Famous Shipwrecks
21 entries in the Famous Shipwrecks compendium.
RMS TitanicBritish ocean liner that sank on her maiden voyage in 1912.RMS LusitaniaBritish ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat in 1915.The BismarckBismarck was the lead ship of a two-vessel class of battleships constructed for Nazi Germany's navy. She was…USS ArizonaBattleship sunk at Pearl Harbor; now a memorial.The Mary RoseA Tudor carrack, launched 1511, raised 1982 – a time capsule of Henry VIII's navy.The VasaA Swedish warship that sank in 1628.RMS Empress of IrelandThe worst peacetime maritime disaster in Canadian history, lost in 14 minutes.SS Edmund FitzgeraldThe 'Mighty Fitz' — a record-setting workhorse lost in a Lake Superior storm.MS EstoniaMS Estonia was a car-passenger ferry constructed in 1980 at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, West…Costa ConcordiaThe ill-fated cruise ship that struck a rock off Isola del Giglio in 2012, leading to 32 deaths and the…SS Andrea DoriaLuxury Italian liner that sank after collision in 1956.HMS HoodThe Mighty Hood: largest warship for 20 years, lost in the Battle of the Denmark Strait.The Whydah GallyA slave ship turned pirate flagship, wrecked off Cape Cod.Queen Anne's RevengeBlackbeard's infamous flagship, lost in 1718 and rediscovered off North Carolina.The San Jose galleonSan José was a 64-gun galleon of the Spanish Navy, commissioned by the Spanish Crown and built in the Basque…SS EastlandGreat Lakes passenger ship that capsized in 1915, killing 844.HMHS BritannicThe largest ship lost in the First World War, now the largest intact passenger ship on the seabed.MV Wilhelm GustloffThe deadliest maritime disaster in modern history.USS IndianapolisHeavy cruiser sunk in 12 minutes after delivering atomic bomb components; 316 of 1,195 crew survived.Shackleton's EnduranceThree-masted barquentine that sank but saved all 28 crew.The BataviaThe Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), built in Amsterdam in 1628 to serve as the…
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