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- The car carrier and container ship Corvus J collided in the North Sea some from the port of Rotterdam. As a result, Baltic Ace began taking on water and was sinking as the rescue boats and a helicopter rushed to the scene. Of the crew of 24, five were confirmed dead and six remained missing, presumed dead while 13 crew members were rescued. (en)
- The cargo ship ran aground at Wijk aan Zee, North Holland, Netherlands. The ship was pulled free a day later and brought to IJmuiden for inspection. (en)
- The coaster foundered off Shanghai with the loss of at least three lives. Two survivors were rescued. (en)
- The research ship ran aground off Possession Island, Crozet Islands. (en)
- The fishing vessel sank off Start Point, Devon. All five crew were taken off by a helicopter from RNAS Culdrose. (en)
- The cargo ship was in collision with off Niigata, Japan. She consequently capsized and sank. Her seventeen crew were rescued. (en)
- The passenger ferry sank after collision with LPG/chemical tanker Norgas Cathinka off Jakarta, Indonesia, resulting in loss of eight lives. Over 200 passengers and crew were rescued. The tanker received minor structural damage, but was not in danger of sinking. (en)
- The ship sank off United Arab Emirates due to rough weather. The all-Iranian crew of six was airlifted to safety. (en)
- The container ship was grounded off the coast of Mariel, Cuba, due to engine failure and heavy seas from Hurricane Isaac. (en)
- The museum ship, a decommissioned Algonquin-class cutter, was sunk as an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico 28 nautical miles off Captiva Island, Florida. (en)
- The bulk carrier was in collision with the refrigerated cargo ship (en)
- The or crab and longline fishing vessel capsized and sank in the Gulf of Alaska southeast of Sitkalidak Island in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago. One crewman was trapped inside her hull when she sank and was lost. A United States Coast Guard Sikorsky MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifted her other three crewmen from her overturned hull, but one of them died soon afterward of respiratory failure and saltwater aspiration. (en)
- The bulk carrier caught fire and nearly sank while at port in Hamilton, Ontario. (en)
- The ferry collided in Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland with (en)
- The general cargo ship sank in a storm off the coast of Turkey. Of the crew of 11, four were rescued and one is confirmed dead. Two rescuers were also killed and three remain missing when the boat carrying them hit rocks and sank. (en)
- thumb|The damaged MSC Flaminia
The container ship suffered an onboard explosion and fire in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of two of her crew of 23. Survivors abandoned ship and were rescued by . (en)
- The wreck of the fishing vessel was found one day after she went missing ten miles off Portland, England in 50 m. One body recovered and two missing. (en)
- The ferry caught fire off Matuko Point. All 43 passengers were taken off by . Cebu Ferry 1 was later towed in to Batangas. (en)
- The cargo vessel ran aground on Pierre au Vraic rocks near Alderney during her maiden voyage. After making temporary repairs to a leak in her stern she made it to Falmouth Docks for further repairs. (en)
- The cargo ship caught fire in the Gulf of Tonkin with the loss of six lives. (en)
- The bulk carrier broke in two after breaking her moorings and drifting to the shore near Sacheon, South Korea. The ship had been struck by another vessel eight months earlier and was awaiting for repairs. The ship was declared constructive total loss and scrapped in situ. (en)
- The super-yacht sank in a storm during the early morning hours off the island of Skyros, Greece. Her eight crew were rescued by a Hellenic Coast Guard helicopter. (en)
- The ro-ro ferry was struck by at Travemünde, Germany and sank by the bow until it grounded. (en)
- An explosion and subsequent fire onboard the chemical tanker killed one crewman. The ship was later declared total loss and sold for scrapping. (en)
- The cargo ship foundered off Hui'an with the loss of ten of her eleven crew. (en)
- The phosphate carrier broke her mooring and was pushed into the cliffs at Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island and broke up, spilling oil and phosphate into the sea. All fifteen crew were rescued by Royal Australian Navy RIBs. (en)
- The cargo ship foundered in the South China Sea off the Spratly Islands. Her eighteen crew survived. (en)
- Cyclone Jasmine: The fishing vessel foundered. (en)
- The cargo ship was severely damaged by fire off the coast of South Africa. She was towed into Durban in late October. (en)
- The fishing trawler sank in a storm off Ålesund, Norway. One crew member was rescued by a Royal Norwegian Air Force helicopter, with three others missing. The body of the trawler's captain was recovered from the sea north of Tromsø, Norway, in late March 2012. At the time of her loss, Hallgrímur had been on the way to the Fosen Gjenvinning breaker's yard at Stoksund in Sør-Trøndelag for scrapping. (en)
- The 35-gross ton, purse-seine fishing vessel capsized and sank in Slocum Arm in Southeast Alaska just after hauling a large set of pink salmon aboard, dumping four members of her five-person crew into the water. They were picked up by the fifth crewmen, who was operating her seine skiff, and all five then were rescued from the skiff by the fishing vessel El Dorado . (en)
- The container ship ran aground in the East China Sea off Fuqing, China and broke in two. All 21 crew were rescued. (en)
- The ro-ro cargo ship was destroyed by fire at Miragoane. (en)
- Overloaded with a cargo of 1,700 tons of stone, the bulk carrier ran aground in the Yangtze River in China after a navigation error. All crewmen on board were rescued. (en)
- The cargo vessel ran aground in Kalmar Strait, in the Baltic Sea, Sweden. (en)
- The cargo ship ran aground south o Bergen. (en)
- The cargo ship ran aground at Finnsnes. (en)
- The cargo ship was driven ashore at Samsun. (en)
- The cargo vessel ran aground in the Kiel Canal. (en)
- The dredger sprang a leak and sank at Klaipėda. (en)
- The ferry collided with (en)
- The tug was struck by a barge and sank in the Dong Nai River at Bien Hoa with the loss of a crew member. (en)
- The cargo vessel sank off San Jose, Philippines after suffering a severe list. All crew were rescued. (en)
- The hopper vessel struck a mooring and sank in the Rhône at Beaucaire, Gard. (en)
- thumb|Lamma IV
The passenger ferry sank after a collision with another passenger ferry Sea Smooth , off Lamma Island, Hong Kong, resulting 39 killed and more than 100 injured. (en)
- The oil tanker, ran aground on a shoal to the east of the island of Aegna near Tallinn, Estonia. The tanker was not carrying cargo, but was reportedly leaking bilge water. (en)
- The passenger ship was severely damaged by fire and sank at Moscow. (en)
- The cargo ship ran aground near Krilyon Point, Sakhalin. She was on a voyage from Vladivostok to Korsakov. (en)
- The cargo ship collided with off Istanbul, Turkey and was beached. Her thirteen crew were rescued. A temporary repair was made and the ship was refloated. She was taken in to Istanbul. (en)
- The cargo ship foundered off Zhoushan, China with the loss of eight of her 40 crew. (en)
- The tug capsized and sank at Krimpen aan den IJssel, South Holland. Both crew were rescued by . (en)
- thumb|right|USNS Niagara Falls sinking.The inactivated was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean 63 nautical miles southwest of Kauai, Hawaii, during the RIMPAC 2012 exercise. (en)
- grounded at Galite Islands, Tunisia, later laid up until 2017. In 2017 scrapped in Aliaga (en)
- The passenger ship ran aground in the Balearic Islands. All 25 people on board were rescued. (en)
- The tug sank 45 miles off the Lizard with one of the three crew missing. (en)
- The cargo ship ran aground near Antwerp, Belgium. The ship was refloated the next day. (en)
- The cargo ship foundered in the East China Sea off the Amami Island, Japan with the loss of six of her seventeen crew. (en)
- The inactivated was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean 61 nautical miles off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, by a Mark 48 torpedo fired by the submarine HMCS Victoria during the RIMPAC 2012 exercise. (en)
- The coaster collided with and sank in the Pearl River Delta off Zhuhai with the loss of eight of her ten crew. (en)
- thumb|Carrier.
The coaster ran aground at Llanddulas, United Kingdom. All seven crew were rescued. She was declared a constructive total loss and was consequently scrapped in situ. (en)
- A boat carrying migrant workers from Somalia to Yemen sank off the Somali port of Bosaso, killing 55 people. (en)
- The tug was destroyed by fire in the Persian Gulf. Her nine crew were rescued. (en)
- The cargo ship was driven ashore at Samsun, Turkey. Her sixteen crew survived. (en)
- The cargo ship capsized and sank off Keelung with the loss of eight of her fifteen crew. (en)
- The crew vessel ran aground near Houston, Texas. Her four crew were rescued. (en)
- The tanker sank after an explosion onboard off the city of Durrës in Albania, with one crew member reported dead and two more reported missing. (en)
- The tanker broke in two after an explosion onboard near Jawol Island in the Yellow Sea. (en)
- The cargo ship developed a severe list off Öland Sweden after her cargo shifted. Her six crew were rescued by a Swedish Coast Guard helicopter. Phantom was later towed in to Oskarshamn. (en)
- The tanker capsized and foundered off Guangdong, China. Her eighteen crew were rescued. (en)
- The fishing vessel sank east of Cape Chiniak on the coast of Alaska's Kodiak Island after her lazarette flooded. Her crew of three abandoned ship wearing survival suits and was rescued by the fishing vessel Glacier . (en)
- The cargo ship was driven ashore at Kilyos, Turkey. (en)
- The tanker sank off Al Hamriya, Dubai. Her five crew were rescued. (en)
- The ferry sprang a leak and sank at Newburgh, New York. (en)
- The inter-island cargo ship sank for unknown reasons near the Solomon Islands. All on board were rescued from life rafts several days later. (en)
- Cyclone Nilam: The cargo ship sank in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka. Eighteen of her 22 crew were rescued. (en)
- The tanker ran aground off Iturup Island. Her 20 crew were rescued. (en)
- The ferry sank about south of the capital Dhaka after hitting an oil barge. The death toll early the next morning stood at 110 killed and at least 61 missing. (en)
- The cruise ship ran aground on a reef off Grand Bahama. The ship remained on the reef for the day until it was eventually pulled off by four tugs. (en)
- The fishing trawler was holed by ice in the Bering Sea and foundered off Dezhnev Point. Her 90 crew were rescued by Derzu Uzala . (en)
- The tanker exploded and sank off Jawol Island with the loss of eleven of her sixteen crew. (en)
- The supply vessel sank off Al Hamriya, Dubai with the loss of one of her six crew. (en)
- The fishing vessel sank after colliding with the cargo ship Cheng Lu 28 in the Hainan Strait off Hainan, China. Three crew members were reported missing. (en)
- The tanker collided with the oil rig Rowan EXL-1 in the Gulf of Mexico and was holed. She was beached near Corpus Christi, Texas. (en)
- The cargo ship sunk during a storm in the Black Sea. (en)
- The overloaded passenger ferry sank off the northwest coast of Papua New Guinea near Finschhafen. The final death toll is unknown because the exact number of passengers is unknown; estimates range from 88 to 223, with the official Commission of Inquiry estimating the dead at 146 to 165. (en)
- The cable ship was destroyed by fire off Walvis Bay, Namibia. (en)
- A boat carrying immigrants from Turkey sank in the northeastern Aegean Sea off the Greek island of Lesbos, killing at least 18 people. (en)
- The 109-gross ton, fishing vessel sank east of Tanner Head on the south end of Kodiak Island in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago with seven people aboard. A United States Coast Guard Sikorsky MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter rescued two people, and the vessel Tuxedni picked up the other five. (en)
- The cargo ship was crushed by ice in the Azov Sea off Kirillovka, Ukraine. Her twelve crew abandoned ship and were subsequently rescued. (en)
- The fishing vessel sank off Vélez-Málaga in Spain after it sprung a leak; the crew was rescued. (en)
- The lake freighter collided with a pier at Toledo, Ohio. The vessel's fuel bunker was pierced, causing a minor oil spill. (en)
- The cargo ship sank in the Ionian Sea between Zakynthos and the Greek mainland with the loss of four of her ten crew. (en)
- The tug sank in the Bijlands Kanaal at Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland. (en)
- The tanker ranaground at Penghu, Taiwan. All sixteen crew were rescued by a Taiwan Coast Guard helicopter. (en)
- The cargo ship collided with off Vung Tau and sank. Her sixteen crew were rescued. (en)
- The offshore supply vessel was destroyed by fire and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nigeria. (en)
- The passenger ferry ran aground near Tårs, Denmark. The ship was able to be refloated under her own power. (en)
- The bulk carrier was driven ashore at Llolleo, Chile. She was declared a constructive total loss. (en)
- While under tow from Dakar the ship sank on the Medina Bank in the Mediterranean Sea. (en)
- The dredger capsized and sank in shallow water with the hull partially above water in the Kattegat off Odense. Her four crew were rescued by helicopter. (en)
- thumb|BountyThe full-rigged ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean south east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All sixteen crew took to the lifeboats. The ship later sank, two people were reported to be missing. (en)
- The fishing trawler capsized and broke up after hitting the breakwall at the entrance to the Tweed River, New South Wales, Australia. Two crew were rescued. (en)
- The tugboat caught fire off the coast of Kingston, Ontario in Lake Ontario. (en)
- The hopper ship sank at Ust-Luga. Her six crew survived. (en)
- The tug foundered in the Sea of Azov. Her three crew were rescued. (en)
- The tanker capsized and sank, possibly after hitting a shipwreck west of Athens. Ten crew were rescued and one person, the captain, died. (en)
- Cyclone Jasmine: The fishing vessel capsized and foundered off Tongatapu. Her three crew were rescued. (en)
- The 14-gross ton, salmon troller ran aground near Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport in Sitka, Alaska. Her two crewmen were rescued. Several days later, Igloo sank in of water off Cannon Island in Sitka while under tow to a safe location for dismantling. (en)
- The cargo ship suffered an onboard explosion and caught fire in the Azov Sea. Her fourteen crew were rescued by the icebreaker . The severely damaged ship was subsequently anchored off Strilkove, Ukraine. (en)
- The fishing vessel sank, after hitting rocks, near Glandore Harbour, County Cork. Five crew members reported missing. (en)
- The hopper vessel sank at Port Elizabeth, South Africa. (en)
- The cargo vessel sank off Binorong Point, Philippines after her cargo of iron ore shifted. All crew were rescued. (en)
- The trawler capsized after hitting a sandbank whilst trying to enter Teignmouth harbour, Devon. All five crew rescued. (en)
- A fire broke out on the vehicle deck of the ro-ro ferry whilst she was on a voyage from Venice, Italy to Patras. She was evacuated on arrival at Patras. There were no injuries amongst her 87 crew and 113 passengers. (en)
- The cargo ship caught fire in Osaka Bay. Her twelve crew were rescued by the Japanese Coast Guard. (en)
- The cargo ship suffered a fire in her engine room. All nine crew were rescued by a KNRM lifeboat. The fire was extinguished and her crew returned to the ship, which was towed in to Harlingen, Netherlands. (en)
- thumb|John B. CaddellThe tanker was driven ashore at Staten Island, New York, by Hurricane Sandy. (en)
- The fishing vessel ran aground at Newport, Oregon in high wind. (en)
- The two retired barges were scuttled in the North Atlantic Ocean off Mantoloking, New Jersey, in of water at both to serve as an artificial reef and as a means of delivering a sculpture of a horseshoe crab intended to lie on the seafloor as part of the reef. Bridles holding the sculpture to the barges broke as the barges sank, causing the sculpture to fall off the barges, hit the seafloor first, and shatter, and the pieces of the sculpture were damaged further when the sinking barges landed on top of them. The wrecks of the two barges and the wreckage of the sculpture are known collectively as the "Horseshoe Crab barge." (en)
- . Typhoon Vicente: The ship sank off Hong Kong. Her crew were rescued. (en)
- The refrigerated cargo ship ran aground in the Morskoy Canal in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was refloated the next day with the assistance of four tugs. (en)
- The cargo ship was presumed to have foundered in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Shantar Islands . An EPIRB from the vessel was activated. 9 crew perished. (en)
- The bulk carrier ran aground and was damaged between Nynashamn and Trosa. (en)
- The fishing vessel was driven ashore at Cape Town, South Africa. Nineteen of her 28 crew were evacuated by the NSRI. (en)
- The coaster foundered in the Gulf of Tonkin off Vinh. Her crew were rescued by . (en)
- thumb|Ryō Un Maru
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami: The derelict fishing vessel, which had been drifting in the Pacific Ocean for over a year, was shelled and sunk off Sitka, Alaska, United States by . (en)
- The 25-gross ton, troller struck a rock and sank southwest of Heceta Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. The fishing vessel High Pockets rescued her entire crew of three. (en)
- The container ship ran aground off Måløy, Norway and was severely damaged. Twelve of her fourteen crew were taken off, the other two remaining on board to assist with salvage efforts. (en)
- The container ship ran aground on a reef off Jakarta, Indonesia. (en)
- The ferry collided with a cargo ship off Lamu Island and sank with the loss of nine lives. There were at least 48 survivors. (en)
- The cargo ship caught fire in the Inland Sea of Japan. (en)
- The tanker caught fire in the Caspian Sea off Makhachkala and was abandoned with the loss of one of her fourteen crew. (en)
- The cargo ship was driven ashore near Akpinar, Turkey. Her crew were taken off the next day. (en)
- thumb|Wreck of MV Gelso M
The chemical tanker ran aground off Syracuse, Sicily. All nineteen crew were rescued by helicopter. (en)
- The cargo ship was driven ashore at Valencia, Spain. (en)
- A fishing boat carrying illegal migrants sank after hitting rocks in Baradan Bay off the coast of Turkey, resulting in 61 deaths. (en)
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