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Marine Distasters

1600-1699

  • 18 January 1665 — Royal Oak, cargo ship

1700-1799

  • 22 October 1707 — HMS Association, HMS Eagle, HMS Romney and HMS Firebrand
  • 13 June 1743 — VOC Hollandia, cargo ship
  • 10 December 1798 — HMS Colossus, British naval vessel

1800-1899

  • 4 January 1841 — SS Thames, British steamship
  • 18 January 1874 — Minnehaha, cargo ship
  • 17 May 1875 — SS Schiller, German ferry

1900-1914

  • 17 December 1907 — Thomas W Lawson, bulk oil carrier
  • 10 April 1910 — SS Minnehaha, first-class liner, later refloated

World War I

  • 1 May 1915 — Gulflight, American tanker, later refloated
  • 11 May 1917 — SS Italia, a steamer, and SS Lady Charlotte, a collier ship
  • 6 December 1917 — USS Jacob Jones, American destroyer

1918-1939

  • 20 January 1921 — HMS K5, British submarine

World War II

  • 1 September 1944 — U-247, German U-boat
  • 18 December 1944 — U-1209, German U-boat
  • 21 January 1945 — U-1199, German U-boat
  • 24 February 1945 — Oriskany, fruit cargo ship, U-1208 and U-480, German U-boats
  • 10 March 1945 — U-681, German U-boat

1945-1999

  • 18 March 1967 — Torrey Canyon, supertanker
  • August 1979 — Fastnet race, many racing yachts sank in extreme weather
  • 26 March 1997 — MV Cita, German cargo ship
  • 16 May 1997 — passenger ship MS Albatros, sustained 200-foot gash, later repaired
  • 1 October 1999 — Rachel Harvey, fishing boat, later refloated

2000-Present

  • 29 March 2000 — sailing vessel Team Philips, front section of hull broke off, later repaired

References

  • Larn, Richard & Carter, Clive (1993). Shipwrecks of the Scilly Isles. Shipwreck & Marine. ISBN 0946537844.