Famous Shipwrecks
21 entries in the Famous Shipwrecks compendium.
Famous Shipwrecks — Era Chart
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 GermaUSS ArizonaBattleship sunk at Pearl Harbor; now a memorial.The Mary RoseThe Mary Rose served King Henry VIII as a carrack in the Tudor navy. Launched in 1511, sheThe VasaAs the world's best-preserved 17th-century ship, the Swedish warship Vasa offers unparalleRMS Empress of IrelandOcean liner that sank in 14 minutes after a collision.SS Edmund FitzgeraldLargest Great Lakes freighter lost with all 29 crew.MS EstoniaMS Estonia was a car-passenger ferry constructed in 1980 at the Meyer Werft shipyard in PaCosta ConcordiaItalian cruise ship that ran aground and capsized on 13 January 2012, killing 32.SS Andrea DoriaLuxury Italian liner that sank after collision in 1956.HMS HoodLargest 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 flagship, a captured French slaver turned pirate vessel.The San Jose galleonSan José was a 64-gun galleon of the Spanish Navy, commissioned by the Spanish Crown and bSS EastlandGreat Lakes passenger ship that capsized in 1915, killing 844.HMHS BritannicLargest hospital ship sunk by mine in 1916.MV Wilhelm GustloffSunk in January 1945, the deadliest isolated maritime disaster ever.USS IndianapolisPortland-class heavy cruiser sunk after delivering atomic bomb components.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
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