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Shipwrecks Since 1833
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1833
- May 11,
Lady of the Lake:
bound from England to Quebec, struck iceberg; 215
perished.
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1853
- Sept. 29,
Annie Jane:
emigrant vessel wrecked off coast of Scotland; 348
died.
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1860
- Sept. 8,
Lady Elgin:
steamer was hit by schooner
Augusta
, killing more than 300.
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1865
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April 27,
Sultana:
boiler explosion on Mississippi River steamboat,
near Memphis; 1,547 killed. Most of the dead were Union POWs finally
heading home at the end of the Civil War.
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1873
- April 1,
Atlantic:
sank near Halifax after hitting rocks, killing 562.
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1878
- Sept. 3,
Princess Alice:
collided with the steam collier Bywell Castle and
sank in the Thames, killing at least 600, actual numbers unknown.
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1898
- Feb. 15,
Maine:
U.S. battleship destroyed in Havana harbor by an
explosion that killed 260 men. The incident led to the outbreak of the
Spanish-American War in
April 1898.
- Nov. 26,
City of Portland:
157 died near Cape Cod.
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1904
- June 15,
General Slocum:
excursion steamer burned in East River, N.Y.; 1,021
perished.
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1912
- March 5,
Principe de Asturias:
Spanish steamer struck rock off Sebastien Point; 500
drowned.
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April 15,
Titanic:
supposedly unsinkable British ocean liner went
down on maiden voyage after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500
people died.
- Sept. 28,
Kichemaru:
Japanese steamer sunk off Japan; killing 1000.
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1914
- May 29,
Empress of Ireland:
sank after collision in St. Lawrence River; 1,014
perished.
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1915
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May 7,
Lusitania:
British luxury liner was sunk off Irish coast by a
German submarine; 1195 died.
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1915
- July 24,
Eastland:
Great Lakes excursion
steamer overturned in Chicago River; 812 died.
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1916
- Feb. 26,
Provence:
French cruiser sank in Mediterranean; 3,100
perished.
- Nov. 21,
Britannic:
sister ship of the Titanic sank in the Aegean Sea after an
explosion. The vessel, which had been converted to a hospital ship
during World War I, probably collided with an underwater mine. Of the
more than 1,100 people aboard, only 30 died.
- Aug. 29,
Hsin Yu:
Chinese steamer sunk; 1,000 died.
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1928
- Nov. 12,
Vestris:
British steamer sank in gale off Va.; 110 died.
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1934
- Sept. 8,
Morro Castle:
134 killed in fire off Asbury Park, N.J.
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1939
- May 23,
Squalus:
submarine with 59 men sank off Hampton Beach, N.H.; 33
saved.
- June 1,
Thetis:
submarine sank in Liverpool Bay, England; 99
perished.
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1945
- Jan. 30,
Wilhelm Gustloff:
cruise ship carrying German refugees and soldiers sunk
by Soviet submarine in Baltic. It is thought
that as many as 10,000 people were aboard, of which only about 900
survived.
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1949
- Sept. 17,
Noronic:
Canadian Great Lakes cruise ship burned at Toronto dock;
about 130 died.
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1952
- April 26,
Hobson:
minesweeper collided with aircraft carrier Wasp
and sank during night maneuvers in mid-Atlantic; 176 people lost.
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1953
- Jan. 9,
Chang Tyong-Ho:
South Korean ferry foundered off Pusan; 249 reported
dead.
- Jan. 31,
Princess Victoria:
British ferry sank in Irish Sea; 133 lost.
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1954
- Sept. 26,
Toya Maru:
more than 1,000 killed when commercial ferry sank in
Tsugaru Strait, Japan.
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1956
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July 25,
Andrea Doria:
Italian liner collided with Swedish liner
Stockholm off Nantucket Island, Mass., and sank the next day. 51
people died.
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1962
- April 8,
Dara:
British liner exploded and sank in Persian Gulf; 236 dead.
Caused by time bomb.
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1963
- April 10,
Thresher:
atomic-powered U.S. submarine sank in North Atlantic;
129 dead.
- May 4: United Arab Republic ferry capsized and sank
in upper Nile; over 200 died.
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1966
- Dec. 12,
Heraklion:
Greek passenger ferry foundered in heavy seas near
Crete; 241 dead.
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1968
- Jan. 25,
Dakar:
Israeli submarine sank in eastern Mediterranean,
probably after collision with large ship; 69 dead.
- Late May,
Scorpion:
U.S. nuclear submarine sank in Atlantic 400 mi southwest
of Azores; 99 dead.
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1970
- Dec. 15: ferry in Korean Strait capsized; 261
lost.
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1975
- Nov. 10,
Edmund Fitzgerald:
cargo vessel carrying 26,000 long tons of iron ore
pellets sank in eastern Lake Superior; all 29 crew lost.
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1976
- Oct. 20,
George Prince:
Mississippi River ferry rammed by Norwegian tanker
Frosta near Luling, La.; 77 dead.
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1983
- May 25,
10th of Ramadan:
Nile steamer caught fire and sank in Lake Nasser, near
Aswan, Egypt; 272 dead
and 75 missing.
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1987
- March 6,
Herald of Free Enterprise:
British ferry capsized after leaving Belgian port of
Zeebrugge with 500 aboard; 134 drowned. Water rushing through bow left
open was the cause.
- Dec. 20,
Dona Paz:
over 4,000 killed when passenger ferry collided with oil
tanker Victor off Mindoro Is., south of
Manila, Philippines.
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1990
- April 7,
Scandinavian Star:
suspected arson aboard Danish-owned North Sea ferry
killed at least 110 passengers in Skagerrak Strait off
Norway.
- April 7: double-decker ferry sank in Gyaing River
in Myanmar (Burma) during a storm and 215 people were believed
drowned.
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1991
- Dec. 15,
Salem Express:
ferry carrying 569 passengers sank in Red Sea off coast
of Safaga, Egypt, after hitting a coral reef. Over 460 people believed
drowned.
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1993
- Feb. 17,
Neptune:
triple-deck ferry capsized off southern peninsula of
Haiti during a squall. Over 1,000 passengers believed drowned. About 300
survived the sinking.
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1994
- Sept. 28,
Estonia:
passenger ferry capsized off coast of southwest Finland
and sank in a stormy Baltic Sea. Only about 140 of the estimated 1,040
passengers aboard survived.
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1996
- Jan. 21,
Gurita:
overloaded ferry sank off the coast of northern Sumatra, killing
340.
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1999
- Feb.,
Harta Rimba:
ship sank in the South China Sea, killing about 325
people. The ship had not been licensed for passenger use.
- Nov. 24,
Dashun:
ferry carrying more than 300 passengers sank after
catching fire. More than 150 confirmed dead, with another 140
missing.
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2000
- June 29,
Cahaya Bahari:
ferry carrying refugees sank about 40 mi off Sulawesi, killing the 492
people aboard.
- Aug. 12,
Kursk:
Russian nuclear submarine sank to bottom of Barents Sea following an
explosion; 118 dead.
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2001
- Feb. 9,
Ehime Maru:
U.S. submarine Greeneville collided with Japanese
fishing boat near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 26 people aboard the Ehime
Maru were rescued; 9 others were presumed dead.
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2002
- Sept. 26,
Joola:
overloaded Senegalese ferry capsized off the coast of
Gambia, drowning 1,863 people. Only 64 passengers were rescued.
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2006
- Feb. 3, Red Sea: a fire on the al-Salam
Boccaccio 98, a Red Sea ferry, enroute from Saudi Arabia to Egypt,
caused it to sink 60 miles off the Egyptian coast, killing more than
1,000.
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2007
- Jan. 28, California: computer scientist, Jim Gray,
disappears off the coast of San Fransisco during a solo day trip on his
40-foot yacht, the Tenacious.
- Aug. 3, Sierra Leone: the Amunafa ferry,
traveling from Freetown to Kasire, sank off the coast of Sierra Leone,
killing 158 passengers.
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2008
- Jan. 15, Taiwan: a Panamanian cargo ship
transporting coal from Hong Kong was capsized by a wave near Taiwan,
killing all eight crew members.
- June 21, the Philippines: a ferry, the Princess of the Stars, is struck by Typhoon Fengshen, killing most of the 800 passengers and crew.
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See also:
The Sultana
The Titanic
The Endurance
The Lusitania
The Andrea Doria
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