List of major marine accidents 1991–2000

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This list of serious maritime accidents 1991-2000 recorded shipwrecks of maritime deaths and high damage.

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date Surname Victim Course of events
April 10, 1991 Moby Prince 140 At 10 p.m., the Italian ferry Moby Prince collided with the tanker Agip Abruzzo in the port of Livorno . 140 people were killed on the ferry in the resulting fire. The crew of the tanker could be saved. A total of 2,700 t of crude oil leaked from the tanker.
April 13, 1991 Amoco Milford Haven 6th After an explosion during maintenance work on April 11 directly in front of the port of Genoa , the tanker was towed into the open sea while it was burning. The entire forecastle broke off. On April 13, the ship sank, spilling more than 100,000 tons of crude oil and killing six of 36 crew members. The wreck lies at a depth of 82 m and is a popular destination for deep-sea scuba divers.
4th August 1991 Oceanos 0 The Greek cruise ship Oceanos was hit by a 25 meter high monster wave at night in heavy seas off the coast of Transkei / South Africa and caused a leak. The captain then took himself and his family and most of the crew to safety with several severely understaffed lifeboats, leaving more than 200 passengers, including children and pensioners, on board. On the morning of August 4, 1991, all of them were rescued by 16 helicopters before the ship sank.
December 16, 1991 Salem Express > 448 The Egyptian ferry Salem Express ran into a coral reef near the destination port on the journey from Jeddah to Safaga and sank within 7 to 10 minutes. The reason for the accident was probably that the captain took a shortcut through a dangerous reef area because of an engine failure. According to official information, there were 448 fatalities among the 654 people on board. Allegedly, however, there were far more people on board, so that 800 to 1,000 dead, sometimes even up to 1,400 dead, were suspected.
January 14, 1993 Jan Heweliusz approx. 55 The RoRo ferry Jan Heweliusz capsized due to insufficiently secured vehicles on board and sank during the hurricane “Verena” off the coast of Rügen . Nine crew members were saved.
17th February 1993 Neptune 1700 The Haitian ferry Neptune sank on the way to the capital Port-au-Prince near the Île de la Gonâve . Allegedly, the completely overloaded ship was capsized by a panic among the passengers. There were no lifeboats or life jackets on board, and no passenger list either. It was estimated that there were between 1,500 and 2,000 people on board. Only 300 survivors could be saved.
June 29, 1993 Hamada On the voyage from Jeddah to Suez , the freighter Hamada sank in heavy seas, with a landing of plastic granules on board, off the Egyptian coast in Wadi al-Gamal National Park .
January 24, 1994 Oslo (F300) 1 Frigate of the Norwegian Navy. Machine failure, run aground, sunk one day later.
September 28, 1994 Estonia 852 The bow hatch of the Estonian ferry Estonia broke off the coast of Finland at night in heavy seas . The ship overturned due to the vehicle deck being flooded and sank within 20 minutes. 137 people survived the accident.
November 30, 1994 Achille Lauro 3 On board the cruise ship Achille Lauro with around 1,000 people on board, a fire broke out 30 nautical miles east of Somalia , which could not be brought under control. After the fire pumps failed and more and more water was pumped into the ship, it was evacuated. It sank three days later.
January 1, 1995 Alfried Krupp 2 A heavy bottom sea capsized the DGzRS ship during a rescue operation. Two men of the crew went overboard.
February 16, 1996 Sea Empress The ship sailing under the Liberian flag capsized off the south coast of Wales. 147,000 tons of oil spilled out, including more than 25,000 seabirds.
May 21, 1996 Bukoba about 800 The Tanzanian ferry capsized on Lake Victoria while traveling from Bukoba to Mwanza about 30 km northwest of the destination port. Around 800 people were killed, only around 120 were saved. It was the largest shipwreck in the history of East Africa and one of the largest disasters on freshwater lakes.
25./26. December 1996 F-174 283 When switching from the Honduran freighter Yiohan to the Maltese boat F-174 off Portopalo di Capo Passero, the two ships collided and 283 people drowned who wanted to enter Italy illegally. The Yiohan left the scene of the accident without calling emergency services to Greece. For a long time the surviving refugees who reached Greece on the Yiohan were not believed. The masterminds of the attempted human smuggling were not convicted until years later.
March 27, 1997 Sibilla and
Kates I Rades 		at least 52 On March 28, 1997, the Italian coast guard ship Sibilla collided with the Albanian motorboat Kates I Rades while attempting to intercept it in the Otranto Canal . At least 52 Albanian migrants drowned when the ship went down. After eight years of investigation, the captains of both boats were sentenced to several years in prison for causing a shipwreck and multiple negligent homicide in Italy.
January 16, 1998 Flare 21st In the North Atlantic, about 30 kilometers west of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon , the Cypriot bulk carrier Flare , which ran from Rotterdam to Montreal , broke up in a severe storm and sank. Of the 25-man crew, 21 were killed. Only four survivors were rescued from the stormy seas by Canadian helicopters.
June 6, 1998 Sudur Havid 17th The Suður Havid , usually written Sudur Havid , was fishing in the waters of South Georgia with a longline when it got caught in a storm with snowfall and waves up to 10 meters high. Although the ship began to take in water and the pumps failed, work was not interrupted. The ship listed and eventually began to sink. The uncoordinated evacuation and the following hours in the life rafts, one of which was full of water, ultimately cost 17 lives. The rest of the 38-strong crew was rescued by the Chilean fishing boat Camila .
October 25, 1998 Pallas 1 The Pallas left with timber in the North Sea in autumn 1998 and caught fire in a heavy storm and high seas off Jutland. The ship's cook lost his life while being dumped . Due to numerous breakdowns during the rescue attempts, the ship ran aground off Amrum . Approx. 90 t of machine oil leaked out of the wreck, which drifted and led to great bird deaths in the Wadden Sea.
17./18. March 1999 SAS 104 Beluga 3 The Beluga left the port of Sassnitz on March 17th at around 11:30 p.m. on the Bornholm route , but never arrived. The ship was later discovered standing on the stern 20 m below the water surface. Research showed that it sank suddenly and in a very short time. All three crew members were killed. The circumstances of the sinking remained mysterious due to the good weather and calm seas. The official investigation was concluded with the result that there was an operating error by the crew. In the media, however, the version of a connection with a simultaneous NATO maneuver surfaced . However, no evidence could be provided, among other things because the radar recordings from that night were immediately deleted.
29./30. October 1999 Over 50 ships One of the heaviest cyclones of the 1990s hit the mainland of East India on October 29, 1999 with wind speeds of over 260 km / h. Over 50 ships sank in the port of Paradip , the largest seaport in the Indian state of Odisha . Over 10,000 people died as a result of the tropical cyclone. The cyclone was a magnitude 5 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale .
November 26, 1999 Sleipner 16 The Norwegian high-speed catamaran collided with a rock off Haugesund and sank within half an hour, 69 of the 85 people on board could be rescued. The cause of the accident was found to be incorrect navigation as a result of heavy seas and the crew's lack of experience with the ship that had only been commissioned three months earlier.
December 12, 1999 Erika In the hull of the 10 percent overloaded tanker in a very poor state of maintenance, waves up to three meters long and 15 centimeters wide formed in wind strengths ten and up to 14 meters high, which finally led to it breaking in two parts and in front of the Breton Coast south of the port city of Brest sank. The ship, which was on behalf of TotalFinaElf, lost around 20,000 tons of its cargo of 30,800 tons of oil, which polluted around 400 km of coastline. A maximum of 28,000 tons of oil should have been loaded. The damage was estimated at 500 million euros; the ecological damage to humans and animals as a result of the oil spill is not included. Around 150,000 seabirds alone were killed, including many guillemots.
August 5, 2000 Valiente 8 (+3) The minesweeper Valiente of the Uruguayan Navy , a former minesweeper and clearing ship (MSR) of the Condor II class of the People's Navy , was rammed by the Panamanian freighter Skyros and torn in half. Eight Uruguayan sailors from the Valiente died, and three more were missing.
August 12, 2000 Kursk 118 The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk of the Oscar-II class sank with 118 crew members on board during maneuvers in the Barents Sea . The trigger of the accident was most likely a defective torpedo with liquid gas propulsion, which exploded in the bow torpedo room. Several attempts to recover parts of the crew trapped in air bubbles in the boat were unsuccessful. The entire crew was killed.
September 26, 2000 Express Samina 82 The Greek ferry Express Samina (4,455 GT) collided with a clearly visible rock (Portes Islet) off the Cycladic island of Paros at around 10:20 p.m. in stormy weather and sank. Of the 540 passengers, 82 were killed. At the time of the accident, the bridge was insufficiently manned as officers and team were watching a UEFA Champions League match ( Panathinaikos Athens vs. Hamburger SV ) broadcast.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hundreds are lost as crowded ferry capsizes off Haiti (New York Times)
  2. ↑ Ferry disaster underlines Haiti's everyday needs (New York Times)
  3. ↑ Hamada ( Memento from July 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Maurizio Albahari: Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World's Deadliest Border . University of Pennsylvania 2015, ISBN 978-0-8122-4747-3 , pp. 62 ff.
  5. ^ Pakistani cleared of multiple murder . Times of Malta, May 17, 2007, accessed October 15, 2018
  6. ↑ Alessia di Pascale: Migration Control at Sea: The Italian Case. In: Extraterritorial Imigration Control: Legal Challenges. Ed .: Ryan and Mitsilegas, Nijhoff 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-17233-3 , p. 294 f.
  7. ↑ http://www.wildisland.gs/cems/index.php/cemeteries/memorials/342-sudur-havid-memorial-cross
  8. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/26/i-was-shipwrecked-in-icy-south-atlantic
  9. ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/another-mans-shoes/10970705/What-its-like-to-survive-a-shipwreck.html
  10. ↑ http://lastmanoff.com/
  11. ↑ Orissa declared a disaster area (Spiegel Online)
  12. ↑ Samina crew receive long prison terms ( Memento from March 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive )