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Hansa Carrier was a container ship. On 27 May 1990, en route from Korea to the United States , the ship encountered a storm which caused the loss of 21 40-foot cargo containers south of the Alaska Peninsula , near 48°N 161°W / 48°N 161°W / 48;
The container ship suffered an onboard explosion and caught fire off Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her crew were rescued on 25 May by the Sri Lankan Navy. She was burned out by 1 June and sank in 70 feet (21 m) of water with the superstructure above water. [86] [87] [88]
MV Rubymar - On February 18, 2024, a British civilian cargo ship was struck by a Houthi anti-ship missile. On March 2 the ship sank in the Red Sea after being abandoned for 13 days. The attack is regarded as the first time a Houthi attack has sunk a vessel, as most attacks have resulted in minor damage.
One contributor to the accident could be parametric roll resonance, [7] a hazard known to affect container ships. [8] The ONE Apus incident was the largest loss of containers in transport since the MOL Comfort sank in 2013. The cargo loss cost is estimated at $90 million. [9] The ship was delayed for approximately three months.
Caught fire in the middle of the Pacific Ocean about 1,800 nautical miles from Oahu. Nearby commercial ships helped rescue 16 crew members, but five crew members lost their lives in the incident. [18] The ship was reportedly carrying 3,800 Nissan vehicles, but the cause of the fire is still unknown. 10 March 2019: Grande America
The decommissioned Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship was sunk as a target in a SINKEX exercise in the Pacific Ocean off the northern coast of Kauai, Hawaii in 15,000 feet (4,600 m) of water. She was sunk by an AGM-158C LRASM fired from a Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft.
In the meantime, Synergy and the ship’s owner, Grace Ocean, filed a petition in the U.S. District Court of Maryland seeking to limit their financial liability for the accident to $43.7 million ...
The container ship ran aground on the Durand Reef, 54 nautical miles (100 km) off Maré, New Caledonia. [131] [132] Her crew were evacuated in the week before 24 August. [133] She was declared a constructive total loss. [134] The ship broke in two over the weekend of 11–12 November. [135]