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List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1978 Ship State Description Chandragupta India The supercarrier Chandragupta sank in a January storm in the Pacific Ocean. 68 crewmembers died with the ship, which left an enormous trail of wreckage in the water, scattered over a 36-mile (58 km) area. [1]
List of shipwrecks in 1978; 0–9. 1978 Whippoorwill tornado; Template:1978 shipwrecks; A. Soviet cruiser Admiral Senyavin; Amoco Cadiz; Amoco Cadiz oil spill; Astron ...
List of shipwrecks of Europe. List of shipwrecks of France; List of shipwrecks of the United Kingdom. List of shipwrecks of England; List of shipwrecks of North America. List of shipwrecks of Canada; List of shipwrecks of the United States. List of shipwrecks of California; List of shipwrecks of Florida; List of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes
1978 West Germany: The MS München was a LASH carrier of the Hapag-Lloyd line that sank with all crew for unknown reasons in a severe storm on 13 December. The most accepted theory is that one or more rogue waves hit München and damaged it, so that it drifted for 33 hours with a list of 50 degrees without electricity or propulsion. 28 1981 Israel
MS München was a German LASH carrier of the Hapag-Lloyd line that sank with all 28 hands for unknown reasons in a severe North Atlantic storm in December 1978. The most accepted theory is that one or more rogue waves hit München and damaged her, so that she drifted for 33 hours with a list of 50 degrees without electricity or propulsion.
On 16 March 1978 in a southwesterly gale, the Amoco Cadiz passed Ushant at the western tip of Brittany, headed for Lyme Bay in the United Kingdom. At 9:46 am when the supertanker was north of Ushant and 16 nautical miles (30 km; 18 mi) west of Portsall she turned to avoid another ship and her rudder jammed, full over to port.
List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1979 Ship State Description Glacier Queen United States The floating hotel's wreck – refloated after sinking at anchor in November 1978 in Seldovia Bay) in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of Alaska – was scuttled in 12,000 feet (3,700 m) of water in the Gulf of Alaska 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) west of Cape Saint Elias on the southwestern tip ...
Closest shipwreck to the mouth of the Buffalo River: Narragansett: 11 June 1880 A passenger paddle steamer of the Stonington Line that burned and sank on 11 June 1880, after a collision with her sister ship Stonington in heavy fog at 23:30 in Long Island Sound. Approximately 50 passengers, but only one crewman, died. Nisbet Grammer United Kingdom