List of shipwrecks in 1967

The list of shipwrecks in 1967 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1967.

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1967
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May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1967
Ship Country Description
Refrigerator 10  Soviet Union The reefer ship sank in the Bering Strait 35 nautical miles (65 km) north on Unimak Island, Alaska, United States with the loss of five of her 79 crew.[1]

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1967
Ship Country Description
Bjoern Lohse  West Germany Caught fire at Lisbon, constructive total loss, scrapped in March 1967.[2]

4 January

List of shipwrecks: 4 January 1967
Ship Country Description
Bluebird  United Kingdom The hydroplane crashed on Coniston Water during an attempt on the world water speed record, killing its pilot, Donald Campbell.

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1967
Ship Country Description
Jamaica Bay  United States The dredger was mined by the Viet Cong and sank in the Mekong River, 45 nautical miles (83 km) north of Saigon, Vietnam.[3]
HMS Amphion  Royal Navy The Amphion-class submarine collided with Timbarra ( Australia), sustaining slight damage.[4]

10 January

List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1967
Ship Country Description
Parmarina  Lebanon The cargo ship was wrecked in the South China Sea off Keelung, Taiwan (25°10′N 121°43′E / 25.167°N 121.717°E / 25.167; 121.717).[5]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1967
Ship Country Description
Audacity  United Kingdom The coastal tanker ran aground near the Terschelling Bank Light Vessel. Refloated on 21 January, repaired and returned to service.

13 January

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1967
Ship Country Description
Nelson B  Canada The sailing ship struck a submerged object at 44°00′N 66°18′W / 44.000°N 66.300°W / 44.000; -66.300 and sank.[6][7]

17 January

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1967
Ship Country Description
Elias K  Greece The cargo ship ran aground in the Farasan Islands (16°23′N 41°48′E / 16.383°N 41.800°E / 16.383; 41.800). Refloated on 24 January. Subsequently declared a constructive total loss and scrapped in December 1967.[5]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1967
Ship Country Description
Jacob Verolme  Netherlands The bulk ore carrier exploded and sank 120 nautical miles (220 km) off Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain with the loss of one of her 48 crew.[8]

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1967
Ship Country Description
Constantia 2  United Kingdom The tanker was carrying fresh water on route to Gibraltar when she struck the Les Casquets reef in a storm, all crew were rescued, the ship broke her back. [9] [10]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1967
Ship Country Description
Sir Winston Churchill  United Kingdom The schooner sank at Southampton, Hampshire. Later pumped out, refloated and returned to service.[11]

February

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1967
Ship Country Description
Cape Bonnie  Canada The coaster ran aground at 44°26′N 63°42′W / 44.433°N 63.700°W / 44.433; -63.700 and was wrecked.[12]

27 February

List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1967
Ship Country Description
Farringford  United Kingdom The passenger ferry ran aground at Lymington, Hampshire during a gale. Later refloated and returned to service.[13]

28 February

List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1967
Ship Country Description
Tukan  Soviet Union The factory ship foundered 15 nautical miles (28 km) north of Hanstholm, Denmark with the loss of 57 of her 79 crew.[14]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1967
Ship Country Description
Roma Um  Argentina Caught fire and beached at Belém, Brazil.[15]

March

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1967
Ship Country Description
Laura Scotti  Italy Capsized and aground off Caparica, Portugal.[2]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1967
Ship Country Description
Balmoral  Liberia The collier ran aground in the Weser Estuary, West Germany. She broke in two on 5 April, a total loss.
Dias  Liberia The cargo ship sank off Portugal. All crew saved.[16]

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1967
Ship Country Description
Kolno  Poland Collided with Østbornholm ( Denmark) in the Odense River.

18 March

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1967
Ship Country Description
Torrey Canyon  United Kingdom Ran aground on Pollard's Rock in the Seven Stones reef between the Cornish mainland and the Isles of Scilly, loaded with 120,000 tonnes of crude oil. The vessel released 32 Million gallons of oil much of which washed up on the Cornish coast.[17]

20 March

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1967
Ship Country Description
Labuan Bay  Panama The cargo ship ran aground on Bancoran Island, Borneo and caught fire. Refloated 24 March and towed to Manila, Philippines. After a further fire on 11 July, the ship was scrapped in November 1967

24 March

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1967
Ship Country Description
Myalls  Canada The coaster caught fire and sank off Shelburne Harbour.[18]

April

28 April

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1967
Ship Country Description
Costa Rican Trader  Liberia The cargo ship ran aground in Halibut Bay, Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada and was wrecked.[19]

May

7 May

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1967
Ship Country Description
Kitak  Norway The sealer foundered in the Norwegian Sea. She was on a voyage from the West Ice to Ålesund.

June

2 June

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1967
Ship Country Description
Essberger Chemist  West Germany The chemical tanker exploded and caught fire 250 nautical miles (460 km) south of the Azores, Portugal. All 40 crew rescued by an American ship.[20]

8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1967
Ship Country Description
Magd  Egypt Six-Day War: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk in the Suez Canal by Israeli Air Force aircraft. Wreck cleared in 1975 to enable the canal to be re-opened.[5]
USS Liberty.
USS Liberty  United States Navy Six-Day War: The Belmont-class technical research ship was attacked by Israeli Air Force aircraft and Israeli Navy torpedo boats in the Mediterranean Sea north of the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. She was declared a constructive total loss and was consequently scrapped.

9 June

List of shipwrecks: 9 June 1967
Ship Country Description
Northern Venture  Panama Ran aground off Okinawa, declared a total loss. Ship was scrapped.

24 June

List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1967
Ship Country Description
Essberger Chemist  West Germany the chemical tanker was torpedoed by HMS Dreadnought ( Royal Navy) and finished off by shelling from HMS Salisbury ( Royal Navy) at the request of her owners.[21]

July

13 July

List of shipwrecks: 13 July 1967
Ship Country Description
President Garcia  Philippines The cargo ship ran aground in Saints Bay, Guernsey, Channel Islands.[22] Refloated on 20 July.[23] [24]

17 July

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1967
Ship Country Description
Jamhuri  Zanzibar The coaster ran aground off Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. All 200 passengers taken off by other vessels.[25]

18 July

List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1967
Ship Country Description
New York News  Canada The sailing ship foundered off Pugwash, Nova Scotia.[26]

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1967
Ship Country Description
Sir Winston Churchill  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground at the entrance to Holyhead Harbour, Anglesey, refloated later that day.[11]

August

11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1967
Ship Country Description
British Lantern  United Kingdom The tanker ran aground in the Schelde at Borssele, Zeeland, the Netherlands.[27] Later refloated by numerous tugs.[28]

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1967
Ship Country Description
Hubert R Smith  Canada The coaster caught fire and sank in the Bay of Fundy.[29]

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1967
Ship Country Description
Aristos  Greece collided with Linde ( Norway) and sank 16 nautical miles (30 km) off Beachy Head, England. All eighteen crew were saved by Linde.[30]

29 August

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1967
Ship Country Description
Cucciolo  Italy wrecked off Pantellaria Island.[2]

September

5 September

List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1967
Ship Country Description
Amfitriti  Hellenic Navy The Gato-class submarine was sunk as a target in the Mediterranean Sea by US 6th Fleet vessels ( United States Navy).

6 September

List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1967
Ship Country Description
R C Stoner  United States The tanker ran aground at Wake Island, one of the United States Minor Outlying Islands.[31]

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1967
Ship Country Description
Kowloon No.1  Hong Kong Ran aground at Hachinohe, Japan (40°32′N 141°33′E / 40.533°N 141.550°E / 40.533; 141.550). Refloated 7 October but declared a constructive total loss. Scrapped in June 1968.

18 September

List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1967
Ship Country Description
Regency  United Kingdom The salvage vessel exploded and sank off the Wolf Rock, Isles of Scilly whilst undertaking salvage operations on the wreck of HMS Association ( Royal Navy): Her five crew were rescued by trawler Roimage ( France).[32]
Merchantman  United Kingdom The tug sank 85 nautical miles (157 km) east of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire after colliding with the drilling rig Ocean Prince.[33]

October

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1967
Ship Country Description
Panoceanic Faith  United States The Type C2-S-AJ1 cargo ship foundered off Alaska with the loss of all 42 crew.[34]

12 October

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1967
Ship Country Description
Statue of Liberty  Liberia The tanker ran aground off the north coast of Kent, United Kingdom.[35]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1967
Ship Country Description
Nagusena  Panama The cargo ship sank in the North Sea 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Esbjerg, Denmark.[5]

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1967
Ship Country Description
INS Eilat  Israeli Navy The Z-class destroyer was struck by two Styx missiles launched from a Komar-class missile boat ( Egyptian Navy) and sank with the loss of 47 of her 199 crew.

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1967
Ship Country Description
Abbott  Canada The sailing ship caught fire and sank in the George's Bank area of the Gulf of Maine.[36]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1967
Ship Country Description
Roma Um  Argentina Refloated, having been aground at Belém, Brazil since February, but capsized and sank.[15]

November

3 November

List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1967
Ship Country Description
Habib Marikar  Hong Kong The cargo ship was wrecked when her engine failed during Typhoon Emma. All but one of her 44 crew were rescued by USS Navarro ( United States Navy) before the ship was driven ashore at Lincoln Island, Paracel Islands.

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1967
Ship Country Description
El Hasani  Morocco The cargo ship caught fire on her maiden voyage off Southampton, United Kingdom. All but two crew taken off by a Swedish tanker.[37]
Rethi Moller  West Germany The coaster was driven ashore at Penmaenmawr, Caernarvonshire.[38]

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1967
Ship Country Description
Irving Beech  Canada ran aground off New Waterford, Nova Scotia with tanker Lubrolake ( Canada and a barge. All three vessels lost.

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1967
Ship Country Description
Pitsa  Panama sank off Socotra Island, Yemen.

13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1967
Ship Country Description
Joseph Okito  Zaire ran aground in the Congo River, Boma. Refloated 9 January 1968.[2]

31 December

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1967
Ship Country Description
Advance  West Germany The coaster ran aground at Hoek van Holland, Zuid Holland, the Netherlands. All eight crew saved.[39]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1967
Ship Country Description
Turisten  Norway The lake steamer was scuttled in the lake Femsjøen, Norway. The wreck was raised in 1997 and restored, work being completed in 2009.[40]

References

  1. ↑ "Soviet ship sinks off Alaska" The Times (London). Monday, 2 January 1967. (56828), col D, p. 1.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  3. ↑ "British Tanker Shelled by Vietcong" The Times (London). Tuesday, 10 January 1967. (56835), col C-E, p. 1.
  4. ↑ "Submarine damaged" The Times (London). Tuesday, 10 January 1967. (56835), col E, p. 1.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Mitchell, W H, and Sawyer, L A (1995). The Empire Ships. London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. p. not cited. ISBN 1-85044-275-4.
  6. ↑ "Nelson B. (+1967)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  7. ↑ "Nelson B. - 1967". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  8. ↑ "47 rescued after ship explosion" The Times (London). Monday, 23 January 1967. (58646), col A, p. 1.
  9. ↑ "MV Constantia S. (Forward Part) [+1967]". |publisher=wrecksite.eu
  10. ↑ "Shipwreck of the Constantia S at Casquets Lighthouse". Trinity House.
  11. 1 2 "Schooner is refloated" The Times (London). Thursday, 27 July 1967. (57004), col D-F, p. 2.
  12. ↑ "Cape Bonnie - 1967". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  13. ↑ "Ferry aground as gale hits Britain" The Times (London). Tuesday, 28 February 1967. (56877), col C-E, p. 3.
  14. ↑ "Russian ship sinks with the loss of 52" The Times (London). Wednesday, 1 March 1967. (56878), col C-E, p. 4.
  15. 1 2 "WWI STANDARD BUILT SHIPS A-K". Mariners. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
  16. ↑ "Liberian ship sinks" The Times (London). Monday, 13 March 1967. (56888), col C, p. 1.
  17. ↑ Robinson, P. (2003) The Birds of the Isles of Scilly. London: Christopher Helm.
  18. ↑ "Myalls - 1967". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  19. ↑ "Costa Rican Trader - 1967". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  20. ↑ "Tanker sinks after ocean explosion" The Times (London). Saturday, 3 June 1967. (56958), col E, p. 1.
  21. ↑ "Navy sinks a tanker" The Times (London). Monday, 26 June 2011. (59677), col C-E, p. 2.
  22. ↑ "Cargo holds up ship's repairs" The Times (London). Monday, 17 July 1967. (56995), col F, p. 2.
  23. ↑ "Grounded ship refloated" The Times (London). Friday, 21 July 1967. (56999), col E, p. 2.
  24. ↑ "The night the rocks shook". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 27 Aug 2015.
  25. ↑ "200 brought to safety from coral reef" The Times (London). Tuesday, 18 July 1967. (56996), col D-E, p. 5.
  26. ↑ "New York News - 1967". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  27. ↑ "Tanker aground" The Times (London). Saturday, 12 August 1967. (57018), col D, p. 4.
  28. ↑ OIL TANKER AGROUND (motion picture). British Pathé. 17 August 1967. Retrieved 7 July 1967. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  29. ↑ "Hubert R. Smith - 1967". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  30. ↑ "Crew saved in Channel collision" The Times (London). Tuesday, 29 August 1967. (57032), col C, p. 2.
  31. ↑ "Heavy flooding in path of Hurricane Dora" The Times (London). Monday, 18 September 1967. (57049), col F-G, p. 4.
  32. ↑ "Salvage ship sinks after explosion" The Times (London). Tuesday, 19 September 1967. (57050), col C, p. 2.
  33. ↑ "Tug sinks after oil rig crash" The Times (London). Tuesday, 19 September 1967. (57050), col A, p. 3.
  34. ↑ "Two Briton in missing crew" The Times (London). Wednesday, 11 October 1967. (57069), col B, p. 5.
  35. ↑ "Tanker aground off Kent" The Times (London). Friday, 13 October 1967. (57071), col D, p. 1.
  36. ↑ "Abbott - 1967". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  37. ↑ "Fought ship's fire for seven hours" The Times (London). Monday, 6 November 1967. (57091), col A, p. 3.
  38. ↑ "Picture Gallery" The Times (London). Tuesday, 6 November 1967. (57092), col B-D, p. 3.
  39. ↑ "Ship aground at Hook of Holland" The Times (London). Monday, 1 January 1968. (57137), col B, p. 3.
  40. ↑ Monn-Iversen, Øyvind (4 July 2009). "Dronning tilbake på tronen". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 30 May 2014.

See also

Ship events in 1967
Ship launches: 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972
Ship commissionings: 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972
Ship decommissionings: 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972
Shipwrecks: 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972
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