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Caught fire close to Mallorca; no casualties. [20] 15 June 2019 MV Diamond Highway: Caught fire in the South China Sea, with all 25 crew members abandoning ship and rescued by a bulk carrier. [21] [22] 9 September 2019: MV Golden Ray: Capsized in St. Simons Sound, no casualties. Vessel caught fire during salvage operations. [23] [24] 4 June 2020
SS Heraklion (sometimes spelled out in books as the Iraklion) was a roll on/roll off car ferry operating the lines Piraeus – Chania and Piraeus – Heraklion (Irakleio) between 1965 and 1966. The ship capsized and sank on 8 December 1966 in the Aegean Sea, resulting in the death of more than 200 people. Its demise was one of the greatest ...
The disaster was also featured in an episode of Deadly Engineering (Season 1, Episode 5) on the Science Channel. On 1 July 2014, The History Press released a book called Ninety Seconds at Zeebrugge: The Herald of Free Enterprise Story ( ISBN 9780752497839 ), telling the story of the disaster and its aftermath.
MS Scandinavian Star, originally named MS Massalia, was a car and passenger ferry built in France in 1971. The ship was set on fire on 7 April 1990, killing 159 people. The official investigation determined the fire had been caused by a convicted arsonist who died in the blaze. [1]
Pages in category "Ferry boat disasters" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
For Lee Mi-kyung, whose son was one of the 250 children who died in South Korea's Sewol ferry disaster 10 years ago, coping with the grief and anger has been incredibly hard. Some of the mothers ...
1944 – Port Chicago disaster — E. A. Bryan docked in Port Chicago, California underwent massive explosions and fire while munitions were loaded. 320 people were killed and 390 were injured. 1947 – Texas City disaster — two ships' cargoes of ammonium nitrate caught fire and exploded, killing 581, more than 5,000 injured.
The crash came just two days after the deadliest US air disaster in decades when an American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided in midair with an Army helicopter ...