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MV Doña Paz was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry that sank after colliding with the Vector, a small coastal oil tanker, on December 20, 1987. The collision occurred in the Tablas Strait, igniting a massive fire that spread to both vessels. An estimated 4,375 people died in the incident, makin...
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line and was one of the largest ships afloat at the time of its maiden voyage. On April 15, 1912, the vessel struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean and sank, leading to the deaths of approximately 1,500 passengers and crew d...
RMS Empress of Ireland was a Canadian Pacific Line passenger vessel that entered transatlantic service in 1906, operating primarily between Liverpool and Quebec City. In the early hours of May 29, 1914, she was struck on her starboard side by the Norwegian collier Storstad in dense fog on the St. La...
SS Andrea Doria was an Italian passenger liner operated by the Italian Line on transatlantic routes between Italy and New York. On July 25, 1956, it collided with the Swedish liner Stockholm in fog south of Nantucket and sank the following morning. Forty-six people aboard Andrea Doria died, but near...
HMS Victoria was a British Royal Navy battleship and the lead ship of the Victoria class. On 22 June 1893, she collided with HMS Camperdown during fleet maneuvers off Tripoli, Lebanon, after Vice Admiral George Tryon ordered two columns of ships to turn toward one another without sufficient space. V...
SS Arctic was an American wooden-hulled paddle steamship operated by the Collins Line on transatlantic passenger service. On 27 September 1854, it collided with the French steamship Vesta in fog off Newfoundland and later sank in the North Atlantic. The disaster killed roughly 300 people, with no wo...
The SS Republic was a steamship built in 1903 for the White Star Line. On January 23, 1909, the liner sank after colliding with the Italian steamer SS Florida in dense fog off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The wreck is historically significant because the rescue of over 1,500 passengers and...
SS Ville du Havre was a French transatlantic passenger steamship that sank in the North Atlantic after colliding with the British sailing ship Loch Earn in November 1873. The liner went down rapidly, causing a large loss of life among its passengers and crew. The disaster is also remembered through...
SS Egypt was a British passenger liner operated by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. On 20 May 1922, it collided with the French cargo ship Seine in fog off the coast of Brittany and sank, killing 86 people. The wreck attracted sustained attention because it carried a large shipm...
SS Pacific was an American passenger steamship lost off the coast of Washington in November 1875 after colliding with the sailing ship Orpheus. The vessel had departed Victoria, British Columbia, for San Francisco carrying passengers and cargo, and only two people are known to have survived. The sin...
Norwegian Royal Navy frigate that collided with the tanker Sola TS and sank near Bergen in November 2018, one of Norway's most serious peacetime naval losses.
Canadian passenger and freight steamer that sank near Douglas Island, Alaska, in August 1901, notable in part for the gold cargo reportedly carried aboard at the time.
Liberian-flagged crude oil tanker struck by a crane barge off Taean, South Korea, in December 2007, causing the country's worst recorded oil spill.
New England passenger steamboat SS Larchmont sank after a collision in Block Island Sound in February 1907, killing most of those aboard in freezing winter conditions.
Philippine passenger-cargo vessel that sank on 31 August 1980 after colliding with the tanker MV Tacloban City near Cebu, killing approximately 224 people.
Air Collision is a 2012 American direct-to-video action disaster film by Liz Adams, notable for pairing Air Force One with a satellite air-traffic failure.
