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MV Sewol was a South Korean passenger ferry that operated a route between Incheon and Jeju Island. On April 16, 2014, the vessel capsized while carrying 476 passengers and crew, most of whom were high school students on a field trip from Danwon High School. The incident resulted in 304 deaths, large...
MV Le Joola was a Senegalese government-owned roll-on/roll-off passenger ferry that primarily transported passengers between Ziguinchor in the Casamance region and Dakar. On the night of September 26, 2002, the ferry capsized off the coast of The Gambia during a severe storm. The ship was heavily ov...
SS Eastland was a Great Lakes passenger steamship built in 1903 that developed a reputation for instability after multiple incidents early in its career. On the morning of July 24, 1915, while still docked in the Chicago River and loaded with employees of the Western Electric Company's Hawthorne Wor...
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...
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship commissioned by the United States Navy during the First World War era. Japanese aircraft struck the ship during the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, causing it to capsize at its berth and killing 429 crew members. The wreck was later raise...
MS Herald of Free Enterprise was a roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) passenger and vehicle ferry operated by the British ferry company Townsend Thoresen. On March 6, 1987, the vessel capsized shortly after departing the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, resulting in the deaths of 193 passengers and crew. The disaste...
MV Bukoba was a Tanzanian passenger ferry operating on Lake Victoria between ports in Tanzania. It capsized near Mwanza on 21 May 1996 while carrying far more passengers than could be reliably accounted for, and roughly 800 people are estimated to have died. The disaster exposed the lethal consequen...
MV Spice Islander I was a Tanzanian passenger ferry operating between islands in the Zanzibar archipelago. It capsized and sank during the night of 9 September 2011 while traveling from Unguja to Pemba, with overcrowding widely identified as a central factor in the disaster. More than 200 deaths wer...
Italian ocean liner SS Principessa Jolanda capsized and sank during her launching ceremony at La Spezia in 1907 before she ever completed a single voyage.
British Lamport and Holt cargo-passenger liner that foundered in heavy seas off the US Atlantic coast in November 1928, killing 112 people.
