List of shipwrecks in 1994

The list of shipwrecks in 1994 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1994.

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1994
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1994
Ship Country Description
Arctic Reefer  Cyprus The cargo ship sank in the Pacific Ocean 310 nautical miles (570 km) south of Shikoku, Japan with the loss of seventeen of her 29 crew.[1]
Marika 7  Liberia The ore carrier sank in the Atlantic Ocean. There were 36 crew on board.[1]

13 January

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1994
Ship Country Description
Teano  Norway The cargo ship was wrecked at Senja, Norway. Wreck delivered for scrapping at Fosen Gjenvinning breaker's yard at Revsnes in Sør-Trøndelag in October 1995.[2]

15 January

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1994
Ship Country Description
American Star  Greece
American Star, July 2004

The cruise ship ran aground at Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain after her tow parted in a storm. She broke in two after two days and was declared a total loss in July 1994. The stern section sank in 1996, the bow section in April 2007.

February

3 February

List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1994
Ship Country Description
Christinaki  Malta The bulk carrier sank in the Atlantic Ocean 240 nautical miles (440 km) south west of Ireland with the loss of all 27 crew.[3]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1994
Ship Country Description
Boa Force  Norway The anchor handling tug supply vessel struck a wellhead and sank off Thevenard Island, Western Australia. All eleven crew were resched. Boa Force was raised on 6 April and subsequently scuttled in deep water.[4]

March

4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1994
Ship Country Description
Sally Albatros  Finland The cruise ship ran aground at Porkkala. All 1,258 people on board were rescued by helicopters and Finnish Coast Guard vessels.[5] She was refloated on 16 April. Later repaired and returned to service.

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1994
Ship Country Description
Melisa  Indonesia The cargo ship capsized and sank at Surabaya. The wreck was scrapped in June 1994.[6]

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1994
Ship Country Description
Nassia  Cyprus The tanker collided with Ship Broker ( Cyprus) in the Bosphorus Strait. Both ships caught fire, Nassia was beached with the loss of a crew member.[7]

23 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1994
Ship Country Description
Pallas Athena  Greece The cruise ship caught fire and sank at the Port of Piraeus. The wreck was scrapped in 1995.[8]

April

29 April

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1994
Ship Country Description
Provincial Trader  Australia The prawn trawler, a former tug, capsized and sank at Eden, New South Wales. All crew were rescued by Rubicon ( Australia).[9]

June

26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1994
Ship Country Description
Apollo Sea  Panama The Chinese-owned, Panamanian-registered bulk carrier sank near Cape Town, with the loss of all 36 of her crew.

September

3 September

List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1994
Ship Country Description
Iron Antonis  Greece The ore carrier sank in the Atlantic Ocean 1,700 nautical miles (3,100 km) west of Cape Town, South Africa with the loss of all 24 crew.[10]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 28 September 1994
Ship Country Description
Estonia  Estonia The ferry sank in the Baltic Sea (59°23′N 21°42′E / 59.383°N 21.700°E / 59.383; 21.700) due to the loss of her bow doors in a storm. Of the 1002 people onboard according to the ferry's operator,[11] 137 survived, 95 dead were found and 770 are still missing.

October

8 October

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1994
Ship Country Description
HSC Condor II  Australia The catamaran ferry ran aground in the Derwent River at Hobart, Tasmania during trials. Damage was put at A$4,000,000 (then £2,700,000).[12]

November

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1994
Ship Country Description
Trade Daring  Liberia The ore-bulk-oil carrier broke in two during loading at Ponta da Madeira, Brazil. The wreck was later removed and scuttled offshore.

30 November

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1994
Ship Country Description
Achille Lauro  Italy The cruise ship caught fire in the Indian Ocean off Somalia. She was abandoned and subsequently sank on 2 December.

December

24 December

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1994
Ship Country Description
Murmansk  Russian Navy
Murmansk.

The Sverdlov-class cruiser ran aground and was wrecked off Sørvær, Finnmark, Norway whilst under tow to be scrapped in India.

References

  1. 1 2 "Search for crews as ships sink" The Times (London). Monday, 3 January 1994. (64842), col E, p. 9.
  2. ↑ "Teano (7007643)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 20 April 2015. (subscription required (help)).
  3. ↑ Bill Frost. "Liferaft found as 27 feared dead" The Times (London). Friday, 4 February 1994. (64780), col D-G, p. 1.
  4. ↑ "Navigation Act 1912. Navigation (Marine Casualty) Regulations investigation into the sinking of the off-shore supply vessel BOA FORCE on Saladin No.3 wellhead off Thevenard Island, Western Australia on 24 February 1994." (PDF). Australian Transportation Safety Board. 1 September 1994. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  5. ↑ "Hundreds saved from holed liner" The Times (London). Saturday, 5 March 1994. (64894), col A-B, p. 13.
  6. ↑ "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  7. ↑ "Bosphorus blaze kills crewman" The Times (London). Monday, 14 March 1994. (64901), col E, p. 10.
  8. ↑ Othfors, Daniel. "Flandre (II)/Carla C/Carla Costa/Pallas Athena". The Great Ocean Liners. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  9. ↑ "Capsize of Provincial Trader while in tow" (PDF). Australian Transportation Safety Board. 20 June 1995. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  10. ↑ "Crew of ship still missing" The Times (London). Tuesday, 6 September 1994. (65052), col H, p. 16.
  11. ↑ http://estoniaarkivet.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/1511_001.pdf
  12. ↑ "Express ferry runs aground during trials" The Times (London). Tuesday, 11 October 1994. (65082), col A-F, p. 13.
Ship events in 1994
Ship launches: 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Ship commissionings: 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Ship decommissionings: 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Shipwrecks: 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
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