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The list of shipwrecks in 1956 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1956.

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References


January

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1956
Ship State Description
Citrine  United Kingdom The collier sank off The Lizard, Cornwall. All ten crew were rescued,[1] but one later died.[2]
Melody  Liberia The tanker ran aground at Vlissingen, Netherlands.[3]

5 January

List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1956
Ship State Description
Hartel  Netherlands The coaster collided with Penhir ( France) in the River Thames at Gravesend, Kent. All nine on board rescued.[4]
Gem  United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with Kallgeir ( Norway) at Poortershaven, Netherlands and was beached.[5]

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1956
Ship State Description
Esso Appalachee  United Kingdom The tanker collided with the jetty at Immingham, Lincolnshire, cutting it in two and leaving a 50-foot (15 m) gap.

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1956
Ship State Description
Alvi  Panama The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the North Sea west of Hvide Sande, Denmark, at 55°57′N 6°52′E / 55.950°N 6.867°E / 55.950; 6.867.[6]

8 January

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1956
Ship State Description
Moreton Bay  United Kingdom the ocean liner ran aground in the Suez Canal. Later refloated.[7]

10 January

List of shipwrecks: 10 January 1956
Ship State Description
Sirabuen  Norway The coaster collided with Loide Venezuela ( Brazil) and sank 15 nautical miles (28 km) of Kijkduin, Netherlands with the loss of all but one of her eight crew.[8]

17 January

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1956
Ship State Description
Salem Maritime  United States The T2 tanker exploded, caught fire and sank at Lake Charles, Louisiana. She was refloated on 29 January. Although declared a constructive total loss, she was later rebuilt and returned to service.[9]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1956
Ship State Description
Maria Pompei  Italy The cargo ship ran aground at Aberavon, Glamorgan.[10]

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1956
Ship State Description
Baltrover  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at the mouth of the Elbe, West Germany.[11] Refloated on 13 February.[12]

29 January

List of shipwrecks: 29 January 1956
Ship State Description
Gertrud  West Germany The cargo ship sank in the North Sea 150 nautical miles (280 km) east of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. All nine crew rescued by the trawlers Junella and York City (both  United Kingdom) and landed at Aberdeen.[13]

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1956
Ship State Description
Bedford  United Kingdom The tanker ran aground off Singapore. Refloated after 36 hours.[14]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1956
Ship State Description
King's Mount  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground in the Elbe, West Germany. Refloated on 1 February having been aground for several days.[15]

February

3 February

List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1956
Ship State Description
Rosalind  Panama The cargo ship sank 120 nautical miles (220 km) south of Crete. All crew rescued by San Carlo ( Italy).[16]
Dovrefjell  Norway the cargo ship ran aground on the Pentland Skerries, Orkney Islands, Scotland. All 41 crew rescued by Royal Air Force and Royal Navy helicopters.[17]

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1956
Ship State Description
Kronprinsesse Ingrid  Denmark The passenger ship ran aground off Esbjerg. Refloated the next day.[18]

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1956
Ship State Description
Lycia  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground off Katakolon, Greece.[19]

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1956
Ship State Description
Loide-Honduras  Brazil The cargo ship ran aground on Long Sand Bank, Thames Estuary. ST Rumania ( United Kingdom) sent to assist but she ran aground on the same sandbank and sank. Loide-Honduras refloated on 12 February and returned to service.
Conlea  United Kingdom foundered 15 nautical miles (28 km) off La Corbière, Jersey.[20]

14 February

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1956
Ship State Description
RFA Wave Monarch  Royal Navy The Template:Sclass2- ran aground at Valletta, Malta. Later refloated.[21]

16 February

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1956
Ship State Description
No. 24  United Kingdom The hopper barge was in collision with Indus ( United Kingdom) and sank in the River Mersey. All eleven crew rescued.[22]

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1956
Ship State Description
Corchester  United Kingdom The collier was in collision with City of Sydney near the Haisborough Light Vessel, off the coast of Norfolk and sank with the loss of eight of her 21 crew.[23]

29 February

List of shipwrecks: 29 February 1956
Ship State Description
Sapanca  Turkey The cargo ship collided in the Scheldt, Belgium with Blommersdijk ( Netherlands) and sank. All 35 crew saved by Blommersdijk.[24]

March

1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1956
Ship State Description
Greenhaven  United Kingdom The coaster ran aground on Roaninish Rock, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) off the coast of Co Donegall, Ireland after her engine failed in a storm. Assistance given by HMS Wizard ( Royal Navy) and the Arranmore Lifeboat. All ten crew rescued by helicopters from RAF Eglinton.[25]

11 March

List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1956
Ship State Description
Prince de Liege  Belgium Caught fire off Spain and abandoned by crew. Towed by a naval tug ( Armada Española) then by salvage ship Herakles ( Sweden) to Gibraltar. Subsequently scrapped in the United Kingdom in 1957.[26]

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1956
Ship State Description
Vert Prairial  France The trawler was driven ashore at Wireless Point, Porthcurno, Cornwall, United Kingdom with the loss of all seventeen on board.[27]

18 March

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1956
Ship State Description
Etrusco  Italy The cargo ship ran aground at Scituate, Massachusetts, United States. All 30 crew rescued by breeches buoy.[28]
USS Willis A. Lee  United States Navy The Template:Sclass- was driven onto rocks at Jamestown, Rhode Island in a storm.[28]

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1956
Ship State Description
Changsha  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Tokyo, Japan. Refloated on 9 April.[29]

April

9 April

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1956
Ship State Description
Akka  Sweden The ore carrier sank in the Firth of Clyde with the loss of six of her 33 crew.[30]

13 April

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1956
Ship State Description
Maria Schroeder  West Germany The cargo ship ran aground in the Red Sea during a sandstorm.[31]

17 April

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1956
Ship State Description
Altair  Netherlands The cargo ship struck a rock off Borborema, Brazil and sank. All crew were rescued.[32]

27 April

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1956
Ship State Description
Luabo  Portugal The cargo ship sank off Mozambique with the loss of fourteen of her 57 crew.[33]

May

5 May

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1956
Ship State Description
Erling Borthen  Norway The cargo ship collided with Santa Rosa ( Liberia) in the English Channel of the Royal Sovereign Lightship ( United Kingdom) and was severely damaged.[34]

7 May

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1956
Ship State Description
USS Wisconsin  United States Navy The Template:Sclass- collided with USS Eaton ( United States Navy) off the coast of Virginia.

9 May

List of shipwrecks: 9 May 1956
Ship State Description
HMS Talent  Royal Navy The T-class submarine was damaged in a collision with an unknown vessel whilst at periscope depth in the Solent.[35]
Fred Everard  United Kingdom The coaster was in collision with Walstream ( United Kingdom) off Margate, Kent and sank with the loss of one of her six crew.[36]

14 May

List of shipwrecks: 14 May 1956
Ship State Description
Howard Olson  United States The steam schooner was in collision with Marine Leopard ( United States) 175 nautical miles (324 km) south of San Francisco, California and sank with the loss of six of her 28 crew.[37][38]

24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1956
Ship State Description
Orsova  United Kingdom The ocean liner ran aground in Port Philip Bay, Victoria, Australia. Refloated with the aid of three tugs.[39]

30 May

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1956
Ship State Description
Prins Bernhard  Netherlands The coaster was in collision with Tanger ( West Germany) in the English Channel off Folkestone, Kent. She sank, but all on board were rescued by the Dover lifeboat.[40]
Ballyclare  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Sarda Island in the Mull of Kintyre.[40]

31 May

List of shipwrecks: 31 May 1956
Ship State Description
Caronia  United Kingdom The ocean liner ran aground at Messina, Sicily, Italy.[41] Refloated the next day.[42]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1956
Ship State Description
Hassel  Norway Collided with a Liberian tanker. Beached a Folkestone, Kent. Later repaired and returned to service.[43]

June

8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1956
Ship State Description
Badora Flag unknown The passenger ship sank in the Bay of Bengal with the loss of all but six of the 202 people on board.[44][45]

12 June

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1956
Ship State Description
Warri  United Kingdom The Elder Dempster Lines coaster ran aground at Iwerekun, Nigeria. Declared a total loss.

21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1956
Ship State Description
Sea Star  United States The cargo ship ran aground in the Suez Canal, Egypt.[46] Later refloated.[47]

22 June

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1956
Ship State Description
Shuna  United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground on the Isle of Muck, in the Inner Hebrides.[48]

26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1956
Ship State Description
Vicky  Australia The collier sank off Wilson's Promonotory, Victoria with the loss of eight crew.[49]

28 June

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1956
Ship State Description
Rosa  Belgium Collided with Beaverburn ( United Kingdom) in the River Scheldt. Rosa was beached, and refloated the next day. Later reparired and returned to service.[26]

July

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1956
Ship State Description
Sheaf Royal  United Kingdom The tanker ran aground off Singapore. Refloated four days later.[50]

8 July

List of shipwrecks: 8 July 1956
Ship State Description
Yewcroft  United Kingdom The 827 ton steamship stranded in dense fog on the rocks of Trevean Cove, Cornwall, UK whilst carrying cement between Cliffe and Bristol. The captain believed he was near the Brisons at Cape Cornwall.[51][52]
Dione  France The cargo ship collided with Michael C ( Liberia) off the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom.[52]
Lord Warden  United Kingdom The ferry collided with Tamba ( France) 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off Cap Gris Nez, Pas de Calais, France.[52]
Marotte  France The fishing vessel collided with Kenuta ( United Kingdom) off the Eddystone Lighthouse in the English Channel and sank. All crew rescued by Kenuta.[52]

11 July

List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1956
Ship State Description
Estoril  Panama The Liberty ship collided with Dea Mazzella ( Italy) and sank at 42°50′N 61°00′W / 42.833°N 61.000°W / 42.833; -61.000.[34]

16 July

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1956
Ship State Description
Maeda  Costa Rica The cargo ship was in collision with Salsaas ( Norway) and sank off the coast of the Netherlands. All crew rescued by Salsaas.[53]

17 July

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1956
Ship State Description
Douglas  Norway The cargo ship ran aground near the Maidens Lighthouse, Co Antrim, United Kingdom. Refloated on 21 July with substantial damage.[54]

23 July

List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1956
Ship State Description
Kotka  Finland The cargo ship was scuttled with a cargo of obsolete ammunition in the Atlantic Ocean.[55]

25 July

List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1956
Ship State Description
Andrea Doria  Italy The Italian Line 29,083 ton ocean liner, sunk after collision with Stockholm ( Sweden). 46 fatalities.

29 July

List of shipwrecks: 29 July 1956
Ship State Description
Moyana  United Kingdom The ketch foundered off The Lizard, Cornwall. All crew rescued by Clan Maclean ( United Kingdom).[56]
Teeswood  United Kingdom The cargo ship capsized off Dungeness, Kent with the loss of one of her sixteen crew.[56] She drifted and sank off Dover.[43]

August

9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1956
Ship State Description
RFA Wave King  Royal Navy The Template:Sclass2- struck a rock north of São Luís de Maranhão, Brazil and was severely damaged. Withdrawn from service as a result.

14 August

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1956
Ship State Description
Hondsrug  Netherlands The coaster sank 10 nautical miles (19 km) north of Fyn Island, Denmark with the loss of five of the seven people on board.[57]

19 August

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1956
Ship State Description
Traquair  United Kingdom The coaster sank 36 nautical miles (67 km) east of Aldeburgh, Suffolk. All eleven crew rescued.[58]

September

7 September

List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1956
Ship State Description
Seagate  Liberia The cargo ship ran aground on the Sonora Reef, of the coast of Washington, United States and broke in two.[59]

15 September

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1956
Ship State Description
Pelagia  Liberia The Liberty ship broke in two and sank off the Lofoten Islands, Norway (67°15′N 11°35′E / 67.250°N 11.583°E / 67.250; 11.583).[60]

16 September

List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1956
Ship State Description
Irene  Greece The coaster foundered south east of Crete. All ten crew rescued by Norman Prince ( United Kingdom).[61]

October

12 October

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1956
Ship State Description
HMS Anchorite  Royal Navy The Template:Sclass- ran aground in Rothesay Bay, Firth of Forth.[62]

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1956
Ship State Description
Concha  Costa Rica The cargo ship ran aground in the River Humber. Later refloated undamaged.[63]

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1956
Ship State Description
Lepus  Philippines Typhoon Harriet : The cargo ship foundered off Legaspi with the loss of 25 of her 36 crew. The survivors were rescued by USS Castor ( United States Navy).[64]

22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1956
Ship State Description
USS Antietam  United States Navy The Template:Sclass- ran aground off Brest, France. Later refloated undamaged.[65]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1956
Ship State Description
Domiat  Egyptian Navy Suez Crisis: The frigate was challenged by the light cruiser HMS Newfoundland ( Royal Navy) but fired on the British ship. HMS Diana and HMS Newfoundland returned fire, sinking Domiat.[66]
Ibrahim el Awal  Egyptian Navy Suez Crisis: The Template:Sclass2- was engaged in shelling Haifa, Israel when she was captured by the Israeli Navy following a battle.[66]
Wimbledon  United Kingdom Suez Crisis: The cargo ship foundered off Blakeney, Norfolk with the loss of one of her nineteen crew.[67]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1956
Ship State Description
Paul Solente  Egypt Suez Crisis: The dredger was scuttled as a blockship in the Suez Canal at Port Said. Later raised, repaired and returned to service.[68]
Pollux  Egypt Suez Crisis: The dredger was scuttled as a blockship in the Suez Canal at Port Said.
Zamalek  Egypt The cargo ship was sunk in the Suez Canal at Port Tewfik during an attack by British and French forces.[69]

November

14 November

List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1956
Ship State Description
Port Victor  United Kingdom The cargo ship collided with a Soviet merchant ship in the Scheldt, Belgium.[70]

16 November

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1956
Ship State Description
Neritopsis  United Kingdom The tanker struck a rock in the South China Sea and sank. All crew rescued by Nellore ( United Kingdom).[71][72]

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1956
Ship State Description
M-200  Soviet Navy Collided with the destroyer Statnyj ( Soviet Navy) and sank with the loss of 30 lives.

December

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1956
Ship State Description
Southern Hunter  United Kingdom This 441GRT steam-powered whaler was wrecked trying to avoid a vessel of the Argentine Navy coming in the opposite direction at Foster Harbour, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands.[1]

20 December

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1956
Ship State Description
Lukuga  Belgium Collided off Terschelling, Netherlands with Bernhard Hansen ( Norway) and beached off Schiermonnikoog. Refloated 24 December and towed to Emden, Germany where repaired and returned to service.[73]

26 December

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1956
Ship State Description
Sunlong  Norway The Liberty ship sprang a leak and sank off Kristiansand, Norway. All 36 crew rescued by Borre ( Norway).[74][75]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1956
Ship State Description
Costa del Marfil  Spain The cargo ship sank off the Canary Islands. Thirteen crew survived.[76]

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  67. ^ "Skipper Washed Overboard". The Times. No. 53677. London. 1 November 1956. col A, p. 7. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  68. ^ "20 Wrecks Located At Entry To Suez Canal". The Times. No. 53686. London. 12 November 1956. col C-D, p. 10. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  69. ^ "Canal Clearance Work Again Delayed". The Times. No. 53725. London. 29 December 1956. col A, p. 6. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  70. ^ "British Steamer In Collision". The Times. No. 53689. London. 15 November 201. col F, p. 10. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
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