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14th Jan 1993 - Sinking of the MS Jan Heweliusz - loss of 55 souls #maritimehistory #OTD
MS Jan Heweliusz was a Polish ferry named after astronomer Johannes Hevelius (Polish: Jan Heweliusz) that served on the route...
ASKET Management Team
Jan 15, 20192 min read
8th January 1979 - Whiddy Island disaster, MT Betelgeuse explosion - 50 Souls Lost #maritimehistory
The Whiddy Island disaster, also known as the Betelgeuse incident, occurred on 8 January 1979, around 1:00 am, when the oil tanker...
ASKET Management Team
Jan 8, 20192 min read
22 December 1963 - The TSMS Lakonia - 128 Souls Lost #maritimehistory #OTD
The TSMS Lakonia was a Greek-owned cruise ship which caught fire and sank north of Madeira on 22 December 1963, with the loss of 128...
ASKET Management Team
Dec 24, 20181 min read
17 December 1991 - MV Salem Express at least 470 Souls lost #maritimehistory #OTD
The Salem Express was a passenger ship that sank in the Red Sea. It is controversial due to the loss of life which occurred when she sank...
ASKET Management Team
Dec 17, 20182 min read
7 December 1966 - Capsize of the SS Heraklion 217 souls lost #maritimehistory #OTD
At 20:00 of 7 December 1966, and under extreme weather conditions, with winds blowing at Force 9 on the Beaufort scale, the Heraklion...
ASKET Management Team
Dec 10, 20181 min read
4 December 1948 - SS Kiangya (Jiangya) at least 2,750 souls lost #maritimehistory #OTD
SS Kiangya or Jiangya (Chinese: t 江亞輪, s 江亚轮, p Jiāngyà Lún) was a Chinese passenger steamship that was destroyed in an explosion near...
ASKET Management Team
Dec 4, 20181 min read
27th November 1898 - Paddle Steamer Portland - one of 150 vessels sank in the Portland Gale altogeth
PS Portland was a large side-wheel paddle steamer, an ocean-going steamship with side-mounted paddlewheels. She was built in 1889 for...
ASKET Management Team
Nov 27, 20181 min read
15 November 1873 - Passenger Liner - Ville du Havre - sank in 12 minutes with the loss of 226 souls
Ville du Havre was a French iron steamship that operated round trips between the northern coast of France and New York City. Launched in...
ASKET Management Team
Nov 20, 20182 min read
12 Nov 1928 - SS Vestris Sinks - disaster shaped 2nd #SOLAS (1929) - Over 10 Souls Lost #maritimehis
SS Vestris was a 1912 passenger steamship owned by Lamport and Holt Line and used in their New York to River Plate service. On 12...
ASKET Management Team
Nov 13, 20182 min read
Typhoon Gay – November 1989 - over 800 Souls Lost #maritimehistory #OTD
Typhoon Gay, also known as the Kavali Cyclone of 1989, was a small but powerful tropical cyclone that caused more than 800 fatalities in...
ASKET Broking team
Nov 6, 20182 min read
Capsize of the Novorossiysk – 29th Oct 1955 - over 600 Souls Lost #maritimehistory #OTD
On the afternoon of 28 October 1955, Novorossiysk returned to Sevastopol from a gunnery drill in the Black Sea. The battleship anchored...
ASKET Broking team
Oct 30, 20182 min read
MV George Prince ferry disaster 20th Oct 1976 - 78 Souls Lost #maritimehistory #OTD
The MV George Prince ferry disaster was a nautical disaster that occurred in the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana,...
ASKET Broking team
Oct 23, 20181 min read
Achille Lauro hijacking - 7 Oct 1985 #maritimehistory #OTD
On October 7, 1985, four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) hijacked the Italian MS Achille Lauro liner off the coast...
ASKET Broking team
Oct 16, 20181 min read
Volturno - On Fire in the North Atlantic - 9th October 1913 -520 rescued, 130 lost #maritimehistory
SS Volturno was an ocean liner that burned and sank in the North Atlantic in October 1913. She was a Royal Line ship under charter to the...
ASKET Broking team
Oct 9, 20183 min read
Lamma IV - 1st October 2012 - 39 Souls lost #maritimehistory #OTD
Lamma IV – On 1 October 2012, the ferry collided with another passenger vessel off Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island, Hong Kong. The day was...
ASKET Broking team
Oct 2, 20182 min read
Toya Maru - 26th September 1954 -1,300 lost #maritimehistory #OTD
Typhoon No. 15, Marie, which had blown through Honshū, was in the Sea of Japan at 12:00 on September 26, 1954, heading northeast and had...
ASKET Broking team
Sep 25, 20182 min read
1857 Lefort Sinks in the Gulf of Finland - 826 People lost #maritimehistory
On 22 September 22, 1857 Lefort was in the Gulf of Finland en route from Reval to Kronstadt along with the ships Imperatritsa Aleksandra,...
ASKET Broking team
Sep 18, 20181 min read
SS Noronic destroyed by fire in Toronto Harbour with the loss of at least 118 lives #maritimehistory
SS Noronic was a passenger ship that was destroyed by fire in Toronto Harbour in September 1949 with the loss of at least 118 lives It...
ASKET Broking team
Sep 10, 20181 min read
1620 - The Mayflower Departs Plymouth for New England #maritimehistory
The Mayflower was an English ship that famously transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth,...
ASKET Broking team
Sep 4, 20181 min read
Sinking of the SS Admiral Nakhimov 31 August 1986, 423 Sould lost #maritimehistory
SS Admiral Nakhimov (Russian: Адмирал Нахимов), launched in March 1925 and originally named SS Berlin, was a passenger liner of the...
ASKET Broking team
Aug 28, 20182 min read
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