List of major marine accidents 1951–1960

This list of serious marine accidents 1951–1960 records ship accidents in the maritime sector with fatalities or high material damage.

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date	Surname	Victim	description
March 16, 1951	Montallegro	9	When the cargo was unloaded , a gas explosion and a subsequent major fire occurred on the Italian tanker Montallegro in the port of Naples . The tanker broke apart and the stern sank immediately. Of the approximately 100 crew members and showers on board at the time of the explosion, nine were killed and 59 injured, some seriously. The blast from the explosion caused damage to buildings in the port area and in the neighboring districts.
April 16, 1951	Affray	75	The British submarine Affray of Amphion class sank northwest of Alderney in the English Channel , 75 crew members are killed.
May 25, 1951	Ginette Leborgne	12	About 200 km southeast of Cape Race (Newfoundland), the French trawlers Ginette Leborgne and Jacques Coeur collided in thick fog . The Ginette Leborgne sank on the spot. Twelve of the 45 crew members were killed.
August 13, 1951	Bess	22nd	The Norwegian freighter Bess (1,116 GRT) capsized around 100 nautical miles northwest of Borkum in a heavy storm . Only nine of the total of 31 passengers and crew members were rescued on a raft after more than 20 hours.
September 1, 1951	Pelican	45	The completely overloaded yacht Pelican (15 GRT) with a total of 62 people , 20 people permitted, was hit by two very high waves on a fishing trip off Montauk . The panic that broke out on board caused the ship to overturn and sink in a short time. Only 17 people could be saved.
October 12, 1951	Ranna	6th	Off the Swedish coast, the freighter Ranna (340 GRT) sailing under the flag of Cost Ricas was rammed by the Greek freighter Tharros (5,000 GRT) and sank on the spot. Six crew members of the Ranna were killed in the sinking.
November 28, 1951	Teeswood	2	On the voyage from Grimsby in England to Emden, the British freighter Teeswood (864 GRT) stranded on the Hornsbornbalje in the Westerems during a heavy storm that lasted for days at around 6:20 p.m. and broke up after an hour. In a dramatic rescue operation, 13 of the 15 crew members were rescued by the lifeboat stationed on Borkum under foreman Wilhelm Eilers; two were washed overboard and drowned.
December 9, 1951	MRB 33	5	The motor lifeboat MRB 33 , stationed in Hvide Sande on the west coast of Jutland, capsized during an emergency mission immediately before entering its home port. The motor lifeboat had come to the aid of a suction dredger that had become unable to maneuver and wanted to wait for the requested salvage tug to arrive at the port entrance . Five of the seven crew members were killed in the accident.
December 31, 1951	Irene Oldendorff	22nd	On the voyage from Emden to Ystad, the freighter Irene Oldendorff (1,494 GRT) capsized during a hurricane in Hubertgat on the Lower Ems near Borkum. The entire crew as well as the pilot still on board, who could not be picked up by the pilot transfer boat abeam Borkum due to the bad weather and the high seas, were killed. The cause of the accident was the coke load poured on deck and secured with nets , which was soaked in water by waves overcoming and made the ship extremely heavy.
January 10, 1952	Flying Enterprise	0	The Flying Enterprise was on a journey from Hamburg to New York in December 1951 when it came under the influence of a severe hurricane about 400 nautical miles off the English coast. After the rudder stock broke, the load of pig iron slipped and the ship developed a strong list. The attempt to tow the sinking ship failed when the towing cable snapped sixty miles from the destination port of Falmouth. Their restoration on the following day seemed hopeless due to the deteriorating weather again. On the same day the Flying Enterprise sank at the entrance to the English Channel.
January 15, 1952	IJM 31 Alkmaar	13	The Dutch trawler IJM 31 Alkmaar, registered in IJmuiden , sank in a hurricane during a fishing trip off the Norwegian coast near Stavanger . All 13 crew members were killed in the sinking.
March 8, 1952	Thor	19th	At the Orkneys , the Bremerhaven fish steamer Thor was hit by several giant waves in the hurricane and capsized. The ship sank so quickly that an emergency call could no longer be made. Only the helmsman could be saved, all other crew members were killed.
April 21, 1952	St. Paul	30th	During the bombardment of the Korean coast, the US heavy cruiser St. Paul (17,450 t) exploded with a cartridge in the front 20.3 cm triple turret with subsequent fire. 30 crew members were killed, the ship was severely damaged in the bow area and had to leave the war zone.
April 26, 1952	Hobson	176	In the North Atlantic, the aircraft carrier Wasp (27,100 t) collided with the destroyer Hobson (1,630 t). The destroyer sank on the spot and tore 176 crew members down; only 61 could be saved. Why the destroyer's commander had steered the wrong course could not be clarified because he drowned too.
4th October 1952	La Sybille	48	During a test dive as part of a fleet maneuver on the French Riviera, the French submarine La Sybille sank with a total of 48 crew members at a water depth of 700 to 800 m. The sinking was not noticed until the boat became overdue. Nobody was saved.
4th October 1952	Norman	20th	In search of new fishing grounds, the British trawler Norman (629 GRT) registered in Hull ran into a rock on the south coast of Greenland and sank in no time. Although the crew was able to save themselves by swimming on a rock, all crew members except the cabin boy were killed by drowning or freezing to death.
December 23, 1952	N. Ebeling	19th	West of Iceland at the level of Breiðafjörður , the Bremerhaven-based fishing steamer N. Ebeling (487 GRT) sank in a hurricane-like storm , after a water ingress via the ash downpipe that could not be repaired with on-board resources in bad weather due to a sea hammer. Although radio contact could still be established with other ships in the vicinity and they came to the rescue, the entire crew could no longer leave the ship due to the icing and were torn down by the sinking trawler.
December 21, 1952	Melanie Schulte	35	On the voyage from Narvik to Mobile (Alabama) the Emden ore freighter Melanie Schulte (6,380 GRT), loaded with 9,300 t of iron ore, disappeared almost without a trace in the Atlantic north of the Hebrides with the entire crew. Shortly before, the captain had had a radio conversation with his wife. The Maritime Administration negotiation in Hamburg did not come to a conclusive result, because at the time of the sinking the weather was bad with rough seas and the ship had already had severe stability problems beforehand.
December 22, 1952	Champollion	15th	The French passenger ship Champollion (12,546 GRT) ran aground near Beirut after the ship's command was irritated by an unknown beacon on the Lebanese coast and therefore headed the wrong course. Shortly after being stranded, the passenger ship broke apart. While trying to swim to the rocky beach, which is only 60 m from the wreck, 15 people were killed. The remaining 300 passengers on board were rescued in a dramatic rescue operation.
January 31, 1953	Michael Griffiths	13	In the early hours of the morning, the British trawler Michael Griffths got into the storm field of the hurricane that triggered the Holland storm tide near the Hebrides and sank. All 13 crew members on board perished in the sinking.
January 31, 1953	Sheldon	14th	On the journey from Grimsby to his fishing area in the Faroe Islands, the trawler Sheldon disappeared after it got into the storm field of the hurricane that triggered the Dutch storm surge . All 14 crew members on board were killed in the sinking despite a large-scale search and rescue operation.
January 31, 1953	Princess Victoria	135	On the way from Stranraer in Scotland to Larne in Northern Ireland, the ferry Princess Victoria sank during the flood disaster of 1953 after heavy seas caused water to enter the car deck through the stern doors. Only 44 of the total of 179 passengers and crew members could be saved.
January 31, 1953	Catharine Duyvis	15th	On the voyage from Grimsby to IJmuiden , the Dutch trawler Catharine Duyvis sank in heavy seas during the flood disaster of 1953 . Due to engine problems, the ship's command tried to turn, which led to the ship capsizing. All 15 crew members were killed in the sinking.
January 31, 1953	Yewvalley	11	Off the coast of the English county of Norfolk , the British freighter Yewvalley, registered in Glasgow, disappeared without a trace during the hurricane east of the port city of Cromer , which triggered the Holland storm , without an emergency call being made. The entire crew was killed in the accident.
January 31, 1953	Westland	10	On the voyage from Wismar to King's Lynn , the Dutch coaster Westland sank north of Terschelling in a hurricane without the ship's command being able to make an emergency call. The entire crew of the ship perished in the sinking. The wreck was only discovered and identified 51 years later (1994).
January 31, 1953	Guava	11	In the sea area between southern England and the Netherlands, the Guava trawler registered in Grimsby disappeared without a trace in the hurricane without an emergency call being made. All eleven crew members were killed in the accident.
January 31, 1953	Aspo	22nd	On the voyage from Kalmar to Hartlepool , the Swedish freighter Aspo sank west of Jutland during the hurricane that triggered the Holland storm tide . All 22 crew members were killed in the sinking.
February 1, 1953	Salland	7th	On the voyage to Stockholm, the coaster Salland , which was only put into service in 1952, sank about 30 km west of Egmond aan Zee during the Dutch storm flood. The entire crew was killed in the sinking. The wreck was only found in 1994.
February 9, 1953	Fraserburgh	6th	The Royal National Lifeboat Institution's lifeboat stationed in Fraserburgh capsized while accompanying fishing vessels on their return to port. Six of the seven crew members were killed in the accident.
March 23, 1953	Leicester City	7th	Near the British naval base Scapa Flow , the Grimsby- based trawler Leicester City ran onto an underwater rock and sank. Seven crew members were killed in the sinking, 15 were able to save themselves on land or were rescued by a lifeboat floating in the water.
April 30, 1953	Colombia	67	The Colombian motor ship Colombia (1,764 GRT) sank between Fuertos Capica and Bahia Solano . Of the 89 people on board, including members of a police unit that was supposed to replace a garrison in Bahia Solano, only 22 were rescued.
May 11, 1953	Henry Steinbrenner	12	During a heavy storm, the freighter Henry Steinbrenner (4,345 GRT) loaded with ore ran onto a reef on the Upper Lake and sank immediately. Twelve sailors were killed in the sinking.
October 16, 1953	Leyte	37	On board the American aircraft carrier Leyte, which is lying in Boston , a serious explosion occurred in an aircraft catapult during a conversion, which caused considerable damage and caused a strong fire that was only brought under control after five hours. A total of 37 crew members and workers died in the accident. 28 people were injured.
October 27, 1953	Robert Lindsay	6th	The lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, stationed in Arbroath , capsized on the way back from a fruitless rescue operation . Six of the seven crew members were killed in the accident.
November 6, 1953	Björkö	7th	The American Liberty freighter Seawind (7,000 GRT) coming from Bremen and the Swedish freighter Björkö (2,200 GRT) coming from the Elbe estuary collided at the height of the lightship Weser , which sank about 45 minutes after the collision. Seven crew members were trapped and killed by the falling water in the engine room. The remaining crew members were rescued by other ships that had rushed up. The Swedish radio operator Miriam Eskola, who maintained radio contact with the other ships until the ship sank, played a major role in the rescue.
17th November 1953	Vittoria Claudia	20th	Two nautical miles south of Dungeness there was a collision between the Italian freighter Vittoria Claudia (2,745 GRT) and the French freighter Perou (7,200 GRT). The Vittoria Claudia then sank so quickly that the crew could no longer get into the boats. Of the 25 crew members of the Vittoria Claudia , only five were rescued and 20 were killed.
4th January 1954	Leros	0	The Greek tanker Leros ran aground near Scharhörn and had a leak. After five days of unsuccessful rescue attempts and an impending oil spill for the Cuxhaven beach, the ship was towed free on Saturday, January 10th and brought to Cuxhaven.
March 25, 1954	Guadalete	34	The Guadalete minesweeper capsized in a hurricane in the Strait of Gibraltar after the engines failed due to the poor quality of the coal used to heat the boilers, the ship became unable to maneuver and crossed the high seas. After the sinking, 44 soldiers of the crew were rescued alive by the Italian freighter Potestas , the remaining 34 crew members were killed.
March 28, 1954	Empire Windrush	4th	On March 28, fire broke out on the British troop transport Empire Windrush (formerly German Monte Rosa ) off Algiers and there was an explosion in the engine room. Four crew members died. The almost 1,500 passengers were saved. The ship sank.
May 26, 1954	Bennington	103	During a maneuver off Narragansett Bay , one of the two aircraft catapults exploded on the US aircraft carrier Bennington . As a result of a leak, gases from the escaping hydraulic fluid from the catapult mixed with the ambient air and formed an explosive gas-air mixture. 103 crew members were killed in the disaster, 201 seamen were injured.
September 26, 1954	Tōya Maru	1,153	Although typhoon Marie had already been warned and the weather had already deteriorated dramatically, the captain of the Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru decided to leave the port of Hakodate on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . Shortly after leaving the port, the ship was hit by the heavy seas, so that the railway wagons in the ship's hull were torn from their anchorages. Penetrating water led to a heavy list and failure of the engines and ultimately to the ship capsizing. All passengers and crew on board were killed and the ship was almost completely destroyed.
October 6, 1954	Rikke Skou	6th	The Danish freighter Rikke Skou (1,489 GRT) sank in the North Sea during a severe hurricane . In the sinking, the captain and five other crew members were killed, eleven were rescued by a Swedish freighter and a French trawler after being driven for hours in a lifeboat in the sea.
October 9, 1954	Mormackite	37	The American ore freighter Mormackite (6,195 GRT) capsized in heavy seas and sank off the American east coast . Only eleven sailors of the 48-strong crew could be rescued, the survivors reported constant shark attacks.
October 25, 1954	Cervia	6th	When the passenger ship Arcadia (29,734 GRT) cast off in the port of Tilbury , the crew of the Cervia did not succeed in disconnecting the towing connection in time. When the Arcadia began to move, the tug got sucked into the passenger ship, capsized and sank within 30 seconds. All six crew members of the tug below deck were killed in the sinking.
November 27, 1954	South Goodwin	6th	During a hurricane, the anchor chain of the non-motorized lightship South Goodwin, lying off the Goodwin Sands , broke . The lightship was driven onto the Goodwin Sands and capsized by a very high bottom sea . Only one scientist on board could be rescued by helicopter, all other crew members were killed.
November 30, 1954	Tresilian	25th	During a hurricane in the Irish Sea, severe water ingress occurred in the engine room of the British freighter Tresilian (7,373 GRT), which led to its sinking. Of the total of 40 people on board, only 15 were rescued in bad weather.
December 22, 1954	Henri de Weert	19th	During a hurricane, the Belgian freighter Henri de Weert sank in the sea area 70 nautical miles north of Texel . Rescue ships could no longer reach the scene of the accident in time, all 19 people on board were killed in the sinking.
January 16, 1955	Gerd Mærsk	0	After breaking the anchor chains of bad weather stranded due to lying in the Elbe estuary at anchor and loaded with crude oil tankers Danish Gerd Maersk amounting Scharhörn . In order to get the fully loaded tanker free again, between 7,000 and 8,000 tons of crude oil were pumped directly into the North Sea, which led to a serious environmental catastrophe.
January 26, 1955	Lorella	20th	North of the Icelandic North Cape, the British trawler Lorella (559 GRT), based in Kingston upon Hull , got caught in an ice fog during a heavy storm. The black frost caused the ship to completely ice up and capsize within a very short time. The entire 20-person crew was killed in the sinking.
January 26, 1955	Roderigo	20th	Southwest of the Icelandic North Cape, the British trawler Roderigo (810 GRT), based in Kingston upon Hull , got caught in an ice fog during a heavy storm. The black frost caused the ship to completely ice up and capsize within a very short time. The entire 20-person crew was killed in the sinking. It was the second major shipwreck in the British deep-sea fisheries on the same day.
January 26, 1955	Egil	8th	The Icelandic trawler Egil was stranded on the west coast of Iceland in a hurricane due to the icing of the ship . Eight crew members were killed, 26 were rescued from the land through a quick rescue operation.
March 15, 1955	Jason	23	The Greek trawler Jason (449 GRT) sank near Cape Stilo . 16 of the 20 crew members were killed. During a rescue attempt, seven crew members of the British passenger ship Stratheden (23,732 GRT), which had rushed to help the victim, drowned .
May 11, 1955	Shiun Maru	168	The Shiun Maru train ferry collided with a freighter in the Sea of ​​Japan in thick fog . The ferry sank within 25 minutes. Of the approximately 800 people on board the ferry, 687 were rescued and 168 were killed. The sinking of the Shiun Maru was the second serious ferry accident in Japan within a year.
May 21, 1955	Marianne	7th	When loading the Marianne tanker in the Hamburg petroleum port, a connection fitting broke. The gas-air mixture ignited on a hot cooking plate in the galley of the motor ship and there was an explosion and a major fire, which killed seven people, including five crew members.
June 16, 1955	Sidon	13	The Sidon belonged to the S-Class . In the port of the Isle of Portland , she was badly damaged by a torpedo explosion. 13 crew members were killed.
July 13, 1955	La Flecha	47	Shortly after leaving the port of Veracruz (Mexico), the coastal freighter La Flecha (145 GRT) with 14 crew members and 51 passengers got caught in a storm in the Gulf of Mexico and sank about 14 km from the port of Veracruz. Only 18 passengers and crew could be saved.
September 15, 1955	Graca de Deus	17th	Although a hurricane was raging at the time of casting, the captain of the Portuguese trawler Graca de Deus decided to leave the port of Aveiro . Immediately after leaving the port, the trawler was pushed onto the pier by a high sea and then capsized. The entire crew was killed in the accident.
September 29, 1955	Elbe	15th	On the Doggerbank, the Hamburg fish steamer Elbe was rammed by the Norwegian tanker Havprins and sank on the spot. Only two crew members on the Elbe could be saved.
October 1955	Joyita	25th	The Australian yacht Joyita had an accident in the sea area about 150 km east of the Fiji Islands under mysterious circumstances. All 25 passengers and crew were killed, their bodies were never found. The damaged ship was found floating in the sea without a crew five weeks after its disappearance and was towed away. A tsunami as a result of a seaquake was suspected to be the cause.
October 29, 1955	Novorossiysk	608	In the early morning of October 29, 1955, an explosion occurred on the Soviet battleship Novorossiysk , which was lying in the roadstead in the Soviet Black Sea port of Sevastopol , which resulted in the ship capsizing and then sinking. Since the ship was not evacuated due to a miscalculation by the commander, 608 crew members were killed in the accident. The cause of the accident could never be clarified. The incident was kept secret by the USSR until the 1980s.
November 27, 1955	Colbert	10	While trying to walk alongside to exchange greetings with the crew it was friends with, the British trawler Fosher Bank rammed the French trawler Colbert in front of the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer . The Colbert sank within minutes, killing ten crew members.
November 27, 1955	Salem Maritime	21st	When loading the tanker Salem Maritime (10,584 GRT), a T2 tanker , there was an explosion in the port of Lake Charles, followed by a major fire in which the tanker was completely destroyed and sank. 18 crew members and three dock workers were killed by the explosion and fire. Sometimes seriously injured are rescued.
January 10, 1956	Sirabou	7th	The Norwegian motor ship Sirabuen (288 GRT) was rammed by the Brazilian freighter Loide-Venezuela (5,408 GRT) about 15 km north of the Dutch port of Den Helder and sank on the spot. Despite immediately initiated rescue measures, seven of the eight crew members were killed in the sinking.
March 14, 1956	Vert Prairial	18th	On the way to the fishing area off Ireland, the French trawler Vert Prairial off Cornwall ran aground in calm seas under mysterious circumstances and sank. The entire crew was killed in the accident.
March 14, 1956	Badura	203	On the crossing from Chittagong to the island of Sandip (then East Pakistan ), the ferry Badura (279 GRT) sank in a cyclone. Only three of the people could be rescued, the remaining 200 passengers and crew members on board, including six police officers who were supposed to guard a money transport with help for the victims of a flood disaster, were killed in the sinking.
July 26, 1956	Andrea Doria	51	The Andrea Doria drove from Genoa to New York . Obstructed by banks of fog, she headed for the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm . The two ships collided. 46 of the 1,706 passengers on the Andrea Doria and five crew members on the Stockholm died. The Andrea Doria capsized and sank on July 26, 1956 at 10:09 a.m.
August 13, 1956	Adolf	18th	When returning from a fishing trip, the Vegesack logger Adolf (146 GRT) capsized after having probably been hit by an exceptionally high wave. The entire crew was killed in the sinking.
August 13, 1956	Hondkrug	5	The Dutch motor ship Hondskrug (277 GRT) sank off Funen . Only two of the seven crew members could be saved.
17th September 1956	Pelagia	31	On the voyage from New York to Narvik, the US-flagged ore freighter Pelagia (7,238 GRT), a Liberty freighter , ran into a rocky reef in a hurricane off the northern Norwegian coast, broke into two parts and sank immediately after being hit . Five survivors were rescued from floating in a lifeboat 30 hours after the sinking, all the other 31 crew members were killed in the sinking.
4th October 1956	Cyranka	10	On the Dogger Bank , the Gdynia-based trawler Cyranka was capsized by an exceptionally high wave during a fishing trip in a storm. Seven of the ship's 17 crew members were washed overboard and could be fished up by the nearby mother ship Morska Wola (3,357 GRT). The remaining ten crew members were trapped in the ship, which was initially still drifting keel up, and drowned when the ship sank despite intensive rescue attempts.
November 11, 1956	Ave dei Mar	26th	In heavy seas, the fishing ship Ave dei Mar sank off the Spanish port city of Vigo . The entire crew of 26 were killed in the sinking. During the investigation of the cause of the accident, it could not be clearly established whether the ship ran into a rocky reef or was hit by a monster wave .
17th November 1956	Mardomingo B	12	The Spanish fishing vessel Mardomingo B sank off the Irish coast in a heavy storm . Although the sister ship Mardomingo A was in sight, none of the twelve crew members of the Mardomingo B could be saved.
January 24, 1957	Minocher Cowasjee	51	The cargo ship came from Tianjin and made an emergency call on its way to Antwerp in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar (25.3 ° S, 68 ° E). All 51 crew members, mainly Pakistanis and at least one German, were killed.
January 25, 1957	Stars	8th	The Danish marine cutter Ternen capsized and sank in a natural harbor on a small island on the southwest coast of Greenland and was only found after a day-long search. All eight crew members died in the accident. The cause was probably black frost , which completely frozen the ship, which is why it capsized in a gust.
September 21, 1957	Pamir	80	The four-masted barque Pamir , a sailing training ship of the German merchant navy, went down in a storm in the North Atlantic, where 80 of the 86 crew members were killed.
January 7, 1958	Capella	9	On the voyage from Gdynia to London, the coaster based in Delfzijl sank in a storm close to the lightship Texel. All nine crew members were killed in the sinking.
February 11, 1958	Bonitas	22nd	The Italian ore freighter Bonitas (5,636 GRT) sank about 120 nautical miles off the coast of North Carolina near Cape Lookout. It was sailing from Brazil to Baltimore . Although the entire crew still managed to leave the ship, only five sailors were rescued from the ships that had come up.
March 1, 1958	Usküdar	> 400	On the voyage from Ismit to Istanbul, the Turkish ferry Usküdar (148 GRT) was hit by two very high waves in a heavy storm , which lifted it out of the water, hit it across and capsized. Only 40 passengers and crew members who were on deck at the time of the accident could be rescued, at least 400 people were killed in the disaster.
November 18, 1958	Carl D. Bradley	33	During a heavy snowstorm and very high seas, the American freighter Carl D. Bradley , which was on the voyage from Chicago to Port Dolomit, broke up and sank. Only two of the 35 crew members could be rescued.
January 30, 1959	Hans Hedtoft	95	On the voyage from Greenland to Copenhagen, the ferry Hans Hedtoft (2,875 GRT) sank after it collided with an iceberg in a hurricane in a thick ice field. Although the German fishing steamer Johannes Krüss reached the scene of the accident under the most difficult weather conditions and searched the area intensively, none of the 95 people on board could be rescued. A large-scale search operation, during which puzzling radio signals and lights were observed, and which placed the highest nautical demands on the crews of all ships involved in the search, remained fruitless.
January 30, 1959	Escuminac hurricane	35	Due to the inadequate communication options at that time, the warning of an approaching hurricane no longer reached the fishing vessels that had already left the Gulf of Saint Lawrence . Surprised by the hurricane, 22 fishing trawlers could no longer get to safety and sank off Escuminac ; 35 crew members of the sunken cutters were killed.
July 8, 1959	Tourists	57	The ship disaster on Haderslebener Damm was triggered by a fire in the engine of the small tourist boat, Turisten , which was overcrowded that summer's day . The fire spread rapidly, causing many passengers to jump off the ship in a panic and drown, while several others were seriously burned to death.
September 22, 1959	Silvedra	7th	The Spanish trawler Silvedra capsized and sank off the northern Spanish port of Ferrol . Of the 15 crew members, only the captain and one sailor managed to save themselves on land through the surf. All the rest were killed.
December 8, 1959	Mona	8th	When trying the displaced from its position during a hurricane Lightship North Carr to come to the aid of the capsized in Broughty Ferry stationed lifeboat the Royal National Lifeboat Institution . All eight crew members were killed in the accident.
December 9, 1959	Mercury	7th	Off the southern Norwegian coast, the Flensburg Kümo Merkur (400 GRT) loaded with firebrick got into distress after a hatch of the ship was smashed by heavy breakers. When the crew was rescued by the Swedish freighter Ranula , seven of the eight crew members were killed. Only the captain survived. The Merkur could later be towed to a Norwegian port and repaired.
December 9, 1959	Elfrida	21st	The Norwegian freighter Elfrida (1,719 GRT) capsized in a severe storm off the southern Norwegian coast . The crew of the freighter were killed in the sinking.
January 20, 1960	Lühesand	12	In the Skagerrak, the Hamburg ore freighter Lühesand (871 GRT), loaded with 1,100 tonnes of ore on the voyage from Sauda in Norway to Rotterdam, sank in a hurricane after being hit by an exceptionally high wave. All twelve crew members were killed in the sinking.
February 15, 1960	Leonore	8th	On the voyage from the Oslofjord to Emden, the Emden coaster Leonore (341 GRT) sank 30 nautical miles southwest of the entrance to the Limfjord immediately after the captain had announced by radio that the crew would try to leave the severely damaged ship. During a large-scale search, only the lifeboats floating up the keel were found. The crew could not be saved.
October 25, 1960	El Gamil	23	The freighter El Gamil (1,356 GRT), sailing under the Egyptian flag, sank on the voyage from Suez to Aden . Only the second officer of the freighter could be rescued by the British passenger ship Strathnaver , which rushed to aid , and all the other 23 crew members were killed.
December 19, 1960	Constellation	50	In the naval shipyard in Brooklyn (USA), a fire broke out on the American aircraft carrier Constellation (79,000 t), which was under construction, after a fuel tank had been damaged, which severely damaged the almost completed ship. 50 people were killed and hundreds injured. The damage to the ship was about $ 50 million.
December 22nd, 1960	Motor launch	at least 50	A motor launch with more than 50 people sank in the Persian Gulf. Only three people could be saved.

See also

• List of disasters

Footnotes

1. ^ Nautical chart of the Lower Ems
2. ↑ New Year storms claimed many victims. "Irene Oldendorff" total loss (Hamburger Abendblatt) ( Memento from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Funeral service for "Irene Oldendorff" (Hamburger Abendblatt) ( Memento from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ "Irene Oldendorff" found (Hamburger Abendblatt) ( Memento from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Mirjam radioed until the very end (Hamburger Abendblatt) ( Memento from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ 1953: Twenty die in Channel collision (BBC)
7. ↑ Seven fateful days on the "Leros" (ZEIT Online)
8. ^ Film in the Federal Archives
9. ↑ This day in 1954 - The Empire Windrush . Boat Building Academy, accessed July 11, 2020.
10. ↑ Capsized in a storm. Survivors threatened by sharks (Hamburger Abendblatt, October 11, 1954) ( Memento from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Sunk in the storm. Ten Polish seamen drowned on the Dogger Bank (Hamburger Abendblatt, October 5, 1956) ( Memento from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ WELT: Calendar sheet 2017: January 24th . January 30, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed October 16, 2019]).
13. ↑ Unknown: Pakistan Shipping: EAST & WEST STEAMSHIP CO. In: Pakistan Shipping. May 8, 2013, accessed October 16, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Details at fof-ohlsdorf.de as well as file: Monument freight shipLühesand FriedhofChristianskirche Hamburg-Ottensen.jpg