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Maritime Vessel Shipping line 1 Date Deaths 1 Missing 1 Survivors 1 Remarks SS Corregidor: Compania Maritima 17 December 1941 900-1,200 [1]: Unknown 282 The ferry was sailing to the Visayas and was carrying around 1200-1500 passengers, mostly refugees fleeing the bombing of Manila by the Japanese during the Second World War, when it struck a mine off Corregidor Island and sank in five minutes.
The MV Doña Paz was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry that sank after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector on December 20, 1987. With an estimated death toll of 4,386 people and only 24 survivors, it was the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history. Doña Paz was traveling from Leyte island to the Philippine capital of Manila ...
List of maritime disasters in the Philippines; 0–9. 2000 Ozamiz ferry bombing; 2019 Reed Bank incident; 2022 Samar boat explosion; 2024 Manila Bay oil spill; A.
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 .
21 October 1977 – A US Marine Corps helicopter crashed during a military exercise in Mindoro, killing 24 servicemen. [7] 26 February 1981 – A US Air Force C-130 plane crashed into the South China Sea, near Subic Bay Naval Base, killing 23 of 24 American, Philippine, Australian, and New Zealand military personnel aboard. [8]
Location: Tablas Strait, Philippines [a]: Coordinates: 1]: Date: February 28, 2023; 21 months ago (): Cause; Cause: Sinking of MT Princess Empress: Casualties: 203 non-fatal injuries [2]: Operator: RDC Reield Marine Services [3]: Spill characteristics; Volume: <1 million L (260,000 US gal) [b]: Area: 162.6 km 2 (62.8 sq mi) [6]: Shoreline impacted: 74.7 km (46.4 mi) [7]: On the morning of ...
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The term maritime disaster can refer to both commercial ships and military naval ships. A maritime disaster can result in one or more of the following simultaneously; Loss of life; Pollution of marine environment (in case of oil spill, foul discharge of materials, sulphur emitted from fuels, etc.) Degradation of the aquatic ecosystem