![]() ![]() She exploded and sank, killing 673 officers and men. HMS Queen Charlotte – a British 100-gun first-rate ship of the line that, on 17 March 1800, while serving as flagship of Vice-Admiral Lord Keith, was reconnoitering the Tuscan island of Capraia when she caught fire. Among the dead were Rear-Admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds and Captain Daniel Oliver Guion. This, combined with a heavy sea, resulted in St George being wrecked at Nazen, about three miles from Ringkøbing, together with HMS Defence. Under jury masts and a temporary rudder she had got a considerable distance out of the Sleeve when a gale came up. She narrowly escaped wrecking on a shoal (Rødsand) south of Zeeland on 15 December, while returning from the Baltic Sea. ![]() HMS St George – The second rate was wrecked near Ringkøbing on the west coast of Jutland on 24 December. Vaitarna – On 8 November, the ship went missing in a cyclonic storm off the coast of Saurashtra region of Gujarat. The squadron was caught in a sudden squall and Lefort heeled over once, righted herself, then heeled over again and sank between the islands of Gogland and Bolshoy Tyuters with the loss of all 826 people aboard. The ship had aboard 756 crew and officers along with 53 women, and 17 children who were families of the crew. Lefort – On 22 September Lefort was in the Gulf of Finland en route from Reval to Kronstadt along with the ships Imperatritsa Aleksandra, Vladimir and Pamiat Asova. About 280 men were lost from Java and 590 from Blenheim. Blenheim was reported to be in poor shape and it is speculated that Java may have sunk while trying to rescue Blenheim 's crew in the storm. HMS Blenheim and HMS Java – While sailing in convoy to India both ships were lost without trace in a gale and are presumed to have foundered somewhere off Rodrigues. The junk sank in about 30 metres (100 ft) of water, killing about 1,600 people. On 6 February she tried a shortcut through the Gaspar Strait between Belitung and Bangka Islands and grounded on a reef. Tek Sing – The Chinese junk was bound for Batavia, Dutch East Indies. This makes it the worst maritime disaster in American history (even worse than the Titanic). ![]() At least 1547 of her 2,137 passengers died in the ensuing fire or from drowning, though the death toll is assumed to be as high as 1,800. Sultana – On 27 April this Mississippi riverboat, steaming north with an excessive number of passengers on board, suffered a series of boiler explosions. The table listings are in descending order of the magnitude of casualties suffered. Some of the disasters below occurred in periods of conflict, although their losses were unrelated to any military action. All ships, including those of the military, are vulnerable to problems from weather conditions, faulty design or human error. Many maritime disasters happen outside the realms of war. This transport-related list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items. ![]()
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