List of shipwrecks in 2007
The list of shipwrecks in 2007 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 2007.
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May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
January
10 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pere Charles | The 20 m (66 ft) fishing trawler sank in a storm southeast of Ireland with all five crew presumed dead. Two lifeboats were found empty the next day. | |
Honeydew 2 | The 24 m (79 ft) wooden fishing vessel sank and two of her four crew members were rescued after twenty hours from a liferaft. | |
Sunna | Ran aground west of Swona, suffering severe damage.[1][2] |
12 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Server | The bulk carrier suffered an engine break-down, and was driven aground by a storm on the coast of the island of Fedje, Norway. The ship broke in two, with the bow section being salvaged and towed to Ågotnes, while the stern broke apart. The salvaged bow section was scrapped in Esbjerg, Denmark, starting in April 2008.[3][4] |
19 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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MSC Napoli | The container ship was deliberately beached on Branscombe beach, Lyme Bay, after suffering a serious structural failure to her hull during a severe storm the previous day.[5] |
26 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lady of Grace | The 75-foot (23 m) fishing boat sank in Nantucket Sound with the loss of all four crew. The weather at the time was of winds of 25 to 30 knots (46 to 56 km/h) and 8-to-10-foot (2.4 to 3.0 m) seas.[6] |
28 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Tenacious | The 40-foot (12 m) yacht presumed lost off San Francisco, California in good weather. Computer scientist Jim Gray was making a solo day trip. The Coast Guard suspended the search for the ship on 1 February. |
30 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Nordkapp | The cruise ship ran aground near Deception Island, Antarctic Ocean. Passengers transferred to her sister ship MS Nordnorge and HMS Endurance took non-essential crew aboard. |
February
1 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lucky Lady | The 52-foot (16 m) fishing boat was lost off Cape Elizabeth, Maine with the two crew missing. Weather conditions were only 4-foot (1.2 m) waves and 10-knot (19 km/h) winds. |
3 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sea Express 1 | She collided with Alaska Rainbow ( |
25 February
March
8 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Repubblica di Genova | The freighter capsized in the port of Antwerp, Belgium with no loss of life.[8] She was recovered by parbuckling in September 2007.[9] |
April
6 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sea Diamond |
12 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bourbon Dolphin | The anchor handling tug supply vessel sank of the coast off the Shetland Islands and claiming eight lives. |
18 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Juliett 484 | The ex-Russian submarine, serving as a living museum docked in Providence Harbor, Rhode Island, sank during a storm. |
May
14 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMCS Huron | The decommissioned Iroquois-class destroyer was sunk as a missile and gunnery target in the Pacific Ocean off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Sailfish | The decommissioned Sailfish-class submarine was sunk as a target at 47°05′47″N 127°23′08″W / 47.09639°N 127.38556°W off the coast of Washington by a Mark 48 ADCAP torpedo fired by the submarine USS Topeka ( |
June
8 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pasha Bulker |
August
3 August
3 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Amunafa | The ferry operating on the Freetown-Kasire route capsized off the coast of Bailor, Sierra Leone, 158 killed. |
5 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Jork | The vessel sank after colliding with the unmanned North Sea gas platform Viking Echo (64 kilometres (35 nmi) off the Norfolk coast), the entire crew was rescued, the gas platform survived and continues to operate. The vessel had been destined for one of the Humber ports carrying a cargo of grain from Lübeck in Germany.[12] |
7 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Knox | The decommissioned Knox-class frigate was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off Guam. |
12 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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New Flame | The bulk carrier collided with an oil tanker off Europa Point, the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending partially submerged. |
14 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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P29 | The patrol boat was scuttled off Ċirkewwa as an artificial reef. |
23 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Douala Tide | Sank off Port Alfred in South Africa. The South African maritime authorities rescued ten seafarers after the vessel capsized. The vessel had been sailing from Dubai to Douala, and was a 37-foot (11 m) anchor-handling tug.[13] One died |
30 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Shelly | The cargo vessel is accidentally rammed by cruise liner CS Salamis Glory ( |
October
7 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Seagull Express 2 | A ferry to Tioman Island, Malaysia in the South China Sea caught fire and sank; 99 passengers and crew were rescued while 7 drowned.[16] |
November
3 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMNZS Canterbury | The Leander-class frigate was scuttled as a dive wreck in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 35°11′38″S 174°17′40″E / 35.1938°S 174.2944°E[17] |
12 November
Five ships sank in the Black Sea due to the weather conditions:
Ship | Country | Description |
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Volgoneft-139 | The tanker broke into two parts with more than 1,300 t of oil escaping into the Kerch Strait | |
Volnogorsk | Cargo ship transporting 2,400t of sulphur | |
Nakhitchevan | Cargo ship carrying sulphur | |
Kovel | Cargo ship carrying sulphur | |
Hash Izmail | Cargo ship carrying steel products. |
13 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Propontis | The tanker with 100,000 tonnes of crude oil touched bottom in the Gulf of Finland. The ship was travelling from Russia to England. There were no signs of an oil leak. |
23 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Explorer | The cruise ship struck an iceberg and sank close to the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic Ocean. One hundred passengers and fifty-four crew, were evacuated from the ship and took to the liferafts. (The two people that remained and attempted to stabilize the ship gave up and evacuated as well). The Antarctic Dream was reported to be assisting in the rescue.[18] |
December
7 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hebei Spirit | The crude oil tanker collided with a runaway barge while anchored 10 kilometres (5.4 nmi) off Incheon. 10,000 tons of crude oil spilled to the sea, causing the worst oil spill in the history of South Korea. |
10 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Gregory Poole | The fishing vessel, formerly the Admirable-class minesweeper USS Cruise ( |
19 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Flying Phantom | The tug capsized and sank off Clydebank with the loss of three lives. The tug's Danish owner, Svitzer Marine, was subsequently prosecuted and admitted a series of health and safety breaches.[22] MAIB report |
25 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Eastern Bright | The bulk carrier, carrying nitric acid, sank near the Korean coast. Only one seaman was rescued, a Burmese, with fourteen (12 Koreans and 2 Burmese) missing. |
References
- ↑ "CAPTAIN FINED FOR NOT PROVIDING PROPER LOOKOUT RESULTING IN THE GROUNDING OF HIS VESSEL". Maritime and Coastguard Agency. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
- ↑ "SECOND PROSECUTION FOLLOWING GROUNDING IN PENTLAND FIRTH". Maritime and Coastguard Agency. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
- ↑ Okkenhaug, Liv Solli (17 January 2007). "Styrte mot katastrofe - ingen ble varslet". Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian). Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- ↑ "Server (8307117)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- ↑ "Napoli salvage is declared over". BBC. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
- ↑
- ↑ "16 dead on blazing ferry as passengers jump into sea". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ↑ Svendsen, Jon; Jan Tiedemann. "The Weekly Containershipping-Newsletter: March 2007, 11th week" (pdf). www.containersh ip-info.net.tc. p. 1. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ↑ Antwerp ship disaster, the sequal. YouTube (Motion Picture). YouTube. 2007.
- ↑ Lekur olju og drekkur sjógv - 2 August 2008 - Obtained 29 August 2008.
- ↑ Olshana er sokkin - portal.fo - 3 August 2008 - Obtained 29 August 2008.
- ↑ "MV Jork - Collision with Viking Echo Gas Platform in the North Sea". Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ↑ "Samsa Investigates Sinking of M/V Douala Tide". Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
- ↑ Rescuers retrieve bodies of two sailors killed in collision off Haifa - 1 September 2007 - Obtained 3 September 2007.
- ↑ Israeli Divers Find Bodies of 2 Sailors - The Washington Post - 31 August 2007 - Obtained 3 September 2007.
- ↑ "Death toll of Malaysian ferry accident rises to 7". en.people.cn. People's Daily Online. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
- ↑ "History". Northland Dive. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ↑ "MV EXPLORER Cruise Ship Sinking In South Atlantic". Shipping Times. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ↑ "Delaware Reef Guide 2009–2010" (PDF). Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources & Environmental Control (DNREC). Retrieved 13 August 2011.
- ↑ "Delaware Reef Guide 2009–2010" (PDF). Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources & Environmental Control (DNREC). Retrieved 13 August 2011.
- ↑ "Newest artificial reef – called Del-Jersey-Land – originates with sinking of decommissioned minesweeper". DNREC. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
- ↑ "Clyde Tug Boat Sinking: Company To Be Sentenced". The Scotsman. 13 November 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
Ship events in 2007 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
Ship commissionings: | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
Ship decommissionings: | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
Shipwrecks: | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
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