Daftar bencana maritim abad ke-20
Masa damai

| No | Tahun | Negara | Penjelasan | Korban Jiwa | Gambar Kapal |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | 1987 |  Filipina | Doña Paz – Pada akhir 20 Desember, ketika bertolak dari Tacloban ke Manila, kapal ini bertabrakan dengan kapal MT Vector di selat Tablas.  Tabrakan ini membakar muatan kargo kapal Vector dan meluas hingga ke kapal Doña Paz. Kejadian ini membuat kedua kapal tenggelam. Berdasarkan manifes penumpang, kapal Doña Paz membawa 1518 penumpang. Sedangkan ribuan penumpang lainnya tidak tercantum dalam daftar manifes penumpang. Kecuali 26 penumpang, semua orang di Doña Paz tewas, termasuk 58 awaknya; sedangkan di Vector hanya 2 dari 13 awaknya yang selamat. Jumlah korban tewas gabungan dari kedua kapal diperkirakan mencapai 4.386 orang, menjadikan insiden tersebut sebagai bencana maritim masa damai paling mematikan dalam sejarah. | 4,386 |  |
|  | 1991 |  Mesir | Salem Express – Pada tengah malam tanggal 14 Desember, kapal ini bertolak dari Jeddah menuju Safaga, Mesir. Kapal ini menabrak karang dan tenggelam dalam waktu kurang dari 20 menit. Kapal Salem Express membawa sekitar 644 penumpang dan jumlah penumpang yang tewas sekitar 470 korban. Meskipun begitu, beberapa bukti meyakini bahwa sebenarnya kapal Salem Express kelebihan muatan dan diperkirakan total korban tewas mencapai 1600 orang | 1,600 (perkiraan) |  |
|  | 1993 |  Haiti | Ferry Neptune – Tenggelam pada 16 Februari. | 1,500 (perkiraan) |  |
|  | 1912 |  Britania Raya | RMS Titanic – Sebuah kapal pesiar asal Britania Raya dan diyakini sebagai kapal paling besar dizamannya. Pada 14 April, Titanic menabrak sebuah gunung es dan menekuk sebagian lambung kapal dan akhirnya tenggelam pada dini hari tanggal 15 April. Tepatnya 712 dari 2.208 penumpang dan awaknya selamat. Tenggelamnya kapal ini menjadi katalis bagi reformasi besar-besaran di bidang keselamatan pelayaran dan bisa dibilang merupakan bencana maritim yang paling terkenal, dan menjadi subjek dari banyak pemberitaan di media. | 1,496 |  |
|  | 1954 |  Jepang | Toya Maru – Sebuah kapal penumpang yang tenggelam dalam Topan Maria di Selat Tsugaru pada 26 September. Dikatakan kapal Toya Maru membawa sekitar 1153 penumpang dan hilang namun jumlah pasti korban jiwa masih belum diketahui karena beberapa korban berhasil naik ke kapal tanpa tiket dan yang lainnya membatalkan perjalanan sesaat sebelum berlayar. | 1,153 |  |
|  | 1914 |  Kanada | RMS Empress of Ireland – Oada 29 Mei, kapal ini tenggelam setelah menabrak kapal kargo Storstad di Sungai Santo Laurensius, dan menewaskan 1012 penumpang dan sebanyak 465 penumpang selamat. | 1,012 |  |
|  | 1904 |  Amerika Serikat | General Slocum – Kapal uap ini terbakar dan tenggelam di Sungai East, Kota New York pada 15 Juni. Sebanyak 1029 penumpang tewas. | 1,029 |  |
|  | 1912 |  Jepang | Kiche Maru – Tenggelam setelah terkena topan di Samudera Pasifik pada 22 September. Diperkirakan lebih dari 1000 orang tewas. | 1,000+ |  |
|  | 1921 |  Singapore | Hong Moh – Pada 3 Maret, kapal Hong Moh menabrak White Rocks, Pulau Lamock di Laut China Selatan. Kapal terbelah menjadi dua dan tenggelam serta menewaskan 1000 dari 1100 penumpang yang ada. | 1,000 |  |
|  | 1927 |  Jepang | Wusung – Pada 16 September, sekitar 900 orang pekerja asal Jepang tewas setelah kapal ini tenggelam di dekat perairan Kepulauan Kuril. | 900 |  |
|  | 1994 |  Estonia | Estonia – Kapal roro ini tenggelam pada 28 September. Sebuah investigasi menyimpulkan bahwa kegagalan pintu pelindung haluan memungkinkan air dari Laut Baltik masuk ke kapal. 852 orang hilang; 137 selamat. | 852 |  |
|  | 1915 |  Amerika Serikat | Eastland – Pada tanggal 24 Juli, saat kapal akan ditambatkan ke dermaga di Sungai Chicago, kapasitas muatan penumpang bergeser ke sisi sungai sehingga kapal terguling, menewaskan 845 penumpang dan awak kapal. | 845 |  |
|  | 1996 |  Tanzania | Bukoba – Kapal feri ini tenggelam pada 21 Mei di Danau Victoria. Meskipun manifes kapal menunjukkan 443 orang di dalamnya, diperkirakan sekitar 800 orang tewas karena tenggelamnya kapal tersebut. | 800 |  |
|  | 1939 |  Uni Soviet | Indigirka – Pada tanggal 12 Desember kapal pengangkut tahanan Indigirka kandas dan berguling miring di perairan dangkal saat terjadi badai salju di lepas pantai Jepang dekat Sarufutsu saat mencoba memasuki Selat La Perouse. Sementara sebagian besar awak dan penumpang berhasil diselamatkan, tiga hari berlalu sebelum penyelamatan tahanan yang terperangkap di ruang kargo dapat dimulai. Hanya 28 dari 700 tahanan yang ditemukan hidup dan satu dari 28 tahanan yang diselamatkan kemudian meninggal. | 741 |  |
|  | 1902 |  Britania Raya | Camorta –Kapal terjebak dalam topan dan tenggelam di Delta Irrawaddy pada 6 Mei dengan hilangnya 655 penumpang dan 82 awak. Dia sedang dalam perjalanan dari Chennai, India ke Yangon, Burma melintasi Teluk Benggala. . | 737 |  |
|  | 1914 |  Britania Raya | HMS Bulwark – Pada tanggal 26 November, ledakan internal yang dahsyat mengoyak lambung kapal pada pukul 7:50 pagi saat kapal tersebut ditambatkan di pelampung Nomor 17 di Kethole Reach, 4 mi (6,4 km) sebelah barat Sheerness di muara Sungai Medway. Semua perwiranya hilang, dan dari 750 anggotanya, 14 selamat; dua di antaranya kemudian meninggal karena luka di rumah sakit. | 736 |  |
|  | 1904 |  Denmark | Norge – Pada tanggal 28 Juni kapal ini kandas di Helen's Reef dekat Rockall. 635 orang hilang; 160 orang yang selamat menghabiskan hingga delapan hari di perahu terbuka sebelum diselamatkan. | 635 |  |
|  | 1947 |  India | Ramdas – Pada tanggal 17 Juli kapal tersebut terbalik 10 mil (16 km) di lepas pantai Mumbai, menewaskan 625 orang di dalamnya. Bangkai kapal itu baru diketahui ketika orang-orang yang selamat berenang ke darat. | 625 |  |
|  | 1955 |  Uni Soviet | Novorossiysk –  Pada tanggal 29 Oktober, kapal perang tersebut ditambatkan di Teluk Sevastopol, 300 meter (330 yd) dari pantai dan di seberang rumah sakit. Pukul 01.30 terjadi ledakan yang mengakibatkan kapal terbalik dan tenggelam dengan hilangnya 608 orang. Penyelidikan resmi menyimpulkan bahwa ledakan tersebut disebabkan oleh ranjau Jerman sisa Perang Dunia II. | 608 |  |
|  | 1947 |  Amerika Serikat | Grandcamp –  Pada 16 April, kapal Liberty yang terdaftar di Prancis terbakar dan meledak di sisi dermaga saat sedang memuat amonium nitrat di Texas City, Texas. Dalam apa yang kemudian disebut Bencana Kota Texas, diperkirakan 581 orang, termasuk seluruh awak kapal dan 28 petugas pemadam kebakaran, hilang dan sekitar 5.000 orang terluka. | 581 |  |
|  | 1981 |  Indonesia | Tampomas II – Pada tanggal 27 Januari, kapal laut yang membawa lebih banyak orang melebihi batas kapasitasnya yaitu 1.137 orang, tenggelam di Laut Jawa setelah kebakaran dan ledakan. Setidaknya 580 orang hilang dan 515 berhasil diselamatkan. | 580 |  |
|  | 1920 |  Prancis | SS Afrique – Kapal penumpang tenggelam pada 9 Januari di Teluk Biscay dalam cuaca buruk. Kapal ini membawa 602 penumpang dan awak, hanya 34 di antaranya yang selamat. | 568 |  |
|  | 1986 |  Bangladesh | Shamia – Pada tanggal 25 Mei, kapal feri sungai dek ganda Shamia, yang membawa sekitar 1.000 orang, terbalik di Sungai Meghna 135 mil (217 km) selatan Dhaka karena badai. Diperkirakan 500-600 orang hilang. | 500–600 |  |
|  | 1919 |  Spanyol | Valbanera – kapal uap tersebut tenggelam di Teluk Meksiko 45 mi (72 km) sebelah barat Key West, Florida akibat badai pada bulan September. Seluruh awak dan penumpang yang berjumlah 488 orang hilang. | 488 |  |
|  | 1916 |  Spanyol | Príncipe de Asturias –Tenggelam di dekat pulau Sao Sebastiao, Brasil pada 5 Maret. Setidaknya 445 dari 588 penumpang kami tersesat. | 445 |  |
|  | 1975 |  Tiongkok | Pada tanggal 4 Agustus, dua kapal penumpang Hongxing 245 dan Hongxing 240, dalam perjalanan malam antara Guangzhou dan Zhaoqing, bertabrakan dan tenggelam di Sungai Zhujiang, 432 dari 800 penumpang hilang. | 432 |  |
|  | 1986 |  Uni Soviet | Admiral Nakhimov – Pada tanggal 31 Agustus kapal bertabrakan dengan kapal pengangkut masal Pyotr Vasyov di Teluk Tsemes, dekat pelabuhan Novorossiysk, RSFR Rusia. 423 dari 1.234 orang di dalamnya hilang. | 423 |  |
|  | 1988 |  India | Dilaporkan 400 orang hilang ketika sebuah kapal feri penumpang yang tidak disebutkan namanya menabrak gundukan pasir dan terbalik di Sungai Gangga. | 400 |  |
|  | 1988 |  Filipina | Doña Marilyn – Pada siang hari tanggal 24 Oktober, saat berlayar dari Manila menuju Kota Tacloban, kapal tersebut terjebak dalam Topan Unsang dan tenggelam sehingga menyebabkan 389 orang tewas dan 147 orang selamat. Doña Marilyn adalah kapal kembar Doña Paz yang tenggelam setahun sebelumnya dalam bencana maritim paling mematikan di masa damai. | 389 |  |
|  | 1999 |  Indonesia | KM Bismas Raya 2 – Pada bulan Oktober kapal feri KM Bismas Raya 2 terbakar, terbalik dan tenggelam saat berada di lepas pantai Merauke. Dilaporkan 361 orang hilang. | 361 |  |
|  | 1918 |  Amerika Serikat | Princess Sophia – On 23 October the passenger steamship ran aground on Vanderbilt Reef in Lynn Canal near Juneau, Alaska. Rescue ships were unable to assist due to the continuing storm, and she sank on the night of 25 October. The only survivor found was a pet dog. The sinking of the SS Princess Sophia is to this day the worst maritime accident in the history of British Columbia and Alaska. | 343 |  |
|  | 1970 |  Korea Selatan | Namyoung-ho – The ferry sank on 15 December. It was carrying 338 people, who were traveling from Busan to Jeju. See Sinking of Namyoung-Ho | 326 |  |
|  | 1927 |  Italia | Principessa Mafalda – On 25 October, the ocean liner sank off the coast of Brazil after her propeller shaft fractured and damaged her hull. She sank slowly in the presence of rescue vessels, but panic among passengers and crew caused the deaths of 314 of the 1,265 aboard. | 314 |  |
|  | 1999 |  Tiongkok | Dashun – On 24 November the ferry caught fire, broke apart and sank in rough seas off Yantai in eastern China. Of 336 aboard, 22 are known to have survived. | 314 |  |
|  | 1999 |  Indonesia | Harta Rimba – On 7 February the ferry foundered and sank after being struck by a large wave while drifting with engine problems. Of the 332 aboard 19 were rescued two days after the sinking by a passing ship. A distress signal was not sent out and the sinking was unknown until the survivors were found. | 313 |  |
|  | 1911 |  Prancis | Liberté – battleship that suffered an accidental ammunition explosion; about 300 people were killed. | 300 |  |
|  | 1981 |  Brasil | Sobral Santos II The sinking was one of the worst maritime tragedies in the history of the Amazon River. | c. 300 |  |
|  | 1906 |  Italia | Sirio – On 4 August the cargo steamship sank after she ran aground and suffered a boiler explosion on the Punta Hormigas, a reef off Hormigas Island, two and a half miles east of Cape Palos, Cartagena, Spain. 293, including Italian and Spanish emigrants bound for Argentina, of the 645 aboard were lost. Other sources put the death toll at over 500. | 293–500 |  |
|  | 1993 |  Korea Selatan | Seohae Ferry – was a passenger ship that sank near Wi-do island, Jeolla Province. The ship was carrying 362 passengers (141 more than its capacity) and heavy freight in bad weather. | 292 |  |
|  | 1996 |  Malta | F174 – Severely overloaded and poorly maintained ship carrying migrants from South Asia, sank 19 miles off Portopalo di Capo Passero in Sicily. | 283+ |  |
|  | 1958 |  Turki | Üsküdar – A small passenger ferry sank due to heavy lodos weather in the Gulf of İzmit on 1 March. 272 passengers including seven crew died; 39 people survived. | 272 |  |
|  | 1994 |  Kenya | Likoni Ferry – On 29 April the overloaded passenger ferry Mtongwe One capsized and sank killing 272 of the more than 300 aboard. | 272 |  |
|  | 1928 |  Chili | Angamos – On 6 July she sailed bound for Talcahuano and sank off Punta Morguillas Lebu. Of the 269 aboard 262 were lost and seven rescued. It was the second largest single maritime loss of life in the history of Chile. | 262 |  |
|  | 1996 |  Indonesia | Gurita – On 19 January the ferry sunk during a strong storm six miles from Sabang. Of those on board, between 260 and 340 were killed and 47 survived. | 260-340 |  |
|  | 1913 |  Amerika Serikat | Great Lakes Storm of 1913 – A cyclonic blizzard (sometimes referred to as an inland hurricane) on the Great Lakes that occurred between 7 and 10 November. In total 12 ships were sunk with a combined crew loss of 255. An additional seven ships were damaged beyond repair; 19 more ships that had been stranded were later salvaged. | 255 |  |
|  | 1961 |  Britania Raya | Dara – sank in the Persian Gulf on 8 April, as a result of a powerful explosion that killed 238 of the 819 people aboard including 19 officers and 113 crew. The explosion is believed to have been caused by an explosive device placed aboard. | 238 |  |
|  | 1966 |  Yunani | Heraklion – a car ferry that capsized and sank on 8 December in the Aegean Sea in a storm. An unsecured vehicle damaged the loading door resulting in sea water entering the vessel. The sinking resulted in the death of 234 people out of 281 aboard. | 234 |  |
|  | 1970 |  Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla | MV Christena – An overloaded passenger ferry boat that sank crossing the channel between the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis, Leeward Islands. | 233 |  |
|  | 1953 |  Korea Selatan | Changgyeong – The ferry sank on 5 January. It was cruising from Yeosu to Busan. | 229 |  |
|  | 1921 |  RSFS Rusia | Sovnarkom – on 10 May crashed into Novosibirsk railway bridge and sank in the Ob River, resulting in the death of at least 225 (according to other estimates, 400). | 225–400 |  |
|  | 1906 |  Brasil | Aquidabã – an ironclad warship built in the mid-1880s. On 21 January, the powder magazines of the ship blew up, sinking it within three minutes. 212 people were lost. | 212 |  |
|  | 1909 |  Britania Raya | Waratah – Around 27 July, the steamship, en route from Australia to London, was lost without trace off Durban on the east coast of South Africa. All 211 aboard were lost. | 211 |  |
|  | 1908 |  Jepang | Matsushima – On 30 April the cruiser Matsushima, while returning from a training cruise and anchored at Mako in the Pescadores islands off Taiwan, had an accidental explosion occur in her ammunition magazine. Matsushima rolled over onto her starboard side and then sank stern-first. 206 of her 350 crew were lost. | 206 |  |
|  | 1919 |  Britania Raya | Iolaire – (Scottish Gaelic for "Eagle") was an Admiralty yacht that hit rocks and sank on 1 January just off the Isle of Lewis, while carrying soldiers coming home from World War I. At least 205 of the 280 men aboard were lost. | 205 |  |
|  | 1988 |  Bangladesh | Haisal – On 27 December the passenger ferry sank after being rammed from behind by a cargo ship on the Dhaleshwari River killing 200. | 200 |  |
|  | 1987 |  Britania Raya | Herald of Free Enterprise – Capsized and sank on 6 March due to taking on water just minutes after leaving the harbour at Zeebrugge in Belgium. The doors to the car decks were left open by the Assistant Bosun, Mark Stanley, causing the ferry to take on water and quickly capsize. Of the 539 aboard, 193 passengers and crew died. | 193 |  |
|  | 1983 |  Uni Soviet | Aleksandr Suvorov – on 5 June the ship struck a girder of the Ulyanovsk railway bridge. The collision caused 177 deaths yet the ship stayed afloat, was restored and is still in use. | 177 |  |
|  | 1980 |  Filipina | Don Juan – On 22 April the luxury liner collided with an oil tanker Tacloban off Tablas Strait in Mindoro and sank 15 minutes later at a depth of 1,800 feet. The vessel was carrying 1,004 passengers but was only cleared to carry 864 persons including its crew. | 176 |  |
|  | 1952 |  Amerika Serikat | USS Hobson – On the night of 26 April, Hobson was steaming in formation with carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) about 600 miles (1000 kilometers) west of the Azores. The Hobson crossed the carrier's bow and was promptly struck amidships. The force of the collision rolled the destroyer-minesweeper over, breaking her in two. USS Rodman (DD-456) and the Wasp rescued many survivors but the ship and 176 of her crew were lost. | 176 |  |
|  | 1985 |  Tiongkok | On 19 August an overloaded ferry operated by drunk pilots capsized in the Songhua River, 174 of the 234 aboard were lost. | 174 |  |
|  | 1914 | Templat:Country data Dominion of Newfoundland | Southern Cross – Lost with all 173 hands in a storm between 31 March and 3 April. Believed to be near Cape Pine, Newfoundland. | 173 |  |
|  | 1955 |  Jepang | Shiun Maru – 11 May. Collided in dense fog her with sister ship Uko Maru in the Seto Inland Sea and sank with the loss of 166 passengers and two crew members. | 166 |  |
|  | 1990 |  Denmark | Scandinavian Star – caught fire en route between Norway and Denmark, killing 159 people. | 159 |  |
|  | 1981 |  Brasil | Novo Amapá - On January 6, the ferry left Santana, Amapá with 600 passengers. The ship was overcrownded and capsized at Almeirim. The exact number of fatalities remains unknown, but it is estimated between 150 and 300. | 150-300 |  |
|  | 1998 |  Filipina | Princess of the Orient – On 18 September, the ferry, while travelling from Manila to Cebu, sailed into Typhoon Vicky. She capsized at 12:55 pm near Fortune Island in Batangas. Of 388 passengers aboard, an estimated 150 died. Passengers floated in the sea for more than 12 hours before rescuers were able to reach the survivors. | 150 |  |
|  | 1907 |  Amerika Serikat | Larchmont – On 12 February, the paddle steamer sank off Block Island, Rhode Island after colliding with the schooner Harry Knowlton. About 150 of the people 200 aboard were lost. | 150–200 |  |
|  | 1912 |  Britania Raya | Koombana – disappeared on 20 March north of Port Hedland, Western Australia, in a tropical cyclone with the loss of about 76 passengers and 74 crew. | 150 |  |
|  | 1989 |  Rumania | Mogoșoaia – On 10 January the ferry collided with a tug boat on the Danube River near Galați. Of those on board, between 151 and 239 were killed and 16 to 18 survived. | 151-239 |  |
|  | 1950 |  Uni Soviet | Majakovskis Riga – sank in the Daugava River on 13 August, 147 died. | 147 |  |
|  | 1994 |  Filipina | Cebu City – On 2 December, the ferry collided with a Singaporean freighter Kota Suria and sank in Manila Bay killing 140 people. | 140 |  |
|  | 1991 |  Italia | Moby Prince – On 10 April, the ferry collided with the oil tanker Agip Abruzzo in Livorno harbour and caught fire, killing 140 of the 141 people aboard. | 140 |  |
|  | 1934 |  Amerika Serikat | Morro Castle (1930) – In the early morning hours of 8 September, while en route from Havana to New York, the passenger liner caught fire and burned, killing 137 passengers and crew members out of the 549 aboard. The ship was beached near Asbury Park, New Jersey, and remained there for several months until she was eventually towed away and sold for scrap. | 137 |  |
|  | 1929 |  Finlandia | Kuru – Passenger steamer sank after capsizing in high winds on 7 September in Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere. An estimated 136–138 people were lost. | 136–138 |  |
|  | 1901 |  Amerika Serikat | City of Rio de Janeiro – en route from Hong Kong, this passenger ship sank on 21 February after striking a submerged reef at the entry to San Francisco Bay, killing more than 135 passengers and crew. | 135 |  |
|  | 1953 |  Britania Raya | Princess Victoria – Sank on 31 January in the North Channel (between Scotland and Northern Ireland), in a severe storm killing 133 people. Her sinking had the highest death toll in UK waters since World War II. | 133 |  |
|  | 1957 |  Jerman Barat | Pamir – On 21 September the four-masted barque was caught in Hurricane Carrie and sank off the Azores with six survivors rescued out of 138 aboard. | 132 |  |
|  | 1913 |  Kanada | Volturno – On 9 October the steamship, carrying mostly immigrants bound for New York, caught fire in a gale in the North Atlantic. 520 people were rescued. About 130 people, most of them women and children in unsuccessfully launched lifeboats, were lost. | 130 |  |
|  | 1963 |  Amerika Serikat | USS Thresher (SSN-593) – A nuclear-powered attack submarine that sank on deep-diving tests on 10 April about 220 mil laut (410 km) east of Boston, Massachusetts. | 129 |  |
|  | 1963 |  Yunani | TSMS Lakonia – Caught fire and burned in the Atlantic Ocean on 22 December. 128 people died, of whom 95 were passengers and 33 were crew members. 53 people were killed by the fire. The rest died from exposure, drowning, and injuries sustained while diving overboard. | 128 |  |
|  | 1907 |  Britania Raya | Berlin – On 21 February the steamship was driven onto the granite breakwater at the New Waterway ship canal in the Netherlands by large waves and then broke apart. Of 144 people aboard, 128 were lost. | 128 |  |
|  | 1905 |  Britania Raya | Hilda – A steamship on a cross-Channel run that sank killing 125 people. | 125 |  |
|  | 1911 |  Australia | Yongala – The ship sank off Cape Bowling Green, Australia, after steaming into a cyclone. There were no survivors of the 122 aboard. | 122 |  |
|  | 1973 |  Malaysia | Pulau Kidjang – On 26 December, the passenger ferry sank in the Rejang River near Tanjung Jerijeh, Sarawak, 35 mil laut (65 km) west of Sarikei in the monsoon season. Of 159 people were aboard, 38 were saved including 18 sailors. 41 bodies were found. | 121 |  |
|  | 1907 |  Prancis | Iéna – On 12 March, while in drydock in the Missiessy Basin at Toulon, the battleship suffered a series of internal explosions in her magazine. The first explosion was caused by Powder B, a nitrocellulose-based propellant in the ammunition, which tended to become unstable with age, and self-ignite. The explosion killed 120 people including two civilians hit by fragments in the suburb of Le Pont Du Las. | 120 |  |
|  | 1908 |  Malta | Sardinia – The passenger-cargo ship burst into flames minutes after leaving the Grand Harbour, and she ran aground off Fort Ricasoli. Only 33 people on board survived, and at least 118 were killed. | 118+ |  |
|  | 1949 |  Kanada | Noronic – Caught fire at the dockside in Toronto Harbour on 16 September. Estimates ranged from 118 to 139 fatalities. Most of the deaths were from suffocation or burns. However, some died from being trampled or from leaping off the upper decks onto the pier; only one person drowned. | 118–139 |  |
|  | 1906 |  Amerika Serikat | Valencia – Shortly before midnight on 22 January, she struck a reef near Pachena Point on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island and sank. Estimates of the number of people killed vary widely. Some sources list it at 117; others claim it was as high as 181. According to the federal report, the official death toll was 136. 37 men survived, but every woman and child aboard was lost. | 117–181 |  |
|  | 1928 |  Britania Raya | Vestris – On 12 November the ship began listing about 200 mil laut (370 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, was abandoned, and sank killing more than 100 people. | 110 |  |
|  | 1908 |  Amerika Serikat | Star of Bengal – On 20 September, in the beginning of her return trip from Fort Wrangell to San Francisco, the ship was in tow into the open sea when she encountered a storm. The ship struck the rocks near the shore of Coronation Island and sunk, killing approximately 110 of 138 people aboard. | 110 |  |
|  | 1940 |  Italia | Orazio – On 21 January the passenger liner caught fire and burned 35 miless off Toulon, France. 48 of the 423 passengers and 60 of the 210 crew died in the fire. | 108 |  |
|  | 1946 |  Uni Soviet | Dalstroy – The Soviet steamer operating in the 1930s and 1940s from the port of Nakhodka to Magadan and delivering cargo and prisoners to Kolyma, exploded on July 24, during the loading of ammonal in Nakhodka, due to gross safety violations. The explosion resulted in the death of 105 people, as well as significant property damage and environmental pollution. | 105 |  |
|  | 1954 |  Amerika Serikat | USS Bennington – At 06:11 on 26 May, while cruising off Narragansett Bay, the fluid in one of her catapults leaked out and was detonated by the flames of a jet causing the forward part of the flight deck to explode, setting off a series of secondary explosions which killed 103 crewmen, predominantly among the senior NCO's of the crew and injured 201 others.[1]Bennington proceeded under her own power to Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island, to land her injured. This tragedy caused the Navy to switch from hydraulic catapults to steam catapults for launching aircraft. A monument to the sailors who died in this tragic event was erected near the southwest corner of Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island. | 103 |  |
|  | 1939 |  Britania Raya | HMS Thetis – A T-class submarine that sank in Liverpool Bay on 1 June after inadvertent opening of both doors of a torpedo tube to the sea whilst diving. 99 people were lost, including shipyard workers who were aboard for sea trials. Raised and refitted, as HMS Thunderbolt the boat was later sunk by Italian anti-submarine forces in the Mediterranean in March 1943. | 99 |  |
|  | 1968 |  Amerika Serikat | USS Scorpion (SSN-589) – A nuclear-powered submarine that sank (most likely due to an internal explosion) on 22 May 460 mil laut (850 km) southwest of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. | 99 |  |
|  | 1933 |  Uni Soviet | The Fourth disaster – a boat sank in the Volga near Yaroslavl on 9 July. At least 98 died. | 98 |  |
|  | 1959 |  Denmark | Hans Hedtoft – The liner was sailing from Greenland when she struck an iceberg and sank on 30 January. There were 40 crew members and 55 passengers aboard. No-one survived. She was on her maiden voyage and was said to be "unsinkable" due to her strong design. | 95 |  |
|  | 1911 |  Prancis | SS Emir – On 9 August the steamship was struck and sunk by the British steamship Silverton in dense fog in the Strait of Gibraltar off the coast of Tarifa, Spain. 71 passengers and 24 crew members were lost while 15 passengers and 12 crew members were rescued. | 95 |  |
|  | 1918 | Templat:Country data Dominion of Newfoundland | Florizel – Sank after striking a reef at Horn Head Point Cape Race near Cappahayden, Newfoundland on 23 February. Of 144 people aboard, 94 were lost. | 94 |  |
|  | 1989 |  Thailand | Seacrest – the Unocal drilling ship capsized in the Gulf of Thailand on 3 November in Typhoon "Gay". 91 of her crew complement of 97 were lost. | 91 |  |
|  | 1916 |  Britania Raya | Connemara – On 3 November the ferry sank at the entrance to Carlingford Lough, Louth, Ireland after being hit amidships by the coal ship Retriever which also sank. All 82 on board the Connemara were killed, and only one crew member of the Retriever's crew of nine were rescued. | 90 |  |
|  | 1965 |  Panama | Yarmouth Castle – The steamship's loss in a disastrous fire prompted new laws for safety at sea. 87 people were lost, three of the rescued passengers later died in hospital, bringing the death toll to 90. | 90 |  |
|  | 1907 |  Amerika Serikat | Columbia – A little over 20 minutes past midnight on 21 July, the passenger steamship collided with the steam schooner San Pedro in dense fog sinking in less than 9 minutes, killing 88 people, including all children on board. The sinking of Columbia partially ignited public outrage against American operated Pacific coastal steamships. | 88 |  |
|  | 1922 |  Meksiko | Topolobampo – In November, the 36-ton steamer left Guaymas carrying 125 passengers bound for the cotton fields of Mexicali. Around midnight at the end of 18 November, the vessel was hit by a nearly 15-foot tidal bore traveling up the Colorado River. 86 people drowned; 21 bodies were recovered. 39 survivors were found. | 86 |  |
|  | 1982 |  Kanada | Ocean Ranger – On 15 February a semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit sank on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, 267 kilometer (166 mi) east of St. John's, Newfoundland with the loss of all 84 crew members. | 84 |  |
|  | 1997 |  Albania | Kateri i Radës – On 28 March the ship sank following a collision with the Italian naval vessel Sibilia in the Strait of Otranto. Of the 142 on board, 83 lost their lives. | 83 |  |
|  | 1964 |  Australia | HMAS Voyager – On 10 February, while undergoing post-refit exercises, the destroyer was rammed and sunk off Jervis Bay, New South Wales, by the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, which was also carrying-out post-refit exercises. 82 of the 314 people aboard Voyager were lost; Australia's largest peacetime loss of military personnel. | 82 |  |
|  | 1953 |  Turki | TCG Dumlupınar – On 4 April, the submarine sank with all hands after colliding with the Swedish freighter Naboland in the Dardanelles. | 81 |  |
|  | 1981 |  Filipina | Templat:BRP – a Philippine Navy destroyer escort driven aground by Typhoon Clara on 21 September. 79 of her 97 crew were lost. | 79 |  |