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== Notable capsizings == [[File:Tromsö, Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945 CL2830.jpg|thumb|250px|German battleship ''[[German battleship Tirpitz|Tirpitz]]'' lying capsized in Tromsø fjord after the [[Operation Catechism]] air raid, attended by a salvage vessel.]] * {{ship||Mary Rose||2}}, 19 July 1545, capsized and sank, English carrack, 380 dead. * {{ship||Vasa|ship|2}}, 10 August 1628, Swedish warship, maiden voyage, 30–50 dead. * {{ship||Codseeker}}, 9 May 1877, Canadian fishing schooner, maiden voyage, 4 dead, 2 trapped in hull rescued three days later. * [[RMS Empress of Ireland|RMS ''Empress of Ireland'']], 19 May 1914, capsized and sank in the [[Saint Lawrence River]] after colliding with the Norwegian collier [[SS Storstad|''Storstad'']], 1,012 dead. * [[HMS Monmouth]], 1 November 1914, British armoured cruiser sunk with all hands at the [[Battle of Coronel]], 734 dead. * {{SMS|Blücher}}, 24 January 1915, German armoured cruiser, sunk at the [[Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)]], 770 dead. * {{SS|Eastland}}, 24 July 1915, excursion boat, 844 dead, greatest loss of life on the [[Great Lakes]]. * {{SMS|Szent István}}, 10 June 1918, Austro-Hungarian capital warship, [[torpedo]]ed, 89 dead. * [[Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow]], 21 June 1919, several German battleships and battlecruisers scuttled. * {{HMS|Royal Oak|08|6}}, 14 October 1939, Torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat {{GS|U-47|1938|2}}, 835 dead. * {{ship|German battleship|Bismarck}}, 27 May 1941, Sunk after sinking HMS ''Hood'', over 2000 casualties. * {{HMS|Barham|04|6}}, on the 25th of November, 1941, torpedoed four times by German U-boat {{GS|U-331||2}}, rolled over to port within 4 minutes before exploding, 862 dead. * {{USS|Oklahoma|BB-37|6}}, 7 December 1941, U.S. battleship torpedoed at [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor]], 429 missing or killed. * {{HMS|Repulse|1916|6}}, 10 December 1941, Attacked and sunk by Japanese aircraft, 517 dead. * {{HMS|Prince of Wales|53|6}}, 10 December 1941, Attacked and sunk by enemy Japanese aircraft, 328 dead. * {{USS|Lafayette|AP-53}}, formerly {{SS|Normandie}}, 9 February 1942, at dock while being converted to a [[troopship]], one casualty. * {{ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Ryūjō}}, 24 August 1942, sunk by American air attacks, 120 casualties. * {{ship|Japanese battleship|Kirishima}}, 15 November 1942, 212 casualties. * {{ship|German battleship|Scharnhorst}}, 26 December 1943, sunk during the Battle of the North Cape, 1,932 dead. * {{ship|Japanese battleship|Musashi}}, 24 October 1944, sunk during the Battle of Sibuyan Sea, 1,023 casualties. * {{ship|Japanese battleship|Fusō}}, 25 October 1944, sunk during the Battle of Surigao Strait, approximately 1890 casualties. * {{ship|Japanese battleship|Yamashiro}}, 25 October 1944, sunk during the Battle of Surigao Strait, 1,626 casualties. * {{ship|German battleship|Tirpitz}}, 12 November 1944, sunk by Royal Air Force bombers, over 1,000 casualties. * {{ship|Japanese aircraft carrier|Shinano}}, 29 November 1944, sunk by American submarine {{USS|Archerfish|SS-311}}, 1,435 casualties. * {{ship|Japanese battleship|Yamato}}, 7 April 1945, 2,475 dead. * {{ship|Soviet battleship|Novorossiysk}}, 29 October 1955, 608 dead. * {{SS|Andrea Doria}}, 25 July 1956, killing 46 passengers at the area of the impact with the {{MS|Stockholm|1948|6}}. * {{HMS|Coventry|D118|6}}, 25 May 1982, killing 19 sailors, sunk by 3 1000 lbs bombs dropped from Argentine A-4 Skyhawks. * {{MS|Herald of Free Enterprise}}, 6 March 1987, bow door left open, killing 193 passengers. * {{MS|Jan Heweliusz}}, 14 January 1993, leaving 54 people dead. * {{MS|Estonia}}, 28 September 1994, killing 852 passengers. * {{MS|Express Samina}}, 26 September 2000, 82 dead. * {{MV|Le Joola}}, 26 September 2002, Senegalese ferry, at least 1,863 dead. * {{MV|Rocknes|2001|6}}, 19 January 2004, [[Netherlands|Dutch]] rock discharge vessel, capsized south of [[Bergen, Norway]], killing 18 of 30 crew.<ref name=BFD2.3>''[[Blueprint for Disaster]]''. Season 2. Episode 3.</ref> * {{MS|al-Salam Boccaccio 98}}, 3 February 2006, resulting in an estimated 1,020 dead. * {{MV|Demas Victory}}, 30 June 2009, which sails to offshore oil and gas platforms capsized off the coast of [[Qatar]]i capital city of [[Doha]].<ref name="Schreck">{{cite news |last = Schreck |first = Adam |title = Up to 30 feared dead after ship capsizes off Qatar capital Doha in rough Persian Gulf waters |agency = Associated Press |publisher = Washington Examiner |date = 1 July 2009 |url = http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/ap/49653397.html |access-date = 2 July 2009 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} </ref> * {{ship||Costa Concordia||2}}, 13 January 2012, ran aground off the [[island of Giglio]], western Italy, with about 4,200 aboard, all except 32 saved. * {{ship||Sewol||2}}, 16 April 2014, approximately three kilometres off Gwanmae Island, [[South Jeolla Province]], South Korea, with over 450 people on board, 304 dead, 172 survivors. *''[[Sinking of Dongfang zhi Xing|Dongfang Zhi Xing]]'', 1 June 2015, large vessel capsized and sank cruising the [[Yangtze|Yangtze River]] in [[Jianli County|Jianli]], [[Hubei]]: thunderstorm [[downburst]] with high winds, with 442 dead and 12 survivors. * {{MV|Sinar Bangun}}, 18 June 2018, at [[Lake Toba]], [[North Sumatra]], [[Indonesia]], 3 known dead and 164 presumed so; 23 known survivors. Overloaded and improper three-deck use/design caused high uprighting moment ([[centre of gravity]]). *[[2018 Phuket boat capsizing|MV ''Phoenix'']], 5 July 2018, hit fellow tourist boat MV ''Serenita''; both capsized and sank in a sudden storm near [[Phuket]], [[Thailand]]. Double-decker: 41 dead and 15 missing, 49 survivors; smaller boat carried 42 passengers, all saved. *[[Sinking of MV Nyerere|MV ''Nyerere'']], 20 September 2018, ferry shuttling people and cargo on [[Lake Victoria]], Tanzania due to pilot distraction when docking, a sharp turn and overloading. 227 known dead, passenger log lost, tens survived. *[[MV Golden Ray|MV ''Golden Ray'']], 8 September 2019, automobile carrier in St Simons Sound off the US state of Georgia, improperly ballasted and heeled over during sharp turn. All 23 crewmembers and the harbor pilot were rescued. *{{ship||Orient Queen|1989|2}}, 5 August 2020, at [[Beirut]] as a result of nearby 4 August [[2020 Beirut explosions|ammonium nitrate explosion]].
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