Scandia (foreground) and North Cape (background) aground on 20 January 1996.The tugboat ran aground on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, after her engine room caught fire while she was towing the tank bargeNorth Cape, which also ran aground.
The 114-foot (34.7 m) crab-fishing vessel disappeared in the Bering Sea approximately 65 nautical miles (120 km; 75 mi) north of St. George Island with the loss of her entire crew of seven.[1]
The 167-foot (50.9 m) yacht sank en route from the Italian mainland to Sardinia during a mistral storm. All passengers and crew were rescued by the Italian coast guard. A fictionalized version of the sinking is depicted in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street.[19]
The 30-foot (9.1 m) fishing vessel struck a submerged object and sank 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) south of Wrangell, Alaska. The only person aboard survived.[3]
While under tow with no one aboard, the 48-foot (14.6 m) fishing vessel sank approximately 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) southwest of Kodiak, Alaska.[21]
The 32-foot (9.8 m) fishing vessel burned and sank in the Bering Sea approximately 120 nautical miles (220 km; 140 mi) northwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Her crew of three survived.[21]
The 36-foot (11.0 m) fishing vessel was destroyed 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) north of Seldovia, Alaska, by a fire that started in her cook stove. Her crew of two survived.[29]
The Sang-O-classsubmarine ran aground on the east coast of South Korea near Jeongdongjin while trying to retrieve a three-person North Korean special operations reconnaissance team it had landed there three days earlier. Its crew abandoned it, and it was captured by South Korean forces.
The decommissioned Redwing-classminesweeper was being towed to sea to be scuttled but broke loose when the tow pad ripped loose from her rotten deck and she was wrecked on a reef off Suva. The wreck was disposed of by burning. [33]
After placing a distress call to Durban Radio at 10:30 pm requesting immediate assistance due to a leak in a hold, the freighter sank off South Africa off Port St Johns with the loss of all 23 lives.[38]
The wooden ship sank overnight 19 nautical miles (35 km; 22 mi) from Portopalo di Capo Passero, Sicily, Italy, while transporting illegal immigrants to Italy after either breaking up in stormy weather or colliding with the cargo shipIohan El Hallal (Malta), killing at least 283 people.
