The 40-foot (12.2 m) double-ended troller departed Sitka, Alaska, with two people and a golden retriever aboard to fish in the local area and was never heard from again. No trace of her or her occupants was ever found.[1]
The harbour tug was sunk in a collision with the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarineUSS Georgia (United States Navy) near Midway Island. Ten crewman were rescued, two died.
The cargo ship ran aground on Gotska Sandön, Sweden with the loss of six of her seventeen crew. Survivors were rescued by Swedish Air Force helicopters and a West German vessel.[13]
The fishing vessel was shelled and sunk in the South Atlantic over 150 nautical miles (280 km) off the Falkland Islands by Prefecto Derbes ( Argentine Coast Guard) with the loss of two of her 22 crew.
The fishing vessel sank approximately 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) southwest of Cape Spencer in Southeast Alaska. The fishing vessel Adak (United States) rescued her entire crew of four.[24]
South African Border War: The cargo ship was sunk in Namibe harbor (today Moçâmedes) by South African frogmen using limpet mines. Later raised but scuttled due to extensive damage.[25]
Western Sahara War: The cargo ship ran aground near Cape Barbas, she was later attacked while aground by Polisario fighters. Declared a total loss.[26]
During a voyage from Novorossiysk to Sochi, the passenger liner sank in 150 feet (46 m) of water in the Black Sea 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) off the coast of the Soviet Union and 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) southeast of Novorossiysk seven minutes after colliding with the bulk carrierPyotr Vasev (Soviet Union). Of the 1,234 people on board, 423 — 359 passengers and 64 members of her crew — perished.
The purse seiner struck a rock and sank in the Gulf of Alaska approximately 35 nautical miles (65 km; 40 mi) southeast of Homer, Alaska. Her crew of five abandoned ship in a life raft, reached shore, and spent five days on a beach before being rescued by a United States Coast Guard helicopter.[38]
The fishing vessel was swamped and capsized with the loss of four lives in the Bering Sea approximately 120 nautical miles (220 km; 140 mi) northwest of Saint Paul Island.[34]
The 127-foot (38.7 m) fishing vessel sank near Unimak Pass approximately 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) northwest of Cape Sarichef on the coast of Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands. Her crew of six survived.[40]
While moored at Kodiak, Alaska, the 34-foot (10.4 m) fishing vessel was gutted by a fire that began in her galley. One man on board died of carbon monoxide poisoning.[1]
The bulk carrier ran aground on a reef off the coast of County Cork, Ireland. She broke in three and sank the following spring and was a total loss.[42][43]
The cargo ship sank in the Norwegian Sea 300 nautical miles (560 km) north of the Faroe Islands with the loss of six of her crew of eleven. Survivors were rescued by a Lynx helicopter from HDMS Vædderen (Royal Danish Navy).[49]
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