The Maritime Disaster Monument: A List of Vessels that Have Caused Losses of Life in the 20th Century |
Name of Vessel Cuvier Saale City of Rio de Janeiro Waesland Camorta Norge Sirio Imperatrix Poitou Borussia Newark Castle Republic Waratah Maori La Seyne General Chanzy Lisbon Lusitania Oceana Titanic Veronese Volturno Empress of Ireland Lusitania Marowijne Ancona Principe de Austurias Valbanera Afrique Egypt Mossamedes Prencipessa Mafalda Vestris Georges Philippar L'Atlantique Guildford Castle Dresden Morro Castle Athenia Cabo San Antonio Orazio Champollion Andrea Doria Hans Hedtoft Alcoa Corsair Dara Save Bianca C Lakonia Yarmouth Castle Viking Princess Heraklion Wahine Heleanna Saudi Patra Chidambaram Admiral Nakhimov Herald of Free Enterprise Priamurye Jupiter Scandanavian Star Royal Pacific Estonia |
Date of Disaster 1900 1900 1901 1902 1902 1904 1906 1907 1907 1907 1908 1909 1909 1909 1909 1910 1910 1911 1912 1912 1913 1913 1914 1915 1915 1915 1916 1919 1920 1922 1923 1927 1928 1932 1933 1933 1934 1934 1939 1939 1940 1952 1956 1959 1960 1961 1961 1961 1963 1965 1966 1966 1968 1971 1973 1976 1985 1986 1987 1988 1988 1990 1992 199 |
Owner Lamport & Holt NDL Pacific Mail American BISN Scand. American SITM Lloyd Austriaco SGTM HAPAG Union Castle White Star Blue Anchor Shaw, Savill & Albion MM CGT ENN ENN P&O White Star Lamport & Holt Uranium Stmshp Co. Canadian Pacific Cunard United Fruit ISNV P,IC P,IC CCR P&O ENN SITM Lamport & Holt MM CNSA Union Castle NDL NY & Cuba Mail Anchor-Donaldson Ybarra y Cia ISNV MM ISNV RGT Alcoa BISN CCdN Costa Armatori Greek Yarmouth Cruise A/S BSB Typaldos USLNZ C.S.Efthymiadis Mongul Line Arab Navigators Shipping Co. of India Black Sea P&O/Townsend Ferry Far East Epirotiki Da-No Starlight Cruises |
Number Killed 26 99 104 2 739 550 442 40 20 3 3 4 92 34 101 86 7 4 9 1,523 43 136 1,412 1,198 40 194 415 488 553 86 31 303 112 90 17 2 4 137 112 5 106 15 47 95 10 238 259 3 131 87 2 241 51 24 41 186 40 398 197 11 4 160 9 90 |
Abbreviations: A/S BSB = A/S Berge Sigval Bergesen BISN = British India Steam Navigation CCR= Compagnie des Chargeurs Renuis CCN = Compagnie de Navigation Sud Atlantique CCdN = Companhia Colonial de Navegacao CGT = Compagnie Generale Transatlantique ENN = Empressa Nacional de Navegacao HAPAG = Hamburg-Americanische Paketfahrt-Actien-Gesellshaft (Hamburg American) ISNV = Italia Societa di Navigazione a Vapore MM = Messageries Maritimes NDL = Norddeutscher Lloyd P,IC = Pinillos, Izauierdo y Campania RGT = Royal Greenland Trading SITM = Societa Italiana di Trasporti Maritimi SGTM = Societe Generale des Transports Maritimes USCNZ = Union Steamship Company of New Zealan |
Please note that this list is incomplete and does not include wartime sea casualties (except for the Lusitania which belonged to a neutral country). |
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