List of shipwrecks in 2007

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The list of shipwrecks in 2007 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 2007.

[edit] January

[edit] January 10

Pere Charles, an 20 m Irish fishing trawler sank in a storm southeast of Ireland with the five crew presumed dead. Two lifeboats were found empty the next day. In the same area, the same day, the 24-meter wooden fishing vessel, The Honeydew 2 sank. Two of its four crew members were rescued after 20 hours in a liferaft.

[edit] January 12

Cyprus-registered MS Server sank of the coast of Fedje, Norway

[edit] January 19

The container ship MSC Napoli was beached in Lyme bay after suffering a serious structural failure of her hull during a severe storm on the previous day.

[edit] January 26

The 75-foot (23 m) fishing boat, Lady of Grace, sank in Nantucket Sound with the loss of all four of its crewmembers. The weather at the time of its sinking was winds of 25 to 30 knots (56 km/h) and 8 to 10-foot (3.0 m) seas.^[1]

[edit] January 28

The 40-foot (12 m) yacht, Tenacious, presumed lost off San Francisco, California in good weather. Famed computer scientist Jim Gray was making a solo day trip. The Coast Guard suspended the search for the ship on February 1.

[edit] January 30

The MS Nordkapp ran aground near Deception Island, Antarctic Ocean. Passengers transferred to sister ship MS Nordnorge. HMS Endurance took non-essential crew aboard.

[edit] February

[edit] February 1

The 52-foot (16 m) fishing boat Lucky Lady lost off Cape Elizabeth, Maine with its two crew missing as of February 1. Weather conditions were only 4-foot (1.2 m) waves and 10-knot (19 km/h) winds.[2]

[edit] April

[edit] April 6

MS Sea Diamond sank near Santorini, Greece, after running aground the preceding day.

[edit] April 12

The Bourbon Dolphin sank of the coast of Shetland Islands and claimed 8 lives.

[edit] August

[edit] August 3

Russian trawler 'Olshana' sinks in Tangafjørður between the two Faroese islands of Streymoy and Eysturoy after hitting a skerry, Flesjarnar the evening before. There were no casualites.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] August 3

Sierra Leone boat Amunafa which between Freetown-Kasire route ferry route capsized off coast Bailor, Sierra Leone, 158 killed.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] August 5

The vessel Jork sank after colliding with the unmanned North Sea gas platform Viking Echo (~64km off the Norfolk coast), the entire crew was rescued, the gas platform survived and is continuing to operate. The vessel had been destined for one of the Humber ports carrying a cargo of grain from Lubeck in Germany.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] August 12

The bulk-carrier MV New Flame collided with an oil tanker off Europa Point, the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending partially submerged.

[edit] August 23

One died after the ship MV Douala Tide sank off Port Alfred in South Africa. South African maritime authorities rescued ten seafarers after the vessel capsized.^{[citation needed]}

The vessel had been sailing from Dubai to Douala, the vessel was a 37-foot (11 m) anchor-handling tug.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] August 30

The Israeli cargo vessel MV Shelly is accidentally rammed by cruise liner Salamis Glory, killing two of the former vessel's crew members as the former ship sinks.^[2][3]

[edit] November

[edit] November 12

Five ships sink in the Black Sea due to weather conditions:

• Russian tanker Volgoneft-139 broke into two parts and more than 1,300 t of oil finish into the water of the Kerch Strait
• Russian cargo Volnogorsk that transported 2,400t of sulfur.
• Russian cargo Nakhitchevan that transported sulfur too.
• Russian cargo Kovel that transported sulfur too.
• Georgian cargo Hash Izmail that transported steel products.

[edit] November 13

Greek tanker Propontis with 100000 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.

[edit] November 23

Cruise ship MS Explorer struck an iceberg (or other piece of ice) and sank close to the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic Ocean. 100 passengers and 54 crew, pretty much the entire population of the vessel at the time, 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 MV Antarctic Dream was reported to be assisting in the rescue.

[edit] December

[edit] December 25

The Korean carrier Eastern Bright, carrying nitrid acid sank near the Korean coast. Only one seaman was rescued, a Myanmarese, but there are 14 (12 Koreans and 2 Myanmareses) others missing.

[edit] See also

Ship launches:	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Ship commissionings:	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Ship decommissionings:	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Shipwrecks:	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Marine Accident Investigation Branch (UK)
• salvage operations in 2007 by Smit International.