The cargo ship caught fire off Sattahip and was abandoned. Later declared a constructive total loss and was scrapped.[4]
16 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1984
Ship
Country
Description
Netherlands
The cargo ship was abandoned in the North Sea off Norway. She sailed crewless on auto-pilot for 200 nautical miles (370 km) and ran aground south of Dunbar, East Lothian. The ship was salvaged and taken to Leith.[5]
The 86-foot (26.2 m) fishing trawlercapsized and sank with the loss of two lives off Cape Decision on the coast of Southeast Alaska after a large wave struck her. There were three survivors.[6]
24 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1984
Ship
Country
Description
Liberia
The cargo ship foundered off Guernsey, Channel Islands after a hatch cover was smashed in heavy seas. Seventeen of the 26 crew were lost. Nine survivors were rescued by the frigate (Marine Nationale) and taken to St Peter Port.[7]
February[]
1 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1984
Ship
Country
Description
Skaros
United Kingdom
Iran–Iraq War: The bulk carrier was struck by an Iraqi Exocet missile in the and set on fire. Declared a constructive total loss, later scrapped
7 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1984
Ship
Country
Description
Panama
The cargo ship foundered off Ouessant, France in a storm. Eight of the nineteen crew were lost.[8]
14 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1984
Ship
Country
Description
Kyowa Maru No. 11
Japan
The fishing trawler sank with the loss of 14 lives in the Bering Sea approximately 120 nautical miles (220 km; 140 mi) north of Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands after colliding with the vessel Anyo Maru No. 15 (Japan). There were eight survivors.[1]
15 February[]
List of shipwrecks: 15 February 1984
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The coaster collided with a German ship in fog 8 nautical miles (15 km) off Cromer, Norfolk and sank. The five crew were rescued.[9]
The historic sternwheel texas-deck paddle steamer, operating as a showboat theater, sank at her mooring in the Muskingum River at Marietta, Georgia, when low river water caused her hull to strike sharp submerged concrete rubble. She was refloated and repaired, and she returned to service in June 1985.[13][14]
The trawler was sunk off Jutland, Denmark after her nets were snagged by the Chilean submarine Simpson (Armada de Chile) which was then undergoing trials. The three crew were killed.[18]
After the patrol vesselAisling and an unidentified patrol vessel (both Irish Naval Service) caught her fishing illegally in Irish waters during a gale on the evening of 19 April and she fled, resulting in a five-hour chase in which the Irish vessels fired 596 rounds at her as warning shots before discontinuing pursuit, the 330-gross register tonfishing vessel sank in the Irish Sea off England about 45 nautical miles (83 km; 52 mi) northwest of Land's End. The cargo shipAchat (West Germany) rescued three members of her 16-person crew, and a Royal Air ForceSea King helicopter from RAF Brawdy picked up the other 13.[21]
During a voyage from Dillingham to Kodiak, Alaska, the fishing vessel flooded and sank in the Gulf of Alaska about 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) south of Kodiak after a large wave broke over her stern. A United States Coast Guard helicopter hoisted all three members of her crew off the roof of her wheelhouse before she sank.[17]
The barque sank off Bermuda with the loss of nineteen crew.
Turkey
The ship was attacked by Iraqi fighter aircraft on 3 June 1984 while underway in ballast from , Turkey to Kharg Island, Iran. Two Exocet missiles hit the superstructure and the engine room, starting a fire, killing three crew members and injuring two. Later towed to Bushir, Iran, where the vessel was declared a total loss and sold to Taiwanese breakers in 1986.
8 June[]
List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1984
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The schooner struck a floating object in the North Sea whilst on a voyage from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Lowestoft, Suffolk and was holed below the waterline. HMS Ambuscade (Royal Navy) went to her assistance. Pumps were flown out by helicopter and a lifeboat towed her in to Harwich, Essex.[24]
The tanker sank 12 nautical miles (22 km) off Ostend, Belgium.[36] Amongst her cargo were barrels containing 225 tonnes (221 long tons) of uranium hexafluoride.[37]
The 145-to-150-foot (44.2 to 45.7 m) barge sank in 60 to 70 feet (18 to 21 m) of water in Long Island Sound 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) south of Sheffield Island near Norwalk, Connecticut. She apparently pulled the tugCeltic (United States), which was towing her, down with her, and her wreck remains connected to the wreck of Celtic by a towing hawser.[42]
The 85-foot (25.9 m) tug sank in 60 to 70 feet (18 to 21 m) of water in Long Island Sound 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) south of Sheffield Island near Norwalk, Connecticut, with the loss of her entire crew of five, whose bodies were recovered by police divers. She apparently was pulled under by the barge she was towing, Cape Race (United States), when Cape Race sank. Celtic's wreck remains connected to the wreck of Cape Race by a towing hawser.[42]
5 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1984
Ship
Country
Description
Unidentified ferry
Philippines
Typhoon Agnes: The ferry capsized and sank off Romblon in the Philippines with the loss of 440 lives.[43]
The cargo ship ran aground off Coatzacoalcos, Mexico and was wrecked with the loss of two of her 27 crew.
22 November[]
List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1984
Ship
Country
Description
United Kingdom
The coaster capsized and sank off Plymouth, Devon. Three crew rescued by a helicopter from RFA Engadine (Royal Navy) and landed on HMS Brilliant (Royal Navy). The remaining four crew were rescued by the Plymouth lifeboat.[46]
The fishing vessel was blown onto rocks and wrecked near Seguam Pass in the Aleutian Islands, 130 nautical miles (240 km; 150 mi) southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Other fishing vessels rescued her crew of five.[26]
^Hughes, Colin (25 January 1984). "Question mark over French frigate as 17 die in storm". The Times. No. 61747. London. col E-G, p. 1. (continued on back page, column A)
^Witherow, John; Hughes, Colin (8 February 2011). "Eight dead, 11 saved from ship". The Times. No. 61572. London. col A, p. 2.
^"Seamen saved". The Times. No. 61759. London. 16 February 1984. col D, p. 3.