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The list of shipwrecks in 1938 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1938.(This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.)

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  • The list of shipwrecks in 1938 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1938.(This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.) (en)
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  • The cargo ship exploded and broke in two in the Atlantic Ocean . Crew rescued by , and . (en)
  • The Design 1020 cargo ship collided with off Jacksonville, Florida and was beached. (en)
  • The cargo ship came ashore on the west coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Salvage efforts were abandoned "until spring" in December 1938. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War, Battle of Cape Palos: The Nationalist was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by the Republican destroyer Lepanto with the loss of 765 of her 1,206 crew. Some of the survivors were rescued by and . (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground on Sakhalin, Soviet Union in foggy weather. (en)
  • The cargo ship caught fire at St. John's, Newfoundland and burnt to the waterline. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • thumb|Patterson.During a voyage from Kodiak, Territory of Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, with a cargo of 20 tons of general merchandise, the 604-gross register ton, motor cargo ship ran aground north of Cape Fairweather ) on the south-central coast of Alaska and was wrecked with the loss of two of her 20 crew. (en)
  • The cargo ship issued a distress call in the Mediterranean Sea . Presumed foundered with the loss of all 35 crew. (en)
  • The tug capsized and sank at Porlock, Somerset. All crew survived. (en)
  • The cargo ship collided with in the Kiel Canal and sank. (en)
  • The coastal tanker ran aground on Haisboro Sands, Norfolk. Although refloated, she later drifted onto the Barber Sands, broke her back and exploded. All eight people on board were rescued by the Gorleston lifeboat. (en)
  • The ocean liner ran aground in the St. Lawrence River, near Bic Island, Quebec, Canada. All 400 passengers were rescued by . Later refloated, repaired and returned to service. (en)
  • The coaster foundered in the North Sea off the coast of Ayrshire with the loss of all five crew. (en)
  • The 22-gross register ton, fishing vessel sank in Chatham Strait in the Alexander Archipelago between Poorman's Point and Wood (or Wooden) Island in Southeast Alaska. The only person aboard survived. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The coaster struck a mine and sank south east of Gibraltar . All 14 crew rescued by . (en)
  • The sealer was crushed in pack ice and sank northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland. All crew were rescued by the steamer . (en)
  • The tug sank at New London, Connecticut, in a hurricane. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground at Gothenburg, Sweden. All crew were rescued. The vessel was reported as likely to be a total loss. (en)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War: The Shun Sheng-class patrol craft was scuttled on Dongting Lake at Yueyang. (en)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War: The was sunk in the Yangtze between Matang and Hankow, China, by Japanese aircraft. (en)
  • The cargo ship sprang a leak and foundered in the Baltic Sea off Öland, Sweden. (en)
  • The sailing ship collided with at Naples and sank. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground at Klippen Point, South Africa and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by . (en)
  • The coaster was driven ashore at Nayland Rock, Margate. (en)
  • The 30-gross register ton, motor vessel broke her moorings, dragged her anchor, and was wrecked without loss of life on a reef across from Seldovia, Territory of Alaska, during a gale. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground in the Kei Islands, Netherlands East Indies and was wrecked. (en)
  • The tanker exploded and sank in the Caribbean Sea south west of Dry Tortuga with the loss of two of her 36 crew. Survivors were rescued by . (en)
  • The cargo ship was driven ashore at Cadaqués, Spain in a storm and was a total loss. (en)
  • The ship was lost off Parker's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada. (en)
  • The auxiliary three-masted schooner sank off Cimbrishamn. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • The tug capsized and sank at Copenhagen whilst assisting . Two crew were lost. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground at Courtown Cays and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by . (en)
  • The auxiliary schooner ran aground at Llantwit Major, Glamorgan, and was wrecked with the loss of one of her four crew. (en)
  • The tanker foundered in the Atlantic Ocean east south east of the Ambrose Lighthouse. All 22 people on board were rescued by . (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The vessel was bombed and sunk at Alicante. Refloated, repaired and put back in service as Castillo Guadalest. (en)
  • The auxiliary four-masted schooner caught fire at Oregrund and was scuttled to extinguish the fire. (en)
  • Ran aground at Porthmeor beach, St Ives, Cornwall. All 24 crew rescued, but five later drowned when the lifeboat, Caroline Parsons , capsized. (en)
  • The schooner ran aground in the Essequibo River, British Guiana and was a total loss. (en)
  • The fishery patrol vessel ran aground on Williams Reef in the Territory of Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago from Kodiak, suffering extensive damage. The seaplane tenders and assisted in refloating her. She was repaired and returned to service by January 1939. (en)
  • The cargo ship foundered in the North Sea off Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands. The crew were rescued by . (en)
  • The auxiliary three-masted schooner ran aground in the North Sea on the Haaksgrounds, off the Dutch coast and was a total loss. All crew were rescued by . (en)
  • The Thames barge collided with another vessel in the River Thames at Erith, Kent, and sank. (en)
  • The stores ship was sunk as a target in the English Channel north of Alderney, Channel Islands by . (en)
  • The , 408-gross register ton three-masted schooner burned and sank without loss of life in up to of water at while at anchor in Seal Harbor at Islesboro, Maine, sometime during the 1930s. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground on Spurn Head, Yorkshire. (en)
  • The schooner caught fire off Cape Pine, Newfoundland and was abandoned by her crew. (en)
  • The cargo ship foundered in the Irish Sea between Lundy Island and Cardigan Bay with the loss of all seventeen crew. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire, to Manchester, Lancashire. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground on the Pembrokeshire coast and sank with the loss of one of the nine people on board. (en)
  • The tug was in collision with at Le Havre, France and sank with the loss of six of her nine crew. (en)
  • The cargo ship sank in the Baltic Sea off the Oviši Lighthouse, Ventspils, Latvia. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Barcelona, Spain by Spanish Nationalist aircraft. All 21 crew survived. (en)
  • The auxiliary sailing ship foundered in the Saronic Gulf off Aegina. (en)
  • The cargo ship passed the Azores, Portugal on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, to Vancouver, British Columbia. No further trace, presumed foundered. (en)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War: Two medium-sized cargo ships were captured and burned by near Wenzhou Bay. The crews were transferred to two smaller Chinese ships and released. (en)
  • The cargo liner ran aground on the Karam Masamahru Islet in the Red Sea and sank. All on board were rescued by . (en)
  • The tug foundered in the Mediterranean Sea north of Tabarka, Tunisia. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The tanker was bombed and caught fire in the Mediterranean Sea and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by . She sank south of Menorca. (en)
  • The overloaded 9-gross register ton fishing vessel sank in Kelp Bay in Southeast Alaska. The motor vessel Redoubt rescued her crew of four. (en)
  • The cargo ship struck a rock and sank at Cabo de Quejo, Cantabria and sank. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • The ocean liner caught fire at Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure and was a total loss. She was consequently scrapped at Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. (en)
  • The auxiliary schooner ran aground in the Kattegat at Hirsholmene, Denmark and was a total loss. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The vessel was bombed and sunk off El Grau, Valencia. (en)
  • The 24-gross register ton, fishing vessel was destroyed in Red Bay in Southeast Alaska by a fire that began when her gasoline engine backfired. Her crew of two was rescued by the motor vessel Caesar . (en)
  • The auxiliary sailing vessel caught fire and sank in the Salamis Strait. (en)
  • The cargo ship was abandoned in the Irish Sea off Rhosneigr, Anglesey. All crew were rescued by the Holyhead lifeboat. Kyle Prince came ashore at Cable Bay, Holyhead and was a total loss. (en)
  • The cargo ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Baltic Sea off Hiiumaa, Estonia. The crew were rescued by . (en)
  • The auxiliary three-masted schooner ran aground on Spiekeroog, Germany and was a total loss. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War: The Kung Sheng-class patrol/survey boat was sunk by Japanese aircraft on the Yangtze at Canton, China. (en)
  • The uncompleted was driven ashore and wrecked from Sovetskaya whilst being towed from Sovetskaya to Okhotsk by Okhotsk . (en)
  • The coaster ran aground and sank north of the Corsewall Lighthouse, Dumfries-shire. Five crew were rescued by Jennie Spiers . (en)
  • The cargo ship collided with in the North Sea off the Shipwash Sands and was beached. She was later refloated with assistance from a tug. (en)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War: The gunboat was sunk in the Yangtze by Japanese aircraft. (en)
  • The cargo ship collided with off Gothenburg, Sweden, and sank. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The vessel was bombed at Valencia. Refloated, repaired and put back in service as Castillo Noreña. (en)
  • The pinnace was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel off Weymouth, Dorset, England, by the submarine . All seven crew were rescued by a Royal Navy destroyer. (en)
  • The Thames barge sank off Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. (en)
  • After her clutch broke during a gale off the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska and west of Dry Bay and she became impossible to steer, the 47-gross register ton motor vessel was abandoned. The motor vessel Christine rescued all eight members of her crew. Alden was last seen drifting toward the beach and was a total loss. (en)
  • The tug ran aground and capsized at Barry, Glamorgan. (en)
  • The ferry collided in the Tagus with the dredger Finalmaria and sank with heavy loss of life. (en)
  • The Thames barge collided with in the River Thames at Greenwich and sank. (en)
  • After her gasoline engine broke down in rough weather during a voyage from Juneau to Klawock, Territory of Alaska, the 12-gross register ton motor vessel drifted onto rocks and sank off Point Hugh Light in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of two survived. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The vessel was bombed and sunk at Villajoyosa with the loss of two lives. She was refloated in 1940, repaired and put back in service as Castillo Montiel. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground at Narbonne, Aude, France and broke in two. She was declared a total loss. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • Foundered at Melilla. (en)
  • The 60-gross register ton motor vessel sank in the Seto Inland Sea west of Kurahashi-jima, Japan, about two minutes after colliding with the submarine in limited visibility. (en)
  • The coal grab capsized and sank at Hamburg with the loss of two crew. (en)
  • The cargo ship was severely damaged in a collision with at Antwerp. Not repaired, she was sold for scrap in June 1939. (en)
  • The coaster collided with in the English Channel off Kingsdown, Kent and sank. All thirteen crew were rescued by Wairangi. (en)
  • The cargo ship collided in foggy weather with in the Bay of Biscay north north east of Ouessant, Finistère, France and sank. All crew were rescued by Tafna. (en)
  • The 22-gross register ton fishing vessel sank off Cape Lookout on the coast of Dall Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska with the loss of her entire crew of seven. (en)
  • The schooner foundered in the Windward Passage off Cape Maisí, Cuba. (en)
  • The cargo ship struck a rock and sank off Kii Ōshima. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The Recalde-class gunboat was sunk by Nationalist aircraft at Valencia. Salvaged in February 1940, stricken the next month and sold for scrap. (en)
  • The cargo ship capsized and sank off Chiloé Island with the loss of all nineteen crew. (en)
  • The 31-gross register ton, fishing vessel sank after striking a navigational dolphin in Wrangell Narrows in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of seven abandoned ship and climbed onto the dolphin, from which the motor vessel Recovery rescued them. (en)
  • The was rammed and sunk at Cherbourg, Charente-Maritime by a Swedish tanker. (en)
  • The auxiliary sailing ship came ashore at Karlshamn and was a total loss. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground at Lista, Norway, and sank. (en)
  • Ran aground and then sank at Kannoura, Japan. (en)
  • Ran aground at Flat Holm but was later refloated. (en)
  • Sank off Cape St. Francis, South Africa. (en)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War: The was lost. (en)
  • The passenger ship caught fire in the Bay of Biscay and was abandoned. All 45 people on board were rescued by and . (en)
  • The foundered in Lake Ontario. (en)
  • The brig ran aground at Palermo, Sicily, Italy. (en)
  • The cargo ship caught fire and sank at Amorgos. (en)
  • The cargo ship caught fire and sank at Chungking. (en)
  • The cargo ship foundered in the Steno Passage. (en)
  • The cargo ship sank at Yonkers, New York. (en)
  • The cargo ship sank in Pärnu Bay. (en)
  • The cargo ship sank in the River Nechi. (en)
  • The chaser collided with and sank. (en)
  • The coaster capsized and sank at Hamburg, Germany. (en)
  • The coaster capsized and sank in the Elbe. (en)
  • The coaster ran aground at Shōdoshima. (en)
  • The decommissioned destroyer was sunk as a target. (en)
  • The schooner sank in the Caribbean Sea. (en)
  • The schooner was wrecked at Montserrat. (en)
  • The submarine sank whilst on trials. (en)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War: The , a modified version of the coastal motor boat, was lost at Canton, China (en)
  • The ship caught fire off Port Paradis, Quebec and burnt down to the waterline. The hulk was towed to Pointe-Lebel, Quebec. (en)
  • The auxiliary sailing vessel ran aground at Famagusta, Cyprus and was a total loss. (en)
  • The 247-gross register ton, cargo scow was wrecked on Kanak Island in Controller Bay on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. (en)
  • The cargo ship was abandoned in a sinking condition in the Skaggerak off Hirtshals, Denmark. All crew were rescued by the fishing vessels Java and KW 159 . (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground at Amwawan, Sakhalin, Soviet Union. (en)
  • The 650-ton schooner caught fire while loading fertilizer at Ward Cove in Southeast Alaska and was beached. The fire virtually destroyed her. Two crewmen suffered minor burns, but there were no fatalities. (en)
  • The Thames barge collided with in the Thames Estuary and sank with the loss of both crew. (en)
  • The vessel sank in stormy weather off Cape Raznjic, Korčula island, Adriatic Sea (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk off Cape Matara. She was refloated, repaired and returned to service as Castillo Jarandilla. (en)
  • The 11-gross register ton fishing vessel sank in heavy seas in Chilkat Inlet in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of two survived. (en)
  • The ocean liner was destroyed by fire at Monfalcone, Italy. Declared a total loss, she was later scrapped. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The vessel was bombed and sunk at Castellón. Refloated, repaired and put back in service as Castillo Frías. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The vessel was bombed and sunk at Barcelona. It was later refloated, repaired and put back in service as Castillo Monteagudo. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The auxiliary patrol ship was sunk by a German He-59. (en)
  • The coaster foundered in the Irish Sea off St. John's Point, County Antrim. The crew were rescued by . (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground at Bayonne, Basses-Pyrénées, France and was a total loss. (en)
  • The cargo ship reported that she was west of Ireland. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. (en)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War: The gunboat was sunk at Canton, China by Japanese aircraft. (en)
  • The cargo ship foundered off Huafo. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground at Wei-Hai-Wei, China and was wrecked with the loss of nine of the 66 people on board. Survivors were rescued by . (en)
  • The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, whilst laid up. (en)
  • The coaster was driven ashore aon the Saratoga Spit in a typhoon. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War, bombed and sunk off the Balearic Islands. (en)
  • The ran aground on Kanaga Island in the Andreanof Islands group in the western Aleutian Islands while entering Kanaga Harbor . The cutter rescued her 40-man crew. Salvage efforts were abandoned. (en)
  • The cargo ship was run into by at Shimonoseki and sank. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • The two-masted schooner collided with in the English Channel off St Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom. All five crew were rescued by and Ilse. (en)
  • The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Ponta Delgada, Azores. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground in the Hooghly River in India and broke her back. She was abandoned as a total loss. (en)
  • The coaster struck a rock and sank at Quintero Point. (en)
  • The cargo ship caught fire at Foochow, China and was beached. (en)
  • The cargo ship, a sidewheel paddle steamer, was beached and abandoned at Somerset, Massachusetts, on the west bank of the Taunton River at , just south of the future site of the Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge, sometime during the 1930s. The wreck settled on the river bottom in very shallow water. (en)
  • The small motor craft was lost at Kenai, Territory of Alaska. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground at Danzig Cove, Newfoundland. She was reported as "likely to be a total loss". (en)
  • While under tow by the motor vessel McCray from Cordova to Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska, with 20 tons of cargo and a crew of two aboard, the 370-gross register ton barge foundered in the Gulf of Alaska off the coast of Southeast Alaska southeast of Cape Fairweather . After McCray rescued Lawrences crew, the cutter attempted to sink Lawrence but was unsuccessful, and Lawrence, last seen drifting toward shore, subsequently disappeared. (en)
  • The schooner was wrecked at Colhugh Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom with the loss of one of her five crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Dahouët, Côtes-du-Nord. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground south of Ouessant, Finistère, France and sank. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The coaster was torpedoed and sunk by the Nationalist submarine General Sanjurjo south of Cape Tiñoso with the loss of eleven of her fifteen crew. (en)
  • The tug was under tow in the Atlantic Ocean when the tow had to be cut and she subsequently sank off Valparaiso. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The vessel was bombed and sunk off Valencia by Nationalist aircraft. (en)
  • The tug sank at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais whilst towing . (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk at Barcelona by Nationalist aircraft. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed, set on fire and severely damaged at Barcelona. Later salvaged, repaired and returned to service. (en)
  • The auxiliary schooner ran aground and sank in Liverpool Bay. All four crew were rescued by the New Brighton lifeboat. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground in the Scheldt at Bath, Zeeland, Netherlands. She broke in two and was declared a total loss. (en)
  • The cargo ship sprang a leak and foundered in the Bay of Biscay . The crew were rescued by . (en)
  • The cargo ship collided with at Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône and was beached in a severely damaged state. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and set on fire at Palamos by Nationalist aircraft. (en)
  • The , 2,499-gross register ton five-masted schooner was abandoned at Medomac, Maine, during 1938 and grounded. Her hull subsequently served as a breakwater and as of 1982 remained intact. (en)
  • The 16-gross register ton cannery tender sank with the loss of four lives off the northeast coast of Grindall Island in Southeast Alaska after an explosion in her engine room. Only her captain survived. (en)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese aircraft sank the Hu Peng-class torpedo boat in the Yangtze between Matang and Hankow. (en)
  • The 17-gross register ton motor vessel suffered an explosion and was destroyed by an ensuing fire near Pleasant Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. The two people aboard survived and swam to a skiff that had been blown overboard by the explosion, from which rescuers in a rowboat picked them up. (en)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War: The Kung Sheng-class patrol/survey boats were sunk by Japanese aircraft on the Yangtze at Yueyang. (en)
  • The cargo ship capsized and sank in the Kattegat north west of the Skaw Lightship . The crew were rescued by a fishing vessel. (en)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War, Battle of Wuhan: The Yung Feng-class gunboat was sunk in the Yangtze off Kinkou, China, by Japanese aircraft. She was refloated in 1997, restored, and placed on exhibit in a purpose-built museum. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The vessel was bombed and sunk at Valencia by Nationalist aircraft. (en)
  • The coaster sank off the Mull of Galloway. All three crew were rescued. (en)
  • The decommissioned S-class submarine was scuttled in the Pacific Ocean off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in accordance with the terms of the Second London Naval Treaty. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The Num. 11-class motor torpedo boat was sunk by Nationalist aircraft at Cartagena, Spain. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk off Valencia by a Nationalist aircraft. (en)
  • The passenger ship caught fire and sank at Cleveland, Ohio. (en)
  • The cargo ship struck a sunken wreck and sank at the mouth of the Yangtze River, China with the loss of nineteen crew. (en)
  • The cargo ship was driven ashore at Fall River, Massachusetts, in a hurricane. (en)
  • The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the North Sea. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • The cargo ship capsized and sank at Danzig with the loss of two lives. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground in the Haddummatti Atoll, Maldive Islands and was abandoned as a total loss. All crew were rescued by . (en)
  • The cargo ship was driven ashore at Kawasaki in a typhoon. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The DAR 1-class anti-submarine motor launch was lost on this date. (en)
  • The auxiliary schooner came ashore at Black Island, Labrador, Canada. (en)
  • The cargo ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean after her cargo shifted. All eleven crew were rescued by and . The abandoned Girasol was taken in tow by the Lowestoft trawler Mare and towed into Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. (en)
  • The schooner caught fire off Bermuda and was abandoned. (en)
  • The cargo ship collided in the River Maas at Poortershaven, Netherlands with and sank. Maria Cristina was a total loss. (en)
  • The cargo ship departed Ramsey, Isle of Man bound for Cardiff, Glamorgan and was not seen again, presumed to have foundered. (en)
  • The coaster collided with in the English Channel off St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight and sank with the loss of three of her seven crew. Survivors were rescued by Black Osprey. (en)
  • The cargo ship caught fire and was beached north of Penang, Malay. She was declared a total loss. (en)
  • The coaster, on a voyage from Vohemar, Madagascar, to Mauritius reported by radio from the Indian Ocean . No further trace, presumed foundered with loss of all crew. (en)
  • The cargo ship collided with and was beached on Bolland, Denmark. (en)
  • The cargo ship collided with in the North Sea off the Wandelaar Lightship and sank. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • With no one aboard, the 26-gross register ton, scow was wrecked without loss of life at the mouth of the Kenai River on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. (en)
  • The minelayer capsized and sank at Kiel, Germany, with the loss of four of her 30 crew. (en)
  • The passenger ship ran aground off Cape Cross, German South-West Africa. She was refloated but was leaking and was beached in Walvis Bay. (en)
  • The cargo liner caught fire in the East China Sea and was abandoned. All passengers and crew were rescued by . Kyodu Maru No.16 was towed into Tsingtao, China. (en)
  • The schooner was wrecked in the Irish Sea off the Calf of Man. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The vessel was bombed and sunk off Valencia. (en)
  • The ship caught fire at Chicago, Illinois, United States and was a constructive total loss. (en)
  • The coaster sprang a leak and was abandoned off St. John's, Newfoundland. All crew survived. (en)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War: The was sunk in the Tsuin River near Canton, China by Japanese aircraft. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The vessel was bombed and sunk at Valencia. Refloated, repaired and put back in service as Castillo Benisano. (en)
  • The tug was driven ashore at Fall River in a hurricane. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The tanker was bombed and set of fire at Alicante. (en)
  • The 18-gross register ton, fishing vessel departed Sitka, Territory of Alaska, with only her captain aboard and was never seen or heard from again. She was presumed lost on or about this date in a storm in the vicinity of Salisbury Sound in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. (en)
  • The cargo ship collided with in the Baltic Sea off the Adlergrund Lightship and sank. All crew were rescued. Pluto was beached at Tromper Wiek. She was later refloated and towed to Sassnitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. (en)
  • During a voyage under tow from Hoonah to Controller Bay in the Territory of Alaska with no crew aboard and carrying an 85-ton cargo consisting of a floating cannery and related equipment, the 550-ton scow capsized and sank in ten minutes in the Gulf of Alaska south of Lituya Bay. (en)
  • The Thames barge came ashore on the Suffolk coast in a gale. The crew were rescued by the Aldeburgh lifeboat. Astrild then drifted out to sea and was later towed into Scheveningen, South Holland, Netherlands by a Dutch lugger. (en)
  • The cargo ship exploded and caught fire at Sète, Hérault, France whilst loading a cargo of petrol. She was moved away from the port and beached; declared a total loss. (en)
  • The cargo ship caught fire at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and was a total loss. (en)
  • The cargo ship came ashore at Oshima, Japan, in a typhoon. She was declared a total loss. (en)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War: The junk was captured and "disposed of" by near Matsu Island. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and severely damaged at Alicante, Spain. (en)
  • The cargo ship collided with at Baltimore, Maryland, and was beached. (en)
  • Second Sino-Japanese War: The was lost at Canton, China (en)
  • The coaster ran aground in the Qora River, South Africa and was a total loss. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The auxiliary patrol ship was lost on this date. (en)
  • The decommissioned training ship, a former battleship, was scuttled in Quiberon Bay for long-term use as a gunnery target. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The vessel was torpedoed by the Nationalist submarine General Mola off Barcelona, where she sunk in shallow waters. Refloated, repaired and put again in service as Castillo Moncada. (en)
  • The cargo ship capsized and sank in the North Sea . Nineteen crew were rescued by . (en)
  • The schooner ran aground at Point Lance, Newfoundland and was a total loss. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground on Darya Bahadurgarh Island, Mysore and was a total loss. (en)
  • The sailing ship collided with at Lido di Venezia, Venice and sank. (en)
  • The dredger capsized at Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground at Kaihyo To, Sakhalin, Soviet Union. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The minesweepers were sunk by mines. (en)
  • The coaster was bombed and sunk at Águilas, Murcia, Spain. All fourteen crew survived. Later raised, repaired and returned to service as Castillo Vera. (en)
  • The passenger ship collided with in the Yangtze Estuary and sank with the loss of about 100 lives. Around 30 people were rescued. assisted in the rescue. (en)
  • The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Miquelon. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • The cargo ship collided with off the Hohe Weg Lighthouse, Bremen, Germany. Ena de Larrinaga was beached. (en)
  • The cargo ship collided with in the Øresund and sank. All crew were rescued. (en)
  • The Thames barge sank at Brightlingsea, Essex. Her crew were rescued by the motor barge Piper II . (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground at Tsumiki. She was refloated but found to be leaking and was consequently beached. (en)
  • Spanish Civil War: The was bombed and sunk at Barcelona. Raised in November 1938 but not repaired. The submarine was used for spare parts. (en)
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