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Shipwrecks of 1922

Report of Maritime Accidents and Casualties from 1922

January

Date Vessel Name Type Location Notes
2 January Manatee Ashore Georges Harbor Ashore
18 January Bertha A. Collision Southeast of Highlands Bow stove in
24 January Helen B. Sterling Disabled At Sea Abandoned
26 January Mississippi Storm Banks of Newfoundland Bow rail broke
30 January Optimist Disabled Cape Race Abandoned
30 January Robert & Arthur Storm Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Baldy damaged
31 January Munwood Disabled Delaware Breakwater Bulkwark damaged

February

Date Vessel Name Type Location Notes
3 February Gaspe Unknown At Sea Abandoned
8 February Coylet Fire Florida Coast Abandoned
8 February Norman B. Strong Sank At Sea Abandoned
13 February Aldgate Disabled Bermuda Boiler Trouble
13 February Norma Strong Unknown At Sea Abandoned
14 February Sisto Ice Off St. Johns Bow damaged
16 February Fairfield City Storm At Sea Bridge wrecked
16 February Joseph S. Zeman Grounding Rockland, Maine Abandoned
16 February Moritz Ashore Craney Island Ashore
18 February Kathleen Spindler Damaged At Sea Abandoned
24 February Lowel F. Parks Storm At Sea Abandoned

March

Date Vessel Name Type Location Notes
2 March Maumee Ashore Charleston Ashore
5 March James Timpson Disabled Colon Burnt bearings
7 March Joseph S. Zeeman Ashore Metenic Ledge Ashore
8 March Pensacola Collision Below Mobile Bows badly damaged
20 March Ecola Grounding Coos Bay Bottom damaged
20 March Scotsburn Sank Off Cape Sable Abandoned
23 March Nuria Disabled At Sea Blew out cylinder head
28 March Diana Fire At Sea Burned
30 March Korona Disabled Bermuda Air Pump damaged
31 March Avon Queen Collision Off Cape Henry Broke bowsprit

April

Date Vessel Name Type Location Notes
3 April New England Disabled Aberdeen Boilers damaged
3 April San Francisco Maru Ashore Near Kobe Ashore, Leaking
6 April W. J. Hanna Disabled Peruvian Coast Broke engine shaft
8 April Sorata Disabled Newport News Bunkers heated
10 April Ward Disabled St. Michaels Boiler Trouble
18 April Eastern Dawn Disabled New York Boiler disabled
22 April Eastern Ocean Damaged Gibraltar Bow damaged
22 April Monizalba Damaged Malao Badly damaged
25 April Faraby Disabled East of Nantucket Boiler Trouble
27 April Harraseeket Ashore Long Island Ashore
27 April Ward Disabled Bermuda Boiler defective
28 April Brave Coeur Disabled Bermuda Boiler Trouble
29 April Mapleheath Allision Lachine Canal Bow damaged

May

Date Vessel Name Type Location Notes
1 May Lottie Disabled Off Watch Hill Broke crankshaft
12 May Edward U. Demmer Disabled Off Conneaut Broke crankshaft
14 May B. R. Tower Grounding Northeast of Grand Turk Bottom damaged
19 May City of Beaumont Disabled Sewalis Point Bad Leak
19 May Eagle No. 17 Ashore Near Montauk Point Breaking Up
20 May Arlington Disabled Boston Boiler Trouble
20 May Seine Collision Island of Ushant Bow badly damaged
25 May Middlesex Ashore Trundy Reef Bad leaks
28 May Welsh Prince Collision Columbia River Broke In Two
29 May Grand Turk Collision Off West Bank Bowsprit broken
30 May Belita Disabled New York Boiler damaged

June

Date Vessel Name Type Location Notes
1 June Wiltshire Ashore New Zealand Coast Broke In Two
2 June Rainier Disabled San Francisco Broke thrust shaft
4 June Northern No. 2 Disabled Portland Bad leak
6 June Eastern Prince Damaged Vancouver Broke propeller blades
10 June Eastern Dawn Disabled At Sea Boiler Trouble
22 June Siam Fire Hull Badly damaged
24 June Samuel Mitchell Grounding Detour Badly damaged
29 June Providence Grounding Wetherell Badly damaged

July

Date Vessel Name Type Location Notes
2 July Santa Cruz Disabled Seattle Broken piston rod
4 July Airdale Collision Near Quebec Bows stove in
5 July Norburn Ice Strait Belle Isle Bow damaged
5 July Perth Amboy Lightning Atlantic City Badly damaged
7 July Kashu Maru Allision London Bows damaged
7 July West Quechee Disabled Boston Boiler repairs
8 July St. Anthony Ice Belle Isle Bow damaged
9 July Lafayette Storm English Channel Badly damaged
10 July Coeur de Alene Grounding Faun Bar Broken gear
13 July Argon Disabled Gibraltar Boiler damaged
16 July Wyoming Collision New York Bow damaged
18 July Susan B. Grounding Middle Ground Badly strained
20 July Coeur d' Alene Collision New York Bow damaged
21 July Haigtown Damaged Wilmington, North Carolina Bulkhead destroyed
28 July W. H. Wolf Collision Soo Bow buckled
28 July Wassaic Disabled Lake Superior
Southeast of Winter Quarter, Lake Superior 		Boilers disabled

August

Date Vessel Name Type Location Notes
1 August Grand Republic Collision New York Bow cut away
2 August J. F. Taylor Disabled Port Colbourne Air pump broke
9 August England Maru Damaged Near Newport News Also to ports
9 August Gondia Missing South China Coast Believed lost
10 August Mary Hanlon Collision North of Point Arena Bow stove-in
11 August John Dunn Disabled Soo Buckets off wheel
14 August E. J. Cobb Damaged Norfolk Bottom damaged
21 August City of Buffalo Disabled Lake Erie
Buffalo 		Air pump trouble
27 August Ogland Disabled At Sea Boiler Trouble

September

Date Vessel Name Type Location Notes
1 September Coulee Explosion At Sea Bulkhead collapsed
3 September Colthraps Fire Pensacola Almost total loss
12 September Anne Hanify Disabled San Francisco Boiler Trouble
19 September Daisy Freeman Disabled Off Oregon Broke propeller shaft
28 September Manitowoc Disabled Kiel Boiler leak

October

Date Vessel Name Type Location Notes
1 October Kansas Storm At Sea Bulwark stove in
3 October Arcturus Collision Detroit River Badly stove in
7 October Walter A. Luckenbach Collision Pacific Ocean
San Francisco 		Badly crippled
18 October Friendship Adrift Lake Huron
North of Point Aux Barques 		Adrift
22 October C. S. Robinson Grounding Devil Island 24 plates damaged
26 October Dorothy Collision St. John, New Brunswick Bowsprit, jib and headgear gone
29 October Mecosta Foundered Lake Erie
Off Cleveland 		Abandoned

Unknown Month

Date Vessel Name Type Location Notes
-- Madeleine Constance Fire At Sea Abandoned