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The list includes incidents involving equipment (helicopters, whaleboats) attached to ships and naval establishments. The list excludes losses on non-RAN vessels (including attacks on merchant shipping), merchant seaman deaths, and other losses (including prisoner of war deaths). Fatalities include all lives lost on the named vessel at each ...
Ship Flag Sunk date Notes Coordinates Aagot Norway: 11 October 1907 A sailing ship that was wrecked on Wardang Island. Admella: South Australia: 5 August 1859 A passenger ship that ran onto a reef off the Carpenter Rocks, with 89 lives lost including 14 children.
The only ship sunk during the war by a German U-boat in the Pacific Ocean. [10] Attack on ship, sinking and rescue of crew described in the Australian Official Histories of the Second World War. [11] (Liberty ship) 6/2/45 U 862: SS Peter Silvester: 7176 820 nm SW of Fremantle In the Indian Ocean, 32 of crew lost [12] (Liberty ship)
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
Pages in category "Missing ships of Australia" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The search for an Australian army helicopter that crashed at sea killing four people during a military exercise with the United States last week found human remains but not the black box crucial ...
List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1960 Ship State Description Brant United States: The 100-foot (30.5 m) oil exploration survey vessel burned and sank in 150 feet (46 m) of water in the Pacific Ocean off Point Conception, California, after an engine room fire went out of control. Small vessels in the vicinity rescued her entire crew of eight. [45] [46 ...
Disaster Location Deaths Date Notes Shipwreck: Christmas Island: 48: 2010 Dec 15: 2010 Christmas Island boat disaster: Cyclone/Flood: Cairns and Cardwell, Queensland: 47: 1927 Feb 9: This tropical cyclone crossed the coast north of Cairns, which weakened into a rain depression, causing extensive flooding, resulting in a total 47 deaths throughout parts of Northern Queensland [102]