The ferry sank in Amatique Bay whilst under tow of a Guatemalan Navy vessel with the loss of 67 lives.[1][2]
6 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1989
Ship
Country
Description
Miki Miki
United States
During a voyage from Cook Inlet to Seward, Alaska, the 126-foot (38.4 m) fishing vessel was abandoned 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) off the Kenai Peninsula on the south-central coast of Alaska after she sprang a leak. A United States Coast Guard helicopter rescued her entire crew of four. She was last seen drifting northwest and was presumed to have sunk.[3]
7 January[]
List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1989
Ship
Country
Description
Lavia
Panama
The cruise ship burned and sank while moored in Hong Kong Harbour. She later was refloated and scrapped.
During a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, the 97-foot (29.6 m) crabfishing vessel sent out a distress signal reporting herself to be experiencing severe icing during a storm with 60-knot (110 km/h) winds and 30-foot (9.1 m) seas before sinking with the loss of her entire crew of six in the North Pacific Ocean about 30 nautical miles (56 km) south of the .[11]
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.[13]
The 209,200-ton very large crude carrier ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, while carrying approximately 210,000 m3 (1,300,000 bbl) of crude oil. A major oil spill resulted. Exxon Valdez was salvaged, renamed Exxon Mediterranean, and returned to service.[18]
The tug capsized in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of Alaska after striking the mooring line of the barge she was towing. The buoy tenderUSCGC Sorrel (United States Coast Guard) rescued her entire crew of three.[14]
The cargo ship collided with (Morocco) and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Vigo, Spain, with the loss of six of her crew. Survivors were rescued by Meloviya.[27]
World Prodigy
Greece
The motor shipstruck a reef at the mouth of the Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, spilling several hundred thousand gallons of fuel oil; she was later refloated and repaired.
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.[32]
The liquid petroleum gas carrier was driven onto the Merries Reef. She consequently came ashore at Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia. Kouris was refloated on 27 July.[34]
Lebanese Civil War: The tanker was damaged off Jounieh, Lebanon by a Syrian Project 205U missile boat, sinking 1 September in . Seven crewmen killed, including her master, two wounded and two missing.[38][39]
Unknown date[]
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date
Ship
Country
Description
Malta
Lebanese Civil War: The tanker was sunk off Jounieh, Lebanon by a Syrian warship on 7 or 9 August.[38][40]
The 40-foot (12.2 m) fishing vessel sank in heavy seas off Glacier Point, Alaska; the wreck report does not specify which of many Alaskan locations named Glacier Point it refers to. Another vessel rescued her crew of three.[12]
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.[45][46]
The 112-foot (34.1 m) fishing boat – a converted United States Navysubmarine chaser – sank in 37 feet (11 m) of water off Breezy Point, Queens, New York, 15 minutes after a structural failure occurred in her after hull due to improper modifications. The United States Coast Guard rescued all 19 passengers and crew from the water, but two of them later died in the hospital.[51]
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.[52]
After she was cut into pieces and mixed with pieces of three barges, the retired 95-foot (29 m) tug was dumped into the North Atlantic Ocean 3.6 nautical miles (6.7 km; 4.1 mi) off Sea Girt, New Jersey, to form an artificial reef.[56]
After she was cut into pieces and mixed with pieces of two other barges and the tugMarie (United States), the retired 70-foot (21.3 m) barge was dumped into the North Atlantic Ocean 3.6 nautical miles (6.7 km; 4.1 mi) off Sea Girt, New Jersey, to form an artificial reef.[56]
Unidentified barge
United States
After she was cut into pieces and mixed with pieces of two other barges and the tugMarie (United States), the retired 80-foot (24.4 m) barge was dumped into the North Atlantic Ocean 3.6 nautical miles (6.7 km; 4.1 mi) off Sea Girt, New Jersey, to form an artificial reef.[56]
Unidentified barge
United States
After she was cut into pieces and mixed with pieces of two other barges and the tugMarie (United States), the retired 140-foot (42.7 m) barge was dumped into the North Atlantic Ocean 3.6 nautical miles (6.7 km; 4.1 mi) off Sea Girt, New Jersey, to form an artificial reef.[56]
References[]
^Mac Margolis (3 January 1989). "Rio ship operators charged as toll from sinking rises". The Times. No. 63281. London. col C-E, p. 5.