What was the most shocking ship accident?

The worst such accident—indeed, the deadliest civilian maritime disaster in history—occurred on December 20, 1987, when the passenger ferry MV Doña Paz collided with the oil tanker MT Vector in the Tablas Strait, roughly 110 miles (180 km) south of Manila.



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Titanic: The Unsinkable One (1912) This single catastrophe still holds the attention of historians, media outlets, and others. This iconic vessel struck an iceberg, killing 1,503 people. There were enough lifejackets, but not nearly enough lifeboats.

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Costa Concordia disaster, the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13, 2012, after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. More than 4,200 people were rescued, though 32 people died in the disaster.

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Within the last 111 years, over 20 cruise ships and ocean liners have sunk.

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According to the U.S. committee investigating the sinking, 1,517 lives were lost, and its British counterpart determined that 1,503 died. The crew suffered the most casualties, with about 700 fatalities. Third class also suffered greatly, as only 174 of its approximately 710 passengers survived.

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By Kat Long | Apr 8, 2022 | Updated: Apr 27, 2022, 11:05 AM EDT. Seven-year-old Eva Hart boarded the Titanic with her family on April 10, 1912, not knowing that her life was about to change forever.

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In March, a ship carrying a load of coal when it sank in a storm in 1891 was discovered in the lake. And in February, a 144-foot shipwreck that searchers called a Bad Luck Barquentine was found in Lake Superior more than 150 years after it sank.

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