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SS Sultana explosion - loss of 1,192 souls #maritimehistory
Sultana was a Mississippi River side-wheel steamboat. On April 27, 1865, the boat exploded in the worst maritime disaster in United...
ASKET Management
Jun 4, 20191 min read
RMS Empress of Ireland - 29th May 1914 - 1,012 Souls Lost #maritimehistory
RMS Empress of Ireland – On 29 May 1914 the passenger liner sank after colliding with the cargo ship Storstad on the Saint Lawrence...
ASKET Broking team
May 28, 20191 min read
MV Bukoba - 21st May 1996 - up to 1,000 Lost #maritimehistory
On 21 May 1996 Bukoba sank 30 nautical miles (56 km) off Mwanza in 25 metres (14 fathoms) of water, killing up to 1,000 people. The...
ASKET Broking team
May 21, 20192 min read
Neva - 13th May 1835 - Convict Ship 224 Lost #maritimehistory
Neva – She was a convict ship that left Cork, Ireland, bound for Sydney, Australia. On 13 May 1835 she was wrecked on a reef near King...
ASKET Broking team
May 14, 20191 min read
STV Royston Grange - Tien Chee Collision May 11th 1972 - No Survivors #maritimehistory
STV Royston Grange – The British cargo liner was destroyed by fire after a collision with the petroleum tanker Tien Chee in the Rio de la...
ASKET Broking team
May 7, 20191 min read
SS Sultana explosion - April 27, 1865 - loss of 1,192 souls #maritimehistory
Sultana was a Mississippi River side-wheel steamboat. On April 27, 1865, the boat exploded in the worst maritime disaster in United...
ASKET
Apr 30, 20191 min read
Texas City Disaster April 1947 - Grandcamp 567 Sould Lost - #maritimehistory
Grandcamp – On 16 April 1947, the French-registered Liberty ship caught fire and exploded dockside while being loaded with ammonium...
ASKET Broking team
Apr 23, 20193 min read
The Loss of the Titanic - 15 April 1912 - over 1,500 Souls lost #maritimehistory
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912, after colliding...
ASKET Broking team
Apr 16, 20192 min read
Moby Prince -10 April 1991 - 140 Souls Lost - 1 Survivor #maritimehistory
The Moby Prince disaster was a major naval accident resulting in 140 deaths. It occurred in the late evening of Wednesday 10 April 1991,...
ASKET Broking team
Apr 9, 20191 min read
RMS Atlantic - 1st April 1873 - 550 Souls Lost - of 156 women and 189 children only 1 survived #mari
RMS Atlantic was a transatlantic ocean liner of the White Star Line that operated between Liverpool, United Kingdom, and New York City,...
ASKET Broking team
Apr 2, 20192 min read
RMS Royal Adelaide - 30 March 1850 - 250 Souls Lost #maritimehistory
RMS Royal Adelaide was a paddle steamship owned and operated by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. Its principal route ran between...
ASKET Broking team
Mar 26, 20191 min read
Torrey Canyon oil spill - 18 March 1967 #maritimehistory
The Torrey Canyon oil spill, off the south-west coast of the United Kingdom in 1967, is one of the world's most serious oil spills....
ASKET Broking team
Mar 18, 20191 min read
Herald of Free Enterprise - 6th March 1997 - 193 Souls lost #MaritimeHistory
MS Herald of Free Enterprise was a roll-on roll-off (RORO) ferry which capsized moments after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on...
ASKET
Mar 12, 20192 min read
5th March 1916 - Sinking of the Príncipe de Asturias - loss of at least 455 souls #maritimehistory #
Príncipe de Asturias was a Spanish ocean liner, owned by the Naviera Pinillos and built at the Russell & Co. (later Lithgows) shipyard in...
ASKET Management Team
Mar 5, 20191 min read
26th February 1852 - Sinking of the Birkenhead - Women and Children first - loss of 485 souls #marit
HMS Birkenhead, also referred to as HM Troopship Birkenhead or Steam Frigate Birkenhead,[3] was one of the first iron-hulled ships built...
ASKET Management Team
Feb 26, 20192 min read
Neptune Ferry (1993) - 900 Souls lost #maritimehistory
Approximately 900 people drown when a passenger ferry, the Neptune, overturns near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on this day in 1993. The ferry...
The Team at ASKET Ltd
Feb 19, 20192 min read
SS London (1864) - And the introduction of the Plimsoll line - 220 Souls lost #maritimehistory
SS London was a British steamship which sank in the Bay of Biscay on 11 January 1866. The final voyage of the London began on 13 December...
The Team at ASKET Ltd
Feb 12, 20192 min read
3 February 2006 - Sinking of the MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98 - loss of over 1,000 souls #maritimehistor
The MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98 was an Egyptian Ro/Ro passenger ferry, operated by El Salam Maritime Transport, that sank on 3 February 2006...
ASKET Management Team
Feb 5, 20191 min read
28 January 1980 - Sinking of the USCGC Blackthorn - loss of 23 souls #maritimehistory #OTD
USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) was a 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tender (WLB) which sank in 1980 after a collision with teh Tanker...
ASKET Management Team
Jan 29, 20191 min read
Tampomas II - Sinking in the Java Sea - 27 Jan 1981 - 431 Souls Lost #maritimehistory
KMP Tampomas II was a sea liner owned by Pelni (Indonesian National Shipping) that burned and sank (at 114°25'60"E, 5°30'0"S) in the...
ASKET Broking team
Jan 22, 20192 min read
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