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To be blown off course in the sailing ship era meant be to diverted by unexpected winds, getting lost possibly to shipwreck or to a new destination. In the ancient world, this was especially a great danger before the maturation of the Maritime Silk Road in the Early Middle Ages, finding expression in the writing of Cosmas Indicopleustes. [1]
The sinking of the Titanic, illustrated by Willy Stöwer in 1912.. Shipwrecking is an event that causes a shipwreck, such as a ship striking something that causes the ship to sink; the stranding of a ship on rocks, land or shoal; poor maintenance, resulting in a lack of seaworthiness; or the destruction of a ship either intentionally or by violent weather.
The Wakamiya-maru was a Japanese cargo ship whose crew members became the first Japanese to circumnavigate the globe after their ship went off course after getting caught in a storm en route from Ishinomaki in the TÅhoku region of northern Japan to Edo (now Tokyo) in November 1793.
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Being blown onto a beach, reef, or rocks during a storm, termed "grounding" (e.g., Royal Adelaide) Collision with another ship (e.g., Andrea Doria) Catastrophic explosion (e.g., HMS Hood), steamship boilers often explode when water covers them during the process of sinking; Fire that burns for a long time before the ship sinks (e.g., Achille Lauro)
HMS Nubian was a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer.She was launched in 1909 and torpedoed in 1916. With her bow blown off, the wreck was used to create a new ship by joining the bow of another destroyer of the same class, HMS Zulu.
WELLINGTON (Reuters) -A Royal New Zealand Navy vessel ran aground and sank off Samoa but all 75 crew and passengers on board were safe, the New Zealand Defence Force said in a statement on Sunday.
The passenger ship caught fire in the Indian Ocean off Socotra and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by Umtata ( United Kingdom). [210] Manoussis Greece: The cargo ship ran aground on the Carromeiro Rocks, off Corcubión, A Coruña, Spain and was a total loss. [211] Tafna United Kingdom: The cargo ship ran aground in the Tunas Channel, Cuba ...