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SS Normandie was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT). She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat, crossing the Atlantic in a record 4.14 days, and remains the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship ever built.
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 ...
The decommissioned Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship was sunk as a target in a SINKEX exercise in the Pacific Ocean off the northern coast of Kauai, Hawaii in 15,000 feet (4,600 m) of water. She was sunk by an AGM-158C LRASM fired from a Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft. [107] [99] [108] Unknown boat Haiti
When the SS Carl D. Bradley sank 47 miles west of Charlevoix in November 1958, it was one of the worst shipping disasters in Great Lakes history. Out of a crew of 35, only two survived.
SS Andrea Doria (pronounced [anˈdrɛːa ˈdɔːrja]) was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service in 1953. She is widely known from the extensive media coverage of her sinking in 1956, which included the remarkably successful rescue of 1,660 of her 1,706 passengers and crew.
The Titanic’s wreckage two and a half miles below the Atlantic Ocean rested unseen by human contact for nearly 75 years, until Bob Ballard’s expedition discovered the infamous ocean liner’s ...
Ship Type Aircraft component Sinking Date Location Casualties Conditions Aquila: Fleet carrier 51 aircraft 19 April 1945 Genova Harbor, Italy — Never completed. Sunk by Italian divers to prevent use as a blockship by Germans. Sparviero: Light carrier 34 aircraft 5 October 1944 Genova Harbor, Italy — Never completed. Sunk by Germans to block ...
Ships sunk by aircraft during the Battle of Leyte Gulf (11 P) Ships sunk by Argentine aircraft (6 P) Ships sunk by Australian aircraft (1 C, 9 P)