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.