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The list of maritime disasters is a link page for maritime disasters by century. For a unified list of peacetime disasters by death toll, see List of accidents and disasters by death toll § Peacetime Maritime .
The combined death toll from both ships is estimated at 4,386, making the incident the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history. [5] [6] 4,386 1991
The ship was towed and beached. 33 people died while around 200 passengers were rescued. [51] 33 2012 Italy: Costa Concordia – The Italian cruise ship ran aground, capsized and sank in shallow waters on 13 January off the Isola del Giglio, killing 32 people (27 passengers and 5 crewmembers) out of 3,216 passengers and 1,013 crewmembers aboard. 32
The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships in U.S. history. [3] On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while traveling at 20 knots (37 km/h), ran aground at Honda Point (also known as Point Pedernales; the cliffs just off-shore called Devil's Jaw), a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the Gaviota ...
MS Jan Heweliusz sank on 14 January 1993, between about 04:10 and 05:12 as the ship was crossing the Baltic Sea, en route from Świnoujście, Poland, to Ystad, Sweden. Out of 64 passengers and crew, 55 died in the disaster, making it the largest peacetime maritime disaster in Polish history. [2]
The "unsinkable" ship sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg, claiming over 1,500 lives in one of peacetime's deadliest maritime disasters.
In December 1987, the ferry Dona Paz sank after colliding with a fuel tanker, killing more than 4,300 people in the world’s worst peacetime maritime disaster. The Aya Express had a capacity of ...
The sinking was one of the worst maritime disasters of the 20th century. [1] [2] It is one of the deadliest peacetime sinkings of a European ship, after the Titanic in 1912 and the Empress of Ireland in 1914, and the deadliest peacetime shipwreck to have occurred in European waters, with 852 (out of 989) lives lost. [3]