![]() SESTONIA/FINLAND - 852 people drowned when the Estonia carrying 989 people sank off the Finnish island of Utoe, en route from Tallinn to Stockholm. The Andrea Doria sank.ĪpPHILIPPINES - The inter-island ferry Don Juan while en route from Manila to Bacolod, sank in the Tablas Strait off Mindoro Island after it was in collision with the barge Tacloban City. Both ships were badly damaged but luckily the death toll was low with the Stockholm losing five crew and the Andrea Doria losing 45 passengers out of the 1,134 that were on board. JUNITED STATES - Swedish American Line’s, Stockholm and the Italian Line’s Andrea Doria collided 45 miles off the coast of Nantucket Island in the United States. The ship exploded and then capsized and sank with the loss of 609 crew. ![]() She was the flagship of the Black Sea squadron of the Soviet Navy. OctoRUSSIA - The Novorossiysk, formerly the Italian battleship Giulio Cesare, was moored near the shore at Sevastopol. JanuThe Princess Victoria sank in the North Channel (between Scotland and Northern Ireland), during a severe storm. More than 300 people, many of whom were Italian immigrants, died. OctoATLANTIC - The luxury Italian liner Principessa Mafalda was headed for Rio de Janeiro from Cape Verde islands with 288 crew and 971 passengers when it caught fire and sank off the Brazilian coast. It was carrying 1,057 passengers and 420 crew. Of the 2,200 passengers and crew aboard the ship, dubbed before its departure as “unsinkable” 1,523 died.ĬANADA - At least 1,012 people were killed when The Empress of Ireland passenger liner collided with a Norwegian freighter on the St Lawrence River in Canada. (Reuters) - Nearly 40 people are still missing on Sunday from the cruise liner, Costa Concordia, which hit rocks and badly listed near the Italian island of Giglio, late on Friday.įollowing is a timeline of some of the world’s major peacetime shipping disasters since the Titanic sank 100 years ago:ĪpCANADA - The White Star passenger liner Titanic sank on her maiden voyage off Newfoundland after hitting an iceberg.
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