Unnamed boat (South Sudan): A ferry in the White Nile River carrying women and children who were fleeing fighting in South Sudan capsized, resulting in 200-300 deaths.[2][3][4]
ECC Topaz (United Kingdom): The windfarm service vessel caught fire and sank in the North sea 11 nautical miles (20 km) east of Lowestoft, Suffolk at around 1pm. The crew of three was rescued by an RAF rescue helicopter from RAF Wattisham, and were not seriously injured.[6][7]
Unnamed (Yemen): A cargo ship, carrying car tyres and car parts sank off the coast of Al Shehar, Hadramout province with the loss of all twelve Indian crew.[16]
Luno (Spain): The empty cargo ship engines failed and she drifted onto the breakwater at Anglet, near Bayonne, France. She broke into two pieces, one either side of the breakwater. Her crew of twelve was winched off the wreck by helicopter.[22]
Summer Wind (Liberia): The bulk carrier was struck by an oil barge in the Houston Ship Channel in Texas causing a significant oil spill and closing the channel.[38]
Unnamed ship: The migrant ship capsized off the coast of Beer Ali, Yemen with the loss of forty-two lives. At least thirty people were rescued by the Yemen navy and taken to a refugee camp near Mayfaa.[41]
Chanko (Norway): The tugboat suffered an mechanical break-down, drifted onto shore at Edøya, near Sommarøy, Norway, and sank. Her crew of four were rescued by a lifeboat.[52] The wreck was raised in May 2014, and carried to Harstad on a lighter.[53] The scrapping of Chanko at Harstad began in June 2014.[54]
Ag Marina (Togo): The ship foundered in the Mediterranean Sea 30 nautical miles (56 km) west of Crete, Greece. Four of her seven crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from a Montenegro port towards Odessa, Russia.[55]
Shoko Maru (Japan): The tanker suffered an onboard explosion and fire off Himeji. Seven of her eight crew were rescued, with her captain reported as missing.[61]Shoko Maru later sank.[62]
Migrant ship: An unauthorised wooden vessel sank off Port Klang in the Strait of Malacca. Survivors, who did not have any travel documents, said they were returning to Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. Initially it was reported the passengers were trying to enter Malaysia. As of 17 June, there were approximately sixty survivors, five deaths and thirty-two missing.[65] On 18 June ten people are reported killed and twenty-five missing and the survivors have been arrested under immigration laws.[66]
Migrant ship: A boat believed to be heading for Sumatra capsized off Sepang, near Kuala Lumpur in the Strait of Malacca. Eighteen people (fourteen men and four women) were rescued by nearby merchant ships.[66]
Unnamed (Indonesia): Nearly sixty people were rescued from a ship allegedly carrying illegal migrants from Malaysia to Indonesia. Two people are reported dead and eighteen missing from the ship which capsized off the southern state of Johor, Malaysia.[71]
Millenium Time (United Kingdom): The riverboat collided with a tug on the River Thames near Waterloo Bridge, London. Hundreds of passengers were safely evacuated from the boat, which has a capacity of three hundred and forty. Seven people were injured.[74][75]
Java Bonitos (Indonesia): The tanker suffered an engine room fire which spread to her cargo of condensate, which exploded. Four of her seventeen crew were lost.[85]
Unnamed (Indonesia): The passenger ship was hit by a 3 m wave, ran into a reef and sank near Sangeang Api, a volcanic island off Sumbawa. The ship was on a three-day voyage and was travelling between the islands of Lombok and Komodo.[86]
Amadeo 1 (Chile): The ro-ro ferry struck a rock and capsized in the Kirke Canal. All 55 people on board were rescued.[87] She was declared a total loss. The vessel was scuttled off Almargo Island on 21 September 2015.[88]
Unnamed: A fishing boat foundered south of Lampedusa, Italy with the loss of at least six migrants. The Italian Coast Guard are reported to have rescued nearly 4,000 people over the weekend.[89]
Migrant ship (Egypt): A ship carrying roughly five hundred migrants from Palestine, Sudan and Egypt was rammed off the coast of Malta by another vessel used by the Egyptian traffickers smuggling them to Italy. Ten survivors were plucked from the waters in the ensuing days. According to independent accounts of two of the survivors, the ramming occurred after a dispute occurred between the migrants and traffickers. The migrants had refused to transfer to a smaller ship in tow at the behest of the traffickers, due to its dangerously small size, and the traffickers reacted to the refusal by deliberately sinking the ship. The boat had departed from Egypt's port of Damietta on 6 September. Survivors estimated that the drowning victims consisted of at least four hundred men and women, and as many as one hundred children—some who held onto life preservers for days before finally being taken under by a storm.[93][94]
Maharlika II (Philippines): Typhoon Kalmaegi: The ferry foundered north west of Panaon Island with the loss of three lives. Although only eighty-four passengers and crew were listed on the ships' manifest, it was believed to be carrying a total of 166 people.[95][96]
Migrant ship: Sank off the coast of Tajoura, east of Tripoli, Libya. Thirty-six out of a total of 250 on board have been rescued. A further three boats have sunk off the Lybyan coast in the last month.[98]
Hao Jun (China): Typhoon Kalmaegi: The cargo ship foundered 11 nautical miles (20 km) south of Macao. Her fourteen crew were rescued by helicopter.[99]
Europalink (Italy): The ro-roferry struck rocks off Peristeres, north east of Corfu, Greece. All 70 crew and 692 passengers were evacuated. She was later refloated and taken in to Kerkyra, Greece for repairs. Europalink was on a voyage from Patras, Greece to Ancona.[100][101]
Johanna Josephine (Germany): The dredger struck a submerged object and sank at Wilhelmshaven. Her crew were rescued. She was later refloated and taken in to Wilhelmshaven.[116]
Amaranthus (Palau): The cargo ship (actually Isik 2) (Turkey)] was driven ashore crewless on Zakynthos, Greece. Her crew were believed to have been involved in smuggling cigarettes and to have abandoned the vessel, having given her a false identity.[120]
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^Laura Smith-Spark, Lindsay Isaac (21 January 2014). "South Sudan ferry accident kills women, children fleeing fighting". CNN. Retrieved 20 May 2014. The accident happened Saturday on the White Nile River near Malakal in the northeast of the country, said Col. Philip Aguer of the Sudan People's Liberation Army.