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Accidental shipwrecks

In addition to these accidents the shipwrecks due to the wars are added, in particular with the Second world war.

Shipwrecks in time of war

  • May 19th 1780: The frigate the Sartine , having undergone the British shootings, runs aground in the entry of the Old man-Port Marseilles, origin of the famous joke on the Sardine which stopped the wearing of Marseilles. (http://site.voila.fr/sartine))
  • March 18th 1915: The Cuirassé Grooving plane is cast with the Dardanelles by a mine.
  • May 7th 1915: The Lusitania is run by a German submarine, making 1  198 died and, by its repercussion in the USA will be one of the reasons to enter it in war two years later of this country.
  • February 26th 1916: The Provence II , is run by a German submarine U-35, with the Matapan Cape; 930 dead.
  • November 21st 1916: The Britannic runs up against a mine in Aegean Sea and runs in 55 minutes, making 33 dead.
  • June 17th 1940: The Lancastria runs, bombarded by German aviation, making more 3  000 dead.
  • July 3rd 1940: At the time of the Bataille of Seas el Kébir, armoured the Brittany explodes carrying with him more 1  000 sailors.
  • May 27th 1941: The German battleship Bismarck is run by the Home Fleet at the time of its first exit after Churchill made its destruction a priority.
  • October 14th 1942: In the Battle of the St. Lawrence, the cross bar S.S. Caribou which carried out the connection between Sydney (Nova Scotia) and Port-with-Basques (Newfoundland), was run by the German U-Boot U-69. 137 passengers and members of the crew found death there.
  • June 29th 1944: The Toyama Maru is torpedoed by the American ship US Sturgeon, causing the death of 5  600 soldiers of the 44e brigade.
  • August 22nd 1944: The Tsushima Maru was run by the American ship US Bowfin, resulting in the death of 1  484 people, including 767 children.
  • September 18th 1944: The Junyō Maru is run by a British submarine, HMS Tradewind, causing the death of 5  620 people, of which 2  300 prisoners of war Dutch, American, British and Australian.
  • January 30th 1945: The Wilhelm Gustloff , torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, runs with more 10  000 passengers, the number of victims is estimated between 5  400 and 12  000. It acts can be greater maritime catastrophe of all times.
  • February 10th 1945: The Général von Steuben is torpedoed by the same Soviet submarine which ran the Wilhelm Gustloff , causing the death of 3  000 people.
  • April 7th 1945: The Yamato , then the largest battleship of the world, party to the combat like the Kamikaze S, without intention of return, was cast with broad of Kagoshima by the Americans, resulting in the death of more than 3  000 people.
  • April 16th 1945: The Goya is run by a Soviet submarine, at least 6.100 dead.
  • May 3rd 1945: Cape Garded , Thielbek and Deutschland IV bombarded by the British aviation, making approximately 8  000 died, of which approximately 7  500 deportees.
  • August 22nd 1945: The Japanese ship Ukishima Maru transporting on its board approximately 4  000 Koreans in the course of repatriation runs, damaged by the Japanese, causing the death of 550 people.

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