List of shipwrecks in 2012
The list of shipwrecks in 2012 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 2012.
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January
1 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Jin Hang Bo 53 | China | The hopper vessel sank at Port Elizabeth, South Africa.[1] |
Safina | Kenya | The ferry collided with a cargo ship off Lamu Island and sank with the loss of nine lives. There were at least 48 survivors.[2][3] |
Unidentified ship | Unknown | Overloaded with a cargo of 1,700 tons of stone, the bulk carrier ran aground in the Yangtze River in China after a navigation error. All crewmen on board were rescued.[4] |
Skulptor Tomskiy | Belize | The refrigerated cargo ship ran aground in the Morskoy Canal in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was refloated the next day with the assistance of four tugs.[5] |
2 January
4 January
7 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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MSC Poesia | Panama | The cruise ship ran aground on a reef off Grand Bahama. The ship remained on the reef for the day until it was eventually pulled off by four tugs. |
8 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Tycoon | Panama | The phosphate carrier broke her mooring and was pushed into the cliffs at Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island and broke up, spilling oil and phosphate into the sea. All fifteen crew were rescued by Royal Australian Navy RIBs.[8] |
11 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Anke Angela | Gibraltar | The cargo vessel ran aground in Kalmar Strait, in the Baltic Sea, Sweden.[9] |
12 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Harmony SW | Panama | The cargo vessel ran aground in the Kiel Canal.[10] |
13 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Costa Concordia | Italy | The Concordia-class cruise ship ran aground off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany (42°21′53″N 10°55′16″E). There were 32 deaths amongst the 4,252 people on board. Declared a constructive total loss, Costa Concordia was parbuckled upright on 17 September 2013. She was refloated on 14 July 2014, departing under tow on 23 July for Genoa, where she was scrapped. |
FAS Provence | Bahamas | While under tow from Dakar the ship sank on the Medina Bank in the Mediterranean Sea.[11] |
14 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Doola No.3 | South Korea | The tanker broke in two after an explosion onboard near Jawol Island in the Yellow Sea.[12] |
15 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Doola 3 | South Korea | The tanker exploded and sank off Jawol Island with the loss of eleven of her sixteen crew.[13] |
Edirne | Sierra Leone | The tanker sank after an explosion onboard off the city of Durrës in Albania, with one crew member reported dead and two more reported missing.[14] |
Lady Moon | United Kingdom | The tanker sank off Al Hamriya, Dubai. Her five crew were rescued.[15] |
Fishing vessel | Unknown | The fishing vessel sank after colliding with the cargo ship Cheng Lu 28 ( China) in the Hainan Strait off Hainan, China. Three crew members were reported missing.[16] |
16 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mako | United States | The offshore supply vessel was destroyed by fire and sank in the Atlantic Ocean 6 nautical miles (11 km) off the coast of Nigeria.[17] |
Tit Bonhomme | Ireland | The fishing vessel sank, after hitting rocks, near Glandore Harbour, County Cork. Five crew members reported missing.[18] |
20 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Aztec Maiden | Philippines | The cargo ship ran aground at Wijk aan Zee, North Holland, Netherlands.[19] The ship was pulled free a day later and brought to IJmuiden for inspection.[20] |
Kayan 1 | Sierra Leone | The cargo ship collided with Adria Blu ( Tanzania) off Istanbul, Turkey and was beached. Her thirteen crew were rescued. A temporary repair was made and the ship was refloated. She was taken in to Istanbul.[21] |
22 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hamed II | United Arab Emirates | The supply vessel sank off Al Hamriya, Dubai with the loss of one of her six crew.[22] |
Seaford 2 | Philippines | The cargo vessel sank off San Jose, Philippines after suffering a severe list. All crew were rescued.[23] |
Sun Spirits | Panama | The cargo vessel sank off Binorong Point, Philippines after her cargo of iron ore shifted. All crew were rescued.[23] |
24 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kimberly | United States | The 61-gross ton, 58-foot (17.7 m) fishing vessel ran aground in Jute Bay (57°32′30″N 151°51′00″W) on the coast of Kodiak Island in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago during a gale. A United States Coast Guard helicopter rescued her crew of four on 25 January.[24][25] |
25 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hallgrímur | Iceland | The fishing trawler sank in a storm off Ålesund, Norway. One crew member was rescued by a Royal Norwegian Air Force helicopter, with three others missing.[26] The body of the trawler's captain was recovered from the sea north of Tromsø, Norway, in late March 2012.[27] At the time of her loss, Hallgrímur had been on the way to the Fosen Gjenvinning breaker's yard at Stoksund in Sør-Trøndelag for scrapping.[28] |
Heritage | United States | The 109-gross ton, 67-foot (20.4 m) fishing vessel sank 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) east of Tanner Head (57°15′N 134°37′W) on the south end of Kodiak Island in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago with seven people aboard. A United States Coast Guard Sikorsky MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter rescued two people, and the vessel Tuxedni ( United States) picked up the other five.[24] |
26 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Delta Mariner | United States | The aircraft transport ship struck the Eggner Ferry Bridge over the Kentucky Lake. No injuries or loss of vehicles from the bridge were reported in the late night collision. As of 27 January, the ship remains stranded mid-stream with a large section of bridge wrapped around the upper forward decks, and dragging on the bottom.[29] |
27 January
29 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Anna Akhmatova | Russia | The passenger ship was severely damaged by fire and sank at Moscow.[31] |
30 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unknown trawler | Australia | The fishing trawler capsized and broke up after hitting the breakwall at the entrance to the Tweed River, New South Wales, Australia. Two crew were rescued.[32] |
Girl Rona | United Kingdom | The trawler capsized after hitting a sandbank whilst trying to enter Teignmouth harbour, Devon. All five crew rescued.[33] |
February
2 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Rabaul Queen | Papua New Guinea | The overloaded passenger ferry sank off the northwest coast of Papua New Guinea near Finschhafen.[35] The final death toll is unknown because the exact number of passengers is unknown; estimates range from 88 to 223,[36][37] with the official Commission of Inquiry estimating the dead at 146 to 165.[38] |
5 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Captain Ivan Vikulov | Malta | The cargo ship suffered an onboard explosion and caught fire in the Azov Sea. Her fourteen crew were rescued by the icebreaker Kapitan Moshkin ( Russia). The severely damaged ship was subsequently anchored off Strilkove, Ukraine.[39] |
7 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alaca 1 | Panama | The cargo ship was crushed by ice in the Azov Sea off Kirillovka, Ukraine. Her twelve crew abandoned ship and were subsequently rescued.[40] |
Tanya Karpinskaya | Russia | The cargo ship was in collision with Kota Duta ( Singapore) off Niigata, Japan. She consequently capsized and sank. Her seventeen crew were rescued.[41] |
8 February
10 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bien Nam 17 | Vietnam | The cargo ship collided with two other vessels and sank in the Nha Be River at Ho Chi Minh City with the loss of one of her twelve crew.[43] The vessel was refloated on 23 February.[44] |
13 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Combattant | France | The hopper vessel struck a mooring and sank in the Rhône at Beaucaire, Gard.[45] |
14 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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En Avant | Netherlands | The tug sank in the Bijlands Kanaal at Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland.[46] |
15 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Maverick Dos | Spain | The passenger ship ran aground in the Balearic Islands. All 25 people on board were rescued.[47] |
Shun King 8 | Tonga | Cyclone Jasmine: The fishing vessel capsized and foundered off Tongatapu. Her three crew were rescued.[48] |
Takuo | Tonga | Cyclone Jasmine: The fishing vessel foundered.[48] |
16 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Karakumneft | Russia | The tanker ran aground off Iturup Island. Her 20 crew were rescued.[49] |
Phantom | Gibraltar | The cargo ship developed a severe list off Öland Sweden after her cargo shifted. Her six crew were rescued by a Swedish Coast Guard helicopter.[50] Phantom was later towed in to Oskarshamn.[51] |
Yogi | France | The super-yacht sank in a storm during the early morning hours off the island of Skyros, Greece.[52] Her eight crew were rescued by a Hellenic Coast Guard helicopter.[53] |
18 February
19 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fadak 150 | Iran | The tug was destroyed by fire in the Persian Gulf. Her nine crew were rescued.[56] |
22 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Commando | Netherlands | The tug capsized and sank at Krimpen aan den IJssel, South Holland. Both crew were rescued by Gepke ( Netherlands).[57] |
23 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Family Union | Spain | The fishing vessel sank off Vélez-Málaga in Spain after it sprung a leak; the crew was rescued.[58] |
24 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Miss Pearl | United States | The crew vessel ran aground near Houston, Texas. Her four crew were rescued.[59] |
27 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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MSC Carole | Panama | The container ship ran aground on a reef off Jakarta, Indonesia.[60] |
28 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Inzhener Nazarov | Russia | The tanker caught fire in the Caspian Sea off Makhachkala and was abandoned with the loss of one of her fourteen crew.[61] |
March
2 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bo Yun 018 | China | The coaster collided with Dream Diva ( Panama) and sank in the Pearl River Delta off Zhuhai with the loss of eight of her ten crew.[63] |
Cyclone | United States | The fishing vessel sank 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) east of Cape Chiniak (57°37′N 152°10′W) on the coast of Alaska's Kodiak Island after her lazarette flooded. Her crew of three abandoned ship wearing survival suits and was rescued by the fishing vessel Glacier ( United States).[64] |
Governor Herbert H. Lehman | United States | The ferry sprang a leak and sank at Newburgh, New York.[65] |
5 March
7 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Stena Feronia | Sweden | The ferry collided in Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland with Union Moon ( Cook Islands.[67] |
Cebu Ferry 1 | Philippines | The ferry caught fire off Matuko Point. All 43 passengers were taken off by Supercat 38 ( Philippines). Cebu Ferry 1 was later towed in to Batangas.[68] |
9 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Algoma Discovery | Canada | The bulk carrier caught fire and nearly sank while at port in Hamilton, Ontario. |
Celina | Antigua and Barbuda | The container ship ran aground off Måløy, Norway and was severely damaged. Twelve of her fourteen crew were taken off, the other two remaining on board to assist with salvage efforts.[69] |
10 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Chevelle | United States | The fishing vessel ran aground at Newport, Oregon in high wind.[70] |
Gelso M | Italy | The chemical tanker ran aground off Syracuse, Sicily. All nineteen crew were rescued by helicopter.[71] |
Seagate | United Kingdom | The bulk carrier was in collision with the refrigerated cargo ship Timor Stream ( Liberia 24 nautical miles (44 km) north of Manzanillo, Dominican Republic. Seagate was extensively damaged and was declared a constructive total loss.[72] |
13 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kenos Athena | South Korea | The tanker capsized and foundered off Guangdong, China. Her eighteen crew were rescued.[73] |
Shariatpur 1 | Bangladesh | The ferry sank about 50 kilometres (27 nmi) south of the capital Dhaka after hitting an oil barge. The death toll early the next morning stood at 110 killed and at least 61 missing.[74] |
Yuan Tong | Panama | The cargo ship foundered off Zhoushan, China with the loss of eight of her 40 crew.[75] |
14 March
15 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bareli | Singapore | The container ship ran aground in the East China Sea 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) off Fuqing, China and broke in two. All 21 crew were rescued.[77] |
Stolt Valor | Hong Kong | An explosion and subsequent fire onboard the chemical tanker killed one crewman. The ship was later declared total loss and sold for scrapping.[78] |
Tong Chang Qi Du 11 | China | The ferry collided with Shun Qiang 28 ( China in the Yangtze River and sank with the loss of two lives.[79] |
19 March
27 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Patrice McAllister | Canada | The tugboat caught fire off the coast of Kingston, Ontario in Lake Ontario. |
April
1 April
3 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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MV Ara Felixtowe | Cyprus | The cargo ship suffered a fire in her engine room. All nine crew were rescued by a KNRM lifeboat. The fire was extinguished and her crew returned to the ship, which was towed in to Harlingen, Netherlands.[82] |
Carrier | Antigua and Barbuda | The coaster ran aground at Llanddulas, United Kingdom. All seven crew were rescued.[83] She was declared a constructive total loss and was consequently scrapped in situ.[84] |
New Lucky VII | Hong Kong | The cargo ship foundered in the East China Sea off the Amami Island, Japan with the loss of six of her seventeen crew.[85] |
4 April
5 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ryō Un Maru | Japan | 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami: The derelict fishing vessel, which had been drifting in the Pacific Ocean for over a year, was shelled and sunk 195 nautical miles (361 km) off Sitka, Alaska, United States by USCGC Anacapa ( United States Navy).[87] |
10 April
23 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Aquarius | United Kingdom | The tug sank 45 miles off the Lizard with one of the three crew missing.[89] |
30 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unnamed ferry | India | 2012 Assam ferry sinking: The ferry capsized in the Brahmaputra River in the Dhubri district of Assam state in northeastern India; more than 100 bodies were recovered.[90] |
May
2 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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FR8 Pride | Marshall Islands | The tanker collided with the oil rig Rowan EXL-1 in the Gulf of Mexico and was holed. She was beached near Corpus Christi, Texas.[91] |
3 May
4 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Igloo | United States | The 14-gross ton, 38.3-foot (11.7 m) salmon troller ran aground near Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport in Sitka, Alaska. Her two crewmen were rescued. Several days later, Igloo sank in 50 feet (15 m) of water 200 yards (180 m) off Cannon Island in Sitka while under tow to a safe location for dismantling.[93] |
12 May
18 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Purbeck Isle | United Kingdom | The wreck of the fishing vessel was found one day after she went missing ten miles off Portland, England in 50 m. One body recovered and two missing.[95] |
19 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Erol Senkaya | Turkey | The cargo ship sank in the Ionian Sea between Zakynthos and the Greek mainland with the loss of four of her ten crew.[96] |
23 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Solfish 001 | Solomon Islands | The inter-island cargo ship sank for unknown reasons near the Solomon Islands. All on board were rescued from life rafts several days later.[97] |
26 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kapitan Bolsunovskiy | Russia | The fishing trawler was holed by ice in the Bering Sea and foundered off Dezhnev Point. Her 90 crew were rescued by Derzu Uzala ( Russia).[98] |
June
25 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Flash | grounded at Galite Islands, Tunisia, later laid up until 2017. In 2017 scrapped in Aliaga[100] |
July
2 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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USCGC Mohawk | United States Coast Guard | The museum ship, a decommissioned Algonquin-class cutter, was sunk as an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico 28 nautical miles (32 miles; 52 km) off Captiva Island, Florida. |
12 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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HYSY 699 | China | . Typhoon Vicente: The ship sank off Hong Kong. Her crew were rescued.[101] |
14 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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MSC Flaminia | Germany | The container ship suffered an onboard explosion and fire in the Atlantic Ocean (47°52′N 30°44′W) with the loss of two of her crew of 23. Survivors abandoned ship and were rescued by DS Crown ( Bahamas). |
USNS Niagara Falls | United States Navy |
17 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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USNS Concord | United States Navy | The inactivated Mars-class combat stores ship was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean 61 nautical miles (70 miles; 113 km) off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, by a Mark 48 torpedo fired by the submarine HMCS Victoria ( Royal Canadian Navy) during the RIMPAC 2012 exercise. |
18 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Skagit | Tanzania | The ferry sank in the Indian Ocean off Zanzibar with great loss of life. Only 145 of the 280 people on board were reported to have been rescued as of 23 July, with 78 bodies recovered.[102] |
August
2 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Evening Star | United States | The 35-gross ton, 50-foot (15.2 m) purse-seine fishing vessel capsized and sank in Slocum Arm (57°34′N 136°03′W) in Southeast Alaska just after hauling a large set of pink salmon aboard, dumping four members of her five-person crew into the water. They were picked up by the fifth crewmen, who was operating her seine skiff, and all five then were rescued from the skiff by the fishing vessel El Dorado ( United States).[103] |
8 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Chamarel | Mauritius | The cable ship was destroyed by fire off Walvis Bay, Namibia. |
16 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ocean Breeze | Hong Kong | The bulk carrier was driven ashore at Llolleo, Chile. She was declared a constructive total loss.[104] |
26 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hansa Berlin | Liberia | The container ship was grounded off the coast of Mariel, Cuba, due to engine failure and heavy seas from Hurricane Isaac.[105][106] |
28 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pacific Carrier | South Korea | The bulk carrier broke in two after breaking her moorings and drifting to the shore near Sacheon, South Korea. The ship had been struck by another vessel eight months earlier and was awaiting for repairs. The ship was declared constructive total loss and scrapped in situ.[107] |
30 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Two unidentified barges | United States | The two retired 50-foot (15.2 m) barges were scuttled in the North Atlantic Ocean 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) off Mantoloking, New Jersey, in 80 feet (24 m) of water at 40°03.585′N 073°59.391′W both to serve as an artificial reef and as a means of delivering a 47-foot (14.3 m) sculpture of a horseshoe crab intended to lie on the seafloor as part of the reef. Bridles holding the sculpture to the barges broke as the barges sank, causing the sculpture to fall off the barges, hit the seafloor first, and shatter, and the pieces of the sculpture were damaged further when the sinking barges landed on top of them. The wrecks of the two barges and the wreckage of the sculpture are known collectively as the "Horseshoe Crab barge."[108] |
31 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Advantage | United States | The 48.9-foot (14.9 m) or 58-foot (17.7 m) crab and longline fishing vessel capsized and sank in the Gulf of Alaska 14 nautical miles (26 km; 16 mi) southeast of Sitkalidak Island in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago. One crewman was trapped inside her hull when she sank and was lost. A United States Coast Guard Sikorsky MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifted her other three crewmen from her overturned hull, but one of them died soon afterward of respiratory failure and saltwater aspiration.[109] |
September
1 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Chloe T | United Kingdom | The fishing vessel sank off Start Point, Devon. All five crew were taken off by a helicopter from RNAS Culdrose.[110] |
6 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unnamed boat | Unknown | A fishing boat carrying illegal migrants sank after hitting rocks in Baradan Bay off the coast of Turkey, resulting in 61 deaths.[111] |
21 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Huelin Dispatch | Jersey | The 2,500 DWT cargo vessel ran aground on Pierre au Vraic rocks near Alderney during her maiden voyage. After making temporary repairs to a leak in her stern she made it to Falmouth Docks for further repairs.[112][113] |
24 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kyeema Spirit | Bahamas | The 113,357 DWT[114] oil tanker, ran aground on a shoal to the east of the island of Aegna near Tallinn, Estonia. The 250-metre (820 ft 3 in) tanker was not carrying cargo, but was reportedly leaking bilge water.[115] |
25 September
26 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bahuga Jaya | Indonesia | The passenger ferry sank after collision with LPG/chemical tanker Norgas Cathinka ( Singapore) off Jakarta, Indonesia, resulting in loss of eight lives. Over 200 passengers and crew were rescued. The tanker received minor structural damage, but was not in danger of sinking.[117] |
27 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hao Han | China | The cargo ship caught fire in Osaka Bay. Her twelve crew were rescued by the Japanese Coast Guard.[118] |
28 September
October
1 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lamma IV | Hong Kong | The passenger ferry sank after a collision with another passenger ferry Sea Smooth ( Hong Kong), off Lamma Island, Hong Kong, resulting 39 killed and more than 100 injured.[121] |
2 October
4 October
5 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Haoda 6 | China | The cargo ship caught fire in the Inland Sea of Japan.[118] |
14 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sterno | Sweden | The bulk carrier ran aground and was damaged between Nynashamn and Trosa.[125] |
20 October
21 October
28 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Amurskaya | Russia | The cargo ship was presumed to have foundered in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Shantar Islands (54°40′38″N 135°50′30″E). An EPIRB from the vessel was activated.[129][130] |
29 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bounty | United States |
30 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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John B. Caddell | United States | |
Saigon Queen | Vietnam | Cyclone Nilam: The cargo ship sank in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka. Eighteen of her 22 crew were rescued.[134] |
31 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Prathiba Cauvery | India | Cyclone Nilam: The chemical tanker was driven ashore at Besant Nagar with the loss of six of her 37 crew.[135][136] She was refloated on 11 November with assistance from the tug Malavya 21 ( India).[137] |
November
3 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Conmar Cape | Antigua and Barbuda | The cargo ship ran aground off Subic Bay, Philippines. She was on a voyage from Manila, Philippines to Hong Kong.[138] She was refloated between 16 and 18 November.[139] |
10 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Atoll | Russia | The tug foundered in the Sea of Azov. Her three crew were rescued.[140] |
14 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Marion Dufresne | France | The research ship ran aground off Possession Island, Crozet Islands.[141] |
19 November
28 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Tundra | Cyprus | The bulk carrier ran aground in the Saint Lawrence River. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Quebec to Halifax, Nova Scotia.[143] She was refloated on 5 December and taken into Trois-Rivières, Quebec.[144] |
29 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Trans Agila | Antigua and Barbuda | The cargo ship ran aground in Kalmar Strait and was in danger of sinking due to flooding of engine room. She was consequently beached on a sandbank.[145][146] She was refloated on 1 December and towed into Kalmar.[147] |
December
4 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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BBC Adriatic | Germany | The cargo ship was driven ashore at Kilyos, Turkey.[148] |
Volgo-Balt 199 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | The general cargo ship sank in a storm off the coast of Turkey. Of the crew of 11, four were rescued and one is confirmed dead. Two rescuers were also killed and three remain missing when the boat carrying them hit rocks and sank.[149] |
5 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Baltic Ace | Bahamas | The car carrier and container ship Corvus J ( Cyprus) collided in the North Sea some 22 to 27 nautical miles (40 to 50 km) from the port of Rotterdam. As a result, Baltic Ace began taking on water and was sinking as the rescue boats and a helicopter rushed to the scene. Of the crew of 24, five were confirmed dead and six remained missing, presumed dead while 13 crew members were rescued.[150] |
6 December
7 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Melody | Russia | The cargo ship ran aground near Krilyon Point, Sakhalin. She was on a voyage from Vladivostok to Korsakov.[152] |
11 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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CSL Tadoussac | Canada | The lake freighter collided with a pier at Toledo, Ohio. The vessel's fuel bunker was pierced, causing a minor oil spill.[153] |
14 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Equity | United States | The 25-gross ton, 42-foot (12.8 m) troller struck a rock and sank southwest of Heceta Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. The fishing vessel High Pockets ( United States) rescued her entire crew of three.[103] |
Unidentified boat | Turkey | A boat carrying immigrants from Turkey sank in the northeastern Aegean Sea off the Greek island of Lesbos, killing at least 18 people.[154] |
18 December
24 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Asian Lily | Panama | The refrigerated cargo ship ran aground on Kwaiawata Island, Marshall Bennett Islands (8°54′S 151°5′E). She was still aground on 4 January 2013.[156] |
28 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Al-Jasourah | Iran | The ship sank off United Arab Emirates due to rough weather. The all-Iranian crew of six was airlifted to safety.[157] |
29 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Royal Prime | Vietnam | The cargo ship foundered in the South China Sea off the Spratly Islands. Her eighteen crew survived.[158] |
31 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kulluk | Marshall Islands |
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