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This list of shipwrecks is of those sunken ships whose remains have been located.

Africa

Algeria

H.M.T. Rohna British troop carrier in WWII

Egypt

Artemise French frigate sunk in Aboukir Bay during the Battle of the Nile in 1798
L'Orient Napoleon's flagship sunk in Aboukir Bay during the Battle of the Nile in 1798
Serieuse French frigate sunk in Aboukir Bay during the Battle of the Nile in 1798

Tunisia

Mahdia

West Africa

Medusa, French passenger ship off west Africa in 1816- incompetence

Asia

Turkey

Cape Gelidonya
Uluburun

Europe

Denmark

Alexander Nevski ran aground
U-20 ran aground

France

CSS Alabama sunk off Cherbourg, France
HMT Lancastria
Leopoldville Torpedoed
wreck of Rochelongue, France
The White Ship, 1120
YMS-304 U.S. minesweeper struck mine off Normandy

Germany

HMS Invincible shell struck magazine
Wilhelm Gustloff torpedoed by Russian submarine

Norway

Poland

Steuben

Portugal

Mary Celeste

Sweden

Vasa, Stockholm, Sweden

United Kingdom

England

Akka ran aground 1956 River Clyde
Alarm lightship in collision Liverpool Bay in 1922
Alaunia struck mine in 1916
Albert C. Field torpedoed in 1944
Amazonese ran aground in 1881
VOC ship Amsterdam ran aground in 1749
LST 493 WWII hit breakwater Plymouth, England
Mary Rose
HMS Colossus broke anchor, struck rocks, ran aground and started breaking up off the Isles of Scilly, December 1798
HMS Montague, Lundy Island, England
SS Richard Montgomery
UC-32 World War I German U-boat struck own mine Sunderland, England
Venture collision in 1993 off Dunoon Bank
Vera collision 1914
Volnay struck mine in 1917
Warilda hospital ship torpedoed by U-boat 1918
Yewglen ran aground in 1960 off Beadnall Point

Scotland

HMS Hampshire

Wales

Resurgam collision or scuttling

North America

Bermuda

Montana blockade runner sank in 1863
North Carolina wrecked of West End

British Virgin Islands

Anegada Island

HMS Astrea
RMS Rhone sunk in hurricane in 1867

Canada

Newfoundland

Matthew captained by John Cabot, lost 1498
HMS Sapphire scuttled to prevent capture by French 1696
Greenland sealing steamer lost 48 men on the ice 1898
Southern Cross Scottish sealing steamer lost in blizzard 1914
SS Newfoundland sealing ship sunk after getting caught in a blizzard in 1914
Erik sealing steamer torpedoed off St. Pierre and Miquelon 1918
SS Florizel icebreaker, sank after striking a reef in 1918
Marvale Canadian Pacific liner stranded 1923
USS Truxtun (DD-229) destroyer sunk with USS Pollux in storm 1942
USS Pollux (AKS-2) supply ship sunk along with USS Truxtun in storm 1942
Caribou Newfoundland Railway ferry torpedoed by U-boat off Port aux basques 1942
Saganaga iron-ore carrier torpedoed by U-boat off Bell Island 1942
Lord Strathcona iron-ore carrier torpedoed by U-boat off Bell Island 1942
P.L.M. 27 iron-ore carrier torpedoed by U-boat off Bell Island 1942
Rose Castle iron-ore carrier torpedoed by U-boat off Bell Island 1942
William Carson Canadian National ferry sank in ice off Labrador 1977

Nova Scotia

SS Atlantic ran aground near Lower Prospect
Celebre French ship sunk by Royal Navy off Louisbourg
Prudent French ship sunk by Royal Navy off Louisbourg
Mont Blanc
HMCS Saguenay

Ontario

Lilly Parsons, Brockville, Ontario
City of Sheboygan sank off Kingston, Ontario in Lake Ontario
Comet collision of Nine Mile Point, Ontario in Lake Ontario.
SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior
Gunilda yacht ran up on McGarvey's Shoals Lake Superior
Katie Eccles ran aground near Kingston, Ontario on Lake Ontario.
Smith tugboat sank under tow off Long Point, Ontario Lake Erie.
St. James unknown cause off of Long Point, Ontario in Lake Erie, discovered 1984.
Trade Wind schooner collided with the Sir Charles Napier off Long Point, Ontario in Lake Erie.
Wild Roverfoundered off Long Point, Ontario Lake Erie.

Quebec

RMS Empress of Ireland, Saint Lawrence River

Dominican Republic

Guadalupe sunk by hurricane in Samana Bay, Dominican Republic in 1724
Tolosa sunk by hurricane in Samana Bay, Dominican Republic in 1724

Haiti

Mary Celeste intentionally grounded in insurance fraud scheme
Bluenose foundered on a reef 1946

United States of America

Alabama

USS Tecumseh struck torpedo

Alaska

Nissan Maru sunk by U.S. bombers
Portland struck rock off Cordova

California

Ace I sunk as hazard to navigation off San Pedro
Aggie ran aground Santa Rosa Island
Avalon foundered under tow off Palos Verdes, California
Charles Brown grounded Laguna Beach, California
Charles F. Crocker ran aground for movie, then hit by tidal wave and finally burned off Santa Catalina Island California
Chickasaw ran aground Santa Rosa Island California
Crown of England ran aground Santa Rosa Island California
Cuba ran aground San Miguel Island California
Dauntless blown up for movie off Catalina Harbor, Santa Catalina Island California
Diosa Del Mar ran aground on Ship Rock at Santa Catalina Island California
Dominator ran aground Rocky Point Palos Verdes, California
Elsie I foundered off Huntington Beach, California
Equator ran aground Anacapa Island California
Foss 125 foundered off Laguna Beach, California
F.S. Loop blown up near Los Angeles, California
Frolic wrecked near Mendecino, California in 1850
Georgia scuttled off Redondo Beach, California
Georgia Straits sunk while towed off Los Angeles, California
Goldenhorn ran aground Santa Rosa Island California
USS Gregory (DD-802) bombed as target off San Clemente Island California
USS Hogan bombed as target off San Diego, California
Honda Point Disaster, nine US Navy ships run aground off the California coast in 1923.
Humble SM-1 foundered off Santa Barbara, California
Johanna Smith burned then blown up off Long Beach, California
USS John C. Butler sunk as target off San Clemente, California
USS Koka grounded on San Clemente Island California
La Janelle grounded off Port Hueneme, California
USS Makassar Strait grounded on San Nicholas Island California
Margaret C. blown up for movie Catalina Harbor, Santa Catalina Island California
Melrose ran aground White Point, California
Monfalcone burned off Long Beach, California
USS Moody blown up for movie San Pedro Bay, California
Ningpo beached then burned at Santa Catalina Island, California
Olympic II collision off San Pedro, California
Palmyra beached and burned off Santa Catalina Island California
S.S. Pomona ran aground near Fort Ross Cove, California in 1888
S-37 broke tow and sank off Imperial Beach, California
Sacramento foundered off Redondo Beach, California
S.N. Castle burned and sunk for movie Catalina Harbor at Santa Catalina Island, California
San Augustin Manila galleon wrecked at anchor in Drakes Bay
SueJac grounded on Casino Point,Santa Catalina Island California
UB-88 shelled for target San Pedro Bay, California
Valiant burned off Descanso Beach, California
Winfield Scott ran aground Anacapa Island California
Yankee Blade Ran aground Honda Point, California
Yukon foundered Mission Bay, California

Florida

Adelaide Baker grounded on reef Duck Key
USS Amesbury grounded off Key West
Angustias hurricane off Marathon Key, Florida in 1733
Benwood collision Florida Keys
Catherine off Santa Rosa Island
City of Washington ran aground Key Largo, Florida
Eagle destroyed by fire off Florida Keys in 1985
El Infante hurricane off Marathon Key, Florida in 1733
HMS Fowey sunk in Biscayne Bay, Florida 1748
Henrietta Marie slave ship sunk off of Florida Keys in 1700
Herrera hurricane off Marathon Key, Florida in 1733
Le Tigre stranded on Dog Island, Florida during storm in 1766
Maple Leaf US Civil War transport; struck torpedo near Jacksonville, Florida
Nuestra Señora de Atocha - Spanish galleon which sank in 1622 and was found on July 20, 1985 40 miles off the coast of Key West, Florida by treasure hunters who soon began to raise $400 million in coins and silver.
Nuestra Señora del Populo hurricane off Marathon Key, Florida in 1733
Queen of Nassau off Florida Keys in 1926 under mysterious circumstances.
San Jose hurricane off Marathon Key, Florida in 1733
San Pedro hurricane off Indian Key, Florida
Slobodna ran aground on Molasses Reef in 1887
Tarpon swamped off Panama City, Florida
USS Wilkes-Barre sunk off Florida Keys

Georgia

CSS Georgia scuttled off Savannah, Georgia
CSS Muscogee, Georgia, USA
CSS Rattlesnake stranded the shelled by USS Montauk Ogeechee River Georgia
SS Republic storm off Georgia
USS Water Witch burned near Georgia

Great Lakes

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Guam

Aratama Maru sunk in Tolofofo Bay
SMS Cormoran German raider scuttled at start of WWI Apra Harbor
Kizugawa sunk in WWII
Tokai Maru sunk in Apra Harbor

Hawaii

Illinois

Lady Elgin, Chicago, Illinois

Louisiana

CSS Louisiana Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
New York hurricane off Louisiana
U-166 sunk by US Navy patrol boat

Maine

Snow Squall

Massachusetts

Bark Frances off of Cape Cod
Portland (paddlewheeler) sunk in storm in 1898
HMS Somerset wrecked in 1778 off Cape Cod
Sparrowhawk in 1623

Michigan

Emma L. Nielson collision in fog off Point Aux Barques, Michigan.
Hunter Savidge capsized off of Pointes Aux Barques, Michigan
John A. McGean lost in storm off of Harbor Beach in Lake Huron in the White Hurricane of 1913.

Mississippi

Josephine foundered off barrier islands Mississippi

New Jersey

Adonis struck shore Deal Beach
SS Andrea Doria, 1956 collision
USS Arundo torpedoed off New Jersey
Ayuruoca collision off New Jersey
Beth Dee Bob foundered in storm off New Jersey
Brunette collision off New Jersey
Chappara struck mine off New Jersey
Choapa collision off New Jersey
Delaware burned then sank under tow off New Jersey
Goulandris collision off New Jersey
Gulftrade torpedoed off New Jersey
Lana Carol foundered off Manasquan Inlet New Jersey
Malta ran aground near Belmar, New Jersey
Maurice Tracy collision off New Jersey
Mohawk collision off New Jersey
SS Morro Castle fire off Asbury Park, N.J.
Park City collision off New Jersey
Persephone torpedoed off New Jersey
SS Pinta collision off New Jersey
Pliny ran aground Deal Beach, New Jersey
Rjukan ran aground on New Jersey
R.P. Resor torpedoed off New Jersey
Rusland struck wreck of Adonis
San Saba struck mineoff New Jersey
Stolt Dagali collision off New Jersey
Tolten torpedoed off New Jersey
Vega capsized under tow off New Jersey
Vizcaya collision off New Jersey
Western World ran aground on New Jersey coast

New York

Black Point sunk by U-853 after hostilities had ceased
USS California (ACR-6) (later San Diego), Long Island
USS Eagle, Lake Champlain
Lexington burned off Long Island
SS Oregon collision off Long Island
Champlain II ran aground by pilot under influence of morphine near Westport, New York in 1875
USS Ticonderoga, Lake Champlain, New York
USS Turner explosion (defective ammunition? U-boat attack?)
U-853 sunk by USN blimp's rockets

North Carolina

Altoona ran aground Cape Hatteras
Ashkhabad torpedoed off North Carolina, USA
Atlas torpedoed off North Carolina, USA
Australia torpedoed off North Carolina, USA
HMSBedfordshire torpedoed off North Carolina
Bendigo, North Carolina, USA
British Splendour torpedoed off North Carolina
Caribsea torpedoed off North Carolina
Carl Gerhard sunk off Nags Head, North Carolina
Cassimir collision off North Carolina
Catharine M. Monohan foundered off North Carolina
S.S. Central America off North Carolina
Chilore torpedoed then struck mine, then foundered off North Carolina
Ciltvaria torpedoed off Nags Head, North Carolina
City of Houston foundered off North Carolina
David Atwater
Dixie Arrow torpedoed off North Carolina
E.M. Clark torpedoed off North Carolina
Empire Gem torpedoed off North Carolina
Esso Nashville torpedoed off North Carolina
Explorer sunk off Nags Head, North Carolina
F.W. Abrams struck mine off North Carolina
Fenwick Island foundered off North Carolina
Francis E. Waters now in town hall Nags Head, North Carolina
G.A. Kohler hurricane North Carolina
George Weems burned off North Carolina
Hesperides stranded off North Carolina
USSHuron grounded on North Carolina coast
Hutton torpedoed off North Carolina
John D. Gill torpedoed off North Carolina
Kasandra Louloudis torpedoed off North Carolina
Keshena struck mine off North Carolina
Kyzickes grounded on North Carolina coast
Lancing torpedoed off North Carolina
Laura A. Barnes ashore Coquina Beach Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
SSLiberator torpedoed off North Carolina
Lois Joyce sank in surf Oregon Inlet North Carolina
Malchace torpedoed off North Carolina
Manuela torpedoed off North Carolina
Metropolis sunk off of Corolla, North Carolina
USS Monitor
Naeco torpedoed off North Carolina
CSS Neuse aground in Neuse River
USS New Jersey (BB-16) bombed as target off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
Normannia foundered off North Carolina
USS Oriental sunk near Oregon Inlet in North Carolina
Papoose torpedoed off North Carolina
Pevensey blockade runner, off Atlantic Beach, North Carolina
Porta Allegra (unknown reason)off North Carolina
Portland ran aground Cape Lookout, North Carolina
Proteus collision off North Carolina
USS Schurz collision off North Carolina
Senateur Duhammel collision off North Carolina
Suloide collision off North Carolina
Tamaulipas torpedoed off North Carolina
USS Tarpon foundered off North Carolina
U-352 depth charged off North Carolina
U-701 depth charged off North Carolina
U-85 depth charged off North Carolina
Veturia grounded off North Carolina
USS Virginia bombed as target off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
W.E. Hutton torpedoed off North Carolina
William Rockefeller torpedoed off North Carolina

Oregon

Isabella a Hudson's Bay Company supply ship

South Carolina

HMS Acteon frigate burned 1776 Charleston
USS Housatonic sunk by CSS Hunley
CSS Hunley
KeokukCharleston
Norseman blockade runner ran aground Charleston
USS Patapsco struck mine Charleston
Raccoon blockade runner Charleston
Rattlesnake blockade runner Charleston
Ruby blockade runner aground Folly Island Charleston
Stonewall Jackson blockade runner grounded and burned Isle of Palms Charleston
USS Weehawken US Civil War monitorCharleston

Texas

Anona foundered of coast
Gulfpenn torpedoed
USS Hatteras sunk by CSS Alabama off Galveston
Heredia torpedoed
Mary ran aground Aransas Pass, Texas
Robert E. Lee torpedoed
Sheherezade torpedoed

Vermont

A.R. Noyes broke from tug Proctor Shoal Lake Champlain in 1884
General Butler hit breakwater near Burlington, Vermont on Lake Champlain in 1876
O.J. Walker sank in gale in 1895 near Burlington, Vermont
Phoenix in 1819 burned (arson?) near Colchester Shoal
Unknown horse ferry only known example of horse-powered or team-boat ferry near Burlington, Vermont date unknown.
Water Witch schooner foundered in gale off Diamond Island in 1866

Virginia

Amaganzette swamped off Virginia
Anglo African sunk off Cape Charles
USCG Cuyahoga collision off Smith Point, Virginia
Doxie Girl sank off Virginia
Admiral Graf Spee
Ethel C. sunk off Virginia
Eureka collision off Virginia
Francis E. Powell torpedoed off Virginia
Gulf Hustler swamped off Virginia
Hanks swamped off Virginia
Juno Spanish ship lost in storm 1802according to decision of 4th circuit (Virginia v. Spain)Spain still owns her.
John Morgan collision off Virginia
HMS Kingston Ceylonite torpedoed off Virginia
La Galga hurricane 1750 Also contested in Virginia v. Spain, but Spain abonded her in 1763.
Lillian Lukenbach collision off Virginia
Merida collision off Virginia
Ocean Venture torpedoed off Virginia
Santore struck mine off Virginia
Tiger torpedoed off Virginia
USS Washington bombed as target off Virginia
Winthorp foundered off Virginia
William D. Sanner collision Chesapeake Bay

Wisconsin

Louisiana burned in gale 1913

Oceania

Australia

New South Wales

HMAS Voyager sunk after collision - 82 killed

Tasmania

Cataraqui 400 lost wrecked on King Island

Queensland

HMS Pandora struck Great Barrier Reef

Western Australia

VOC ship Batavia
(Black Eyed Susan) collision

Federated States of Micronesia

Chuuk

Bombed in Truk Lagoon:

New Zealand

HMS Orpheus, 1863, Manukau Heads, Auckland, 189 lives lost
General Grant, 1866, off the Auckland Islands
Elingamite, New Zealand, 1902
Niagara, sunk by a mine off Bream Head, 1940
Wahine, 1968 ran aground, capsized, 51 lives lost
Mikhail Lermontov, Soviet passenger liner off New Zealand in 1986

High Seas

Atlantic

Baltic

M/S Estonia
Rusalka, Russian ironclad in the Gulf of Finland

Indian

HMS Repulse, British battlecruiser sunk by air attack 1941
HMS Prince of Wales, British battleship sunk by air attack 1941

Mediterranean

HMHS Britannic
Dakar, Israeli submarine
Provence, French cruiser sank, 3,100 perished
Eurydice, French submarine
HMS Sussex, British warship sank in 1694
HMS Victoria, British battleship sank in 1893
Eilat, Israeli destroyer
HMS Ark Royal, British aircraft carrier
HMS/M Perseus, British submarine sunk by mine 1941. One survivor

Pacific

I-52
Toya Maru, passenger ferry sank September 26, 1954 in Tsugaru Strait, Japan, 1,172 perished
Dona Paz, sank in the Tablas Strait south of Manila, Philippines, 4,341 perish

Red Sea

Carnatic shipwreck, Red Sea - hit reef, 31 died

External links

Northern Maritime Research

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Africa

Algeria

Egypt

Tunisia

West Africa

Asia

Turkey

Europe

Denmark

France

Germany

Gibraltar

Greece

Ireland

Italy

Oceania

New South Wales

Tasmania

Queensland

Western Australia

High Seas

Atlantic

Baltic

Indian

Mediterranean

Pacific

Red Sea

See also

External links

Further reading