with the loss of three of her crew.[6] |
4 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Hood | ![]() |
World War I: The Royal Sovereign-class battleship was sunk as a blockship in Portland Harbour, Dorset. |
SMS Karlsruhe | ![]() |
The Karlsruhe-class cruiser suffered an internal explosion (own ammunition) and sank in the Atlantic Ocean (11°07′N 55°25′W with the loss of 133 of her 373 crew. Survivors were rescued by Rio Negro (![]() |
SMS Yorck | ![]() |
World War I: The Roon-class cruiser struck a mine in the North Sea off Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony and sank with the loss of 336 of her 629 crew. |
5 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMT Mary | ![]() |
World War I: The naval trawler struck a mine placed by the minelayer SMS Kolberg (![]() ![]() |
6 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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SMS T25 | ![]() |
The S7-class torpedo boat collided with SMS T72 (![]() |
SMS S13 | ![]() |
The S13-class torpedo boat was destroyed by explosion of her own torpedoes in the North Sea.[9] |
7 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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SMS Jaguar | ![]() |
World War I: Siege of Tsingtao: The Iltis-class gunboat was scuttled at Tsingtao, China. |
No. 1 | ![]() |
The No. 1-class motor gunboat was lost on this date. |
8 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Atle | ![]() |
World War I: The steamer, enroute from London to Gothenburg, struck a mine in the North Sea and sank with the loss of six of her crew.[11] |
Oscoda | ![]() |
The lumber steamer was wrecked on Pelkies Reef in Lake Michigan in a severe snowstorm and sank. The crew transferred to a barge she was towing and to shore the next morning.[12] |
9 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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SMS Emden | ![]() |
![]() SMS Emden ![]() |
No. 2 | ![]() |
The No. 1-class motor gunboat was lost on this date. |
10 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Speculator | ![]() |
World War I: The fishing smack struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk with the loss of five of her crew.[6] |
11 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Niger | ![]() |
World War I: The minesweeper was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel off Deal, Kent by SM U-12 (![]() |
12 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Duchesse de Guiche | ![]() |
The coaster foundered in the English Channel off Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure with the loss of eleven of her crew.[14] |
15 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kenilworth | ![]() |
The cargo ship ran aground on the Black Middens, in the North Sea off the coast of Northumberland. Her crew were taken off by lifeboats.[15] |
16 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Andrea | ![]() |
World War I: The steamer, en route from Helsingborg to Hull, struck a mine in the North Sea and sank. Her crew survived.[16] |
Dirigo | ![]() |
While under tow by the vessel Cordova (![]() |
North Wales | ![]() |
World War I: The cargo ship was scuttled in the Pacific Ocean 360 nautical miles (670 km) south west of Valparaiso, Chile by SMS Dresden (![]() |
17 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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SMS Friedrich Carl | ![]() |
World War I: The Prinz Adalbert-class cruiser struck a mine in the Baltic Sea off Memel, East Prussia and sank with the loss of eight of her 586 crew. |
Mateus | ![]() |
The schooner foundered in the Bay of Biscay. Her crew were rescued by Diciembre (![]() |
18 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Dirigo | ![]() |
The coaster foundered in the Pacific Ocean.[20] |
Petrel | ![]() |
The schooner foundered at Castletown, Isle of Man. Her crew were rescued.[21] |
Seymolicus | ![]() |
World War I: The trawler struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk with the loss of nine of her crew.[6] |
Thistle | ![]() |
The cargo liner ran aground in the River Foyle, County Londonderry. Her passengers were taken off.[22] She was refloated the next day.[23] |
19 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Annie M. Peterson | ![]() |
The schooner sank in a gale in Lake Superior off Grand Marais, Michigan after her tow vessel, C. F. Curtis (![]() |
C. F. Curtis | ![]() |
The cargo ship sank in a gale in Lake Superior off Grand Marais, Michigan. 12 crew were killed.[25][26] |
Madeira | ![]() |
The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay 30 nautical miles (56 km) off Brest, Finistère, France. Her crew were rescued by Mars (![]() |
Nilufer | ![]() |
World War I: The auxiliary minelayer was sunk by mines in the Bosporus.[27] |
No. 6 | ![]() |
The No. 1-class motor gunboat was lost on this date. |
Seldon E. Marvin | ![]() |
The schooner sank in a gale in Lake Superior off Grand Marais, Michigan after her tow vessel, C. F. Curtis (![]() |
20 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lord Carnarvon | ![]() |
World War I: The trawler struck a mine placed by the cruiser SMS Stralsund (![]() |
Teddy | ![]() |
During a voyage in the Territory of Alaska from Sulzer to Ketchikan with two people but no cargo aboard, the 12-gross register ton, 38.5-foot (11.7 m) motor vessel sank in the upper portion of Nichols Bay (54°41′30″N 132°04′45″W) in Southeast Alaska after she drifted onto a reef during a gale and snowstorm. Both people on board survived.[29] |
21 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMT Spider | ![]() |
The naval trawler was driven ashore at Lowestoft, Suffolk and was wrecked. All thirteen crew were rescued by the lifeboat Kentwell (![]() |
22 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMT Condor | ![]() |
World War I: The naval trawler struck a mine and sank in the North Sea.[32] |
Nilufer | ![]() |
World War I: The vessel was sunk by a Bulgarian mine in the Black Sea near Rila.[33] |
23 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Malachite | ![]() |
World War I: The coaster was shelled and sunk in the English Channel 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) north by west of Cap de la Heve, Seine-Inférieure, France by SM U-21 (![]() |
Ormesby | ![]() |
The cargo ship was wrecked on the Orlow Banks.[35] |
SMS S124 | ![]() |
World War I: The destroyer was rammed and damaged in the North Sea by Anglo-Dane (![]() |
SM U-18 | ![]() |
World War I: The Type U 17 submarine was rammed in Hoxa Sound (58°41′N 2°55′W) by HMT Dorothy Grey (![]() |
24 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hanalei | ![]() |
The passenger ship ran aground on the Duxbury Reef, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, and was wrecked with the loss of eighteen lives.[37] |
25 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS D2 | ![]() |
World War I: The D-class submarine was rammed and sunk by a German patrol boat off Borkum, Denmark with the loss of all 25 crew. |
Nygaard | ![]() |
The cargo ship ran aground at Esbjerg, Denmark. She sank on or about 6 December.[38][39] |
26 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Bulwark | ![]() |
![]() HMS Bulwark |
Primo | ![]() |
World War I: The cargo ship was shelled and sunk in the English Channel six nautical miles (11 km) north west by north of Cap d'Antifer, Seine-Inférieure, France by SM U-21 (![]() |
27 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Khartoum | ![]() |
World War I: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the North Sea 20 nautical miles (37 km) east south east of Spurn Point, Yorkshire.[18] |
29 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Albany | ![]() |
The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.[41] |
30 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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SMS S124 | ![]() |
The S90-class torpedo boat collided with Anglodane (![]() |
Trilby | ![]() |
During a voyage in the Aleutian Islands from Unalaska to Attu Island, the 12-gross register ton, 51.5-foot (15.7 m) schooner was wrecked on a beach in the Semichi Islands. Her two-man crew survived.[29] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Buresk | ![]() |
World War I: The captured British cargo ship, in use as a prison ship and collier after her capture by SMS Emden (![]() ![]() |
Elim | ![]() |
The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean some time after 17 November. She was reported derelict on 25 November at 42°46′N 10°28′W).[35] |
Weimar | ![]() |
The cargo ship ran aground on Hitra, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway on or before 16 November.[20] She was refloated on 25 November.[35] |
References
- "Turkey's acts of war". The Times (40684). London. 2 November 1914. col F, p. 9.
- "The Karlsruhe again". The Times (40685). London. 3 November 1914. col E, p. 6.
- "Converted Fishing Vessels of WWI, Converted Merchant ships, Kaiserliche Marine (Germany)". Navypedia. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- "Casualty reports". The Times (40686). London. 4 November 1914. col F, p. 9.
- "HMT Ivanhoe (FY664) [+1914]". Wrecksite. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
- "British Fishing Vessels Lost to Enemy Action Part 1 of 2 - Years 1914, 1915, 1916 in date order". Naval History. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- "HMT Mary (361) (+1914)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
- "Major Warships Sunk in World War 1 1914". World War I. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- "S13 Large seagoing Torpedo boats (1912-1913), Torpedo Ships, Kaiserliche Marine (Germany)". Navypedia. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- Svenska handelsflottans krigsförluster 1914-1920 [Swedish Merchant Marine War losses 1914-1920] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Kommerskollegium (Swedish Board of Trade). 1921. pp. 162–3.
- "American Marine Engineer December, 1914". National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. Retrieved 14 November 2020 – via Haithi Trust.
- "HMS Niger". Uboat.net. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
- "French steamer wrecked". The Times (40695). London. 13 November 1914. col A, p. 15.
- "Casualty reports". The Times (40698). London. 16 November 1914. col B, p. 15.
- Svenska handelsflottans krigsförluster 1914-1920 [Swedish Merchant Marine War losses 1914-1920] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Kommerskollegium (Swedish Board of Trade). 1921. p. 163.
- alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (D)
- "British Merchant Ships Lost to Enemy Action Part 1 of 3 - Years 1914, 1915, 1916 in date order". Naval History. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
- "Marine insurance market". The Times (40731). London. 21 December 1914. col C, p. 14.
- "Marine insurance market". The Times (40701). London. 19 November 1914. col B, p. 15.
- "Casualty reports". The Times (40701). London. 19 November 1914. col A, p. 15.
- "Elder, Dempster steamer lost". The Times (40702). London. 20 November 1914. col E, p. 12.
- "Casualty reports". The Times (40703). London. 21 November 1914. col B, p. 15.
- "Annie M. Peterson (+1914)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- "American Marine Engineer December, 1914". National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. Retrieved 14 November 2020 – via Haithi Trust.
- "C. F. Curtis (+1914)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- "Minelayers of WWI, Converted Merchant Ships, Ottoman/Turkish Navy". Navypedia. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
- "Seldon E. Marvin (+1914)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (T)
- "HMT Spider (FY54) [+1914]". Wrecksite. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
- "Deaths after the end of the Great War". Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre. Archived from the original on 13 May 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
- "Turkish Mine-Layer Blown up in the Black Sea". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligncer. England. 27 November 1914. Retrieved 14 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "Malachite". Uboat.net. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
- "Norwegian barque abandoned". The Times (40708). London. 26 November 1914. col E, p. 15.
- "German destroyer rammed by a steamer". The Times (40706). London. 24 November 1914. col C, p. 8.
- "Casualty reports". The Times (40708). London. 26 November 1914. col E, p. 15.
- "Casualty reports". The Times (40719). London. 7 December 1914. col D, p. 14.
- "Steamer lost off The Lizard". The Times (40718). London. 6 December 1914. col E, p. 4.
- "Primo". Uboat.net. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
- "Casualty reports". The Times (40712). London. 30 November 1914. col D, p. 15.
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