GLADYS. Off No 98824. Built 1891 for Charles Hill , Bristol. 1897. Shaw Savill & Co., Bristol. No name change. 1912. Taital Shipping Co. ( Cheney ,Eggar & Forrester , managers), Bristol. 1918  GAPER SHELL.(name as recorded) Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co., London.  Converted to motor tanker. 1919. 5th January. Wrecked on Matamede Island , near Angoche, while on passage Singapore to Beira with a cargo of benzine and kerosene.

French dreadnoughts VERGNIAUD and MIRABEAU took part in unsuccessful fights off Sevastopol against the Bolsheviks. MIRABEAU stranded in a snowstorm on the Crimean coast near that port. She was refloated in April after removal of the forward 305 mm turret and side armour and towed to Toulon by JUSTICE.

German submarine U-16 foundered in the North Sea en route to surrender.

German submarine UC-91 lost by accident in the North Sea, en route to surrender.

German submarine UC-71 sunk by accident in the North Sea, en route to surrender.

German submarine UC-40 sunk by accident in the North Sea, en route to surrender.

Launching of USS Osmond Ingram (DD-255), first Navy ship named for an enlisted man.

U.S.S. Sixaola (N. O. T. S.), gross 5,017 tons; caught fire and partially sank at pier at Hoboken, New Jersey; towed to shipyard; 2 killed. [SS Sixaola was used as a passenger ship in WWII and was torpedoed and sunk June 12, 1942 in the Caribbean.

Cameo. Lugger. Destroyed in a storm at Darwin.

Lone Hand. Government launch. Destroyed in a storm at Darwin.

Maggie. Schooner. Destroyed in a storm at Darwin.

The Norwegian monitor Thor stranded on the SW of Hoftøya outside Verdens Ende in Vestfold county during a storm. Thor was being towed, but the cable broke and the vessel stranded on the island and sank later on. The crew of two men lost their lives in this accident.

Steamship Yselhaven, gross 3,557 tons; sunk by mine off coast of Scotland, 20 miles off Coquet Island; 10 killed.

Eriksbergs Mek. Verkstads AB, Sweden laid down yard.no: 198 a general cargo steamer of 1.860 brt. Ordered by Rederi AB Svenska Lloyd, Goteborg.

Sölvesborgs Varvs- och Rederi AB, Sweden laid down yard no: 5, a schooner, ordered by O.A.Assarson, Hven.

U.S.S. Gypsum Queen (S. P. No. 430), gross 361 tons; struck a rock, blew up and sank, while rounding Armen Light, France; 16 killed.

AB Sandvikens Skeppsdocka & Mek. Verkstad, Helsinki, Finaland Laid down general cargo steamer RIGEL ordered by Lovisa Vesijärvi Järnvägs AB, Finland.

U.S. subchaser No. 58, displacement 77 tons; burned by a gasoline explosion at Charleston, S. C.; total loss; commanding officer slightly burned.

Gotaverken AB, Goteborg, Sweden, launch motorvessel STUREHOLM ordered by Svenska Amerika Mexico Linien, Goteborg, Sweden.

Gotaverken AB, Goteborg launch steamer WARGON ordered by Wargons AB, Sweden.

A/S Kobenhavns Flydedok og Skibsværft, Copenhagen sign a contract with D/S Torm on building a steamer of 1.740 grt. Yard. no: 149.

Steamship Lake Placid, gross 2,535 tons; sunk by a mine 20 miles off Vinga Light, near Gothenburgh, Sweden; no casualties.

Bolshevik destroyer MOSKVITYANIN (1906, 570t, 2-11pdr, 3tt). The Bolsheviks organise a naval force including old destroyers transferred from the Baltic for operations on the inland Caspian Sea. In action against an improvised British Caspian Flotilla armed with 4in and 6in guns to the northeast off Alexandrovsk, several Russian ships are sunk including the 'Moskvityanin'.

British submarine L.55 (1918, 960t, 6-21in tt, 2-4in). With the British Baltic Squadron blockading the Bolshevik naval base of Kronstadt on Kotlin Island laying off Petrograd, warships on both sides are lost. On the 4th (some accounts say the 9th) L-55 is in action with Russian patrols and sunk by the gunfire of destroyers Azard and Gavriil. She is later raised and commissioned into the Soviet Navy as L-55.

Steamship Yankee, gross 2,418 tons; sank in collision with Italian steamship Argentina off Fire Island, N. Y.; no casualties.

U.S.S. Patrol No. 7 (S P. No. 31, motor boat), sunk while in tow of U. S. subchaser 241 and tied up to U.S.S. Yoho (S. P. No. 463) between Scituate, Massachusetts, and Minot's Ledge about 15 miles southeast of Boston Light Vessel, Massachusetts; later raised and sold; no casualties.

Bolshevik light cruiser OLEG (1904, 6,600t, 16-5.1in). British light forces based on the north side of the Gulf of Finland in Finnish waters sail to attack Kronstadt. Evading the protecting destroyer screen, coastal motor boat CMB-4 (Lt Agar) armed with a single 14 in torpedo, sinks the anchored Oleg during the night of the 16th/17th, but most of her crew are saved. CMB-4 escapes safely under heavy fire.

Destroyer USS Tattnall commissioned.

Destroyer USS Bailey commissioned.

Cruiser USS Capetown launched.

Destroyer USS Noa launched.

Submarine USS R-10 launched.

Destroyer USS Osmond Ingram commissioned.

Bergsunds Mek. Verkstad AB, Stockholm, Sweden laid down a stemer of 801 grt. Ordered by av Norrtelje Rederi AB, Sweden.

Destroyers USS Bancroft & J Fred Talbott commissioned

AB Svenska Maritimverken, Trelleborg, Sweden Laid down a stemer of 1.100 grt. Ordered by Erling Lund, Kristiania (Oslo), Norway.

AB Oresundsvarvet, Landskrona, Sweden laid down a turbine steamer of 2.280 grt. Ordered by Oversoiske Compagni, Copenhagen, Denmark.

British destroyer HMS Stronghold commissioned.

British minesweeper FANDANGO (1918, 290t, 1-6pdr). In operations on the Dvina River, mined and sunk. Sister ship Sword Dance lost a few days before.

Destroyer USS Shubrick commissioned.

U.S.S. Richard Buckley (trawler, British owned), displacement 550 tons; sunk by a mine near Shetland Islands; 7 killed; 2 wounded.

British fleet sweeping sloops GENTIAN and MYRTLE (both 1916, 1,250t, 2-4.7in). With the Bolshevik bases defended by dense minefields, two more British ships are lost on mines in the Gulf of Finland.

AB Oresundsvarvet, Landskrona, Sweden laid down a turbine steamer of 1.778 grt. Ordered by Rederi AB Fredrika, Kramfors, Sweden.

U. S. S. G-2, submarine; accidentally sank near New London, Connecticut; 3 killed.

Trosvik Mek. Verksted A/S, Brevik, Norway laid down yard no:9 a 600 grt motor vessel ordered by Skeppsredare Haraldsen, Skien, Norway.

AB Oresundsvarvet, Landskrona, Swedenlaid down a turbine steamer of 2.325 grt. Ordered by  Stockholms Rederi AB Svea, Stockholm, Sweden.

U. S. subchaser No. 184, displacement 77 tons; rammed and badly damaged by an unnamed Merchants & Miners Steamship Co. steamer in fifth naval district, Norfolk, Virginia; no casualties.

Attack on Kronstadt Naval Base - Late on the 17th, eight British 55ft type Coastal Motor Boats led by Cdr Claude Dobson in 'CMB-31' head out of the Finnish base of Bjorko Sound only 30 miles from Russia's main naval port. Supported by RAF bombing raids, they break into the inner harbour in the early morning. Cdr Dobson directs the boats headed by CMB's '31', '79' and '88'. Lt Agar VC in 'CMB-4' remains outside on guard. As the attacks develop, old armoured cruiser 'PAMIAT AZOVA' (1890, 6,000t) serving as submarine depot ship Dvina is hit by 'CMB-79' and sunk. In the rapidly moving action, 'CMB-79' (1917, 11t, 1 or 2-18in torpedoes) is then lost. The commanding officer of 'CMB-88' is killed and Lt Steele, second-in-command takes over and presses on. Accounts vary, but both Dobson's 'CMB-31' and Steele's 'CMB-88' appear to have made one hit each on the two biggest ships. Dreadnought 'PETROPAVLOSK' (1914, 24,000t, 12-12in) sinks in shallow water and is salvaged later, and pre-dreadnought Andrei PervozWannI (1908, 17,400t, 4-12in) seriously damaged. The British boats fail to hit the Russian guardship, destroyer Gavriil which sinks two more of the attackers ('CMB-24' and 'CMB-62' or 'CMB-67' - accounts vary). The surviving five boats escape.

HMS Pegasus accidentally blows up alongside HMS Glowworm in Bereznili, Archangel-Obozerskaya area of North Russia.

AB Oresundsvarvet, Landskrona Sweden laid down a turbine steamer of 4.575 grt. Ordered by Oversoiske Compagni, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Swedish steamer PEKING owned by Angfartygs AB Svenska Ostasiatiska Kompaniet, Goteborg departured Karatsu, Japan for Port Said, and not heard of after this date and is belived to be sunk with all crew. The steamer was build by Burmeister & Wain 1908, 3.506 grt.

AB Sandvikens Skeppsdocka & Mek. Verkstad, Helsinki, Finland launch steamer RIGEL ordered by Lovisa Vesijärvi Järnvägs AB, Finland.

British destroyer VITTORIA (1,100t, 4-4in, 4-21in tt). Two recently completed 'V' class destroyers of the Royal Navy are sunk within a few days of each other in the Gulf of Finland. On the night of the 1st, Vittoria is torpedoed by Bolshevik submarine Pantera off Seiskari Island some miles to the west of Kronstadt.

U. S. subchaser No. 38, displacement 77 tons; damaged by mine explosion in North Sea; salvaged, no casualties.

British destroyer VERULAM (1,100t, 4-4in, 4-21in tt).- northern Baltic, Gulf of Finland off Seiskari (or Seskaer) Island - Russian mines. One source dates her loss on the night of the 3rd

Eriksbergs Mek. Verkstads AB, Goteborg, Sweden laid down yard.no: 195 a steamer of 671 grt. Ordered by Hugo Silvén, Saffle, Sweden.

Helsingborgs Varvs AB, Helsingborg, Sweden laid down a steamer of 1.043 grt. Ordered by Rederi AB Nordsjon, Goteborg, Sweden.

U.S.S. Katherine K (S. P. No. 220), gross 14 tons; wrecked near Key West, Florida; later sold; no casualties.

U.S.S. Mary Pope (S. P. No. 291, motor boat), gross 13 tons; wrecked; no casualties.

BAYRONTO a British steamer which was abandoned and which then foundered during a hurricane off Key West. All passengers were saved.

Steamship West Arvada, gross 6,044 tons; sunk by mine 16 miles north of Terschelling Light, Holland; 1 killed.

British monitors M-25 and M-27 (both 1915, 540t, 1-9.2in). The Allies have decided to withdraw from northern Russia. As the evacuation gets underway, M-25 and M-27 of the White Sea Squadron have to be abandoned when the Dvina River water level falls. They are blown up to prevent capture by the Bolsheviks.

Bergsunds Mek. Verkstad AB, Stockholm, Sweden sign a contract of a icebreking steamtug of 51 grt. Ordered by AB W. Gutzeit, Helsinki, Finland.

Swedish barque SUSANNE, Goteborg, departured New Orleans for Avonmouth, Bristol channel with a cargo of pitchpine. The ship have not been heard of after this date and is belived to be lost with all crew. Build at Norway 1892, 512 grt, owned by Transoceana Rederi AB, Goteborg. The ship had a crew of eleven men. Master Erik Franke, Oskarshamn.

U. S. subchaser No. 95, displacement 77 tons; struck mine; salvaged; no casualties.

Joh. E. Olssons Skeppsvarv, Falkenberg, Sweden launch MARGIT, a 130 grt. Sailship of oak. Ordered by Chr. Hviid-Nilsen, Halmstad, Sweden.

Keel laid at Oskarshamns Mek. Verkstads & Skeppsdockas AB of bn: 262, a cargo steamer of 2.160 grt. Ordered by Rederi AB Svenska Lloyd, Gothenburg.

Keel laid at Eriksbergs Mek. Verkstads AB of a cargo steamer of 1.816 grt. Ordered by Rederi AB Svenska Lloyd, Gothenburg.

The English submarine H-41 sinks while alongside a depot ship at Blyth after being holed by the propeller of the destroyer HMS Vulcan.  Salvaged and scrapped.

The steamship Roma went down at Hestholmen, Norway during a journey from Bergen to Sarpsborg with a crew of thirteen men. In Vatlestraumen Roma gets in to heavy current and is stuck on Hestholmen, and short time afterwards the vessel start to take in water. Some hours later Roma disappears in the deep despite the crews attempts to keep the vessel afloat. The crew thereafter rows in to Bergen and reports that Roma has sunken in deep waters.

Russian destroyers GAVRIIL, KONSTANTIN and VLADIMIR (1916/17, 1,260t, 4-4in, 9-18in tt). As four Russian destroyers of the same class escape from the Bolsheviks, three are lost in a British minefield off Kronstadt in the Gulf of Finland with heavy casualties. Only Azard escapes. The ships were to be handed over to the Royal Navy.

U.S.S. Tecumseh (ex-Edward Luckenbach) tug, displacement, 221 tons; sank at the navy yard wharf at Washington, D. C.; raised and salvaged; none killed; 3 wounded.

Submarine HMS H-50 launched.

Destroyer USS Sands launched.

Trawler HMCS Armentieres paid off.

Destroyer USS Schenk commissioned.

Destroyer USS Broome commissioned.

U. S. subchaser No. 256, displacement 77 tons; sunk by gasoline explosion; no casualties.

AB Öresundsvarvet, Landskrona sign a contract on a turbine steamer of 3.313 grt. Ordered by D/S A/S Ada, Kragerö, Norway.

Steamship Council Bluffs, 2,450 grt, sunk by mine in Irish Sea, no casualties

Swedish passenger steamer PAMPUS (144 grt / 1877) Grounded between Landsort and Södertälje when on a voyage Goteborg – Stockholm. Later refloated, towed to Stockholm and broken up.

Oskarshamns Mek. Verkstads & Skeppsdockas AB, keel laid of a steamer of 2.217 grt. Ordered by Rederi AB Svenska Lloyd, Gothenburg.

The barque Pallas ended her days on Stalsberget on the south side of Jeløya outside Moss city. The barque was on a journey from Leith in Scotland to Kristiania ( Oslo ) with a cargo of 830 tons of coal. Pallas laid in Scottland in the beginning of November and the barque were short of two men since it was quite hard to find crew in the time after the world war one. The night before the accident heavy winds and snow fall appeared and with heavy thoughts of all the mines that still were floating around in the North sea and the coastline of southern Norway after the war they had enough to think about on the journey to Norway. The night of destiny it came bad weather along the coast and heavy wind and snow made the condition difficult for the ships out in the sea. The weather conditions was getting worse during the evening and the snow made the visibility like zero, and at four o'clock in the morning Pallas stranded on Sauetogrunne outside Stalsberget. The sea flowed in through the starboard side of the barque and it was soon after ordered that the crew should get into the lifeboats. The lifeboats with the captain and his crew drifted up the fjord and they came to land first at ten o'clock in the morning. In the weeks that followed the cargo and other inventory and equipment were rescued from the wreck, which thereafter ended up as a total wreck near land on Stalsberget.

Oskarshamns Mek. Verkstads & Skeppsdockas AB launch bn: 262 BERNICIA a steamer of 2.172 grt. Ordered by Rederi AB Svenska Lloyd, Gothenburg.

Limhamns Skeppsvarv AB launch BRETAGNE a steamer of 1.403 grt. Ordered by A/S Færder, Kristiania (Oslo), Norway.

Schooner MARGRETHE of Stockholm, Master: Isberg, stranded at Skagen a few hundred meter from the ports breakwater and was a total wreck. The crew was saved.

Steamship Kerwood gross 3,651 tons; sunk by mine in Irish Sea; no casualties.

Varvs- & Rederi AB Brage, Norrkoping launch BRITTA, a motor schooner build by oak and pine of 214 grt.

Steamship Liberty Glo, gross 5,763 tons; struck by mine, 10 miles west by north of Terschelling, Holland; salvaged; no casualties.

Oskarshamns Mek. Verkstads & Skeppsdockas AB launch bn: 260 REGIN a cargo and passenger steamer of 1.377 grt. Ordered by Stockholms Rederi AB Svea, Stockholm.

AB Öresundsvarvet, Landskrona launch YOKOHAMA, a turbine steamer of 2.280 grt. Ordered by Översöiske Compagni, Köpenhamn.

Codanværftet A/S, Köge, Denmark launch ROSEN, a motor schooner of 382 grt, ordered by Rederi A/S Dragör, Copenhagen.

Finnish torpedo boats C 1, C 2 and C 3 crushed by ice and lost while returning from Koivisto.

British armoured trawler Catspaw sunk in pos N 56 21,20 ; E 16 34,20 off Segerstad, Öland. The crew is buried in the churchyard of Segerstad. The swedish Salvage Company Neptun was accepted for the purchase of the wreck for 500 pounds "subject to the destruction of the gun on board and the return to the Admiralty of any books or documents which may be salved".