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Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company that struck Morning Reef in the Houtman Abrolhos off Western Australia in 1629 during its maiden voyage to Java. After the wreck, a group led by Jeronimus Cornelisz terrorized the stranded survivors and murdered more than one hundred people before r...
MS Costa Concordia was a large Italian cruise ship operated by Costa Crociere, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. On January 13, 2012, the vessel struck an underwater rock formation while attempting a close-in sail-past maneuver near Isola del Giglio, Italy, tearing a gash in its hull and p...
HMS Birkenhead was a British iron-hulled paddle steamer used as a troopship that struck a submerged rock and sank off the coast of South Africa on 26 February 1852. With too few serviceable boats for everyone aboard, soldiers remained assembled while women and children were placed in the available b...
SS Amoco Cadiz was a Liberian-flagged oil tanker that lost steering control and grounded on rocks off Brittany, France, on 16 March 1978. The vessel broke apart and released roughly 223,000 tonnes of crude oil and fuel, contaminating a large stretch of the Breton coast. The spill caused extensive da...
SS Atlantic was a White Star Line passenger steamship operating between Europe and North America. On 1 April 1873, it struck rocks near Mars Head, Nova Scotia, after its crew diverted toward Halifax because of concerns about coal supplies. More than 500 people died, making the wreck one of the 19th...
SS Torrey Canyon was a Liberian registered oil tanker that struck Pollard's Rock in the Seven Stones reef between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in March 1967. Its grounding released a vast quantity of crude oil, contaminating coastlines in Britain and France and killing marine life and seabirds....
SS Norge was a Danish passenger steamship operated by the Thingvalla Line and used mainly on routes carrying European emigrants to North America. On 28 June 1904, she struck Hasselwood Rock near Rockall in the North Atlantic and sank rapidly, leaving too little lifeboat capacity for those aboard; mo...
MV Salem Express was an Egyptian passenger ferry that sank in the Red Sea during the night of 14 to 15 December 1991 after striking a reef near Safaga, Egypt. Many passengers were returning from the pilgrimage to Mecca, and official accounts reported more than 470 deaths, although the exact toll rem...
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...
SS Valencia was a passenger steamship that wrecked on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island in January 1906 while traveling from San Francisco to Seattle. After striking a reef in poor weather, the vessel became trapped near a rugged shoreline, where heavy seas frustrated evacuation and rescue eff...
MV Rena was a container ship that grounded on the Astrolabe Reef, known in Maori as Otaiti, off New Zealand's Bay of Plenty in October 2011. The accident released fuel oil, containers, and cargo into the marine environment, contaminating beaches and killing wildlife. The wreck later broke apart, pro...
SS Tayleur was a large iron-hulled sailing ship built for the White Star Line and intended to carry passengers from Britain to Australia. On its maiden voyage in January 1854, it struck rocks off Lambay Island near Dublin after navigational and handling difficulties and sank with heavy loss of life....
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...
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SS Sirio was an Italian passenger steamship operated by Navigazione Generale Italiana on routes carrying travelers and emigrants between Europe and South America. On 4 August 1906, it struck rocks near Cape Palos on Spain's Mediterranean coast and foundered. Several hundred people died, although con...
SS Brother Jonathan was a side-wheel paddle steamer that operated along the Pacific coast of North America during the mid-19th century. On July 30, 1865, it struck a submerged rock near Crescent City in northern California during a voyage north and sank, with only a small number of those aboard surv...
Soviet passenger cruise liner that sank off New Zealand's South Island on 16 February 1986 after striking a submerged rock; one person died.
Oil tanker that grounded near Milford Haven, Wales, in February 1996, spilling around 72,000 tonnes of crude oil and causing severe environmental damage to the Pembrokeshire coast.
SS American Star was an American ocean liner originally launched in 1939 as SS America. After decades of service and several changes of ownership, the vessel was being towed to Thailand for use as a floating hotel when it ran aground off Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands on January 17, 1994. The s...
British passenger steamer of the Atlantic Transport Line that wrecked on the Manacles reef off Cornwall on 14 October 1898, drowning approximately 106 people.
American passenger steamer SS City of Columbus wrecked off Gay Head, Massachusetts in January 1884, killing over 100 passengers; local Wampanoag men played a key role in the rescue.
MV Wakashio was a Japanese-owned capesize bulk carrier that ran aground on a coral reef off the southeast coast of Mauritius on July 25, 2020. The vessel leaked approximately 1,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil into the surrounding waters, triggering a major environmental disaster that affected sensitive...
Liberian tanker that ran aground near Nantucket in December 1976, spilling roughly 7 million gallons of oil in one of the largest US coastal spills recorded to that date.
