List of shipwrecks in 1905

The list of shipwrecks in 1905 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1905.

2 January

 * Sevastopol scuttled off Port Arthur.

3 January

 * Haudaudine (🇫🇷) ran aground and sank off New Caledonia with no loss of life.

18 January

 * Optima (🇩🇪 Germany): Ran aground on Haisborough Sands, off the coast of Norfolk. A total loss.

5 February

 * Ice Boat No. 3 (🇺🇸 United States) struck a submerged shipwreck and sank in National Harbor of Refuge, Delaware, US.

14 March

 * 1967 ton barque SS Khyber wrecked under the cliff at Tol-Pedn-Penwith, Cornwall. Neither the Penzance or Sennen Lifeboats could reach the ship and 23 crew lost

May

 * SS Benguela (1874) (🇬🇧 United Kingdom): The Elder Dempster 1,796 grt cargo ship was wrecked in May 1905 at Nana Kroo, Sierra Leone. She was on a voyage to Hamburg with palm kernels and oil.

4 May

 * Hesper (🇺🇸 United States) sank in Silver Bay, Lake Superior.

27 May

 * Knyaz Suvorov sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
 * Imperator Aleksandr III sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
 * Borodino sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
 * Oslyabya sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
 * Navarin sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
 * Ural sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.

28 May

 * Admiral Nakhimov sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
 * Admiral Ushakov sunk in the Battle of Tsushima.
 * Sissoi Veliky scuttled after the Battle of Tsushima.
 * Vladimir Monomakh scuttled after the Battle of Tsushima.
 * Dmitrii Donskoi scuttled after the Battle of Tsushima.

29 May

 * Izumrud ran aground near Vladivostok.

25 June

 * SS Cousins Arbib (🇧🇪 Belgium) collided with SS IJmuiden (🇳🇱 Netherlands) 20 nmi off Flamborough Head, England. Later raised, repaired and sold, re-entering service in 1909.

5 July

 * Farfadet sank at Sidi Abdullah, Tunisia with the loss of four lives.
 * Newlyn lugger Diana (🇬🇧 United Kingdom) steamed into the Hamburgans Rocks off Penzance promenade, Cornwall when the watchman fell asleep after a nights fishing. Floated on the late afternoon tide.

21 July

 * USS Bennington (PG-4) suffered a boiler explosion and was holed, beached at San Diego. Later repaired and returned to service.

4 August

 * The 400 ton steel barque Noisiel (🇫🇷 France) was blown ashore in a violent storm at Praa Sands, Cornwall, United Kingdom. She was en route from Cherbourg to Savona with a 600 ton cargo of armour plate from gun turrets of obsolete battleships.

Unknown date

 * The small ketch Albatross (🇬🇧 United Kingdom) sank in the Solent when her cargo of oil barrels exploded.

2 September

 * Pretoria (🇺🇸 United States): The wooden schooner sank in a storm on Lake Superior near the Apostle Islands.
 * Sevona (🇺🇸 United States): The steamboat sank in a storm on Lake Superior near Sand Island (Wisconsin).

26 September

 * Cantabria ex Formosa (🇵🇭 Philippines) sank at North end of Ticao Island, Philippines in a typhoon.Total loss of ship, all 69 persons drowned.

Unknown date

 * Loch Vennachar (🇬🇧 United Kingdom) sank at West Bay, Kangaroo Island, Australia some time between 6 and 29 September.

5 October

 * Noquebay (🇺🇸 United States): The wooden schooner caught fire and sank in Lake Superior off the coast of Stockton Island, in Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin.

31 October

 * SS Zelandia (1883) (🇧🇪 Belgium) Wrecked off Warkworth, England.

2 November

 * SS Appomattox (🇺🇸 United States): The wooden steamship ran aground in smoke and fog near Milwaukee, Lake Michigan. Abandoned as a constructive total loss.

18 November

 * SS Hilda (🇬🇧 United Kingdom) ran aground on La Pierre des Portes reef, Saint-Malo, France with the loss of 125 lives.

28 November

 * Madeira (🇺🇸 United States) sank in Lake Superior.

11 December

 * LV-58 (🇺🇸 United States) sank off Nantucket.