The most famous shipwrecks in history
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: RMS Titanic (1912) · Vasa (1628) · Mary Rose (1545). (Updated Mar 22, 2023.)
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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Top 20
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RMS Titanic (1912)
Hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage; about 1,500 died.
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Vasa (1628)
Sank on her maiden voyage in Stockholm and was raised in 1961.
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Mary Rose (1545)
Henry VIII's warship, raised in 1982.
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RMS Lusitania (1915)
Torpedoed by a German U-boat off Ireland.
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Endurance (1915)
Shackleton's ship crushed by the ice, found again in 2022.
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The Spanish Armada (1588)
Storms wrecked the fleet on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland.
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Kublai Khan's fleets (1274 and 1281)
The typhoons that saved Japan, the "kamikaze".
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HMHS Britannic (1916)
Titanic's sister, sunk by a mine in World War I.
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RMS Empress of Ireland (1914)
Collided in fog on the St Lawrence River.
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10
MS Estonia (1994)
The Baltic's worst peacetime shipping disaster, with more than 800 dead.
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SS Andrea Doria (1956)
Italian liner that collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm.
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MV Doña Paz (1987)
Philippine ferry; the deadliest peacetime shipping disaster.
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13
RMS Carpathia (1918)
The ship that rescued Titanic's survivors, sunk by a U-boat.
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Sultana (1865)
The steamboat explosion on the Mississippi, the worst US maritime disaster.
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15
USS Arizona (1941)
Sunk at Pearl Harbor; the wreck is now a memorial.
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Bismarck (1941)
The German battleship hunted by the whole Royal Navy.
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HMS Hood (1941)
"The Mighty Hood", sunk by the Bismarck.
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MV Wilhelm Gustloff (1945)
Torpedoed during the evacuation, with thousands of civilians on board.
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19
SS Central America (1857)
The "Ship of Gold" that sank in a hurricane.
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald (1975)
The most famous sinking on the Great Lakes.
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