List of shipwrecks in 2007
The list of shipwrecks in 2007 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 2007.
January
10 January
List of shipwrecks: 10 January 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Pere Charles, |
Ireland |
The 20 m fishing trawler sank in a storm southeast of Ireland with all five crew presumed dead. Two lifeboats were found empty the next day. |
Honeydew 2 |
Ireland |
The 24-meter wooden fishing vessel sank and two of her four crew members were rescued after twenty hours from a liferaft. |
Sunna |
Norway |
Ran aground west of Swona, suffering severe damage.[1][2] |
12 January
List of shipwrecks: 12 January 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Server |
Cyprus |
The bulk carrier suffered an engine break-down, and was driven aground by a storm on the coast of the island of Fedje, Norway. The ship broke in two, with the bow section being salvaged and towed to Ågotnes, while the stern broke apart. The salvaged bow section was scrapped in Esbjerg, Denmark, starting in April 2008.[3][4] |
19 January
List of shipwrecks: 19 January 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
MSC Napoli |
United Kingdom |
The container ship was deliberately beached on Branscombe beach, Lyme Bay, after suffering a serious structural failure to her hull during a severe storm the previous day.[5] |
26 January
List of shipwrecks: 26 January 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Lady of Grace |
United States |
The 75-foot (23 m) fishing boat sank in Nantucket Sound with the loss of all four crew. The weather at the time was of winds of 25 to 30 knots (56 km/h) and 8 to 10-foot (3.0 m) seas.[6] |
28 January
List of shipwrecks: 28 January 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Tenacious |
United States |
The 40-foot (12 m) yacht presumed lost off San Francisco, California in good weather. Computer scientist Jim Gray was making a solo day trip. The Coast Guard suspended the search for the ship on 1 February. |
30 January
February
1 February
List of shipwrecks: 1 February 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Lucky Lady |
United States |
The 52-foot (16 m) fishing boat was lost off Cape Elizabeth, Maine with the two crew missing. Weather conditions were only 4-foot (1.2 m) waves and 10-knot (19 km/h) winds. |
3 February
List of shipwrecks: 3 February 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Sea Express 1 |
United Kingdom |
She collided with Alaska Rainbow ( Greece) in the River Mersey and was severely damaged. She was later repaired and returned to service. |
25 February
List of shipwrecks: 25 February 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Levina 1 |
Indonesia |
Sank in the Java Sea after burning for three days, with over fifty people killed.[7] |
March
8 March
List of shipwrecks: 8 March 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Repubblica di Genova |
Italy |
The freighter capsized in the port of Antwerp, Belgium with no loss of life.[8] She was recovered by parbuckling in September 2007.[9] |
April
6 April
List of shipwrecks: 6 April 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Sea Diamond |
Greece |
The cruise ship sank near Santorini, Greece, after running aground the preceding day. |
12 April
18 April
May
14 May
Unknown date
June
8 June
August
3 August
List of shipwrecks: 3 August 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Olshana |
Russia |
The trawler sank in Tangafjørður between the two Faroese islands of Streymoy and Eysturoy after hitting a skerry, Flesjarnar the evening before. There were no casualties.[10][11] |
3 August
5 August
List of shipwrecks: 5 August 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Jork |
Antigua and Barbuda |
The vessel sank after colliding with the unmanned North Sea gas platform Viking Echo (64 kilometres (35 nmi) off the Norfolk coast), the entire crew was rescued, the gas platform survived and continues to operate. The vessel had been destined for one of the Humber ports carrying a cargo of grain from Lübeck in Germany.[12] |
7 August
12 August
14 August
23 August
30 August
October
7 October
November
3 November
12 November
Five ships sank in the Black Sea due to the weather conditions:
List of shipwrecks: 12 November 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Volgoneft-139 |
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The tanker broke into two parts with more than 1,300 t of oil escaping into the Kerch Strait |
Volnogorsk |
Russia |
Cargo ship transporting 2,400t of sulphur |
Nakhitchevan |
Russia |
Cargo ship carrying sulphur |
Kovel |
Russia |
Cargo ship carrying sulphur |
Hash Izmail |
Georgia |
Cargo ship carrying steel products. |
13 November
List of shipwrecks: 13 November 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Propontis |
Greece |
The tanker with 100,000 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. |
23 November
List of shipwrecks: 23 November 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Explorer |
Canada |
The cruise ship struck an iceberg and sank close to the South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic Ocean. One hundred passengers and fifty-four crew, 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 Antarctic Dream was reported to be assisting in the rescue.[18] |
December
7 December
List of shipwrecks: 7 December 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Hebei Spirit |
Hong Kong |
The crude oil tanker collided with a runaway barge while anchored 10 kilometres (5.4 nmi) off Incheon. 10,000 tons of crude oil spilled to the sea, causing the worst oil spill in the history of South Korea. |
10 December
19 December
25 December
List of shipwrecks: 25 December 2007
Ship | Country | Description |
Eastern Bright |
South Korea |
The bulk carrier, carrying nitric acid, sank near the Korean coast. Only one seaman was rescued, a Burmese, with fourteen (12 Koreans and 2 Burmese) missing. |
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