List of shipwrecks in 1987
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The list of shipwrecks in 1987 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1987.
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January[edit]
4 January[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lady Blue | ![]() |
The 90-foot (27.4 m) fishing vessel sank in Unimak Pass in the Aleutian Islands.[1] |
14 January[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Testa Rosa | ![]() |
The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal with the loss of all 30 crew.[2] |
16 January[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hetta | ![]() |
The 83-foot (25.3 m) fish tender ran aground and sank off Whale Head Island (55°51′40″N 133°41′00″W / 55.86111°N 133.68333°W) on the west side of Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. Another fishing vessel rescued her crew of three.[3] |
28 January[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Laura | ![]() |
The 48-foot (14.6 m) fishing vessel sank in the Shelikof Strait between mainland Alaska and the Kodiak Archipelago.[1] |
February[edit]
1 February[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Midnatsol Norge | ![]() |
The hotel ship foundered off Fredrikstad, Norway. Wreck raised, and broken up in Bruges, Belgium, in June 1987.[4] |
4 February[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pacific Star | ![]() |
The 40-foot (12.2 m) fishing vessel sank with the loss of one crew member after a rogue wave struck her in the North Pacific Ocean approximately 60 nautical miles (110 km; 69 mi) south of Agattu in the Near Islands in the western Aleutian Islands. The other five people aboard were rescued.[5] |
6 February[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Amatuli | ![]() |
The fishing vessel caught fire and was abandoned in the Bering Sea approximately 45 nautical miles (83 km; 52 mi) east of St. George Island. She was salvaged, repaired, and returned to service.[6] |
8 February[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fukuyoshi Maru No. 85 | ![]() |
The longliner′s crew abandoned ship after she suffered a propane explosion in her galley and subsequently was gutted by fire in the Bering Sea 120 nautical miles (220 km; 140 mi) northwest of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands. One member of her crew died, presumably in the explosion; her other 25 crew members were rescued by the fishing vessel Fukuyoshi Maru No. 8 (![]() |
20 February[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Accokeek | ![]() |
The decommissioned auxiliary ocean tug was sunk as an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico. |
March[edit]
4 March[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMAS Colac | ![]() |
The decommissioned tank cleaning vessel, formerly a Bathurst-class corvette, was sunk as a target in the Tasman Sea off the coast of Australia at 34°49′12″S 151°32′00″E / 34.82000°S 151.53333°E by a Mark 48 torpedo fired by the submarine HMAS Ovens (![]() |
6 March[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Herald of Free Enterprise | ![]() |
The roll-on/roll-off passenger ferry took on water, capsized and sank stern-first with the loss of 193 lives in the North Sea off Zeebrugge, Belgium. Investigators subsequently discovered that her bow doors had been left open. |
Northern Challenger | ![]() |
The 80-foot (24.4 m) fishing vessel sank off Ugak Island (57°23′N 152°17′W / 57.383°N 152.283°W) in the Kodiak Archipelago. The fishing vessel Saint Janet (![]() |
8 March[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Birgit N (or Birgit – N) | ![]() |
The 123-foot (37.5 m) crab-fishing vessel was wrecked in Patton Cove (51°20′45″N 178°57′00″W / 51.34583°N 178.95000°W) on the coast of Ulak Island in the Aleutian Islands.[9] |
15 March[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Komsomolets Kirgizii | ![]() |
The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 150 nautical miles (280 km) off New Jersey, United States. All 37 crew were rescued by American helicopters.[10] |
16 March[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lovac | ![]() |
The 32-foot (9.8 m) fishing vessel disappeared after departing Kodiak, Alaska, to fish for sablefish. It is not clear whether one or two people vanished along with the vessel.[1] |
20 March[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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All Alaskan | ![]() |
The 340-foot (103.6 m) fish processing ship ran aground north of Big Lake (57°12′30″N 170°10′00″W / 57.2083333°N 170.1666667°W) on the coast of Saint Paul Island in the Bering Sea. All 142 people aboard survived. Her wreck later was demolished and removed.[6] |
21 March[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ocean Clipper | ![]() |
The 90-foot (27.4 m) fishing vessel was driven ashore during a gale and wrecked on the south coast of Saint Paul Island in the Bering Sea during a storm. Her crew of six abandoned ship in a life raft, reached a reef, and then walked to the shore, from which the high endurance cutter USCGC Midgett (![]() |
April[edit]
4 April[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Katy Too | ![]() |
The 30-foot (9.1 m) fishing vessel was lost when she was intentionally run aground in Icy Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[12] |
8 April[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Naknek | ![]() |
The 81-foot (24.7 m) tender ran aground and sank in Wells Bay (60°53′30″N 147°28′30″W / 60.89167°N 147.47500°W) in Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of Alaska.[8] |
16 April[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Musson | ![]() |
The Project 1234 (NATO reporting name "Nanuchka-class) corvette sank after being hit by a P-15M anti-ship cruise missile during an air defense exercise in the Sea of Japan. |
21 April[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Jamie Lynn | ![]() |
Damaged earlier while in the harbor at Saint Paul on Saint Paul Island in the Pribilof Islands, the 93-foot (28.3 m) crab-fishing vessel sank with the loss of three lives in the Bering Sea 90 nautical miles (170 km; 100 mi) north of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, while under tow by the fish processing vessel Long Harbor (![]() |
28 April[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ranger | ![]() |
The 55-foot (16.8 m) longline fishing vessel capsized and sank in Southeast Alaska approximately 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi) northwest of Sitka, Alaska. The United States Coast Guard rescued all three members of her crew from a life raft.[14] |
May[edit]
1 May[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Saint Eloi | ![]() |
Collided with Cambridge Ferry (![]() |
5 May[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Chabro | ![]() |
The 56-foot (17.1 m) fishing vessel sank in a storm with the loss of one life approximately 80 nautical miles (150 km; 92 mi) southeast of Seward, Alaska. The fishing vessel Kodiak (![]() |
Kahiltna II | ![]() |
The 47-foot (14.3 m) halibut-fishing vessel sank in a storm approximately 55 nautical miles (102 km; 63 mi) from Cape Resurrection (59°52′N 149°17′W / 59.867°N 149.283°W) on the south-central coast of Alaska. Her crew of five abandoned ship in a life raft and was rescued by the fishing vessel Sea Scape (![]() |
Kvingo | ![]() |
The 38-foot (11.6 m) halibut-fishing vessel sank in a storm off the northwest coast of Coronation Island in the Alexandar Archipelago in Southeast Alaska south of Sitka, Alaska. The United States Coast Guard rescued her crew of two.[12] |
6 May[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hotline | ![]() |
The 42-foot (12.8 m) seiner disappeared in a storm with the loss of all four men on board near Nuka Bay (59°19′N 150°33′W / 59.317°N 150.550°W) on the east coast of the Kenai Peninsula on the south-central coast of Alaska.[3] |
27 May[edit]
Ship | Country | Description |
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Nawal | ![]() |
Sank at moorings, Jeddah.[16] |
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Maral R | ![]() |
Ran ashore at Seaton Sluice, Northumberland after an engine fire caused the crew to abandon ship.[1]|}
June[edit]11 June[edit]
12 June[edit]
15 June[edit]
16 June[edit]
19 June[edit]
29 June[edit]
July[edit]2 July[edit]
16 July[edit]
17 July[edit]
22 July[edit]
25 July[edit]
28 July[edit]
29 July[edit]
Unknown date[edit]
August[edit]13 August[edit]
17 August[edit]
September[edit]10 September[edit]
16 September[edit]
19 September[edit]
26 September[edit]
October[edit]1 October[edit]
16 October[edit]
November[edit]5 November[edit]
7 November[edit]
14 November[edit]
27 November[edit]
28 November[edit]
30 November[edit]
December[edit]5 December[edit]
7 December[edit]
8 December[edit]
10 December[edit]
12 December[edit]
20 December[edit]
24 December[edit]
31 December[edit]
Unknown date[edit]
References[edit]
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