List of shipwrecks in 1976
The list of shipwrecks in 1976 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1976.
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Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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References |
January
3 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Capella | East Germany | The coaster sank off Schiermonnikoog, the Netherlands.[1] |
Carnoustie | United Kingdom | Sank in same storm as Capella. Often mistakenly referred to as "Carnoesti" in American press.[2][3] |
8 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Princess Sissy | Panama | The cruise ship ran aground in the Adriatic between the islands of Hvar and Korčula.[4] |
Vanquisher | United Kingdom | The tug capsized and sank in the Thames Estuary at Tilbury whilst assisting Jervis Bay ( United Kingdom). All seven crew rescued.[5] |
10 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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ARA Comandante General Zapiola | Argentine Navy | The Navajo-class fleet ocean tug ran aground on a reef off Antarctica and was declared a total loss. |
19 January
26 January
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kirk Pride | Cayman Islands | The vessel struck a reef and sank off the Cayman Islands. |
February
11 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Evgenia I | Greece | The ship ran aground 23 nautical miles (43 km) north of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and was severely damaged. She was refloated but had to be beached. Declared a constructive total loss.[8] |
15 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Otterstetter | United States Navy | The Edsall-class destroyer escort was sunk as target off Puerto Rico. |
20 February
22 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unknown | Khmer Rouge | A navy vessel was sunk by six Thai navy vessels.[9] |
26 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Gustave Zédé | French Navy | The decommissioned submarine tender was sunk as a target in the Mediterranean Sea south of Marseille, France, at 42°30′N 5°24′E by a torpedo fired by the submarine Doris ( French Navy). |
March
1 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Deep Sea Driller | Norway | The drilling rig ran aground off Bergen. One leg broke off and six crew were killed. Although declared a constructive total loss,[10] the rig was later repaired and returned to service. |
4 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Magnet | United States Navy | The decommissioned degaussing vessel was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California at 31°16′N 117°40′W. |
23 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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INS Godavari | Indian Navy | The Hunt-class destroyer ran aground in the Maldives and was damaged beyond repair. |
April
5 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kitty Bear | United States | The 12-gross register ton, 34.2-foot (10.4 m) fishing vessel sank in Clarence Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[11] |
6 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ferro 119 | Cuba | The fishing boat was sunk by a Cuban exile-operated boat, with one crewman killed and three wounded aboard her and Ferro 123 ( Cuba) combined. |
Ferro 123 | Cuba | The fishing boat was sunk by a Cuban exile-operated boat, with one crewman killed and three wounded aboard her and Ferro 119 ( Cuba) combined . |
8 April
14 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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SAS Vrystaat | South African Navy | The decommissioned Type 15 frigate was sunk as a torpedo target by the submarine SAS Maria van Riebeeck ( South African Navy) eight nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) southwest of Cape Point. South Africa.[14][15] |
16 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ocean Express | United States | The drilling rig sank in the Gulf of Mexico. Thirteen of her 36 crew were killed when an escape capsule capsized and sank.[16] |
26 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Master Carl | United States | The 131-gross register ton, 72.7-foot (22.2 m) crab-fishing vessel capsized and sank in a storm in the Gulf of Alaska off the south-central coast of Alaska near Kayak Island, approximately 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) southeast of Cape Suckling (59°59′30″N 143°53′00″W). Her entire crew of four abandoned ship in a life raft, but two of them died when the raft capsized in the surf as they approached the shore. The other two crew members survived.[17] |
May
2 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Nordhuk | West Germany | The cargo ship ran aground off Eilean Trodday, Inner Hebrides, United Kingdom and was wrecked. All twelve crew were rescued by the Stornoway Lifeboat.[18] |
12 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hotai | United States | The 81-gross register ton, 86-foot (26.2 m) motor vessel was wrecked on the coast of Montague Island on the south-central coast of Alaska.[19] |
Urquiola | Spain | The tanker exploded and caught fire at the mouth of A Coruña harbour, killing two of her thirty-nine crew.[20] |
13 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Christmas Seal | Canada | The motor vessel ran aground at Eastern Shore, Nova Scotia, Canada, and sank. |
June
10 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Gamtoos | South Africa | The cargo ship was sunk as a target in Table Bay off the coast of South Africa by South African Air Force aircraft.[21] |
23 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Armorique | France | The ferry ran aground off Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine and was damaged. She was later repaired and returned to service. |
23 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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NEPCO 140 | United States | The barge ran aground in the American Narrows causing a large oil spill. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lappe | United Kingdom | The lighter sank in Cline Bay, off Freetown, Sierra Leone.[22] |
July
3 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Polaris 1 | Panama | The tanker was driven ashore on San Andrés Island, Columbia. Consequently scrapped in 1977.[23] |
21 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Chopper | United States Navy | Tethered for use as a target by the submarine USS Spadefish ( United States Navy), the decommissioned Balao-class submarine sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, before Spadefish could fire at her. |
25 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Duck | United States | The houseboat struck a submerged log and sank in the Inside Passage in Southeast Alaska at a location described in the wreck report as "Saint Mary's Point" north of Ketchikan, Alaska, possibly a misidentification of Point Saint Mary's (58°44′00″N 135°01′15″W) north of Juneau, Alaska.[24] |
Miller’s Bay | United States | The 34-foot (10.4 m) salmon troller disappeared with the loss of all three people on board – a husband and wife and their 14-year-old daughter – while fishing off Noyes Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[17] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Gulf Coast | Cyprus | The coaster caught fire in the English Channel and was beached.[25] |
August
3 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ann Page | United States | The fishing vessel sank south of Wingham Island (60°01′N 144°23′W) near Cordova, Alaska, after she struck a rock.[26] |
10 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Reward | Royal Navy | The offshore patrol vessel collided with Plainsman ( Singapore) in the Firth of Forth during foggy weather and sank. All 42 people on board rescued by Plainsman.[27] |
12 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Major | United States | The 50-gross register ton, 54.8-foot (16.7 m) fishing vessel sank off Kodiak Island, Alaska.[17] |
16 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Barkis | United Kingdom | The tug capsized and sank off Lowestoft, Suffolk with the loss of one of her four crew.[28] |
20 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Morning Cloud | United Kingdom | The yacht ran aground outside Ramsgate Harbour, Kent.[29] |
24 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Malaysia Raya | Malaysia | The cruise ship caught fire at Kuala Lumpur, a total loss.[30] |
26 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Deep Sea | United States | During a voyage in Alaska′s Kodiak Archipelago from Mush Bay (57.7°N 153.47333333°W) to Kodiak, the 72-foot (21.9 m) fishing tender sank in Whale Pass between Kodiak Island and Whale Island during a gale with the loss of all eight people – three men, three women, a 5-year-od boy, and a 20-month-old girl – aboard.[24] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Tina | Greece | Lebanese Civil War: The vessel was sunk by Limpet mines in Lebanon by the Christian faction sometime in August.[31] |
September
17 September
20 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Fittleton | Royal Navy | The minesweeper capsized within a minute of colliding with the frigate HMS Mermaid ( Royal Navy) in the North Sea 60 nautical miles (110 km; 69 mi) north of the island of Texel, the Netherlands. She sank several hours later in 160 feet (49 m) of water. Twelve members of her crew lost their lives; accompanying ships rescued 32 survivors. She was brought to the surface the next day and scrapped in 1977. |
22 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Tiger Lil | United States | The 38-foot (11.6 m) sailboat and all three people aboard her disappeared in the Gulf of Alaska during a voyage from Seward, Alaska, to Seattle, Washington. Later, wreckage of Tiger Lil later was found on Montague Island at the entrance to Prince William Sound and the body of one of her occupants washed ashore on Kayak Island.[34] |
26 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Gertrude S | United States | The 70-foot (21.3 m) vessel sank in 342 feet (104 m) of water in Kupreanof Strait (57°58′N 153°00′W) between Raspberry Island and Kodiak Island in Alaska′s Kodiak Archipelago. The fishing vessel Sierra Seas ( United States) rescued her crew.[35] |
27 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Miss Aurora | United States | The 22-gross register ton motor vessel sank in Chatham Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska, 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) off Point Lull (57°18′00″N 134°48′45″W) at the entrance to Kelp Bay (57.2982°N 134.8658°W).[17] |
29 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Rarau | Poland | The 2,186-ton factory trawler with a Romanian crew of eighty-four drove into the northern part of the Seven Stones Reef known as the North-east Rocks. All the crew were rescued and the trawler slipped into deep water.[36] |
October
1 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hongkong Beauty I | Panama | Ran aground at Al Hudaydah, Yemen and refloated 15 October.[37] |
9 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sea Witch | United States | The fishing vessel was wrecked on Saint Paul Island in the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.[38] |
12 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sylvia M. Ossa | Panama | The bulk carrier was last reported in the Atlantic Ocean (68°00′N 34°15′W) whilst on a voyage from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[23] |
14 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Boehlen | East Germany | The tanker sank in the English Channel during a storm with the loss of twenty-three of her thirty-six crew.[39] |
Mar del Oro | United States | The 156-gross register ton, 79.9-foot (24.4 m) shrimp-fishing vessel sank in the Shelikof Strait between the Kodiak Archipelago and the mainland of Alaska. A United States Coast Guard helicopter rescued her entire crew of six.[17] |
15 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Andros Antares | Liberia | The supertanker ran aground at Antifer, France in a storm.[39] |
Freeland | Cyprus | The cargo ship foundered off Brittany, France in a storm. All crew saved.[39] |
Ante Oltmans | West Germany | The cargo ship foundered off the coast of the Netherlands in a storm. All six crew were killed.[39] |
USS George K. MacKenzie | United States Navy | The Gearing-class destroyer was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off California. |
18 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Otterturm | West Germany | The tug collided with a barge and sank off Burghead, United Kingdom with the loss of one of her ten crew.[40] |
20 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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George Prince | United States | The ferry sank in the Mississippi River after a collision with Frosta ( Norway). Seventy-eight people were killed. |
23 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Eko | Cyprus | Lebanese Civil War: The cargo ship was sunk by mines off Lebanon.[41][42] |
25 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Tigrone | United States Navy | The Tench-class submarine was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. |
27 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Roadrunner | United States | The halibut-fishing vessel was swamped and wrecked on Kayak Island in the Gulf of Alaska off the south-central coast of Alaska.[43] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Coral Master | United States | The 78-foot (23.8 m) vessel sank off Alaska.[44] |
November
1 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Vina | United States | The capsized fishing vessel was found on shore at Cedar Pass (56°46′N 135°11′W) in Southeast Alaska with both of her crewmen missing.[45] |
22 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Margaret A | United States | The 108-gross register ton motor vessel sank off Turnabout Island (57°07′30″N 133°58′40″W) in Frederick Sound in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[17] |
December
3 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Achaios | Cyprus | The motor vessel ran aground on the Akrotiri Peninsula (34°37′N 32°55′E) on the coast of Cyprus and was wrecked.[37] |
Devon City | United Kingdom | The bulk carrier ran aground at Rügen Island, West Germany. She was refloated the next day and proceeded to Szczecin, Poland, for repairs.[46] |
9 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Doomba | Australia | The lighter was scuttled off Dee Why (33°42′58″S 151°20′50″E), New South Wales, Australia. |
11 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fog | United States | The 28-foot (8.5 m) vessel sank off the south-central coast of Alaska.[47] |
15 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Argo Merchant | Liberia | The oil tanker ran aground at Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. She broke up and sank on 21 December, a total loss. |
Unimak | United States | The fishing vessel was destroyed by fire in the Bering Sea.[48] |
17 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sansinena | Liberia |
20 December
23 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Seastar | Lebanon | Ran aground on the Sha`b Abu Nuhas reef, remained stranded and finally sank in 1984.[49] |
Santez-anna | United Kingdom | The fishing boat was lost west of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. |
24 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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British Steel | United Kingdom | The yacht ran aground off Fuerteventura, Spain. All eight crew rescued, and the yacht was later refloated and returned to service.[50] |
27 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unidentified midget submarine | Pakistan Navy | The SX-404-class midget submarine was lost in an accident with the loss of all hands.[51][52] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Grand Zenith | Panama | The oil tanker vanished in the North Atlantic with the loss of all hands; the United States Coast Guard estimated she sank on 30 or 31 December.[53] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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KRI Hardadali | Indonesian Navy | The missile boat sank after striking an underwater obstacle in early 1976.[54] |
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Ship events in 1976 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 |
Ship commissionings: | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 |
Shipwrecks: | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 |
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