List of shipwrecks in 2007

The list of shipwrecks in 2007 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 2007.__NOTOC__

January

January 10

"Pere Charles", an 20 m Irish fishing trawler sank in a storm southeast of Ireland with the five crew presumed dead. Two lifeboats were found empty the next day. In the same area, the same day, the 24-meter wooden fishing vessel, "The Honeydew 2" sank. Two of its four crew members were rescued after 20 hours in a liferaft.

January 12

Cyprus-registered MS "Server" sank of the coast of Fedje, Norway

January 19

The container ship "MSC Napoli" was beached in Lyme bay after suffering a serious structural failure of her hull during a severe storm on the previous day.

January 26

The convert|75|ft|m|sing=on fishing boat, "Lady of Grace", sank in Nantucket Sound with the loss of all four of its crewmembers. The weather at the time of its sinking was winds of 25 to convert|30|kn|km/h and 8 to convert|10|ft|m|sing=on seas. [ [http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=179658] ]

January 28

The convert|40|ft|m|sing=on yacht, "Tenacious", presumed lost off San Francisco, California in good weather. Famed computer scientist Jim Gray was making a solo day trip. The Coast Guard suspended the search for the ship on February 1.

January 30

The MS "Nordkapp" ran aground near Deception Island, Antarctic Ocean. Passengers transferred to sister ship MS "Nordnorge". HMS "Endurance" took non-essential crew aboard.

February

February 1

The convert|52|ft|m|sing=on fishing boat "Lucky Lady" lost off Cape Elizabeth, Maine with its two crew missing as of February 1. Weather conditions were only convert|4|ft|m|sing=on waves and convert|10|kn|km/h|sing=on winds. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/wcvb/20070201/lo_wcvb/10900049]

April

April 6

MS "Sea Diamond" sank near Santorini, Greece, after running aground the preceding day.

April 12

The "Bourbon Dolphin" sank of the coast of Shetland Islands and claimed 8 lives.

August

August 3

Russian trawler 'Olshana' sinks in Tangafjørður between the two Faroese islands of Streymoy and Eysturoy after hitting a skerry, Flesjarnar the evening before. There were no casualites. [http://www.olivant.fo/index.php?lg=41118 Lekur olju og drekkur sjógv] - August 2, 2008 - Obtained August 29, 2008.] [http://www.olivant.fo/index.php?lg=41132 Olshana er sokkin] - "portal.fo" - August 3, 2008 - Obtained August 29, 2008.]

August 3

Sierra Leone boat "Amunafa" which between Freetown-Kasire route ferry route capsized off coast Bailor, Sierra Leone, 158 killed.Fact|date=May 2008

August 5

The vessel "Jork" sank after colliding with the unmanned North Sea gas platform Viking Echo (~64km off the Norfolk coast), the entire crew was rescued, the gas platform survived and is continuing to operate. The vessel had been destined for one of the Humber ports carrying a cargo of grain from Lubeck in Germany.Fact|date=May 2008

August 12

The bulk-carrier MV "New Flame" collided with an oil tanker off Europa Point, the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending partially submerged.

August 23

One died after the ship MV "Douala Tide" sank off Port Alfred in South Africa.South African maritime authorities rescued ten seafarers after the vessel capsized.Fact|date=May 2008

The vessel had been sailing from Dubai to Douala, the vessel was a convert|37|ft|m|sing=on anchor-handling tug.Fact|date=May 2008

August 30

The Israeli cargo vessel MV "Shelly" is accidentally rammed by cruise liner "Salamis Glory", killing two of the former vessel's crew members as the former ship sinks. [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/899674.html Rescuers retrieve bodies of two sailors killed in collision off Haifa] - September 1, 2007 - Obtained September 3, 2007.] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/31/AR2007083100575.html Israeli Divers Find Bodies of 2 Sailors] - "The Washington Post" - August 31, 2007 - Obtained September 3, 2007.]

November

November 12

Five ships sink in the Black Sea due to weather conditions:
*Russian tanker "Volgoneft-139" broke into two parts and more than 1,300 t of oil finish into the water of the Kerch Strait
*Russian cargo "Volnogorsk" that transported 2,400t of sulfur.
*Russian cargo "Nakhitchevan" that transported sulfur too.
*Russian cargo "Kovel" that transported sulfur too.
*Georgian cargo "Hash Izmail" that transported steel products.

November 13

Greek tanker "Propontis" with 100000 tonnes of crude oil touched bottom in the Gulf of Finland.The ship was travelling from Russia to England.There were no signs of an oil leak.

November 23

Cruise ship MS "Explorer" struck an iceberg (or other piece of ice) and sank close to the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic Ocean. 100 passengers and 54 crew, pretty much the entire population of the vessel at the time, were evacuated from the ship and took to the liferafts. (The two people that remained and attempted to stabilize the ship gave up and evacuated as well.) The MV "Antarctic Dream was" reported to be assisting in the rescue.

December

December 25

The Korean carrier "Eastern Bright", carrying nitrid acid sank near the Korean coast. Only one seaman was rescued, a Myanmarese, but there are 14 (12 Koreans and 2 Myanmareses) others missing.

See also

References

External links

* [http://www.maib.dft.gov.uk/latest_news/current_investigations.cfm Marine Accident Investigation Branch] (UK)
* [http://www.smit.com/sitefactor/projects.asp?services=152 salvage operations in 2007] by Smit International.