The VIC-type lighter ran aground off the Isle of Mull and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from the Isle of Mull to Troon, Ayrshire. She sank and was a total loss.[6]
The coaster ran aground on the South Arklow Bank, County Wicklow, Ireland. All eleven crew rescued by the Arklowlifeboat. Refloated and taken under tow but sank the next day.[7]
The tug ran aground in the Thames Estuary. Two barges she was towing were discovered at Allhallows, Kent and Yantlett, Kent. All six crew were killed.[15]
The tanker was bombed and sunk by a CIA Douglas B-26 Invader aircraft off Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.[30][38]
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These two ships were bombed in an air raid or raids on Ambon Bay in Indonesia. Ambon was bombed several times, and sources differ as to the date(s) on which the ships were attacked.[26] One source suggests that they were hit on 1 or 2 May.[27]
The cargo ship was bombed and damaged or sunk by a CIA Douglas B-26 Invader aircraft.[26] in Ambon Bay, Indonesia. Subsequently salvaged and registered in Panama as Keanyew.
The cargo ship was bombed and sunk by a CIA Douglas B-26 Invader aircraft.[26] in Ambon Bay, Indonesia. Nine crewmen were killed, seven missing.[27][39][31]
The cargo ship caught fire and was beached on Bahrain Island, Bahrain. She was on a voyage from London, United Kingdom to the Persian Gulf. She was refloated on 8 June. Subsequently repaired and returned to service.[49]
The Liberty ship ran aground on the Silver Bank, off the coast of the Dominican Republic. She was later refloated but declared a constructive total loss.[50]
The coaster was in collision with Pardo and sank 3 nautical miles (5.6km) off Dover, Kent, England. All twelve on board rescued by the tug Dominance (United Kingdom).[51]
The coastal tanker collided with Ludwigshafen (West Germany) in the English Channel north of Guernsey. Josef Joham was cut in two and sank, all eleven crew were rescued by Ludwigshafen.[54]
The tanker collided with the steamshipGulfoil at the mouth of the Narragansett Bay; in the fire that resulted, at least 15 people were killed and 34 seriously injured.[60] The ship was declared a total loss after she burned.
The cargo ship ran aground in the Caribbean Sea 135 nautical miles (250km) off Kingston, Jamaica. Salvage efforts were abandoned in September and she was declared a total loss.[61]
The cargo ship had run aground off Parigi, Indonesia on 14 August.[64]Permesta rebels captured her on 16 August, refloated her and beached her at Belang.[64] The Indonesian Navy sighted her there on 18 August and shelled her on 22 August, setting her on fire.[64]Norse Lady was burnt out and remained a beached wreck until March 1966, when she was towed to Kaohsiung, Taiwan and scrapped.[64][65]
Chinese Civil War: 1st Battle of Kinmen Island: The transport was torpedoed and sunk off Kinmen Island (Quemoy) by No. 103, No. 105, No. 175, No. 178, No. 180, No. 184 (all People's Liberation Army Navy). 200 troops killed.[67]
The tanker collided with T2 tankerFernand-Gilabert (France). Both ships set on fire, a total of 21 crew killed. Fernand-Gilabert was consequently scrapped.[74]
The 33-foot (10.1m) motor vessel disappeared in a snow squall in Lynn Canal near Haines, Territory of Alaska. Wreckage from Haida Maid – containing the body of the only person aboard – came ashore in Sanki Inlet near Dyea, Territory of Alaska, on 29 November.[89][90]
The Liberty ship collided with King Minos (Greece) in the English Channel and was abandoned. Twenty-three crew rescued by two Dutch ships. The tug Jean Bart (France) took Prodromos in tow and she was beached at Rye Harbour, Sussex, United Kingdom. King Minos was assisted into Dover Harbour, Kent by the tug Dominant and salvage ship Swin (both United Kingdom).[93][94]
After a gale struck and trapped the 35-foot (11m) herringfishing vessel in ice around a small projection of land in Taku Inlet in Southeast Alaska, her three-man crew of Alaska Fish and Wildlife Service employees conducting herring research abandoned her and boarded the buoy tenderUSCGCSweetbriar (United States Coast Guard) unharmed. By the time a power barge arrived to recover Tarleton H. Bean, she had disappeared, and she was never seen again.[62]
The V-classsubmarine broke her tow and came ashore at Sandsend Wyke, Yorkshire whilst being towed to the Tyne for scrapping.[97] Refloated on 23 December.[98]
The cargo ship ran aground in the Aegean Sea between Kos and Turkey. Refloated on 23 December, repairs were uneconomic and she was scrapped in August 1959.[99]
The tanker ran aground on Gull Shoal and broke in two. The crew was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard. Oil from the tanker heavily polluted the coastline at Ocean City, Maryland.[101]
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