This is a list of shipwrecks located in or around the United States of America.

Alabama ShipFlag Sunk date Notes CoordinatesFebruary 1863An experimental Confederate submarine that sank in Mobile Bay while under tow during a storm.Eliza Battle1 March 1858A commercial steamboat that caught fire and sank in the Tombigbee River, and subsequently entered Alabama folklore as a ghost ship. 5 August 1864A Confederate side-wheel gunboat sunk in Mobile Bay after heavy damage during the Battle of Mobile Bay. 12 April 1865A Confederate ironclad warship scuttled in Spanish River to avoid capture. 5 August 1864A Union Navy side-wheel gunboat sunk in Mobile Bay after heavy damage during the Battle of Mobile Bay.7 August 1864A Confederate ironclad warship scuttled at Dog River. 1 April 1864A Union stern-wheel tinclad minesweeper and gunboat sunk by a naval mine (called a "torpedo" at the time) in Mobile Bay. 5 August 1864A Union monitor warship sunk by a naval mine (called a "torpedo" at the time) during the Battle of Mobile Bay.12 April 1865A Confederate ironclad warship scuttled in Spanish River to avoid capture.

Alaska ShipFlag Sunk date Notes Coordinates23 March 2008A factory ship that flooded and sank off Unalaska.Al-Ki1 November 1917A passenger steamer, wrecked on Point Augusta. 26 May 1929A passenger steamer which sank after striking a submerged pinnacle rock.Bear1916A passenger steamer, in surf broadside.15 January 2005A crabbing vessel that sank off Saint Paul Island.Borneo 1819American maritime fur trade ship wrecked at Prince of Wales Island near the Kaigani Haida village of Klinkwan (modern day Hydaburg). The crew left in boats and was picked up by Volunteer. In early 1819 a party from Volunteer investigated the wreck, finding it on the rocks, full of water, with hundreds of Haida on board or nearby, determined to repel any attempt to salvage anything. 11 December 1938A research vessel that ran ashore in the Gulf of Alaska.City of Seattle15 August 1912A passenger steamer, brought ashore in Alaska.16 June 1942Also known as USS Colebrook; a Hog Islander merchant ship that grounded off Middleton Island.Destination11 February 2017A crabbing vessel that sank in of water amid icy conditions just northwest of St. George Island, Alaska in the Bering Sea. The captain and five crew members were lost with the boat. March 1898A steamboat that was abandoned and washed ashore at Dutch Harbor. Farallon5 January 1910A passenger steamer, wrecked in the Cook Inlet.Feniks1799Russian-American Company ship Feniks (or Phoenix) lost at sea while sailing for Kodiak Island. Wreckage washed up from Unalaska Island to the Alexander Archipelago. Greatest maritime catastrophe in the history of Russian America. Loss of the largest Russian American ship, about 103 men, including passengers, Bishop Ioasaf, head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Alaska, and Captain James Shields. Financial loss of 622,328 rubles. This event greatly slowed the tempo of Russian colonization in America.30 July 1942Discovered in the Bering Sea in August 2007. 11 June 1943A Type C submarine that was sunk by USS Larchmont near Shemya. 13 May 1943A Type B1 submarine sunk by gunfire near Attu Island.15 August 1901A Canadian steamship sunk in Lynn Canal.Jabez HowesA three-masted full-rigged ship, wrecked in Chignik Bay. Wooden full-rigged ship owned by the Columbia River Packers Association and used as a cannery tender.Jessie28 June 1898Swamped in turbulent water at the mouth of the Kuskokwim River. 18 miners from the Columbia Exploration Company were believed to have been massacred by Yup'ik Natives or lost with wreck. One person, a trader called Ling, survived to bring word of the wreck to St. Michael. Jessie was towing the barge Minerva and a second unknown barge, which were both lost. Yup'ik Eskimos were said to have looted vessels. 2 April 1860A merchant ship that struck a rock off Spruce Island. The wreck was rediscovered in 2003.Karluk 1830Russian maritime fur trade vessel Karluk wrecked at Kodiak Island.Mariposa18 November 1917The vessel hit a reef on Strait Island, near Pt. Baker, while carrying 269 passengers and a full cargo of copper ore and canned salmon. The vessel had previously picked up the crew from the wrecked Al-Ki and the pirates from the wrecked Manhattan. All passengers and crew were rescued before vessel sank by Curaçao, Ravalli, and Jefferson. She went down with 25,000 cases of salmon and 1,200 tons of copper ore. The reef is now called Mariposa Reef.Mount McKinley1942A passenger steamer, beached near Scotch Cap, Aleutian Islands. 5 July 1942A that was torpedoed by off Agattu Island. 9 January 1813 The Russian-American Company (RAC) ship wrecked on a reef at Kruzof Island, killing 53 people, including Terentii Stepanovich Bornovolokov, who was to replace Alexander Baranov as Governor of the RAC. Total loss from the wreck over 250,000 rubles. Second gravest marine catastrophe in the history of Russian America, after the loss of Feniks in 1799.Nikolai I 1861The Russian-American Company steamship wrecked near Admiralty Island. 19 June 1942Japanese armed freighter sunk by U.S. bomber aircraft in Kiska Harbor. 20 April 2010A fishing vessel that sank in the Gulf of Alaska.17 October 1942A that was sunk by US aircraft northeast of Kiska.Olga1909A whaling schooner wrecked near Nome, Alaska.10 December 1910The steamship ran aground on Bligh Reef and sank without loss of life."Details of the Wreck of the S.S. Olympia", Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. 3 January 1911. Page 2.Patterson1938A steam freighter, wrecked and aground at Cape Fairweather. 1915A sidewheel steamer built by the Russian-American Company, completed before being abandoned in St. Michael near the entrance of the Yukon River. 12 November 1910A steamship which struck the rocks off Cordova. 7 September 1952A passenger steamer, sunk near Point Lena. When she went aground at Point Lena rock, the vessel was off course. She was the flagship of the Canadian Pacific Lines.25 October 1918A passenger liner sunk off Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau, with 343 lives lost.4 October 1980A cruise ship that caught fire and sank off Baranof Island. 31 December 1942A that was wrecked in the Aleutian Islands. 19 June 1942An S-class submarine that ran aground off Amchitka. Scandies Rose31 December 2019 - 1 January 2020The fishing vessel sunk on New Year's Day, 2020 after departing Dutch Harbor on 30 December 2019. Two crewmembers were hoisted from a life raft by a United States Coast Guard helicopter at about 2 a.m on New Year's Day. Five other crewmembers were reported missing. 8 December 2004A cargo ship that ran aground off the coast of Unalaska Island, causing an oil spill.Sinsyo Maru20 July 1784 The Japanese junk wrecked on Amchitka Island. The junk was sailing for Edo but damaged in a storm and drifted for over seven months before wrecking on Amchitka Island. With Aleuts and Russian promyshlenniki from another wrecked vessel, the group remained on the island for three years, building a new vessel from the wrecked ships. In September 1787 the survivors sailed to Petropavlovsk.Sv. Apostol Pavel1785Russian maritime fur trade vessel Sv. Apostol Pavel wrecked on Amchitka Island.Sv. Evpl1785Russian maritime fur trade vessel Sv. Evpl wrecked on Amlia Island.Sv. Ieremiya1752Russian maritime fur trade shitik Sv. Ieremiya wrecked on Adak Island.Sv. Petr1750Russian maritime fur trade shitik Sv. Petr wrecked on Attu Island. One person died.Sv. Troitsa 1764Russian maritime fur trade vessel Sv. Troitsa wrecked on Umnak Island.15 July 1868A wooden bark that foundered in a storm and went ashore in Cook Inlet.Tri Ierarkha 1796Russian maritime fur trade galiot Tri Ierarkha wrecked in Cook Inlet.Tri Svyatitelya 1790Russian maritime fur trade galiot Tri Svyatitelya, owned by Shelikhov-Golikov Company, sailed from Okhotsk for Kodiak Island with passenger Alexander Baranov, future governor of the Russian-American Company. Wrecked on Unalaska Island. With help from Aleuts Baranov and crew survived the winter then continued to Kodiak on native boats.Unknown Japanese vessel 1861Japanese vessel of unknown name wrecked at Attu Island. Of the 12 crewmen, 9 died. 1794Japanese vessel wrecked at Biorka Island near Sitka. Had sailed from Sendai, Japan, making for Edo. Damaged in a storm and drifted to Biorka Island. Fifteen survivors were brought by Russians to Unalaska then Okhotsk. 29 December 1942A sunk by her own depth charges in the Aleutian Islands. 2 February 1914The 390-ton three-masted barquentine was wrecked having run aground on Bird Island, Alaska, carrying general cargo from San Francisco to Unga Island.

Arizona ShipFlag Sunk date Notes CoordinatesCharles H. Spencer1921A steamboat that sank in a flood near Lee's Ferry.

Arkansas ShipFlag Sunk date Notes Coordinates 26 April 1864A paddle steamer that was captured by the Union Army and scuttled at Camden. 22 February 1864A steamer sunk after striking a snag on the Arkansas River. 24 June 1864A steamer blown up by Confederates after capture on the White River.

California

Connecticut ShipFlag Sunk date Notes Coordinates 31 July 1947Sunk off New London in 1947. 1974A wooden barge that sank in Bridgeport Harbor. 30 July 1919G-class submarine, sank at mooring near Niantic Bay. 10 October 1961 A submarine sunk as target off New London. 5 October 1918A patrol vessel that was accidentally rammed by off Penfield Reef Light. 1974A wooden barge that sank in Bridgeport Harbor.

Delaware ShipFlag Sunk date Notes Coordinates 26 February 1918A tugboat that foundered in a gale off Fenwick Island. 21 February 1918A minesweeper that ran aground at Cape Henlopen. 5 February 1905 She was between the two breakwaters when Ice Boat No. 3s paddlewheels became jammed by ice, and, unable to manoeuvre, the vessel was dragged by the ice floes over the recently sunken barge Santiago, one of whose broken masts pierced the ice boat's hull below the waterline. Within minutes, water had extinguished Ice Boat No. 3s furnaces and the order was given to abandon ship. Unable to launch a lifeboat because of the surrounding ice, the crew were forced to leap for safety onto the ice floes, the ice boat sinking shortly thereafter, at about 6 am. 7 March 1957A fleet oil tanker, collided with the Liberian freighter Elna II while passing New Castle, caught fire and exploded. 30 January 1914The ocean liner collided with Nantucket in the Atlantic Ocean off the Delaware Capes and sank with the loss of 41 of the 140 people on board. Survivors were rescued by Nantucket.

Florida

Georgia ShipFlag Sunk date Notes Coordinates 3 March 1876A medium clipper that ran aground near Tybee Island. 17 April 1865A Confederate gunboat that had sunk on the Appalachicola River in Florida when its boiler had exploded, then been raised and returned to Columbus for repairs. She was scuttled in the Chattahoochee River to prevent her capture by Union troops. 21 December 1864A Civil War ironclad floating battery scuttled off Savannah. Golden Ray18 September 2019A car carrier that capsized in St. Simons Sound. Scrapping operations were completed October 2021. April 1865A Confederate ironclad ram that was burned and scuttled in the Chattahoochee River near Columbus. 1862A bark that was scuttled as a blockship near Savannah. 5 December 1861A whaler that was scuttled as a breakwater off Tybee Island.Rattlesnake28 February 1863A Confederate privateer sunk by in the Ogeechee River. 25 October 1865Sank in a hurricane about 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Savannah. 8 December 1861A whaler that was beached at Tybee Island. 19 December 1864A sidewheel gunboat burned to avoid capture at White Bluff.

Great Lakes

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