Shipwrecks Events

1912 Apr 14 RMS Titanic Sinks After Striking an Iceberg
Walter Belford was Titanic's night chief baker. "We were working on the fifth deck amidships baking for the next day. There was a shudder all through the ship about 11:40 PM The provision...
1975 Nov 10 The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
A cargo ship with 35 crew members was reported missing Monday night in treacherous waters in Lake Superior, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The 729-foot Edmund Fitzgerald was last heard fro...
1985 Sep 1 The Titanic is Discovered
The idea of finding the wreck of Titanic, and even raising the ship from the ocean floor, had been around since shortly after the ship sank. No attempts were successful until 1 September ...
2006 Mar 30 Al-Dana Tour Boat Capsizes
The al-Dana a motorised Arabic dhow or passenger ferry, the al-Dana, sailing off Manama, Bahrain, capsized in the Persian Gulf on March 30, 2006. As of 0100 UTC on March 31, 67 out of the...
2006 Apr 6 Al-Baraqua II Capsizes
A boat carrying passengers to a religious festival capsized as it left Djibouti's main harbour yesterday, killing at least 69 people. The ferry was transporting up to 300 people to the n...