List of shipwrecks
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Shipwreck
A shipwreck is what remains of a ship that has wrecked, either sunk or beached. Whatever the cause, a sunken ship or a wrecked ship is a physical example of the event: this explains why the two concepts are often overlapping in English....

s is a list of those sunken or grounded ship
Ship
Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...

s whose remains have been located.

East Africa

  • Bredenhof
    Bredenhof
    Bredenhof, VOC Bredenhof, was a Dutch East Indiaman transport ship that foundered on a reef 120 miles south of Mozambique and only 13 miles off the African coast, near the Cape of Good Hope, on 6 June, 1753...

    : A Dutch East Indiaman carrying copper "duit
    Duit
    The duit was a Dutch coin worth 2 penning, with 4 duit equal to one stuiver and 80 duit equal to one gulden. It was once used in the Americas while under Dutch rule....

    s," silver bars, and gold ducat
    Ducat
    The ducat is a gold coin that was used as a trade coin throughout Europe before World War I. Its weight is 3.4909 grams of .986 gold, which is 0.1107 troy ounce, actual gold weight...

    s, which hit a reef thirteen miles (19 km) from the eastern coast of Africa and 120 miles (193.1 km) south of the Portuguese settlement of Mozambique on June 6, 1753. Discovered in 1986.
  • Globe Star
    Globe Star (ship)
    The Globe Star was a cargo ship that ran aground on 27 April 1973 along Nyali Reef, just off the entrance to Mombasa, Kenya. It was carrying 10,000 tons of wheat for Karachi. Despite an intensive salvage operation the vessel broke in half and was abandoned...

    : grounded off Mombasa
    Mombasa
    Mombasa is the second-largest city in Kenya. Lying next to the Indian Ocean, it has a major port and an international airport. The city also serves as the centre of the coastal tourism industry....

    , Kenya
    Kenya
    Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

     in April 1973
  • HMS Gulland (T239)
    HMS Gulland (T239)
    HMT Gulland was one of a number of Isles class trawlers built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War for a variety of tasks, including anti-submarine patrol. She was launched placed on the disposal list after the war and sold to Belgian owners in March 1946...

    : a 545 ton Isles class trawler
    Isles class trawler
    The Isles class trawlers were a class of naval trawler used by the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal New Zealand Navy during World War II....

     built for World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

    . Grounded 13 April 1951 three miles (5 km) north of Mombasa
    Mombasa
    Mombasa is the second-largest city in Kenya. Lying next to the Indian Ocean, it has a major port and an international airport. The city also serves as the centre of the coastal tourism industry....

    , Kenya
    Kenya
    Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

  • SMS Königsberg (1905): sunk in the Rufiji River
    Rufiji River
    The Rufiji River lies entirely within the African nation of Tanzania. The river is formed by the convergence of the Kilombero and Luwegu rivers. It is approximately 600 km long, with its source in southwestern Tanzania and its mouth on the Indian Ocean at a point between Mafia Island called Mafia...

     in July 1915
  • HMS Pegasus
    HMS Pegasus (1897)
    HMS Pegasus was one of 11 Pelorus-class protected cruisers ordered for the Royal Navy in 1893 under the Spencer Program and based on the earlier Pearl-class. The class were fitted with a variety of different boilers most of which were not entirely satisfactory and by 1914 four ships had been...

    : sunk at Zanzibar
    Zanzibar
    Zanzibar ,Persian: زنگبار, from suffix bār: "coast" and Zangi: "bruin" ; is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, in East Africa. It comprises the Zanzibar Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of numerous small islands and two large ones: Unguja , and Pemba...

     on 20 September 1914

Algeria

  • French battleship Bretagne
    French battleship Bretagne
    The Bretagne was a battleship of the French Navy, and the lead ship of her class. She was named in honour of the French region of Brittany, and was built by Arsenal de Brest...

    : Lead ship of her class, sunk 3 July 1940.
  • HMT Rhona
    HMT Rohna
    His Majesty's Troopship Rohna was a troop ship carrying U.S. troops that was sunk by an air attack of the Luftwaffe during World War II, on 26 November 1943...

    : a British troop carrier sunk north of Béjaïa
    Béjaïa
    Béjaïa, Vgaiet or Bejaya is a Mediterranean port city on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria; it is the capital of Béjaïa Province, Kabylia. Under French rule, it was formerly known under various European names, such as Budschaja in German, Bugia in Italian, and Bougie...

     in an air attack during World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

     on 26 November 1943.

Egypt

See also the section for Red Sea
  • L'Orient
    French ship Orient (1791)
    The Dauphin-Royal was an Océan class 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.During the French Revolution, she was renamed Sans-Culotte in September 1792, and eventually Orient in May 1795....

    : Napoleon's flagship, destroyed by fire and explosion in Aboukir Bay during the Battle of the Nile
    Battle of the Nile
    The Battle of the Nile was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1–3 August 1798...

     on 1 August 1798.

Morocco/Western Sahara

  • Commerce
    Commerce (ship)
    The Commerce was a Connecticut-based American merchant sailing ship that ran aground in 1815 at Cape Bojador, off the coast of what is now Western Sahara...

    : American merchant ship that ran aground off Cape Bojador
    Cape Bojador
    Cape Bojador or Cape Boujdour is a headland on the northern coast of Western Sahara, at 26° 07' 37"N, 14° 29' 57"W. , as well as the name of a nearby town with a population of 41,178.It is shown on nautical charts with the original Portuguese name "Cabo Bojador", but is sometimes...

     in what is now the Western Sahara
    Western Sahara
    Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Its surface area amounts to . It is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world, mainly...

     in 1815. The surviving crew, led by Captain James Riley
    James Riley (Captain)
    James Riley was the Captain of the United States merchant ship Commerce.-Sufferings in Africa:Riley led his crew through the Sahara Desert after they were shipwrecked off the coast of Western Sahara in August 1815, and wrote a book on their ordeal detailing his memoirs...

    , were subsequently captured and taken as slaves by local tribes.

Namibia

  • Bom Jesus: a Portuguese Nau that set sail from Lisbon in 1533. It was discovered in 2008 on the coast near Oranjemund
    Oranjemund
    Oranjemund is a town of 4,000 inhabitants situated in the extreme southwest of Namibia, on the northern bank of the Orange River mouth. It exists to service the diamond industry....

    .
  • MV Dunedin Star: ran aground on the Skeleton Coast
    Skeleton Coast
    The Skeleton Coast is the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean coast of Namibia and south of Angola from the Kunene River south to the Swakop River, although the name is sometimes used to describe the entire Namib Desert coast...

    , 80 km south of the Cunene River
    Cunene River
    The Cunene River or Kunene River is a river in Southern Africa. It flows from the Angola highlands south to the border with Namibia. It then flows west along the border until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of the few perennial rivers in the region. It is about long, with a drainage...

    , on 29 November 1942.
  • Eduard Bohlen
    Eduard Bohlen
    The Eduard Bohlen was a ship that ran aground off the coast of Namibia's Skeleton Coast on September 5, 1909, in a thick fog. Currently the wreck lies in the sand a quarter mile from the shoreline....

    : a freighter ran aground south of Conception Bay in 1909.-

  • Natal Coast: a Durban steamer ran aground in 1955 on the South-West African coast 11 miles (17.7 km) north of Swakopmund. She went aground on a sandbank in a dense fog about 8pm. Two tugs made attempts to tow her off but failed. It was on its way from Walvis Bay to Capetown when it overshot Walvis Bay in the fog. When it made a turn to find her way back she went on the sandbank. She was laying parallel with the beach and about 50 yards from shore still upright. The crew was fine and was finally able to get off the ship once the areas coast guard or security of type arrived they allowed everyone off. Daily News Correspondent

South Africa

Eastern Cape
  • Doddington: an East Indiaman wrecked in 1755 at Bird Island in Algoa Bay
    Algoa Bay
    Algoa Bay is a wide inlet along the South African east coast, some 425 miles east of the Cape of Good Hope. It is bounded in the west by Cape Recife and in the east by Cape Padrone. The bay is up to 436 m deep...

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  • Grosvenor
    Wreck of the Grosvenor
    The Wreck of the Grosvenor, an East Indiaman, occurred on Sunday 4 August 1782 on the Pondoland coast of South Africa, north of the Umzimvubu River mouth. The shipwreck was close to the place where the Portuguese ship, São João, had gone down more than two centuries earlier on 8 June 1552...

    : an East Indiaman, wrecked Sunday 4 August 1782 off the Pondoland coast, South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

    .
  • MTS Oceanos: a cruise liner sank off the Transkei
    Transkei
    The Transkei , officially the Republic of Transkei , was a Bantustan—an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity—and nominal parliamentary democracy in the southeastern region of South Africa...

     Coast, after leaving East London on route to Durban
    Durban
    Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...

     on 3 August 1991.


Western Cape
  • Arniston
    Arniston (ship)
    The Arniston was an East Indiaman ship that was wrecked on 30 May 1815 during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, South Africa with the loss of 372 lives and only 6 survivors...

    : a British East Indiaman, requisitioned for troop transport, wrecked near Waenhuiskrans
    Arniston, Western Cape
    Arniston is a small seaside settlement in the Overberg region on the Cape South coast, close to Cape Agulhas, the southern-most tip of Africa. Prior to the loss of the Arniston, it was known as Waenhuiskrans, an Afrikaans name meaning literally "Wagon house cliff", after a local sea cave large...

    , Western Cape
    Western Cape
    The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

     on 30 May 1815.
  • HMS Birkenhead
    HMS Birkenhead (1845)
    HMS Birkenhead, also referred to as HM Troopship Birkenhead or steam frigate Birkenhead, was one of the first iron-hulled ships built for the Royal Navy...

    : a British iron-hulled troopship that struck a submerged rock near Gansbaai
    Gansbaai, Western Cape
    Gansbaai is a fishing village and popular tourist destination in the Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa...

    , Western Cape
    Western Cape
    The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...

     on 26 February 1852.
  • BOS 400
    BOS 400 (ship)
    The BOS 400, a French Derrick/Lay Barge that ran aground while being towed by the Russian tugboat Tigr on June 26, 1994.The Tigr was chartered to tow the BOS 400 from Pointe-Noire in the Republic of Congo to Cape Town, South Africa...

    : ran aground on Duiker point after breaking loose while being towed around the Cape Peninsula
    Cape Peninsula
    The Cape Peninsula is a generally rocky peninsula that juts out for 75 km into the Atlantic Ocean at the south-western extremity of the African continent. At the southern end of the peninsula are Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope...

     by the tug Tigr in a storm in June 1994.
  • British Peer
    British Peer (ship)
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    : a three-masted iron sailing ship that ran aground in 1896 near the Cape of good hope
    Cape of Good Hope
    The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.There is a misconception that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, because it was once believed to be the dividing point between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In fact, the...

    .
  • Cospatrick
    Cospatrick (ship)
    The Cospatrick was a wooden 3-masted full-rigged sailing ship that was the victim of one of the worst shipping disasters to a merchant ship during the 19th century. The ship caught fire south of the Cape of Good Hope on 17 November 1874 while on a voyage from Gravesend, England to Auckland, New...

    : wooden 3-masted full-rigged sailing ship that caught fire and sank 17 November 1874 with a loss of 369 souls.
  • HMS Guardian
    HMS Guardian (1784)
    HMS Guardian was a 44-gun Roebuck-class fifth-rate two-decker of the Royal Navy, later converted to carry stores. She was completed too late to take part in the American War of Independence, and instead spent several years laid up in ordinary, before finally entering service as a store and convict...

    : a 44-gun Roebuck Class
    Roebuck class ship
    The Roebuck class ship was a class of twenty 44-gun sailing two-decker warships of the Royal Navy. The class carried two complete decks of guns, a lower battery of 18-pounders and an upper battery of 9-pounders. This battery enabled the vessel to deliver a broadside of 285 pounds...

     ship laid down in 1780. Severely damaged by an iceberg in 24 December 1789, the ship was sailed an amazing 400 leagues
    League (unit)
    A league is a unit of length . It was long common in Europe and Latin America, but it is no longer an official unit in any nation. The league originally referred to the distance a person or a horse could walk in an hour...

     to the Cape of Good Hope where she was intentionally grounded.
  • Ikan Tanda
    Ikan Tanda
    Ikan Tanda was a Japanese built cargo carrier which ran aground off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa in 2001.-History:The Ikan Tanda was built in 1979 as the Amazon by Ishikawajima Kure of Japan. The 17,800 DWT vessel was later sold to PACC Ship Managers Pte. Ltd...

    : Cargo ship ran aground near Cape Town in 2001. Re-floated, but scuttled 200 miles (321.9 km) from shore.
  • Joanna
    Joanna (ship)
    Joanna was the first East Indiaman lost on the South African coast. She was wrecked near the Cape Agulhas on 8 of June 1682 while in a convoy to India with four other ships. 10 passengers lost their lives, while the remaining 104 were able to make their way to Cape Town.A considerable amount of...

    : the first East Indiaman to be wrecked off the South African coast. Wrecked near Cape Town
    Cape Town
    Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...

     in 1682. A considerable amount of gold was on the ship.
  • Johanna Wagner
    Johanna Wagner (ship)
    The Johanna Wagner was a Prussian barque of 600 tons, commanded by Captain Kempe.The sailing ship was bound from Batavia to Amsterdam with a cargo of tobacco, sugar, coffee, India rubber, gall-nuts, gum damar and tin when she was wrecked at Strandfontein near Muizenberg, South Africa, on 15 July...

    : a Prussia
    Prussia
    Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...

    n barque that ran ashore due to navigational error near Muizenberg
    Muizenberg
    Muizenberg is a beach-side suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It is situated where the shore of the Cape Peninsula curves round to the east on the False Bay coast...

     on 15 July 1862.
  • SS Maori
    SS Maori
    SS Maori was a steamship of the Shaw Savill Line wrecked on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula near Cape Town in a storm on 5 August 1909 with the loss of 32 lives.She went aground a few kilometres south of the suburb of Llandudno...

    : a Shaw Savill Line steamship wrecked near Llandudno, Cape Town
    Cape Town
    Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...

     on 5 August 1909.
  • HMS Pelorus
    HMS Pelorus (J291)
    HMS Pelorus was an , built by Lobnitz of Renfrew, Scotland and launched on 19 June 1943. While equipped with minesweeping gear, she was primarily assigned to convoy escort duty in the Atlantic...

    : a British built in 1943. Scuttled in 1994 to make an artificial reef
    Artificial reef
    An artificial reef is a human-made underwater structure, typically built to promote marine life in areas with a generally featureless bottom, control erosion, block ship passage, or improve surfing....

     at Miller's Point near Simon’s Town, South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

    .
  • SAS President Kruger
    SAS President Kruger (F150)
    The SAS President Kruger was a frigate of the South African Navy. She sank in 1982 with the loss of 16 lives after colliding with her replenishment ship, the SAS Tafelberg, in the South Atlantic.-History:...

    : a South African frigate
    Frigate
    A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...

    , sank on 18 February 1982, after a collision with a refueling ship.
  • HMS Sceptre
    HMS Sceptre (1781)
    HMS Sceptre was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 June 1781 at Rotherhithe. Shortly after completion she was sent out to the Indian Ocean to join Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes's squadron. She arrived in time for the Battle of Trincomalee in 1782...

    : a 64-gun third-rate
    Third-rate
    In the British Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks . Years of experience proved that the third rate ships embodied the best compromise between sailing ability , firepower, and cost...

     ship of the line
    Ship of the line
    A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...

     of the Royal Navy
    Royal Navy
    The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

    . Ran aground, 5 November 1799 near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • HMS Thames
    HMS Thames (1885)
    HMS Thames was a Mersey class second class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy. She later served in the South African Navy under the name SATS General Botha as a training vessel.-Royal Navy:...

    : a former Mersey class cruiser that became famous as the SATS General Botha, a merchant naval training ship. After retiring as a training ship, she reverted back to her original name and was sunk on May 13, 1947, in False Bay
    False Bay
    False Bay is a body of water defined by Cape Hangklip and the Cape Peninsula in the extreme South-West of South Africa.- Description and location :...

     near Simon's Town
    Simon's Town
    Simon's Town , sometimes spelled Simonstown; is a town in South Africa, near Cape Town which is home to the South African Navy. It is located on the shores of False Bay, on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula. For more than two centuries it has been an important naval base and harbour...

     as a target
    Target ship
    A target ship is a vessel — typically an obsolete or captured warship — used for naval gunnery practice or for weapons testing.-Rationale:Sinking redundant warships is an effective way of testing new weapons and warships in as realistic a manner as possible. Whilst practice torpedoes are fired...

    .
  • SS Thomas T. Tucker
    SS Thomas T. Tucker
    The SS Thomas T. Tucker was a Liberty ship, built by The Houston Shipbuilding Corporation for service as a troop & weapons carrier....

    : a Houston
    Houston, Texas
    Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...

     built munitions carrier ran ashore on Oliphantsbos point near Cape Point
    Cape Point
    Cape Point is a promontory at the southeast corner of the Cape Peninsula, which is a mountainous and scenic landform that runs north-south for about thirty kilometres at the extreme southwestern tip of the African continent in the Republic of South Africa. Table Mountain and the city of Cape Town...

     on 27 November 1942.

West Africa

  • MV Joola
    MV Joola
    MV Le Joola was a Senegalese government-owned ferry that capsized off the coast of The Gambia on September 26, 2002. The disaster resulted in the deaths of at least 1,863 people. The sinking of the ferry Joola is thought to be the second-worst non-military maritime disaster in number of lives lost...

    : a Senegalese passenger ship that capsized off the coast of The Gambia
    The Gambia
    The Republic of The Gambia, commonly referred to as The Gambia, or Gambia , is a country in West Africa. Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa, surrounded by Senegal except for a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean in the west....

     on 26 September 2002.
  • Medusa: a French passenger ship that sank near Bank of Arguin
    Banc d'Arguin National Park
    The Banc d'Arguin National Park lies in Western Africa on the west coast of Mauritania between Nouakchott and Nouadhibou. The World Heritage Site is a major breeding site for migratory birds. A wide range of species include flamingos, broad-billed sandpipers, pelicans and terns. Much of the...

     in 1816 (see Raft of the Medusa
    Raft of the Medusa
    For other uses, See: Radeau The Raft of the Medusa is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault . Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism...

     by Géricault
    Théodore Géricault
    Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was a profoundly influential French artist, painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings...

     in the Louvre
    Louvre
    The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...

    ; see also the ship's namesake, the Greek monster Medusa
    Medusa
    In Greek mythology Medusa , " guardian, protectress") was a Gorgon, a chthonic monster, and a daughter of Phorcys and Ceto. The author Hyginus, interposes a generation and gives Medusa another chthonic pair as parents. Gazing directly upon her would turn onlookers to stone...

    .
  • French cruiser Primauguet: a French light cruiser
    Light cruiser
    A light cruiser is a type of small- or medium-sized warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armored cruiser", describing a small ship that carried armor in the same way as an armored cruiser: a protective belt and deck...

     laid down in 1923. She was sank by gunfire from the in 8 November 1942.
  • William D. Lawrence
    William D. Lawrence (ship)
    William D. Lawrence was a full-rigged sailing ship built in Maitland, Nova Scotia along the Minas Basin and named after her builder, the merchant and politician William Dawson Lawrence ....

    : Built in 1874, in Maitland
    Maitland
    Maitland is an English and Scottish surname. It arrived in Britain after the Norman conquest of 1066. There are two theories about its source. It is either a nickname reference to "bad temper/disposition" , or it may be a locational reference to Mautalant, a place in Pontorson, France...

    , Nova Scotia
    Nova Scotia
    Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

    . Sunk in Dakar
    Dakar
    Dakar is the capital city and largest city of Senegal. It is located on the Cap-Vert Peninsula on the Atlantic coast and is the westernmost city on the African mainland...

    , Africa
    Africa
    Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

    .

Saudi Arabia

  • Al Basmalah I: since about 2000, built as in 1957.
  • Al-Fahad, ex Free Enterprise III: anchored after engine problems in 2004 and is reported to have since become semisubmerged. Located some 14.6 kilometers southwest of the old city center of Jeddah
    Jeddah
    Jeddah, Jiddah, Jidda, or Jedda is a city located on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, the largest sea port on the Red Sea, and the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. The...

     at 21°22′35.67"N 39°07′13.51"E.
  • Saudi Golden Arrow: at 20°52′02.87"N 39°21′39.77"E, ex Norwegian Ferry MS Europafergen, reported laid up at Shoieba.

Yemen

  • Aden: P&O ship lost off Socotra
    Socotra
    Socotra , also spelt Soqotra, is a small archipelago of four islands in the Indian Ocean. The largest island, also called Socotra, is about 95% of the landmass of the archipelago. It lies some east of the Horn of Africa and south of the Arabian Peninsula. The island is very isolated and through...

     in 1897.
  • SS Hutton: wrecked in the Gulf of Aden
    Gulf of Aden
    The Gulf of Aden is located in the Arabian Sea between Yemen, on the south coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and Somalia in the Horn of Africa. In the northwest, it connects with the Red Sea through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, which is about 20 miles wide....

    , 1882.

China

  • Dashun: ferry between Dalian
    Dalian
    Dalian is a major city and seaport in the south of Liaoning province, Northeast China. It faces Shandong to the south, the Yellow Sea to the east and the Bohai Sea to the west and south. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, Dalian is the southernmost city of Northeast China and China's...

     and Yantai
    Yantai
    Yantai is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. Located on the southern coast of the Bohai Sea and the eastern coast of the Laizhou Bay, Yantai borders the cities of Qingdao and Weihai to the southwest and east respectively.The largest fishing...

    , caught fire and capsized off Yantai, Shandong
    Shandong
    ' is a Province located on the eastern coast of the People's Republic of China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history from the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River and served as a pivotal cultural and religious site for Taoism, Chinese...

    , November 1999, killing at least 280.
  • Huaguangjiao One
    Huaguangjiao One
    Huaguangjiao One , is a Chinese sunken ship built during the Southern Song Dynasty that sank off the coast of Xinsha Islands, southeast of Guangdong province, in the South China Sea. The shipwreck, named "Huaguangjiao No...

    : The first Chinese merchant vessel China discovered in the open seas in the 1990s.
  • Nan'ao One
    Nan'ao One
    Nan'ao One is a , wide ancient Chinese merchant ship that sank in the Sandianjin waters off the coast of Nan'ao Island, about 5.6 nautical miles from Shantou, Guangdong Province, China...

    : The first late Ming dynasty (1368–1644) ship ever found to date in the South China Seas.
  • Nanhai One
    Nanhai One
    The Nanhai One is a Chinese merchant ship which sank off the south China coast during the Southern Song Dynasty between 1127 and 1279.-History:...

    : Chinese merchant vessel, which sank off the south coast during the Southern Song Dynasty
    Song Dynasty
    The Song Dynasty was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty. It was the first government in world history to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a...

     between 1127 and 1279.
  • Petropavlovsk
    Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (1897)
    The Petropavlovsk was the lead ship of the Petropavlovsk class of battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy. During the Russo-Japanese War, Petropavlovsk was a flagship of the First Pacific Squadron, taking part in battles against the Imperial Japanese Navy. On March 31, 1904, the battleship...

    : Russian battleship sunk by a mine in 1904 in Yellow Sea
    Yellow Sea
    The Yellow Sea is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It is located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula. Its name comes from the sand particles from Gobi Desert sand storms that turn the surface of the water golden...

    .
  • Red Star 312: on the Guangzhou
    Guangzhou
    Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

     and Zhaoqing ferry route, capsized by thunderstorm in Shanshui, Guangdong
    Guangdong
    Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...

    , at least 147 people confirmed dead, in March 1983.
  • Rong Jian: capsized in Yangtze River
    Yangtze River
    The Yangtze, Yangzi or Cháng Jiāng is the longest river in Asia, and the third-longest in the world. It flows for from the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai eastward across southwest, central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea at Shanghai. It is also one of the...

    , Hejiang, Sichuan
    Sichuan
    ' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...

     in June 2000, at least 131 people confirmed dead.
  • Sevastopol
    Russian battleship Sevastopol (1895)
    Sevastopol was the last of three ships in the Petropavlovsk class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1890s...

    : Russian battleship scuttled in Yellow Sea to avoid capture in 1904.
  • Wanjiao One
    Wanjiao One
    Wanjiao One , is an ancient Chinese merchant ship that sank off the coast of Pingtan of Fujian Province, China. Loaded with more than 10,000 pieces of blue-and-white porcelain dating back to the reign of Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty , it was discovered in 2005 and the shipwreck fully excavated in...

    : Chinese ancient merchant ship dating back to the reign of Kangxi (1654–1722) of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911).

Hong Kong

  • SS Bokhara
    SS Bokhara
    The SS Bokhara was a P&O steamship which sank in a typhoon on 10 October 1892, off the coast of Sand Island in the Pescadores, Formosa. Of the 125 people who perished, eleven were members of the Hong Kong cricket team....

    : sank in a typhoon, killing 125 people on board.
  • Neftegaz-67: a Ukrainian
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

     anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS), sank after colliding with China-registered bulk carrier Yao Hai east off Brothers Island
    The Brothers, Hong Kong
    The Brothers or Mo To Chau consist of two islands in Hong Kong, Siu Mo To and Tai Mo To .-Geography:...

    , Hong Kong, at about 9:13 p.m. on 22 March 2008.
  • RMS Queen Elizabeth
    RMS Queen Elizabeth
    RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line. Plying with her running mate Queen Mary as a luxury liner between Southampton, UK and New York City, USA via Cherbourg, France, she was also contracted for over twenty years to carry the Royal Mail as the second half of the two...

    : sank 9 January 1972 after fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
    Hong Kong
    Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

    .

Indonesia

  • KMP Tampomas II: an Indonesian passenger ship, sunk near Masalembo Island Java Sea
    Java Sea
    The Java Sea is a large shallow sea on the Sunda Shelf. It was formed as sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age. The Java Sea lies between the Indonesian islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south; Sumatra to the west, and Sulawesi to the east...

     on January 1981.

Japan

  • Admiral Ushakov
    Russian battleship Admiral Ushakov
    The Admiral Ushakov was the lead ship in her class of armoured warships of the Imperial Russian Navy, and named after Admiral Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov the Russian naval commander of the 18th century.- Service Life :...

    : sunk at the Battle of Tsushima
    Battle of Tsushima
    The Battle of Tsushima , commonly known as the “Sea of Japan Naval Battle” in Japan and the “Battle of Tsushima Strait”, was the major naval battle fought between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War...

     in May 1905.
  • Aoba Maru: regular route ferry between Matsuyama and Kitakyushu, capsized by Typhoon Della off Kunisaki Peninsula, Inland Sea, at least 133 people confirmed dead in June 1949.
  • Borodino
    Russian battleship Borodino
    The Borodino was the class leader of the , and the second ship of her class to be completed. The ship was named after the 1812 Battle of Borodino. Borodino was lost at the Battle of Tsushima on 27 May 1905 due to explosions set off by a Japanese shell hitting a 6-inch magazine...

    : sunk at the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905.
  • SS Dakota
    SS Dakota
    right|thumb|300px|SS DakotaThe SS Dakota was a steamship built by the Eastern Shipbuilding Company in Groton, Connecticut and owned by railroad magnate James J...

    : American passenger ship which struck a reef in Yokohama Bay, March 1907.
  • MV Derbyshire
    MV Derbyshire
    The MV Derbyshire was an ore-bulk-oil combination carrier built in 1976 by Swan Hunter, as the last in the series of the Bridge-class sextet. She was registered at Liverpool and owned by Bibby Line....

    : British ore bulk carrier, sunk in typhoon on September 9, 1980.
  • Imperator Aleksander III
    Russian battleship Imperator Aleksander III (1901)
    The Imperator Alexandr III was a of the Russian Imperial Navy, the first ship of its class to be completed. It was named after Tsar Alexander III. Some naval architects regard the Borodino-class as being among the worst battleships ever built...

    : sunk at the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905.
  • SS Kiche Maru
    SS Kiche Maru
    The Fucked Up TyphoonThe Kiche Maru was a Japanese steamship that sank during a typhoon on 22 September 1912. Although more than 1,000 people died, the disaster was overshadowed by the earlier loss of the RMS Titanic, and by the fact that it was part of the casualties of a tropical storm in...

    : Japanese passenger ship lost in a storm with over 1,000 passengers lost, September 1912.
  • Kitagawa Maru No.5: Japanese wooden passenger boat, capsized off Onomichi, Inland Sea, Japan, April 1957, killing at least 113.
  • Kawachi
    Japanese battleship Kawachi
    The was the lead ship of the two-ship Kawachi-class of semi-dreadnought battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was built at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal and launched in 1910...

    : capsized after explosion caused by spontaneous ignition at Tokuyama, Yamaguchi
    Tokuyama, Yamaguchi
    was a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.On April 21, 2003 Tokuyama was merged with the city of Shinnan'yō, the town of Kumage, from Kumage District, and the town of Kano, from Tsuno District, to form the new city of Shūnan....

    , western Honshū
    Honshu
    is the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait...

    , 12 July 1918.
  • Knyaz Suvorov
    Russian battleship Knyaz Suvorov
    The Knyaz Suvorov was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Russian Imperial Navy, built by Baltic Works, St Petersburg. Laid down in July 1901, she was launched in September 1902 and completed in September 1904. This ship was named after the 18th-century Russian general Alexander Suvorov. Her...

    : sunk at the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905.
  • Nankai Maru
    Nankai Maru
    The MV Nankai Maru was a 8416 ton freighter built by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd, Nagasaki, Japan, in 1933 for Osaka Shosen Kaisha....

    : ferry between Wakayama, Wakayama
    Wakayama, Wakayama
    is the capital city of Wakayama Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan.-Background:Wakayama occupies 4% of the land area and has 40% of Wakayama prefecture's population. The city was founded on April 1, 1889....

     and Tokushima, Tokushima
    Tokushima, Tokushima
    is the capital city of Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku island in Japan.As of May 1, 2011, the city had an estimated population of 263,372, with 114,325 households, and a population density of 1,377.25 persons per km². Its total area is 191.23 km²....

    , capsized off southern Awaji Island
    Awaji Island
    is an island in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, in the eastern part of the Seto Inland Sea between the islands of Honshū and Shikoku. The island has an area of 592.17 km²...

    , Japan, January 1958, killing at least 167.
  • Oslyabya
    Russian battleship Oslyabya
    The Oslyabya was a battleship of the Russian Imperial Navy, belonging to the . She was named for Rodion Oslyabya, a 14th century monk of the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra and a hero of the Battle of Kulikovo....

    : sunk at the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905.
  • Sekirei Maru: Awaji Island
    Awaji Island
    is an island in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, in the eastern part of the Seto Inland Sea between the islands of Honshū and Shikoku. The island has an area of 592.17 km²...

     and Akashi passenger boat, and capsized by stormy condition off Akashi, Hyogo
    Akashi, Hyogo
    is a city located in southern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, on the Seto Inland Sea west of Kobe.As of April 1, 2011, the city has an estimated population of 290,776, with 117,392 households, and a population density of 5,907.68 persons per km²...

    , at least 304 people confirmed dead in December 1945.
  • SS Shiun Maru: ferry between Uno and Takamatsu, Kagawa
    Takamatsu, Kagawa
    is a city located in central Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in Japan, and is the seat of the prefectural government. It is designated a core city by the Japanese Government. It is a port city located on the Seto Inland Sea, and is the closest port to Honshu from Shikoku island...

    , capsized and sunk in May 1955 during fog off Takamatsu, Shikoku
    Shikoku
    is the smallest and least populous of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshū and east of the island of Kyūshū. Its ancient names include Iyo-no-futana-shima , Iyo-shima , and Futana-shima...

    , killing at least 168.
  • Sissoi Veliky: sunk at the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905.
  • Tarumizu Maru No.6: regular route ferry between Tarumizu
    Tarumizu, Kagoshima
    is a city located in Kagoshima, Japan.As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 19,512 and the density of 120.55 persons per km². The total area is 161.86 km².The city was founded on October 1, 1958.-External links:* *...

     and Kagoshima, capsized off Kagoshima Bay, at least 464 people confirmed dead in February 1944.
  • Tokiwa Maru: regular route ferry between Naruto
    Naruto
    is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become the Hokage, the ninja in his village who is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of...

     and Kobe
    Kobe
    , pronounced , is the fifth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, approximately west of Osaka...

    , capsized by collision with cargo ship Richmond Maru off Kobe, with at least 47 confirmed dead.

Malaysia

  • Awazisan Maru
    IJN Awazisan Maru
    The Awazisan Maru, also known as Awajisan Maru or Awagisan Maru was a 9,794 gross ton freighter that was built by Tama Shipbuilding Co., Tamano for Mitsui & Co. Ltd. launched in 1939 and was notable for being the most advanced freighter of its time...

    : World War II Japanese transport ship, bombed and sank off the coast of Kota Bharu
    Kota Bharu
    Kota Bharu is a city in Malaysia, is the state capital and Royal City of Kelantan. It is also the name of the territory in which Kota Bharu City is situated. The name means 'new city' or 'new castle/fort' in Malay. Kota Bharu is situated in the northeastern part of Peninsular Malaysia, and lies...

    .
  • HMS Repulse
    HMS Repulse (1916)
    HMS Repulse was a Renown-class battlecruiser of the Royal Navy built during the First World War. She was originally laid down as an improved version of the s. Her construction was suspended on the outbreak of war on the grounds she would not be ready in a timely manner...

    : a Renown-class battlecruiser
    Renown class battlecruiser
    The Renown class consisted of a pair of battlecruisers built during the First World War for the Royal Navy. They were originally laid down as improved versions of the s. Their construction was suspended on the outbreak of war on the grounds they would not be ready in a timely manner...

     launched in 1916 and sunk in a Japanese air attack in 1941.

Philippines

  • Akitsushima
    Japanese seaplane tender Akitsushima
    The was a seaplane tender of the Imperial Japanese Navy, serving during the World War II from 1942 until being sunk in September 1944.-Design:In 1938, the IJN wanted to use their large-sized flying boats more effectively, because the Kawanishi H6K was the only aircraft able to hit the Pearl Harbor...

    : a Japanese seaplane tender sunk at Coron Island
    Coron Island
    Coron Island is the third largest island in the Calamian Group of Islands in northern Palawan in the Philippines. The island is part of the larger municipality of the same name. It is about southwest of Manila, is known for several Japanese shipwrecks World War II vintage. The island is part of...

    .
  • Awa Maru
    Awa Maru (1943)
    The was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The ship was built in 1941-1943 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Nagasaki, Japan...

    : a Japanese World War II hospital ship sunk off the coast of Camiguin
    Camiguin
    Camiguin is an island province of the Philippines located in the Bohol Sea, about off the northern coast of Misamis Oriental in Mindanao. It is the second-smallest province both in population and land area after Batanes...

    .
  • Cebu City
    MV Cebu City
    MV Cebu City was a ferry operated by William Lines Incorporated which later merged with Aboitiz Incorporated in 1996. On December 2, 1994, the 2,452 tonnes ferry sunk in Manila Bay after colliding with Singaporean freighter Kota Suria claiming 140 lives. After the investigation by the Philippine...

    : capsized by collision with the freighter Kota Suria, with 140 people confirmed dead, off Manila Bay
    Manila Bay
    Manila Bay is a natural harbor which serves the Port of Manila , in the Philippines.The bay is considered to be one of the best natural harbors in Southeast Asia and one of the finest in the world...

     on 2 December 1994.
  • USS Cooper
    USS Cooper (DD-695)
    USS Cooper , a , is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Elmer Glenn Cooper, a naval aviator who died in a seaplane accident in 1938. The Cooper was launched 9 February 1944 by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, N.J.; sponsored by Mrs. Elmer G. Cooper; and...

    : an Allen M. Sumner class destroyer
    Allen M. Sumner class destroyer
    The Allen M. Sumner class was a group of 58 destroyers built by the United States during World War II. Another twelve ships were completed as destroyer minelayers...

    , sunk in the Battle of Ormoc Bay
    Battle of Ormoc Bay
    The Battle of Ormoc Bay was a series of air-sea battles between Imperial Japan and the United States in the Camotes Sea in the Philippines between 11 November and 21 December 1944, part of the Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II. The battles resulted from Japanese operations to...

     in late 1944.
  • Dona Marilyn: on 24 October 1988, capsized off Almagro, Samar
    Almagro, Samar
    Almagro is a 5th class municipality in the province of Samar, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 10,619 people in 2,192 households.-Barangays:Almagro is politically subdivided into 23 barangays.-External links:**...

    , by Typhoon Ruby. Estimates of the number of dead vary from 50 to 150.
  • Dumaguete J: a motor vessel carrying 500 people capsized off Zamboanga
    Zamboanga City
    The City of Zamboanga : is a highly urbanized, independent and a chartered city located in Mindanao, Philippines....

    , Mindanao
    Mindanao
    Mindanao is the second largest and easternmost island in the Philippines. It is also the name of one of the three island groups in the country, which consists of the island of Mindanao and smaller surrounding islands. The other two are Luzon and the Visayas. The island of Mindanao is called The...

    . At least 300 were confirmed dead on October 1968.
  • USS Hoel
    USS Hoel (DD-533)
    USS Hoel was a World War II-era Fletcher-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy, named after Lieutenant Commander William R. Hoel....

    : a World War II-era Fletcher-class destroyer
    Fletcher class destroyer
    The Fletcher class were a class of destroyers built by the United States during World War II. The class was designed in 1939 as a result of dissatisfaction with the earlier destroyer leader types...

    , sunk in the Battle off Samar
    Battle off Samar
    The Battle off Samar was the centermost action of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, one of the largest naval battles in history, which took place in the Philippine Sea off Samar Island, in the Philippines on 25 October 1944...

    .
  • USS Hovey
    USS Hovey (DD-208)
    USS Hovey was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the only ship named for Ensign Charles Hovey ....

    : a Clemson-class destroyer
    Clemson class destroyer
    The Clemson class was a series of 156 destroyers which served with the United States Navy from after World War I through World War II.The Clemson-class ships were commissioned by the United States Navy from 1919 to 1922, built by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, New York Shipbuilding...

    , sunk in the Invasion of Luzon.
  • Irako: a Japanese food supply ship, sunk at Coron Island
    Coron Island
    Coron Island is the third largest island in the Calamian Group of Islands in northern Palawan in the Philippines. The island is part of the larger municipality of the same name. It is about southwest of Manila, is known for several Japanese shipwrecks World War II vintage. The island is part of...

    .
  • Isuzu Maru: a Japanese transport ship sunk by USS Trout
    USS Trout (SS-202)
    USS Trout was a United States Navy Tambor-class submarine, serving in the Pacific from 1941 to 1944. She received 11 battle stars for World War II service and three Presidential Unit Citations, for her second, third, and fifth patrols...

     off the north coast of Marinduque Island.
  • Kogyo Maru: a Japanese Navy auxiliary supply ship, sunk in Coron Island
    Coron Island
    Coron Island is the third largest island in the Calamian Group of Islands in northern Palawan in the Philippines. The island is part of the larger municipality of the same name. It is about southwest of Manila, is known for several Japanese shipwrecks World War II vintage. The island is part of...

    .
  • Kyokuzan Maru: a Japanese Army auxiliary supply ship, sunk at Coron Island
    Coron Island
    Coron Island is the third largest island in the Calamian Group of Islands in northern Palawan in the Philippines. The island is part of the larger municipality of the same name. It is about southwest of Manila, is known for several Japanese shipwrecks World War II vintage. The island is part of...

    .
  • USS Mahan
    USS Mahan (DD-364)
    The second USS Mahan was the lead ship of her class of destroyers in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan.-History:...

    : a Mahan-class destroyer
    Mahan class destroyer
    The Mahan-class destroyers served in the United States Navy before and during World War II. The lead ship of the class was named for Alfred T. Mahan, a US Naval officer and influential theorist on sea power....

    , sunk during World War II between Leyte and Ponson Island.
  • USS New York
    USS New York (ACR-2)
    USS New York was a United States Navy armored cruiser. The fourth Navy ship to be named in honor of the state of New York, she was later renamed Saratoga and then Rochester ....

    : a United States Navy armored cruiser scuttled in Subic Bay
    Subic Bay
    Subic Bay is a bay forming part of Luzon Sea on the west coast of the island of Luzon in Zambales, Philippines, about 100 kilometers northwest of Manila Bay. Its shores were formerly the site of a major United States Navy facility named U.S...

     to avoid Japanese capture during World War II.
  • Okikawa Maru: a Japanese Navy auxiliary oiler, sunk at Coron Island
    Coron Island
    Coron Island is the third largest island in the Calamian Group of Islands in northern Palawan in the Philippines. The island is part of the larger municipality of the same name. It is about southwest of Manila, is known for several Japanese shipwrecks World War II vintage. The island is part of...

    .
  • Olympia Maru: a Japanese Army auxiliary supply ship, sunk at Coron Island
    Coron Island
    Coron Island is the third largest island in the Calamian Group of Islands in northern Palawan in the Philippines. The island is part of the larger municipality of the same name. It is about southwest of Manila, is known for several Japanese shipwrecks World War II vintage. The island is part of...

    .
  • USS Ommaney Bay
    USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79)
    USS Ommaney Bay was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy, named for Ommaney Bay, Alaska.Ommaney Bay, formerly MC hull 1116, was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract 6 October 1943 by Kaiser Company, Inc., Vancouver, Washington; launched 29 December 1943, sponsored...

    , a US Navy Casablanca-class escort carrier sunk during World War II in the Sulu Sea
    Sulu Sea
    The Sulu Sea is a body of water in the southwestern area of the Philippines, separated from the South China Sea in the northwest by Palawan and from the Celebes Sea in the southeast by the Sulu Archipelago. Borneo is found to the southwest and Visayas to the northeast.Sulu Sea contains a number of...

    .
  • Oryoku Maru
    Oryoku Maru
    was a Japanese passenger cargo ship. In World War II, Oryoku Maru was used as a troop transport and prisoners of war transport ship . She left Manila on December 13, 1944, with 1620 POWs, mostly American, packed in the holds. 1900 Japanese civilians & military personnel occupied the cabins...

    (the "Hell Ship
    Hell Ship
    A hell ship is a ship with extremely unpleasant living conditions or with a reputation for cruelty among the crew. It now generally refers to the ships used by the Imperial Japanese Navy to transport Allied prisoners of war out of the Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore during World War II. The...

    "): a Japanese passenger cargo ship, sunk by the USS Hornet
    USS Hornet (CV-12)
    USS Hornet is a United States Navy aircraft carrier of the Essex class. Construction started in August 1942; she was originally named , but was renamed in honor of the , which was lost in October 1942, becoming the eighth ship to bear the name.Hornet was commissioned in November 1943, and after...

     in Subic Bay
    Subic Bay
    Subic Bay is a bay forming part of Luzon Sea on the west coast of the island of Luzon in Zambales, Philippines, about 100 kilometers northwest of Manila Bay. Its shores were formerly the site of a major United States Navy facility named U.S...

    .
  • MV Princess of the Stars
    MV Princess of the Stars
    MV Princess of the Stars was a ferry owned by Filipino shipping company Sulpicio Lines that capsized off the coast of San Fernando, Romblon at the height of Typhoon Fengshen on June 21, 2008...

    : passenger ferry sank in San Fernando
    San Fernando, Romblon
    San Fernando is a 4th class municipality in the province of Romblon, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 21,214 people in 4,159 households.-Barangays:San Fernando is politically subdivided into 12 barangays.* Agtiwa...

    , Romblon
    Romblon
    Romblon is an island province of the Philippines located in the MIMAROPA region. It lies south of Marinduque and Quezon, east of Mindoro, north of Aklan and Capiz, and west of Masbate. Its capital is also named Romblon....

    , on 21 June 2008, leaving 500+ people dead and 60+ survivors.
  • USS Princeton
    USS Princeton (CVL-23)
    The fourth USS Princeton was a United States Navy lost at the battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944.-Construction and deployment:The ship was laid down as the Tallahassee by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, 2 June 1941...

    : a United States Navy Independence-class aircraft carrier lost at the Battle of Leyte Gulf
    Battle of Leyte Gulf
    The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the "Battles for Leyte Gulf", and formerly known as the "Second Battle of the Philippine Sea", is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history.It was fought in waters...

     in 1944.
  • Royal Captain: a schooner
    Schooner
    A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

     chartered to the East India Company
    East India Company
    The East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...

    , sunk at a reef in 1773, 46 miles (76 kilometers) from Palawan
    Palawan
    Palawan is an island province of the Philippines located in the MIMAROPA region or Region 4. Its capital is Puerto Princesa City, and it is the largest province in the country in terms of total area of jurisdiction. The islands of Palawan stretch from Mindoro in the northeast to Borneo in the...

    , enroute to Balambangan Island
    Balambangan Island
    Balambangan Island is located off the northern tip of Borneo in the Malaysian state of Sabah. It is part of the Kudat Division and is situated just about 3 kilometres west of Banggi Island....

    . All but three crewmen survived the sinking and were picked up by the British ship Union. The three sailors who drowned were apparently drunk and refused to take to the lifeboats.
  • USS Samuel B. Roberts
    USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)
    USS Samuel B. Roberts was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy.Samuel B. Roberts was part of the Battle off Samar, an unlikely victory in which relatively light U.S. warships prevented a superior Japanese force from attacking the amphibious invasion fleet off the large...

    : a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort, sunk during the Battle off Samar
    Battle off Samar
    The Battle off Samar was the centermost action of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, one of the largest naval battles in history, which took place in the Philippine Sea off Samar Island, in the Philippines on 25 October 1944...

    .
  • San Quentin: a Spanish gunboat scuttled in 1898 During the Spanish-American War
    Spanish-American War
    The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence...

    , in the hope of blocking the passage between Grande Island and Chiquita Islands near the mouth of Subic Bay
    Subic Bay
    Subic Bay is a bay forming part of Luzon Sea on the west coast of the island of Luzon in Zambales, Philippines, about 100 kilometers northwest of Manila Bay. Its shores were formerly the site of a major United States Navy facility named U.S...

    .
  • USS St. Lo
    USS St. Lo (CVE-63)
    USS St. Lo was a of the United States Navy during World War II. On 25 October 1944, St. Lo became the first major warship to sink as the result of a kamikaze attack. The attack occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.St...

    : a Casablanca-class escort carrier
    Casablanca class escort carrier
    The Casablanca class escort aircraft carriers were the greatest number of not only escort carriers, but also any size aircraft carrier ever built to a like-design by any nation at any time. Fifty were laid down, launched and commissioned within the space of less than two years - 3 November 1942...

     of the United States Navy during World War II. On October 25, 1944, St. Lo became the first major warship sunk by a kamikaze
    Kamikaze
    The were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy as many warships as possible....

     attack during the Battle of Leyte Gulf
    Battle of Leyte Gulf
    The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the "Battles for Leyte Gulf", and formerly known as the "Second Battle of the Philippine Sea", is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and, by some criteria, possibly the largest naval battle in history.It was fought in waters...

    .
  • Ming Dynasty
    Ming Dynasty
    The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...

     Chinese merchant boat, sunk off the coast of Marinduque
    Marinduque
    In 1945, combined American and Philippine Commonwealth troops attacked from the Japanese Troops liberated to the Battle of Marinduque in the Second World War.-Archaeology:...

    .

Russia

  • USS Wahoo
    USS Wahoo (SS-238)
    was a Gato-class submarine, the first United States Navy ship to be named for the wahoo, a dark blue food fish of Florida and the West Indies....

    : sunk by Japanese aircraft in La Perouse (Soya) Strait
    La Perouse Strait
    La Pérouse Strait is a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin from the northern part of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east....

     between Hokkaidō
    Hokkaido
    , formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island; it is also the largest and northernmost of Japan's 47 prefectural-level subdivisions. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaido from Honshu, although the two islands are connected by the underwater railway Seikan Tunnel...

     and Sakhalin
    Sakhalin
    Sakhalin or Saghalien, is a large island in the North Pacific, lying between 45°50' and 54°24' N.It is part of Russia, and is Russia's largest island, and is administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast...

     during WWII.

Singapore

  • La Seyne: a French liner belonging to the Messageries Maritimes
    Messageries Maritimes
    The Messageries Maritimes is an old French maritime company. It was originally created in 1851 as Messageries Nationales, later called Messageries Impériales, and in 1871, Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes.-History:...

    fleet, cut in half in collision, due to thick fog, with the Onda (British India Steam Navigation Company), sank on 14 November 1909 thirty miles off Singapore. 101 died, while many of the 61 who survived suffered grave wounds when attacked by sharks, prior to being saved by the crew of the Onda. Refusing to be saved, the Captain of the French liner went down with his ship.

South Korea

  • Chang Tyong-ho: a Yosu-Busan route ferry, capsized off Busan
    Busan
    Busan , formerly spelled Pusan is South Korea's second largest metropolis after Seoul, with a population of around 3.6 million. The Metropolitan area population is 4,399,515 as of 2010. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth largest port in the world...

     and at least 249 people confirmed dead, only seven survived on January, 1953.
  • Namyong ho: ferry between Busan
    Busan
    Busan , formerly spelled Pusan is South Korea's second largest metropolis after Seoul, with a population of around 3.6 million. The Metropolitan area population is 4,399,515 as of 2010. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth largest port in the world...

     and Jeju-do
    Jeju-do
    Jeju-do is the only special autonomous province of South Korea, situated on and coterminous with the country's largest island. Jeju-do lies in the Korea Strait, southwest of Jeollanam-do Province, of which it was a part before it became a separate province in 1946...

    , capsized in Korea Strait
    Korea Strait
    The Korea Strait is a sea passage between South Korea and Japan, connecting the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean...

     in December 1970, killing 323 people, only 12 were rescued.
  • Seo Hae: capsized by stormy weather off coast of Puan, Kyeongpo, killing 285, in October 1993.
  • Sperwer: a Dutch trading ship with the VOC (Dutch East India Company), was blown off course and capsized by stormy weather on Jeju-do
    Jeju-do
    Jeju-do is the only special autonomous province of South Korea, situated on and coterminous with the country's largest island. Jeju-do lies in the Korea Strait, southwest of Jeollanam-do Province, of which it was a part before it became a separate province in 1946...

    , killing 48 people, 16 survived on 15–16 August 1653.

Sri Lanka

: corvette
Corvette
A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...

 sunk by Japanese air attack in 1942.: Royal Australian Navy
Royal Australian Navy
The Royal Australian Navy is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies were integrated into a national force: the Commonwealth Naval Forces...

 destroyer sunk by Japanese air attack in 1942.: minesweeper of the Royal Ceylon Navy sunk in a strong storm in the Gulf of Mannar
Gulf of Mannar
The Gulf of Mannar is a large shallow bay forming part of the Laccadive Sea in the Indian Ocean. It lies between the southeastern tip of India and the west coast of Sri Lanka. A chain of low islands and reefs known as Adam's Bridge, also called Ramsethu, which includes Mannar Island, separates the...

.

Turkey

: a French cruiser sunk by Turkish coastal artillery under command of "Captain Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker" about 1 miles (1.6 km) outside Avova Bay (Ağva Körfezi) on 8 February 1918.
  • Bouvet
    French battleship Bouvet
    The Bouvet was a French pre-dreadnought battleship, launched in 1896 and sunk by a mine in 1915 during World War I.Bouvet, named for the maritime family of Bouvet de Lozier, the most famous being French Admiral François Joseph Bouvet, belonged to the Jauréguiberry quasi-class which comprised...

    : a French pre-Dreadnought battleship, launched in 1896 and sunk by Turkish coastal artillery at the Dardanelles in 1915 during World War I
    Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign
    The naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign of the First World War were mainly carried out by the Royal Navy with substantial support from the French and minor contributions from Russia and Australia. The Dardanelles Campaign began as a purely naval operation...

    .: a British cruise ship remodelled as a carrier vessel for World War I, sunk by Turkish coastal artillery while anchored at harbour of the island of Kastelorizo
    Kastelorizo
    Kastelorizo, , is a Greek island and municipality located in the southeastern Mediterranean. It lies roughly off the south coast of Turkey, about 570 km southeast of Athens and east of Rhodes, almost halfway between Rhodes and Antalya and to Cyprus...

     (Meis adası) on 27 December 1916.: a French naval patrol ship sunk by Turkish coastal artillery under command of Captain "Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker" off Kemer
    Kemer
    Kemer is a seaside resort and district of Antalya Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, west of the city of Antalya.Kemer is on the Gulf of Antalya, of sea coast with the skirts of the western Taurus mountains behind. The coast has the typical Mediterranean hot, dry weather and warm sea...

     inside Avova Bay (Ağva Körfezi) December 13, 1917. Coordinates 36° 36' 8.06 N ; 30° 35' 10.93 E at 30 metres (98.4 ft) depth. Approximately 150 shots fired, of which 110 hit the target. Crew rescued by Turkish soldiers.
  • The Cape Gelidonya
    Cape Gelidonya
    Cape Gelidonya near Finike, Turkey is the site of a late Bronze Age wreck . In view of the cargo's nature and composition the excavators have proposed a possible levantine provenance. The remains of the ship sat at a depth of about 27 m, on irregular rocky bottom. It was located in 1954, and the...

     Shipwreck: a Phoenicia
    Phoenicia
    Phoenicia , was an ancient civilization in Canaan which covered most of the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent. Several major Phoenician cities were built on the coastline of the Mediterranean. It was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean from 1550...

    n merchant vessel
    Merchant vessel
    A merchant vessel is a ship that transports cargo or passengers. The closely related term commercial vessel is defined by the United States Coast Guard as any vessel engaged in commercial trade or that carries passengers for hire...

     wrecked around 1200 BC.
  • Uluburun shipwreck
    Uluburun shipwreck
    The Uluburun Shipwreck is a Late Bronze Age shipwreck dated to the late 14th century BCE, discovered off Uluburun situated about 6 miles southeast of Kaş, in south-western Turkey...

    : a merchant shipwreck
    Shipwreck
    A shipwreck is what remains of a ship that has wrecked, either sunk or beached. Whatever the cause, a sunken ship or a wrecked ship is a physical example of the event: this explains why the two concepts are often overlapping in English....

     dating to the late Bronze Age
    Bronze Age
    The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons. Chronologically, it stands between the Stone Age and Iron Age...

    .

Canary Islands

  • SS American Star
    SS America (1940)
    SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines and designed by the noted naval architect William Francis Gibbs. She carried many names in the 54 years between her construction and her 1994 wrecking, as she served as the SS America , the USS West Point, the SS Australis, the...

    : ran aground on Fuerteventura under tow on January 1993, then split in half and the stern sank.

Corsica

  • French frigate Sémillante
    French frigate Sémillante (1841)
    The Sémillante was a 60-gun frigate of the French Navy.She took part in the Crimean war from 1854 as a transport. In February 1855, under Captain Jugan, she departed Toulon with a crew of 301 and 392 soldiers as reinforcements for the French army...

    : sank in a hurricane on 15 February 1855 in the Strait of Bonifacio
    Strait of Bonifacio
    The Strait of Bonifacio is the strait between Corsica and Sardinia, named after the Corsican town Bonifacio. It is wide and divides the Tyrrhenian Sea from the western Mediterranean Sea...

    .

Croatia

  • RN Cesare Rossarol: an Italian Alessandro Poerio-class cruiser sunk by an underwater mine near Ližnjan
    Ližnjan
    Ližnjan is a village and municipality in the southern part of Istria, Croatia, 12 km south-west of Pula, 2 km north-east of Medulin; elevation 61 m. Chief occupations are farming and tourism . Ližnjan is located on the regional road Medulin - Sisan.First mentioned already in AD 990...

    , Croatia
    Croatia
    Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

    , on 16 November 1918.
  • SMS Szent István
    SMS Szent István
    SMS Szent István was a dreadnought , the only one built in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary. The Ganz & Company's Danubius yard in Hungarian-owned Fiume was awarded the contract to build the battleship in return for the Hungarian government agreeing to the 1910 and 1911 naval budgets...

    : an Austro-Hungarian
    Austria-Hungary
    Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...

     Tegetthoff-class
    Tegetthoff class battleship
    The Tegetthoff-class was the sole class of dreadnought battleship built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Four ships were built, SMS Viribus Unitis, SMS Tegetthoff, SMS Prinz Eugen and SMS Szent Istvan...

     dreadnought battleship sunk in the Adriatic Sea
    Adriatic Sea
    The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges...

     off Molat
    Molat (island)
    Molat is an island in Croatian part of Adriatic Sea. It is situated near Zadar, southeast from Ist, separated by Zapuntel strait. It has area of 22.82 km²....

     island by Italian torpedo boat MAS-15 on 10 June 1918.
  • SMS Viribus Unitis
    SMS Viribus Unitis
    SMS Viribus Unitis was the first Austro-Hungarian dreadnought battleship of the . Its name, meaning "With United Forces", was the personal motto of Emperor Franz Joseph I.Viribus Unitis was ordered by the Austro-Hungarian navy in 1908...

    : an Austro-Hungarian
    Austria-Hungary
    Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...

     Tegetthoff-class
    Tegetthoff class battleship
    The Tegetthoff-class was the sole class of dreadnought battleship built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Four ships were built, SMS Viribus Unitis, SMS Tegetthoff, SMS Prinz Eugen and SMS Szent Istvan...

     dreadnought battleship sunk at anchor at Pula
    Pula
    Pula is the largest city in Istria County, Croatia, situated at the southern tip of the Istria peninsula, with a population of 62,080 .Like the rest of the region, it is known for its mild climate, smooth sea, and unspoiled nature. The city has a long tradition of winemaking, fishing,...

     in the Adriatic Sea by Italian human torpedo
    Human torpedo
    Human torpedoes or manned torpedoes are a type of rideable submarine used as secret naval weapons in World War II. The basic design is still in use today; they are a type of diver propulsion vehicle....

     on 1 November 1918.

Cyprus

  • Kyrenia ship
    Kyrenia ship
    The Kyrenia ship is the wreck of a 4th century BC Greek merchant ship. It was discovered by Greek-Cypriot diving instructor Andreas Cariolou in November 1965 during a storm. Having lost the exact position Cariolou carried out more than 200 dives until he re-discovered the wreck in 1967 close to...

    : a Greek merchant ship dating to the 4th century BC. This wooden wreck - apparently one of the oldest in the world - is on display in the museum of Kyrenia, in North Cyprus
    Kyrenia ship
    The Kyrenia ship is the wreck of a 4th century BC Greek merchant ship. It was discovered by Greek-Cypriot diving instructor Andreas Cariolou in November 1965 during a storm. Having lost the exact position Cariolou carried out more than 200 dives until he re-discovered the wreck in 1967 close to...

    .
  • Zenobia
    Zenobia (shipwreck)
    MS Zenobia was a Swedish built Challenger-class RO-RO ferry launched in 1979 that capsized and sank close to Larnaca, Cyprus, in June 1980 on her maiden voyage...

    : a Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     RO-RO ferry, sank 1 miles (1.6 km) off the port of Larnaca June 7, 1980.

Denmark

  • Russian frigate Alexander Neuski
    Russian frigate Alexander Neuski
    Alexander Nevsky , named after the famous Russian historical figure, was a large screw frigate of the Russian Imperial Navy. The ship was designed as part of a challenge being offered by the Russian Empire to the Royal Navy, but was lost in a shipwreck in 1868 while Grand Duke Alexei, son of Tsar...

    : ran aground off the coast of Thyborøn
    Thyborøn
    Thyborøn is a fishing village in Jutland, Denmark with a population of 2,241 , primarily famous for being the site of numerous shipwrecks, such as that of the Imperial Russian naval vessel Alexander Neuski....

    , a fishing village in Jutland
    Jutland
    Jutland , historically also called Cimbria, is the name of the peninsula that juts out in Northern Europe toward the rest of Scandinavia, forming the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish–German...

     on 25 September 1868.
  • HMS Black Prince
    HMS Black Prince (1904)
    HMS Black Prince was a armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s. During the First World War she served in the Mediterranean before joining the Grand Fleet...

    : sank at the Battle of Jutland
    Battle of Jutland
    The Battle of Jutland was a naval battle between the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet during the First World War. The battle was fought on 31 May and 1 June 1916 in the North Sea near Jutland, Denmark. It was the largest naval battle and the only...

     in 1916. The site is a protected place
    Protection of Military Remains Act 1986
    The Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom which provides protection for the wreckage of military aircraft and designated military vessels. The Act provides for two types of protection: protected places and controlled sites. Military aircraft are...

    .
  • HMS Defence
    HMS Defence (1907)
    HMS Defence was a armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s. She was the last armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy. She was stationed in the Mediterranean when the First World War began and participated in the pursuit of the German battlecruiser and light cruiser...

    : magazine explosion during the Battle of Jutland. The site is a protected place.
  • HMS Indefatigable
    HMS Indefatigable (1909)
    HMS Indefatigable was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy and the lead ship of her class. Her keel was laid down in 1909 and she was commissioned in 1911...

    : magazine explosion during the Battle of Jutland. The site is a protected place.
  • HMS Invincible
    HMS Invincible (1907)
    HMS Invincible was a battlecruiser of the British Royal Navy, the lead ship of her class of three, and the first battlecruiser to be built by any country in the world. She participated in the Battle of Heligoland Bight in a minor role as she was the oldest and slowest of the British battlecruisers...

    : shell struck magazine during the Battle of Jutland. The site is a protected place.
  • HMS Queen Mary
    HMS Queen Mary
    HMS Queen Mary was a battlecruiser built by the British Royal Navy before World War I, the sole member of her class. She was similar to the s, though she differed in details from her half-sisters. She was the last battlecruiser completed before the war and participated in the Battle of Heligoland...

    : magazine explosion during the Battle of Jutland. The site is a protected place.
  • HMS Warrior
    HMS Warrior (1905)
    HMS Warrior was a Duke of Edinburgh-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s. She was stationed in the Mediterranean when the First World War began and participated in the pursuit of the German battlecruiser and light cruiser . Warrior was transferred to the Grand Fleet in...

    : foundered during tow after severe damage in the Battle of Jutland. The site is a protected place.
  • SMS Elbing
    SMS Elbing
    The SMS Elbing was a German Pillau class light cruiser, named after the East Prussian city of Elbing. Intended for the Russian navy under the name Admiral Newelski , the ship was built at F. Schichau-Werft in Danzig in 1913-1914...

    : scuttled following collision in the Battle of Jutland.
  • SMS Frauenlob
    SMS Frauenlob
    SMS Frauenlob was a Gazelle-class light cruiser in the German Imperial Navy. She was the second ship of that name, after a schooner launched in 1853.-History:Frauenlob was built at A.G. Weser in Bremen...

    : torpedoed and shelled during the Battle of Jutland.
  • SMS Lützow
    SMS Lützow
    SMS Lützow"SMS" stands for "Seiner Majestät Schiff", or "His Majesty's Ship" in German. was the second built by the German Kaiserliche Marine before World War I. Ordered as a replacement for the old protected cruiser , Lützow was launched on 29 November 1913, but not completed until 1916...

    : scuttled after severe damage in the Battle of Jutland.
  • SMS Pommern
    SMS Pommern
    SMS Pommern was one of five Deutschland class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Kaiserliche Marine between 1904 and 1906. Named after the Prussian province of Pomerania, she was built at the AG Vulcan yard at Stettin, where she was laid down on 22 March 1904 and launched on 2 December...

    : magazine explosion during the Battle of Jutland.
  • U-20: ran aground on 4 November 1916 and was sunk by her crew on the following day.
  • Linieskibet Dannebroge: burnt and sunk in the Great Northern War
    Great Northern War
    The Great Northern War was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in northern Central Europe and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedish alliance were Peter I the Great of Russia, Frederick IV of...

     during the Action of 4 October 1710
    Action of 4 October 1710
    This battle took place on 4 October 1710, during the Great Northern War, in Køge Bay, just south of Copenhagen. Denmark had 26 ships with 1808 guns, and Sweden had 21 ships with 1512 guns. It was a victory for the Danes, despite the fact that they had about 15% of their crews sick, and the Swedes...

    , 1710.
  • Swedish tugboat Freja af Stockholm SGYO sank outside Fredrikshavn 20 February 1994. The vessel now rests on 23 meters depth in position N57 27 and E010 40.
  • Fu Shan Hai
    Fu Shan Hai
    Fu Shan Hai was a Chinese bulk carrier, 225x33x69, transporting fertilizer. On the 31 May 2003 at 12.18 she collided with the Cypriot container ship Gdynia 3 nm NW of the Danish island Bornholm. At 20:49 the same evening Fu Shan Hai sank to the bottom of the Baltic Sea where she lies in 69 meters...

    : a Chinese bulk carrier sank after a collision with the Cypriot container vessel Gdynia on 31 May 2003, without injury or loss of life.

Estonia

  • Maasilinn Wreck: a wreck off Saaremaa
    Saaremaa
    Saaremaa is the largest island in Estonia, measuring 2,673 km². The main island of Saare County, it is located in the Baltic Sea, south of Hiiumaa island, and belongs to the West Estonian Archipelago...

     island dating to the 16th century.
  • MS Estonia: a cruiseferry
    Cruiseferry
    A cruiseferry is a ship that combines the features of a cruise ship with a Ro-Pax ferry. Many passengers travel with the ships for the cruise experience, staying only a few hours at the destination port or not leaving the ship at all, while others use the ships as means of...

     built in 1980. The ship sunk in the Baltic Sea
    Baltic Sea
    The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...

     about 100 km from Turku, Finland, on 28 September 1994, claiming 852 lives in one of the worst maritime disasters in modern history.

Faroe Islands

  • SS Sauternes
    SS Sauternes
    SS Sauternes was a steamship built in 1922. She sank in a storm in the firth Fugloyarfjørður by the Faroe Islands on 7 December 1941; all 25 passengers and crew were lost. In the Faroes, she became known as Jólaskipið, the Christmas Ship...

    : a steamship sank after a storm in the sound of Fugloyarfjørður
    Fugloyarfjørður
    Fugloyarfjørður is the firth separating Svínoy from Fugloy in the Faroe Islands....

     on 7 December 1941.
  • Tjaldur: sank after hitting the nesse of Mjóvanes on 27 June 1946.
  • Lincoln City: a British trawler was sunk in Tórshavn Harbour in 1941.

Finland

  • Vrouw Maria
    Vrouw Maria
    Vrouw Maria was a Dutch wooden two-masted merchant ship carrying a valuable cargo of art objects, captained by Raymund Lourens, that sank on October 9, 1771, in the outer archipelago of the municipality of Nagu, Finland, 11 kilometers south-east of the island of Jurmo. In 1999, the ship was...

    : a Dutch merchant ship, ran aground and sunk on 9 October 1771.
  • Sankt Nikolai: a Russian frigate sunk in the Battle of Svensksund
    Battle of Svensksund (1790)
    The Battle of Svensksund was a naval battle fought in the Gulf of Finland outside the present day city of Kotka on 9 July 1790. The Swedish naval forces dealt the Russian fleet a devastating defeat that resulted in an end to the Russo-Swedish War of 1788–90...

     in 1790.
  • British submarine flotilla in the Baltic
    British submarine flotilla in the Baltic
    A British submarine flotilla operated in the Baltic Sea for three years during the First World War. The squadron of nine submarines was attached to the Russian Baltic Fleet. The main task of the flotilla was to prevent the import of iron ore from Sweden to Imperial Germany...

    , three submarines lost in service, eight submarines and three support ships scuttled in 1918.

France

  • HMS Arethusa
    HMS Arethusa (1759)
    The Aréthuse was a French frigate, launched in 1757 during the Seven Years' War. She was subsequently captured by the Royal Navy and became the fifth-rate HMS Arethusa.Aréthuse was built at Le Havre for privateer warfare, as Pélerine...

    : Royal Navy frigate, wrecked on 18 March 1779 off Ushant
    Ushant
    Ushant is an island at the south-western end of the English Channel which marks the north-westernmost point of metropolitan France. It belongs to Brittany and is in the traditional region of Bro-Leon. Administratively, Ushant is a commune in the Finistère department...

     after sustaining considerable damage in a battle with the French ship Aigrette.
  • CSS Alabama
    CSS Alabama
    CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead, United Kingdom, in 1862 by John Laird Sons and Company. Alabama served as a commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, during which she never anchored in...

    : a screw sloop-of-war sunk off Cherbourg-Octeville
    Cherbourg-Octeville
    -Main sights:* La Glacerie has a race track.* The Cité de la Mer is a large museum devoted to scientific and historical aspects of maritime subjects.* Cherbourg Basilica* Jardin botanique de la Roche Fauconnière, a private botanical garden.* Le Trident theatre...

     during the American Civil War
    American Civil War
    The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

     on 11 June 1864.
  • SS London
    SS London
    London was the name of a number of steamships., a London, Brighton and South Coast Railway steamshio, a steamship which sank in the Bay of Biscay in 1866....

    : sunk in a storm on 11 January 1864 in the Bay of Biscay
    Bay of Biscay
    The Bay of Biscay is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea. It lies along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border, and the northern coast of Spain west to Cape Ortegal, and is named in English after the province of Biscay, in the Spanish...

    .
  • French ship Droits de l'Homme (1794)
    French ship Droits de l'Homme (1794)
    The Droits de l'Homme was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy during the French Revolution.The Droits de l'Homme, was involved in the Action of 6 November 1794, chasing the British 74s Canada and Alexander...

    : sunk after going aground off Plozévet in 1797.
  • RMS Lancastria
    RMS Lancastria
    The RMS Lancastria was a British Cunard liner sunk on 17 June 1940 during World War II with the loss of an estimated 4,000 plus lives. It is the worst single loss of life in British maritime history and the bloodiest single engagement for UK forces , in the whole conflict and claimed more lives...

    : a Cunard Line
    Cunard Line
    Cunard Line is a British-American owned shipping company based at Carnival House in Southampton, England and operated by Carnival UK. It has been a leading operator of passenger ships on the North Atlantic for over a century...

    r sunk in the Loire River estuary
    Estuary
    An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea....

     during World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

     on 17 June 1940.
  • SS Leopoldville
    SS Leopoldville
    The Belgian transport ship SS Leopoldville, an passenger liner converted for use as a troopship in the Second World War, was struck by a torpedo fired from in the English Channel approximately five miles from the coast of Cherbourg, France, on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1944, less than five...

    : a former Belgian passenger liner converted to a transport ship, torpedoed 5 miles (8 km) from the coast of Cherbourg-Octeville on 24 December 1944.
  • Wreck of Rochelongue
    Wreck of Rochelongue
    The shipwreck of Rochelongue, located west of Cap d'Agde in southwestern France, dates to the Iron Age, ca. 600 BC. Its cargo included 800 kg of copper ingots and about 1,700 bronze artefacts. The ingots have been analysed by the SAM-Project. They contain very pure copper with traces of lead,...

    : a shipwreck found west of Cap d'Agde
    Cap d'Agde
    Cap d'Agde is the seaside resort of the town of Agde, France, on the Mediterranean sea in the département of Hérault, within the région of Languedoc-Roussillon. Agde can be reached by TGV SNCF train direct from Paris or Lille whilst the closest airports are Béziers-Cap d'Agde en Languedoc, with...

     dating to the Iron Age
    Iron Age
    The Iron Age is the archaeological period generally occurring after the Bronze Age, marked by the prevalent use of iron. The early period of the age is characterized by the widespread use of iron or steel. The adoption of such material coincided with other changes in society, including differing...

    , around 600 BC.
  • White Ship
    White Ship
    The White Ship was a vessel that sank in the English Channel near the Normandy coast off Barfleur, on 25 November 1120. Only one of those aboard survived. Those who drowned included William Adelin, the only surviving legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England...

    : a 12th century vessel that sank in the English Channel
    English Channel
    The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover...

     near the Normandy
    Normandy
    Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is in France.The continental territory covers 30,627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two régions:...

     coast off Barfleur
    Barfleur
    Barfleur is a commune in the Manche department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France.-Middle Ages:In the Middle Ages Barfleur was one of the chief ports of embarkation for England....

    , on 25 November 1120.
  • USS YMS-304: a US minesweeper that struck a mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     off Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue
    Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue
    Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.-Geography:Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue is situated in the Manche département, in the Basse-Normandie région. It is in the Quettehou canton, of the Cherbourg arrondissement. The town had a population of 2,097...

    , Normandy, and sunk on 30 July 1944.

Germany

  • MV Wilhelm Gustloff: thought to be the worst shipwreck in history with a loss of life of 9,400. 55.0729°N 17.4213°E
  • Cap Arcona: a German luxury ocean liner sunk in Lübeck Bay
    Bay of Lübeck
    The Bay of Lübeck is a basin in the southwestern Baltic Sea, off the shores of German lands of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein. It forms the southwestern part of the Bay of Mecklenburg....

     on 3 May 1945.
  • Ondo: a British freighter stranded on Grosser Vogelsand off the mouth of the Elbe River, 6 December 1961.
  • Fides: freighter, same place, 23 January 1962.

Gibraltar

  • HMS Sussex
    HMS Sussex (1693)
    HMS Sussex was an 80-gun third-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, lost in a severe storm on 1 March 1694 off Gibraltar. On board were possibly 10 tons of gold coins...

    : an English ship-of-the-line
    Ship of the line
    A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...

     lost in a severe storm on 1 March 1694.

Greece

  • Dokos shipwreck
    Dokos shipwreck
    The Dokos shipwreck is the oldest known underwater shipwreck discovery known to archeologists. The wreck has been dated to the second Proto-Helladic period, 2700-2200 BC....

    : is the oldest known underwater shipwreck discovery known to archeologists and dates to c. 2200 BCE.

  • Antikythera wreck
    Antikythera wreck
    The Antikythera wreck is a shipwreck from the 1st or 2nd century BC. It was discovered by sponge divers off Point Glyphadia on the Greek island Antikythera in the early 1900s...

    : a wreck on Antikythera
    Antikythera
    Antikythera or Anticythera is a Greek island lying on the edge of the Aegean Sea, between Crete and Peloponnese. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Kythira island....

     island that contained the Antikythera mechanism
    Antikythera mechanism
    The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical computer designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was recovered in 1900–1901 from the Antikythera wreck. Its significance and complexity were not understood until decades later. Its time of construction is now estimated between 150 and 100...

     and dates from approximately 86 BC.
  • La Thérèse: French warship sunk off Heraklion
    Heraklion
    Heraklion, or Heraclion is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete, Greece. It is the 4th largest city in Greece....

     after an accidental explosion of the powder-keg on 24 June 1669.
  • Patris: a wheel steamboat
    Steamboat
    A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels...

     on Kea Island
    Kea (island)
    Kea , also known as Gia or Tzia , Zea, and, in Antiquity, Keos , is an island of the Cyclades archipelago, in the Aegean Sea, in Greece. Kea is part of the Kea-Kythnos peripheral unit. Its capital, Ioulis, is inland at a high altitude and is considered quite picturesque...

     in 1868. Position: Lat 37Deg.34'44.18"N, Long 24Deg.15'46.42"E).
  • HMHS Britannic
    HMHS Britannic
    HMHS Britannic was the third and largest of the White Star Line. She was the sister ship of and , and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger liner. She was launched just before the start of the First World War and was laid up at her builders in Belfast for many months before...

    : a White Star Line
    White Star Line
    The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packets, more commonly known as the White Star Line, was a prominent British shipping company, today most famous for its ill-fated vessel, the RMS Titanic, and the World War I loss of Titanics sister ship Britannic...

    r sunk by flooding after striking a mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     near the isle of Kea
    Kea (island)
    Kea , also known as Gia or Tzia , Zea, and, in Antiquity, Keos , is an island of the Cyclades archipelago, in the Aegean Sea, in Greece. Kea is part of the Kea-Kythnos peripheral unit. Its capital, Ioulis, is inland at a high altitude and is considered quite picturesque...

     in November 1916.
  • Elli: Greek cruiser sunk off Tinos
    Tinos
    Tinos is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It is located in the Cyclades archipelago. In antiquity, Tinos was also known as Ophiussa and Hydroessa . The closest islands are Andros, Delos, and Mykonos...

     harbor on 15 August 1940.
  • 'HMS Perseus
    HMS Perseus (N36)
    HMS Perseus was a British built in 1929 and lost in 1941 during the Second World War. This class were the first to be fitted with Mark VIII torpedoes....

    : a submarine
    Submarine
    A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...

      sunk by a mine near the island of Kefalonia
    Kefalonia
    The island of Cephalonia, also known as Kefalonia, Cephallenia, Cephallonia, Kefallinia, or Kefallonia , is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece, with an area of . It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit...

     in 1941.
  • Hydra
    Greek destroyer Hydra (D 97)
    Hydra was a Greek destroyer of the Dardo class, which served with the Hellenic Navy during the early stages of the Second World War. It was named after the Saronic Gulf island of Hydra, which played an important role in the Greek War of Independence, and was the fourth ship to bear this name.She...

    : Greek destroyer sank near the islet Lagousa, in 1941.
  • Mimis: tugboat
    Tugboat
    A tugboat is a boat that maneuvers vessels by pushing or towing them. Tugs move vessels that either should not move themselves, such as ships in a crowded harbor or a narrow canal,or those that cannot move by themselves, such as barges, disabled ships, or oil platforms. Tugboats are powerful for...

     that sank near the island of Aigina when it hit a mine during World War II.
  • U-133: German submarine, sunk at Saronikos Gulf
    Saronic Gulf
    The Saronic Gulf or Gulf of Aegina in Greece forms part of the Aegean Sea and defines the eastern side of the isthmus of Corinth. It is the eastern terminus of the Corinth Canal, which cuts across the isthmus.-Geography:The gulf includes the islands of; Aegina, Salamis, and Poros along with...

     in 1942 after hitting a Greek mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

    .
  • Vasilissa Olga
    Greek destroyer Vasilissa Olga (D 15)
    Vasilissa Olga was a Greek destroyer of the Vasilefs Georgios class, which served with the Royal Hellenic Navy during the Second World War, becoming its most distinguished and successful ship until her loss in 1943...

     ("Queen Olga"): Greek destroyer sunk by Luftwaffe bombers in the port of Leros
    Leros
    Leros is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea. It lies 317 km from Athens's port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by an 11-hour ferry ride . Leros is part of the Kalymnos peripheral unit...

     island in 1943.
  • Panagiotis
    Panagiotis (ship)
    The Panagiotis is a picturesque shipwreck lying in the white sands of an exposed cove on the coast of Zakynthos , which is among the southern-most of the Ionian Islands of Greece...

    : a coastal trading ship run aground on the isle of Zakynthos
    Zakynthos
    Zakynthos , also Zante, the other form often used in English and in Italian , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It covers an area of ...

     in October 1980, while allegedly smuggling cigarettes from Turkey.
  • Dimitrios shipwreck
    Dimitrios shipwreck
    - The "Dimitrios" shipwreck :Dimitrios is a famous shipwreck in Greece due to its picturesque location on an easily accessible sandy beach near Gythio....

     a small freight ship that has been swept away by the sea from the port of Gythio and abandoned on a sandy beach on 23 December 1981 where it got stranded
  • MS Express Samina: a RO-RO passenger ferry capsized after hitting a rock off the holiday island of Paros
    Paros
    Paros is an island of Greece in the central Aegean Sea. One of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos, from which it is separated by a channel about wide. It lies approximately south-east of Piraeus. The Municipality of Paros includes numerous uninhabited offshore islets...

     on 26 September 2000.
  • MS Sea Diamond
    MS Sea Diamond
    MS Sea Diamond was a cruise ship operated by Louis Hellenic Cruise Lines. She was built in 1984 by Valmet, Finland for Birka Line as MS Birka Princess. The ship sank on April 5, 2007, after running aground near the Greek island of Santorini the previous day, leaving two passengers missing and...

    : a Greek cruise ship that struck a reef off the harbor of Santorini
    Santorini
    Santorini , officially Thira , is an island located in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from Greece's mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago which bears the same name and is the remnant of a volcanic caldera...

     island and sank the following day on 6 April 2007.

Iceland

  • ES Goðafoss: torpedoed by U-300 off Gardskagi, Iceland
    Iceland
    Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

    , in position 66°08'N – 22°45'W. Totals of 42 casualties and 21 survivors. 10 November 1944.
  • USCGC Alexander Hamilton (WPG-34)
    USCGC Alexander Hamilton (WPG-34)
    USCGC Alexander Hamilton was a . She was named after the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, who was mortally wounded in a duel with Aaron Burr. Sunk after an attack by a German U-boat in January 1942, the Hamilton was the U.S. Coast Guard's first loss of World War...

    : torpedoed by U-132
    German submarine U-132 (1941)
    German submarine U-132 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. She was laid down on 10 August 1940 by Bremer Vulkan, Bremen-Vegesack, launched on 10 April 1941 and commissioned on 29 May that year. In four patrols, U-132 sank eight ships for a total...

     off Reykjavík
    Reykjavík
    Reykjavík is the capital and largest city in Iceland.Its latitude at 64°08' N makes it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay...

     in Faxaflói
    Faxaflói
    Faxaflói , formerly known in English as Faxa Bay and Faxe Bay, is a bay in Southwest-Iceland between the peninsulas of Snæfellsnes and Reykjanes.The capital of the island, Reykjavík, is situated on its southern shore...

     on 29 January 1942 and sunk the next day.

Ireland

  • Alondra: a British steamship run aground in fog on Kedge Rocks near Baltimore Island, on 29 December 1916.
  • HMS Audacious
    HMS Audacious (1912)
    HMS Audacious was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy. The vessel did not see any combat in the First World War, being sunk by a German naval mine off the northern coast of Donegal, Ireland in 1914.- Design :...

    : a British battleship
    Battleship
    A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...

     that sank after striking a German mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     near Lough Swilly
    Lough Swilly
    Lough Swilly in Ireland is a glacial fjord or sea inlet lying between the western side of the Inishowen Peninsula and the Fanad Peninsula, in County Donegal. Along with Carlingford Lough and Killary Harbour it is one of three known glacial fjords in Ireland....

    , 27 October 1914.
  • MV Bolivar: a Norwegian Motor Vessel that ran aground on the Kish Bank
    Kish Bank
    The Kish Bank is a shallow sand bank about seven miles off the coast of Dublin, in Ireland. It is marked by the Kish Lighthouse, a landmark well known to sailors and ferry passengers passing through Dublin Bay and Dún Laoghaire harbour.Many ships were wrecked on these shallows...

     during a snow storm on 4 March 1947.
  • RMS Carpathia
    RMS Carpathia
    RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson. Carpathia made her maiden voyage in 1903 and became famous for rescuing the survivors of after the latter ship hit an iceberg and sank on 15 April 1912...

    : a Cunard Line
    Cunard Line
    Cunard Line is a British-American owned shipping company based at Carnival House in Southampton, England and operated by Carnival UK. It has been a leading operator of passenger ships on the North Atlantic for over a century...

     transatlantic passenger steamship, torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat
    U-boat
    U-boat is the anglicized version of the German word U-Boot , itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot , and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II...

     on 17 July 1918 off the east coast. This ship is famous for coming to RMS Titanics rescue in 1912.
  • Chirripo: a 4,126-tonne Elders & Fyffes cargo liner
    Cargo liner
    A Cargo liner is a type of merchant ship which carried general cargo and often passengers. They became common just after the middle of the nineteenth century, and eventually gave way to container ships and other more specialized carriers in the latter half of the twentieth...

     and banana boat running the Avonmouth to Jamaica route, either struck a mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     or was torpedo
    Torpedo
    The modern torpedo is a self-propelled missile weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with it or in proximity to it.The term torpedo was originally employed for...

    ed and went down near Blackhead lighthouse in Belfast Lough, on 28 December 1917 without loss of life.
  • Dido: sank in 1883. Location: 51°28'N; 09°19'W (Kedge Island, near Baltimore, County Cork
    Baltimore, County Cork
    Baltimore is located in western County Cork, Ireland. Baltimore is the principal village of the parish of Rath and the Islands, the southernmost parish in Ireland...

    .
  • SS Empress of Britain II: an ocean liner bombed by aircraft and then torpedoed and sunk by U-32 on 28 October 1940.
  • Illyrian: a very broken-up steamer that sank in May 1884 after colliding with the cliffs in fog. Location: 51°26'N; 09°29'W (Eastern side of Cape Clear Island, County Cork
    County Cork
    County Cork is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and is also part of the province of Munster. It is named after the city of Cork . Cork County Council is the local authority for the county...

    ).
  • Housatonic: ran aground.
  • Innisfallen
    Innisfallen
    This page concerns the ships named Innisfallen.You might be seeking:*Annals of Innisfallen, a Manuscript History of Ireland*Innisfallen Island in the Lakes of Killarney----There have been five ships named Innisfallen....

    : torpedoed and sunk by U-boat U-64
    German submarine U-64 (1939)
    German submarine U-64 was a Type IXB U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. U-64 was ordered by the Kriegsmarine on 16 July 1937 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and as part of the German naval rearmament program Plan Z. Her keel was laid down by AG Weser in Bremen on 15...

     26 km (16 mi) east of the Kish Light Vessel on 23 May 1918.
  • Kowloon Bridge
    Kowloon Bridge
    The Kowloon Bridge was a Bridge-class Ore-bulk-oil carrier which sank off the coast of West Cork in 1986 with her cargo of 165,000 tons of iron ore and 2,000 tons of oil...

    : the largest wreck by tonnage in the world. It sank with its cargo of iron ore when sailing from Quebec to the River Clyde in November 1986. Location: 51°28'N; 09°14'W (Stag Rocks, near Baltimore, County Cork).
  • RMS Laconia
    RMS Laconia (1911)
    RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, launched on 27 July 1911, delivered to the Cunard Line on 12 December 1911, and began service on 20 January 1912...

    : a Cunard Line
    Cunard Line
    Cunard Line is a British-American owned shipping company based at Carnival House in Southampton, England and operated by Carnival UK. It has been a leading operator of passenger ships on the North Atlantic for over a century...

     ocean liner sunk near Fastnet Rock
    Fastnet Rock
    Fastnet Rock is a small island in the Atlantic Ocean and the most southerly point of Ireland. It lies southwest of Cape Clear Island and from County Cork on the Irish mainland...

     by German submarine
    U-50 on 25 February 1917.
  • RMS Leinster
    RMS Leinster
    RMS Leinster was a vessel operated by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, served as the Kingstown -Holyhead mailboat until she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-123 on 10 October 1918, while bound for Holyhead. She went down just outside Dublin Bay at a point four miles east of...

    : the Dublin to Holyhead mailboat, torpedoed and sunk 6 km (4 mi) east of the Kish light by U-boat
    UB-123 on 10 October 1918.
  • RMS Lusitania
    RMS Lusitania
    RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland. The ship entered passenger service with the Cunard Line on 26 August 1907 and continued on the line's heavily-traveled passenger service between Liverpool, England and New...

    : a British ocean liner
    Ocean liner
    An ocean liner is a ship designed to transport people from one seaport to another along regular long-distance maritime routes according to a schedule. Liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes .Cargo vessels running to a schedule are sometimes referred to as...

     torpedoed and sunk by the U-boat
    U-20, on 7 May 1915.
  • Plassey
    MV Plassy
    MV Plassy, or Plassey, was a steam trawler launched in late 1940 and named HMS Juliet in 1941. She was renamed Peterjon and converted to a cargo vessel in 1947. She was acquired by the Limerick Steamship Company in 1951 and renamed Plassy . On her final voyage she was sailing through Galway Bay...

    : a cargo ship, wrecked off the coast of Inisheer
    Inisheer
    Inisheer is the smallest and most eastern of the three Aran Islands in Galway Bay, Ireland.-Naming:The official name, , was brought into usage by the Ordnance Survey Ireland. It may be a compromise between the traditional local name and the previous official name . There is no Irish word...

    , the smallest of the Aran Islands
    Aran Islands
    The Aran Islands or The Arans are a group of three islands located at the mouth of Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland. They constitute the barony of Aran in County Galway, Ireland...

     in the 1960s, and has since been thrown above high tide mark at
    Carraig na Finise. Islanders rescued the entire crew from the stricken vessel – an event captured in a pictorial display at the National Maritime Museum
    National Maritime Museum of Ireland
    The National Maritime Museum of Ireland opened in 1978 in the former Mariners' Church in Haigh Terrace, near the centre of Dún Laoghaire town, southeast of Dublin city.The church was built in 1837 for seafarers and remained open until 1971...

     in Dún Laoghaire
    Dún Laoghaire
    Dún Laoghaire or Dún Laoire , sometimes anglicised as "Dunleary" , is a suburban seaside town in County Dublin, Ireland, about twelve kilometres south of Dublin city centre. It is the county town of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County and a major port of entry from Great Britain...

    , County Dublin
    County Dublin
    County Dublin is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Dublin Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the city of Dublin which is the capital of Ireland. County Dublin was one of the first of the parts of Ireland to be shired by King John of England following the...

    . The wreck appears in the opening credits of the comedy series Father Ted
    Father Ted
    Father Ted is a comedy series set in Ireland that was produced by Hat Trick Productions for British broadcaster Channel 4. Written jointly by Irish writers Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring a predominantly Irish cast, it originally aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May...

    , set on the fictional island of Craggy Island.
  • Ranga
    Ranga (ship)
    The motor ship Ranga was a 1,586 tonne container ship owned by the Spanish shipping company, Naviera Ason SA, but on charter to the Icelandic shipping company, Hafskip. She was formerly named Berta de Perez, but her name was changed at sea to Ranga, due to the Icelandic charter. The Ranga was on...

    : a Spanish container ship
    Container ship
    Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. They form a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport.-History:...

     on charter to the Icelandic shipping company, Hafskip
    Hafskip
    Hafskip was Iceland's second-largest shipping line before its collapse which became a national scandal.The firm had fallen deep into debt and might have sunk quietly had it not been for its ties to Iceland's finance minister, who was its former chairman and still a shareholder...

     was washed onto rocks at Dunmore head, near Slea Head on the Dingle Peninsula
    Dingle Peninsula
    The Dingle Peninsula is the northernmost of the major peninsulae in County Kerry. Its ends beyond the town of Dingle at Dunmore Head, the westernmost point of Ireland.-Name:...

     in March 1982 after losing engine power in a storm. The 15 crew members were rescued by the local rocket team and an RAF helicopter. Some of the wreck was removed in 1991 due to filming, and the bow and other wreckage is still visible today.
  • Brig Rochdale and HM packet ship Prince of Wales: The Sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales
    The Sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales
    The Rochdale and the Prince of Wales were two troop ships that sank in Dublin Bay in 1807.Dublin Port had long been dangerous because it was accessible only at high tide and was subject to sudden storms. Many ships were lost while waiting for the tide, but little was done until this disaster...

     in 1807, south of Dublin. 400 lives were lost.
  • RMS Tayleur
    RMS Tayleur
    The RMS Tayleur was a fully rigged iron clipper chartered by the White Star Line. She was large, fast and technically advanced. She ran aground and sank on her maiden voyage in 1854. The sinking was caused both by an inexperienced crew and faulty equipment. Of more than 650 aboard, only 290...

    : a White Star Line
    White Star Line
    The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packets, more commonly known as the White Star Line, was a prominent British shipping company, today most famous for its ill-fated vessel, the RMS Titanic, and the World War I loss of Titanics sister ship Britannic...

     clipper ran aground and sank off Lambay Island
    Lambay Island
    Lambay lies off the coast of Fingal / north County Dublin, Ireland in the Irish Sea. It is located north of Ireland's Eye at and is the easternmost point of the Republic of Ireland...

     c. 8 km (5 mi) from Dublin Bay
    Dublin Bay
    Dublin Bay is a C-shaped inlet of the Irish Sea on the east coast of Ireland. The bay is about 10 kilometres wide along its north-south base, and 7 km in length to its apex at the centre of the city of Dublin; stretching from Howth Head in the north to Dalkey Point in the south...

     on 21 January 1854.
  • Trinidad Valencera: at 1,100 tonnes, one of the Spanish Armada's largest ships; wrecked 32 km (20 mi) west of Lacada Point in Kinnagoe Bay
    Kinnagoe Bay
    Kinnagoe Bay is a secluded beach in Inishowen, County Donegal, Ireland. It is known for being the location of the wreck of the Spanish Armada ship "Trinidad Valencera" in 1588; in memory of which a plaque is mounted. The beach is accessible by a weaving road from the top of the hill.It is one of...

    , County Donegal
    County Donegal
    County Donegal is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Border Region and is also located in the province of Ulster. It is named after the town of Donegal. Donegal County Council is the local authority for the county...

    .
  • Tullaghmurray Lass: a fishing boat sank 11 km (7 mi) off Kilkeel in February 2002.
  • U-260: a German U-boat scuttled 6 km (4 mi) south of Glandore
    Glandore
    Glandore |Cork]] city.The village has several pubs, with traditional music. It is a very popular holiday destination for Irish holiday makers in particular. Famous homeowners include Margaret Jay, former leader of the House of Lords, and Tony O'Reilly. The village yacht club's official headquarters...

     on 12 March 1945.
  • York: an East Indiaman, that was deliberately mis-piloted by prisoners who had taken over another vessel, on 29 October 1758.


Italy

  • Sinking of F174
    Sinking of F174
    The sinking of the ship F174 was the worst maritime disaster in the Mediterranean Sea since World War II. It is known in Italy as the Strage di Natale or Portopalo massacre....

    : an unidentified ship carrying illegal immigrants to Sicily, sunk in 1996 with the loss of at least 283 lives.
  • Giglio Island
    Giglio Island
    Isola del Giglio is an island and Italian comune situated in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the coast of Tuscany, part of the Province of Grosseto.-Geography:...

     shipwreck: an Etruscan
    Etruscan civilization
    Etruscan civilization is the modern English name given to a civilization of ancient Italy in the area corresponding roughly to Tuscany. The ancient Romans called its creators the Tusci or Etrusci...

     wreck dating to the early Iron Age
    Iron Age
    The Iron Age is the archaeological period generally occurring after the Bronze Age, marked by the prevalent use of iron. The early period of the age is characterized by the widespread use of iron or steel. The adoption of such material coincided with other changes in society, including differing...

    ,
    c. 600 BC.
  • MT Haven (formerly Amoco Milford Haven): sunk off Genoa
    Genoa
    Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

     in 1991 following an onboard explosion and fire. Largest wreck in Mediterranean Sea.
  • SS Transylvania
    SS Transylvania (1914)
    The SS Transylvania was a passenger liner of the Cunard subsidiary Anchor Line, and a sister ship to SS Tuscania. She was torpedoed and sunk on May 4, 1917 by the German U-boat U-63 while carrying Allied troops to Egypt and sank with a loss of 412 lives.Completed just before the outbreak of World...

    : sunk during World War I by a German U-Boot, near Bergeggi Island, Savona
    Savona
    Savona is a seaport and comune in the northern Italian region of Liguria, capital of the Province of Savona, in the Riviera di Ponente on the Mediterranean Sea....

    .
  • Princess Yolanda
    Princess Yolanda
    The Principessa Iolanda or Principessa Jolanda was a ship built by Societa Esercizio Bacini at Riva Trigoso for NGI and intended for the South American service. It was launched on September 21/22, 1907 and was 450 ft in length and 9,200 tons...

    : sank during its launch in 1907.

Latvia

  • Moero: sunk by Soviet bombers in 1944, when it was carrying evacuees from Estonia. Nearly 2,700 out of 3,350 people aboard were killed.

The Netherlands

  • De Berlin: sunk near Hook of Holland during a storm in 1907.
  • Katowice: a Polish
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

     cargo ship sunk near Terschelling
    Terschelling
    Terschelling is a municipality and an island in the northern Netherlands, one of the West Frisian Islands.Waddenislanders are known for their resourcefulness in using anything and everything that washes ashore. With few trees to use for timber, most of the farms and barns are built with masts...

     during a storm in 1949.
  • The Vliegenthart (Flying Hart): A Dutch East Indiaman, she was lost on February 3, 1735, after striking a sand bank off the coast of Flushing, Zeeland. Every one of the 461 sailors, soldiers and merchants aboard perished. The wreck was discovered in late 1981.

Norway

  • Scharnhorst: a German battlecruiser
    Battlecruiser
    Battlecruisers were large capital ships built in the first half of the 20th century. They were developed in the first decade of the century as the successor to the armoured cruiser, but their evolution was more closely linked to that of the dreadnought battleship...

     sunk in the Battle of North Cape
    Battle of North Cape
    The Battle of the North Cape was a Second World War naval battle which occurred on 26 December 1943, as part of the Arctic Campaign. The German battlecruiser , on an operation to attack Arctic Convoys of war materiel from the Western Allies to the USSR, was brought to battle and sunk by superior...

     in December 1943.
  • Blücher
    German cruiser Blücher
    Blücher was the second of five heavy cruisers of the German Kriegsmarine, built after the rise of the Nazi Party and the repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles. Named for Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, the victor of the Battle of Waterloo, the ship was laid down in August 1936 and launched in...

    : a German heavy cruiser
    Heavy cruiser
    The heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range, high speed and an armament of naval guns roughly 203mm calibre . The heavy cruiser can be seen as a lineage of ship design from 1915 until 1945, although the term 'heavy cruiser' only came into formal use in 1930...

     sunk at the Battle of Drøbak Sound
    Battle of Drøbak sound
    The Battle of Drøbak Sound took place in the northernmost part of the Oslofjord on 9 April 1940, on the first day of the German invasion of Norway...

     on 9 April 1940.
  • MS Seattle: a cargo ship damaged in crossfire on 9 April 1940 and sunk at Dvergsnestangen on 13 April 1940.
  • FV Gaul
    FV Gaul
    The fishing vessel Gaul was a deep sea factory ship based at Hull, United Kingdom. She sank some time on the night of the 8-9 February 1974 in storm conditions in the Barents Sea, north of Norway. No distress signal was received and her loss was not realised until 10 February after she twice failed...

    : a deep-sea trawler sunk in the Barents Sea
    Barents Sea
    The Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of Norway and Russia. Known in the Middle Ages as the Murman Sea, the sea takes its current name from the Dutch navigator Willem Barents...

     in February 1974.
  • Kursk
    Russian submarine K-141 Kursk
    K-141 Kursk was an Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy, lost with all hands when it sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000...

    : a Russian nuclear submarine lost with all hands when it sank in the Barents Sea in 2000. It has since been raised.
  • Haakon Jarl II: an iron steamship sunk in the Vestfjord
    Vestfjord
    Vestfjord is a Norwegian fjord, which would be described as a firth or an open bight of sea between the Lofoten archipelago and mainland Norway, northwest of Bodø...

     following collision with another ship on 17 June 1924.
  • MS Hamburg: a German fish factory transport ship sunk by a British destroyer
    Destroyer
    In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...

     in Lofoten
    Lofoten
    Lofoten is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperature anomalies relative to its high latitude.-Etymology:...

     on 1 March 1941.
  • MS Rigel: sunk on 27 November 1944 by Fairey Barracuda
    Fairey Barracuda
    The Fairey Barracuda was a British carrier-borne torpedo- and dive bomber used during the Second World War, the first of its type used by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm to be fabricated entirely from metal. It was introduced as a replacement for the Fairey Swordfish and Fairey Albacore biplanes...

     dive-bombers south of Sandnessjøen
    Sandnessjøen
    Sandnessjøen is the centre of the municipality of Alstahaug in the county of Nordland, Norway, with a population of over 9,000. It was made a township in 1788....

    .
  • Dresden: a German steamer stranded 20 miles (32.2 km) from Haugesund
    Haugesund
    is a town and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.-Location:Haugesund was separated from Torvastad as a town and municipality of its own in 1855. The rural municipality of Skåre was merged with Haugesund on January 1, 1958. Haugesund is a small municipality, only 73 km²...

     near Blikshavn, Island of Karmøy
    Karmøy
    Karmøy is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located southwest of the city of Haugesund in the traditional district of Haugaland....

    , whilst undertaking a cruise on 20 June 1934.
  • U-864: a German Type IXD2 submarine. Scuttled on 9 February 1945 by British sub HMS Venturer
    HMS Venturer (P68)
    HMS Venturer was a Second World War British submarine.-Construction:Venturer was the lead boat of the British V class submarine, a development of the successful U-class...

     while on a logistics mission to Japan.
  • SS Sekstant: Norwegian steamer, bombed during WWII at Rørvik. Rests at 40 meters.
  • SS Blaafjeld: Norwegian steamer, bombed during WWII at Rørvik. Rests at 60 meters.
  • SS Nerva: Norwegian steamer, grounded during WWII at Rørvik. Rests at 65 meters.
  • Murmansk: Soviet era nuclear cruiser, grounded while being towed to India for scrapping.

Poland

  • SS General von Steuben: a German luxury passenger liner turned armored transport ship that was torpedoed and sunk by Soviet submarine S-13
    Soviet submarine S-13
    S-13 was a Stalinets-class submarine of the Soviet Navy. Her keel was laid down by Krasnoye Sormovo in Gorky on 19 October 1938. She was launched on 25 April 1939 and commissioned on 31 July 1941 in the Baltic Fleet, under the command of Captain Pavel Malantyenko.-Service history:In the first half...

     on 11 February 1945.
  • Wilhelm Gustloff
    Wilhelm Gustloff (ship)
    The MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German KdF flagship during 1937-1945, constructed by the Blohm & Voss shipyards. It sank after being torpedoed by the Soviet submarine on 30 January 1945....

    : a passenger ship on a rescue mission torpedoed and sunk by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea
    Baltic Sea
    The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...

     on 30 January 1945. Over 9,000 people were lost.
  • Graf Zeppelin
    German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin
    German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was the lead ship in a class of two carriers ordered by the Kriegsmarine. She was the only aircraft carrier launched by Germany during World War II and represented part of the Kriegsmarine's attempt to create a well-balanced oceangoing fleet, capable of...

    : Germany's only aircraft carrier
    Aircraft carrier
    An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations...

     in World War II, scuttled after the war by the Soviet Navy.

Portugal

  • Mary Celeste
    Mary Celeste
    The Mary Celeste was an American brigantine merchant ship famous for having been discovered on 4 December 1872, in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned , despite the fact that the weather was fine and her crew had been experienced and able...

    : a brigantine found in 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean, unmanned and under full sail, heading towards the Strait of Gibraltar
    Strait of Gibraltar
    The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa. The name comes from Gibraltar, which in turn originates from the Arabic Jebel Tariq , albeit the Arab name for the Strait is Bab el-Zakat or...

    .
  • SS Duchess of York
    SS Duchess of York
    SS Duchess of York was a 20,021 ton ocean liner operated by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. Built in 1928 in Clydebank by the shipbuilders John Brown & Company, she was originally intended to be named SS Duchess of Cornwall...

    : a British troopship sunk by aerial bombardment on 12 January 1943.
  • The Pepper Wreck
    Pepper Wreck
    The Pepper Wreck is the name of a shipwreck excavated at the mouth of the Tagus River, Lisbon, Portugal, between 1996 and 2001. The ship had been seeking safer anchorage during strong winds in the Tagus, but she struck a submerged rock and went down close to shore with no loss of life...

    : a Portuguese Indiaman found at the mouth of the Tagus
    Tagus
    The Tagus is the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula. It is long, in Spain, along the border between Portugal and Spain and in Portugal, where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Lisbon. It drains an area of . The Tagus is highly utilized for most of its course...

    , dating from the 16th or 17th century.
  • Woodham: a British steamboat sunk of the coast of Lisbon, in 9 December 1876.
  • Pimpao de Odemira: a Portuguese freight vessel sunk of the coast of Cabo Espichel, in May 18, 1904.
  • Maria Grecia: a freight vessel sunk of the coast of Sesimbra, in the early 20th century.
  • Numancia: a Spanish war frigate sunk in the bay of Sesimbra, in December 17, 1916
  • River Gurara: a Nigerian freight vessel sunk of the coast of Cabo Espichel, Setubal, in 1989.

Romania

  • Evangeliakkk: a Greek freighter, grounded off Costinesti
    Costinesti
    Costineşti is a commune and resort in Constanţa County, Romania, located on the shore of the Black Sea, about 30 kilometres south of the county seat, Constanţa. It is composed of two villages, Costineşti and Schitu....

     in 1968, possibly as part of an insurance fraud
    Insurance fraud
    Insurance fraud is any act committed with the intent to fraudulently obtain payment from an insurer.Insurance fraud has existed ever since the beginning of insurance as a commercial enterprise. Fraudulent claims account for a significant portion of all claims received by insurers, and cost billions...

    .
  • Akra Aktion: a Greek cargo ship, ran ashore at Vama Veche
    Vama Veche
    Vama Veche is a village in Romania on the Black Sea coast, near the border with Bulgaria, at 28.57 E longitude, 43.75 N latitude. It is part of the commune of Limanu and in 2002, it had a population of 178....

    in 1981. The crew was saved but the ship remained on spot. For many years, it remained visible above the water, but decaying over time due to rust and waves. As of 2010, the shipwreck is completely under water.

Russia / Soviet Union

  • Armenia
    Armenia (ship)
    The Armenia was a transport ship operated by the Soviet Union during World War II to carry both wounded soldiers and military cargo. It had originally been built as a passenger ship for operations on the Black Sea, one of the first passenger ships constructed in the Soviet Union.Armenia was sunk on...

    : a Soviet hospital ship
    Hospital ship
    A hospital ship is a ship designated for primary function as a floating medical treatment facility or hospital; most are operated by the military forces of various countries, as they are intended to be used in or near war zones....

     sunk by German torpedo-carrying planes on 7 November 1941; estimated over 5,000 casualties.
  • Agnes Blaikie
    Agnes Blaikie (barque)
    Agnes Blaikie was a merchant ship chartered by the British government during the Crimean War for delivery of military cargoes and equipment to the army which was based in Balaklava. The vessel was presumably named in honour of the wife of the Lord Provost of Aberdeen of Sir Thomas Blaikie.The Agnes...

    : a British sailing vessel sunk by collision with HMS Medina on 5 May 1855 in the Black Sea
    Black Sea
    The Black Sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean...

     near Balaklava.
  • MS Bulgaria: a Russian cruise ship lost in a storm on the Volga River in 2011.
  • Soviet submarine K-159
    Soviet submarine K-159
    K-159 was a Project 627A "Kit" nuclear-powered submarine of the Soviet Northern Fleet. Her keel was laid down on 15 August 1962 at the Severodvinsk "Sevmash" Shipyard No. 402...

    : accidentally sank while being towed in the Barents Sea. She was decommissioned prior to sinking, but both of her nuclear reactors are still on board.
  • Soviet submarine K-27
    Soviet submarine K-27
    The K-27 was the only submarine of Projekt 645 in the Soviet Navy. Project 645 did not have or need its own NATO reporting name. That project produced just one test model nuclear submarine, one which incorporated a pair of experimental VT-1 nuclear reactors that used a liquid-metal coolant ,...

    : scuttled in the Kara Sea
    Kara Sea
    The Kara Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya....

     in 1982 by the Soviet Navy. The boat had suffered irreparable nuclear reactor plant damage at sea in 1968. Both nuclear reactors are still on board.

Spain

  • RMS Douro sunk off the coast of Cape Finisterre
    Cape Finisterre
    right|thumb|300px|Position of Cape Finisterre on the [[Iberian Peninsula]]Cape Finisterre is a rock-bound peninsula on the west coast of Galicia, Spain....

     on April 1, 1882 after colliding with the Spanish steamship
    Yrurac Bat.
  • Soviet submarine K-8
    Soviet submarine K-8
    K-8 was a November class submarine of the Soviet Northern Fleet that sank in the Bay of Biscay with its nuclear weapons on board on April 12, 1970...

    : caught fire and sank while being towed in the Bay of Biscay
    Bay of Biscay
    The Bay of Biscay is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea. It lies along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border, and the northern coast of Spain west to Cape Ortegal, and is named in English after the province of Biscay, in the Spanish...

     in 1970. Four nuclear warheads and two nuclear reactors are still on board.
  • Yrurac Bat: A Spanish steamship sunk off the coast of Cape Finisterre
    Cape Finisterre
    right|thumb|300px|Position of Cape Finisterre on the [[Iberian Peninsula]]Cape Finisterre is a rock-bound peninsula on the west coast of Galicia, Spain....

     on April 1, 1882 after colliding with RMS
    Douro.

Sweden

  • Kronan
    Kronan (ship)
    Kronan, also called Stora Kronan, was a Swedish warship that was the flagship of the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea in the 1670s. When built, she was one of the largest seagoing vessels in the world. The construction of Kronan lasted 1668–72, delayed on account of difficulties with financing and...

    : a Swedish warship capsized about 6 km off the coast of Öland
    Öland
    ' is the second largest Swedish island and the smallest of the traditional provinces of Sweden. Öland has an area of 1,342 km² and is located in the Baltic Sea just off the coast of Småland. The island has 25,000 inhabitants, but during Swedish Midsummer it is visited by up to 500,000 people...

     during the battle of Öland
    Battle of Öland
    The battle of Öland was a naval battle between an allied Dano-Norwegian-Dutch fleet and the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea off the east coast of the island of Öland on 1 June 1676. The battle was a part of the Scanian War that was fought for supremacy over the southern Baltic...

     in 1676.
  • Vasa: a Swedish galleon foundered on her maiden voyage and sunk in Stockholm
    Stockholm
    Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

     on 10 August 1628.
  • Mars: a Swedish warship that was sunk north of Öland
    Öland
    ' is the second largest Swedish island and the smallest of the traditional provinces of Sweden. Öland has an area of 1,342 km² and is located in the Baltic Sea just off the coast of Småland. The island has 25,000 inhabitants, but during Swedish Midsummer it is visited by up to 500,000 people...

     during the Northern Seven Years' War
    Northern Seven Years' War
    The Northern Seven Years' War was the war between Kingdom of Sweden and a coalition of Denmark–Norway, Lübeck and the Polish–Lithuanian union, fought between 1563 and 1570...

     in 1524.

England

  • Admiral Gardner: A merchant vessel sunk in a storm on 25 January 1809 off the Goodwin Sands
    Goodwin Sands
    The Goodwin Sands is a 10-mile-long sand bank in the English Channel, lying six miles east off Deal in Kent, England. The Brake Bank lying shorewards is part of the same geological unit. As the shoals lie close to major shipping channels, more than 2,000 ships are believed to have been wrecked...

    .
  • Aeolian Sky
    Aeolian Sky
    The Aeolian Sky was a Greek constructed and run freighter built in 1978, which collided with another ship near the Channel Islands and after a failed attempt at salvage sank off the coast of Dorset, England in a storm in late 1979.-The Ship:...

    : a Greek freighter that collided with another ship near the Channel Islands in 1979, and sank off the Dorset coast.
  • Albert C. Field
    Albert C. Field
    The Albert C. Field is a Canadian ship, sunk on the 18 June 1944 by a torpedo from a German aircraft off St. Catherine's Point, UK. The ship sank in three minutes. Four of the crew and some other personnel were lost. The Albert C. Field was a triple expansion engine steamer, with a displacement of ...

    : a Canadian ship sunk by a torpedo
    Torpedo
    The modern torpedo is a self-propelled missile weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with it or in proximity to it.The term torpedo was originally employed for...

     from a German aircraft off St. Catherine's Point on 18 June 1944.
  • Alarm: a lightship sunk in a collision in Liverpool Bay
    Liverpool Bay
    Liverpool Bay is a bay of the Irish Sea between northeast Wales, Cheshire, Lancashire and Merseyside to the east of the Irish Sea. The bay is a classic example of a region of freshwater influence...

     in 1922.: struck a mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     in the English Channel
    English Channel
    The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover...

     on 19 October 1916.
  • Amsterdam
    VOC ship Amsterdam
    The Amsterdam was an 18th-century cargo ship of the Dutch East India Company. The ship started its maiden voyage from Texel to Batavia on 8 January 1749, but was wrecked in a storm on the English Channel on 26 January 1749. The shipwreck was discovered in 1969 in the bay of Bulverhythe, United...

    : a Dutch East India Company
    Dutch East India Company
    The Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia...

     ship that ran aground near Hastings
    Hastings
    Hastings is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England. The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London, and has an estimated population of 86,900....

     on 26 January 1749. The wreck site is protected
    Protection of Wrecks Act 1973
    The Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provides protection for designated shipwrecks. Section 1 of the act provides for wrecks to be designated because of historical, archaeological or artistic value. Section 2 provides for designation of...

    .
  • Cattewater Wreck
    Cattewater Wreck
    The Cattewater Wreck is a wooden three-masted, skeleton-built vessel, one of many ships that have wrecked in Cattewater, Plymouth Sound, England...

    : the first ship to be protected under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973
    Protection of Wrecks Act 1973
    The Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provides protection for designated shipwrecks. Section 1 of the act provides for wrecks to be designated because of historical, archaeological or artistic value. Section 2 provides for designation of...

    , this wooden ship is believed to be from the 16th century.: a protected wreck site
    Protection of Wrecks Act 1973
    The Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provides protection for designated shipwrecks. Section 1 of the act provides for wrecks to be designated because of historical, archaeological or artistic value. Section 2 provides for designation of...

    , broke anchor and ran aground off the Isles of Scilly
    Isles of Scilly
    The Isles of Scilly form an archipelago off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. The islands have had a unitary authority council since 1890, and are separate from the Cornwall unitary authority, but some services are combined with Cornwall and the islands are still part...

     on 10 December 1798.
  • Earl of Abergavenny
    Earl of Abergavenny (East Indiaman)
    The Earl of Abergavenny was an East Indiaman that was wrecked in Weymouth Bay, England in 1805. She was one of the largest built and William Wordsworth's brother John was her captain her last two successful voyages to China. He was also her captain on her fifth voyage and lost his life when she...

    : an East Indiaman sunk in Weymouth Bay
    Weymouth Bay
    Weymouth Bay is a sheltered bay on the south coast of England, in Dorset. It is protected from erosion by Chesil Beach and the Isle of Portland, and includes several beaches, notably Weymouth Beach, a gently curving arc of golden sand which stretches from the resort of Weymouth, along to the...

     in February 1805.: a steamship torpedoed by U-boat
    U-boat
    U-boat is the anglicized version of the German word U-Boot , itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot , and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II...

     in 1917 off Mevagissey
    Mevagissey
    Mevagissey is a village, fishing port and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately five miles south of St Austell....

    .: a German liner sunk in the North Sea after a collision in 1895.
  • HMT Elk
    HMT Elk (1902)
    HMS Elk was a 181 ton former fishing trawler built in 1902. She sunk without loss of life having hit a mine off Plymouth in November 1940....

    : a former fishing trawler sunk by a mine off Plymouth
    Plymouth
    Plymouth is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England, about south-west of London. It is built between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west, where they join Plymouth Sound...

     in 1940., a battleship sunk in 1913 as a target in Lyme Bay.: a merchant ship grounded on Hammond Knoll on the north east Norfolk
    Norfolk
    Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

     coast on 26 October 1941.
  • Grace Dieu
    Grace Dieu (ship)
    Grace Dieu was launched in 1418 as the flagship of Henry V of England and was one of the largest ships of her time. She sailed on only one voyage, and spent most of her life laid up in the River Hamble, where in 1439 she was struck by a bolt of lightning and burnt.-Construction:She was built to a...

    : a protected wrecksite
    Protection of Wrecks Act 1973
    The Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provides protection for designated shipwrecks. Section 1 of the act provides for wrecks to be designated because of historical, archaeological or artistic value. Section 2 provides for designation of...

    , Henry V's flagship, sank at berth in River Hamble
    River Hamble
    The River Hamble is a river in Hampshire, England. It rises near Bishop's Waltham and flows for some 7.5 miles through Botley, Bursledon and Swanwick before entering Southampton Water near Hamble-le-Rice and Warsash....

     in 1439.: a Liberty ship
    Liberty ship
    Liberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II. Though British in conception, they were adapted by the U.S. as they were cheap and quick to build, and came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. Based on vessels ordered by Britain to replace ships torpedoed by...

    , situated in 22 m of water in Whitsand Bay, Cornwall
    Whitsand Bay
    Whitsand Bay, situated in south east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom runs from Rame Head in the east to Portwrinkle in the west. It is characterised by sheer, high cliffs, dramatic scenery and long stretches of sandy beaches...

     at 50°19.54N; 4°14.65W next to the wreck of .
  • London, sank in Rapparee Cove, North Devon
    North Devon
    North Devon is the northern part of the English county of Devon. It is also the name of a local government district in Devon. Its council is based in Barnstaple. Other towns and villages in the North Devon District include Braunton, Fremington, Ilfracombe, Instow, South Molton, Lynton and Lynmouth...

     in stormy weather in 9 October 1796, while carrying prisoners and treasure from the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia
    Saint Lucia
    Saint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...

    .: a Belgian steamer that ran aground near Thurlestone
    Thurlestone
    Thurlestone is a village 5 miles west of Kingsbridge in the South Hams district in south Devon, England.The village takes its name from Thurlestone Rock, the so-called "thirled stone", an arch-shaped rock formation just offshore in Thurlestone Bay.The village's All Saints church is built of the...

     in 1939.: a US Navy Landing Ship, Tank run aground while attempting to enter Plymouth Harbor on 12 April 1945.: a British aircraft-carrying submarine shipwrecked in Lyme Bay
    Lyme Bay
    Lyme Bay is an area of the English Channel situated in the southwest of England between Torbay in the west and Portland in the east. The counties of Devon and Dorset front onto the bay,-Geology:...

     on 26 January 1932.
  • Mary Rose
    Mary Rose
    The Mary Rose was a carrack-type warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. After serving for 33 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany and after being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 1545. While leading the attack on the galleys of a...

    : a protected wrecksite
    Protection of Wrecks Act 1973
    The Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provides protection for designated shipwrecks. Section 1 of the act provides for wrecks to be designated because of historical, archaeological or artistic value. Section 2 provides for designation of...

    , an English Tudor
    Tudor period
    The Tudor period usually refers to the period between 1485 and 1603, specifically in relation to the history of England. This coincides with the rule of the Tudor dynasty in England whose first monarch was Henry VII...

     warship sunk in Portsmouth Harbour
    Portsmouth Harbour
    Portsmouth Harbour is a large natural harbour in Hampshire, England. Geographically it is a ria: formerly it was the valley of a stream flowing from Portsdown into the Solent River. The city of Portsmouth lies to the east on Portsea Island, and Gosport to the west on the mainland...

    , possibly during an engagement with the French fleet
    French Navy
    The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

     on 19 July 1545.: a troopship rammed by SS
    Darro off the Isle of Wight
    Isle of Wight
    The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...

     on 21 February 1917.: wrecked on The Manacles
    The Manacles
    The Manacles are a set of treacherous rocks off The Lizard peninsula in Cornwall close to Porthoustock, which is a popular spot for diving due to the shipwrecks around them. The name derives from the Cornish for 'church stone', the top of St Keverne church being visible from the area.The rocks...

     on 14 October 1898.: a battleship
    Battleship
    A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...

     run aground in fog on Shutter Reef, Lundy
    Lundy
    Lundy is the largest island in the Bristol Channel, lying off the coast of Devon, England, approximately one third of the distance across the channel between England and Wales. It measures about at its widest. Lundy gives its name to a British sea area and is one of the islands of England.As of...

    , on 29 May 1906.
  • RMS Mülheim: a German cargo ship
    Cargo ship
    A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...

     that ran ashore on 22 March 2003 at Land's End
    Land's End
    Land's End is a headland and small settlement in west Cornwall, England, within the United Kingdom. It is located on the Penwith peninsula approximately eight miles west-southwest of Penzance....

    . Five crew members were airlifted to safety.: a cargo ship run aground off the Nore
    Nore
    The Nore is a sandbank at the mouth of the Thames Estuary, England. It marks the point where the River Thames meets the North Sea, roughly halfway between Havengore Creek in Essex and Warden Point in Kent....

     in the Thames Estuary
    Thames Estuary
    The Thames Mouth is the estuary in which the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea.It is not easy to define the limits of the estuary, although physically the head of Sea Reach, near Canvey Island on the Essex shore is probably the western boundary...

     on 20 August 1944. A protected wreck site
    Protection of Wrecks Act 1973
    The Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provides protection for designated shipwrecks. Section 1 of the act provides for wrecks to be designated because of historical, archaeological or artistic value. Section 2 provides for designation of...

    , designated as dangerous.: a RO-RO ferry that ran aground on Blackpool
    Blackpool
    Blackpool is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, and northwest of Manchester...

     beach on 31 January 2008 and was finally scrapped in place after refloating attempts failed.
  • Rooswijk
    Rooswijk
    The Rooswijk was a ship belonging to the VOC that, according to recent, non-contemporary, news reports, sank in 1740.-Construction and service :...

    : A Dutch East Indiaman is sunk on 19 December 19 1739 after striking the treacherous Goodwin Sands off the South East coast of England in a heavy storm with the lost of all hands. It was discovered in 2004.
  • Rosehill
    Rosehill (ship)
    Rosehill was a 2788-tonne steel-hulled collier built in 1911 by S.P. Austin and Son of Sunderland under the name Minster. Rosehill is also known as the Penhill. She was torpedoed by U-40 off Fowey on 23 September 1917 whilst en route from Cardiff to Devonport. She was taken under tow but sank in...

    : torpedoed by U-40 off Fowey on 23 September 1917.: a steamship wrecked at Tongue Sands off Margate
    Margate
    -Demography:As of the 2001 UK census, Margate had a population of 40,386.The ethnicity of the town was 97.1% white, 1.0% mixed race, 0.5% black, 0.8% Asian, 0.6% Chinese or other ethnicity....

     in December 1849.: A type F71 Frigate sunk on 27 March 2004 to create an artificial reef for divers and marine life by the National Marine Aquarium.
  • Sitakund
    Sitakund
    Sitakund was a Norwegian motor oil tanker owned by Tschudi & Eitzen was sailing from Wilhelmshaven to Libya on 20 October 1968, when three explosions occurred, one of which tore a large hole in the side of the vessel. Sitakund burst into flames...

    : a Norwegian motor tanker exploded off the coast of Eastbourne
    Eastbourne
    Eastbourne is a large town and borough in East Sussex, on the south coast of England between Brighton and Hastings. The town is situated at the eastern end of the chalk South Downs alongside the high cliff at Beachy Head...

    , East Sussex
    East Sussex
    East Sussex is a county in South East England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey and West Sussex, and to the south by the English Channel.-History:...

    , on 20 October 1968.
  • St Anthony
    St Anthony (ship)
    St Anthony or Santo António was a Portuguese carrack which foundered in Gunwalloe Bay, Cornwall, in 1527 en route from Lisbon to Antwerp. She had a mixed cargo including copper and silver ingots...

    (aka Santo António): a Portuguese carrack
    Carrack
    A carrack or nau was a three- or four-masted sailing ship developed in 15th century Western Europe for use in the Atlantic Ocean. It had a high rounded stern with large aftcastle, forecastle and bowsprit at the stem. It was first used by the Portuguese , and later by the Spanish, to explore and...

     that foundered in Gunwalloe Bay, Cornwall
    Cornwall
    Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

    , in 1527.: a British coaster sunk by a German torpedo
    Torpedo
    The modern torpedo is a self-propelled missile weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with it or in proximity to it.The term torpedo was originally employed for...

     near Hastings on 3 November 1943.: LSWR passenger steamer from Southampton
    Southampton
    Southampton is the largest city in the county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...

     to Guernsey
    Guernsey
    Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...

     ran onto the Casquets reef on 30 March 1899 with 105 dead.
  • UC-32
    SM UC-32
    SM UC-32 was a German Type UC II minelaying submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 29 August 1915 and was launched on 12 August 1916...

    : a German U-boat struck its own mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     at Sunderland.: a Greek merchant steamship ran aground near the western end of the Isle of Wight
    Isle of Wight
    The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...

     in the late 1940s.
  • Venture: a cargo ship sunk in a collision off Dunoon Bank in 1993.
  • Vera: wrecked in a collision in 1914.
  • Volnay: a Canadian cargo ship struck a mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     in Falmouth Bay in December 1917.
  • HMAT Warilda: an Australian hospital ship
    Hospital ship
    A hospital ship is a ship designated for primary function as a floating medical treatment facility or hospital; most are operated by the military forces of various countries, as they are intended to be used in or near war zones....

     torpedoed by U-boat U-49 on 3 August 1918.
  • Yewglen: ran aground off Beadnall Point in 1960.

Northern Ireland

  • HMS Drake
    HMS Drake (1901)
    HMS Drake was a armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy, the lead ship of her class. She was built at Pembroke Dock and launched on 5 March 1901....

    : torpedoed by U-79 on 2 October 1917 in Rathlin Sound.
  • Girona
    Girona (ship)
    La Girona was a galleass of the 1588 Spanish Armada which foundered and sank off Lacada Point, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, on the night of 26 October 1588 after making its way eastward along the Irish coast...

    : foundered and sank off Lacada Point, County Antrim, Ireland, 26 October 1588.
  • Lagan: sank in collision off Belfast Lough
    Belfast Lough
    Belfast Lough is a large, natural intertidal sea lough at the mouth of the River Lagan on the east coast of Northern Ireland. The inner part of the lough comprises a series of mudflats and lagoons. The outer lough is restricted to mainly rocky shores with some small sandy bays...

    .
  • SS Laurentic: after conversion to armed merchant cruiser service in 1915, struck two mines off Lough Swilly
    Lough Swilly
    Lough Swilly in Ireland is a glacial fjord or sea inlet lying between the western side of the Inishowen Peninsula and the Fanad Peninsula, in County Donegal. Along with Carlingford Lough and Killary Harbour it is one of three known glacial fjords in Ireland....

     in Northern Ireland
    Ireland
    Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

     on 25 January 1917.
  • Normanby Hall: foundered and sunk off Kilroot on 8 October 1965.
  • Operation Deadlight
    Operation Deadlight
    Operation Deadlight was the code name for the scuttling of U-boats surrendered to the Allies after the defeat of Germany near the end of World War II....

    , 116 surrendered German U-boats were scuttled in deep water off the coast of Northern Ireland between November 1945 and February 1946.
  • State of Louisiana: a passenger liner ran aground on 28 December 1878 on Hunter Rock.
  • Tiberia: merchant ship torpedoed and sunk by U-19 off Black Head near Larne, County Antrim
    County Antrim
    County Antrim is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 2,844 km², with a population of approximately 616,000...

     on 26 February 1918.
  • Tullaghmurray Lass: a Kilkeel fishing boat that sank after a gas explosion in 2002.
  • U-778
    German submarine U-778
    German submarine U-778 was a German Type VIIC U-boat built in World War II. She only completed one combat patrol and sank no Allied ships. She was surrendered to the Allies at Bergen on the 8 May, 1945....

    : captured, German U-boat; sank in December 1945, 16 miles (26 km) North East of Malin Head
    Malin Head
    Malin Head , on the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, is usually given as the most northerly headland of the mainland of Ireland . In fact, the most northerly point is actually a headland named Banba's Crown on the Inishowen Peninsula about 2 km to the northeast...


Scotland

: ran aground in the River Clyde
River Clyde
The River Clyde is a major river in Scotland. It is the ninth longest river in the United Kingdom, and the third longest in Scotland. Flowing through the major city of Glasgow, it was an important river for shipbuilding and trade in the British Empire....

 in 1956.: sank off Vatersay
Vatersay
Vatersay is an inhabited island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Vatersay is also the name of the only village on the island.-Location:The westernmost permanently inhabited place in Scotland, Vatersay is linked to Barra by a causeway completed in 1991...

, Outer Hebrides
Outer Hebrides
The Outer Hebrides also known as the Western Isles and the Long Island, is an island chain off the west coast of Scotland. The islands are geographically contiguous with Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland...

, in 1853 with the loss of 350 lives.: Dutch cargo ship, sunk by two Heinkel 111 bombers in Ardmucknish Bay on 23 December 1940 off Oban.: British container ship run aground at Killantringan lighthouse, Wigtownshire
Wigtownshire
Wigtownshire or the County of Wigtown is a registration county in the Southern Uplands of south west Scotland. Until 1975, the county was one of the administrative counties used for local government purposes, and is now administered as part of the council area of Dumfries and Galloway...

 on 26 February 1982.: formerly the German U-boat U-570. Captured and taken into Royal Navy service in 1942, she ran aground and was wrecked on Islay
Islay
-Prehistory:The earliest settlers on Islay were nomadic hunter-gatherers who arrived during the Mesolithic period after the retreat of the Pleistocene ice caps. In 1993 a flint arrowhead was found in a field near Bridgend dating from 10,800 BC, the earliest evidence of a human presence found so far...

 in 1944.: British armored cruiser struck a mine off Orkney in 1916.: German battleship scuttled in Scapa Flow
Scapa Flow
right|thumb|Scapa Flow viewed from its eastern endScapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy. It is about...

 in 1919.
  • River Dee Ferry Boat Disaster
    River Dee Ferry Boat Disaster
    The River Dee Ferry Boat Disaster, 5 April 1876, drowned 32 people in the mouth of the River Dee, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.-Context:The city of Aberdeen lies at the mouth of the River Dee. At the time of the disaster, on the south bank was the separate Royal Burgh of Torry; in 1891 this was...

    : overloaded ferry capsized in 1876.: British battleship
    Battleship
    A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...

     torpedoed in Scapa Flow
    Scapa Flow
    right|thumb|Scapa Flow viewed from its eastern endScapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy. It is about...

     in 1939.: British minelayer
    Minelayer
    Minelaying is the act of deploying explosive mines. Historically this has been carried out by ships, submarines and aircraft. Additionally, since World War I the term minelayer refers specifically to a naval ship used for deploying naval mines...

     ran aground in the Kyle of Lochalsh, caught fire while being unloaded, destroyed by explosion in 1940.
  • HMS Caribbean
    RMS Dunottar Castle
    The RMS Dunottar Castle was built at Govan Shipyards in 1889 by the Fairfield Ship Building & Engineering Co. for the Castle Line, passing to the Union Castle Line in 1900. This steam ship became famous in the 1890s for reducing the voyage time from Southampton, England, to Cape Town, South Africa,...

    : sank 35 miles (56 km) off Cape Wrath
    Cape Wrath
    Cape Wrath is a cape in Sutherland, Highland, in northern Scotland. It is the most northwesterly point on the island of Great Britain. The land between the Kyle of Durness and the lighthouse that is situated right at the tip, is known as the Parph, two hundred and seven square kilometers of...

     due to bad weather in 1915.: an admiralty yacht sank in The Minch
    The Minch
    The Minch , also called The North Minch, is a strait in north-west Scotland, separating the north-west Highlands, and the northern Inner Hebrides, from Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides...

     outside Stornoway
    Stornoway
    Stornoway is a burgh on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.The town's population is around 9,000, making it the largest settlement in the Western Isles and the third largest town in the Scottish Highlands after Inverness and Fort William...

     harbour on 1 January 1919 with the loss of 205 men returning from World War I
    World War I
    World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

    .
  • Unknown shipwreck found in 2000. See
  • German submarine U-714
    German submarine U-714
    German submarine U-714 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine built for service during World War II. She was laid down on 29 December 1941 by HC Stulcken at Hamburg and commissioned on 10 February 1943...

    : German U-Boat, sunk 14 March 1945 and discovered in the Firth of Forth in 2007 on 8 March 1943 at 2303, this straggler from Convoy SC-121 was hit by one torpedo from U-642 and sank west of the Hebrides. The master and 25 crewmembers were lost.
  • SS John Randolph: struck a mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     and was later wrecked at Torrisdale Bay
    Torrisdale Bay
    Torrisdale Bay is a coastal embayment along the east side of the Kintyre Peninsula within Kilbrannan Sound in Scotland. The shoreline of the bay consists partially of a shingle beach. Nearby is located Torrisdale Castle. The villages of Torrisdale and Bridgend lie along Torrisdale Bay with...

    on 6 July 1942.: on 12 June 1915 was intercepted and sunk by German submarine U17, 35 miles (56.3 km) off Montrose.

Wales

  • Amazonese: a cargo steamship ran aground at St. David's Head on 15 April 1881.
  • Diamond
    Diamond (ship)
    The Diamond was a three masted square rigger. She was one of the first ships to operate a regular service for passenger and cargo between Britain and the United States. She was built in New York in 1823 and was later alleged to be one of the first American ships to be built with a composite hull...

    : a protected wrecksite
    Protection of Wrecks Act 1973
    The Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provides protection for designated shipwrecks. Section 1 of the act provides for wrecks to be designated because of historical, archaeological or artistic value. Section 2 provides for designation of...

    , a three masted square rigger with a composite hull, forerunner of the Ocean liners, lost in Cardigan Bay
    Cardigan Bay
    Cardigan Bay is a large inlet of the Irish Sea, indenting the west coast of Wales between Bardsey Island, Gwynedd in the north, and Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire at its southern end. It is the largest bay in Wales....

     on 2 January 1825.
  • Mary
    HMY Mary
    HMY Mary was the first Royal Yacht of the Royal Navy. She was built in 1660 by the Dutch East India Company. Then she was purchased by the City of Amsterdam and given to King Charles II, on the restoration of the monarchy, as part of the Dutch Gift. She struck rocks off Anglesey in thick fog on...

    : a protected wrecksite
    Protection of Wrecks Act 1973
    The Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provides protection for designated shipwrecks. Section 1 of the act provides for wrecks to be designated because of historical, archaeological or artistic value. Section 2 provides for designation of...

    , the first British Royal Yacht, hit rocks in fog off Anglesey
    Anglesey
    Anglesey , also known by its Welsh name Ynys Môn , is an island and, as Isle of Anglesey, a county off the north west coast of Wales...

     on 25 March 1675.: a Collins Line
    Collins Line
    The Collins Line is the common name for the American shipping company started by Israel Collins and then built up by his son Edward Knight Collins...

     transatlantic steamer that sank (possibly in the Irish Sea
    Irish Sea
    The Irish Sea separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is connected to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Atlantic Ocean in the north by the North Channel. Anglesey is the largest island within the Irish Sea, followed by the Isle of Man...

    ) from unknown causes in January 1856.
  • SV Paul
    SV Paul
    The SV Paul was a four-masted fore-and-aft rigged windjammer, launched in Seattle in 1919. Originally named Mount Whitney she was sold to new German owners in 1924 and renamed Margaret Sayer, finally in 1925 she was acquired by Flensburg owners and renamed 'Paul'.-Shipwreck and salvage:In 1925 the...

    : a four masted windjammer
    Windjammer
    A windjammer is the ultimate type of large sailing ship with an iron or for the most part steel hull, built to carry cargo in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century...

     that was wrecked on the Cefn Sidan
    Cefn Sidan
    Cefn Sidan, roughly translated from Welsh, means "Silky Back". This long sandy beach and its dunes form the outer edge of the Pembrey Burrows between Burry Port and Kidwelly, looking southwards over Carmarthen Bay in South Wales....

     sands in 1925.
  • Resurgam II
    Resurgam
    Resurgam is the name given to two early Victorian submarines designed and built by Reverend George Garrett as a weapon to penetrate the chain netting placed around ship hulls to defend against attack by torpedo vessels....

    : a protected wrecksite
    Protection of Wrecks Act 1973
    The Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provides protection for designated shipwrecks. Section 1 of the act provides for wrecks to be designated because of historical, archaeological or artistic value. Section 2 provides for designation of...

    , sank near Rhyl
    Rhyl
    Rhyl is a seaside resort town and community situated on the north east coast of Wales, in the county of Denbighshire , at the mouth of the River Clwyd . To the west is the suburb of Kinmel Bay, with the resort of Towyn further west, Prestatyn to the east and Rhuddlan to the south...

     on 25 February 1880.
  • Rothsay Castle
    Rothsay Castle (ship)
    The Rothsay Castle was a paddle steamer which was shipwrecked on the Lavan Sands at the eastern end of the Menai Straits, North Wales, in 1831, with the loss of 130 lives....

    : a paddle steamer ran aground and broke up at the eastern end of the Menai Strait
    Menai Strait
    The Menai Strait is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales.The strait is bridged in two places - the main A5 road is carried over the strait by Thomas Telford's elegant iron suspension bridge, the first of its kind,...

     in 1831.
  • Royal Charter
    Royal Charter (ship)
    The Royal Charter was a steam clipper which was wrecked off the beach of Porth Alerth in Dulas Bay on the north-east coast of Anglesey on 26 October 1859. The precise number of dead is uncertain as the passenger list was lost in the wreck but about 459 lives were lost, the highest death toll of any...

    : a steam clipper driven onto rocks near Moelfre
    Moelfre
    Moelfre is a village and community on the east coast of Isle of Anglesey in Wales, and on the Anglesey Coastal Path. It has a population of 1,129.The Royal Mail postcode begins LL72....

    , Anglesey
    Anglesey
    Anglesey , also known by its Welsh name Ynys Môn , is an island and, as Isle of Anglesey, a county off the north west coast of Wales...

     on 26 October 1859.
  • MV Swanland
    MV Swanland
    MV Swanland was a bulk carrier.The ship was was built by Bijlsma Lemmer Scheepswerf of Lemmer in the Netherlands in 1977. Originally named Carebeka IX, she was renamed several times. The vessel was last owned and operated as Swanland by Torbulk, a company based in Grimsby, and was registered in the...

    : sank after breaking its back after hitting a large wave following gale force 8 conditions 20 miles off the coast of Anglesey
    Anglesey
    Anglesey , also known by its Welsh name Ynys Môn , is an island and, as Isle of Anglesey, a county off the north west coast of Wales...

     on 27 November 2011.

South Pembrokeshire
  • Lucy: a 52 m coaster, sank off Skomer
    Skomer
    Skomer is a 2.92 km² island off the coast of southwest Wales, one of a chain lying within a kilometre off the Pembrokeshire coast and separated from the mainland by the treacherous waters of Jack Sound....

     Island, Pembrokeshire, on 14 February 1967, while carrying a cargo of calcium carbide.

Milford Haven
  • Behar: a 6,100 ton steamer, 436 ft (132.9 m) in length, with a cargo of 4,700 tons of government stores, allegedly including Harley Davidson motorbikes. Sunk by magnetic parachute mine on 24 November 1940 in Milford Haven
    Milford Haven
    Milford Haven is a town and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is situated on the north side of the Milford Haven Waterway, a natural harbour used as a port since the Middle Ages. The town was founded in 1790 on the north side of the Waterway, from which it takes its name...

    , Pembrokeshire
    Pembrokeshire
    Pembrokeshire is a county in the south west of Wales. It borders Carmarthenshire to the east and Ceredigion to the north east. The county town is Haverfordwest where Pembrokeshire County Council is headquartered....

    .
  • Dakotian: a 6,400 ton steamer, 400 ft (121.9 m) in length, with a cargo of 1,300 tons of tinplate. Sunk by magnetic parachute mine 21 November 1940 approx 1 miles (1.6 km) west of Dale
    Dale, Pembrokeshire
    Dale is a small village and community in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, located on the Dale Peninsula which forms the northern side of the entrance to Milford Haven estuary. The village has 205 inhabitants according to the 2001 census.-History:...

     in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.
  • Faraday: a 5,600 ton cable laying ship, 415 ft (126.5 m) in length. Attacked by Heinkel He 111 on the evening of 25 March 1941 in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, and sank the following day off St Anne's Head. Now lies in shallow water (5–16 m) but due to the loss of life is a protected wreck site.
  • Loch Shiel aka Whiskey Wreck, a 1218 ton rigged sailing ship, 225 ft (68.6 m) in length, with a cargo of 7000 cases of whiskey, beer & general goods. Ran aground at Thorn Island
    Thorn Island
    Thorn Island is in the Community of Angle off the south west coast of Wales. The island is dominated by a fort that was built to defend Milford Haven from the French Navy. The Angle lifeboat received silver medals in 1878 rescuing the crew of the Loch Shiel on rocks near the island which carried...

     on 30 January 1877 west of Dale in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. Now sits in 20 m of water, is very broken up, but the brick ballast is still visible.

Bahamas

  • SS Sapona
    SS Sapona
    SS Sapona was a concrete-hulled cargo steamer that ran aground near Bimini during a hurricane in 1926. The wreck of the ship is easily visible above the water, and is both a navigational landmark for boaters and a popular dive site....

    : a cargo steamer run aground near Bimini
    Bimini
    Bimini is the westernmost district of the Bahamas composed of a chain of islands located about 53 miles due east of Miami, Florida. Bimini is the closest point in the Bahamas to the mainland United States and approximately 137 miles west-northwest of Nassau...

     during a hurricane in 1926.

Bermuda
Bermuda
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...

  • Sea Venture
    Sea Venture
    The Sea Venture was a 17th-century English sailing ship, the wrecking of which in Bermuda is widely thought to have been the inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest...

    : grounded off the coast in 1609, subsequently broke up and sank.
  • Warwick: an English cargo ship
    Cargo ship
    A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...

     sunk in a gale in Castle Harbor in 1619, discovered in 1967.
  • San Antonio: Portuguese nao
    Carrack
    A carrack or nau was a three- or four-masted sailing ship developed in 15th century Western Europe for use in the Atlantic Ocean. It had a high rounded stern with large aftcastle, forecastle and bowsprit at the stem. It was first used by the Portuguese , and later by the Spanish, to explore and...

     wrecked on the west reefs in 1621, discovered in 1960.
  • Eagle
    Eagle (ship)
    The Eagle is a freighter which was sunk intentionally near Lower Matecumbe Key, Florida, to become an artificial reef and diving spot.-History:*1962 - Built for Danish shipowners J...

    : The Eagle is a 269 feet (82 m) long freighter which was sunk (December 19th, 1985) intentionally near Lower Matecumbe Key, Florida, to become an artificial reef and diving spot.
  • Virginia Merchant: Virginia Company ship wrecked in 1661.
  • "Frenchman wreck": an unidentified ship, wrecked around 1750, found in 1983.
  • "Manilla wreck": an unidentified ship, wrecked mid-18th century.
  • Hunters Galley: wrecked in 1752.
  • Katherine
    HMS Katherine
    HMS Katherine has been the name of various ships of the British Royal Navy:, a ship purchased in 1402 and scrapped in 1406, a ship purchased in 1415 and sold in 1425, a 36-gun ship captured in 1653 and sold in 1658, an 8-gun yacht launched in 1661 and lost in 1673, an 82-gun 2nd-rate launched in...

    : wrecked in 1763.
  • Mark Antonio: Spanish privateer, wrecked in 1777, discovered early 1960s.
  • Lord Amherst: British armed transport wrecked in 1778.
  • HMS Cerberus: lost at Castle Harbor in 1783.
  • HMS Pallas
    HMS Pallas (1757)
    HMS Pallas was one of the three 36-gun Venus-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and served until her loss in 1783.- References :...

    : ran aground in 1783 off St. George's Island, wreck has not been identified.
  • Caesar: wrecked on a reef in 1818 en route from England to Baltimore.
  • Collector: wrecked in 1823.
  • L'Herminie: French frigate
    Frigate
    A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...

     wrecked in 1838.
  • Unidentified ship: wrecked in 1849, believed to be the Minerva though that ship was wrecked in 1795.
  • Curlew: wrecked on the northern reefs in 1856.
  • Montana
    Montana (ship)
    The Montana was a paddle steamer that was wrecked off the north coast of Bermuda on 30 December 1863.-History:The vessel was intended for operation as a blockade runner supplying Confederate Forces in the American Civil War. It was on its maiden voyage from London, headed ultimately for Wilmington...

    : American Civil War
    American Civil War
    The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

     blockade runner
    Blockade runner
    A blockade runner is usually a lighter weight ship used for evading a naval blockade of a port or strait, as opposed to confronting the blockaders to break the blockade. Very often blockade running is done in order to transport cargo, for example to bring food or arms to a blockaded city...

     sank in 1863.
  • Mari Celeste: American Civil War
    American Civil War
    The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

     blockade runner
    Blockade runner
    A blockade runner is usually a lighter weight ship used for evading a naval blockade of a port or strait, as opposed to confronting the blockaders to break the blockade. Very often blockade running is done in order to transport cargo, for example to bring food or arms to a blockaded city...

     being piloted by a Bermudian, sank in eight minutes in 1864.
  • Beaumaris Castle: ran aground in 1873.
  • Minnie Breslauer: ran aground in 1873.
  • Alert: fishing sloop sank in 1877.
  • Kate: British steamer wrecked in 1878.
  • Lartington: wrecked in 1879 after just five years of operation.
  • North Carolina: wrecked off West End in 1880.
  • Darlington: wrecked on the Western Reef in 1886.
  • Richard P. Buck: caught fire and sank following a storm in 1889.
  • Apollo: wrecked on the reefs in 1890.
  • Avenger: wrecked on Mills Breakers in 1894.
  • HMS Vixen: scuttled in 1896.
  • Madiana: former Balmoral Castle, built 1877, wrecked 1903.
  • Pollockshields: former Herodot, wrecked in 1915 near Elbow Beach
    Elbow Beach, Bermuda
    Elbow Beach is one of the most popular beaches on the main island of Bermuda. Located on the southern coast of Paget Parish, it is also home to one of Bermuda's most famous resorts, the Elbow Beach Hotel...

    .
  • Blanch King: wrecked on the southwest reefs in 1920.
  • Taunton: Norwegian steamer wrecked on the northern reefs in 1920.
  • Caraquet: mail steamer wrecked on the northern barrier reef in 1923.
  • Zovetto: cargo steamer ran aground in 1924, also known as Zovetta or Rita Zovetto.
  • Mussel: Bermudian fishing boat wrecked in 1926.
  • Cristobal Colon: Bermuda's largest shipwreck sank in 1936.
  • Iristo: Norwegian steamer also known as Aristo, grounded in 1937 after mistaking the Colon wreck for a ship still underway.
  • Pelinaion: Greek steamer wrecked in 1940.
  • Constellation: made famous in the film The Deep
    The Deep (film)
    The Deep is a 1977 adventure film directed by Peter Yates and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. The film stars Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, and Nick Nolte.-Plot:...

    , sank in 1942.
  • Colonel William G. Ball: wrecked on Mills Breakers in severe weather in 1943.
  • Wychwood: ran aground in 1955, refloated, then sank again.
  • Elda: wrecked in 1956 near the Eagle wreck.
  • Ramona: Canadian ship wrecked in 1967, refloated for salvaging, re-sunk near Dockyard
    Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda
    HMD Bermuda was the principal base of the Royal Navy in the Western Atlantic between American independence and the Cold War. Bermuda had occupied a useful position astride the homeward leg taken by many European vessels from the New World since before its settlement by England in 1609...

    .
  • King: American ship scuttled in 1984, first intentionally-created dive site in Bermuda.
  • Hermes: American ship deliberately scuttled in 1984.
  • Triton: scuttled in 1988 as a dive site.

British Virgin Islands

: a British frigate wrecked off the coast of Anegada
Anegada
Anegada is the northernmost of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands which form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands. It lies approximately north of Virgin Gorda. Anegada is the only inhabited British Virgin Island formed from coral and limestone, rather than being of volcanic...

 on 23 May 1808.: a British sloop that caught fire, foundered, and sank in Road Town
Road Town
-See also:* Government House, the official residence of the Governor of the British Virgin Islands located in Road Town-External links:*****...

's harbour in 1783.: a British packet ship wrecked during a hurricane off the coast of Salt Island
Salt Island, British Virgin Islands
Salt Island is one of the islands of the archipelago of the British Virgin Islands located about 4.7 miles south east of Road Town, the main town on Tortola...

 on 29 October 1867.

Newfoundland and Labrador

  • Administratrix: motor vessel collided with Lovadal in fog near Cape Race in 1948.
  • Anglo Saxon: British Allan liner
    Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers
    The Allan Shipping Line was started in 1819, by Captain Alexander Allan of Saltcoats, Ayrshire, running dry goods from Greenock to sell in Montreal and returning with Canadian produce to sell back in Scotland, a route which quickly became synonymous with the Allan Line...

    , sunk off Cape Race in 1863.
  • Anton van Driel: Dutch steamer sunk near Cape Race in 1919.
  • SS Arctic
    SS Arctic
    The SS Arctic was a 3,000-ton Paddle steamer in the Collins Line steamships. A sister-ship to the SS Pacific that went into service in 1852, the ship was at the time the largest and most splendid of the line and was in operation in the Liverpool packet...

    : collided with steamer
    Vesta and sank near Cape Race in 1854.
  • MS Arctic Explorer
    MS Arctic Explorer
    The MS Arctic Explorer was a ship which sank off St Anthony, Newfoundland, in the Strait of Belle Isle, on 3 July 1981.The 900 tonne icebreaker sank in calm seas in less than 20 minutes leaving 13 crew members dead and 19 survivors drifting in two inflatable liferafts for more than two days until...

    : sank off the Strait of Bell Isle, three hours after departing St Anthony in 1981.
  • SS Caribou
    SS Caribou
    The SS Caribou was a passenger ferry used by the Newfoundland government's ferry service between Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and North Sydney, Nova Scotia....

    : Newfoundland Railway ferry torpedoed by U-boat off Port aux basques
    Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador
    Channel-Port aux Basques is a town at the extreme southwestern tip of the island of Newfoundland fronting on the eastern end of the Cabot Strait. A Marine Atlantic ferry terminal is located in the town which is the primary entry point onto the island of Newfoundland and the western terminus of...

     in 1942.
  • City of Philadelphia: British steamer ran aground and sunk in fog near Cape Race
    Cape Race
    Cape Race is a point of land located at the southeastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. Its name is thought to come from the original Portuguese name for this cape, "Raso", or "bare"...

     in 1854.
  • HMS Comus
    HMS Comus (1806)
    HMS Comus was a 22-gun Laurel-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1806. In 1807 she took part in one notable single-ship action and was at the capture of Copenhagen. In 1815 she spent six months with the West Africa Squadron suppressing the slave trade during which...

    : ran aground and sank in fog near Cape Race in 1816.
  • Delmar: Scottish steamer sunk near Cape Race in 1901.
  • Despatch
    Despatch (brig)
    The Despatch was a brig noted for having shipwrecked near Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, and for the subsequent heroic rescue of many of its passengers and crew. The Despatch was partly owned by William Lancaster of Workington, England...

    : British brig
    Brig
    A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...

     sunk near Isle Aux Morts in 1828.
  • HMS Drake: ran aground and sank near St. Shotts in 1822.
  • HMS Duchess of Cumberland: wrecked near Cape Ray in 1781.
  • Duchess of Fife: schooner sunk near Bonavista in 1907.
  • Erik: a sealing steamer torpedoed off St. Pierre and Miquelon 1918.
  • SS Ethie: coastal steamship that ran aground in a fierce storm in 1919.
  • Florence: British Overseas Containers Limited
    Overseas Containers Limited
    Overseas Containers Limited was a container shipping company formed by a consortium of British shipping companies in 1965. It is not to be confused with Orient Overseas Container Line .-History:...

     liner sunk near Cape Race in 1912.
  • SS Florizel
    SS Florizel
    SS Florizel, a passenger liner, was the flagship of the Bowring Brothers' Red Cross Line of steamships and one of the first ships in the world specifically designed to navigate icy waters. During its last voyage, from St...

    : sank after striking a reef in 1918.
  • George Cromwell: British steamer sunk near Cape Race in 1877.
  • George Washington: USA steamer sunk near Cape Race in 1877.
  • Germania: German steamer sunk in fog near Cape Race in 1869.
  • Greenland: sealing steamer lost 48 men on the ice 1898.
  • Harcourt Kent: motor ship sunk near Cape Race in 1949.
  • Harpooner: British transport
    Troopship
    A troopship is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime...

     ran aground and sank in fog near Cape Race in 1816.
  • Harvest Home: British ship sunk off Cape Race
    Cape Race
    Cape Race is a point of land located at the southeastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. Its name is thought to come from the original Portuguese name for this cape, "Raso", or "bare"...

     in 1833.
  • Helgoland: German steamer sunk near Cape Race in 1900.
  • Indian: British Allan liner
    Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers
    The Allan Shipping Line was started in 1819, by Captain Alexander Allan of Saltcoats, Ayrshire, running dry goods from Greenock to sell in Montreal and returning with Canadian produce to sell back in Scotland, a route which quickly became synonymous with the Allan Line...

    , sunk off Cape Race in 1859.
  • SS Kristianiafjord
    SS Kristianiafjord
    SS Kristianiafjord was the first ship in the fleet of the Norwegian America Line, built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, UK. The name refers to the fjord leading in to the Norwegian capital Oslo, at the time called Kristiania. Launched from its shipyard on 23 November 1912, it was put into service...

    : Norwegian liner ran aground in fog near Cape Race in 1917.
  • SS Kyle
    SS Kyle
    The SS Kyle is a 220 foot sailing vessel that is currently couched in the harbour of the Town of Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador. It ran ashore in February of 1967 and has remained in that state since...

    : ran aground in Harbour Grace in 1967.
  • Lady of the Lake: Scottish brig
    Brig
    A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...

     sunk near Cape St. Francis
    Cape St. Francis
    Cape St. Francis is a town in South Africa, situated on a headland in the Eastern Cape Province. It is popular for its clean beaches and as a surfing location.The town is home to a Penguin Rescue and Rehabilitation Center as well as the Seal Point Lighthouse....

     in 1833.
  • Lady Sherbrooke: barque
    Barque
    A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...

     sunk in gale near Port Aux Basques in 1831.
  • Lion: reported missing in Baccalieu Tickle in 1882.
  • Lord Strathcona: iron-ore carrier torpedoed by U-boat off Bell Island
    Bell Island
    Bell Island is a Canadian island located off Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula in Conception Bay.Measuring 9 km in length and 3 km in width, Bell Island has an area of 34 km²...

     in 1942.
  • Marvale: Canadian Pacific liner stranded 1923.
  • Phyllis
    Phyllis (ship)
    The Phyllis was a British transport noted for having shipwrecked near the Burin Peninsula on the south coast of Newfoundland, and for the subsequent survival under brutal conditions and rescue of many of its passengers and crew...

    : a British transport
    Troopship
    A troopship is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime...

    , ran aground and sunk off the Burin Peninsula
    Burin Peninsula
    The Burin Peninsula is a Canadian peninsula located on the south coast of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador....

     on the southern coast in 1795.
  • P.L.M. 27 iron-ore carrier torpedoed by U-boat off Bell Island
    Bell Island
    Bell Island is a Canadian island located off Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula in Conception Bay.Measuring 9 km in length and 3 km in width, Bell Island has an area of 34 km²...

     1942.
  • USS Pollux
    USS Pollux (AKS-2)
    The second USS Pollux was a Castor-class general stores issue ship.Pollux was laid down by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Hoboken, N.J...

    : supply ship sunk along with
    USS Truxtun in a storm in 1942.
  • President Coaker: schooner
    Schooner
    A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

     sunk in a gale near Cape Race in 1924.
  • Queen of Swansea: ran aground and sunk in storm at Gull Island in 1867.
  • HMS Raleigh
    HMS Raleigh (1919)
    HMS Raleigh was a Hawkins-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned as part of the British North Atlantic squadron in 1921....

    : heavy cruiser
    Heavy cruiser
    The heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range, high speed and an armament of naval guns roughly 203mm calibre . The heavy cruiser can be seen as a lineage of ship design from 1915 until 1945, although the term 'heavy cruiser' only came into formal use in 1930...

     sunk in fog at Point Amour in Strait of Belle Isle in 1922.
  • Rose Castle: iron-ore carrier torpedoed by U-boat off Bell Island
    Bell Island
    Bell Island is a Canadian island located off Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula in Conception Bay.Measuring 9 km in length and 3 km in width, Bell Island has an area of 34 km²...

     in 1942.
  • Saganaga iron-ore carrier torpedoed by U-boat off Bell Island
    Bell Island
    Bell Island is a Canadian island located off Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula in Conception Bay.Measuring 9 km in length and 3 km in width, Bell Island has an area of 34 km²...

     1942.
  • San Juan: a Basque
    Basque people
    The Basques as an ethnic group, primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country , a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France.The Basques are known in the...

     whaling
    Whaling
    Whaling is the hunting of whales mainly for meat and oil. Its earliest forms date to at least 3000 BC. Various coastal communities have long histories of sustenance whaling and harvesting beached whales...

     ship sunk in Red Bay, Labrador
    Labrador
    Labrador is the distinct, northerly region of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It comprises the mainland portion of the province, separated from the island of Newfoundland by the Strait of Belle Isle...

    , in 1565.
  • HMS Sapphire
    HMS Sapphire (1675)
    HMS Sapphire was a 32-gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy. She was designed and built by Sir Anthony Deane at Harwich in 1675, at a cost of £4,175....

    : scuttled to prevent capture by France in 1696.
  • Sea Clipper: schooner
    Schooner
    A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

     sunk in storm near Spotted Island, Labrador, in 1867.
  • HMS Southampton
    HMS Southampton (1757)
    HMS Southampton was the name ship of the 32-gun Southampton-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and served for more than half a century until wrecked in 1812.- Fate :...

    : sunk (with HMS
    Tweed) in a storm near Bay Bulls in 1813.
  • Southern Cross: Scottish sealing steamer lost in blizzard 1914.
  • RMS Titanic: a White Star liner
    White Star Line
    The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packets, more commonly known as the White Star Line, was a prominent British shipping company, today most famous for its ill-fated vessel, the RMS Titanic, and the World War I loss of Titanics sister ship Britannic...

     on a trans-Atlantic run, collided with an iceberg on Grand Banks of Newfoundland in 1912 and sank with heavy loss of life in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.
  • USS Truxtun
    USS Truxtun (DD-229)
    ' was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the third ship named for Thomas Truxtun.Truxtun was laid down on 3 December 1919 and launched on 28 September 1920 from William Cramp & Sons, sponsored by Miss Isabelle Truxtun Brumby, and commissioned at the...

    : destroyer
    Destroyer
    In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...

     sunk along with
    USS Pollux in a storm in 1942.
  • HMS Tweed: sunk in a storm near Bay Bulls in 1813.
  • Viking
    SS Viking
    The SS Viking was a ship used by the film producer Varick Frissel in the making of the 1931 film The Viking. During the shooting of extra footage for this film it exploded, taking the lives of Varick Frissel and twenty-six other crew members....

    : sealing barque lost by explosion near White Bay in 1931.
  • Village Belle: schooner lost at Cape St. Francis in 1872.
  • Waterwitch (schooner): sunk near Pouch Cove in 1875.
  • MV William Carson
    MV William Carson
    M/V William Carson was a CN Marine passenger/vehicle icebreaker ferry named in honour of Newfoundland colonial politician William Carson.Built by Canadian Vickers Ltd. in Montreal, Quebec, the William Carson measured 351 feet in length and displaced 8,300 tons...

    : Canadian National ferry sank in ice off Labrador in 1977.

Nova Scotia

  • Auguste
    Auguste (ship)
    Auguste was a full rigged sailing ship which sank at Aspy Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 1761 while carrying exiles from the fall of New France. Auguste was a former French privateer ship which had been captured by the British and converted to a merchant ship...

    : a full-rigged transport, run aground on the northeastern side of Cape Breton Island
    Cape Breton Island
    Cape Breton Island is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America. It likely corresponds to the word Breton, the French demonym for Brittany....

     on 28 October 1761.
  • RMS Atlantic
    RMS Atlantic
    RMS Atlantic was a transatlantic ocean liner of the White Star Line that operated between Liverpool, United Kingdom, and New York City, United States. During the ship's 19th voyage, on 1 April 1873, it ran onto rocks and sank off the coast of Nova Scotia, killing 535 people...

    : a White Star Line
    White Star Line
    The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packets, more commonly known as the White Star Line, was a prominent British shipping company, today most famous for its ill-fated vessel, the RMS Titanic, and the World War I loss of Titanics sister ship Britannic...

     ocean liner, ran aground near Meagher's Island on 1 April 1873.
  • Capricieux: a French warship that caught fire and burned in the siege of Louisbourg
    Louisbourg, Nova Scotia
    Louisbourg is a community in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality.-History:The town's name was given by French military forces who founded the Fortress of Louisbourg and its fortified seaport on the southwest part of the harbour, in honour of Louis XV...

     on 21 July 1758.
  • Célèbre: a French warship that caught fire and burned in the siege of Louisbourg on 21 July 1758.
  • Chameau
    French ship Chameau
    The French ship Chameau or Le Chameau was a wooden sailing ship of the French Navy, built in 1717. She was used to transport passengers and supplies to New France , making several trips. Nearing the end of her last voyage, a storm blew her onto some rocks on August 27, 1725...

    , a French navy transport ship that was swept by a storm onto rocks near Louisbourg on 27 August 1725.
  • Entreprenant: a French warship struck with cannonfire by the Royal Navy off Louisbourg, burned and exploded on 21 July 1758.
  • Hannah
    Hannah (1849 shipwreck)
    The brig Hannah transported emigrants to :Canada during the Irish Famine. She is known for the terrible circumstances of her 1849 shipwreck, in which the captain and two officers left the sinking ship aboard the only lifeboat, leaving passengers and the rest of the crew to fend for...

    : an Irish famine ship which was holed by ice between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland on 29 April 1849.
  • Schooner Maria: an Irish famine ship which sank in Cabot Strait
    Cabot Strait
    Cabot Strait is a strait in eastern Canada approximately 110 kilometres wide between Cape Ray, Newfoundland and Cape North, Cape Breton Island. It is the widest of the three outlets for the Gulf of Saint Lawrence into the Atlantic Ocean, the others being the Strait of Belle Isle and Strait of Canso...

     the night of 10 May 1849. They sailed from Limerick, Ireland for Quebec, carrying a crew of 10 plus 111 Irish emigrants. Sailing near midnight in a severe storm, the sailing ship sank immediately when it hit an iceberg, about 50 miles (80.5 km) from St. Paul Island
    St. Paul Island, Nova Scotia
    St. Paul Island is a small uninhabited island located approximately northeast of Cape North on Cape Breton Island and southwest of Cape Ray on Newfoundland; it is along the boundary between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Cabot Strait....

    . Only 12 on board survived.
  • Prudent: a French warship burned following the siege of Louisbourg on 22 July 1758.
  • MV Patrick Morris: Canadian National ferry sank in storm off Cape Breton in Feb 1969
  • HMCS Saguenay
    HMCS Saguenay (D79)
    HMCS Saguenay was a River-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1931-1945.She was similar to the Royal Navy's A-class and initially wore the pennant D79, changed in 1940 to I79....

    : a Canadian destroyer scuttled as an artificial reef off Lunenburg
    Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
    Lunenburg , is a Canadian port town in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.Situated on the province's South Shore, Lunenburg is located on a peninsula at the western side of Mahone Bay. The town is approximately 90 kilometres southwest of the county boundary with the Halifax Regional Municipality.The...

     in 1994.
  • Schooner Larinda: owned and operated by Captain Lawrence Mahan of Cape Cod
    Cape Cod
    Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States...

    , Massachusetts
    Massachusetts
    The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

    , sank in Halifax Harbour
    Halifax Harbour
    Halifax Harbour is a large natural harbour on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, located in the Halifax Regional Municipality.-Harbour description:The harbour is called Jipugtug by the Mi'kmaq first nation, anglisized as Chebucto...

     during Hurricane Juan
    Hurricane Juan
    Hurricane Juan was a significant hurricane that struck the southern part of Atlantic Canada in late September 2003. It was the tenth named storm and the sixth hurricane of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. Juan formed southeast of Bermuda on September 24, 2003 out of a tropical wave that tracked...

     on 29 September 2003. The ship was raised and sold to a Canadian man interested in restoring it.

Sable Island
  • Unknown British transport: this troopship carried members of the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot
    43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot
    The 43rd Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army. It was raised as Thomas Fowke's Regiment of Foot in 1741 with its headquarters at Winchester. The regiment was numbered 54th Foot until 1748 when it became the 43rd Foot...

    , lost 14 November 1760.
  • Schooner Esperanto: months after winning the first International Fishing Vessel Championship Race, struck a submerged wreck and sank on 30 May 1921.

Nunavut

  • Breadalbane
    Breadalbane (ship)
    Breadalbane was a British three-masted barque, a merchant ship that was crushed by ice and sank in the Arctic.Notable as the northernmost shipwreck known, she is also the best-preserved wooden ship ever found in the sea. Historically, Breadalbane is considered to be a time capsule.On 21 August...

    : a British barque
    Barque
    A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...

     crushed by ice south of Beechey Island
    Beechey Island
    Beechey Island is an island located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago of Nunavut, Canada, in Wellington Channel. It is separated from the southwest corner of Devon Island by Barrow Strait...

     on 2 August 1853.

Ontario

  • Angler: tug caught fire and sank in Long Point in 1893.
  • Arabia, a barque that foundered near Echo Island in 1884.

Built: 1853
Length: 131 feet (39.9 m)
Sunk: 1884 - took on water and sank in heavy seas
Depth: 105 feet (32 m)
Rating: Advanced
Description: The Arabia has a definite and long standing connection to Tobermory. In 1854, she sailed to Glasgow, Scotland with a cargo of wheat and flour. She remained in the coastal trade on the northwest cost of Great Britain for a year or so. During that time, Tobermory, Scotland (on the isle of Mull) was one of her ports of call. After returning to Canada, she ran aground near Flowerpot Island in 1883. She was refloated, repaired and continued her service. The following year, she met her ultimate fate near Echo Island as she foundered and sank.

Currently, the hull is intact with the exception of the back 100' of the deck and the transom which have collapsed. The bow is very impressive with the jib-boom still in place (the jib-boom is often mistakenly called the bow-sprit). The windlass, bilge pump and 3 anchors are still in place on the bow. Deadeyes, pulleys and pinrails are still present on the sides. The masts have fallen but lay across the deck. The afterdeck has broken away and lies to the port of the stern. The steering gear and ships wheel lay on the starboard of the afterdeck. A commemorative plaque has been placed next to the ships wheel. This is the best and most interesting wreck in Tobermory. It should be dived by experienced divers only. However, it is well worth a few years of diving effort to gain the necessary experience to dive this wreck.
  • Aycliffe Hall: sank off Long Point in 1936.
  • British Lion: ran aground off Long Point in 1877. The same storm claimed the Mediera and Elize A. Turner.
  • Brown Brothers: sank in Long Point in 1959.
  • City of Dresden: ran aground off Long Point in 1922.
  • City of Sheboygan: sank off Kingston
    Kingston, Ontario
    Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...

     in Lake Ontario
    Lake Ontario
    Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south by the American state of New York. Ontario, Canada's most populous province, was named for the lake. In the Wyandot language, ontarío means...

    .
  • Comet: collision off Nine Mile Point, Ontario in Lake Ontario.
  • Edmund Fitzgerald: ran aground off Long Point in 1883. This 135 feet (41 m) schooner predated the more widely known ship of the same name that sank in Lake Superior in 1975.
  • Elize A. Turner ran aground off Long Point in 1877. The same storm claimed the British Lion and Madiera.
  • Elphicke: ran aground off Long Point in 1913.
  • Empire: ran aground off Long Point in 1870.
  • Gunilda: yacht ran up on McGarvey's Shoals, Lake Superior.
  • HMS Nancy: sunk by the United States Navy during the War of 1812
    War of 1812
    The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. The Americans declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions because of Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American merchant...

     in the Nottawasaga River
    Nottawasaga River
    The Nottawasaga River is a river in southern Ontario, Canada. Its headwaters are located on the Niagara Escarpment and Oak Ridges Moraine. It flows through the Minesing Swamp, recognized as a wetland of international significance , and empties into Nottawasaga Bay, an inlet of Georgian Bay, at...

     near Georgian Bay
    Georgian Bay
    Georgian Bay is a large bay of Lake Huron, located entirely within Ontario, Canada...

     in 1814.
  • HMS Speedy: sank off Brighton
    Brighton, Ontario
    Brighton is a town in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, approximately east of Toronto and west of Kingston. It is intersected by both Highway 401 and the former Highway 2. It is on the West end of the Bay of Quinte on the entrance of the Murray Canal....

    , Lake Ontario in 1804.
  • HMS St Lawrence: sank off Kingston
    Kingston, Ontario
    Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...

    , Lake Ontario in 1832 and is a popular diving attraction.
  • HMS Toronto: sank off Hanlan's Point, Toronto Islands
    Toronto Islands
    The Toronto Islands are a chain of small islands in the city of Toronto, Ontario. Comprising the only group of islands in the western part of Lake Ontario, the Toronto Islands are located just offshore from the city centre, and provide shelter for Toronto Harbour...

    , Lake Ontario in 1811.
  • Idaho: ran aground off Long Point in 1897.
  • James B. Colgate
    James B. Colgate (ship)
    The James B. Colgate was a whaleback steamer that sank off the shores of Long Point in Lake Erie on Friday, October 20, 1916. This day was dubbed “Black Friday” because of its fierce winds and towering waves wreaking havoc on numerous vessels traveling on Lake Erie’s waters...

    : sank off Long Point in 1916. This storm of 16 October also took the
    SS Merida
    SS Merida
    SS Merida was a Ward Line steamer that was struck by the steamer SS Admiral Farragut with a loss of approximately $2,000,000 in Mexican gold, silver, copper and jewels. In 1924 the wreck was rediscovered....

    .
  • James J. Reed: sank off Long Point in 1944.
  • Jennie P. King: foundered off Long Point in 1866.
  • Jersey City: foundered off Long Point in 1860.
  • Joseph Paige: ran aground off Long Point in 1893. This gale of 14 October 1893 also took the Wocoken.
  • Katie Eccles: ran aground near Kingston, Ontario
    Kingston, Ontario
    Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...

     on Lake Ontario.
  • Lawrence: sank aground off Long Point in 1921.
  • Lillie Parsons: Brockville
    Brockville, Ontario
    Brockville is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in the Thousand Islands region. Though it serves as the seat of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, Brockville is politically independent and is grouped with Leeds and Grenville for census purposes only.Known as the "City of the 1000...

    .
  • Madeira
    Madeira (shipwreck)
    The Madeira was built at the Chicago yard of the Chicago Shipbuilding Company in 1900 primarily of heavy steel plates that were riveted together, with wood joinery used in other places. The ship had a flat plate keel and was shaped very flat and full to maximize cargo capacity. The career of the...

     ran aground near Beaver Bay
    Beaver Bay, Minnesota
    Beaver Bay is a city in Lake County, Minnesota, U.S. The population was 181 at the 2010 census.-History:It is the oldest settlement on the NorthShore of Lake Superior. Est. in 1856...

     in 1905.
  • Madiera ran aground off Long Point in 1877. The same storm claimed the British Lion and Elize A. Turner.
  • Marquette
    Marquette (shipwreck)
    The Marquette is a shipwreck off the shore of Michigan Island in the Apostle Islands area of Lake Superior, just northeast of Bayfield, Wisconsin. The ship, a wooden bulk freighter, sank in 1903 and now lies 200 feet underwater...

    : bulk freighter sunk in 1903 off Michigan Island
    Michigan Island
    Michigan Island is one of the Apostle Islands located in western Lake Superior, off the Bayfield Peninsula, in northern Wisconsin. This island has no human inhabitants, and is managed by the National Park Service as part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. It is centered at approximately...

    .
  • Marquette and Bessemer #2: sank off Long Point in 1909. Not yet found.
  • Merida: sank off Long Point in 1916. This storm of 16 October also took the James B. Colgate.
  • Metamora
    Metamora (shipwreck)
    The Metamora was a wooden tug commissioned in 1864 and used predominantly for ferrying passengers and goods in the Georgian Bay area of Ontario at the end of the 19th and early in the 20th century...

    : a wooden tug that sank near Pointe au Baril, Georgian Bay, September 1907.
  • Mystic: sank off Long Point in 1907.
  • Niagara: ran aground off Long Point in 1899.
  • Pascal P. Pratt: ran aground off Long Point in 1908.
  • Pochahontas: foundered off Long Point in 1862.
  • Rebecca Foster: foundered off Long Point in 1857.
  • Sand scow: stranded on the Canadian side of Niagara River
    Niagara River
    The Niagara River flows north from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. It forms part of the border between the Province of Ontario in Canada and New York State in the United States. There are differing theories as to the origin of the name of the river...

     above Horseshoe Falls, 6 August 1918.
  • Siberia: a schooner
    Schooner
    A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

     that ran aground off Long Point in 1883.
  • Siberia: a different vessel of the same name, ran aground off Long Point in 1905.
  • Smith: a tugboat
    Tugboat
    A tugboat is a boat that maneuvers vessels by pushing or towing them. Tugs move vessels that either should not move themselves, such as ships in a crowded harbor or a narrow canal,or those that cannot move by themselves, such as barges, disabled ships, or oil platforms. Tugboats are powerful for...

     sank under tow off Long Point, Lake Erie.
  • SS Edmund Fitzgerald
    SS Edmund Fitzgerald
    The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that made headlines after sinking in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 8, 1958, she was the largest boat on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains...

    : sank in a gale in Lake Superior
    Lake Superior
    Lake Superior is the largest of the five traditionally-demarcated Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded to the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Minnesota, and to the south by the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Michigan. It is the largest freshwater lake in the...

     in 1975.
  • SS Noronic
    SS Noronic
    The SS Noronic was a passenger ship that was destroyed by fire in Toronto Harbour in September 1949 with serious loss of life.-The ship:SS Noronic was launched June 2, 1913 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada...

    : Great Lakes cruise ship, burned and sank at Toronto dock, 17 September 1949.
  • St. James: sank of unknown cause off Long Point in Lake Erie, discovered 1984.
  • Trade Wind: a schooner
    Schooner
    A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

     collided with the
    Sir Charles Napier off Long Point.
  • Trillium: ferry
    Ferry
    A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services...

     scuttled at Toronto Islands
    Toronto Islands
    The Toronto Islands are a chain of small islands in the city of Toronto, Ontario. Comprising the only group of islands in the western part of Lake Ontario, the Toronto Islands are located just offshore from the city centre, and provide shelter for Toronto Harbour...

    ; restored and re-entered service in 1975.
  • Waubuno
    Waubuno
    The Waubuno was a side-wheel paddle steamer that conveyed passengers and freight between Collingwood and Parry Sound in the 1860s and 1870s. It sank with all hands during a gale on the night of November 22, 1879, though the exact cause of its sinking is unknown.The Waubuno was built by Melancthon...

    : sank in Georgian Bay in 1879.
  • Wild Rover: foundered off Long Point.
  • William H. Vanderbilt: ran aground off Long Point in 1883.
  • Wocoken: ran aground off Long Point in 1893. This gale of 14 October 1893 also took the Joseph Paige.
  • Young Phoenix: sank off Long Point, Lake Erie
    Lake Erie
    Lake Erie is the fourth largest lake of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. It is bounded on the north by the...

    , in 1818.

Quebec

  • RMS Empress of Ireland: a transatlantic ocean liner
    Ocean liner
    An ocean liner is a ship designed to transport people from one seaport to another along regular long-distance maritime routes according to a schedule. Liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes .Cargo vessels running to a schedule are sometimes referred to as...

     that was hit by the coal freighter
    SS Storstad
    Storstad
    The Storstad was a 6,000 ton Norwegian collier , built in 1910 in Newcastle upon Tyne, owned by A. F. Klaveness & Co. She was torpedoed and sunk during World War I on March 8, 1917 by U-62 at .-Disaster:...

    in the Saint Lawrence River
    Saint Lawrence River
    The Saint Lawrence is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It is the primary drainage conveyor of the Great Lakes Basin...

     and sank with heavy loss of life.

British Columbia

  • Beaver
    Beaver (steamship)
    Beaver was the first steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North America. She made remote parts of the west coast of Canada accessible for maritime fur trading and was chartered by the Royal Navy for surveying the coastline of British Columbia....

    : a steamship run aground on rocks at Prospect Point in Vancouver
    Vancouver
    Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

    's Stanley Park
    Stanley Park
    Stanley Park is a 404.9 hectare urban park bordering downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was opened in 1888 by David Oppenheimer in the name of Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor-General of Canada....

     on 25 July 1888.
  • City of Ainsworth
    City of Ainsworth (paddle steamer)
    The City of Ainsworth was a paddle steamer sternwheeler that worked on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada from 1892 to 1898.In November 1898, she sank during a storm in the worst sternwheeler disaster in Kootenay Lake history...

    : a paddle steamer sternwheeler sunk during a storm in Kootenay Lake on 29 November 1898.
  • HMCS Huron (DDG 281): Canadian destroyer deliberately sunk in 2007
  • SS Islander
    SS Islander
    The SS Islander was a 1519 ton, steel hull, schooner-rigged twin-screw steamer, built in Scotland in 1888, and owned and operated by the Canadian Pacific Steam Navigation Company....

    : a Canadian steamer sunk in Lynn Canal on 15 August 1901.
  • SS Pacific
    SS Pacific
    The SS Pacific was a 876-ton sidewheel steamer built in 1851 most notable for its sinking in 1875 as a result of a collision southwest of Cape Flattery, Washington. The Pacific had an estimated 275 passengers and crew aboard when it sank. Only two survived. Among the casualties were several notable...

    : a sidewheel steamer sunk following a collision with the SS
    Orpheus in 1875.
  • Princess Sophia
    Princess Sophia (steamer)
    The SS Princess Sophia was a steel-built coastal passenger liner in the coastal service fleet of the Canadian Pacific Railway . Along with the SS Princess Adelaide the SS Princess Alice and the SS Princess Mary, the SS Princess Sophia was one of four sister ships built for CPR during 1910-1911.On...

    : a steamer sunk on Vanderbilt Reef on 25 October 1918.
  • MV Queen of the North: a RO-RO ferry run aground on Gil Island
    Gil Island (Canada)
    Gil Island is an island on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located on the west side of Whale Channel in the entrance to Douglas Channel, one of the main coastal inlets, on the route of the Inside Passage between Pitt Island and Princess Royal Island. It is 26 km long, with a width...

     in Wright Sound
    Wright Sound
    Wright Sound is a waterway on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Wright Sound is south of Prince Rupert and lies at the southern opening of Grenville Channel and between Gil, Gribbell and Pitt Islands...

     on 22 March 2006.
  • Tonquin
    Tonquin
    The Tonquin was an American merchant ship involved with the Maritime Fur Trade of the early 19th Century. The ship was used by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company to establish fur trading outposts on the Northwest Coast of North America, including Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River...

    : an American merchant ship blown up at Clayoquot Sound
    Clayoquot Sound
    Clayoquot Sound is located on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is bordered by the Esowista Peninsula to the south, and the Hesquiaht Peninsula to the North. It is a body of water with many inlets and islands. Major inlets include Sydney Inlet,...

    , Vancouver Island
    Vancouver Island
    Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of several North American locations named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Northwest coast of North America between 1791 and 1794...

     in June 1811.
  • SS Valencia
    SS Valencia
    The SS Valencia was an iron-hulled passenger steamer wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia in 1906. Built in 1882 by William Cramp and Sons, she was a 1,598 ton vessel, 252 feet in length...

    : a passenger steamer wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island on 23 January 1906.
  • Mount Royal (sternwheeler)
    Mount Royal (sternwheeler)
    The Mount Royal was a sternwheeler that worked on the Skeena River and Stikine Rivers in British Columbia, Canada, from 1902 until 1907. She was named after Lord Strathcona who was also known as Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal....

    : a Canadian Sternwheeler sunk in the Skeena River in British Columbia
    British Columbia
    British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

     on July 6th 1907.

Dominican Republic

  • Astron
    Astron (ship)
    The Astron is a shipwreck located off the coast of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. She was a Russian owned freighter built in France during 1957 and was 120 metres long....

    : a freighter scuttled just off the coast of Punta Cana
    Punta Cana
    Punta Cana is part of the newly created Punta Cana-Bávaro-Veron-Macao municipal district in La Altagracia, the easternmost province of the Dominican Republic. The area is best known for its beaches and balnearios, which face both the Caribbean and Atlantic, and it has been a popular tourist...

    .
  • Atlantic Princess: originally a tourist mover that was to be sunk as an artificial reef off the coast of Bayahibe Bayahibe
    Bayahibe
    Bayahibe is a town in the Dominican Republic, located about 10 miles east of La Romana on the shore of the Caribbean Sea. Founded as a fishing village in 1874 by Juan Brito and his family, who came from Puerto Rico, the town is now a touristic destination....

    . It has since accidentally sunk right in front of Dreams resort and is used by scuba divers.
  • Catuan: new wreck scuttled in the area of Juan Dolio in December 2006 at depths ranging from 24 to 60 ft (7.3 to 18.3 ).
  • Conde de Tolosa: a Spanish galleon run aground during a hurricane in Samana Bay on 25 August 1724.
  • Diomedes: French ship lost in the fierce maritime Battle of Palenque, in the 17th century, in Palenque, Bani. (See also Imperiale below.)
  • Dolphin: sister ship of the Hickory (see below), 64 feet (19.5 m) long fishing boat, is laying in el Portillo, Las Terrenas, also served as an underwater base for rescue operations. The Dolphin, like the Hickory, is part of the underwater history in the Dominican Republic.
  • Hickory, 140 feet (42.7 m) long. Former old US Coast Guard, commanded by Captain Tracy Bowden for underwater exploration and rescue operations, the Hickory was sunk by Hurricane George in 1986 while carrying 50 passengers. All survived. It is now a national park in La Caleta, Santo Domingo. The crew of the Hickory discovered the major amount of shipwrecks in Dominican Republic waters.
  • Imperiale: French ship lost in the Battle of Palenque, in the 17th century, in Palenque, Bani.
  • RP-14 Limon: an old tugboat 155 feet (47.2 m) long that rests in about 80 feet (24.4 m) of water very close to the Hickory in the same park. This ship was scuttled there for the same reason – to serve as a tourist attraction. The depth where this shipwreck lies varies from 27–60 feet. The three propellers of this tugboat are still clearly visible.
  • London: sunk in the 17th century in Samana Bay.
  • Monte Cristi Pipe Wreck
    Monte Cristi Pipe Wreck
    Monte Cristi Pipe Wreck a submerged archaeological site located on the north coast of Hispaniola in the Dominican Republic near the border of Haiti, part of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean...

    : sunk off the north coast of the Dominican Republic
    Dominican Republic
    The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

     in the later part of the 17th century.
  • Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe: a Spanish galleon sunk by hurricane in Samana Bay on 24 August 1724.
  • Nuestra Señora de la Limpia y Pura Concepcion, known as El Concepcion: sunk at the Silver Bank in 1641, found by Cap. Burt Webber, is the most valuable cargo found in these waters, with more than 95,000 silver coins, Ming Dynasty ceramics, gold chains, and many other artifacts salvaged.
  • Captain Kidd's shipwreck of the Quedagh Merchant, also known as the Cara Merchant and "Adventure Prize": found by Charles Beeker off Catalina Island, Is in the excavating process at this moment.
  • Scipion: a French ship that took part in the blockade against Cornwallis and thus was instrumental in the American Revolutionary War, sunk in a battle against the British fleet. Found and positively identified by Tracy Bowden. Recovered 2009-10 by Deep Blue Marine Inc.
  • St. George: sunk as an artificial reef near La Romana in 1999.
  • La Viete: This wreck does not exist. A grounding site has been located off Punta Luna in Monte Cristi which was the grounding of a French supply ship and to escape they unloaded most of the cargo including a cargo of cannon balls. There is no specie on this site.

Grenada

  • Bianca C: a passenger ship sunk multiple times before becoming the Caribbean's largest shipwreck, near Grand Anse, in October 1961.

Saint Vincent

  • SS Antilles
    SS Antilles
    Built for the French Line, the Antilles was a near-sister to the SS Flandre of 1952. Her construction was completed and her maiden voyage made in 1953. She differed from her sister mainly because she was painted in white. She was placed on West Indies cruise service in the 1960s.Her career was...

    : an ocean liner ran aground on a reef near the island of Mustique
    Mustique
    Mustique is a small private island in the West Indies. The island is one of a group of islands called the Grenadines, most of which form part of the country of St Vincent and the Grenadines....

     on 8 January 1971.

Turks and Caicos Islands

  • Molasses Reef Wreck
    Molasses Reef Wreck
    The Molasses Reef Shipwreck is the site of a ship which wrecked in the Turks and Caicos Islands early in the 16th century. It is the oldest wreck of a European ship in the Americas to have been scientifically excavated.-Discovery:...

    : early 16th century Spanish shipwreck, the earliest European shipwreck in the Americas to be scientifically excavated.

Alabama

  • American Diver
    American Diver
    American Diver, also known as the Pioneer II, was a prototype submarine built for the Confederate States of America military. It was the first successor to the Pioneer. The Diver was invented and built by the same consortium that built the Pioneer in New Orleans. It was composed of Horace Lawson...

    , an experimental Confederate submarine
    Submarine
    A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...

     that sank in Mobile Bay
    Mobile Bay
    Mobile Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, lying within the state of Alabama in the United States. Its mouth is formed by the Fort Morgan Peninsula on the eastern side and Dauphin Island, a barrier island on the western side. The Mobile River and Tensaw River empty into the northern end of the...

     while under tow during a storm in February 1863.
  • CSS Gaines
    CSS Gaines
    CSS Gaines was a wooden side wheel gunboat constructed by the Confederates at Mobile, Alabama during 1861-62. The ship was hastily built with unseasoned wood, which was partially covered with 2-inch iron plating. Gaines resembled CSS Morgan except that she had high pressure boilers. Operating in...

    , a Confederate side-wheel
    Paddle steamer
    A paddle steamer is a steamship or riverboat, powered by a steam engine, using paddle wheels to propel it through the water. In antiquity, Paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, where the first uses were wheelers driven by animals or humans...

     gunboat sunk in Mobile Bay after heavy damage during the Battle of Mobile Bay
    Battle of Mobile Bay
    The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864, was an engagement of the American Civil War in which a Federal fleet commanded by Rear Adm. David G. Farragut, assisted by a contingent of soldiers, attacked a smaller Confederate fleet led by Adm...

     on August 5, 1864.
  • Eliza Battle
    Eliza Battle
    The Eliza Battle was a Tombigbee River steamboat that ran a route between Columbus, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama during the 1850s. She was destroyed in a fire on the river near modern Pennington, Alabama on March 1, 1858...

    , a commercial steamboat
    Steamboat
    A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels...

     that caught fire and sank in the Tombigbee River
    Tombigbee River
    The Tombigbee River is a tributary of the Mobile River, approximately 200 mi long, in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Alabama. It is one of two major rivers, along with the Alabama River, that unite to form the short Mobile River before it empties into Mobile Bay on the Gulf of Mexico...

     on March 1, 1858.
  • USS Philippi
    USS Philippi (1863)
    USS Philippi was a blockade runner captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She served the Union Navy’s struggle against the Confederate States of America as a picket, patrol and dispatch vessel....

    , a Union side-wheel gunboat sunk in Mobile Bay after heavy damage during the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864.
  • USS Rodolph
    USS Rodolph (1863)
    USS Rodolph was a steamer commissioned by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.She served the Union Navy during her struggle against the Confederate States of America both as a tugboat and a minesweeper, as well as a gunboat when the occasion demanded.Unfortunately for Rodolph, just as the...

    , a Union stern-wheel tinclad minesweeper
    Minesweeper (ship)
    A minesweeper is a small naval warship designed to counter the threat posed by naval mines. Minesweepers generally detect then neutralize mines in advance of other naval operations.-History:...

     and gunboat sunk by a torpedo in Mobile Bay on August 1, 1864.
  • USS Tecumseh
    USS Tecumseh (1863)
    The first USS Tecumseh was an iron-hulled, single-turret monitor in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.Tecumseh was launched on 12 September 1863 at Jersey City, New Jersey, by Secor and Company,of New York City; and was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 19 April 1864,...

    , a Union monitor warship
    Monitor (warship)
    A monitor was a class of relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armoured but carried disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies from the 1860s until the end of World War II, and saw their final use by the United States Navy during the Vietnam War.The monitors...

     sunk by a torpedo during the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864.

Alaska

  • Al-Ki: a passenger steamer, wrecked on Point Augusta, Alaska, 1 November 1917.
  • Bear: a passenger steamer, in surf broadside, 1916.
  • City of Seattle: a passenger steamer, was brought ashore in Alaska, 15 August 1912.
  • SS Coldbrook (also known as Colebrook): a Hog Islander merchant ship grounded off Middleton Island, Alaska, on 16 June 1942.
  • Farallon: a passenger steamer, wrecked in the Cook Inlet, Alaska, 1910.
  • USS Grunion (SS-216)
    USS Grunion (SS-216)
    was a Gato-class submarine that was sunk at Kiska, Alaska, during World War II. She was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grunion, a small fish of the silversides family, indigenous to the western American coast....

    : discovered in the Bering Sea
    Bering Sea
    The Bering Sea is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelves....

     in August 2007.
  • Jabez Howes: a three-mast full rigged ship, wrecked in Chignik Bay, Alaska, n.d. Wooden full-rigged ship owned by the Columbia River Packer's Association & used as a cannery tender.
  • Jessie: on 28 June 1898, at the mouth of the Kuskokwim River
    Kuskokwim River
    The Kuskokwim River or Kusko River is a river, long, in Southwest Alaska in the United States. It is the ninth largest river in the United States by average discharge volume at its mouth and seventeenth largest by basin drainage area.The river provides the principal drainage for an area of the...

     swamped in turbulent water at the mouth of the river. 18 miners from the Columbia Exploration Company were believed to have been massacred by Yup'ik Natives or lost with wreck. One person, a trader called Ling, survived to bring word of the wreck to St. Michael.
    Jessie was towing the barge Minerva and a second unknown barge, which were both lost. Yup'ik Eskimos were said to have looted vessels. Seattle 31 May 1898 Kuskokwim River
  • Mariposa: hit a reef on Strait Island, near Pt. Baker (Mariposa Reef) on 1917-11-18. It struck the reef while carrying 269 passengers and a full cargo of copper ore and canned salmon. The vessel had previously picked up the crew from the wrecked Al-Ki and the pirates from the wrecked Manhattan. All passengers and crew were rescued before vessel sank by the Curaçao, Ravalli, and Jefferson. She went down with 25,000 cases of salmon and 1,200 tons of copper ore. Reef is now called Mariposa Reef.
  • Mount McKinley: a passenger steamer, beached near Scotch Cap, Aleutian Islands, 1942.
  • Nissan Maru: Japanese armed freighter sunk by U.S. bombers in Kiska Harbor
    Kiska
    Kiska is an island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska located at . It is about long and varies in width from - Discovery :...

     on 19 June 1942.
  • Olga: a whaling schooner wreck near Nome, Alaska
    Nome, Alaska
    Nome is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. According to the 2010 Census, the city population was 3,598. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901, and was once the...

     in 1909.
  • Olympia
    SS Olympia
    The SS Olympia was a steamship laid down as the SS Doune Castle and upon purchase named the SS Dunbar Castle that served the northwest United States and Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. It was built in 1883 by Barclay, Curle and Co. of Glasgow, Scotland, for the Union-Castle Line...

    ran aground December 10, 1910 on Bligh Reef
    Bligh Reef
    Bligh Reef, sometimes known as Bligh Island Reef, is a reef off the coast of Bligh Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska. This was the location of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. After the incident, US Code 33 § 2733 mandated the operation of an automated navigation light to prevent future...

     and sank without loss of life.
  • Patterson: a steam freighter, wrecked and aground at Cape Fairweather, Alaska, 1938.
  • SS Portland: a steam ship struck rock off Cordova
    Cordova, Alaska
    As of the census of 2000, there were 2,454 people, 958 households, and 597 families residing in the city. The population density was 40.0 per square mile . There are 1,099 housing units at an average density of 17.9 per square mile...

     and sank on 12 November 1910.
  • Princess Kathleen: a passenger steamer, sunk near Point Lena, Alaska, 1952. When she went aground at Point Lena rock, Alaska, the vessel was a mile and a half off course. She was the flagship of the Canadian Pacific Lines.
  • Princess Sophia
    Princess Sophia (steamer)
    The SS Princess Sophia was a steel-built coastal passenger liner in the coastal service fleet of the Canadian Pacific Railway . Along with the SS Princess Adelaide the SS Princess Alice and the SS Princess Mary, the SS Princess Sophia was one of four sister ships built for CPR during 1910-1911.On...

    : a passenger liner sunk off Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau
    Juneau, Alaska
    The City and Borough of Juneau is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska. It has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of the then-District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900...

     on 25 October 1918.
  • Princess May: a passenger steamer, wrecked and ashore on Sentinel Island, bird's-eye view from the island, 1910.
  • Politkofsky: a sidewheel steamer built by the Russian-American Company
    Russian-American Company
    The Russian-American Company was a state-sponsored chartered company formed largely on the basis of the so-called Shelekhov-Golikov Company of Grigory Shelekhov and Ivan Larionovich Golikov The Russian-American Company (officially: Under His Imperial Majesty's Highest Protection (patronage)...

    , completed 4000 miles (6,437.4 km) before being abandoned in St. Michael near the entrance of the Yukon River
    Yukon River
    The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. The source of the river is located in British Columbia, Canada. The next portion lies in, and gives its name to Yukon Territory. The lower half of the river lies in the U.S. state of Alaska. The river is long and empties into...

     in 1915.
  • Torrent
    Torrent (ship)
    The Torrent was an American three-masted wooden sail ship that shipwrecked near the coast of Alaska on July 15, 1868.-The Ship:The Torrent was built in Bath, Maine in 1852. It was made of wood, weighed 576 tons and measured probably 50 meters in length...

    : a wooden bark ship that foundered in storm, went ashore, and became a total loss on 15 July 1868 in Cook Inlet
    Cook Inlet
    Cook Inlet stretches from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage in south-central Alaska. Cook Inlet branches into the Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm at its northern end, almost surrounding Anchorage....

    , off the coast of Alaska
    Alaska
    Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

    .

Arkansas

  • USS Linden
    USS Linden (1860)
    USS Linden was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries....

    : a steamer
    Steamboat
    A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels...

     sunk after striking a snag on the Arkansas River
    Arkansas River
    The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The river's initial basin starts in the Western United States in Colorado, specifically the Arkansas...

     on 22 February 1864.

California

  • Ace I: sunk as hazard to navigation off San Pedro, Los Angeles, California
    San Pedro, Los Angeles, California
    San Pedro is a port district of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. It was annexed in 1909 and is a major seaport of the area...

    .
  • Aggie: ran aground Santa Rosa Island, California
    Santa Rosa Island, California
    Santa Rosa Island is the second largest of the Channel Islands of California at 53,195 acres . Defined by the United States Census Bureau as Block 3009, Block Group 3, Census Tract 29.10 of Santa Barbara County, California, the 2000 census showed an official population of 2 persons. It is part of...

    .
  • USS Anthony (DD-172)
    USS Anthony (DD-172)
    USS Anthony was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was named for Marine Sergeant Major William Anthony .-History:...

    : sunk as a target in 1937.
  • USS Aspro (SS-309)
    USS Aspro (SS-309)
    USS Aspro , a Balao-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the aspro, a fish found abundantly in the upper Rhône River. According to legend, the aspro comes to the surface only in bad weather, when other fishes take refuge near the bottom...

    : sunk as a target off San Diego, California
    San Diego, California
    San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...

     in 1962.
  • USS Atlanta (CL-104)
    USS Atlanta (CL-104)
    USS Atlanta of the United States Navy was a Cleveland-class light cruiser during World War II. She was the fourth Navy ship named after the city of Atlanta, Georgia....

    : sunk as a target in 1970.
  • Avalon: foundered under tow off Palos Verdes
    Palos Verdes
    Palos Verdes is a name often used to refer to a group of coastal cities in the Palos Verdes Hills on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, within southwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S...

    .
  • USS Benevolence (AH-13)
    USS Benevolence (AH-13)
    USS Benevolence was built as SS Marine Lion in 1944 by Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pa., under a Maritime Commission contract. 11,141 tons. 520 x 71.6 x 24. 24 knots. Sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Unter; transferred to the Navy 31 July 1944; converted to a hospital ship by Todd-Erie...

    : sunk after a collision off San Francisco, California, in April 1950.
  • Brooklyn: a schooner, sunk in 1931.
  • Brother Jonathan
    Brother Jonathan (steamer)
    The Brother Jonathan was a paddle steamer that crashed on an uncharted rock near Point St. George, off the coast of Crescent City, California, on July 30, 1865. The ship was carrying 244 passengers and crew with a large shipment of gold. Only 19 survived the wreck, making it the deadliest shipwreck...

    : ran aground off Crescent City, California
    Crescent City, California
    Crescent City is the county seat and only incorporated city in Del Norte County, California. Named for the crescent-shaped stretch of sandy beach south of the city, Crescent City had a total population of 7,643 in the 2010 census, up from 4,006 in the 2000 census...

    , in 1865.
  • Carrier Pigeon: ran aground off between Santa Cruz
    Santa Cruz, California
    Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...

     and San Francisco in 1853.
  • Charles Brown: grounded off Laguna Beach, California
    Laguna Beach, California
    Laguna Beach is a seaside resort city and artist community located in southern Orange County, California, United States, approximately southwest of the county seat of Santa Ana...

    .
  • Charles F. Crocker: ran aground for a movie, then hit by a tidal wave
    Tidal bore
    A tidal bore is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave of water that travel up a river or narrow bay against the direction of the river or bay's current...

    , and finally burned off Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The island is long and across at its greatest width. The island is located about south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is...

    .
  • USS Charles J. Kimmel (DE-584)
    USS Charles J. Kimmel (DE-584)
    The Charles J. Kimmel was a Rudderow class destroyer escort serving in the US Navy from 1944 through 1947. She served in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of WWII...

    : sunk as target off California, 13 November 1969.
  • Chickasaw: ran aground Santa Rosa Island, California
    Santa Rosa Island, California
    Santa Rosa Island is the second largest of the Channel Islands of California at 53,195 acres . Defined by the United States Census Bureau as Block 3009, Block Group 3, Census Tract 29.10 of Santa Barbara County, California, the 2000 census showed an official population of 2 persons. It is part of...

    .
  • USS Colahan (DD-658)
    USS Colahan (DD-658)
    USS Colahan was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Commander Charles E. Colahan .Colahan was launched on 3 May 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Staten Island, N.Y., sponsored by Mrs. P. C. Hinkamp, adopted granddaughter of Commander Colahan; and commissioned on 23 August...

    : sunk as target in 1966.
  • Crown of England: ran aground off Santa Rosa Island, California
    Santa Rosa Island, California
    Santa Rosa Island is the second largest of the Channel Islands of California at 53,195 acres . Defined by the United States Census Bureau as Block 3009, Block Group 3, Census Tract 29.10 of Santa Barbara County, California, the 2000 census showed an official population of 2 persons. It is part of...

    .
  • Cuba: ran aground off San Miguel Island
    San Miguel Island
    San Miguel Island is the westernmost of California's Channel Islands, located across the Santa Barbara Channel in the Pacific Ocean, within Santa Barbara County, California. San Miguel is the sixth-largest of the eight Channel Islands at , including offshore islands and rocks. Prince Island, off...

    .
  • Dauntless: blown up for movie off Catalina Harbor, Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The island is long and across at its greatest width. The island is located about south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is...

    .
  • USS Deperm (ADG-10)
    USS Deperm (ADG-10)
    USS Deperm was a degaussing vessel of the United States Navy, named after the term deperm, a procedure for erasing the permanent magnetism from ships and submarines to camouflage them against magnetic detection vessels and enemy marine mines. Originally planned as a patrol craft escort ', she was...

    : sunk as a target on 22 September 1982 at 32° 58' N., 119° 41' W.
  • Diosa del Mar
    Diosa del Mar
    The Diosa del Mar was a wooden schooner that sank off of the coast of Catalina Island at 2:25 pm on July 30, 1990.-Overview:...

    : ran aground on Ship Rock at Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The island is long and across at its greatest width. The island is located about south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is...

    .
  • SS Dominator: ran aground on Rocky Point Palos Verdes
    Palos Verdes
    Palos Verdes is a name often used to refer to a group of coastal cities in the Palos Verdes Hills on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, within southwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S...

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  • Elsie I: foundered off Huntington Beach, California
    Huntington Beach, California
    Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California. According to the 2010 census, the city population was 189,992; making it the largest beach city in Orange County in terms of population...

    .
  • SS Emidio
    SS Emidio
    SS Emidio was a 6912-ton tanker of the General Petroleum Corporation , which became the first casualty of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine force action on California's Pacific Coast. Emidio was sailing in ballast from Seattle, Washington enroute to San Pedro, California...

    : sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy
    Imperial Japanese Navy
    The Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japan's constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling international disputes...

    , Crescent City, California
    Crescent City, California
    Crescent City is the county seat and only incorporated city in Del Norte County, California. Named for the crescent-shaped stretch of sandy beach south of the city, Crescent City had a total population of 7,643 in the 2010 census, up from 4,006 in the 2000 census...

    .
  • Equator: ran aground off Anacapa Island
    Anacapa Island
    Anacapa Island is a small volcanic island located about off the coast of Port Hueneme, California, in Ventura County. The Island is composed of a series of narrow islets six miles long, running in a mostly east-west orientation, five miles east of Santa Cruz Island...

    .
  • USS F-1: (SS-20)
    USS F-1 (SS-20)
    USS F-1 was an F-class submarine. She was named Carp when her keel was laid down by Union Iron Works of San Francisco, California, making her the first ship of the United States Navy named for the carp. She was launched on 6 September 1911 sponsored by Ms. J. Tynan, renamed F-1 on 17 November...

     sunk in collision off San Diego, California
    San Diego, California
    San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...

     1917.
  • Foss 125: foundered off Laguna Beach, California
    Laguna Beach, California
    Laguna Beach is a seaside resort city and artist community located in southern Orange County, California, United States, approximately southwest of the county seat of Santa Ana...

    .
  • F.S. Loop: blown up near Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

    .
  • Frolic: wrecked near Mendocino, California
    Mendocino, California
    Mendocino is a census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States. Mendocino is located south of Fort Bragg, at an elevation of 154 feet...

     in 1850.
  • Georgia: scuttled off Redondo Beach, California
    Redondo Beach, California
    Redondo Beach is one of the three Beach Cities located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 66,748 at the 2010 census, up from 63,261 at the 2000 census. The city is located in the South Bay region of the greater Los Angeles area.Redondo Beach was originally part of...

    .
  • Georgia Straits: sunk while being towed, off Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

    .
  • Goldenhorn: ran aground off Santa Rosa Island, California
    Santa Rosa Island, California
    Santa Rosa Island is the second largest of the Channel Islands of California at 53,195 acres . Defined by the United States Census Bureau as Block 3009, Block Group 3, Census Tract 29.10 of Santa Barbara County, California, the 2000 census showed an official population of 2 persons. It is part of...

    .
  • USS Gregory (DD-802)
    USS Gregory (DD-802)
    USS Gregory was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Rear Admiral Francis H. Gregory , who served from the War of 1812 to the Civil War....

    : bombed as target off San Clemente Island
    San Clemente Island
    San Clemente Island is the southernmost of the Channel Islands of California. It is owned and operated by the United States Navy, and is a part of Los Angeles County. Defined by the United States Census Bureau as Block Group 2 of Census Tract 5991 of Los Angeles County, California, it is long and...

    , California
    California
    California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

    .
  • USS Hogan (DD-178)
    USS Hogan (DD-178)
    USS Hogan was a in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the first ship named for Seaman Daniel Hogan.Hogan was launched by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, 12 April 1919; sponsored by Mrs. Magnus A. Anderson, a sister of the Secretary of the Interior Franklin K....

    : bombed as target off San Diego, California
    San Diego, California
    San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...

    .
  • Honda Point Disaster
    Honda Point Disaster
    The Honda Point Disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships. On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while traveling at 20 knots , ran aground at Honda Point, a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the coast in Santa...

    : nine United States Navy
    United States Navy
    The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

     ships run aground off Lompoc, California
    Lompoc, California
    Lompoc is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. The city was incorporated in 1888. The population was 42,434 at the 2010 census, up from 41,103 at the 2000 census....

     in 1923.
  • USS Hornbill (AMc-13)
    USS Hornbill (AMc-13)
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    : sank after collision in San Francisco Bay in 1942.
  • Humble SM-1: foundered off Santa Barbara, California
    Santa Barbara, California
    Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...

    .
  • James Rolph
    James Rolph (ship)
    The James Rolph was a schooner that transported cargo around the West Coast and Hawaii. Built near Eureka, California in 1899, the ship was based in San Francisco and owned by its namesake, shipping executive and future Governor of California, James Rolph....

    : grounded on rocks in San Pablo Bay
    San Pablo Bay
    San Pablo Bay is a tidal estuary that forms the northern extension of San Francisco Bay in northern California in the United States. Most of the Bay is shallow; however, there is a deep water channel approximately in mid bay, which allows access to Sacramento, Stockton, Benicia, Martinez, and...

     in 1910.
  • Johanna Smith
    Johanna Smith (ship)
    The Johanna Smith was a wooden-hulled schooner that transported lumber along the West Coast. She was built near North Bend, Oregon in 1917. She was sold to the Coos Bay Lumber company in 1918 and transported lumber until 1928....

    : burned then blown up off Long Beach, California
    Long Beach, California
    Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

    .
  • USS John C. Butler (DE-339)
    USS John C. Butler (DE-339)
    USS John C. Butler was the lead ship of her class of destroyer escorts in the service of the United States Navy, named after Ensign John C. Butler , who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his actions in the Battle of Midway.John C...

    : sunk as target off San Clemente, California
    San Clemente, California
    San Clemente is a city in Orange County, California. The population was 63,522 at the 2010 census. Located on the California Coast, midway between Los Angeles and San Diego at the southern tip of the county, it is known for its ocean, hill, and mountain views, a pleasant climate and its Spanish...

    .
  • USS Knight (DD-633)
    USS Knight (DD-633)
    USS Knight , a Gleaves-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Admiral Austin M. Knight.Knight was laid down 18 March 1941, by Boston Navy Yard; launched 27 September 1941 Liberty Fleet Day; sponsored by Miss Elizabeth H. Royal, granddaughter of Admiral Knight,...

    : sunk as target off San Diego, California, in 1967.
  • King Philip shipwreck
    King Philip shipwreck
    The King Philip shipwreck is the wreck of the King Philip, a 19th century clipper ship—a fast commercial three-masted sailing ship—which was named after an Indian chief. The wreck of this ship is only rarely visible; very infrequently the timbers can be seen protruding from the sands of Ocean...

    : ran aground in heavy surf at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California
    California
    California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

    , 1878.
  • USS Koka (AT-31)
    USS Koka (AT-31)
    USS Koka was a in the service of the United States Navy. Previously named Oconee, she was renamed Koka on February 24, 1919. She was launched July 11, 1919 by the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and commissioned February 18, 1920, Lt. J. C. Bauman, Jr...

    : grounded on San Clemente Island
    San Clemente Island
    San Clemente Island is the southernmost of the Channel Islands of California. It is owned and operated by the United States Navy, and is a part of Los Angeles County. Defined by the United States Census Bureau as Block Group 2 of Census Tract 5991 of Los Angeles County, California, it is long and...

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  • La Janelle: grounded off Port Hueneme, California
    Port Hueneme, California
    Port Hueneme is a small beach city in Ventura County, California surrounded by the city of Oxnard and the Pacific Ocean. The name derives from the Spanish spelling of the Chumash wene me, meaning "Resting Place". The area was discovered by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo in the mid 16th century...

    .
  • USS Magnet
    USS Magnet (YDG-9)
    The third USS Magnet was a degaussing vessel of the United States Navy, named after the magnet, an object that has a magnetic field...

    : sunk as a target on 4 March 1976 off the California coast at 031° 16' N., 117° 40' W. at a depth of 1,050 fathoms.
  • USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91)
    USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91)
    USS Makassar Strait was a Casablanca class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was named after Makassar Strait, the strait between Kalimantan and Sulawesi, Indonesia....

    : grounded on San Nicolas Island
    San Nicolas Island
    San Nicolas Island is the most remote of California's Channel Islands. It is part of Ventura County. The 14,562 acre island is currently controlled by the United States Navy and is used as a weapons testing and training facility, served by Naval Outlying Field San Nicolas Island...

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  • Margaret C.: blown up for a movie in Catalina Harbor, Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The island is long and across at its greatest width. The island is located about south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is...

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  • Melrose: ran aground at White Point, California.
  • Monfalcone: burned off Long Beach, California
    Long Beach, California
    Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

    .
  • USS Moody (DD-277)
    USS Moody (DD-277)
    USS Moody was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was named for Justice William Henry Moody.-History:...

    : blown up for a movie in San Pedro Bay
    San Pedro Bay (California)
    San Pedro Bay is an inlet on the Pacific Ocean coast of southern California, United States. It is the site of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, which together form the fifth-busiest port facility in the world and easily the busiest in the Western Hemisphere...

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  • USS Moray (SS-300)
    USS Moray (SS-300)
    USS Moray , a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the moray, a family of large eels found in crevices of coral reefs in tropical and subtropical oceans....

    : sunk as a target off San Clemente, California
    San Clemente, California
    San Clemente is a city in Orange County, California. The population was 63,522 at the 2010 census. Located on the California Coast, midway between Los Angeles and San Diego at the southern tip of the county, it is known for its ocean, hill, and mountain views, a pleasant climate and its Spanish...

     in 1970.
  • USS Naifeh (DE-352)
    USS Naifeh (DE-352)
    USS Naifeh was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy. It was named for Navy Lieutenant Alfred Naifeh who died when the USS Meredith sank during the Solomon Islands campaign of World War II. Lt. Naifeh was posthumously awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal...

    : sunk as a target off San Clemente Island
    San Clemente Island
    San Clemente Island is the southernmost of the Channel Islands of California. It is owned and operated by the United States Navy, and is a part of Los Angeles County. Defined by the United States Census Bureau as Block Group 2 of Census Tract 5991 of Los Angeles County, California, it is long and...

     in 1967.
  • Ningpo: beached then burned at Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The island is long and across at its greatest width. The island is located about south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is...

    .
  • Olympic II: collision off San Pedro, Los Angeles, California
    San Pedro, Los Angeles, California
    San Pedro is a port district of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. It was annexed in 1909 and is a major seaport of the area...

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  • Palmyra: beached and burned off Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The island is long and across at its greatest width. The island is located about south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is...

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  • USS Pensacola (1859): burned and sunk by the Navy in San Francisco Bay
    San Francisco Bay
    San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean...

     near Hunter's Point
    Hunters Point, San Francisco, California
    Bayview-Hunters Point or The Bayview, is a neighborhood in the southeastern corner of San Francisco, California, United States. The decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is located within its boundaries and Candlestick Park is on the southern edge....

     in 1912.
  • SS Pomona: ran aground near Fort Ross Cove Fort Ross, California
    Fort Ross, California
    Fort Ross is a former Russian establishment on the Pacific Coast in what is now Sonoma County, California, in the United States. It was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America in between 1812 to 1841...

     in 1888.
  • USS S-37 (SS-142)
    USS S-37 (SS-142)
    USS S-37 was an S-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 12 December 1918 by the Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California. She was launched on 20 June 1919 sponsored by Miss Mildred Bulger, and commissioned on 16 July 1923 with Lieutenant Paul R...

    : broke tow and sank off Imperial Beach, California
    Imperial Beach, California
    Imperial Beach is a residential beach city in San Diego County, California, with a population of 26,324 at the 2010 census. The city is the most southern beach city in Southern California and the West Coast of the United States...

    .
  • Sacramento: foundered off Redondo Beach, California
    Redondo Beach, California
    Redondo Beach is one of the three Beach Cities located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 66,748 at the 2010 census, up from 63,261 at the 2000 census. The city is located in the South Bay region of the greater Los Angeles area.Redondo Beach was originally part of...

    .
  • S.N. Castle: burned and sunk for a movie in Catalina Harbor at Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The island is long and across at its greatest width. The island is located about south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is...

    .
  • San Juan Liner: off Pigeon Point, 1929.
  • San Augustin: Manila galleon
    Galleon
    A galleon was a large, multi-decked sailing ship used primarily by European states from the 16th to 18th centuries. Whether used for war or commerce, they were generally armed with the demi-culverin type of cannon.-Etymology:...

     wrecked at anchor in Drakes Bay
    Drakes Bay
    Drakes Bay is a small bay on the coast of northern California in the United States, approximately 30 miles northwest of San Francisco at approximately 38 degrees north latitude. The bay is approximately 8 miles wide...

    , 1594.
  • USS Stewart (DD-224)
    USS Stewart (DD-224)
    USS Stewart was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the second ship named for Rear Admiral Charles Stewart. Scuttled in a port, she was later raised by the Japanese and commissioned as Patrol Boat No. 102...

    : sunk as a target off San Francisco, California
    San Francisco, California
    San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

     in 1946.
  • USS Stribling (DD-96)
    USS Stribling (DD-96)
    USS Stribling was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and the years following. She was the first ship named in honor of Cornelius Stribling....

    : sunk as a target off San Pedro, Los Angeles, California
    San Pedro, Los Angeles, California
    San Pedro is a port district of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. It was annexed in 1909 and is a major seaport of the area...

     in 1937.
  • SueJac: grounded on Casino Point, Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, California
    Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The island is long and across at its greatest width. The island is located about south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is...

    .
  • Sybil Marston: grounded on Surf Beach, Lompoc, California
    Lompoc, California
    Lompoc is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. The city was incorporated in 1888. The population was 42,434 at the 2010 census, up from 41,103 at the 2000 census....

     on January 12, 1909.
  • USS Tingey (DD-539)
    USS Tingey (DD-539)
    USS Tingey was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was the third Navy ship to be named for Commodore Thomas Tingey ....

    : sunk as target off San Francisco in 1966.
  • UB-88: shelled for target San Pedro Bay
    San Pedro Bay (California)
    San Pedro Bay is an inlet on the Pacific Ocean coast of southern California, United States. It is the site of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, which together form the fifth-busiest port facility in the world and easily the busiest in the Western Hemisphere...

    .
  • Valiant: burned off Descanso Beach, California.
  • USS Williams (DE-372)
    USS Williams (DE-372)
    USS Williams was a acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. The primary purpose of the destroyer escort was to escort and protect ships in convoy, in addition to other tasks as assigned, such as patrol or radar picket....

    : sunk as a target of San Diego in 1968.
  • Winfield Scott
    Winfield Scott (ship)
    The SS Winfield Scott was a sidewheel steamer that transported passengers and cargo between San Francisco, California and Panama in the early 1850s, during the California Gold Rush. After entering a heavy fog off the coast of Southern California on the evening of December 1, 1853, the ship crashed...

    : ran aground Anacapa Island
    Anacapa Island
    Anacapa Island is a small volcanic island located about off the coast of Port Hueneme, California, in Ventura County. The Island is composed of a series of narrow islets six miles long, running in a mostly east-west orientation, five miles east of Santa Cruz Island...

    .
  • Yankee Blade: ran aground Honda Point, California.
  • Yukon: foundered in Mission Bay, San Diego, California

Connecticut

  • USS Chewink (AM-39)
    USS Chewink (AM-39)
    The first USS Chewink was a in the United States Navy. She was later converted to a submarine rescue ship.Chewink was launched 21 December 1918 by Todd Shipyard Corp., New York City; sponsored by Miss M. Sperrin; and commissioned 9 April 1919, Lieutenant J. Williams in command...

    : sunk off New London, Connecticut
    New London, Connecticut
    New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States.It is located at the mouth of the Thames River in New London County, southeastern Connecticut....

     in 1947.
  • USS G-2 (SS-27)
    USS G-2 (SS-27)
    USS G-2 was a G-class submarine of the United States Navy. While the four G-boats were nominally all of a class, they differed enough in significant details that they are sometimes considered to be four unique boats, each in a class by herself...

    : sank at mooring in 1919.
  • USS Guardfish (SS-217)
    USS Guardfish (SS-217)
    , a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the guardfish, a voracious green and silvery fish with elongated pike-like body and long narrow jaws....

    : sunk as target off New London, Connecticut
    New London, Connecticut
    New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States.It is located at the mouth of the Thames River in New London County, southeastern Connecticut....

    , in 1961.

Delaware

  • USNS Mission San Francisco: a fleet oil tanker collided with the Liberia
    Liberia
    Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...

    n freighter
    Elna II while passing New Castle
    New Castle, Delaware
    New Castle is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, six miles south of Wilmington, situated on the Delaware River. In 1900, 3,380 people lived here; in 1910, 3,351...

    , caught fire and exploded on 7 March 1957.

Florida

  • Adelaide Baker: grounded on reef Duck Key
    Duck Key, Florida
    Duck Key is a census-designated place in Monroe County, Florida, on an island of the same name in the middle Florida Keys. The CDP also includes the neighboring island of Conch Key. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 443.-Geography:...

    .
  • USS Amesbury (DE-66)
    USS Amesbury (DE-66)
    USS Amesbury , a of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Lieutenant Stanton Morgan Amesbury , who was killed in action while flying from the aircraft carrier during Operation Torch in 1942....

    : grounded off Key West
    Key West, Florida
    Key West is a city in Monroe County, Florida, United States. The city encompasses the island of Key West, the part of Stock Island north of U.S. 1 , Sigsbee Park , Fleming Key , and Sunset Key...

    .
  • Angustias: ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet wrecked along the Florida Keys.
  • USS Bailey (DD-492)
    USS Bailey (DD-492)
    USS Bailey was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the third ship named for Admiral Theodorus Bailey....

    : sunk as a target off Florida
    Florida
    Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

     coast in 1969.
  • Benjamin C. Cromwell
    Benjamin C. Cromwell (ship)
    The Benjamin C. Cromwell was a transport schooner built from June 30, 1883,to October 31, 1890 by Andrew J. York in South Portland, Maine. York sailed as master of three sailing ships, the Mattie B. Russell from June 21, 1873, to March 20, 1876; of the Edward Waite from 1876 to...

    : an American schooner, was wrecked and beached in a hurricane on Dog Island, Florida in 1899.
  • Benwood
    Benwood (shipwreck)
    - Wrecking Event :The Norwegian merchant freighter Benwood was under the command of Captain Torbjorn Skjelbred on the fateful night of April 9, 1942. She was on a routine voyage from Tampa Bay, Florida to Norfolk, Virginia carrying a load of phosphate rock. That same evening, the Robert C...

    : collided with other ship off Key Largo, Florida
    Key Largo, Florida
    Key Largo is a census-designated place in Monroe County, Florida, United States, located on the island of Key Largo in the upper Florida Keys. The population was 11,886 at the 2000 census. The name comes from the Spanish Cayo Largo, or "long key"...

     in 1942.
  • USCGC Bibb (WPG-31)
    USCGC Bibb (WPG-31)
    The USCGC Bibb was a Secretary-Class Coast Guard ship commissioned in 1936. Seven similar "combat cutters" were built and named for secretaries of the United States Treasury. The legendary Bibb was named for U.S. Secretary of the Treasury George M. Bibb.The ship saw service in World War II...

    : sunk as artificial reef off Key Largo, Florida
    Key Largo, Florida
    Key Largo is a census-designated place in Monroe County, Florida, United States, located on the island of Key Largo in the upper Florida Keys. The population was 11,886 at the 2000 census. The name comes from the Spanish Cayo Largo, or "long key"...

     in 1987.
  • USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391)
    USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391)
    The USCGC Blackthorn was a sea going buoy tender which sank in 1980 in a tragic collision near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge of Tampa Bay, resulting in 23 crew member fatalities....

    : tanker collision in Tampa Bay, in the Egmont channel. Re-positioned 20 mi (32.2 km). off Clearwater. 1980.
  • USS Boyle (DD-600)
    USS Boyle (DD-600)
    USS Boyle was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the first ship named after Thomas Boyle, a privateer and naval officer during the War of 1812....

    : sunk as a target off Florida
    Florida
    Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

     coast in 1973.
  • Capitola: a steamship, was wrecked and beached in a hurricane on Dog Island, Florida in 1899.
  • Catherine: off Santa Rosa Island, Florida
    Santa Rosa Island, Florida
    Santa Rosa Island[p] is a 40-mile barrier island located in the U.S. state of Florida, thirty miles east of the Alabama state border...

    .
  • Chavez: ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet wrecked along the Florida Keys.
  • Cities Services Empire: tanker torpedoed by U-128 off Cape Canaveral
    Cape Canaveral
    Cape Canaveral, from the Spanish Cabo Cañaveral, is a headland in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of the state's Atlantic coast. Known as Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it lies east of Merritt Island, separated from it by the Banana River.It is part of a region known as the...

     in 240 fsw.
  • City of Washington
    City of Washington (ship)
    City of Washington was an American merchant steamship that aided in rescuing the crew of the USS Maine when it exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, in 1898.-Construction and merchant service:...

    : ran aground Key Largo, Florida
    Key Largo, Florida
    Key Largo is a census-designated place in Monroe County, Florida, United States, located on the island of Key Largo in the upper Florida Keys. The population was 11,886 at the 2000 census. The name comes from the Spanish Cayo Largo, or "long key"...

    .
  • SS Copenhagen
    SS Copenhagen
    The SS Copenhagen is a shipwreck near Pompano Beach, Florida, United States. The single screw steamer was built in Sunderland, England in 1898, sinking in 1900. Located on the Pompano Dropoff reef south of Hillsboro Inlet, it became the fifth Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve when it was...

    : crashed into a reef at Pompano Beach, Florida
    Pompano Beach, Florida
    Pompano Beach ) is a city in Broward County, Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean just to the north of Fort Lauderdale. The nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 99,845...

     in 1900.
  • Cortesia: an Italian barque
    Barque
    A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...

    , was split in half and beached in a hurricane on Dog Island, Florida in 1899.
  • USS Curb (ARS-21)
    USS Curb (ARS-21)
    USS Curb was an Diver-class rescue and salvage ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Her task was to come to the aid of stricken vessels....

    : sunk off Key West, Florida
    Key West, Florida
    Key West is a city in Monroe County, Florida, United States. The city encompasses the island of Key West, the part of Stock Island north of U.S. 1 , Sigsbee Park , Fleming Key , and Sunset Key...

     as an artificial reef in 185 fsw.
  • USCGC Duane (WPG-33)
    USCGC Duane (WPG-33)
    The USCG Cutter Duane was a cutter in the United States Coast Guard. Her keel was laid on May 1, 1935 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

    : sunk as an artificial reef
    Artificial reef
    An artificial reef is a human-made underwater structure, typically built to promote marine life in areas with a generally featureless bottom, control erosion, block ship passage, or improve surfing....

     near Key Largo
    Key Largo
    Key Largo is an island in the upper Florida Keys archipelago and, at long, the largest of the Keys. It is also the northernmost of the Florida Keys in Monroe County, and the northernmost of the Keys connected by U.S. Highway 1...

     in 1987.
  • Eagle
    Eagle (ship)
    The Eagle is a freighter which was sunk intentionally near Lower Matecumbe Key, Florida, to become an artificial reef and diving spot.-History:*1962 - Built for Danish shipowners J...

    : sunk as an artificial reef off Florida Keys after fire damage in 1985.
  • USS Eaton (DD-510)
    USS Eaton (DD-510)
    USS Eaton was a Fletcher-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy, named after William Eaton , an American soldier involved in the First Barbary War....

    : sunk as a target off Florida
    Florida
    Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

     coast in 1970.
  • El Gallo Indiano: ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet wrecked along the Florida Keys.
  • El Infante: ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet wrecked along the Florida Keys.
  • El Rubi: ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet wrecked along the Florida Keys.
  • Elsbeth: a Norwegian bark was wrecked and beached in a hurricane on Dog Island, Florida.
  • Empire Mica: a British cargo ship torpedoed and sunk by U-67 off the coast of Apalachicola, Florida
    Apalachicola, Florida
    Apalachicola is a city in Franklin County, Florida, on US 98 about southwest of Tallahassee. The population was 2,334 at the 2000 census. The 2005 census estimated the city's population at 2,340...

  • HMS Fowey (1744)
    HMS Fowey (1744)
    HMS Fowey was a fifth rate warship of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 August 1744 in Hull, England. She spent only four years in commission before she struck a reef and sank in what is known today as Legare Anchorage in Biscayne National Park, off the coast of Florida...

    : struck reef offshore from Biscayne Bay
    Biscayne Bay
    Biscayne Bay is a lagoon that is approximately 35 miles long and up to 8 miles wide located on the Atlantic coast of South Florida, United States. It is usually divided for purposes of discussion and analysis into three parts: North Bay, Central Bay, and South Bay. Its area is...

    , Florida
    Florida
    Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

    , in 1748.
  • HMS Fox (1799): a 14 gun schooner
    Schooner
    A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

     sunk off Dog Island, in 1799.
  • USS Fred T. Berry (DD-858)
    USS Fred T. Berry (DD-858)
    USS Fred T. Berry was a of the United States Navy, named for Commander Fred T. Berry .Fred T. Berry was launched on 28 January 1945 by Bethlehem Steel Co., San Pedro, California; sponsored by Mrs. Fred T. Berry, widow of Commander Berry; and commissioned on 12 May 1945, Commander N. J...

    : scuttled off Key West, Florida
    Key West, Florida
    Key West is a city in Monroe County, Florida, United States. The city encompasses the island of Key West, the part of Stock Island north of U.S. 1 , Sigsbee Park , Fleming Key , and Sunset Key...

     as artificial reef in 316 fsw.
  • Georges Valentine
    Georges Valentine (shipwreck)
    The Georges Valentine Shipwreck Site is an historic U.S. Italian barkentine shipwreck located off the coast of Hutchinson Island in Martin County, Florida, with the nearest landmark being the House of Refuge. The iron-hulled barque was built in Liverpool, England in 1869 by Bowdler Chaffer &...

    : sunk in a storm off Hutchinson Island in 1904.
  • Grace Andrews: an American schooner, was wrecked and beached in a hurricane on Dog Island, Florida.
  • Golden Venture
    Golden Venture
    On June 6, 1993, at around 2 a.m., the Golden Venture — a ship bearing 286 illegal immigrants from China along with 13 crew members — ran aground on Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York after a mutiny by the smugglers. The ship had set sail from Thailand, stopped in Kenya and circled the...

    : ran aground on Rockaway Beach
    Rockaway Beach, Queens
    Rockaway Beach is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It is located on the South Shore of Long Island. The neighborhood is bounded by Arverne to the east and Rockaway Park to the west...

    , Queens
    Queens
    Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....

    , after mutiny, 1993; towed to Florida
    Florida
    Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

     by the Coast Guard
    United States Coast Guard
    The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven U.S. uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency...

    , where it was deliberately sunk.
  • SS Gulfamerica
    SS Gulfamerica
    The SS Gulfamerica was an American steam tanker built by Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc, of Sparrow's Point, Maryland and completed in March 1942. She was operated by the Gulf Oil Company of New York and homeported in Philadelphia.-Sinking:...

    : a tanker torpedoed by U-123 off Jacksonville
    Jacksonville, Florida
    Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...

    .
  • Half Moon
    Half Moon (shipwreck)
    The Half Moon is a racing sailboat which sank in 1930 near Miami, Florida, United States. It is located outside Bear Cut off Key Biscayne. Originally christened Germania, the racing yacht was built by Krupp-Germania-Werft in 1908 in Kiel, Germany...

    : sank near Miami, Florida
    Miami, Florida
    Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...

     in 1930.
  • Henrietta Marie: slave ship
    Slave ship
    Slave ships were large cargo ships specially converted for the purpose of transporting slaves, especially newly purchased African slaves to Americas....

     sunk off Florida Keys in 1700.
  • USS Herndon (DD-638)
    USS Herndon (DD-638)
    USS Herndon , a , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Commander William Lewis Herndon.Herndon was launched on 2 February 1942 by the Norfolk Navy Yard, sponsored by Miss Lucy Herndon Crockett, great-grandniece of Comdr. Herndon, and commissioned 20 December 1942, Comdr....

    : sunk as a target off Florida in 1973.
  • Herrera: ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet wrecked along the Florida Keys.
  • Hindoo: a Norwegina barque
    Barque
    A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...

    , was wrecked in a hurricane and beached on Dog Island, Florida, in 1899.
  • Industry: a British supply sloop on route from New York, wrecked off St. Augustine, Florida
    St. Augustine, Florida
    St. Augustine is a city in the northeast section of Florida and the county seat of St. Johns County, Florida, United States. Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorer and admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, it is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city and port in the continental United...

    , in 1764.
  • Iola: a steamship, was wrecked and beached in a hurricane on Dog Island, Florida in 1899.
  • James A. Garfield
    James A. Garfield (ship)
    The James A. Garfield was an American 3-masted bark which sunk off of the Florida gulf coast.The Garfield transported lumber and operated in and out of Apalachee Bay. During this time, the bay served as an anchorage for timber concerns in northern Florida and provided access to the port towns of...

    : an American bark was wrecked and beached in a hurricane on Dog Island, Florida in 1899.
  • Jafnhar: a Norwegian barque
    Barque
    A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...

     was wrecked in a hurricane and beached on Dog Island, Florida, in 1899.
  • USS Kendrick (DD-612)
    USS Kendrick (DD-612)
    USS Kendrick was a in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Charles S. Kendrick.Kendrick was launched 2 April 1942 by Bethlehem Steel Corporation, San Pedro, California; sponsored by Mrs. J. Hanson Delvac, a great-granddaughter of Acting Master Charles S. Kendrick; and...

    : sunk off Key West, Florida
    Key West, Florida
    Key West is a city in Monroe County, Florida, United States. The city encompasses the island of Key West, the part of Stock Island north of U.S. 1 , Sigsbee Park , Fleming Key , and Sunset Key...

     in tests, in 320 fsw.
  • Latara: a Russian barque
    Barque
    A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...

    , was wrecked in a hurricane and beached on Dog Island, Florida, in 1899.
  • Le Tigre: stranded on Dog Island during a hurricane in 1766.
  • Lofthus
    Lofthus (shipwreck)
    The Lofthus is a Norwegian shipwreck near Boynton Beach, Florida, United States. Built in 1868 in Sunderland, England, the iron-hulled vessel was originally christened Cashmere and rigged as a three masted barque...

    : sunk near Boynton Beach
    Boynton Beach, Florida
    Boynton Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The population was 60,389 at the 2000 census. As of 2006, the city had a population of 66,714 according to the University of Florida, Bureau of Economic and Business Research...

     in 1898.
  • HMS Looe: frigate
    Frigate
    A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...

     ran aground off Big Pine Key, Florida
    Big Pine Key, Florida
    Big Pine Key is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Monroe County, Florida, on an island of the same name in the Florida Keys. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 5,032.-Geography:...

     in 1744.
  • USS Madison (DD-425)
    USS Madison (DD-425)
    USS Madison was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She the third Navy ship of that name, and the first named for Commander James J. Madison , who was awarded the Medal of Honor during World War I.Madison was laid down on 19 September 1938 by the Boston Navy...

    : sunk as a target of Southeastern Florida
    Florida
    Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

     in 1969.
  • Maple Leaf: American Civil War
    American Civil War
    The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

     transport
    Troopship
    A troopship is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime...

    , struck torpedo
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     near Jacksonville, Florida
    Jacksonville, Florida
    Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...

    .
  • Mary E. Morse: an American schooner
    Schooner
    A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

     was wrecked in a hurricane and beached on Dog Island, Florida, in 1899.
  • USS Massachusetts (BB-2)
    USS Massachusetts (BB-2)
    USS Massachusetts was an and the second United States Navy ship comparable to foreign battleships of the time. Authorized in 1890 and commissioned six years later, she was a small battleship, though with heavy armor and ordnance. The ship class also pioneered the use of an intermediate battery...

    : sunk as a target for shore batteries off Pensacola
    Pensacola
    Pensacola is a city in the western part of the U.S. state of Florida.Pensacola may also refer to:* Pensacola people, a group of Native Americans* A number of places in the Florida:** Pensacola Bay** Pensacola Regional Airport...

    .
  • USS Mindanao (ARG-3)
    USS Mindanao (ARG-3)
    USS Mindanao was a Luzon-class internal combustion engine repair ship that saw service in the United States Navy during World War II. Named for the Island of Mindanao, second largest and southernmost island in the Philippines, it was the second U.S...

    : sunk as artificial reef off Daytona Beach, Florida
    Daytona Beach, Florida
    Daytona Beach is a city in Volusia County, Florida, USA. According to 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the city has a population of 64,211. Daytona Beach is a principal city of the Deltona – Daytona Beach – Ormond Beach, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which the census bureau estimated had...

    , in 1980.
  • USS Muliphen (AKA-61)
    USS Muliphen (AKA-61)
    USS Muliphen was an named after Muliphen, a star in the constellation Canis Major.Muliphen was laid down under Maritime Commission contract on 13 May 1944 by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Kearny, N.J., launched on 26 August 1944, sponsored by Mrs...

    : sunk as an artificial reef off Stuart, Florida, in 1989.
  • USS Narcissus (1863)
    USS Narcissus (1863)
    USS Narcissus — a screw steamer launched in July 1863 as Mary Cook at East Albany, N.Y. — was purchased by the Union Navy at New York City on 23 September 1863 from James D. Stevenson; and commissioned at New York Navy Yard on 2 February 1864, Acting Ensign William G...

    : sunk off Egmont Key, Florida
    Egmont Key State Park
    Egmont Key State Park is a Florida State Park located on Egmont Key, at the mouth of Tampa Bay, in the state of Florida, United States. It lies southwest of Fort DeSoto Park. It can only be reached by boat or ferry. The Egmont Key Lighthouse and the ruins of Fort Dade, a Spanish-American War era...

     in 1866.
  • Nuestra Señora de Atocha
    Nuestra Señora de Atocha
    Nuestra Señora de Atocha was the most famous of a fleet of Spanish ships that sank in 1622 off the Florida Keys while carrying copper, silver, gold, tobacco, gems, jewels, jewelry and indigo from Spanish ports at Cartagena, Colombia, Porto Bello in New Granada and Havana bound for Spain...

    : Spanish
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

     galleon
    Galleon
    A galleon was a large, multi-decked sailing ship used primarily by European states from the 16th to 18th centuries. Whether used for war or commerce, they were generally armed with the demi-culverin type of cannon.-Etymology:...

     which sank in 1622 and was found on 20 July 1985 40 miles (64 km) off the coast of Key West, Florida
    Key West, Florida
    Key West is a city in Monroe County, Florida, United States. The city encompasses the island of Key West, the part of Stock Island north of U.S. 1 , Sigsbee Park , Fleming Key , and Sunset Key...

     by treasure hunters who soon began to raise $400 million in coin
    Coin
    A coin is a piece of hard material that is standardized in weight, is produced in large quantities in order to facilitate trade, and primarily can be used as a legal tender token for commerce in the designated country, region, or territory....

    s and silver
    Silver
    Silver is a metallic chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal...

    .
  • Nuestra Señora del Populo: ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet wrecked along the Florida Keys.
  • USS Oriskany (CV-34)
    USS Oriskany (CV-34)
    USS Oriskany – nicknamed Mighty O, The O-boat, and Toasted O – was one of 24 s completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was the third US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for the Revolutionary War Battle of Oriskany.The history of...

    : sunk as an artificial reef off Pensacola, Florida
    Pensacola, Florida
    Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the county seat of Escambia County, Florida, United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,255 and as of 2009, the estimated population was 53,752...

     in 2006.
  • USS Ozark (LSV-2)
    USS Ozark (LSV-2)
    The USS Ozark was a Catskill-class vehicle landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for the native American Ozark tribe of the Quapaw confederacy, she was the third U.S...

    : sunk as a target off Destin, Florida
    Destin, Florida
    Destin is a city located in Okaloosa County, Florida. It is a principal city of the Fort Walton Beach-Crestview-Destin, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.Located on Florida's Emerald Coast, Destin is known for its white beaches and emerald green waters...

     in 1975.
  • Queen of Nassau
    HMCS Canada
    CGS Canada was a Canadian Government Ship that served as a patrol ship in the Fisheries Protection Service of Canada, an enforcement agency that was part of the Department of Marine and Fisheries. She is considered to the nucleus of the Royal Canadian Navy for her role in training Canadian naval...

    : off the Florida Keys
    Florida Keys
    The Florida Keys are a coral archipelago in southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry...

     in 1926 under mysterious circumstances.
  • Ranavola: a Norwegian bark
    Barque
    A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...

     under the command of a Capt. Edwardson was destroyed in a hurricane at Dog Island in 1899.
  • USS Rankin (AKA-103)
    USS Rankin (AKA-103)
    USS Rankin was a named after Rankin County, Mississippi. Like all AKAs, Rankin was designed to transport military cargo and landing craft, and use the latter to land weapons, supplies, soldiers and Marines on enemy shores during amphibious operations.She was the 103rd of 114 ships eventually...

    : sunk as a fishing & diving reef off Stuart, Florida
    Stuart, Florida
    Stuart is the only incorporated city of Martin County, Florida, on Florida's Treasure Coast. The population was 14,633 at the 2000 census. As of 2007, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 15,964....

    , in 1988.: sank in 1940 near Bradenton Beach, Florida
    Bradenton Beach, Florida
    Bradenton Beach is a city on Anna Maria Island in Manatee County, Florida, United States. The population was 1,482 at the 2000 census, and 1,561 in the U.S Census estimates of 2005. It is part of the Bradenton–Sarasota–Venice Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city occupies the southern...

    .
  • USS S-16 (SS-121)
    USS S-16 (SS-121)
    USS S-16 was a second-group S-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 19 March 1918 by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She was launched on 23 December 1919 sponsored by Mrs. Archibald W. McNeil, and commissioned on 17 December 1920,...

    : sunk off Key West, Florida
    Key West, Florida
    Key West is a city in Monroe County, Florida, United States. The city encompasses the island of Key West, the part of Stock Island north of U.S. 1 , Sigsbee Park , Fleming Key , and Sunset Key...

     as a target in 260 fsw.
  • San Felipe
    San Felipe (shipwreck)
    The San Felipe is a historic shipwreck near Islamorada, Florida, United States. It is located east of Lower Matecumbe Key and south of the wreck of the San Pedro. On August 11, 1994, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.-References:* at * ** **...

    : ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet wrecked along the Florida Keys.
  • San Francisco: ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet wrecked along the Florida Keys.
  • San Jose
    San Jose (shipwreck)
    The San Jose is a historic shipwreck near Plantation Key, Florida, United States. It is located approximately 4 miles southeast of Plantation Key. On March 18, 1975, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.-References and external links:* at * ** at ** **...

    : ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet wrecked along the Florida Keys.
  • San Pedro: ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet wrecked along the Florida Keys.
  • USS Saufley (DD-465)
    USS Saufley (DD-465)
    USS Saufley , a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Lieutenant Richard Saufley....

    : sunk as a target in 420 fsw off Key West, Florida
    Key West, Florida
    Key West is a city in Monroe County, Florida, United States. The city encompasses the island of Key West, the part of Stock Island north of U.S. 1 , Sigsbee Park , Fleming Key , and Sunset Key...

    .
  • Slobodna: ran aground on Molasses Reef
    Molasses Reef
    Molasses Reef is a coral reef located within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. It lies to the southeast of Key Largo, within the Key Largo Existing Management Area, which is immediately to the east of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park...

     in 1887.
  • USS Spiegel Grove (LSD-32)
    USS Spiegel Grove (LSD-32)
    USS Spiegel Grove was a of the United States Navy. She was named for Spiegel Grove, the home and estate in Fremont, Ohio, of Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th President of the United States.-Career:...

    : sunk as an artificial reef off Florida Keys
    Florida Keys
    The Florida Keys are a coral archipelago in southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry...

     in 2002.
  • USS Stockdale (DE-399)
    USS Stockdale (DE-399)
    USS Stockdale was an Edsall class destroyer escort, the second United States Navy ship so named.-Operational history:The second Stockdale was laid down by Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Texas on 15 July 1942; launched on 22 November 1942; sponsored by Mrs. L.C. Stockdale; and commissioned on 31...

    : sunk as target off Florida
    Florida
    Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

     coast in 1974.
  • USS Sturtevant (DD-240)
    USS Sturtevant (DD-240)
    USS Sturtevant was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the first ship named for Albert D. Sturtevant....

    : ran into a friendly mine-field in the northwest channel
  • Sueco de Arizon: ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet wrecked along the Florida Keys.
  • Tarpon foundered off Panama City, Florida
    Panama City, Florida
    -Personal income:The median income for a household in the city was $31,572, and the median income for a family was $40,890. Males had a median income of $30,401 versus $21,431 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,830...

    .
  • Tres Puentes: ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet wrecked along the Florida Keys.
  • U-2513: sunk west of Key West, Florida during rocket tests by the destroyer USS Robert A. Owens (DD-827)
    USS Robert A. Owens (DD-827)
    USS Robert A. Owens was a of the United States Navy, named for USMC Sergeant Robert A. Owens , who was awarded both the Navy Cross and Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic actions in the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay....

     in 1951.
  • Urca de Lima
    Urca de Lima
    The Urca de Lima is a Spanish shipwreck near Fort Pierce, Florida, United States. It was part of the 1715 Treasure Fleet itself one of the numerous Spanish treasure fleets. It is located north of Fort Pierce Inlet, 200 yards off the shore from Jack Island Park. It became the first Florida...

    : sunk in 1715 near Fort Pierce, Florida
    Fort Pierce, Florida
    Fort Pierce, also spelled Ft. Pierce, is a city in St. Lucie County, Florida, USA. It is known as The Sunrise City. The population was 37,959 at the 2004 census. As of 2008, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 41,000. It is the county seat of St. Lucie County.Fort Pierce is part...

  • Valbanera
    Valbanera
    The Valbanera was a steamship operated by the Pinillos Line of Spain from 1905 until 1919, when it sank in a hurricane with the loss of all 488 crew and passengers aboard. The Valbanera was a steamer capable of carrying close to 1,200 passengers. It sailed a regular route between Spain and Puerto...

    : sank in a hurricane 5 miles (8 km) east of Rebecca Shoal
    Rebecca Shoal Light
    The Rebecca Shoal Light was located on a treacherous coral bank, Rebecca Shoal, 10 km west of the Marquesas Keys and 50 km east of the Dry Tortugas. The bank has a least depth of 3.4 meters and is subject to strong currents and rough seas....

     (about 45 miles (72.4 km) west of Key West) in 1919.
  • Vale: a Norwegian barque
    Barque
    A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...

    , was wrecked and beached in a hurricane on Dog Island, Florida in 1899.
  • Vidette: an American brigantine
    Brigantine
    In sailing, a brigantine or hermaphrodite brig is a vessel with two masts, only the forward of which is square rigged.-Origins of the term:...

    , was wrecked and beached in a hurricane on Dog Island, Florida in 1899.
  • Warren Adams: an American schooner
    Schooner
    A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

    , was wrecked and beached in a hurricane on Dog Island, Florida in 1899.
  • USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103)
    USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103)
    USS Wilkes-Barre was a Cleveland-class light cruiser of the United States Navy that served during the last year of World War II...

    : sunk off the Florida Keys
    Florida Keys
    The Florida Keys are a coral archipelago in southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry...

    .

Georgia

  • CSS Georgia
    CSS Georgia (battery)
    CSS Georgia, also known as State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram, was an ironclad floating battery built at Savannah, Georgia in 1862–1863...

    : a Civil War
    American Civil War
    The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

     ironclad floating battery scuttled off Savannah
    Savannah, Georgia
    Savannah is the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Established in 1733, the city of Savannah was the colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. Today Savannah is an industrial center and an important...

     on 21 December 1864.
  • CSS Muscogee
    CSS Muscogee
    CSS Muscogee also known as CSS Jackson was a Confederate States Navy ironclad ram, powered by a steam driven screw and deployed on the Chattahoochee River during the American Civil War....

    : a Confederate ironclad ram was captured and burned off the coast of Georgia
    Georgia (U.S. state)
    Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

     in April 1865.
  • Rattlesnake: a Confederate privateer sunk by USS Montauk in Ogeechee River
    Ogeechee River
    Ogeechee River is a river in the U.S. state of Georgia. It heads at the confluence of its North and South Forks, about south-southwest of Crawfordville and flowing generally southeast to Ossabaw Sound about south of Savannah. Its largest tributary is the Canoochee River...

     in 1863.
  • SS Republic
    SS Republic (1853)
    SS Republic was a sidewheel steamship, originally named Tennessee , lost in a hurricane off the coast of Georgia in October 1865, en route to New Orleans....

    : sank in a hurricane about 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Savannah on 25 October 1865.
  • USS Water Witch
    USS Water Witch (1851)
    The third USS Water Witch was a wooden-hulled, sidewheel gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She is best known as the ship fired on by Paraguay in 1855...

    : a sidewheel gunboat burned to avoid capture at White Bluff
    White Bluff, Georgia
    White Bluff was a collection of communities—Nicholsonboro, Rose Dhu, Twin Hill, and Cedar Grove—located in Chatham County, Georgia, United States and now part of Savannah. In 1940, as part of research published in Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes,...

     on 19 December 1864

Great Lakes

There are several thousand shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located at the Whitefish Point Light Station north of Paradise in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The light station property was transferred to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society , the Michigan Audubon Society , and the United States...

 uses the approximate figures of 6,000 ships and 30,000 lives lost. David D. Swayze has compiled a list which details over 4,750 well-documented shipwrecks, mostly of commercial vessels and a list of known names of over 5,000 victims of those sinkings. A three volume work by Georgann and Mike Wachter, Erie Wrecks East (2nd Ed.), Erie Wrecks West, and Erie Wrecks & Lights, identifies 110, 103, and 45 wreck locations respectively. In History of Great Lakes, J.B. Mansfield documented 5,999 shipwrecks occurring between 1878 and 1897. Nearly one quarter of these shipwrecks were listed as total losses and a total of 1,166 lives were lost in this 20-year period. Historian and mariner Mark Thompson estimated the total number of casualties over more than 300 years of Great Lakes shipping is likely more than 25,000. In the period between 1816 when the Invincible was lost to the sinking of the Fitzgerald in 1975, the Whitefish Point
Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve
The Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve was established in 1987 to protect and conserve shipwrecks and historical resources on of Lake Superior bottomlands in Whitefish Bay and around Whitefish Point, Michigan. The formation of the Michigan Underwater Preserves helped stop controversy over...

 area has claimed at least 240 ships.
  • Amboy (Ship) ran aground during the infamous Mataafa Storm
    Mataafa Storm
    The Mataafa Storm of 1905 is the name of a storm that occurred on the Great Lakes on November 28, 1905. The storm, named after the Mataafa wreck, ended up destroying or damaging about 29 vessels, killing 36 seamen and causing property losses of approximately $1.75 million on Lake...

     of 1905
  • 117th Street Wreck depth: 39' 41.30.777 N 81.43.751 W
  • 17 Fathom Wreck 105' 42.39.103 N 80.03.145 W
  • Admiral 75' 41.38.244 N 81.54.197 W
  • Adventure 25' 41.38.84 N 82.41.73 W
  • SS Algeria 40' 41.31.225 N 81.42.944 W
  • Alva B. 12' 41.30.768 N 82.01.894 W
  • America 15' 41.49.675 N 82.38.066 W
  • Armenia 39'
  • Atlantic 155' 42.30.620 N 80.05.086 W
  • Arches 160' 42.27.476 N 80.01.021 W
  • Bay Coal Schooner 55' N41°33.009' W81°56.077'
  • Bow Cabin 70' 41.56.811 N 82.14.107 W
  • Brick Wreck  77'
  • Brown Brothers 125' 42.37.647 N 80.00.912 W
  • Brunswick 110' 42.35.465 N 79.24.546 W
  • Canobie 10'-15' 42.10.326 N 80.00.903 W
  • Carl D. Bradley
    SS Carl D. Bradley
    The  was a self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that sank in a storm on November 18, 1958. Of the 35 crew members, 33 died in the sinking and 23 were from the port town of Rogers City, Michigan. Her sinking was likely caused by structural failure from the brittle steel used in her...

  • Carlingford 95' 42.39.266 N 79.28.6163 W
  • Cascade 30'
  • Case 20'
  • C.B. Benson 86' 42.46.259 N 79.14.609 W
  • Cecil J. 20' 42.45.785 N 80.13.688 W
  • Charger 35'
  • Charles H. Davis 40' 41.30.780 N 81.43.52 W
  • Charles Foster 80' 42.10.445 N 80.15.007 W
  • Charles B. Packard 40'
  • City of Concord 45'
  • Civil War Wreck 65'
  • Clarion 75'
  • Cleveco 75' 41.47.473 N 81.36.000 W
  • Colonel Cook 10'-20'
  • Colonial 20'
  • Comet  230' 46.43.02N 84.52.00 W
  • Conemaugh 20'
  • Craftsman 41 41.31.942 N 82.00.375 W
  • Crete 12' 42.10.30 N 80.00.94 W
  • Daniel J. Morrell
    SS Daniel J. Morrell
    The SS Daniel J. Morrell was a Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with it 28 of its 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargos such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old boat sank.-The Ship's...

  • David Stewart 22'
  • David Vance 41'
  • Dean Richmond 110' 42.17.421 N 79.55.859 W
  • Dominion 45'
  • Dundee 75' 41.41.330 N 81.50.634 W
  • Duke Luedtke 70' 41.41.630 N 81.57.655 W
  • Edmund Fitzgerald
    SS Edmund Fitzgerald
    The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that made headlines after sinking in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 8, 1958, she was the largest boat on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains...

     320;
  • Eldorado 15'-20' 42.10.326 N 80.00.903 W
  • Erieau Quarry Stone 15' 42.15.412 N 81.54.341 W
  • Exchange 10'-20'
  • F.A. Meyer 78' 41.55.439 N 82.02.953 W
  • Fannie L. Jones 36' 41.30.640 N 81.43.751 W
  • Frank E. Vigor 90' 41.57.545 N 81.57.242 W
  • George Dunbar 45' 41.40.631 N 82.33.893 W
  • George Stone 31'
  • George Worthington 38'
  • Grand Traverse 39'
  • H.A. Barr 84' 42.09.111 N 81.23.41 W
  • H.G. Cleveland 55'
  • Henry B. Smith
    SS Henry B. Smith
    The SS Henry B. Smith was a steel-hulled, propeller-driven lake freighter built in 1906 by the American Ship Building Company at Lorain, Ohio USA. The hull number was 343 and the registration number was US203143....

  • SS Henry Steinbrenner
  • Hickory Stick 55' 41.32.301 N 82.06.236 W
  • SS Hydrus
    SS Hydrus
    The SS Hydrus was an American steel-hulled Great Lakes bulk freighter, constructed in 1903 and launched as the R.E. Schuck. She was following the SS James Carruthers heading south on Lake Huron while carrying a load of iron ore when she and the Carruthers were caught in the Great Lakes Storm of...

  • Indiana 95' 42.17.760 N 79.59.898 W
  • Ivanhoe 57' 41.33.310 N 82.02.826 W
  • Jackie's Wreck 50' 41.51.707 N 82.21.084 W
  • SS James Carruthers
    SS James Carruthers
    The SS James Carruthers was a Canadian Great Lakes freighter built in 1913. The Carruthers was built at Collingwood, Ontario by the Collingwood Shipbuilding Company. The ship was owned by the St. Lawrence & Chicago Steam and Navigation Company of Toronto, Ontario, with the official registry number...

  • James B. Colgate 85' 42.05.376 N 81.44.279 W
  • James H. Reed 70'
  • Jay Gould 45' 41.51.531 N 82.24.596 W
  • J.G. McGrath 85' 42.40.083 N 79.23.764 W
  • J.J. Boland Jr. 130' 42.22.794 N 79.43.929 W
  • John B. Griffin 50'
  • John B. Lyon 50'
  • John Pridgeon Jr. 60' 41.35.320 N 81.58.601 W
  • John M. Osborn
    John M. Osborn (steamboat)
    The John M Osborn’s short career as a wooden steam barge lasted just two years. The Osborn sank with the loss of five lives when she was rammed by the larger, steel hulled Alberta who was called a “steel monster" and "terror of the lakes". The Osborn’s wreck was discovered 100 years after her...

     165' 46.51.974 N 85.05.210 W
  • Jorge B. 32'
  • Lady Elgin a steamship wrecked in Lake Michigan
    Lake Michigan
    Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron...

     near Chicago following a collision with the schooner
    Augusta on 8 September 1860.
  • Lighthouse Wreck 15' 42.33.075 N 80.02.721 W
  • Little Wissahickon 78' 41.54.217 N 81.56.781 W
  • Lycoming 26' 42.15.078 N 81.53.384 W
  • M.I. Wilcox 22'
  • Mabel Wilson 36' 41.30.342 N 81.43.907 W
  • Magnet 35'
  • Marshall F. Butters 70' 41.43.636 N 82.17.370 W
  • Marine City (just north of Sturgeon Point Light
    Sturgeon Point Light
    The Sturgeon Point Light Station is a lighthouse on Lake Huron in Haynes Township, Alcona County, northeastern lower Michigan. Established to ward mariners off a reef that extends 1.5 miles lakeward from Sturgeon Point, it is today regarded as a historic example of a Cape Cod style Great Lakes...

    )
  • Mataafa
    SS Mataafa
    The SS Mataafa was an iron ore boat and later an automobile carrier on the American Great Lakes, famously wrecked in 1905 just outside the Duluth, MN harbor. She was built the SS Pennsylvania in 1899, and was renamed the Mataafa when she was purchased in the same year by Minnesota Steamship Company...

     (right outside of Duluth, Minnesota
    Duluth, Minnesota
    Duluth is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Saint Louis County. The fourth largest city in Minnesota, Duluth had a total population of 86,265 in the 2010 census. Duluth is also the second largest city that is located on Lake Superior after Thunder Bay, Ontario,...

    )
  • Mecosta 50' 41.31.850 N 81.53.001 W
  • Merida 65' – 80' 42.13.955 N 81.20.788 W
  • Morning Star 65' 41.36.813 N 82.12.531 W
  • Mount Vernon 30'
  • Myron
    SS Myron
    The SS Myron was a wooden steamship built in 1888. She spent her 31 year career as lumber hooker towing schooner barges on the Great Lakes. She sank in 1919 in a Lake Superior November gale with the loss of all her crewmen but her captain who was found drifting on wreckage near Ile Parisienne. ...

      45 to 50' 46.48.463 N 85.01.646 W
  • Net Wreck 70' 41.56.564 N 82.14.872 W
  • New Brunswick 53'
  • North Carolina
    North Carolina
    North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

    40' 41.43.808 N 81.22.885 W
  • Northern Indiana
    Northern Indiana
    Northern Indiana is the region of Indiana including 26 counties bordering parts of Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio. The area is generally sub-classified into other regions. The northwest is economically and culturally intertwined with Chicago, and is considered part of the Chicago metropolitan area...

    25' 41.53.882 N 82.30.600 W
  • Oneida 8' 42.13.966 N 79.51.583 W
  • Oxford
    Oxford
    The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

    170' 42.28.855 N 79.51.843 W
  • Paddy Murphy 13'
  • Pascal P. Pratt 20' 42.33.682 N 80.05.429 W
  • Passaic84' 42.28.748 N 79.27.769 W
  • Penelope
    Penelope
    In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps her suitors at bay in his long absence and is eventually reunited with him....

    8' 41.30.562 N 82.02.443 W
  • Philip D. Armour 30' 42.07.684 N 80.10.693 W
  • Philip Minch 47' 41.41.304 N 82.30.808 W
  • Queen of the West 70' 41.50.768 N 82.23.135 W
  • Regina
    CSL Regina
    The SS Regina was a steel canaler built for the Canada Steamship Lines and home ported in Montreal, Quebec. Named after Regina, Saskatchewan, the Regina had a tonnage of and a crew of 32....

  • Robert 49' 42.13.094 N 82.58.937 W
  • Rouse Simmons
    Rouse Simmons
    The Rouse Simmons was a three-masted schooner famous for having sunk in a violent storm on Lake Michigan in 1912. The ship was bound for Chicago with a cargo of Christmas trees when it foundered off the coast of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, killing all on board....

  • S.F. Gale 78' 41.44.455 N 81.52.922 W
  • S.K. Martin 60' 42.14.546 N 79.56.004 W
  • St. James 170' 42.27.104 N 80.07.331 W
  • Sand Merchant 65' 41.34.428 N 82.57.524 W
  • Sarah E. Sheldon 20' 41.29.741 N 82.06.678 W
  • Specular 36'
  • Success 14' 41.31.321 N 82.54.705 W
  • SS Superior City
    SS Superior City
    The SS Superior City was considered a pioneer vessel at her launching in 1898. She was the largest vessel ever built on freshwater at that time. She sailed the Great Lakes for twenty-two years until she sank after a collision in 1920 with the steamer Willis L. King in Whitefish Bay of Lake...

      270' 46.43.510N 84.52.370 W
  • T-8 145' 42.35.226 N 80.01.335 W
  • Tasmania
    Tasmania
    Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

    40' 41.47.303 N 82.29.811 W
  • Tire Reef 22' 42.41.043 N 80.08.500 W
  • Trade Wind 120' 42.25.516 N 80.12.056 W
  • Tug Smith 165' 42.28.486 N 79.59.061 W
  • Two Fannies 60' 41.33.855 N 81.55.281 W
  • Unknown 83' 42.08.375 N 81.37.942 W
  • Unknown (discovered by Justin Camron and Alec) 43.27 N 77.26 W (jblonigan@gmail.com for more info)
  • Valentine 80' 41.55.116 N 81.54.778 W
  • Vienna
    Vienna (steamship)
    The SS Vienna was built in 1873 during the era when steamers were built with sail rigging. She had a 19 year career marked with maritime incidents including sinking when she was just 3 years old. She sank for her final time in fair weather in Whitefish Bay in Lake Superior after she received a...

     148' 46.44.46 N 84.57.91 W
  • Washington Irving 120' 42.32.371 N 79.27.636 W
  • Wexford
    SS Wexford
    The SS Wexford was a steel hulled, propeller driven bulk freighter built by Doxford, Williams & Sons, Ltd. at Sunderland, Great Britain in 1883. The official number for the Wexford was 87342 with the hull number 00145. The ship was lost on Lake Huron with all hands on November 9, 1913 during the...

  • William D. Morrell
  • Willis 72'
  • Wilma 75' 42.42.150 N 80.02.068 W

Guam

  • Aratama Maru: a Japanese Navy transport sunk in Talofofo Bay
    Talofofo Bay
    The Talofofo Bay is an inlet in the southeastern coast of the island of Guam at the mouth of the Talofofo River.Talofofo Bay is notable for being one of the most accessible brown sand beaches of Guam...

     in 1944.
  • SMS Cormoran
    SMS Cormoran
    SMS Cormoran or SMS Cormoran II was built at Danzig, Germany in 1909 for the Russian merchant fleet and named SS Ryazan...

    : a German steamer scuttled in Apra Harbor
    Apra Harbor
    Apra Harbor is a deep-water port on the western side of Guam in the Mariana Islands. The harbor is formed by Orote Peninsula in the south and Cabras Island in the north. To the south, the harbor narrows and then widens again to form an inner harbor. The southern end of the harbor is the location...

     to avoid capture at the start of American involvement in World War I
    World War I
    World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

     in 1917.
  • Kitsugawa Maru: a Japanese merchant freighter sunk by torpedo in Apra Harbor
    Apra Harbor
    Apra Harbor is a deep-water port on the western side of Guam in the Mariana Islands. The harbor is formed by Orote Peninsula in the south and Cabras Island in the north. To the south, the harbor narrows and then widens again to form an inner harbor. The southern end of the harbor is the location...

    .
  • Tokai Maru: a Japanese Navy armed transport sunk in Apra Harbor
    Apra Harbor
    Apra Harbor is a deep-water port on the western side of Guam in the Mariana Islands. The harbor is formed by Orote Peninsula in the south and Cabras Island in the north. To the south, the harbor narrows and then widens again to form an inner harbor. The southern end of the harbor is the location...

     in 1943.

Hawaii

  • USS Arizona (BB-39)
    USS Arizona (BB-39)
    USS Arizona, a , was built for the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state's recent admission into the union, the ship was the second and last of the Pennsylvania class of "super-dreadnought" battleships. Although commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside...

    : a battleship
    Battleship
    A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...

     lost in the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor
    Pearl Harbor
    Pearl Harbor, known to Hawaiians as Puuloa, is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet...

     on 7 December 1941.
  • Ehime Maru (えひめ丸): A Japanese fishery high school training ship sank about 9 nautical miles (16.7 km) off the south coast of Oahu, Hawaii, after a collision with United States Navy (USN) submarine USS Greeneville
    USS Greeneville (SSN-772)
    USS Greeneville , a , is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Greeneville, Tennessee. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia, on 14 December 1988, and her keel was laid down on 28 February 1992...

     on February 9, 2001. Nine of its crewmembers were killed, including four high school students.
  • I-18tou: a Japanese midget submarine
    Ko-hyoteki class submarine
    The class was a class of Japanese midget submarines used during World War II. They had hull numbers but no names. For simplicity, they are most often referred to by the hull number of the mother submarine...

     depth-charged at Pearl Harbor.
  • USS LST-480
    USS LST-480
    LST-480 was an built for the United States Navy during World War II.LST-480 was laid down on 31 August 1942 at Richmond, California by Kaiser Cargo, Inc.; launched on 29 October 1942 ; and commissioned on 3 May 1943....

    : a tank landing ship sunk following the West Loch Disaster
    West Loch Disaster
    The West Loch Disaster was a previously secret American World War II maritime accident which led to the deaths of 163 men at the U.S. naval base of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on 21 May 1944...

     in Pearl Harbor
    Pearl Harbor
    Pearl Harbor, known to Hawaiians as Puuloa, is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet...

     on 21 May 1944.
  • USNS Mission San Miguel: a fleet oiler run aground on Maro Reef
    Maro Reef
    Maro Reef is a largely submerged coral atoll located in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It was discovered in 1820 by Captain Joseph Allen of the ship Maro, after whose ship the reef was named. With a total area of , it is the largest coral reef in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands...

     on 8 October 1957.
  • USS Utah (BB-31)
    USS Utah (BB-31)
    USS Utah was a battleship that was attacked and sunk in Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. A Florida-class battleship, she was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the U.S. state of Utah...

    : a battleship
    Battleship
    A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...

     lost in the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
  • YO-257
    YO-257
    USS YO-257 was a Yard Oiler of the United States Navy that was scuttled two miles off Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii in 1989.-Service history:Built in the 1940s, YO-257 saw action in World War II, the Korean War, and in the Vietnam War....

     and the
    San Pedro, both intentionally sunk by Atlantis Submarines Hawaii.

Illinois

  • SS Eastland: a passenger ship that sank in the Chicago River
    Chicago River
    The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of that runs through the city of the same name, including its center . Though not especially long, the river is notable for being the reason why Chicago became an important location, as the link between the Great Lakes and...

     on 24 July 1915.

Indiana

  • Lucy Walker
    Lucy Walker steamboat disaster
    The Lucy Walker steamboat disaster was an 1844 explosion of the boilers of the steamboat Lucy Walker while the steamboat was near New Albany, Indiana, on the Ohio River.- Circumstances of the disaster:...

    : sank in the Ohio River
    Ohio River
    The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. At the confluence, the Ohio is even bigger than the Mississippi and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, including the Allegheny River further upstream...

     near New Albany, Indiana, in 1844.

Louisiana

  • El Cazador: a Spanish brig
    Brig
    A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...

     carrying silver currency, sank 50 miles (80.5 km) south of New Orleans in 1784, discovered by a fishing trawler in 1993.
  • CSS Louisiana
    CSS Louisiana
    CSS Louisiana was an ironclad ship of the Confederate States Navy built to aid in defending the lower Mississippi River from invasion by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She took part in one major action of the war, the Battle of Forts Jackson and St...

    : an ironclad burned, exploded, and sunk near Fort St. Philip
    Fort St. Philip
    Fort St. Philip is a decommissioned masonry fort located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, about up river from its mouth in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana...

     on the Mississippi River
    Mississippi River
    The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...

     on 28 April 1862.
  • New York: sunk in a hurricane off the coast.
  • SS Robert E. Lee: a passenger freighter torpedoed by U-166 on 30 July 1942.
  • U-166: a German U-boat sunk by a depth charge from a US Navy patrol boat in July 1942.
  • USCGC White Alder (WLM-541)
    USCGC White Alder (WLM-541)
    The USCGC White Alder was the former Navy lighter, YF-417. The United States Coast Guard acquired a total of eight of these former Navy YF-257-class lighters between 1947-1948 for conversion to coastal buoy tenders...

    : a coastal buoy tender sunk in the Mississippi River near White Castle
    White Castle, Louisiana
    White Castle a town in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 1,946. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:White Castle is located at ....

     following a collision on 7 December 1968.

Maine

  • Alice E. Clark: a 4-masted schooner
    Schooner
    A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

    , struck Islesboro Ledge (off Islesboro, Penobscot Bay) in fog on 1 July 1909.
  • Nottingham: a British Galley which struck rocks and sank near Boon Island on December 11, 1710.
  • Amaretto: a fishing vessel, sunk by pirates on 1 July 1985 2 miles off the coast of Owls Head.

Maryland

  • The Mallows Bay
    Mallows Bay
    Mallows Bay is a small bay on the Maryland side of the Potomac River in the United States located at . The bay is the location of what is regarded as the "largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere" and is described as a "ship graveyard."...

     wrecks include as many as 152 WWI-era merchant ships abandoned after the salvage company went bankrupt.
  • The USS Cherokee SP-458, (a.k.a. "The Gunboat"): built in New Jersey in 1891. She was initially named the "Edgar F. Luckenbach". The Cherokee spent a year in the service of the U.S. Navy. In February 1918, she foundered off Fenwick Island lightship during a gale while en route to Washington, D.C.

Massachusetts

  • Albert Gallatin
    USS Albert Gallatin (1871)
    Albert Gallatin was a U.S. Revenue Cutter that grounded on Boo Hoo Ledge off Manchester, MA on 6 January 1892.-History:Named after President Thomas Jefferson's Secretary of the Treasury, the Albert Gallatin was built in Buffalo, New York in 1871 at a cost of $65,000...

    : in 1892 grounded on Boo Hoo Ledge off Manchester.
  • SS Alexander Macomb
    SS Alexander Macomb
    SS Alexander Macomb was a Liberty ship of the United States Merchant Marine during World War II. Construction began on Hull 2023 on 18 February 1942 at the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in Baltimore, Maryland, under Maritime Commission contract 0036. See,...

    : Liberty ship
    Liberty ship
    Liberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II. Though British in conception, they were adapted by the U.S. as they were cheap and quick to build, and came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. Based on vessels ordered by Britain to replace ships torpedoed by...

     torpedoed in 1942 by German U-215.
  • Alice M. Colburn: 1923, ran aground in storm and broke up.
  • Alice M. Lawrence: 1914, grounded on shoal.
  • Alma A. E. Holmes
    Alma A. E. Holmes (ship)
    The Alma A. E. Holmes was a four masted schooner that was used to transport coal. She sank on October 10, 1914 following a collision with the steamer Belfast.-The ship:...

    : 1914, collision with steamer Belfast.
  • Alva: 1892, rammed in fog by steamer H. F. Dimock.
  • SS Andrea Doria
    SS Andrea Doria
    SS Andrea Doria[p] was an ocean liner for the Italian Line home ported in Genoa, Italy, most famous for its sinking in 1956, when 46 people died. Named after the 16th-century Genoese admiral Andrea Doria, the ship had a gross register tonnage of 29,100 and a capacity of about 1,200 passengers and...

    : 1956, collision in Nantucket Sound.
  • Angela: 1971, broke towline in storm and grounded on reef.
  • Aransas: 1905, collision with schooner barge Glendower in fog.
  • Ardandhu: 1900, collision in fog with steamer Herman Winter.
  • Argo Merchant
    Argo Merchant
    MV Argo Merchant was a Liberian-flagged oil tanker built by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Hamburg, Germany in 1953, most noted for running aground and subsequent sinking southeast of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, causing one of the largest marine oil spills in history...

    : ran aground 25 milles southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts
    Nantucket, Massachusetts
    Nantucket is an island south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the United States. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the town of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the coterminous Nantucket County, which are consolidated. Part of the town is designated the Nantucket...

     in 1976, causing an oil spill
    Oil spill
    An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially marine areas, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term is mostly used to describe marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters...

    .
  • Baleen: 1975, foundered while in tow after fire on board.
  • Barge & Crane: 1963, foundered.
  • Bark Frances: lost off Cape Cod
    Cape Cod
    Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States...

    .
  • California: 1955, ran aground on ledge.
  • Can Do: 1978, sank in famous Blizzard of 1978
    Northeastern United States Blizzard of 1978
    The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 was a catastrophic and historic nor'easter that brought blizzard conditions to the New England region of the United States and the New York metropolitan area. The "Blizzard of '78" formed on February 5, 1978 and broke up on February 7, 1978...

    .
  • Charles S. Haight: 1946, stranded on a ledge.
  • Chelsea: 1957, grounded on Sandy Bay Breakwater and sank.
  • Chester A. Poling: 1977, broke in half in storm.
  • City of Columbus
    City of Columbus
    The passenger steamer City of Columbus ran aground on Devil’s Bridge off the Gay Head Cliffs in Aquinnah, Massachusetts, USA in January 1884. She was owned by Boston & Savannah Steamship Co. and was built in 1878. She was an early iron steamer with a tonnage of 2,200. She drew 26 feet and had a...

    : 1884, struck Devil's Bridge backed off and sank quickly.
  • City of Salisbury: 1938, struck ledge in fog and broke up.
  • City of Taunton
    City of Taunton (ship)
    The City of Taunton was built in 1892 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. She was a sidepaddle steamship that sailed for the Fall River Line.-The Ship:...

    : 1930s, beached and abandoned.
  • Colonel William B. Cowin: 1941, Struck Hens and Chickens Reef and sank quickly.
  • Columbia: 1898, Blown onto beach in storm.
  • Connaught: 1860, Started to leak, caught fire and sank.
  • Corvan: 1940, Struck Sow & Pigs Reef, drifted off and sank.
  • Coyote
    Coyote
    The coyote , also known as the American jackal or the prairie wolf, is a species of canine found throughout North and Central America, ranging from Panama in the south, north through Mexico, the United States and Canada...

    : 1924, Scuttled.
  • Cross Rip Lightship: 1918, Carried out to sea by ice field.
  • Davis Palmer: 1909, Struck Graves Ledge, drifted off and sank.
  • Delaware: 1898, Sank in the Portland Gale
    Portland Gale
    The Portland Gale was a storm that struck the coast of New England on November 26 and 27, 1898. The storm formed when two low pressure areas merged off the coast of Virginia and travelled up the coast; at its peak, it produced a storm surge of about ten feet in Cohasset harbor and hurricane-force...

    .
  • Dixie Sword: 1942, Foundered in storm thought to have been torpedoed.
  • Dynafuel: 1963, Collision in fog with Norwegian freighter Fernview.
  • Edward E. Briry: 1917, Foundered in gale.
  • Edward Rich: 1899, Struck breakwater in fog.
  • Eldia
    Eldia (Vessel)
    The 9,807 ton steel freighter Eldia was blown ashore in East Orleans, Massachusetts on March 30, 1984. The ship, which was owned by the Greek company Thenamarias Inc. and registered in Malta, was refloated two months later by the salvage company Donjon Marine who received title to the ship as...

    : 1984, Blown onto beach in storm.
  • Ellenora Van Dusen: 1900, Fire on board.
  • Etrusco: 1956, Blown ashore in storm.
  • Forest Queen: 1853, Grounded off shore in storm.
  • Fort Mercer: 1952, Broke in half in heavy seas.
  • Frank A. Palmer: 1902, Collision with the Schooner Louise B. Crary.
  • French Van Gilder: 1885, Grounded on shoal.
  • General Greene: 1960, Blown onto beach while disabled in storm.
  • USS Grouse (AMS-15)
    USS Grouse (AMS-15)
    The USS Grouse was a built for the United States Navy during World War II.-History:The ship was laid down as YMS-321 on 29 August 1942 by Al Larson Boat Shop Inc. of Terminal Island, California, launched 20 February 1943, sponsored by Mrs. H. Doty. The ship was completed and commissioned as USS...

    : 1963, Grounded on Little Salvages shoal.
  • Henry Endicott: 1939, Foundered while under tow in heavy seas.
  • Herbert: 1924, Rammed by steamer City of Gloucester while at anchor in fog.
  • Herman Winter: 1944, Stranded on reef.
  • Hilda Garston: 1961, Struck reef and sank.
  • Horatio Hall: 1909, Collision in fog with freighter H. F. Dimock.
  • James Longstreet
    SS James Longstreet
    SS James Longstreet was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II at a cost of $1,833,400. She was named after the Confederate general James Longstreet....

    : 1950, Deliberately grounded as target ship.
  • Jennie French Potter: 1909, Grounded on shoal.
  • John S. Dwight: 1923, Scuttled by rum runners.
  • Kate Harding: 1892, Stranded on beach in storm.
  • Kenwood: 1926, Blown onto rocks in gale.
  • Kershaw: 1928, Collision with liner President Garfield.
  • King Philip: 1935, Sunk at dock, raised and scuttled.
  • Kiowa
    Kiowa
    The Kiowa are a nation of American Indians and indigenous people of the Great Plains. They migrated from the northern plains to the southern plains in the late 17th century. In 1867, the Kiowa moved to a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma...

    : 1903, Rammed by steamer Admiral Dewy while anchored in snowstorm.
  • USS Lackawanna (1862)
    USS Lackawanna (1862)
    The first USS Lackawanna was a screw sloop-of-war in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.Lackawanna was launched by the New York Navy Yard on 9 August 1862; sponsored by Ms. Imogen Page Cooper; and commissioned on 8 January 1863, Captain John B. Marchand in command...

    : 1915, Collision with barge.
  • Lightship LV-58: 1905, Started to leak and sank while being towed.
  • Louise B. Crary: 1902, Collision with the Schooner Frank A. Palmer.
  • Lunet: 1898, Dragged anchor onto rocks and sank during the Portland Gale
    Portland Gale
    The Portland Gale was a storm that struck the coast of New England on November 26 and 27, 1898. The storm formed when two low pressure areas merged off the coast of Virginia and travelled up the coast; at its peak, it produced a storm surge of about ten feet in Cohasset harbor and hurricane-force...

    .
  • Magnifique: 1782, Grounded on sandbar.
  • Mars: 1942, Collision with tanker Bidwell.
  • Mary E. O'Hara: 1941, Collision with barge Winifred Sheridan.
  • Mertie B. Crowley: 1910,Groanded on shoal.
  • USS Mohave (AT-15)
    USS Mohave (AT-15)
    USS Mohave was a of the United States Navy. The unnamed steel-hulled Fleet Tug No.15 was laid down on 16 December 1913 by the Seattle Construction and Drydock Company. She was named Mohave in accordance with General Order No. 97 of 9 May 1914, for the Yuman tribe on the Colorado River in...

    : 1928, Struck submerged ledge and sank.
  • Montclair: 1927 Grounded in storm and broke up.
  • Nancy
    Nancy (ship)
    The Nancy was a sloop wrecked on 18 April 1805 near Jervis Bay, Australia.The Nancy was a sloop of some 20 tons constructed on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales by Kable & Co. It arrived in Sydney on its maiden voyage on 17 October 1803. On 18 April 1805, the Nancy commanded by Captain...

    :, 1927, Dragged anchor onto beach in storm.
  • Nantucket Lightship (LV-117)
    Lightship Nantucket
    The Lightship Nantucket station was the name given to the lightvessel which marked the hazardous Nantucket Shoals in Massachusetts. Several ships have been commissioned and served at the Nantucket Shoals lightship station and have been called Nantucket...

    : 1934, Rammed by British steamer RMS Olympic
    RMS Olympic
    RMS Olympic was the lead ship of the Olympic-class ocean liners built for the White Star Line, which also included Titanic and Britannic...

    .
  • Nantucket: 1859, whaler wrecked on Nashawena Island.
  • USS New Hampshire
    USS New Hampshire (1864)
    USS New Hampshire was a heavy ship originally designed to be the 74-gun ship of the line Alabama, but she remained on the stocks for nearly 40 years, well into the age of steam, before being renamed and launched as a storeship and depot ship during the American Civil War...

    : 1922, Caught fire and sank while in tow to be scrapped
  • Nina T, 1997, Scuttled.
  • Northern Voyager: 1997, Foundered during sea trials after refit.
  • Pan Pennsylvania: 1944, Torpedoed by the German submarine U-550 when it lagged behind its wartime convoy.
  • Pemberton: 1907, Caught fire and sank.
  • Pendleton: 1952, Broke in half in storm.
  • Portland
    Portland (Shipwreck)
    The Portland is a historic shipwreck in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The S.S. Portland was built by New England Shipbuilding Co. in 1889 and sank in the Portland Gale of 1898 off of Cape Ann, killing 192 people....

    : sunk in storm in 1898.
  • RMS Republic
    RMS Republic (1903)
    RMS Republic was a steam-powered ocean liner built in 1903 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, and lost at sea in a collision six years later while sailing for the White Star Line. A CQD distress call was issued on the new Marconi radio device, the first recorded, resulting in the saving of around...

    : sank after collision in 1909.
  • HMS Somerset
    HMS Somerset (1748)
    HMS Somerset was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 18 July 1748. She was the third vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name. Somerset was involved in several notable battles of the...

    : wrecked in 1778 off Cape Cod
    Cape Cod
    Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States...

    .
  • Sparrowhawk: in 1623.
  • Whydah Gally
    Whydah Gally
    The Whydah Gally was the flagship of the pirate "Black Sam" Bellamy. The ship sank in a storm off Cape Cod on April 26, 1717, taking Bellamy and the majority of his crew with it.-History:...

    : sank in a storm off Cape Cod
    Cape Cod
    Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States...

     in 1717.

Michigan

  • SS Carl D. Bradley
    SS Carl D. Bradley
    The  was a self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that sank in a storm on November 18, 1958. Of the 35 crew members, 33 died in the sinking and 23 were from the port town of Rogers City, Michigan. Her sinking was likely caused by structural failure from the brittle steel used in her...

    : sank in Lake Michigan
    Lake Michigan
    Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron...

     in a 18 November 1958 storm with 33 of the 35 crewmen losing their lives.
  • Comet
    Comet (steamboat)
    The SS Comet was a steamship that operated on the Great Lakes. The Comet was built in 1857 as a wooden-hulled propeller-driven cargo vessel that was soon adapted to carry passengers. She suffered a series of maritime accidents prior to her final sinking in 1875 causing the loss of ten lives...

    : sank after a collision with the Manitoba in 1875 in Whitefish Bay
    Whitefish Bay
    Whitefish Bay is a large bay on the eastern end of the southern shore of Lake Superior between Michigan and Ontario. It begins in the north and west at Whitefish Point in Michigan, about 10 miles north of Paradise, Michigan and ends at the St. Marys River at Sault Ste. Marie on the southeast...

     on Lake Superior
    Lake Superior
    Lake Superior is the largest of the five traditionally-demarcated Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded to the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Minnesota, and to the south by the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Michigan. It is the largest freshwater lake in the...

     with the loss of 10 lives.
  • SS John B. Cowle (1902)
    SS John B. Cowle (1902)
    The SS John B. Cowle was one of the early Great Lakes bulk freighters known as "tin pans". She was the first of two ships named for prominent Cleveland, Ohio citizen and shipbuilder, John Beswick Cowle. On her maiden voyage in 1909, the Isaac M. Scott rammed the Cowle in heavy fog off Whitefish...

    : sank 12 July 1909 in Whitefish Bay with the loss of 14 loves after colliding with the Isaac M. Scott.
  • SS M.M. Drake (1882)
    SS M.M. Drake (1882)
    The SS M.M. Drake was a wooden steam barge that towed consorts loaded with coal and iron ore on the Great Lakes. She came to the rescue of the crews of at least 4 foundering vessels in her 9 year career only to meet the same fate in her final rescue attempt. The Drake sank in 1882 off Vermilion...

    : sank off Vermilion Point
    Vermilion Point
    Vermilion Point is a remote, undeveloped shore with a rich history lying west of Whitefish Point, Michigan, on a stretch of Lake Superior’s southeast coast known as the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes" or, in the title of a book by noted Great Lakes maritime historian , ""...

     on Lake Superior in 1901.
  • Cornelia B. Windiate: iced up and slowly sank in a storm after passing through the Straits of Mackinac
    Straits of Mackinac
    The Straits of Mackinac is the strip of water that connects two of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, and separates the Lower Peninsula of Michigan from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is a shipping lane providing passage for raw materials and finished goods, connecting, for...

    , Michigan
  • SS Edmund Fitzgerald
    SS Edmund Fitzgerald
    The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that made headlines after sinking in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 8, 1958, she was the largest boat on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains...

    : was lost in a 1975 storm off Whitefish Bay in Lake Superior, with all 29 crewmen perishing.
  • SS Francisco Morazan
    SS Francisco Morazan (1922)
    Francisco Morazan was a 1,442 GRT cargo ship that was built in 1922 as Arcadia by Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, for German owners. She was sold in 1924 and renamed Elbing She was seized by the Allies in the River Elbe, Germany in May 1945, passed to the United Kingdom's Ministry of War Transport and...

    : Grounded and became a total loss in 1960 off the south shore of South Manitou Island
    South Manitou Island
    South Manitou Island is located in Lake Michigan, approximately west of Leland, Michigan. It is part of Leelanau County and the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The uninhabited island is in land area and can be accessed by a ferry service from Leland...

    . She ran over the wreck of the bulk freighter .
  • Emma L. Nielson: collision in fog off Pointe Aux Barques, Michigan.
  • Hunter Savidge: capsized off Pointe Aux Barques, Michigan.
  • John A. McGean: lost in storm off Harbor Beach
    Harbor Beach, Michigan
    Harbor Beach is a city in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,837 at the 2000 census, with an estimated population of 1,587 in 2009.-Geography:...

     in Lake Huron
    Lake Huron
    Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. Hydrologically, it comprises the larger portion of Lake Michigan-Huron. It is bounded on the east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the west by the state of Michigan in the United States...

     in the Great Storm of 1913.
  • SS Samuel Mather (1887)
    SS Samuel Mather (1887)
    The SS Samuel Mather was the first of seven U.S. merchant ships to bear that name. The wooden Mather sank in 1891 after she was rammed by the steel freighter Brazil in heavy fog in Whitefish Bay from Point Iroquois, ending the Mather's 4 year career...

    : sank 21 November 1891 in a collision with the Brazil off Iroquois Point in Whitefish Bay with no loss of life.
  • Miztec
    Miztec (schooner barge)
    The Miztec was built as a 3-masted schooner in 1890. She was later converted to a barge and served as a consort for lumber hookers on the Great Lakes. She escaped destruction in a severe 1919 storm that sank her longtime companion, the SS Myron, only to sink on the traditional day of bad luck,...

    : a schooner barge that survived the 1919 storm that took her partner, the SS Myron
    SS Myron
    The SS Myron was a wooden steamship built in 1888. She spent her 31 year career as lumber hooker towing schooner barges on the Great Lakes. She sank in 1919 in a Lake Superior November gale with the loss of all her crewmen but her captain who was found drifting on wreckage near Ile Parisienne. ...

    . The Miztec's good fortune
    Luck
    Luck or fortuity is good fortune which occurs beyond one's control, without regard to one's will, intention, or desired result. There are at least two senses people usually mean when they use the term, the prescriptive sense and the descriptive sense...

     ended when she sank in 1921 with the loss of all hands on Friday the 13th
    Friday the 13th
    Friday the 13th occurs when the thirteenth day of a month falls on a Friday, which superstition holds to be a day of bad luck. In the Gregorian calendar, this day occurs at least once, but at most three times a year...

    . She came to rest next to the Myron.
  • SS Myron
    SS Myron
    The SS Myron was a wooden steamship built in 1888. She spent her 31 year career as lumber hooker towing schooner barges on the Great Lakes. She sank in 1919 in a Lake Superior November gale with the loss of all her crewmen but her captain who was found drifting on wreckage near Ile Parisienne. ...

    : foundered 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Whitefish Point on 23 November 1919 with barge Miztec in tow. Seventeen lives were lost from the Myron. Only the Captain survived. He was picked up by the W.C. Franz when he was found drifting on wreckage near Ile Parisienne
    Ile Parisienne
    Ile Parisienne is a remote, undeveloped Canadian island located in the middle of Whitefish Bay. Its light station serves as a critical aid to navigation on a major shipping lane in Lake Superior. The light tower was listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places in 1991...

    .
  • John M. Osborn
    John M. Osborn (steamboat)
    The John M Osborn’s short career as a wooden steam barge lasted just two years. The Osborn sank with the loss of five lives when she was rammed by the larger, steel hulled Alberta who was called a “steel monster" and "terror of the lakes". The Osborn’s wreck was discovered 100 years after her...

    : was rammed by the steamer Alberta and sank 27 July 1884 in Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior with the loss of 5 lives.
  • SS Daniel J. Morrell
    SS Daniel J. Morrell
    The SS Daniel J. Morrell was a Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with it 28 of its 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargos such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old boat sank.-The Ship's...

    : broke up in a 29 November 1966 storm on Lake Huron with loss of 28 of its 29 crewmen.
  • Hennepin (shipwreck)
    Hennepin (shipwreck)
    The Hennepin is a shipwreck off the east coast of Lake Michigan, west of South Haven, Michigan. The ship was originally built in October 1888 and sank on August 18, 1927. Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates found the ship in 2006 and conducted several dives to assess the condition of the wreck....

  • SS Sagamore (1892)
    SS Sagamore (1892)
    The SS Sagamore is reported to be the best example of a whaleback barge among Great Lakes shipwrecks. Only 48 whalebacks ever existed on the Great Lakes. She sank in 1901 in the shipping lane near the Soo Locks when she was rammed by the steel steamer Northern Queen in one of Whitefish Bay's...

    : a whaleback barge, sank 29 July 1901 in a collision with propeller Northern Queen near Iroquois Point in Whitefish Bay in Lake Superior with the loss of 2 lives.
  • SS Superior City
    SS Superior City
    The SS Superior City was considered a pioneer vessel at her launching in 1898. She was the largest vessel ever built on freshwater at that time. She sailed the Great Lakes for twenty-two years until she sank after a collision in 1920 with the steamer Willis L. King in Whitefish Bay of Lake...

    : sank in 1920 in Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior after a collision with the Willis L. King with the loss of 29 lives. The boiler exploded as the vessel sank.
  • Vienna: sank with no loss of life in 1892 in Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior after she was rammed by the steamer Nipigon. Her wreck has claimed the lives of four scuba divers.
  • SS William B. Davock
    SS William B. Davock
    The SS William B. Davock was a lake freighter that was part of the fleet of the Interlake Steamship Company. She was built in 1907 and sank with all hands in Lake Michigan during the Armistice Day Storm on November 11, 1940. She was carrying a cargo of coal from Erie, Pennsylvania to South Chicago...

    : sank near Pentwater, Michigan, Lake Michigan, in the Armistice Day Blizzard
    Armistice Day Blizzard
    The Armistice Day Blizzard took place in the Midwest region of the United States on 11 November and 12 November 1940...

     of 11 November 1940.

Minnesota

  • Amboy: ran aground during the famous Mataafa Storm
    Mataafa Storm
    The Mataafa Storm of 1905 is the name of a storm that occurred on the Great Lakes on November 28, 1905. The storm, named after the Mataafa wreck, ended up destroying or damaging about 29 vessels, killing 36 seamen and causing property losses of approximately $1.75 million on Lake...

     of 1905
  • Benjamin Noble: lost 28 April 1914 off Duluth; found 2004
  • Madeira
    Madeira (shipwreck)
    The Madeira was built at the Chicago yard of the Chicago Shipbuilding Company in 1900 primarily of heavy steel plates that were riveted together, with wood joinery used in other places. The ship had a flat plate keel and was shaped very flat and full to maximize cargo capacity. The career of the...

    : a casualty of the Mataafa Storm
    Mataafa Storm
    The Mataafa Storm of 1905 is the name of a storm that occurred on the Great Lakes on November 28, 1905. The storm, named after the Mataafa wreck, ended up destroying or damaging about 29 vessels, killing 36 seamen and causing property losses of approximately $1.75 million on Lake...

     in 1905.
  • Mataafa: impacted the north pier of the Duluth Ship Canal and sank 28 November 1905 during a storm that bears its name. Nine of 24 crewmen died of cold weather exposure as Duluthians helplessly watched from shore.
  • Thomas Wilson
    Thomas Wilson (shipwreck)
    The Thomas Wilson was a whaleback freighter built in 1892 and used to haul bulk freight on the Great Lakes. The ship sank in the harbor of Duluth, Minnesota, on Lake Superior, on 7 June 1902, after a collision with the George Hadley...

    : Struck by the wooden steamer George Hadley and sunk one mile (1.6 km) out of the canal.

Mississippi

  • USS Cairo
    USS Cairo (1861)
    USS Cairo was a City class ironclad gunboat constructed for the Union Navy by James B. Eads during the American Civil War. She was the first vessel of the City class ironclads, also called the Cairo class....

    : a river gunboat
    River gunboat
    A river gunboat is a type of gunboat adapted for river operations. River gunboats required shallow draft for river navigation. They would be armed with relatively small caliber cannons, or a mix of cannons and machine guns. If they carried more than one cannon, one might be a howitzer, for shore...

     struck a torpedo in the Yazoo River
    Yazoo River
    The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi.The Yazoo River was named by French explorer La Salle in 1682 as "Rivière des Yazous" in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth. The exact meaning of the term is unclear...

     and sank on 12 December 1862.
  • Josephine: a side-wheel steamer foundered off the barrier islands.

Missouri

  • Montana
    Montana (steamboat)
    The Montana was a Missouri River stern-wheel steamboat, one of three "mega-steamboats" built in 1879 at the end of the steamboat era on the Missouri—when steamboats were soon to be supplanted by the nation's expanding railroad network...

    : large paddle wheeler, beached after collision with bridge near Bridgeton, 22 June 1884.

New Jersey

  • Adonis: struck shore Deal Beach.
  • USS Arundo: torpedo
    Torpedo
    The modern torpedo is a self-propelled missile weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with it or in proximity to it.The term torpedo was originally employed for...

    ed off New Jersey.
  • SS Atlantus
    SS Atlantus
    SS Atlantus is the most famous of the twelve concrete ships built by the Liberty Ship Building Company in Brunswick, Georgia during and after World War I....

    : sank in a storm off the coast of New Jersey.
  • Ayuruoca: collision off New Jersey.
  • Beth Dee Bob: foundered in storm off New Jersey.
  • Brunette: collision off New Jersey.
  • Chappara: struck mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     off New Jersey.
  • SS Choapa: collision off New Jersey.
  • Delaware: burned then sank under tow off New Jersey.
  • Goulandris: collision off New Jersey.
  • Gulftrade: torpedoed off New Jersey.
  • USS Jacob Jones (DD-130)
    USS Jacob Jones (DD-130)
    USS Jacob Jones , named for Commodore Jacob Jones USN , was a .Jacob Jones was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey on 21 February 1918, launched on 20 November 1918 by Mrs. Cazenove Doughton, great-granddaughter of Commodore Jones and commissioned on 20...

    : sunk by a U-boat off the coast of New Jersey.
  • Lana Carol: foundered off Manasquan Inlet
    Manasquan Inlet
    The Manasquan Inlet is an inlet that connects the Atlantic Ocean withthe Manasquan River, dividing the counties of Ocean Countyand Monmouth County in the state of New Jersey....

     New Jersey.
  • Malta: ran aground near Belmar
    Belmar, New Jersey
    Belmar is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 5,794. The Borough of Belmar is governed under the Faulkner Act system of municipal government....

    .
  • Maurice Tracy: collision off New Jersey.
  • Mohawk: collision off New Jersey.
  • USS Moonstone (PYc-9)
    USS Moonstone (PYc-9)
    USS Moonstone was a coastal patrol yacht in the service of the United States Navy. She was built in 1929 as Nancy Baker by Germaniawerft in Kiel, Germany, later renamed Mona, and subsequently acquired by the Navy as the Lone Star on February 10, 1941...

    : Sunk by collision with the USS Greer (DD-145)
    USS Greer (DD-145)
    USS Greer was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy, the first ship named for Rear Admiral James A. Greer . In what became known as the "Greer Incident," she became the first U.S. Navy ship to fire on a German ship, three months before the United States officially entered World War...

     off Cape May
    Cape May, New Jersey
    Cape May is a city at the southern tip of Cape May Peninsula in Cape May County, New Jersey, where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean and is one of the country's oldest vacation resort destinations. It is part of the Ocean City Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 United States...

    .
  • SS Morro Castle: fire off Asbury Park
    Asbury Park, New Jersey
    Asbury Park is a city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, located on the Jersey Shore and part of the New York City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 16,116. The city is known for its rich musical history, including its association with...

    .
  • Park City: collision off New Jersey.
  • Persephone: torpedo
    Torpedo
    The modern torpedo is a self-propelled missile weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with it or in proximity to it.The term torpedo was originally employed for...

    ed off New Jersey.
  • SS Pinta: collision off New Jersey.
  • Pliny: ran aground Deal Beach.
  • Rjukan: ran aground on New Jersey.
  • R.P. Resor
    R.P. Resor (ship)
    The R.P. Resor was a tanker ship built in 1936 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Kearny, New Jersey for the Standard Oil Company. She was torpedoed by U-boat U-578 on 28 February 1942, and later sank.-Disaster:...

    : torpedoed off New Jersey.
  • Rusland: struck wreck of Adonis.
  • San Saba: struck mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     off New Jersey.
  • Sindia: ran aground on the beach of Ocean City, 1901.
  • Stolt Dagali: collision off New Jersey.
  • Tolten: torpedoed off New Jersey.
  • U-869: discovered off the coast of New Jersey in 1991.
  • Vega
    Vega (ship)
    SS Vega was a Swedish barque, built in Bremerhaven Germany in 1872. She was the first ship to complete a voyage through the Northeast Passage, and the first vessel to circumnavigate the Eurasian continent.-Construction:...

    : capsized under tow off New Jersey.
  • Vizcaya: collision off New Jersey.
  • Western World: ran aground on New Jersey coast.

New York

  • USS California (ACR-6)
    USS California (ACR-6)
    The second USS California , also referred to as "Armored Cruiser 6", and later renamed San Diego, was a United States Navy Pennsylvania-class armored cruiser....

     (later renamed San Diego): an armored cruiser
    Armored cruiser
    The armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Like other types of cruiser, the armored cruiser was a long-range, independent warship, capable of defeating any ship apart from a battleship, and fast enough to outrun any battleships it encountered.The first...

     sunk by a torpedo or mine near Fire Island
    Fire Island, New York
    Fire Island is one of the outer barrier islands adjacent to the south shore of Long Island, New York. It is approximately long and varies between broad. Fire Island is part of Suffolk County. It comprises a number of hamlets, census-designated places , and villages, all of which lie within the...

     on 19 July 1918.
  • Champlain II
    Champlain II
    CHAMPLAIN II Shipwreck is an archaeological site located in Lake Champlain near Westport in Essex County, New York. It is the site where a passenger side-wheeler ran aground by pilot under influence of morphine on July 16, 1875...

    : a passenger steamboat ran aground by pilot under influence of morphine near Westport
    Westport, New York
    Westport is a town in Essex County, New York, United States overlooking Lake Champlain. The population was 1,362 at the 2000 census.The Town of Westport is on the eastern border of the county and is south of Plattsburgh and south of Montreal. Westport is inside the Adirondack Park.Westport is...

     on Lake Champlain
    Lake Champlain
    Lake Champlain is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States but partially situated across the Canada—United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec.The New York portion of the Champlain Valley includes the eastern portions of...

     on 16 July 1875.
  • Charles R. Morse: schooner went missing and suspected to have rammed the SS Oregon off Long Island
    Long Island
    Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...

     in 1866.
  • HMS Culloden
    HMS Culloden (1776)
    HMS Culloden was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard, England, and launched on 18 May 1776...

    : British ship that ran aground at Montauk during the American Revolution.
  • USS Eagle
    USS Eagle (1812)
    The second USS Eagle, a sloop, was a merchant ship purchased at Vergennes, Vermont on Lake Champlain in 1812 and fitted for naval service. The British captured her in 1813 and renamed her HMS Finch, only to lose her to the Americans at the Battle of Lake Champlain in 1814...

     lost on Lake Champlain.
  • Land Tortoise (radeau), in Lake George
    Lake George (New York)
    Lake George, nicknamed the Queen of American Lakes, is a long, narrow oligotrophic lake draining northwards into Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence River Drainage basin located at the southeast base of the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York, U.S.A.. It lies within the upper region of the...

    : c. 1758 from the French and Indian Wars
    French and Indian Wars
    The French and Indian Wars is a name used in the United States for a series of conflicts lasting 74 years in North America that represented colonial events related to the European dynastic wars...

    .
  • Steamship Lexington
    Steamship Lexington
    The paddlewheel steamship Lexington was the fastest vessel which traveled from New York City to Boston during 1835-1840. It sank on January 14, 1840 after catching fire the previous evening.-The Ship:...

    : a paddlewheel steamship which caught fire north of Long Island
    Long Island
    Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...

     and sank on 14 January 1840.
  • HMS Ontario
    HMS Ontario (1780)
    HMS Ontario was a British warship that sank in a storm in Lake Ontario on October 31, 1780, during the American Revolutionary War. She was a 22-gun snow, and, at in length, the largest British warship on the Great Lakes at the time. The shipwreck was discovered in 2008 by Jim Kennard and Dan...

    : a British 22-gun brig-sloop sunk in storm on Lake Ontario, discovered in 2008.
  • SS Oregon
    SS Oregon (1883)
    The Oregon was a record breaking British passenger liner that won the Blue Riband for the Guion Line as the fastest liner on the Atlantic in 1884. She was sold to the Cunard Line after a few voyages and continued to improve her passage times for her new owner...

    : sunk off Long Island in 1886, following a collision with a schooner believed to be the Charles R. Morse.
  • USS Turner
    USS Turner (DD-648)
    USS Turner , a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Captain Daniel Turner.-Commission:...

    : a destroyer exploded and sunk at Ambrose Light on 3 January 1944.
  • Washington Irving
    Washington Irving (sidewheeler)
    The PS Washington Irving was a sidewheel day boat and the largest flagship of the Hudson River Day Line that operated on the Hudson River from 1913 to 1926....

    a sidewheeler that collided with an oil barge on the North River
    North River (New York-New Jersey)
    North River is an alternate name for the southernmost portion of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City and northeastern New Jersey. The colonial name for the entire Hudson given to it by the Dutch in the early seventeenth century, the term fell out of general use for most of the river's...

     in 1926.
  • USS Baldwin (DD-624)
    USS Baldwin (DD-624)
    The USS Baldwin , was a United States Navy , in service from 1943 to 1946. She was the only ship of the U.S. Navy to be named for Charles H. Baldwin, an 1864 Medal of Honor recipient....

  • Dunkirk Schooner Site
    Dunkirk Schooner Site
    Dunkirk Schooner Site is a historic shipwreck archaeological site located in Lake Erie off Dunkirk in Chautauqua County, New York. It lies about 20 miles off Dunkirk resting in 170 feet of cold freshwater, embedded on submerged lands of New York in the eastern basin of Lake Erie...

    , located in Lake Erie
    Lake Erie
    Lake Erie is the fourth largest lake of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. It is bounded on the north by the...

     approximately 20 miles (32.2 km) off Dunkirk, New York
  • SS Normandie
    SS Normandie
    SS Normandie was an ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France for the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat; she is still the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship ever built.Her novel...

    : burned, then capsized at New York Passenger Ship Terminal
    New York Passenger Ship Terminal
    The New York Passenger Ship Terminal is a terminal for ocean-going passenger ships on Manhattan's west side....

     in 1942.

North Carolina

  • USS Aeolus (ARC-3)
    USS Aeolus (ARC-3)
    USS Aeolus began service as , an built by the Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc. of Providence, Rhode Island. In the mid-1950s, she was converted into a cable repair ship to support the SOSUS program, as the lead ship of the , and she performed cable duties for nearly thirty years.- Function :The Aeolus has...

    : Sunk as an artificial reef in 1988.
  • Altoona: ran aground Cape Hatteras
    Cape Hatteras
    Cape Hatteras is a cape on the coast of North Carolina. It is the point that protrudes the farthest to the southeast along the northeast-to-southwest line of the Atlantic coast of North America...

    .
  • Ashkhabad: torpedo
    Torpedo
    The modern torpedo is a self-propelled missile weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with it or in proximity to it.The term torpedo was originally employed for...

    ed off North Carolina.
  • Atlas: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • Australia: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • USS Bainbridge (1842)
    USS Bainbridge (1842)
    The first USS Bainbridge was a brig in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for William Bainbridge.Bainbridge was launched on 26 April 1842 by Boston Navy Yard and commissioned on 16 December 1842, Commander Z. F...

    : capsized off Cape Hatteras in 1863.
  • HMT Bedfordshire
    HMT Bedfordshire
    HMT Bedfordshire was an armed anti-submarine trawler in the service of the Royal Navy during World War II. She was sunk by the Uboat U-558 on 11 May 1942 off the coast of Ocracoke Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, with the loss of all hands....

    : torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • Bendigo: North Carolina.
  • British Splendour: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • Carroll A. Deering
    Carroll A. Deering
    Carroll A. Deering was a five-masted commercial schooner that was found run aground off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, in 1921. Its crew was mysteriously missing...

    : ran aground at Cape Hatteras in 1921.
  • Caribsea: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • Carl Gerhard: sunk off Nags Head
    Nags Head, North Carolina
    Nags Head is a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,700 at the 2000 census.-History:Early maps of the area show Nags Head as a promontory of land characterized by high sand dunes visible from miles at sea...

    .
  • Cassimir: collision off North Carolina.
  • Catharine M. Monohan: foundered off North Carolina.
  • SS Central America
    SS Central America
    SS Central America, sometimes called the Ship of Gold, was a 280-foot sidewheel steamer that operated between Central America and the eastern coast of the United States during the 1850s. She was originally named the SS George Law, after Mr. George Law of New York...

    : steamship sank in a storm 9 September 1857.
  • Chilore: torpedoed then struck mine, then foundered off North Carolina.
  • USS Chopper (SS-342)
    USS Chopper (SS-342)
    USS Chopper , a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the chopper, a fish common in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 4 February 1945 sponsored by Mrs. G. S...

    : Sunk off Cape Hatteras, 21 July 1976, while being rigged as a tethered underwater target.
  • Ciltvaria: torpedoed off Nags Head.
  • City of Houston: foundered off North Carolina.
  • USS Comte de Grasse (DD-974)
    USS Comte de Grasse (DD-974)
    USS Comte de Grasse , named for Admiral Francois-Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse , was a built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi....

    : sunk as a target off North Carolina in July 2006.
  • CSS Curlew
    CSS Curlew
    CSS Curlew was an iron-hull North Carolina Sounds paddlewheel steamboat that was taken into the Confederate Navy in 1861. It was run aground at Fort Forrest and burned in the battle for Roanoke Island on February 8, 1862...

    : sunk in battle in 1862 off Roanoke Island
    Roanoke Island
    Roanoke Island is an island in Dare County near the coast of North Carolina, United States. It was named after the historical Roanoke Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English exploration....

    .
  • David Atwater.
  • Dixie Arrow: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • E.M. Clark: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • Empire Gem: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • Esso Nashville: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • Explorer: sunk off Nags Head.
  • F.W. Abrams: struck mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     off North Carolina.
  • Fenwick Island: foundered off North Carolina.
  • Francis E. Waters: now in town hall Nags Head.
  • G.A. Kohler: tropical cyclone
    Tropical cyclone
    A tropical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a large low-pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain. Tropical cyclones strengthen when water evaporated from the ocean is released as the saturated air rises, resulting in condensation of water vapor...

     North Carolina.
  • George Weems: burned off North Carolina.
  • Gray Ghost: sunk and later recovered near Belhaven, North Carolina
    Belhaven, North Carolina
    Belhaven is a town in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,968 at the 2000 census. Belhaven is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region....

    .
  • Hesperides: stranded off North Carolina.
  • SS Home
    SS Home
    The SS Home was a steam packet ship built in 1836 and sunk in 1837 and commanded by Captain Carleton White.The Home was built for Mr. James B. Allaire, of New York City, a ship of 537 tons , 220 feet long and with a beam of 22 feet , propelled by two paddle-wheels mounted amidship...

    : a steam packet sunk off Ocracoke Inlet in the 1837 Racer's Storm
    1837 Racer's Storm
    The 1837 Racer's Storm was one of the most powerful and destructive hurricanes in the 19th century, causing heavy damage to many cities on its 2,000+ mile path...

     hurricane.
  • USS Huron
    USS Huron (1875)
    USS Huron, was an iron sloop-rigged screw steam gunboat built by John Roach & Sons in Chester, Pennsylvania from 1873–75 and commissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard on 15 November 1875, Commander George P...

    : grounded on North Carolina coast.
  • Hutton: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • USS Indra (ARL-37)
    USS Indra (ARL-37)
    USS Indra was one of 39 Achelous-class landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Indra , she was the only U.S...

    : Sunk as artificial reef off North Carolina coast in 1992.
  • John D. Gill: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • Kasandra Louloudis: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • Keshena: struck mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     off North Carolina.
  • Kyzickes: grounded on North Carolina coast.
  • Lancing: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • Laura A. Barnes: ran ashore Coquina Beach
    Coquina Beach
    Coquina Beach is a beach in North Carolina, USA located in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. It is located not far from the Wright Brothers National Memorial and is off highway 12 at milepost 26, south of Nags Head, North Carolina. Local activities include swimming, crabbing, surf fishing,...

    , Cape Hatteras.
  • SS Liberator: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • Lois Joyce: sank in surf Oregon Inlet
    Oregon Inlet
    Oregon Inlet is an inlet along North Carolina's Outer Banks. It joins the Pamlico Sound with the Atlantic Ocean and separates Bodie Island from Pea Island, which are connected by a 2.5 mile bridge that spans the inlet...

     North Carolina.
  • Malchace: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • Manuela: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • Metropolis: sunk off Corolla
    Corolla, North Carolina
    Corolla is an unincorporated community located in Poplar Branch township, Currituck County, North Carolina along the northern Outer Banks. It has a permanent population of approximately 500 people; during the summer vacation season, the population surges into the thousands...

    .
  • USS Monitor
    USS Monitor
    USS Monitor was the first ironclad warship commissioned by the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She is most famous for her participation in the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, the first-ever battle fought between two ironclads...

    : lost off Cape Hatteras on 31 December 1862.
  • Naeco: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • CSS Neuse
    CSS Neuse
    The CSS Neuse was an ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. The remains of the ship can now be seen at an exhibit in Kinston, North Carolina as the CSS Neuse State Historic Site and Governor Caswell Memorial...

    : aground in Neuse River
    Neuse River
    The Neuse River is a river rising in the Piedmont of North Carolina and emptying into Pamlico Sound below New Bern. Its total length is approximately , making it the longest river entirely contained in North Carolina. The Trent River joins it at New Bern. Its drainage basin, measuring in area,...

    .
  • USS New Jersey (BB-16)
    USS New Jersey (BB-16)
    USS New Jersey was a Virginia-class battleship of the United States Navy. She was the first ship to carry her name. New Jersey was launched on 10 November 1904 by Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts; sponsored by Mrs. William B. Kenney, daughter of Governor Franklin Murphy of...

    : bombed as target off Cape Hatteras.
  • Normannia: foundered off North Carolina.
  • SS Oriental: sunk near Oregon Inlet
    Oregon Inlet
    Oregon Inlet is an inlet along North Carolina's Outer Banks. It joins the Pamlico Sound with the Atlantic Ocean and separates Bodie Island from Pea Island, which are connected by a 2.5 mile bridge that spans the inlet...

    .
  • Papoose
    Papoose (tanker)
    SS Papoose was an oil tanker built in 1921 by the Southwestern Shipbuilding in San Pedro, California as SS Silvanus. As Silvanus, the ship was under Dutch ownership in 1926 when it collided with the tanker in the Mississippi River, resulting in the death of 26 seamen. The Silvanus was declared a...

    : torpedoed and sank off Oregon Inlet.
  • Pevensey: blockade runner
    Blockade runner
    A blockade runner is usually a lighter weight ship used for evading a naval blockade of a port or strait, as opposed to confronting the blockaders to break the blockade. Very often blockade running is done in order to transport cargo, for example to bring food or arms to a blockaded city...

    , off Atlantic Beach
    Atlantic Beach, North Carolina
    -Demographics:As of the census of 2008, there were 1,815 people, 971 households, and 498 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 4,728 housing units at an average density of 2,206.0 per square mile...

    .
  • Porta Allegra: unknown reason off North Carolina.
  • Portland: ran aground Cape Lookout
    Cape Lookout (North Carolina)
    This article is about the Cape Lookout in North Carolina. See Cape Lookout for other places with a similar name. Cape Lookout is southern point of the Core Banks, one of the natural barrier islands on the Atlantic coast of North Carolina, USA. delimits Onslow Bay to the west from Raleigh Bay to...

    .
  • Proteus: collision off North Carolina.
  • HMCS St. Laurent
    HMCS St. Laurent (DDH 205)
    HMCS St. Laurent was a St. Laurent-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1955-1974....

    : a Canadian destroyer sank off Cape Hatteras in 1980.
  • USS Schurz: collision off North Carolina.
  • CSS Sea Bird
    CSS Sea Bird
    CSS Sea Bird was a sidewheel steamer in the Confederate States Navy.Sea Bird was built at Keyport, New Jersey in 1854, was purchased by North Carolina at Norfolk, Virginia in 1861 and fitted for service with the Confederate States Navy. She was assigned to duty along the Virginia and North Carolina...

    : Rammed and sunk by USS Commodore Perry (1859) off Elizabeth City
    Elizabeth City, North Carolina
    Elizabeth City is a city in Pasquotank County and Camden County in the State of North Carolina. With a population of 18,683 at the 2010 census, Elizabeth City is the county seat of Pasquotank County....

     in 1862.
  • Senateur Duhammel: collision off North Carolina.
  • USCGC Spar (WLB-403)
    USCGC Spar (WLB-403)
    The USCGC Spar was a sea going buoy tender. An Iris class vessel, she was built by Marine Ironworks and Shipbuilding Corporation in Duluth, Minnesota. Spar's preliminary design was completed by the United States Lighthouse Service and the final design was produced by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding...

    : scuttled in October 2004 in 108 feet (32.9 m) of water, 30 miles (48.3 km) off Morehead City
    Morehead City, North Carolina
    Morehead City is a port city in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2010 census. Morehead City celebrated the 150th anniversary of its founding on May 5, 2007...

    .
  • Suloide: collision off North Carolina.
  • Tamaulipas: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • USS Tarpon (SS-175)
    USS Tarpon (SS-175)
    USS Tarpon , second ship of this name, was laid down on 22 December 1933 at Groton, Connecticut, by the Electric Boat Corporation; launched on 4 September 1935; sponsored by Miss Eleanore Katherine Roosevelt, daughter of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt; and commissioned on 12...

    : foundered off North Carolina.
  • U-352: depth charge
    Depth charge
    A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare weapon intended to destroy or cripple a target submarine by the shock of exploding near it. Most use explosives and a fuze set to go off at a preselected depth in the ocean. Depth charges can be dropped by either surface ships, patrol aircraft, or from...

    d off North Carolina.
  • U-701: depth charged off North Carolina.
  • U-85: sunk by gunfire off North Carolina.
  • Veturia: grounded off North Carolina.
  • USS Virginia (BB-13)
    USS Virginia (BB-13)
    USS Virginia was a United States Navy battleship, the lead ship of her class of five. She was the fifth ship to carry her name.Virginia was laid down on 21 May 1902 Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia; launched on 6 April 1904; sponsored by Miss Gay Montague,...

    : bombed as target off Cape Hatteras.
  • W.E. Hutton: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • SS William Rockefeller: torpedoed off North Carolina.
  • USS Yancey (AKA-93)
    USS Yancey (AKA-93)
    USS Yancey was an built by the Moore Dry Dock Company of Oakland, California for the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was named in honor of Yancey County, North Carolina....

    : sunk as an artificial reef off Morehead City in 1990.

Ohio

  • USS Carondelet
    USS Carondelet (1861)
    USS Carondelet was a gunboat constructed for the Union Navy by James B. Eads during the American Civil War...

    : sank in the Ohio River
    Ohio River
    The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. At the confluence, the Ohio is even bigger than the Mississippi and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, including the Allegheny River further upstream...

     during a flood in 1873.
  • Isabella J. Boyce: A sandsucker which grounded on Middle Bass Island
    Middle Bass Island
    Middle Bass Island is an island of the U.S. state of Ohio, located in Lake Erie. A small town, Middle Bass, lies on the island. The 805-acre island is shaped like the Big Dipper and is one of three Bass Islands located at the center of a group of 23 smaller islands.Some of its more famous...

     in Lake Erie
    Lake Erie
    Lake Erie is the fourth largest lake of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. It is bounded on the north by the...

    , caught fire, and sunk in 10 feet (3 m) of water in June 1917. No lives were lost.

Oregon

  • Blue Magpie: 3,800-ton cargo freighter that hit Newport
    Newport, Oregon
    Newport is a city in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States. It was incorporated in 1882, though the name dates back to the establishment of a post office in 1868...

    's North Jetty 19 November 1983 while attempting to enter Yaquina Bay
    Yaquina Bay
    Yaquina Bay is a small bay partially within Newport, Oregon, United States, located where the Yaquina River flows into the Pacific Ocean. It is traversed by the Yaquina Bay Bridge. The bay's area is about 8 km² .-See also:...

     during a storm and sank. The fuel tanks ruptured, releasing 60,000 gallons of Bunker C
    Fuel oil
    Fuel oil is a fraction obtained from petroleum distillation, either as a distillate or a residue. Broadly speaking, fuel oil is any liquid petroleum product that is burned in a furnace or boiler for the generation of heat or used in an engine for the generation of power, except oils having a flash...

     oil and 10,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Near the tip of the jetty at the south side of the bay's mouth the ship's wreckage was visible just above the water for a number of years before it finally collapsed.
  • Iowa
    SS Iowa (1920)
    The SS Iowa was a steamship built by the Western Pipe and Steel Company of San Francisco, California in 1920 for the U.S. government and was known as the SS West Cadron. It served in the Quaker Line subsidiary of the States Steamship Co...

    , a steel-hulled steamship that ran aground on Peacock Spit at the mouth of the Columbia River in a storm. The ship foundered, drowning 34 passengers and crew.
  • New Carissa
    New Carissa
    The M/V New Carissa was a freighter that ran aground on a beach near Coos Bay, Oregon, United States, during a storm in February 1999, and subsequently broke apart. An attempt to tow the bow section of the ship out to sea failed when the tow line broke, and the bow was grounded again. Eventually,...

    : Freighter which ran aground near Coos Bay
    Coos Bay, Oregon
    Coos Bay is a city located in Coos County, Oregon, United States, where the Coos River enters Coos Bay on the Pacific Ocean. The city borders the city of North Bend, and together they are often referred to as one entity called either Coos Bay-North Bend or the Bay Area...

     in 1999 and was wrecked. Bow section towed out to sea and sunk; stern section remains on beach.
  • SS Oliver Olson: 307 feet (94 m) ship headed to Bandon
    Bandon, Oregon
    - Economy :Like many communities on the Oregon coast, Bandon had significant fishing and timber industries, which were greatly diminished by the 1980s, though some remnants still exist. Bandon's current economy revolves around wood products, fishing, tourism, and agriculture...

     to load lumber went aground on 3 November 1953. Part of its hull has been filled with rocks to form an extension of the Coquille River South Jetty near Bandon. There is a photo of the ship shortly after it went aground in 1953.
  • Peter Iredale: Ran aground off coast of Astoria in 1906, still remains on beach.
  • Sujameco: 3,542-ton steamship traveling from San Francisco to Coos Bay to pick up lumber hit the beach in fog on 28 February 1929 8 miles (13 km) north of Coos Bay. Remains can be seen at Horsfall Beach during the winter when the sand recedes.

Pennsylvania

  • Elizabeth M
    Elizabeth M
    Elizabeth M was a towboat that sank in the Ohio River on January 9, 2005. The sinking of the vessel resulted in the death of four of the seven crew when the Elizabeth M accidentally went over the Montgomery Locks and Dam near the Pittsburgh suburb of Industry, Pennsylvania.- Tragedy :The Braddock...

    : a towboat
    Towboat
    Not to be confused with the historic boat type with the same name, also called horse-drawn boat.A towboat is a boat designed for pushing barges or car floats. Towboats are characterized by a square bow with steel knees for pushing and powerful engines...

     that sank in the Ohio River
    Ohio River
    The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. At the confluence, the Ohio is even bigger than the Mississippi and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, including the Allegheny River further upstream...

     on 9 January 2005.

Rhode Island

  • Black Point: a steel collier sunk by U-853 after World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

     hostilities had ceased on 5 May 1945.
  • U-853: sunk off Block Island
    Block Island
    Block Island is part of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and is located in the Atlantic Ocean approximately south of the coast of Rhode Island, east of Montauk Point on Long Island, and is separated from the Rhode Island mainland by Block Island Sound. The United States Census Bureau defines Block...

     by USN blimps' rockets on 6 May 1945.
  • Wreck Sites of HMS Cerberus and HMS Lark
    Wreck Sites of H.M.S. Cerberus and H.M.S. Lark
    The Wreck Sites of HMS Cerberus and HMS Lark comprise a national historic site that is located in the waters of Narragansett Bay adjacent to Aquidneck Island near South Portsmouth, Rhode Island.-History:...

    , British ships sunk during the American Revolution
    American Revolution
    The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America...

     in 1778.
  • HMS Gaspee
    HMS Gaspée
    Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Gaspée: was a revenue schooner famously destroyed in the 1772 Gaspée Affair in Narragansett Bay. was a brig that saw service in North America during the American Revolutionary War....

     British customs ship burned and sunk by American patriots in 1772

South Carolina

  • HMS Actaeon
    HMS Actaeon (1775)
    HMS Actaeon was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Actaeon was first commissioned in June 1775 under the command of Captain Christopher Atkins.- References :...

    : frigate burned in 1776 at Charleston
    Charleston, South Carolina
    Charleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the...

    ; reported as discovered by NUMA in 1981.
  • Anchor Wreck: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
    Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
    Myrtle Beach is a coastal city on the east coast of the United States in Horry County, South Carolina. It is situated on the center of a large and continuous stretch of beach known as the Grand Strand in northeastern South Carolina. It is considered to be a major tourist destination in the...

    .
  • Civil War Wreck: Myrtle Beach.
  • City of Richmond
    City of Richmond
    The City of Richmond was a Local Government Area located about east of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1855 until 1994.-History:...

    : Myrtle Beach.
  • CSS Georgiana
    SS Georgiana
    The Georgiana was a brig-rigged, iron hulled, propeller steamer of with a jib and two heavily raked masts, hull and stack painted black. Her clipper bow sported the figurehead of a "demi-woman". Georgiana was reportedly pierced for fourteen guns and could carry over four hundred tons of cargo...

    : iron hulled Confederate cruiser destroyed off Isle of Palms, South Carolina
    Isle of Palms, South Carolina
    Isle of Palms is a city in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population on the island was 4,133. Isle of Palms is a barrier island on the South Carolina coast. As defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and used by the U.S...

     with cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000, 19 March 1863, while attempting to run past the federal blockade fleet into Charleston.
  • HEBE & St Cathan: Myrtle Beach.
  • USS Housatonic
    USS Housatonic (1861)
    The first USS Housatonic was a screw sloop-of-war of the United States Navy, named for the Housatonic River of New England which rises in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and flows southward into Connecticut before emptying into Long Island Sound a little east of Bridgeport, Connecticut...

    : sunk by CSS Hunley
    H. L. Hunley (submarine)
    H. L. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War, but a large role in the history of naval warfare. The Hunley demonstrated both the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare...

    .
  • CSS H. L. Hunley
    H. L. Hunley (submarine)
    H. L. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War, but a large role in the history of naval warfare. The Hunley demonstrated both the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare...

    : placed on National Register of Historic Places
    National Register of Historic Places
    The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

     in 1978.
  • USS Keokuk
    USS Keokuk (1862)
    USS Keokuk was an experimental ironclad steamer of the United States Navy named for the city of Keokuk, Iowa. Her keel was laid down at New York City by Charles W. Whitney, with the name Moodna . She was renamed while under construction, launched in December 1862 sponsored by Mrs. C. W...

    : Charleston.
  • Mary Bowers
    Mary Bowers
    The blockade runner Mary Bowers, Captain Jesse DeHorsey , bound from Bermuda to Charleston, South Carolina with an assorted cargo, struck the submerged wreck of the in fourteen feet of water a mile off of Long Island on August 31, 1864...

    : iron hull, sidewheel steamer of 680 tons, stranded on wreck of CSS Georgiana
    SS Georgiana
    The Georgiana was a brig-rigged, iron hulled, propeller steamer of with a jib and two heavily raked masts, hull and stack painted black. Her clipper bow sported the figurehead of a "demi-woman". Georgiana was reportedly pierced for fourteen guns and could carry over four hundred tons of cargo...

     while attempting to run the federal blockade into Charleston.
  • Norseman: iron hulled propeller steamer, ran on wreck of Georgiana
    Georgiana
    Georgiana is an English name. It is the feminine form of the male name George and a variation of the female names Georgina and Georgia. It comes from the Greek word Γεωργιος, meaning farmer.-Places:*Georgiana, Alabama*Georgiana County, New South Wales...

    and stranded a half mile inshore while attempting outbound run through the federal blockade of Charleston with a cargo of cotton. The vessel was owned by George Trenholm
    George Trenholm
    George Alfred Trenholm was a prominent politician in the Confederate States of America and served as the Secretary of the Treasury during its final year.-Biography:...

     (aka the "real Rhett Butler
    Rhett Butler
    Rhett Butler is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists of Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.-Role:In the beginning of the novel, we first meet Rhett at the Twelve Oaks Plantation barbecue, the home of John Wilkes and his son Ashley and daughters Honey and India Wilkes...

    ").
  • USS Patapsco
    USS Patapsco (1862)
    USS Patapsco was a Passaic-class ironclad monitor in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for the Patapsco River in Maryland.-Built in Wilmington, Delaware:...

    : struck a mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     at Charleston.
  • Pipe Wreck: Myrtle Beach.
  • Raccoon: blockade runner
    Blockade runner
    A blockade runner is usually a lighter weight ship used for evading a naval blockade of a port or strait, as opposed to confronting the blockaders to break the blockade. Very often blockade running is done in order to transport cargo, for example to bring food or arms to a blockaded city...

     at Charleston.
  • CSS Rattlesnake
    CSS Nashville (1861)
    Originally a United States Mail Service ship, the USMS Nashville, was a brig-rigged, side-paddle-wheel passenger steamer built at Greenpoint, Brooklyn in 1853. Between 1853 and 1861 she was engaged in running between New York City and Charleston, South Carolina...

    : blockade runner at Charleston.
  • Ruby: blockade runner run aground at Folly Island
    Folly Island
    Folly Island is a barrier island in the Atlantic Ocean near Charleston, South Carolina. It is one of the Sea Islands and is within the boundaries of Charleston County, South Carolina. During the American Civil War, the island served as a major staging area for troops of the Union Army that were...

    , Charleston.
  • Stonewall Jackson: blockade runner grounded and burned at Isle of Palms
    Isle of Palms, South Carolina
    Isle of Palms is a city in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population on the island was 4,133. Isle of Palms is a barrier island on the South Carolina coast. As defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and used by the U.S...

    , Charleston.
  • USS Weehawken
    USS Weehawken (1862)
    The first USS Weehawken was a Passaic-class ironclad monitor in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.Weehawken was launched on 5 November 1862 at Jersey City, New Jersey by Zeno Secor & Company; sponsored by Ms. Nellie Cornstock; and commissioned on 18 January 1863, Captain John...

    : American Civil War
    American Civil War
    The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

     monitor
    Monitor (warship)
    A monitor was a class of relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armoured but carried disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies from the 1860s until the end of World War II, and saw their final use by the United States Navy during the Vietnam War.The monitors...

     at Charleston.

Tennessee

  • Eclipse: a Mississippi River steamboat exploded near Johnsonville, Tennessee, on 27 January 1865.
  • Sultana
    Sultana (steamboat)
    The SS Sultana was a Mississippi River steamboat paddlewheeler whose destruction in an explosion on April 27, 1865 was the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. An estimated 1,800 of the Sultanas 2,400 passengers were killed when three of the ship's four boilers exploded and the...

    : a Mississippi River
    Mississippi River
    The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...

     paddlewheeler exploded four miles (6 km) south of Memphis in what is now Arkansas on 27 April 1865.
  • Chattanooga: a paddlewheel steamer sank in the Tennessee River
    Tennessee River
    The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 miles long and is located in the southeastern United States in the Tennessee Valley. The river was once popularly known as the Cherokee River, among other names...

     near Chattanooga, Tennessee
    Chattanooga, Tennessee
    Chattanooga is the fourth-largest city in the US state of Tennessee , with a population of 169,887. It is the seat of Hamilton County...

    .

Texas

  • La Belle
    La Belle (ship)
    La Belle was one of Robert de La Salle's four ships when he explored the Gulf of Mexico with the ill-fated mission of starting a French colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1685. La Belle was wrecked in present-day Matagorda Bay the following year, dooming La Salle's Texas colony to...

    : a barque-longue of French explorer La Salle's expedition ran aground in Matagorda Bay
    Matagorda Bay
    Matagorda Bay is a large estuary bay on the Texas coast, lying in Calhoun and Matagorda counties and located approximately northeast of Corpus Christi, southeast of San Antonio, southwest of Houston, and southeast of Austin. It is separated from the Gulf of Mexico by Matagorda Peninsula and...

     in 1686.
  • Anona: a steam yacht sunk in the Viosca Knoll area in 1944.
  • Gulfpenn: a fuel tanker torpedoed by U-boat U-506
    German submarine U-506
    German submarine U-506 was a Type IXC U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 11 July 1940 at the Deutsche Werft yard at Hamburg, launched on 20 June 1941, and commissioned on 15 September 1941 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Erich Würdemann...

     on 13 May 1942.
  • Hannah Elizabeth
    Hannah Elizabeth (ship)
    The Hannah Elizabeth was built in 1829 in Stoningham, Connecticut. Records of the time describe her as being a two-masted schooner, 67 feet long and 20 feet wide...

    : two-masted schooner sunk near Pass Cavallo
    Pass Cavallo (Texas)
    Pass Cavallo, alternately known as Cavallo Pass, is one of five natural water inlets which separate the Gulf of Mexico and Matagorda Bay, in the U.S. state of Texas. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle came ashore in Texas at this point. Matagorda Island Lighthouse was originally built on...

      on 19 November 1835.
  • USS Hatteras (1861)
    USS Hatteras (1861)
    The first USS Hatteras was a heavy 1,126-ton steamer purchased by the Union Navy at the beginning of the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat and assigned to the Union blockade of the ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America...

    : a Navy gunboat sunk by CSS Alabama
    CSS Alabama
    CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead, United Kingdom, in 1862 by John Laird Sons and Company. Alabama served as a commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, during which she never anchored in...

     during the American Civil War
    American Civil War
    The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

     off Galveston
    Galveston, Texas
    Galveston is a coastal city located on Galveston Island in the U.S. state of Texas. , the city had a total population of 47,743 within an area of...

     on 11 January 1863.
  • Heredia: a United Fruit Company freighter torpedoed by a submarine and sunk in 1943.
  • Mary: a steamship ran aground at Aransas Pass
    Aransas Pass, Texas
    Aransas Pass is a city in Aransas, Nueces, and San Patricio counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 8,138 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Aransas Pass is located at ....

    .
  • SS Nicaragua
    SS Nicaragua
    SS Nicaragua was a ship that was sailing in the Gulf of Mexico when it ran aground on Padre Island in 1912.During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Padre Island was the site of a number of shipwrecks. "Devil's Elbow," is a point of tidal convergence around milepost 50 from Malaquite...

    : ran aground on Padre Island
    Padre Island
    Padre Island is part of the U.S. state of Texas. The island is located on Texas' southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico and is famous for its white sandy beaches at the south end...

     on 16 October 1912.
  • Oaxaca
    Oaxaca (ship)
    The Oaxaca was a Mexican freighter that was sunk on July 26, 1942 by the German U-boat U-171, a type IX German U-Boat commanded by Oblt. Günther Pfeffer, a few hours after she left the port of Corpus Christi. The ship was hit by one torpedo and broke in two, sinking within three or four minutes...

    : a Mexican freighter torpedoed by U-171 near Port O'Connor
    Port O'Connor, Texas
    Port O'Connor is an unincorporated village in Calhoun County, Texas, United States, on the coastline between Galveston and Corpus Christi. The ZIP Code Tabulation Area including Port O'Connor had a population of 1,078 at the 2000 census...

    : on 26 July 1942.
  • Sheherezade: an oil tanker torpedoed.
  • S.S. Grandcamp: accidental detonation of 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate aboard this French-registered vessel killed 581 pople in the Texas City disaster
    Texas City Disaster
    The Texas City Disaster was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history. The incident took place on April 16, 1947, and began with a mid-morning fire on board the French-registered vessel SS Grandcamp which was docked in the Port of Texas City...

    , 16 April 1947.
  • USS Oriskany (CV-34)
    USS Oriskany (CV-34)
    USS Oriskany – nicknamed Mighty O, The O-boat, and Toasted O – was one of 24 s completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was the third US Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for the Revolutionary War Battle of Oriskany.The history of...

    : aircraft carrier sunk in 2006 to form an artificial reef.

Vermont

  • A.R. Noyes: a standard canal boat broke loose from tug at Proctor Shoal, Lake Champlain
    Lake Champlain
    Lake Champlain is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States but partially situated across the Canada—United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec.The New York portion of the Champlain Valley includes the eastern portions of...

     on 17 October 1884.
  • General Butler: a sailing canal boat hit breakwater near Burlington
    Burlington, Vermont
    Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal....

     on Lake Champlain on 9 December 1876.
  • O.J. Walker: a sailing canal boat sunk in a gale near Burlington on 11 May 1895.
  • Phoenix: a steamer caught fire near Colchester Shoal on 4 September 1819.
  • An unknown horse ferry, the only known example of a horse-powered ferry on Lake Champlain, found in Burlington Bay.
  • Water Witch: a schooner foundered in a gale off Diamond Island on 26 April 1866.

Virginia

  • Amaganzette: swamped off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • Anglo African: sunk off Cape Charles
    Cape Charles, Virginia
    Cape Charles is a town in Northampton County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,134 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Cape Charles is located at ....

    .
  • USCGC Cuyahoga (WIX-157)
    USCGC Cuyahoga (WIX-157)
    The was an Active Class Patrol Boat built in 1927 and saw action in World War II. It sank after a night-time collision in the Chesapeake Bay while on patrol in 1978...

     :collision off Smith Point, Virginia.
  • Doxie Girl: sank off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • Ethel C.: sunk off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • Eureka: collision off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • Francis E. Powell: torpedoed off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • Gulf Hustler: swamped off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • Hanks: swamped off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • Juno: Spanish ship lost in storm 1802; according to decision of 4th circuit (Virginia v. Spain) Spain still owns her.
  • SS John Morgan
    SS John Morgan
    The SS John Morgan is a World War II liberty ship that sank off the coast of Virginia on its maiden voyage on 1 June 1943, after colliding with the SS Montana. It was named after General John T. Morgan. The ship was built at the Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard...

    : collision off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • Kingston Ceylonite: torpedo
    Torpedo
    The modern torpedo is a self-propelled missile weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with it or in proximity to it.The term torpedo was originally employed for...

    ed off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • La Galga: tropical cyclone
    Tropical cyclone
    A tropical cyclone is a storm system characterized by a large low-pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain. Tropical cyclones strengthen when water evaporated from the ocean is released as the saturated air rises, resulting in condensation of water vapor...

     1750; also contested in Virginia v. Spain, but Spain abandoned her in 1763.
  • Lillian Lukenbach: collision off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • SS Marine Electric
    SS Marine Electric
    SS Marine Electric, a 605-foot bulk carrier, sank on 12 February 1983, about 30 miles off the coast of Virginia, in 130 feet of water. Thirty-one of the 34 crewmembers were killed; the three survivors endured 90 minutes drifting in the frigid waters of the Atlantic. The wreck resulted in some of...

    : sunk off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • Merida: collision off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • Ocean Venture: torpedo
    Torpedo
    The modern torpedo is a self-propelled missile weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with it or in proximity to it.The term torpedo was originally employed for...

    ed off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • Santore: struck mine
    Naval mine
    A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel...

     off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • Tiger
    Tiger (ship)
    The Tiger was a ship that was torpedoed on April 1, 1942, off the coast of Virginia. It sank as a result and its remains have been located as a shipwreck....

    : torpedo
    Torpedo
    The modern torpedo is a self-propelled missile weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with it or in proximity to it.The term torpedo was originally employed for...

    ed off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • USS Washington (BB-47)
    USS Washington (BB-47)
    USS Washington , a , was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 42nd state. Her keel was laid down on 30 June 1919 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation. She was launched on 1 September 1921, sponsored by Miss Jean Summers, the daughter of...

    : bombed as target off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • Winthorp: foundered off Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    .
  • William D. Sanner: collision in the Chesapeake Bay
    Chesapeake Bay
    The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin covers in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West...

    .

Wake Island

  • Libelle: a German barque
    Barque
    A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...

     that shipwrecked on the eastern reef during a gale on 4 March 1866.
  • Hayate
    Japanese destroyer Hayate
    was one of nine Kamikaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. Advanced for their time, these ships served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, but were considered obsolescent by the start of the Pacific War...

    : a Japanese destroyer
    Destroyer
    In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...

     sunk by US Marines on 11 December 1941.
  • Kisaragi
    Japanese destroyer Kisaragi
    was one of twelve destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. Advanced for their time, these ships served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, but were considered obsolescent by the start of the Pacific War...

    : a Japanese destroyer
    Destroyer
    In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...

     sunk by US Marines on 11 December 1941.

Washington

  • Great Republic (steamboat): an American steamboat
    Steamboat
    A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels...

     accidentally run aground on sand in 1879 and subsequently destroyed by waves near the mouth of the Columbia River
    Columbia River
    The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, flows northwest and then south into the U.S. state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state...

    .
  • Isabella: a Hudson's Bay Company
    Hudson's Bay Company
    The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, or "The Bay" is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world. A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada...

     British supply ship wrecked in 1830. Remains are in 40 feet (12.2 m) of water off Cape Disappointment near Astoria
    Astoria, Oregon
    Astoria is the county seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Situated near the mouth of the Columbia River, the city was named after the American investor John Jacob Astor. His American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site in 1811...

    . Site is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service.

Wisconsin

  • Atlanta: Steamer from the Goodrich line that caught fire and burned March 18, 1906, ten miles (16 km) northeast of Port Washington in Lake Michigan. Captain Delos H. Smith rescued 74 of 75 from the burning ship.
  • L. R. Doty: largest wooden steamship on the Great Lakes, sunk in 1898 in a storm no survivors. Wreck located in June 2010.
  • Louisiana: burned in gale 1913.
  • SS Milwaukee
    SS Milwaukee
    The SS Milwaukee was a train ferry that served on Lake Michigan. It was launched in 1902 and sank with all hands off Milwaukee on 22 October 1929. 52 men were lost with the vessel. -On the Milwaukee run: 1908–1929:...

    : sunk October 1929 in Lake Michigan
    Lake Michigan
    Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron...

     from storm damage.
  • Fleetwing: ran aground and sunk 26 September 1888 in Lake Michigan
    Lake Michigan
    Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron...

    .
  • Phoenix: wooden steamship caught fire from over-stoked boilers November 21, 1847 and burned to the waterline off the coast of Sheboygan, WI, killing 240 of the nearly 300 souls on board. Three 23-man lifeboats were launched, the first with Captain Sweet and crew, the second with first-class passengers, and the third, badly overloaded, sank.
  • Senator: A collision with the Marquette in a dense fog October 30, 1929 sank the Senator off Port Washington in Lake Michigan.

Argentina

  • Desdemona: in 1986 in Cabo San Pablo (54°17'51.34"S 66°41'58.82"W).
  • Sarmiento: in April 1912 in Punta Remolino (54°51'40.49"S 67°51'22.39"W).
  • Duchess of Albany: in July 1893 in Caleta Policarpo.
  • Usurbil: in 1993 in Ing. White, trawler (70m) built in Spain. Destroyed by fire in 1993 while being at port, she was later moved to a minor channel in the estuary where she currently rests (38º49'36S 62º15'55W).
  • ARA General Belgrano
    ARA General Belgrano
    The ARA General Belgrano was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982. Formerly the , she saw action in the Pacific theater of World War II before being sold to Argentina. After almost 31 years of service, she was sunk during the Falklands War by the Royal Navy submarine ...

    : destroyed during the Falklands War
    Falklands War
    The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict or Falklands Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...

     in 1982.
  • ARA Bahía Buen Suceso
    ARA Bahía Buen Suceso
    ARA Bahía Buen Suceso was a 5,000-ton fleet transport that served in the Argentine Navy from 1950 to 1982. She took part of the Falklands War as a logistics ship tasked with resupplying the Argentine garrisons scattered around the islands...

    : captured by British forces during the Falklands War and sunk in target exercises in 1982.
  • ARA Isla de los Estados
    ARA Isla de los Estados
    The ARA Isla de los Estados was a 3,900-ton Argentine supply ship that was sunk by HMS Alacrity at the small hours of the 11th May 1982, during the Falklands War, in a surface action north of Swan Islands, in Falklands Sound. Alacrity engaged Isla de los Estados with 15 rounds of her 4.5-inch gun...

    : destroyed during the Falklands War in 1982.
  • Atlantic Conveyor
    Atlantic Conveyor
    The Atlantic Conveyor was a British merchant navy ship, registered in Liverpool, that was requisitioned during the Falklands War and sunk on 25 May 1982 after being hit by two Argentine Exocet missiles, killing 12 sailors...

    : British merchant ship, now a protected wreck site, sunk by Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
  • HMS Antelope
    HMS Antelope (F170)
    HMS Antelope was a Type 21 frigate of the Royal Navy that participated in the Falklands War. Her keel was laid down 23 March 1971 by Vosper Thornycroft in Woolston, Southampton, England. Budget costs for this class were £3.5 million but actual costs exceeded £14 million...

    : destroyed during the Falklands War in 1982.
  • HMS Ardent
    HMS Ardent (F184)
    HMS Ardent was a Royal Navy Type 21 frigate. Built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland. She was completed with Exocet launchers in 'B' position...

    : destroyed during the Falklands War in 1982.
  • HMS Coventry
    HMS Coventry (D118)
    HMS Coventry was a Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. Laid down by Cammell Laird and Company, Limited, at Birkenhead on 29 January 1973, she was launched on 21 June 1974 and accepted into service on 20 October 1978 at a cost of £37,900,000.She was sunk by Argentine Air Force A-4 Skyhawks on 25...

    : sunk by Argentine aircraft during the Falklands War in 1982.
  • HMS Sheffield
    HMS Sheffield (D80)
    HMS Sheffield was the second Royal Navy ship to be named after the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire. She was a Type 42 Guided Missile Destroyer laid down by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering at Barrow-in-Furness on 15 January 1970, launched on 10 June 1971 and commissioned on 16 February 1975.An...

     :destroyed during the Falklands War in 1982.


(source: Lista de Naufragios)

Brazil

  • Campos: in 1943, torpedoed by a U-boat.
  • Elihu B. Washburne: in 1943, in Santos Bay.
  • Tocantins :sunk in 1933, at the Queimada Grande Island, due to heavy fog.
  • Príncipe de Asturias
    Príncipe de Asturias (ocean liner)
    The Príncipe de Asturias was a Spanish ocean liner, owned by the Naviera Pinillos and built at the Russell & Co. shipyard in Port Glasgow, in Scotland; being launched in 1914...

    : a liner that sunk in 1916, near Ilha Bela, and was carrying over 500 passengers (official list).
  • Aquidabã
    Brazilian battleship Aquidabã
    Aquidabã, anglicized as Aquidaban, was a ‎Brazilian ironclad warship built in the mid-1880s. The ship participated in two naval revolts; during the second she was sunk by a government torpedo boat. After being refloated, Aquidabã was sent to Germany for repairs and modernization...

    : a 1885 Brazilian "ironside" that sunk after exploding near the Jacuacanga strait, in Angra dos Reis bay, in 1906.
  • Bezerra de Menezes: cargo ship that sunk after a collision, in 1891.
  • California: rare 1806 "direct acting engine" steamer, with a centered propulsion wheel, carrying personal care articles. Sunk after a pirate raid, in 1866, at Ilha Grande, Angra dos reis.
  • Pinguino: a popular dive site at Ilha Grande, this was a grain cargo ship that sunk – after a fire aboard – in 1967.
  • Sir Foxwell Buxton (ship)
    Sir Foxwell Buxton (ship)
    The Sir Fowell Buxton was a ship of 500 tons. She was built in 1850 and at the time of her last voyage her Captain was a man called Woodcock....

    : emigrant ship caught fire in 1853. (source:www.naufragiosdobrasil.com.br)
  • Kapunda
    Kapunda (ship)
    The Kapunda was a British emigrant ship which sank on 20 January 1887 after colliding with the Ada Melmoure, a barque, off the coast of Brazil.This ship was heading from London to Fremantle, Western Australia....

    , Emigrant
    Emigration
    Emigration is the act of leaving one's country or region to settle in another. It is the same as immigration but from the perspective of the country of origin. Human movement before the establishment of political boundaries or within one state is termed migration. There are many reasons why people...

     ship out of London, collided with barque
    Barque
    A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...

     Ada Melmore off Brazil, (20 January 1887)
  • U-128 was attacked by US Navy aircraft and destroyers on May 16, 1943 off the coast near Recife, Brazil. After considerable shelling and aerial bombing that rendered her dead in the water, the crew scuttled her the next day at 11° 0' S, 35° 43' W.

Chile

  • Angamos: sunk after striking rocks near Lebu
    Lebu, Chile
    Lebu is a port city and commune in central Chile administered by the Municipality of Lebu. Lebu is also the capital of Arauco Province in Bío-Bío Region...

     in 1928.
  • BAP Independencia: run aground during the Battle of Punta Gruesa
    Battle of Punta Gruesa
    The Battle of Punta Gruesa took place on May 21, 1879 during the War of the Pacific between Chile and Peru. This may be labelled as the second part of the Naval Battle of Iquique, although it is described in many sources as a separate battle.-Context:...

     in 1879.
  • BAP Manco Cápac: sunk during the Battle of Arica
    Battle of Arica
    The Battle of Arica, also known as Assault and Capture of Arica Cape, was a battle in the War of the Pacific. It was fought on 7 June 1880, between the forces of Chile and Peru....

     in 1880.
  • Chilean battery ship Blanco Encalada: destroyed by a torpedo gunboat in the port of Caldera
    Caldera, Chile
    Caldera is a port city in the Copiapó Province of the Atacama Region in northern Chile. It has an excellent harbor, protected by breakwaters, being the port city for the productive mining district centering on Copiapó to which it is connected by the first railroad constructed in Chile.-Geography...

    , in 1891 as part of the Chilean Civil War
    Chilean Civil War
    The Chilean Civil War of 1891 was an armed conflict between forces supporting Congress and forces supporting the sitting President, José Manuel Balmaceda. The war saw a confrontation between the Chilean Army and the Chilean Navy, which had sided with the president and the congress, respectively...

    .
  • El Canelo: sunk in the mouth of Valdivia River
    Valdivia River
    The Valdivia River or Río Valdivia, as it is known locally, is a major river in southern Chile. It is the continuation of the Calle-Calle River, from the point where it meets the Cau-Cau River in the city of Valdivia. The Valdivia river ends in Corral Bay, on the Pacific coast. Other tributaries...

     after the 1960 Valdivia earthquake in 1960.
  • Esmeralda: sunk during the Battle of Iquique
    Battle of Iquique
    The Battle of Iquique was a confrontation that occurred on May 21, 1879, during the naval stage of the War of the Pacific, a conflict between Chile and Peru and Bolivia. The battle took place off the, by then, Peruvian port of Iquique...

     in 1879.: exploded while anchored at Punta Arenas in 1881.
  • : destroyed in the Battle of Coronel
    Battle of Coronel
    The First World War naval Battle of Coronel took place on 1 November 1914 off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel. German Kaiserliche Marine forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee met and defeated a Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher...

    , 1914.: ran aground on rocks in the Beagle channel (54°58'12.84"S 67° 7'25.71"W) in January 1988.: destroyed in the Battle of Coronel
    Battle of Coronel
    The First World War naval Battle of Coronel took place on 1 November 1914 off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel. German Kaiserliche Marine forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee met and defeated a Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher...

     in 1914.: sunk by its own crew near Robinson Crusoe Island
    Robinson Crusoe Island
    Robinson Crusoe Island , formerly known as Más a Tierra , or Aguas Buenas, is the largest island of the Chilean Juan Fernández archipelago, situated 674 kilometres west of South America in the South Pacific Ocean...

     in 1915.

Ecuador

  • Jesus Maria de la Limpia Concepcion (better known as the "Capitana"): Spanish treasure ship lost in 1654 after striking a reef off Chanduy, Ecuador.
  • Santa Maria de la Consolacion: Spanish treasure ship laden with gold, silver, and precious gems run against a reef by pursuing pirates in 1681. Discovered in 1998.

Peru

  • Covadonga: Chilean schooner
    Schooner
    A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

     sunk by a mine outside Chancay
    Chancay
    Chancay is a small city in the Lima Region of Peru. Its population is 26,958....

     in 1880.
  • Adresito: capsized in Amazon River
    Amazon River
    The Amazon of South America is the second longest river in the world and by far the largest by waterflow with an average discharge greater than the next seven largest rivers combined...

    , Iquitos
    Iquitos
    Iquitos is the largest city in the Peruvian rainforest, with a population of 370,962. It is the capital of Loreto Region and Maynas Province.Located on the Amazon River, it is only above sea level, although it is more than from the mouth of the Amazon at Belém on the Atlantic Ocean...

    , Loreto Maynas, at least 134 people confirmed dead, in March 1990.
  • La Chachita: capsized by stormy conditions in Marranon River, at least 150 people confirmed dead, in May 1991.
  • Santa Elena: capsized in Tepiche River, Loreto
    Loreto Region
    Loreto is Peru's northernmost region. Covering almost one-third of Peru's territory, Loreto is by far the nation's largest region and also one of the most sparsely populated ones, due to its remote location in the Amazon Rainforest...

    , at least fifty people confirmed dead, in March 2008.

Uruguay

  • Admiral Graf Spee: a German battleship scuttled during the Battle of the River Plate
    Battle of the River Plate
    The Battle of the River Plate was the first naval battle in the Second World War. The German pocket battleship had been commerce raiding since the start of the war in September 1939...

     on 17 December 1939.
  • HMS Agamemnon
    HMS Agamemnon (1781)
    HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She saw service in the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and fought in many of the major naval battles of those conflicts...

    : a Royal Navy warship ran aground and sank north of Gorriti Island in Maldonado Bay on 20 June 1809.

Galápagos Islands

  • Ann Alexander
    Ann Alexander (ship)
    The Ann Alexander was a whaling ship from New Bedford, Massachusetts, notable for being rammed by a wounded sperm whale in the South Pacific on August 20, 1851, some thirty years after the famous incident in which the Essex was stove in and sunk by a whale in the same area.-Early History:In her...

    : an American whaleship sunk after it was rammed by a sperm whale on 20 August 1851.

New South Wales

  • Dunbar
    Dunbar (shipwreck)
    The Dunbar was a full-rigged ship that was wrecked near the entrance to Sydney Harbour, Australia in 1857 with the loss of 121 lives.The Dunbar was launched on 30 November 1853 for London shipowner Duncan Dunbar and entered the passenger and cargo trade between London and Sydney early the following...

    : sank after striking rocks in 1857, with 121 lives lost.
  • HMAS Voyager
    HMAS Voyager (D04)
    HMAS Voyager was a Daring class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy , that was lost in a collision in 1964.Constructed between 1949 and 1957, Voyager was the first ship of her class to enter Australian service, and the first all-welded ship to be built in Australia...

    : (1964) sank after collision with HMAS
    Melbourne
    Melbourne-Voyager collision
    The Melbourne-Voyager collision, also referred to as the "Melbourne-Voyager incident" or simply the "Voyager incident", was a collision between two warships of the Royal Australian Navy ; the aircraft carrier and the destroyer...

    , with 82 killed.
  • Japanese midget submarine M84
    Attack on Sydney Harbour
    In late May and early June 1942, during World War II, submarines belonging to the Imperial Japanese Navy made a series of attacks on the cities of Sydney and Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia...

    : sank some time after 31 May 1942 after being shelled during attack on Sydney
    Sydney
    Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

     harbour, with 2 lives lost.
  • SS Cawarra
    SS Cawarra
    The Cawarra was a paddle-steamer that sank in 1866 in Newcastle harbour, New South Wales, Australia with the loss of 60 lives. The sinking was one of the worst maritime disasters in Australian history....

    : sank in rough seas in 1866, with 60 lives lost and 1 survivor.
  • Greycliffe: Sydney ferry collided with the mail steamer Tahiti in 1927 and sank with the loss of 40 lives.: ran aground in 1974 near Newcastle
    Newcastle, New South Wales
    The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...

    .
  • Tuggerah: sank during a storm in 1919, off Marley Beach south of Sydney, with 6 lives lost.
  • SS Duckenfield: struck Long Reef in 1889 on its way to Sydney, but no lives lost.

Tasmania

  • Sydney Cove
    Sydney Cove (ship)
    Sydney Cove was a sailing ship wrecked in 1797 on Preservation Island off Tasmania while on her way from Calcutta to Port Jackson. She was among the first ships wrecked on the east coast of Australia.- Voyage :...

    : sank at Preservation Island
    Preservation Island
    Preservation Island is a low and undulating granite and calcarenite island, with an area of 207 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Preservation Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait south-west of Cape Barren Island in the Furneaux Group, and is an important historic...

     with no loss of life.
  • Neva
    Neva (ship)
    The Neva was a three-masted barque that as a convict ship was wrecked in Bass Strait on 13 May 1835. One of the worst shipwrecks in Australian history, 224 lives were lost.-Origins of the Neva:...

    : about 225 lives lost aboard this convict ship
    Convict ship
    The term convict ship is a colloquial term used to describe any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under sentence of penal transportation from their place of conviction to their place of exile.-Colonial practice:...

     off King Island.
  • Cataraqui: 400 lost when wrecked on King Island.
  • TSS Kanowna
    TSS Kanowna
    TSS Kanowna, was an Australian steamer built during 1902. The 6,993-ton, long Kanowna was constructed by William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton, Scotland, and had a twin screw design.-Operational history:...

    : one of Tasmania's largest shipwrecks, found in 2005 in Bass Strait
    Bass Strait
    Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.-Extent:The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Bass Strait as follows:...

    .
  • MV Lake Illawarra
    MV Lake Illawarra
    The MV Lake Illawarra was a Handysize bulk carrier of 7,274 tons in the service of the Australian National Line shipping company. This ship is known for causing the Tasman Bridge disaster when it collided with pylon 19 of Hobart's giant high concrete arch style Tasman Bridge on the evening of...

    : bulk carrier wrecked in the Derwent River
    Derwent River (Tasmania)
    The Derwent is a river in Tasmania, Australia. It was named after the River Derwent, Cumbria by British Commodore John Hayes who explored it in 1793. The name is Brythonic Celtic for "valley thick with oaks"....

    , with 12 lives lost.

Queensland

  • Aarhus
    Aarhus Historic Shipwreck
    In Australia, Aarhus Historic Shipwreck is a historical site preserving one of the victims of Smith's Rock. The Aarhus was a 640-tonne sailing barque built in 1875 in Hamburg, Germany...

    : German barque
    Barque
    A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...

     that ran aground in 1894. Now a historical site.
  • Cherry Venture
    Cherry Venture
    Cherry Venture was a 1600 ton cargo ship of Scandinavian origin. It ran aground on Teewah Beach in South East Queensland, Australia on the 6 July 1973 and remained on the beach for 34 years until its removal in early 2007.-Cause of the wreck:...

    : ran aground on Teewah Beach in 1973.
  • SS City of Adelaide
    SS City of Adelaide (1863)
    The City of Adelaide was a passenger steam ship launched in 1863 in Glasgow, Scotland. The vessel was later converted to a Barque for use as a cargo transport. In 1912 the vessel was gutted by fire, and in 1916 the burnt hulk was run aground in Cockle Bay, Magnetic Island, Australia...

    : run aground off Cockle Bay, Magnetic Island
    Magnetic Island
    Magnetic Island is an island offshore from the city of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. This mountainous island in Cleveland Bay has effectively become a suburb of Townsville, with 2,107 permanent residents. The island is accessible from Townsville Breakwater to Nelly Bay Harbour by ferry...

    , in 1916.
  • Frederick
    Frederick (ship)
    The Frederick was a ship that was wrecked at Cape Flinders on Stanley Island, Queensland, Australia in 1818.Frederick Reefs in the Coral Sea Islands, over northeast of Gladstone, Queensland gets its name from the Frederick, which first reported sighting of the reef.The reefs were discovered in...

    : wrecked at Cape Flinders, Stanley Island, in 1818.
  • George Rennie
    George Rennie (ship)
    The George Rennie was a steel hulled ship scuttled in the lee of Hawking Point, Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1885 in Middlesex as a 151 gross ton paddle steamer. In 1896 the vessel was purchased by Howard Smith and Company who converted it into a lighter...

    : scuttled in Picnic Bay
    Picnic Bay, Queensland
    Picnic Bay refers to both a bay on the south-east corner of Magnetic Island and the island's main town. At the 2006 census, Picnic Bay had a population of 360....

    , Magnetic Island
    Magnetic Island
    Magnetic Island is an island offshore from the city of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. This mountainous island in Cleveland Bay has effectively become a suburb of Townsville, with 2,107 permanent residents. The island is accessible from Townsville Breakwater to Nelly Bay Harbour by ferry...

    , in 1902.
  • SS Gothenburg
    SS Gothenburg
    The SS Gothenburg was a steamship that operated along the British and then later the Australian and New Zealand coastlines. In February 1875, she left Darwin, Australia en route to Adelaide when she encountered a cyclone-strength storm off the north Queensland coast. The ship was wrecked on the...

    : struck the Great Barrier Reef
    Great Barrier Reef
    The Great Barrier Reef is the world'slargest reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres over an area of approximately...

     on 24 February 1875.
  • Lady Bowen: a schooner
    Schooner
    A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

     ran aground on a reef in 1894.
  • Maheno
    Maheno (ship)
    The S.S. Maheno was an Edwardian liner on the Tasman Sea crossing between New Zealand and Australia, and was used as a hospital ship by the New Zealand division of the Royal Navy during World War I....

    : beached on Fraser Island in 1935 while under tow for scrapping in Japan.
  • Moltke
    Moltke (1870)
    The Moltke was a three-masted barque built in Hamburg, Germany in 1870. The vessel was wrecked off the coast of northern Queensland, Australia in 1890 before being refloated and hulked. In 1911 the vessel was scuttled off Geoffrey Bay, Magnetic Island...

    : scuttled in Geoffrey Bay
    Geoffrey Bay, Queensland
    Geoffrey Bay is a large sweeping beach on Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia. It has a number of small shops and a growing local township, Arcadia.The wreck of the sailing barque the Moltke can be found in the bay....

    , Magnetic Island
    Magnetic Island
    Magnetic Island is an island offshore from the city of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. This mountainous island in Cleveland Bay has effectively become a suburb of Townsville, with 2,107 permanent residents. The island is accessible from Townsville Breakwater to Nelly Bay Harbour by ferry...

    , in 1911.
  • HMS Pandora
    HMS Pandora (1779)
    HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. She is best known as the ship sent in 1790 to search for the Bounty and the mutineers who had taken her...

    : struck and wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef
    Great Barrier Reef
    The Great Barrier Reef is the world'slargest reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres over an area of approximately...

     on 28 August 1791.
  • SS Yongala
    SS Yongala
    The passenger ship SS Yongala sank off Cape Bowling Green, Queensland, Australia on 23 March 1911. En route from Melbourne to Cairns she steamed into a cyclone and sank south of Townsville...

    : sank in a cyclone
    Cyclone
    In meteorology, a cyclone is an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth. This is usually characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth. Most large-scale...

     off Townsville in 1911.

Victoria

See also Shipwreck Coast
Shipwreck Coast
The Shipwreck Coast of Victoria, Australia stretches from Moonlight Head to Cape Otway, a distance of approximately 130km. This coastline is accessible via the Great Ocean Road, and is home to the limestone formations called The Twelve Apostles....

: struck Mutton Bird Island in 1878.: in 1929, one of Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

's largest shipwrecks, found in 2005 in Bass Strait
Bass Strait
Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.-Extent:The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Bass Strait as follows:...

.

Western Australia

  • Tryall
    Tryall
    The Tryall was a British East India Company owned East Indiaman of approximately 500 tons. She was under the command of John Brooke when she was wrecked on the Tryal Rocks off the north-west coast of Western Australia in 1622...

    : Honourable East India Company ship, 1622.
  • Batavia
    Batavia (ship)
    Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company . It was built in Amsterdam in 1628, and armed with 24 cast iron cannons and a number of bronze guns. Batavia was shipwrecked on her maiden voyage, and was made famous by the subsequent mutiny and massacre that took place among the survivors...

    : Dutch VOC merchant sailing ship, 1629.
  • Vergulde Draeck
    Vergulde Draeck
    The Vergulde Draeck was a Dutch East India Company ship of the seventeenth century. She sailed from Texel bound for Batavia , under Pieter Albertsz and was carrying trade goods and eight chests of silver worth 78,6000 guilders...

    : Dutch VOC merchant sailing ship, 1656.
  • Zuytdorp
    Zuytdorp
    The VOC Zuytdorp also Zuiddorp was a trading ship of the Dutch East India Company in the 18th century. On 1 August 1711 it was dispatched from the Netherlands to the trading port of Batavia bearing a load of freshly minted silver coins.Many trading ships of the time had started to use a "fast...

    : Dutch VOC merchant sailing ship, 1712.
  • Zeewijk
    Zeewijk
    The Zeewijk was an 18th century East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company that was shipwrecked at the Houtman Abrolhos, off the coast of Western Australia, on 9 June 1727. The survivors built a second ship, the Sloepie, enabling 82 out of the initial crew of 208 to reach their initial...

    : Dutch VOC merchant sailing ship, 1727.
  • Alkimos
    Alkimos (ship)
    The Alkimos was a merchant shipping vessel which was wrecked on the coast north of Perth, Western Australia in 1963. The wreck is a diving venue, but is also of interest to ghost hunters.- History :...

    : Greek merchant ship, 1963.
  • Korean Star: Panamanian oil tanker, Cape Cuvier, 1988.
  • HMAS Sydney
    HMAS Sydney (1934)
    HMAS Sydney , named for the Australian city of Sydney, was one of three Modified Leander class light cruisers operated by the Royal Australian Navy...

    : Leander class cruiser
    Leander class cruiser (1931)
    The Leander class was a class of eight light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s that saw service in World War II. They were named after mythological figures, and all ships were commissioned between 1933 and 1936...

     sunk in battle by the German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     merchant raider
    Merchant raider
    Merchant raiders are ships which disguise themselves as non-combatant merchant vessels, whilst actually being armed and intending to attack enemy commerce. Germany used several merchant raiders early in World War I, and again early in World War II...

     Kormoran
    German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran
    The German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran was a Kriegsmarine merchant raider of World War II. Originally the merchant vessel Steiermark, the ship was acquired by the Kriegsmarine following the outbreak of war for conversion into a raider...

     in 1941.
  • Kormoran
    German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran
    The German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran was a Kriegsmarine merchant raider of World War II. Originally the merchant vessel Steiermark, the ship was acquired by the Kriegsmarine following the outbreak of war for conversion into a raider...

    : German merchant raider
    Merchant raider
    Merchant raiders are ships which disguise themselves as non-combatant merchant vessels, whilst actually being armed and intending to attack enemy commerce. Germany used several merchant raiders early in World War I, and again early in World War II...

     scuttled
    Scuttling
    Scuttling is the act of deliberately sinking a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull.This can be achieved in several ways—valves or hatches can be opened to the sea, or holes may be ripped into the hull with brute force or with explosives...

     after being damaged in battle by HMAS Sydney
    HMAS Sydney (1934)
    HMAS Sydney , named for the Australian city of Sydney, was one of three Modified Leander class light cruisers operated by the Royal Australian Navy...

     in 1941.
  • HMAS Perth II: decommissioned
    Ship decommissioning
    To decommission a ship is to terminate her career in service in the armed forces of her nation. A somber occasion, it has little of the elaborate ceremony of ship commissioning, but carries significant tradition....

     guided missile destroyer
    Guided missile destroyer
    A guided missile destroyer is a destroyer designed to launch guided missiles. Many are also equipped to carry out anti-submarine, anti-air, and anti-surface operations. In the U.S...

     scuttled as a dive wreck in 2001.

South Australia

  • Fanny: 1838.
  • Maria: 1840.
  • Grecian: 1850.
  • Varoon: 1856.
  • SS Admella
    SS Admella
    The SS Admella was an Australian passenger steamship which was shipwrecked on a submerged reef off the coast of Carpenter Rocks, south west of Mount Gambier South Australia, in the early hours of Saturday 6 August 1859...

    : in 1859 was South Australia's worst shipwreck, with 89 lives lost including 14 children.
  • Geltwood
    Geltwood
    The Geltwood was an iron hulled barque that was shipwrecked on or about 14 June 1876 during a storm on a remote stretch of the south east coast of South Australia. Nearing the completion of her maiden voyage from Liverpool bound for Melbourne the ship struck a reef, capsized and broke up...

    : 1876.
  • Edith Haviland: 1877.
  • Star of Greece: 1888.
  • Loch Vennachar
    Loch Vennachar
    Loch Vennachar was a three-masted iron sailing ship that operated between Great Britain and Australia between the late 19th century and 1905. The name was drawn from Loch Venachar, a lake which lies to the south-west of the burgh of Callander, in the Stirling region of Scotland...

    : in 1905 off Kangaroo Island
    Kangaroo Island
    Kangaroo Island is Australia's third-largest island after Tasmania and Melville Island. It is southwest of Adelaide at the entrance of Gulf St Vincent. Its closest point to the mainland is off Cape Jervis, on the tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula in the state of South Australia. The island is long...

     with the loss of 27 lives.

Northern Territory

: 1942 bombing of Darwin.: 1942 bombing of Darwin.: 1942 bombing of Darwin.: 1942 bombing of Darwin.: 1942 bombing of Darwin.: 1942 bombing of Darwin.: during WWII.: during Cyclone Tracy
Cyclone Tracy
Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974...

.: during Cyclone Tracy
Cyclone Tracy
Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974...

.
  • Darwin Princess: during Cyclone Tracy
    Cyclone Tracy
    Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, 1974...

    .: abandoned in 1888.

Chuuk

60 ships and 275 airplanes sunk during Operation Hailstone
Operation Hailstone
Operation Hailstone was a massive naval air and surface attack launched on February 17–18, 1944, during World War II by the United States Navy against the Japanese naval and air base at Truk in the Caroline Islands, a pre-war Japanese territory.-Background:Truk was a major Japanese logistical base...

 in Truk Lagoon
Truk Lagoon
Truk Lagoon, also known as Chuuk, is a sheltered body of water in the central Pacific. North of New Guinea, it is located mid-ocean at 7 degrees North latitude. The atoll consists of a protective reef, around, enclosing a natural harbour 79 by 50 kilometres , with an area of . It has a land...

 during World War II, including:
    • Aikoko Maru
    • Fujikawa Maru
      Fujikawa Maru
      The Fujikawa Maru was originally built in 1938 for the Toyo Kaiun Kisen Kaisha and was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II for use as an armed aircraft transport or ferry....

    • Heian Maru: submarine tender
    • Sankisan Maru
    • Shinkoko Maru
    • Shinohara (I-169): a submarine that participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor
      Attack on Pearl Harbor
      The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941...


Palau

  • Chuyo Maru: a Japanese escort carrier sunk during WWII.
  • Iro: a Japanese oiler/tanker sunk during WWII.
  • Sata
    Sata
    Sata is a traditional dish from the Malaysian state of Terengganu, consisting of spiced fish meat wrapped in banana leaves and cooked on a grill.It is a type of Malaysian fish cake, or otak-otak...

    : a Japanese oiler/tanker sunk during WWII.
  • USS Perry
    USS Perry (DD-340)
    The third USS Perry was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was one of eight ships named for Oliver Hazard Perry.-History:...

    : sunk during WWII off Anguar, on 13 September 1944.

Indonesia

  • SS Ourang Medan
    Ourang Medan
    The S.S. Ourang Medan was a Dutch cargo ship, which, according to various authors, became a shipwreck in Indonesian waters after its entire crew had died under suspicious circumstances...

    : Dutch freighter allegedly lost under suspicious circumstances in 1947 or 1948.
  • Mighty Servant 2
    Mighty Servant 2
    Mighty Servant 2 was a 29,000-ton heavy-lift ship operated by Dockwise, noted for transporting from Dubai to Newport, Rhode Island, in 1988.The ship was built in 1983 by Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Ltd...

    : Dutch heavy-lift ship off Singkep
    Singkep
    Singkep is an island in the Lingga Archipelago in Indonesia. Its area is . It is separated from the east coast of Sumatra by the Berhala Strait. It is surrounded by islands P. Posik to the west, P. Serak to the SW, P. Lalang to the South, and P. Selayar of Riau Islands between Lingga and...

     in 1999.
  • MV Senopati Nusantara
    MV Senopati Nusantara
    The M/s Senopati Nusantara was an Indonesian ferry that sank in a storm on December 30, 2006. The Japanese-made ship was a scheduled passenger line from port of Kumai in Central Kalimantan to Tanjung Emas port in Semarang, East Java. About off Mandalika island, the ship sank during the violent...

    : passenger ferry sank off Mandalika Island in 2006.
  • Levina 1
    Levina 1
    The Levina 1 was an Indonesian passenger ferry. On February 22, 2007, it caught fire, killing at least 51 people. Three days later, on February 25, it sank with a group of members of the media and investigators on board, killing at least one more and leaving three missing.-Background:The Levina 1...

    : passenger ferry sank several hours from Jakarta
    Jakarta
    Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...

     in 2007.

Kiribati

  • SS Norwich City
    SS Norwich City
    The SS Norwich City was a British, oil-fired steam freighter powered by a triple expansion steam engine and manufactured in 1911 by Central Marine Engine Works in Britain.In 1928, the ship ran into the Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver, B.C.....

    : British freighter
    Cargo ship
    A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...

     ran aground at Nikumaroro in 1929.
  • Canton
    Kanton Island
    Kanton Island , alternatively known as "Mary Island", "Mary Balcout's Island" or "Swallow Island", is the largest, northernmost, and as of 2007, the sole inhabited island of the Phoenix Islands, in the Republic of Kiribati. It is an atoll located in the South Pacific Ocean roughly halfway between...

    : whaling ship ran aground at Kanton Island
    Kanton Island
    Kanton Island , alternatively known as "Mary Island", "Mary Balcout's Island" or "Swallow Island", is the largest, northernmost, and as of 2007, the sole inhabited island of the Phoenix Islands, in the Republic of Kiribati. It is an atoll located in the South Pacific Ocean roughly halfway between...

     in 1854.
  • Golden Sunset: British barque
    Barque
    A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts.- History of the term :The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat. This entered Latin as barca, which gave rise to the Italian barca, Spanish barco, and the French barge and...

     ran aground at Enderbury Island
    Enderbury Island
    Enderbury Island is a small, uninhabited atoll 63 km ESE of Kanton Island in the Pacific Ocean at . It is about 1 mile wide and 3 miles long, with a reef stretching out 60–200 metres...

     in 1866.

Marshall Islands

  • Sakawa
    Japanese cruiser Sakawa
    |-External links: tabular record: * * with some history* with detailed account of Sakawa* * with details from Operation Crossroads...

    : sunk at Bikini Atoll
    Bikini Atoll
    Bikini Atoll is an atoll, listed as a World Heritage Site, in the Micronesian Islands of the Pacific Ocean, part of Republic of the Marshall Islands....

     by atomic bomb test in 1946.
  • USS Anderson (DD-411)
    USS Anderson (DD-411)
    USS Anderson was a in the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral Edwin Alexander Anderson, Jr., a Medal of Honor recipient....

    : sunk at Bikini Atoll by atomic bomb test in 1946.
  • USS Lamson (DD-367)
    USS Lamson (DD-367)
    The third USS Lamson was a Mahan-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Roswell Hawkes Lamson.-History:...

    : sunk at Bikini Atoll by atomic bomb test in 1946.
  • USS Carlisle (APA-69)
    USS Carlisle (APA-69)
    USS Carlisle was a Gilliam-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. Arriving late in the war, she was initially assigned to transport missions and consequently did not participate in any combat operations....

    : sunk at Bikini Atoll by atomic bomb test in 1946.
  • USS Gilliam (APA-57)
    USS Gilliam (APA-57)
    USS Gilliam , named for Gilliam County in Oregon, was the lead ship in the her class of attack transports serving in the United States Navy during World War II....

    : sunk at Bikini Atoll by atomic bomb test in 1946.
  • Nagato
    Japanese battleship Nagato
    Nagato was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy; the lead ship of her class. She was the first battleship in the world to mount 16 inch guns, her armour protection and speed made her one of the most powerful capital ships at the time of her commissioning.She was the flagship of Admiral...

    : sunk at Bikini Atoll by atomic bomb test in 1946.
  • USS Arkansas (BB-33)
    USS Arkansas (BB-33)
    USS Arkansas , a was the third ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 25th state.A dreadnought battleship, Arkansas was laid down on 25 January 1910 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation. She was launched on 14 January 1911 sponsored by Miss Nancy Louise...

    : sunk at Bikini Atoll by atomic bomb test in 1946.
  • USS Saratoga (CV-3)
    USS Saratoga (CV-3)
    USS Saratoga was the second aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and the fifth ship to bear her name. She was commissioned one month earlier than her sister and class leader, , which is the third actually commissioned after and Saratoga...

    : sunk at Bikini Atoll by atomic bomb test in 1946.
  • USS Apogon (SS-308)
    USS Apogon (SS-308)
    USS Apogon , a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the apogon, a group of large-headed salt water fishes with oblong compressed bodies found in tropical or subtropical waters...

    : sunk at Bikini Atoll by atomic bomb test in 1946.
  • USS Pilotfish (SS-386)
    USS Pilotfish (SS-386)
    USS Pilotfish , a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the pilotfish, a carangoid fish, often seen in warm latitudes in company with sharks....

    : sunk at Bikini Atoll by atomic bomb test in 1946.
  • Prinz Eugen
    German cruiser Prinz Eugen
    Prinz Eugen was an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, the third member of the class of five vessels. She served with the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The ship was laid down in April 1936 and launched August 1938; Prinz Eugen entered service after the outbreak of war, in August 1940...

    : an Admiral Hipper class cruiser
    Admiral Hipper class cruiser
    The Admiral Hipper-class was a group of five heavy cruisers built by the German Kriegsmarine in the mid 1930s. The class comprised Admiral Hipper, the lead ship, Blücher, Prinz Eugen, Seydlitz, and Lützow. Only the first three ships of the class were completed to see action during World War II...

     that was damaged at Bikini Atoll
    Bikini Atoll
    Bikini Atoll is an atoll, listed as a World Heritage Site, in the Micronesian Islands of the Pacific Ocean, part of Republic of the Marshall Islands....

     by atomic bomb test, towed to Kwajalein
    Kwajalein
    Kwajalein Atoll , is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands . The southernmost and largest island in the atoll is named Kwajalein Island. English-speaking residents of the U.S...

    , capsized, and sunk in 1946.
  • Toreshima Maru: a Japanese supply ship sunk at Maloelap Atoll
    Maloelap Atoll
    The Maloelap Atoll is a coral atoll of 71 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its land area is only,. but that encloses a lagoon of . It is located north of the atoll of Aur...

     off Taroa Island by US Navy in December 1943.

New Zealand

: 1840, Mercury Bay
Mercury Bay
Mercury Bay is a large V-shaped bay on the eastern coast of the Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand. This bay was named by the English navigator Captain James Cook during his exploratory expeditions. By the Māori it was named Te-Whanganui-o-Hei, the great bay of Hei.On November...

, 2 lives lost.: 1863, Manukau Heads, Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

, 189 lives lost.: 1866, off the Auckland Islands
Auckland Islands
The Auckland Islands are an archipelago of the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands and include Auckland Island, Adams Island, Enderby Island, Disappointment Island, Ewing Island, Rose Island, Dundas Island and Green Island, with a combined area of...

.
  • SS Victory: 1861, ran aground Otago Peninsula
    Otago Peninsula
    The Otago Peninsula is a long, hilly indented finger of land that forms the easternmost part of Dunedin, New Zealand. Volcanic in origin, it forms one wall of the eroded valley that now forms Otago Harbour. The peninsula lies south-east of Otago Harbour and runs parallel to the mainland for...

    .: in the Three Kings Islands
    Three Kings Islands
    The Three Kings Islands or Manawa Islands are a group of 13 islands about northwest of Cape Reinga, the northernmost point of the North Island of New Zealand, where the South Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea converge. They measure about 4.86 km² in area...

    , 1902.: sunk by a mine off Bream Head
    Bream Head
    Bream Head is a promontory on the east coast of Northland in the North Island of New Zealand. Located at the end of a 30 kilometre-long peninsula, the head juts into the Pacific Ocean to the southeast of Whangarei...

    , 1940.
  • Wahine
    Wahine disaster
    The Wahine disaster occurred on 10 April 1968 when the TEV Wahine, a New Zealand inter-island ferry of the Union Company, foundered on Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour and capsized near Steeple Rock...

    : 1968 ran aground, capsized, 51 lives lost.: Soviet passenger liner in the Marlborough Sounds
    Marlborough Sounds
    The Marlborough Sounds are an extensive network of sea-drowned valleys created by a combination of land subsidence and rising sea levels at the north of the South Island of New Zealand...

     in 1986: 1985 Greenpeace
    Greenpeace
    Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...

     activist ship sabotaged by the French secret service
    Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure
    The General Directorate for External Security is France's external intelligence agency. Operating under the direction of the French ministry of defence, the agency works alongside the DCRI in providing intelligence and national security, notably by performing paramilitary and counterintelligence...

     in Auckland
    Auckland
    The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

     harbour.: 17 July 1837, Moeraki
    Moeraki
    Moeraki is a small fishing village on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It was once the location of a whaling station. In the 1870s, local interests believed it could become the main port for the north Otago area and a railway line, the Moeraki Branch, was built to the settlement...

    , Otago
    Otago
    Otago is a region of New Zealand in the south of the South Island. The region covers an area of approximately making it the country's second largest region. The population of Otago is...

    .: Enderby Island, New Zealand
    Enderby Island, New Zealand
    -External links:***...

    , 1887.: 1891, off the Auckland Islands
    Auckland Islands
    The Auckland Islands are an archipelago of the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands and include Auckland Island, Adams Island, Enderby Island, Disappointment Island, Ewing Island, Rose Island, Dundas Island and Green Island, with a combined area of...

    .:1877, ran aground Farewell Spit
    Farewell Spit
    Farewell Spit is a narrow sand spit situated at , at the northern end of the South Island of New Zealand. Known to the Māori as Tuhuroa, it runs eastwards from Cape Farewell, the island's northernmost point...

    .

Papua New Guinea

: 1942, Sunk by Japanese aircraft in Port Moresby
Port Moresby
Port Moresby , or Pot Mosbi in Tok Pisin, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea . It is located on the shores of the Gulf of Papua, on the southeastern coast of the island of New Guinea, which made it a prime objective for conquest by the Imperial Japanese forces during 1942–43...

.

Ironbottom Sound

  • Aaron Ward
    USS Aaron Ward (DD-483)
    USS Aaron Ward was a in the service of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship named in honor of Rear Admiral Aaron Ward. She sank on 7 April 1943 in a shoal near Tinete Point of Florida Island during Operation I-Go...

    : US Gleaves-class
    Gleaves class destroyer
    The Gleaves-class destroyers were a class of 66 destroyers of the United States Navy built 1938–1942, and designed by Gibbs & Cox. The first ship of the class was the USS Gleaves . The U.S. Navy customarily names a class of ships after the first ship of the class; hence the Gleaves class...

     destroyer
    Destroyer
    In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...

    .
  • Akatsuki
    Japanese destroyer Akatsuki
    was the twenty-first , or the lead ship of the Akatsuki-class destroyer , built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the inter-war period. When introduced into service, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in the world...

    : Japanese
    Empire of Japan
    The Empire of Japan is the name of the state of Japan that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 to the enactment of the post-World War II Constitution of...

     Akatsuki-class destroyer.
  • Astoria
    USS Astoria (CA-34)
    The second USS Astoria was a United States Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser that participated in both the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway, but was then sunk in August 1942 at the Battle of Savo Island...

    : US New Orleans-class
    New Orleans class cruiser (1931)
    The New Orleans class cruisers were a class of seven heavy cruisers built for the United States Navy in the 1930s, the last built under the Washington Naval Treaty before World War II. They were an improvement on the heavy cruisers...

     cruiser
    Cruiser
    A cruiser is a type of warship. The term has been in use for several hundreds of years, and has had different meanings throughout this period...

    .
  • Atlanta
    USS Atlanta (CL-51)
    USS Atlanta of the United States Navy was the lead ship of the Atlanta class of 11 light cruisers. She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Atlanta, Georgia. Designed to provide anti-aircraft protection for US naval task groups, Atlanta served in this capacity in the naval Battles of...

    : US Atlanta-class
    Atlanta class cruiser
    The Atlanta-class cruisers were United States Navy light cruisers originally designed as fast scout cruisers or flotilla leaders, but later proved to be effective anti-aircraft cruisers during World War II. They were also known as the Atlanta-Oakland class. The lead ship Atlanta was sunk in action...

     anti-aircraft cruiser.
  • Ayanami: Japanese Fubuki-class
    Fubuki class destroyer
    The was a class of twenty four destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Fubuki class has been called "the world's first modern destroyer." The Fubuki class not only set a new standard for Japanese vessels, but for destroyers around the world...

     destroyer.
  • Barton
    USS Barton (DD-599)
    USS Barton was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the first ship named for Admiral John Kennedy Barton....

    : US Benson-class
    Benson class destroyer
    The Benson class was a class of 30 destroyers of the U.S. Navy built 1939–1943. The first ship of the class was the . The U.S. Navy customarily names a class of ships after the first ship of the class; hence the Benson class....

     destroyer.
  • Canberra: Australian Kent-class
    County class cruiser
    The County class was a class of heavy cruisers built for the British Royal Navy in the years between the First and Second World Wars. They were the first post-war cruiser construction for the Royal Navy and were designed within the limits of the Washington Naval Conference of 1922...

     cruiser.
  • Colhoun
    USS Colhoun (DD-85)
    USS Colhoun was a in the United States Navy during World War I and as APD-2 in World War II. She was the first Navy ship named for Edmund Colhoun....

    : US Wickes-class destroyer.
  • Cushing
    USS Cushing (DD-376)
    USS Cushing was a Mahan-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the third Navy ship named for Commander William Barker Cushing .-History:...

    : US Mahan-class
    Mahan class destroyer
    The Mahan-class destroyers served in the United States Navy before and during World War II. The lead ship of the class was named for Alfred T. Mahan, a US Naval officer and influential theorist on sea power....

     destroyer.
  • De Haven
    USS De Haven (DD-469)
    USS De Haven was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the first Navy ship named for Lieutenant Edwin J. De Haven USN...

    : US Fletcher-class
    Fletcher class destroyer
    The Fletcher class were a class of destroyers built by the United States during World War II. The class was designed in 1939 as a result of dissatisfaction with the earlier destroyer leader types...

     destroyer.
  • Duncan
    USS Duncan (DD-485)
    |...

    : US Gleaves-class destroyer.
  • Fubuki
    Japanese destroyer Fubuki
    was the lead ship of twenty-four destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. When introduced into services, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in the world. They served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, and remained formidable weapons systems well...

    : Japanese Fubuki-class destroyer.
  • Furutaka
    Japanese cruiser Furutaka
    was the lead ship in the two-vessel Furutaka-class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was named after Mount Furutaka, located on Etajima, Hiroshima immediately behind the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy.-Design:...

    : Japanese Furutaka-class
    Furutaka class cruiser
    The were a class of two Japanese heavy cruisers which saw service during World War II, both were sunk in 1942.-Description:The Furutaka class cruisers were the first heavy cruisers in the Japanese Imperial Navy....

     cruiser.
  • George F. Elliott
    USS George F. Elliott (AP-13)
    USS George F. Elliott was a Heywood-class transport acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War I and then reacquired by the Navy for service as a troop carrier during World War II...

    : US Heywood class transport.
  • Gregory
    USS Gregory (DD-82)
    USS Gregory was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and, as APD-3 World War II. She was named for Admiral Francis Gregory USN ....

    : US Wickes-class destroyer.
  • Hiei
    Japanese battleship Hiei
    was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. Designed by British naval architect George Thurston, she was the second launched of four s, among the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built. Laid down in 1911 at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Hiei was formally...

    : Japanese Kongo-class
    Kongo class battlecruiser
    The were a class of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy constructed immediately before World War I. Designed by British naval architect George Thurston, the lead ship of the class was the last Japanese capital ship constructed outside of Japan. Displacing upon completion, the vessels of this...

     battleship
    Battleship
    A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...

    .
  • Hirokawa Maru: Japanese military transport.
  • Jarvis
    USS Jarvis (DD-393)
    USS Jarvis , a Bagley-class destroyer, was the 2nd ship of the United States Navy to be named for James C. Jarvis, a U.S. Navy midshipman who was killed during the Quasi-War with France....

    : US Gridley-class
    Gridley class destroyer
    The Gridley-class destroyers were a class of four 1500-ton destroyers in the United States Navy.The initial two ships were laid down on June 3, 1935 and commissioned in 1937. The second two were laid down in March of 1936 and commissioned in 1938....

     destroyer.
  • John Penn
    USS John Penn (APA-23)
    USS John Penn was a John Penn-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. Named after John Penn, a signatory to the American Declaration of Independence, she was the only ship in her class....

    : US miscellaneous class Attack Transport.
  • Kasi Maru: Japanese freighter.
  • Kanawha
    USS Kanawha (AO-1)
    The third USS Kanawha was a replenishment oiler of the US Navy. She was laid down 8 December 1913 by the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California; launched 11 July 1914; sponsored by Miss Dorothy Bennett; and commissioned 5 June 1915, Lt. Comdr...

    : US Kanawha/Cuyama class fleet oiler.
  • Kinugawa Maru: Japanese military transport.
  • Kirishima
    Japanese battleship Kirishima
    was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I and World War II. Designed by British naval engineer George Thurston, she was the third launched of the four Kongō-class battlecruisers, among the most heavily armed ships in any navy when built...

    : Japanese Kongo-class battleship.
  • Laffey
    USS Laffey (DD-459)
    |...

    : US Benson-class destroyer.
  • Little
    USS Little (DD-79)
    USS Little , a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I and World War II. She was the first Navy ship named for George Little ....

    : US Wickes-class destroyer.
  • Makigumo: Japanese Yugumo-class destroyer.
  • Moa
    HMNZS Moa (T233)
    HMNZS Moa was a Bird class minesweeper of the Royal New Zealand Navy.On 29 January 1943, with her sister ship Kiwi, Moa helped ram and wreck the Japanese submarine I-1...

     :New Zealand Kiwi-class corvette
    Corvette
    A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...

    .
  • Monssen
    USS Monssen (DD-436)
    USS Monssen , a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Mons Monssen, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions aboard the USS Missouri in 1904....

    : US Gleaves-class destroyer.
  • Northampton
    USS Northampton (CA-26)
    USS Northampton was a heavy cruiser in service with the United States Navy. She was the lead ship of her class and commissioned in 1930...

    : US Northampton-class
    Northampton class cruiser
    The ' was a group of six heavy cruisers built for the U.S. Navy in the 1930s. The design of the ships was heavily influenced by the Washington Naval Treaty, which limited cruisers to a maximum of 10,000 tons displacement and a maximum main battery caliber of . The Northamptons were a reaction to...

     heavy cruiser
    Heavy cruiser
    The heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range, high speed and an armament of naval guns roughly 203mm calibre . The heavy cruiser can be seen as a lineage of ship design from 1915 until 1945, although the term 'heavy cruiser' only came into formal use in 1930...

    .
  • Preston
    USS Preston (DD-379)
    USS Preston was a in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the fifth Navy ship named for Lieutenant Samuel W. Preston ....

    : US Mahan-class
    Mahan class destroyer
    The Mahan-class destroyers served in the United States Navy before and during World War II. The lead ship of the class was named for Alfred T. Mahan, a US Naval officer and influential theorist on sea power....

     destroyer
    Destroyer
    In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...

    .
  • PT-37: US PT boat
    PT boat
    PT Boats were a variety of motor torpedo boat , a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet". The Japanese called them "Devil Boats".The original pre–World War I torpedo boats were...

    .
  • PT-44: US PT boat
    PT boat
    PT Boats were a variety of motor torpedo boat , a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet". The Japanese called them "Devil Boats".The original pre–World War I torpedo boats were...

    .
  • PT-111: US PT boat
    PT boat
    PT Boats were a variety of motor torpedo boat , a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet". The Japanese called them "Devil Boats".The original pre–World War I torpedo boats were...

    .
  • PT-112: US PT boat
    PT boat
    PT Boats were a variety of motor torpedo boat , a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet". The Japanese called them "Devil Boats".The original pre–World War I torpedo boats were...

    .
  • PT-123: US PT boat
    PT boat
    PT Boats were a variety of motor torpedo boat , a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet". The Japanese called them "Devil Boats".The original pre–World War I torpedo boats were...

    .
  • Quincy
    USS Quincy (CA-39)
    USS Quincy was a United States Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser sunk at the Battle of Savo Island in 1942.Quincy, the second ship to carry the name, was laid down by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts on 15 November 1933, launched on 19 June 1935, sponsored by Mrs. Henry S...

    : US New Orleans-class
    New Orleans class cruiser (1931)
    The New Orleans class cruisers were a class of seven heavy cruisers built for the United States Navy in the 1930s, the last built under the Washington Naval Treaty before World War II. They were an improvement on the heavy cruisers...

     cruiser.
  • Seminole
    USS Seminole (AT-65)
    USS Seminole , the third ship named Seminole of the United States Navy, was a whose task was to travel with the fleet and provide towing services as required....

    : US Navajo-class oceangoing tug
    Tugboat
    A tugboat is a boat that maneuvers vessels by pushing or towing them. Tugs move vessels that either should not move themselves, such as ships in a crowded harbor or a narrow canal,or those that cannot move by themselves, such as barges, disabled ships, or oil platforms. Tugboats are powerful for...

    .
  • Serpens
    USS Serpens (AK-97)
    USS Serpens was a United States Coast Guard-manned in the service of the United States Navy in World War II. It was the first ship of the Navy to have this name. It is named after Serpens, a constellation in the northern hemisphere....

    : Coast Guard
    United States Coast Guard
    The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven U.S. uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency...

    -manned Liberty ship
    Liberty ship
    Liberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II. Though British in conception, they were adapted by the U.S. as they were cheap and quick to build, and came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. Based on vessels ordered by Britain to replace ships torpedoed by...

    .
  • Takanami: Japanese Yugumo-class destroyer.
  • Teruzuki
    Japanese destroyer Teruzuki
    was an Akizuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Pale or Lighter Moon, Shining Moon".On 12–13 November 1942, Teruzuki was part of the Bombardment Force commanded by Rear Admiral Abe Hiroaki. In the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, she claimed hits on seven U.S....

     :Japanese Akizuki-class
    Akizuki class destroyer (1942)
    The was one of the primary classes of new destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy after 1942. The IJN called them from their plan name. They were designed to fight larger ships, aircraft and submarines....

      destroyer.
  • Toa Maru: Japanese military transport.
  • Vincennes
    USS Vincennes (CA-44)
    USS Vincennes was a United States Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser sunk at the Battle of Savo Island in 1942. She was the second ship to bear the name....

    : US New Orleans-class cruiser.
  • Walke
    USS Walke (DD-416)
    USS Walke was a World War II-era in the service of the United States Navy, named after Rear Admiral Henry A. Walke USN...

    : US Sims-class
    Sims class destroyer
    The Sims-class consisted of 12 destroyers in the United States Navy, built in seven various shipyards, and commissioned in 1939 and 1940. It was the last United States destroyer class completed prior to World War II. All Sims-class ships saw action in World War II, and seven survived the war...

     destroyer.
  • World Discoverer
    World Discoverer
    The World Discoverer was a cruise ship designed for and built by Schichau Unterweser, Germany in 1974. Originally named BEWA Discoverer, the ship was completed in Bremerhaven, Germany.-History:...

    : a former cruise ship that ran a ground and sunk in 2001.
  • YP-284: US Yard Patrol craft.
  • Yudachi
    Japanese destroyer Yudachi
    was the fourth of ten destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy under the "Circle One" Program .-History:The Shiratsuyu class destroyers were modified versions of the , and were designed to accompany the Japanese main striking force and to conduct both day and night torpedo attacks against...

    : Japanese Shiratsuyu-class
    Shiratsuyu class destroyer
    The was a class of ten destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy in service before and during World War II.-Background:The initial six Shiratsuyu class destroyers were modified versions of the , and had been originally planned as the final six vessels of that class under the ”Circle-One” Naval...

     destroyer.

Atlantic Ocean

Coordinates of all the Atlantic Ocean Shipwrecks listed on this page, shown in Google.
  • I-52: Japanese cargo submarine sunk in 1944.
  • German battleship Bismarck
    German battleship Bismarck
    Bismarck was the first of two s built for the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the primary force behind the German unification in 1871, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched nearly three years later...

    : German battleship
    Battleship
    A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...

     sunk in 1941.
  • HMS Hood
    HMS Hood (51)
    HMS Hood was the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy. One of four s ordered in mid-1916, her design—although drastically revised after the Battle of Jutland and improved while she was under construction—still had serious limitations. For this reason she was the only ship of her class to be...

    : British battlecruiser
    Battlecruiser
    Battlecruisers were large capital ships built in the first half of the 20th century. They were developed in the first decade of the century as the successor to the armoured cruiser, but their evolution was more closely linked to that of the dreadnought battleship...

     sunk in 1941.
  • SS Mount Temple
    SS Mount Temple
    The SS Mount Temple was a Canadian Pacific Lines cargo ship that was sunk during the First World War by the German commerce raider SMS Möwe.Originally a Beaver Line ship, it was purchased by Canadian Pacific in 1903....

    : Scuttled by German surface raider SMS Moewe.
  • German LASH Carrier MS München
    MS München
    MS München was a German LASH carrier of the Hapag-Lloyd line that sank with all hands for unknown reasons in a severe storm in December 1978....

    : Lost in the Atlantic in December 1978 with all hands.
  • USS Scorpion
    USS Scorpion (SSN-589)
    USS Scorpion was a Skipjack-class nuclear submarine of the United States Navy, and the sixth ship of the U.S. Navy to carry that name. Scorpion was declared lost on 5 June 1968 with 99 crew members dying in the incident. The USS Scorpion is one of two nuclear submarines the U.S...

    : A nuclear submarine that sank in 1968 with all hands due to a torpedo hot-run, and subsequent failure to shutdown prior to torpedo arming and detonation. The vessel has 2 nuclear warheads and one nuclear reactor.
  • USS Thresher
    USS Thresher (SSN-593)
    The second USS Thresher was the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. Her loss at sea during deep-diving tests in 1963 is often considered a watershed event in the implementation of the rigorous submarine safety program SUBSAFE.The contract to build...

    : Sank in 1963 during deep-diving trials with all hands on board. Flooding had led to a reactor shutdown, and the sailors were unable to surface due to a malfunction in the emergency blow system. It lies on the seafloor with one nuclear reactor in place.
  • RMS Titanic: The largest passenger ship in the world(883 1/2 ft. long) when she sank in 1912 with over 1500 lives lost. She sank due to a collision with an iceberg( and broke in half ) in 2 hours.
  • Pamir
    Pamir (ship)
    Pamir was one of the famous Flying P-Liner sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. She was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949...

    : Sank in Hurricane Carrie
  • Soviet submarine K-219
    Soviet submarine K-219
    K-219 was a Navaga-class ballistic missile submarine of the Soviet Navy. She carried 16 SS-N-6 liquid-fuel missiles powered by UDMH with IRFNA, equipped with an estimated 34 nuclear warheads....

    : Sank in 1986 (after an alleged collision with USS Augusta) due to an explosion in a missile tube and a fire, which disabled the submarine and led to evacuation. The boat sank with her 2 nuclear reactor plants, 16 SS-N-6 liquid-fueled missiles, and 34 nuclear warheads.
  • SS Polybius: Torpedoed by a German U-boat on 27 June 1942 about 250 miles (402.3 km) east of Trinidad. Within 10 minutes, the ship was on the bottom at 10° 55' N, 57° 40' W.

Baltic Sea

  • MS Estonia: about 22 nautical miles (41 km) on bearing 157° from Utö
    Utö, Finland
    Utö is a small island in the Archipelago Sea in the Baltic sea and belongs to Väståboland municipality. It is the southernmost year-round inhabited island in Finland. On the island there's a lighthouse, pilot station, a small guest harbour, a shop and a post office. Due to the remoteness of the...

     island, Finland
    Finland
    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

    .
  • Rusalka: Russian Ironclad warship
    Ironclad warship
    An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armor plates. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells. The first ironclad battleship, La Gloire,...

     in the Gulf of Finland
    Gulf of Finland
    The Gulf of Finland is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland and Estonia all the way to Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it. Other major cities around the gulf include Helsinki and Tallinn...

  • SMS Undine
    SMS Undine
    SMS Undine was an Imperial German light cruiser of the Gazelle Class, 105 meters long and was built in Kiel in 1902. Undine was used in the Naval warfare of World War I and was part of the German High Seas Fleet....

    : sunk by 2 torpedoes during World War I
    World War I
    World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

     in 1915
  • Cap Arcona
  • Graf Zeppelin
    German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin
    German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was the lead ship in a class of two carriers ordered by the Kriegsmarine. She was the only aircraft carrier launched by Germany during World War II and represented part of the Kriegsmarine's attempt to create a well-balanced oceangoing fleet, capable of...

    : German aircraft carrier that never saw service in World War II
  • MS Jan Heweliusz
  • Kronan
    Kronan (ship)
    Kronan, also called Stora Kronan, was a Swedish warship that was the flagship of the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea in the 1670s. When built, she was one of the largest seagoing vessels in the world. The construction of Kronan lasted 1668–72, delayed on account of difficulties with financing and...

  • Wilhelm Gustloff
    Wilhelm Gustloff (ship)
    The MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German KdF flagship during 1937-1945, constructed by the Blohm & Voss shipyards. It sank after being torpedoed by the Soviet submarine on 30 January 1945....

  • Goya
    Goya (ship)
    The Goya was a German transport ship sunk by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea, near the end of the Second World War, while carrying wounded Wehrmacht troops and civilians who were fleeing the advance of Soviet forces. Most of the crew and passengers died...


Barents Sea

  • Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets
    Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets
    K-278 Komsomolets was the only Project 685 Плавник nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy. The boat sank in 1989 and is currently resting on the floor of the Barents Sea, one mile deep, with its nuclear reactor and two nuclear warheads still on board...

    : caught fire and sank in the Barents Sea in 1989, with 2 nuclear weapons and 2 nuclear reactors still on board.: In the worst peacetime disaster to befall the UK fishing fleet, the Gaul disappeared without trace on the night of the 8–9 February 1974.

Black Sea

  • Struma: torpedoed by a Soviet submarine on 24 February 1942.
  • Armenia
    Armenia (ship)
    The Armenia was a transport ship operated by the Soviet Union during World War II to carry both wounded soldiers and military cargo. It had originally been built as a passenger ship for operations on the Black Sea, one of the first passenger ships constructed in the Soviet Union.Armenia was sunk on...

    : German airplane attack on 7 November 1941.

Indian Ocean

  • HMS Hermes
    HMS Hermes (95)
    HMS Hermes was an aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy. The ship was begun during World War I and finished after the war ended. She was the world's first ship to be designed and built as an aircraft carrier, although the Imperial Japanese Navy's was the first to be commissioned...

    : the world's first purpose-built aircraft carrier sunk after receiving 40 direct hits from Vice-Admiral Chuichi Nagumo's 70 Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter/bombers off the coast of Sri Lanka, near Batticaloa, on 9 April 1942.

  • Mahomed Shah
    Oswald Curtis
    Oswald Curtis was a 19th century New Zealand politician born in London, England on 20 January 1821. He was the son of Stephen Curtis and Eleanora LLewellyn. He migrated to Nelson in 1853, arriving on 18 June.- Mahomed Shah :...

    : caught fire on 18 April 1853 and sank several days later40°10′00"S 119°10′00"E. All on board were rescued.

  • SS Selma City: attacked by Japanese bombers on 6 April 1942 in the Bay of Bengal
    Bay of Bengal
    The Bay of Bengal , the largest bay in the world, forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. It resembles a triangle in shape, and is bordered mostly by the Eastern Coast of India, southern coast of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to the west and Burma and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the...

    , about 25 miles (40.2 km) offshore from Vizagapatam (now Vishakhapatnam), India. The ship finally sank the next day at 17° 11' N, 83° 20' E.

Mediterranean Sea

  • Antikythera wreck
    Antikythera wreck
    The Antikythera wreck is a shipwreck from the 1st or 2nd century BC. It was discovered by sponge divers off Point Glyphadia on the Greek island Antikythera in the early 1900s...

    : a 75–50 BC wreck discovered in October 1900 near the island of Antikythera
    Antikythera
    Antikythera or Anticythera is a Greek island lying on the edge of the Aegean Sea, between Crete and Peloponnese. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Kythira island....

    . The wreck contained many artifacts and, most importantly, the Antikythera mechanism
    Antikythera mechanism
    The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical computer designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was recovered in 1900–1901 from the Antikythera wreck. Its significance and complexity were not understood until decades later. Its time of construction is now estimated between 150 and 100...

    .
  • HMS Ark Royal
    HMS Ark Royal (91)
    HMS Ark Royal was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that served during the Second World War.Designed in 1934 to fit the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty, Ark Royal was built by Cammell Laird and Company, Ltd. at Birkenhead, England, and completed in November 1938. Her design...

    : British aircraft carrier
    Aircraft carrier
    An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations...

     torpedoed by the German submarine U-81 on 13 November 1941
  • HMS Athenienne
    HMS Athenienne
    HMS Athenienne was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was the former Maltese ship San Giovanni, captured by the French and recommissioned as Athénien, and eventually taken by the Royal Navy after the surrender of Valletta, on 4 September 1800.In 1805, under the command of...

    : ran aground in the Strait of Sicily
    Strait of Sicily
    The Strait of Sicily is the strait between Sicily and Tunisia. It is about wide and divides the Tyrrhenian Sea and the western Mediterranean Sea from the eastern Mediterranean. Its maximum depth is ....

    , 16 October 1806.
  • HMHS Britannic
    HMHS Britannic
    HMHS Britannic was the third and largest of the White Star Line. She was the sister ship of and , and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger liner. She was launched just before the start of the First World War and was laid up at her builders in Belfast for many months before...

    : Sister ship to the RMS Titanic, struck a mine off the Greek island of Kea
    Kea
    The Kea is a large species of parrot found in forested and alpine regions of the South Island of New Zealand. About long, it is mostly olive-green with a brilliant orange under its wings and has a large narrow curved grey-brown upper beak. The Kea is the world's only alpine parrot...

     on 21 November 1916, and sank with the loss of 30 lives.
  • HMT Royal Edward
    HMT Royal Edward
    HMTIn this case HMT stands for His Majesty's Troopship. Royal Edward was a passenger ship belonging to the Canadian Northern Steamship Company that was sunk during the First World War with a large loss of life while transporting Commonwealth troops...

    : torpedoed 13 Aug 1915, possibly 1,865 dead
  • Dakar
    INS Dakar
    INS Dakar was the former modified British T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. In 1965, she was purchased by Israel as part of a group of three T-class submarines. She was commissioned into the Israeli Sea Corps in November 1967 and underwent sea and diving trials in Scotland. Dakar departed for...

    : Israeli submarine
  • Provence: French cruiser sank, 3,100 perished
  • French submarine Eurydice (S644): French submarine
  • SS Merion
    SS Merion
    SS Merion was an ocean liner built in 1902 for the American Line, a subsidiary line of the International Mercantile Marine . She also sailed for the Red Star Line and the Dominion Line—both subsidiary lines of IMM—during her passenger career...

    : an ocean liner
    Ocean liner
    An ocean liner is a ship designed to transport people from one seaport to another along regular long-distance maritime routes according to a schedule. Liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes .Cargo vessels running to a schedule are sometimes referred to as...

     built in 1902 for the American Line
    American Line
    The American Line was a shipping company based in Philadelphia that was founded in 1871. It began as part of the Pennsylvania Railroad, although the railroad got out of the shipping business soon after founding the company...

    . Purchased by the Royal Navy to act as a decoy ship for the . Sunk by the German submarine .
  • HMS Sussex
    HMS Sussex (1693)
    HMS Sussex was an 80-gun third-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, lost in a severe storm on 1 March 1694 off Gibraltar. On board were possibly 10 tons of gold coins...

    : English warship sunk in 1694
  • HMS Victoria
    HMS Victoria (1887)
    HMS Victoria was the lead ship in her class of two battleships of the Royal Navy. On 22 June 1893, she collided with near Tripoli, Lebanon during manoeuvres and quickly sank, taking 358 crew with her, including the commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon...

    : British battleship sank in 1893
  • Eilat: Israeli destroyer
  • HMS Perseus (N36)
    HMS Perseus (N36)
    HMS Perseus was a British built in 1929 and lost in 1941 during the Second World War. This class were the first to be fitted with Mark VIII torpedoes....

    : British submarine sunk by mine 1941. One survivor.

Pacific Ocean

Coordinates of all the Pacific Ocean Shipwrecks] listed on this page, shown in Google.
  • Toya Maru
    Toya Maru
    The was a Japanese train ferry constructed by the Japanese National Railways which sank during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait between the Japanese islands of Hokkaidō and Honshū on September 26, 1954. It is said that 1,153 people aboard were killed in the accident...

    : passenger ferry sank 26 September 1954 in Tsugaru Strait, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    , 1,172 perished.: 169,000 ton bulk carrier sank on 10 September 1980 230 mi (370 km) off the coast of Okinawa, Japan claiming the lives of all 44 on board. The Kowloon Bridge was a sistership.
  • USS Yorktown (CV-5)
    USS Yorktown (CV-5)
    was an aircraft carrier commissioned in the United States Navy from 1937 until she was sunk at the Battle of Midway in June 1942. She was named after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781 and the lead ship of the Yorktown class which was designed after lessons learned from operations with the large...

    : sunk 1942 at Battle of Midway
    Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, approximately one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea and six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy decisively defeated...

    , wreck discovered 1998.
  • USS Lexington (CV-2)
    USS Lexington
    USS Lexington may refer to one of many actual or fictional vessels:In the United States Navy:, a brigantine acquired in 1776 and captured in 1777, a sloop in commission from 1826 to 1830 and from 1831 to 1855, a timberclad gunboat in commission from 1861 to 1865, an aircraft carrier commissioned in...

    : sunk 1942 at Battle of the Coral Sea
    Battle of the Coral Sea
    The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged...

    .
  • USS Wasp (CV-7)
    USS Wasp (CV-7)
    USS Wasp was a United States Navy aircraft carrier. The eighth Navy ship of that name, she was the sole ship of her class. Built to use up the remaining tonnage allowed to the U.S. for aircraft carriers under the treaties of the time, she was built on a reduced-size version of the Yorktown-class...

    : sunk 1942 enroute to Guadalcanal
    Guadalcanal
    Guadalcanal is a tropical island in the South-Western Pacific. The largest island in the Solomons, it was discovered by the Spanish expedition of Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568...

    .
  • USS Hornet (CV-8)
    USS Hornet (CV-8)
    USS Hornet CV-8, the seventh ship to carry the name Hornet, was a of the United States Navy. During World War II in the Pacific Theater, she launched the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo and participated in the Battle of Midway and the Buin-Faisi-Tonolai Raid...

    : sunk 1942 at Battle of Santa Cruz Islands.
  • USS New York (BB-34)
    USS New York (BB-34)
    USS New York was a United States Navy battleship, the lead ship of her class of two . She was the fifth ship to carry her name....

    : sunk as a target ship off Hawaii
    Hawaii
    Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

     after atomic bomb tests in 1948.
  • USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)
    USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)
    USS Pennsylvania was a United States Navy super-dreadnought battleship. She was the third Navy ship named for the state of Pennsylvania....

    :, sunk off Kwajalein
    Kwajalein
    Kwajalein Atoll , is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands . The southernmost and largest island in the atoll is named Kwajalein Island. English-speaking residents of the U.S...

     after atomic bomb tests in 1948.
  • USS Nevada (BB-36)
    USS Nevada (BB-36)
    USS Nevada , the second United States Navy ship to be named after the 36th state, was the lead ship of the two Nevada-class battleships; her sister ship was...

    : sunk off Hawaii
    Hawaii
    Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

     as a target ship after atomic bomb tests in 1948.
  • USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
    USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
    USS Oklahoma , the only ship of the United States Navy to ever be named for the 46th state, was a World War I-era battleship and the second of two ships in her class; her sister ship was . She, along with her sister, were the first two U.S...

    : originally sunk during Pearl Harbor
    Pearl Harbor
    Pearl Harbor, known to Hawaiians as Puuloa, is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet...

     attack in 1941. Raised, sunk while under tow between Hawaii and California.
  • Soviet submarine K-129 (Golf II)
    Soviet submarine K-129 (Golf II)
    K-129 was a Project 629A diesel-electric powered submarine of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, one of six Project 629 strategic ballistic missile submarines attached to the 15th Submarine Squadron based at Rybachiy Naval Base, Kamchatka, commanded by Rear Admiral Rudolf A...

    : famously retrieved from the seabed in the CIA's Project Jennifer
    Project Jennifer
    "AZORIAN" was the code name for a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor in the summer of 1974, using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer...

     by the Glomar Explorer: was a diesel submarine that carried 3 nuclear warheads. It sank in 1968 and was (partially) raised in 1974. The USS Halibut (SSN-587)
    USS Halibut (SSGN-587)
    USS Halibut , a unique guided missile submarine turned special operations platform, later redesignated as an attack submarine SSN-587, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the halibut.-Operational history:...

     allegedly took upwards of 10,000 pictures of the shipwreck.

Red Sea

Other Egyptian (Nile) wrecks are listed under Egypt. The wrecks of the Red Sea
Red Sea
The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez...

 include:
  • Aida: troop / supply ship, Big Brother island. Sank 15 September 1957.
  • Al-Baraqua II: passenger ferry capsized in 2006.
  • MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98: passenger ferry sank near Duba
    Duba
    Duba is a small city on the northern Red Sea coast, of Saudi Arabia. It is in Tabuk Province. Local citizens describe it as The Pearl of the Red Sea. Population: Population of Duba is about 65,000.-History:...

    , Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia
    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

     on 2 February 2006
  • SS Carnatic
    SS Carnatic
    The SS Carnatic was a British steamship built by Samuda Brothers at Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs, London in 1862 for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company....

    : hit reef at Sha'ab Abu Nuhas, north of Hurghada
    Hurghada
    Hurghada is a city in the Red Sea Governorate of Egypt. It is a main tourist center and second largest city in Egypt located on the Red Sea coast.- Overview :...

    , on 12 September 1869. 31 died during eventual sinking on 14 September 1869.
  • Chrisoula K: sank on 31 August 1981 at Sha'ab Abu Nuhas, north of Hurghada
    Hurghada
    Hurghada is a city in the Red Sea Governorate of Egypt. It is a main tourist center and second largest city in Egypt located on the Red Sea coast.- Overview :...

    .
  • SS Dunraven
    SS Dunraven
    The SS Dunraven was built in Newcastle upon Tyne at the C.Mitchell and C. Iron Ship Builders, launched in 1873 the ship was owned by a Mr W Milburn...

    : hit a reef and sank on 25 April 1876 close to the Sinai peninsula.
  • Giannis D: sank with its cargo of timber on 19 April 1983 at Sha'ab Abu Nuhas, North of Hurghada.
  • HMS Hussar
    HMS Hussar
    Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hussar, after the hussar.*The first Hussar was a 28-gun sixth-rate launched in 1757 and captured by the French in 1762 after running aground off Cuba....

  • Iria
  • Kimon M: sank on 12 December 1978 at Sha'ab Abu Nuhas, north of Hurghada
    Hurghada
    Hurghada is a city in the Red Sea Governorate of Egypt. It is a main tourist center and second largest city in Egypt located on the Red Sea coast.- Overview :...

    , when she ran into the reef of Abu Nuhas.
  • Numidia: sank on 20 July 1901 at Big Brother island.
  • El Mina: former Russian navy ship, bombed by the Israelis in 1969 and sank near Hurghada.
  • Nola
  • SS Rosalie Moller: was bombed 2 days after the supply ship Thistlegorm - anchored some 20 miles (32.2 km) away next to the Sinai peninsula - was sunk. She rests north of Hurghada, north of the reefs of Abu Nuhas, in some 50 meters of water. or not
  • Salem Express
    Salem Express
    The Salem Express is a shipwreck dive located in the Red Sea. It is controversial due to the tragic loss of life which occurred when she sank shortly after midnight on December 17, 1991....

    at Port Safaga
    Port Safaga
    Port Safaga, also known as Bur Safaga and Safaga , is a town in Egypt, on the coast of the Red Sea, located south of Hurghada. This small port is also a tourist area that consists of several bungalows and rest houses, including the Safaga Hotel, with a capacity of 48 rooms .Having numerous...

    : sank 57 miles (about 91 km) south off Hurghada on 17 December 1991 after running into a shallow reef, after the captain decided to take a shortcut on his trip from Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) to Safaga in Egypt.
  • SS Thistlegorm
    SS Thistlegorm
    The SS Thistlegorm was a British armed Merchant Navy ship built in 1940 by Joseph Thompson & Son in Sunderland, England. She was sunk on 6 October 1941 near Ras Muhammad in the Red Sea and is now a well known dive site.-Construction:...

    : sunk by German bombers in 1941 near Sharm el-Sheikh
    Sharm el-Sheikh
    Sharm el-Sheikh is a city situated on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate, Egypt, on the coastal strip along the Red Sea. Its population is approximately 35,000...

    .
  • Vicar of Bray
  • Zingara
    Zingara (ship)
    Zingara was a general cargo vessel that was shipwrecked in the Straits of Tiran in the Red Sea in 1984 and is now a recreational diving site.-History:...

    : commonly referred to as the Kormoran, sailed from Aqaba with a cargo of Phosphate Rock and hit the Laguna Reef in the Strait of Tiran.

South China Sea

  • HMS Prince of Wales: British battleship
    Battleship
    A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. Battleships were larger, better armed and armored than cruisers and destroyers. As the largest armed ships in a fleet, battleships were used to attain command of the sea and represented the apex of a...

     sunk by Japanese air attack off the East coast of Malaya on 10 December 1941 (see also Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse
    Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse
    The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a Second World War naval engagement that took place north of Singapore, off the east coast of Malaya, near Kuantan, Pahang where the British Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by land-based bombers and...

    ).
  • HMS Repulse
    HMS Repulse (1916)
    HMS Repulse was a Renown-class battlecruiser of the Royal Navy built during the First World War. She was originally laid down as an improved version of the s. Her construction was suspended on the outbreak of war on the grounds she would not be ready in a timely manner...

    : British battlecruiser
    Battlecruiser
    Battlecruisers were large capital ships built in the first half of the 20th century. They were developed in the first decade of the century as the successor to the armoured cruiser, but their evolution was more closely linked to that of the dreadnought battleship...

     sunk by Japanese air attack off the East coast of Malaya on 10 December 1941 (see also Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse
    Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse
    The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a Second World War naval engagement that took place north of Singapore, off the east coast of Malaya, near Kuantan, Pahang where the British Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by land-based bombers and...

    ).

Further reading

  • Jurisi, Mario, Ancient Shipwrecks of the Adriatic: maritime transport during the first and second centuries AD. (British archaeological reports: International series, 828) Oxford, Tempus Reparatum, 2000 ISBN 1-84171-039-3
  • Parker, A. J., Ancient Shipwrecks of the Mediterranean and the Roman provinces, (Oxford, 1992)
  • Pickford, Nigel, Lost Treasure Ships of the Northern Seas: a guide and gazetteer to 2000 years of shipwreck, (London: Chatham, 2006)

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