# List of shipwrecks in November 1918

The list of shipwrecks in November 1918 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during November 1918.

## 1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Galiano | Canada | The cargo ship foundered in the Pacific Ocean off Triangle Island, British Columbia with the loss of all hands. |
| Glena | Norway | The cargo ship foundered with the loss of all but two of her crew. |
| Tasmania | United Kingdom | The schooner was wrecked with the loss of five of her six crew. |
| SM U-72 | Imperial German Navy | World War I: The Type UE I submarine was scuttled at Kotor, State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (42°30′N 18°41′E﻿ / ﻿42.500°N 18.683°E﻿ / 42.500; 18.683). |
| SMS Viribus Unitis | Slovene, Croat and Serbian Navy | World War I: The Tegetthoff-class battleship was sunk at Pula by an Italian human torpedo. |
| Wien | State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs | The ocean liner was mined and sunk at Pula by Regia Marina forces. |

## 2 November

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| HMT Charles Hammond | Royal Navy | The naval trawler was lost in the North Sea. |
| Devonshire | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore east of swansea, Glamorgan. Her thirteen crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat. |
| Douro | Portugal | The schooner foundered with the loss of all hands. |
| Estrella | Brazil | The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 16 nautical miles (30 km) off Camocim. |
| Murcia | United Kingdom | World War I: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea 12 nautical miles (22 km) north of Port Said, Egypt (31°26′N 32°21′E﻿ / ﻿31.433°N 32.350°E﻿ / 31.433; 32.350) by SM UC-74 ( Imperial German Navy) with the loss of a crew member. |
| Port Hunter | United Kingdom | Carrying general cargo and war supplies, the 4,062-gross register ton cargo ship sank without loss of life in 30 to 70 feet (9.1 to 21.3 m) of water on Hedge Fence Shoal in Vineyard Sound off the coast of Massachusetts, 1.75 nautical miles (3.2 km; 2.0 mi) north-northeast of East Chop, Martha's Vineyard, at 41°29′43″N 070°33′15″W﻿ / ﻿41.49528°N 70.55417°W﻿ / 41.49528; -70.55417﻿ (Port Hunter) after colliding in fog with the tug Covington ( United States). |
| HMT Riparvo | Royal Navy | The naval trawler was lost in the Mediterranean Sea. |
| SMS S61 | Imperial German Navy | World War I: The S49-class torpedo boat was scuttled in the Terneuzen Canal in Belgium. |
| Surada | United Kingdom | World War I: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Port Said (31°34′N 32°21′E﻿ / ﻿31.567°N 32.350°E﻿ / 31.567; 32.350), Egypt, by the submarine SM UC-74 ( Imperial German Navy). Her crew survived. |
| SMS V47 | Imperial German Navy | World War I: The V43-class destroyer was scuttled in the Terneuzen Canal in Belgium. |
| SMS V67 | Imperial German Navy | World War I: The V67-class destroyer was scuttled in the Terneuzen Canal in Belgium. |
| SMS V77 | Imperial German Navy | World War I: The V67-class destroyer was scuttled in the Terneuzen Canal in Belgium. |
| SMS V69 | Imperial German Navy | World War I: The V67-class destroyer was scuttled at Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium. |

## 3 November

List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Devonshire | United Kingdom | The cargo ship was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by a lifeboat. |
| Mineola | United States | The steamer was destroyed by fire at Bar Harbor, Maine. Four crew died. |
| Motala Ström | Sweden | World War I: The cargo ship disappeared with all hands in the North Sea, east of Shetland, after the convoy she was part of was scattered by adverse weather. Several explosions were heard, so the ship likely had struck a mine. 18 casualties. |

## 4 November

List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Lynn | United States | The steamer sank in a collision with America (flag unknown) in Lake Huron at the entrance to the St. Clair River. |
| Mimosa | Sweden | World War I: The cargo ship sank after a collision while in convoy from Tyne, destined for Gothenburg. The crew survived. |
| HMS P12 | Royal Navy | The P-class sloop collided with another vessel and sank in the English Channel (50°39′40″N 1°05′00″W﻿ / ﻿50.66111°N 1.08333°W﻿ / 50.66111; -1.08333). |
| War Roach | United Kingdom | World War I: The cargo ship struck a mine and was damaged in the Mediterranean Sea off Port Said, Egypt (31°19′N 29°48′E﻿ / ﻿31.317°N 29.800°E﻿ / 31.317; 29.800). She was beached but was later refloated, repaired and returned to service. |

## 5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| HMS Campania | Royal Navy | HMS Campania The seaplane tender collided with HMS Royal Oak and then HMS Glorious (both Royal Navy) in the Firth of Forth and sank. The wreck was cleared in 1923. |
| Epic | United Kingdom | The Admiralty tug was beached whilst attempting to refloat Lake Harris ( United States) at Penzance. |
| Ilwaco | United States | During a voyage from Petersburg, Territory of Alaska, to Anacortes, Washington, with a crew of seven and a cargo of 171⁄2 tons of barreled salmon aboard, the 61-gross register ton motor vessel was wrecked without loss of life in fog on Green Point (54°34′N 130°41′W﻿ / ﻿54.567°N 130.683°W﻿ / 54.567; -130.683﻿ (Green Point)) in Chatham Sound in the waters of British Columbia, approximately 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south of the border between British Columbia and the Territory of Alaska. Her crew was rescued from shore by the steamer Humboldt (flag unknown). |
| Lake Harris | United States | World War I: The armed cargo ship was beached near Penzance railway station, Cornwall after a gunfight in the Atlantic Ocean off Land's End with a surfaced German submarine. |
| Stavnos | Italy | World War I: The sailing vessel was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt by SM UC-74 ( Imperial German Navy). |
| Wallacut | United States | The schooner was driven ashore at Marshfield, Oregon and wrecked. |

## 6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Bernisse | Netherlands | World War I: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea off Öland, Sweden. She was later raised, repaired and returned to service. |
| USS Jolly Roger | United States Navy | The patrol vessel was dropped from a crane and broke in two and damaged beyond repair whilst being loaded aboard USS Kanawha ( United States Navy). |
| USS Lake Domita | United States Navy | The cargo ship struck an obstruction, grounded and sank in Anse de Bertheaume on the north shore of the entrance to the harbor of Brest, France. |

## 7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Conster | United Kingdom | World War I: The fishing smack struck a mine and sank in the English Channel off Rye, Sussex. |
| Trebiskin | United Kingdom | The ketch was lost on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all hands. |

## 8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Barge No. 1 | United States | The wooden barge ran aground on a reef off the coast of Michigan at the southern point of Thunder Bay in a storm and quickly broke up and sank in 42 feet (13 m) of water at 45°00′55″N 83°18′14″W﻿ / ﻿45.015317°N 83.303967°W﻿ / 45.015317; -83.303967﻿ (Barge No.1). |

## 9 November

List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| HMS Blazer | Royal Navy | The naval tug hit The Steval and sank near Conger Ledge, Scilly. |
| HMS Britannia | Royal Navy | HMS Britannia sinking. World War I: The King Edward VII-class battleship was torpedoed and sunk in the Strait of Gibraltar by the submarine SM UB-50 ( Imperial German Navy) with the loss of 50 of her 762 crew. |
| USS Saetia | United States Navy | World War I: The cargo ship struck a mine – probably laid by the submarine SM U-117 ( Imperial German Navy) – and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Fenwick Island, Delaware, 10 nautical miles (19 km) south-southeast of the Fenwick Island Lightship without loss of life. Nineteen of her crew in two life rafts were rescued by the steamship Kennebec (flag unknown) and landed at Cape May, New Jersey, and the other 66 members of her crew landed at Ocean City, Maryland, in four lifeboats. |

## 10 November

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Admiral Kornilov | Russia White Movement | Russian Civil War: The steamer, being used as a headquarters ship by General Lazar Bicherakhov, was destroyed by fire at Petrovsk. The cause was possibly arson/sabotage. |
| HMS Ascot | Royal Navy | World War I: The Racecourse-class minesweeper was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea off the Farne Islands, Northumberland (55°38′N 1°30′W﻿ / ﻿55.633°N 1.500°W﻿ / 55.633; -1.500) by SM UB-67 ( Imperial German Navy) with the loss of 51 of her crew. |
| HMT Renarro | Royal Navy | World War I: The naval trawler struck a mine and sank in the Dardanelles with some loss of life. |
| 36PN | Regia Marina | World War I: The PN-class torpedo boat struck a mine and sank in the Adriatic Sea off the Cape of Rodon, Albania. |

## 11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| SMS Berlin II | Imperial German Navy | The Vorpostenboot was lost. |
| SMS Feronia | Imperial German Navy | World War I: The depôt ship was scuttled at Antwerp, Belgium. |
| USS Ophir | United States Navy | The cargo and passenger ship suffered an explosion on 8 November and caught fire in the Mediterranean Sea. She sank on 11 November in Gibraltar Harbour. Cargo was destroyed. Two crew killed. The wreck was raised 10 February 1919, repaired, and returned to the US in January 1920, but laid up until 1922 and scrapped. |

## 12 November

List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Halcyon | United States | While anchored in lay-up for the winter with no one aboard, the 68-gross register ton motor vessel broke her mooring lines and sank in Akutan Bay (54°13′34″N 165°44′55″W﻿ / ﻿54.2262°N 165.7486°W﻿ / 54.2262; -165.7486﻿ (Akutan Bay)) on Akutan Island off Akutan in the Aleutian Islands. |
| USS Seven | United States Navy | The 20-foot (6.1 m) aviator rescue motorboat was disposed of by burning, probably in the Norfolk, Virginia area. |

## 13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Carabinier | French Navy | The Spahi-class destroyer ran aground at Latakia, Syria. She was scuttled on 15 November. |

## 14 November

List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| HMS Cochrane | Royal Navy | The Warrior-class cruiser ran aground in the River Mersey. She later broke in two and was a total loss. The wreck was scrapped in situ in 1919. |

## 15 November

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| USS Elizabeth | United States Navy | The patrol vessel was wrecked at the mouth of the Brazos River, near Freeport, Texas. |

## 16 November

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Cesare Rossarol | Regia Marina | World War I: The scout cruiser struck a mine and sank in the Adriatic Sea off the Istrian Peninsula, State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. |

## 18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Stasia | France | The schooner caught fire at Shanghai, China and was scuttled to extinguish the fire. Note however that the log of the gunboat HMS Gnat ( Royal Navy) records being called on to sink a burning ship by gunfire, in the International Dock Shanghai, on 14 November, so this is presumably the same incident. |
| SM U-165 | Imperial German Navy | The Type U 93 submarine sank in the Weser (53°10′N 8°53′E﻿ / ﻿53.167°N 8.883°E﻿ / 53.167; 8.883). She was raised on 21 February 1919 and subsequently scrapped. |

## 20 November

List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Per Brahe | Sweden | The ferry foundered in Lake Wetter with the loss of all on board. |
| SMS V30 | Imperial German Navy | World War I: The V25-class torpedo boat was sunk by mines on the way to Internment at Scapa Flow. |

## 21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| SM U-97 | Imperial German Navy | The Type U 93 submarine sank in the North Sea (52°25′N 3°10′E﻿ / ﻿52.417°N 3.167°E﻿ / 52.417; 3.167). |

## 22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| HMS G11 | Royal Navy | The G-class submarine ran aground at Howick, Northumberland and was wrecked with the loss of two of her 31 crew. |

## 24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Cerisoles | French Navy | The Navarin-class minesweeper foundered with all hands in a storm on Lake Superior. |
| Inkerman | French Navy | The Navarin-class minesweeper foundered with all hands in a storm on Lake Superior. |
| Uranienborg | Denmark | The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in Aalbeck Bay with the loss of a crew member. |

## 26 November

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| USS Bonita | United States Navy | The 46-foot (14 m) patrol vessel collided with the fishing schooner Russell ( United States) at Coast Guard Station No. 25, Boston, Massachusetts and sank. |
| Nanset | Norway | The ship ran aground in Oxwich Bay in foggy weather. Her crew survived. She subsequently capsized and was a total loss. |

## 27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| City of Lahore | United Kingdom | The cargo ship caught fire and sank at New York, United States. |
| J. A. McKee | Canada | The steamer went ashore on Fishers Island, New York. Refloated and returned to service. |

## Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1918 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Star | United States | When a storm struck while she was at anchor in Berners Bay in Southeast Alaska with no one aboard, the 9-gross register ton, 34.3-foot (10.5 m) fishing vessel was blown ashore and smashed to pieces on the beach by the surf. |