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The list of shipwrecks in 1920 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1920.

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January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1920
Ship State Description
Charles H. Trickey   United States Carrying a cargo of granite, the three- masted schooner was blown onto a reef at the entrance to the harbor at Cape Porpoise, Maine, during a storm and sank at 43°21′20″N 070°25′36″W / 43.35556°N 70.42667°W / 43.35556; -70.42667 (Charles H. Trickey). [1]
Mary E. Olys   United States Carrying a cargo of lumber, the three- masted schooner was blown onto a reef at the entrance to the harbor at Cape Porpoise, Maine, during a storm and sank at 43°21′20″N 070°25′36″W / 43.35556°N 70.42667°W / 43.35556; -70.42667 (Mary E. Olys). [2]

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1920
Ship State Description
Ernest T. Lee   United States The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Hildebrand (  United Kingdom). [3]
Jemtland   Sweden The liner struck a mine and sank at Herthas Flak [4] [5] with the loss of seven of her 26 crew. [6]
Nicolaas   Netherlands The cargo ship struck a mine in the North Sea off the Dogger Bank and sank with some loss of life. [5]
Nipponier   Belgium The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay ( 44°24′N 9°03′W / 44.400°N 9.050°W / 44.400; -9.050 (SS Nipponier)). Her crew were rescued by Rio de Janeiro (  Norway). [7]
Roumanier   Belgium The cargo ship caught fire whilst ship berthed at Antwerp. Her hull was badly damaged and the ship was laid up. She was scrapped in 1923 at Hamburg, Germany. [8]
Stella II   United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on the coast of Africa. [9]

3 January

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1920
Ship State Description
Figueira   Portugal The cargo ship collided with Ango (  France) at Oporto and was beached. [10]

4 January

List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1920
Ship State Description
San Giuseppe   Italy The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay ( 46°30′N 8°56′W / 46.500°N 8.933°W / 46.500; -8.933). Her crew were rescued by Tartar Prince (  United Kingdom). [11]

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1920
Ship State Description
Abrigada   United States The cargo ship caught fire at Saint Michaels, Maryland and was scuttled. [10]
Frances Gardner   United Kingdom The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 70 nautical miles (130 km) off Cape Race, Newfoundland. Her crew were rescued by Albr. W. Selmer (  Norway). [10]
Joachim   Spain The schooner was wrecked at Testadelaban. Her crew were rescued by Armenie (  France). [12]
Melamson Bros   United Kingdom The schooner ran aground on Cobblers' Reef, Barbados and was wrecked with the loss of four crew. [10] [13]

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1920
Ship State Description
Mathilde   Denmark The schooner came ashore at Easington, County Durham, United Kingdom and was wrecked, [10]
Metamora   United Kingdom The schooner was abandoned and set afire in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. The fire was extinguished and Metamora was towed into Saint Michaels, Maryland, United States by Lages ( Brazil Brazil). [10]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1920
Ship State Description
San Josefa   Italy The auxiliary barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Tartar Prince (  United Kingdom). [12]

8 January

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1920
Ship State Description
Gelasma   United Kingdom The auxiliary sailing ship came ashore 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) east of Dungeness, Kent. Her crew were rescued. [13]
HMT Leonard   Royal Navy The naval trawler foundered off the coast of Scotland with the loss of all nine crew. [14] [15]
Le Pluvier   France The tug foundered with the loss of between 25 and 30 lives. [16]
St. Louis  United States The ocean liner caught fire at Hoboken, New Jersey and was scuttled. She was a total loss and was scrapped in 1925.
Spartan   France The cargo ship sank in Rothesay Dock, Glasgow, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom. [13]

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1920
Ship State Description
Northstar   United States After the only person aboard was knocked unconscious while in the engine room in stormy weather, the 11- gross register ton motor vessel drifted onto a reef in Sleepy Bay ( 60°04′30″N 147°50′00″W / 60.07500°N 147.83333°W / 60.07500; -147.83333 (Sleepy Bay)) on the coast of Latouche Island off the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska and was wrecked, becoming a constructive total loss. The vessel′s sole occupant reached safety after regaining consciousness. [17]
Treveal   United Kingdom The cargo ship, on her maiden voyage, ran aground on the Kimmeridge Ledge, off the coast of Dorset and broke in two with the loss of 36 of her 43 crew. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Dundee, Forfarshire. [18]
West Avenal   United States The Design 1019 cargo ship collided with Lancastrian (  United Kingdom) in New York Harbor and was beached. She was refloated over a month later and returned to service.

10 January

List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1920
Ship State Description
Treveal   United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked in the English Channel off the coast of Dorset. Thirty six of her crew were killed. [19]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1920
Ship State Description
Auguste Charles   France The sailing ship was driven ashore at Knapp Head, Devon, United Kingdom and was wrecked with the loss of three of her five crew. [20]
Doyo Maru   Japan The cargo ship departed from Chinwangtao, China for Yokohama. No further trace, presumed foundered by 15 January with the loss of all hands. [21]

12 January

List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1920
Ship State Description
Afrique   France Chargeurs Réunis' 5,404  GRT ocean liner foundered in the Bay of Biscay 32 nautical miles (59 km) off the Île de Ré with the loss of 556 of the 599 people on board. Survivors were rescued by Ceylan (  France) and another vessel. [22] [23] [24]
Monte Grande   France The schooner was driven ashore at East Wittering, Sussex, United Kingdom and was wrecked. [25]
Serbier   Belgium The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay 80 nautical miles (150 km) off Penmarc'h, Finistère, France ( 47°38′N 6°10′W / 47.633°N 6.167°W / 47.633; -6.167 (SS Serbier)). Her crew were rescued by Docteur Pierre Benoit (  France). [7] [26]

13 January

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1920
Ship State Description
Jane and Ann   United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at St. Anne's on Sea, Lancashire and was wrecked. [20]
Willy   Norway The cargo ship collided with Trentino (  United Kingdom) in the Atlantic Ocean off the Longships and sank. [20]

15 January

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1920
Ship State Description
HMT Denford   Royal Navy The naval trawler ran aground at North Kearney Point, County Down. Her crew were rescued. [27] She was refloated on 20 January. [28]
Sancho Maru   Japan The cargo ship foundered in the Pacific Ocean off Rikuchū Province with some loss of life. [29]

16 January

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1920
Ship State Description
Preveza   Greece The cargo ship came ashore at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom and was abandoned by her crew. She was later reboarded but attempts to refloat her in the early hours on 17 January were unsuccessful. [11]
W. T. White   United Kingdom The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Six crew were rescued by Marion L. Mason (  United Kingdom). [30]

20 January

List of shipwrecks: 20 January 1920
Ship State Description
Fenix   Denmark The schooner was wrecked off Skagens Head, Denmark and broke up in stormy weather. [31]
USC&GS Isis   United States The survey vessel/yacht suffered a breached hull on a sunken wreck and was beached to prevent sinking near St. Augustine, Florida. She was later destroyed by a storm before salvage could begin. [32]
Lavonia   United Kingdom The schooner caught fire in the Florida Straits off Bahía Honda, Cuba and was abandoned. [29]
Macona   United States The cargo ship ran aground off the Nidingen Lighthouse, Sweden and foundered with the loss of 40 of her 41 crew. [28] [33]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1920
Ship State Description
Condor   Spain The barque sprang a leak and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 50 nautical miles (93 km) off San Juan, Puerto Rico with the loss of six of her 36 crew. [34] [35]

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1920
Ship State Description
Arlette   United Kingdom The coaster was driven ashore on Walney Island, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued. [34]
Eos   Sweden The cargo ship was wrecked at Stoktaskeri, Iceland. [35]
Sigvard   Sweden The cargo ship collided with another ship off Barry, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and sank with the loss of one of her eighteen crew. [34]

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1920
Ship State Description
Niagara   United States The 20- gross register ton, 42.5-foot (13.0 m) halibut- fishing vessel ran aground and sank in Moira Sound in Southeast Alaska near Lane′s Cannery. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. [17]
Shinten Maru   Japan The cargo ship was driven ashore by a severe storm off Ayukawa, Miyagi prefecture, Japan. Refloated and returned to service. [36]

25 January

List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1920
Ship State Description
Marne   United States The cargo ship suffered an explosion in her fuel tanks at Colón, Colombia and was scuttled by fire. She was a total loss. [37]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1920
Ship State Description
Mielero   United States The tanker broke in two and sank in the Atlantic Ocean east of Savanna, Georgia ( 31°45′N 78°41′W / 31.750°N 78.683°W / 31.750; -78.683). Her master, his wife and 2 children, and 18 crew died in a lifeboat that left and was never seen again. [38] The rest of her crew in her other lifeboat were rescued by Ozette (  United States). [39] [40] [41]
Winga   Sweden The coaster sprang a leak and foundered in the Skaggerak 12 nautical miles (22 km) north of hirtshals, Denmark with the loss of two of her twelve crew. [37]

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1920
Ship State Description
Rennen   Norway The cargo ship collided with Fermia (  Sweden) in the North Sea off Tynemouth, United Kingdom and sank. Her crew were rescued by the pilot boat Queen o' the May (  United Kingdom). [42]

28 January

List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1920
Ship State Description
Eira   Sweden The cargo liner was driven ashore at Cimbrishamn and was a total loss. All on board were rescued. [43]

29 January

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1920
Ship State Description
Doris Andreta Canada Canada The schooner was abandoned and set afire in the Atlantic Ocean ( 39°03′N 22°03′W / 39.050°N 22.050°W / 39.050; -22.050). Her crew were rescued by San Giovanni (  Italy). [44]
Fortune   United States The steamer sank off Jekyl Island. Lost with all 13 crew. [45]
Novara   French Navy The Novara-class cruiser sprang a leak in the Adriatic Sea and put into Brindisi, Apulia, Italy, where she sank. [46] She was refloated in early April. [47] Novara was subsequently repaired and entered service with the French Navy.
Samuel Faunce   United States The tug departed Wilmington, Delaware for Key West, Florida. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands. [48]
Spey   United Kingdom The cargo ship was driven ashore 7 nautical miles (13 km) south of Jaffa, British-occupied Palestine ( 31°52′00″N 34°30′30″E / 31.86667°N 34.50833°E / 31.86667; 34.50833) and wrecked with the loss of a crew member. [44] [49]

30 January

List of shipwrecks: 30 January 1920
Ship State Description
Glen Tilt   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) north of Scotston Head, Aberdeenshire. All fifteen crew were rescued. [50] She was refloated on 5 February. [51]
Hera   Sweden The schooner came ashore at Hals, Denmark with the loss of four of her crew. [52]
Martin   Denmark The schooner came ashore on the south coast of Skagen with the loss of two of her crew. [52]

31 January

List of shipwrecks: 31 January 1920
Ship State Description
Nero   United Kingdom The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay 15 nautical miles (28 km) west of Molène, Finistère, France with the loss of her captain. Survivors reached land in their lifeboats. [52] [39]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date January 1920
Ship State Description
Anémone   France The trawler ran ashore on Loe Bar, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, United Kingdom. [53]
HMS A2   Royal Navy While awaiting sale, the decommissioned submarine ran aground in Bomb Ketch Lake in Portsmouth Harbour on the coast of England and flooded. Her wreck was scrapped.
USC&GS Isis United States Coast and Geodetic Survey The survey ship struck a submerged object and sank off Crescent Beach, Florida.

February

1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1920
Ship State Description
Berrima   United Kingdom The passenger ship ran aground off Margate, Kent. She was refloated the next day by the tugs HMT Firm (  Royal Navy), Java, Lady Brassey, Lady Duncan and Scotia (all   United Kingdom). [54]
Ruth Hickman   United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Minard, Argyllshire and wrecked. Her crew were rescued by HMS Fearless (  Royal Navy). [44]

2 February

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1920
Ship State Description
C.J.S.   United Kingdom The barque sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius. [55]
Kaskaskia   United States The cargo ship caught fire at New York and was beached. [56]
Kenora   United Kingdom The cargo ship was abandoned in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, Devon. Her crew were rescued by an Admiralty trawler. [44]

3 February

List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1920
Ship State Description
Doris Andreta   United Kingdom The schooner sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean (approximately 39°N 22°W / 39°N 22°W / 39; -22). She was set afire and abandoned. [49]

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1920
Ship State Description
Francis Molison   United Kingdom The schooner foundered in the North Sea 9 nautical miles (17 km) off the mouth of the River Tyne. Her crew were rescued by the trawler Dover Patrol (  United Kingdom). [51]
Maine   United States The 310-foot (94 m), 1,505- gross register ton steam screw passenger ship was wrecked without loss of life at the western end of Long Island Sound off the Cow Neck Peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, 100 yards (91 m) off the Execution Rocks Light when pack ice pushed her onto rocks during a gale and snowstorm with very high tides. Her wreck sank in 15 feet (4.6 m) of water and was stripped and burned in place. [57] [58] [59]
Sterling   United Kingdom The auxiliary schooner sank in Tees Bay. [56]
Ville d'Alger   France The cargo ship caught fire in the Indian Ocean off Réunion. [60] She was abandoned at approximately 18°S 52°E / 18°S 52°E / -18; 52. [61]

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1920
Ship State Description
Sybil   France The cargo ship collided with Veratyr (  Denmark) off Barry, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was beached. [62]

6 February

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1920
Ship State Description
Bradboyne   United Kingdom The cargo ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ( 43°36′N 36°10′W / 43.600°N 36.167°W / 43.600; -36.167) after her cargo shifted. Six of her 31 crew were lost. Survivors were rescued by Monmouth (  United States) and Oxonian (  United Kingdom), which lost thirteen crew during the rescue when a lifeboat capsized. [60] [63]
Brookland   United States The cargo ship caught fire at Havana, Cuba. [55] She sank and was a total loss. [64]
Hyltonia   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground off Saint-Clément-des-Baleines, Finistère, France. Her crew were rescued. [62] She was refloated on 5 March. [65]
Polias   United States The 2,500- gross register ton cargo ship — a concrete ship — ran aground on Old Cilly Ledge, a reef off Port Clyde, Maine, in a blizzard. Eleven crew members abandoned ship against orders and died when their lifeboat was smashed against the hull. The rest of the crew left in boats the next day when she started breaking up and were rescued by the cutter USCGC Acushnet ( United States Coast Guard). The wreck later slid off the reef and sank in up to 40 feet (12 m) of water at ( 43°53′16″N 069°15′24″W / 43.88778°N 69.25667°W / 43.88778; -69.25667 (Polias)). [66] [67] [68] [69]
Princess Anne   United States While trying to enter New York Harbor during a storm, the passenger ship ran aground on the Rockaway Shoals off Long Island, New York. A United States Life-Saving Service lifeboat took her 32 passengers off on 7 February. Her crew of 74 remained aboard until she began to break up on 15 February, and her crew was taken off before she broke in two later that day. She sank in 20 feet (6 m) of water and remained visible for many years before becoming buried in sand. [70] [71] [72] [73]

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1920
Ship State Description
Pylos   Germany The cargo ship ran aground at Spannholmen, Utsira, Norway. She broke in two; the stern section sank with the loss of ten of her crew. [74]

11 February

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1920
Ship State Description
Douglas Adams Canada Canada The schooner sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean 20 nautical miles (37 km) north north east of Castro, Spain. Her crew were rescued by Spanish fishing boats. Douglas Adams was later towed into Bilbao. [61]
Gregor   Germany The passenger ship ran aground at Kylios, Ottoman Turkey. She broke up and was a total loss. One hundred and fifty of her 200 passengers were rescued by rocket apparatus. [75]
Imperator Pierre le Grand   France The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Black Sea off Varna, Romania. Her crew survived. [76]
Northwestern   United States The tanker caugh fire at Galveston, Texas and was beached. [61] She burnt out and was a total loss. [75]
West Aleta   United States The Design 1019 cargo ship ran aground on Terschelling, Netherlands. [61] Her crew were rescued. [75]

13 February

List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1920
Ship State Description
Giacomo Pittalugo   Italy The schooner foundered off the coast of Spanish Morocco. Her crew survived. [63]
Marie Louise H   United Kingdom The schooner sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean ( 34°08′N 15°32′W / 34.133°N 15.533°W / 34.133; -15.533). She was set afire and abandoned. All on board were rescued by Molière (  France): [75]
Sahara   France The cargo ship sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal. She was beached at Leixões. [63]

14 February

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1920
Ship State Description
Edindoune   United Kingdom The motor fishing vessel caught fire in Scapa Flow and sank; the crew of four reached shore. [77]
Nobility   United Kingdom The schooner came ashore on the east coast of Barbados and was wrecked. [63]

15 February

List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1920
Ship State Description
Regina   Norway The schooner was discovered abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Fritiof (  Sweden). Regina was towed into IJmuiden, Netherland by the trawler Eendracht II (  Netherlands). [78] [79] [80]

18 February

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1920
Ship State Description
Amelia Zeman   United States The schooner departed from Norfolk, Virginia for Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands. [81] [82]
Joan Hickman   United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore near Chipiona, Cádiz, Spain. Her crew were rescued by Cabo Roche (  Spain). [80]
Rostellan   United States The four-masted schooner sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued. [83]

20 February

List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1920
Ship State Description
Aghia Paraskevi   Greece The cargo ship was wrecked off Cape St. Thomas, Argentina with the loss of fifteen of her crew. Survivors were rescued by Carnarvonshire (  United Kingdom). [84]
Commandant Dorise   France The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône. [84]
Kamma   Denmark The schooner was driven ashore on the south coast of Skagen and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by a lifeboat. [84]

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1920
Ship State Description
City of Cologne   United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with another vessel and was beached at Barry Island, Glamorgan. [84]

22 February

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1920
Ship State Description
Valdez   United States The 12  GRT 35.7-foot (10.9 m) cargo ship was wrecked in Portage Bay near Kanatak, Territory of Alaska. All four people on board survived. [85]

23 February

List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1920
Ship State Description
Hilton   United Kingdom The full-rigged ship collided with Fahrwold (  Finland) in the River Plate and sank with the loss of seven of her crew. Survivors were rescued by Cabo Santa Maria (  Spain). [86] [87]
Kemmel   United Kingdom The turret deck ship caught fire at São Vicente, Cape Verde, Portugal. [88] She was beached but was declared a total loss on 6 April. [89]
Maria I   Norway The auxiliary schooner caught fire in the North Sea and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by the trawler Nairana (  United Kingdom). [90]
Strathord   United Kingdom The fishing trawler struck a mine in the North Sea and sank with the loss of all nine crew. [91]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1920
Ship State Description
Gwendolen Warren   United Kingdom The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Pikepool (  United Kingdom). [92]

25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1920
Ship State Description
Osnabruck   Reichsmarine The Osnabruck-class Vorpostenboot was sunk by a mine.

26 February

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1920
Ship State Description
Llovet Hermanos   Spain The schooner was destroyed by fire at Valencia. [93]

27 February

List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1920
Ship State Description
Carrier Dove   United States The schooner ran aground on a reef at Levuka, Fiji. [88]

28 February

List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1920
Ship State Description
Gallacier   Belgium The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean ( 36°22′N 7°08′W / 36.367°N 7.133°W / 36.367; -7.133 (SS Gallacier)). [88]
Schiedam   Netherlands The schooner ran aground at Hook of Holland, South Holland. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. [88]
Lucanio Manara   Italy The cargo ship was destroyed by fire in the Sea of Marmara. [94]
War Casco   United Kingdom The cargo ship caught fire at Gibraltar and was a total loss. [88]

29 February

List of shipwrecks: 29 February 1920
Ship State Description
Cubadist   United States The cargo ship was reported to be 111 nautical miles (206 km) south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [48] [95]
Pregel   Denmark The cargo ship ran aground at Esbjerg. Her crew were rescued by HDMS Absalom (  Royal Danish Navy). [96]
Tungus   Norway The cargo ship ran aground on Cayo Arenas, Puerto Rico. [96] She was refloated on 10 March. [97]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date February 1920
Ship State Description
Delight   United States The 11- gross register ton, 35.1-foot (10.7 m) motor vessel broke apart while on the ways at Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska. [98]
Zante Russian Empire Armed Forces of South Russia The incomplete Fidonisy-class destroyer was driven ashore and wrecked at Bolshoy Fontan whilst being towed from Nicholaieff to Odessa. She was refloated in September and towed to Nicholaieff. Subsequently completed and entered service with the Soviet Navy as Nezamozhnik. [99]

March

1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1920
Ship State Description
Bohemian   United Kingdom The cargo liner ran aground off Sambro, Nova Scotia, Canada. [100] She broke in two on 2 March, [101] and was a total loss. Five of her crew were killed. [102]
Tinto   United Kingdom The cargo liner ran aground on the wreck of Manorbier Castle (  United Kingdom). She refloated but was holed and sank. Her crew were rescued. [96] She was damaged by an explosion during salvage operations on 4 March. [103] Tinto was refloated in early June. She arrived at Grimsby, Lincolnshire for drydocking on 3 June. [104]

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1920
Ship State Description
Moccasin   United States The cargo ship sank at New York. [102]
Sydnæs   Norway After springing a leak in a heavy gale, the barque, on a voyage from Norfolk, Virginia to Montevideo, Uruguay, was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ( 36°50′N 50°15′W / 36.833°N 50.250°W / 36.833; -50.250 [105] or 36°45′N 60°20′W / 36.750°N 60.333°W / 36.750; -60.333). [106] Excepting one fatality, the crew were rescued from two boats: twelve on 8 or 12 March by steamer Elba (  Italy) and twelve by 16 March by steamer Vaarli (  Norway). [105] [107] [108]

3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1920
Ship State Description
Old Head   United Kingdom The schooner struck the breakwater at Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure, France and sank. [102]

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1920
Ship State Description
Magnhel   United States After the 9- gross register ton fishing vessel's propeller shaft broke, her anchor cables parted and she drifted ashore in heavy weather and was wrecked at Cora Point ( 55°54′10″N 134°47′15″W / 55.90278°N 134.78750°W / 55.90278; -134.78750 (Castle Flats)) on Coronation Island in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of three reached shore safely and was rescued on 7 March by the motor vessel My Fancy (  United States). [109]

6 March

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1920
Ship State Description
Bratto   United Kingdom The cargo ship was abandoned in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by St. Louis (  United States). Bratto was towed into Padstow, where she sank. [110]
Dunstan   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Tutoya, Maranhão, Brazil. [111] She was refloated on 17 March. [112]

7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1920
Ship State Description
Pere Marquette No. 3   United States The cargo ship was sunk by ice in Lake Michigan three miles (4.8 km) south west of Ludington, Michigan in 43 feet (13 m) of water. Raised on 11 or 26 July and taken to Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Declared a total loss and broken up in 1921. [113] [114]

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1920
Ship State Description
Brookfield   United States The cargo ship caught fire at Faial Island, Azores, Portugal and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued. [115]
Guildford   United States The cargo ship sprang a leak and was abandoned off the Bujho Shoal in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Massachusetts. [115] She was later towed into Vineyard Haven, arriving on 10 March. [116]
USS H-1   United States Navy The H-class submarine ran aground off Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, with the loss of four crew. She sank during salvage attempts on 24 March.
Lejok   United States The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida. Her crew were rescued by W. S. Rheem (  United States). [115]
Natenna   United States The cargo ship was driven ashore at Casablanca, French Morocco and was a total loss. [115]
Vénézuela   France The cargo liner was driven ashore at Casablanca and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued. [117]

10 March

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1920
Ship State Description
Jutland   Canada The beam trawler departed Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was not seen or heard from again. On 11 March, the trawler Lemberg (  Canada) discovered two damaged dories in the Atlantic Ocean 86 nautical miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Halifax, one of them containing the body of one of Jutland's crew members. No trace of the other 20 men on board ever was found. [118] [119]

11 March

List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1920
Ship State Description
Hilda Rachel   Spain The cargo ship caught fire and foundered whilst on a voyage from Penarth, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Gibraltar. Her crew were rescued. [111] [120]
Maid of La Have   United Kingdom The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean 500 nautical miles (930 km) east of New York, United States. Her crew were rescued by Adriatic (  United Kingdom). [121]
Per Marquette 3   United States The passenger ship was crushed by ice and sank in Lake Michigan off Ludington, Michigan. All 35 people on board were rescued. [122]
San Juan #3   United States Under tow by a tug during a voyage along the coast of the Territory of Alaska from Port Althorp to Unakwik Inlet in Prince William Sound with a 10-ton deck load of cannery supplies, the 24-ton scow sank in the Gulf of Alaska about 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) offshore at 59°11′N 139°05′W / 59.183°N 139.083°W / 59.183; -139.083 (San Juan #3). [123]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1920
Ship State Description
Carroo   United Kingdom The cargo ship suffered an onboard explosion in her cargo of benzine with the loss of a crew member. She caught fire and was beached at Townsville, Queensland, Australia. [116]
Commandant Mages   France The ocean liner ran aground 20 nautical miles (37 km) east of Hong Kong. She was refloated on 25 March. [124]
Henriette flag unknown The sailing ship sank at Bordeaux, Gironde, France. [121]
Llai Llai   Chile The cargo ship collided with O'Higgins (  Chilean Navy) at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and sank. [125]

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1920
Ship State Description
Alexandra   United Kingdom The tug foundered in the River Humber with the loss of three of her four crew. [126] She was refloated on 10 May. [127]
Alfonzo   United States The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Manila, Philippines. [128]
Chatcauqua   United States The cargo ship ran aground off Bermuda. Her crew were rescued. [116]
Olockson   United States The cargo ship caught fire in the Gulf of Panama 100 nautical miles (190 km) off Panama City, Colombia. [126] She was taken under tow by Gorgona (  United States) Her crew abandoned on 17 March. [129] Olockson was beached at Balboa and the hull holed to fight the fires. [105] [130]
T94   Reichsmarine Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch: The training ship, a former S90-class torpedo boat, was scuttled by Putschists at Wilhelmshaven. Later raised and broken up.
Yungai   United Kingdom The cargo ship issued a SOS in the Atlantic Ocean ( 30°10′N 77°00′W / 30.167°N 77.000°W / 30.167; -77.000). [126] She was abandoned and her crew were rescued by Limos (  United States). [125]

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1920
Ship State Description
Unknown barges   United States Two barges, under tow of Georges Creek (  United States), sank in heavy weather in Block Island Sound. Between the two crews five died. [131]

15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1920
Ship State Description
Dove   United States The 26- gross register ton, 48.7-foot (14.8 m) motor cargo vessel was wrecked at Cape Ommaney ( 56°10′00″N 134°40′20″W / 56.16667°N 134.67222°W / 56.16667; -134.67222 (Cape Ommaney)) in Southeast Alaska with the loss of two lives. There were three survivors. [98]
Lux   France The cargo ship departed from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, bound for Oran, Algeria. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of all hands. [132]
Mingai   United States The steamer sprung a leak and sank three days later in a storm in the Atlantic Ocean south east of Wilmington, North Carolina.( 33°20′N 76°57′W / 33.333°N 76.950°W / 33.333; -76.950). [133] [134]

16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1920
Ship State Description
Balabac   United States The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at a Trinidadian port. [125]
Dashing Wave   United States During a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to Taku via Ketchikan in the Territory of Alaska with a crew of nine and a cargo of general cannery supplies aboard, the 1,054- gross register ton barge was wrecked without loss of life off Shelter Point ( 49°55′51″N 125°11′06″W / 49.9307°N 125.1849°W / 49.9307; -125.1849 (Shelter Point)) on the coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. The steamer San Juan (flag unknown) towed her wreck to shore, but it was declared a total loss. [98]
Rosa Harriette   United Kingdom The schooner sprang a leak and foundered in the English Channel off St Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight. Her crew were rescued by Odland (  Norway) after 16 hours adrift.

17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1920
Ship State Description
Adolf   Sweden The cargo ship collided with Moliere (  United Kingdom) in the Bristol Channel off Barry, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was beached. [129] A fire broke out on 18 March. [135]
Cadrier   France The cargo ship sprang a leak in the English Channel north of Alderney, Channel Isles and sank. Four of her 23 crew were rescued by Wagland (  Norway). [136]
Tewkesbury   United Kingdom The cargo ship was driven ashore at Cape Vine, Nova Scotia, Canada and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. [112]

18 March

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1920
Ship State Description
USS Althea   United States Navy The motorboat was sunk by ice at Detroit, Michigan. She was sold for salvage but salvage efforts were abandoned in 1926.
Cordier   France During her first commercial trip from Nantes (region Pays de la Loire, France) to Rotterdam (Netherlands) loaded with iron ore, sank following a leak north of Alderney Channel Islands. 19 perished, only 4 sailors were rescued by the Norwegian steamer Wacland. [137] [138]
Eva   Denmark The cargo ship came ashore on the west coast of Skagen. Her crew survived. [135]
Jeremiah Smith   United States The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Hatteras (  United States). [139]

19 March

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1920
Ship State Description
Scandia   United States The 116- gross register ton, 90.8-foot (27.7 m) fishing vessel was stranded in the Gulf of Alaska on the north end of Montague Island at the entrance to Prince William Sound in the Territory of Alaska. All 17 people on board survived. She was salvaged, repaired, and returned to service. [123]

20 March

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1920
Ship State Description
Gladys Strut   United Kingdom The three-masted schooner sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean ( 48°10′N 19°30′W / 48.167°N 19.500°W / 48.167; -19.500). She was set afire and abandoned; her crew were rescued by Major Wheeler (  United States). [140]
Jerx G. Shaw   United States The schooner was driven ashore on Block Island, Rhode Island. Her crew were rescued. [136]
White Rose   United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with Fantee (  United Kingdom) in the Bristol Channel 8 nautical miles (15 km) off Trevose Head, Cornwall and sank. Her crew were rescued by Fantee. [140]

22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1920
Ship State Description
Ambar   Portugal The whaler was wrecked in the Congo River at Loanda, Portuguese East Africa. Some of her passengers and crew were rescued. [141]
Kara   United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked off Cape Quintres, Santoña, Spain. Her crew were rescued. [142] [143]
Rock Island Bridge   United States The cargo ship collided with tanker Iroquois (  United Kingdom) in the English Channel 8 nautical miles (15 km) south south east of The Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. [105] She was taken in tow by Kenosha (  United States) beached in the Helford River but subsequently sank. Later raised and sold for scrap. [144] [145] The wreck was sold by auction in May 1920. [144]

24 March

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1920
Ship State Description
City of St. Helens   United States The auxiliary schooner caught fire and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of the United States. [146]
USS H-1   United States Navy The H-class submarine ran aground on a reef off Margarita Island, Baja California, Mexico in stormy weather and high seas. She was pulled off by USS Vestal (  United States Navy) on 26 March and taken under tow but sank an hour later in 50 feet (15 m) of water. Three crewmen drowned trying to reach shore and her captain was washed overboard from the conning tower and drowned. Survivors were rescued from shore by Mazatlan (flag unknown). [147] [148] [149]
Mutlah   United Kingdom The cargo ship caught fire at Naples, Italy, and sank. [21]
Teje   Norway The cargo ship collided with Mimer (  Norway) off Kristiansand, Norway, and was beached. [141]

25 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1920
Ship State Description
Botanist   United Kingdom The cargo liner ran aground on the Komuriya Reef, off the coast of Ceylon. [150] Her passengers were rescued by Arracan (  United Kingdom). [151] She was declared a total loss on 30 March. [152] Her crew were rescued. [153]

27 March

List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1920
Ship State Description
Inga   France The cargo ship ran aground at Villa San Giovanni, Calabria, Italy. [154] She was refloated on 31 March. [155]
Picardie or Picardy not known The cargo ship reported in collision with New Londoner (  United Kingdom) in the North Sea (or in the Scheldt, off Hansweert) and either sank or returned to Antwerp. [156] [157] [158] [159]
Ugor   Soviet Navy The Bars-class submarine was sunk by ice in the Neva. The submarine was later salvaged.

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1920
Ship State Description
Crostafels   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground on the Ceiba Bank, off the coast of Cuba. [154] She was later refloated and arrived at Kingston, Jamaica on 5 March. [160]
Moskvityanin Russia White Movement Russian Civil War: The Emir Bukharski-class destroyer, sunk in May 1919 and refloated on 10 January 1920 but not repaired, was scuttled by gunfire in the Caspian Sea by ships of the Caspian Flotilla of the White Movement.

29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1920
Ship State Description
City of St. Helens   United States The sailing vessel caught fire and sank in the Atlantic Ocean 80 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. [153] [161]
Kitagawa Maru   Japan The cargo ship sprang a leak and was abandoned off Chōsi, Chica. [146]

30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1920
Ship State Description
Prince John   United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with Prince Albert (  United Kingdom) off Deadtree Point, British Columbia, Canada and was beached. [162] She was refloated on 8 April. [163]

31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1920
Ship State Description
Frances R   United States The 13- gross register ton motor vessel struck a rock, drifted ashore, and was smashed to pieces by the surf at Lyman Point ( 55°32′30″N 132°16′35″W / 55.54167°N 132.27639°W / 55.54167; -132.27639 (Lyman Point)) in Southeast Alaska after her gasoline engine broke down during a snowstorm with high winds. The two people on board survived. [164]
Prince Pozharsky   Russian Navy White Movement Russian Civil War: The gunboat was damaged by a mine in the Caspian Sea and scuttled by Dmitry Donskoy (  Russian Navy White Movement). [165]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date March 1920
Ship State Description
USS Brown   United States Navy The minesweeping tug sank at Naval Air Station Wildwood, Cape May, New Jersey.
Kerowlee   United States The cargo ship was wrecked in the Weser, Germany in late March. [166] She broke in two on 25 March. [141]

April

1 April

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1920
Ship State Description
Murre United States Bureau of Fisheries The fishery patrol vessel struck a rock in Keku Strait in the Territory of Alaska and was beached to prevent her from sinking. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. [167]

2 April

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1920
Ship State Description
USCGC Leader United States Coast Guard The motorboat was destroyed by fire.
Saffo   Regia Marina The torpedo boat sank after running aground on the coast of Ottoman Turkey near Scalanova Bay. [168]

3 April

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1920
Ship State Description
Britannia   United Kingdom The cargo ship foundered in North Sea off Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire. All sixteen crew survived. [169]
Rosegg   Norway The cargo ship ran aground at Goswick, Northumberland, United Kingdom. [169]
Sologne   France The tug came ashore at Ryhope, County Durham, United Kingdom and sank. [169]
Steinsund   Norway The four-masted barque departed Bordeaux, France, for Newport News, Virginia, United States. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands. [170]

4 April

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1920
Ship State Description
Malabar   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground near the Barns Ness Lighthouse, Lothian. Her crew were rescued. [169] She broke in two on 6 April. [160]

5 April

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1920
Ship State Description
Aughinish   United Kingdom The cargo ship struck a submerged object and was beached on Montague Island, New South Wales, Australia. [155] She was refloated on 12 April. [171]
Verdun   France The auxiliary schooner caught fire in the River Seine and was a total loss. [155]

7 April

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1920
Ship State Description
Olinda   United States The cargo ship ran aground off Manati, Cuba. [172] She was refloated on 14 April. [173]

8 April

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1920
Ship State Description
Caspian Soviet Union Red Movement Russian Civil War: The auxiliary cruiser foundered in a storm in the Caspian Sea with the loss of 52 of her 65 crew. Survivors were rescued by the destroyer Proletarskiy ( Soviet Union Red Movement). Caspian was raised in 1934, repaired and returned to service as a transport. [165] [99]
Clutha   United Kingdom The cargo ship sprang a leak at Manzanillo, Cuba and was beached. [174] She was refloated on 13 April. [175]

10 April

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1920
Ship State Description
Powel   United States The cargo ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida. Her crew survived. [174]

11 April

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1920
Ship State Description
Bastia   Italy The cargo ship caught fire at Naples. [174] She was scuttled the next day. [176]
Roye   France The auxiliary sailing vessel arrived at Salonica, Greece on fire. She was a total loss. [176]

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1920
Ship State Description
Zilia   Italy The auxiliary sailing vessel caught fire at Oporto, Portugal and was scuttled. [176]

13 April

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1920
Ship State Description
Meditation   United Kingdom The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) north of Faial Island, Azores, Portugal. [176]

14 April

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1920
Ship State Description
Flensburg   Germany The fishing trawler struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off List, Schleswig-Holstein. [177]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1920
Ship State Description
Eagle Wing   United States The schooner sprang a leak and was beached at Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba. [177]

16 April

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1920
Ship State Description
Svelviksand I   Norway The auxiliary sailing ship was wrecked on the Knock Sand, North Sea. Her crew sought refuge on the Knock Lightship ( Trinity House). [177]

18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1920
Ship State Description
William O'Brien   United States The cargo ship probably foundered on this date. [178] She had issued a SOS that she was leaking in a severe storm and had lost her cargo hatches in the Atlantic Ocean ( 40°00′N 65°50′W / 40.000°N 65.833°W / 40.000; -65.833) which was answered by Baltic and Minniekahda (both   United Kingdom), some debris was found. Lost with all 40 hands. [179] [180] [181]

19 April

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1920
Ship State Description
St. Barcran   United Kingdom The coaster collided with Whinhill (  United Kingdom) at Liverpool, Lancashire and was beached. She was later refloated and taken to Manchester. [182]

20 April

List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1920
Ship State Description
Bayonnaise   France The schooner foundered in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat. [183]

22 April

List of shipwrecks: 22 April 1920
Ship State Description
Matilde   United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Whitby, Yorkshire and was wrecked. [184]

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1920
Ship State Description
Arthur V. S. Woodruff   United States The schooner came ashore on the east coast of Barbados. [185] She was a total loss. [179]
Ernst   Sweden The sailing ship struck a mine at Herthas Flak in Kattegat on 24 or 25 April and sank with all hands, 22 in all. [186]
Westgate   United Kingdom The cargo ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. [185]

27 April

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1920
Ship State Description
Gubitelnyy   Soviet Navy Red Movement Polish-Soviet War: The gunboat was shelled and sunk at Chernobyl on the Pripyat River by Polish artillery. Salvaged post war. [165]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date April 1920
Ship State Description
Brisk   United States The schooner caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean in early April. Her crew were rescued by Hellenes (  United Kingdom). [187]
Gladys Street   United Kingdom The sailing ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Major Wheeler (  United States). [187]
J. T Ralston Canada Canada The schooner caught fire in the Caribbean Sea. Her crew were rescued by USS Chemung (  United States Navy). [188]

May

2 May

List of shipwrecks: 2 May 1920
Ship State Description
Latona   United Kingdom The barquentine foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 17 nautical miles (31 km) west of Tory Island, County Donegal. Her crew were rescued. [189]

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1920
Ship State Description
Munamar   United States The passenger ship ran aground on Watling Island, Bahamas. All eighty passengers and crew were rescued by Athenic (  United Kingdom). [190] She was later refloated and beached. [191] Munamar was refloated on 20 May. [192]
Notre Dame d'Arvour   France The barque came ashore on Wardang Island, South Australia. She was later gutted by fire. [189]
Risør   Norway The auxiliary schooner caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean (approximately 40°N 68°W / 40°N 68°W / 40; -68 and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by City of Canton (  United Kingdom). [189]

4 May

List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1920
Ship State Description
Benito Suarez   Spain The three-masted schooner was wrecked in Bay Limonade, Haiti. Her crew were rescued. [193]

5 May

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1920
Ship State Description
Joseph Leopold   United States The four-masted schooner ran aground on the Silver Bank, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Dominican Republic, and was a total loss. [194]

6 May

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1920
Ship State Description
Sunshine   United Kingdom The schooner struck a sunken wreck at Zeebrugge, West Flanders, Belgium and sank. Her crew were rescued. [195]

9 May

List of shipwrecks: 9 May 1920
Ship State Description
Harlsywood   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Melilla, Spain. She was refloated on 25 May. [191] [196]
Merkur   Finland The cargo ship collided with Castro Alen (  Spain) in the Bristol Channel off Barry, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and sank. Her crew were rescued by a pilot cutter. [197] Salvage efforts were abandoned in September 1920. [198]
USAT Northern Pacific   United States The United States Army troopship ran aground on Collnas Shoal at the entrance to the harbor at San Juan, Puerto Rico. [199] She was refloated and underway again the next day. [200]
Windrush   United States The barque collided with Buenos Aires (  Spain) in the Atlantic Ocean 1,000 nautical miles (1,900 km) east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey and sank with the loss of five crew. [201]

10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1920
Ship State Description
Tibermede   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground near the Cabo Carvoeiro Lighthouse, Portugal. Her crew were rescued; the ship was declared a total loss. [201] [202]

11 May

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1920
Ship State Description
Shusana   United States The 49- gross register ton, 79.8-foot (24.3 m) sternwheel paddle steamer was wrecked on the Tanana River near Nenana Territory of Alaska. All 11 people on board survived. [123]

12 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1920
Ship State Description
Lake Stobi   United States The Design 1099 cargo ship ran aground off the Koshiki Lighthouse, Gotō Islands, Japan and was wrecked. [203]

13 May

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1920
Ship State Description
Florence Thurlow   United States The schooner collided with Laramie (  United States) off New York and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by Laramie. [204]
RIMS Mayo   Royal Navy The Royal Indian Marine transport Mayo collided with Arankola (  United Kingdom) at Rangoon and was run ashore. She became a total loss [205]

15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1920
Ship State Description
Padouk   United Kingdom The barque ran aground 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Bassein, Burma. Her crew abandoned ship in the lifeboats. [203]
Tenzan Maru   Japan The cargo ship departed Montevideo, Uruguay for Antwerp, Belgium. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [170]

16 May

List of shipwrecks: 16 May 1920
Ship State Description
Lake Grafton   United States The Design 1093 cargo ship ran aground on the Runnel Stone, off the coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. [201]

17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1920
Ship State Description
Clewbay   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground on the west coast of Mutton Island, County Galway. [206] She was refloated on 2 June. [207]

18 May

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1920
Ship State Description
HSwMS Laxen   Swedish Navy The submarine sank at Karlskrona, Sweden. [208]

21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1920
Ship State Description
Lester   United States The sternwheel paddle steamer was lost at Fairbanks, Territory of Alaska. [209]

22 May

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1920
Ship State Description
Cordora   United Kingdom The passenger ship caught fire in the Indian Ocean off Socotra and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by Umtata (  United Kingdom). [210]
Manoussis   Greece The cargo ship ran aground on the Carromeiro Rocks, off Corcubión, A Coruña, Spain and was a total loss. [211]
Tafna   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground in the Tunas Channel, Cuba. [212] She was refloated on 26 May. [213]

23 May

List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1920
Ship State Description
Lurcher   United Kingdom The cargo liner ran aground 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. All 53 passengers were taken off. [211]
Mina   Soviet Navy Red Movement Polish-Soviet War: The minesweeper was sunk on the Pripyat river at Pripyat by mines. [165]

24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1920
Ship State Description
John W. Wood   United Kingdom The schooner was rammed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by Lake Elsah (  United States). Her crew were rescued. [210]
Wasa   United Kingdom The cargo ship caught fire off Colonsay, Inner Hebrides and was a total loss. Four of her crew were killed. [196]

25 May

List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1920
Ship State Description
Albertus   Germany The cargo ship came ashore at Hustadvika, Norway and was a total loss. [212]
Equity   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground in fog on Alderney, Channel Islands carrying a cargo of potatoes from Jersey. [214] She was refloated on 15 June. [215]
Leota   United States The 36- gross register ton steamer was crushed by ice during the spring ice breakup while laid up on the bank of a river for the winter of 1919–1920 near Fairbanks, Territory of Alaska. [209]
USFS Osprey United States Bureau of Fisheries While beached at Cordova, Territory of Alaska, to have her hull cleaned and copper painted, the fishery patrol vessel settled into the gravel on the beach, rolled away from the shore onto her side, filled with water, and became partially submerged. She was refloated and returned to service. [216]

26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1920
Ship State Description
Fau Sang   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground off the Hainan Head Lighthouse, China. [217] She later broke her back and was declared a total loss on 3 June. [218]

27 May

List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1920
Ship State Description
Deva   United States The cargo ship caught fire at Faial Island, Azores, Portugal and was beached. [213]
Dunleith   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Proudfoot, Caithness. Her crew were rescued. [212] She was refloated on 2 June. [219]

29 May

List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1920
Ship State Description
Cypress   United States The 33- gross register ton fishing vessel was wrecked on a shoal in Dry Bay on the south-central or southeast coast of the Territory of Alaska. Her crew of four survived. The wreck report does not specify in which of several bays of the name the loss took place. Her gasoline engine was salvaged. [220]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date May 1920
Ship State Description
Prarial   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Melilla, Spain in early May. She was refloated at the end of the month. [221]

June

1 June

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1920
Ship State Description
Little Florence   United Kingdom The sailing ship foundered in the English Channel off Paimpol, Côtes-du-Nord, France. [222]

3 June

List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1920
Ship State Description
Samos   Greece The cargo ship ran aground at Pointe Fern, Ouessant, Finistère, France. [82] She broke in two on 11 June and was a total loss. [223]

7 June

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1920
Ship State Description
Britannia   United Kingdom The barque foundered in the North Sea 125 nautical miles (232 km) east by north of Spurn Point, Yorkshire with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by the trawler Dragon (  United Kingdom). [224]
Irmgard   United States The schooner was wrecked at Suva, Fiji. [224]
Pak Ling   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground on Button Island, East China Sea. She was refloated on 15 June. [225]

8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1920
Ship State Description
Berwyn   United States The cargo ship struck rocks off Sharbithat, Oman ( 17°50′N 57°22′E / 17.833°N 57.367°E / 17.833; 57.367): She refloated but consequently foundered. Her 54 crew were rescued by Katiagallus (flag unknown). [226] [227]

11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1920
Ship State Description
St. Boswells   United Kingdom The tug struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Terschelling, Netherlands with the loss of 16 of her 22 crew. Santa Theresa (  Germany) rescued survivors. [228]
USS SC-282   United States Navy The SC-1-class submarine chaser sank in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico [229]

14 June

List of shipwrecks: 14 June 1920
Ship State Description
Arkley   United Kingdom The auxiliary sailing vessel ran aground on the Sow and Pig Sands, in the North Sea off Blyth, Northumberland. She was abandoned by her crew, but was later boarded by some of the crew of the Blyth Lifeboat. Arkley was refloated and brought into Blyth Harbour. [230]

15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1920
Ship State Description
Anna   Soviet Union The cargo ship was destroyed by fire in the Skagerrak off Kristiansand, Norway. [206]
Gladys   United Kingdom The Thames barge collided with Chifuku Maru (  Japan) in the Thames Estuary off the Mucking Lightship ( Trinity House) and sank. Her crew were rescued. [215] Gladys was later refloated. [231]
Pacifico   United States The cargo ship was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean off Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. [206]
Pauline M. Cummins   United States The schooner ran aground on the Hogsty Reef, Barbados and was a total loss. Her crew survived. [215]
Robert Forest   United Kingdom The tug sprang a leak in the North Sea and was beached off Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued by the Spurn Lifeboat. [232]

16 June

List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1920
Ship State Description
Campos Brazil Brazil The cargo ship struck rocks in Victoria Girazill Bay and was beached at Rio de Janeiro. [233]
F. R. Hazard   United States The cargo ship collided with another vessel in Whitefish Bay and was consequently beached at Whitefish Point. [206]

17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1920
Ship State Description
Lady Thea   Russia White Movement Russian Civil War: The tanker caught fire at Batumi while loading kerosene and was scuttled by shelling by HMS Swallow (  Royal Navy). [234] [235]

18 June

List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1920
Ship State Description
Engineer   United Kingdom The cargo ship caught fire at Lourenço Marques, Mozambique and was severely damaged. [236] She sank on 20 June. [226]
Wico   United States The cargo ship ran aground in the Rabbit Islands, Turkey. [237] She was refloated on 24 June. [238]

19 June

List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1920
Ship State Description
Heroine   United States The 136-foot (41 m), 296- gross register ton fishing vessel sprang a leak and sank without loss of life in 80 feet (24 m) of water off Watch Hill, Rhode Island. [239]

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1920
Ship State Description
Frontera   Norway The cargo ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Cuba and was abandoned. She was later towed into Gibara. [240]

21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1920
Ship State Description
William C. May   United States The schooner sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued. [241]

26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1920
Ship State Description
Ansaldo San Giorgio III   Italy The cargo ship caught fire and sank at Cartagena, Murcia, Spain. [238]

28 June

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1920
Ship State Description
Charles E. Moody   United States The 2,003- gross register ton, 233.9-foot (71.3 m) wooden ship was destroyed by fire while anchored in the roadstead at Naknek, Territory of Alaska. The only person aboard survived. [220]

29 June

List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1920
Ship State Description
Gladys and Nellie   United Kingdom The schooner was destroyed by fire at Antilla, Cuba. [242]
Independent   United States The 17- gross register ton motor vessel was wrecked on the eastern spit at the entrance to Dry Bay – most likely the body of water of that name located at 59°08′N 138°25′W / 59.133°N 138.417°W / 59.133; -138.417 (Dry Bay) – on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska after her gasoline engine broke down and her anchors failed to hold in strong currents. [243]
Koyo Maru   Japan The cargo ship ran aground on the Serrana Bank, Columbia. [244] She was refloated on 1 August. [245]

July

2 July

List of shipwrecks: 2 July 1920
Ship State Description
Grayson   United States The cargo ship ran aground on Stroma, Caithness, United Kingdom. [246] She was declared a total loss on 7 July. [247]

3 July

List of shipwrecks: 3 July 1920
Ship State Description
Chas E. Moody   United States The ship was destroyed by fire in Bristol Bay. [248]

4 July

List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1920
Ship State Description
Metkiy   Soviet Navy Red Movement Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Loyev: The paddle gunboat was wrecked at Loyev with its paddle wheels broken. The ship was abandoned and later shelled by Polish artillery. [165]

6 July

List of shipwrecks: 6 July 1920
Ship State Description
Standard #1   United States While anchored in Norton Sound off the Bering Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska 0.5 nautical miles (0.93 km; 0.58 mi) south of the Egavik River ( 64°02′N 160°55′W / 64.033°N 160.917°W / 64.033; -160.917 (Egavik River)) with no people or cargo aboard, the 15- gross register ton scow was blown ashore by a sudden storm and broke up in the surf without loss of life. [123]

7 July

List of shipwrecks: 7 July 1920
Ship State Description
West Nosska   United States The Design 1013 cargo ship ran aground at Baltimore, Maryland. [241] She was refloated on 12 July. [249]

9 July

List of shipwrecks: 9 July 1920
Ship State Description
Primrose   United Kingdom The skiff was driven ashore at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan with the loss of the only crew member on board. [198]

12 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1920
Ship State Description
Fort de Troyon   France The cargo ship ran aground at Rio Grande, Brazil. [249] She was refloated on 16 July. [170]
Lake Frampton   United States The cargo ship collided with Comus (  United States) off Atlantic City and sank with the loss of two of her crew. [250]

19 July

List of shipwrecks: 19 July 1920
Ship State Description
Caroline   France The barque caught fite at Antofagasta, Chile and was beached. [251] [252]
Coastwise   United States The 109-foot (33.2 m), 269- gross register ton tug sprang a leak and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean south of Long Island, New York. Her entire crew of 17 survived. [253]

20 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1920
Ship State Description
Jan   Netherlands The tug foundered off Wenchow, China in a typhoon. [254]
Shanghai   Netherlands The dredger foundered off Wenchow in a typhoon. [254]

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1920
Ship State Description
Carlo Alberto Racchia   Regia Marina Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War: The Mirabello-class destroyer sank in the Black Sea after striking a mine off Odessa, Ukraine. [255]
Saint Michael #9   United States Loaded with a cargo of 406 tons of fuel oil in tanks, the 366-ton barge sank at the dock at St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, when a gale struck and heavy seas swamped her. She was a total loss. [123]

22 July

List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1920
Ship State Description
Kolyma   United States The 29- gross register ton motor vessel was wrecked on the northwest coast of Sledge Island in the Bering Sea during a gale. Her crew of two survived. [256]
Sesnon #5   United States While anchored about 0.25 nautical miles (0.46 km; 0.29 mi) west of the mouth of the Lost River ( 65°23′N 167°09′W / 65.383°N 167.150°W / 65.383; -167.150 (Lost River)) on the Bering Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska with no cargo or crew aboard, the 58-ton scow dragged her anchor during a gale, was driven ashore, and was wrecked. [123]

25 July

List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1920
Ship State Description
HMCS CD88   Royal Canadian Navy The Admiralty-type drifter foundered on passage from Canada to the United Kingdom.

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1920
Ship State Description
Mayals   United Kingdom The coaster ran aground at Bideford, Devon. Her crew were rescued. [257]
Stanton   United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with Redriff (  United Kingdom) in the Thames Estuary and sank. Her crew were rescued. [257]

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1920
Ship State Description
Santa Elena   United States The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Valparaíso, Chile. [258]

28 July

List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1920
Ship State Description
Niki   Greece The cargo ship arrived at Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom leaking. She was beached at Tranmere, Cheshire. [258]

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1920
Ship State Description
Santiago de Cuba   Cuba The cargo ship was destroyed by fire after an explosion in one of her fuel tanks at Santiago de Cuba. One crewman killed, 2 badly burned. [259] [260]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date July 1920
Ship State Description
Suki Maru   Japan The cargo ship ran aground at Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, in late July. She was refloated on 9 August. [261] [262]
Tinea   United States The motor vessel was lost in Cook Inlet in the Territory of Alaska. [263]

August

1 August

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1920
Ship State Description
Emanuel Repoulis   Greece The cargo ship departed Salonica for Beirut, Greater Lebanon. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of all hands. [264]

3 August

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1920
Ship State Description
Bitche   France The cargo ship caught fire in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Tiñoso, Spain and was abandoned. [265]

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1920
Ship State Description
Gjoa   United States With nine members of her crew ashore and only her captain on board, the 20- gross register ton motor vessel was wrecked without loss of life on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska 34 nautical miles (63 km; 39 mi) east of Cape Suckling ( 59°59′30″N 143°19′00″W / 59.99167°N 143.31667°W / 59.99167; -143.31667 (Cape Suckling)) after her anchor cable parted during a storm. [266]
H. C. Grube   Denmark The schooner was driven ashore at Casablanca, French Morocco and was wrecked. [261]

5 August

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1920
Ship State Description
Adramantis   Greece The cargo ship sank in the Ionian Sea off Cerigo. [261]
Santiago de Cuba   Cuba The cargo ship was destroyed by fire. [261]

6 August

List of shipwrecks: 6 August 1920
Ship State Description
Pride of the West   United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Westkapelle, Netherlands. [267] She broke up and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued. [268]
West Eldara   United States The Design 1013 cargo ship ran aground at Barier Point, Oahu, Hawaii. [269] She was refloated on 10 August. [270]

12 August

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1920
Ship State Description
Matra   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground on the Curlew Reef, off Port Augusta, South Australia. [271] She was refloated on 17 August. [272]
Norman   United Kingdom The whaler foundered off the Aliwal Shoal with the loss of all hands. [272]

14 August

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1920
Ship State Description
A.S.310 The tug foundered in the English Channel off the East Goodwin Lightship ( Trinity House). Her crew were rescued. [273]
Alma   Russia White Movement Russian Civil War: The transport was sunk in the Sea of Azov off Primorsko-Akhtorsk by mines. [165]
Smolensk   Russia White Movement Russian Civil War: The cargo ship was sunk in the Sea of Azov off Primorsko-Akhtorsk by mines. [165]

15 August

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1920
Ship State Description
Dorcas The Thames barge was destroyed by fire in the River Thames at Woolwich, London with the loss of one of her three crew. [274]
Snug Harbor   United States During a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, to Portland, Maine, the cargo ship sank in 60 feet (18 m) of water in the Atlantic Ocean 4.5 nautical miles (8.3 km; 5.2 mi) east by north of Montauk Point Light on Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, after colliding with the barge Pottsville (  United States), which was under tow by Covington (  United States). Snug Harbor was declared a total loss. [275] [276] [277]

16 August

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1920
Ship State Description
Seresia   Belgium The cargo ship collided with Eglantier (  Belgium) at Antwerp and was beached. [273] She was refloated on 18 August. [275]

17 August

List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1920
Ship State Description
Fife   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Kaskinen, Finland. [272] She was refloated on 24 August. [278]

18 August

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1920
Ship State Description
James H. Shrigley   Canada The cargo ship was wrecked/beached or foundered one-half mile (0.80 km) off Braddock Point Light, Lake Ontario. She was stripped and abandoned. The crew were rescued by the United States Coast Guard. [279] [280]
Ponrabbel II   United Kingdom The dredger was reported to have gone ashore near São Martinho do Porto, Portugal. [281] She was refloated by 27 August. [282]

19 August

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1920
Ship State Description
Zharkyi   Russian Navy White Movement Russian Civil War: The torpedo boat was sunk in the Sea of Azov off Primorsko-Akhtorsk by mines. [165]
Volga   Russia White Movement Russian Civil War: The transport was sunk in the Sea of Azov off Akhtar by mines. [165]

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1920
Ship State Description
Superior City   United States The cargo ship collided with Willis L. King (  United States) in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior and sank with the loss of 29 of her 33 crew. The boiler exploded as the vessel sank. [283]

21 August

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1920
Ship State Description
Hammonia flag unknown The ship struck a submerged wreck in the Baltic Sea off Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and sank. [284]
Panos   Greece The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay 55 nautical miles (102 km) off Bilbao, Biscay, Spain. [285]

23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1920
Ship State Description
Haaber   Denmark The schooner was wrecked at Hyrdalsand, Iceland with some loss of life. [285]
Hebe   Denmark The schooner foundered off Keflavík, Iceland. [285]
Old Point Comfort   United States The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Baltimore, Maryland. [286]

25 August

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1920
Ship State Description
Sea Breeze   United States The 8- gross register ton, 35-foot (11 m) fishing vessel was destroyed by fire at Yasha Island ( 56°57′59″N 134°33′37″W / 56.96639°N 134.56028°W / 56.96639; -134.56028 (Barren Islands)) in Sumner Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. Two of her three crewmen were killed. [123]

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1920
Ship State Description
Electra   Netherlands The schooner was driven ashore on Trinidad and was wrecked. [287]
Friend Ship   United States The schooner collided with a scow she was towing in the Atlantic Ocean off Hoffman Island, New York and was beached. [287]
J. A. McKee   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground in the Saint Lawrence River at Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. [287] She was refloated on 29 August. [288]
Lady C   United Kingdom The schooner foundered in Placentia Bay. Her crew were rescued. [289]

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1920
Ship State Description
HMCS CD93   Royal Canadian Navy The Admiralty-type drifter foundered on passage from Canada to the United Kingdom.

29 August

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1920
Ship State Description
Anthracite Bridge   United States The cargo ship ran aground at Nazik Point, Salonica, Greece. [288] She was refloated on 28 September. [290]

30 August

List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1920
Ship State Description
Arakan   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Point Reyes, California and was abandoned by her crew. [291] [292] She was refloated on 2 September. [289]
Carmenchu   Spain The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Rosinos de la Requejada, Zamora. [288]
Hickleton   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall. She later refloated but sank and was a total loss. Her thirteen crew survived. [291] [293]
Lisette   France The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Pine, Newfoundland with the loss of a crew member. [289]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date August 1920
Ship State Description
Dagny   Denmark The ship foundered in pack ice off Shannon Island, Greenland. Her crew survived, but a number of them died before they were rescued in September 1921. [294]
John H. Dwight   United States The 221- gross register ton barge was wrecked on rocks during a gale at St. Michael, Territory of Alaska. The only person aboard survived. [295]
Kamui Maru   Japan The cargo ship ran aground on Formosa in early August. She was declared a total loss on 12 September. [296]

September

1 September

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1920
Ship State Description
Myron C. Taylor   United States The three-masted schooner was destroyed by fire at Cadiz, Spain. [297]
USS S-5   United States Navy
July 2001 sonar image of the wreck of S-5
The S-class submarine partially flooded due to a jammed valve in the Atlantic Ocean 40 miles (64 km) off the Delaware Capes with her stern above water. All crew were rescued on 3 September. S-5 sank completely during an attempt to tow her to port on 3 September, 15 miles (24 km) off the Delaware Capes. [147] [298]

2 September

List of shipwrecks: 2 September 1920
Ship State Description
Gjede   Norway The cargo ship sprang a leak in the North Sea ( 57°20′N 5°10′E / 57.333°N 5.167°E / 57.333; 5.167) and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by a British trawler. [289]
Red Dawn Russian Navy Bolshevik Russian Civil War: The warship was sunk by an onboard explosion with the loss of 130 lives. [299]
Stavros   Greece The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the English Channel. All nine crew were rescued by Marshal Plumer (  United Kingdom). [289] [300]

3 September

List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1920
Ship State Description
Cristóba Cólon   Spain The ocean liner was severely damaged by fire at Ferrol, Galicia whilst under construction. [301]
Genyei Maru   Japan The cargo ship foundered in the South China Sea north of Formosa in a typhoon. [302]
George Fisher   United Kingdom The cargo ship sank on the Middle Cross Sand, North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Lucient (  United Kingdom and the Caister Lifeboat. She was a total loss. [300]
Katalla Queen   United States The 7- gross register ton motor vessel sank in deep water near the middle of Valdez Bay ( 61°07′N 146°16′W / 61.117°N 146.267°W / 61.117; -146.267 (Valdez Bay)) on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska during an attempt to tow her to shore after she struck piling head and began to flood. Her crew of two survived. [256]

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1920
Ship State Description
Astarte   France The cargo ship collided with Hird (  Norway) in the Bay of Biscay 6 nautical miles (11 km) off Ouessant, Finistère and sank. [303] [304]
Dimitrios   Greece The coaster foundered in the English Channel off Hartland Point, Devon, United Kingdom. All nine crew survived. [301]

6 September

List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1920
Ship State Description
Berwyn   United States The cargo ship was wrecked at the Khuriya Muriya Islands in the Arabian Sea at approximately 17°44′N 056°38′E / 17.733°N 56.633°E / 17.733; 56.633 (SS Berwyn).
Norton   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground off Zooria Island, Greece. [303] She was refloated on 10 September. [305]
Queenmead   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Punta Entinas, Spain. [303] She was refloated on 9 September. [306]

7 September

List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1920
Ship State Description
City of Omaha   United States The cargo ship sank at Yokohama, Japan. [307]

8 September

List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1920
Ship State Description
Comboyne   Australia The cargo ship sank at Port Kembla, New South Wales. She was later refloated, repaired and returned to service.

9 September

List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1920
Ship State Description
Basaan   United States The cargo ship sprang a leak. She was towed to Riverhead, Newfoundland by Portia (  United Kingdom) and beached. [308]
Loughborough   United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with Konigin Luise (  United Kingdom) in the Atlantic Ocean off Belém, Portugal and was beached. [308]
Pentakota   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground on the Gahha Reef. [309] She was refloated on 30 September. [310]
Siboney   United States The passenger ship ran aground at Vigo, Galicia, Spain, [311] due to an error in navigation by her captain. Her 500 passengers were taken off on 10 September. [312] She was refloated on 30 September. [310]
War Fundy   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground in the Gulf of Bothnia off Grundkallen, Sweden and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued. [308]

10 September

List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1920
Ship State Description
USS Pittsburgh   United States Navy The Pennsylvania-class cruiser ran aground in the Baltic Sea 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off Liepāja, Latvia. [313] She was refloated on 11 September. [314]

14 September

List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1920
Ship State Description
Fylla   Denmark The schooner departed Campbellton, Newfoundland for Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands. [315]
Mary L. Oxner   United Kingdom The schooner ran aground on the Silver Bank, off the Turks Islands and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. [316]
Vermillion   United States Under tow by the tug Barrelton (  United States) from Norfolk, Virginia, to Fall River, Massachusetts, with a cargo of coal, the barge sank in the Atlantic Ocean 4.5 nautical miles (8.3 km; 5.2 mi) east by north of Montauk Point Light on Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, after colliding with the sunken wreck of the cargo ship Snug Harbor (  United States). Vermillion and her cargo were declared a total loss. [276] [277]
Winstead   United States Under tow by the tug Barrelton (  United States) from Norfolk, Virginia, to Fall River, Massachusetts, with a cargo off coal, the barge sank in the Atlantic Ocean 4.5 nautical miles (8.3 km; 5.2 mi) east by north of Montauk Point Light on Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, after colliding with the sunken wreck of the cargo ship Snug Harbor (  United States). Winstead and her cargo were declared a total loss. [276] [277]

15 September

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1920
Ship State Description
Charles A. Ritcey   Canada The schooner was wrecked at Rose Head, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia with the loss of her captain. [317]
Havfruen   Denmark The cargo ship collided with United States (  Denmark) in the Lessoe Channel. She was towed into Frederikshavn, Nordjylland, where she capsized with the loss of a crew member. [316]
Salgyr   Russian Navy White Movement Russian Civil War: Battle of Obytichnyi Spit: The gunboat was shelled and sunk in the Sea of Azov off Berdyansk by Krasnaya Zvezda (  Soviet Navy). Two crewmen killed. Survivors were rescued by Ural (  Russian Navy White Movement). [165]
Spyrios   Greece The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the Eddystone Lighthouse, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew survived. [316]

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1920
Ship State Description
Charles A. Ritcey   United Kingdom The schooner was lost off Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. [318]

17 September

List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1920
Ship State Description
Warita   United Kingdom The coaster was severely damaged by fire at Fleetwood, Lancashire. [318]

19 September

List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1920
Ship State Description
Zelo   United Kingdom The cargo ship struck the wreck of Merkur ( Finland) and sank in the Bristol Channel off Barry Island, Glamorgan with the loss of one of her 27 crew. [319]

20 September

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1920
Ship State Description
Prince Rupert   Canada The passenger ship struck a reef in Swanson Bay on the coast of British Columbia in Canada and was beached in a sinking condition. After her passengers and crew had been put ashore, she became almost completely submerged at high tide. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. [320] [321]

22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1920
Ship State Description
Nea Ellas   Greece The cargo ship ran aground on the Brazilian coast ( 5°11′S 35°10′W / 5.183°S 35.167°W / -5.183; -35.167). [322] She was refloated on 28 September. [323]

23 September

List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1920
Ship State Description
Amelia J.   Australia The yacht was wrecked on Flinders Island, Tasmania with the loss of all hands. An Airco DH.9A aircraft of the Australian Air Corps was lost whilst searching for her, along with both crew. Amelia J. was on a voyage from Newcastle, New South Wales to Hobart, Tasmania. [324]
I. D. S. Adolph   Denmark The cargo ship ran aground on Middelgrunden. [325] She was refloated on 28 September. [326]

24 September

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1920
Ship State Description
USS Cushing   United States Navy The decommissioned torpedo boat was sunk as a target.

25 September

List of shipwrecks: 25 September 1920
Ship State Description
Annavore   United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with España No.4 (  Spain) and was consequently beached at Bonanza, Cadiz, Spain. [327] She broke in two on 27 September. [326]

26 September

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1920
Ship State Description
Eikhang   Norway The cargo ship collided with Trostan (  United Kingdom) in the Lessoe Channel and sank with the loss of three of her crew. [328]

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1920
Ship State Description
Northland   United States The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Henry, Virginia. [326] She was later refloated in a severely leaking condition and beached. [290]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1920
Ship State Description
Fujinoki Maru No.2   Japan The cargo ship ran aground in Tobashima Province. She broke up and was wrecked with the loss of two lives. [329]

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1920
Ship State Description
Flandre   France The cargo ship foundered in the English Channel off St. Brieuc, Côtes-du-Nord. Her crew survived. [330]
Speedwell   United States The cargo ship sank in the Gulf of Mexico during a hurricane. Everyone abandoned ship in her lifeboats, but eight died in the boats from exhaustion and privation. [331] [332]

30 September

List of shipwrecks: 30 September 1920
Ship State Description
Katingo A. Lemos   Greece The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 105 nautical miles (194 km) off Cape Finisterre, Spain. [333]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date September 1920
Ship State Description
Luella   United States The sternwheel paddle steamer was lost at Chena, Territory of Alaska. [209]
Southern Cross   United Kingdom The brigantine was lost with all hands in Bass Strait, Australia.

October

1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1920
Ship State Description
Albyn   Finland The barque departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States for Gothenburg, Sweden. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands. [315]

3 October

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1920
Ship State Description
Yvonne   France The barquentine ran aground at Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom with the loss of a crew member. The survivors were rescued by a lifeboat. [329]

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1920
Ship State Description
HMCS CD54   Royal Canadian Navy The Admiralty-type drifter foundered on passage from Canada to the United Kingdom.
Montclair   United States The cargo ship ran aground on Ellis Island, New York. [334] She was refloated on 21 October. [335]

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1920
Ship State Description
Cometa   Norway The coaster came ashore at Desterro, Brazil and was wrecked. [336]
Sorknes   Norway The barque was dismasted and abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was subsequently towed in to Barry, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was hulked. [337]

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1920
Ship State Description
Elizabeth Alice   Belgium The schooner foundered in the Bristol Channel. All six crew survived. [338]

8 October

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1920
Ship State Description
Zuleika   United Kingdom The cargo ship came ashore at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. [339] She was declared a total loss on 11 November. [340]

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1920
Ship State Description
Mars   Finland The auxiliary schooner collided with Eston (  United Kingdom) in the North Sea ( 54°12′N 0°08′W / 54.200°N 0.133°W / 54.200; -0.133) and was abandoned. [339]
Masnedsund   United Kingdom The cargo ship came ashore at Bacton, Norfolk. [339] She was driven further up the beach on 10 October and was abandoned by her crew. [341]

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1920
Ship State Description
Benicia   United States The barquentine ran aground on the Lafolle Reef off the coast of Haiti and was a total loss. [342]
Svartskog   Norway The barque departed Newport News, Virginia, United States for Buenos Aires, Argentina. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands. [343]

11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1920
Ship State Description
HMCS CD86   Royal Canadian Navy The Admiralty-type drifter foundered on passage from Canada to the United Kingdom.
Dinorwic   United Kingdom The cargo ship struck rocks off Lambay Island, County Dublin. She proceeded to Dublin but sank at her moorings there. [344]
Esther Anne   United States The four-masted schooner collided with Duquesne (  United States) in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Pennsylvania and sank. Her crew were rescued. [344]
Ella C. Hollett   United Kingdom The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was discovered derelict and on fire at 44°33′N 17°33′W / 44.550°N 17.550°W / 44.550; -17.550 by St. Catherine (  United Kingdom). [342]
Inverawe   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground on the Haisborough Sands. [341] [345] She was refloated on 14 October. [346]
Peder Wessel   Denmark The three-masted schooner collided with Ravensworth (  United Kingdom) in the English Channel off the Royal Sovereign Lightship ( Trinity House) and sank. Her crew were rescued. [341]

12 October

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1920
Ship State Description
HMCS CD87   Royal Canadian Navy The Admiralty-type drifter foundered on passage from Canada to the United Kingdom.

13 October

List of shipwrecks: 13 October 1920
Ship State Description
Nikon   Greece The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea and sank off Västervik, Sweden. [347]
P. Heat   United States The auxiliary schooner was sunk in a collision with Cayo Mambi (  United States) at Santiago, Cuba. 12 killed. [348]

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1920
Ship State Description
Santiago Arago   Spain The schooner was destroyed by fire in the Mediterranean Sea off Almería. Her crew were rescued. [342]

18 October

List of shipwrecks: 18 October 1920
Ship State Description
Burnside   United States The cargo ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned ( 49°22′N 4°32′W / 49.367°N 4.533°W / 49.367; -4.533). Her crew were rescued by Goliath (  United States). [349] She later broke in two, with both sections remaining afloat and coming ashore on the Cornish coast. Later scrapped. [350] [351]

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1920
Ship State Description
Rose   United Kingdom The Thames barge foundered in the Thames Estuary 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) off Slough Fort. [352]

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1920
Ship State Description
Adonis   United Kingdom The schooner came ashore on the east coast of the United States 300 nautical miles (560 km) from Jacksonville, Florida and was abandoned. [335]
Chama   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground on Bellechasse Island, Quebec, Canada. [353] She was refloated on 25 October. [354]
Georgie   France The cargo ship came ashore at Quebec City, Canada. [353] She was refloated on 11 November. [340]
Nordica   United Kingdom The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ( 43°53′N 51°28′W / 43.883°N 51.467°W / 43.883; -51.467). Her crew were rescued by Willfaro (  United States). [335]

22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1920
Ship State Description
Zaca   United States The cargo ship caught fire at Port of Spain, Trinidad and was beached. [355]

23 October

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1920
Ship State Description
Village Belle   United Kingdom The cargo ship sprang a leak and was abandoned off Cape St. Mary's, Newfoundland. [356]

25 October

List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1920
Ship State Description
E. Hoel   Norway The cargo ship collided with Grandlieu (  France) in the Atlantic Ocean 40 nautical miles (74 km) off Vigo, Galicia, Spain and sank. Her crew were rescued. [354]

27 October

List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1920
Ship State Description
Bernard B. Conrad   United Kingdom The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ( 45°50′N 38°54′W / 45.833°N 38.900°W / 45.833; -38.900). Her crew were rescued by British Fern (  United Kingdom). [357]
Hastier   Belgium The cargo ship arrived at Antwerp with a fire in her cargo. She sank on 3 November. Hastier was raised in 1921 and scrapped in 1922.

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1920
Ship State Description
Minard Castle   United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with Maple (  United Kingdom) in the River Clyde and was beached at Dumbarton. [358] She was refloated the next day. [359]

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1920
Ship State Description
Sodegaura Maru   Japan The cargo ship ran aground at Ninian, India. [357] She was refloated on 8 November. [360]

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1920
Ship State Description
Cape Fear   United States The concrete ship collided with City of Atlanta (  United States) off Providence, Rhode Island and sank with the loss of twenty crew. [361]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1920
Ship State Description
New York Maru   Japan The cargo ship ran aground in the Red Sea off Mocha, Aden Protectorate. [362] She was refloated on 17 November. [363]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1920
Ship State Description
Ella C. Holley   United Kingdom The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by County of Cardigan (  United Kingdom) and were landed at Bermuda on 1 November. [364]
Gromoboi   Soviet Navy The crew of the armoured cruiser mutinied and took over the ship off Kronstadt in late October. Commisars and officers were killed and the ship was scuttled. Later refloated and sold for scrap. [365]

November

1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1920
Ship State Description
Coast Battleship Number 1   United States Navy
Coast Battleship Number 1, ex-USS Indiana, after sinking
The decommissioned Indiana-class battleship (formerly USS Indiana) sank in shallow water in the Chesapeake Bay while in use as a target. Her wreck was sold for scrap.
Lothair   United Kingdom The Thames barge was driven ashore at Felixstowe, Suffolk and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by the Walton Lifeboat. [357]
Posen   United Kingdom The captured Nassau-class battleship (ex-  Imperial German Navy) was driven ashore at Hawkcraig, Fife. [357]

2 November

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1920
Ship State Description
Riberhuus   Germany The cargo ship collided with Westwood (  United States) at Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Inférieure, France and sank. [364]
Thomas Lagnelet   France The schooner foundered on this date. Her crew were rescued. [366]

4 November

List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1920
Ship State Description
Harvester   United States The schooner departed Vavau, Tonga for San Francisco, California. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Pacific Ocean with the loss of all hands. [343]
Les Aulnays   France The cargo ship ran aground at Pointe du Touquet, Pas-de-Calais. [367] She broke in two the next day and was a total loss. [368]

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1920
Ship State Description
Guillane Ness   United Kingdom The coaster was destroyed by fire in the North Sea off Montrose, Forfarshire. Her crew survived. [369]
Loring R. Haskell   United Kingdom The schooner foundered in White Bay. Her crew were rescued by Cactus (  United Kingdom). [369]

6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1920
Ship State Description
Stella   Norway The sail-powered cargo ship was driven ashore at Lyngvær, Norway, and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. [369]
HMS Stonehenge   Royal Navy The destroyer was wrecked on the coast of the Ottoman Empire near Smyrna. [370]

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1920
Ship State Description
Barbadoes   United Kingdom The trawler struck a mine and sank in the North Sea with the loss of all ten crew. [371]

8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1920
Ship State Description
Cheechaco   United States Stored for the winter on blocks high on the beach at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, the 9-ton schooner was destroyed during a gale when an unusually high tide floated her off the blocks and she drifted away and was dashed to pieces on rocks and the beach. [220]

9 November

List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1920
Ship State Description
Ulla   Sweden The steamer struck a mine in the North Sea, and sank immediately. The crew survived. [372]

10 November

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1920
Ship State Description
Baltabor   United Kingdom The passenger ship ran aground at Liepāja, Latvia. All 152 passengers were taken off. [340] [373] She was refloated on 7 December. [374]
Ella L. Williams   United Kingdom The schooner caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean (approximately 19°N 67°W / 19°N 67°W / 19; -67) and was abandoned. [375]
El Mundo   United States The tanker suffered an onboard explosion and caught fire at New York with the loss of a crew member. She was beached on Ellis Island. [375] [376] El Mundo was refloated on 20 November. [377]

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1920
Ship State Description
Clan Graham   United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with another vessel and was beached at Vlissingen, Netherlands. [375] She was refloated on 21 November. [378]
Ekstrand   Norway The cargo ship foundered in the Skagerrak off Larvik, Norway. [376]
Italian Prince   United Kingdom The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Limassol, Cyprus. [376]
Lake Falk   United States The cargo ship ran aground in the Paracel Islands. [379] She was later refloated and arrived at Hong Kong on 23 November. [380]

12 November

List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1920
Ship State Description
Houthulst   Belgium The schooner was wrecked off Smögen, Sweden. [379]
HMS Tobago   Royal Navy Russian Civil War, Allied Intervention: The destroyer struck a mine and in the Black Sea. She was deemed a constructive total loss. [381]

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1920
Ship State Description
Baymanter   United Kingdom The cargo ship came ashore at Ras Hafun, Italian Somaliland. [379] She was declared a total loss on 7 December. [374] Her crew were rescued. [382]
Edith Pardy   United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Lamaline, Newfoundland and was a total loss. [379]
J. A. Maclean   United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Englee, Newfoundland and was a total loss. [379]

14 November

List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1920
Ship State Description
Ferret   Australia
Ferret

The cargo ship ran aground at Reef Head, Cape Spencer, South Australia and was wrecked. All 21 crew survived.

15 November

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1920
Ship State Description
HMS Amethyst   Royal Navy The Topaze-class cruiser parted tow from Eagle and Margaret Ham (both   United Kingdom) in the Irish Sea off the Smalls Lighthouse. [383] Most of her crew were taken off by the Aberystwyth Lifeboat. [384]
Maria José   Portugal The schooner was driven ashore at Porthcawl, Glamorgan, United Kingdom with the loss of one of her six crew. Survivors were rescued by breeches buoy. [385]
T.30   Reichsmarine The torpedo boat foundered at Cuxhaven, Germany. [386]
Nicholas   Greece The cargo ship foundered in the Black Sea 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) off Cape Tuzla, Soviet Union. Her crew survived. [383]
Pechiney   France The auxiliary sailing ship caught fire and sank at Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure. [384]
Zhit   Soviet Navy Russian Civil War, Evacuation of the Crimea: The destroyer foundered in the Black Sea with the loss of all on board - her crew and 250 passengers. She was on a voyage from Kertch to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. [99]

16 November

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1920
Ship State Description
Sarah Lightfoot   United Kingdom The schooner was dismasted in the North Sea ( 55°22′N 0°16′W / 55.367°N 0.267°W / 55.367; -0.267) and was abandoned in a sinking condition. Her crew were rescued by Bessheim (  United Kingdom). [384]
HMS Tyne   Royal Navy The troopship sprang a leak and sank in the River Medway at Chatham, Kent. [387]
Waltraute   United Kingdom The depôt ship was driven ashore at Leith, Lothian. [388] She was refloated on 28 November. [389]
Zhivoi Russia White Movement Russian Civil War: The Boiki-class destroyer sank at Sevastopol during a storm. [390]

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1920
Ship State Description
Delta   Norway The barque ran aground north of Bergen, Norway and was severely damaged. [388] She was towed to Hindö for examination with the expectation that she would be condemned as a constructive total loss. [377]
Yute   Spain The cargo ship issued an SOS in the Atlantic Ocean 240 nautical miles (440 km) south east of Cape May, Newfoundland. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [391]

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1920
Ship State Description
K.1 Russia White Movement Russian Civil War: The river gunboat, a converted Bolinder-type landing barge, was scuttled.
Neptunus   Netherlands The auxiliary schooner foundered in the Irish Sea 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) off the Smalls Lighthouse after her cargo shifted with the loss of one of her five crew. Survivors were rescued by the trawler Kirkland (  United Kingdom). [371] [392]
Scarpa   United Kingdom The vessel became stranded on the North Rock, Cloughey Bay, Country Down. [393] She was raised on 23 February 1921, repaired and returned to service [394]

20 November

List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1920
Ship State Description
General Horne   United Kingdom The schooner departed Catalina, Newfoundland for the Change Islands. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [395]
Grandest   United Kingdom The coaster struck rocks off the Hanois Lighthouse, Guernsey, Channel Islands and sank. All twelve crew were rescued by a trawler. [396]
Minnie Sommers   United Kingdom The barquentine departed Bo'ness, Lothian for Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure, France. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [397]

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1920
Ship State Description
Blenda   Sweden The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea, en route from Finland to Hull. Her crew were rescued. [398] [399]

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1920
Ship State Description
Chausey   France The cargo ship sank south of Belle Île, Morbihan. [400]
Lizzie   United Kingdom The cargo ship struck a rock and sank at Cherbourg, Seine Maritime, France. [401]
Santa Rosa   Spain The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank off Cape Prior, Galicia. [400]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1920
Ship State Description
Gregory   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Tutóia, Brazil. [380] She broke her back on 29 November and was a total loss. [402]
Margaret F. Dick   United Kingdom The schooner sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean ( 41°40′N 53°42′W / 41.667°N 53.700°W / 41.667; -53.700. She was set afire and abandoned. Her crew were rescued by Leersum (  Netherlands). [403]

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1920
Ship State Description
Meduana   United Kingdom The ocean liner caught fire and capsized at Wallsend, Northumberland. [403]
Taunton   Norway The cargo ship ran aground in the Bahamas. [404] She was abandoned the next day and was a total loss. [389]

25 November

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1920
Ship State Description
Zenith   United Kingdom The barquentine foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) west of the Longships. All seven crew were rescued. [405]

26 November

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1920
Ship State Description
W. J. Pirrie   United States The schooner barge wrecked on rocks in the Pacific Ocean off La Push, Washington after being cut loose from her tow in a gale and heavy seas, originally under tow from Tacoma, Washington to Antofagasta, Chile, or to San Francisco. Only two of her sixteen crew survived, Her Captain, his Wife and baby among the lost, or all 20 lost. [406] [407]

27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1920
Ship State Description
Comboyne   Australia The cargo ship sank off Shellharbour, New South Wales. Her crew survived.
Erminie   France The schooner was abandoned in the Bay of Biscay 3.5 nautical miles (6.5 km) north west of Ouessant, Finistère. Her crew were rescued by West Maximus (  United States). [389]
Evangelistria   Greece The cargo ship foundered in the English Channel off the Casquets, Guernsey, Channel Islands. Her crew survived. [389]

28 November

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1920
Ship State Description
Betsy   Netherlands The schooner sprang a leak and sank in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the trawler Unity (  United Kingdom). [408]
Ioannis Carras   Greece The cargo ship sank in the Iroise Sea off the Pierres Noires, Finistère, France. Her crew survived. [409]

29 November

List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1920
Ship State Description
Capitaine Remy   France The auxiliary sailing vessel capsized in the English Channel 10 nautical miles (19 km) south of The Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. [410]
Meta   France The schooner foundered off in the Mediterranean Sea off Port-la-Nouvelle, Aude. [409]
Notre Dame de la Mer   France The cargo ship capsized at Brunsbüttelkoog, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. [411]

30 November

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1920
Ship State Description
Sheila Margaret   United Kingdom The cargo ship foundered in the English Channel. Wreckage from the ship washed up at Swanage, Dorset. [411] [412]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1920
Ship State Description
Rostislav   White forces Russian Civil War: The minesweeper depot ship, a former Rostislav-class battleship, in use by White forces under Pyotr Wrangel, was scuttled in the Kerch Strait.

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1920
Ship State Description
Betsy   Netherlands The schooner sprang a leak in the North Sea and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued. [412]
Giant King   United Kingdom The schooner ran aground on Ambergris Cay, Turks Islands. Her passengers and crew were rescued. [413]

2 December

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1920
Ship State Description
Ansgir   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground near Mousehole, Cornwall. Her crew of 45 were rescued. [414]
Blanche H. King   United States The schooner ran aground on the West Reef, Bahamas and was a total loss. Her crew survived. [415]
Dauntless   Norway The cargo ship struck a mine in the Baltic Sea off the Närs Lighthouse, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. [414]
Eastern Tempest   United States The cargo ship ran aground on the Bogskär, Finland and was abandoned by her crew. She was refloated on 7 December. [415] [416]
Fiorino   Norway The barque departed Kristiansand, Norway for the Hampton Roads. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [417]
Hathor   Germany The cargo ship ran aground on the Lethegus Ledge off the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom and was wrecked. All 24 crew were rescued by the St. Mary's Lifeboat. [414]
Kate   United Kingdom The schooner issued an SOS off Holyhead, Anglesey. Her crew were taken off by the Holyhead Lifeboat. [418]

4 December

List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1920
Ship State Description
Hermina   Netherlands The auxiliary schooner broke free from her mooring and was wrecked at Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom in a gale with the loss of one of her ten crew. Survivors were rescued by the Fishguard Lifeboat or by rocket apparatus. [418] [419]
Renvoyle   United Kingdom The cargo ship was abandoned off Belle Île, Finistère, France. [418] she subsequently sank. [420]
Schoolcraft   United Kingdom The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. [420]
Timbo   United Kingdom The coaster was driven ashore near Clynnog Fawr, Caernarfonshire with the loss of four of her eight crew. Five of the thirteen crew of the Rhoscolyn Lifeboat were lost attempting to rescue her crew before she came ashore. [418] [419]
Tourmaline   United Kingdom The coal hulk was driven ashore 16 nautical miles (30 km) west of Thurso, Caithness and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. [418]

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1920
Ship State Description
Verena   Netherlands The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea ( 55°50′N 0°30′E / 55.833°N 0.500°E / 55.833; 0.500). Her crew were rescued by Haakon VII (  Norway). [418]

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1920
Ship State Description
Graf Waldersee   United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with Tregantle (  United Kingdom) in the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent. She then collided with Fairfield and the ice hulk Sumatra (both   United Kingdom) and was then beached. Fairfield sank and the other ships were damaged. [420] Graf Waldersee was refloated on 8 December. [416]
Taff   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground on the Dogger Bank in the North Sea and was a total loss. [420]

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1920
Ship State Description
V140   Reichsmarine The V125-class torpedo boat was wrecked on this date.

10 December

List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1920
Ship State Description
Yellowstone   United States The cargo ship dragged her anchor and ran hard aground off Ponta Delgada in the Azores and was declared a total loss. All 45 of her crew were saved.

13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1920
Ship State Description
Mabel A   United States After her gasoline engine broke down, the 32-ton fishing vessel drifted onto the coast of "Noise Island" – apparently Noyes Island – in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska and was stranded, breaking up in the surf in about two hours. Her crew of three survived. [109]
Nikolaos Stathatos   Greece The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 40 nautical miles (74 km) off Cape Ortegal, Galicia, Spain. All 25 crew were rescued. [382]

15 December

List of shipwrecks: 15 December 1920
Ship State Description
Limehouse   United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground on the East Barrow Sands in the Thames Estuary. [421] She was refloated on 21 December. [422]

16 December

List of shipwrecks: 16 December 1920
Ship State Description
Anna G. Lord   United States The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maryland. Her crew were rescued. [423]
Emma Belliveau   United Kingdom The schooner foundered off Saint Michael, Barbados. [424]
Inca   United States The five-masted schooner was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean (approximately 34°S 154°E / 34°S 154°E / -34; 154). Her crew were rescued by Cosmos (  United Kingdom). [423] She was towed into Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, arriving on 18 December. [424]
Monnow   United Kingdom The four-masted auxiliary schooner was destroyed by fire off Southend, Essex. All nineteen crew survived. [425]
Perry Setzer   United States The four-masted schooner was beached at Jacksonville, Florida. [426]
St. Louis   United States The ocean liner was severely damaged by fire at New York. [426]
Yellowstone   United States The cargo ship was driven ashore at Saint Michael, Barbados and was wrecked. [425]

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1920
Ship State Description
Bar-le-Duc   French Navy The despatch boat was wrecked off Euboea, Greece with the loss of 26 of her 105 crew. [427] [428]

18 December

List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1920
Ship State Description
Elisabeth   Denmark The schooner came ashore on the south coast of Iceland and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued. [424]
Joseph Pulitzer   United States During a mail voyage from Seward, Territory of Alaska, to the Aleutian Islands, the 73- gross register ton, 75-foot (22.9 m) two- masted motor schooner sank in Aniakchak Bay ( 56°42′N 157°22′W / 56.700°N 157.367°W / 56.700; -157.367 (Aniakchak Bay)) on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula. All eight people on board survived. Joseph Pulitzer's wreck later was salvaged, taken to Chignik, Territory of Alaska, and stripped. [295]

19 December

List of shipwrecks: 19 December 1920
Ship State Description
Jane Palmer   United States The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ( 35°04′N 65°25′W / 35.067°N 65.417°W / 35.067; -65.417). Her crew were rescued by Cotati (  United States). [429]

20 December

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1920
Ship State Description
Dora   United States During a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to Unga, Territory of Alaska, and way ports with a cargo of general merchandise and a crew of 29 aboard, the 320- gross register ton steamer was wrecked without loss of life on the coast of Noble Island in British Columbia, Canada. [98]
Spyros   Greece The cargo ship foundered in the English Channel 11 nautical miles (20 km) south of St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. All eleven crew were rescued. [429]

21 December

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1920
Ship State Description
Ferdenborg   Denmark The schooner was driven ashore 6 nautical miles (11 km) south of Johnshaven, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the Johnshaven Lifeboat, which later capsized with the loss of two of her crew and a lifeboatman. [430]
Robert H. McCurdy   United States The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. [430]

23 December

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1920
Ship State Description
Curieuse   France The schooner departed Fogo, Newfoundland for Alicante, Spain. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands. [431]
Vlassios   Greece The cargo ship foundered in the Aegean Sea off Leipsoi with the loss of six of her fifteen crew. [432]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1920
Ship State Description
Kwinana   United Kingdom The cargo ship caught fire at Carnarvon, Western Australia and sank. [433] [434]
Ougree   Belgium The cargo ship collided with Aleppo (  United Kingdom) in the River Scheldt and was beached off Vlissingen, Netherlands. [435]
Photios   Greece The cargo ship sprang a leak, broke in two, and sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Corsica and Elba, Italy. Her crew were rescued by Calliroi Saparis (  Greece). [434]
Prah   United Kingdom The cargo liner ran aground 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) east of Grand-Bassam, French West Africa. [436] She was refloated on 3 January 1921. [437]

26 December

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1920
Ship State Description
Navarino   United Kingdom The cargo ship arrived at Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom on fire and was beached. [435] She was refloated on 31 December. [438]

27 December

List of shipwrecks: 27 December 1920
Ship State Description
Elsie L. Corkum   United Kingdom The schooner sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ( 40°29′N 13°38′W / 40.483°N 13.633°W / 40.483; -13.633). [433] Her six crew were rescued by Heronspool (  United Kingdom). [438]
Lakeside Bridge   United States The EFC Design 1023 cargo ship lost her propeller in strong gale and ran aground on Pico Island, Azores, Portugal and became a total loss. [433]

28 December

List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1920
Ship State Description
Impressive   United Kingdom The schooner foundered off Memory Rock, Bahamas. [433]
Tris Adelft   Greece The cargo ship sank in the Tyrrhenian Sea 18 nautical miles (33 km) north west of Monte Circeo, Lazio, Italy. Her crew were rescued. [434]

29 December

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1920
Ship State Description
John C. Craven   United States The ocean liner Nieuw Amsterdam (  Netherlands) rammed the lighter John C. Craven in New York Harbor, cutting her in two and sinking her. Two lightermen were killed; the skipper and five lightermen were rescued. [439]
Korsnæs   Norway The auxiliary schooner was destroyed by fire off Chesapeake, Virginia, United States. [434]

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1920
Ship State Description
Saint Oran   United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with Eveleen (  United Kingdom) off Ailsa Craig, Ayrshire and sank. Twenty of her crew were rescued. [434]

31 December

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1920
Ship State Description
Kentucky   Denmark The cargo ship came ashore at Duncansby Head, Caithness, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. [438]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date December 1920
Ship State Description
Kaes Samud flag unknown The ship sank off Bangkok, Thailand. [440]
Marion J. Smith   United Kingdom The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Pennyworth (  United Kingdom) and landed at Tarragona, Spain on 15 December. [425]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1920
Ship State Description
BDL   United States The motor vessel was lost in "Strawberry Bay" near Katalla, Territory of Alaska – probably a reference to Strawberry Harbor, also known as Strawberry Cove ( 60°10′N 144°23′W / 60.167°N 144.383°W / 60.167; -144.383), 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) southeast of Katalla. [441]
HMCS CD57   Royal Canadian Navy The Admiralty-type drifter was lost at sea sometime before August 1920.
Gunner   United States The whaling boat was lost in Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska after her harpoon cannon exploded. [266]
Imperial Queen   United Kingdom The steam fishing trawler sailed from Grimsby on 22 July for North Sea fishing grounds and last seen on 28 July, apparently returning to Grimsby. Her crew of 11 were lost. It was supposed that she had struck a mine. [442]
On Time   United States The 27- gross register ton, 56.1-foot (17.1 m) motor cargo vessel was wrecked in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. Her loss was not reported until 1928. [443]
Outline   United States The vessel was lost in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. [443]
USS Richmond   United States The decommissioned frigate, sold for scrap, was burned on the beach at Eastport, Maine, sometime during the first half of 1920 to ease the retrieval of valuable metals. [444]
UB-21   United Kingdom The Type UB II submarine foundered off the coast of England whilst under tow to be scrapped.
Varyag   United Kingdom The protected cruiser ran aground at Lendalfoot, Ayrshire whilst under tow to be scrapped. She sank in 1925.

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