The list of shipwrecks in 1993 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1993.
January
5 January
List of shipwrecks: 5 January 1993 Ship | State | Description |
Braer | Liberia | The tanker ran aground off the Shetland Islands and sank. All 34 crew were rescued by helicopter. |
14 January
List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1993 Ship | State | Description |
Jan Heweliusz | Poland | The ferry sank in the Baltic Sea off Cape Arcona, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany with the loss of 55 of the 64 people on board. |
16 January
List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1993 Ship | State | Description |
Massacre Bay | United States | The 86-foot (26.2 m) crab-fishing vessel ran aground and sank with the loss of three lives in Alitak Bay (56°50′N 154°10′W / 56.833°N 154.167°W / 56.833; -154.167 (Alitak Bay)) on the southwest coast of Kodiak Island, Alaska, during a storm. There was one survivor.[1] |
21 January
List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1993 Ship | State | Description |
Maersk Navigator | Singapore | The tanker collided with Sanko Honour ( Singapore) in the Strait of Malacca 60 nautical miles (110 km) off Sumatra, Indonesia. She caught fire and was abandoned by her 24 crew. who were rescued by DSR Atlantic ( Germany). Sanko Honour also caught fire, but that fire was quickly extinguished.[2] |
February
7 February
List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1993 Ship | State | Description |
Alaskan Pride | United States | The 461-gross ton, 111.5-foot (34.0 m) or 120-foot (36.6 m) crab-fishing vessel sank in the Bering Sea 90 nautical miles (170 km; 100 mi) northwest of Cape Sarichef (54°35′50″N 164°55′30″W / 54.59722°N 164.92500°W / 54.59722; -164.92500 (Cape Sarichef)) on Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands. The fishing vessel Brittany ( United States) rescued her crew of seven.[3] |
18 February
List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1993 Ship | State | Description |
Neptune | Haiti | The ferry sank in the Canal du Sun on a voyage from Port au Prince to Jérémie. There were 285 survivors of the 1,500 on board.[4][5] |
25 February
28 February
March
8 March
14 March
April
9 April
12 April
16 April
May
13 May
June
3 June
List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1993 Ship | State | Description |
British Trent | Bermuda | The tanker collided with Western Winner ( Panama) and caught fire with the loss of nine of her 34 crew. The fire was extinguished but British Trent was declared a constructive total loss and consequently scrapped.[16] |
5 June
10 June
11 June
12 June
24 June
July
1 July
List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1993 Ship | State | Description |
Demetra M | United States | The 34-foot (10.4 m) longline halibut-fishing vessel rolled over and sank while at anchor in Emerald Cove (60°57′15″N 147°02′00″W / 60.95417°N 147.03333°W / 60.95417; -147.03333 (Emerald Cove)) in Columbia Bay (60°58′54″N 147°04′51″W / 60.9816°N 147.0807°W / 60.9816; -147.0807 (Columbia Bay)) on the south-central coast of Alaska.[20] |
2 July
19 July
22 July
List of shipwrecks: 22 July 1993 Ship | State | Description |
Frances Lee | United States | The 107-foot (32.6 m) crab-fishing vessel was stranded at Knoll Point (56°54′N 153°35′W / 56.900°N 153.583°W / 56.900; -153.583 (Knoll Point)) off Kodiak Island in Alaska′s Kodiak Archipelago. The fishing vessel Macanaw ( United States) rescued her crew of six. She was refloated and taken under tow by the tug Ardie and fishing vessel Barb M (both United States), but capsized on 25 July between Knoll Point and Twoheaded Island (56°54′01″N 153°35′03″W / 56.9003°N 153.5841°W / 56.9003; -153.5841 (Twoheaded Island)). The cutter USCGC Mustang ( United States Coast Guard) then towed her out into 300 feet (91 m) of water and sank her with 112 rounds from her Mark 38 25-mm gun.[17] |
27 July
List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1993 Ship | State | Description |
Fast Lady | United States | The 46-foot (14.0 m) salmon seiner was destroyed by fire without loss of life at Chignik, Alaska.[17] |
West Wind | United States | The 152-foot (46.3 m) tender flooded and sank in Orca Bay off the coast of Alaska. All four people on board survived.[22] |
August
1 August
3 August
5 August
7 August
8 August
9 August
16 August
30 August
List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1993 Ship | State | Description |
Lily Marlene | United States | The 37-foot (11.3 m) fishing vessel was destroyed by fire in Chignik Bay (56°18′N 158°24′W / 56.300°N 158.400°W / 56.300; -158.400 (Chignik Bay)) on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula.[9] |
Unknown
September
7 September
9 September
11 September
List of shipwrecks: 11 September 1993 Ship | State | Description |
Merrie Colleen | United States | The 58-foot (17.7 m) salmon seiner burned to the waterline and sank near Nichols Island (55°10′N 132°59′W / 55.167°N 132.983°W / 55.167; -132.983 (Nichols Island)) in Southeast Alaska. Her four-person crew abandoned ship in a 10-foot (3.0 m) skiff and was rescued by the 22-foot (6.7 m) research vessel Cape Henry ( United States).[1] |
17 September
List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1993 Ship | State | Description |
Nettie H | United States | The 58-foot (17.7 m) crab-fishing vessel disappeared in the Bering Sea somewhere between False Pass, Alaska, and Saint Paul Island with the loss of her entire crew of one woman and four men. The woman′s body was found on 11 May 1994 in the Bering Sea inside a life raft she had been tied to.[26] |
18 September
List of shipwrecks: 18 September 1993 Ship | State | Description |
Arctic Dream | United States | The 50-foot (15.2 m) vessel was wrecked in Onion Bay (58°04′N 153°15′W / 58.067°N 153.250°W / 58.067; -153.250 (Onion Bay)) on the coast of Raspberry Island in Alaska′s Kodiak Archipelago.[3] |
23 September
October
10 October
20 October
November
18 November
List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1993 Ship | State | Description |
Borodinskoje Polye | Russia | The factory ship ran aground north of Lerwick, Shetland Islands. All 73 crew were rescued.[32] |
December
9 December
Unknown date
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Other incidents | - 7 Jan: Lucky-S
- 27 Jan: East Wood
- 7 Feb: East Wood, USCGC Rush
- 20 Mar: USS Grayling, Novomoskovsk, (collision)
- 8 Jul: HMS Broadsword
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