List of shipwrecks in 2012
The list of shipwrecks in 2012 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 2012.
January
1 January
- Jin Hang Bo 53 (
China): The hopper vessel sank at Port Elizabeth, South Africa.[1] - Safina (
Kenya): The ferry collided with a cargo ship off Lamu Island and sank with the loss of nine lives. There were at least 48 survivors.[2][3] - Unknown bulk freighter ran aground in the Yangtze River, China after an navigation error and was overloaded with a cargo of 1700 tons of stone. All crewmen on board were rescued.[4]
- Skulptor Tomskiy (
Belize): The refrigerator cargo ship ran aground in the Morskoy Canal, St. Petersburg, Russia. The ship was refloated the next day with the assistance of four tugs.[5]
2 January
- Delamar (
Gibraltar): The cargo ship ran aground near Antwerp, Belgium. The ship was refloated the next day.[6]
4 January
- Odin Sydfyen (
Denmark): The passenger ferry ran aground near Tårs, Denmark. The ship was able to be refloated under her own power.[7]
7 January
- MSC Poesia (
Panama): The cruise ship ran aground on a reef off Grand Bahama. The ship remained on the reef for the day until it was eventually pulled off by four tug boats.[8]
8 January
- Tycoon ( Panama): The phosphate carrier broke its mooring and was pushed into the cliffs at Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island and broke up, spilling oil and phosphate into the sea. All fifteen crew were rescued by Royal Australian Navy RIBs.[9]
11 January
- Anke Angela ( Gibraltar): The cargo vessel ran aground in Kalmar Strait, in the Baltic Sea, Sweden.[10]
12 January
- Harmony SW ( Panama): The cargo vessel ran aground in the Kiel Canal.[11]
13 January
Costa Concordia after capsizing
- Costa Concordia (
Italy): The Concordia-class cruise ship ran aground off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany (42°21′53″N 10°55′16″E / 42.36472°N 10.92111°E). There were 32 deaths amongst the 4,252 people on board. Declared a constructive total loss, Costa Concordia was parbuckled upright on 17 September 2013. She was refloated on 14 July 2014, departing under tow on 23 July for Genoa, where she will be scrapped. - FAS Provence (
Bahamas): While under tow from Dakar the ship sank on the Medina Bank in the Mediterranean Sea.[12]
14 January
- Doola No.3 (
South Korea): The tanker broke in two after an explosion onboard near Jawol Island in the Yellow Sea.[13]
15 January
- Doola 3 ( South Korea): The tanker exploded and sank off Jawol Island with the loss of eleven of her sixteen crew.[14]
- Edirne (
Sierra Leone): The tanker sank after an explosion onboard off the city of Durrës in Albania, with one crew member reported dead and two more reported missing.[15] - Lady Moon (
United Kingdom): The tanker sank off Al Hamriya, Dubai. Her five crew were rescued.[16] - A fishing vessel (identity unknown) sank after colliding with the cargo ship Cheng Lu 28 ( China) in the Hainan Strait off Hainan, China. Three crew members are reported missing.[17]
16 January
- Mako (
United States): The offshore supply vessel was destroyed by fire and sank in the Atlantic Ocean 6 nautical miles (11 km) off the coast of Nigeria.[18] - Tit Bonhomme (
Ireland): The fishing vessel sank, after hitting rocks, near Glandore Harbour, County Cork. Five crew members reported missing.[19]
20 January
- Aztec Maiden (
Philippines): The cargo ship ran aground at Wijk aan Zee, North Holland, Netherlands.[20] The ship was pulled free a day later and brought to IJmuiden for inspection.[21] - Kayan 1 ( Sierra Leone): The cargo ship collided with Adria Blu (
Tanzania) off Istanbul, Turkey and was beached. Her thirteen crew were rescued. A temporary repair was made and the ship was refloated. She was taken in to Istanbul.[22]
22 January
- Hamed II (
United Arab Emirates): The supply vessel sank off Al Hamriya, Dubai with the loss of one of her six crew.[23] - Seaford 2 ( Philippines): The cargo vessel sank off San Jose, Philippines after suffering a severe list. All crew were rescued.[24]
- Sun Spirits ( Panama): The cargo vessel sank off Binorong Point, Philippines after her cargo of iron ore shifted. All crew were rescued.[24]
25 January
- Hallgrímur (
Iceland): The fishing trawler sank in a storm off Ålesund, Norway. One crew member was rescued by a Royal Norwegian Air Force helicopter, with three others missing.[25] The body of the trawler's captain was recovered from the sea north of Tromsø, Norway, in late March 2012.[26] At the time of her loss, Hallgrímur had been on the way to the Fosen Gjenvinning breaker's yard at Stoksund in Sør-Trøndelag for scrapping.[27]
26 January
- Delta Mariner ( United States): The aircraft transport ship struck the Eggner Ferry Bridge over the Kentucky Lake. No injuries or loss of vehicles from the bridge were reported in the late night collision. As of 27 January, the ship remains stranded mid-stream with a large section of bridge wrapped around the upper forward decks, and dragging on the bottom.[28]
27 January
- Rona (
Moldova): The cargo ship was driven ashore near Akpinar, Turkey. Her crew were taken off the next day.[29]
29 January
- Anna Akhmatova (
Russia: The passenger ship was severely damaged by fire and sank at Moscow.[30]
30 January
- Unknown trawler (
Australia): The fishing trawler capsized and broke up after hitting the breakwall at the entrance to the Tweed River, New South Wales, Australia. Two crew were rescued.[31] - Girl Rona ( United Kingdom): The trawler capsized after hitting a sandbank whilst trying to enter Teignmouth harbour, Devon. All five crew rescued.[32]
31 January
February
2 February
- Rabaul Queen (
Papua New Guinea): The passenger ferry sank off the northwest coast of Papua New Guinea near Finschhafen.[34] As of 30 April 2012, 321 people out of more than 500 believed to have been on the overloaded ferry remain listed as missing.
5 February
- Captain Ivan Vikulov (
Malta): The cargo ship suffered an on board explosion and caught fire in the Azov Sea. Her fourteen crew were rescued by the icebreaker Kapitan Moshkin ( Russia). The severely damaged ship was subsequently anchored off Strilkove, Ukraine.[35]
7 February
- Alaca 1 ( Panama): The cargo ship was crushed by ice in the Azov Sea off Kirillovka, Ukraine. Her twelve crew abandoned ship and were subsequently rescued.[36]
- Tanya Karpinskaya ( Russia): The cargo ship was in collision with Kota Duta (
Singapore) off Niigata, Japan. She consequently capsized and sank. Her seventeen crew were rescued.[37]
8 February
- Feruz ( Malta): The cargo ship was driven ashore at Samsun, Turkey. Her sixteen crew survived.[38]
- Hay K ( Moldova): The cargo ship was driven ashore at Samsun.[38]
10 February
- Bien Nam 17 (
Vietnam): The cargo ship collided with two other vessels and sank in the Nha Be River at Ho Chi Min City with the loss of one of her twelve crew.[39] The vessel was refloated on 23 February.[40]
13 February
- Combattant (
France): The hopper vessel struck a mooring and sank in the Rhône at Beaucaire, Gard.[41]
14 February
- En Avant (
Netherlands): The tug sank in the Bijlands Kanaal at Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland.[42]
15 February
- Maverick Dos (
Spain): The passenger ship ran aground in the Balearic Islands. All 25 people on board were rescued.[43] - Shun King 8 (
Tonga): Cyclone Jasmine: The fishing vessel capsized and foundered off Tongatapu. Her three crew were rescued.[44] - Takuo ( Tonga): Cyclone Jasmine: The fishing vessel foundered.[44]
16 February
- Karakumneft ( Russia): The tanker ran aground off Iturup Island. Her 20 crew were rescued.[45]
- Phantom (
Gibraltar): The cargo ship developed a severe list off Öland Sweden after her cargo shifted. Her six crew were rescued by a Swedish Coast Guard helicopter.[46] Phantom was later towed in to Oskarshamn.[47] - Yogi ( France): The super-yacht sank in a storm during the early morning hours off the island of Skyros, Greece.[48]
18 February
- Hg Xin Yuan Shun 6 ( China): The cargo ship foundered off Hui'an with the loss of ten of her eleven crew.[49]
- Oberon ( Russia): The tanker ranaground at Penghu, Taiwan. All sixteen crew were rescued by a Taiwan Coast Guard helicopter.[50]
19 February
- Fadak 150 (
Iran): The tug was destroyed by fire in the Persian Gulf. Her nine crew were rescued.[51]
22 February
- Commando ( Netherlands): The tug capsized and sank at Krimpen aan den IJssel, South Holland. Both crew were rescued by Gepke ( Netherlands).[52]
23 February
- Family Union ( Spain): The fishing vessel sank off Vélez-Málaga in Spain after it sprung a leak; the crew was rescued.[53]
24 February
- Miss Pearl ( United States): The crew vessel ran aground near Houston, Texas. Her four crew were rescued.[54]
27 February
- MSC Carole ( Panama): The container ship ran aground on a reef off Jakarta, Indonesia.[55]
28 February
- Inzhener Nazarov ( Russia): The tanker caught fire in the Caspian Sea off Makhachkala and was abandoned with the loss of one of her fourteen crew.[56]
29 February
- Tra Ly 18 ( Vietnam): The coaster foundered in the Gulf of Tonkin off Vinh. Her crew were rescued by Hoang Vu 1 ( Vietnam).[57]
March
2 March
- Bo Yun 018 ( China): The coaster collided with Dream Diva ( Panama) and sank in the Pearl River Delta off Zhuhai with the loss of eight of her ten crew.[58]
- Governor Herbert H. Lehman ( United States): The ferry sprang a leak and sank at Newburgh, New York.[59]
5 March
- Alfa 1 (
Greece): The tanker capsized and sank, possibly after hitting a shipwreck west of Athens. Ten crew were rescued and one person, the captain, died.[60]
7 March
- The ferry Stena Feronia (
Sweden) and a cargo ship Union Moon collided in Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland.[61] - Cebu Ferry 1 ( Philippines): The ferry caught fire off Matuko Point. All 43 passengers were taken off by Supercat 38 ( Philippines). Cebu Ferry 1 was later towed in to Batangas.[62]
9 March
- Algoma Discovery (
Canada): The bulk carrier caught fire and nearly sank while at port in Hamilton, Ontario. - Celina (
Antigua and Barbuda): The container ship ran aground off Måløy, Norway and was severely damaged. Twelve of her fourteen crew were taken off, the other two remaining on board to assist with salvage efforts.[63]
10 March
Wreck of MV Gelso M
- Chevelle ( United States): The fishing vessel ran aground at Newport, Oregon in high wind.[64]
- Gelso M ( Italy): The cargo ship ran aground off Syracuse, Sicily. All nineteen crew were rescued by helicopter.[65]
- Seagate ( United Kingdom): The bulk carrier in collision with the refrigerated cargo ship Timor Stream (
Liberia 24 nautical miles (44 km) north of Manzanillo, Dominican Republic. Seagate was extensively damaged and was declared a constructive total loss.[66]
13 March
- Kenos Athena ( South Korea): The tanker capsized and foundered off Guangdong, China. Her eighteen crew were rescued.[67]
- Shariatpur 1 (
Bangladesh): The ferry sank about 50 kilometres (27 nmi) south of the capital Dhaka after hitting an oil barge. The death toll early the next morning stood at 110 killed and at least 61 missing.[68] - Yuan Tong ( Panama): The cargo ship foundered off Zhoushan, China with the loss of eight of her 40 crew.[69]
14 March
- TG 6715 ( Vietnam): The tug was struck by a barge and sank in the Dong Nai River at Bien Hoa with the loss of a crew member.[70]
15 March
- Bareli ( Singapore): The container ship ran aground in the East China Sea 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) off Fuqing, China and broke in two. All 21 crew were rescued.[37]
- Stolt Valor (
Hong Kong): An explosion and subsequent fire onboard the chemical tanker killed one crewman. The ship was later declared total loss and sold for scrapping.[71] - Tong Chang Qi Du 12 ( China): The ferry collided with Shun Qiang 28 ( China in the Yangtze River and sank with the loss of two lives.[72]
19 March
- Ocean Glory (
Taiwan): The cargo ship capsized and sank off Keelung with the loss of eight of her fifteen crew.[73]
27 March
- Patrice McAllister ( Canada): The tugboat caught fire off the coast of Kingston, Ontario in Lake Ontario.
April
1 April
3 April
- MV Ara Felixtowe (
Cyprus): The cargo ship suffered a fire in her engine room. All nine crew were rescued by a KNRM lifeboat. The fire was extinguished and her crew returned to the ship, which was towed in to Harlingen, Netherlands.[75]
Carrier.
- Carrier ( Antigua and Barbuda): The coaster ran aground at Llanddulas, United Kingdom. All seven crew were rescued.[76] She was declared a constructive total loss and was consequently scrapped in situ.[77]
- New Lucky VII ( Hong Kong): The cargo ship foundered in the East China Sea off the Amami Island, Japan with the loss of six of her seventeen crew.[78]
4 April
5 April
Ryō Un Maru
- Ryō Un Maru (
Japan): 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami: The derelict fishing vessel, which had been drifting in the Pacific Ocean for over a year, was shelled and sunk 195 nautical miles (361 km) off Sitka, Alaska, United States by USCGC Anacapa (
United States Coast Guard).[80]
10 April
- Truong Hai Star ( Vietnam): The cargo ship collided with Krairatch Dignity (
Thailand) off Vung Tau and sank. Her sixteen crew were rescued.[81]
23 April
- Aquarius ( United Kingdom): The tug sank 45 miles off the Lizard with one of the three crew missing.[82]
30 April
- An unnamed ferry capsized in the Brahmaputra River in the Dhubri district of Assam state in northeastern India; more than 100 bodies were recovered.[83]
May
2 May
- FR8 Pride (
Marshall Islands): The tanker collided with the oil rig Rowan EXL-1 in the Gulf of Mexico and was holed. She was beached near Corpus Christi, Texas.[84]
3 May
- Urd ( Denmark): The ro-ro ferry was struck by Nils Holgersson (
Germany) at Travemünde, Germany and sank by the bow until it grounded.[85]
12 May
- Eihatsu Maru ( Japan): The fishing vessel was driven ashore at Cape Town, South Africa. Nineteen of her 28 crew were evacuated by the NSRI.[86]
18 May
- Purbeck Isle ( United Kingdom): The wreck of the fishing vessel was found one day after she went missing ten miles off Portland, England in 50 m. One body recovered and two missing.[87]
19 May
- Erol Senkaya (
Turkey): The cargo ship sank in the Ionian Sea between Zakynthos and the Greek mainland with the loss of four of her ten crew.[88]
23 May
- Solfish 001: (
Solomon Islands): The inter-island cargo ship sank for unknown reasons near the Solomon Islands. All on board were rescued from life rafts several days later.[89]
26 May
- Kapitan Bolsunovskiy ( Russia): The fishing trawler was holed by ice in the Bering Sea and foundered off Dezhnev Point. Her 90 crew were rescued by Derzu Uzala ( Russia).[90]
29 May
- Jing Huai 188 ( China): The coaster foundered off Shanghai with the loss of at least three lives. Two survivors were rescued.[91]
July
12 July
- HYSY 699 ( China):. Typhoon Vicente: The ship sank off Hong Kong. Her crew were rescued.[92]
14 July
The damaged MSC Flaminia
- MSC Flaminia ( Germany): The container ship suffered an onboard explosion and fire in the Atlantic Ocean (47°52′N 30°44′W / 47.867°N 30.733°W) with the loss of two of her crew of 23. Survivors abandoned ship and were rescued by DS Crown ( Bahamas).
18 July
- Skagit ( Tanzania): The ferry sank in the Indian Ocean off Zanzibar with great loss of life. Only 145 of the 280 people on board were reported to have been rescued as of 23 July, with 78 bodies recovered.[93]
August
8 August
- CS Chamarel (
Mauritius): The cable ship was destroyed by fire off Walvis Bay, Namibia.
26 August
- MV Hansa Berlin ( Liberia): The container ship was grounded off the coast of Mariel, Cuba, due to engine failure and heavy seas from Hurricane Isaac.[94][95]
28 August
- Pacific Carrier ( South Korea): The bulk carrier broke in two after breaking her moorings and drifting to the shore near Sacheon, South Korea. The ship had been struck by another vessel eight months earlier and was awaiting for repairs. The ship was declared constructive total loss and scrapped in situ.[96]
September
1 September
- Penzance fishing vessel Chloe T ( United Kingdom) sank off Start Point, Devon. All five crew were taken off by an helicopter from RNAS Culdrose.[97]
6 September
- A fishing boat carrying illegal migrants sank after hitting rocks in Baradan Bay off the coast of Turkey, resulting in 61 deaths.[98]
21 September
- 2,500 DWT cargo vessel Huelin Dispatch (
Jersey) ran aground on Pierre au Vraic rocks near Alderney during her maiden voyage. After making temporary repairs to a leak in her stern she made it to Falmouth Docks for further repairs.[99][100]
24 September
- Kyeema Spirit ( Bahamas), a 113,357 DWT[101] oil tanker, ran aground on a shoal to the east of the island of Aegna near Tallinn, Estonia. The 250-metre (820 ft 3 in) tanker was not carrying cargo, but was reportedly leaking bilge water.[102]
26 September
- Passenger ferry Bahuga Jaya (
Indonesia) sank after collision with LPG/chemical tanker Norgas Cathinka (
Singapore) off Jakarta, Indonesia, resulting in loss of eight lives. Over 200 passengers and crew were rescued. The tanker received minor structural damage, but was not in danger of sinking.[103]
October
Bounty
John B. Caddell
1 October
- Passenger ferry Lamma IV ( Hong Kong) sank after collision with another passenger ferry Sea Smooth ( Hong Kong) off Lamma Island, Hong Kong, resulting 39 killed and more than 100 injured.[104]
29 October
- The full-rigged ship Bounty ( United States) was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean 90 nautical miles (170 km) south east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All sixteen crew took to the lifeboats.[105] The ship later sank, two people were reported to be missing.[106]
30 October
- John B. Caddell ( United States) was driven ashore at Staten Island, New York, by Hurricane Sandy.[107]
- Saigon Queen ( Vietnam): Cyclone Nilam: The cargo ship sank in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka. Eighteen of her 22 crew were rescued.[108]
November
29 November
- Trans Agila ( Antigua and Barbuda) ran aground in Kalmar Strait and was in danger of sinking due to flooding of engine room. However, the situation was later brought under control.[109]
December
Kulluk aground on the southeast side of Sitkalidak Island, Alaska, on 1 January 2013.
4 December
- BBC Adriatic ( Germany): The cargo ship was driven ashore at Kumkoy, Turkey.[110]
- Volgo-Balt 199 (
Saint Kitts and Nevis): The general cargo ship sank in a storm off the coast of Turkey. Of the crew of 11, four were rescued and one is confirmed dead. Two rescuers were also killed and three remain missing when the boat carrying them hit rocks and sank.[111]
5 December
- Car carrier Baltic Ace (
Bahamas) and container ship Corvus J ( Cyprus) collided in the North Sea some 40–50 kilometres (25–31 mi) from the port of Rotterdam. As a result, Baltic Ace began taking on water and was sinking as the rescue boats and a helicopter rushed to the scene. Of the crew of 24, five are confirmed dead and six remain missing while 13 crew members were rescued.[112]
14 December
- A boat carrying immigrants from Turkey sank off the Greek island of Lesbos, killing at least eighteen people.[113]
18 December
- A boat carrying migrant workers from Somalia to Yemen sank off the Somalian port of Bosaso, killing 55 people.[114]
24 December
- Asian Lily ( Panama): The refrigerated cargo ship ran aground on Kwaiawata Island, Marshall Bennett Islands (8°54′S 151°5′E / 8.900°S 151.083°E). She was still aground on 4 January 2013.[115]
28 December
- Al-Jasourah ( Iran) sank off United Arab Emirates due to rough weather. The all-Iranian crew of six was airlifted to safety.[116]
29 December
- Royal Prime ( Vietnam):The cargo ship foundered in the South China Sea off the Spratly Islands. Her eighteen crew survived.[117]
31 December
- Mobile drilling rig Kulluk ( Marshall Islands) drifts aground near Sitkalidak Island in the Gulf of Alaska after towing lines part in heavy weather. She was refloated on 8 January 2013.
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