List of shipwrecks in 1975

The list of shipwrecks in 1975 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1975.

January

5 January

• Lake Illawarra ( Australia) sunk in the Derwent River in Tasmania, Australia after a collision with the Tasman Bridge.

20 January

• Danesh ( Iran) collided with MV Arya Tab and barge Gulf 107 and sank in Khor Musa Channel, Khorramshahr.

25 January

• Coaster Lovat sunk in a WNW gale gusting to hurricane force, 25 miles south of Penzance. All crew lost.^[1]

February

Unknown date

• Rogue ( Canada): Sank off Triple Island, British Columbia.^[2]

March

17 March

• Red Eagle ( Thailand): Sank in Telok Ayer Basin, Singapore.

April

• George P. Garrison ( United States): Sunk as an artificial reef 30 nautical miles (56 km) east of Cape Henry.^[3]

June

19 June

• Herma ( Trinidad and Tobago) foundered at Port of Spain, Trinidad.

October

4 October

• Hongkong Delegate ( Liberia) collided with Columbus ( Canada) off Monterey, California and extensively damaged. Sold for scrap.^[4]

November

10 November

• Edmund Fitzgerald ( United States): sank in Lake Superior near Whitefish Bay

December

18 December

• Imbros ( Cyprus): foundered in the Atlantic Ocean () with the loss of all 22 crew.^[4]

28 December

• Kim Hua Li ( Panama): Sank in the South China Sea.

30 December

• Berge Istra ( Norway): The supertanker exploded and sank south west of Mindanao Island, the Philippines. Two of the 32 crew survived and were rescued after 22 days adrift in a lifeboat.^[5]

References

See also

Ship events in 1975
Ship launches:	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980
Ship commissionings:	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980
Ship decommissionings:	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980
Shipwrecks:	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980