List of shipwrecks in 1906 (January–June)

The list of shipwrecks in 1906 (January–June) includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during the first six months of 1906.

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January 1 January

|Annie Park | |The 214-ton schooner was wrecked on St. Govan's Head. Her captain and three crewmen died, two others made it to shore. |- |N.E.T. Co. No. 61 | |The 197-gross register ton scow sank off Duck Island at the mouth of the Housatonic River on the coast of Connecticut. The only person on board survived.Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Navigation Thirty-Ninth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States for the Year Ending June 30, 1907, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907, p. 381.

2 January

|Ailsa | |The 1,146-ton sailing vessel was abandoned off Rockall.

|The 31-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer filled with water and sank from unknown causes in the Mississippi River at O'Bryan's Landing or Brien's Landing (sources disagree) near Cairo, Illinois. All three people aboard survived, but she was a total loss.

|The steamer sank from an open seam in the Great Kanawha River at Charleston, West Virginia. Raised and recaulked. |- |Jennie Wand | |The 171-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the coast of the Baja California Peninsula 2 miles from La Paz, Mexico. All six people on board survived. |- |Pepin | |The 1,026-ton cargo ship was wrecked on Scarweather Sands.

3 January

|Gwladys | |The 127-ton sailing vessel was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. |- |Kipling | |The 142-ton sailing vessel was abandoned in the mid-Atlantic Ocean and sank in a gale. The crew were rescued. |- |Priscilla | |The 141-ton vessel was wrecked on Rocky Point, Torrisdale Bay. |- |Rowtor | |The , 2,351-ton cargo vessel struck a reef north of the Fratelli Rocks near Bizerta, French Tunisia, in heavy rain and rough seas. She traveled over the reef into deep water where she sank west of the rocks.

4 January

|The 140-gross register ton screw steam tug grounded on Romer Shoal, New York, and sank in dense fog in of water. Wreck removed in 1914. All nine people on board survived. |- |Caobang | |The 4,146-ton cargo ship was wrecked at Pulo Kampong. |- |Carlisle | |The 2,151-ton ship burned in the Saigon River. |- |Inger | |The 1,145-ton cargo ship was wrecked at Wheatall Point, near Sunderland.

5 January

|Cordillera | |The 635-ton sailing vessel was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean.

|The 26-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Arkansas River at Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. Both people on board survived.Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Navigation Thirty-Ninth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States for the Year Ending June 30, 1907, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907, p. 380.

6 January

|The tow steamer was sunk in a gale off Salem, New Jersey. Later raised. |- |Ordovician | |The 1,112-ton cargo vessel was wrecked near Torres Vedras, Portugal.

7 January

|Royal Alfred | |The 151-ton cargo ship sank off Avonmouth.

8 January

|James E. Stansbury | |The 51-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Cedar Point, Maryland. All eight people on board survived. |- |Samuel L. Russell | |The 179-gross register ton schooner sank in Chesapeake Bay with the loss of all five people on board.

|The 84-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer either struck a coal flat or collided with an unnamed car float (sources disagree) on the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and sank in of water. All six people on board survived.

9 January

|Richard | |The , 466-ton steam barge struck a rock, or ran aground, and was wrecked at Blanche Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia in thick weather.

10 January

|Nicholas Thayer | |The 584-gross register ton bark departed Seattle, Washington, bound for Seward, District of Alaska, with 10 people on board and was never heard from again.

|The steamer was wrecked when she struck a wooden projection of a bridge at Grand Ecore, Louisiana, and sank below the bridge. A deck hand and a chambermaid were killed.

11 January

|Altona | |The , 691-ton barquentine went aground on Shovelful Shoals, she was pulled off by the tug Gypsum Queen. She sank the next day, 12 January, in the channel east, or west northwest of Pollock Rip Lightship in about of water.

|The steamer grounded and sank in the Ohio River below the Union Bridge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Raised, repaired and returned to service. |- |Iris | |The 1,382-ton cargo ship was wrecked on Horns Reef, Denmark. |- |Richard K. Fox | |The 47-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the coast of Mexico in the Bay of Campeche. All four people on board survived. |- |Servia | |The 1,227-ton sailing vessel was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. |- |Shafner Bros. | |The 148-ton vessel stranded on Gull Rocks southwest of Briar Island, Digby, Nova Scotia. She came off and stranded again on Green Island, Tusket Islands, a Total Loss.

|The 469-gross register ton screw steamer sank off Point Arena, California. All 16 people on board survived.

12 January

|The steamer ran aground on Brigantine shoal in dense fog. Pulled off by tugs on 13 January.

The barque was destroyed by fire at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. She later was scuttled in Saltpan Creek, Middle Harbour, Sydney, Australia.

|The steamer either foundered at sea off Navarro, California, or ran aground and was wrecked near Greenwood, California, on 11 or 12 January.

13 January

|Orion | |The 1,970-ton vessel was wrecked near Merlimont, France. |- |Robert H. Stevenson | |The 1,290-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Diamond Shoals on the coast of North Carolina with the loss of all 12 people on board. |- |Unknown | |A barge, under the tow of the tug (), capsized, and after her towline was cut she sank off the New York City dumping grounds. The only crewman on the barge was lost, and the only crewman on another barge that Eugene F. Moran was towing also was lost somehow.

14 January

|Boringuen | |The 15-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. All three people on board survived.

|The 66-gross register ton steam screw ferry burned at dock at Courtwright, Ontario. All four people on board survived, but she was a total loss. |- |Serbia | |The 2,344-ton cargo ship was wrecked at Nieuwe Diep.

15 January

|Dione | |The 221-ton vessel was wrecked near Dales Voe Walls.

16 January

|Manhattan | |The 100-ton vessel was wrecked near Canso, Nova Scotia.

17 January

|Atalanta | |The 370-gross register ton brig was stranded on "No Man's Land", floated off and drifted onto Seal Island in Penobscot Bay off the coast of Maine. All seven people on board survived.

18 January

|The 99-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer caught fire in the Monongahela River and was beached at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, where she burned out and became a total loss. All 13 people on board survived. |- |Cromartyshire

|The , 1,554-ton sailing ship went aground off Vlissingen, Netherlands. She was refloated, arriving at Middelburg for repairs 12 February, repaired and returned to service 27 March.

19 January

|Horace G. Morse | |The 437-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Bliss Island in New Brunswick, with the loss of two lives. There were five survivors.Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Navigation Thirty-Ninth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States for the Year Ending June 30, 1907, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907, p. 376. |- |Vienna | |The steamer struck an obstruction in the Tombigbee River at 10 Mile Shoal and sank.

20 January

|The 17-gross register ton motor yacht was stranded in St. Augustine Inlet on the coast of Florida. Both people on board survived.Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of Navigation Forty-Fourth Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States for the Year Ending June 30, 1912, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1912, p. 420.

21 January

| Brazilian Navy |The Aquidabã-class battleship blew up and sank while anchored off Jacarepaguá, Brazil, after her ammunition magazines exploded. The explosion and sinking killed 212 people. Of her 98 survivors, 36 were injured.

|The 2,632-gross register ton steel-hulled screw steamer sank after colliding in thick fog with the screw steamer () south west the Vineyard Sound Lightship in of water off Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. wreck partially removed between 6 September and 11 October increasing clearance to . Nacoochie rescued all 25 members of her crew.

22 January

|Antoinette | |The 130-ton sailing vessel was abandoned off Ushant.

|The 562-gross register ton iron-hulled tug was wrecked in thick fog on St. Mary Ledge (part of the Murr Ledges), a reef south-southeast of Southwest Head Light near Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada. All 17 people on board survived and rowed to shore in a lifeboat, but she was a total loss. Her wreck settled in of water . |- |Jautris | |The 178-ton cargo ship was sunk in a collision off Ushant. |- |Redcap | |The 135-ton fishing vessel was wrecked at Redcap, Orkney Islands.

|The 463-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a submerged object in the Mississippi River at Burns Landing near Tiptonville, Tennessee, and sank. All 28 people on board survived, but she was a total loss.

| With 164 people on board, the 1,598-gross register ton screw passenger steamer was wrecked off Pachena Point, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in thick weather and heavy seas with the loss of 136 lives — 42 crew and 92 passengers — according to one source and 126 lives according to another. The ship broke up about 36 hours later.alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (V) Retrieved 12 September 2018

23 January

|The 28-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by an explosion on the Amite River at Whitehall, Louisiana, killing all five people on board.

24 January

|Collingham | |The 2,405-ton cargo vessel was wrecked at Cape Silleiro, Spain. |- |Genesta | |The 393-ton barquentine was wrecked on Scorpion Reef in the Gulf of Mexico. The crew were rescued by the fishing schooner B. F. Sutter and landed at Pensacola, Florida. |- |Morning Star | |The 186-ton cargo ship was sunk in a collision from the Newarp Lightship.

|The 508-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by an explosion and fire while undergoing an overhaul on the ways at St. Johns, Oregon. One source says that all 20 people on board survived, while another says that two crew members were killed. |- |Stephen Woolsey | |The 32-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Montauk Point on the eastern end of Long Island, New York. All seven people on board survived. |- |Tamagawa Maru | |The 565-ton cargo ship was wrecked in the Spex Straits. |- |Wern | |The 162-ton cargo ship was sunk in a collision southeast of Point Lynas, United Kingdom.

25 January

|Avenel | |The 271-ton cargo vessel was wrecked outside Thurso harbour, Scotland. |- |L. Odin | |The 19-gross register ton sloop was stranded at Jones Inlet, Long Island, New York. All three people on board survived. |- |Mariechen | |Disabled and adrift since 25 December 1905, when a deadlight in her coal bunker had sprung open, leaving her without steam power during a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to Vladivostok in the Russian Empire with a crew of 50 and cargo of 5,000 tons of general merchandise on board, the 2,521-gross register ton, cargo steamer was wrecked during a snowstorm on a rock in False Bay () in Chatham Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. She was later salvaged.alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (M)

26 January

|Dixon Rice | |The 196-ton barquentine was wrecked on Riding Rocks, Biminia, Bahamas, a total loss, though some equipment was salvaged.

|The yacht caught fire at dock at South Portland, Maine, and burned to the waterline and sank. Total loss. |- |Thyra |