The list of shipwrecks in 1915 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1915 .
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1915
Ship
State
Description
A. T. Gifford
United States
The whaler caught fire and sank off Coats Island , Northwest Territories , Canada in September or October 1915.
Advance
United Kingdom
The auxiliary schooner was wrecked in Wreck Bay , New South Wales , Australia.
Alexander Mackenzie
United States
The US Army Corps of Engineers dredge sank while under tow off the east coast. Five crew were killed.[ 1]
British Empire
United Kingdom
World War I : The cargo ship was scuttled at İzmir , Ottoman Empire .[ 2]
City of Adelaide
Australia
The wreck of SS City of Adelaide at low tide on 25 September 2004. The coal storage hulk , burned out by a 1912 fire, was wrecked at Cockle Bay , Magnetic Island , Queensland , Australia , while under tow from Townsville to Magnetic Island′s Picnic Bay .
HMS Collingwood
Royal Navy
World War I: The dummy battleship was beached in the Dardanelles . Subsequently shelled and consequently scrapped due to damage sustained.[ 3]
G. Thackle
United States
The motor vessel was wrecked on the southwest coast of Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska .[ 4]
Grubstake
United States
The motor vessel was wrecked at "Cala Reef" – probably California Rock (55°18′55″N 131°36′05″W / 55.31528°N 131.60139°W / 55.31528; -131.60139 (California Rock ) ) – in Southeast Alaska .[ 4]
Houston
United States
The US Army Corps of Engineers dredge capsized, probably off Galveston, Texas , in a major storm. Two crew were killed.[ 5]
Kapitan Belli
Russia
The incomplete Orfey -class destroyer was driven ashore near Cape Lisiy Nos. She was later refloated and towed to Leningrad . Subsequently completed and entered service with the Soviet Navy in 1928 as Karl Liebknecht .[ 6]
HMS Oruba
Royal Navy
World War I: The dummy battleship was scuttled as a breakwater at Mudros , Lemnos , Greece.[ 7]
SM U-26
Imperial German Navy
The Type U 23 submarine was lost in the Baltic Sea in September or October 1915.
SM UB-3
Imperial German Navy
The Type UB 1 submarine sank in the Gulf of Izmir on or after 23 May.
SM UC-9
Imperial German Navy
The Type UC I submarine was lost on patrol between 20 October and 12 November with the loss of all fourteen crew.[ 8]