List of shipwrecks in 1957

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The list of shipwrecks in 1957 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1957.

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January[]

6 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1957
Ship Country Description
Vaila  United Kingdom The fisheries protection vessel ran aground off the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides and sank with the loss of five of her twenty crew.[1]

13 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1957
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The cargo ship sank in the North Sea after her cargo shifted. All fourteen crew were rescued.[2]

14 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1957
Ship Country Description
Saint John Pilot Boat No. 1  Canada Collided in a thick fog with the inbound freighter Fort Avalon, off Mispec near the Saint John harbour mouth, and sank.[3] Three Harbour pilots and four crew lost their lives.[4]

15 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1957
Ship Country Description
 Norway The cargo ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean west of Lisbon, Portugal (41°33′N 9°33′W / 41.550°N 9.550°W / 41.550; -9.550). The ship was abandoned, she sank on 18 January.[5]

17 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1957
Ship Country Description
Holdernith  United Kingdom The coaster ran aground in the Humber Estuary and sank. Refloated two days later, returned to service.

21 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1957
Ship Country Description
 Norway The cargo ship ran aground at Buhlomrasa Light and broke in two. Total loss.[6]
 Sweden The cargo ship was in collision with ( France) and sank at Vlissingen, Netherlands. All crew were rescued.[7]
Valvadere  United States The 10-gross register ton 40.2-foot (12.3 m) gasoline-powered wooden fishing vessel foundered at Kodiak, Territory of Alaska.[8]

24 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1957
Ship Country Description
 Pakistan The cargo ship reported in distress in position 25°18′S 68°00′E / 25.3°S 68.00°E / -25.3; 68.00, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, coming from Tianjin[9] heading to Antwerp.[10] All 51 crew members, mostly Pakistanis and at least one German, were killed.[11]

25 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1957
Ship Country Description
 Royal Danish Navy The cutter was reported missing off the coast of Greenland. Discovered on 3 February sunk at Ravns Storø with the loss of all eight crew.[12][13]

27 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1957
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The cargo liner ran aground in the Crosby Channel, River Mersey whilst trying to avoid a collision with the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board dredger Leviathan. Refloated but then ran aground again. Refloated a second time and returned to port.[14]
 Netherlands The cargo ship ran aground off Maryport, Cumberland, United Kingdom. She was later refloated.[14]

February[]

3 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1957
Ship Country Description
Roxanna Dawn  United States The 24-gross register ton, 40.7-foot (12.4 m) fishing vessel was destroyed by fire in (58°04′40″N 152°45′50″W / 58.07778°N 152.76389°W / 58.07778; -152.76389 (Back Bay)) off Afognak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago off the Territory of Alaska.[15]

4 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1957
Ship Country Description
 Turkey The passenger ship collided with ( United States) in the Gulf of Smyrna and sank with the loss of one passenger and two crew.[16]

5 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1957
Ship Country Description
Robert Limbrick  United Kingdom The fishing vessel ran aground on Quinish Point, Mull with the loss of all 12 crew.[17]

8 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1957
Ship Country Description
 West Germany The cargo ship sank off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. All 27 crew rescued.[18]

10 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1957
Ship Country Description
 United States Carrying a cargo of fuel oil, the 170-foot (52 m), 556-gross register ton coastal tanker grounded on the Sandy Bay Breakwater off Rockport, Massachusetts, and sank in up to 60 feet (18 m) of water 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km; 0.6 mi) northeast of Thacher Island at 42°38′52″N 070°34′11″W / 42.64778°N 70.56972°W / 42.64778; -70.56972 (Chelsea). She broke in half after sinking.[19]

20 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1957
Ship Country Description
 Sweden The ore carrier ran aground off Vlissingen, the Netherlands, and was wrecked. Refloated on 24 February and beached to enable salvage of her cargo of iron ore.[20][21]

22 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1957
Ship Country Description
 West Germany The coaster was in collision with ( United Kingdom) and sank off the east coast of Denmark. All fifteen crew rescued.[22]
Clydesdale  United States The 38-gross register ton, 55.6-foot (16.9 m) fishing vessel was lost in a storm at (57°34′N 136°03′W / 57.567°N 136.050°W / 57.567; -136.050 (Slocum Arm)) on the west coast of Chichagof Island the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[23]

26 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1957
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground off Ockseu Island (Wuqiu), Republic of China (Taiwan). All 31 crew abandoned ship, but then disappeared.[24] They were later discovered safe on Haitan Island.[25]

27 February[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1957
Ship Country Description
Île de France  France The ocean liner ran aground off Martinique. Refloated after several hours.[26] The ship suffered a broken rudder and damaged propellers. She was towed to Newport News, Virginia, United States for repairs.[27]

March[]

1 March[]

6 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1957
Ship Country Description
Balto  United States The 14-gross register ton, 36.9-foot (11.2 m) fishing vessel sank in (60°53′N 146°54′W / 60.883°N 146.900°W / 60.883; -146.900 (Valdez Arm)) on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska.[28]

7 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1957
Ship Country Description
USNS Mission San Francisco  United States Navy The Type T2-SE-A3 tanker was in collision with ( Liberia) in the Delaware River at Pennsville, New Jersey. She was cut in two with the stern section being set on fire. Nine of her 44 crew were killed.[29]

8 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1957
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground off Vlissingen, the Netherlands. She later was refloated.[30]

9 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1957
Ship Country Description
Katherine T  United States The 13-gross register ton, 34.7-foot (10.6 m) fishing vessel sank at (55°59′N 131°24′W / 55.983°N 131.400°W / 55.983; -131.400 (Anchor Pass)) near Bell Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[31]

19 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1957
Ship Country Description
 Sweden The cargo ship was wrecked on Stangskar Point, Landsort.[32]

22 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1957
Ship Country Description
 Turkey The cargo ship struck ice and sank at Hanko, Finland. All crew rescued.[33]

April[]

4 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1957
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The coaster collided with the collier and sank off Margate, Kent with the loss of five of her fourteen crew.[34]

12 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1957
Ship Country Description
Kitagawa Maru No 5.  Japan According to Japanese Coast Guard official announced, a wooden passenger boat, from Ikuchi Island to Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Seto Islands Sea, this boat 239 persons were on board, which were more than three times capacity, however, not stormy weather at this accident, 126 persons were rescued, 113 persons were lost to lives.[35]

14 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1957
Ship Country Description
 Sweden The tanker, carrying 1,732 cubic metres (458,000 US gal) of kerosene on its way from Nynäshamn to Norrköping, sank off Oxelösund in a snowstorm.[36]

16 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1957
Ship Country Description
 Netherlands The tug sank following a boiler explosion at Rotterdam. Three people were killed and fifteen injured by flying débris.[37]

21 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1957
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The tug collided with ( United Kingdom) and sank in the River Mersey at Liverpool, Lancashire. All six crew rescued.[38]

25 April[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1957
Ship Country Description
 Canada The tug capsized and sank at Montreal, Quebec with the loss of four crew.[39]

June[]

5 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1957
Ship Country Description
 Australia The dredger was wrecked off Newcastle, New South Wales.[40]

12 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1957
Ship Country Description
 Costa Rica Capsized and sank with the loss of 13 lives after an onboard explosion of her cargo, 10 nautical miles (19 km) north of Huasco, Chile.[41]

14 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 14 June 1957
Ship Country Description
HMS Sidon  Royal Navy The decommissioned S-class submarine was sunk for use as an ASDIC target.

19 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1957
Ship Country Description
 Greece Collided with ( United States) 15 nautical miles (28 km) off Ouessant, Finistère, France. Both ships caught fire with the loss of eleven lives and 40 injured, twenty seriously.[42][43][44]
 United States The T2 tanker collided with ( Greece) 15 nautical miles (28 km) off Ouessant and caught fire. Declared a constructive total loss, she was consequently scrapped.[42][43][44]

20 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1957
Ship Country Description
D S S Co. No. 1  United States The 84-gross register ton, 110.2-foot (33.6 m) barge sank off (59°32′30″N 139°51′30″W / 59.54167°N 139.85833°W / 59.54167; -139.85833 (Ocean Cape)) on the south-central coast of Alaska.[45]
Yakima III  United States The 41-gross register ton, 60-foot (18 m) scow sank at Hoonah, Territory of Alaska.[46]

28 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1957
Ship Country Description
HMS Cleveland  Royal Navy The Hunt-class destroyer ran aground at Llangennith, Glamorgan whilst under tow to Llanelly for scrapping.[47]

July[]

8 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 July 1957
Ship Country Description
Reina del Pacifico  United Kingdom The ocean liner ran aground 5.5 nautical miles (10.2 km) north of Ireland Island, Bermuda.[48] Refloated on 11 July.[49]

10 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1957
Ship Country Description
Nefco 17  United States The 128-gross register ton, 75.9-foot (23.1 m) barge was destroyed by fire at Ketchikan, Alaska.[50]

15 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 July 1957
Ship Country Description
Clarisse  Panama The cargo ship sank in heavy seas in the Indian Ocean at 08°04′N 051°10′E / 8.067°N 51.167°E / 8.067; 51.167 ("SS Clarisse").

16 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1957
Ship Country Description
Aleutian  United States The 57-gross register ton, 62.6-foot (19.1 m) fishing vessel was wrecked on Chiniak Rock – presumably a feature of or reference to (57°37′35″N 52°09′00″W / 57.62639°N 52.15000°W / 57.62639; -52.15000 (Chiniak Island)) near (57°37′N 152°10′W / 57.617°N 152.167°W / 57.617; -152.167 (Cape Chiniak)) – off the coast of Kodiak Island near Kodiak, Territory of Alaska, during a storm.[51]
 United Kingdom Typhoon Wendy: The cargo ship was blown ashore on Stonecutters Island, Hong Kong. Refloated on 25 July.[52]

19 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 July 1957
Ship Country Description
 Panama The cargo ship sank off Aden in a storm.[53]

23 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 July 1957
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The cargo ship ran aground at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.[54]

August[]

1 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1957
Ship Country Description
 Royal Netherlands Navy The frigate/survey vessel was stricken from the Navy List and expended as a target at Biak, Netherlands New Guinea.[55]

3 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1957
Ship Country Description
Sea Otter  United States The 17-gross register ton, 40.2-foot (12.3 m) fishing vessel sank in (60°00′N 147°45′W / 60.000°N 147.750°W / 60.000; -147.750 (Montague Strait)) in Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska.[56]

7 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1957
Ship Country Description
Chignik 6  United States The 8-gross register ton, 31.2-foot (9.5 m) fishing vessel was destroyed by fire at Chignik Lagoon, Territory of Alaska.[23]

11 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1957
Ship Country Description
George H  United States The 11-gross register ton, 34.2-foot (10.4 m) fishing vessel was destroyed by fire in (57°22′N 156°11′W / 57.367°N 156.183°W / 57.367; -156.183 (Wide Bay)) on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula in the Territory of Alaska.[57]
Redoubt  United States The 13-gross register ton, 39.8-foot (12.1 m) fishing vessel was destroyed by fire at Chatham (57°30′50″N 134°55′30″W / 57.51389°N 134.92500°W / 57.51389; -134.92500 (Chatham)), Territory of Alaska.[15]

16 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1957
Ship Country Description
Glacier  United States The 17-gross register ton, 38.9-foot (11.9 m) fishing vessel was destroyed by fire at Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska.[57]

21 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1957
Ship Country Description
 Liberia The tanker exploded 35 nautical miles (65 km) east of Gibraltar and sank. All crew rescued by the tug ( United Kingdom).[58]

22 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1957
Ship Country Description
 Soviet Navy The submarine sank off Balaklava. She was refloated on 26 August. Her crew survived.[59]

26 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1957
Ship Country Description
USS Tarpon  United States Navy The decommissioned Porpoise-class submarine foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, while under tow to the scrapyard.

28 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1957
Ship Country Description
 Argentina The ferry collided with ( United States in the Paraná River and sank. Of the 231 passengers and crew on board,[60] 94 were reported missing.[61]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1957
Ship Country Description
 Norway Collided with a French ship in the Strait of Dover.[62]
 Canada The coaster ran aground in Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland. Refloated on 26 August having been aground for "nearly a week".[63]

September[]

1 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 September 1957
Ship Country Description
Flint  United States The 35-gross register ton, 51.9-foot (15.8 m) fishing vessel was wrecked in the Territory of Alaska on the coast of Kodiak Island outside (57°43′N 152°31′W / 57.717°N 152.517°W / 57.717; -152.517 (Womens Bay)) Channel.[64]

4 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 September 1957
Ship Country Description
HMS Decoy  Royal Navy The Daring-class destroyer ran aground at Portland Harbour, Dorset, England, due to failure of her steering gear.[65]
, and
 Royal Danish Navy The torpoedo boat HDMS Høgen collided with the torpedo boat HDMS Flyvefisken and sank in the Great Belt. HDMS Flyvefisken was severely damaged.[13]

15 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1957
Ship Country Description
 Egypt The transport ran aground on in the Red Sea and sank. A tug rescued 77 passengers and crew and others also made it to shore.[66]

17 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 September 1957
Ship Country Description
Akwe  United States The 15-gross register ton, 36.2-foot (11.0 m) fishing vessel was lost after she collided with an iceberg in Stephens Passage in Southeast Alaska 60 nautical miles (110 km; 69 mi) south of Juneau, Territory of Alaska, 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) south of (57°59′50″N 135°36′35″W / 57.9972222°N 135.6097222°W / 57.9972222; -135.6097222 (Midway)), and 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) west of .[51]

21 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 September 1957
Ship Country Description
Pamir  West Germany Hurricane Carrie: The barque capsized and sank in the Atlantic Ocean 600 nautical miles (1,100 km; 690 mi) west-southwest of the Azores at 35°57′N 40°20′W / 35.950°N 40.333°W / 35.950; -40.333 (Pamir) with the loss of 80 lives. There were six survivors.
 Soviet Navy The Type VIIC submarine was severely damaged in the Barents Sea off during an atomic bomb test. Consequently stricken on 16 October and subsequently scrapped.[67]

24 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1957
Ship Country Description
Belleville  Norway The 4,946-gross register ton cargo ship ran aground in fog just west of Seal Rock at the entrance to the harbor at Newport, Rhode Island, and sank in up to 30 feet (9.1 m) of water at 41°26′38″N 071°20′51″W / 41.44389°N 71.34750°W / 41.44389; -71.34750 (Belleville).[68]
Margaret J  United States The 28-gross register ton, 49-foot (14.9 m) fishing vessel was wrecked at Sunny Cove (55°15′N 132°15′W / 55.250°N 132.250°W / 55.250; -132.250 (Sunny Cove)) in (55°17′N 132°04′W / 55.283°N 132.067°W / 55.283; -132.067 (Chomley Sound)) in Southeast Alaska.[69]

25 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 September 1957
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The cargo liner ran aground off Cascais, Portugal.[70]

26 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1957
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The passenger ship ran aground in the Rhine at Oberwesel, West Germany.[71]
M-256  Soviet Navy The Quebec-class submarine sank in the Gulf of Finland after a fire, with 28 crew members killed and seven saved.

27 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1957
Ship Country Description
Frontier  South Africa
Frontier
During a voyage from Durban to Port Elizabeth, the cargo ship ran aground on the coast of South Africa at the mouth of the , 23 nautical miles (43 km; 26 mi) east of East London. She broke up on 29 September and was declared a total loss.

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1957
Ship Country Description
Nazarene  United Kingdom The fishing vessel ran aground on Pedn-e-Vurnow beach, Porthcurnow. All crew safe, vessel destroyed.[72]

October[]

3 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1957
Ship Country Description
 Norway The tanker ran aground at , Zeeland, Netherlands. Later refloated with the aid of eleven tugs.[73]

7 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1957
Ship Country Description
 Japan The tanker collided with ( Taiwan) off Kobe and sank.[74]

8 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1957
Ship Country Description
USNS Mission San Miguel  United States Navy The tanker ran aground on Maro Reef, Hawaii. All crew saved.

10 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1957
Ship Country Description
 Soviet Navy The Type VIIc/41 submarine was sunk in the Barents Sea off Novaja Zemlja during the test of an atomic bomb.[75]

16 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1957
Ship Country Description
 Panama The Liberty ship ran aground in the Cape Verde Islands. She was declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.[76]

17 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1937
Ship Country Description
 Spanish Navy The Churruca-class destroyer was wrecked in fog on rocks at El Ferrol, Spain.[77][78]

19 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1957
Ship Country Description
Swinomish  United States The 18-gross register ton, 40.9-foot (12.5 m) fishing vessel sank in Pavlof Bay on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula in the Territory of Alaska.[56]

21 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1957
Ship Country Description
Phoenix X  United States The 70-gross register ton, 79.6-foot (24.3 m) fishing vessel was destroyed by fire off Sukkwan Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska.[79]

22 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1957
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The cargo ship collided in the Gulf of Suez with ( Belgium) and sank with the loss of three lives.[80] Thirteen racehorses were drowned.[81] Purfina Congo repaired and returned to service.[82]
 West Germany The coaster collided in the Scheldt with ( West Germany) and sank. All crew were rescued.[83]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1957
Ship Country Description
 Japan The cargo ship ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, 300 nautical miles (560 km) east of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. Abandoned on 15 October as a total loss. All 47 crew rescued by the tug ( Australia).[84]

November[]

4 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1957
Ship Country Description
Cordova Salvor  United States The 180-gross register ton, 99.9-foot (30.4 m) motor cargo vessel was wrecked at (54°35′50″N 164°55′30″W / 54.59722°N 164.92500°W / 54.59722; -164.92500 (Cape Sarichef)) on the western coast of Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands.[23]
 Italy The cargo ship was driven aground in a gale at Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight.[85]

5 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1957
Ship Country Description
 Netherlands Rammed by Nikolai Bauman ( Soviet Union) and sunk off Vlissingen. All eleven crew rescued.

6 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1957
Ship Country Description
 Finland The coaster sank 35 nautical miles (65 km) west of Aveiro, Portugal with the loss of three of her eleven crew.[86]

11 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1957
Ship Country Description
 West Germany The train ferry ran aground at Grossenbrode, West Germany. Refloated later that day.[87]

26 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1957
Ship Country Description
Lena F  United States The 6-gross register ton, 29.1-foot (8.9 m) fishing vessel was destroyed by fire at Wrangell, Territory of Alaska.[88]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1957
Ship Country Description
 Netherlands Ran aground at Dungeness, Kent.[62]

December[]

1 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1957
Ship Country Description
 Panama The cargo ship foundered in the Black Sea with the loss of six of her fourteen crew.[89]

2 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1957
Ship Country Description
Pioneer No. 4  United States The 30-gross register ton, 54-foot (16.5 m) cargo scow was wrecked in (59°13′30″N 151°27′30″W / 59.22500°N 151.45833°W / 59.22500; -151.45833 (Windy Bay)) in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska.[79]

3 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1957
Ship Country Description
Dot  United States The 15-gross register ton, 37.9-foot (11.6 m) fishing vessel destroyed by fire at Craig, Territory of Alaska.[45]

8 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1957
Ship Country Description
Patria  Netherlands The coaster was driven ashore in a gale at Sheephaven Bay, Northern Ireland.[90]

9 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1957
Ship Country Description
 Netherlands The coaster was driven ashore in a gale at Mulroy Bay, Northern Ireland. All seven crew rescued by a helicopter from .[90]

10 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1957
Ship Country Description
 Soviet Navy The S-class submarine was driven ashore on Paramushir, in the Kuril Islands whilst being towed from Vladivostok to Petropavlovsk by the icebreaker ( Soviet Navy). She was later refloated and scrapped.[59]

17 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1957
Ship Country Description
 Panama The tanker ran aground north of Borneo, the Philippines. HMS Cossack ( Royal Navy) went to her aid.[91]

20 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1957
Ship Country Description
 Norway The cargo ship ran aground in the Karmsund, near Haugesund. All crew rescued.[92]

22 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 December 1957
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The troopship ran aground at Hook of Holland, Netherlands. Later refloated and returned to service.[93]
Narva  United Kingdom The cargo ship foundered in the North Sea 180 nautical miles (330 km) east of Aberdeen with the loss of all 28 crew.

24 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1957
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The coaster ran aground at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.[94]

25 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1957
Ship Country Description
Fish Mule  United States The 34-gross register ton, 46.2-foot (14.1 m) tug sank at the entrance to Resurrection Bay on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska.[64]

27 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 December 1957
Ship Country Description
 Argentina The cargo ship ran aground at Tampico, Mexico.[95]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1957
Ship Country Description
 United Kingdom The coaster ran aground at Margate, Kent, England.[62]
 United States Navy Carrying salvage equipment, the 132-foot (40 m) floating salvage derrick sank in up to 30 feet (9.1 m) of water off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, between Nomans Land and Old Man Rock at 41°16′24″N 070°49′08″W / 41.27333°N 70.81889°W / 41.27333; -70.81889 (YSD-40).[96]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1957
Ship Country Description
St. Christopher  Costa Rica
The wreck of St. Christopher as it appeared on 20 December 2012.
Laid up at Ushuaia, Argentina, since 1954 due to engine trouble and rudder damage, the tugboat was beached and abandoned there.

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See also[]

Ship events in 1957
Ship launches: 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
Ship commissionings: 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
Ship decommissionings: 1952 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1962
Shipwrecks: 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
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