List of shipwrecks in 2007

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The list of shipwrecks in 2007 includes all ships with damage sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 2007.

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[edit] January

[edit] 10 January

with damage FV Pere Charles, ( Ireland) an 20 m fishing trawler sank in a storm southeast of Ireland with the five crew presumed dead. Two lifeboats were found empty the next day. In the same area, the same day, the 24-meter wooden fishing vessel, The Honeydew 2 sank. Two of its four crew members were rescued after 20 hours in a liferaft.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 12 January

MS Server ( Cyprus) sank of the coast of Fedje, Norway^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 19 January

The container ship MSC Napoli ( United Kingdom) was beached in Lyme bay after suffering a serious structural failure of her hull during a severe storm on the previous day.

[edit] 26 January

The 75-foot (23 m) fishing boat, Lady of Grace, ( United States) sank in Nantucket Sound with the loss of all four of its crewmembers. The weather at the time of its sinking was winds of 25 to 30 knots (56 km/h) and 8 to 10-foot (3.0 m) seas.^[1]

[edit] 28 January

The 40-foot (12 m) yacht, Tenacious, ( United States) presumed lost off San Francisco, California in good weather. Famed computer scientist Jim Gray was making a solo day trip. The Coast Guard suspended the search for the ship on 1 February.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 30 January

The MS Nordkapp ( Norway) ran aground near Deception Island, Antarctic Ocean. Passengers transferred to sister ship MS Nordnorge. HMS Endurance took non-essential crew aboard.

[edit] February

[edit] 1 February

The 52-foot (16 m) fishing boat Lucky Lady ( United States) lost off Cape Elizabeth, Maine with its two crew missing as of 1 February. Weather conditions were only 4-foot (1.2 m) waves and 10-knot (19 km/h) winds.[2]

[edit] 25 February

MV Levina 1 ( Indonesia) sank in the Java Sea after burning for three days. Over 50 people killed.

[edit] April

[edit] 6 April

MS Sea Diamond ( Greece) sank near Santorini, Greece, after running aground the preceding day.

[edit] 12 April

The anchor handling tug supply vessel Bourbon Dolphin ( Norway sank of the coast of Shetland Islands and claimed 8 lives.

[edit] August

[edit] 3 August

Trawler Olshana ( Russia) sinks in Tangafjørður between the two Faroese islands of Streymoy and Eysturoy after hitting a skerry, Flesjarnar the evening before. There were no casualites. ^[2][3]

[edit] 3 August

Ferry Amunafa ( Sierra Leone) operating on the Freetown-Kasire route capsized off the coast of Bailor, Sierra Leone, 158 killed.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 5 August

The vessel Jork sank after colliding with the unmanned North Sea gas platform Viking Echo (~64 km off the Norfolk coast), the entire crew was rescued, the gas platform survived and is continuing to operate. The vessel had been destined for one of the Humber ports carrying a cargo of grain from Lubeck in Germany.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 12 August

The bulk-carrier MV New Flame ( Panama) collided with an oil tanker off Europa Point, the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending partially submerged.

[edit] 23 August

One died after the ship MV Douala Tide sank off Port Alfred in South Africa. South African maritime authorities rescued ten seafarers after the vessel capsized.^{[citation needed]}

The vessel had been sailing from Dubai to Douala, the vessel was a 37-foot (11 m) anchor-handling tug.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 30 August

The cargo vessel MV Shelly ( Israel) is accidentally rammed by cruise liner CS Salamis Glory ( Cyprus), killing two of the former vessel's crew members as the former ship sinks.^[4][5]

[edit] November

[edit] 12 November

Five ships ( Russia) sink in the Black Sea due to weather conditions:

• Russian tanker Volgoneft-139 broke into two parts and more than 1,300 t of oil finish into the water of the Kerch Strait^{[citation needed]}
• Russian cargo Volnogorsk that transported 2,400t of sulphur.^{[citation needed]}
• Russian cargo Nakhitchevan that transported sulphur too.^{[citation needed]}
• Russian cargo Kovel that transported sulphur too.^{[citation needed]}
• Georgian cargo Hash Izmail that transported steel products.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 13 November

Tanker MV Propontis ( Greece) with 100000 tonnes of crude oil touched bottom in the Gulf of Finland. The ship was travelling from Russia to England. There were no signs of an oil leak.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 23 November

Cruise ship MS Explorer ( Norway) struck an iceberg (or other piece of ice) and sank close to the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic Ocean. 100 passengers and 54 crew, pretty much the entire population of the vessel at the time, were evacuated from the ship and took to the liferafts. (The two people that remained and attempted to stabilize the ship gave up and evacuated as well.) The MV Antarctic Dream was reported to be assisting in the rescue.

[edit] December

[edit] 19 December

Tug Flying Phantom ( United Kingdom) capsized and sank off Clydebank with the loss of three lives. MAIB report

[edit] 25 December

The bulk carrier MV Eastern Bright ( South Korea), carrying nitrid acid sank near the Korean coast. Only one seaman was rescued, a Myanmarese, but there are 14 (12 Koreans and 2 Myanmareses) others missing.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

Ship events in 2007
Ship launches:	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Ship commissionings:	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Ship decommissionings:	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Shipwrecks:	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Marine Accident Investigation Branch (UK)
• salvage operations in 2007 by Smit International.
• Vessel Casualties & Pirates Database For Year 2007