The Society is proud to be supporting Bangor University School of Ocean Sciences and Historic England in a 3-year ground-breaking online project, Unpath’d Waters, which aims to unite the UK’s maritime archives and data collections.
A lack of high-quality geophysical data and limited research means our maritime heritage remains poorly understood and thousands of shipwrecks around the UK coastline have been identified incorrectly or remain unknown.
Unpath’d Waters is now developing new methods to help solve this problem. These methods will accelerate maritime research activity and support the development of research tools designed to improve the management of UK wreck sites.
Focussing on vessels lost in the Irish Sea, the project will create effective processes for refining wreck site identification, and will also develop efficient methods for integrating marine scientific data with the historic record and maritime collections.
SS Murcia was a British cargo vessel built in 1915 by Short Bros., Ltd., Sunderland. At the time of her loss three years later, she was owned by the English & American Shipping Co. Ltd., London.
| Date | Name of Ship | Merchant/Fishing | Gross Tonnes |
| 1 October | Bylands | Merchant | 3,309 |
| 1 October | Montford | Merchant | 6,578 |
| 2 October | Bamse | Merchant | 1,001 |
| 2 October | Poljames | Merchant | 856 |
| 2 October | Arca | Merchant | 4,839 |
| 3 October | Westwood | Merchant | 1,968 |
| 3 October | Ariel | Merchant | 3,428 |
| 3 October | Eupion | Merchant | 3,575 |
| 4 October | Oopack | Merchant | 3,883 |
| 4 October | Kassid Karim | Merchant (S.V) | 103 |
| 4 October | Industrial | Merchant (S.V) | 330 |
| 5 October | Reventazon | Merchant | 4,050 |
| 8 October | Thalia | Merchant | 1,308 |
| 8 October | Hawanee | Merchant (S.V) | 124 |
| 10 October | Leinster | Merchant | 2,646 |
| 13 October | Hamidieh | Merchant (S.V) | 85 |
| 14 October | Dundalk | Merchant | 794 |
| 16 October | Pentwyn | Merchant | 3,587 |
| 16 October | War Council | Merchant | 5,875 |
| 17 October | Bonvilston | Merchant | 2,866 |
| 18 October | Hunsdon | Merchant | 2,899 |
| 19 October | Almerian | Merchant | 3,030 |
| 20 October | Emily Millington | Merchant (S.V) | 111 |
| 21 October | Saint Barchan | Merchant | 362 |
| 21 October | Moscow | Merchant | 1,622 |
British cargo vessel, SS Hunsdon, was built in 1911 by Wesser Co., Bremen, originally for the Hamburg & Africa Line. The steamer of 2,899 tonnes was owned at the time of her loss by The Shipping Controller, London.
SS War Council was a British cargo vessel of 5,875 tonnes. She was built in 1917 by the Kawasaki Dockyard Co. Ltd., Kobe. At the time of her loss a year later, the steamer of 5,875 tonnes was owned by The Shipping Controller, London.
RMS Leinster was defensively-armed Irish passenger ship of 2,646 tonnes, built in 1897 by Cammell Laird & Co., Birkinhead. She was subsequently used as a Royal Mail Ship, operated by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company.
British merchant vessel SS Thalia was built in 1917 by Rijkee & Co. N. V., Rotterdam. At the time of her loss a year later, the British steamer was owned by Richards, Turpin & Co. Ltd., Swansea.
SS Bamse was a British merchant vessel built in 1881 by Strand Slipway Co. Ltd., Monkwearmouth. At the time of her loss during WW1, she was owned by The Shipping Controller, London.
| Date | Name of Ship | Merchant/Fishing | Gross Tonnes |
| 1 September | Mesaba | Merchant | 6,833 |
| 1 September | City of Glasgow | Merchant | 6,545 |
| 2 September | San Andres | Merchant | 3,314 |
| 3 September | Highcliffe | Merchant | 3,238 |
| 4 September | War Firth | Merchant | 3,112 |
| 4 September | Arum | Merchant | 3,681 |
| 6 September | Audax | Merchant | 975 |
| 6 September | Milly | Merchant | 2,964 |
| 7 September | Bellbank | Merchant | 3,250 |
| 7 September | Ruysdael | Merchant | 3,478 |
| 9 September | Missanabie | Merchant | 12,469 |
| 9 September | War Arabis | Merchant | 5,183 |
| 12 September | Galway Castle | Merchant | 7,988 |
| 13 September | Setter | Merchant | 956 |
| 13 September | Buffalo | Merchant | 286 |
| 13 September | M J Craig | Merchant | 691 |
| 14 September | Aghios Nicolaos | Merchant (S.V) | 113 |
| 14 September | Neotsfield | Merchant | 3,821 |
| 14 September | Gibel-Hamam | Merchant | 647 |
| 15 September | Kendal Castle | Merchant | 3,885 |
| 15 September | Joseph Fisher | Merchant (S.V) | 79 |
| 15 September | Energy | Merchant (S.V) | 89 |
| 16 September | Ethel | Merchant | 2,336 |
| 16 September | Madryn | Merchant | 2,244 |
| 16 September | Wellington | Merchant | 5,600 |
| 16 September | Serula | Merchant | 1,388 |
| 16 September | Tasman | Merchant | 5,023 |
| 16 September | Philomel | Merchant | 3,050 |
| 16 September | Lord Stewart | Merchant | 1,445 |
| 16 September | Acadian | Merchant | 2,305 |
| 17 September | Lavernock | Merchant | 2,406 |
| 17 September | Muriel | Merchant | 1,831 |
| 17 September | Cairo | Merchant (S.V) | 254 |
| 18 September | John O Scott | Merchant | 1,235 |
| 18 September | Primo | Merchant | 1,037 |
| 19 September | Barrister | Merchant | 4,952 |
| 21 September | Staithes | Merchant | 336 |
| 21 September | Downshire | Merchant | 368 |
| 21 September | Polesley | Merchant | 4,221 |
| 22 September | Gorsemore | Merchant | 3,079 |
| 23 September | Edlington | Merchant | 3,864 |
| 23 September | Aldershot | Merchant | 2,177 |
| 25 September | Hebburn | Merchant | 1,938 |
| 27 September | Hatasu | Merchant | 3,193 |
| 28 September | Baldersby | Merchant | 3,613 |
| 28 September | Benha | Merchant (S.V) | 95 |
| 29 September | Nyanza | Merchant | 4,053 |
| 29 September | Libourne | Merchant | 1,219 |
