List of shipwrecks in 1989

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The list of shipwrecks in 1989 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1989.

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1989
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
Unknown date

January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1989
Ship Country Description
Justo Rufino Barrios II  Guatemala The ferry sank in Amatique Bay whilst under tow of a Guatemalan Navy vessel with the loss of 67 lives.[1][2]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1989
Ship Country Description
Lavia  Panama
File:SS Lavia fire.jpg
Lavia burning.
The cruise ship burned and sank while moored in Hong Kong Harbour. She later was refloated and scrapped.

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1989
Ship Country Description
Kamran  Iran foundered of Abu Musa, United Arab Emirates

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1989
Ship Country Description
USS Muliphen  United States Navy The decommissioned Andromeda-class attack cargo ship was sunk as an artificial reef off Fort Pierce, Florida[3] at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found..[4]

February

15 February

List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1989
Ship Country Description
Maassluis The tanker sank during heavy weather in the Mediterranean Sea near Skikda, Algeria, with the loss of 27 of her 29 crew members.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1989
Ship Country Description
Secil Angola  Panama The cargo ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all seventeen crew.[5]

March

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1989
Ship Country Description
Perintis  Indonesia The coaster foundered in the English Channel 35 nautical miles (65 km) off Guernsey, Channel Islands.[6][7]
Secil Japan  Panama The cargo ship ran aground at Hell's Mouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom with the loss of one of her sixteen crew. Survivors were rescued by helicopter.[5]

19 March

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1989
Ship Country Description
Masagusar  Liberia The tanker sank off the coast of Japan having caught fire on 13 March. All 23 crew were reported as missing.[8]

24 March

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1989
Ship Country Description
Exxon Valdez  United States
Exxon Valdez.

Ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, while carrying approximately 210,000 m3 (1,300,000 bbl) of crude oil.

April

7 April

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1989
Ship Country Description
K-278 Komsomolets  Soviet Navy The Mike-class nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea (Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.) with the loss of 42 of her 67 crew.

10 April

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1989
Ship Country Description
Mineral Europe  British Hong Kong Collided off Singapore with Ambition ( Liberia) and was damaged, losing some cargo. Later repaired and returned to service.[9]

25 April

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1989
Ship Country Description
USS Parsons  United States Navy The decommissioned Forrest Sherman-class guided-missile destroyer was sunk as a target.

June

19 June

List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1989
Ship Country Description
SS Maxim Gorkiy  Soviet Union hit an ice floe near Svalbard, Norway. Passengers evacuated by lifeboat, ship later repaired and returned to service.

23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1989
Ship Country Description
Lady Rhoda  Cyprus The cargo ship collided with Meloviya ( Morocco) and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Vigo, Spain with the loss of six of her crew. Survivors were rescued by Meloviya.[10]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1989
Ship Country Description
USS Blenny  United States Navy The Balao-class submarine was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off Ocean City, Maryland, as an artificial reef.

July

11 July

List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1989
Ship Country Description
City of Poros  Greece hijacked by terrorists and set on fire by grenades. Nine killed and 60 injured. Fire extinguished by salvage tugs Alcyon and Pegasus, ship towed to Piraeus.[11]

August

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1989
Ship Country Description
Marchioness  United Kingdom Sunk in the River Thames, London after collision with dredger Bowbelle ( United Kingdom). Fifty-one fatalities.

September

10 September

List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1989
Ship Country Description
Ferry Mogosoaia  Romania Collision with tug Peter Karaminchev ( Bulgaria) in the River Danube near the town of Galați, Romania. At least 151 people killed.[12]

14 September

List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1989
Ship Country Description
Tresco  United Kingdom The coaster foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 30 nautical miles (56 km) south west of the Wolf Rock. Seven crew were rescued by helicopter.[13]

October

29 October

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1989
Ship Country Description
Murree  Pakistan The cargo ship foundered in the English Channel off Start Point, Devon, United Kingdom. All forty people on board were rescued by a Royal Navy search and rescue Sea King helicopters, of 771 Naval Air Squadron flying from RNAS Culdrose.[14][15]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1989
Ship Country Description
HMS Spartan  Royal Navy The Swiftsure-class submarine ran aground off the west coast of Scotland. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

November

2 November

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1989
Ship Country Description
Ibis  Honduras The cargo ship capsized in Tor Bay, Devon, United Kingdom. She sank on 5 November.[16]

20 November

List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1989
Ship Country Description
Despo  Greece The cargo ship sank off Zakynthos with the loss of one of her seven crew.[17]

December

4 December

List of shipwrecks: 4 December 1989
Ship Country Description
USCGC Mesquite (WLB-305)  United States Coast Guard
File:Mesquite Grounding 1 sm.jpg
USCGC Mesquite.

The buoy tender ran aground on a reef off of the Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior. Originally intended to be salvaged, she was damaged further by winter storms and subsequently sunk as an artificial reef the next year.[18]

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1989
Ship Country Description
Capitaine Torres  Vanuatu The cargo ship sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of all hands.[19]
Johanna B  Panama The cargo ship sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrences with the loss of all hands.[19]

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1989
Ship Country Description
Arklow Victor  Ireland The cargo ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of one of her six crew. Survivors were rescued by a French helicopter.[20]

19 December

List of shipwrecks: 19 December 1989
Ship Country Description
Kharg 5  Iran The supertanker exploded and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco. All 32 crew were rescued by a Soviet merchant ship.[21]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1989
Ship Country Description
HMS Leander  Royal Navy The decommissioned Leander-class frigate was sunk as a target by a Sea Dart missile, three Exocet missiles, and one gravity bomb.
YO-257  United States Navy The decommissioned yard oiler was sunk 2 nautical miles (2.3 miles; 3.7 km) off Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, to form an artificial reef.

References

  1. ↑ Mac Margolis. "Rio ship operators charged as toll from sinking rises" The Times (London). Tuesday, 3 January 1989. (63281), col C-E, p. 5.
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Crewman lost in Cornish shipwreck" The Times (London). Monday, 13 March 1989. (63340), col D, p. 1.
  6. ↑ Michael Hornsby. "Weather hampers search for toxic cargo" The Times (London). Monday, 20 March 1989. (63346), col G, p. 5.
  7. ↑ MV Perintis HC Deb, 19 April 1989 vol 151 cc171-3W
  8. ↑ "Tanker Sinks" The Times (London). Monday, 20 March 1989. (63346), col G, p. 14.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Michael Horsnell. "Ship's British captain killed" The Times (London). Saturday, 24 June 1989. (63429), col B-D, p. 3.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ "Ship rescue" The Times (London). Friday, 15 September 1989. (63500), col G, p. 4.
  14. ↑ David Sapsted. "Eight die as weekeng gales bring havoc" The Times (London). Monday, 30 October 1989. (63538), col G-H, p. 24.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ "Vessel sinks" The Times (London). Monday, 6 November 1989. (63544), col H, p. 6.
  17. ↑ "Sailor missing" The Times (London). Tuesday, 21 November 1989. (63557), col H, p. 12.
  18. ↑ http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/mesquite1943.pdf
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 "Storm toll rises to 48" The Times (London). Monday, 11 December 1989. (63574), col G, p. 7.
  20. ↑ Michael Horsnell. "Six missing at sea in fierce storms" The Times (London). Monday, 18 December 1989. (63580), col A, p. 20.
  21. ↑ Alan Tillier. "Stricken tanker under tow" The Times (London). Tuesday, 2 January 1990. (63592), col A-C, p. 18.
Ship events in 1989
Ship launches: 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Ship commissionings: 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Ship decommissionings: 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Shipwrecks: 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
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