# The most famous shipwrecks in history

From the Vasa in Stockholm harbour to the Titanic and Shackleton's Endurance under the ice: the sinkings that went down in history. Which one fascinates you most?

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- Mar 22, 2023 · Sara Lindberg
- https://even.best/en/l/2424/the-most-famous-shipwrecks-in-history

## Top 20

1. **RMS Titanic (1912)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage; about 1,500 died.
2. **Vasa (1628)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sank on her maiden voyage in Stockholm and was raised in 1961.
3. **Mary Rose (1545)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Henry VIII's warship, raised in 1982.
4. **RMS Lusitania (1915)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Torpedoed by a German U-boat off Ireland.
5. **Endurance (1915)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Shackleton's ship crushed by the ice, found again in 2022.
6. **The Spanish Armada (1588)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Storms wrecked the fleet on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland.
7. **Kublai Khan's fleets (1274 and 1281)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The typhoons that saved Japan, the "kamikaze".
8. **HMHS Britannic (1916)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Titanic's sister, sunk by a mine in World War I.
9. **RMS Empress of Ireland (1914)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Collided in fog on the St Lawrence River.
10. **MS Estonia (1994)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Baltic's worst peacetime shipping disaster, with more than 800 dead.
11. **SS Andrea Doria (1956)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Italian liner that collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm.
12. **MV Doña Paz (1987)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Philippine ferry; the deadliest peacetime shipping disaster.
13. **RMS Carpathia (1918)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The ship that rescued Titanic's survivors, sunk by a U-boat.
14. **Sultana (1865)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The steamboat explosion on the Mississippi, the worst US maritime disaster.
15. **USS Arizona (1941)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sunk at Pearl Harbor; the wreck is now a memorial.
16. **Bismarck (1941)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The German battleship hunted by the whole Royal Navy.
17. **HMS Hood (1941)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — "The Mighty Hood", sunk by the Bismarck.
18. **MV Wilhelm Gustloff (1945)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Torpedoed during the evacuation, with thousands of civilians on board.
19. **SS Central America (1857)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The "Ship of Gold" that sank in a hurricane.
20. **SS Edmund Fitzgerald (1975)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The most famous sinking on the Great Lakes.

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