List of shipwrecks in August 1939
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The list of shipwrecks in August 1939 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1939.(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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List of shipwrecks in August 1939
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Hilda
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Rainbow
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Wanda
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Hertha
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Grace
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Hans Voss
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Estella
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Trade Wind
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Defy
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Rustler
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Kap Velaluka
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O. M. Arnold
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The auxiliary sailing vessel collided with off Hamburg and sank.
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The cargo ship ran aground at Cuxhaven, Germany. Refloated the next day.
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The cargo ship ran aground on Saltholm, Denmark. Later refloated.
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The 13-gross register ton motor vessel was badly damaged in a collision with the motor vessel ARB 10 between Sokolof Island and Vank Island in Southeast Alaska. ARB 10 towed the partially submerged wreck of Grace to the beach and anchored it there, then picked up Graces crew of five. Grace was declared a total loss.
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The cargo ship collided with at Santos, Brazil. Both vessels were damaged at the bows and beached.
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The 6-gross register ton, fishing vessel was destroyed by fire on the north side of South Indian Island in Southeast Alaska. The only person on board survived.
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The cargo ship ran aground south of Gothenburg, Sweden. Refloated the next day after offloading 400 tons of cargo.
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The cargo ship ran aground at Shiokubisaki, Hokkaido. Declared a total loss.
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The passenger ferry ran aground at Harwich, Essex. Refloated later that day.
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The cargo ship came ashore at Östra Torp, Sweden. Refloated the next day after jettisoning 400 tons of cargo.
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The cargo ship ran aground on the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth. Refloated later that day.
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The cargo ship grounded in the St Lawrence River at Cape Goose, Canada. Refloated later that day.
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The cargo ship ran aground at Dog Island, River Gambia, British Gambia.
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The tanker came ashore at They Roustant whilst on a voyage from Corpus Christi, Florida, United States to Port-de-Bouc, France. Refloated the next day.
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The schooner was destroyed by fire off Coffin Island, Liverpool, Nova Scotia.
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The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off the mouth of the Tyne with the loss of nine crew.
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The 19-gross register ton fishing vessel was swamped by heavy seas breaking over her stern and sank west of Cape Bartolome in Southeast Alaska. Her captain perished, but the fishing vessel Argus rescued the other six members of her crew.
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The barge sank north of Kangaroo Island.
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The tanker ran aground at Port-de-Bouc, France.
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The cargo ship collided with off Vlissingen, Netherlands and was beached to prevent her sinking.
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The tug capsized and sank in the Tagus whilst assisting . Refloated some months later, repaired and returned to service.
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The 13-gross register ton motor vessel was destroyed in a small cove in Southeast Alaska immediately north of Wards Cove after her gasoline engine backfired, causing an explosion and igniting a fire that consumed her. The two men aboard were blown clear of her cabin by the explosion and survived.
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The torpedo boat collided with Max Schultz off Bornholm, Denmark and sank with the loss of two crewmen.
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The coaster was scuttled in the Cook Strait off Taurakirae Head as a means of disposal.
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The cargo ship ran aground in the River Thames at Poplar, London. Later refloated.
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The dredger sprang a leak and sank at Saint Nazaire.
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The coaster ran aground on Sanda Island, Argyllshire. Scotland, and was wrecked.
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The cargo ship ran aground in the Saint Lawrence River upstream of the Cape Maillard Buoy. Refloated later that day.
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The auxiliary submarine chaser was lost on this date.
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The tug capsized and sank at South Darsena with the loss of two crew whilst assisting to dock.
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The motor yacht collided with in the River Thames opposite the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and sank.
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The cargo ship ran aground on the Meloria Bank. Refloated the next day.
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The cargo ship came ashore at Cape North, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada and was wrecked.
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The passenger ship capsized and sank at Ilhéus with the loss of 34 of the 66 people on board.
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The 11-gross register ton, fishing vessel sank without loss of life south of Port Protection Point in Sumner Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of four abandoned ship in a skiff and made it to shore, where the vessel ARB 8 picked them up.
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The 12-gross register ton fishing vessel was destroyed by fire in Murder Cove at the southern tip of Admiralty Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. Her crew of five survived.
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The passenger ship was beached at Tel Aviv, Palestine with 900 Jewish refugees on board.
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The patrol vessel exploded and sank off Wadi Falik, south of Nathanya.
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With no one aboard but a mechanic who was testing her engine, the 14-gross register ton, fishing vessel caught fire while tied to a dock at Dayville, Territory of Alaska, when the engine sparked and ignited gasoline in the bilge. The mechanic escaped. When people on the scene could not extinguish the fire, Wanda was towed to a beach across from a local cannery, where the fire completely destroyed her.
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The cargo ship ran aground in the Tweed River at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, and was wrecked.
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During a voyage in the waters of the Territory of Alaska from Chatham to Noyes Island with a cargo of 60 tons of fresh salmon, the 74-gross register ton motor vessel sank in a storm in Chatham Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska with the loss of three lives. There were five survivors.
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The cargo ship collided with Dagny off Smygehuk, Sweden, and sank with the loss of three of her seven crew. The survivors were rescued by Dagny.
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The cargo ship came ashore at Ouistreham, Calvados. Refloated the next day.
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The cargo ship ran aground at Murray Bay, Quebec, Canada. Refloated the next day leaking, sailed to Quebec City for drydocking.
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The list of shipwrecks in August 1939 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1939.(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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