The windfarm service vessel caught fire and sank in the North sea 11 nautical miles (20 km) east of Lowestoft, Suffolk at around 1pm. The crew of three was rescued by a Royal Air Force (RAF) rescue helicopter from RAF Wattisham, and were not seriously injured.[9][10]
The empty cargo ship's engines failed and she drifted onto the breakwater at Anglet, near Bayonne, France. She broke into two pieces, one either side of the breakwater. Her crew of twelve was winched off the wreck by helicopter.[25]
The yacht was boarded by masked persons sailing on a motorboat and hijacked off Îlots des Moines [fr], north of Bonifacio, Corsica. The vessel's whereabouts were unknown as of 6 March 2014. The crew and passengers were abandoned on a lifeboat off Campomoro, Corsica.[27][28][29]
The Protecteur-classreplenishment oiler suffered a fire in her engine room 340 nautical miles (630 km) north west of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States. She was towed into Pearl Harbor by United States Navy vessels. HMCS Protecteur was consequently retired from service and scrapped.
The cargo ship ran aground in the Elizabeth River near Portsmouth, Virginia. The ship was freed the next morning with no reported damage or crew injuries.[33]
A Lerwick-registered wooden scallop-dredger sank after colliding with a rock in West Burra Firth, Shetland. The two crew members were retrieved, however both had been under the influence of a combination of legal and illegal drugs and as such only the skipper, Christopher Smith, survived; his inexperienced crewmate, Leonard Scollay, drowned.[47] Smith was sentenced to a six-month jail sentence following the incident.[48]
The migrant ship capsized off the coast of Beer Ali, Yemen, with the loss of 42 lives. At least 30 people were rescued by the Yemeni Navy and taken to a refugee camp near Mayfaa, Yemen.[50]
The 228-metre (748 ft) bulk carrier ran aground off Lynnhaven, Virginia Beach, United States, due to high winds.[56] She was refloated on 18 April.[57]
The tugboat suffered a mechanical break-down, drifted onto shore at Edøya, near Sommarøy, Norway, and sank. Her crew of four were rescued by a lifeboat.[65] The wreck was raised in May 2014, and carried to Harstad on a lighter.[66] The scrapping of Chanko at Harstad began in June 2014.[67]
The retired 220-foot (67 m) cargo ship — last operated as DM-ONE (flag unknown) and renamed Hailey Glasrud Reef specifically for her sinking — was scuttled in 186 feet (57 m) of water in the Atlantic Ocean off Stuart, Florida, to form an artificial reef.[32]
The ship foundered in the Mediterranean Sea 30 nautical miles (56 km) west of Crete, Greece. Four of her seven crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from a Montenegro port towards Odesa, Ukraine.[68]
The tanker suffered an onboard explosion and fire off Himeji. Seven of her eight crew were rescued, with her captain reported as missing.[76]Shoko Maru later sank.[77]
While operating as a ro-ro vehicle ferry in the Cape Verde islands, the ship ran aground in a storm near the settlement of Móia Móia on the island of Santiago (15°1′26″N23°26′21″W / 15.02389°N 23.43917°W / 15.02389; -23.43917); there were no casualties. A causeway was built out to the ship so that the vehicles could be removed. The wreck remains extant on the shore (as of 2019).[80]
An unauthorised wooden vessel sank off Port Klang in the Strait of Malacca. Survivors, who did not have any travel documents, said they were returning to Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. Initially it was reported the passengers were trying to enter Malaysia. As of 17 June, there were approximately sixty survivors, five deaths and thirty-two missing.[83] On 18 June ten people are reported killed and twenty-five missing and the survivors have been arrested under immigration laws.[84]
Nearly sixty people were rescued from a ship allegedly carrying illegal migrants from Malaysia to Indonesia. Two people were reported dead and eighteen missing from the ship which capsized off the southern state of Johor, Malaysia.[94]
The riverboat collided with a tug on the River Thames near Waterloo Bridge, London. Hundreds of passengers were safely evacuated from the boat, which has a capacity of three hundred and forty. Seven people were injured.[99][100]
The passenger ship was hit by a 3 m (9.8 ft) wave, ran into a reef and sank near Sangeang Api, a volcanic island off Sumbawa. The ship was on a three-day voyage and was travelling between the islands of Lombok and Komodo.[116]
The ro-ro ferry struck a rock and capsized in the Kirke Canal. All 55 people on board were rescued.[117] She was declared a total loss. The vessel was scuttled off Almargo Island on 21 September 2015.[118]
22 August
List of shipwrecks: 22 August 2014
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The migrant ship, carrying at least 170 people capsized off the Libyan coast.[119]
A fishing boat foundered south of Lampedusa, Italy with the loss of at least six migrants. The Italian Coast Guard are reported to have rescued nearly 4,000 people over the weekend.[119]
A ship carrying roughly five hundred migrants from Palestine, Sudan and Egypt was rammed off the coast of Malta by another vessel used by the Egyptian traffickers smuggling them to Italy. Ten survivors were plucked from the waters in the ensuing days. According to independent accounts of two of the survivors, the ramming occurred after a dispute occurred between the migrants and traffickers. The migrants had refused to transfer to a smaller ship in tow at the behest of the traffickers, due to its dangerously small size, and the traffickers reacted to the refusal by deliberately sinking the ship. The boat had departed from Egypt's port of Damietta on 6 September. Survivors estimated that the drowning victims consisted of at least four hundred men and women, and as many as one hundred children—some who held onto life preservers for days before finally being taken under by a storm.[129][130]
The migrant ship sank off the coast of Tajoura, east of Tripoli, Libya. Thirty-six out of a total of 250 on board were rescued. A further three boats sank off the Libyan coast from August to September.[136]
The ro-roferry struck rocks off Peristeres, north east of Corfu, Greece. All 70 crew and 692 passengers were evacuated. She was later refloated and taken in to Kerkyra, Greece for repairs. Europalink was on a voyage from Patras, Greece to Ancona.[139][140]
The two container ships collided at Port Klang, Malaysia. Both vessels caught fire. The fire on San Felipe was extinguished; the fire on Al Riffa was severe and the ship was towed out of port.[152]
The ship capsized and sank in the Pacific Ocean 25 nautical miles (46 km) off the Santa Elena Peninsula. Her thirteen crew were rescued by a fishing vessel.[159]
The dredger struck a submerged object and sank at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Her crew were rescued. She was later refloated and taken in to Wilhelmshaven.[162]
The cargo ship (actually Isik 2) (Turkey) was driven ashore crewless on Zakynthos, Greece. Her crew were believed to have been involved in smuggling cigarettes and to have abandoned the vessel, having given her a false identity.[172]
The cargo ship collided with Xin Wang Shun (China) and sank in the Taiwan Strait with the loss of three of her thirteen crew. Four were rescued and six were reported missing.[177]
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