List of shipwrecks in 1903#April

The list of shipwrecks in 1903 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1903.

January

=2 January=

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|ship={{SV|Prince Arthur||2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc= The barque was wrecked in a storm on a reef {{convert|10|mi}} south of Cape Alava and broke up. 18 were killed, 2 survivors.{{cite web |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/8998 |title=The Norwegian bark Prince Arthur wrecks on the Washington coast, with a loss of 18 lives, on January 2, 1903. |publisher=historylink.org |access-date=16 May 2020}}

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=3 January=

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|ship=Remedios Pascual

|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}

|desc=During a voyage from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to New York City carrying a crew of 21 men and a cargo of animal bones destined for a fertilizer factory, the 1,605-ton schooner was wrecked in thick fog during a gale about {{convert|200|yd|m|0}} off Ship Bottom, New Jersey, and about {{convert|1.5|mi|km}} north of the Ship Bottom Life-Saving Station. The United States Life-Saving Service rescued her entire crew. Her wreck sank in {{convert|20|to|30|ft|m|0}} of water and is known as the "Bone Wreck" and the "Surf City Wreck."[https://njscuba.net/sites/chart_nj-0_coast.php#Remedios njscuba.net Remedios Pascual ("Bone Wreck")][https://books.google.com/books?id=u_tEAQAAMAAJ&q=Remedios+Pascual&pg=PA130 Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1903, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904, pp. 130–131, 282.][http://www.aquaexplorers.com/shipwreckremediospascual.htm aquaexplorers.com The Remedios Pascual Shipwreck]

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=7 January=

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|ship={{SS|Jas. A. Carney||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck an obstruction at the mouth of the Mobile River in Alabama and was beached. She was refloated and repaired.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=7 August 2019}}

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=8 January=

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|ship={{SS|Lucille Nowland||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a hidden obstruction in the Arkansas River between Memphis, Tennessee and Pine Bluff, Arkansas and sank.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=3 August 2019}}

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=9 January=

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|ship={{SS|Alligator||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sank at dock at Palatka, Florida due to a broken pipe. Raised, repaired and returned to service.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=58 |page=52 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=15 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/fl/fl0600/fl0660/data/fl0660data.pdf |title=ALLIGATOR HAER No. FL-23 |publisher=HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior |access-date=15 May 2020}}

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|ship= {{SS|Crosby||2}}

|flag={{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamship was wrecked at Bempton Cliffs, Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.{{csr|register=MSI|id=1115892|shipname=Crosby|accessdate=10 February 2020}}

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|ship=Otto

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The laid up steamer burned at Freeport, Florida.

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|ship= {{SS|Palmas|1888|2}}

|flag={{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The cargo ship was sighted whilst on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Boston, Massachusetts, United States. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all 39 crew.{{cite web |url=http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=212 |title=Palmas |publisher=The Yard |access-date=19 February 2017}}

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=13 January=

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|ship={{SS|Thomas Morgan||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tug ran aground at high tide on a steep bank in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina. When the tide dropped she slid off and sank. One crewman killed.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904|access-date=1 August 2019}}

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=16 January=

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|ship={{SS|Grit||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tow steamer sank at dock in Tottenville, New York due to a damaged plank.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=30 July 2019}}

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=17 January=

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|ship={{SS|Earl||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer capsized and sank at the mouth of the Tangipahoa River, possibly from being close to the bank edge with the river level dropping.

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=21 January=

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|ship={{USS|Leyden|1865|6}}

|flag={{navy|United States|1896}}

|desc=While on a return passage from Puerto Rico in heavy fog, the tug was wrecked on rocks just off Southeast Point on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island, {{convert|0.75|nmi}} west of Block Island Southeast Light. Her wreck settled in {{convert|15|ft}} of water at {{coord|41|08.85|N|071|33.86|W|name=USS Leyden}}.{{Cite web| url=http://wreckhunter.net/DataPages/leyden-dat.htm |title=USS Leyden | publisher=Hunting New England Shipwrecks |accessdate=27 January 2021 }}

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|ship={{SS|Nanticoke||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was sunk by ice in Newark Bay. Later raised and drydocked.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=30 July 2019}}

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|ship={{SS|Seaboard||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer ran aground in high winds, heavy seas, and dense fog on Dutch Island in Narragansett Bay. Later refloated.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904|access-date=30 July 2019}}

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=22 January=

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|ship={{SS|Fawn||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The laid up steamer sank at St. Louis, Missouri when cold weather opened up her seams. She was a total loss.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=60 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904|access-date=3 August 2019}}

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=23 January=

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|ship={{SS|John T. Pratt||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tow steamer sank at dock at the foot of Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn when her seams opened up. Later raised and repaired.

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=25 January=

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|ship={{SS|Otto|1883|2}}

|flag={{flag|Sweden}}

|desc= The steamer was wrecked off Terschelling.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?975 |title=Otto (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=19 May 2020}}

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=29 January=

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|ship={{SS|Bay Ridge||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tow steamer sank at dock in thick fog at The Battery when she was struck by {{SS|New York Central No. 6||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}).

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=30 January=

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|ship={{SS|Crescent City||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was wrecked on Fish Rocks near Point Arena, California, a total loss.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904|access-date=29 July 2019}}

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|ship={{SS|Gulf Stream||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was wrecked on the bar at Hereford, New Jersey in heavy seas and dense fog. Her cargo was salvaged.

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February

=1 February=

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|ship={{RNLB|James Stevens No. 12|ON 436|3=2}}

|flag=file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution

|desc=The {{Lbs|Mumbles}} lifeboat capsized at the mouth of the River Afan with the loss of six of her fourteen crew.{{cite web |url=http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf |title=A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks |first=Ron |last=Tovey |publisher=Swansea Docks |access-date=21 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222065415/http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf |archivedate=22 December 2014 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Maskelyne||2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The steamship foundered at {{coord|41|35|N|34|40|W}}.{{csr|register=MSI|id=1070896|shipname=Maskelyne |accessdate=10 February 2020}}

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=2 February=

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|ship={{SS|Alert|1884|2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc= The steamer sprung a leak in a gale and foundered {{convert|100|mi}} off Spurn Point. All nine crew were rescued by the trawler {{SS|Cepheus||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?243023 |title=Alert (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=15 May 2020}}

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=4 February=

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|ship= {{SS|Berwick||2}}

|flag=

|desc=The Newcastle steamer was wrecked on the Runnelstone. Her crew took to two lifeboats, one of which reached land and the other, with five crew members on board, was taken to Penzance in the Sennen Cove Lifeboat Station lifeboat Ann Newbon (25px Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{cite book|last=Leach|first=Nicholas|title=Sennen Cove Lifeboats|year=2003|publisher=Tempus|location=Stroud|isbn=0-7524-3111-0}}

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|ship={{ship|French destroyer|Espingole||2}}

|flag={{Navy|France}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Durandal|destroyer}} hit a rock and sank in Cavalaire Bay off Cavalaire-sur-Mer, France. Her wreck was sold as scrap in December 1909.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Marina (or Mariana)

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=During a voyage from Killisnoo to Hoonah, District of Alaska, with her owner, five passengers, and a cargo of camp supplies and potatoes on board, the 5-ton, {{convert|30|ft|m|1|adj=on}} sloop was wrecked on a reef in Chatham Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska, probably at Fishery Point ({{coord|57|47|30|N|134|42|35|W|name=Fishery Point}}). All on board survived the initial wreck and all of her cargo was brought ashore, but her owner and two other men who went back aboard her to await the rising tide to refloat her perished, two of them disappearing completely.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-m/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (M)]

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|ship={{SS|New York Central No. 22||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tow steamer ran aground in thick fog at Sunken Meadows, New York in the East River. Refloated on 7 February.

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=5 February=

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|ship={{SS|Red Cloud||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was sunk by ice in the Pend d'Oreille River below Newport, Oregon.

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=6 February=

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|ship={{SS|Gladys||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer listed on a rising tide and sank at Pier 83 North, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Raised the next day.

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=7 February=

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|ship={{SS|Isabel||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire at Stokes Wharf, Rancocas Creek, Pennsylvania.

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=8 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Brunswick||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer went aground at Fort Bragg, California. Later refloated and repaired.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Southern Cross|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Canada|1868}}

|desc=The schooner capsized at Port Greville, Nova Scotia. She was later salvaged, repaired and returned to service.{{cite web |url=https://novascotia.ca/museum/wrecks/wrecks/shipwrecks.asp?ID=4124 |title=Southern Cross - 1903 |publisher=Maritime Museum of the Atlantic |access-date=19 January 2015}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Wm. S. McGowan||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The lighter sank at dock over night due to leaky seams at Boston, Massachusetts. Raised and repaired.

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=11 February=

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|ship={{SS|Bay City||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was lost to fire at West Point, Washington, between Seattle and Ballard.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=31 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904|access-date=30 July 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?291711 |title=Bay City (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=11 May 2020}}

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=16 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Decantur||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The schooner was sunk in a severe squall at Newport News, Virginia. Later raised.{{cite web |url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/hertford/history/other/olive01.txt |title=Hertford County, NC - Passenger Steamer Olive Wrecked |publisher=usgwarchives.net |access-date=15 May 2020}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Olive||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer foundered in what is described as a "hurricane" or "whirlwind" in the Chowan River that caused her to careen, and fill with water, she righted herself and sank between Mount Pleasant and Oliver's Wharf with only her pilothouse above water. 18 killed, her captain and 5 others were rescued from the pilothouse by {{SS|Pettit||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}). Eight others left in a lifeboat and boarded a barge, from which they were rescued by {{SS|Gazelle||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}).{{cite web |url=http://www.gendisasters.com/north-carolina/15604/chowan-river-nc-steamer-olive-struck-tornado-feb-1903 |title=Chowan River, NC Steamer OLIVE Struck By Tornado, Feb 1903 |publisher=gendisasters.com |access-date=15 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/hertford/history/other/olive01.txt |title=Hertford County, NC - Passenger Steamer Olive Wrecked |publisher=usgwarchives.net |access-date=15 May 2020}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Roger Quarles||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

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=17 February=

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|ship={{SV|Ida||2}}

|flag={{flag|Canada|1868}}

|desc= The barque was lost in a snowstorm off Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?34454 |title=Ida (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=19 May 2020}}

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=18 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Charlotte||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire at Charlotte, New York, on the Genesee River.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=88 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=7 August 2019}}

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=20 February=

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|ship={{SS|City of Clifton||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire in the Tennessee River at Clifton, Tennessee.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=70 |page=64 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |accessdate=17 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?291715 |title=city of Clifton (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=17 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/A2U2YQ7XZM5T2A8K |title=City of Clifton (Packet, 1900-1903) |publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison Library |access-date=17 May 2020}}

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=21 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|William Schaubel Sr.||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tow steamer sank at dock at Erie Basin, Brooklyn, New York due to a sheared rivet. Later raised.

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=24 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Commodore|1890|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer foundered at Miami, Missouri.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?291720 |title=Commodore (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=15 May 2020}}

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=26 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Ottercaps||2}}

|flag={{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamship was wrecked off Feunteun Aod, Finistère, France.{{cite web|url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?13189|publisher=wrecksite.eu|title=SS Ottercaps (1903)}} }}

=27 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Daisy||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc= The steamer ran aground and was wrecked {{convert|3|nmi|spell=in}} west of Polhawn Cove in Whitsand Bay.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?291959 |title=Daisy (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=15 May 2020}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mouse

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The smack got into difficulties off Cardigan. All four people on board were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{cite web |url=http://www.glen-johnson.co.uk/cardigan-district-shipwrecks-and-lifeboat-service/ |title=Cardigan & District Shipwrecks and Lifeboat Service |date=23 July 2013 |publisher=Glen Johnson |access-date=1 February 2015}} }}

=28 February=

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|ship={{RMS|Etruria||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|government}}

|desc=The ocean liner ran aground on sand and mud in the entrance to Gedney Channel while leaving New York City. She was refloated late the same day, found to be undamaged, and proceeded with her voyage.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Excel||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a snag, capsized and sank at Lock No. 5 in the Little Kanawha River. Raised and repaired.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904|access-date=6 August 2019}}

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=Unknown date=

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|ship=Ambriz

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The Cie Française Charbonnage et de la Batelage ("French Coaling & Shipping Co.") vessel was wrecked off the coast of Madagascar while serving as a coal depot ship.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|L. H. Buhrman||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire either in the Ohio River near Derby, Indiana on 25 February, or at Stevenson, Kentucky on the Cumberland River in March.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=68 |page=62 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=17 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?291755 |title=L.H. Buhrman (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=17 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AY2O47AWQXGKFQ8R |title=L. H. Buhrman (Towboat, 1899-1903) |publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison Library |access-date=17 May 2020}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Luna||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque was on passage from New Zealand to Liverpool when she lost part of her mast and head gear off the Pendeen Lighthouse, and drifted onto the Brisons in a northwest–by–west gale and was wrecked. All the crew were lost.

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March

=1 March=

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|ship={{SS|Valley Queen||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned on the Mississippi River near Bruinsburg Landing, a total loss.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?291804 |title=Valley Queen (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}

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=2 March=

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|ship={{SS|Bassinger||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned at dock in Punta Gorda, Florida, a total loss.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=94 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=7 August 2019}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Maggie||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a snag and sank on the Yazoo River near Simmons Landing, Mississippi, a total loss. One crewman killed.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=93 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=7 August 2019}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Trojan||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned to the waterline at Jacksonville, Florida.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=1 August 2019}}

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=4 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Charlie Curlin||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a submerged obstruction in the Green River between Calhoun, Kentucky and Livermore, Kentucky and sank. Raised and repaired.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=3 August 2019}}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Commodore

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The laid up steamer was sunk by an ice flow at St. Louis, Missouri. Scheduled to be raised after June.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904|access-date=3 August 2019}}

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=7 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Neptune||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The ferry was wrecked when backed into by {{SS|Margaret||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}) in the Ohio River between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Allegheny, Pennsylvania.

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=9 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alexandra

|flag=flag unknown

|desc=File:StateLibQld 1 185259 Alexandra (ship).jpg

Cyclone Leonta: The cargo ship was driven ashore at Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Delta||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a snag in the Mississippi River near Mayersville, Mississippi and sank. Raised and repaired.

}}

=10 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Kongo Maru|1879|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Empire of Japan}}

|desc= The steamer foundered off Misaki, Japan.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?208859 |title=Kongo Maru (1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=12 August 2019}}

}}

=11 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|W. H. Flint||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a submerged buoy in the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky and sank. Raised and repaired.

}}

=12 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Albion

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked in West Bay, Dorset.{{cite web |url=http://www.burtonbradstock.org.uk/History/Wrecks%20off%20Burton%20Bradstock/Historical%20list%20of%20wrecks.htm |title=Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis |publisher=Burton Bradstock Online |access-date=27 December 2014}} }}

=13 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unknown car float

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The car float, under tow of {{SS|Lowell M. Palmer||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}), sank in a collision in fog with the passenger steamer {{SS|New Hampshire||2}} off Tenth St. in the East River. 14 rail cars on board rolled off as she sank.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=38 |page=32 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=11 May 2020}}

}}

=15 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Harry No. 2||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned at Charleroi, Pennsylvania. Later rebuilt.

}}

=19 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Metamora||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sank up to her 2nd deck in the Ocklawaha River in {{convert|20|ft}} of water. Two crewmen killed. Raised in April, repaired and returned to service.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Varuna||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned and sank in the Sacramento River near Meriden Landing, California when an oil lamp fell off a bulkhead, a total loss.

}}

=20 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Pilot||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tug, while assisting steamer Winifred ({{flag|United States|1897}}) in the Delaware River off Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, was run into by Winifred causing her to careen, fill and sink. Five crewmen were killed. Two crewmen were rescued by a barge towed by Winifred and one crewman climbed Winifred{{'}}s anchor chain.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=47 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904|access-date=30 July 2019}}

}}

=23 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Dreadnought||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The schooner was sunk in a collision with Huron ({{flag|United States|1897}}) in dense fog and heavy seas. The crew were rescued by Huron{{'}}s boats.

}}

=24 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Finland||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=File:Het stoomschip Finland aan de grond gelopen buiten Vlissingen, asset c2ROoVLBUeWcMcZVGFNC0247.tif The passenger ship was driven ashore at Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was refloated and returned to service.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Mary E. Morse||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The schooner was sunk in a collision with {{SS|Parthian||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}) in fog off Boston, Massachusetts. The crew were rescued by Parthian.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=47 |page=41 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=13 May 2020}}

}}

=27 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|William A. Kane||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tow steamer was backing out of dock at Rivington Street, New York City and was caught on a spile causing her to capsize and sink. Her captain was killed. Later raised.

}}

=31 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Shamrock||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamer sprang a leak at Catherine Hill Bay, New South Wales, Australia, and sank. She was scrapped in situ after it was found she was too badly damaged to repair.{{csr|register=MSI|id=1076233|shipname=Shamrock |accessdate=10 February 2020}} }}

=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Hougomont|barque|2}}

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The barque ran aground at Allonby, Cumbria, England. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|L. H. Buhrman||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

}}

April

=3 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Albion River||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was wrecked in thick fog on Bodega Head, California.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=29 July 2019}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|J. C. L.||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned due to an over turned lamp at Burlington, Vermont, a total loss.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=90 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=7 August 2019}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John C. Fitzpatrick

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The {{convert|242|ft|m|1|adj=on}}, 1,277-gross register ton schooner barge suffered an explosion and sank in {{convert|130|ft|m|0}} of water in the North Atlantic Ocean south of Long Island near East Hampton, New York. Her entire crew of five perished.[https://njscuba.net/sites/chart_li-2_east.php#Fitzpatrick njscuba.net John C. Fitzpatrick ("Jug")]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unknown barge

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The dumper barge, under tow of {{SS|Franklin N. Brown||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}), sank while being towed to sea from New York City off the Whistling Buoy. Her only crewman died.

}}

=9 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Victoria||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=Shortly after the steamer Albion River was wrecked on 3 April, another Swayne & Hoyt owned steamer ran ashore on Little Bamboo Island in the Straits of Pechili and became a total loss.{{cite news|work=San Francisco Call|date=11 April 1903|page=7|title=Steamship Victoria Runs Ashore on Island in the Straits of Pechili|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19030411.2.62&srpos=33&e=------190-en--20--21-byDA-txt-txIN-%22swayne+%26+hoyt%22-------}}{{cite news|work=San Francisco Call|date=20 June 1903|page=7|title=Victoria's Crew Repels Pirates|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19030620.2.78&srpos=39&e=------190-en--20--21-byDA-txt-txIN-%22swayne+%26+hoyt%22-------}}

}}

=13 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Margaret Ward||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The schooner was sunk in a collision with {{SS|El Rio||2}} in dense fog, either at the Entrance to Galveston Harbor, or {{convert|28|mi}} south east of Galveston in {{convert|8+1/2|fathom|lk=in}} of water, which ever place, it was shallow enough for the wreck to be marked with a buoy.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=70 |page=64 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=19 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?290198 |title=Margaret Ward (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=19 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ldhGAQAAMAAJ&dq=Ship:++Margaret+Ward+,1903&pg=PA79 |title=Annual report of the United States Lighthouse Board, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903 |via=Googlebooks |access-date=19 May 2020}}

}}

=21 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Freia||2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The steamer was wrecked near Scharhörn on her passage from Kristiana to Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands.{{cite web|url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?220224 |title=SV Freia (+1903) |publisher=wrecksite.eu |access-date=24 September 2014}} }}

=28 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Maud Kilgore||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer foundered at the mouth of the La Anguille River. Raised and repaired.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=3 August 2019}}

}}

=29 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Belle P. Cross||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was wrecked in a blizzard and gale on a reef off Gooseberry River on the north shore of Lake Superior and broke up.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?172335 |title=Belle P. Cross (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=16 May 2020}}

}}

=30 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Clarence||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Charleston, South Carolina.

}}

May

=1 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fedelia

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The barge sprung a leak and sank near Hen and Chickens Light.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unknown canal boat

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= A canal boat, under tow, was sunk in a collision with another towed canal boat off Sixth Street, Jersey City, New Jersey.

}}

=5 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Saginaw

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was sunk in a collision with {{SS|Hamilton||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}) in dense fog off Hog Island, Virginia. Eight passengers and six crew were killed. 21 crew and 11 passengers were rescued by Hamilton{{'}}s boats, but one stewardess died in the boat.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?291774 |title=Saginaw (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=13 May 2020}}

}}

=6 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Gloriana|| 2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The fishing schooner was wrecked off Whale Cove near White Point Ledges. Her captain and 14 crew died, 3 made it to shore.{{cite web |url=https://gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/404/LOST-AT-SEAAPR?bidId= |title=Lost at sea |publisher=gloucester-ma.gov |access-date=19 May 2021 |archive-date=6 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506124722/https://gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/404/LOST-AT-SEAAPR?bidId= |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?34161 |title=Gloriana (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=19 May 2021}}

}}

=9 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Olympia||2}}

|flag={{flag|Canada|1868}}

|desc= The schooner was wrecked off Sable Island, Nova Scotia.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?35693 |title= Olympia (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=6 August 2019}}

}}

=12 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Quaker City||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The 46-gross register ton screw steamer sank in the Delaware River after colliding with the steam screw tug {{SS|Harry M. Wall||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}) off Chestnut Street Wharf in Camden, New Jersey. Harry M. Wall tried to beach Quaker City, but she sank on the east side of the Ship Channel before she could be beached. All six people aboard Quaker City survived.[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3330071 Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Navigation Thirty-Ninth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States for the Year Ending June 30, 1907, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907, p. 380.]

}}

=18 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Edward Gillen||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tug was sunk in a collision in fog with {{SS|Maunaloa||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}) at the entrance to Duluth, Minnesota-Superior, Wisconsin Harbor. One crewman killed. Raised and repaired.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=65 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904|access-date=3 August 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://greatlakes.bgsu.edu/item/437892 |title=Maunaloa |publisher=BGSU University Libraries |access-date=16 May 2020}}

}}

=20 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Pfohl||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire {{convert|20|mi}} north west of Goderich, Ontario.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=85 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904|access-date=6 August 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?291771 |title=Pfohl (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unknown schooner

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The schooner sank in a collision with a barge under the tow of steamer {{SS|Cuba||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}) off Cape Cod. The crew transferred by small boat to the barge.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=38 |page=32 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=12 May 2020}}

}}

=25 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Falcon

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned at dock in Satilla River.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|M. Dougherty||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sprung a leak and sank at Brown's Station, Pennsylvania. Raised, repaired and returned to service.

}}

=26 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Huddersfield|1872|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=On leaving Antwerp, the passenger-cargo ship was in collision in the River Scheldt with the steamer {{SS|Uto||2}} ({{flag|Norway|civil}}). All 17 members of her crew were saved but all 22 of her passengers – emigrants from Galicia on their way to Canada – drowned.{{cite news |author= |title=Twenty-two Emigrants Drowned |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000747/19030530/340/0016 |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=England |date=30 May 1903 |access-date=10 November 2015 |via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Oakland|1890|2}}

|flag={{flag|Australia|civil}}

|desc=The passenger-cargo ship foundered in mountainous seas in the Tasman Sea near Cabbage Tree Island off New South Wales, Australia, with the loss of 11 lives. The steamer {{SS|Bellinger||2}} (flag unknown) rescued her seven survivors. }}

=28 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Nellie Walton||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer capsized and sank when the coal barge she was towing grounded at "The Trap" in the Ohio River. The wreck was abandoned. Her engines and other machinery was salvaged and placed in another steamer.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=76 |page=70 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=17 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=http://www.elizabethmarineways.com/nellie_walton.htm |title=Nellie Walton |publisher=elizabethmarineways.com |access-date=17 May 2020}}

}}

=29 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Nord||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The steamer ran aground and was wrecked on Burhou Island off Alderney Channel Islands on a voyage from Boulogne to Bayonne with general cargo.{{cite web|url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?200413 |title=SS Nord (+1903) |publisher=wrecksite.eu |access-date=27 August 2015}} }}

=30 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Jack Rabbit||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a snag and sank in the White River near Sibleys Island.

}}

=31 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Helen

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The launch burned at dock in Dover Point, New Hampshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Mike Bauer||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer broke loose from her dock at Kansas City, Kansas and was swept by a strong current in the Kaw River into bridge piers and sunk. Total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Nellie||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was sunk at Wetherill's Wharf, Cohansey Creek, New Jersey when a falling tide dropped her on a stump punching a hole in her bottom.

}}

=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Columbia|1891|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer caught fire and sank at dock in Washington, D.C. on 10 or 13 May.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=56 |page=50 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=15 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?214510 |title=Columbia (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=15 May 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Luna||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was lost to fire in the Detroit River at the foot of Chase Street, Detroit on 18 or 25 May.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=80 |page=74 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=18 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?291758 |title=Luna (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

June

=3 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Flying Eagle|1888|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The stern paddle wheel steamer, towing the excursion barge Little Gate, while passing under the Wabash Railroad Bridge at Hannibal, Missouri was turned sideways by the current striking the bridge piers with her stern and then backing into the riverbank destroying her paddle wheel, rendering her helpless. She sank in {{convert|40|ft}} of water below the bridge, a total loss. Three passengers and one crewman killed, either from the ship or the barge. Survivors climbed onto the bridge or were rescued by a ferry and skiffs.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=61 |page=55 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=15 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.waterwaysjournal.net/2019/05/06/the-flying-eagle/ |title=The Flying Eagle |date=6 May 2019 |publisher=waterwaysjournal.net |access-date=15 May 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Little Gate

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The excursion barge struck the Wabash Railroad Bridge at Hannibal, Missouri and turned on her side after her tow steamer was wrecked, she drifted down stream and eventually drifted ashore. Three passengers and one crewman killed, either from the ship or the barge. Survivors climbed onto the bridge or were rescued by a ferry and skiffs.{{cite web |url=https://www.waterwaysjournal.net/2019/05/06/the-flying-eagle/ |title=The Flying Eagle |date=6 May 2019 |publisher=waterwaysjournal.net |access-date=15 May 2020}}

}}

=5 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Empire State||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The laid up steamer was destroyed by fire over night at dock at Kingston, Ontario.

}}

=7 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Liban||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc= The passenger steamer sank following a collision with {{SS|Insulaire||2}} near the port of Marseille. Estimates of those lost varied widely as no accurate count of the passengers and crew was made before sailing. Conservative estimates put the death toll at 97 out of between 200–240 persons aboard. Some estimates of the lost were near twice that number. The vast majority of fatalities were women and children.{{Cite news |date=1903-06-08 |title=French Steamer Sunk; Over 150 May Be Dead |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/06/08/issue.html |access-date=2024-10-30 |work=New York Times |pages=1}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Olivette||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a rock and sank at Six Mile Island in the Allegheny River. Raised and repaired.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=6 August 2019}}

}}

=9 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Otto

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The laid up steamer burned at Freeport, Florida, probably arson.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=95 |page=89 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=19 May 2020}}

}}

=10 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Puritan|????|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The canal boat sank at dock at Jersey City, New Jersey.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Rubens|1903|2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The steamer capsized and sank in the North Sea. Eleven crew killed, four rescued by {{SS|Privo||2}} ({{flag|Norway}}).{{cite web |title=SS Rubens (+1903) |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?242697 |website=wrecksite.eu |access-date=10 February 2020}} }}

=12 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Ariel||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sunk by flooding while hauled out for repairs at Lexington, Missouri. Total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Washington B. Thomas|1903|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=Carrying a cargo of coal, the {{convert|287|ft|adj=on}}, 2,638-gross register ton five-masted schooner — which had been launched only two months earlier — dragged her anchor during a gale and was wrecked on a reef just off the east side of Stratton Island in Saco Bay off Prouts Neck, Maine, at {{coord|43|30|12.30|N|070|18|22.17|W|name=Washington B. Thomas}}. The captain's wife was the only fatality. The wreck settled in shallow water.{{Cite web| url=http://wreckhunter.net/DataPages/washingtonbthomas-dat.htm |title=Washington B. Thomas | publisher=Hunting New England Shipwrecks |accessdate=26 February 2021 }}

}}

=13 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Charles H. Davis||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer foundered in a severe gale and heavy seas in Lake Erie {{convert|1,500|ft|m}} off the light for Cleveland, Ohio in {{convert|38|ft}} of water, a total loss. Her master was killed, two tugs rescued the rest of the crew.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=88 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=6 August 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?176390 |title=Charles H. Davis (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

=17 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{HMS|Scorpion|1863|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom|1903}}

|desc=The decommissioned {{sclass|Scorpion|ironclad|0}} ironclad turret ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean while under tow from the United Kingdom to the United States for scrapping. }}

=23 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|O. W. Cheney||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tug was sunk in a collision with {{SS|Chemung||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}) on Lake Erie near Point Albino, Canada, or Windmill Point, Ontario. Three crewmen killed.{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LnM-AQAAMAAJ&dq=Ship:++O.+W.+Cheney+,1903&pg=RA1-PA25 |title=Marine Review Vol. 28 Pg. 25 |publisher=Marine Review and Marine Records/Googlebooks |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

=25 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{MV|Bolinas||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The motorboat struck a snag near Isleton, California in the Sacramento River and was beached and repaired.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Vicksburg||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a submerged piling during a rapid drop in river level and sank at dock in the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

}}

=30 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=James G. Swan

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The 44-ton sealing schooner sank on the coast of the District of Alaska.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-j/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (J)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=M. M. Morill

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The 43-ton sealing schooner sank without loss of life on the coast of the District of Alaska.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-m/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (M)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Thomas D. Stimson||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire in the St. Clair River. Removal of wreck completed 13 August.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?215260 |title=Thomas D. Stimson (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GogEAAAAYAAJ&dq=Ship:++John+N.+Glidden+,1903&pg=PA3139 |page=76 |title=Annual report of the War Department, Year ending June 30, 1904 report of the Chief of Engineers Pt. 3 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Googlebooks |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

July

=2 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Eltinge Anderson||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The ferry was destroyed by fire between Athens, New York and Coxsackie, New York.

}}

=8 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Lucille Nowland||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a submerged obstruction in the Arkansas River near Fites Landing and sank. One crewman killed.

}}

=13 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Champion||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The schooner sank in the St. Clair River near the head of Russell Island. Wreck removed by 3 September.

}}

=14 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Monterey|1897|2}}

|flag={{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The {{GRT|5455}} cargo steamer on a voyage from Montreal to Bristol and Liverpool with a cargo of cattle, lumber and foodstuffs ran aground near the Plate Point Lighthouse on the island of Petite Miquelon, and was subsequently abandoned. }}

=17 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Contrivance||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The sloop was sunk in a collision with {{SS|Central Hudson||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) above Esopus Lighthouse in the Hudson River. Her captain died.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=47 |page=41 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=14 May 2020}}

}}

=18 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Contrivance||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The sloop was sunk in a collision with {{SS|Central Hudson||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}) off Esopus Light in the Hudson River. Her captain was killed.

}}

=19 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||North Pacific|sidewheeler|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=File:North Pacific (sidewheeler) sinking 1903.jpg alongside.]]The sidewheel paddle steamer went off course in fog, struck a rock, and sank off Marrowstone Island, Washington, in deep water, a total loss. Crew and passengers reached shore in her boats. }}

=22 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Gardner||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The laid up tug sank at dock when struck by {{SS|Eastland||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}) at the Lake Street Bridge, Chicago, Illinois.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Waverly||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sunk in a collision on Lake Huron with {{SS|Turret Court||2}} ({{flag|Canada|1868}}).

}}

=23 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Light Guard

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc= The wooden schooner barge was scuttled in {{convert|7|ft|m}} of water in Lake Huron off the coast of Michigan at {{coord|45.05|-83.383333|name=Light Guard}} and abandoned.{{cite web|url=https://thunderbay.noaa.gov/shipwrecks/gilchrest_fleet.html|title=Gilchrist fleet|work=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|access-date=November 16, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://greatlakes.bgsu.edu/item/437397|title=Light Guard|work=Bowling Green State University|access-date=November 16, 2019}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Walsh||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned at Port Orchard, Washington.

}}

=24 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Shawmut

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The fuel scow was damaged when rammed at the Lackawanna Coal dock, Buffalo, New York, by {{SS|Mahoning||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}). She drifted around the end of the dock and sank.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=82 |page=76 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

=25 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Knight Templar

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc= The wooden schooner barge was scuttled in {{convert|5|ft|m}} of water in Lake Huron off the coast of Michigan at {{coord|45.05|-83.366667|name=Knight Templar}} and abandoned.{{cite web|url=http://greatlakeships.org/2905318/data?n=1|title=Knight Templar|work=Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library|access-date=November 16, 2019}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|V. Swain||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc= The steamer was sunk at dock at Two Harbors, Minnesota when a bilge pump failed. Raised and beached in Howard's Bay to await repairs.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=65 |page=59 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=16 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Vessel/Details/834?region=Index |title=V. Swain 1874 |publisher=Wisconsin Shipwrecks |access-date=16 May 2020}}

}}

=27 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Southwark||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned to the waterline at Pier 28 South, Philadelphia.

}}

August

=2 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Tennie and Laura|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=During a voyage from Muskegon, Michigan, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a cargo of lumber, the two-masted scow schooner capsized and sank in Lake Michigan northeast of Milwaukee and {{convert|9|nmi|km|spell=in}} southeast of Port Washington, Wisconsin. One of her two-man crew died. Her wreck lies in {{convert|325|ft|0}} of water at {{coord|43|41.494|N|087|33.298|W|name=Tennie and Laura}} in the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary.{{cite web|url=https://nmssanctuaries.blob.core.windows.net/sanctuaries-prod/media/archive/wisconsin/wisconsin-proposed-deis-dmp.pdf|title=Proposed Wisconsin – Lake Michigan National Marine Sanctuary Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Draft Management Plan|publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of National Marine Sanctuaries|date=December 2016|access-date=November 6, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Vessel/Details/602?region=Index|title=Tennie and Laura (1876)|publisher=Wisconsin Shipwrecks|access-date=November 8, 2024}}

}}

=3 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Amiral Gueydon||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The steamer caught fire on 30 July {{convert|46|mi}} off Socotra Island in the Indian Ocean after an explosion of either her boiler or volatile material in her cargo in heavy seas. The crew fought the fire until the ship was wrecked on the Arabian Peninsula half way between Aden and Muscat at Ras Haseik. The Sheik of Merbat learned of the castaways and sent three small boats that picked up the crew on 15 September. They were then rescued at sea by {{SS|Trouvon||2}} ({{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}) on 19 August.{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kv1YAAAAYAAJ&dq=ship:+H.+M.+Hoxie,+1906&pg=RA3-PA18 |title=American Marine Engineer July, 1907 |publisher=Unknown/Googlebooks |access-date=8 August 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19031202.2.34 |title=Four days fire at sea |publisher=Papers past |access-date=8 August 2020}}

}}

=4 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Scow No. 23

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The scow sprung a leak and sank near Popasquash Point, Rhode Island in Narragansett Bay.

}}

=5 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bradley

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The barge foundered in a strong gale and heavy seas {{convert|5|mi|spell=in}} off Montauk Point, New York. The crew were rescued by her tow steamer {{SS|Mars||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Monarch

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The barge foundered in a strong gale and heavy seas {{convert|5|mi|km|spell=in}} off Montauk Point, New York. The crew were rescued by her tow steamer {{SS|Mars||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}).

}}

=6 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|John E. Thropp||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was sunk off Bristol, Pennsylvania when she collided with a barge towed by {{SS|Eva Belle Cain||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}). Her crew was rescued by Eva Belle Cain.

}}

=7 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Metropole||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sprang a leak and sank in Saginaw Bay. The crew made it to shore in the ship's boat.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=6 August 2019}}

}}

=8 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Dana B. Wotkyns||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tug was destroyed by fire between Albany, New York and Troy, New York off Breaker Island.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=50 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904|access-date=30 July 2019}}

}}

=9 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Volunteer

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The barge sprung a leak and sank between Point Judith, Rhode Island and Beavertail Lighthouse.

}}

=11 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Daisy

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The launch was sunk in a collision with {{SS|Pokomoke||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}), probably at Norfolk, Virginia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Henry

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tow steamer sprung a leak on Lake Erie off Cleveland, Ohio and was beached.

}}

=12 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|D. Maria Amelia||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer caught fire off Boston, Massachusetts and was beached where she burned to the waterline. She later floated off and sank, a total loss.

}}

=13 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Waiontha||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire below Shears Shoal in the Connecticut River.

}}

=17 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Chinese cruiser|Huan T'ai||2}}

|flag={{nowrap begin}}{{navy|Qing Dynasty}}{{nowrap end}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Kai Chi|cruiser|0}} unprotected cruiser sank off Hong Kong after colliding with the passenger ship {{RMS|Empress of India|1890|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, {{ISBN|0-8317-0302-4}}, p. 396

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Mary||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sank at dock at the foot of Dubois Street, Detroit, Michigan. Later scheduled to be raised.

}}

=18 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|John J. White||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The laid up tow steamer sank at dock at the foot of Essex Street, Jersey City, New Jersey for unknown reasons. Raised and repaired.

}}

=20 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Massina||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire over night at dock in Ogdensburg, New York.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Queen of the West||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sprung a leak in heavy seas on Lake Erie off Fairport, Ohio and sank, a total loss. Crew rescued by {{SS|Cordorus||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}), one crewman reportedly died while abandoning ship.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?176193 |title=Queen of the West (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

=21 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{ship|Russian battleship|Oslyabya||2}}

|flag={{nowrap begin}}{{navy|Russian Empire}}{{nowrap end}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Peresvet|battleship|0}} battleship ran aground in the Strait of Gibraltar. She was refloated and repaired and she returned to active service in late November.

}}

=23 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Narara|ship|2}}

|flag={{flag|Australia|civil}}

|desc=The screw steamer burned to the waterline and was scuttled at her moorings at Sackville, New South Wales, Australia. Her crew survived. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. }}

=25 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Myrtle||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire at Thousand Island Park in the St. Lawrence River due to an exploding lamp.

}}

=26 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|John Booth||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The schooner was cut in half and sunk in a collision with {{SS|H. M. Whitney||2}} {{convert|10|mi|spell=in}} east of Stratford Shoal. Five crewmen and a friend of the captain were killed.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=1 August 2019}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Oneida||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tug sank at dock in Tonawanda, New York over night for unknown reasons. Later raised with no damage found.

}}

=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cyclone

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer, being used as a launch tender, was lost at Baron Koff Bay, Kamchatka, Siberia.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9i&view=1up&seq=32 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1905 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=8 August 2019}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|George W. Kelley||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc=1903 Jamaica hurricane: The steamer sank in the Hurricane between Central America and New Orleans after leaving Bluefields, Nicaragua on 9 August. Lost with everyone on board, all 18 crewmen and 1 passenger.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?205294 |title=George W. Kelley (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vigilant

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=Operating on the Ketchikan mail route, the steam tug was wrecked when her helmsman fell asleep at her wheel and she ran onto rocks at full speed on Fox Island in northeastern Dixon Entrance off Cape Fox, District of Alaska. One crewman was injured.[http://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-v/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (V)]

}}

{{Shipwreck list item|ship=Enterprise|country=Canada|desc=Sank in August, 1903 while docking, following a major mechanical failure. She was later refloated and scuttled in deeper waters. No lives were lost. [https://www.barrietoday.com/then-and-now/then-and-now-former-steamship-had-inspirational-history-5591571]

}}

September

=2 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Clipper||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned at Walton's Coal Works on the Monongahela River, a total loss.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=77 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904|access-date=6 August 2019}}

}}

=4 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Abbie M. Deering

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The 101-gross register ton, {{convert|90.5|ft|m|1|adj=on}} schooner was wrecked on a reef off Baby Island ({{coord|53.9974|N|166.0616|W|name=Baby Island}}) in the northwestern part of Akutan Pass ({{coord|54|00|N|166|10|W|name=Akutan Pass}}) in the Aleutian Islands and was deemed a total loss. Leaving her first mate in charge of the wreck, the revenue cutter {{USRC|Manning|1898|6}} (22px United States Revenue Cutter Service) took off 38 passengers and eight crew members.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-a/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (A)]{{cite book|last=Strobridge|first=Truman R. and Dennis L. Noble|title=Alaska and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service 1867–1915|year=1999|publisher=Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=978-1-55750-845-4}}, p. 126.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Pittsburg||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The dredge sprung a leak and sank in the Allegheny River below 43rd Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Raised and repaired.

}}

=5 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jennie R. Dubois

|flag={{flag|United States|1908}}

|desc=Carrying a cargo of coal, the {{convert|249|ft|adj=on}}, 2,227-gross register ton five-masted schooner sank in {{convert|90|ft}} of water in the Atlantic Ocean off Rhode Island {{convert|5|nmi}} southeast of Southeast Light on Block Island within five minutes of colliding with the cargo steamer {{SS|Schonfels||2}} ({{flag|German Empire|civil}}). Schonfels rescued her entire crew of 11 men.{{Cite web| url=http://wreckhunter.net/DataPages/jennierdubois-dat.htm |title=Jennie R. Dubois | publisher=Hunting New England Shipwrecks |accessdate=11 February 2021 }}

}}

=7 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|J. P. Gage||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck an obstruction at St. Charles, Missouri and sank. Total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|R. Kanters||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The schooner was wrecked in a storm south of Manistee, Michigan. Total loss. Wreck discovered 19 April 2020.{{cite web |url=http://michiganshipwrecks.org/kanters |title=R. Kanters |publisher=Michigan Shipwrecks |access-date=11 May 2020}}

}}

=9 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|W. T. Scovell||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck an obstruction and sank between New Orleans and Shreveport, Louisiana. Raised on 11 September.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Wa Wa||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The pleasure steamer burned at Burlington, Vermont, a total loss.

}}

=10 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Glenfeadon

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at The Mumbles, Glamorgan. She was refloated the next day.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ierne

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Dublin.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=J. K. Allport

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel.

}}

=11 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Inchulva||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sank in Delray Beach, Florida opposite the beach in what was later termed the Delray Wreck. Nine crewman died.{{Cite web|title=Delray Wreck or the S.S. Inchulva sank in front of Delray Beach during a hurricane back in 1903.|url=https://florida.greatestdivesites.com/palm_beach/delray_wreck_or_ss_inchulva|access-date=2021-03-02|website=florida.greatestdivesites.com}}

}}

=12 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Park Bluff||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sank in the St. Croix River opposite Stillwater, Minnesota. One crewman killed.

}}

=14 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Eunola||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned at dock in Chattahoochee, Florida, a total loss.

}}

=15 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Champion||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned at anchor in Put-In-Bay, Ohio.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Howard B. Peck||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=In the evening of 15 September 1903, while between Cape Poge and Cross Rip Shoal in hazy weather, schooner Howard B. Peck, on her way from Norfolk for Calais with cargo of coal was struck on her port bow by steamer {{SS|Kiowa|1903|2}}, on passage from Boston to Charleston. The schooner had her bowsprit and flying jibboom carried away together with all sails and rigging, and had a {{convert|20|ft|m|adj=on}}-wide gap opened in her hull. The schooner was towed by Kiowa into Vineyard Haven on the same day and after undergoing repairs worth about {{usd}}2,500, returned to service. Kiowa suffered little damage and was able to continue on her voyage.}}

=16 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Alma||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned and sank at a wharf, probably at Norfolk, Virginia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Ceres||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The yacht sank in a storm at the New Haven Yacht Club, New Haven, Connecticut. Her hull was a total loss, her machinery was scheduled to be salvaged.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gilberton

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=1903 New Jersey hurricane: The 841-gross register ton schooner barge sank on Brown Shoal off the coast of Delaware. All three people on board survived.[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3330073&view=1up&seq=404&size=125 Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Navigation Forty-First Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States for the Year Ending June 30, 1909, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909, p. 389.]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|John R. Williams||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The Tug was destroyed by fire between Albany, New York and Athens, New York off Castleton-on-Hudson, New York.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|S. E. Spring||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The passenger steamer went ashore in a severe storm at Woods Point, Indian Harbor, New York on Long Island.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Spartan

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc=1903 New Jersey hurricane: The tug sank in a hurricane in Delaware Bay below Brow Shoal. Two crewmen killed.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Welcome||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was wrecked {{convert|2|mi|km|spell=in}} west of Charlevoix Bay.

}}

=17 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Narragansett

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The barge sank in a severe storm, probably off New York.

}}

=19 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|A. A. Parker||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sprang a leak and foundered in {{convert|120|ft}} of water in a gale {{convert|4|mi}} off Grand Marais, Minnesota. The crew were rescued by the United States Life Saving Service.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?27591 |title=A. A. Parker (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3vqx4rQS6tYC&dq=Ship:++A.+A.+Parker,+1903&pg=RA2-PA168 |title=Submerged Cultural Resources Study |year=1983 |publisher=Submerged Cultural Resources center, National Park Service |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

=21 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Charles S. Parnell||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tug capsized while towing a steamer near Little Island in Tonawanda Harbor.

}}

=26 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Harold

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The barge sank off Staten Island, New York. She was carrying jewels belonging to the Guggenheim family.}}

=27 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Meriden||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned at dock in Toledo, Ohio, possibly due to an exploding lamp, a total loss.

}}

=29 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Bida|1901|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The Elder Dempster {{GRT|1,477}} cargo ship caught fire in the North Sea during a voyage from Lagos, Southern Nigeria Protectorate, to Hamburg, Germany, with a cargo of palm kernels and was abandoned {{convert|45|nmi|km}} south by east of the Maas lightship ({{flag|Belgium}}).{{cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?153039|title=Loss of SS Bida|access-date=3 September 2013}} }}

=30 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Sara||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck rocks at "Chain of Rocks" in the Yukon River and sank in {{convert|5+1/2|ft|m}} of water.

}}

=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Enterprise

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship lost her sails and was wrecked in hurricane-force winds off St Ives, Cornwall, England. The three crew were rescued by lifeboat.{{cite web| url = http://www.stivestrust.co.uk/html/1893_-_1920.HTM| publisher = St Ives Trust| title = 1893 - 1920| access-date = 2008-03-16| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080305060318/http://www.stivestrust.co.uk/html/1893_-_1920.HTM| archive-date = 2008-03-05| url-status = dead}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Joe||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was wrecked {{convert|1|mi|km|spell=in}} south of Holland, Michigan on 26 September, or near Grand Haven, Michigan on 29 November.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?232401 |title=Joe (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{ship||Moonlight|ship|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The schooner sank in Lake Superior off Michigan Island, Wisconsin.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William Clark

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The 37-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Bay Ridge, New York. All three people aboard survived.[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3330070 Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Navigation Thirty-Eighth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States for the Year Ending June 30, 1906, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1906, p. 385.]

}}

October

=1 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Celtic

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer foundered {{convert|1/2|mi|spell=in}} south west of Saybrook, Connecticut. Her machinery was salvaged.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Oregon

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire over night at dock at Fisherworks Wharf, Black Point, Connecticut.

}}

=3 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Erie L. Hackley||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer foundered in heavy squall an hour out of Egg Harbor, Wisconsin in Green Bay. Her captain, two crewmen and eight passengers were killed. Eight survivors were rescued the next day by a passing ship.{{cite news |title=1903 Arlington Journal |location=Arlington, Texas |url=https://www.arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1903.pdf |page=151 |access-date=5 October 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=84 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904|access-date=6 August 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?288616 |title=Erie L. Hackley (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}{{cite web |title=Erie L. Hackley (1882) |url=https://wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Vessel/Details/185?region=UpprLakeMichigan |website=Wisconsin Shipwrecks |publisher=Wisconsin Sea Grant, Wisconsin Historical Society |access-date=5 October 2021}}

}}

=4 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Benjamin Sewall||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc=The schooner was heavily damaged by a typhoon and abandoned off Formosa. The survivors sailed to Botel Tobago Island, off Formosa, on 5 October in a lifeboat. Six of the survivors drowned when their lifeboat overturned after it was damaged in an attack by natives. The natives rescued one Japanese woman.{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nGEeAAAAYAAJ&dq=ship:+Otelia+Pedersen,+1902&pg=PA442 |title=Papers relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States Annual Message of the President transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1904 |pages=440–448 |via=Google Books |access-date=11 October 2021}}

}}

=7 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Adventure||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire at the Kelly Island Lime and Transport Co. dock in Kelleys Island, Ohio.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?172475 |title=Adventure (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Mary McLane||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire at Sour Spring Grove Dock in the Niagara River.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Rover||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The freighter grounded on West Way causing a leak and was beached.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=30 July 2019}}

}}

=8 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Uruguayan gunboat|General Rivera||2}}

|flag={{nowrap begin}}{{navy|Uruguay}}{{nowrap end}}

|desc=The General Rivera-class gunboat sank after an internal explosion.[http://www.histarmar.com.ar/ArmadasExtranjeras/Uruguay/AROU-Buques/GRalRivera1888.htm histarmar.com.ar Cañonera "GENERAL RIVERA" 1888-1903] (Spanish)

}}

=9 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{MV|Admiral||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The motorboat capsized in a squall in San Francisco Bay. One passenger and one crewman killed.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|J. R. Sharp||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sprang a leak at dock at Jones Landing, Georgia on the Flint River and sank.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|John N. Glidden||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was sunk in a collision with the barge Magna in the St. Clair Flats Ship Canal, a total loss. The wreck was removed over a period of months ending in May 1904.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=85 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=6 August 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GogEAAAAYAAJ&dq=Ship:++John+N.+Glidden+,1903&pg=PA3139 |title=Annual report of the War Department, Year ending June 30, 1904 report of the Chief of Engineers Pt. 3 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Googlebooks |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

=10 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Louisa||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a snag in the Santee River and sank.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mermaid

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The 9-gross register ton motor vessel burned at Mukilteo, Washington. The only person on board survived.[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3330070 Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Navigation Thirty-Eighth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States for the Year Ending June 30, 1906, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1906, p. 386.]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Nellie||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a snag near the head of Willamette Slough, Oregon damaging a plank and she was beached in shallow water.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sunshine

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a submerged obstruction in the Ohio River at Marshalls Landing, Kentucky and sank. Raised and repaired.

}}

=11 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Itasca||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sank in the Rainy River when cargo shifted. Later raised undamaged.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|John L. Day||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sank at Ocmulgee Depot in the Ocmulgee River.

}}

=12 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John J. Healy

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The river steamer was lost at St. Michael, District of Alaska.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-j/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (J)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unidentified canal boat

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The canal boat, under tow of Empire ({{flag|United States|1897}}), sank in a collision with the steamer {{SS|Leonidus||2}} in the East River.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=38 |page=32 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1904 |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=12 May 2020}}

}}

=15 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{MV|Gerald C.||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The boat struck the Nestucca Bar, Nestucca Bay and went ashore. Refloated on 3 November.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9i&view=1up&seq=32 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1905 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=7 August 2019}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Marquette|shipwreck|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The lake freighter sank in Lake Superior about {{convert|5|nmi|lk=in|spell=in}} east of Michigan Island.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?160920 |title=Marquette (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=17 May 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Spy

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The fishing steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Tiverton, Rhode Island.

}}

=17 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Carnsew||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The coastal steamer collided with the steamer {{SS|Everest||2}} (flag unknown) and sank off Bull Point, North Devon, United Kingdom. All the crew survived.{{cite news|title=Bell from Harvey's ship given by divers to heritage centre|work=The Cornishman|date=15 October 2015|page=5}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Champion No. 2||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The ferry was holed in the hull and sank at Gallipolis, Ohio. Raised and repaired.

}}

=19 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|South Portland||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a rock in thick fog off Cape Blanco, Oregon and sank in 45 minutes. Eight passengers, two stowaways, and nine crewmen died, five of those from exposure on life rafts.

}}

=23 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Florence Marmet||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a submerged obstruction in the Ohio River near the mouth of the Little Miami River and sank. Raised and repaired.

}}

=25 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Emma Maria

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rainier

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The 179-gross register ton, {{convert|81.4|ft|m|1|adj=on}} fishing steamer was wrecked on an uncharted rock in Icy Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska, {{convert|1.5|nmi}} roughly west-northwest of "Spasskaia Island," now called Spasski Island ({{coord|58|06|15|N|135|17|20|W|name=Spasski Island}}). All 25 members of her crew survived.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-r/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (R)]

}}

=26 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Columbia

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sprang a leak and was beached in Saginaw Bay.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3vqx4rQS6tYC&dq=Ship:++A.+A.+Parker,+1903&pg=RA2-PA168 |title=Submerged Cultural Resources Study |year=1983 |publisher=Submerged Cultural Resources center, National Park Service |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Manhattan

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer's steering gear failed causing her to ground on Grand Island, Michigan. She then burned to the waterline, a total loss. Her machinery was salvaged. The wreck was dynamited later.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Patria

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Silver Spray||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1908}}

|desc=The fishing tug burned to the keel in drydock at Buffalo, New York. Repaired and returned to service.{{cite web |url=https://greatlakeships.org/2894724/data?n=6 |title=SILVER SPRAY (1889, Fish Tug) |publisher=Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library, Great Lakes Maritime Collection |accessdate=8 December 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|William F. Sauber||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer foundered in heavy seas on Lake Superior off Whitefish Point. Her captain and one crewman killed. Survivors were rescued by Yale ({{flag|United States|1897}}).{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?233655 |title=William F. Sauber (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

=29 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Lotus Sims ||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire at St. Louis, Missouri, a total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unidentified sailing vessel

|flag={{flagcountry|Empire of Japan}}

|desc= During a voyage from Awa Province to Manazuru, the sailing vessel was wrecked during a storm {{convert|24|mi}} from Izu Ōshima, Japan. The cruiser {{ship|French cruiser|Bugeaud||2}} ({{navy|France}}) rescued her seven survivors under difficult conditions and delivered them to Yokohama on 30 October.[https://books.google.com/books?id=HYgzAQAAMAAJ&q=Bugeaud&pg=PA313 Anonymous, "Summary of News," The Japan Weekly Mail (Yokohama), 7 November 1903, p. 1.]

}}

=30 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|City of St. Louis ||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire at St. Louis, Missouri and sank. One crewman missing. Total loss.

}}

=31 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Saveland||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The schooner broke loose from her tow in a snowstorm and went ashore {{convert|1|mi|spell=in}} east of Grand Marais, Minnesota, a total loss. The crew were saved by the United States Life Saving Service.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3vqx4rQS6tYC&dq=Ship:++A.+A.+Parker,+1903&pg=RA2-PA168 |title=Submerged Cultural Resources Study |year=1983 |publisher=Submerged Cultural Resources center, National Park Service |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

November

=1 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Discovery

|flag={{flag|United States|1960}}

|desc=The 209-gross register ton, {{convert|90|ft|m|1|adj=on}} steamer departed Yakutat, District of Alaska, with an estimated 30 people – about 14 passengers and a crew of about 16 – aboard and was never heard from again. In 1904, authorities received a credible report by an Alaskan Native chief that he had seen Discovery sink in a storm just outside Lituya Bay in Southeast Alaska on 3 November 1903 with no survivors.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-d/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (D)]

}}

=2 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Petroleum #1

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=Carrying a cargo of three tons of miscellaneous merchandise and under tow by a motor launch from Katalla, District of Alaska, to Kayak Island off Southcentral Alaska, the 18-net register ton scow sank in a gale in the Gulf of Alaska off Kayak Island after her tow line parted.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-p/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (P)]

}}

=3 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Peerless||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer caught fire at sea after being stolen by 4 boys from her dock at Eureka, California. The tug Ranger caught up with the steamer, rescued the boys and beached the steamer in Humboldt Bay, a total loss.

}}

=4 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Walter L. Frost||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer ran aground in fog on south end of South Manitou Island, in Lake Michigan. She was scuttled to prevent further damage, refloated on the 6th but rescuttled for unknown reasons. She broke in two on 10 November and was abandoned on 14 November. Completely went to pieces over the winter.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=82 |page=76 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903 |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=18 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?27556 |title=Walter L. Frost (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

=7 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Connecticut

|flag={{flag|United States|1908}}

|desc= The 99-gross register ton schooner sank off Chatham, Massachusetts. Both people on board survived.[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3330073&view=1up&seq=404&size=125 Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Navigation Forty-First Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States for the Year Ending June 30, 1909, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909, p. 388.]

}}

=9 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Imnaha||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer snagged a mooring line causing her to drift in to the Mountain Sheep Rapids on the Snake River and was wrecked.

}}

=11 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Ruth||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer broke a mooring line at Bihlers Point Landing, California allowing her to be damaged on a rock. She drifted ashore, a total loss.

}}

=12 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|S. C. Baldwin||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was sunk by ice {{convert|7+1/2|mi|km}} north east of Long Tail Point.

}}

=13 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Cassie||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The sloop was sunk in a collision with {{SS|Albemarle||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}), apparently in Virginia. One man drowned.}}

=14 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{MV|Pioneer||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The motor vessel struck a submerged object and sank in Chesapeake Bay. Her crew was saved.

}}

=15 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Avarana||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The pleasure steamer was destroyed by fire at dock in Ogdensburg, New York. Fire reported as caused by embers from a passing locomotive.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9i&view=1up&seq=105 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1905 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=12 August 2019}}

}}

=17 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Minnesota

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned in the St. Clair River and sank {{convert|1,500|-|2,000|ft}} off the Grande Pointe Hotel pier of Grande Pointe, Michigan. Wreck removal was underway at end of year.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Return||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a hidden obstruction and sank in the Allegheny River, probably near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

}}

=18 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Nellie||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire at dock at Grants Ferry, Washington on the Columbia River.

}}

=19 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|May Flower||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer sank when ice gouged the caulking out of her seams between Warsaw, Illinois and Burlington, Iowa.

}}

=20 November=

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|ship=Anna Catherine

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The 8-gross register ton, {{convert|30|ft|m|1|adj=on}} sloop was wrecked in Tongass Narrows in Southeast Alaska {{convert|0.5|nmi|1}} south of Hollis, District of Alaska, during a storm.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-a/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (A)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Gladstone||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was sunk in a collision with {{SS|Sacramento||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}) near the Detroit River Light in Lake Erie.

}}

=21 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Araby Maid||2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The bark was sunk in a collision with {{SS|Denver||2}} {{convert|30|mi|km}} north of the Dry Tortugas, Florida. The crew transferred to Denver. Two crewmen who were ill with a fever before the collision died shortly after coming aboard Denver.{{cite book|title=Florida's Shipwrecks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E9rCexEYazUC&pg=PA93 |last=Barnette |first=Michael |series=Images of America |year=2008 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston, South Carolina |pages=101–103|isbn = 9780738554136}}

}}

=22 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Saugerties||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned to the waterline at dock in Saugerties, New York, a total loss. Some fittings salvaged. Refloated and scuttled in a cove north of the Saugerties Lighthouse. One crewman was killed trying to retrieve clothing after being ordered to abandon ship.{{cite web |url=https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2014/09/08/shipwrecks-saugerties/ |title=Shipwrecks of Saugerties |date=8 September 2014 |publisher=hudsonvalleyone.com |access-date=14 May 2020}}

}}

=26 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|S. C. Baldwin||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= During a voyage from Green Bay, Wisconsin, to Buffalo, New York, with a cargo of lumber, the {{convert|160|ft|0|adj=on}}, 356-gross register ton steam barge struck ice and sank off Wisconsin in Green Bay near Long Tail Point, {{convert|10|nmi|lk=in}} north of the entrance to the Fox River. By the beginning of April 1904, she had been refloated. She subsequently was converted into an unpowered barge and placed back in service.[https://wisconsinshipwrecks.org/Vessel/Details/545?region=Index Wisconsin Shipwrecks: S.C. BALDWIN (1871) Accessed 12 September 1903][https://greatlakes.bgsu.edu/item/433635 Historical Collections of the Great Lakes: BALDWIN, S.C. Accessed 12 September 1903]

}}

=27 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Alwina||2}}

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The steamship passed Pointe Saint-Mathieu, Finistère, France, bound for Rotterdam, the Netherlands, then disappeared without trace.{{csr|register=MSI|id=5601896|shipname=Alwina |accessdate=10 February 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Hustler||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was sunk in a collision with {{USS|Yankton|1893|6}} ({{flagdeco|United States|1897}} United States Navy) at Norfolk, Virginia.}}

=28 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Coal City||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a snag in the Ohio River near Vanceburg, Kentucky and sank. Raised and repaired.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Petriana||2}}

|flag={{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|desc= The oil tanker struck a reef east of Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia, at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. Two days later its cargo of 1,300 tonnes of crude oil was released into the ocean, causing one of the first major maritime oil spills.{{cite news|url=https://www.amsa.gov.au/marine-environment/incidents-and-exercises/petriana-28-november-1903|title=Petriana, 28 November 1903|publisher=Australian Maritime Safety Authority|access-date=15 March 2020}}

}}

=29 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|George W. Moredock||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire in the Ohio River at Neil's Landing, Pennsylvania.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ishpeming

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc= Carrying a cargo of coal, the wooden schooner was driven ashore off the coast of Michigan on Black River Island in Lake Huron, where she broke up. Her wreck lies in {{convert|12|ft|m}} of water at {{coord|44.809817|-83.2775|name=Ishpeming}}.{{cite web|url=https://thunderbay.noaa.gov/shipwrecks/ishpeming.html|title=Ishpeming|work=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|access-date=November 16, 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://greatlakeships.org/2900659/data?n=3|title=Ishpeming|work=Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library|access-date=November 16, 2019}}

}}

=30 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Frank||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tug sank at dock at New Berlin, Florida. Promptly raised.

}}

=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Joe||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was wrecked {{convert|1|mi|km|spell=in}} south of Holland, Michigan on 26 September, or near Grand Haven, Michigan on 29 November.

}}

December

=1 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Idlewild||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with Hercules ({{flag|United States|1897}}) in New York Bay. Three crewmen were killed, one injured.

}}

=4 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Embury||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire at the Eldorado Dock, Grand Island, New York in the Niagara River.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?27867 |title=Embury (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Jessie Russell||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tow steamer was sunk in a collision with a scow in the North River.

}}

=5 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|J. Emory Owen||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer caught fire {{convert|4|mi|km|spell=in}} off Manitowoc, Wisconsin. She was towed by three steamers to the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal where the fire was extinguished, but she sank in {{convert|18|ft|m}} of water. She was raised, rebuilt and returned to service as {{SS|F. A. Meyer||2}}.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H9rIDwAAQBAJ&dq=Ship:++J.+Emory+Owen+,1903&pg=PT129 |title=The Great Lakes Car Ferries |date=24 December 2019 |publisher=Montevallo Historical Press/Googlebooks |isbn=9780965862455 |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

=6 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Warrington|1886|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The passenger-cargo ship was wrecked on the sands near Happisburgh on the coast of Norfolk, England.{{cite news |author= |title=The Loss of a G.C.R. Steamer |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19031210/012/0003 |newspaper=Hull Daily Mail |location=England |date=10 December 1903 |access-date=10 November 2015|via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} }}

=7 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ann & Betsey

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The smack got into difficulties off Cardigan. Her crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (file:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Royal National Lifeboat Institution). They later returned to the smack and took her in to Cardigan.{{cite web |url=http://www.glen-johnson.co.uk/cardigan-district-shipwrecks-and-lifeboat-service/ |title=Cardigan & District Shipwrecks and Lifeboat Service |date=23 July 2013 |publisher=Glen Johnson |access-date=1 February 2015}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Ella||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The passenger steamer was sunk by ice at dock in Athens, New York.

}}

=9 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Fordyce ||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck rocks in a snow storm and sank in the Mississippi River {{convert|2|mi|spell=in}} above Thebes, Illinois. Total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{MV|Lucretia||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The motor vessel burned at Atlantic Wharf, Baltimore, Maryland.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9h&view=1up&seq=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1904 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=1 August 2019}}

}}

=12 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Al Martin||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tow steamer struck a submerged obstruction in the Kentucky River near Sand Ripple and sank, a total loss.

}}

=15 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Mattie M.||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a hidden obstruction on the Mississippi River {{convert|6|mi|km|spell=in}} above Natchez, Mississippi and sank. Six crewmen killed.

}}

=16 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Alice M. Jacobs||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was wrecked in a gale and snowstorm at Duram Island off Newfoundland, a total loss.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9i&view=1up&seq=55 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1905 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=8 August 2019}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Columbia

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steam lighter was sunk in a collision with the ferry {{SS|Kingston||2}} in the North River.

}}

=18 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Mary Buhne||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The schooner was sunk in a collision with {{SS|Del Norte||2}} ({{flag|United States|1897}}) off Humboldt Bay, California. Everyone on board was rescued by boats from Del Norte, but one crewman from Del Norte died in the rescue.

}}

=20 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Ada V.||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The laid up steamer sank at dock when her bitts pulled out causing leaks at Newport, Kentucky. Raised and repaired.

}}

=21 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Champion||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc= The barque was wrecked at Outer Parajos, near Coquimbo.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?233625 |title=Champion (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 May 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Brugia|1871|2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The steamship was wrecked near Beadnell, United Kingdom.{{csr|register=MSI|id=1062227|shipname=Brugia|accessdate=10 February 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Sophia||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The tug struck burned at Eagle Harbor, Washington.

}}

=24 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Erastus Corning||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a submerged object west south west of Stratford Point Light and was beached.

}}

=25 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Clarence S. Bement|1884|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The sailing ship caught fire on 22 December and was abandoned on 24 or 25 December in Fox Bay, Falkland Islands, a total loss. The crew went to shore in her boats.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040323.2.110&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=ABANDON BURNING VESSEL IN MIDST OF HOWLING GALE Captain Grant of the Ill-Fated Ship Clarence S. Bement Arrives in Port With His Mate and Carpenter on the Pacific Mail Panama Liner City of Sydney |volume=95 |issue=114 |date=23 March 1904 |at=Page 13, columns 3-5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=9 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9i&view=1up&seq=31 |page=25 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1905 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |year=1905 |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=19 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?116461 |title=Clarence S. Bement (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=9 February 2022}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Mahngotaysee||2}}

|flag=none

|desc= The unfinished and unregistered steamer was totally destroyed by arson at dock at Boyd's Shipyard, Palatka, Florida.{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/fl/fl0600/fl0660/data/fl0660data.pdf |title=ALLIGATOR HAER No. FL-23 |publisher=HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior |access-date=15 May 2020}}

}}

=26 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Kiowa|1903|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=While anchored off Hull, Massachusetts, about {{convert|2|nmi|spell=in}} south of Boston Light in a heavy snowstorm, the 2,953-gross register ton cargo ship was struck on her port side by the outgoing steamer {{SS|Admiral Dewey||2}} ({{flag|United States|1896}}) at 11:20 a.m. The crew was saved by the nearby towboat Cormorant ({{flag|United States|1896}}), and Kiowa sank a few hours later {{convert|1|nmi|}} southeast of Boston Light at {{coord|42|19|19|N|070|51|52|W|name=Kiowa}}. After all attempts to raise the vessel failed, her wreck finally was blown up by 19 September 1904.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9g&view=1up&seq=47 |page=41 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1903 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1903|via=Haithi Trust |access-date=12 May 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?202850 |title=Kiowa (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=12 May 2020}}{{Cite web| url=http://wreckhunter.net/DataPages/kiowa-dat.htm |title=Kiowa | publisher=Hunting New England Shipwrecks |accessdate=12 February 2021 }}

}}

=27 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alert

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned at Chase's Wharf, Baltimore, Maryland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|W. H. Grapevine||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was sunk by ice at dock at the foot of Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.

}}

=28 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Pomona||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer struck a snag near Careys Bend, Oregon on the Willamette River and sank.

}}

=30 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Peerless||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was sunk in {{convert|6|ft|m|spell=in}} of water by ice at St. Charles, Missouri. Scheduled to be raised in 1904.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Polar Wave||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer was destroyed by fire over night at dock at Helena, Arkansas. Total loss.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9i&view=1up&seq=85 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1905 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=9 August 2019}}

}}

=31 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Burnside||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1897}}

|desc= The steamer burned in the Cumberland River. One crewman killed.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hb1k9i&view=1up&seq=32 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1905 |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=9 August 2019}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=El Sueno

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The 23-ton steamer sank off Nome, District of Alaska. She was declared a total loss.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-e/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (E)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|Quiros|PG-40|6}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The gunboat was reported to have gone aground on the Pearl Banks in the Sulu Sea off Borneo.[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040116.2.88&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 Anonymous, "Gunboat Is Grounded Off Borneo Coast: Quiros Strikes a Reef in Asiatic Waters," Los Angeles Herald, January 1, 1904, p. 14.][https://books.google.com/books?id=I1PcxRJnMfAC&q=Quir%C3%B3s+aground&pg=PA489 Anonymous, Army and Navy Journal, January 9, 1904, p. 489.] She was reported on 15 January 1904 to have been refloated with minimal damage.[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040116.2.88&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 Anonymous, "U.S. Gunboat Quiros Is Successfully Floated: Little Damage Results From Accident in Borneo," Los Angeles Herald, January 16, 1904, p. 5.]

}}

Unknown date

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Aristides||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc= The clipper ship left Caleta Buena, Chile, for San Francisco on 28 May and was never seen again.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?134849 |title=Aristides (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=17 May 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Delphine

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The launch was lost at Karluk, District of Alaska.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-d/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (D)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Edith|1868 ship|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|German Empire}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship sprang a leak and was beached in the Solomon Islands, where she was wrecked. Her crew survived.{{cite web |url=http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=55 |title=Star of Persia |publisher=The Yard |access-date=18 February 2017}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SV|Fannie Kerr||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque was abandoned on 29 May 1902 after her cargo of coal caught fire near the Territory of Hawaii ({{coord|20|00|N|169|00|W}}). She drifted ashore and was wrecked on South Cape, Formosa sometime in March–August, 1903.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308961&view=1up&seq=316 |title=American Marine Engineer July, 1910 |publisher=National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=30 December 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?217476 |title=Hannir Kerr (+1902) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=30 December 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Helen Brewer||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The sailing ship went missing after leaving Surabaya, Netherlands East Indies for Philadelphia on March 7.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?206641 |title=Helen Brewer (+1903) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=14 May 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane A. Falkenberg

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=Abandoned at sea during a storm in 1899 and again during a later voyage while under tow in 1900, and recovered both times after suffering serious damage, the wrecked 310.63-gross register ton, {{convert|131|ft|m|1|adj=on}} barkentine was filled with stones and sand and scuttled in {{convert|6|ft|m|1}} of water to form a breakwater at St. Michael, District of Alaska, sometime prior to 26 October.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-j/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (J)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jennie

|flag=Unknown

|desc=The cannery steamer sank after running aground on Denman Island in the Gulf Islands in British Columbia.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-j/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (J)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Loch Bredan|barque|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque disappeared without trace after departing Adelaide, South Australia, in September 1903.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nor'West

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=While laid up for the winter, the 8-gross register ton, {{convert|35.4|ft|m|1|adj=on}} schooner dragged her anchor during either the winter of 1901–1902 or the winter of 1902–1903 and was blown so far inland at the head of "Wrangell Bay" in the District of Alaska – probably Wrangell Bay ({{coord|57|01|N|156|31|W|name=Wrangell Bay}}) on Kodiak Island but possibly the harbor at Wrangell in Southeast Alaska – that she could not be relaunched. She was declared a total loss and was stripped and abandoned.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-n/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (N)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Samuel N. Lapsley|1901|2}}

|flag=

|desc=The Presbyterian missionary riverboat, built by William R. Trigg Co., Richmond, Virginia in 1901 and assembled in the Congo, capsized in the Congo River during a supply run between Leopoldville and Luebo Station with loss of twenty-four people. The vessel was replaced by Samuel N. Lapsley II in 1906.{{cite web |last=Colton |first=Tim |title=William R. Trigg Co., Richmond VA |publisher=ShipbuildingHistory |date=November 27, 2017 |url=http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/19thcentury/trigg.htm |access-date=26 August 2019}}{{cite web |title=2019 National History Day: Triumph & Tragedy in History — Sinking of the Lapsley |publisher=Presbyterian Historical Society |date= 22 October 2018|url=https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/national-history-day/2019-national-history-day-triumph-tragedy-history |access-date=26 August 2019}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thomas

|flag={{flag|United States|1896}}

|desc=The 167-gross register ton barge sank off Velasco, Texas. Both people on board survived.[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3330071 Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Navigation Thirty-Ninth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States for the Year Ending June 30, 1907, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907, p. 378.]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{SS|Vega|1872|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque sank in Melville Bay, Greenland

}}

References

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