The cargo ship sank in the North Pacific Ocean ten days after she was abandoned after her cargo of bombs and other munitions broke loose and started to explode during a voyage from Bremerton, Washington, to Da Nang, South Vietnam. Fourteen members of her crew of 40 survived.[4]
The cargo ship broke from her mooring and was beached at Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Subsequently refloated. Having been under arrest since May 1966, she was sold in September 1970 and returned to service under the Saudi Arabian flag.[10]
The tanker ran aground on Cerberus Rock in Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada[14] and broke in two, resulting in the spill of 3.5 million litres of her cargo of crude oil.[15]
Anchored outside the harbor at Port Hueneme, California, with a skeleton crew of two and no passengers aboard, the cruise ship was driven aground and wrecked during a storm. Her wreck later was gutted by fire, cut down to water level, and filled with rocks to form part of a breakwater.
The fishing boat was captured and scuttled by a Cuban exile group "Alpha 66"-operated boat. She later was raised, repaired, and returned to service.[41]
The fishing boat was captured and scuttled by a Cuban exile group "Alpha 66"-operated boat. She later was raised, repaired, and returned to service.[41]
War of Attrition: The beached landing craft was further damaged by demolition charges placed on the harbor bottom under the ship by Egyptian frogmen at Eilat. She would eventually be refloated, towed to sea and scuttled.[16]
The Intermediate-type tanker collided with Italmotor (Italy) in the Paraná River and caught fire and was abandoned. She was later refloated and laid up. A proposed sale fell through and she was scrapped in 1977.[46]
The tanker suffered a catastrophic explosion in the Indian Ocean 400 miles (640 km) off Mombasa, Kenya in which nine men were killed. She was towed to Mombasa but refused entry and later en route to South Africa the bow half broke away and sank off Mozambique. The stern was beached at Porto Amelia. Declared a constructive total loss she was later acquired by Greek interests and towed to Japan where she was joined to the bow half of Wafra and renamed Achillet.
The cargo ship sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Palmas, Liberia. She was beached 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) west of Cape Garraway but declared a constructive total loss. She was on a voyage from Takoradi, Ghana to Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom.[47]
The motor vessel sank in "Dry Bay" on the coast of Alaska. The wreck report does not specify in which of many bays of the name the sinking took place.[48]
The cruise liner sank in the Atlantic Ocean after catching fire the previous day 100 nautical miles (190 km) north of Tenerife, Spain. All 270 crew and 447 passengers were rescued by Ancerville (France).[54]
The 50-foot (15 m) crab-fishing vessel sank in the Gulf of Alaska near Spruce Island in the Kodiak Archipelago after reporting that her radar and depth finder had failed, leaving her two-man crew uncertain of her position during a gale with 30-foot (9.1 m) seas and 60 mph (97 km/h) winds. Debris from Sea Mill later was spotted at sea, but the bodies of the two men on board were never found.[3]
The tanker ran aground off Syracuse, Sicily, Italy and caught fire. All 36 crew rescued and the fire was extinguished. The ship was refloated a week later.[83]
After radioing that her compass was broken, her steering gear was malfunctioning, and that she was experiencing icing, and later that she was going ashore on a beach, the 27-foot (8.2 m) gillnetfishing vessel disappeared in Stephens Passage in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. The bodies of the eight people on board – a married couple, their 17-, 12-, 9-, and 8-year-old and 6+1⁄2-month old sons, and an 8-year-old boy who was a friend of the family – were never found.[48]
The decommissioned Gato-classsubmarine was scuttled in the Pacific Ocean about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi; 1.1 nmi) off Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, to serve as an underwater rescue training vessel. She was raised in November 1983 and sunk again that month in deep water as a means of disposal.
The cargo ship ran aground near Bizerta, Tunisia. She was on a voyage from a port in Sicily, Italy to a port in Algeria. She was refloated on 20 December but was declared a constructive total loss and was consequently scrapped.[89]
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