Disasters 2012

Date	Event	Vessel lost	People died
January 2	Boxship Main Trader suspect in hit&run accident	+
January 8	Taiwanese freighter Tycoon sank in Christmas Island harbor	+
January 11	Korean fishing vessel Jung Woo 2 destroyed by fire in Antarctic	?	3
January 13	Boxship FAS Provence sank in Mediterranean	+
January 13	Costa Concordia disaster	?	25 ?
January 15	An explosion tore apart South Korean tanker Doola No.3	+	10
January 15	Turkish tanker Edirne sank in Adriatic sea after an explosion	+	3
January 15	Irish fishing vessel Tit Bonhomme sank in Co Cork	+	5
January 15	Lady Moon sank approaching Sharjah port	+
January 16	Jack-up KS Endeavour on fire, offshore vessel Mako destroyed	+	2?
January 21 - 22	Freighters Sun Spirits and Seaford 2 sank in Philippines waters	+ +
January 25	Fishing vessel Hallgrimur sank in Norwegian sea	+	3
January 31	General cargo vessel Vera sank off Eregli, Black sea	+	7
February 1	Rabaul Queen disaster	+	126
February 2	The sinking of Bolivian general cargo vessel Katrine Krog	+
February 3	Ro-ro Astongate lost 52 cars in rough Japan sea
February 7	Russian freighter Tanya Karpinskaya sank after collision	+
February 8	Turkish coaster Hay K and Russian ferry Feruz beached by the storm in Samsun	?
February 10	Freighter Bien Nam 17 sank on Dong Nai river		1
February 16	Tanker Karakumneft in full load ran aground in Kurilsk, Kuril Islands	?
February 17	Superyacht Yogi sank in Aegean sea	+
February 18	Chinese freighter Xin Yuan Shun 6 sank in Taiwan Strait	+	10
February 26	Fishing trawler Esther sinks off the Canary Islands	+
February 27	Dredger Chabira sank in Klaipeda, Lithuania	+
February 28	Tra Ly 18 sank in Tonkin Bay	+
March 01	Dozens of vessels trapped in ice in frozen Azov sea	? ?
March 01	Indian bulk carrier Prabhu Daya is a prime suspect in a deadly hit and run accident	1	5
March 02	Chinese freighter Boyun 018 sank after collision	+	8
March 03	Cursed name. Another Jung Woo fishing vessel destroyed by fire.	?	2
March 05	Tanker Alfa 1 sank in Saronic Gulf under unclear circumstances	?	1
March 09	Freighter Serunting 1 sank in Sunda Strait, at least 15 missing	+	15?
March 09	Boxship Celina grounding
March 10	Tanker Gelso M grounding	+
March 10	Collision m/v Seagate vs. reefer Timor Stream
March 10	Fishing vessel Lady Cecelia sank near Willapa Bay, Washington	+	4
March 13	Ferry Shariatpur-1 tragedy		132 ?
March 13	Chinese freighter Yuan Tong sank after leaving Ship Repair Yard	+	8
March 13	Tanker Kenos Athena with 7000 tons of sulfur acid sank in South China Sea	+
March 15	Stolt Valor on fire and drifting after explosion, Persian Gulf	+	1
March 15	Fishing vessel Easy Rider sank in New Zealand	+	8
March 15	Boxship Bareli broke in two on a reef	+
March 17	Locals torched the vessels of the owner of sank ferry Rabaul Queen	?
March 19	The sinking of Ocean Glory	+	8
March 20	Cargo vessel Shivan sank in Arabian sea	+	22
March 23	Trawler Kasuga Maru sank in East China sea	+	2
April 03	German freighter Carrier ran aground in Irish sea	+
April 03	Freighter New Lucky VII sank in East China Sea	+	6
April 09	Vietnamese freighter Truong Hai Star sank after collision with Thai bulk carrier Krairatch Dignity	+
April 11	General cargo vessel Tikhon Syomushkin sank in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy Port	+
April 11	Trawler Onward destroyed by fire	+
April 16	Chinese boxship Yong Cai sank Japanese fishing vessel	+	2
April 21	Fishing vessel Hsin Man Chun destroyed by fire, Pacific	+
April 30	Brahmaputra ferry tragedy, India	+	200?
May 1	Tug Al Deebel hit by explosion of the SPM, Persian Gulf		7
May 6	Spanish fishing vessel Loamar Segundo sank in the Atlantic	+
May 12	Freighter Rio Turbio sank after collision with tug Ava Payagua, Parana		7
May 19	Turkish freighter Erol Senkaya sank in Ionian sea	+	4
May 26	Oceanic trawler Kapitan Bolsunovskiy sank in Bering sea	+
May 29	Coaster Jinghuai 188 sank near Shanghai	+	3
June 8	Freighter Miss Ellisa capsized and sank on Demerara river, Guyana		1
June 12	Passenger vessel Josille-II sank in Palawan, Philippines	+	5
June 18	Fishing vessel No.53 Chung Yong on fire	+
June 28	Bulgarina freighter Seawind sank in South Atlantic	+	?
July 1	Freighter B&E Uno sank off Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines	+
July 1	m/v Sea Angel sank off Karachi	+
July 8	Coaster Indra Jaya sank off Malacca Strait	+	4
July 9	Fishing vessel Actinia sank in North sea	+
July 11	Cargo vessel Changqing 16 sank in Yangtze River	?	9
July 13	Mutiny on Italian trawler Fatima II, skipper killed, vessel hijacked	?	1
July 14	Fire on board of container ship MSC Flaminia in the Atlantic	?	3
July 18	Ferry Skagit WSF sank in Tanzania	+	145 ?
July 19	A dredge Arthur J sank, and a tug Madison capsized, in lower Lake Huron	?
July 20	Dozens of prostitutes burned alive on board of offshore supply vessel, Nigeria	+	30 ?
July 26	Fire and explosion on chem tanker Bunga Alpinia, Borneo	+	5
July 29	Ferry Super Shuttle Roro 1 capsized engulfed in fire after grounding	+	1
August 1	South Korean tug Kosco 202 sinking in South China sea off Luzon, crew rescued	+
August 3	Cruise vessel Didim Mavisi destroyed by fire, 100 passengers safe	+
August 8	French cable layer vessel Chamarel on fire and grounded, Namibia	?
August 10	Trawler Audacious - BF 83 sank off Lossiemouth, North sea	+
August 12	Ukrainian freighter Yukka sank on Eregli Road after fire on board	+
August 16	Bulk carrier Ocean Breeze aground and battered by storm, Chile	+
August 23	Greek bulk carrier Thermopylae Sierra sank on the road of Colombo	?
August 26	Tug Phil Pasig capsized with crew trapped inside, Philippines	+	1
August 28	Two Chinese fishing vessels with 34 crew sunk by typhoon Bolaven in East China Sea	+ +	16
August 28	Bulk carrier Pacific Carrier broke in two in typhoon Bolaven	+
August 30	Dutch freighter Hammelwarden abandoned and adrift off Sahara, Atlantic	?	?
September 1	British trawler Chloe T sank in English Channel	+
September 6	Vietnamese freighter Hoang Thinh 8 sank in Gulf of Tonkin	+	5
September 9	Fire on container ship Amsterdam Bridge
September 9	Local fishing boat sunk by Taiwanese bulk carrier Tai Harvest, China	+	6
September 11	Trawler Sarah Jayne capsized off Berry Head, Brixham	+	1
September 14	Tug CMM Coatzacoalcos sank or capsized, Veracruz, Mexico	?	2
September 15	Taiwanese freighter New Lucky 3 crew evacuated, vessel drifting with heavy list, Taiwan	?	1
September 19	Chinese Dong He on fire, crew rescued by Japanese Coast Guard	?
September 23	Reefer Vest sank in Okhotsk sea	+	2?
September 24	Long liner Horiei Maru sank after collision with freighter Nikkei Tiger	+	13
September 25	Major fire on Greek freighter Everton, Mozambique Strait	?
September 26	Indonesian ferry Bahuga Jaya sank after collision with LPG tanker Norgas Cathinka	+	8+
September 29	Unidentified tanker, allegedly m/t Shun Cheng, on fire in Gulf of Tonkin	?	1
October 1	Passenger vessel Lamma IV and ferry collided in Honk Kong		39
October 5	Two Chinese freighters caught fire in Japanese waters in 8 days
October 18	Malaysian freighter Shinline 8 sank off Jeju island, East China sea	+	5
October 20	Chinese reefer Ming Yang on fire in the Pacific
October 27	Taiwanese longliner Chin Zuei Yin on fire, 28 crew evacuated, Pacific ocean	?
October 27	m/v Amurskaya and its’ cargo of gold disappearance	+	9
October 29	HMS Bounty sank off Hatteras, Atlantic ocean	+	2
October 30	Vietnamese freighter Saigon Queen sank off Sri Lanka	+	4
October 31	The failure of the Captain. Indian tanker Pratibha Cauvery tragedy.	?	6
December 4	Black sea disaster. m/v Volgo-Balt 199 sank, rescue boat Kiyiemniyeti 7 crashed in S&R.	+	12?
December 5	Corvus J and Baltic Ace collision, North sea	+	11
December 6	Hopper Onezhskaya sank in Ust-Luga Port	?
December 15	Bulk carrier Yi He 6 Hao sank after grounding, China	+
December 22	Crew of the Korean freighter Han Splendor rescued, vessel still afloat, Pacific	?
December 29	Freighter Ocean Legacy sank offloading container on pier, Ormoc, Philippines
December 29	Vietnamese freighter Royal Prime sank or still afloat abandoned by crew, South China Sea	+	?
	Total Year 2012	78	981