The coaster sank off the Lizard Lighthouse, Cornwall, United Kingdom. All seventeen crew rescued by the Cadgwith lifeboat.

The cargo ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Baltic Sea off Hiiumaa, Estonia. The crew were rescued by .

The cargo ship caught fire and was beached at Loshnell Bay, Oban, Argyllshire, United Kingdom. She was refloated in July 1941, repaired and returned to service.

The cargo ship collided with

The ore carrier sank in the Firth of Clyde with the loss of six of her 33 crew.

The coaster collided with in the North Sea east of North Foreland, Kent and sank. All twenty people on board were rescued by Penelope.

The cargo ship ran aground at Rhosneigr, Anglesey.

She was wrecked off South Wales. Four crewmen of the sand dredger were saved by the Atlantic College lifeboat and the Porthcawl lifeboat in partnership with the Mumbles lifeboat.

Foundered off the Isle of Wight on a voyage from Goole, Yorkshire to Hayle, Cornwall.

The passenger ship ran aground on South Georgia. All 250 on board were rescued.

The cargo ship struck a mine in the Weser, West Germany and sank. She was on a voyage from Stavanger, Norway to Hamburg.

thumb|right|Coos Bay sinking.The decommissioned Casco-class cutter was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean 120 nautical miles off the coast of Virginia by the guided-missile destroyer , one other U.S. Navy ship, and 35 aircraft.

The coaster ran aground on Coll, Inner Hebrides, United Kingdom. All 12 crew survived.

The passenger ship ran aground off Esbjerg. Refloated the next day.

The auxiliary four-masted schooner caught fire at Oregrund and was scuttled to extinguish the fire.

Shch-117

The schooner ran aground at Point Lance, Newfoundland and was a total loss.

The cargo ship sank at St. John's, Newfoundland due to a faulty condenser outlet. She was subsequently refloated.
The cargo ship ran aground at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. She broke her back and was a total loss.

The decommissioned auxiliary submarine was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off Southern California.

The cargo ship ran aground at the entrance to Accra, Ghana. She was holed and sank.

The cargo ship was driven ashore at Kowloon, Hong Kong in a typhoon.

The ran aground in Rothesay Bay, Firth of Forth.

The tanker broke in two off the coast of Natal in a storm. Both sections sank.

Caught fire in the Indian Ocean. One passenger died.

The passenger ship sank off Veracruz with the loss of 30 lives.
The cargo ship ran aground off Gedser, Denmark but was refloated.

The auxiliary sailing ship sank in the Gulf of Corinth off Camari.

The cargo ship was hit by at Seattle, Washington and sunk when President Madison broke free from her moorings in a storm. All twenty crew survived.

List of shipwrecks in 1957

The cargo ship collided with a Belgian ship in the Scheldt and ran aground.

The T-class destroyer ran aground in the River Foyle, Northern Ireland.

Empire Contamar

The Elder Dempster Lines coaster ran aground at Iwerekun, Nigeria. Declared a total loss.

The cargo ship ran aground near Helsingor, Denmark in a snowstorm.

The decommissioned Casco-class cutter was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean at by the heavy cruiser , the guided-missile light cruiser , the guided-missile frigate , and the destroyer .

The brigantine foundered in the Gulf of Mexico during a squall. Six of the nineteen people on board were killed.

The cargo ship struck rocks at the Black Sea entrance to the Bosphorus and sank.

Konstantinos

The captured predreadnought battleship was beached by the Soviet Navy in the Gulf of Finland near Osmussaar Island in the Soviet Union's Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic for use as a target. The hulk was used as a target until 1966, eventually becoming entirely submerged.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Scheldt and broke up. All crew rescued.

The cargo ship collided with the cargo ship in the North Sea off Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.

The coaster foundered off Saint John's, Newfoundland with the loss of six of her seven crew.
last reported north west of the Azores .

The auxiliary sailing vessel caught fire and sank in the Salamis Strait.

The sank in the Mediterranean Sea about 25 nautical miles from Toulon, France, with the loss of her entire crew of 52.

The tug sank during a storm in the Bay of Manquemapu, 60 nautical miles south of Corral, Chile, with the loss of 51 men while trying to assist Leucotón, which had run aground.

The cargo ship ran aground on the Varne Shoal in the English Channel. She was refloated with the aid of the tugs Diligent, Dominant and Jean Bart .

The schooner was driven ashore on Seal Island, Nova Scotia.

The ocean liner struck the wreck of at Bremen, West Germany and was holed. All 230 passengers and 276 crew rescued by .

The cargo ship capsized and sank at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua whilst being loaded with a cargo of timber bound for Maracaibo, Venezuela.

The ran aground off Brest, France. Later refloated undamaged.

The ran aground during a cyclone in the Gulf of Mannar.

Typhoon Wanda: The Liberty ship was driven ashore at Hong Kong. Declared a constructive total loss, she was scrapped in situ.

Vert Prairial

The passenger ship sank during Typhoon Marie.

The list of shipwrecks in 1956 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1956.

Virginia

The cargo ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. Refloated the next day.
The Liberty ship capsized and sank in the Pacific Ocean .

The former minesweeper was destroyed by fire at the Soon shipyard.

Spanish Civil War: The coaster was torpedoed and sunk by the Nationalist submarine General Sanjurjo south of Cape Tiñoso with the loss of eleven of her fifteen crew.

The barge foundered in the Thames Estuary with the loss of both crew.

The coaster collided with off Ramsgate, Kent and sank. All five crew rescued by Fina Canada.

The Liberty ship ran aground in Tokyo Bay. She was later refloated but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.

The cargo liner ran aground on the Karam Masamahru Islet in the Red Sea and sank. All on board were rescued by .

thumb|Catala, 1976The passenger ship was wrecked in a storm at Ocean Shores, Washington, United States.

Goncalves Zarco

The Liberty ship sprang a leak and was beached near Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal. She later exploded and sank.

Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Barcelona, Spain by Spanish Nationalist aircraft. All 21 crew survived.

The cargo ship struck the wreck of and sank in Haifa Bay, Israel.

Sank after a collision with a hopper barge. Ten crew were rescued by the tug Danube VIII, but nine others died. Raised in 1966.

Lake Burnaby

The decommissioned was sunk as a target by aircraft rockets off California after use as a target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

The cargo ship ran aground on the Soren Jessens Sand, off Fanø, Denmark. The crew were rescued.

The lightship sank in the Scheldt estuary after she was hit by . All five crew rescued.

The cargo ship ran aground at Tsumiki. She was refloated but found to be leaking and was consequently beached.

The Liberty ship caught fire off Cuba and was abandoned. She was subsequently towed to Mobile, Alabama, United States where she was declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo ship collided with and sank in the Saint Lawrence River, Canada. One of her fourteen crew was killed and two were reported missing.

The Liberty ship ran aground at Kunsan, Korea and broke her back. Although declared a constructive total loss, she was rebuilt, lengthened and returned to service.

The coaster sank off the Mull of Galloway. All three crew were rescued.

The cargo ship collided with at Whangpo, China and sank.

The cargo ship collided with tug Ruth and barge Agram in the Delaware River. Agram damaged beyond economic repair.

The cargo ship capsized off Dungeness, Kent with the loss of one of her sixteen crew. She drifted and sank off Dover.

The cargo ship foundered off the Shetland Islands, United Kingdom whilst on a voyage from Bodø, Norway, to Dublin, Ireland. Thirteen crew killed.

The collided with the harbour wall at Den Helder and ran aground. Refloated the next day.

The tug sank at Mariners Harbor, New York. She was declared a constructive total loss, and scrapped in December 1963.

List of shipwrecks in 1941

The decommissioned tank landing ship was sunk as a target.

The Liberty ship was wrecked at Cape Pankor, Unimak Island, Alaska.

The cargo ship sank at whilst under tow following a boiler explosion.

thumb|right|Salvage of TEV WahineThe New Zealand inter-island ro-ro ferry of the Union Company, foundered on Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour and capsized near Steeple Rock. Of the 610 passengers and 123 crew on board, 53 were killed.

The dredger was wrecked off Newcastle, New South Wales.

The passenger ship ran aground off Cape Cross, German South-West Africa. She was refloated but was leaking and was beached in Walvis Bay.

The T2 tanker broke in two in the Pacific Ocean north west of Honolulu, Hawaii. Ten crew on the bow section were rescued by . Twenty-two crew on the stern section were rescued by . The bow section was shelled and sunk, the sterns section was towed to Hawaii. Fort Dearborn was on a voyage from San Francisco, California to Shanghai, China.

The cargo ship ran aground on the Pembrokeshire coast and sank with the loss of one of the nine people on board.

Unknown date July 1962

Graziella

Chasseur 91

The 6,140 grt freighter was stranded on Bancorran Reef, Philippines and declared a total loss
The coaster foundered north of Texel with the loss of all nine crew.

Wrecked off Langanes, Iceland.

United States Army

The cargo ship foundered in the South China Sea .

The ocean liner ran aground south of Singapore. HMS Barbain attempted to go to her aid but was ordered out of Indonesian territorial waters by Indonesian Navy gunboats. Her clearance to enter Indonesian waters not being accepted, she withdrew to international waters.

Valiant

The decommissioned was sunk in the Pacific Ocean off Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, after use as a target in the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests of 1946.

The Thames barge collided with in the River Thames at the West India Docks and sank.

The cargo ship was scuttled in the Atlantic Ocean

The tanker broke in two in the Irish Sea. Both halves towed to the Clyde.

The cargo ship ran aground off Egersund whilst on a voyage from Fredrikstad to Harstad, Norway.

The Liberty ship collided with in the Scheldt and ran aground.

The cargo ship struck a rock off Bruichladdich, Islay, Inner Hebrides and was holed. She was consequently beached off Bowmore. She was refloated the next day.

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The cruise ship caught fire and was beached at Asbury Park, New Jersey with the loss of 135 of the 549 people on board.

thumb|right|Nyon′s stern section under tow in 1959.The cargo ship ran aground at St Abb's Head, Berwickshire, Scotland. Stern section salvaged and new bow section fitted in 1959, returned to service.

Spanish Civil War, bombed and sunk off Valencia.
The cargo ship capsized and sank in the North Sea . Nineteen crew were rescued by .

The cargo ship was wrecked at Capo Rizzuto. The crew were rescued.

The cargo ship ran aground at Osthammar, Sweden and was damaged. Later refloated and towed into Oregrund.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off California after serving as a target for the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean south of Cape Henry, Virginia.

The ship was driven ashore and wrecked o Cardigan Island, Cardiganshire.

The was sunk in the Pacific Ocean off Enewetak Atoll after use as a target in the Operation Sandstone atomic bomb tests.

The ocean liner grounded on a bank while entering Alexandria Port in Egypt.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target off the coast of northern Florida.

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

The tanker collided with another ship in the Mediterranean Sea.

The list of shipwrecks in 1965 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1965.

The cargo ship ran aground at Porkkala, Finland.

The coaster struck a rock and sank south west of Chicken Rock, Isle of Man. All five crew saved by the cable layer Ariel .

The auxiliary three-masted schooner was wrecked at Blackrock Devils Limb, Seal Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

World War II: The cargo ship was scuttled as a blockship off Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

The cargo ship ran aground north of Texel, Netherlands. Refloated the next day.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Schelde at Westkapelle, Belgium. Later refloated and returned to service.

The mailboat ran aground in Escart Bay, West Loch Tarbert and was holed. Her cargo of mail and all 150 passengers were transferred to . Several sheep were thrown overboard and swam ashore without loss.

The schooner foundered in the Windward Passage off Cape Maisí, Cuba.

The coaster struck a rock off Black Head, Devon damaging her steering gear. She was driven ashore at Lowland Point. All seventeen crew rescued by the Coverack lifeboat.

The cargo ship collided with off Moji-ko, Kitakyūshū and sank. The crew were rescued.

The coaster capsized and sank in the Elbe.

The cargo liner collided with and sank off Gibraltar. All nineteen crew and nine passengers saved.

The list of shipwrecks in 1950 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1950.

The coaster was in collision with in the English Channel off Folkestone, Kent. She sank, but all on board were rescued by the Dover lifeboat.

thumb|right|Gasconade sinking.The was sunk as a torpedo target in the Pacific Ocean off California after use as a target in the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests of 1946.

The coaster sank at Hong Kong whilst under repair.

The cargo ship sank off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. All 27 crew rescued.

The cargo ship struck a mine off the Dutch coast and sank at whilst on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Emden, West Germany.

The tug collided with at Bremen, Germany, and sank.

The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland, Canada with the loss of all 40 crew.

Joacosta

The coaster ran aground near the Bhaktal Fort Lighthouse, India and broke into three sections.

The car ferry sank after colliding with the cargo ship off Ashtabula, Ohio. The captain was killed.

The tug collided with the tanker , which she was towing, and sank at Hamburg with the loss of one crewmember.

The auxiliary schooner came ashore at Black Island, Labrador, Canada.

The cargo ship ran aground at Tromøya with the loss of three crew. She was on a voyage from Skjebergkilen to Kristiansand, Norway.

thumb|right|The sinking of Devilfish.The decommissioned was sunk as a target by a Mark 16 MOD 8 torpedo fired by the submarine in the Pacific Ocean off San Francisco, California, at .

The cargo ship ran aground at Befanaes, Denmark. She was later refloated and returned to service.
The list of shipwrecks in 1934 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1934.

This 441GRT steam-powered whaler was wrecked trying to avoid a vessel of the Argentine Navy coming in the opposite direction at Foster Harbour, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands.http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?116404

The T2 tanker ran aground on a reef off the Isla de Enmedio, Mexico whilst under tow from Brownsville, Texas to Veracruz, Mexico for scrapping.

The schooner foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Miquelon. All crew were rescued.

The depot ship ran aground between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund, South-West Africa and was wrecked.

The passenger ship capsized and sank off the Montauk Lighthouse, New York with the loss of 45 lives.

The training hulk, formerly the cruiser , was sunk as a torpedo target in the Pacific Ocean off Miura, Kanagawa, Japan.

Unknown date March 1963

The ferry capsized and sank in the Danube at Belgrade. Ninety people drowned.

The cargo ship ran aground on a reef in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia. She later was refloated and repaired.

Became stranded and sank on a voyage from Kopervik and Kristiansund.

The cargo ship collided with at Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône and was beached in a severely damaged state.

The hopper ship foundered in the Pacific Ocean north north west of Carnarvon, Western Australia whilst under tow from Singapore to Australia by Empire Downland .

The coaster ran aground on the South Arklow Bank, Co Wicklow, Ireland. All eleven crew rescued by the Arklow lifeboat. Refloated and taken under tow but sank the next day.

Collided with ship in Saint Lawrence River and sank near Sorel, Quebec, Canada
The cargo ship on route from Sardinia to Ghent with a cargo of zinc ore sank after the cargo shifted in a force 10 gale. 9 men were saved by the Guernsey R.N.L.I. lifeboat, earning their Gold Medal and also one from the Norwegian Lifeboat Institution.

The list of shipwrecks in 1952 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1952.

The cargo ship was severely damaged in a collision with at Antwerp. Not repaired, she was sold for scrap in June 1939.

the fishing vessel ran aground at Duncansby Head, Scotland with the loss of all 12 crew.

Suez Crisis: The was engaged in shelling Haifa, Israel when she was captured by the Israeli Navy following a battle.

The trawler was in collision with and sank off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire with the loss of five of her 21 crew. The sixteen survivors were rescued by Dalhanna.

The cargo ship ran aground at Workington, Cumberland and broke her back.

Unknown date 1962

The coaster was sprang a leak and was abandoned off St. John's, Newfoundland. All crew survived.

The cargo ship collided with Doris in the Bristol Channel off Barry, Glamorgan and was consequently beached in Whitmore Bay.

The bulk carrier ran aground off To-shima, Tokyo and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Kobe, Japan to Los Angeles, California, United States. Consequently scrapped.

The cargo ship collided with north of Ameland, Netherlands and sank.

List of shipwrecks in 1962

The coaster collided with and sank off New Brighton, Cheshire. All ten crew rescued by the dredger Hilbre Island and the Liverpool Pilot Boat .

The cargo ship hit rocks and sank off the coast of Tunisia with the loss of 62 of her 68 crew.

The cargo ship ran aground at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Refloated but declared a constructive total loss and consequently scrapped in July.

The coaster collided with in the English Channel off St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight and sank with the loss of three of her seven crew. Survivors were rescued by Black Osprey.

The ocean liner ran aground off Argentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Refloated after six hours.

World War II: The Liberty ship became stranded and was declared a constructive total loss.

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The tanker ran aground in the Panama Canal, blocking it.

was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel off Weymouth, Dorset by . All seven crew were rescued by a Royal Navy destroyer.

Sank in a storm off Newfoundland. Cargo included 16 locomotives for the French Railways.

The cargo ship ran aground and sank in the Namsenfjord, Norway, whilst on a voyage from Slemmestad to Namsos.

The passenger ship ran aground off the Vikna Islands, refloated then sank with the loss of 33 of the 79 passengers and crew.

The cargo ship collided with in the English Channel and sank with the loss of three crew.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii following use as a target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

The cargo ship ran aground on Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. She was refloated but subsequently sank. All crew were rescued.

thumb|MV Plassy, 2005 Wrecked on Finnis Rock, off Inisheer, Aran Islands, Ireland. All eleven crew saved. Wreck later driven ashore, where it remains as of 2005.

List of shipwrecks in 1938

The freight barge caught fire on the Buffalo River in New York after the tug Dauntless #12 pushed it into the path of the steamer Penobscot and Penobscot collided with Morania #130. The fire killed eleven people and burned for several days.

The tanker ran aground off Plumb Point Lighthouse, Jamaica.

The cargo ship ran aground off Round Island, Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. All 26 crew rescued by the St. Mary's lifeboat.

The coaster sprang a leak and sank off Karachi with the loss of ten of her twelve crew.

The decommissioned was sunk for use as a sonar target in the Pacific Ocean off Portland, Oregon.

The cargo ship foundered in the North Sea off Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands. The crew were rescued by .
The Design 1020 cargo ship collided with off Jacksonville, Florida and was beached.

The T-class submarine was damaged in a collision with an unknown vessel whilst at periscope depth in the Solent.

The coaster sank off Argentina with the loss of fifteen of her eighteen crew.

The decommissioned patrol vessel sank in the Irish Sea off the Saltee Islands, County Wexford, Ireland, while under tow to a scrapyard.

Scot

The refrigerated cargo ship sank following an explosion in her engine room whilst off the coast of Brazil . All 41 crew rescued by .

The coaster collided with another ship in the English Channel off Sandgate, Kent and sank. All six crew were rescued by the Hythe lifeboat City of Nottingham .

The Liberty ship sprang a leak and sank in the Pacific Ocean .

The Liberty ship exploded and sank north of Bermuda with the loss of all 18 crew.

The cargo ship struck a mine and sank whilst on a voyage from Venice, Italy to Rijeka, Yugoslavia. Eleven crew were killed.

The tug capsized and sank at Hull, Yorkshire with the loss of three of her five crew.

The tanker collided with in the English Channel. Both ships caught fire and there was a large spill of oil.

The auxiliary sailing vessel suffered an onboard explosion and sank in the North Sea off the Elbe 2 Lightship . The crew were rescued.

Last communication from the ship off the Balearic Islands, no further trace.

The Italian Line 29,083 ton ocean liner, sunk after collision with Stockholm . 46 fatalities.

The coaster collided with in the Seine. Lanarkbrook was holed and was beached to prevent her sinking.

The cargo ship caught fire at St. John's, Newfoundland and burnt to the waterline. All crew were rescued.

The coaster ran aground on the Lofoten Islands and sank. All 46 passengers and crew were rescued.

The passenger ship sank south west of Kaohsiung. Two survivors reported of her eleven crew and 33 passengers.

Allegedly exploded and sank after its crew died under suspicious circumstances.

Seabird

The cargo ship ran aground at Leinish Point, Inner Hebrides. Sank the next day off Bo Vich Chuan Rock, Inner Hebrides.

The decommissioned Porpoise-class submarine foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, while under tow to the scrapyard.

The cargo ship collided with in the Thames Estuary and was beached on the West Barrow Sands, where she was declared a total loss.

The coaster sank south of Aden with the loss of five of the nine people on board.

The Liberty ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Race, Newfoundland, Canada .

The cargo ship ran aground in the Scheldt, Belgium.

World War II: The tanker was sunk.

collided with north of Cap Gris Nez, France. Set on fire and severely damaged with the loss of four crew. Towed to Antwerp for repairs.

The paddle steamer sank off Port Adelaide, South Australia.

Snow White
The cargo ship caught fire and sank at Amorgos.

The cargo ship collided with at Canakkale, Turkey and was beached. She was refloated the next day.

South Goodwin Lightship

The passenger ship ran aground north of Copenhagen. Three hundred passengers transferred ashore by tugs.

Unknown date 1941

The cargo ship caught fire and sank at Copenhagen, Denmark.

thumb|right|Flying Enterprise sinking.The cargo ship sank in English Channel, 31 nautical miles south of The Lizard. Her cargo included $160,000 and zirconium.
The S-class submarine sank in the Mediterranean off Cape Camarat with the loss of all hands.

The cargo ship collided with in the Strait of Dover and sank with the loss of two crew. Sadikzade then collided with , which in turn collided with . All three ships reached port safely.

The Liberty ship was wrecked on the north coast of the Soviet Union .

The cargo ship was driven ashore at Jōgashima in a typhoon and broke in two.

List of shipwrecks in 1940

The ran aground in the Hudson River at New York. Later refloated undamaged.

The Liberty ship foundered in a typhoon .

thumb|right|USS Pensacola sinking.The decommissioned heavy cruiser was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off Washington after use as a target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

The cargo ship was reported to have a damaged hull and in a waterlogged state at Sakura Ma, Osaka during Typhoon Marie.
The cargo ship was in the Atlantic Ocean when there was a boiler explosion and she was set on fire. The crew abandoned ship, and were rescued by . They were landed at Lisbon, Portugal. Two crew were killed in the explosion and the ship sank.

The cargo ship foundered in the Sea of Japan with the loss of all hands.

The cargo ship ran aground on Balach Rocks, Islay, Inner Hebrides, United Kingdom whilst on a voyage from Leith, Midlothian to Sfax, Tunisia.

The schooner came ashor on the east coast of Miquelon and was wrecked.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Kei Islands, Netherlands East Indies and was wrecked.

The tanker ran aground on Maro Reef, Hawaii. All crew saved.

The Minesweeper (ship)minesweeper was destroyed by explosives after running aground off Rockport, Massachusetts, two days earlier.

The Type IXC/40 submarine was scuttled in the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of the United States by .

The steam ship ran aground on Scharhörn and was refloated on the same day.

The coaster foundered in the Irish Sea off St. John's Point, County Antrim. The crew were rescued by .

The cargo ship sank south east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, having been adrift for three days following engine failure. She had been taken in tow by the tug but the tow line parted and she sank. Twenty of her 35 crew were rescued, eleven by and nine by .

Skeldervik

The salvage tug fouled the wreck of and sank at Goole, Yorkshire whilst assisting with the salvage of Eddie.

The ferry ran aground in Ettrick Bay, Kyles of Bute, Buteshire. Refloated the same day.

Unknown date 1950

The barge foundered off Karystos with the loss of three crew.

The captured MAS boat was sunk by explosives off Marsaxlokk, Malta. Five other MAS boats were scuttled in open seas.
The passenger ship collided with a tug and sank at Shanghai with the loss of at least 100 lives.

Sara

The barge was sunk in the River Mersey, England, in a collision with the passenger ship .

The tug collided with and sank at Avonmouth Docks, Somerset. Three of her five crew reported missing.

The ran aground at Lindisfarne, Northumberland.

The coastal tanker collided with in the English Channel north of Guernsey. Josef Joham was cut in two and sank, all eleven crew were rescued by Ludwigshafen.

The cargo ship sank off Marmara Island, Turkey with the loss of three crew.

The cargo ship ran aground on the Monach Islands, Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom. Thirteen of her fourteen crew were rescued by a Royal Air Force helicopter.

The cargo ship ran aground off Yokosuka, Japan. All 42 crew rescued.

The struck a mine and sank at Wonsan, Korea.

The cargo ship ran aground outside Hartlepool Harbour, Co Durham, United Kingdom.
The coaster ran aground off Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, United Kingdom. All five crew were rescued.

The lifeboat foundered in the 'Seaham Lifeboat Disaster' with the loss of eight men and one boy .

The cargo ship collided with a bridge over the Beauharnois Canal at Valleyfield, Quebec and then ran aground. Refloated after fifteen hours.

The Liberty ship ran aground on the Ladd Reef

The auxiliary schooner was wrecked north of Quebec City, Canada with the loss of three crew.

The cargo ship ran aground at Danzig Cove, Newfoundland. She was reported as "likely to be a total loss".

Heinrich Brand

Tonecas
The cargo ship foundered off Huafo. All crew were rescued.

The tanker exploded and caught fire at Bandar Mashar, Iran, killing 30 of her 41 crew, and two others onshore. The ship capsized and sank in shallow water.

The cargo ship ran aground off Vlissingen, Netherlands.

The ocean liner caught fire, capsized and sank at Liverpool, Lancashire. Refloated and scrapped in 1954.

The coaster ran aground at Canna, Scotland in a storm.
The cargo ship collided with and sank south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, United Kingdom. All 32 crew rescued by Jalazad.

The hulk of the cargo liner was sunk as a target by the South African Air Force off Cape Town.

The cargo ship ran aground east of Cherbourg, Seine-Maritime.

The cargo ship was sunk in the Suez Canal at Port Tewfik during an attack by British and French forces.

The cargo ship's cargo of fertilizer caught fire. The ship later capsized and sank in the Atlantic, with three of her 44 crew reported missing. rescued the other 41 crew.

List of shipwrecks in 1952

thumb|Sri Ayudhya shortly before sinkingManhattan Rebellion: The rebel-controlled coastal defence ship was shelled and bombed by government forces until she sank off Bangkok, Thailand.

The coaster foundered in the North Sea off the coast of Ayrshire with the loss of all five crew.

The Type IXC/40 submarine was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean by Avro Anson, Fairey Firefly, Fairey Swordfish and Supermarine Seafire aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force and by , and .

The cargo ship was abandoned in the Irish Sea off Rhosneigr, Anglesey. All crew were rescued by the Holyhead lifeboat. Kyle Prince came ashore at Cable Bay, Holyhead and was a total loss.

The coaster hit a mine and sank off Borkum, Netherlands. All fourteen crew were rescued by .

The decommissioned was sunk as a target.

The collier collided with off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Both ships were holed. Harfry was beached at Hemsby and Firmity put into Great Yarmouth.

The minesweeper caught fire and sank in the English Channel off Ostend, Belgium. All 31 crew rescued by SS Phoenix and .

The sailing ship collided with at Lido di Venezia, Venice and sank.
The schooner sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned at ). All seven crew were rescued by .

thumb|right|USS Frank Knox aground.The ran aground in the South China on Pratas Reef in the Pratas Islands. She was salvaged, repaired and eventually returned to service.

Arkendale H and Wastdale H
Typhoon Mary: The Liberty ship sank at Hong Kong. Subsequently refloated and scrapped.

The cargo ship foundered in the Baltic Sea off Pillau, East Prussia, Germany.

The armament carrier was destroyed in an explosion of ordnance at Gibraltar.

The coaster ran aground off Avonmouth. Refloated the next day.

St. Clair Therault

The passenger boat sank in the River Nile near Barrage Gardens, south of Cairo. At least eleven people were killed, with 175 rescued and an unknown number missing.

The cargo ship caught fire off Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom. The crew were taken off and the ship was beached at Norman's Bay.

The captured , formerly , was sunk as a target by United States Navy forces off Japan's Gotō Islands.

Unknown date 1955

The tanker ran aground in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts.

The list of shipwrecks in 1954 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1954.

The ocean liner was rammed and sunk at Leixões, Portugal by . The crew and all 122 passengers were rescued.

The bulk carrier broke in two and sank in the Atlantic Ocean

The cargo liner ran aground off Fiji. Refloated later that day.

The cargo ship collided with in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent. All 37 crew were rescued. Felspar was beached south of Deal, Kent.

Collided with and sank in the Strait of Gibraltar . All 28 crew saved.

The cable-laying ship grounded in the Firth of Clyde. Refloated the next day.

Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and severely damaged at Alicante, Spain.

The decommissioned was sunk in the Pacific Ocean off Kwajalein after use as a test target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

The dredger capsized at Le Havre, Seine-Maritime.

The cargo ship collided with and sank east of Ramsgate, Kent with the loss of one of her nineteen crew.

The coaster foundered south of Malta. Five of her eleven crew were killed, six were rescued by the Admiralty tug .

The cargo ship collided with a Port of London Authority dredger in the Thames Estuary and ran aground.

ran aground south of Hartland Point, Devon and was wrecked. All seven crew rescued by breeches buoy.

World War II: The trawler was bombed and sunk in the North Sea east by north of the Isle of May, Fife by Luftwaffe aircraft.

Manticos

The steam schooner was in collision with south of San Francisco, California and sank with the loss of six of her 28 crew.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Elbe at Cuxhaven, West Germany.

The Liberty ship ran aground at New Caledonia, a total loss.

The cargo ship struck the wreck of in the Weser Estuary and sank. All 42 crew rescued by the German pilot ship Weser .

The coaster ran aground at Port Stephens, New South Wales and was wrecked.

The cargo ship struck ice and sank at Hanko, Finland. All crew rescued.

The cargo ship suffered an on-board explosion and sank north west of the Horns-Rev Lightship with the loss of her captain. The crew were rescued by . The explosion was caused by two bombs which had been placed in her forward cargo holds by Norwegian dock workers who were members of the anti-fascist Wollweber League, while the ship was docked in Oslo, Norway.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Black Sea. Refloated after nine days.

The Liberty ship ran aground at Ohara, Japan and broke in two.

The cargo ship collided with west of Bloksen and sank with the loss of ten crew. She was on a voyage from Bergen, Norway to Geneva, Switzerland.

The tanker ran aground off Singapore. Refloated four days later.

The ship was attacked and sunk by a Guatemalan Air Force after firing upon the aircraft when ordered to identify herself. Guatemalan President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes claimed the ship was running arms to Guatemala.

The cargo ship caught fire at Ward Cove, Alaska, United States and was beached.

The coaster ran aground near the Lorelei Rock, in the Rhine and sank.

The cargo ship sprang a leak after her cargo of scrap iron shifted. An explosion then occurred at the stern of the ship and she sank off Virginia, United States. All 23 crew rescued by United States Coast Guard vessels.

The coaster sank in the North Sea.
The salvage vessel foundered in the North Sea off Staithes, Yorkshire. All seven crew were rescued by .

The training ship sank in the Thames Estuary at Grays, Essex.

The cargo ship foundered in the English Channel. All 27 crew and both passengers rescued by the tug Rennes and cargo ship Banora and landed at Newhaven, East Sussex or Dieppe, France respectively.

Catalonia

The Liberty ship was driven ashore on Ocean Island. She was later refloated but struck wreckage and was abandoned.

The cargo ship was driven ashore at Cadaqués, Spain in a storm and was a total loss.
Irene

The collided with in Suez Bay and sank with the loss of her captain. The rest of her 111 crew were rescued.

The dredger caught fire at Bay City, Michigan. She was a total loss.

The cargo ship exploded and sank off Peniche, Portugal. Crew rescued by the tanker .

The minesweeper foundered in the Mediterranean Sea east of Gibraltar with the loss of 33 of her 77 crew. The survivors were rescued by . assisted in the rescue operation.

The ocean liner ran aground off Southampton, Hampshire. Refloated after five hours.

The cargo ship collided with in the English Channel off Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom and sank with the loss of one of her 24 crew. The survivors were rescued by .

struck a mine and sank in Macassar Strait, Borneo.

The list of shipwrecks in 1940 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1940. Most of the ships listed here were lost in connection with World War II.

The cargo ship collided with off Spiekeroog, Netherlands and sank. One of her 41 crew was killed, the 40 survivors were rescued by Bischofstein and landed at Bremerhaven, West Germany.

The Liberty ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom and broke in two. All 34 crew rescued by the Walmer Lifeboat.
The cargo ship struck a rock and sank of Isle Royale, Lake Superior with the loss of twelve of her 33 crew. The survivors were rescued by .

The tanker collided with Donluis in Wenchow Harbour and sank.
The cargo ship foundered in the Irish Sea between Lundy Island and Cardigan Bay with the loss of all seventeen crew. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Manchester, Lancashire.

The cargo ship ran aground on Muckle Skerry, in the Pentland Firth, Scotland. All fifty on board survived.
The coaster sank off Cherbourg, the loss of six of her 25 crew.

The tanker collided with ' in the Bosporus off Beykoz, Turkey and both ships caught fire. They drifted onto ' setting that ship on fire. All three ships were wrecked. A total of 47 crew from the three ships were killed and about 40 were injured.

The cargo ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom, and was wrecked. She broke in two and was declared a total loss. All 32 crew were rescued by the Walmer Lifeboat.

The dredger capsized and sank at Brisbane, Australia. Seven crew were killed and two reported as missing.

thumb|Altalena on fire at Tel AvivAltalena Affair: The Irgun-operated converted tank landing ship was shelled by the Israel Defense Forces, grounded, and set on fire near Tel Aviv. She was towed out to sea and scuttled in 1949.

The cargo ship ran aground at Cape Spartel, Morocco and broke in two. Declared a total loss.

The Liberty ship collided with British Statesman

The tanker exploded and was burnt out at Wilmington, Delaware. Consequently laid up, subsequently converted to dredger.

The Liberty ship ran aground at Gdynia, Poland. She was later refloated but was declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.

The fishing vessel capsized and sank in the Ionian Sea with the loss of eleven of her fifteen crew. sent one of her lifeboats to the aid of Iason, but it capsized and all eight on board were drowned. Four survivors from Iason were rescued by Stratheden.

The coaster collided with the trawler Rose of England and sank off the mouth of the River Humber.

The coaster ran aground at St. Ives Head. All crew saved. Ship refloated the following day.

the cargo ship sank south east of Hong Kong. All fifteen crew rescued.

The cargo ship sank in the Arosa Estuary off Pontevedra. Thirteen of the 44 people on board were killed.

The cargo ship foundered in the Black Sea with the loss of six of her fourteen crew.

The cargo ship foundered on a voyage from Santander to Valencia with the loss of over 20 crew.

The passenger ship collided with in the Yangtze Estuary and sank with the loss of about 100 lives. Around 30 people were rescued. assisted in the rescue.

The Liberty ship was damaged in a typhoon. She was refloated but collided with a United States Navy tug and was declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo liner was wrecked off Tønsberg.

The coaster ran aground off the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland. Refloated the next day.

The passenger ship ran aground at Porkkala, Finland.

The coaster collided with in the Scheldt near Terneuzen. Three of her eleven crew reported missing.

Collided with in the Kiel Canal, Germany and was damaged. Laid up pending sale which took place in 1935.

The cargo ship ran aground at Sarda Island in the Mull of Kintyre.

The cargo ship ran aground at Novorossiysk, Soviet Union. Later refloated with aid of Soviet ships.

List of shipwrecks in 1945

Ran aground at Hope Point, St. Margaret's Bay, Kent. Refloated by tugs and returned to service.

Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea south east of Cape San Antonio, Spain. All crew were rescued.

The tanker was in collision with at Port Said, Egypt.

World War II: The corvette was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean whilst escorting a convoy.

Sylvabelle

Unknown date 1963

The cargo ship ran aground at IJmuiden, Netherlands.

The coaster collided with off Warnemünde and sank with the loss of one crewmember, two others reported missing.

The cargo ship ran aground at Maizuru, Japan. She was declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Hooghly River and broke her back. She was abandoned as a total loss.

The tanker collided with in the Paraná River from river mouth. The ship and caught fire and was declared a constructive total loss.

The T-class submarine was swept out of her dock at HMNB Chatham when a caisson collapsed. She ended up aground in the Medway. Four people were killed. Later repaired and returned to service.

The Liberty ship ran aground in the Sakhalin Islands, Soviet Union and broke in two, a total loss.

Trabajador

The cargo ship ran aground at Kaihyo To, Sakhalin, Soviet Union.

Nautilus
The trawler struck a mine and sank off the Netherlands with the loss of all but one of her fourteen crew.

Unknown date 1968

The cargo ship ran aground off Ockseu Island, China. All 31 crew abandoned ship, but then disappeared. They were later discovered safe on Haitan Island.

The coaster collided with in the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent. All nine on board rescued.

The coaster ran aground at St Alban's Head, Swanage Dorset.
The cargo liner ran aground off Vatoa Island, Fiji. All passengers and crew rescued after three days.

Bretanha

Ran aground at Danger Point, Cape Province and broke in two. A total loss.

The cargo ship struck a rock off Borborema, Brazil and sank. All crew were rescued.

Unknown date December 1955

Wrecked at Rolvsøy.

Unknown date 1953

The coaster ran aground on the Caernarvonshire coast. Refloated after three hours.

The cargo ship caught fire and sank at Chungking.

The ferry struck a mine and sank off Kavaliani with the loss of about 300 lives.

The minelayer capsized and sank at Kiel, Germany, with the loss of four of her 30 crew.
Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk at Barcelona by Nationalist aircraft.
Foundered at Melilla.

The cargo ship sank off Le Havre, France. All eight crew rescued by the Le Havre pilot boat.

The Liberty ship was driven ashore at Sker Point, Glamorgan and broke in three. All 39 crew were lost, as well as all eight crew of the Mumbles lifeboat Edward, Prince of Wales .

The cargo ship was bombed and sunk by a CIA B-26 Invader in Ambon Bay, Indonesia.

The tanker exploded east of Gibraltar and sank. All crew rescued by the tug .

The cargo ship was driven ashore at South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom. All 23 crew were rescued by breeches buoy.

The collier sank off The Lizard, Cornwall. All ten crew were rescued, but one later died.

The S-class submarine was swamped by floods while in drydock at Sheerness Dockyard and sank. She was later raised, repaired, and returned to service.

Suez Crisis: The cargo ship foundered off Blakeney, Norfolk with the loss of one of her nineteen crew.

The cargo ship sank off Kragerø, Norway, whilst on a voyage from Brevik to Etne.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Clyde at Old Kilpatrick, Renfrewshire.

The cargo ship struck a mine off Scarborough, Yorkshire and broke her back. She was beached sinking by the bows. One crewmember was killed.

Early November 1955

List of shipwrecks in 1960

The ocean liner ran aground off Thorshavn, Faroe Islands. She was refloated the next day.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off California after use as target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

The cargo ship sank off Otranto, Italy. All twenty crew rescued by .

The was sunk as a target by the submarine .
The cargo ship was bombed and damaged or sunk by a CIA B-26 Invader in Ambon Bay, Indonesia. Subsequently salvaged and registered in Panama as Keanyew.

Empire Claire

The cargo ship foundered north east of Singapore. Only five of her 29 crew were rescued.

The coaster ran aground off Cap de la Hague, France.

Oceanic II

Vindex

The Liberty ship ran aground at Famagusta, Cyprus. with the loss of five of her 31 crew. The ship broke in two and was declared a total loss.

The cruise ship ran aground off Stockholm, Sweden. All 94 passengers returned to Stockholm by a Swedish ship.

The cargo ship was driven ashore near Puri, India in a cyclone. She broke her back and was declared a total loss.

The cargo ship ran aground on Kemojan Island, Indonesia. She sank four days later.

Ran aground on North Sand Head, Goodwin Sands. Refloated later that day.

The was driven ashore at Kvalbeinsrumen, Jæren, Norway whilst on a voyage from Bergen to Risør for conversion to a merchant ship. Later refloated and returned to Bergen.

The schooner caught fire off Bermuda and was abandoned.

The cargo liner ran aground in the Crosby Channel, River Mersey whilst trying to avoid a collision with the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board dredger Leviathan. Refloated but then ran aground again. Refloated a second time and returned to port.

Shiun Maru

The cargo ship collided with and sank in the Elbe Estuary. All fourteen crew rescued by Carpathia.

The cargo ship collided with in the Elbe.

The schooner was driven ashore at Indian Tickle, Labrador, Canada and was wrecked.

The passenger ship ran aground at Caldera. She capsized and was abandoned as a total loss.

The coaster sank south of Sule Skerry, Orkney Islands following and on-board explosion. One of her five crew was killed.

The sailing ship ran aground at Aveiro and was wrecked.
The cargo ship ran aground off the Arranman Barrels Lighthouse, Mull of Kintyre, Argyllshire. The crew were rescued.
The cargo ship struck a reef in Georgian Bay and was beached. She was repaired and returned to service.

The list of shipwrecks in 1962 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1962.

Beached at after developing a leak.

The Thames barge collided with in the Thames Estuary and sank with the loss of both crew.

The buoy tender was sunk in a collision with the in the Mississippi River near White Castle, Louisiana. Only 3 of her 20 crewmen survived.

The Liberty ship ran aground at the mouth of the Elbe and broke in two. A total loss.

Annexation of Portuguese India: The aviso′s crew ran her aground after she suffered serious damage in combat with the frigates INS Betwa and INS Beas and a minesweeper in the harbor at Goa, India. Captured by Indian forces the next day, she was refloated in 1962 and scrapped.

The cargo ship sank north east of the Paracel Islands, China.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Suez Canal.

The circus ship caught fire at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. All people and animals saved except for some zebras. The wreck was scuttled in October 1963.

The cargo ship collided with and sank in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent. All fifteen crew rescued by Sunny Prince and landed at Dover.

The list of shipwrecks in 1944 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1944.

The ship struck the Grunes de L’Ouest rocks between Guernsey and Jersey Channel Islands. 40 people were rescued by the Guernsey lifeboat.

The Thames barge collided with the motor barge Betty Hudson in the Thames Estuary and sank downstream of London Bridge.

The tug capsized and sank at Cardiff, Glamorgan whilst berthing the Festival of Britain ship . All six crew rescued.

The coaster ran aground on Gurnard's Head. All crew and the ship's dog saved.

The cargo liner was crushed by ice and sank in the Bohai Sea . All passengers and crew were rescued.

The coaster ran aground and sank north of the Corsewall Lighthouse, Dumfries-shire. Five crew were rescued by Jennie Spiers .

The cargo ship capsized and sank in the North Sea off the Haaks Lightship with the loss of nine crew. Her captain was rescued by .

Foundered off Cape Agulhas, South Africa with loss of all hands.

The air-sea rescue vessel foundered between Madeira and Lisbon. Crew rescued by the corvette .

The cargo ship ran aground off Fiji. Refloated later that day.

The cargo ship sank in the Irish Sea with the loss of nine of her ten crew.

Spanish Civil War: The tanker was bombed and set of fire at Alicante.

Spurn Lightship

The coaster struck some flotsam and sank off Cape Finisterre, Spain.

The cargo ship was wrecked off Kapp Borthen, Svalbard.

The cargo ship was wrecked at the entrance to Fogo Harbour, Canada.

the cargo ship ran aground on the Pentland Skerries, Orkney Islands, Scotland. All 41 crew rescued by Royal Air Force and Royal Navy helicopters.

The trawler sank at .

The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean by elements of the United States Pacific Fleet.

The fishing schooner sank off the coast of La Guaira, Venezuela.

The coaster sank in the Mersey Channel, north west of Liverpool, Lancashire.

The oceanographic research ship was sunk by jets of water and tephra from the eruption of the submarine volcano Myōjin-shō.
Collided in the River Scheldt near Fort St Marie, Belgium with and sank.

Nonguen

The cargo ship sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned . The crew were rescued by the fishing vessel Recang .

The Liberty ship ran aground . She was later refloated and towed to Gibraltar, where she was declared a constructive total loss. Subsequently scrapped.

The cable laying ship struck a mine and sank in the Gulf of Finland, of Ormus Island, Estonia. Sixteen of the 44 crew were killed.

Sam Weller

The passenger ship ran aground in the Hooghly River at Budge Budge, India.

The Daring-class destroyer was run aground at Portland Harbour, Dorset, due to failure of her steering gear.

The Liberty ship ran aground near Cape Bon, Tunisia . She was later refloated but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.
The barquentine sank south of Nova Scotia, Canada after losing her tow. Both crew rescued.

The cargo ship ran aground at Gothenburg, Sweden. All crew were rescued. The vessel was reported as likely to be a total loss.

The dredger capsized and sank off Clacton-on-Sea, Essex with the loss of four of her seven crew.

The coaster ran aground at Scremerston, Northumberland, United Kingdom. All sixteen on board were rescued.

The trawler was in collision with and was cut in two. She sank with the loss of three of her five crew.

The collided with the collier SS Thomas Tracy off Cape Henry, Virginia, and caught fire, with the loss of 36 of her crew killed and 16 injured. She was repaired and returned to service.

The barquentine ran aground at Port Aleza, Puerto Rico.
The tug sank at Galveston, Texas.

The list of shipwrecks in 1964 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1964.

The tug sank following a boiler explosion at Rotterdam. Three people were killed and fifteen injured by flying débris.

The cargo ship collided with in the Black Sea and sank. All crew rescued by Yolac Port.

The list of shipwrecks in 1958 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1958.

Ran aground at Livorno, Italy, a total loss.

The cargo ship caught fire off Canvey Island, Essex whilst laden with explosives. Ship flooded during firefighting operations.

The former cruiser was scuttled.

The passenger ship ran aground at Brindisi, Italy.

The cargo ship exploded and sank when her cargo of calcium carbide reacted with seawater and formed acetylene after the ship was badly damaged in a storm at Genoa, Italy the previous day.

The Channel Tanker capsized and sank near Torungen Lighthouse, Arendal, Norway.

The tanker caught fire whilst laid up at Barry, Glamorgan. She was consequently scrapped.

The cargo ship sank in the North Sea east of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. All nine crew rescued by the trawlers Junella and York City and landed at Aberdeen.

The ran aground in the North Sea east south east of Cromer, Norfolk, England. Later refloated.
The tanker was in collision in the Delaware River with and sank at Delaware City, Delaware. Both ships caught fire and were total losses.

The cargo ship was crushed by ice and sank in the Chukchi Sea off Cape Syevenoi with the loss of one of the 104 people on board.
The cargo ship collided with in the English Channel. She was beached at Netley, Hampshire, United Kingdom. Subsequently repaired and returned to service.

The T-class submarine collided with in the English Channel south of Portland Bill, Dorset.

The ketch foundered in the Bristol Channel off Flat Holm. Both crew survived.
The cargo ship caught fire in the Sea of Japan and sank with the loss of all hands.

The ocean liner ran aground at Messina, Sicily, Italy. Refloated the next day.

The Thames barge collided with another vessel in the River Thames at Erith, Kent and sank.

The cargo ship was driven ashore at Cape Hawke, New South Wales, Australia and was wrecked.

The chaser collided with and sank.

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The tanker ran aground on Gull Shoal and broke in two. The crew was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard. Oil from the tanker heavily polluted the coastline at Ocean City, Maryland.

The cargo ship caught fire and sank in the Caribbean Sea south west of the Roncador Bank. Seventeen of her 34 crew were rescued by .

Rammed by and sunk off Vlissingen. All eleven crew rescued.

Stolt Dagali

Mona
The cargo ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean. The crew were rescued by .

The lighter sank in Salamander Bay, New South Wales off Port Stephens.

The cargo ship collided with in the English Channel off St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight. One survivor was rescued by Dartford, and 27 were rescued by .

The cargo ship sank off the Netherlands with the loss of all but one of her 24 crew.

Galatee

The cargo ship was abandoned in a sinking condition in the Skaggerak off Hirtshals, Denmark. All crew were rescued by the fishing vessels Java and KW 159 .

The was scuttled off the coast of Malaya .

Suez Crisis: The frigate was challenged by the light cruiser but fired on the British ship. and HMS Newfoundland returned fire, sinking Domiat.

The decommissioned Rudderow-class destroyer escort was sunk as a target.

The Liberty ship broke in two whilst under tow from Port Said, Egypt to an Italian port. Bow section salvaged and subsequently joined to stern section of

The bulk carrier sank after colliding with SS Topdalsfjord in the Straits of Mackinac one nautical mile

Struck a rock in the Sound of Mull and sank with the loss of her captain.

Spanish Civil War, bombed and sunk off Valencia by a Nationalist aircraft.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Nieuwe Waterweg, Netherlands.

Struck a mine and sank off Terschelling, the Netherlands.

The Wave-class oiler caught fire at Greenock, Scotland. Later repaired and returned to service.

The ferry sank near Zamboanga, Mindanao. Only eleven survivors of between 300 and 500 people on board.

The cargo ship was in collision with and sank at Vlissingen, Netherlands. All crew were rescued.

The Liberty ship ran aground off Tobago. She was refloated but declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo ship issued an SOS in the East China Sea . No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

The collided with and sank in the Dardanelles with the loss of 81 of her 86 crew.

The tug capsized and sank at the mouth of the Scheldt. Two of the fourteen crew were reported missing.

Unknown date 1952

The list of shipwrecks in 1961 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1961.

The ocean liner ran aground off Martinique. Refloated after several hours. The ship suffered a broken rudder and damaged propellers. She was towed to Newport News, Virginia, United States for repairs.

The cargo ship lost her hatch covers and her bridge was washed away off the Noto Peninsula during Typhoon Marie.

The Maumee-class oiler caught fire and was wracked by a series of explosions while moored at a pier at Morehead City, North Carolina, killing two men. Her bow section was declared a constructive total loss, but her 200-foot stern section was cut away and combined with a new bow section to create the oiler SS Shenandoah, later renamed .

The cargo ship collided with off Hong Kong.

The decommissioned was sunk in an explosives test in the Pacific Ocean off the Farallon Islands.

The cargo ship ran aground on Terschelling, Netherlands.

The list of shipwrecks in 1953 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1953.

Quest

The paddle steamer sank off Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

Grief

The coaster was driven ashore at Nayland Rock, Margate.

The schooner caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean south east of Cape Race, Newfoundland, Canada. The 40 crew were rescued by a Spanish trawler. The wreck was later sunk by as it was a hazard to shipping.

The cargo ship ran aground off the mouth of the Humber.

The cargo ship collided with in the English Channel of the Royal Sovereign Lightship and was severely damaged.
The cargo ship ran aground at Aberavon, Glamorgan.

Lena A
Fieldwood

The decommissioned LST-542-class tank landing ship was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean south of Oahu, Hawaii.

Spanish Civil War, torpedoed by the Nationalist submarine General Mola off Barcelona, where she sunk in shallow waters. Refloated, repaired and put again in service as Castillo Moncada.

The tug capsized and sank at Swansea, Glamorgan with the loss of two of her six crew.

World War II: The Type VIIC submarine sank in the Atlantic Ocean north of Ireland in September or October 1944 whilst on patrol with the loss of all 50 crew. Cause unknown.

The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her two crew were rescued by .

The coaster was in collision with in Liverpool Bay and sank with the loss of four of the six people on board.

The coaster struck a mine and sank off Langeoog, Netherlands with the loss of eight of her sixteen crew. The survivors were rescued by the tug .

The was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego, California by the submarine .

The schooner was wrecked in a hurricane.

The cargo ship sprang a leak in the Indian Ocean and was abandoned. The crew were rescued by .

SS Home

flag unknown

The ferry collided with east of Harwich, Essex and was cut in two. The bow section sank, three lives were lost of the 396 people on board. The stern section was towed to Harwich. A new bow was built and Duke of York returned to service.

The Liberty ship ran aground south of Dakar, Senegal , a total loss.

The cargo ship ran aground on Stroma, Caithness and sank.

The decommissioned was scuttled in the Pacific Ocean off Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, after use as a target in the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests of 1946.

The cable layer collided with and sank off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

The passenger ship ran aground in the Suez Canal, Egypt.

The coastal tanker collided with and sank in the Scheldt with the loss of four crew.

The ran aground off Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. Later refloated and taken to Chatham Dockyard for examination.

The coastal steamer ran aground and was wrecked at the mouth of Spencer Gulf in South Australia.

The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the North Sea west of Hvide Sande, Denmark, at .

The ran aground off Petropavlosk, Soviet Union. She was declared a total loss.
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The coaster sank off Honshu with the loss of sixteen of her 25 crew.

The decommissioned Casco-class cutter was sunk as a target by the .

The Liberty ship ran aground at Kuchinoshima, Japan and broke in two.

The coaster foundered off Westernport, Victoria, Australia with the loss of all seventeen crew.

The Liberty ship broke in two and foundered in the Pacific Ocean .

The cargo ship foundered at Danzig.

Sauer Gebr

Sank in a storm in the West Ice, Greenland. A total of 78 lives were lost.

Vinotra II

Spanish Civil War, bombed and sunk off El Grau, Valencia.

Sank at Hull Docks, declared a constructive total loss but later repaired and returned to service.

The cargo ship caught fire in the North Sea north west of Den Helder, Netherlands. Fire extinguished and ship towed to IJmuiden.

The cargo ship passed the Azores, Portugal on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to British Columbia, Canada. No further trace, presumed foundered.

World War II: The naval trawler was reported to have been sunk.

The cargo ship exploded and sank at Bône, Algeria, killing at least twenty people and injuring at least 165 others.
The Liberty ship foundered in the Pacific Ocean

The cargo ship collided with and was beached on the Mucking Flats in the Thames Estuary.

The cargo ship ran aground on the Seven Stones reef, off Land's End, Cornwall, United Kingdom. All crew rescued. The ship broke up and sank the following day.

The 20,314 ton passenger liner caught fire in the Atlantic ocean while sailing to the island of Madeira and was disabled; 128 fatalities.

The T2 tanker broke in two in the Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The bow section capsized and sank. She was on a voyage from New York to Corpus Christi, Texas. Subsequently rebuilt with bow section from .

The Liberty ship ran aground in the Dardanelles and broke in two.

Vinga

The sailing ship foundered off Halifax, Nova Scotia .

The cargo ship ran aground at Redcar, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. All 37 crew rescued.

The Liberty ship sprang a leak and foundered in the Pacific Ocean .

The decommissioned was sunk as a torpedo target by the submarine off the coast of Washington.

The 439 grt whaler was wrecked after running aground on Dassen Island, N of Cape Town.

The tug sank in the River Thames near Blackfriars Bridge, London.

The cargo ship struck a mine and sank off Patras, Greece. Nine crew were killed.

The Liberty ship ran aground on Dona Sebastiana Island and sank.

World War II: The barracks ship was scuttled at Lorient, France.

The coaster collided in the Mediterranean with and sank.

Edna

The coaster ran aground in Bridlington Bay, Yorkshire.

The barque was sunk as a target by Royal New Zealand Air Force aircraft.

The tug was driven ashore at Fall River in a hurricane.

Hellas

The tanker exploded and caught fire at Mururan, Japan. Three of her crew were killed, 22 were injured, five others reported missing.

The coaster collided with in the English Channel off Kingsdown, Kent and sank. All thirteen crew were rescued by Wairangi.

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The cargo ship collided with in Lake Huron and sank south east of Thunderbay Island with the loss of four crew.

ran aground below Dunbeath Castle, Scotland. All crew rescued by life-boat.

The cargo ship collided with in the Baltic Sea and was beached at Hveen. She was later refloated and taken to Landskrona, where she was repaired and returned to service.

The cargo ship ran aground at Klippen Point, South Africa and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by .

The cargo ship collided in the Gulf of Suez with and sank with the loss of 3 lives. Thirteen racehorses were drowned. Purfina Congo repaired and returned to service.

The coaster sank in the North Sea off the mouth of the Tyne. All nine crew saved by the tug .

The cargo ship ran aground in Stokksundet, Norway, whilst on a voyage from Bergen to Tromsø.

Monsunen

The cargo ship was wrecked. Scrapped later that month.

The list of shipwrecks in 1960 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1960.

the bulk carrier struck a rock in the Panama Canal and sank. Refloated the following day.

The passenger ship caught fire in the Bay of Biscay and was abandoned. All 45 people on board were rescued by

The cargo ship ran aground in the Scheldt, Belgium and broke in two.

The cargo ship sank in the North Sea after her cargo shifted. All fourteen crew were rescued.

Sand Runner

City of London

Hai Kan No. 10

The cargo ship ran aground at Courtown Cays and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by .

Unidentified MAS boat

The coaster ran aground off Tynemouth, Northumberland. Later refloated.

RORO passenger ferry sinks in the North Channel during a severe windstorm. 133 fatalities.

The cargo ship ran aground on Lindisfarne, Northumberland. All crew were rescued by a fishing vessel.
The auxiliary three-masted schooner ran aground in the North Sea on the Haaksgrounds, off the Dutch coast and was a total loss. All crew were rescued by .

The cargo liner ran aground on Samandag Island, Philippines and was wrecked.

Cricket

The coaster was driven ashore at Bawdsey, Suffolk. Three crew taken off by breeches buoy.

The U-class submarine was sunk as a target off the Isle of Wight.

Unknown date April 1961

The Thames barge was rammed and sunk at Harwich, Essex by England . The crew were rescued.

The tanker ran aground in the River Mersey, United Kingdom three times within 24 hours.
List of shipwrecks in 1953

The passenger-cargo ship hit a mine and sank in the Yangtze River near Wusong, People's Republic of China.

The cargo ship was driven ashore at Hoihow, China in a typhoon. Refloated in 1949 and sold.

The schooner was abandoned off Codroy, Newfoundland.

The collier collided with in the Scheldt at Hansweert, Netherlands, and sank. One life was lost.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego, California, by the ships and aircraft of the carrier battle group .

The tug ran aground in the Thames Estuary. Two barges she was towing were discovered at Allhallows, Kent and Yantlett, Kent. All six crew were killed.

The cargo ship collided with in the Bay of Biscay off Ouessant, Finistère, France with and sank. British Mariner was subsequently scrapped in May 1962.

The Thames barge collided with in the River Thames at Blackwall and sank. She was raised the next day.

Jean Gougy

The cargo ship ran aground at Tampico, Mexico.

The tug collided with in San Francisco Bay and sank with the loss of two crew.

The cargo ship foundered on a voyage between Kaliningrad and Amsterdam.

Tabor

The cargo ship ran aground on a reef in the South China Sea and sank.

The tanker ran aground at Porthcawl, Glamorgan.

Amaryllis

The Liberty ship ran aground on a reef in the Red Sea . Beached and abandoned, she was declared a constructive total loss.

The tanker ran aground at Guéthary, France, with the loss of all seven crew.

thumb|Arkendale H and Wastdale H, July 2011The barges collided with the Severn Railway Bridge, bringing down two spans. Both vessels caught fire and were grounded near the main channel. The wreckage of both vessels is in situ as of July 2011.

The coaster collided with in the English Channel south of Selsey Bill, West Sussex and sank with the loss of six of her ten crew.

The auxiliary sailing vessel struck a rock and sank off Chimbote.

The tug collided with in the River Thames at Northfleet, Kent and sank with the loss of two of her four crew.

Exercise Bluebird: A Royal Netherlands Air Force Republic F-84 Thunderjet collided with the motor launch's mast and crashed onto the boat, killing its pilot and fifteen crew of 2582, which sank. The accident occurred in the Marsdiep, Netherlands.

Jean Smith
The cargo ship ran aground at Thyborøn, Jutland, Denmark. All crew were rescued.

The hulk was scuttled by the Royal Australian Air Force off Sydney, Australia.

The cargo ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. Refloated after six hours by a tug and the Ramsgate lifeboat.

The coaster collided with and sank south of Portland Bill, Dorset, United Kingdom. All twelve crew rescued by Favoriet and landed at Weymouth. Evertsen was only five weeks old at the time of her loss.

The tanker ran aground off Bermuda after her anchor chains broke in a gale.

The decommissioned was sunk by gunfire in the Pacific Ocean off Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, after use as a target in the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests of 1946.

The coaster ran aground between Aldeburgh and Orfordness, Suffolk.

The Army transport, formerly Colonial Navigation Company's Belfast , wrecked off Ocean Park, Washington while under tow to Puget Sound.

The cargo ship ran aground at Balboa, Spain and was beached. She was refloated the next day.
The cargo ship capsized and sank at Danzig with the loss of two lives.

The was scuttled in the Pacific Ocean off Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, after use as a target in the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests of 1946.

The cargo ship exploded and caught fire at Sète, Hérault, France whilst loading a cargo of petrol. She was moved away from the port and beached; declared a total loss.
The schooner caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by .

The sand hopper collided with another vessel and sank in the Manchester Ship Canal.

The cargo ship ran aground in the River Plate, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Jupiter

The tanker collided with the El Ferdan Railway Bridge, Suez Canal, Ismailia, Egypt. The canal was blocked as part of the bridge ended up across the deck of World Peace.

The coaster ran aground on the Cornish coast between Land's End and St Ives and was holed.
The cargo ship ran aground at Winterton, Norfolk.

Ran aground off Campbeltown, Argyllshire declared a constructive total loss.

The schooner foundered at Southport and was dismantled in situ.

The cargo ship struck a submerged object naar the Westhinder Lightship and holed. Put into Antwerp for repairs.

The coaster ran aground off Anglesey. Refloated but leaking, towed by to Holyhead. Later repaired and returned to service.

The cargo ship ran aground off Ameland, Netherlands.

The coaster capsized and sank off Jutland, Denmark.

destroyed by explosion at Ekaterininsky. S-350 damaged by the explosion. A total of 132 people killed.

The was bombed and sunk by a CIA Douglas B-26 Invader off Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

The steamer was wrecked near Cape Dorset near the southern tip of Canada′s Baffin Island.

Tuaikaepau

The cargo ship collided in the Scheldt, Belgium with and sank. All 35 crew saved by Blommersdijk.

The ocean liner caught fire at Le Havre, Seine-Maritime and was a total loss. She was consequently scrapped at Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.

The tanker sank off Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland. All seven crew rescued by the collier .

The cargo ship ran aground north of Mukho, South Korea . She broke in two three days later, a total loss.

The fire-damaged fast transport, former , was scuttled off Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

The Type XXI submarine was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean off Key West, Florida .

The paddle steamer ran aground at Sidmouth, Devon. All passengers were taken off, but the crew remained on board.

The ran aground at St. Ives. All crew saved. Ship later refloated and towed to Devonport.

The cargo ship ran aground at Mukho, South Korea and was declared a constructive total loss.

Hurricane Carol: The cargo ship was driven ashore at Provincetown, Massachusetts. Crew taken off by breeches buoy.

The tanker ran aground at South Foreland, Kent. Refloated the next day.

The coastal tanker capsized and sank in the River Severn at Awre, Gloucestershire with the loss of all five crew.

The Liberty ship sank in the Hudson Strait .

The cargo ship ran aground at Whitley Bay, Northumberland, United Kingdom. All 35 crew rescued.

The Liberty ship ran aground at Bombay, India. She was later refloated but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.

The Minesweeper (ship)minesweeper ran aground off Rockport, Massachusetts.

Nellie T Walters

The coaster collided with at Boston, Lincolnshire and sank. She was later refloated.

Foundered in a storm off Palos Verdes, California.

Australia

Struck ice and sank north of Labrador, Canada.

The schooner caught fire off Cape Pine, Newfoundland and was abandoned by her crew.
Baleares

The coastal tanker ran aground in the River Mersey, United Kingdom.

Duke of Sparta

Portland

The cargo ship ran aground at Prestogalten, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway and was abandoned.

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The cargo ship ran aground at Norah Head, New South Wales and was wrecked.

The sloop collided with in the River Humber at Whitton, Lincolnshire and sank.

The list of shipwrecks in 1943 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1943.

The coaster ran aground on Burial Island, Co Down, Northern Ireland.

The cargo ship ran aground at Lista, Norway, and sank.

Wrecked on rocks at Malabar, Sydney, Australia.

The coaster collided with and sank of Kijkduin, Netherlands with the loss of all but one of her eight crew.

The cargo ship foundered in the Yellow Sea west of Korea during a typhoon.

The hospital ship collided with off San Francisco, California and sank with the loss of 23 of her 505 crew.

Minerve

The 827 ton steamship stranded in dense fog on the rocks of Trevean Cove, Cornwall, UK whilst carrying cement between Cliffe and Bristol. The captain believed he was near the Brisons at Cape Cornwall.

The list of shipwrecks in 1957 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1957.

Clara

thumb|right|HMAS Warrnambool sinking.The sank near Cockburn Reef along the Great Barrier Reef off the northern coast of Queensland, Australia, after striking a mine. Four of her crew were killed and 29 were injured.

Plus

Driven up the Karnaphuli River in a cyclone and stranded. Constructive total loss, scrapped in February 1961.

The Liberty ship ran aground near Casablanca, Morocco. She was later refloated but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.

The coaster sank at the O'Bevine Lighthouse, Rathlin Island, County Antrim, United Kingdom.

The cargo ship, refloated after running aground in September 1965, is scuttled 0.75 mile off Riviera Beach, Florida, to form an artificial reef.

The tanker collided with in the Maas at Rotterdam, Netherlands.

The cargo ship caught fire at Piraeus. She was scuttled outside the port in order to extinguish the fire.

The ferry ran aground at Clauchlands Point, Isle of Arran, Argyllshire. Refloated with the aid of the tug .

The cargo ship ran aground on the Rocks of Mansonria off Fedala, French Morocco. Declared a constructive total loss.

The auxiliary schooner ran aground and sank in Liverpool Bay. All four crew were rescued by the New Brighton lifeboat.

The tanker ran aground in the Suez Canal south of Port Said. Later refloated.

The Liberty ship collided with Dea Mazzella and sank at .

The Type T2-SE-A3 tanker was in collision with in the Delaware River at Pennsville, New Jersey. She was cut in two with the stern section being set on fire. Nine of her 44 crew were killed.

The tug capsized and sank south of the mouth of the River Wear whilst towing unfinished ocean liner . Four of her six crew were killed.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target by the submarine .

The Liberty ship ran aground at Vlieland.

The passenger ship caught fire at Baltimore, Maryland. She was consequently scrapped.

The cargo ship sank in the Bristol Channel. Crew rescued by .

Mary Barrow

The tanker collided with off Kobe and sank.

Levant II

The T2 tanker vanished off the southern coast of Florida after a routine radio report on this date. All 39 crew members were lost.

The cargo ship collided with the tanker and sank near the Isla de Alborán in the Strait of Gibraltar with the loss of three of her 26 crew. Twenty three survivors were rescued by Esso Switzerland and transferred to and landed at Gibraltar.

Suez Crisis: The dredger was scuttled as a blockship in the Suez Canal at Port Said.

The collided with Inazuma and sank with the loss of at least five lives.

Istria

The coaster ran aground in the Scheldt, Belgium. Later refloated.

The cargo ship was rammed by while moored at Montreal. She broke free from her moorings and rammed into and sank within 30 minutes. Later partly raised and scrapped.

Ran aground off Burnham on Sea, Somerset. Refloated undamaged a week later.

The yacht capsized and sank off Capraia, Italy. All twenty on board were rescued, including the owner of the yacht, Prince Biram of Siam.

The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire.

The cargo ship collided with off Gothenburg, Sweden, and sank. All crew were rescued.

The collier was in collision with near the Haisborough Light Vessel, off the coast of Norfolk and sank with the loss of eight of her 21 crew.
Unknown date 1956

Novorossiyisk

The tanker ran aground off the mouth of the Gironde, France and was abandoned.

The coastal tanker ran aground near Mazagan, Morocco. All crew rescued by American military helicopters from Sidi Slimane Air Base.

The cargo ship sank in Amsterdam Harbour, Netherlands after her cargo of copra caught fire.

Unknown date 1948

Eugenio

The cargo ship ran aground at Macao after losing her tow in a typhoon whilst being towed to Hong Kong for scrapping.

The tug was in collision with at Le Havre, France and sank with the loss of six of her nine crew.

The schooner sank off Penmon Point, Beaumaris. All six people on board rescued.

The accommodation ship burned and sank at her moorings.

The freighter collided with the towing vessel and her oil barge, Intercity No. 11 on the Mississippi River near Port LaHatch, LA. The ensuing conflagration resulted in the deaths of 15 crew and two passengers.

The coaster sank in the English Channel off Le Havre, France. All three crew rescued by and landed at Le Havre.

The sank off Alexandria with the loss of 53 of her 115 crew. The 63 survivors were rescued by .

The cargo ship collided with a coaster and sank in the Manchester Ship Canal, blocking it completely. All eight crew rescued.

World War II: The cargo ship was intercepted in the Atlantic Ocean

Vaila

Sank after a collision with , off Broadness Point, Northfleet, Kent. Later raised and sold, but sank whilst under tow in Bay of Biscay whilst being delivered to her new Greek owners.

The tug sank in Long Island Sound with the loss of all 9 crew.

The cruise ship ran aground at Ålesund and was a total loss. All passengers and crew were rescued.

The list of shipwrecks in 1947 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1947.

The tug struck a rock off Vancouver Island and sank with the loss of all five crew.

The cargo ship collided with north of Quiriquina Island and sank. All crew were rescued.

The T2 tanker collided with off Ouessant and caught fire. Declared a constructive total loss, she was consequently scrapped.

The cargo ship collided with in the Houston Ship Channel, Texas, United States, killing twelve people on board Berea. Union Reliance subsequently caught fire and grounded and was abandoned by her owners. She was scrapped in March 1962.

The three-masted sailing trawler sank in the Atlantic north of Saõ Miguel Island, Azores. Twelve crew were rescued by . Thirty five were rescued by and the remaining 27 were rescued by .

List of shipwrecks in 1939

The Whaler foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all bar one of her sixteen crew.

DD-934
The cargo ship collided with in the River Mersey and sank. All 25 crew were rescued.

The cargo ship ran aground at Falsterbo, Sweden and broke in two. Declared a constructive total loss. Refloated in July 1968, cargo discharged and subsequently scrapped the following month.

The Type T2-SE-A2 tanker ran aground in the Suez Canal, south of Port Said, Egypt. Later refloated.

caught fire in the Ionian Sea, taken in tow but sank near Patras, Greece.

The cargo ship was bombed and sunk at Bergen, Norway in December 1944 or January 1945.

The cargo ship ran aground at Chelsea Point, South Africa and was wrecked.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, New York, United States by United States Navy vessels.

The Liberty ship was abandoned north of Cochin, India. She sank the next day.

The collided with the destroyer escort in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii and sank. All 82 crew members were rescued.

The ferry caught fire on a voyage between Newhaven, East Sussex, United Kingdom and Dieppe. Escorted into Dieppe at reduced speed.

The coaster collided with in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent and sank with the loss of one of her 22 crew.

Whilst on a voyage from Swansea to Guernsey with Anthracite, the cargo ship ran aground on Black Rock off St Sampson's, Guernsey, Channel Islands. Declared a constructive loss.

The steamer was destroyed by fire at Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska. She later was towed away and scrapped.

List of shipwrecks in 1961

The cargo ship was severely damaged when broke free from her mooring and was driven onto the smaller ship.

The T2 tanker exploded and broke in two at Naples. Subsequently repaired and returned to service.

The coaster struck an iceberg and sank off Greenland. All 35 crew saved by Poseidon .
The cargo ship collided with , which sank west of Jersey, Channel Islands. Bruce M rescued the crew of the other ship and made for Plymouth, Devon but started to take on water. Assistance was given by .

The coaster capsized and sank south east of the Owers Lightvessel, off Selsey Bill, West Sussex. All nine crew rescued by .

The cargo ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands and broke her back.

The decommissioned destroyer was sunk as a target.

The cargo ship sank at the entrance to Alexandria Harbour, Egypt. All 35 crew were rescued.

The 7,221 GRT freighter sank NE of Funchal, en route from Detroit to Calcutta.

The schooner ran aground in the Essequibo River, British Guiana and was a total loss.

Caught fire in the English Channel, a total loss.

The cargo ship departed Ramsey, Isle of Man bound for Cardiff, Glamorgan and was not seen again, presumed to have foundered.

Nysjø

Caught fire off the Dutch coast. Towed to Dover where fire was extinguished.

The Liberty ship ran aground in the Martin Garcia Channel. She was later refloated. Although declared a constructive total loss, she was repaired and returned to service.

The cargo ship collided with the Great Nore Sands Fort, in the North Sea off Sheerness, Kent, United Kingdom. One of the seven towers of the fort collapsed and the ship ran aground. Four of the fourteen crew of the fort were reported missing.

The cargo ship ran aground off Katakolon, Greece.

Evanghelistria

Nonpareil

The cargo steamer, formerly the , was smuggling for Permesta rebels in Minahasa, North Sulawesi when the Indonesian Air Force intercepted and sank her in Bolaang Bay shortly before New Year.

The passenger ship capsized and sank in Lake Kallevesi with the loss of nineteen lives.

The barge sank in the Scheldt, both crew killed.

The tug capsized and sank whilst assisting the berthing of at Hull, Yorkshire. Three of her four crew were killed.

The cargo ship collided with in New York Harbor. American Leader was severely damaged at the bows.

Ourang Medan

The T2 tanker ran aground off Tanegashima, Japan. She was on a voyage from Iran to Kudumatsu. Consequently scrapped due to damage sustained.

The schooner ran aground in St Austell Bay. Seven crew rescued by the Fowey lifeboat. Refloated in June and declared a constructive total loss but rebuilt as a coaster and returned to service.

Wolfgang

The coaster capsized and sank in the Rhine at Sankt Goar, West Germany. The ship was raised after eight days when it was discovered that the ship's cat had survived in an air pocket. He was taken to a vet in Koblenz for treatment.

and ' : The ferry and tanker collided in the Rhine at Emmerich, West Germany. Diamants cargo of petrol caught fire, engulfing both ships. The coaster ' and tanker Brigitte were also engulfed by flames and sank. Two people were killed. A number of other vessels were damaged; including Cabato, Emilia, Liberté, Spido, Vinkeveen and Virgo Fidelis II ; Bellinzona Basel

Kodan

Patria

The collier collided with

Unknown date August 1968

The auxiliary ship ran aground on a voyage from Ystad to Öland and was a total loss.

The cargo liner ran aground at Quelimaine, Mozambique and caught fire. Of the 549 passengers and crew, 259 were killed.

The cargo ship ran aground off Bermuda but was refloated undamaged.

The ship collided with in San Diego Harbor, California. Both vessels were severely damaged.

Iron Monarch

Spanish Civil War: The tanker was bombed and caught fire in the Mediterranean Sea and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by . She sank south of Minorca.

The cargo ship ran aground off the south coast of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. Refloated the next day with assistance from .

thumb|right|Bow section of Scorpion on the ocean bottom, photographed by the bathyscaphe Trieste II.The sank in the Atlantic Ocean about 400 nautical miles southwest of the Azores on or after this date with the loss of her entire crew of 99.

Unknown date 1939

The hopper barge was in collision with and sank in the River Mersey. All eleven crew rescued.

The cargo ship developed a heavy list in the North Sea off Norfolk. Ten crew were rescued by the collier and transferred to the Wells lifeboat. Richmond Queen and two other ships stood by as it was not possible to rescue all crew on board.

HMML 2582

The schooner foundered in the Caribbean with the loss of two of her five crew.

The Liberty ship ran aground at Cabo San Lorenzo, Mexico and was abandoned.

The ferry ran aground at Ostend, later refloated undamaged.

The tug foundered in the Mediterranean Sea north of Tabarka, Tunisia.

The decommissioned was sunk in the Pacific Ocean off Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, by gunfire from the light cruiser after use as a target in the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests of 1946.
The decommissioned was scuttled in the Pacific Ocean just south of Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, after use as a target in the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests of 1946.

The was in collision with off Newcastle upon Tyne and was holed. Cyprian Prince towed her into Newcastle upon Tyne.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target off Key West, Florida.

The coaster foundered south of Stockholm, Sweden after cargo shifted.

The ran aground at Llangennith, Glamorgan whilst under tow to Llanelly for scrapping.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Suez Canal, Egypt. Later refloated.

The coaster sprang a leak and sank off the west coast of Denmark.

The cargo ship sank off Farsund, Norway.

RNLB George Elmy

The coastal tanker ran aground on Haisboro Sands, Norfolk. Although refloated, she later drifted onto the Barber Sands, broke her back and exploded. All eight people on board were rescued by the Gorleston lifeboat.

The coaster struck a rock off Eagle Island, County Mayo, Ireland and sank. Four crew took to a lifeboat. An attempt to rescue them was made by , which resulted in the loss of five crew from that ship too. Six crew were rescued by an Irish Navy helicopter.

Collided with a Liberian tanker. Beached a Folkestone, Kent. Later repaired and returned to service.

The sealer sank with the loss of 79 lives.

The passenger ship sank in the Sea of Japan during Typoon Marie.

The list of shipwrecks in 1939 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1939.

The cargo ship sank east of Malta. All crew rescued by .

The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the North Sea. All crew were rescued.

The tanker was bombed and sunk by a CIA B-26 Invader off Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

The collier sank off Wilson's Promonotory, Victoria with the loss of eight crew.

The cargo ship ran aground off Maryport, Cumberland, United Kingdom. She was later refloated.

Spanish Civil War: Bombed, set on fire and severely damaged at Barcelona.

The barque capsized during Hurricane Carrie and sank with the loss of 82 lives, Atlantic Ocean.

The cargo ship struck a mine and sank off Cordouan, France.

Rahaf

Nueva Guinea

Spanish Civil War: The coaster struck a mine and sank south east of Gibraltar . All 14 crew rescued by .

Kingston Peridot

Collided with in the Bay of Biscay and sank with the loss of seventeen lives. At least fifteen survivors were rescued by La Plata.

The Type VIIc/41 submarine was sunk in the Barents Sea off Novaja Zemlja during the test of an atomic bomb.

The cargo ship sprang a leak west of Manila, Philippines. Presumed to have foundered with the loss of all 50 crew.

Typhoon Vera: The passenger ship was driven aground near Nagoya, Japan.

Taxiarchis

The coaster collided with the collier and sank off Margate, Kent with the loss of five of her fourteen crew.

The Liberty ship collided with in the English Channel and was abandoned. Twenty-three crew rescued by two Dutch ships. The tug Jean Bart took Prodromos in tow and she was beached at Rye Harbour, East Sussex, United Kingdom. King Minos was assisted into Dover Harbour, Kent by the tug Dominant and salvage ship Swin .

Sank after collision with aircraft carrier with the loss of 81 lives.

The schooner caught fire at Canso, Nova Scotia, Canada and was a total loss.

Collided with in the River Scheldt near Vlissingen. Repaired and returned to service.

The lightship, while relieving Ambrose Station, sank after it was rammed at the entrance to New York Harbour, United States by .

The coaster sank in the North Sea east north east of St Abb's Head, Berwickshire. All six crew were rescued by the St Abb's Lifeboat.

The Liberty ship ran aground on the Australian coast north of Fremantle. Refloated in January 1964.

The tanker foundered in the Atlantic Ocean east south east of the Ambrose Lighthouse. All 22 people on board were rescued by .

The cargo ship ran aground in the West Scheldt, Belgium.

The tanker ran aground off Masirah Island, Oman and broke up. Twenty-eight of her crew rescued by .
Bascobel

The 550-ton interstate cargo ship, owned by L. W. Smith Pty. Ltd., Launceston, ran aground in Wineglass Bay, Swansea, Tasmania, Australia.

The coaster ran aground off the Hoek van Holland, Netherlands.
The cargo ship collided with and sank in the Baltic Sea south east of the Gedser Lightship, off the east coast of Denmark. All crew took to the lifeboats and were rescued by .

The passenger ship was destroyed by fire at Long Beach, California.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Red Sea during a sandstorm.

The ferry caught fire at Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom and was burnt out and sank. Refloated and towed to Elsinore, Denmark in September 1953 for repair.

The tug sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina whilst under tow.

ran aground near Bennal Cove, St. Ives. All crew saved, ship towed back to France.

The list of shipwrecks in 1938 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1938.

The cargo ship was scuttled with a cargo of obsolete ammunition in the Atlantic Ocean.

standing guard overnight under the Warspite’s bows, at Prussia Cove, Cornwall was holed in the engine room, towed off and eventually drifted ashore at Long Rock, a few miles to the west.

The Liberty ship ran aground north of Ameland, Friesland, the Netherlands and was wrecked. All 33 crew rescued.

Spanish Civil War, bombed and sunk at Castellón. Refloated, repaired and put back in service as Castillo Frías.

The ship was boarded by crew from off Cyprus and ammunition was discovered on board. Three crew were arrested, but the vessel was scuttled.

The ocean liner ran aground off Sicily, Italy but was refloated after three hours.

The cargo ship collided with , Strait of Dover. Towed into Dover.

The schooner sprang a leak and sank off Lågskär, Finland. The crew survived.

Under tow to the breaker's yard, the decommissioned Admiralty modified W-class destroyer parted her tow line in a gale and was wrecked on the northeast coast of England off the mouth of the River Tyne.

The ocean liner ran aground in the St. Lawrence River, near Bic Island, Quebec, Canada. All 400 passengers were rescued by . Later refloated, repaired and returned to service.
M. E. Johnson

The cargo ship ran aground in the South China Sea.

The coaster sank off Jutland, Denmark with the loss of all eight crew. recovered two empty lifeboats.

The passenger ship foundered south of Palawan. There were eleven survivors from the 100 people on board.

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The train ferry capsized in Tsugaru Strait during Typhoon Marie with the loss of a reported 1,139 lives, 150 people rescued.

The list of shipwrecks in 1963 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1963.

The Thames barge collided with in the River Thames at Plumstead, London. Although taken in tow by she subsequently sank.

The coaster was reported to be listing severely north east of the Channel Islands.

The coaster collided with a Dutch vessel in the Waal and sank. All five crew were rescued.

Korean War, Operation Wonsan: The struck a mine and sank off Sin-Do, Korea.

The coaster sank at Swansea, Glamorgan whilst being loaded.

The whaler ran aground on the Shipwash Shoal, off the coast of Essex. Refloated but again ran aground.

The ocean liner ran aground at Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.

List of shipwrecks in 1958

The Liberty ship ran aground at Palo Verdes Point, California, United States and broke up.

List of shipwrecks in 1934

The Liberty ship ran aground on the Silver Bank, off the coast of the Dominican Republic. She was later refloated but declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo ship foundered in the East China Sea off Ningpo with the loss of 29 crew.

The passenger ship foundered in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of 46 of the 49 people on board. She was on a voyage from Al Hoceima, Morocco to Gibraltar.

The cargo ship ran aground off Plumb Point, Jamaica.

The cargo ship struck Black Rock, off Rosslare Co Wexford coast and broke in two. Three of her six crew were killed, the other three were rescued by a helicopter from RAF Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom.

World War II: The ocean liner was torpedoed and sunk in the South China Sea with the loss of 27 of the 1,092 people on board.

Gladys

The cargo ship ran aground west of the Kvaløy Lighthouse whilst on a voyage from Bangsund to Trondheim, Norway.

The tug capsized and sank at Rouen, Seine-Maritime whilst assisting .

The V-class submarine broke her tow and came ashore on the northern coast of Spain. She was refloated at scrapped.

The was driven onto rocks at Jamestown, Rhode Island in a storm.

The Liberty Ship ran aground south east of Zanzibar, refloated after four days and returned to service.

The training ship was sunk as a target in False Bay off Simonstown.

The coaster sank north west of Texel. All eleven crew were rescued.
The cargo ship ran aground at Huglen, Norway.

Collided with and caught fire. Ship a total loss, cargo of oil largely salvaged.

The cargo ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean after her cargo shifted. All eleven crew were rescued by and . The abandoned Girasol was taken in tow by the Lowestoft trawler Mare and towed into Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire.

The Liberty ship broke in two and sank off the Lofoten Islands, Norway .

Typhoon Vera: The passenger ship was driven aground at Yokkaichi, Japan.

The converted sank off Trelleborg whilst on a voyage from Stettin, Poland to Bergen, Norway.

The cargo ship foundered in the Steno Passage.

The Bluebell Collision: The ferry collided with in the Hunter River at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and sank with the loss of three lives.

The tanker ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, off the coast of Kent, United Kingdom.

The Liberty ship was presumed to have foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Last reported position ).

The cargo ship collided with in the North Sea off the Wandelaar Lightship and sank. All crew were rescued.
The stores ship was sunk as a target in the English Channel north of Alderney, Channel Islands by .

The icebreaker collided with the ferry in Nyborg Firth and ran aground. Two of her crew were killed.

The trawler issued a mayday on this date which was heard but not responded to. Lost with all twenty crew.
The Liberty ship sank near Djibouti City.

The Hotel II-class ballistic missile submarine collided with the cargo ship MS Finnclipper in the Kattegat. She was repaired and returned to service.

The cargo ship was holed in a collision off the Goodwin Sands, Kent. All crew rescued by .

The coaster foundered off Whitby with the loss of all six crew. Collided with during rescue operation.

The cargo ship ran aground off Hong Kong and broke up. All 41 crew rescued.

Spanish Civil War, bombed and sunk by Spanish Nationalist aircraft at Fornells.

Developed a leak and sank south of Savona, Italy .

Was engaged in salvage work over the wreck of off Bordeaux harbour, Guernsey Channel Islands. Timed explosive charges placed on wreck but she could not move clear in time and was severely damaged by the explosion. She launched her life boat and the four crew pulled clear before the vessel foundered. .

The passenger ship collided with

The cargo ship ran aground in fog in the Bosphorus, ramming a house and killing three people.

The list of shipwrecks in 1942 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1942.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Saint Lawrence River, from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

The cargo ship collided with north east of Ushant and sank.

The broke in two at Boston, Massachusetts. Not repaired, scrapped in 1949.

The coaster capsized and sank in the Irish Sea east of Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland.

The passenger ship ran aground in the River Avon. Refloated the next day.

The Liberty ship ran aground on Wolf Island in the Saint Lawrence River and was abandoned. She was declared a constructive total loss.

The Thames barge exited the Medway and collided with a coaster, she then hit a second vessel before being rammed amidships by the and sank in the Thames Estuary. All seven crew were rescued by the collier which was one of the two earlier vessels with which she collided. .

Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk off Cape Matara, She was refloated, repaired and returned to service as Castillo Jarandilla.

The lighthouse tender foundered off Reykjanes with the loss of all twelve crew.

The cargo ship ran aground west of Tjøme, Norway, whilst on a voyage from Bergen to Oslo.

List of shipwrecks in 1959

The ferry ran aground at Boulogne, France. Later refloated.

Sank off Cape St. Francis, South Africa.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, after being used as a target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

The tug capsized and sank in the Gironde Estuary following a collision with . Three crew were killed.

World War II: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in Danish waters. Later refloated, repaired and returned to service.

The T2 tanker ran aground on Kiltan Island, in the Laccadive Islands, India and was abandoned. Refloated in 1962, subsequently scrapped.

The ferry sank off Hokkaido during Typhoon Marie.

The ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean.

Ran aground at Kefken Point, Turkey, declared a total loss.

The cargo ship capsized and sank off Venice, Italy with the loss of five of her 22 crew.

Sprang a leak and capsized at Meadowside Granary Wharf, Glasgow. Declared a total constructive loss.

The coaster ran aground at Gopinath, India. Constructive total loss, scrapped in situ.

The schooner sprang a leak and sank at Sagunto, Valencia.

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The Mercantile Marine Service Association training ship ran aground in the Menai Strait and was subsequently declared a total loss.

The Channel Tanker ran aground at Port Nolloth, South Africa. A total loss.

The auxiliary three-masted schooner collided with in the Ligunian Sea off Livorno, Tuscany and sank.

The sailing barge sank off Lille Marnet whilst on a voyage from Horsens to Slemmestad, Norway.

The cargo ship ran aground in the North Sea off Goeree-Overflakkee, South Holland, Netherlands . She was refloated but deemed uneconomic to repair and was scrapped in April 1962.

The cargo ship ran aground off the Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides. Later declared a total loss.

Capsized on the Goodwin Sands with the loss of all seven crewmen. The only survivor was a Ministry of Agriculture scientist who had been on board bird-watching.

The cargo ship ran aground at Scituate, Massachusetts, United States. All 30 crew rescued by breeches buoy.

The ocean liner ran aground at Grays Thurrock, Essex. Refloated the next day.

The schooner foundered in Dungarvan Bay. All crew survived.

The cargo ship ran aground on Sakhalin, Soviet Union in foggy weather.

The cargo ship ran aground off the Butt of Lewis, Outer Hebrides.

The barquentine was wrecked in the Agalega Islands, Mauritius. The crew survived.

The coaster ran aground at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

The cargo ship broke free from her moorings and rammed three barges and another ship.

The tanker broke in two whilst on a voyage from Vera Cruz to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Both sections sank.

The cargo ship ran aground at Buhlomrasa Light, broke in two. Total loss.

The coaster on route from Littlehampton to Saint Malo in ballast ran aground on the Paternoster Reef, off Jersey, Channel Islands and was abandoned and sank.

The Liberty ship was scuttled off the coast of Canada.

ran aground and sank near Mariehamn, Finland.

The tanker ran aground in New York Harbor.

The cargo ship caught fire at New Orleans, Louisiana and was beached outside the port.

The decommissioned cable ship was on its way to be scuttled when it began to take on water and sank off Grand Harbour.

The tanker ran aground in the St Lawrence River, Canada. Later refloated and returned to service.

The cargo ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean of Pisagua and sank.

The cargo ship collided with in the North Sea off the Shipwash Sands and was beached. She was later refloated with assistance from a tug.

The cargo ship sank in the Bay of Biscay whilst under tow following the loss of her rudder. The accident was caused by her cargo shifting.

The coaster sprang a leak and capsized in the Panama Canal near the Gatun Locks.

The EK-1 class Escort was wrecked in a storm at Korsakov, Sakhalin Island. Later refloated and used as a Depot/accomidations ship.

The cargo ship collided with and was flooded.

The cargo ship sank off Cape Palos, Spain. All 24 crew rescued by .

Jonge Jochem

The Quebec-class submarine sank in Tallinn Bay, after a fire, with 28 crew members killed and seven saved.

The Liberty ship sank off the coast of Spain. All 38 crew rescued by a French trawler.

The collier ran aground on The Lizard, Cornwall and was wrecked.

The cargo ship caught fire at Foochow, China and was beached.
Spanish Civil War, bombed and sunk at Valencia. Refloated, repaired and put back in service as Castillo Benisano.

List of shipwrecks in 1947

The tanker exploded and broke in two off the coast of Virginia. She was on a voyage from Portland, Maine to Jacksonville, Florida. Subsequently rebuilt and returned to service.

Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed, set on fire and severely damaged at Barcelona. Later salvaged, repaired and returned to service.
The schooner was wrecked at Colhugh Point, Glamorgan, United Kingdom with the loss of one of her five crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Dahouët, Côtes-du-Nord.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.

The cargo ship collided with in the River Thames and was beached at Hornchurch, Essex. She was refloated the next day.

Unknown date 1964

The cargo ship sprang a leak and foundered in the Bay of Biscay . The crew were rescued by .

The bulk carrier collided with the tanker in the Westerschelde and caught fire. ran aground trying to avoid the two ships.

The Liberty ship was wrecked on the coast of Vietnam .

The fishing vessel ran aground at Land's End, Cornwall, United Kingdom and capsized. Eight of the twenty crew were rescued by helicopter or breeches buoy. Sergeant Eric Smith of 22 Squadron, Royal Air Force was awarded a George Medal for his actions in the rescue.

Lina

The auxiliary schooner came ashore on Rønne, Denmark and was wrecked.

The cargo ship was scuttled near Les Bergeronnes, Quebec, Canada.

Santoy

The tugboat was sunk, probably by Japanese artillery, off Corregidor, the Philippines. Salvaged post-war and served under the name Resolute into the late 1970s.

The schooner was wrecked on Bequia, Grenadines.

The cargo ship sank in the North Sea whilst on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Denmark.

Topmast No.1

The cargo ship capsized and sank off Guernsey, Channel Islands with the loss of three of her seven crew.

The coaster sank west of Aveiro, Portugal with the loss of three of her eleven crew.

The ocean liner ran aground on the Goodwin Sands off Deal, Kent, United Kingdom. Later refloated undamaged.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Karmsund, near Haugesund. All crew rescued.

The train ferry collided with Japanese National Railways ferry Uko Maru and sank with the loss of 168 lives.

Burrhard No.2

The cargo ship reported that she was west of Ireland. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

The tanker exploded and sank at Port-Jérôme, Seine Maritime with the loss of thirteen crew.

The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Yangtze, China.

. The brig ran aground at Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

The coaster collided with the trawler Parthian in the North Sea off Grimsby, Lincolnshire and was consequently beached.

The coaster foundered off Point-aux-Basques, Newfoundland with the loss of at least seven crew.

Korean War, Operation Wonsan: The struck a mine and sank off Sin-Do, Korea with the loss of thirteen crew.

The cargo ship sank at Yonkers, New York.
The ship was lost off Parker's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The collier collided with in the Thames estuary and sank with the loss of eight of her ten crew.

Hilda

The cargo ship struck a submerged object at Falmouth, Cornwall and was holed. She was beached in Great Molunan Cove to prevent her sinking.

Lina B

Stranded at Karaburnu Point, Thessaloniki, Greece.

The bow section of the cargo ship sank in the English Channel south of the Longships Lighthouse whilst under tow. Raised in 1949 and sunk off Gwennap Head, Cornwall.

The Liberty ship was driven ashore on Ameland, Friesland. She was refloated but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.

The merchant ship sank in a typhoon. She was raised, repaired, and returned to service.

Emil

The cargo ship ran aground in the River Humber. Later refloated undamaged.

The coaster capsized and sank at Hamburg, Germany.

The list of shipwrecks in 1959 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1959.

The cargo ship ran aground at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.

World War II: the E-boat sunk in the British Channel.

The cargo ship collided with off the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom.

Unknown date 1934

World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the East China Sea by .

The coaster was driven ashore in a gale at Mulroy Bay, Northern Ireland. All seven crew rescued by a helicopter from RNAS Eglington.

Iason

The Liberty ship ran aground north of Bombay, India. Although declared a constructive total loss, she was subsequently repaired.

The cargo liner sank on her maiden voyage off Cape Farewell, Greenland with the loss of all 95 passengers and crew.

The cargo liner ran aground at Leixões, Portugal and was wrecked. All on board survived.

Foundered after cargo shifted, east of Cape Fear, North Carolina.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Weser at Blexenreede, West Germany.

The schooner ran aground at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada and caught fire.

The cargo ship ran aground at Goapnuth Point, Gujarat, India. She subsequently broke in two.

The decommissioned Tacoma-class patrol frigate was sunk as a target.

thumb|right|The wreck of Kiangya.The passenger steamship exploded and sank at the mouth of the Huangpu River in China with the loss of at least 2,750 lives.

Collided with a French ship in the Strait of Dover.

The cargo ship ran aground off Cherbourg, France.

The cargo ship collided with and sank in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent, with the loss of twenty of her 25 crew.

The cargo ship was in collision with in the Scheldt at Fort Paarel, Belgium. Belgion capsized and sank with the loss of five of her 27 crew.

The cargo ship ran aground off Washington Island, Kiribati and broke in Two. The crew abandoned ship but one was drowned and two injured. sent to her aid. Winnebago rescued 103 passengers and crew the next day.

The trawler ran aground and was wrecked at Andøya, south-east of Andenes, Norway .

The Liberty ship ran aground at Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan. She was declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Scheldt at Bath, Zeeland, Netherlands. She broke in two and was declared a total loss.

The submarine disappeared on her delivery voyage to Israel. Claims that sank her with depth charges are disputed by Israel.

The tug exploded and sank off the Knoll buoy in the Colne Estuary, Essex with the loss of all sixteen crew.

The cargo ship ran aground off Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland whilst under tow to Troon for scrapping.

This former coastal minesweeper was acting as a port auxiliary craft in Leith Harbour, South Georgia when she capsized and sank due to the accumulation of snow and ice on deck http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?201802

The cargo ship came ashore at Muskegon, Michigan in a gale and was a total loss. All crew were saved.

The motor lifeboat sank in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon with the loss of five of her six crew members.

The passenger ship ran aground in the Paracel Islands, China.

The cargo ship sank off Mariager whilst on a voyage from Mariager to Isefjord, Denmark.

The cargo ship foundered at a Sierra Leone port.

The cargo ship ran aground off the Cork Lightship, off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom.

The coaster ran aground on Roaninish Rock, off the coast of Co Donegall, Ireland after her engine failed in a storm. Assistance given by and the Arranmore Lifeboat. All ten crew rescued by helicopters from RAF Eglinton.

aground in Tokyo Bay, Japan with engine room on fire. Refloated the next day.

Astrid

Mumara

The ferry capsized and sank in the Nile near Karara in Sudan with the loss of 173 lives.

The motor schooner caught fire and sank in Campbeltown Loch.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target at Enewetak Atoll in the Operation Sandstone atomic bomb tests.

Cuore Di Gesu

The collided with off the coast of Virginia.

Nazarene

The Liberty ship foundered off the Pescadores Islands .

Mary P. Cooper
The was in danger of running aground between Bempton and Speeton, Yorkshire after her tow line parted. All nine crew rescued by a helicopter from RAF Leconfield.

The tanker ran aground at Skagen, Denmark.

The cargo ship was driven ashore north of Madras in a cyclone. A fire broke out two days later and she was subsequently declared a constructive total loss.

The passenger ship was launched in gale force winds, almost colliding with the entrance to a dock. Two tugs ran aground whilst trying to assist.

Gertrude L. Thebaud

The Porpoise-class submarine ran aground at the entrance to Campbeltown Loch, Scotland. Refloated the next day.

The struck a rock north of São Luís de Maranhão, Brazil and was severely damaged. Withdrawn from service as a result.

The decommissioned was scuttled in the Pacific Ocean off Kwajalein after use as a test target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

The coaster was driven ashore at Preston, Devon, United Kingdom. Crew rescued by breeches buoy.

The hydroplane sank in Coniston Water, Cumberland.

The list of shipwrecks in 1955 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1955.

The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Ponta Delgada, Azores. All crew were rescued.

The cargo ship collided with in the Atlantic Ocean east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and sank. All crew were rescuer by Black Eagle.

The bulk carrier collided with and sank in the St Lawrence River from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Thirty-three crew were killed.

The passenger ship ran aground at Cala Figuera, Majorca. All 670 passengers and crew rescued.

Suez Crisis: The dredger was scuttled as a blockship in the Suez Canal at Port Said. Later raised, repaired and returned to service.

The cargo ship ran aground north west of Margate, Kent. Refloated the next day.

The cargo ship ran aground on the Ortach Reef, Alderney, Channel Islands. Floated free and sank the next day. All 50 crew were rescued.

The cargo ship came ashore on the west coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Salvage efforts were abandoned "until spring" in December 1938. All crew were rescued.

The coaster sank off Jersey, Channel Islands. Of her eleven crew, six were rescued by Cranborne and two by Port du Bouc .

The Liberty ship struck a submerged object off the coast of Brazil and sprang a leak. She was declared a constructive total loss.

The trawler was last reported off Iceland on this date, lost with all twenty crew.

The coaster sank in the Caribbean off the coast of Mexico with the loss of all 25 crew.

The Liberty ship caught fire at Brest, France whilst unloading a cargo of ammonium nitrate. Later towed out of port and scuttled.

The tanker ran aground at Port Said, Egypt, blocking the Suez Canal.

The Liberty ship ran aground off Mapor Island, Singapore and broke in two, a total loss.

The coaster foundered south east of Crete. All ten crew rescued by .

The sealer was crushed in pack ice and sank north east of St. John's, Newfoundland. All crew were rescued by .

Capsized and sank near Boscawen Point, United Kingdom, with the loss of eleven of the fifteen crew.

The cargo liner ran aground at the mouth of the River Tees. Refloated the next day.

Marion Gladys

Chinese Civil War: The was torpedoed and sunk off the Tachen Islands with the loss of 40 of her crew of about 200.

The Type C3 ship ran aground in the Paracel Islands, China.

The coaster was driven ashore in a gale at Sheephaven Bay, Northern Ireland.

The Liberty ship was driven ashore near Cape Arago, Oregon, United States. She was later refloated and towed to Coos Bay. Declared a constructive total loss.

The schooner caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned. The crew were rescued by .

The cargo ship sank in the Mediterranean Sea . All 15 crew rescued by .

The ocean liner ran aground in the Solent. Later refloated.

The cargo ship ran aground on Islay and was wrecked.

The tug collided with Tower Bridge, London and sank with the loss of one of her six crew.

The coaster sank in the Bay of Biscay west of the mouth of the Gironde. All crew rescued by a Spanish trawler.

The cargo ship collided with : and sank in the English Channel off Folkestone, Kent with the loss of one of the fifteen crew.

Collided with another ship, towed to Antwerp for repairs.

List of shipwrecks in 1968

The tanker ran aground south of Constanţa, Romania and broke in two. Seven crew were killed attempting to abandon the ship.

The tug sank at New London, Connecticut in a hurricane.

The ocean liner ran aground off Cannes, France.

Marotte

The coaster, on a voyage from Vohemar, Madagascar to Mauritius reported by radio from the Indian Ocean . No further trace, presumed foundered with loss of all crew.

Collided with the destroyer and sank with the loss of 30 lives.

The cargo ship collided with in the Scheldt at Bath, Zeeland, Netherlands and was consequently beached. She was refloated the next day and towed to Antwerp, Belgium for repairs.

Chinese Civil War: The cargo ship was sunk in an air raid at Swatow, China. All 52 crew survived.

The tanker caught fire, exploded and sank at Tupavuori, with the loss of ten crew.

The capsized in Sheerness Dockyard.

The Type C2-F cargo ship ran aground on Santa Rosa Island, California.

End of World War II: The target ship, a former armored cruiser captured by the Germans in September 1943, was found sunk in the harbor at La Spezia, Italy, at the end of World War II.

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The Type X submarine was sunk as a torpedo target in the Atlantic Ocean off the United States East Coast by the submarine .

thumb|right|The wreck of Robert Limbick in 1957.The fishing vessel ran aground on Quinish Point, Mull with the loss of all 12 crew.

The list of shipwrecks in 1941 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1941.

Veravia

The cargo ship sank off Aden in a storm.

The cargo ship sank in the Baltic Sea off the Ovishi Lighthouse, Ventspils, Latvia.

The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank south west of Kvistøy, Norway, whilst on a voyage from Rekefjord to Møre.
The ex- ran aground in Frøyskjæret, west of Florø whilst on a voyage from Poland to Vadsø, Norway. Refloated in 1951 and scrapped in 1954.

The ocean liner ran aground in the Solent. She was refloated later that day.

Sandra

The survey ship struck a wreck in Da Nang harbour, Vietnam and sank. All twelve crew rescued by a United States Navy vessel.

The cargo ship sank north of the Tylön Lightship whilst on a voyage from Aalborg, Denmark to Gdańsk, Poland.

The ketch was scuttled in the Atlantic Ocean by her captain after he murdered five of the other six people on board.

The cargo ship ran aground at Wei-Hai-Wei, China and was wrecked with the loss of nine of the 66 people on board. Survivors were rescued by .

The Victory ship caught fire off the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom and was abandoned.

She was driven ashore at Las Palmas, Spain, and declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo ship was destroyed at Ostend, Belgium, by an explosive charge planted by La Main Rouge.

The cargo ship caught fire and came ashore south of Port St. Johns, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

The ship caught fire at Chicago, Illinois, United States and was a constructive total loss.

The ferry ran aground at Calais, France. Refloated later that day.

The tanker ran aground at Vlissingen, Netherlands.

The cargo ship ran aground at Pusan, Korea and broke in two. The stern section was salvaged by .

The four-masted barque reported by radio when off Cape Horn, Chile. Wreckage later found on Navarino Island.

Water Pearl

The tug ran aground and capsized at Barry, Glamorgan.

Steepholm

The Liberty ship ran aground at Grand Cayman Island and broke in two, a total loss.

Flag unknown

The tug was run down and sunk at Hog Island, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by an unknown vessel. Two crew were rescued.

List of shipwrecks in 1954

The coaster was bombed and sunk at Kendari, Indonesia with the loss of five of her 28 crew.

The cargo ship was wrecked at Punta Salina, Sardinia.

T.T.H.

the ocean liner ran aground in the Suez Canal. Later refloated.

The Thames barge sank off Margate, Kent.

Hurricane Daisy: The sealer, a converted minesweeper, was driven ashore and wrecked at New Harbour, Nova Scotia.

The schooner struck a rock and sank off Avigait. All ten crew rescued.

The ocean liner ran aground off Cherbourg, France but was refloated undamaged shortly afterwards.

The cargo ship ran aground off the Needles Lighthouse, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Mediterranean at .

The coaster ran aground at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

The coaster ran aground near Ardrossan, Ayrshire.

The decommissioned John C. Butler-class destroyer escort was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off California.

World War II: The Liberty ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Barents Sea by .

The ocean liner ran aground off Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. Refloated after two hours.

The cargo ship ran aground on the Corncarhai Rock off Brest, France and sank. Sixteen crew took refuge on the rock and were rescued by helicopter. The captain was killed and two crew reported missing.

The ferry ran ashore on the Wingletang Ledge, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly in fog. She was later refloated and continued in service.

The cargo ship foundered off the coast of Queensland, Australia. All fifteen crew rescued by .

Unknown date 1960

Ran aground at Masirah, Oman. Declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo liner collided with and sank near the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, United States. All 42 crew and twelve passengers were rescued.

Canada

The ship ran aground on the Bitto Bank and was abandoned. She was on a voyage from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Hong Kong. Subsequently damaged and declared a total loss.

The ferry ran aground at Dover, Kent, United Kingdom. Refloated two hours later.

The struck a mine in the Baie de la Fresnaie off St Malo and sank with the loss of 51 of her 92 crew.

The ran aground at Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom. Refloated the same day.

The Thames barge sank off Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.

The cargo ship ran aground at the Monkstone Rock Lighthouse in the Bristol Channel.

The cargo ship ran aground off Gothenburg, Sweden whilst on a voyage from Menstad, Norway to Hälsingborg, Sweden.

The ocean liner ran aground at Ouzai Bay, Beirut, Lebanon and was wrecked. Seventeen people were killed.

The was scuttled in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii.

She was scuttled with an obsolete cargo of ammunition, NW of Malin Head

The cargo ship ran aground south of Ouessant, Finistère, France and sank. All crew were rescued.

The coaster collided with and was beached on a sandbank off Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Later refloated and reached port.

The T2 tanker was wrecked at Quoin Point, South Africa.

The tanker sank in the Kattegat with the loss of seventeen crew.
Ellen

The passenger ship caught fire and sank at Cleveland, Ohio.

The Liberty ship ran aground on the Pearl & Hermes Reef, in the Pacific Ocean east of Midway Atoll and broke in two, a total loss.

The cargo ship sank off Egersund, Norway, with the loss of all nine crew.

The cargo ship foundered off Lindesnes, Norway.

The cargo ship foundered in the North Sea east of Aberdeen with the loss of all 28 crew.

The Liberty ship caught fire at Beirut, Lebanon. She was declared a constructive total loss.

Marie Lydia

Sank.

The broke up and sank with the loss of all 129 crew during deep diving tests in the Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

The tanker struck a mine and sank in the North Sea, north of Terschelling, Netherlands .

The supply vessel was trapped in ice and sank in the Canadian Arctic.

The cargo ship struck a jetty at Livorno, Italy and was holed. She subsequently sank, but all 32 crew and both passengers were rescued.

The tanker collided with off the Spanish coast in fog. Bonifaz caught fire and sank. Six of her 50 crew were rescued by . Bonifaz was also carrying six passengers. picked up 22 crew and three passengers. Four of the crew subsequently died of their injuries.

The cargo ship caught fire and was beached north of Penang, Malay. She was declared a total loss.

The Liberty ship ran aground at Naoyetsu, Japan. She was later refloated but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.

The cargo ship ran aground at Coquille, Oregon. She was only partially salvaged, the remaining wreck subsequently was incorporated into a jetty.

The cargo ship sank in the River Nechi.

The Victory ship was wrecked at Hippa Reef Island, British Columbia, Canada with the loss of 49 of her 53 crew.

The cargo ship foundered in a storm south of Risør, Norway. Crew rescued by the cutter Grant.

The tug sank at Canning Dock, Liverpool, Lancashire.

The Liberty ship sprang a leak and was beached near Las Palmas, Canary Islands, a total loss.

The cargo ship was scuttled in the Bay of Biscay with a cargo of obsolete chemical ammunition.

Second Sino-Japanese War, Battle of Wuhan: The gunboat was sunk in the Yangtze by Japanese aircraft. She was refloated in 1997, restored, and placed on exhibit in a purpose-built museum.

The coaster collided with off the coast of the Netherlands and sank. All crew rescued.

The cargo ship collided with at Rotterdam, Netherlands and was beached

The tanker was wrecked off the coast of Oman.

The auxiliary schooner sank off Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford, Ireland.

In a fog, the coaster was struck by the Guinness ship and sank in the Crosby Channel, River Mersey. All nine crew rescued after taking to the liferafts.

The cargo ship sank after colliding with an undentified ship at the entrance to the Dardanelles, Turkey. Fifteen of her twenty crew were killed.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target approximately southwest of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after use as a target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

The hydroplane sank in Lake Mead, Arizona and Nevada, United States. Salvaged and returned to service.

The decommissioned was scuttled near Montauk Point, Long Island, New York.

The coaster was in collision with and sank off Dover, Kent. All twelve on board rescued by the tug Dominance .

The ocean liner was destroyed by fire at Monfalcone, Italy. Declared a total loss, she was later scrapped.

The Liberty ship ran aground off Midway Island. Thirty-five crew were rescued the next day by . Quartette broke in two in January 1953 and was declared a total loss.

The cargo ship sank in the Aegean Sea with the loss of all but one of her 22 crew.

The cargo ship was driven ashore at Cullercoats, Ayrshire, United Kingdom.

List of shipwrecks in 1963

The schooner was destroyed by an explosion at Bari whilst under arrest for carrying illegal arms bound for Syria.
The cargo ship ran aground on the Amhurst Rocks in the Yangtze Estuary from Wusong, China. She sank two days later.

The troopship ran aground at Hoek van Holland, Netherlands. Later refloated and returned to service.

The tanker collided with T2 tanker . Both ships set on fire, a total of 21 crew killed. Fernand-Gilabert was consequently scrapped.

The cargo ship ran aground off Burial Island, Co Down, Northern Ireland.

capsized and sank off Sheringham, England.

The cargo ship collided with and sank south west of San Francisco, California.

The ferry sank in the Kii Strait with the loss of all 170 on board.

Ran aground at Dungeness, Kent.

The battleship ran aground at the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour whilst being towed to the breakers.

World War II: The cargo ship was damaged by artillery shelling and beached at Schweinesand. She was later repaired and returned to service.

The dredger capsized in the Bristol Channel off Flat Holm. Her seven crew survived. She was subsequently towed to Cardiff, Glamorgan, where she was righted, repaired and returned to service.

Unknown date 1959

The tanker collided with in the Westerschelde, Netherlands. Both tankers caught fire. One crew and five reported missing from Miraflores. The tanker ran aground when taking avoiding action.

The ferry sank in lodos with the loss of 272 people aboard including seven crew. 39 people survived.

Eugenia

The schooner foundered in the North Sea east of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom. The crew were rescued by a German fishing vessel.
The tanker exploded and caught fire in the Mobile Channel at Mobile, Alabama. She was abandoned by her crew.
The three-masted schooner was dismasted in the Baltic Sea in a gale. She came ashore on Hiiumaa, Estonia and was wrecked.

Foundered in Saint George's Channel, United Kingdom.

The small freighter was declared overdue, apparently lost in bad weather while en route from Savannah to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.

The coaster ran aground in the Qora River, South Africa and was a total loss.

The cargo ship sank between Cuba and Florida, United States. All crew rescued.

Unknown date 1943

The passenger ship capsized and sank at Bremerhaven.

thumb|right|Princess Kathleen sinking.The passenger-cargo ship ran aground at Lena Point in Alaska′s Lynn Canal, then slid into deeper water and sank. All passengers and crew were safe.

The cargo ship was holed by her anchor and beached at Coquimbo. She was refloated the next day.

The T-class submarine ran aground in the Clyde at Greenock. Refloated after seven hours.

The cargo ship ran aground at Fanning Island, Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
Yandra

The cargo ship was stranded on a reef off Port Lincoln, South Australia. She was later refloated and returned to service.

The tug capsized and sank at Montreal, Quebec with the loss of four crew.

The cargo liner caught fire in the East China Sea and was abandoned. All passengers and crew were rescued by . Kyodu Maru No.16 was towed into Tsingtao, China.

The ran aground off Portsmouth, Hampshire.

The Type IXC/40 submarine was scuttled in the Atlantic Ocean north east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

List of shipwrecks in 1943

The cargo ship ran aground on the Shipwash Sands, off Harwich, Essex.

The Liberty ship ran aground at Callao, Peru . She was later refloated but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.
The tanker suffered an engine room fire off Cape Charles, Virginia. Consequently scrapped.

The cargo ship foundered in St George's Channel, off Cork, Ireland with the loss of 24 of her 40 crew. Sixteen survivors rescued by and transferred to and landed at Cobh.

The cargo ship ran aground at Amoy. The crew abandoned ship and her captain committed suicide.

The cargo ship ran aground north of Hoek van Holland, Netherlands. Sank the following day.

The coaster ran aground south of Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford and was a total loss.
The coaster collided with off Hoek van Holland, Netherlands and was beached.

The cargo ship caught fire, exploded and sank in the Persian Gulf. Fifty eight of her 66 crew were killed.

Corinthia

The foundered in the Hurds Deep, off Alderney, Channel Islands.

The cargo ship ran aground in Table Bay. She later broke her back and was consequently declared a total loss.

The tanker ran aground north of Borneo, the Philippines. went to her aid.

The ocean liner was driven ashore on the Argyllshire coast in a storm. She was being towed from Lisbon, Portugal to the Clyde for scrapping and had a skeleton crew of eight on board. They were rescued by breeches buoy.

The T2 tanker capsized and sank at Genoa, Italy in a storm.
The cargo ship ran aground at Hoek van Holland, Netherlands. Crew of 22 rescued by a Koninklijke Marine helicopter or a line from the shore.

The auxiliary schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland. All crew survived and landed at Farmyard, Labrador, Canada.

The tug sank at Grimsby, Lincolnshire whilst towing the trawler Kirknes into Grimsby Docks. Four of her crew were killed.

The cargo ship was driven ashore at Fall River in a hurricane.

The ferry collided with a cargo ship off Kobe and sank. Of the 64 people on board, nineteen were rescued, seven killed and 38 were reported missing.

Johanne
The cargo ship ran aground off Trosa, Södermanland County and sank. The crew were rescued.

The cargo ship sank in heavy seas in the Indian Ocean at .

The cargo ship ran aground at the mouth of the Ferrol and was wrecked with the loss of 46 of her 50 crew.

The cargo ship ran aground at Vieux-Boucau-les-Bains, Landes, France and was abandoned. She broke in two and was a total loss.
The auxiliary sailing ship caught fire of Newfoundland and was a total loss.

Spanish Civil War, Battle of Cape Palos: The Nationalist was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by the Republican destroyer Lepanto with the loss of 765 of her 1,206 crew. Some of the survivors were rescued by and .

The cargo ship caught fire, exploded and sank in the Caribbean with the loss of up to five crew. rescued 38 survivors and landed them at Cristóbal, Panama Canal Zone.

The cargo ship struck a mine off the Dutch coast whilst on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Oslo, Norway. Declared a constructive total loss and scrapped at Stavanger, Norway.

An explosion on board killed 103 crew and injured 201 more whilst ship was in Narragansett Bay.

The decommissioned was sunk in the Pacific Ocean off Mare Island, California, after use as a target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

The Liberty ship ran aground near Yokohama, Japan. She broke in two and sank.
The ferry ran aground off Seaford, East Sussex in a storm. Refloated after three hours.

The cargo ship sank off Terschelling, Netherlands with the loss of twelve of her twenty crew.

Niš

The cargo ship ran aground off Avonmouth. Refloated the next day.

The cargo ship caught fire in the North Sea and was abandoned north of Terschelling, Netherlands. All bar one of the twenty crew were rescued by the ocean liner .

The cargo ship collided with in the North Sea off Brunsbüttel, Germany and sank.

The passenger ship struck a rock off Foochow, China and was beached. Passengers were rescued by a Chinese cruiser. She was plundered by local inhabitants and abandoned as a total loss.

The 438 grt whaler ran aground on rocks at Lazarete Beach, Cape Verde after calling in for bunkers while on delivery voyage to South Georgia.

The passenger ship capsized and sank off Buenaventura with the loss of 50 lives.

The schooner was wrecked at Montserrat.

The Liberty ship ran aground in the Bahamas. She was later refloated but declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the Atlantic Ocean east of Miquelon. The crew survived.

The cargo ship sank at Vado during a storm.

ran aground at Ponta Barra da Falsa, Mozambique, a total loss.

The tanker ran aground at the mouth of the Elbe, Hamburg, West Germany.

The cargo liner ran aground at Brook Point, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. Later refloated.

The Thames barge ran aground off Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex in a storm.
The coaster ran aground south of Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.

The tug collided with in Singapore Harbour, capsized and sank with the loss of five of her nine crew.

The auxiliary sailing ship foundered in the Baltic Sea off Stolpmünde, Pomerania, Germany. The crew were rescued.

: The auxiliary three-masted schooner ran aground on Spiekeroog, Germany and was a total loss. All crew were rescued.

The tug capsized and sank in the River Humber whilst assisting with the refloating of . All six crew were rescued by , which later refloated Ouse.

World War II: The cargo ship was intercepted by in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Finisterre, Spain and was scuttled by her crew.

The coaster collided with off Cherbourg, France and sank. One crewman reported missing.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Scheldt.

The cargo ship sank off Fosnes whilst on a voyage from Randers to Fredrikstad, Norway.

The cargo ship sank off the Canary Islands. Thirteen crew survived.

The cargo ship ran aground on the Medolino Shoals off Pula, Yugoslavia. She was abandoned as a total loss.
Dresden

The coaster sank off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. All crew rescued.

The ran aground off Cape Henry, Virginia, United States.

capsized out of Broughty Ferry, Scotland with the loss of all 8 crew.
The fisheries protection vessel foundered off Caithness with the loss of three of her twenty crew.

The cargo ship was driven ashore in a typhoon at Kitadaitō, Japan and broke in two.

The cargo ship exploded and broke in two in the Atlantic Ocean . Crew rescued by

United States

The cargo ship was abandoned in pack ice off Cape St. Francis, Newfoundland. She subsequently caught fire and sank.

Bluebell

The whaler sank in the Antarctic after being caught in pack ice.
The coaster ran aground at the Minquiers, Jersey, Channel Islands and broke in two. All crew rescued by the Jersey lifeboat.

The ran aground at Glenelg North, South Australia. She was undamaged and was later refloated.

The submarine sank whilst on trials.

The cargo ship was in collision with and sank off Cape Espichel, Portugal. Thirty-six survivors rescued by British Dragoon.

The cargo ship sank off Yokosuka, Japan.

The cargo ship sank between Bornholm, Denmark and Sweden. Tanker reported to be attempting to rescue survivors.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Gulf of California.

The coaster struck a rock and sank at Quintero Point.

The ore carrier capsized and sank off Virginia with the loss of 37 of her 48 crew.

The cargo ship was abandoned in Clew Bay. She was subsequently towed to Limerick by .

Adel

The ship foundered in Lake Van, Turkey.

The cargo ship sank in the River Tyne following a collision. Raised in March 1959 and scrapped.

ran aground on the Minerva Reef. Crew lived in the wreck of a Japanese vessel, wrecked two years earlier, for seven weeks before making a raft and some of them sailed to Fiji. Five crew died before rescue came.

The cargo ship collided with and sank off Cuxhaven, West Germany. Seven of her eighteen crew were killed.

The cargo ship collided in foggy weather with

The destroyer escort was sunk while tied up at the dock by Typhoon Winnie/Dading. It was later raised and sold for scrap.

The Liberty ship ran aground off Karachi, Pakistan, broke in two and sank.

The cargo ship ran aground at Amwawan, Sakhalin, Soviet Union.

The tanker exploded and sank at Gothenburg, killing one of the eleven crew on board at the time.

The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank off Lista, Norway, whilst on a voyage from Ålesund to Stockholm, Sweden.
The cargo ship sank south west of Kopervik, Norway, whilst on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Kopervik.

Olga L

The cargo ship caught fire east of Malta and was abandoned. Later repaired and returned to service.

The coaster was in the English Channel when she was struck by and sliced in two. Both halves sank. Three of her ten crew were lost, with the survivors being rescued by Mount Athos and landed at Dover, Kent.

Ran aground at Porto de Pedras, Brazil and was wrecked.

The VAS 231-class submarine chaser burned at Vinice.

The cruise ship caught fire in the St Lawrence River, a total loss.

The bulk carrier was holed by in the Atlantic Ocean

The tug capsized and sank at Tilbury, Essex. All six crew rescued.

foundered off La Corbière, Jersey.

The cargo ship sank off the coast of Sweden. All seventeen crew survived unharmed.

The ran aground in Loch Buie, Argyllshire. The ship was holed, and the crew were taken off by .

The tourist boat ran aground on Half Moon Reef, Western Australia.

The coaster ran aground at Chilikai, off Haipong, French Indo-China.

The tanker ran aground at Gribba Head, Cornwall, United Kingdom with the loss of eleven of her twelve crew.

The auxiliary three-masted schooner sank off Cimbrishamn. All crew were rescued.

Bluebird

The trawler was driven ashore at Wireless Point, Porthcurno, Cornwall, United Kingdom with the loss of all seventeen on board.

The coal hulk was struck at Portland, Dorset by a practice torpedo and sank. She was later refloated and returned to service.

The minesweeper struck a mine and sank off Corfu, Greece.

The Liberty ship caught fire and sank in the Atlantic Ocean .

The Thames barge was hit by in the River Thames at Woolwich and sank. All three crew were rescued.

Union Reliance
The floating breakwater, formerly the armored cruiser , sank at Powell River, British Columbia, Canada, due to flooding of her hull during a storm.

Nell Gwyn
Marechal Foch

Fortuna II

The naval yacht ran aground in the Gunyas River and was declared a total loss.

The cargo ship ran aground, she refloated and put into Lødingen, Norway where she was beached.

The cargo ship ran aground on Cheju Island, Korea and broke up. All crew rescued by and a Royal Navy ship.

The coaster capsized and sank at Goole, Yorkshire. The crew survived.

The ran aground at the entrance to Shoreham harbour, West Sussex. Refloated the next day.

The edible products tanker was cut in half in a collision with the ocean liner/cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean 50 nautical miles from New York City, killing 19 of her 44 crew members. Her stern section sank, but her bow section remained afloat.

The schooner suffered an onboard explosion in the Atlantic Ocean and sank. Five crew were rescued by .

The T-class submarine ran aground in the Firth of Clyde. Later refloated with the aid of the boom defence vessel .
The cargo ship foundered in the Red Sea. All eighteen crew rescued by .
The decommissioned was sunk as a torpedo target by the submarine off the coast of Baja California.

The coaster was driven ashore aon the Saratoga Spit in a typhoon.

Unknown date 1947

Lanterna

The cargo ship collided with in the Baltic Sea off the Adlergrund Lightship and sank. All crew were rescued. Pluto was beached at Tromper Wiek. She was later refloated and towed to Sassnitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Ran aground between Stockholm and Mäntyluoto, Finland. Refloated but leaking, repaired and returned to service.

The cargo ship ran aground at Sainte-Maxime, Var, France and broke up. The crew were rescued.

The cargo ship ran aground at Nacqueville, France and was severely damaged.

Bassurelle

The coaster caught fire, capsized and sank at Marseilles, France. All twenty crew escaped.

The Liberty ship ran aground near Punta Galera, Mexico and broke in two. She was scrapped in situ.

World War II: The Liberty ship was damaged whilst loading landing ships in heavy seas and was declared a constructive total loss.

thumb|right|USS Pennsylvania sinking.The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off Kwajalein after use as a target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

The cargo ship caught fire in the South China Sea off South Korea and was abandoned. She was towed into Pusan but declared a constructive total loss and consequently scrapped.

The cargo ship collided with and sank off Gothenburg, Sweden with the loss of six of her eight crew.

Unknown date April 1968

The schooner was wrecked in the Austral Islands. All crew were rescued.

The cargo ship ran aground at St Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight and was wrecked.

The ferry sank in the Sea of Japan during Typhoon Marie.

The cargo ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of one crewmember. The 25 survivors were rescued by .

The cargo ship ran aground at Cape St. Lawrence, Nova Scotia, Canada and was wrecked. All 22 crew were rescued by a Royal Canadian Navy helicopter.

The passenger/cargo ship was driven ashore in a storm off Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Wreck scrapped in situ.

The lightship was driven ashore in the River Hull at Woodmansea, Yorkshire.

The passenger ship ran aground at Coquimbo and was abandoned as a total loss. All on board were rescued.

The Type VIIC/41 submarine was deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off the Point No Point Lighthouse, Maryland. She was raised in the summer of 1949.

The cargo ship collided with and was beached on Bolland Island, Denmark.

List of shipwrecks in 1944

The cargo ship ran aground on the Juister Riff in the North Sea off Bremen, Germany. She broke in two and was a total loss. The crew were rescued.

The cargo ship was driven against the pier at Hirohata, Japan during Typhoon Marie and was damaged.

The cargo ship sank off Lillesund after striking flotsam whilst on a voyage from Oslo to Bergen, Norway.

Frances L. Spindler

The coaster departed from Methil, Fife for Klaksvík, Faroe Islands. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

The decommissioned S-class submarine was sunk for use as a ASDIC target.

The coaster sank south west by west of Texa, Inner Hebrides.
Ruy

Spanish Civil War, bombed at Valencia. Refloated, repaired and put back in service as Castillo Noreña.

List of shipwrecks in 1942

The cargo ship ran aground in the Caribbean Sea off Kingston, Jamaica. Salvage efforts were abandoned in September and she was declared a total loss.

The was sunk by an explosion while at anchor at Sevastopol in the Soviet Union with the loss of 608 lives.

Ballyherbert

Operation Sandcastle: The cargo ship was scuttled with a load of 16,000 German chemical bombs at .

The Liberty ship ran aground at Hoek van Holland, South Holland, Netherlands. Later reflosted, she was declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo ship sank in Drammensfjord whilst on a voyage from Gilhus to Oslo, Norway.

The troopship was driven aground off Nagasaki in a typhoon.

Frida

The coaster sank in Belfast Lough. All crew rescued.

The coaster ran aground at Foochow, China.

The cargo ship was driven ashore in a gale at Tangier, Morocco.

The tug capsized and sank in the River Thames at Limehouse Reach, London with the loss of two of her six crew.

The tanker collided with Arizona south of Tokyo and sank with the loss of 18 crew.

The coastal passenger ship sank off Bombay with the loss of around 600 lives.

The coastal tanker capsized in the River Humber with the loss of three lives.

World War II: The guardboat was torpedoed and sunk in the Pacific Ocean. Either by

The coaster ran aground in the Humber Estuary and sank. Refloated two days later, returned to service.

The ran aground at Valletta, Malta. Later refloated.

The auxiliary vessel ran aground at Dungeness, Kent and was holed. A pump was put on board and the ship was escorted to Dover.

Unknown date 1944

The coaster ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. All ten crew rescued by the Ramsgate lifeboat. They were later returned to the ship which refloated on the next tide. Urmajo was towed into Ramsgate by the tug

The passenger ship sank in the Bay of Bengal with the loss of all but six of the 202 people on board.

Sank after pumping operation failed and leak increased.

The Landing Craft, Tank sank off Dunkerque, Nord, France.

The cargo ship was hit amidships at Stavanger, Norway, by and sank.

The trawler was wrecked in the English Channel off Langton Matravers, Dorset, United Kingdom. Her five crew were rescued.

Deutschland

The cargo ship collided with the Pier at Kobe during Typhoon Marie and was severely damaged.

The sealing ship sank off Newfoundland, Canada. All crew rescued by Arctic Endeavour .

The schooner sank in the Caribbean Sea.

The tanker caught fire off Malta. The Admiralty tug Mediator was despatched to her aid.

The coaster was driven ashore and wrecked at Kribi, Cameroon.

The Liberty ship ran aground off California, United States and was wrecked. All 31 crew rescued.

The cargo ship ran aground at Duncansby Head, Caithness, United Kingdom. All 40 crew rescued.

The dredger capsized and sank in the River Clyde during a storm. Three crew were killed.
The cargo ship ran aground in a cyclone at Akyab, Burma and broke up, a total loss.
The decommissioned was sunk as a target on or about this date.

and Albacore : The cargo ship and tug were lost at sea between Thailand and Hong Kong. Last reported position was .

The tanker ran aground in the Firth of Forth. Refloated the next day.

The cargo ship ran aground off Vlieland, Friesland, Netherlands and was wrecked with the loss of nine crew.

The Liberty ship was driven ashore at Wakayama, Japan in a typhoon. She was declared a constructive total loss.

The pirate radio ship was driven ashore in a storm. She had got into difficulties off Zeebrugge and an attempt was made to tow her to Vlissingen, Netherlands but she broke her tow.

The auxiliary sailing ship was wrecked off the Samoan Islands. All crew survived.

Allegrity

The cargo ship ran aground whilst going to the aid of Kina . She was refloated and rescued five crew from Kina.

An Unnamed ferry

The ran aground at Rothesay Bay in the Firth of Clyde. Refloated the next day with the assistance of three tugs and two boom defence vessels.

The BO-201 class Sub Chaser was wrecked on this date.

The tug was towing with Flying Petrel when Esso Appalachee fouled her tow and then collided with Flying Buzzard, sinking her. She was salvaged in May and repaired, returning to service in October.

The ship caught fire off Port Paradis, Quebec and burnt down to the waterline. The hulk was towed to Pointe-Lebel, Quebec.
The Thames barge collided with in the River Thames at Greenwich and sank.

Ran aground at Prussia Cove after parting tow on final voyage from Portsmouth to the breakers yard on the Clyde. Towed to Marazion in 1950 and dismantled.

The coaster was in collision with the collier in the River Thames near Tower Bridge, London and sank.

The cargo ship broke in two north east of Okinawa, Japan. 40 crew rescued by . At least 8 deaths.
The cargo ship was in collision with the ferry Gold Star Mother in New York Harbor. Both ships were damaged, with Gold Star Mother taking in water by the bows and having eleven of her 1,900 passengers injured.

The tanker struck a Vietcong mine in a South Vietnamese port and was damaged.

The ferry collided in the Tagus with the dredger Finalmaria and sank with heavy loss of life.
The cargo ship sank in Pärnu Bay.
The tug sank at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais whilst towing .

Unknown date in July 1948

The collided with the Royal Interocean Line's ocean liner off Singapore.

The cargo ship struck an uncharted rock in the Bay of Bengal off Port Meadows, Andaman Islands and was abandoned as a total loss.

The steamer was sunk as a target in Cook Strait by Royal New Zealand Air Force aircraft.

Akagi Maru

The Liberty ship ran aground on Castle Island, Bahamas. She was later refloated and towed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States where she was declared at constructive total loss.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Elbe and was abandoned after attempts to salvage her were abandoned.

The collier capsized and sank in the Baltic Sea off Sandhammaren, Sweden with the loss of 20 crew.

The tanker caught fire while pierside at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and suffered a series of explosions. She was towed away and grounded on Governors Island in Hillsborough Bay. After the fire burned itself out, she was refloated and scrapped.

The cargo ship collided with off Brunsbüttel, West Germany.

collided with trawler Sonny Boy, which sank west of Dungeness, England.

The trawler capsized and sank off Isafjordur, Iceland with the loss of eighteen of her nineteen crew.

Elanor

The list of shipwrecks in 1948 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1948.

Brattind, Buskøy, Pels, Ringsel and Vårglimt

The tug foundered at Port Kembla, New South Wales whilst attempting to go to the aid of , which was being driven against the jetty in a storm.

The Liberty ship ran aground off Necochea, Argentina. Declared a constructive total loss, she was subsequently scrapped.

The cargo ship collided with and sank off Gibraltar. Thirty-four of the 37 crew were rescued by Santa Emilia, with three reported as missing.

The cargo liner ran aground off Cascais, Portugal.

The tanker collided with the jetty at Immingham, Lincolnshire, cutting it in two and leaving a gap.

The tanker suffered a fire in her engine room whilst on a voyage from Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela to Le Havre, France. Declared a constructive total loss.

Hurricane Edna: The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Kingsport, Nova Scotia.

: 5,002 ton Passenger liner, due to onboard fire off coast of Miami, Florida. 90 fatalities.

Allen F. Rose

The coaster sank north of Fyn Island, Denmark with the loss of five of the seven people on board.

The overloaded steamer sank in the Daugava River in Riga in the Soviet Union′s Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, killing 147 people.

The Liberty ship ran aground in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States. She was later refloated and taken in to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Although declared a constructive total loss, she was repaired and returned to service.

The cargo ship struck a mine and sank off the Åland Islands, Finland with the loss of eleven of her seventeen crew.
The T-class submarine ran aground on Stevenson Rock, off Skerryvore, Inner Hebrides.

The tanker collided with off the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom causing an explosion in No.2 tank and subsequent fire. Two hours later, an explosion blew off her bow forward of No.3 tank and that section sank. Newhall Hills was towed to Sheerness.

The collided in the Atlantic Ocean with the aircraft carrier and sank with the loss of 176 lives.

The cargo liner, off Pará, Brazil, suffered an onboard explosion of petrol she was carrying. She caught fire and was destroyed. All on board were rescued.

Caught fire off Spain and abandoned by crew. Towed by a naval tug then by salvage ship Herakles to Gibraltar. Subsequently scrapped in the United Kingdom in 1957.

The cargo ship collided with at Baltimore, Maryland and was beached.
The cargo ship ran aground at Narbonne, Aude, France and broke in two. She was declared a total loss. All crew were rescued.

The coaster ran aground on Lundy Island, Devon, United Kingdom. All eleven crew scrambled ashore.

the cargo ship collided with and another vessel at Yokohama during Typhoon Marie.

The Norfolk wherry sank in the River Yare at Cantley. Another wherry sank two miles downstream. Albion was refloated and returned to service.

The cargo ship came ashore at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Pyrénées-Atlantique and was wrecked with the loss of one crewmember.

The decommissioned cruiser was sunk as a target by SS-N-1 Scrubber anti-ship cruise missiles.

The cargo ship sank off Sanda Island, Argyllshire.

The cargo ship ran aground in Hakodate Bay during Typhoon Marie.

Fauna

The passenger ship struck a rock and sank off the Lofoten Islands with the loss of three lives. Over 200 passengers and crew were rescued.

The coaster was damaged in a collision with two other ships in the Scheldt.

The Liberty ship was driven ashore near Civitavecchia, Italy. She was later refloated but declared a constructive total loss. Subsequently repaired and returned to service as Elisa Campanella for Italian owners.

Spanish Civil War, bombed and sunk at Barcelona, refloated repaired and put back in service as Castillo Monteagudo.

The ex- sank off Halland, Sweden with the loss of all fourteen crew. She was on a voyage from Stettin, Poland to Larvik, Norway.

The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay. All 34 crew rescued by the Bibby Line ocean liner .

The decommissioned was sunk as a gunnery target off Baja California, Mexico, by the destroyer .

The cargo ship caught fire and sank in the East China Sea. All crew survived.

The coaster capsized and sank on Veryan beach, Cornwall. Her fourteen crew were saved by the Falmouth lifeboat.

The auxiliary sailing ship came ashore at Karlshamn and was a total loss. All crew were rescued.

Saturn

The coaste ran aground in the Gulf of Bothnia. All five crew rescued by helicopter.

The coal grab capsized and sank at Hamburg with the loss of two crew.

Unknown date 1957

The cargo ship sprang a leak and foundered in the Baltic Sea off Öland, Sweden.

The schooner, a converted tugboat, was wrecked at Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia, during a storm.

The coaster sank in the Baltic Sea off Denmark. All four crew rescued by a Norwegian ship.

The whaler struck a rock and sank off Gundo Point, Gran Canaria, Canary Isles, Portugal with the loss of one of her crew.

The tanker ran aground on the Pentland Skerries, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom.

The cargo ship ran aground off Copenhagen, Denmark on her maiden voyage and was holed.

Unknown date 1961

Rovena

Tōya Maru

The caught fire in the South China Sea. All 135 crew were rescued by and . She was towed to Hong Kong but declared a constructive total loss.

The schooner capsized and sank off the Inner Dowsing Light Vessel.

The coaster was in collision with off Margate, Kent and sank with the loss of one of her six crew.

Sank between Ameland and Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands.

The tug collided with in the River Mersey at Birkenhead and sank with the loss of all seven crew.

The cargo ship caught fire at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and was a total loss.

List of shipwrecks in 1956

The cargo ship sank off Timaru with the loss of 15 lives.

The cargo ship collided with and sank off the Goodwin Sands, English Channel. Twenty-eight of her 33 crew were killed.

The Liberty ship was driven ashore in the Gulf of Suez. Later refloated and towed to Port Said, Egypt.

The dredger sank in the Columbia River.

ran aground at entrance to Leith harbour and was holed. Later repaired and returned to service

Osprey

Struck a mine and sank south of Capo Promontore.

The ocean liner ran aground at Le Havre. Refloated that day.

The cargo ship collided with in the Øresund and sank. All crew were rescued.

TSS Wahine

The cargo ship sank south of Crete. All crew rescued by San Carlo .

The cargo ship was in collision with and sank in the North Sea. All crew rescued by Kharkov. Kharkov was arrested on arrival at Bremen, West Germany.

Ran aground at Sharpness Docks. Declared a constructive total loss but later repaired and returned to service.

The list of shipwrecks in 1945 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1945.

The cargo ship was run into by at Shimonoseki and sank. All crew were rescued.

The coaster ran aground at Margate, Kent.

The decommissioned was sunk as a gunnery target in the Pacific Ocean off Kwajalein after use as a target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

The tanker broke in two east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. and went to her assistance.

The coaster ran aground at Kettleness, Yorkshire.

The cargo ship ran aground at St Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

The dredger was scuttled off Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia.

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The ore carrier ran aground at Port Talbot, Glamorgan. Later refloated.

The coaster ran aground near Holyhead, Anglesey.

Ran aground and then sank at Kannoura, Japan.

List of shipwrecks in 1965

Typhoon Harriet : The cargo ship foundered off Legaspi with the loss of 25 of her 36 crew. The survivors were rescued by .

The coaster caught fire at Ghent, Belgium. One crewmember was killed.

The coaster collided with in Bremen Harbour and sank. All 12 crew rescued.

The schooner capsized and sank in Chesapeake Bay with the loss of twelve of the 24 people on board. It was lost during high waves in Hurricane Connie.

The cargo ship ran aground at Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France and was a total loss.

The tanker exploded and sank in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Canada.

the cargo ship collided with in the River Plate, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Golf II-class ballistic missile submarine sank in the Pacific Ocean 90 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii with the loss of all 98 crew members.

The train ferry ran aground at Grossenbrode, West Germany. Refloated later that day.

The Liberty ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Bay of Bengal . Presumed subsequently sank.

The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Labrador, Canada with the loss of all 26 crew.

The Liberty ship struck the wreck of off Saigon, Vietnam. She ran aground, broke in two and sank .

The hit an uncharted rock in the Hauraki Gulf off Auckland, New Zealand, at . The rock subsequently was named Anchorite Rock.

The ran aground on Kanaga Island, Alaska. Salvage efforts were abandoned.
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The coaster ran aground on Haraiki, French Polynesia and was a total loss. All on board were rescued.

The cargo ship ran aground off Portishead, Somerset, United Kingdom. Later refloated and docked at Avonmouth.

The cargo ship was in collision with and sank off the coast of the Netherlands. All crew rescued by Salsaas.

The cargo ship struck a sunken wreck and sank at the mouth of the Yangtze River, China with the loss of nineteen crew.

The list of shipwrecks in 1968 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1968.

The ferry collided with a fishing vessel and ran aground at Fleetwood, Lancashire. The fishing vessel was cut in two and sank with the loss of one of her three crew. Monas Isle was later refloated.

The cargo ship ran aground at Swanbridge, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.

The cargo ship sank south of Kamaran, Aden. Twenty three crew killed, one survivor was rescued by .

The tug collided with and sank at Tilbury, Essex, United Kingdom. Later raised and beached.

The was lost in the Strait of Tartary on or about this date. All 47 crew members lost.

The coaster sank off The Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom with the loss of all twelve crew.

The cargo ship issued a distress call in the Mediterranean Sea

The tanker suffered an explosion and fire east of Jacksonville, Florida. She was on a voyage from Houston, Texas to Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Hess Mariner sank the next day.

The Thames Barge sprang a leak and sank in the River Thames.

Eva

The Liberty ship was driven ashore on Camiguin Island, Philippines and broke in two, a total loss.

Aurea

The sailing ship collided with at Naples and sank. All crew were rescued.

The ferry was deliberately run aground at Wye Marsh on the Georgian Bay coast of Ontario, Canada, and was intentionally burnt as a means of disposal.
She ran aground and was wrecked in the Bay of Bengal, off Cheduba Island

The coaster capsized and sank off West Pentire, Cornwall. All five crew survived.

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The Liberty ship ran aground on Hogsty Reef, in the Bahamas .

The cargo liner sank in the North Sea with the loss of seven of the 31 people on board.

World War II: The captured was sunk by the Soviet Union in the Baltic Sea off Świnoujście, Poland, during weapons testing.

The cargo ship ran aground in the South China Sea, some west of Palawan, Philippines. sent to her rescue, but also ran aground whilst towing Pompadour. Both crews rescued by .

The coaster collided with and sank at Bristol. Later raised and scrapped.

Unknown date 1958

The cargo ship was driven ashore at Ter Heijde, Netherlands. All 49 crew rescued. The ship was declared at constructive total loss and scrapped in situ.

The cargo ship came ashore at Cape Juby, Morocco and was wrecked.

The cargo ship hit a breakwater at Naples, Italy and sank.

The paddle steamer sank off Adelaide, South Australia.

The cargo ship collided with in the Kiel canal and sank.

The cargo ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands and broke apart.

Wuppertal

The cargo ship collided with at Poortershaven, Netherlands and was beached.

San Marco

The Channel tanker collided with and sank near the Varne Lightship in the English Channel.

The T2 tanker exploded and broke in two off Anacortes, Washington.

The Liberty ship struck a mine, broke in three and sank off Rijeka, Yugoslavia.

The cargo ship sank at Oran, Algeria.

The ocean liner ran aground in Southampton Water, Hampshire, United Kingdom. Later refloated, repaired and returned to service.
The cargo ship collided with in the English Channel and sank in the South Goodwins. All crew rescued and landed at Dover, Kent.

The dredger sank in Boulogne Harbour after dredging up a torpedo, which exploded. Eleven crew were killed.

The Liberty ship caught fire and was abandoned in the Mediterranean Sea . She was towed to Cartagena, Spain where she was declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo ship was driven aground at Satsuma, Kagoshima, Japan during Typhoon Wilda. All crew were rescued.

The Victory ship was driven ashore at Bermuda in a storm.

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The cargo ship ran aground at Pendeen. All crew saved, ship later scrapped.

The ocean liner ran aground in Southampton Water. Refloated undamaged after 4½ hours.

The Liberty ship ran aground in the Gironde and broke in two, a total loss.

The cargo ship collided with a Japanese tanker off Nagoya, Japan. The Tanker sank with the loss of seven crew.

The ketch foundered off The Lizard, Cornwall. All crew rescued by .

Rhode Island

The cargo ship ran aground off Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. All sixteen crew rescued. Dimitris was declared a total loss.

The cargo ship ran aground at Nambucca Heads, New South Wales, Australia. She was declared a total loss.

The cargo ship ran aground north of Perth, Western Australia following the loss of her tow.

The cargo ship collided with in the English Channel south of St Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight and sank. All seventeen crew were rescued by Stancor.

Bound for London from Liverpool she stranded on the Seven Stones Reef, between the Isles of Scilly and Cornwall. She refloated on same day; the only ship to get off the reef in modern times.

The auxiliary sailing vessel ran aground at Famagusta, Cyprus and was a total loss.

The tug foundered north west of Calvi, Corsica, Italy.

World War II: The Liberty ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil by .

The cargo ship collided with Imba No. 401 whilst on a voyage from Kolding, Denmark to Gdynia, Poland.

The gunboat ran aground on Scroby Sands, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

The tanker broke in two and sank south east of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada. rescued 34 of her 36 crew.

The Victory ship ran aground at Cairnryan, Wigtownshire, United Kingdom.

The passenger ship sank in the Indian Ocean.

The tanker ran aground at Oslo, Norway and was holed.

The coastal tanker caught fire off Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom. All crew rescued by frigate . They were transferred to the tug and landed at Milford Haven. The tug Sheila took Concha in tow but she sank south of Skokholm.

The cargo ship suffered an onboard explosion and sank in the Red Sea south of Suez, Egypt .

The decommissioned Lapwing-class minesweeper was sunk as a target in Long Island Sound off New London, Connecticut.

The schooner was abandoned off the Magdalen Islands, Ontario, Canada.

This 438 GRT steam-powered whaler foundered and was lost off South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean.http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?116311

The tug collided with at Le Havre and sank with the loss of seven of her twelve crew.

The ocean liner ran aground in Port Philip Bay, Victoria, Australia.

Greenwood

The cargo ship collided with in the Nieuwe Waterweg, Netherlands and was beached. Later repaired and returned to service. Francois L D was towed to Schiedam for repairs.

The tug collided with in the River Mersey. She capsized and sank with the loss of all four crew.

The tanker ran aground in the River Mersey. Refloated after twelve hours.

The auxiliary sailing ship was wrecked at San Thiago, Cape Verde Islands.

The Liberty ship ran aground on the Banc les Quenocs, off Calais, France and broke in two, a total loss..

The cargo ship was abandoned whilst on a voyage from Aalborg, Denmark to Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands.

The decommissioned guided-missile submarine was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by .

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The coaster ran aground off Concarneau, Finistère. The crew were rescued by lifeboats.

SS Pyidawtha

capsized and sank off Dwarka, India.

The fishing vessel was sunk when accidentally rammed by the cargo ship north-west of the North Cape, Norway. All 14 crew members were lost.

The tanker ran aground on Scharhörn, in the mouth of the Elbe, West Germany

The cargo ship ran aground off Beachy Head, East Sussex, United Kingdom.

The coaster was driven ashore at Aberavon, Glamorganshire in a storm. Refloated after five hours.

The passenger ship was hit by at Seattle, Washington and sunk when President Madison broke free from her moorings in a storm. Fifty passengers were rescued.

The decommissioned sank under tow off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, while on her way to San Francisco, California, for scrapping.
The collier ran aground off Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk.

The bulk carrier collided with and sank with the loss of three crew. Amongst her eight passengers was Maurice Bourget PC, Speaker of the Canadian Senate. All passengers were rescued.

Unknown date 1938

The tug collided with and sank in the River Mersey at Liverpool, Lancashire. All six crew rescued.

The ocean liner ran aground on the Brambles Bank in the Solent. Refloated the next day.

The decommissioned Admiral Nakhimov-class light cruiser was grounded on a spit for use as a target. By 1980, nothing remained of the ship above the water's surface.

The cargo ship collided with off the Hohe Weg Lighthouse, Bremen, Germany. Ena de Larrinaga was beached.

Catherine

The cargo ship ran aground at Wakayama, Japan. Later refloated and returned to service.

The coaster foundered in the Bay of Biscay off Brest, Finistère. The crew were rescued by the trawler Ducouedic .

The cargo ship capsized and sank in the Kattegat north west of the Skaw Lightship . The crew were rescued by a fishing vessel.

The coaster ran aground at Dunmore East, Ireland. Six crew rescued by breeches buoy.
The cargo ship foundered at Hong Kong during Typhoon Ruby with the loss of eleven crew.

The cargo ship was driven ashore in a typhoon on Honshu and broke in two. Fourteen of her 24 crew were rescued by an American helicopter.

The cargo ship sank in the Ionian Sea, all 30 crew rescued.

The coaster capsized at Bideford, Devon.

The cargo ship struck a rock and sank off Kii Ōshima.

The ran aground at Mombasa, Kenya, a total loss.

The decommissioned auxiliary submarine was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, New York.

The cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin whilst laid up.

The cargo ship collided with a tug and sank off Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. All crew rescued.

The coaster exploded and sank off Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canary Islands. One crewmember reported missing and two injured.

The fishing vessel collided with off the Eddystone Lighthouse in the English Channel and sank. All crew rescued by Kenuta.

The frigate ran aground at Dales Voe, Shetland Islands, United Kingdom. Refloated by and towed to Lerwick.

The passenger ship foundered off North Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands.

The Liberty ship was driven ashore on Great Sitkin Island, Alaska, United States. She was abandoned as a constructive total loss.

SS Southern Flyer

The cargo ship sank off Halmstad, Sweden, with the loss of all five crew. She was on a voyage for Halmstad to Oslo, Norway, and may have struck a mine.

The Liberty ship was abandoned in the Mediterranean Sea. She subsequently came ashore near Ras el Djebel, Tunisia and broke in two.

Spanish Civil War, bombed and sunk at Villajoyosa with the loss of two lives. She was refloated in 1940, repaired and put back in service as Castillo Montiel.

Collided with in the River Scheldt. Rosa was beached, and refloated the next day. Later reparired and returned to service.

Imperial Hamilton

The coaster was driven ashore and wrecked. Her crew were rescued by the HolyHead Lifeboat.

Unknown date May 1968

The cargo ship collided with and sank with the loss of twenty of her 42 crew.

The Liberty ship ran aground on the Serrana Bank, in the Gulf of Mexico. She was later refloated and towed to New Orleans, Louisiana, where she was declared a constructive total loss.

Strasbourg II

The motor barge sank in the Medway Estuary off the Isle of Grain, Kent following a collision with .

Unknown date 1965

The V-class destroyer was scuttled in the Tasman Sea off Sydney, Australia.

Liberty
Notre Dame de St. Jouan

World War II: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk.

The coaster foundered in the Irish Sea off South Rock, County Down. The crew survived.

The decommissioned was sunk as a torpedo target off San Clemente Island, California, by the submarines and .

Spanish Civil War: The tanker bombed and set ablaze at Valencia harbour with the loss of one crew member. She was towed to open seas and sank.

The passenger ship collided with in the Gulf of Smyrna and sank with the loss of one passenger and two crew.

The Liberty ship struck a reef and was beached . She was refloated but declared a constructive total loss and subsequently scrapped.

The coaster sank off Flint Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The passenger ship ran aground at Valletta and was wrecked. One crew member and a passenger were killed.

On voyage from Alderney to Guernsey with a cargo of gravel, was wrecked on rocks, off Guernsey.

Late December 1958

The decommissioned was sunk as a torpedo target.
The cargo ship collided with off Start Point, Devon and sank. All 26 crew rescued by Dotterell.

The auxiliary sailing vessel ran aground south of Bergqvara and was a total loss.
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Emily

The decommissioned Balao-class submarine was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego, California, by the submarine .

The auxiliary schooner was abandoned west of Trelleborg, Skåne County, Sweden and came ashore there.
The cargo ship ran aground east of Necochea, Argentina. She broke in two and was a total loss.

The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Gibraltar. The crew were rescued by .

The bulk carrier was wrecked on Ulak Island, Alaska, United States with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Vancouver, Canada to Yokohama, Japan.

The T2-SE-A1 tanker broke in two off Chatham, Massachusetts. Twenty one of her 34 crew were rescued from the stern section by . Four crew were rescued from the bow section by .

The Fisheries Protection Vessel ran aground off the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides and sank with the loss of five of her twenty crew.

The tug struck a rock and sank. She was assisting and to free the . All sixteen crew rescued by the Yarmouth lifeboat and Gatcombe.

The decommissioned was sunk as a torpedo target in Long Island Sound off New London, Connecticut, by the submarines and .

Unknown date 1940

The coastal tanker collided with the ocean liner in the Nieuwe Waterweg, Netherlands. She capsized and sank with the loss of six of the twelve people on board.

Lutterworth

The Trinity House pilot cutter ran aground off Dungeness, Kent. Refloated five hours later.

The Thames barge came ashore on the Suffolk coast in a gale. The crew were rescued by the Aldeburgh lifeboat. Astrild then drifted out to sea and was later towed into Scheveningen, South Holland, Netherlands by a Dutch lugger.

The cargo ship foundered in the Mediterranean Sea north west of Alexandria, Egypt .

FV Gai Floreal

The coaster collided with off Bremen and sank. Six crew reported missing.

Llandaff

The cargo ship sank west of Kvænangen whilst on a voyage from Tromsø to Hammerfest, Norway.

The tanker struck a rock in the South China Sea and sank. All crew rescued by .

The coaster collided with and sank off Bremerhaven. All 13 crew rescued by a customs boat.

The cargo ship collided with and sank in the English Channel off Dover, Kent. All 35 crew saved.

The cargo ship collided with in the English Channel and was beached off Beachy Head, East Sussex.

The cargo ship ran aground on the Kish Bank, Irish Sea whilst on a voyage from Dublin, Ireland to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

The T2 tanker collided with in the Gulf of Mexico. She caught fire and was abandoned. Subsequently rebuilt and returned to service.

Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and set on fire at Palamos by Nationalist aircraft.

The tanker ran aground off Stockholm, Sweden.

Berlin

The Liberty ship sank in the Arabian Sea off Abd al Kuri, South Yemen. Crew abandoned ship and landed on the island, from where their distress calls were answered by RAF Shackleton aircraft and .

The cargo ship collided with north of Margate, Kent, United Kingdom and sank. All 29 crew rescued by .

The cargo liner caught fire in the Columbia River at East Astoria, Oregon, United States with the loss of eleven of the 114 people on board. The severely damaged ship was later repaired and converted to a cargo ship.

The cargo ship sank in the Pacific north west of Honolulu, Hawaii. All 30 crew rescued by Maria and taken to Japan.

The tug was sunk in an accident. Later raised and scrapped by burning.

Unknown date 1945

ran aground at Falconera Islet whilst on a voyage from Crete to Piraeus.

Ideal

The coaster sank in the Gulf of Bothnia with the loss of all sixteen crew.

The cargo ship ran aground on Darya Bahadurgarh Island, Mysore and was a total loss.

The collier foundered in the North Sea off Withernsea, Yorkshire.

The cargo ship was driven into the pier at Kobe, Japan during Typhoon Marie and was severely damaged.

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The barge was beached at Woody Point, Queensland to serve as a breakwater.

The coaster collided with in the Thames Estuary and was beached on the Rainham Marshes, Essex.
Broke in two and sank, Lake Michigan.

Pelorus

Collided with off Ouessant, Finistère, France. Both ships caught fire with the loss of eleven lives and 40 injured, twenty seriously.

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The tug capsized and sank at Hamburg, Germany, whilst towing with the loss of two crew.

The barque sprang a leak and sank off Peru.

The cargo ship sank off Mozambique with the loss of fourteen of her 57 crew.

The coaster capsized and sank off Hoek van Holland with the loss of all six crew.

The fast patrol boat caught fire and sank at Aarhus, Denmark. was damaged by the fire.

The Victory ship collided with Liberty ship off Alderney, Channel Islands . Mahenge sank, her 46 crew and three passengers were rescued by . Granville severely damaged and set on fire. Later towed to Cherbourg, France after fire extinguished.

sprang a leak and sank off Formosa. All 43 crew rescued by .

The cargo ship was driven ashore at Wedge Island, Nova Scotia, Canada in a storm. She was declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo ship was scuttled in the Skagerrak with a cargo of poison gas munitions.

The tanker exploded and sank south of Eastbourne, East Sussex with the loss of three crew. Thirty-nine crew saved by the frigate .
The cargo ship struck a submerged object at Brăila, Romania and ran aground. Refloated but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped in May 1969.

The cargo ship collided with a Soviet merchant ship in the Scheldt, Belgium.

The auxiliary schooner ran aground at Llantwit Major, Glamorgan and was wrecked with the loss of one of her four crew.

The submarine ran aground in St. Paul's Bay, Malta. Refloated after six hours with assistance from two tugs.

The coaster ran aground at Shōdoshima.

The cargo ship came ashore in the Ryukyu Islands and was wrecked.

The coaster collided with off Thames Haven, Essex and was holed, with her steering gear destroyed.

Ran aground at Flat Holm but was later refloated.

The Liberty ship sprang a leak and sank off Kristiansand, Norway. All 36 crew rescued by .

The tug was under tow in the Atlantic Ocean when the tow had to be cut and she subsequently sank off Valparaiso.

The cargo ship ran aground at Gandia, Valencia, Spain.

The S-class submarine sank in Portland Harbour, England, following an on-board torpedo explosion. Thirteen lives were lost. Later refloated and sunk in 1957 in deeper water.

The tanker ran aground in the Clyde.

caught fire, beached at Chilang Point, Hong Kong. Constructive total loss.

Spanish Civil War, bombed and sunk off the Balearic Islands.

The list of shipwrecks in 1951 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1951.

World War II: The captured, incomplete Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier was sunk by the Soviet Union in the Baltic Sea off Świnoujście, Poland, during weapons testing.

The ferry sank during Typhoon Marie. Eight crew were rescued.

The bulk oil carrier sank after striking a rock in Welcome Pass north of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The coaster ran aground at Monterey, California and was wrecked. All crew were rescued.

The decommissioned battleship sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores on her way to a scrapyard with the loss of her entire caretaker crew of eight men.

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Texas City disaster: The Liberty Ship was sunk by the explosion of .

The cargo ship ran aground at Oslo, Norway and broke in two. All 42 crew were rescued.

This former coastal minesweeper was acting as a port auxiliary craft in Leith Harbour, South Georgia when she capsized and sank due to the accumulation of snow and ice on deck http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?201795

The ocean liner was driven ashore at Gibraltar in a gale. Refloated the next day.

Spanish Civil War, bombed and sunk at Alicante. Refloated, repaired and put back in service as Castillo Guadalest.

The cargo ship foundered west south west of Saint Mathieu Point, Ouessant, France.

Broke moorings, collided with another ship and driven ashore at Gijón, France. Refloated in March 1948, repaired and returned to service.

The Liberty ship ran aground off Tokyo, Japan.
The Liberty ship collided with the tanker near the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom and broke in two.

The tug capsized and sank at Copenhagen whilst assisting

The ocean liner struck a rock off Bokn, Norway. She was beached at Karmøy. Passengers were taken off by Ardent , , , , and . Of the 323 crew and 975 passengers on board, four passengers were killed in the incident. The wreck was subsequently scrapped in situ.

The Liberty ship ran aground near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

World War II: The cargo ship was sunk at Thessaloniki, Greece. The wreck was scrapped in situ in March 1948.

The cargo ship foundered while under tow off Cape Villano, Spain.

The decommissioned light aircraft carrier was scuttled in the Pacific Ocean off California's Farallon Islands after use as a target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

Hadsel

The cargo ship ran aground on Tor Rocks, Northern Ireland and was wrecked. All 33 crew rescued by helicopter and transferred to .

The coaster collided with and sank off Vigo with the loss of all five crew.

The auxiliary sailing ship foundered in the Saronic Gulf off Aegina.
The tanker exploded and sank in the Caribbean Sea south west of Dry Tortuga with the loss of two of her 36 crew. Survivors were rescued by .
The Thames barge sank at Brightlingsea, Essex. Her crew were rescued by the motor barge Piper II .

Viking

The coaster sank off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. All eight crew rescued by Fergus .

The coaster sprang a leak and sank in the North Sea east by north of the Humber Lightship . All eight crew were rescued by .

The cargo ship caught fire in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued by the Mumbles Lifeboat.

Zoodochos Pighi

The cargo ship collided with another vessel off Japan. Reported to be in danger of sinking and requested assistance.

The schooner came ashore on Öland. The crew were rescued.

She was stranded at Jersey Harbour after breaking her moorings.

The T2 tanker collided with the ocean liner Santa Rosa east of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Four people were killed. Valchem was consequently scrapped.

The ferry collided with

The coaster developed a severe list of Bermuda and was abandoned. Crew rescued after nine days by . East Star was taken in tow by .

The cargo ship was driven aground in a gale at Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight.

The cargo ship ran aground on Spurn Head, Yorkshire.

The coaster ran aground on Domanik Island, Bay of Bengal, India and sank.
The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off Bikini Atoll after use as target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

The cargo ship ran aground and sank off Double Island Point, Queensland, Australia.

World War II: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk in the Oosterschelde.

The ore carrier ran aground at Bell Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The cargo ship came ashore at Hornafjord. The crew were rescued. She was declared a total loss.

Ran aground at Muskegon, Michigan, United States and was holed. Later repaired and returned to service.

The coaster struck the wreck of Empire Blessing and was holed. An attempt was made to beach her but she sank near Vlissingen, Netherlands.

Forager

The coaster was in collision with the collier off Cromer, Norfolk and sank with the loss of one of her six crew.

The sailing ship sank in the Baltic Sea off Gotland. All four crew rescued by .

Lady Stella

The cargo ship was driven ashore at Palamós, Catalonia, Spain in a storm.

The schooner sprang a leak and sank in the Caribbean Sea off Baliceau, Saint Vincent.
The schooner foundered at Beira, Mozambique.

The coaster collided in the English Channel with and sank south of the Owers Lightship.

The Liberty ship ran aground on Hainan Island. She was later refloated and laid up at Hong Kong.

Caught fire at Antwerp, declared a constructive total loss. Scrapped in January 1969.

The dredger collided with one of the Renfrew ferries and sank in the Clyde. Later refloated, repaired and returned to service.

The decommissioned training ship was sunk as a target off "Rosenort".

The cargo ship was driven ashore.

The coaster sank north of the South Bishop Lighthouse, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom. Her cargo had shifted in a storm and she attempted to make for Pembroke. Assistance was offered by the Admiralty tug

The coaster sparng a leak and was abandoned off Grand Entry, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The ship was driven ashore on Fair Isle and was a total loss.

The decommissioned was sunk as a target after use as a target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

The cargo ship came ashore at Oshima, Japan in a typhoon. She was declared a total loss.

The coaster ran aground at the southern tip of Öland, Sweden.

Winona

The Liberty ship broke in two in the Atlantic Ocean

The survey vessel foundered off New South Wales with the loss of all seventeen crew.

F.P.B. 1023

The ferry collided with the jetty at Calais and was disabled. She then ran aground outside the harbour. Later refloated and escorted into port.

No. 24

The dredger was in collision off Fleetwood, Lancashire with the trawler Teroma , which sank. Foulney was beached and refloated the next day.

The sloop-of-war was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off the Gaza Strip by an MT explosive motorboat.

The cargo ship ran aground off the Wadden Islands, Netherlands.

The cargo ship capsized and sank off Chiloé Island with the loss of all nineteen crew.

The Liberty ship was driven ashore at Veracruz, Mexico and was abandoned by her crew. She was declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo ship struck a rock and sank at Cabo de Quejo, Cantabria and sank. All crew were rescued.

The collier was in collision with in the Thames Estuary at Greenhithe, London and sank. All twelve crew were rescued.

The barge capsized and sank off Ardlamont Point, Argyllshire with the loss of four of the five people on board.

The cargo ship ran aground on the Isle of Muck, in the Inner Hebrides.

The decommissioned was sunk in the Pacific Ocean off Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, by gunfire from the heavy cruiser after use as a target in the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests of 1946.

The cargo ship was damaged during Typhoon Marie whilst on a voyage from Yokohama to Kure, Japan.

Shamrock

The cargo ship collided in the River Maas at Poortershaven, Netherlands with and sank. Maria Cristina was a total loss.

Winnipeg

World War II: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk at Gdynia, Poland by United States Army Air Forces aircraft.

thumb|right|USS Salt Lake City sinking.The decommissioned heavy cruiser was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California after use as a target in the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests.

List of shipwrecks in 1955

The cargo ship ran aground at Melbourne, Australia in a storm. Later refloated and returned to service.

sank off Stavanger with the loss of 20 lives.

Spanish Civil War, bombed and sunk at Valencia.

George Robb

The cargo ship sank off the Isles of Scilly. Thirteen crew of that were put on board to salvage the ship after it caught fire were lost. One of her 67 crew was also reported lost.

Unknown date 1954

The Liberty ship ran aground at Abidjan, Ivory Coast. She was declared a constructive total loss and later scrapped.

The cargo ship ran aground in the River Severn at Sharpness, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

The coaster was in collision with and sank off the east coast of Denmark. All fifteen crew rescued.

The cargo ship ran aground at Hoek van Holland, Netherlands and was holed.

The tanker ran aground on the Camelle Rocks, east of Cape Vilano, Galicia, Spain. She broke in two and was a total loss.

The coaster sank in a storm off Antipaxos, Greece. All eight crew killed.

The tug was in collision with and sank in the River Thames at Woolwich. All five crew rescued.
The coaster struck a submerged object and sank off Guernsey, Channel Islands.

The coaster collided in the Scheldt with and sank. All crew were rescued.

The coaster sank east of Aldeburgh, Suffolk. All eleven crew rescued.

Korean War, Operation Wonsan: The struck a mine and sank off Wonsan, Korea.

World War II: The tug was scuttled.

The Liberty ship was wrecked at Cape Moreton, Queensland, Australia.

The ocean liner ran aground in Port Philip Bay, Victoria, Australia. Refloated with the aid of three tugs.

Spanish Civil War:The tanker arrived at Valencia during May 1938. She was subsequently bombed and sunk.

The Channel tanker struck a submerged object and sank near Stubbekøbing

The tug struck Hogus Rocks, Cornwall.The tug was damaged in assisting to free Masterman and had to be taken in tow by tug .

The was rammed and sunk at Cherbourg, Charente-Maritime by a Swedish tanker.
The decommissioned S-class submarine was scuttled in the Pacific Ocean off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in accordance with the terms of the Second London Naval Treaty.
The cargo ship was driven ashore at Kawasaki in a typhoon.

The naval auxiliary ship was dumping ammunition at sea when there was an explosion and fire. She capsized and sank off Sydney with the loss of two of her crew.

The fishing vessel Arleux foundered off White Head Bay, Nova Scotia.

Astrild

The coaster came ashore at Siglufjordur, Iceland. She was declared a total loss but was repaired and returned to service as Snœfjell.

The T-class submarine was sunk in collision with oil tanker . A total of 64 crew killed. Submarine later salvaged and scrapped.

The cargo ship ran aground in Holy Loch. Later refloated and towed to Greenock, Ayrshire.

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The auxiliary schooner ran aground in the Kattegat at Hirsholmene, Denmark and was a total loss.
The two-masted schooner collided with

The cargo ship collided with near the Varne Lightship and sank off Folkestone, Kent.
The cargo ship ran aground off Singapore and was holed.

The cargo ship ran aground at Necochea, Argentina. She broke her back and was a total loss.

List of shipwrecks in 1964

Capsized and sank with the loss of 13 lives after an onboard explosion of her cargo, north of Huasco, Chile.

SS Southern Author

The sailing ship sank in Australian waters.

The oil tanker was set afire by an explosion of gasoline fumes while moored at Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.

The newly launched tanker ran aground in the Clyde at Greenock, Renfrewshire.

thumb|right|The wreck of E Evangelica in January 2008.The cargo ship ran aground in the Black Sea off Constanţa, Romania . Declared a constructive total loss.

Karin

The whaler ran aground off Gorleston, Norfolk.

Otranto

The Liberty ship ran aground near Barcelona, Spain. She was later refloated and towed to Genoa, Italy where she was declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo ship ran aground on the Sonora Reef, of the coast of Washington, United States and broke in two.

The coaster ran aground off Tripoli, Lebanon. All nine crew rescued by a Royal Air Force helicopter. Aghios Nicolaus was later refloated.

Ross Cleveland

The tanker broke in two off Cape Finisterre, Spain. Stern half taken in tow by the tug . Bow section also remained afloat and was taken under tow. Ship declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.
The Liberty ship caught fire in the Red Sea and was abandoned. Although declared a constructive total loss, she was subsequently repaired and returned to service.

The sealer foundered in the Norwegian Sea. She was on a voyage from the West Ice to Ålesund.

The ferry collided with off Cap Gris Nez, Pas de Calais, France.

The T2 tanker collided with

The passenger ship struck a mine and sank off the east coast of Jutland with the loss of over 150 lives.

Typhoon Mary: The cargo ship was driven aground on one of the Pratas Islands in the South China Sea and was wrecked. Her 55 crew took to the liferafts.

The Liberty ship was driven ashore near Osaka, Japan.

The cargo ship sank off the coast of Norway whilst on a voyage from Raufarhafn to Åkrehamn.

Retriever

General Botha

The coaster collied with south west of Dungeness, Kent and sank. All seven crew were rescued by Drochobyz.

The cargo ship lost her steering gear and was driven ashore at Canso, Nova Scotia.

The coaster was bombed and sunk at Águilas, Murcia, Spain. All fourteen crew survived. Later raised, repaired and returned to service as Castillo Vera.

thumb|right| with the sunken Ocean Eagle off Puerto Rico, 1968.The tanker ran aground at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Later broke in two, a total loss.
The cargo ship sprang a leak in the South China Sea east of Tai Tung, Taiwan. and was abandoned. Beached at Koto Soh but broke in two, a total loss.

The cargo ship sank off Texel, Netherlands with the loss of eleven of her 27 crew. The two stowaways on board were rescued.
The schooner ran aground in the River Severn off Chepstow, Monmouthshire and was wrecked.

Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk off Valencia by a Nationalist aircraft.

The passenger ship ran aground in the Rhine at Oberwesel, West Germany.

the ship was driven ashore at Colhugh Point, Glamorgan. Salvage was completed in December 1934.

The tug capsized and sank at Porlock, Somerset. All crew survived.

The ICI coaster ran aground on Knot Spit, Lancashire in 1964 and was refloated six days later.

The cargo ship was driven ashore at Fall River, Massachusetts in a hurricane.

foundered off Thassos.

The coaster ran aground at St Anthony Head, Cornwall.

The cargo ship was driven ashore in a storm at Naples, Italy. She capsized and sank.

The cargo ship sank off the Dutch coast with the loss of all 26 crew after hitting a mine. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, Netherland to Oslo, Norway.

The cargo ship ran aground off Stockholm. All 22 crew rescued by .

The Liberty ship ran aground off Tallinn, Soviet Union. She was refloated but declared a constructive total loss.

The cargo ship ran aground north of Twofold Point, New South Wales, Australia and was declared a total loss.

The cargo ship ran aground and broke in two in the Kara Sea, Soviet Union. All crew rescued by .

The Liberty ship exploded at Genoa Italy and was beached. She was later refloated but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.

The Nantucket Lightship was rammed and sunk by with the loss of seven of her eleven crew.

The Liberty ship ran aground in the Cape Verde Islands. She was declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.
The tanker ran aground at Hoedenskerke, Zeeland, Netherlands. Later refloated with the aid of eleven tugs.

Ronald M. Pearson

The tug foundered with the loss of all 30 crew.

The coaster was driven ashore in Moelfre Bay, Anglesey and broke in two, a total loss.

Annie Byford

The purse seiner collided with the cargo ship in fog in the Pacific Ocean near the Farallon Islands off the coast of California. The collision ripped a hole in Lina B.′s bow and disabled her steering gear.

Montrose

The tanker collided with a swing bridge and a yacht at Sète, France. She was holed and her cargo of avgas and petrol was set alight by a lighted gas cooker on board the yacht Bambula , which caught fire and sank. The fire also spread to three other ships, and and . assisted firemen from Montpellier and Sète in fighting the fires. One of the four crew of Bambula and two of the crew of Ombrina were killed, with a further two crew from the latter ship seriously injured.

The fishing vessel ran aground on Pedn-e-Vurnow beach, Porthcurnow. All crew safe, vessel destroyed.

Texas City disaster: The Liberty Ship caught fire at Texas City, Texas, United States. She was obliterated by the explosion of her cargo of explosives. Around 580 people were killed.

Nang Suang Nawa

The Liberty ship ran aground at Grays Harbor, Washington and broke in two.

thumb|right|The sunken Alvin photographed on the ocean bottom in June 1969.The deep submergence vehicle sank in the Atlantic Ocean at approximately , about 88 nautical miles south of Nantucket Island, when steel cables lowering her over the side of the research ship Lulu snapped and she fell into the water with her hatch open. All three crew members escaped. Alvin was refloated in September 1969, overhauled, and returned to service.

The tanker broke in two in the Bay of Biscay. Both halves were driven ashore.

The cargo ship ran aground in the River Thames and Gravesend, Kent in fog.

Coast Guard

The ocean liner collided with and sank in the Weser Estuary. All 260 passengers and crew were rescued.

The Liberty ship was driven ashore on the coast of Puerto Rico. She was refloated but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.

The cargo ship ran aground off the coast of Iceland whilst on a voyage from Sandur, Faroe Islands to Reykjavík, Iceland.

The coaster collided with in the Lower Elbe and sank with the loss of four crew.

The cargo ship caught fire at Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. The fire was extinguished two days later but she was declared a constructive total loss. Scrapped in August 1962.

The cargo ship ran aground off Vlissingen, Netherlands. Later refloated.

Unknown date 1942

The Liberty ship was driven ashore on Ameland, Friesland, Netherlands. She was declared a constructive total loss in 1970.

The cargo ship came ashore at Jæren, Norway and was wrecked. The crew were rescued.

The troopship ran aground in the Suez Canal, Egypt. Refloated after twelve hours.

The cargo ship ran aground in the Haddummatti Atoll, Maldive Islands and was abandoned as a total loss. All crew were rescued by .

The passenger ship sank off Rennesøy with the loss of ten of her seventeen crew.

The tanker ran aground off Singapore. Refloated after 36 hours.

The cargo ship struck a rock, and sank off Cheju Island, South Korea. All 55 crew rescued by the fishing boat Iki-maru .

The Liberty ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean . She subsequently sank.

a CIA air attack in support of a Guatemalan military coup d'etat napalmed the cargo ship and destroyed her by fire at Puerto San José, Guatemala.

The Liberty ship caught fire south west of the Cocos Islands and was abandoned. She was declared a total loss and was consequently scrapped in 1950.

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The cargo ship ran aground at Cape Fairweather, Alaska and was wrecked with the loss of two of her twenty crew.

The coaster ran aground at Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland and was wrecked. All crew survived.

Ran aground at Porthmeor beach, St Ives, Cornwall. All 24 crew rescued, but five later drowned when the lifeboat, Caroline Parsons capsized.

The coaster foundered off the coast of County Galway, Ireland with the loss of seven of her twelve crew. Survivors were rescued by

The cargo ship ran aground near Port Mouton, Nova Scotia, Canada. All 30 crew were rescued by the fishing vessel Ray Richard .
The cargo ship was scuttled in the Bay of Biscay. .

Unknown date January 1961

Camelita

The Liberty ship foundered off Luzon Island, Philippines . All 29 crew rescued.

The ocean liner ran aground off Cabo Frio. All 263 passengers rescued by and .

Lochranza Castle
The passenger ship caught fire at Hamburg, Germany, and was severely damaged.

The coaster ran aground at Norah Head, New South Wales, Australia. All crew were rescued.

The cargo ship ran aground at Licata, Italy after her anchor chain broke in heavy weather. Later refloated and returned to service.

The cargo ship ran aground off Christchurch, Dorset.

The cargo ship collided with and sank south of the Nab Tower off the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

and Wan Fu : Typhoon Mary: The cargo ship and coaster ended up stranded on the runway at Kai Tak International Airport, Hong Kong.

The schooner capsized and sank off Canouan Island, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Forty-one of the 79 people on board were killed.

Spanish Civil War: The cargo ship was shelled and sunk in the North Sea off Cromer, Norfolk, United Kingdom by the auxiliary cruiser Nadir with the loss of at least one of the 45 people on board. Survivors were rescued by H F Bailey , and Nadir.
The schooner was wrecked in the Irish Sea off the Calf of Man.