The list of shipwrecks in 1999 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1999.
Operator | Ship | Flag | Class | Cause | Location | Notes | |
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4 February | New Carissa | Panama | Cargo ship | Ran aground and broke apart | Coos Bay, Oregon | Bow section remained on beach until scrapped in 2008. | |
21 May | Panaship | Erika | Malta | Tanker | Structural failure | Bay of Biscay | All crew evacuated |
24 August | Norwegian Dream | Bahamas | Cruise ship | Collision with container ship Ever Decent.[1] | Off Margate, Kent | ||
2 November | Dockwise Shipping BV | Mighty Servant 2 | Netherlands | Semi-submersible heavy lift ship | Struck an uncharted rock and capsized | Off Singkep, Indonesia | Raised in 2000, scrapped at Alang, India |
26 November | Flaggruten | Sleipner | Norway | Catamaran | Struck rock and sank with the loss of 16 lives | Off Haugesund | |
8 December | Sun Cruises | Sun Vista | Bahamas | Cruise ship | Engine room fire, abandoned, sunk | Strait of Malacca | All passengers and crew evacuated[2] |
Ship events in 1999 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
Ship commissionings: | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
Shipwrecks: | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |