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SS Thistlegorm was a British Merchant Navy armed freighter built in 1940 and operated by the Albyn Line for wartime transport between Britain and the Middle East. In October 1941, while at anchor awaiting transit through the Suez Canal, she was attacked and sunk by two German Heinkel He 111 bombers...
MV Zenobia was a Swedish-built roll-on/roll-off ferry that capsized and sank near Larnaca, Cyprus, during her maiden voyage in June 1980. The vessel came to rest on its port side with trucks and cargo still associated with the wreck, and no lives were lost in the sinking. Its accessible structure, m...
USAT Liberty is the wreck of a United States Army cargo ship lying close to shore at Tulamben on the northeast coast of Bali, Indonesia. A Japanese submarine torpedoed the vessel in the Lombok Strait in January 1942, after which it was towed toward port and beached at Tulamben. Volcanic activity ass...
SS Yongala was an Australian passenger and cargo steamship that sank during a cyclone off Queensland on 23 March 1911, killing all 122 people aboard. The wreck was identified in the 1950s and lies near Cape Bowling Green within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Its largely intact structure support...
SS President Coolidge was a luxury ocean liner originally built for the American President Lines. In the lead-up to World War II, the U.S. War Department converted her into a troopship for the United States Army. On October 26, 1942, while entering the harbor at Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides (n...
RMS Rhone was a British Royal Mail steamship that sank near Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands during a hurricane in October 1867. Driven onto rocks while attempting to escape the storm, the vessel broke apart and went down with heavy loss of life. Its remains lie in relatively accessible Car...
SS Umbria was an Italian cargo and passenger steamship scuttled near Port Sudan in the Red Sea in June 1940. With Italy about to enter the Second World War, her captain deliberately sank the vessel to prevent its cargo of bombs, ammunition, vehicles, and other military supplies from being seized by...
SS Carnatic was a British iron-hulled passenger and cargo steamship operated by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. In 1869, while traveling through the Red Sea, it grounded and later broke apart on the Sha'ab Abu Nuhas reef near Egypt, causing loss of life and cargo. Its coral-enc...
MV Hilma Hooker is a cargo ship wreck lying off the Caribbean island of Bonaire. Authorities detained the vessel in 1984 after marijuana was found concealed aboard; while the resulting legal case continued, the poorly maintained ship took on water and was deliberately moved and sunk at a prepared si...
SS Dunraven was a British merchant steamship that sank in 1876 after striking the Sha'ab Mahmoud reef system in the northern Red Sea, near the southern approaches to the Gulf of Suez. The vessel was carrying cargo when it grounded, caught fire, and ultimately settled overturned on the seabed. Its co...
Greek cargo ship that caught fire and was deliberately sunk off Barbados in 1976, creating one of the Caribbean's most visited artificial reef dive sites.
