See also: List of maritime disasters and List of missing ships
This list of shipwrecks is a list of those sunken ships whose remains have been located.
Africa
East Africa
- Globe Star grounded off Mombasa, Kenya in April 1973
- HMS Gulland (T239) a 545 ton Isles class trawler built for World war II. Grounded 13 April 1951 three miles north of Mombasa, Kenya
- SMS Königsberg (1905) sunk in the Rufiji River in July 1915
- HMS Pegasus sunk at Zanzibar on 20 September 1914
Algeria
- French battleship Bretagne Lead ship of her class, sunk 3 July 1940.
- HMT Rhona a British troop carrier sunk north of Béjaïa in an air attack during World War II on 26 November 1943.
Egypt
See also the section for Red Sea
- L'Orient Napoleon's flagship sunk in Aboukir Bay during the Battle of the Nile on 1 August 1798.
Morocco/Western Sahara
- Commerce . American merchant ship, she ran aground off Cape Bojador in what is now the Western Sahara in 1815. The surviving crew, led by Captain James Riley, were subsequently captured and taken as slaves by local tribes.
Tunisia
- Mahdia an ancient shipwreck discovered in 1907.
Southern Africa
Namibia
- Bom Jesus a Portuguese Nau that set sail from Lisbon in 1533. It was discovered in 2008 on the coast near Oranjemund.
- Eduard Bohlen a freighter ran aground south of Conception Bay in 1909.
- MV Dunedin Star , ran aground on the Skeleton Coast, 80 km south of the Cunene River, on 29 November 1942.
South Africa
Eastern Cape
- Doddington , an East Indiaman wrecked in 1755 at Bird Island in Algoa Bay.
- Grosvenor An East Indiaman, wrecked Sunday 4 August 1782 off the Pondoland coast, South Africa.
- MTS Oceanos a cruise liner sank off the Transkei Coast, after leaving East London on route to Durban on 3 August 1991.
Western Cape
- Arniston a British East Indiaman, requisitioned for troop transport, wrecked near Waenhuiskrans, Western Cape on 30 May 1815.
- HMS Birkenhead a British iron-hulled troopship that struck a submerged rock near Gansbaai, Western Cape on 26 February 1852.
- BOS 400 ran aground on Duiker point after breaking loose while being towed around the Cape Peninsula by the tug Tigr in a storm in June 1994.
- British Peer (ship), a three-masted iron sailing ship. Ran aground in 1896 near the Cape of good hope.
- Cospatrick (ship) A wooden 3-masted full-rigged sailing ship. Caught fire and sank 17 November 1874 with a loss of 369 souls.
- Ikan tanda Cargo ship ran aground near Cape Town in 2001. Re-floated, but scuttled 200 miles from shore.
- HMS Guardian (1784), a a 44-gun Roebuck Class ship laid down in 1780. Severely damaged by an iceberg in 24 December 1789, the ship was sailed an amazing 400 leagues to the Cape of Good Hope where she was intentionally grounded.
- Joanna , the first East Indiaman to be wrecked off the South African coast. Wrecked near Cape Town in 1682. A considerable amount of gold was on the ship.
- Johanna Wagner a Prussian barque that ran ashore due to navigational error near Muizenberg on 15 July 1862.
- SS Maori a Shaw Savill Line steamship wrecked near Llandudno, Cape Town on 5 August 1909.
- HMS Pelorus (J291), a British Algerine -class minesweeper built in 1943. Scuttled in 1994 to make an artificial reef at Miller's Point near Simon’s Town, South Africa.
- SAS President Kruger (F150) A South African frigate, sank after a collision with a refueling ship.
- HMS Sceptre (1781), a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Ran aground, 5 November, 1799 near the Cape of good hope.
- HMS Thames a former Mersey class cruiser that became famous as the SATS General Botha , a merchant naval training ship. After retiring as a training ship, she reverted back to her original name and was sunk in False Bay near Simon's Town as a target.
- SS Thomas T. Tucker a Houston built munitions carrier ran ashore on Oliphantsbos point near Cape Point on 27 November 1942.
West Africa
- MV Joola a Senegalese passenger ship that capsized off the coast of The Gambia on 26 September 2002.
- Medusa French passenger ship which sank near Bank of Arguin in 1816 ( see Raft of the Medusa by Géricault in the Louvre).
- French cruiser Primauguet (1924) , a French Duguay-Trouin -class light cruiser laid down in 1923. She was sank by gunfire from the Massachusetts in 8 November 1942.
- William D. Lawrence Built in 1874, in Maitland, Nova Scotia. Sunk in Dakar, Africa.
Middle East
Saudi Arabia
At 20°52′02.87″N 39°21′39.77″E / 20.8674639°N 39.3610472°E / 20.8674639; 39.3610472 lies the "Saudi Golden Arrow", ex Norwegian Ferry "M/S Europafergen" reported laid up at Shoieba. Also since about 2000 the "Al Basmalah I" built as MV Glen Sannox in 1957 and the "Al-Fahad", ex "Free Enterprise III", that anchored after engine problems in 2004 and has since reported to have become semisubmerged. Some 14.6 kilometers southwest of the old city center of Jeddah at 21°22′35.67″N 39°07′13.51″E / 21.376575°N 39.1204194°E / 21.376575; 39.1204194 .
Yemen
- Aden P&O ship lost of Socotra in 1897
- S.S. Hutton wrecked in the Gulf of Aden, 1882
Lebanon
- HMS Victoria (1887) . A British battleship that sank in 1893.
Turkey
- Cape Gelidonya a Phoenician merchant vessel wrecked around 1200 BC.
- Uluburun shipwreck a merchant shipwreck dating to the late Bronze Age.
Asia
Bangladesh
- MV Ghazi and MV Dighirpir collision and capsized in Padma River, Keranigonj, Ruhitpur, at least 250 people confirmed dead on May, 1973.
- Ferry boat Rushi capsized by stormy conditions in Padma River in April 1980, 230 people confirmed dead.
- Shamia , double-decker ferry, capsized in Meghna River in southern Barisa during May 1986, killing over 600.
- Atlas Star , double-decker ferry capsized in Dhaleswar River, Munshiganj, during April 1986, killing at least 500.
- Haisal collide with cargo vessel in Dhaleswari River, at least 200 people confirmed dead in December 1988.
- MV Dinar went down in a strong whirlpool in Meghna River, Chandpul, in August 1994, with at least 250 people confirmed dead.
- MV Shalahaddin 2 , triple-decker ferry between Dhaka and Patuakhali, capsized by storm in Meghna River in May 2002, killing 340.
- MV Mitali Ⅲ , Double decked ferry, capsized by collision cargo vassel in Buriganga River, Kishoraganj and at least 130 people confirmed dead on April 2003.
- MV Nazreen-1 , capsized by flood-swollen waters in July 2003 near Chandpur, killing 528.
- An overcrowded MV Maharaj , double-decked ferry capsized by storm in Buriganga River, Pagla, at least 149 people confirmed dead on February, 2005.
- MV Raipure , double-decker ferry capsized by storm in Jamuna river, Aricha and at least 115 people confirmed dead on May, 2005.
China
- Russian battleship Petropavlovsk battleship sunk by a mine in 1904 in Yellow Sea.
- Russian Petropavlovsk -class battleship Sevastopol scuttled in Yellow Sea to avoid capture 1904.
- Nanhai One , Chinese merchant vessel, sank off the south coast during the Southern Song Dynasty between 1127 and 1279.
- Red Star 312 , Guangzhou and Zhaoqing ferry route, capsized by thunderstorm in Shanshui, Guangdong, at least 147 people confirmed dead, in March 1983.
- Dashun , ferry between Dalian and Yantai, caught fire and capsized off Yantai, Shandong, November 1999, killing at least 280.
- Rong Jian capsized in Yangtze River, Hejiang, Sichuan in June 2000, at least 131 people confirmed dead.
Hong Kong
- HMS Tamar a British troopship scuttled to avoid capture in Hong Kong harbour on 12 December 1941.
- Neftegaz-67 , a Ukrainian anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS), sank after colliding with China-registered bulk carrier Yao Hai east off Brothers Island, Hong Kong, at about 9:13 p.m. on 22 March 2008.
- RMS Queen Elizabeth, sank after fire 9 January 1972 in Victori
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