Famous Cruise Ship Sinkings

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Famous cruise ship sinkings. The cruise ferry MS Estonia built in the German shipyard Meyer Werft was en route to Stockholm from the Estonian province of Tallinn when it sank on 28 September 1994. The 50-ton 50-foot 152 m wooden fishing vessel sank near Cape Muzon Territory of Alaska. Herein are mentioned worlds top ten ships sunk by accident with icebergs in terms of lives lost.

Memorial to pay tribute to the Navy men who gave the lives for the country has been built on top of this wreck. On 20 September 1911 the Olympic collided with HMS Hawke a British warship specially designed to ram into other ships and sink them. Un-Cruise Adventures ship Safari Endeavor.

This Philippine-registered passenger ferry sank after colliding with the MT Vector on December 20 1987. The original cruise ship disaster the unsinkable ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage in 1912 and sank into the icy water killing more than 1500 of. The Estonia ship casualty in the Baltic Sea is one of the biggest maritime incidents to have occurred in the recent past.

Estonia Estline The ship sunk in the Baltic sea in the worst disaster at sea in recent years -- approximately 852 passengers and crew perished when the ship sunk September. Silversea Cruises ship Silver Spirit. On November 13 1942 during a battle with Japanese forces at Guadalcanal the USS Juneau suffered severe damage to her port side.

The worst of cruise ship disasters are incidents such as Costa Concordia the Titanic or the SS. Eastland where there are fatalities. While carrying passengers on a cruise in 2000 it struck a rock at the Solomon Islands resulting in the ship subsiding.

List of White Star Line ships that sank. Built in 1888 it was the most luxurious steamer for the Inside Passage to Alaska. Islander was mammoth of a schooner-rigged steamer weighing 1519 ton.