The list of shipwrecks in 1915 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1915.

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1915
ShipStateDescription
A. T. Gifford  United States The whaler caught fire and sank off Coats Island, Northwest Territories, Canada in September or October 1915.
Advance  United Kingdom The auxiliary schooner was wrecked in Wreck Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
Alexander Mackenzie  United States The US Army Corps of Engineers dredge sank while under tow off the east coast. Five crew were killed.[1]
British Empire  United Kingdom World War I: The cargo ship was scuttled at İzmir, Ottoman Empire.[2]
City of Adelaide  Australia
The wreck of SS City of Adelaide at low tide on 25 September 2004.
The coal storage hulk, burned out by a 1912 fire, was wrecked at Cockle Bay, Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia, while under tow from Townsville to Magnetic Island′s Picnic Bay.
HMS Collingwood  Royal Navy World War I: The dummy battleship was beached in the Dardanelles. Subsequently shelled and consequently scrapped due to damage sustained.[3]
G. Thackle  United States The motor vessel was wrecked on the southwest coast of Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[4]
Grubstake  United States The motor vessel was wrecked at "Cala Reef" – probably California Rock (55°18′55″N 131°36′05″W / 55.31528°N 131.60139°W / 55.31528; -131.60139 (California Rock)) – in Southeast Alaska.[4]
Houston  United States The US Army Corps of Engineers dredge capsized, probably off Galveston, Texas, in a major storm. Two crew were killed.[5]
Kapitan Belli  Russia The incomplete Orfey-class destroyer was driven ashore near Cape Lisiy Nos. She was later refloated and towed to Leningrad. Subsequently completed and entered service with the Soviet Navy in 1928 as Karl Liebknecht.[6]
HMS Oruba  Royal Navy World War I: The dummy battleship was scuttled as a breakwater at Mudros, Lemnos, Greece.[7]
SM U-26  Imperial German Navy The Type U 23 submarine was lost in the Baltic Sea in September or October 1915.
SM UB-3  Imperial German Navy The Type UB 1 submarine sank in the Gulf of Izmir on or after 23 May.
SM UC-9  Imperial German Navy The Type UC I submarine was lost on patrol between 20 October and 12 November with the loss of all fourteen crew.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "The history of Dredging at the Port of Houston: ditching high and low to build a port" (PDF). westerndredging.org. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  2. ↑ "British Empire". The Yard. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "Michigan". The Yard. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  4. 1 2 alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (G)
  5. ↑ "The history of Dredging at the Port of Houston: ditching high and low to build a port" (PDF). westerndredging.org. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  6. ↑ Chernyshev, Alexander Alekseevich (2012). Погибли без боя. Катастрофы русских кораблей XVIII–XX вв [They died without a fight. Catastrophes of Russian ships of the XVIII-XX centuries] (in Russian). Veche.
  7. ↑ "Royal Mail Steam Packet Company / Royal Mail Lines Limited". The Ships List. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  8. ↑ "UC 9". Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
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