5 Cruise Ships That Have Been Sank

12 1893 Horn Head all 25 1887 Susan.

5 cruise ships that have been sank. The ship sank twenty minutes into its maiden voyage on 10 August 1628 after being hit by strong winds and flooding. 6 1882 Western Belle. 5 Cruise Ship Disasters That Changed Travel.

The New York Times notes however that only 16 were cruise ships that have sunk between 1980 to 2012. After Carnival Cruise Line the liner sailed for Fiesta Marina Cruises Epirotiki Line Royal Olympic Cruises Thomson Cruises and Peace Boat. Crown Cruise Lines 1984-2001 was a luxury brand Boca Raton Florida-based and fully-owned subsidiary company of Grundstad Maritime Overseas Inc.

Typically cruise ships that sink are those sailing in inhospitable waters like the Antarctic Ocean or ships belonging to smaller lines. Of the 2240 passengers and crew on board more than 1500 lost their lives in the disaster. However the Titanic was neither the first one nor the last ship to ever hit the iceberg and sink.

What famous cruise ship hit an iceberg and sank on its first voyage. This Italian cruise ship ran aground on a reef off the coast of Tuscany Italy in January 2012 and toppled onto its side. On 13 January 2012 the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground capsized and later sank in shallow waters after striking an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio Tuscany resulting in 32 deathsThe eight-year-old Costa Cruises vessel was on the first leg of a cruise around the Mediterranean Sea when she deviated from her planned route at Isola del Giglio sailed closer to the island.

Islander 1901 Death toll 40. Some good may yet come of Italys Costa Concordia wreck. Ship name Deaths 2007 Explorer.

Following its ramming of the polar ice-class cruise liner RCGS Resolute while in international waters on 30 March 2020 the ship sank but its crew was rescued by the Venezuelan Navy. Cruise ships seldom sink by accident though in 1999 Vista Sun caught fire and sank in Malaysian waters and in 2007 Gap Adventures Explorer hit an iceberg and sank. Klein who created the site Cruise Junkie dozens of passenger ships have sunk from 1979 to 2013.