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Maritime Vessel Shipping line 1 Date Deaths 1 Missing 1 Survivors 1 Remarks SS Corregidor: Compania Maritima 17 December 1941 900-1,200 [1]: Unknown 282 The ferry was sailing to the Visayas and was carrying around 1200-1500 passengers, mostly refugees fleeing the bombing of Manila by the Japanese during the Second World War, when it struck a mine off Corregidor Island and sank in five minutes.
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
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The list of maritime disasters is a link page for maritime disasters by century.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... List of maritime disasters in the Philippines; 0–9. 2000 Ozamiz ferry bombing;
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... List of maritime disasters in World War II; By navy
Almost half a century ago, one of the worst maritime disasters in U.S. history unfolded when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald cargo freighter sank in Lake Superior amid a potent storm that stirred up ...
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.