List of shipwrecks in 1920

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

January

=1 January=

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|ship=Charles H. Trickey

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=Carrying a cargo of granite, the three-masted schooner was blown onto a reef at the entrance to the harbor at Cape Porpoise, Maine, during a storm and sank at {{coord|43|21|20|N|070|25|36|W|name=Charles H. Trickey}}.{{Cite web| url=http://wreckhunter.net/DataPages/charleshtrickey-dat.htm |title=Charles H. Trickey | publisher=Hunting New England Shipwrecks |access-date=28 January 2021 }}

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|ship=Mary E. Olys

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=Carrying a cargo of lumber, the three-masted schooner was blown onto a reef at the entrance to the harbor at Cape Porpoise, Maine, during a storm and sank at {{coord|43|21|20|N|070|25|36|W|name=Mary E. Olys}}.{{Cite web| url=http://wreckhunter.net/DataPages/maryeolys-dat.htm |title=Mary E. Olys | publisher=Hunting New England Shipwrecks |access-date=28 January 2021 }}

}}

=2 January=

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|ship={{ship||Ernest T. Lee|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Hildebrand||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=News in Brief |date=10 December 1920 |page=6 |issue=42590 |column=E }}

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|ship={{SS|Jemtland||2}}

|flag={{flag|Sweden}}

|desc=The liner struck a mine and sank at Herthas Flak {{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Swedish steamer mined |date=3 January 1920 |page=7 |issue=42298 |column=D }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Steamers sunk by mines |date=5 January 1920 |page=11 |issue=42299 |column=E }} with the loss of seven of her 26 crew.Swedish Board of Trade: ”Svenska handelsflottans krigsförluster 1914-1920” (Swedish Merchant Marine losses 1914-1920), Stockholm 1921, p. 449

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|ship={{SS|Nicolaas||2}}

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The cargo ship struck a mine in the North Sea off the Dogger Bank and sank with some loss of life.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Nipponier||2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay ({{coord|44|24|N|9|03|W|type:event|name=SS Nipponier}}). Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Rio de Janeiro|North Dock, 1914|2}} ({{flag|Norway}}).

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|ship={{SS|Roumanier|1918|2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire whilst ship berthed at Antwerp. Her hull was badly damaged and the ship was laid up. She was scrapped in 1923 at Hamburg, Germany.{{csr|register=MSI|id=1140949|shipname=Roumanier |access-date=17 February 2020}}

}}

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|ship={{ship||Stella II|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the coast of Africa.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=6 January 1920 |page=20 |issue=42300 |column=E }} }}

=3 January=

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|ship={{SS|Figueira||2}}

|flag={{flag|Portugal}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Ango||2}} ({{flag|France}}) at Porto and was beached. }}

=4 January=

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|ship={{MV|San Giuseppe||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay ({{coord|46|30|N|8|56|W}}). Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Tartar Prince||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=17 January 1920 |page=14 |issue=42310 |column=C-D }} }}

=5 January=

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|ship={{SS|Abrigada||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire at Saint Michaels, Maryland and was scuttled.

}}

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|ship={{ship||Frances Gardner|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|70|nmi|km}} off Cape Race, Newfoundland. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Albr. W. Selmer||2}} ({{flag|Norway}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=7 January 1920 |page=230 |issue=42301 |column=E }}

}}

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|ship={{ship||Joachim|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Testadelaban. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Armenie||2}} ({{flag|France}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=8 January 1920 |page=20 |issue=42302 |column=E }}

}}

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|ship={{ship||Melamson Bros|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on Cobblers' Reef, Barbados and was wrecked with the loss of four crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=9 January 1920 |page=19 |issue=42303 |column=B }} }}

=6 January=

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|ship={{ship||Mathilde|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner came ashore at Easington, County Durham, United Kingdom and was wrecked,

}}

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|ship={{ship||Metamora|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned and set afire in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. The fire was extinguished and Metamora was towed into Saint Michaels, Maryland, United States by {{SS|Lages||2}} ({{flagicon|Brazil|1889}} Brazil). }}

=7 January=

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|ship={{ship||San Josefa|barque|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}

|desc=The auxiliary barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Tartar Prince||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). }}

=8 January=

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|ship=Gelasma

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

|desc=The auxiliary sailing ship came ashore {{convert|3|nmi|km}} east of Dungeness, Kent. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship={{HMT|Leonard}}

|flag={{navy|UK}}

|desc=The naval trawler foundered off the coast of Scotland with the loss of all nine crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Missing naval drifter |date=14 January 1920 |page=12 |issue=42307 |column=C }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Missing Admiralty drifter |date=14 January 1920 |page=14 |issue=42307 |column=D }}

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|ship={{ship|ST|Le Pluvier||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The tug foundered with the loss of between 25 and 30 lives.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign News Items |date=9 January 1920 |page=9 |issue=42303 |column=F }}

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|ship={{SS|St. Louis|1894|2}}

|flag={{Flagu|United States}}

|desc=The ocean liner caught fire at Hoboken, New Jersey and was scuttled. She was a total loss and was scrapped in 1925.

}}

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|ship=Spartan

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship sank in Rothesay Dock, Glasgow, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom. }}

=9 January=

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|ship=Northstar

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=After the only person aboard was knocked unconscious while in the engine room in stormy weather, the 11-gross register ton motor vessel drifted onto a reef in Sleepy Bay ({{coord|60|04|30|N|147|50|00|W|name=Sleepy Bay}}) on the coast of Latouche Island off the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska and was wrecked, becoming a constructive total loss. The vessel′s sole occupant reached safety after regaining consciousness.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-n/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (N)]

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|ship={{SS|Treveal|1919|2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship, on her maiden voyage, ran aground on the Kimmeridge Ledge, off the coast of Dorset and broke in two. The next morning, 10 January, the crew evacuated in lifeboats and the boats capsized at Chapman's Pool, with the loss of 36 of her 43 crew. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Dundee, Forfarshire.{{cite web |url=http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=549 |title=Treveal |publisher=The Yard |access-date=24 February 2017}}

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|ship={{USS|West Avenal|ID-3871|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The Design 1019 cargo ship collided with {{SS|Lancastrian||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in New York Harbor and was beached. She was refloated over a month later and returned to service. }}

=11 January=

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|ship=Auguste Charles

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The sailing ship was driven ashore at Knapp Head, Devon, United Kingdom and was wrecked with the loss of three of her five crew.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Doyo Maru||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship departed from Chinwangtao, China for Yokohama. No further trace, presumed foundered by 15 January with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=25 March 1920 |page=25 |issue=42368 |column=D }} }}

=12 January=

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|ship={{SS|Afrique|1907|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=Chargeurs Réunis' {{GRT|5404}} ocean liner foundered in the Bay of Biscay {{convert|32|nmi|km}} off the Île de Ré with the loss of 556 of the 599 people on board. Survivors were rescued by {{SS|Ceylan||2}} ({{flag|France}}) and another vessel.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=French liner sinks |date=13 January 1920 |page=12 |issue=42306 |column=B }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Wrecked Afrique |date=14 January 1920 |page=12 |issue=42307 |column=C }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Last messages from the Afrique |date=15 January 1920 |page=11 |issue=42308 |column=E }}

}}

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|ship={{ship||Monte Grande|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at East Wittering, Sussex, United Kingdom and was wrecked.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=13 January 1920 |page=21 |issue=42306 |column=A }}

}}

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|ship={{SS|Serbier|1918|2}}

|flag={{Flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay {{convert|80|nmi|km}} off Penmarc'h, Finistère, France ({{coord|47|38|N|6|10|W|type:event|name=SS Serbier}}). Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Docteur Pierre Benoit||2}} ({{flag|France}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Another wooden steamer reorted sunk |date=14 January 1920 |page=21 |issue=42307 |column=C }}[https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?162191 War Kitimat SS (1918~1919) Serbier SS (+1920)]}}

=13 January=

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|ship={{ship||Jane and Ann|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at St. Anne's on Sea, Lancashire and was wrecked.

}}

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|ship=Willy

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Trentino||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the Atlantic Ocean off the Longships and sank.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=14 January 1920 |page=22 |issue=42307 |column=C }} }}

=15 January=

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|ship={{HMT|Denford}}

|flag={{navy|UK}}

|desc=The naval trawler ran aground at North Kearney Point, County Down. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=16 January 1920 |page=21 |issue=42309 |column=A }} She was refloated on 20 January.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Sancho Maru||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the Pacific Ocean off Rikuchū Province with some loss of life. }}

=16 January=

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|ship=Preveza

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship came ashore at Chesil Beach, Dorset, United Kingdom and was abandoned by her crew. She was later reboarded but attempts to refloat her in the early hours on 17 January were unsuccessful.

}}

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|ship={{ship||W. T. White|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Six crew were rescued by {{ship||Marion L. Mason|schooner|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=20 January 1920 |page=20 |issue=42312 |column=C }} }}

=20 January=

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|ship={{SV|Fenix||2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked off Skagens Head, Denmark and broke up in stormy weather.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?17353 |title=Helen W. Martin (+1915) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=23 September 2020}}

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|ship={{ship|USC&GS|Isis}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The survey vessel/yacht suffered a breached hull on a sunken wreck and was beached to prevent sinking near St. Augustine, Florida. She was later destroyed by a storm before salvage could begin.{{cite book|title=Florida's Shipwrecks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E9rCexEYazUC&q=isis&pg=PA93 |last=Barnette |first=Michael |series=Images of America |year=2008 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston, South Carolina |pages=106|isbn = 9780738554136}}

}}

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|ship={{ship||Lavonia|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner caught fire in the Florida Straits off Bahía Honda, Cuba and was abandoned.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=22 January 1920 |page=20 |issue=42314 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship={{SS|Macona||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground off the Nidingen Lighthouse, Sweden and foundered with the loss of 40 of her 41 crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=21 January 1920 |page=22 |issue=42313 |column=F }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=21 January 1920 |page=11 |issue=42313 |column=F }}"Details of Macona Wrecking", The Miami News, January 20, 1920, p.1

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=21 January=

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|ship={{ship||Condor|barque|2}}

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

|desc=The barque sprang a leak and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|50|nmi|km}} off San Juan, Puerto Rico with the loss of six of her 36 crew. }}

=23 January=

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|ship={{MV|Arlette||2}}

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

|desc=The coaster was driven ashore on Walney Island, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Eos||2}}

|flag={{flag|Sweden}}

|desc=The cargo ship was wrecked at Stoktaskeri, Iceland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=26 January 1920 |page=20 |issue=42317 |column=E }}

}}

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|ship={{SS|Sigvard||2}}

|flag={{flag|Sweden}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with another ship off Barry, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and sank with the loss of one of her eighteen crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=24 January 1920 |page=19 |issue=42316 |column=F }} }}

=24 January=

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|ship=Niagara

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 20-gross register ton, {{convert|42.5|ft|m|1|adj=on}} halibut-fishing vessel ran aground and sank in Moira Sound in Southeast Alaska near Lane′s Cannery. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Shinten Maru||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship was driven ashore by a severe storm off Ayukawa, Miyagi prefecture, Japan. Refloated and returned to service.{{cite web |url=http://www.combinedfleet.com/Shinten_t.htm |title=Japanese Army Auxiliary transports |publisher=Combinedfleet.com |access-date=23 November 2022}}

}}

=25 January=

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|ship={{SS|Marne||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship suffered an explosion in her fuel tanks at Colón, Colombia and was scuttled by fire. She was a total loss. }}

=26 January=

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|ship={{SS|Mielero||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The tanker broke in two and sank in the Atlantic Ocean east of Savanna, Georgia ({{coord|31|45|N|78|41|W}}). Her master, his wife and 2 children, and 18 crew died in a lifeboat that left and was never seen again.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=News in Brief |date=31 January 1920 |page=11 |issue=42322 |column=A }} The rest of her crew in her other lifeboat were rescued by {{SS|Ozette||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}).{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000071882857&view=1up&seq=18 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1921 |publisher=Penn State University |access-date=29 January 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?160864 |title=Mielero (+1920) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=22 August 2020}}

}}

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|ship={{SS|Winga||2}}

|flag={{flag|Sweden}}

|desc=The coaster sprang a leak and foundered in the Skaggerak {{convert|12|nmi|km}} north of hirtshals, Denmark with the loss of two of her twelve crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=27 January 1920 |page=21 |issue=42318 |column=F-G }} }}

=27 January=

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|ship={{SS|Rennen||2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Fermia||2}} ({{flag|Sweden}}) in the North Sea off Tynemouth, United Kingdom and sank. Her crew were rescued by the pilot boat Queen o{{'}} the May ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=28 January 1920 |page=17 |issue=42319 |column=C }} }}

=28 January=

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|ship={{SS|Eira||2}}

|flag={{flag|Sweden}}

|desc=The cargo liner was driven ashore at Cimbrishamn and was a total loss. All on board were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=30 January 1920 |page=18 |issue=42321 |column=F }} }}

=29 January=

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|ship={{ship||Doris Andreta|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned and set afire in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|39|03|N|22|03|W}}). Her crew were rescued by San Giovanni ({{Flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=3 February 1920 |page=21 |issue=42324 |column=E }}

}}

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|ship=SS Fortune

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The steamer sank off Jekyl Island. Lost with all 13 crew.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000071882857&view=1up&seq=18 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1921 |publisher=Penn State University |access-date=29 January 2020}}

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|ship={{SMS|Novara|1913|2}}

|flag={{navy|France}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Novara|cruiser|2}} sprang a leak in the Adriatic Sea and put into Brindisi, Apulia, Italy, where she sank.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign News Items |date=30 January 1920 |page=11 |issue=42321 |column=F }} She was refloated in early April.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign News Items |date=5 April 1920 |page=7 |issue=42376 |column=F }} Novara was subsequently repaired and entered service with the French Navy.

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|ship={{ship|ST|Samuel Faunce||2}}

|flag={{Flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The tug departed Wilmington, Delaware for Key West, Florida. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Overdue vessels |date=15 April 1920 |page=25 |issue=42385 |column=D }}

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|ship={{SS|Spey||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship was driven ashore {{convert|7|nmi|km}} south of Jaffa, British-occupied Palestine ({{coord|31|52|00|N|34|30|30|E}}) and wrecked with the loss of a crew member.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=4 February 1920 |page=18 |issue=42325 |column=C }} }}

=30 January=

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|ship={{SS|Glen Tilt||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground {{convert|5|nmi|km}} north of Scotston Head, Aberdeenshire. All fifteen crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=31 January 1920 |page=21 |issue=42322 |column=F }} She was refloated on 5 February.

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|ship={{ship||Hera|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Sweden}}

|desc=The schooner came ashore at Hals, Denmark with the loss of four of her crew.

}}

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|ship={{ship||Martin|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner came ashore on the south coast of Skagen with the loss of two of her crew.

}}

=31 January=

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|ship={{SS|Nero||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay {{convert|15|nmi|km}} west of Molène, Finistère, France with the loss of her captain. Survivors reached land in their lifeboats.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Shipping casualties |date=2 February 1920 |page=22 |issue=42323 |column=D }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=British steamer founders |date=2 February 1920 |page=11 |issue=42323 |column=B }} }}

=Unknown date=

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|ship={{SS|Anémone||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The trawler ran ashore on Loe Bar, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, United Kingdom.{{cite book |last=Carter |first=C |title=The Port of Penzance: a History |year=1998 |publisher=Black Dwarf Publications |location=Lydney}}

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|ship={{HMS|A2}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=While awaiting sale, the decommissioned submarine ran aground in Bomb Ketch Lake in Portsmouth Harbour on the coast of England and flooded. Her wreck was scrapped.

}}

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|ship={{ship|USC&GS|Isis}}

|flag=25px United States Coast and Geodetic Survey

|desc=The survey ship struck a submerged object and sank off Crescent Beach, Florida.

}}

February

=1 February=

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|ship={{SS|Berrima|1913|2}}

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

|desc=The passenger ship ran aground off Margate, Kent. She was refloated the next day by the tugs {{ship|HMT|Firm}} ({{navy|UK}}), Java, Lady Brassey, Lady Duncan and Scotia (all {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{cite web |url=http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/abandoned-ships/BERRIMA_326.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510065616/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/abandoned-ships/BERRIMA_326.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=10 May 2017 |title=BERRIMA |publisher=Clydesite |access-date=1 July 2016}}

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|ship={{ship||Ruth Hickman|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Minard, Argyllshire and wrecked. Her crew were rescued by {{HMS|Fearless|1912|6}} ({{navy|UK}}). }}

=2 February=

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|ship={{ship||C.J.S.|barque|2}}

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

|desc=The barque sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=9 February 1920 |page=24 |issue=42329 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship={{SS|Kaskaskia||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire at New York and was beached.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=5 February 1920 |page=22 |issue=42326 |column=E }}

}}

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|ship={{SS|Kenora||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship was abandoned in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, Devon. Her crew were rescued by an Admiralty trawler. }}

=3 February=

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|ship={{ship||Doris Andreta|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean (approximately {{coord|39|N|22|W}}). She was set afire and abandoned. }}

=4 February=

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|ship={{ship||Francis Molison|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea {{convert|9|nmi|km}} off the mouth of the River Tyne. Her crew were rescued by the trawler Dover Patrol ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=6 February 1920 |page=22 |issue=42327 |column=D }}

}}

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

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The {{convert|310|ft|adj=on}}, 1,505-gross register ton steam screw passenger ship was wrecked without loss of life at the western end of Long Island Sound off the Cow Neck Peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, {{convert|100|yd}} off the Execution Rocks Light when pack ice pushed her onto rocks during a gale and snowstorm with very high tides. Her wreck sank in {{convert|15|ft|m|1}} of water and was stripped and burned in place.[https://njscuba.net/sites/site_li_sound.php#Maine njscuba.net Maine]{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?19225 |title=Maine (+1920) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=18 August 2020}}{{Cite web| url=http://wreckhunter.net/DataPages/maine-dat.htm |title=Maine | publisher=Hunting New England Shipwrecks |access-date=13 February 2021 }}

}}

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|ship={{ship||Sterling|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The auxiliary schooner sank in Tees Bay.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Ville d'Alger||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire in the Indian Ocean off Réunion.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=10 February 1920 |page=22 |issue=42330 |column=C }} She was abandoned at approximately {{coord|18|S|52|E}}. }}

=5 February=

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|ship=Sybil

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Veratyr||2}} ({{flag|Denmark}}) off Barry, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was beached.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=7 February 1920 |page=16 |issue=42328 |column=C-D }} }}

=6 February=

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|ship={{SS|Bradboyne||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|43|36|N|36|10|W}}) after her cargo shifted. Six of her 31 crew were lost. Survivors were rescued by {{SS|Monmouth||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}) and {{SS|Oxonian||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), which lost thirteen crew during the rescue when a lifeboat capsized.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Brookland||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire at Havana, Cuba. She sank and was a total loss.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=11 February 1920 |page=26 |issue=42331 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Hyltonia||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground off Saint-Clément-des-Baleines, Finistère, France. Her crew were rescued. She was refloated on 5 March.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=6 March 1920 |page=8 |issue=42352 |column=E }}

}}

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|ship={{SS|Polias||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 2,500-gross register ton cargo ship — a concrete ship — ran aground on Old Cilly Ledge, a reef off Port Clyde, Maine, in a blizzard. Eleven crew members abandoned ship against orders and died when their lifeboat was smashed against the hull. The rest of the crew left in boats the next day when she started breaking up and were rescued by the cutter USCGC Acushnet (22px United States Coast Guard}}). The wreck later slid off the reef and sank in up to {{convert|40|ft}} of water at ({{coord|43|53|16|N|069|15|24|W|name=Polias}}).{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000071882857&view=1up&seq=18 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1921 |publisher=Government Printing Office, Washington |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=29 January 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?167543 |title=Polias (+1920) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=29 January 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308686&view=1up&seq=86 |title=American Marine Engineer February, 1920 |publisher=Unknown |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=18 August 2020}}{{Cite web| url=http://wreckhunter.net/DataPages/polias-dat.htm |title=Polias | publisher=Hunting New England Shipwrecks |access-date=20 February 2021 }}

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|ship={{SS|Princess Anne|1897|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=While trying to enter New York Harbor during a storm, the passenger ship ran aground on the Rockaway Shoals off Long Island, New York. A United States Life-Saving Service lifeboat took her 32 passengers off on 7 February. Her crew of 74 remained aboard until she began to break up on 15 February, and her crew were taken off before she broke in two later that day. She sank in {{convert|20|ft|m|0}} of water and remained visible for many years before becoming buried in sand.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Wreck of the Princess Anne |date=9 February 1920 |page=13 |issue=42329 |column=E }}[https://njscuba.net/sites/site_princess_anne.php njscuba.net Princess Anne]{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?23221 |title=Princess Anne (+1920) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=29 January 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308686&view=1up&seq=116 |title=American Marine Engineer February, 1920 |publisher=National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=18 August 2020}}

}}

=10 February=

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|ship={{SS|Pylos||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Weimar Republic|civil}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Spannholmen, Utsira, Norway. She broke in two; the stern section sank with the loss of ten of her crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=12 February 1920 |page=24 |issue=42332 |column=D }} }}

=11 February=

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|ship={{ship||Douglas Adams|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|20|nmi|km}} north north east of Castro, Spain. Her crew were rescued by Spanish fishing boats. Douglas Adams was later towed into Bilbao.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=13 February 1920 |page=16 |issue=42333 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship={{SS|Gregor||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Weimar Republic|civil}}

|desc=The passenger ship ran aground at Kylios, Ottoman Turkey. She broke up and was a total loss. One hundred and fifty of her 200 passengers were rescued by rocket apparatus.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Imperator Pierre le Grand||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Black Sea off Varna, Romania. Her crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign News Items |date=February 1920 |page=13 |issue=42332 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Northwestern

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The tanker caught fire at Galveston, Texas and was beached. She burnt out and was a total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|West Aleta||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The Design 1019 cargo ship ran aground on Terschelling, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. }}

=13 February=

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|ship={{ship||Giacomo Pittalugo|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}

|desc=The schooner foundered off the coast of Spanish Morocco. Her crew survived.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Marie Louise H||2}}

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

|desc=The schooner sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|34|08|N|15|32|W}}). She was set afire and abandoned. All on board were rescued by {{SS|Molière||2}} ({{flag|France}}):{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=14 February 1920 |page=18 |issue=42334 |column=B }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Sahara||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal. She was beached at Leixões.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=16 February 1920 |page=24 |issue=42335 |column=D }} }}

=14 February=

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|ship=Edindoune

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

|desc=The motor fishing vessel caught fire in Scapa Flow and sank; the crew of four reached shore.{{cite web |last1=Heath |first1=Kevin |title=Wreck of the Edindoune (BF1118), Scapa Flow, Orkney |url=https://chesapeaketech.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/SULA_Edindoune-report_March18_V02.pdf |publisher=Sula Diving |access-date=19 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120161127/https://chesapeaketech.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/SULA_Edindoune-report_March18_V02.pdf |archive-date=20 January 2021 |location=Stromness |date=26 March 2018}}}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Nobility|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner came ashore on the east coast of Barbados and was wrecked. }}

=15 February=

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|ship={{ship||Regina|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The schooner was discovered abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Fritiof||2}} ({{Flag|Sweden}}). Regina was towed into IJmuiden, Netherland by the trawler Eendracht II ({{flag|Netherlands}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=17 February 1920 |page=20 |issue=42336 |column=E }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=18 February 1920 |page=26 |issue=42337 |column=D }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=20 February 1920 |page=24 |issue=42339 |column=D }} }}

=18 February=

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|ship={{ship||Amelia Zeman|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner departed from Norfolk, Virginia for Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance ratess |date=8 May 1920 |page=8 |issue=42405 |column=E }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Overdue vessel |date=3 June 1920 |page=24 |issue=42427 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{Ship||Joan Hickman|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Chipiona, Cádiz, Spain. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Cabo Roche||2}} ({{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Rostellan|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The four-masted schooner sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance ratess |date=24 February 1920 |page=20 |issue=42342 |column=D }} }}

=20 February=

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|ship={{SS|Aghia Paraskevi||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship was wrecked off Cape St. Thomas, Argentina with the loss of 15 of her crew. Survivors were rescued by {{SS|Carnarvonshire||2}} ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Commandant Dorise||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=23 February 1920 |page=24 |issue=42341 |column=B }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Kamma|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on the south coast of Skagen and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by a lifeboat. }}

=21 February=

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

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

|desc=The cargo ship collided with another vessel and was beached at Barry Island, Glamorgan. }}

=22 February=

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|ship=Valdez

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The {{GRT|12}} {{convert|35.7|ft|m|adj=on|1}} cargo ship was wrecked in Portage Bay near Kanatak, Territory of Alaska. All four people on board survived.[http://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-v/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (V) Retrieved 12 September 2018] }}

=23 February=

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|ship={{ship||Hilton|ship|2}}

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship collided with {{ship||Fahrwold|barque|2}} ({{flag|Finland}}) in the River Plate and sank with the loss of seven of her crew. Survivors were rescued by {{SS|Cabo Santa Maria||2}} ({{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}).{{Cite web |url=http://www.histarmar.com.ar/Naufragios/RiodelaPlata/RiodlPlata-Ext-2.htm |title=Buques Perdidos en el Rio de la Plata - Exterior 2 |publisher=Histarmar |language=es |access-date=15 September 2012}}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign News Items |date=24 February 1920 |page=15 |issue=42342 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Kemmel||2}}

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

|desc=The turret deck ship caught fire at São Vicente, Cape Verde, Portugal. She was beached but was declared a total loss on 6 April.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Carawa uninsurable |date=7 April 1920 |page=20 |issue=42378 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Maria I|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The auxiliary schooner caught fire in the North Sea and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by the trawler Nairana ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=24 February 1920 |page=20 |issue=42342 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Strathord

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

|desc=The fishing trawler struck a mine in the North Sea and sank with the loss of all nine crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=North Sea trawler mined |date=25 February 1920 |page=13 |issue=42343 |column=E }} }}

=24 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Gwendolen Warren|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Pikepool||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=26 February 1920 |page=24 |issue=42344 |column=C }} }}

=25 February=

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|ship={{ship|German trawler|Osnabruck||2}}

|flag={{navy|Weimar Republic}}

|desc= The Osnabruck-class Vorpostenboot was sunk by a mine.

}}

=26 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Llovet Hermanos|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was destroyed by fire at Valencia.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=28 February 1920 |page=7 |issue=42346 |column=E }} }}

=27 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Carrier Dove|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner ran aground on a reef at Levuka, Fiji.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=1 March 1920 |page=24 |issue=42347 |column=D }} }}

=28 February=

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|ship={{SS|Gallacier||2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|36|22|N|7|08|W|type:event|name=SS Gallacier}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Lucanio Manara||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}

|desc=The cargo ship was destroyed by fire in the Sea of Marmara.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=3 March 1920 |page=25 |issue=42349 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Schiedam|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The schooner ran aground at Hook of Holland, South Holland. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|War Casco||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire at Gibraltar and was a total loss. }}

=29 February=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Cubadist||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship was reported to be {{convert|111|nmi|km}} south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. No further trace was found, and the ship presumed foundered with the loss of all 40 of her crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Large American steamer ashore |date=11 April 1920 |page=23 |issue=42356 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Pregel||2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Esbjerg. Her crew were rescued by {{ship|HDMS|Absalom||6}} ({{navy|Denmark}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

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

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on Cayo Arenas, Puerto Rico. She was refloated on 10 March.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Large American liner ashore |date=11 March 1920 |page=23 |issue=42356 |column=D }} }}

=Unknown date=

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|ship=Delight

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 11-gross register ton, {{convert|35.1|ft|m|1|adj=on}} motor vessel broke apart while on the ways at Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-d/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (D)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Russian destroyer|Zante||2}}

|flag={{flagicon|Russian Empire|naval}} Armed Forces of South Russia

|desc=The incomplete {{sclass|Fidonisy|destroyer}} was driven ashore and wrecked at Bolshoy Fontan whilst being towed from Nicholaieff to Odessa. She was refloated in September and towed to Nicholaieff. Subsequently completed and entered service with the Soviet Navy as Nezamozhnik.

}}

March

=1 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Bohemian|1900|2}}

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

|desc=The cargo liner ran aground off Sambro, Nova Scotia, Canada.{{Cite web| url=http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=3464 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111218032727/http://clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=3464 | url-status=usurped | archive-date=18 December 2011 |title=Launched 1900: ss BOHEMIAN |publisher=Clydesite |access-date=17 September 2012 }} She broke in two on 2 March,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=3 March 1920 |page=25 |issue=42349 |column=D }} and was a total loss. Five of her crew were killed.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Tinto||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo liner ran aground on the wreck of Manorbier Castle ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She refloated but was holed and sank. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=2 March 1920 |page=21 |issue=42348 |column=D }} She was damaged by an explosion during salvage operations on 4 March.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=News in Brief |date=6 March 1920 |page=11 |issue=42352 |column=E }} Tinto was refloated in early June. She arrived at Grimsby, Lincolnshire for drydocking on 3 June.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=News in Brief |date=4 June 1920 |page=13 |issue=42428 |column=F }} }}

=2 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Moccasin||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship sank at New York.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=4 March 1920 |page=24 |issue=42350 |column=E }} }}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Sydnæs|barque|2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=After springing a leak in a heavy gale, the barque, on a voyage from Norfolk, Virginia to Montevideo, Uruguay, was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|36|50|N|50|15|W}}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=23 March 1920 |page=24 |issue=42366 |column=B |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS402984567/TTDA?u=nl_earl&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=1986ecb3 |via=Gale}} or {{coord|36|45|N|60|20|W}}).{{cite web |title=Stålbark 4 master Sydnæs (4-masted steel barque Sydnaes) |url=https://www.sjohistorie.no/en/skip/28459/ |publisher=Sjøhistorie |access-date=19 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219033319/https://www.sjohistorie.no/en/skip/28459/ |archive-date=19 February 2024 |location=Lillesand |language=No}} Excepting one fatality, the crew were rescued from two boats: twelve on 8 or 12 March by steamer {{SS|Elba||2}} ({{flagcountry|Italy|civil}}) and twelve by 16 March by steamer {{SS|Vaarli||2}} ({{flagcountry|Norway|civil}}).{{cite news |title=10 Days in Open Boat |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002947/19200401/006/0001 |access-date=19 February 2024 |work=Westminster Gazette |volume=LV |issue=8349 |date=1 April 1920 |location=London |page=1|via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite news |title=Missionary Work Crisis |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000290/19200317/107/0005 |access-date=19 February 2024 |work=Evening News |issue=12243 |date=17 March 1920 |location=Portsmouth |page=5|via=British Newspaper Archive}}

}}

=3 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Old Head|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner struck the breakwater at Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure, France and sank. }}

=5 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Magnhel

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=After the 9-gross register ton fishing vessel's propeller shaft broke, her anchor cables parted and she drifted ashore in heavy weather and was wrecked at Cora Point ({{coord|55|54|10|N|134|47|15|W|name=Castle Flats}}) on Coronation Island in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of three reached shore safely and was rescued on 7 March by the motor vessel My Fancy ({{flag|United States|1918}}).[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-m/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (M)]

}}

=6 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Bratto||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship was abandoned in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|St. Louis|1894|2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}). Bratto was towed into Padstow, where she sank.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title="S.O.S." from Atlantic liner |date=8 March 1920 |page=11 |issue=42353 |column=B }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Dunstan||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Tutoya, Maranhão, Brazil. She was refloated on 17 March.

}}

=7 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Pere Marquette No. 3||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship was sunk by ice in Lake Michigan {{convert|3|mi|spell=in}} south west of Ludington, Michigan in {{convert|43|ft}} of water. Raised on 11 or 26 July and taken to Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Declared a total loss and broken up in 1921.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308686&view=1up&seq=393 |title=American Marine Engineer August-September, 1920 |publisher=National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=23 August 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?290903 |title=Pere Marquette No. 3 (+1920) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=23 August 2020}}

}}

=8 March=

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|ship={{SS|Brookfield||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1912}}

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire at Faial Island, Azores, Portugal and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Guildford||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1912}}

|desc=The cargo ship sprang a leak and was abandoned off the Bujho Shoal in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Massachusetts. She was later towed into Vineyard Haven, arriving on 10 March.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=15 March 1920 |page=21 |issue=42359 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|H-1|SS-28|6}}

|flag={{navy|USA|1912}}

|desc=The H-class submarine ran aground off Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, with the loss of four crew. She sank during salvage attempts on 24 March.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Lejok|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1912}}

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|W. S. Rheem||2}} ({{flag|United States|1912}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=10 March 1920 |page=8 |issue=42355 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Natenna||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1912}}

|desc=The cargo ship was driven ashore at Casablanca, French Morocco and was a total loss.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Vénézuela|1905|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo liner was driven ashore at Casablanca and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=11 March 1920 |page=23 |issue=42356 |column=D }} }}

=10 March=

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|ship=Jutland

|flag={{flag|Canada|1921}}

|desc=The beam trawler departed Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was not seen or heard from again. On 11 March, the trawler Lemberg ({{flag|Canada|1921}}) discovered two damaged dories in the Atlantic Ocean 86 nautical miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Halifax, one of them containing the body of one of Jutland's crew members. No trace of the other 20 men on board ever was found.{{cite news |author= |title= Fear Beam Trawler Jutland Lost With All on Board |newspaper=Chronicle Herald|location=Halifax, Nova Scotia|date=13 March 1920 |page=1}}{{cite book |date=March 1920|title=The Canadian Fisherman |url=https://archive.org/details/canadianfisherma07cana |location=Gardenvale, Quebec|publisher=National Business Publications |page=[https://archive.org/details/canadianfisherma07cana/page/54 54] }}

}}

=11 March=

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|ship={{SS|Hilda Rachel||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire and foundered whilst on a voyage from Penarth, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Gibraltar. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Booth liner ashore |date=12 March 1920 |page=25 |issue=42357 |column=D }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=American liner ashore |date=13 March 1920 |page=8 |issue=42358 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship={{ship||Maid of La Have|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|500|nmi|km}} east of New York, United States. Her crew were rescued by {{RMS|Adriatic|1907|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=13 March 1920 |page=8 |issue=42357 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship={{SS|Per Marquette 3||2}}

|flag={{Flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The passenger ship was crushed by ice and sank in Lake Michigan off Ludington, Michigan. All 35 people on board were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=12 March 1920 |page=25 |issue=42357 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship=San Juan #3

|flag={{flag|United States}}

|desc=Under tow by a tug during a voyage along the coast of the Territory of Alaska from Port Althorp to Unakwik Inlet in Prince William Sound with a 10-ton deck load of cannery supplies, the 24-ton scow sank in the Gulf of Alaska about {{convert|6|nmi}} offshore at {{coord|59|11|N|139|05|W|name=San Juan #3}}.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-s/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (S)]

}}

=12 March=

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|ship={{SS|Carroo||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship suffered an onboard explosion in her cargo of benzine with the loss of a crew member. She caught fire and was beached at Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Commandant Mages||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ocean liner ran aground {{convert|20|nmi|km}} east of Hong Kong. She was refloated on 25 March.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign News Items |date=26 March 1920 |page=13 |issue=42369 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Henriette

|flag=flag unknown

|desc=The sailing ship sank at Bordeaux, Gironde, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Llai Llai||2}}

|flag={{flag|Chile}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{ship|Chilean cruiser|O'Higgins|1897|2}} ({{navy|Chile}}) at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and sank.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=17 March 1920 |page=27 |issue=42361 |column=D }}

}}

=13 March=

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|ship={{ship|ST|Alexandra||2}}

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

|desc=The tug foundered in the River Humber with the loss of three of her four crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=15 March 1920 |page=13 |issue=42359 |column=E }} She was refloated on 10 May.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=News in Brief |date=11 May 1920 |page=13 |issue=42407 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Alfonzo||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Manila, Philippines.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=16 March 1920 |page=20 |issue=42360 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Chatcauqua||2}}

|flag={{Flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground off Bermuda. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Olockson||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire in the Gulf of Panama {{convert|100|nmi|km}} off Panama City, Colombia. She was taken under tow by {{SS|Gorgona||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}) Her crew abandoned on 17 March.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=18 March 1920 |page=25 |issue=42362 |column=D }} Olockson was beached at Balboa and the hull holed to fight the fires.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308686&view=1up&seq=231 |title=American Marine Engineer April, 1920 |publisher=National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=21 August 2020}}

}}

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|ship={{SMS|T94||2}}

|flag={{navy|Weimar Republic}}

|desc=Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch: The training ship, a former {{sclass|S90|torpedo boat}}, was scuttled by Putschists at Wilhelmshaven. Later raised and broken up.

}}

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|ship={{SS|Yungai||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship issued a SOS in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|30|10|N|77|00|W}}). She was abandoned and her crew were rescued by {{SS|Limos||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}).

}}

=14 March=

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|ship=Unknown barges

|flag={{Flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=Two barges, under tow of {{SS|Georges Creek||2}} ({{Flag|United States|1918}}), sank in heavy weather in Block Island Sound. Between the two crews five died.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435066692476&view=1up&seq=162 |title=Annual Report of the supervising Inspector of the United States Steam boat Inspection Service, June 30, 1920 |publisher=Government Printing Office, Washington |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=23 February 2021}}

}}

=15 March=

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|ship=Dove

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 26-gross register ton, {{convert|48.7|ft|m|1|adj=on}} motor cargo vessel was wrecked at Cape Ommaney ({{coord|56|10|00|N|134|40|20|W|name=Cape Ommaney}}) in Southeast Alaska with the loss of two lives. There were three survivors.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Lux||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship departed from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, bound for Oran, Algeria. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Missing and overdue vessels |date=13 May 1920 |page=21 |issue=42409 |column=D-E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

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

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The steamer sprung a leak and sank three days later in a storm in the Atlantic Ocean south east of Wilmington, North Carolina.({{coord|33|20|N|76|57|W}}).{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?151552 |title=Mingai (+1920) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=21 August 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308686&view=1up&seq=191 |title=American Marine Engineer April, 1920 |publisher=National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=21 August 2020}}

}}

=16 March=

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|ship={{SS|Balabac||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at a Trinidadian port.

}}

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|ship=Dashing Wave

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=During a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to Taku via Ketchikan in the Territory of Alaska with a crew of nine and a cargo of general cannery supplies aboard, the 1,054-gross register ton barge was wrecked without loss of life off Shelter Point ({{coord|49.9307|N|125.1849|W|name=Shelter Point}}) on the coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. The steamer San Juan (flag unknown) towed her wreck to shore, but it was declared a total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Rosa Harriette|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner sprang a leak and foundered in the English Channel off St Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Odland||2}} ({{flag|Norway}}) after 16 hours adrift. }}

=17 March=

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|ship={{SS|Adolf||2}}

|flag={{flag|Sweden}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Moliere||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the Bristol Channel off Barry, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was beached. A fire broke out on 18 March.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Cadrier||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship sprang a leak in the English Channel north of Alderney, Channel Isles and sank. Four of her 23 crew were rescued by {{SS|Wagland||2}} ({{flag|Norway}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign News Items |date=20 March 1920 |page=15 |issue=42364 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Tewkesbury||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship was driven ashore at Cape Vine, Nova Scotia, Canada and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=British steamer ashore |date=18 March 1920 |page=25 |issue=42362 |column=D }} }}

=18 March=

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|ship={{USS|Althea|SP-218|6}}

|flag={{navy|United States|1912}}

|desc=The 60 foot motorboat was sunk by ice at Detroit, Michigan. She was sold for salvage while still sunk on 20 March but salvage efforts were abandoned in 1926.{{cite web |url=https://transportationhistory.org/2023/05/12/1917-a-civilian-motorboat-is-commissioned-into-military-service-during-world-war-i/ |title=1917 a civilian motorboat is commissioned into military service during World War I |publisher=transportationhistory.org |accessdate=21 January 2025}}{{cite web |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-99000/NH-99299.html |title=NH 99299 Althea |publisher=history.navy.mil |accessdate=21 January 2025}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Cordier|1919|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=During her first commercial trip from Nantes (region Pays de la Loire, France) to Rotterdam (Netherlands) loaded with iron ore, sank following a leak north of Alderney Channel Islands. 19 perished, only 4 sailors were rescued by the Norwegian steamer Wacland.{{cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?163028 | title=SS Cordier (+1920) | publisher=wrecksite.eu |access-date = 15 August 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://uim.marine.free.fr/hisnav/archives/carpass/cordier.htm |title="CORDIER" ID No: 5604589}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{MV|Eva|1904|2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The cargo ship came ashore on the west coast of Skagen. Her crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=19 March 1920 |page=20 |issue=42363 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Jeremiah Smith|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Hatteras||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=20 March 1920 |page=24 |issue=42364 |column=B-C }} }}

=19 March=

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|ship=Scandia

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 116-gross register ton, {{convert|90.8|ft|m|adj=on}} fishing vessel was stranded in the Gulf of Alaska on the north end of Montague Island at the entrance to Prince William Sound in the Territory of Alaska. All 17 people on board survived. She was salvaged, repaired, and returned to service.

}}

=20 March=

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|ship={{Ship||Gladys Strut|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The three-masted schooner sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|48|10|N|19|30|W}}). She was set afire and abandoned; her crew were rescued by {{SS|Major Wheeler||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Jerx G. Shaw|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Block Island, Rhode Island. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|White Rose||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Fantee||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the Bristol Channel {{convert|8|nmi|km}} off Trevose Head, Cornwall and sank. Her crew were rescued by Fantee.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=22 March 1920 |page=26 |issue=42365 |column=B }} }}

=22 March=

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|ship={{SS|Ambar||2}}

|flag={{flag|Portugal}}

|desc=The whaler was wrecked in the Congo River at Loanda, Portuguese East Africa. Some of her passengers and crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=26 March 1920 |page=23 |issue=42369 |column=A }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Kara||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship was wrecked off Cape Quintres, Santoña, Spain. Her crew were rescued.{{cite web |url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/WWIStandardShipsA-K.htm#A |title=WWI Standard Built Ships A-K |publisher=Mariners |access-date=8 May 2011}}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=24 March 1920 |page=25 |issue=42367 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Rock Island Bridge||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with tanker Iroquois ({{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}) in the English Channel {{convert|8|nmi|km}} south south east of The Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. She was taken in tow by {{SS|Kenosha||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}) beached in the Helford River but subsequently sank. Later raised and sold for scrap.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Sale of a wreck |date=19 May 1920 |page=6 |issue=42414 |column=E }}{{cite web |url=http://www.aqua-photography.com/SS.ROCK%20ISLAND%20BRIDGE.html |title=SS.ROCK ISLAND BRIDGE |publisher=Aquaphotography |access-date=17 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141201175545/http://www.aqua-photography.com/SS.ROCK%20ISLAND%20BRIDGE.html |archive-date=1 December 2014 |url-status=dead}} The wreck was sold by auction in May 1920. }}

=24 March=

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|ship={{ship||City of St. Helens|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1912}}

|desc=The auxiliary schooner caught fire and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of the United States.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|H-1|SS-28|6}}

|flag={{navy|United States|1912}}

|desc=The H-class submarine ran aground on a reef off Margarita Island, Baja California, Mexico in stormy weather and high seas. She was pulled off by {{USS|Vestal}} ({{navy|United States|1912}}) on 26 March and taken under tow but sank an hour later in {{convert|50|ft}} of water. Three crewmen drowned trying to reach shore and her captain was washed overboard from the conning tower and drowned. Survivors were rescued from shore by {{SS|Mazatlan||2}} (flag unknown).{{cite web |url=http://www.usmm.org/ww1navy.html |title=U. S. Navy Ships Sunk or Damaged from Various Causes during World War I |publisher=usmm.org |access-date=22 April 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://ussnautilus.org/the-loss-of-uss-h-1-ss-28/ |title=The Loss Of USS H-1 (SS-28) |date=24 March 2014 |publisher=ussnautilus.org |access-date=22 April 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?232087 |title= USS H-1 (+1920) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=22 April 2021}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Mutlah||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire at Naples, Italy, and sank.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{MV|Teje||2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Mimer|1905|2}} ({{flag|Norway}}) off Kristiansand, Norway, and was beached.

}}

=25 March=

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|ship={{SS|Botanist|1911|2}}

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

|desc=The cargo liner ran aground on the Komuriya Reef, off the coast of Ceylon.{{cite web |url=http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=5442 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050503000709/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=5442 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=3 May 2005 |title=Launched 1911: ss BOTANIST |publisher=Clydesite |access-date=17 September 2012}} Her passengers were rescued by {{SS|Arracan||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign New Items |date=1 April 1920 |page=15 |issue=42374 |column=E }} She was declared a total loss on 30 March.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=31 March 1920 |page=23 |issue=42373 |column=E }} Her crew were rescued. }}

=27 March=

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|ship={{SS|Inga||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Villa San Giovanni, Calabria, Italy. She was refloated on 31 March.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Picardie||2}} or {{SS|Picardy||2}}

|flag=not known

|desc=The cargo ship reported in collision with {{SS|New Londoner||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the North Sea (or in the Scheldt, off Hansweert) and either sank or returned to Antwerp.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign New Items |date=30 March 1920 |page=13 |issue=4272 |column=E }}{{cite news |title=Marine Disasters |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004036/19200330/462/0008 |access-date=3 August 2022 |work=Journal of Commerce |issue=29157 |date=30 March 1920 |location=Liverpool |page=8|via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite news |title=British Vessels in Collision |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19200330/145/0008 |access-date=3 August 2022 |work=Liverpool Echo |issue=12567 |date=30 March 1920 |page=8|via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite news |title=British Vessel Sunk in Collision |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000264/19200330/032/0008 |access-date=3 August 2022 |work=Western Daily Press |issue=19277 |date=30 March 1920 |location=Bristol |page=8|via=British Newspaper Archive}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Soviet submarine|Ugor||2}}

|flag={{navy|Soviet Union}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Bars|submarine|||1915}} was sunk by ice in the Neva. The submarine was later salvaged.

}}

=28 March=

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|ship={{SS|Crostafels||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on the Ceiba Bank, off the coast of Cuba.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=30 April 1920 |page=18 |issue=42372 |column=D }} She was later refloated and arrived at Kingston, Jamaica on 5 March.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Russian destroyer|Moskvityanin|1905|2}}

|flag={{flagicon|Russia}} White Movement

|desc=Russian Civil War: The {{sclass|Emir Bukharski|destroyer|0}} destroyer, sunk in May 1919 and refloated on 10 January 1920 but not repaired, was scuttled by gunfire in the Caspian Sea by ships of the Caspian Flotilla of the White Movement.

}}

=29 March=

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|ship={{ship||City of St. Helens|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The sailing vessel caught fire and sank in the Atlantic Ocean 80 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=31 March 1920 |page=24 |issue=42373 |column=E }}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?22280 |title=SV City of St. Helens (+1920) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=14 May 2018}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Kitagawa Maru||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship sprang a leak and was abandoned off Chōsi, Chica.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=3 April 1920 |page=19 |issue=42375 |column=B }} }}

=30 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Prince John||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Prince Albert||2}} ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) off Deadtree Point, British Columbia, Canada and was beached.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=1 April 1920 |page=28 |issue=42374 |column=E }} She was refloated on 8 April.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=10 April 1920 |page=19 |issue=42381 |column=D }} }}

=31 March=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Frances R

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 13-gross register ton motor vessel struck a rock, drifted ashore, and was smashed to pieces by the surf at Lyman Point ({{coord|55|32|30|N|132|16|35|W|name=Lyman Point}}) in Southeast Alaska after her gasoline engine broke down during a snowstorm with high winds. The two people on board survived.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-f/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (F)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Russian gunboat|Prince Pozharsky||2}}

|flag={{nowrap begin}}{{navy|Russia}} White Movement{{nowrap end}}

|desc=Russian Civil War: The gunboat was damaged by a mine in the Caspian Sea and scuttled by {{ship|Russian gunboat|Dmitry Donskoy||2}} ({{navy|Russia}} White Movement).{{cite web |url=http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?f=149&t=53513&sid=4602ec483d071ff77de174d0dab67939 |title=Soviet Naval Battles during Civil War (Redone) |publisher=Soviet-Empire |access-date=24 May 2018}}

}}

=Unknown date=

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|ship={{USS|Brown|SP-1050|6}}

|flag={{naval|United States|1912}}

|desc=The minesweeping tug sank at Naval Air Station Wildwood, Cape May, New Jersey.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|Kerowlee|1901|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship was wrecked in the Weser, Germany in late March.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Serious Marine Casualties |date=27 March 1920 |page=18 |issue=42370 |column=B }} She broke in two on 25 March. }}

April

=1 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{MV|Murre||2}}

|flag={{nowrap begin}}25px United States Bureau of Fisheries{{nowrap end}}

|desc=The fishery patrol vessel struck a rock in Keku Strait in the Territory of Alaska and was beached to prevent her from sinking. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[https://www.afsc.noaa.gov/History/vessels/boats/auklet-murre.htm AFSC Historical Corner: Auklet and Murre, 1917 Sister Patrol Vessels Retrieved September 17, 2018] }}

=2 April=

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|ship={{USCGC|Leader}}

|flag={{nowrap begin}}25px United States Coast Guard{{nowrap end}}

|desc=The motorboat was destroyed by fire. }}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Saffo

|flag={{navy|Kingdom of Italy}}

|desc=The torpedo boat sank after running aground on the coast of Ottoman Turkey near Scalanova Bay.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. 359.].

}}

=3 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Britannia

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

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in North Sea off Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire. All sixteen crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=5 April 1920 |page=15 |issue=42376 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Rosegg||2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Goswick, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|ST|Sologne||2}}

|flag={{Flag|France}}

|desc=The tug came ashore at Ryhope, County Durham, United Kingdom and sank.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Steinsund|barque|2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The four-masted barque departed Bordeaux, France, for Newport News, Virginia, United States. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands. }}

=4 April=

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|ship={{SS|Malabar|1914|2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground near the Barns Ness Lighthouse, Lothian. Her crew were rescued. She broke in two on 6 April.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=7 April 1920 |page=20 |issue=42378 |column=C }} }}

=5 April=

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|ship={{SS|Aughinish||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship struck a submerged object and was beached on Montague Island, New South Wales, Australia.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=6 April 1920 |page=18 |issue=42377 |column=D }} She was refloated on 12 April.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=13 April 1920 |page=19 |issue=42383 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Verdun|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The auxiliary schooner caught fire in the River Seine and was a total loss. }}

=7 April=

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|ship={{SS|Olinda||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground off Manati, Cuba.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=American steamer ashore |date=8 April 1920 |page=18 |issue=42379 |column=F }} She was refloated on 14 April.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=15 April 1920 |page=25 |issue=42385 |column=D }} }}

=8 April=

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|ship={{ship|Soviet auxiliary cruiser|Caspian||2}}

|flag={{flagicon|Soviet Union|naval}} Red Movement

|desc=Russian Civil War: The auxiliary cruiser foundered in a storm in the Caspian Sea with the loss of 52 of her 65 crew. Survivors were rescued by the destroyer Proletarskiy ({{flagicon|Soviet Union|naval}} Red Movement). Caspian was raised in 1934, repaired and returned to service as a transport.{{Cite book |title=Погибли без боя. Катастрофы русских кораблей XVIII–XX вв. |trans-title=They died without a fight. Catastrophes of Russian ships of the XVIII-XX centuries |language=Russian |first=Alexander Alekseevich |last=Chernyshev |publisher=Veche |year=2012 |url=http://www.maxima-library.org/mob/b/389880?format=read }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Clutha||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship sprang a leak at Manzanillo, Cuba and was beached.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=12 April 1920 |page=23 |issue=42382 |column=D }} She was refloated on 13 April.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=15 April 1920 |page=25 |issue=42385 |column=D }} }}

=10 April=

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|ship={{SS|Powel||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida. Her crew survived. }}

=11 April=

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|ship={{SS|Bastia||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire at Naples. She was scuttled the next day.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Roye

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The auxiliary sailing vessel arrived at Salonica, Greece on fire. She was a total loss. }}

=12 April=

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|ship=Zilia

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}

|desc=The auxiliary sailing vessel caught fire at Porto, Portugal and was scuttled.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=14 April 1920 |page=23 |issue=42384 |column=D }} }}

=13 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Meditation|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|5|nmi|km}} north of Faial Island, Azores, Portugal. }}

=14 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Flensburg

|flag={{flagcountry|Weimar Republic|civil}}

|desc=The fishing trawler struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off List, Schleswig-Holstein.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=17 April 1920 |page=16 |issue=42387 |column=F }} }}

=15 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Eagle Wing|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner sprang a leak and was beached at Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba. }}

=16 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Svelviksand I

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The auxiliary sailing ship was wrecked on the Knock Sand, North Sea. Her crew sought refuge on the Knock Lightship (22px Trinity House). }}

=18 April=

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|ship={{SS|William O'Brien||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship probably foundered on this date.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=20 April 1920 |page=24 |issue=42389 |column=E }} She had issued a SOS that she was leaking in a severe storm and had lost her cargo hatches in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|40|00|N|65|50|W}}) which was answered by {{RMS|Baltic|1903|2}} and {{SS|Minniekahda||2}} (both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), some debris was found. Lost with all 40 hands.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000071882857&view=1up&seq=18 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1921 |publisher=Government Printing Office, Washington |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=29 January 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?143639 |title=William O'Brien (+1920) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=29 January 2020}}

}}

=19 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|St. Barcran||2}}

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

|desc=The coaster collided with {{SS|Whinhill||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) at Liverpool, Lancashire and was beached. She was later refloated and taken to Manchester.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=20 April 1920 |page=24 |issue=42389 |column=E }} }}

=20 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Bayonnaise|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner foundered in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=22 April 1920 |page=6 |issue=42391 |column=B }} }}

=22 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Matilde|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Whitby, Yorkshire and was wrecked.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=23 April 1920 |page=25 |issue=42392 |column=B }} }}

=24 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Arthur V. S. Woodruff|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner came ashore on the east coast of Barbados. She was a total loss.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=29 April 1920 |page=10 |issue=42397 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Ernst|1885|2}}

|flag={{flag|Sweden}}

|desc=The sailing ship struck a mine at Herthas Flak in Kattegat on 24 or 25 April and sank with all hands, 22 in all.Swedish Board of Trade: ”Svenska handelsflottans krigsförluster 1914-1920” (Swedish Merchant Marine losses 1914-1920), Stockholm 1921, pp. 451-2

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Westgate

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

|desc=The cargo ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=26 April 1920 |page=24 |issue=42394 |column=B }}

}}

=27 April=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Soviet gunboat|Gubitelnyy||2}}

|flag={{navy|Soviet Union}} Red Movement

|desc=Polish-Soviet War: The gunboat was shelled and sunk at Chernobyl on the Pripyat River by Polish artillery. Salvaged post war.

}}

=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Brisk|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean in early April. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Hellenes||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=9 April 1920 |page=19 |issue=42380 |column=c }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gladys Street

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

|desc=The sailing ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Major Wheeler||2}} ({{Flag|United States|1918}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||J. T Ralston|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner caught fire in the Caribbean Sea. Her crew were rescued by {{USS|Chemung|AT-18|6}} ({{navy|USA|1912}}).{{cite DANFS |title=Current |url=http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/auxil/at18.htm |access-date=4 May 2012}} }}

May

=2 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Latona|barquentine|2}}

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

|desc=The barquentine foundered in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|17|nmi|km}} west of Tory Island, County Donegal. Her crew were rescued. }}

=3 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Munamar||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The passenger ship ran aground on Watling Island, Bahamas. All eighty passengers and crew were rescued by {{SS|Athenic||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{cite web |url=http://www.ssmaritime.com/SS-Athenic.htm |title=SS Athenic I, Corinthic I & Ionic II |publisher=SS Maritime |access-date=18 September 2012}} She was later refloated and beached.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=10 May 1920 |page=20 |issue=42406 |column=C }} Munamar was refloated on 20 May.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=21 May 1920 |page=26 |issue=42416 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Notre Dame d'Arvour|barque|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque came ashore on Wardang Island, South Australia. She was later gutted by fire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=5 May 1920 |page=25 |issue=42405 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Risør|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The auxiliary schooner caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean (approximately {{coord|40|N|68|W}} and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|City of Canton||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). }}

=4 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Benito Suarez|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The three-masted schooner was wrecked in Bay Limonade, Haiti. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=6 May 1920 |page=25 |issue=42403 |column=C }} }}

=5 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Joseph Leopold|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The four-masted schooner ran aground on the Silver Bank, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Dominican Republic, and was a total loss.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=7 May 1920 |page=22 |issue=42404 |column=D }} }}

=6 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Sunshine|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner struck a sunken wreck at Zeebrugge, West Flanders, Belgium and sank. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=8 May 1920 |page=8 |issue=42405 |column=D-E }} }}

=9 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Harlsywood||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Melilla, Spain. She was refloated on 25 May.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Merkur||2}}

|flag={{flag|Finland}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Castro Alen||2}} ({{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}) in the Bristol Channel off Barry, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and sank. Her crew were rescued by a pilot cutter.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=10 May 1920 |page=20 |issue=42406 |column=C }} Salvage efforts were abandoned in September 1920.{{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=22 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222065415/http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf |archive-date=22 December 2014}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USAT|Northern Pacific}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1919}}

|desc=The United States Army troopship ran aground on Collnas Shoal at the entrance to the harbor at San Juan, Puerto Rico.[https://books.google.com/books?id=58RMAAAAYAAJ&dq=USAT+Northern+Pacific+San+Juan&pg=PA715 Anonymous, Reports of the Department of Commerce, 1920, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1921, p. 715.] She was refloated and underway again the next day.[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030273/1920-05-11/ed-1/seq-5/ Anonymous, "Pershing Buys Store of Sugar," The Sun and the New York Herald, May 11, 1920, p. 5.]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Windrush|barque|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The barque collided with {{SS|Buenos Aires||2}} ({{Flag|Spain|civil-1785}}) in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|1000|nmi|km}} east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey and sank with the loss of five crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=17 May 1920 |page=23 |issue=42412 |column=E }} }}

=10 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Tibermede||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground near the Cabo Carvoeiro Lighthouse, Portugal. Her crew were rescued; the ship was declared a total loss.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=11 May 1920 |page=25 |issue=42407 |column=D }} }}

=11 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= Shusana

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 49-gross register ton, {{convert|79.8|ft|m|adj=on}} sternwheel paddle steamer was wrecked on the Tanana River near Nenana Territory of Alaska. All 11 people on board survived.

}}

=12 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Lake Stobi||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The Design 1099 cargo ship ran aground off the Koshiki Lighthouse, Gotō Islands, Japan and was wrecked.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=18 May 1920 |page=18 |issue=42413 |column=E }} }}

=13 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Florence Thurlow|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner collided with {{SS|Laramie||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}) off New York and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by Laramie.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=15 May 1920 |page=21 |issue=42411 |column=D }} }}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=RIMS Mayo

|flag={{navy|UK}}

|desc=The Royal Indian Marine transport Mayo collided with {{SS|Arankola||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) at Rangoon and was run ashore. She became a total loss{{cite book|last1=Laxton|first1=W.A.|last2=Perry|first2=F.W.|title=B.I. the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited|date=1994|publisher=World Ship Society|location=Kendal, England|isbn=0905617657|page=67}}}}

=15 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Padouk|barque|2}}

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

|desc=The barque ran aground {{convert|4|nmi|km}} off Bassein, Burma. Her crew abandoned ship in the lifeboats.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Tenzan Maru||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship departed Montevideo, Uruguay for Antwerp, Belgium. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=17 July 1920 |page=20 |issue=42465 |column=C }} }}

=16 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Lake Grafton||2}}

|flag={{Flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The Design 1093 cargo ship ran aground on the Runnel Stone, off the coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. }}

=17 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Clewbay||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on the west coast of Mutton Island, County Galway. She was refloated on 2 June.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=4 June 1920 |page=25 |issue=42428 |column=D }} }}

=18 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HSwMS|Laxen|1914|6}}

|flag={{navy|Sweden}}

|desc=The submarine sank at Karlskrona, Sweden.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign News Items |date=19 May 1920 |page=15 |issue=42414 |column=F }} }}

=21 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lester

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The sternwheel paddle steamer was lost at Fairbanks, Territory of Alaska.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-l/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (L)]

}}

=22 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Cordora||2}}

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

|desc=The passenger ship caught fire in the Indian Ocean off Socotra and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Umtata||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=25 May 1920 |page=16 |issue=42419 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Manoussis||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on the Carromeiro Rocks, off Corcubión, A Coruña, Spain and was a total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Tafna||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground in the Tunas Channel, Cuba. She was refloated on 26 May. }}

=23 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Lurcher||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo liner ran aground {{convert|2|nmi|km}} south Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. All 53 passengers were taken off.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=24 May 1920 |page=15 |issue=42418 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Soviet minesweeper|Mina||2}}

|flag={{navy|Soviet Union}} Red Movement

|desc=Polish-Soviet War: The minesweeper was sunk on the Pripyat river at Pripyat by mines.

}}

=24 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||John W. Wood|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was rammed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by {{SS|Lake Elsah||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}). Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Wasa||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire off Colonsay, Inner Hebrides and was a total loss. Four of her crew were killed.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Wooden steamer burnt |date=26 May 1920 |page=4 |issue=42420 |column=D }} }}

=25 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Albertus||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Weimar Republic|civil}}

|desc=The cargo ship came ashore at Hustadvika, Norway and was a total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Equity||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground in fog on Alderney, Channel Islands carrying a cargo of potatoes from Jersey.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=27 May 1920 |page=21 |issue=42421 |column=C }} She was refloated on 15 June.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=17 June 1920 |page=21 |issue=42439 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Leota

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 36-gross register ton steamer was crushed by ice during the spring ice breakup while laid up on the bank of a river for the winter of 1919–1920 near Fairbanks, Territory of Alaska.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=USFS Osprey

|flag=22px United States Bureau of Fisheries

|desc=While beached at Cordova, Territory of Alaska, to have her hull cleaned and copper painted, the fishery patrol vessel settled into the gravel on the beach, rolled away from the shore onto her side, filled with water, and became partially submerged. She was refloated and returned to service.[https://www.afsc.noaa.gov/History/vessels/boats/osprey.htm NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center AFSC Historical Corner: Osprey, BOF's first Alaska patrol boat]

}}

=26 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Fau Sang||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground off the Hainan Head Lighthouse, China.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=31 May 1920 |page=23 |issue=42424 |column=F }} She later broke her back and was declared a total loss on 3 June.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=4 June 1920 |page=25 |issue=42428 |column=D }} }}

=27 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Deva||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire at Faial Island, Azores, Portugal and was beached.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=29 May 1920 |page=21 |issue=42423 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Dunleith||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Proudfoot, Caithness. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=28 May 1920 |page=22 |issue=42422 |column=E }} She was refloated on 2 June.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=3 June 1920 |page=24 |issue=42427 |column=D }} }}

=29 May=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cypress

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 33-gross register ton fishing vessel was wrecked on a shoal in Dry Bay on the south-central or southeast coast of the Territory of Alaska. Her crew of four survived. The wreck report does not specify in which of several bays of the name the loss took place. Her gasoline engine was salvaged.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-c/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (C)]

}}

=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Prarial||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Melilla, Spain in early May. She was refloated at the end of the month.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance ratess |date=1 June 1920 |page=20 |issue=42425 |column=D }} }}

June

=1 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Little Florence

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

|desc=The sailing ship foundered in the English Channel off Paimpol, Côtes-du-Nord, France.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=2 June 1920 |page=24 |issue=42426 |column=D }} }}

=3 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Samos||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Pointe Fern, Ouessant, Finistère, France. She broke in two on 11 June and was a total loss.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=14 June 1920 |page=23 |issue=42436 |column=C }} }}

=7 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Britannia|barque|2}}

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

|desc=The barque foundered in the North Sea {{convert|125|nmi|km}} east by north of Spurn Point, Yorkshire with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by the trawler Dragon ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=8 June 1920 |page=18 |issue=42431 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Irmgard|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Suva, Fiji.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Pak Ling||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on Button Island, East China Sea. She was refloated on 15 June.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=16 June 1920 |page=21 |issue=42438 |column=C }} }}

=8 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|Berwyn|ID-3565|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship struck rocks off Sharbithat, Oman ({{coord|17|50|N|57|22|E}}): She refloated but consequently foundered. Her 54 crew were rescued by {{SS|Katiagallus||2}} (flag unknown).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=26 June 1920 |page=23 |issue=42447 |column=E }} }}

=11 June=

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|ship=USS Eagle 25

|flag={{navy|United States|1912}}

|desc=The {{sclass2|Eagle|patrol craft|0}} submarine chaser capsized and sank in a storm in the Delaware River off Finn's Point Light, {{convert|3|mi}} south of New Castle, Delaware. Nine crewmen were killed. Over 45 survivors were rescued by {{SS|Thomas Clyde||2}} and {{SS|Independence Hall||2}} (flags unknown).{{cite web |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/u/us-navy-ships-lost-in-selected-storm-weather-related-incidents.html |title=U.S. Navy Ships Lost in Selected Storm/Weather Related Incidents |publisher=history.navy.mil |access-date=18 August 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/us_navy_pages/patrol_and_gunboats/eagle_pe25/uss_eagle_pe25_data.htm |title=USS Eagle 25 PE-25 |publisher=maritimequest.com |access-date=18 August 2024}}

}}

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|ship={{ship||St. Boswells|tugboat|2}}

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

|desc=The tug struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Terschelling, Netherlands with the loss of 16 of her 22 crew. Santa Theresa ({{flagcountry|Weimar Republic|civil}}) rescued survivors.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=British tug mined |date=12 June 1920 |page=15 |issue=42435 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship={{USS|SC-282}}

|flag={{navy|United States|1912}}

|desc=The {{sclass|SC-1|submarine chaser}} sank in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico.{{cite web |url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/150282.htm |title=USS SC-282 |publisher=Navsourse |access-date=22 April 2021}}

}}

=14 June=

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|ship=Arkley

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

|desc=The auxiliary sailing vessel ran aground on the Sow and Pig Sands, in the North Sea off Blyth, Northumberland. She was abandoned by her crew, but was later boarded by some of the crew of the Blyth Lifeboat. Arkley was refloated and brought into Blyth Harbour.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=15 June 1920 |page=25 |issue=42437 |column=D }} }}

=15 June=

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|ship=Anna

|flag={{flag|Soviet Union}}

|desc=The cargo ship was destroyed by fire in the Skagerrak off Kristiansand, Norway.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Gladys|Thames barge|2}}

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

|desc=The Thames barge collided with {{SS|Chifuku Maru||2}} ({{flagcountry|Empire of Japan}}) in the Thames Estuary off the Mucking Lightship (22px Trinity House) and sank. Her crew were rescued. Gladys was later refloated.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Shipping accident |date=19 June 1920 |page=18 |issue=42441 |column=A }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Pacifico||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean off Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Pauline M. Cummins|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Hogsty Reef, Barbados and was a total loss. Her crew survived.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|ST|Robert Forest||2}}

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

|desc=The tug sprang a leak in the North Sea and was beached off Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued by the Spurn Lifeboat.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Lifeboat rescue off Spurn |date=16 June 1920 |page=5 |issue=42438 |column=E }} }}

=16 June=

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|ship={{SS|Campos||2}}

|flag={{flagicon|Brazil|1889}} Brazil

|desc=The cargo ship struck rocks in Victoria Girazill Bay and was beached at Rio de Janeiro.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=19 June 1920 |page=8 |issue=42441 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|F. R. Hazard||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with another vessel in Whitefish Bay and was consequently beached at Whitefish Point.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=18 June 1920 |page=25 |issue=42440 |column=E }} }}

=17 June=

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|ship={{ship|Russian tanker|Lady Thea||2}}

|flag={{flag|Russia}} White Movement

|desc=Russian Civil War: The tanker caught fire at Batumi while loading kerosene and was scuttled by shelling by {{HMS|Swallow|1918|6}} ({{navy|UK}}).{{cite web|url=http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?f=149&t=53513 |title=Soviet Naval Battles during the Civil War. |publisher=SovietEmpire |access-date=29 May 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?171345 |title=Lady Thea Tanker (+1920) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=29 May 2018}}

}}

=18 June=

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|ship={{SS|Engineer||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire at Lourenço Marques, Mozambique and was severely damaged.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Harrison liner on fire |date=21 June 1920 |page=11 |issue=42442 |column=C }} She sank on 20 June.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=22 June 1920 |page=25 |issue=42443 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Wico||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground in the Rabbit Islands, Turkey.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=21 June 1920 |page=23 |issue=42442 |column=E }} She was refloated on 24 June. }}

=19 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Heroine

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The {{convert|136|ft|adj=on}}, 296-gross register ton fishing vessel sprang a leak and sank without loss of life in {{convert|80|ft}} of water off Watch Hill, Rhode Island.{{Cite web| url=http://wreckhunter.net/DataPages/heroine-dat.htm |title=Heroine | publisher=Hunting New England Shipwrecks |access-date=10 February 2021 }}

}}

=20 June=

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|ship={{SS|Frontera||2}}

|flag={{Flag|Norway}}

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Cuba and was abandoned. She was later towed into Gibara.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=25 June 1920 |page=25 |issue=42446 |column=E }} }}

=21 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||William C. May|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=9 July 1920 |page=26 |issue=42458 |column=F }} }}

=26 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Ansaldo San Giorgio III||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire and sank at Cartagena, Murcia, Spain.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=28 June 1920 |page=24 |issue=42448 |column=E }} }}

=28 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Charles E. Moody

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 2,003-gross register ton, {{convert|233.9|ft|m|1|adj=on}} wooden ship was destroyed by fire while anchored in the roadstead at Naknek, Territory of Alaska. The only person aboard survived.

}}

=29 June=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Gladys and Nellie|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was destroyed by fire at Antilla, Cuba.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=1 July 1920 |page=25 |issue=42451 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Independent

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 17-gross register ton motor vessel was wrecked on the eastern spit at the entrance to Dry Bay – most likely the body of water of that name located at {{coord|59|08|N|138|25|W|name=Dry Bay}} – on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska after her gasoline engine broke down and her anchors failed to hold in strong currents.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-i/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (I)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Koyo Maru||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on the Serrana Bank, Columbia.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=1 July 1920 |page=25 |issue=42451 |column=C }} She was refloated on 1 August.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=4 August 1920 |page=18 |issue=42480 |column=F }} }}

July

=2 July=

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|ship={{SS|Grayson||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on Stroma, Caithness, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=3 July 1920 |page=24 |issue=42453 |column=F }} She was declared a total loss on 7 July.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=8 July 1920 |page=24 |issue=42457 |column=F }} }}

=3 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Chas E. Moody

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire in Bristol Bay.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=5 July 1920 |page=22 |issue=42454 |column=E }} }}

=4 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Soviet gunboat|Metkiy||2}}

|flag={{navy|Soviet Union}} Red Movement

|desc=Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Loyev: The paddle gunboat was wrecked at Loyev with its paddle wheels broken. The ship was abandoned and later shelled by Polish artillery.

}}

=6 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Standard #1

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=While anchored in Norton Sound off the Bering Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska {{convert|0.5|nmi}} south of the Egavik River ({{coord|64|02|N|160|55|W|name=Egavik River}}) with no people or cargo aboard, the 15-gross register ton scow was blown ashore by a sudden storm and broke up in the surf without loss of life.

}}

=7 July=

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|ship={{SS|West Nosska||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The Design 1013 cargo ship ran aground at Baltimore, Maryland. She was refloated on 12 July.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=14 July 1920 |page=16 |issue=42462 |column=C }} }}

=9 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Primrose

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

|desc=The skiff was driven ashore at Oxwich Point, Glamorgan with the loss of the only crew member on board. }}

=12 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Fort de Troyon||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Rio Grande, Brazil. She was refloated on 16 July. }}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Lake Frampton||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Comus||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}) off Atlantic City and sank with the loss of two of her crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=15 July 1920 |page=23 |issue=42463 |column=B }} }}

=19 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Caroline|barque|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque caught fite at Antofagasta, Chile and was beached.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=21 July 1920 |page=23 |issue=42468 |column=C }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=24 July 1920 |page=20 |issue=42471 |column=B }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Coastwise

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The {{convert|109|ft|m|1|adj=on}}, 269-gross register ton tug sprang a leak and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean south of Long Island, New York. Her entire crew of 17 survived.{{Cite web |url=https://njscuba.net/sites/chart_li-1_west.php#Coastwise |title=njscuba.net Coastwise |access-date=17 February 2020 |archive-date=14 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200214030615/https://njscuba.net/sites/chart_li-1_west.php#Coastwise |url-status=dead }}

}}

=20 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|ST|Jan||2}}

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The tug foundered off Wenchow, China in a typhoon.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=23 July 1920 |page=22 |issue=42470 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Shanghai||2}}

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The dredger foundered off Wenchow in a typhoon. }}

=21 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Italian destroyer|Carlo Alberto Racchia||2}}

|flag={{navy|Kingdom of Italy}}

|desc=Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War: The {{sclass|Mirabello|destroyer|0}} scout cruiser sank in the Black Sea after striking a mine off Odessa, Ukraine.Gray, Randal, ed., Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships 1906-1921, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1985, {{ISBN|0-87021-907-3}}, p. 266.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Saint Michael #9

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=Loaded with a cargo of 406 tons of fuel oil in tanks, the 366-ton barge sank at the dock at St. Michael, Territory of Alaska, when a gale struck and heavy seas swamped her. She was a total loss.

}}

=22 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kolyma

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 29-gross register ton motor vessel was wrecked on the northwest coast of Sledge Island in the Bering Sea during a gale. Her crew of two survived.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-k/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (K)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sesnon #5

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=While anchored about {{convert|0.25|nmi}} west of the mouth of the Lost River ({{coord|65|23|N|167|09|W|name=Lost River}}) on the Bering Sea coast of the Territory of Alaska with no cargo or crew aboard, the 58-ton scow dragged her anchor during a gale, was driven ashore, and was wrecked.

}}

=25 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HMCS|CD88}}

|flag={{navy|Canada|1911}}

|desc=The Admiralty-type drifter foundered on passage from Canada to the United Kingdom.

}}

=26 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Mayals||2}}

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

|desc=The coaster ran aground at Bideford, Devon. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Stanton||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Redriff||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the Thames Estuary and sank. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=27 July 1920 |page=24 |issue=42473 |column=D }} }}

=27 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Santa Elena||2}}

|flag={{Flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Valparaíso, Chile. }}

=28 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Niki||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship arrived at Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom leaking. She was beached at Tranmere, Cheshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=29 July 1920 |page=19 |issue=42475 |column=E }} }}

=31 July=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Santiago de Cuba|1906|2}}

|flag={{flag|Cuba}}

|desc=The cargo ship was destroyed by fire after an explosion in one of her fuel tanks at Santiago de Cuba. One crewman killed, 2 badly burned.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308686&view=1up&seq=387 |title=American Marine Engineer August-September, 1920 |publisher=National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=23 August 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?172579 |title=Santiago de Cuba (+1920) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=23 August 2020}}

}}

=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Suki Maru||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, in late July. She was refloated on 9 August.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=10 August 1920 |page=18 |issue=42485 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tinea

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The motor vessel was lost in Cook Inlet in the Territory of Alaska.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-t/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (T)]

}}

August

=1 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Emanuel Repoulis||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship departed Salonica for Beirut, Greater Lebanon. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Overdue vessel |date=23 December 1920 |page=19 |issue=42601 |column=D }} }}

=3 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Bitche||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Tiñoso, Spain and was abandoned.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=5 August 1920 |page=14 |issue=42481 |column=C }} }}

=4 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gjoa

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=With nine members of her crew ashore and only her captain on board, the 20-gross register ton motor vessel was wrecked without loss of life on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska {{convert|34|nmi}} east of Cape Suckling ({{coord|59|59|30|N|143|19|00|W|name=Cape Suckling}}) after her anchor cable parted during a storm.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-g/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (G)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||H. C. Grube|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Casablanca, French Morocco and was wrecked.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=6 August 1920 |page=18 |issue=42482 |column=F }} }}

=5 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{MV|Adramantis||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship sank in the Ionian Sea off Cerigo.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Santiago de Cuba||2}}

|flag={{flag|Cuba}}

|desc=The cargo ship was destroyed by fire. }}

=6 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Pride of the West|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Westkapelle, Netherlands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=7 August 1920 |page=17 |issue=42483 |column=E }} She broke up and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=9 August 1920 |page=14 |issue=42484 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|West Eldara||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The Design 1013 cargo ship ran aground at Barier Point, Oahu, Hawaii.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=7 August 1920 |page=17 |issue=42483 |column=E }} She was refloated on 10 August.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance ratess |date=11 August 1920 |page=18 |issue=42486 |column=F }} }}

=12 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Matra||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on the Curlew Reef, off Port Augusta, South Australia.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=13 August 1920 |page=18 |issue=42488 |column=C }} She was refloated on 17 August.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Norman

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

|desc=The steam whaler foundered off the Aliwal Shoal with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=18 August 1920 |page=17 |issue=42492 |column=F }} }}

=14 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=A.S.310

|flag=

|desc=The tug foundered in the English Channel off the East Goodwin Lightship (22px Trinity House). Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=17 August 1920 |page=20 |issue=42491 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

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

|flag={{flag|Russia}} White Movement

|desc=Russian Civil War: The transport was sunk in the Sea of Azov off Primorsko-Akhtorsk by mines.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Smolensk||2}}

|flag={{flag|Russia}} White Movement

|desc=Russian Civil War: The cargo ship was sunk in the Sea of Azov off Primorsko-Akhtorsk by mines.

}}

=15 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Dorcas|Thames barge|2}}

|flag=

|desc=The Thames barge was destroyed by fire in the River Thames at Woolwich, London with the loss of one of her three crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=16 August 1920 |page=18 |issue=42490 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Snug Harbor||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=During a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, to Portland, Maine, the cargo ship sank in {{convert|60|ft|m|0}} of water in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|4.5|nmi}} east by north of Montauk Point Light on Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, after colliding with the barge Pottsville ({{flag|United States|1918}}), which was under tow by Covington ({{flag|United States|1918}}). Snug Harbor was declared a total loss.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=19 August 1920 |page=17 |issue=42493 |column=D }}[https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?18460 wrecksite.eu SS Snug Harbor (+1920)][https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/F2/53/407/1544114/ law.justia.com The Snug Harbor, 53 F.2d 407 (E.D.N.Y. 1931)] }}

=16 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Seresia||2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Eglantier||2}} ({{flag|Belgium}}) at Antwerp and was beached. She was refloated on 18 August. }}

=17 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Fife||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Kaskinen, Finland. She was refloated on 24 August.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance ratess |date=25 August 1920 |issue=424 }} }}

=18 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|James H. Shrigley|1881|2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship was wrecked/beached or foundered {{convert|1/2|mi|spell=in}} off Braddock Point Light, Lake Ontario. She was stripped and abandoned. The crew were rescued by the United States Coast Guard.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?27893 |title=James H. Shrigley (+1920) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=24 August 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308686&view=1up&seq=416 |title=American Marine Engineer August-September, 1920 |publisher=National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=24 August 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Ponrabbel II||2}}

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

|desc=The dredger was reported to have gone ashore near São Martinho do Porto, Portugal.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=19 August 1920 |page=17 |issue=42493 |column=D }} She was refloated by 27 August.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=30 August 1920 |page=18 |issue=42502 |column=F }}

}}

=19 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Russian torpedo boat|Zharkyi||2}}

|flag={{navy|Russia}} White Movement

|desc=Russian Civil War: The torpedo boat was sunk in the Sea of Azov off Primorsko-Akhtorsk by mines.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Volga||2}}

|flag={{flag|Russia}} White Movement

|desc=Russian Civil War: The transport was sunk in the Sea of Azov off Akhtar by mines.

}}

=20 August=

{{shipwreck list item

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

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Willis L. King||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}) in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior and sank with the loss of 29 of her 33 crew. The boiler exploded as the vessel sank.Stonehouse, Frederick (1985, 1998), Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast, pp. 178 - 180, Avery Color Studios, Gwinn, Michigan, U.S.A. {{ISBN|0-932212-43-3}}. }}

=21 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hammonia

|flag=flag unknown

|desc=The ship struck a submerged wreck in the Baltic Sea off Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and sank.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=23 August 1920 |page=17 |issue=42496 |column=A }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Panos||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay {{convert|55|nmi|km}} off Bilbao, Biscay, Spain. }}

=23 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Haaber|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Hyrdalsand, Iceland with some loss of life.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=25 August 1920 |page=17 |issue=42498 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Hebe|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner foundered off Keflavík, Iceland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Old Point Comfort||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Baltimore, Maryland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=24 August 1920 |page=18 |issue=42497 |column=D }} }}

=25 August=

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|ship=Sea Breeze

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 8-gross register ton, {{convert|35|ft|m|adj=on}} fishing vessel was destroyed by fire at Yasha Island ({{coord|56|57|59|N|134|33|37|W|name=Barren Islands}}) in Sumner Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. Two of her three crewmen were killed.

}}

=26 August=

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|ship={{ship||Electra|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Trinidad and was wrecked.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=28 August 1920 |page=12 |issue=42501 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Friend Ship|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner collided with a scow she was towing in the Atlantic Ocean off Hoffman Island, New York and was beached.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|J. A. McKee||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground in the Saint Lawrence River at Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. She was refloated on 29 August.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Lady C|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in Placentia Bay. Her crew were rescued. }}

=27 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HMCS|CD93||6}}

|flag={{navy|Canada|1911}}

|desc=The Admiralty-type drifter foundered on passage from Canada to the United Kingdom.

}}

=29 August=

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|ship={{SS|Anthracite Bridge||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Nazik Point, Salonica, Greece. She was refloated on 28 September. }}

=30 August=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Arakan||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Point Reyes, California and was abandoned by her crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=1 September 1920 |page=20 |issue=42504 |column=F }} She was refloated on 2 September.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=3 September 1920 |page=18 |issue=42506 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Carmenchu||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Rosinos de la Requejada, Zamora.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=31 August 1920 |page=20 |issue=42503 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Hickleton||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall. She later refloated but sank and was a total loss. Her thirteen crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=1 September 1920 |page=20 |issue=42504 |column=F }}{{PastScape|mname=Hickleton|mnumber=1086210|access-date=12 January 2017}} }}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Lisette|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Pine, Newfoundland with the loss of a crew member. }}

=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Dagny|1882|2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The ship foundered in pack ice off Shannon Island, Greenland. Her crew survived, but a number of them died before they were rescued in September 1921.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Wrecked in the Arctic |date=9 September 1921 |page=7 |issue=42821 |column=B }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John H. Dwight

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 221-gross register ton barge was wrecked on rocks during a gale at St. Michael, Territory of Alaska. The only person aboard survived.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-j/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (J)]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Kamui Maru||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on Formosa in early August. She was declared a total loss on 12 September.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=13 September 1920 |page=17 |issue=42514 |column=D }} }}

September

=1 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Myron C. Taylor|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The three-masted schooner was destroyed by fire at Cadiz, Spain.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=2 September 1920 |page=17 |issue=42505 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|S-5|SS-110|6}}

|flag={{navy|United States|1918}}

|desc=File:USS S-5 (S-110) wreck sonar image.jpg image of the wreck of S-5]] The S-class submarine partially flooded due to a jammed valve in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|40|mi}} off the Delaware Capes with her stern above water. All crew were rescued on 3 September. S-5 sank completely during an attempt to tow her to port on 3 September, {{convert|15|mi}} off the Delaware Capes.{{cite web |url=http://www.usmm.org/ww1navy.html |title=U. S. Navy Ships Sunk or Damaged from Various Causes during World War I |publisher=usmm.org |access-date=22 April 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/projects/01s5/history/history.html |title=History of the USS S-Five Submarine |publisher=NOAA |access-date=22 April 2021}}

}}

=2 September=

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|ship={{SS|Gjede||2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The cargo ship sprang a leak in the North Sea ({{coord|57|20|N|5|10|E}}) and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by a British trawler.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Red Dawn

|flag=25px Russian Navy Bolshevik

|desc=Russian Civil War: The warship was sunk by an onboard explosion with the loss of 130 lives.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=3 September 1920 |page=9 |issue=42506 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Stavros||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the English Channel. All nine crew were rescued by {{SS|Marshal Plumer||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). }}

=3 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Cristóba Cólon|1923|2}}

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

|desc=The ocean liner was severely damaged by fire at Ferrol, Galicia whilst under construction.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=6 September 1920 |page=16 |issue=42508 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Genyei Maru||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the South China Sea north of Formosa in a typhoon.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=18 September 1920 |page=14 |issue=42519 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|George Fisher||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship sank on the Middle Cross Sand, North Sea. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Lucient||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}} and the Caister Lifeboat. She was a total loss.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=4 September 1920 |page=14 |issue=42507 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Katalla Queen

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The 7-gross register ton motor vessel sank in deep water near the middle of Valdez Bay ({{coord|61|07|N|146|16|W|name=Valdez Bay}}) on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska during an attempt to tow her to shore after she struck piling head and began to flood. Her crew of two survived.

}}

=5 September=

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|ship={{SS|Astarte|1919|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Hird|1902|2}} ({{Flag|Norway}}) in the Bay of Biscay {{convert|6|nmi|km}} off Ouessant, Finistère and sank.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Insurance and Shipping Casualties |date=7 September 1920 |page=14 |issue=42509 |column=B }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=7 September 1920 |page=16 |issue=42509 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Dimitrios||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The coaster foundered in the English Channel off Hartland Point, Devon, United Kingdom. All nine crew survived. }}

=6 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|Berwyn|ID-3565|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship was wrecked at the Khuriya Muriya Islands in the Arabian Sea at approximately {{coord|17|44|N|056|38|E|name=SS Berwyn}}.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Norton||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground off Zooria Island, Greece. She was refloated on 10 September.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=13 September 1920 |page=17 |issue=42514 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Queenmead||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Punta Entinas, Spain. She was refloated on 9 September.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=10 September 1920 |page=16 |issue=42512 |column=D }} }}

=7 September=

{{shipwreck list item

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

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship sank at Yokohama, Japan.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=9 September 1920 |page=16 |issue=42511 |column=E }} }}

=8 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Comboyne|1911|2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship sank at Port Kembla, New South Wales. She was later refloated, repaired and returned to service. }}

=9 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Basaan||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship sprang a leak. She was towed to Riverhead, Newfoundland by {{SS|Portia||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and beached.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Loughborough||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Konigin Luise|1896|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the Atlantic Ocean off Belém, Portugal and was beached.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Pentakota||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on the Gahha Reef.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurace rates |date=10 September 1920 |page=16 |issue=42512 |column=D }} She was refloated on 30 September.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|Siboney|ID-2999|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The passenger ship ran aground at Vigo, Galicia, Spain,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Accident to U.S. liner |date=11 September 1920 |page=6 |issue=42513 |column=B }} due to an error in navigation by her captain. Her 500 passengers were taken off on 10 September.{{cite news |title=Siboney aground at Vigo |newspaper=The New York Times|issue=11 September 1920 |page=10 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/09/11/98589689.pdf |access-date=19 September 2012}} She was refloated on 30 September.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=1 October 1920 |page=17 |issue=42530 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|War Fundy||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground in the Gulf of Bothnia off Grundkallen, Sweden and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=11 September 1920 |page=10 |issue=42513 |column=D }} }}

=10 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|Pittsburgh|CA-4|6}}

|flag={{navy|USA|1918}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Pennsylvania|cruiser|2}} ran aground in the Baltic Sea {{convert|3|nmi|km}} off Liepāja, Latvia.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign News Items |date=11 September 1920 |page=7 |issue=42513 |column=F }} She was refloated on 11 September.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=14 September 1920 |page=14 |issue=42515 |column=D }} }}

=14 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Fylla|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner departed Campbellton, Newfoundland for Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Mary L. Oxner|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Silver Bank, off the Turks Islands and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=16 September 1920 |page=14 |issue=42517 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vermillion

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=Under tow by the tug Barrelton ({{flag|United States|1918}}) from Norfolk, Virginia, to Fall River, Massachusetts, with a cargo of coal, the barge sank in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|4.5|nmi}} east by north of Montauk Point Light on Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, after colliding with the sunken wreck of the cargo ship {{SS|Snug Harbor||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}). Vermillion and her cargo were declared a total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Winstead

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=Under tow by the tug Barrelton ({{flag|United States|1918}}) from Norfolk, Virginia, to Fall River, Massachusetts, with a cargo off coal, the barge sank in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|4.5|nmi}} east by north of Montauk Point Light on Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, after colliding with the sunken wreck of the cargo ship {{SS|Snug Harbor||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}). Winstead and her cargo were declared a total loss.

}}

=15 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Charles A. Ritcey|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Rose Head, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia with the loss of her captain.{{cite web |url=https://novascotia.ca/museum/wrecks/wrecks/shipwrecks.asp?ID=885 |title=Charles A. Ritcey - 1920 |publisher=Maritime Museum of the Atlantic |access-date=19 January 2015}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{MV|Havfruen||2}}

|flag={{Flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|United States|1903|2}} ({{flag|Denmark}}) in the Lessoe Channel. She was towed into Frederikshavn, Nordjylland, where she capsized with the loss of a crew member.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Russian gunboat|Salgyr||2}}

|flag={{navy|Russia}} White Movement

|desc=Russian Civil War: Battle of Obytichnyi Spit: The gunboat was shelled and sunk in the Sea of Azov off Berdyansk by {{ship|Russian gunboat|Krasnaya Zvezda||2}} ({{navy|Soviet Union}}). Two crewmen killed. Survivors were rescued by {{ship|Russian gunboat|Ural||2}} ({{navy|Russia}} White Movement).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Spyrios||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the Eddystone Lighthouse, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew survived. }}

=16 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Charles A. Ritcey|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was lost off Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=18 September 1920 |page=14 |issue=42519 |column=D }} }}

=17 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{MV|Warita||2}}

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

|desc=The coaster was severely damaged by fire at Fleetwood, Lancashire. }}

=19 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Zelo||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship struck the wreck of {{SS|Merkur||2}} (22px Finland) and sank in the Bristol Channel off Barry Island, Glamorgan with the loss of one of her 27 crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=21 September 1920 |page=17 |issue=42521 |column=D }} }}

=20 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Prince Rupert||2}}

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

|desc=The passenger ship struck a reef in Swanson Bay on the coast of British Columbia in Canada and was beached in a sinking condition. After her passengers and crew had been put ashore, she became almost completely submerged at high tide. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.{{cite book |last=Guay |first=David R. P. |date=2016 |title=Passenger and Merchant Ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways |publisher=Dundurn Press |location=Toronto |isbn=978-1-4597-3555-2}}, p. 100.{{cite book |last=Hacking |first=Norman |date=1995 |title=Prince Ships of Northern BC: Ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways |publisher=Heritage House Publishing Company |location= Surrey, British Columbia |isbn=1-895811-28-7}}, p. 28

}}

=22 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Nea Ellas||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on the Brazilian coast ({{coord|5|11|S|35|10|W}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=23 September 1920 |page=15 |issue=42523 |column=D }} She was refloated on 28 September.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=30 September 1920 |page=12 |issue=42529 |column=C }} }}

=23 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Amelia J.

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

|desc=The yacht was wrecked on Flinders Island, Tasmania with the loss of all hands. An Airco DH.9A aircraft of the Australian Air Corps was lost whilst searching for her, along with both crew. Amelia J. was on a voyage from Newcastle, New South Wales to Hobart, Tasmania.{{cite book|last=Coulthard-Clark |first=Chris |year=1991 |title=The Third Brother: The Royal Australian Air Force 1921–39 |location=North Sydney |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=978-0-04-442307-2 |pages=25–26}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|I. D. S. Adolph||2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on Middelgrunden.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=24 September 1920 |page=17 |issue=42524 |column=D }} She was refloated on 28 September. }}

=24 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|Cushing|TB-1|6}}

|flag={{navy|United States}}

|desc=The decommissioned torpedo boat was sunk as a target. }}

=25 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Annavore||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|España No.4||2}} ({{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}) and was consequently beached at Bonanza, Cadiz, Spain.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=27 September 1920 |page=18 |issue=42526 |column=E-F }} She broke in two on 27 September. }}

=26 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Eikhang||2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Trostan||2}} ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the Lessoe Channel and sank with the loss of three of her crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=28 September 1920 |page=14 |issue=42527 |column=C }} }}

=27 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Northland|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Henry, Virginia.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=29 September 1920 |page=17 |issue=42528 |column=D }} She was later refloated in a severely leaking condition and beached.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=30 September 1920 |page=12 |issue=42529 |column=D }} }}

=28 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Fujinoki Maru No.2||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground in Tobashima Province. She broke up and was wrecked with the loss of two lives.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=5 October 1920 |page=18 |issue=42533 |column=D }}

}}

=29 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Flandre|1889|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the English Channel off St. Brieuc, Côtes-du-Nord. Her crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=1 October 1920 |page=16 |issue=42530 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Speedwell||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship sank in the Gulf of Mexico during a hurricane. Everyone abandoned ship in her lifeboats, but eight died in the boats from exhaustion and privation.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000071882857&view=1up&seq=18 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1921 |publisher=Penn State University |access-date=29 January 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?172304 |title=Speedwell (+1920) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=29 January 2020}}

}}

=30 September=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Katingo A. Lemos||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|105|nmi|km}} off Cape Finisterre, Spain.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=4 October 1920 |page=18 |issue=42532 |column=D }} }}

=Unknown date=

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Luella

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The sternwheel paddle steamer was lost at Chena, Territory of Alaska.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Southern Cross|1891 Melanesian Mission ship|2}}

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

|desc=The brigantine was lost with all hands in Bass Strait, Australia. }}

October

=1 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Albyn|barque|2}}

|flag={{flag|Finland}}

|desc=The barque departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States for Gothenburg, Sweden. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=23 December 1920 |page=19 |issue=42601 |column=D }} }}

=3 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Yvonne|barquentine|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barquentine ran aground at Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom with the loss of a crew member. The survivors were rescued by a lifeboat. }}

=4 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HMCS|CD54||6}}

|flag={{navy|Canada|1911}}

|desc=The Admiralty-type drifter foundered on passage from Canada to the United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Montclair||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on Ellis Island, New York.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=6 October 1920 |page=17 |issue=42534 |column=D }} She was refloated on 21 October.

}}

=5 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Cometa|1912|2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The coaster came ashore at Desterro, Brazil and was wrecked.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=7 October 1920 |page=18 |issue=42535 |column=F }} }}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sorknes

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The barque was dismasted and abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was subsequently towed into Barry, Glamorgan, United Kingdom and was hulked.{{cite web |url=http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/abandoned-ships/ZINITA_192.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315050832/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/abandoned-ships/ZINITA_192.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=15 March 2015 |title=ZINITA |publisher=Clydesite |access-date=1 July 2016}}

}}

=7 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Elizabeth Alice|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The schooner foundered in the Bristol Channel. All six crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=8 October 1920 |page=18 |issue=42536 |column=B }} }}

=8 October=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Zuleika||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship came ashore at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. She was declared a total loss on 11 November.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=12 November 1920 |page=14 |issue=42566 |column=E }} }}

=9 October=

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|ship={{ship||Mars|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Finland}}

|desc=The auxiliary schooner collided with {{SS|Eston||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the North Sea ({{coord|54|12|N|0|08|W}}) and was abandoned.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=11 October 1920 |page=17 |issue=42538 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Masnedsund||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship came ashore at Bacton, Norfolk. She was driven further up the beach on 10 October and was abandoned by her crew. }}

=10 October=

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|ship={{ship||Benicia|barquentine|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The barquentine ran aground on the Lafolle Reef off the coast of Haiti and was a total loss.

}}

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|ship={{ship||Svartskog|barque|2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The barque departed Newport News, Virginia, United States for Buenos Aires, Argentina. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Overdue vessels |date=9 June 1921 |page=14 |issue=42742 |column=G }} }}

=11 October=

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|ship={{HMCS|CD86||6}}

|flag={{navy|Canada|1911}}

|desc=The Admiralty-type drifter foundered on passage from Canada to the United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Dinorwic||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship struck rocks off Lambay Island, County Dublin. She proceeded to Dublin but sank at her moorings there.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Esther Anne|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The four-masted schooner collided with {{SS|Duquesne||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}) in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Pennsylvania and sank. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=13 October 1920 |page=15 |issue=42540 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Ella C. Hollett|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was discovered derelict and on fire at {{coord|44|33|N|17|33|W}} by {{ship|ST|St. Catherine||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=18 October 1920 |page=21 |issue=42544 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Inverawe||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on the Haisborough Sands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=12 October 1920 |page=20 |issue=42539 |column=D }} She was refloated on 14 October.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=15 October 1920 |page=18 |issue=42542 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Peder Wessel|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The three-masted schooner collided with {{SS|Ravensworth||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the English Channel off the Royal Sovereign Lightship (22px Trinity House) and sank. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=12 October 1920 |page=20 |issue=42539 |column=D }} }}

=12 October=

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|ship={{HMCS|CD87||6}}

|flag={{navy|Canada|1911}}

|desc=The Admiralty-type drifter foundered on passage from Canada to the United Kingdom.

}}

=13 October=

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|ship={{SS|Nikon||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea and sank off Västervik, Sweden.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign News Items |date=16 October 1920 |page=9 |issue=42543 |column=F }} }}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|P. Heat||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The auxiliary schooner was sunk in a collision with {{SS|Cayo Mambi||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}) at Santiago, Cuba. 12 killed.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000071882857&view=1up&seq=18 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1921 |publisher=Government Printing Office, Washington |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=28 January 2020}}

}}

=14 October=

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|ship={{ship||Santiago Arago|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was destroyed by fire in the Mediterranean Sea off Almería. Her crew were rescued. }}

=18 October=

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

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned ({{coord|49|22|N|4|32|W}}). Her crew were rescued by {{ship|ST|Goliath||2}} ({{Flag|United States|1918}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=19 October 1920 |page=16 |issue=42545 |column=C }} She later broke in two, with both sections remaining afloat and coming ashore on the Cornish coast. Later scrapped.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=19 November 1920 |page=17 |issue=42572 |column=F }}{{cite web |url=http://shipbuildinghistory.com/merchantships/1wood.htm |title=Wooden ships and Barges |publisher=shipbuildinghistory.com |access-date=31 August 2020}}

}}

=20 October=

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|ship=Rose

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

|desc=The Thames barge foundered in the Thames Estuary {{convert|1|nmi|km}} off Slough Fort.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=21 October 1920 |page=18 |issue=42547 |column=F }} }}

=21 October=

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|ship={{ship||Adonis|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner came ashore on the east coast of the United States {{convert|300|nmi|km}} from Jacksonville, Florida and was abandoned.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=23 October 1920 |page=15 |issue=42549 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Chama||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on Bellechasse Island, Quebec, Canada.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=23 October 1920 |page=15 |issue=42549 |column=C }} She was refloated on 25 October.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Georgie||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship came ashore at Quebec City, Canada. She was refloated on 11 November.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Nordica|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|43|53|N|51|28|W}}). Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Willfaro||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}). }}

=22 October=

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|ship={{SS|Zaca||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire at Port of Spain, Trinidad and was beached.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=25 October 1920 |page=19 |issue=42550 |column=F }} }}

=23 October=

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|ship={{SS|Village Belle||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship sprang a leak and was abandoned off Cape St. Mary's, Newfoundland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=26 October 1920 |page=19 |issue=42551 |column=C }} }}

=25 October=

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|ship={{SS|E. Hoel||2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Grandlieu||2}} ({{Flag|France}}) in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|40|nmi|km}} off Vigo, Galicia, Spain and sank. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=27 October 1920 |page=20 |issue=42552 |column=C }} }}

=27 October=

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|ship={{ship||Bernard B. Conrad|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|45|50|N|38|54|W}}). Her crew were rescued by {{SS|British Fern||2}} ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=2 November 1920 |page=18 |issue=42557 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Hastier|1885|2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The cargo ship arrived at Antwerp with a fire in her cargo. She sank on 3 November. Hastier was raised in 1921 and scrapped in 1922. }}

=28 October=

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|ship={{SS|Minard Castle||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Maple||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the River Clyde and was beached at Dumbarton.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=29 October 1920 |page=20 |issue=42554 |column=D }} She was refloated the next day.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=30 October 1920 |page=17 |issue=42555 |column=D }} }}

=29 October=

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|ship={{SS|Sodegaura Maru||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Ninian, India. She was refloated on 8 November.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=10 November 1920 |page=23 |issue=42564 |column=F }} }}

=30 October=

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|ship={{SS|Cape Fear||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The concrete ship collided with {{SS|City of Atlanta||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}) off Providence, Rhode Island and sank with the loss of 20 crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=20 lost in ship collision |date=1 November 1920 |page=11 |issue=42556 |column=C }} }}

=31 October=

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|ship={{SS|New York Maru||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground in the Red Sea off Mocha, Aden Protectorate.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=5 November 1920 |page=14 |issue=42560 |column=D }} She was refloated on 17 November.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=18 November 1920 |page=20 |issue=42571 |column=G }} }}

=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Ella C. Holley|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|County of Cardigan||2}} ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and were landed at Bermuda on 1 November.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=3 November 1920 |page=21 |issue=42558 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Russian cruiser|Gromoboi||2}}

|flag={{navy|Soviet Union}}

|desc=The crew of the armoured cruiser mutinied and took over the ship off Kronstadt in late October. Commisars and officers were killed and the ship was scuttled. Later refloated and sold for scrap.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign News Items |date=26 October 1920 |page=9 |issue=42551 |column=F }} }}

November

=1 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Coast Battleship Number 1

|flag={{navy|United States|1920}}

|desc=File:Indiana bombing 1920.jpgThe decommissioned {{sclass|Indiana|battleship}} (formerly {{USS|Indiana|BB-1|6}}) sank in shallow water in the Chesapeake Bay while in use as a target. Her wreck was sold for scrap.}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Lothair|Thames barge|2}}

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

|desc=The Thames barge was driven ashore at Felixstowe, Suffolk and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by the Walton Lifeboat.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|SMS|Posen||2}}

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

|desc=The captured {{sclass|Nassau|battleship|2}} (ex-{{navy|German Empire|1918}}) was driven ashore at Hawkcraig, Fife. }}

=2 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Riberhuus||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Weimar Republic|civil}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Westwood||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}) at Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Inférieure, France and sank.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Thomas Lagnelet|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner foundered on this date. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=4 November 1920 |page=22 |issue=42559 |column=D }} }}

=4 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Harvester|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner departed Vavau, Tonga for San Francisco, California. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Pacific Ocean with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Les Aulnays||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Pointe du Touquet, Pas-de-Calais.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=4 November 1920 |page=14 |issue=42560 |column=D }} She broke in two the next day and was a total loss.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=8 November 1920 |page=19 |issue=42562 |column=C }} }}

=5 November=

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|ship={{MV|Guillane Ness||2}}

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

|desc=The coaster was destroyed by fire in the North Sea off Montrose, Forfarshire. Her crew survived.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Loring R. Haskell|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in White Bay. Her crew were rescued by {{ship||Cactus|schooner|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=8 November 1920 |page=19|issue=42562 |column=D }} }}

=6 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Sailing ship|Stella|1902|2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The sail-powered cargo ship was driven ashore at Lyngvær, Norway, and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HMS|Stonehenge|1919|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The destroyer was wrecked on the coast of the Ottoman Empire near Smyrna.Gray, Randal, ed., Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1985, {{ISBN|9780851772455}}, p. 85. }}

=7 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Barbadoes

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

|desc=The trawler struck a mine and sank in the North Sea with the loss of all ten crew. }}

=8 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cheechaco

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=Stored for the winter on blocks high on the beach at Gambell on Saint Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, the 9-ton schooner was destroyed during a gale when an unusually high tide floated her off the blocks and she drifted away and was dashed to pieces on rocks and the beach.

}}

=9 November=

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|ship={{SS|Ulla||2}}

|flag={{flag|Sweden}}

|desc=The steamer struck a mine in the North Sea, and sank immediately. The crew survived.Swedish Board of Trade: ”Svenska handelsflottans krigsförluster 1914-1920” (Swedish Merchant Marine losses 1914-1920), Stockholm 1921, p. 452

}}

=10 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Baltabor||2}}

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

|desc=The passenger ship ran aground at Liepāja, Latvia. All 152 passengers were taken off.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=11 November 1920 |page=8 |issue=42565 |column=D }} She was refloated on 7 December.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=8 December 1920 |page=18 |issue=42588 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Ella L. Williams|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean (approximately {{coord|19|N|67|W}}) and was abandoned.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|El Mundo||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The tanker suffered an onboard explosion and caught fire at New York with the loss of a crew member. She was beached on Ellis Island.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=12 November 1920 |page=14 |issue=42566 |column=E }} El Mundo was refloated on 20 November. }}

=11 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Clan Graham|1907|2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship collided with another vessel and was beached at Vlissingen, Netherlands. She was refloated on 21 November.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=22 November 1920 |page=23 |issue=42575 |column=B }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{MV|Ekstrand|1919|2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the Skagerrak off Larvik, Norway.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=13 November 1920 |page=15 |issue=42567 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Italian Prince||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Limassol, Cyprus.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Lake Falk||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground in the Paracel Islands. She was later refloated and arrived at Hong Kong on 23 November. }}

=12 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Houthulst|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked off Smögen, Sweden. }}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HMS|Tobago|1918|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=Russian Civil War, Allied Intervention: The destroyer struck a mine and in the Black Sea. She was deemed a constructive total loss.Gray, Randal, ed., Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1985, {{ISBN|9780851772455}}, pp. 84-85. }}

=13 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Baymanter||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship came ashore at Ras Hafun, Italian Somaliland. She was declared a total loss on 7 December. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Edith Pardy|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Lamaline, Newfoundland and was a total loss.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||J. A. Maclean|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Englee, Newfoundland and was a total loss.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=15 November 1920 |page=20 |issue=42568 |column=D }} }}

=14 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Ferret||2}}

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

|desc=File:SS Ferret wreck.jpg

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

=15 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HMS|Amethyst|1903|6}}

|flag={{navy|UK}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Topaze|cruiser|2}} parted tow from {{ship|ST|Eagle||2}} and {{ship|ST|Margaret Ham||2}} (both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the Irish Sea off the Smalls Lighthouse. Most of her crew were taken off by the Aberystwyth Lifeboat.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Maria José|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Portugal}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Porthcawl, Glamorgan, United Kingdom with the loss of one of her six crew. Survivors were rescued by breeches buoy.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Gallant rescues on Welsh coast |date=16 November 1920 |page=12 |issue=42569 |column=B }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|SMS|T.30||2}}

|flag={{navy|Weimar Republic}}

|desc=The torpedo boat foundered at Cuxhaven, Germany.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Steamers in distress |date=16 November 1920 |page=12 |issue=42569 |column=B }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Nicholas||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the Black Sea {{convert|5|nmi|km}} off Cape Tuzla, Soviet Union. Her crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=16 November 1920 |page=24 |issue=42569 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pechiney

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The auxiliary sailing ship caught fire and sank at Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Zhit

|flag={{navy|Soviet Union}}

|desc=Russian Civil War, Evacuation of the Crimea: The destroyer foundered in the Black Sea with the loss of all on board - her crew and 250 passengers. She was on a voyage from Kertch to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire.{{Cite book |title=Погибли без боя. Катастрофы русских кораблей XVIII–XX вв. |trans-title=They died without a fight. Catastrophes of Russian ships of the XVIII-XX centuries |language=Russian |first=Alexander Alekseevich |last=Chernyshev |publisher=Veche |year=2012 |url=http://www.maxima-library.org/mob/b/389880?format=read }}

}}

=16 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Sarah Lightfoot|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was dismasted in the North Sea ({{coord|55|22|N|0|16|W}}) and was abandoned in a sinking condition. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Bessheim||2}} ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=17 November 1920 |page=19 |issue=42570 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HMS|Tyne|1878|6}}

|flag={{navy|UK}}

|desc=The troopship sprang a leak and sank in the River Medway at Chatham, Kent.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Old warship sunk |date=17 November 1920 |page=9 |issue=42570 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|SMS|Waltraute||2}}

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

|desc=The depôt ship was driven ashore at Leith, Lothian. She was refloated on 28 November.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Zhivoi

|flag={{flagicon|Russia}} White Movement

|desc=Russian Civil War: The {{sclass|Boiki|destroyer|0}} destroyer sank at Sevastopol during a storm.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. 207.

}}

=17 November=

{{shipwreck list item

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

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The barque ran aground north of Bergen, Norway and was severely damaged.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=18 November 1920 |page=20 |issue=42571 |column=E }} She was towed to Hindö for examination with the expectation that she would be condemned as a constructive total loss.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=22 November 1920 |page=21 |issue=42574 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Yute||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship issued an SOS in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|240|nmi|km}} south east of Cape May, Newfoundland. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Overdue vessels |date=20 January 1921 |page=17 |issue=42623 |column=C }} }}

=18 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|Russian river gunboat|K.1||2}}

|flag={{flagicon|Russia}} White Movement

|desc=Russian Civil War: The river gunboat, a converted Bolinder-type landing barge, was scuttled.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Neptunus|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The auxiliary schooner foundered in the Irish Sea {{convert|5|nmi|km}} off the Smalls Lighthouse after her cargo shifted with the loss of one of her five crew. Survivors were rescued by the trawler Kirkland ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Shipwrecked crew's mascot |date=20 November 1920 |page=7 |issue=42573 |column=D }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=20 November 1920 |page=18 |issue=42573 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Scarpa||2}}

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

|desc=The vessel became stranded on the North Rock, Cloughey Bay, Country Down.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=19 November 1920 |page=17 |issue=42572 |column=F }} She was raised on 23 February 1921, repaired and returned to service{{cite web |title=Scarpa SS (1918~1922) Caritas I SS (+1947) |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?255371 |website=wrecksite.eu |access-date=17 February 2020}} }}

=20 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||General Horne|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner departed Catalina, Newfoundland for the Change Islands. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Overdue vessels |date=24 February 1921 |page=18 |issue=42653 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Grandest||2}}

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

|desc=The coaster struck rocks off the Hanois Lighthouse, Guernsey, Channel Islands and sank. All twelve crew were rescued by a trawler.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Crew saved from sinking steamer |date=22 November 1920 |page=9 |issue=42574 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Minnie Sommers|barquentine|2}}

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

|desc=The barquentine departed Bo'ness, Lothian for Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure, France. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Missing vessel |date=10 February 1921 |page=9 |issue=42641 |column=E }} }}

=21 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Blenda||2}}

|flag={{Flag|Sweden}}

|desc=The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea, en route from Finland to Hull. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=24 November 1920 |page=21 |issue=42576 |column=D }}Swedish Board of Trade: ”Svenska handelsflottans krigsförluster 1914-1920” (Swedish Merchant Marine losses 1914-1920), Stockholm 1921, pp. 452-3

}}

=22 November=

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|ship={{SS|Chausey||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship sank south of Belle Île, Morbihan.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=23 November 1920 |page=22 |issue=42575 |column=B }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Lizzie||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship struck a rock and sank at Cherbourg, Seine Maritime, France.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=British steamer sunk a Cherbourg |date=23 November 1920 |page=11 |issue=42575 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Santa Rosa

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

|desc=The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank off Cape Prior, Galicia. }}

=23 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Gregory||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground at Tutóia, Brazil.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=24 November 1920 |page=21 |issue=42576 |column=D }} She broke her back on 29 November and was a total loss.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=30 November 1920 |page=20 |issue=42580 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Margaret F. Dick|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|41|40|N|53|42|W}}. She was set afire and abandoned. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Leersum||2}} ({{Flag|Netherlands}}). }}

=24 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Meduana||2}}

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

|desc=The ocean liner caught fire and capsized at Wallsend, Northumberland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=25 November 1920 |page=22 |issue=42577 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

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

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground in the Bahamas.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=26 November 1920 |page=22 |issue=42578 |column=D }} She was abandoned the next day and was a total loss. }}

=25 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Zenith|barquentine|2}}

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

|desc=The barquentine foundered in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|4|nmi|km}} west of the Longships. All seven crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=News in Brief |date=27 November 1920 |page=7 |issue=42579 |column=F }} }}

=26 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||W. J. Pirrie|1883 ship|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner barge, with 18 people on board, wrecked on rocks in the Pacific Ocean off La Push, Washington after being cut loose from her tow by the steamer Santa Rita during a gale and heavy seas. W. J. Pirrie departed on 24 November from Tacoma, Washington, toward San Francisco, where she was to pick up additional cargo with a destination of Antofagasta, Chile."No Tidings From Ill-Fated Barge— Seas Combed in Vain for Pirrie, Cut Loose From Steamer Santa Rita in Gale", Morning Register (Eugene OR), November 28, 1920, p.1 Only two of the 18 survived, and the ship's captain, his wife and baby son were among the lost.Pirrie Dead Are Found on Coast— Two Sailors Are Discovered Alive", Pasadena (CA) Star-News, November 30, 1920, p.1{{cite web |url=http://www.theyard.info/ships/ships.asp?entryid=155 |title=W J Pirrie |publisher=The Yard |access-date=18 February 2017}}{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000071882857&view=1up&seq=18 |title=Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1921 |publisher=Government Printing Office, Washington |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=28 January 2020}}

}}

=27 November=

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|ship={{Ship||Comboyne|1911|2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship sank off Shellharbour, New South Wales. Her crew survived.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Erminie|schooner|2}}

|flag={{Flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Bay of Biscay {{convert|3.5|nmi|km}} north west of Ouessant, Finistère. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|West Maximus||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Evangelistria||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the English Channel off the Casquets, Guernsey, Channel Islands. Her crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=29 November 1920 |page=24 |issue=42580 |column=D }} }}

=28 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Betsy|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The schooner sprang a leak and sank in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the trawler Unity ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Adrift in an open boat |date=30 November 1920 |page=11 |issue=42581 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Ioannis Carras||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship sank in the Iroise Sea off the Pierres Noires, Finistère, France. Her crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=30 November 1920 |page=20 |issue=42584 |column=D }} }}

=29 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Capitaine Remy

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The auxiliary sailing vessel capsized in the English Channel {{convert|10|nmi|km}} south of The Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=1 December 1920 |page=22 |issue=42582 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Meta|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner foundered off in the Mediterranean Sea off Port-la-Nouvelle, Aude.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Notre Dame de la Mer||2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The cargo ship capsized at Brunsbüttelkoog, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=1 December 1920 |page=22 |issue=42582 |column=D }} }}

=30 November=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Sheila Margaret||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the English Channel. Wreckage from the ship washed up at Swanage, Dorset. }}

=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

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

|flag={{flag|Russia|name=White forces}}

|desc=Russian Civil War: The minesweeper depot ship, a former {{sclass|Rostislav|battleship}}, in use by White forces under Pyotr Wrangel, was scuttled in the Kerch Strait.

}}

December

=1 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Betsy|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The schooner sprang a leak in the North Sea and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=2 December 1920 |page=24 |issue=42583 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Giant King|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on Ambergris Cay, Turks Islands. Her passengers and crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=8 December 1920 |page=18 |issue=42588 |column=C }} }}

=2 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Ansgir||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground near Mousehole, Cornwall. Her crew of 45 were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Blanche H. King|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the West Reef, Bahamas and was a total loss. Her crew survived.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{MV|Dauntless||2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The cargo ship struck a mine in the Baltic Sea off the Närs Lighthouse, Sweden. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Eastern Tempest||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on the Bogskär, Finland and was abandoned by her crew. She was refloated on 7 December.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=4 December 1920 |page=17 |issue=42585 |column=C }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=9 December 1920 |page=21 |issue=42589 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Fiorino|barque|2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The barque departed Kristiansand, Norway for the Hampton Roads. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Missing and overdue vessels |date=12 May 1921 |page=14 |issue=42718 |column=G }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Hathor||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Weimar Republic|civil}}

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on the Lethegus Ledge off the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom and was wrecked. All 24 crew were rescued by the St. Mary's Lifeboat.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=3 December 1920 |page=22 |issue=42584 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Kate|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner issued an SOS off Holyhead, Anglesey. Her crew were taken off by the Holyhead Lifeboat. }}

=4 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Hermina|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The auxiliary schooner broke free from her mooring and was wrecked at Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom in a gale with the loss of one of her ten crew. Survivors were rescued by the Fishguard Lifeboat or by rocket apparatus.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Renvoyle||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship was abandoned off Belle Île, Finistère, France. she subsequently sank.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Schoolcraft||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Timbo||2}}

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

|desc=The coaster was driven ashore near Clynnog Fawr, Caernarfonshire with the loss of four of her eight crew. Five of the thirteen crew of the Rhoscolyn Lifeboat were lost attempting to rescue her crew before she came ashore.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Havoc of the gale |date=6 December 1920 |page=12 |issue=42586 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Tourmaline||2}}

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

|desc=The coal hulk was driven ashore {{convert|16|nmi|km}} west of Thurso, Caithness and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=6 December 1920 |page=21 |issue=42586 |column=D }} }}

=5 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Verena|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea ({{coord|55|50|N|0|30|E}}). Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Haakon VII||2}} ({{flag|Norway}}). }}

=6 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Graf Waldersee||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Tregantle||2}} ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent. She then collided with {{SS|Fairfield||2}} and the ice hulk {{SS|Sumatra||2}} (both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was then beached. Fairfield sank and the other ships were damaged.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=7 December 1920 |page=23 |issue=42587 |column=D }} Graf Waldersee was refloated on 8 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Taff||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on the Dogger Bank in the North Sea and was a total loss. }}

=8 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|German torpedo boat|V140||2}}

|flag={{navy|Weimar Republic}}

|desc= The {{sclass|V125|torpedo boat}} was wrecked on this date.

}}

=10 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|Yellowstone|ID-2657|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship dragged her anchor and ran hard aground off Ponta Delgada in the Azores and was declared a total loss. All 45 of her crew were saved. }}

=13 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mabel A

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=After her gasoline engine broke down, the 32-ton fishing vessel drifted onto the coast of "Noise Island" – apparently Noyes Island – in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska and was stranded, breaking up in the surf in about two hours. Her crew of three survived.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Nikolaos Stathatos||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|40|nmi|km}} off Cape Ortegal, Galicia, Spain. All 25 crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=15 December 1920 |page=21 |issue=42594 |column=D }} }}

=15 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Limehouse||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship ran aground on the East Barrow Sands in the Thames Estuary.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=16 December 1920 |page=21 |issue=42595 |column=D }} She was refloated on 21 December.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Reinsurance rates |date=22 December 1920 |page=19 |issue=42600 |column=D }} }}

=16 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Anna G. Lord|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maryland. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Emma Belliveau|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner foundered off Saint Michael, Barbados.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Inca|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The five-masted schooner was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean (approximately {{coord|34|S|154|E}}). Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Cosmos||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=17 December 1920 |page=17 |issue=42596 |column=D }} She was towed into Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, arriving on 18 December.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Monnow|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The four-masted auxiliary schooner was destroyed by fire off Southend, Essex. All nineteen crew survived.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship burnt out off Southend |date=17 December 1920 |page=9 |issue=42596 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Perry Setzer|schooner|2}}

|flag={{Flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The four-masted schooner was beached at Jacksonville, Florida.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=18 December 1920 |page=20 |issue=42597 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|St. Louis|1894|2}}

|flag={{Flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The ocean liner was severely damaged by fire at New York.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Yellowstone||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The cargo ship was driven ashore at Saint Michael, Barbados and was wrecked. }}

=17 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship|French despatch boat|Bar-le-Duc||2}}

|flag={{navy|France}}

|desc=The despatch boat was wrecked off Euboea, Greece with the loss of 26 of her 105 crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign News items |date=18 December 1920 |page=9 |issue=42597 |column=F }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Imperial and Foreign News Items |date=20 December 1920 |page=9 |issue=42598 |column=F }} }}

=18 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Elisabeth|1919 schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner came ashore on the south coast of Iceland and was a total loss. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=20 December 1920 |page=18 |issue=42598 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Joseph Pulitzer

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=During a mail voyage from Seward, Territory of Alaska, to the Aleutian Islands, the 73-gross register ton, {{convert|75|ft|m|1|adj=on}} two-masted motor schooner sank in Aniakchak Bay ({{coord|56|42|N|157|22|W|name=Aniakchak Bay}}) on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula. All eight people on board survived. Joseph Pulitzer{{'}}s wreck later was salvaged, taken to Chignik, Territory of Alaska, and stripped.

}}

=19 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Jane Palmer|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|35|04|N|65|25|W}}). Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Cotati||2}} ({{flag|United States|1918}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=21 December 1920 |page=19 |issue=42599 |column=D }} }}

=20 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dora

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=During a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to Unga, Territory of Alaska, and way ports with a cargo of general merchandise and a crew of 29 aboard, the 320-gross register ton steamer was wrecked without loss of life on the coast of Noble Island in British Columbia, Canada.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Spyros||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the English Channel {{convert|11|nmi|km}} south of St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. All eleven crew were rescued. }}

=21 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Fredensborg|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore {{convert|6|nmi|km}} south of Johnshaven, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the File:Flag of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.svg Johnshaven Lifeboat, which later capsized with the loss of two of her crew and a lifeboatman.{{cite journal |title=Danish Honour for the Life-Boat Men of Johnshaven |journal=The Lifeboat |date=November 1921 |volume=XXIV |issue=274 |page=204 |url=https://lifeboatmagazinearchive.rnli.org/volume/24/274/danish-honour-for-the-life-boat-men-of-johnshaven |access-date=21 December 2024}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Robert H. McCurdy|schooner|2}}

|flag={{Flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=22 December 1920 |page=19 |issue=42600 |column=D }} }}

=23 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Curieuse|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner departed Fogo, Newfoundland for Alicante, Spain. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Missing vessels |date=9 June 1921 |page=14 |issue=42742 |column=G }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Vlassios||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship foundered in the Aegean Sea off Leipsoi with the loss of six of her fifteen crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=8 January 1921 |page=17 |issue=42613 |column=C }} }}

=25 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Kwinana||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship caught fire at Carnarvon, Western Australia and sank.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Ougree||2}}

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The cargo ship collided with Aleppo ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the River Scheldt and was beached off Vlissingen, Netherlands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=28 December 1920 |page=14 |issue=42603 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Photios||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship sprang a leak, broke in two, and sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Corsica and Elba, Italy. Her crew were rescued by {{SS|Calliroi Saparis||2}} ({{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Prah||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo liner ran aground {{convert|5|nmi|km}} east of Grand-Bassam, French West Africa.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Shipping Casualties at Christmas |date=29 December 1920 |page=13 |issue=42604 |column=B }} She was refloated on 3 January 1921.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=4 January 1921 |page=16 |issue=42609 |column=C }} }}

=26 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Navarino||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship arrived at Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom on fire and was beached. She was refloated on 31 December. }}

=27 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Elsie L. Corkum|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|40|29|N|13|38|W}}). Her six crew were rescued by {{SS|Heronspool||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=1 January 1921 |page=18 |issue=42607 |column=D }} }}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Lakeside Bridge||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1920}}

|desc=The EFC Design 1023 cargo ship lost her propeller in strong gale and ran aground on Pico Island, Azores, Portugal and became a total loss. }}

=28 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Impressive|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner foundered off Memory Rock, Bahamas.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=30 December 1920 |page=18 |issue=42605 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Tris Adelft||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The cargo ship sank in the Tyrrhenian Sea {{convert|18|nmi|km}} north west of Monte Circeo, Lazio, Italy. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=31 December 1920 |page=13 |issue=42606 |column=F }} }}

=29 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John C. Craven

|flag={{flag|United States|1918}}

|desc=The ocean liner {{SS|Nieuw Amsterdam|1905|2}} ({{flagcountry|Netherlands}}) rammed the lighter John C. Craven in New York Harbor, cutting her in two and sinking her. Two lightermen were killed; the skipper and five lightermen were rescued.{{cite news |title=Liner sinks lighter two of crew lost |newspaper=The New York Times |date=30 December 1920 |page=8 |url-access=subscription |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/12/30/103525351.html?pageNumber=8 |access-date=29 June 2023}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Korsnæs|schooner|2}}

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The auxiliary schooner was destroyed by fire off Chesapeake, Virginia, United States.

}}

=30 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Saint Oran||2}}

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

|desc=The cargo ship collided with {{SS|Eveleen||2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) off Ailsa Craig, Ayrshire and sank. Twenty of her crew were rescued. }}

=31 December=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Kentucky||2}}

|flag={{Flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The cargo ship came ashore at Duncansby Head, Caithness, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. }}

=Unknown date=

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Kaes Samud||2}}

|flag=Unknown

|desc=The ship sank off Bangkok, Thailand.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Casualty reports |date=3 January 1921 |page=19 |issue=42608 |column=F}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{ship||Marion J. Smith|schooner|2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew was rescued by {{SS|Pennyworth||2}} ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and landed at Tarragona, Spain, on 15 December. }}

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|ship=BDL

|flag={{flag|United States|1912}}

|desc=The motor vessel was lost in "Strawberry Bay" near Katalla, Territory of Alaska – probably a reference to Strawberry Harbor, also known as Strawberry Cove ({{coord|60|10|N|144|23|W}}), {{convert|5|nmi}} southeast of Katalla.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-b/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (B)]

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|ship={{HMCS|CD57||6}}

|flag={{naval|Canada|1911}}

|desc=The Admiralty-type drifter was lost at sea sometime before August 1920.

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|ship=Gunner

|flag={{flag|United States|1912}}

|desc=The whaling boat was lost in Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska after her harpoon cannon exploded.

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|ship=Imperial Queen

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

|desc=The steam fishing trawler sailed from Grimsby on 22 July for North Sea fishing grounds and last seen on 28 July, apparently returning to Grimsby. Her crew of 11 were lost. It was supposed that she had struck a mine.{{cite news |title=Given Up as Lost |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000276/19200906/092/0004 |access-date=8 January 2024 |work=Yorkshire Telegraph & Star |issue=10582 |date=6 September 1920 |location=Sheffield |page=4 |via=British Newspaper Archive}}

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|ship=On Time

|flag={{flag|United States|1912}}

|desc=The 27-gross register ton, {{convert|56.1|ft|m|adj=on}} motor cargo vessel was wrecked in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. Her loss was not reported until 1928.[https://alaskashipwreck.com/shipwrecks-a-z/alaska-shipwrecks-o/ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (O)]

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|ship=Outline

|flag={{flag|United States|1912}}

|desc=The vessel was lost in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska.

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|ship={{USS|Richmond|1860|6}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1912}}

|desc=The decommissioned frigate, sold for scrap, was burned on the beach at Eastport, Maine, sometime during the first half of 1920 to ease the retrieval of valuable metals.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308686&view=1up&seq=271 |title=American Marine Engineer June, 1920 |publisher=National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=23 August 2020}}

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|ship={{SMU|UB-21||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|United Kingdom|government}}

|desc=The Type UB II submarine foundered off the coast of England whilst under tow to be scrapped.

}}

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|ship={{ship|Russian cruiser|Varyag|1899|2}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The protected cruiser ran aground at Lendalfoot, Ayrshire whilst under tow to be scrapped. She sank in 1925. }}

References

1920

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