(Figures indicate estimated lives lost. Does not include most wartime disasters.)

1854, Mar.—City of Glasgow; Brit. steamer missing in N Atlantic; 480.

1854, Sept. 27—Arctic; U.S. (Collins Line) steamer sunk in collision with French steamer Vesta near Cape Race; 285-351.

1856, Jan. 23—Pacific; U.S. (Collins Line) steamer missing in N Atlantic; 186-286.

1858, Sept. 23—Austria; German steamer destroyed by fire in N Atlantic; 471.

1863, Apr. 27—Anglo-Saxon; Brit. steamer wrecked at Cape Race; 238.

1865, Apr. 27—Sultana; Mississippi River steamer blew up near Memphis, TN; 1,450.

1869, Oct. 27—Stonewall; steamer burned on Mississippi River below Cairo, IL; 200.

1870, Jan. 25—City of Boston; Brit. (Inman Line) steamer vanished between New York and Liverpool; 177.

1870, Oct. 19—Cambria; Brit. steamer off N Ireland; 196.

1872, Nov. 7—Mary Celeste; U.S. half-brig sailed from New York for Genoa; found abandoned; loss of life unknown.

1873, Jan. 22—Northfleet; Brit. steamer foundered off Dungeness, England; 300.

1873, Apr. 1—Atlantic; Brit. (White Star) steamer off Nova Scotia; 585.

1873, Nov. 23—Ville du Havre; French steamer sank after collision with Brit. sailing ship Loch Earn; 226.

1875, May 7—Schiller; German steamer off Scilly Isles; 312.

1875, Nov. 4—Pacific; U.S. steamer sank after collision off Cape Flattery; 236.

1878, Sept. 3—Princess Alice; Brit. steamer sank after collision in Thames River; 700.

1878, Dec. 18—Byzantin; French steamer sank after collision in Dardanelles; 210.

1881, May 24—Victoria; steamer capsized in Thames River, Canada; 200.

1883, Jan. 19—Cimbria; German steamer sank in collision with Brit. steamer Sultan in North Sea; 389.

1887, Nov. 15—Wah Yeung; Brit. steamer burned at sea; 400.

1890, Feb. 17—Duburg; Brit. steamer wrecked, China Sea; 400.

1890, Sept. 19—Ertogrul; Turkish frigate off Japan; 540.

1891, Mar. 17—Utopia; Brit. steamer sank in collision with Brit. ironclad Anson off Gibraltar; 562.

1895, Jan. 30—Elbe; German steamer sank in collision with Brit. steamer Craithie in North Sea; 332.

1895, Mar. 11—Reina Regenta; Spanish cruiser foundered near Gibraltar; 400.

1898, Feb. 15—Maine; U.S. battleship blown up in Havana Harbor; 260.

1898, July 4—La Bourgogne; French steamer sank in collision with Brit. sailing ship Cromartyshire off Nova Scotia; 549.

1898, Nov. 26—Portland; U.S. steamer off Cape Cod; 157.

1904, June 15—General Slocum; excursion steamer burned in East River, New York City; 1,030.

1904, June 28—Norge; Danish steamer wrecked on Rockall Island, Scotland; 620.

1906, Aug. 4—Sirio; Italian steamer wrecked off Cape Palos, Spain; 350.

1908, Mar. 23—Matsu Maru; Japanese steamer sank in collision near Hakodate, Japan; 300.

1909, Aug. 1—Waratah; Brit. steamer, Sydney to London, vanished; 300.

1910, Feb. 9—General Chanzy; French steamer wrecked off Minorca, Spain; 200.

1911, Sept. 25—Liberté; French battleship exploded at Toulon; 285.

1912, Mar. 5—Principe de Asturias; Spanish steamer wrecked off Spain; 500.

1912, Apr. 14-15—Titanic; Brit. (White Star) steamer hit iceberg in N Atlantic; 1,503.

1912, Sept. 28—Kichemaru; Japanese steamer sank off Japanese coast; 1,000.

1914, May 29—Empress of Ireland; Brit. (Canadian Pacific) steamer collided with Norw. collier in St. Lawrence River; 1,014.

1915, May 7—Lusitania; Brit. (Cunard Line) steamer torpedoed and sunk by German submarine off Ireland; 1,198.

1915, July 24—Eastland; steamer capsized in Chicago River; 844.

1916, Feb. 26—Provence; French cruiser sank in Medit.; 3,100.

1916, Mar. 3—Principe de Asturias; Spanish steamer wrecked near Santos, Brazil; 558.

1916, Aug. 29—Hsin Yu; Chinese steamer sank off Chinese coast; 1,000.

1917, Dec. 6—Mont Blanc, Imo; French ammunition ship and Belgian steamer collided in Halifax Harbor; 1,600.

1918, Apr. 25—Kiang-Kwan; Chinese steamer sank in collision off Hankow; 500.

1918, July 12—Kawachi; Japanese battleship blew up in Tokayama Bay; 500.

1918, Oct. 25—Princess Sophia; Canadian steamer sank off Alaskan coast; 398.

1919, Jan. 17—Chaonia; French steamer lost in Straits of Messina, Italy; 460.

1919, Sept. 9—Valbanera; Spanish steamer lost off Florida coast; 500.

1921, Mar. 18—Hong Kong; steamer wrecked in South China Sea; 1,000.

1922, Aug. 26—Niitaka; Japanese cruiser sank in storm off Kamchatka, USSR; 300.

1924, June 12—USS Mississippi; U.S. battleship; explosions in gun turret, off San Pedro, CA; 48.

1927, Oct. 25—Principessa Mafalda; Italian steamer blew up, sank off Porto Seguro, Brazil; 314.

1928, Nov. 12—Vestris; Brit. steamer sank off Virginia; 113.

1934, Sept. 8—Morro Castle; U.S. steamer, Havana to New York, burned off Asbury Park, NJ; 134.

1939, May 23—Squalus; U.S. submarine sank off Portsmouth, NH; 26.

1939, June 1—Thetis; submarine sank, Liverpool Bay; 99.

1942, Feb. 18—Truxtun and Pollux; U.S. destroyer and cargo ship ran aground, sank off Newfoundland; 204.

1942, Oct. 2—Curacao; Brit. cruiser sank after collision with liner Queen Mary; 338.

1944, Dec. 17-18—3 U.S. Third Fleet destroyers sank during typhoon in Philippine Sea; 790.

1945, Jan. 30—Wilhelm Gustloff; Liner with German refugees, soldiers sunk by Soviet submarine in Baltic; 5,000-9,000.

1945, Apr. 16—Goya; Cargo ship carrying German refugees, soldiers sunk by Soviet submarine in Baltic; 6,000-7,000.

1945, May 3—Cap Arcona, Thielbek; German liners carrying concentration camp inmates sunk by British warplanes in Lubeck Bay; 7,000-8,000.

1947, Jan. 19—Himera; Greek steamer hit a mine off Athens; 392.

1947, Apr. 16—Grandcamp; French freighter exploded in Texas City, TX, harbor, starting fires; 576+.

1948, Nov.—Chinese army evacuation ship exploded and sank off S Manchuria; 6,000.

1948, Dec. 3—Kiangya; Chinese refugee ship wrecked in explosion S of Shanghai; 1,100+.

1949, Sept. 17—Noronic; Canadian Great Lakes Cruiser burned at Toronto dock; 130.

1952, Apr. 26—Hobson and Wasp; U.S. destroyer and aircraft carrier collided in Atlantic; 176.

1954, May 26—Bennington; U.S. carrier damaged by explosions off Rhode Island; 103.

1954, Sept. 26—Toya Maru; Japanese ferry sank in Tsu­garu Strait, Japan; 1,172.

1956, July 26—Andrea Doria and Stockholm; Italian liner and Swedish liner collided off Nantucket; 51.

1957, July 14—Eshghabad; Soviet ship ran aground in Caspian Sea; 270.

1960, Dec. 19—Constellation; U.S. aircraft carrier caught fire in Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY; 49.

1961, Apr. 8—Dara of British liner exploded in Persian Gulf; 236.

1961, July 8—Save; Portuguese ship ran aground off Mozambique; 259.

1963, Apr. 10—Thresher; U.S. Navy atomic submarine sank in N Atlantic; 129.

1964, Feb. 10—Voyager; Australian destroyer sank after collision with aircraft carrier Melbourne off New South Wales; 82.

1965, Nov. 13—Yarmouth Castle; Panamanian registered cruise ship burned and sank off Nassau; 89.

1967, July 29—Forrestal; U.S. aircraft carrier caught fire off N Vietnam; 134.

1968, Jan. 25—Dakar; Israeli submarine vanished in Medit.; 69.

1968, late May—Scorpion; U.S. nuclear submarine sank in Atlantic near Azores; 99 (located Oct. 31).

1969, June 2—Evans; U.S. destroyer cut in half by Australian carrier Melbourne, S China Sea; 74.

1970, Mar. 4—Eurydice; French submarine sank in Mediterranean near Toulon; 57.

1970, Dec. 15—Namyong-Ho; South Korean ferry sank in Korea Strait; 308.

1974, May 1—Motor launch capsized off Bangladesh; 250.

1974, Sept. 26—Soviet destroyer sank in Black Sea; 200+.

1975, Nov. 10—Edmund Fitzgerald; U.S. cargo ship sank during storm on Lake Superior; 29.

1976, Oct. 20—George Prince and Frosta; ferryboat and Norwegian tanker collided on Mississippi R. at Luling, LA; 77.

1976, Dec. 25—Patria; Egyptian liner caught fire and sank in the Red Sea; 100.

1979, Aug. 14—23 yachts competing in Fastnet yacht race sank or abandoned during storm in S Irish Sea; 18.

1981, Jan. 27—Tamponas II; Indonesian passenger ship caught fire and sank in Java Sea; 580.

1981, May 26—Nimitz; U.S. Marine combat jet crashed on deck of U.S. aircraft carrier; 14.

1983, Feb. 12—Marine Electric; coal freighter sank during storm off Chincoteague, VA; 33.

1983, May 25—10th of Ramadan; Nile steamer caught fire and sank in Lake Nasser; 357.

1986, Apr. 20—ferry sank near Barisal, Bangladesh; 262.

1986, Aug. 31—Soviet passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov and Soviet freighter Pyotr Vasev collided in Black Sea; 398.

1987, Mar. 6—British ferry capsized off Zeebrugge, Belgium; 189.

1987, Dec. 20—Philippine ferry Dona Paz and oil tanker Victor collided in Tablas Strait; 4,341.

1988, Aug. 6—Indian ferry capsized on Ganges R.; 400+.

1989, Apr. 19—USS Iowa; explosion in gun turret; 47.

1989, Apr. 7—Komsolets; Soviet submarine; sank after fire off Norwegian coast; 42.

1989, Aug. 20—Brit. barge Bowbelle struck Brit. pleasure cruiser Marchioness on Thames R. in central London; 56.

1989, Sept. 10—Romanian pleasure boat and Bulgarian barge collided on Danube R.; 161.

1991, Apr. 10—Auto ferry and oil tanker collided outside Livorno Harbor, Italy; 140.

1991, Dec. 14—Salem Express; ferry rammed coral reef near Safaga, Egypt; 462.

1993, Feb. 17—Neptune; ferry capsized off Port-au-Prince, Haiti; 500+.

1993, Oct. 10—West Sea Ferry; capsized in Yellow Sea near W South Korea during storm; 285.

1994, Sept. 28—Estonia; ferry sank in Baltic Sea; 1,049.

1996, May 21—Bukoba; ferry sank in Lake Victoria (Africa); 500.

1997, Feb. 20—Tamil refugee boat sank off Sri Lanka; 165.

1997, Mar. 28—Albanian refugee boat sank in Adriatic Sea after being rammed by Italian navy warship Sibilla; 83.

1997, Sept. 8—Pride of la Gonâve; Haitian ferry sank off Montrouis, Haiti; 200+.

1998, Apr. 4—passenger boat capsized off coast near Ibaka beach, Nigeria; 280.

1998, Sept. 2—2 passenger boats capsized on Lake Kivu, near Bukavu, Congo; 200+.

1998, Sept. 18—ferry sank S of Manila; 97.

1999, Feb. 6—Harta Rimba; cargo ship sank off Indonesia; 280+.

1999, Mar. 26—passenger boat overturned off coast, Sierra Leone; 150+.

1999, Apr. 2—passenger ferry sank off coast of Nigeria; 100+.

1999, May 1—excursion boat sank in Lake Hamilton, AR; 13.

1999, May 8—passenger ferry capsized off Bangladesh; 200+.

1999, Nov. 24—Dashun; passenger ferry capsized near Yantai, China; 280.

2000, May 3—2 ferries capsized, Meghna R., Bangladesh; 72+.

2000, June 29—overloaded ferry capsized in storm off Sulawesi Island, Indonesia; 500+.

2000, Aug. 12—Kursk; Russian sub sank in Barents Sea; 118.

2000, Sept. 26—Express Samina; Greek ferry sank off Paros, Greece; 81+.

2001, Feb. 9—Ehime Maru; Japanese trawler sunk by surfacing U.S. submarine Greeneville, near Hawaii; 9.

2001, Dec. 22—North Korean spy ship sank after exchanging fire with Japanese coast guard; 15.

2001, Oct. 19—Indonesian fishing boat overloaded with asylum-seekers sank off Java's south coast; 350+.

2002, May 4—Bangladesh ferry sank, Meghna R.; 370+.

2002, May 26—barge struck Interstate highway bridge over Arkansas R. in Oklahoma; 13+.

2002, Sept. 26—overloaded Senegalese ferry capsized in ocean off The Gambia; 1,863.

2003, Mar. 23—overloaded ferry capsized in Lake Tanganyika off Burundi; 111+.

2003, Apr. 21—2 ferries capsized in storms in Bangladesh on Meghna and Buriganga rivers; 180+.

2003, Apr. 4—ferry sank near Chhatak in Bangladesh; 80+.

2003, July 8—overcrowded ferry sank near Chandpur in the Bangladesh River; c. 400.

2003, Oct. 15—Andrew J. Barberi; NYC ferry crashed into dock on approaching Staten Is.; 11.

2003, Nov. 25—Overloaded ferry sank on Lake Mayi Ndombe, Dem. Rep. of Congo; 130-200.

2004, Jan. 26—Convoi Lengi; ferry caught fire on Congo R. in Dem. Rep. of Congo; 200.

2004, Feb. 28—Bow Mariner; tanker carrying ethanol caught fire and exploded off Virginia coast; 21.

2004, Mar 6—Water taxi capsized in storm in Baltimore's InnerHarbor; 5.

2004, Mar. 11—Ferry sank off Madagascar during cyclone; 113.

2004, May 24—Lightning Sun; ferry sank in Meghna river in Bangladesh; 60+.

2004, Dec. 8—Selendang Ayu; Malaysian freighter ran aground, Aleutian Islands; 6

2005, Oct. 2.—Ethan Allen; glass boat carrying senior citizens, cruising Lake George, in NY, capsized; 20.