The fishing vessel was abandoned 250 nautical miles (460 km; 290 mi) north of the Outer Hebrides and eighteen men were airlifted by a RAF Lossiemouth, 202 squadron, Sea King helicopter. One man, the skipper, was swept overboard and was missing.[4]
The 35-foot (10.7 m) cod- and crab-fishing vessel struck a rock and sank in the North Pacific Ocean approximately 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) south of King Cove, Alaska. Her crew of two was rescued by the fishing vessel Coastal Pilot (United States).[7]
The 51-foot (16 m) cod-fishing vessel sank in the North Pacific Ocean 35 nautical miles (65 km; 40 mi) south of King Cove, Alaska. Her crew of three escaped in a life raft and were rescued by the fishing vessel Temptation (United States).[8]
The 32-foot (9.8 m) bowpicker was destroyed by fire in Nushagak Bay off of Bristol Bay on the Bering Sea coast of Alaska. The only person aboard ran her aground and escaped onto the shore.[14]
The 43-foot (13.1 m) dive boat sank in Southeast Alaska 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) west of Craig, Alaska. The Craig harbormaster rescued the only person aboard.[15]
The decommissioned Belknap-classguided-missile cruiser was sunk by explosive charges off Puerto Rico after being used as a missile, torpedo, and aircraft target on 11 and 12 June.
Second Battle of Yeonpyeong: The Chamsuri-class patrol ship was shelled and sunk by No. 684 (Korean People's Army Naval Force). The vessel was later raised.[21]
During a voyage from Bristol Bay to Prince William Sound, the 99-foot (30 m) wooden was destroyed by a fire ignited by an engine room explosion in Shelikof Strait 18 nautical miles (33 km) east of , Alaska. Her four-member crew abandoned ship in a life raft and was rescued by a United States Coast Guard helicopter.[6]
During a voyage from Kodiak on Kodiak Island to Ketchikan in Southeast Alaska, the 32-foot (9.8 m) gillnetter sank in the Gulf of Alaska 90 nautical miles (170 km; 100 mi) southeast of Cordova, Alaska, after striking an unidentified object. A United States Coast Guard helicopter rescued the two people on board and a dog from a life raft.[23]
The 58-foot (18 m) seiner began flooding and sank in 20 minutes in the North Pacific Ocean approximately 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) south of Akutan Island in the Aleutian Islands. The only person aboard escaped in a life raft.[14]
The 171-foot (52.1 m) cod-fishing catcher processor caught fire, suffered a number of explosions, and sank in the Bering Sea approximately 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi) southwest of Saint Paul Island with the loss of two lives. The United States Coast Guard and the vessels Blue Pacific, Clipper Express, and Glacier Bay (all United States) rescued her 24 survivors, but Clipper Express lost one of her own crewmen when a rogue wave washed him overboard subsequent to the rescue.[17]
Paper Chase
United Kingdom
The yacht was abandoned off Eastbourne, East Sussex. Her crew were rescued by the Eastbourne Lifeboat.[31]
The Trafalgar-classsubmarine ran aground underwater at Fladda-chuain, Scotland. She surfaced and proceeded to Faslane. Subsequently repaired and returned to service.
The oil tanker broke in two and sank off Galicia, Spain, creating the Prestige oil spill, a massive oil spill polluting thousands of kilometers of coastline.
The Alta-classminesweeper suffered an engine room explosion, caught fire and capsized the next the day in north-west of Flemsøya in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Eleven of the thirty-three crew suffered light smoke inhalation injuries.[34]
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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 2002
Ship
Country
Description
Myanmar
The ferry sank on a Burmese river with the loss of an unknown number of passengers.[35]
The schooner sank at her moorings at Glen Cove, New York, due to the poor condition of her hull. Efforts to refloat her in 2003 damaged her beyond repair, and she subsequently was scrapped.[37][38]
References[]
^Simon de Bruxelles (3 January 2002). "Village threatened as tanker hits rocks". The Times. No. 67328. London. col A-H, p. 9.