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SS Stella - 30 March 1899 - Loss of 105 Souls #maritimehistory #OTD
Stella was built for the LSWRs Southampton - Channel Island services.[3] On Maundy Thursday, 30 March 1899, Stella departed Southampton...
ASKET Broking team
Mar 27, 20182 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 20, 20181 min read
9th March 2009 - Sinking of the Ibn al-Battuta - loss of 13 souls #maritimehistory #OTD
Thirteen people were rescued when the 5 600-tonne cargo ship the Ibn al-Battuta went down in the sea about 35 nautical miles off the port...
ASKET Management Team
Mar 13, 20181 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, 20181 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 27, 20182 min read
21 February 1907 - Sinking of the SS Berlin - loss of 128 souls #maritimehistory #OTD
On 21 February 1907 the steamship was driven onto the granite breakwater at the New Waterway ship canal in the Netherlands by large waves...
ASKET Management Team
Feb 19, 20182 min read
12 February 1909 - Sinking of the SS Penguin - loss of 75 souls #maritimehistory #OTD
SS Penguin was a New Zealand inter-island ferry steamer that sank off Cape Terawhiti near the entrance to Wellington Harbour in poor...
ASKET Management Team
Feb 13, 20182 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 6, 20181 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 30, 20181 min read
22 January 1906 - Sinking of the The Sinking of the S.S. Valencia - loss of 136 souls #maritimehisto
Late in the evening of 22 January 1906, the U.S. passenger steamer S.S. Valencia missed the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca during...
ASKET Management Team
Jan 23, 20182 min read
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 16, 20182 min read
8th January 1979 - Whiddy Island disaster, MT Betelgeuse explosion #maritimehistory #OTD
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 9, 20182 min read
28 December 2014 - Norman Atlantic Fire #maritimehistory #OTD
MS Norman Atlantic is a roll-on/roll-off passenger (ROPAX) ferry owned by the Italian ferry company Visemar di Navigazione. The ferry was...
ASKET Management Team
Jan 2, 20182 min read
19 December 1981 - RNLI lifeboat Solomon Browne and Union Star both lost with all hands #maritimehi
The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurred on 19 December 1981 off the coast of Cornwall. The lifeboat Solomon Browne, based at the Penlee...
ASKET Management Team
Dec 19, 20173 min read
7 December 1966 - Capsize of the SS Heraklion 217 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 12, 20171 min read
4 December 1948 - SS Kiangya (Jiangya) at least 2,750 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 5, 20171 min read
27 November 1954 - The South Goodwin Lightvessel Disaster #maritimehistory #OTD
1954 The South Goodwin Lightvessel Disaster During one of the worst channel storms in two centuries, No. 90 Lightvessel founders upon the...
ASKET Management Team
Nov 28, 20172 min read
26 November 1914 - HMS Bulwark Torn Apart - 14 survivors out of 750 #maritimehistory #OTD
HMS Bulwark – On 26 November 1914, a powerful internal explosion ripped her apart at 7:50am while she was moored at Number 17 buoy in...
ASKET Management Team
Nov 21, 20171 min read
12 Nov 1928 - SS Vestris Sinks disaster shaped 2nd #SOLAS (1929) #maritimehistory #OTD
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 14, 20172 min read
6 Nov 86, Boeing Chinook helicopter crash; 43 oil workers lost #maritimehistory #OTD
On 6 November 1986, a Boeing 234LR Chinook helicopter returning workers from the Brent oilfield crashed on approach to land at Sumburgh...
Emma Mitchell
Nov 7, 20171 min read
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