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Maritime Vessel Shipping line 1 Date Deaths 1 Missing 1 Survivors 1 Remarks SS Corregidor: Compania Maritima 17 December 1941 900-1,200 [1]: Unknown 282 The ferry was sailing to the Visayas and was carrying around 1200-1500 passengers, mostly refugees fleeing the bombing of Manila by the Japanese during the Second World War, when it struck a mine off Corregidor Island and sank in five minutes.
The MV Doña Paz was a Philippine -registered passenger ferry that sank after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector on December 20, 1987. With an estimated death toll of 4,386 people and only 24 survivors, it was the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history. Doña Paz was traveling from Leyte island to the Philippine capital of Manila.
MV SuperFerry 14 was a Philippine registered roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ferry that was attacked on February 27, 2004 by terrorist group Abu Sayyaf that resulted in the destruction of the ferry and the deaths of 116 people in the Philippines ' deadliest terrorist attack. [1][2][3] Six children less than five years old, and nine children between ...
The ship was carrying 1,312 passengers and 96 crew. Of the total 1,408 on board, only 388 people survived. [3] 1,020 2008 Philippines: Princess of the Stars – On 21 June, the ferry capsized and sank in Typhoon Fengshen, off the coast of San Fernando, Romblon. Of the estimated 747 people aboard, only 57 survived. 690 2003 Bangladesh
The MT Solar 1, carrying more than two million liters of bunker fuel, sank during a violent storm approximately 20.5 kilometres (12.7 mi) off the southern coast of Guimaras around midnight on August 11, 2006, [4] causing an unknown amount of oil to pour into the gulf, that traveled up through the Guimaras Strait and Iloilo Strait.
List of maritime disasters in the Philippines; List of shipwrecks in 2008; 2008 Pacific typhoon season; MV Doña Paz sank in 1987 with at least 4,341 people killed. MV Doña Marilyn sank in 1988 with 254 dead. MV St. Thomas Aquinas sank in 2013 after a collision with a cargo ship MV Sulpicio Express Siete with 137 people killed and missing.
MV Danica Joy. December 2009 Philippines ferry collision. MV Doña Marilyn. MV Doña Paz.
August 31, 2024 at 7:48 AM. TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China and the Philippines accused each other of causing a collision between their two vessels Saturday in the latest flareup of tensions over ...