Flashcards: Ships sunk in collisions

The MV Doña Paz was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry that sank after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector on December 20, 1987.

BAP Pacocha (SS-48) was a submarine of the Marina de Guerra del Perú (Peruvian Navy) named for the 1877 Battle of Pacocha, in which the Peruvian ironclad Huascar clashed with the Royal Navy.

USCGC Cuyahoga (WIX-157) was an Active-class patrol boat built in 1927 which saw action in World War II.

USS Arvilla (SP-752) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

(For other ships with the same name, see USS Elizabeth.) The first USS Elizabeth (SP-972) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in service from 1917 to 1919.

USS Fli-Hawk (SP-550) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

USS Frank E. Evans (DD-754), an Allen M.

USS Freehold (SP-347) was a minesweeper and tug that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919.

USS Hornbill (AMc-13) was a coastal minesweeper of the United States Navy, named after the hornbill.

The first USS Noa (DD-343/APD-24) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I.

USS O-5 (SS-66) was one of 16 O-class submarines built for the United States Navy during World War I.

USS PC-815 was a PC-461-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War II.

USS R-19 (SS-96) was an R-class coastal and harbor defense submarine of the United States Navy.

USS S-26 (SS-131) was an S-class submarine of the United States Navy.

USS Simplicity (SP-96) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1918.

USS St. Augustine (PG-54) was built in 1929 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.

USS Tarantula (SP-124) was a patrol boat in the United States Navy.

Catapulte was one of 20 Arquebuse-class destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

MV St. Thomas Aquinas was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry operated by 2GO Travel.

USS Stickleback (SS-415), a Balao-class submarine, was named for the stickleback, a small scaleless fish.

Yatagan was a Framée-class destroyer built for the French Navy around the beginning of the 20th century.

SS Admiral Nakhimov (Russian: Адмирал Нахимов), launched in March 1925 and originally named SS Berlin III, was a passenger liner of the German Weimar Republic later converted to a hospital ship, then a Soviet passenger ship.

MY Ady Gil (formerly Earthrace) was a 78-foot (24 m), wave-piercing trimaran, which was originally created as part of a project to break the world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powerboat.

The steamboat Dix operated from 1904 to 1906 as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.

HMS Imogen was a I-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s.

HMS C16 was one of 38 C-class submarines built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

The first USS Woolsey (DD-77) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I.

USS Hobson (DD-464/DMS-26), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Richmond Pearson Hobson, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the Spanish–American War.

SS Egypt was a P&O ocean liner.

SS Guararea was a Brazilian Cargo ship that collided with SS Britannia (1909) on the Santos bar off Ilha Des Palmas, Brazil, when on route from Santos in ballast.

SS August Helmerich was a German cargo ship that collided with SS Normandie off Dalarö (east coast of Öland) while on a voyage from Kotka, Finland to Hamburg, Germany with a cargo of wood.

SS Andrea Doria, pronounced [anˈdrɛːa ˈdɔːrja], was an ocean liner for the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia) home ported in Genoa, Italy, most famous for her sinking in 1956, when 46 people were killed.

SS Arctic was a 2,856-ton paddle steamer, one of the Collins Line, which operated a transatlantic passenger and mail steamship service during the 1850s.

The Preußen (usually Preussen in English) (PROY-sin) was a German steel-hulled five-masted ship-rigged windjammer built in 1902 for the F.

RMS Empress of Ireland was an ocean liner that sank in the Saint Lawrence River following a collision with the Norwegian collier SS Storstad in the early hours of 29 May 1914.

The Great Lakes freighter SS Scotiadoc was a 424 feet (129 m) long, 48 feet (15 m) wide, and 23.

French submarine Pluviôse (Q51) was a Laubeuf type submarine built for the French Navy prior to World War I.

SS Kate was a wooden carvel screw steamer built in 1883 at Balmain that was twice struck and sunk by Port Jackson & Manly Steamship Company ferries.

Costa Concordia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkɔsta konˈkɔrdja]) was a Concordia-class cruise ship built in 2004 by the Fincantieri's Sestri Ponente yards in Italy and operated from 2005 until 2012 by Costa Crociere (a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation).

HMS E4 was a British E class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness, costing £101,900.

The second USS Bancroft (DD-256) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy, which briefly served in 1919.

HMS A3 was an A-class submarine built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

The first USS Chauncey (DD-3) (originally "Destroyer No. 3") was a Bainbridge-class destroyer in the United States Navy named for Commodore Isaac Chauncey.

Ville du Havre was a French iron steamship that operated round trips between the northern coast of France and New York.

HMS K17 was a British K class submarine built by Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness.

Calypso was one of two Circé-class submarines built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

Floréal was one of 18 Pluviôse-class submarines built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

Prairal was one of 18 Pluviôse-class submarines built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

Yoshino (吉野) was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

HMS B2 was one of 11 B-class submarines built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

HMS C12 was one of 38 C-class submarines built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

HMS C11 was one of 38 C-class submarines built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

The Moby Prince disaster was a major naval accident resulting in 140 deaths.

Fantassin was one of four Chasseur-class destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

Framée was the name ship of her class of four destroyers built for the French Navy around the beginning of the 20th century.

HMS D2 was one of eight D-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the 20th century.

USS Ingraham (DD-444), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Captain Duncan Ingraham (1802–1891), who was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal following his actions regarding Martin Koszta, a Hungarian who had declared in New York his intention of becoming an American citizen, and who had been seized and confined in the Austrian ship Hussar.

USS S-51 (SS-162) was a fourth-group (S-48) S-class submarine of the United States Navy.

The second USS Perkins (DD–377) was a Mahan-class destroyer in the United States Navy before and during World War II.

Empress of Australia was a ferry operated by the Australian National Line.

The Aeolian Sky was a Greek-run freighter built in 1978, which collided with another ship near the Channel Islands and after a failed attempt at salvage sank off the coast of Dorset, England in a storm in late 1979.

Sand Star was a 489 GRT dredger that was built in 1943 as the coaster Empire Dyke Clelands (Successors) Ltd, Wallsend, Northumberland, United Kingdom for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).

MV Shelly was a 1,837 GRT cargo ship that was built in Bulgaria in 1973.

HMS M1 was a submarine of the British Royal Navy, one of four vessels of her class ordered towards the end of the First World War.

The Northfleet was a British full rigged ship that is best remembered for her disastrous sinking in the English Channel in January 1873.

PT-109 was a PT boat (Patrol Torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant, junior grade (LTJG) John F.

SS La Bourgogne was a French ocean liner, which sank in 1898, with the loss of 549 lives.

The SS Connemara was a twin screw steamer, 272 feet long, 35 broad and 14 deep with a gross tonnage of 1106.

HMS E41 was a British E class submarine built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead.

The SAS President Kruger was a frigate of the South African Navy.

SS City of Launceston was a 368 GRT steamship operated by the Launceston and Melbourne Steam Navigation Company from 1863, which had an early role in colonial steam shipping as the forerunner of the modern Bass Strait ferry service between Tasmania and Victoria.

SS El Sol was a cargo ship built in 1910 for the Morgan Line, a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Company.

SS Empire Simba was a British steam-powered cargo ship.

SS Papoose was an oil tanker built in 1921 by the Southwestern Shipbuilding & Drydock Company in San Pedro, California as SS Silvanus for the Nederlandsch-Indische Tankstoomboot Maatschappij ("Dutch-Indies Steam Tanker Company").

Surcouf was a French cruiser submarine ordered to be built in December 1927, launched on 18 October 1929, and commissioned in May 1934.

HMS Diana was a D-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.

HMCS West York was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Canadian Navy which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War.

HMS H47 was a British H class submarine built by William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir.

HMS K1 was a First World War steam turbine-propelled K-class submarine of the Royal Navy.

HMS Poseidon (P99) was a Parthian-class submarine designed and built by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering in Barrow-in-Furness for the Royal Navy, launched on 22 August 1929.

HMS Wild Swan was an Admiralty modified W class destroyer built for the Royal Navy.

INS Prahar was a Veer-class corvette of the Indian Navy.