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The vessel's manifest only listed 1,493 passengers and a 53-member crew, but survivors claimed that the vessel was carrying more than 4,000 passengers. The incident was the worst peacetime disaster and the worst in the 20th century, [19] and the vessel was even named the Asia's Titanic. [22] MT Vector: Vector Shipping 11 0 2 MV Doña Marilyn ...
The vessel's manifest only listed 1,493 passengers and a 53-member crew, but survivors claimed that the vessel was carrying more than 4,000 passengers. The incident was the worst peacetime disaster and the worst in the 20th century, [3] and the vessel was even named the Asia's Titanic. [6] MV Doña Marilyn: 24 October 1988 389 2 197
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 .
Shipwrecks of the Philippines (6 C, 64 P) Pages in category "Maritime incidents in the Philippines" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
A maritime disaster is an event which usually involves a ship or ships and can involve military action. Because of the nature of maritime travel, there is often a substantial loss of life. The term maritime disaster can refer to both commercial ships and military naval ships.
The wreck of a ship which sank more than 200 years ago in one of the UK’s worst maritime disasters has been granted protection by the Government.
Given the estimated death toll, Time magazine and others have termed the sinking of Doña Paz "the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster of the 20th century". [ 5 ] [ 33 ] Sulpicio Lines announced three days after the accident that Doña Paz was insured for ₱ 25,000,000 (US$751,977 in 2023 dollars), and it was willing to indemnify the ...
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