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shipwreck A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. Shipwrecking may be intentional or unintentional. Angela Croome reported in January 1999 that there were approximately ...

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List of shipwrecks of Africa This is a list of shipwrecks located in or around the continent of Africa. East Africa Eritrea Kenya Mozambique Somalia Tanzania Lake Victoria Lake Albert Madagascar North Africa Algeria Egypt Libya Morocco/Western Sahara ...

List of shipwrecks of Asia This is a list of shipwrecks located in or around the continent of Asia. Arabia Bahrain Qatar Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Yemen Bangladesh Brunei Myanmar (Burma) China East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Ja ...

List of shipwrecks of Europe This is a list of shipwrecks located in and around the continent of Europe. Albania Belgium Bulgaria Canary Islands Corsica Croatia Cyprus Denmark Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Germany Gibraltar Greece Green ...

List of shipwrecks of France This is a list of shipwrecks located in or off the coast of France. Aquitaine Brittany Channel Islands Corsica Languedoc-Roussillon Nord-Pas-de-Calais Normandy Pays de la Loire Poitou-Charentes Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ...

List of shipwrecks of the United Kingdom This is a list of shipwrecks located in the United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the contin ...

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List of shipwrecks of England This is a list of shipwrecks located off the coast of England. 1803 under entry for Jan, unknown date, L’Amazon, Dartmouth Museum holds an original pen and wash sketch. On the reverse is a full account of the ship’s circumstances, owner ...

List of shipwrecks of North America This is a list of shipwrecks located in or around North America, within the territorial waters of countries which for political purposes are considered a part of the North American continent, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central ...

List of shipwrecks of Canada This is a list of shipwrecks located in or off the coast of Canada. British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Northwest Territories Nova Scotia Nunavut Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchew ...

List of shipwrecks of the United States This is a list of shipwrecks located in or around the United States of America. Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Great Lakes Guam Hawaii Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louis ...

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List of shipwrecks of California This is a list of shipwrecks located in Californian waters. Del Norte County Humboldt County Los Angeles County Marin County Mendocino County Orange County San Diego County San Francisco County San Luis Obispo County San Mateo ...

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List of shipwrecks of Florida This is a list of shipwrecks located in, and off the coast of, Florida. Bay County Brevard County Broward County Charlotte County Dixie County Duval County Escambia County Franklin County Hillsborough County Indian River Count ...

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List of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes The Great Lakes, a collection of five freshwater lakes located in North America, have been sailed upon since at least the 17th century, and thousands of ships have been sunk while traversing them. Many of these ships were never found, so the exac ...

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List of shipwrecks of Massachusetts This is a list of shipwrecks located off the coast of Massachusetts. Barnstable County Due to its dangerously hidden and constantly moving shoals located just off-shore, Cape Cod's coastline from Chatham to Provincetown – a mere fifty-mile s ...

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List of shipwrecks of North Carolina This is a list of shipwrecks located off the coast of North Carolina. Notes References Sources * * * External links NOAA Wrecks and Obstructions Database {{Shipwrecks by location North Carolina Shipwrecks Shipwrecks A shi ...

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List of shipwrecks of Oregon This is a list of shipwrecks of Oregon. The location is the nearest modern community or primary landmark. North coast Central coast South coast Rivers See also * Graveyard of the Pacific * Shipwrecks of the inland Columbia Rive ...

List of shipwrecks of South America This is a list of shipwrecks located in or around South America. Argentina Brazil , - , ''Elihu B. Washburne'' , , 1943 , Sunk in Santos Bay. , , - , , , 20 January 1887 , An emigrant ship that was travelling from London to Australia whe ...

List of shipwrecks of Oceania This is a list of shipwrecks located in the region of Oceania. Australia Federated States of Micronesia Chuuk During World War II, Chuuk Lagoon (then known as Truk) was the logistical hub of Japan's operations in the South Pacific theatre. ...

List of shipwrecks of Australia This a list of shipwrecks located in Australia. New South Wales Norfolk Island Northern Territory Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia See also * Australian National Shipwreck Database * HMAS ''H ...

List of shipwrecks in international waters This is a list of shipwrecks located in international waters. Arctic Ocean Barents Sea Greenland Sea Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean Southern Ocean Further reading * Jurisi, Mario, ''Ancient Shipwrecks of the Adriatic: ...

List of shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean This is a partial list of shipwrecks which occurred in the Atlantic Ocean. The list includes ships that sank, foundered, grounded, or were otherwise lost. The Atlantic Ocean is here defined in its widest sense, to include its marginal seas: the ...

List of shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean This is a partial list of shipwrecks which occurred in the Pacific Ocean. The list includes ships that sank, foundered, grounded, or were otherwise lost. The Pacific Ocean is here defined in its widest sense, to include its marginal seas: the Be ...

List of shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean This is a list of shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean. Arabian Sea Bay of Bengal Central Indian Ocean Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Great Australian Bight Mozambique Channel Persian Gulf Red Sea Strait of Malacca Refe ...

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1914 to 1938

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

was 1914–1918.

1939 to 1945

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

was 1939–1945.

After 1945

War and warships

By type of ship

List of sunken aircraft carriers With the advent of heavier-than-air flight, the aircraft carrier has become a decisive weapon at sea.Bishop & Chant, p. 1 In 1911 aircraft began to be successfully launched and landed on ships with the successful flight of a Curtiss Pusher aboar ...

* List of sunken battlecruisers *

List of sunken battleships Sunken battleships are the wrecks of large capital ships built from the 1880s to the mid-20th century that were either destroyed in battle, mined, deliberately destroyed in a weapons test, or scuttled. The battleship, as the might of a nation per ...

List of sunken nuclear submarines Nine nuclear submarines have sunk, either by accident or scuttling. The Soviet Navy has lost five (one of which sank twice), the Russian Navy two, and the United States Navy (USN) two. Three were lost with all hands - the two from the United Sta ...

By war

List of warships sunk during the Russo-Japanese War This is a list of warships sunk during the Russo-Japanese War. Causes of Japanese and Russian Warships sunk during the war Although submarines, torpedoes, torpedo boats, and steel battleships had existed for many years, the Russo-Japanese war was ...

List of hospital ships sunk in World War I During the First World War, many hospital ships were attacked, sometimes deliberately and sometimes as a result of mistaken identity. They were sunk by either torpedo, mine or surface attack. They were easy targets, since they carried hundreds of ...

List of maritime disasters in World War I A maritime disaster is an event which usually involves a ship or ships and can involve military action. Because of the nature of maritime travel, there is often a substantial loss of life. This list covers those disasters in which 30 or more live ...

List of foreign ships wrecked or lost in the Spanish Civil War The following is a list of foreign ships wrecked or lost during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Only one of these vessels lost belonged to a foreign navy – ''Chasseur 91'', a French antisubmarine patrol boat – the remainder being civilia ...

List of maritime disasters in World War II This is a list of naval vessels sunk or otherwise severely damaged with loss of life during the Second World War. See also * List of maritime disasters * List of maritime disasters in the 18th century * List of maritime disasters in the 19th ...

By navy

List of ships sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy This list of military ships sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy lists all vessels sunk by ships commissioned in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and by Japanese naval aircraft, listed alphabetically by ship name. Australia * HMAS ''Armidale'': Austra ...

* List of Allied ships lost to Italian surface vessels in the Mediterranean (1940–43) *

List of wrecked or lost ships of the Ottoman steam navy This is a list of Ottoman Navy steamships lost during Italo-Turkish War, Italo-Ottoman War, Balkan Wars and World War I: Italo-Ottoman War Balkan Wars First World War Sources

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By method

List of ships sunk by missiles This is a list of ships sunk by missiles. Ships have been sunk by unguided projectiles for many centuries, but the introduction of guided missiles during World War II changed the dynamics of naval warfare. 1943 saw the first ships to be sunk by g ...