Marine Distasters

Seventeenth Century

• 18 January 1665 - Royal Oak, cargo ship

Eighteenth Century

• 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

Nineteenth Century

• 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
• 19 March 1917 - Alnwick Castle, Union-Castle liner, torpedoed
• 11 May 1917 - SS Italia, a steamer, and SS Lady Charlotte, a collier ship, grounded
• 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

2000-2009

• 29 March 2000 - sailing vessel Team Philips, front section of hull broke off, later repaired and abandoned in a later incident

2010-Present

• 27 October 2010 - fishing vessel Athena, caught fire off Scilly
• 1 November 2010 - sailing vessel Fryderyk Chopin, sailing with 36 teenagers

References

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