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Ship	State	Description
James Thomas	United States	The 36-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Delaware Bay. All four people on board survived.^[1]
New Boxer	United States	The 60-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Isle au Haut, Maine. The only person on board survived.^[1]

Ship	State	Description
Alabama	United States	The barge, under tow of Margeret ( United States), sank 30 miles (48 km) east south east of the Cape Lookout Lighthouse. Lost with all four hands.^[3]
Emily B	United States	The 43-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded in Mosquito Inlet on the coast of Florida. All three people on board survived.^[4]
Hattie F. Knowlton	United States	The 36-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Boston, Massachusetts. All four people on board survived.^[1]

Ship	State	Description
Ayintab	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and Artigliere (both Regia Marina) near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Bafra	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and Artigliere (both Regia Marina) near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Gökcedag	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and Artigliere (both Regia Marina) near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Kastamonu	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Kastamonu-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and Artigliere (both Regia Marina) near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Muha	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The gunboat was destroyed in action with Italian warships near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Ordu	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and Artigliere (both Regia Marina) near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Refahiye	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The Taskopru-class gunboat was sunk by Piemonte and Artigliere (both Regia Marina) near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.
Sipka	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Kunfuda Bay: The armed yacht was sunk by Piemonte and Artigliere (both Regia Marina) near Al Qunfudhah, Ottoman Arabia.

Ship	State	Description
Annie F. Kimball	United States	The 401-gross register ton schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All seven people on board lost their lives.^[5]
Annie L. Russell	United States	The 49-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Hereford Inlet on the coast of New Jersey. All three people on board lost their lives.^[5]
Empress	United States	The 120-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Cape Elizabeth, Maine. All four people on board survived.^[5]
Jos. L. Stephens	United States	The 85-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Cairo, Illinois. All four people on board survived.^[4]

Ship	State	Description
Alabama	United States	The 881-gross register ton schooner barge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All four people on board lost their lives.^[5]
Creedmoor	United States	The 10-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded at Stonington, Maine. Both people on board survived.^[6]
Pocomoke	United States	The 827-gross register ton schooner barge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All four people on board survived.^[6]
Sterling	United States	The 2,364-gross register ton schooner barge foundered off Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island. All six people on board survived.^[6]
Tourist	United States	The 6-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded on the coast of Mexico at Point San Miguel. The only person on board survived.^[6]

Ship	State	Description
Carolyn	United States	The 2,241-gross register ton steel-hulled screw steamer was stranded on Metinic Island on the coast of Maine. Raised 17 August, repaired and returned to service. All 27 people on board survived.^[6]^[7]
Jennie Thelin	United States	The 145-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Punta Maria on the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. All eight people on board survived.^[1]
Nellie	United States	With no one on board, the 17-gross register ton motor vessel foundered in Ocracoke Inlet on the coast of North Carolina.^[2]

Ship	State	Description
Admiral	United States	The 683-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the Oregon bank of the Columbia River. All 12 people on board survived.^[5]
F. B. Williams	United States	The 86-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on Bayou Teche at Belle River, Louisiana. All 11 people on board survived.^[4]
T. T. Co. No. 11	United States	The 395-gross register ton barge was abandoned in the Gulf of Mexico. The only person on board survived.^[8]
Whale Bay	United States	The 12-gross register ton motor vessel burned on the Mississippi River at New Orleans, Louisiana. All four people on board survived.^[2]
William R. Wilson	United States	The 1,385-gross register ton schooner was stranded on Pickles Reef off the coast of Florida. All 10 people on board survived.^[6]

Ship	State	Description
Corozal	United States	The 283-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at New Orleans, Louisiana. The only person on board survived.^[6]
Harry Prescott	United States	The 433-gross register ton schooner foundered off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All seven people on board survived.^[1]

Ship	State	Description
Adonis	United States	The tugboat was sunk by ice at the wharf of the Stone Express Company, in Lynn, Massachusetts.^[7]
North Star No. 1	United States	The 8-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded in Coos Bay on the coast of Oregon with the loss of all six people on board.^[2]

Ship	State	Description
Bayardo	United Kingdom	Bayardo The refrigerated cargo ship ran aground on the Middle Sand, in the Humber and was wrecked.^[9]
S. B. Duncan	United States	The 432-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The only person on board survived.^[2]

Ship	State	Description
Calderon	United Kingdom	Collided with Musketeer ( United Kingdom) in the Crosby Channel. Beached but broke in two, a total loss.^[10]
Ebony	United States	The lighter sank at the wharf of the New England Coal and Coke Company, Everett, Massachusetts. Later raised.^[7]

Ship	State	Description
Esther	United States	The 15-gross register ton screw steamer was lost in a collision with the screw steamer No. 17 M.F.D. ( United States) at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. All four people on board survived.^[4]
Paul	United States	The 91-gross register ton motor vessel was lost in a collision with the screw steamer Heredia ( United Kingdom) on the Mississippi River off Poverty Point in Louisiana. All 13 people on board survived.^[2]

Ship	State	Description
J. C. Austin	United States	The canal boat struck a rock and sank at Northport, New York.^[12]
Warner Miller Co	United States	The canal boat was sunk by ice at Northport, New York.^[12]

Ship	State	Description
HMS A3	Royal Navy	The A-class submarine collided with the submarine tender HMS Hazard ( Royal Navy) in the Solent off the Isle of Wight with the loss of all 14 hands. Refloated in March and sunk as a gunnery target off Portland Bill on 17 May.
Ida McKay	United States	The 187-gross register ton schooner was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean at 40°59′N 130°41′W. All seven people on board survived.^[1]

Ship	State	Description
Lawrence Redican	United States	The barge sank in the Thames River off Allyns Point, Connecticut.^[7]
Leona	United States	With no one on board, the 145-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at La Center, Washington.^[4]

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1912
Ship	State	Description
Ankara	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Beirut: Ankara The Antalya-class torpedo boat was sunk by gunfire in Beirut harbour by the armored cruisers Francesco Ferruccio and Giuseppe Garibaldi (both Regia Marina).
Avnillâh	Ottoman Navy	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Beirut: The hulked former Avnillah-class casemate ironclad coast defense vessel was damaged by gunfire by armoured cruisers Francesco Ferruccio and Giuseppe Garibaldi (both Regia Marina) and then torpedoed and sunk with her decks awash in Beirut harbour by Giuseppe Garibaldi. 58 crewmen killed, 108 wounded.^[17]
Unidentified lighters	Ottoman Empire	Italo-Turkish War: Battle of Beirut: Six lighters were sunk by a torpedo while tied up to the Mole in Beirut harbour by the armored cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi ( Regia Marina).^[18]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date February 1912
Ship	State	Description
Augsburg	German Empire	On 2 February the 4,287 GRT cargo steamship left New York for Durban with a crew of 37 or 39 men.^[19] She was listed as overdue, and a search by SMS Bremen, and the Hamburg America Line ships Ypiranga and Caledonia failed to find any trace of her.^[20]^[21]^[22]
Blanche	United States	With no one on board, the 15-gross register ton barge was crushed by ice on the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia.^[8]

Ship	State	Description
Consols	United Kingdom	The British steamer, laden with cotton from Galveston, Texas, for Hamburg, Germany, caught fire and sank approximately 40 miles (64 km) south of Cape Henry. All crew were rescued.^[13]
Frank M. Low	United States	The 542-gross register ton schooner burned off Cape Romain, South Carolina. All six people on board survived.^[5]
Josie M	United States	The 16-gross register ton schooner was stranded at New Orleans, Louisiana. All three people on board survived.^[1]

Ship	State	Description
Elzada	United States	The 24-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Pensacola, Florida. All three people on board survived.^[5]
Maud	United Kingdom	The Fleetwood trawler drifted ashore at Kynance Cove, Cornwall, when her tow broke.^[14]
Number Sixteen	United States	The 929-gross register ton schooner barge was stranded in Nantucket Sound at Great Point on the coast of Massachusetts. All five people on board survived.^[5]

Ship	State	Description
Charles K. Mulford	United States	The barge was sunk by ice on the west side of the channel at New Haven, Connecticut.^[7]
Erne	United Kingdom	The full-rigged ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of ten of her nineteen crew. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to Buenos Aires, Argentina.^[16]

Ship	State	Description
Carolina	United States	The 334-gross register ton barge was lost in a collision with the barge Ellen S. Jennings ( United States) in the Chesapeake Bay off Poplar Island off the coast of Maryland. Both people on board survived.^[8]
Ellen S. Jennings	United States	The 330-gross register ton barge was lost in a collision with the barge Carolina ( United States) in the Chesapeake Bay off Poplar Island off the coast of Maryland. Both people on board survived.^[8]
Julia M. Dempsey	United States	The barge went ashore on Middle Pond Island, Rhode Island.^[7]

Ship	State	Description
Ada V	United States	With no one on board, the 23-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Ripley, Ohio.^[6]
Carrier Dove	United States	The 92-gross register ton motor vessel was stranded in Discovery Passage on the coast of British Columbia, Canada. All 15 people on board survived.^[6]
Lolo	United States	The 13-gross register ton schooner foundered off Maunabo, Puerto Rico. All three people on board survived.^[1]
Nearchus	United States	The 1,271-gross register ton barge burned at Point Judith, Rhode Island. All four people on board survived.^[8]

Ship	State	Description
Goldsboro	United States	The 681-gross register ton screw steamer was stranded on the Brandywine Shoals off the coast of Delaware. All 14 people on board survived.^[4]
H. K. Bedford	United States	H. K. Bedford The 139-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer was crushed by ice on the Ohio River at Waverly, West Virginia. All 29 people on board survived.^[4]

Ship	State	Description
Rosalia d'Ali	Kingdom of Italy	The Barque was sunk in a collision with "Princess Anne" ( United States) in a snowstorm off Sewall Point in Hampton Roads, sinking in 40 feet of water.^[23]^[24]
Undine	United States	The 42-gross register ton screw steamer was lost when she struck a log in Currituck Sound off the coast of North Carolina. All 11 people on board survived.^[2]

Ship	State	Description
Bessie	United Kingdom	The Truro-registered three-masted schooner was forced to shelter in Newquay Bay, Cornwall in a strong north wind and drifted ashore when her anchor fouled. Two of the crew were saved by breeches buoy, the others clambered up the 100 ft (30 m) cliff on the cliff ladder. She was on a voyage from Ballincurragh, County Cork to Penryn.^[25]
Helen Thomas	United States	The 1,470-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the Cape Charles Shoals off the coast of Virginia. All 11 people on board survived.^[1]
Illawarra	Norway	The full-rigged ship was abandoned whilst on a voyage from Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom to Coquimbo, Chile.^[26]

Ship	State	Description
John W. Hall	United States	The 346-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Ocean City, Maryland. All seven people on board survived.^[1]
L. B. Shaw	United States	The steam barge was stranded on rocks on the West Island Bar, Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts.^[7]
Leo	United States	The 37-gross register ton motor vessel burned off Thacher Island off Cape Ann on the coast of Massachusetts. All eight people on board survived.^[4]
Oceana	United Kingdom	The passenger liner sank after a collision with Pisagua ( Germany) off Beachy Head, Sussex.
Wendur	United Kingdom	The Glasgow sailing vessel struck the southernmost rock of the Seven Stones Reef while carrying grain from Plymouth, Devon. Three of the twenty-one crew lost their lives. She held the record for the fastest voyage between Newcastle and Valparaiso.^[27]

Ship	State	Description
Enos Taylor	United States	The 64-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Dekoven, Kentucky. All seven people on board survived.^[4]
Patrician	United States	The 125-gross register ton schooner was stranded at Jordan Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada. Ten of the 20 people on board lost their lives.^[6]
St. Leon	United States	The 83-gross register ton schooner was stranded in Pigeon Hill Bay on the coast of the Maine. All three people on board survived.^[6]
Thaxter	United States	The 843-gross register ton schooner barge foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) southeast of Shinnecock, Long Island, New York. All four people on board lost their lives.^[6]

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Ship	State	Description
Captain Ed Riley	United States	The canal boat, under tow of the canal boat William E. Cleary ( United States), was wrecked on Bartletts Reef near New London, Connecticut, and went to pieces.^[7]
Fawn	United States	The 42-gross register ton screw steamer was stranded at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. All five people on board survived.^[4]

Ship	State	Description
Gaston	United States	The 1,442-gross register ton schooner barge was stranded on Cobb Island on the coast of Virginia. All four people on board survived.^[5]
S. D. Carleton	United States	The 1,874-gross register ton schooner barge was stranded on Cobb Island on the coast of Virginia. All five people on board survived.^[6]
Wade	United States	The 33-gross register ton sternwheel paddle steamer foundered in the Mississippi River at New Orleans, Louisiana. All seven people on board survived.^[2]

Ship	State	Description
James M. Gifford	United States	The fishing steamer sank at the Oneco Works Wharf in New London, Connecticut. Later raised.^[7]
Josefina	United States	The 9-gross register ton sloop was stranded at Guánica, Puerto Rico. Both people on board survived.^[1]

Ship	State	Description
Loula E. Dedrick	United States	With no one on board, the 12-gross register ton motor paddle vessel burned at Carrollton, Kentucky.^[4]
USS Santee	United States Navy	The school ship sank at her berth at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. She was refloated six months later and was burned as a means of disposal and scrapping in 1913.

Ship	State	Description
Augusta	United States	The 7-gross register ton sloop foundered in Galveston Bay off the coast of Texas. The only person on board survived.^[31]
Margery	United States	The barge sank at the entrance to the harbor at Lynn, Massachusetts.^[7]

Ship	State	Description
G. W. Watson	United States	The 452-gross register ton schooner was stranded on the coast of Tahiti. All nine people on board survived.^[5]
Pegg	United States	The 13-gross register ton motor vessel burned at Rock Slough in California, killing one of the four people on board.^[2]

Ship	State	Description
Gunvor	Norway	Gunvor wrecked Wrecked on the Pedn-Men-an-Mor rocks, Black Head, The Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her crew scrambled to safety.^[32]^[33]
Mildred	United Kingdom	The barquentine struck rocks at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall in dense fog and sank with her sails set. No lives lost.^[32]

Ship	State	Description
Gladys	United States	The 26-gross register ton sloop foundered off Charleston, South Carolina. All three people on board survived.^[1]
Rhenania	Netherlands	She was wrecked on Burhou Island, Channel Islands when en route from Rotterdam for Bilbao.^[34]^[35]

Ship	State	Description
Arkinsaw	United States	The 14-gross register ton motor paddle vessel foundered in the Arkansas River in Arkansas. Both people on board survived.^[6]
Ontario	United States	The steamer caught fire and ran ashore at Montauk Point, New York. 29 women and children passengers were taken off by the tug Tasco ( United States) while the crew remained aboard to fight the fire.^[7]^[36]

Ship	State	Description
Fredericka Schepp	United States	The 268-gross register ton schooner was stranded in the Cape Verde Islands. All nine people on board survived.^[5]
P G #1	United States	Under tow along with the scows P G #4 and P G #5 (both United States), the 33-ton scow was wrecked on rocks at Montague Island at the entrance to Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska after her towing line parted in a gale.^[37]
P G #4	United States	Under tow along with the scows P G #1 and P G #5 (both United States), the 7-ton scow was wrecked on rocks at Montague Island at the entrance to Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska after her towing line parted in a gale.^[37]
P G #5	United States	Under tow along with the scows P G #1 and P G #4 (both United States), the 7-ton scow was wrecked on rocks at Montague Island at the entrance to Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska after her towing line parted in a gale.^[37]