List of shipwrecks in 1981

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The list of shipwrecks in 1981 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1981.

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1981
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec
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January

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1981
Ship Country Description
José Martin  Soviet Union The tanker ran aground off Dalarö, Sweden.[1]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1981
Ship Country Description
Deifovos  Greece The cargo ship sank off Vega, Norway,[2] with the loss of nine of her 37 crew.[3]

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1981
Ship Country Description
Tampomas II  Indonesia The ferry caught fire and sank in a storm in the Java Sea 500 nautical miles (930 km) north east of Java. She was carrying a 1,136 people,[4] of whom 762 were reported to have been rescued.[5]

30 January

List of shipwrecks: 30 January 1981
Ship Country Description
Ems  West Germany The cargo ship sank after collision with Undine ( Belgium) off Happisburgh, England (Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.).[6] Six crew rescued by Undine and taken to Vlissingen, Netherlands. Thirteen others rescued by helicopter and taken to Great Yarmouth. Four crew were killed.[7]
Frederika 1  West Germany The cargo ship sank after colliding with Blackthorn ( United Kingdom) in the River Thames at Greenwich. All five crew were rescued by the tug Redriff ( United Kingdom).[7]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown date January 1981
Ship Country Description
MV Golden Princess  Greece The passenger ship sank in a storm while laid up at Perama, Greece.

February

6 February

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1981
Ship Country Description
Nellie M  United Kingdom The Troubles: sunk at Lough Foyle after being boarded and bombed by an IRA team, raised and refitted in 1982, sold to an Irish company and renamed Ellie ( Republic of Ireland).[8]

13 February

List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1981
Ship Country Description
Eastern Mariner I  Panama The cargo ship was damaged in a storm, and sank three days later east of Bermuda (Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.).[9]

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1981
Ship Country Description
Akra Aktion  Greece Ran aground off Mangalia, Romania and sank.[10]

26 February

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1981
Ship Country Description
USS Glennon  United States Navy The Gearing-class destroyer was sunk as a target off Puerto Rico.

March

25 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1981
Ship Country Description
Rio Bravo  Greece The cargo ship caught fire and sank 600 nautical miles (1,100 km) south west of the Azores. All 27 crew rescued.[11]

April

9 April

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1981
Ship Country Description
Nisho Maru  Japan The ballistic missile submarine USS George Washington ( United States Navy) surfaced underneath the cargo ship, sinking her with the loss of two of her crew.

May

20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1981
Ship Country Description
Alkmini  Greece The cargo ship collided with Duro Seis ( Spain) in the English Channel and sank. All 28 people on board were rescued by helicopter and taken to Cherbourg, France.[12]

June

1 June

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1981
Ship Country Description
Reina del Mar  Greece scuttled off Kynosoura, Greece.

15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1981
Ship Country Description
Charity  Netherlands She collided with Good Captain ( Greece) and sank 15 nautical miles (28 km) off Pantellaria Islands, Italy.[13]

July

3 July

List of shipwrecks: 3 July 1981
Ship Country Description
Arctic Explorer  Canada the icebreaker sank off St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador. Thirteen of her 32 crew were killed.

12 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1981
Ship Country Description
USNS Wheeling  United States Navy The inactivated Wheeling-class missile range instrumentation ship was sunk as a target by Harpoon missiles.

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1981
Ship Country Description
Sir Winston Churchill  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Later refloated and returned to service.

August

3 August

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1981
Ship Country Description
Prince Ivanhoe  United Kingdom The former ferry struck a rock and sank at Horton, Swansea. All 450 on board rescued but one passenger suffered a heart attack and died.[14]
Melpo Lemos  Greece The tanker ran aground on the Lepe Bank, in the Solent off Southampton, United Kingdom.[14] She was refloated the next day.[15]

September

13 September

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1981
Ship Country Description
HMS Rapid  Royal Navy The decommissioned Q and R-class destroyer was sunk as a torpedo target in the Western Approaches by the submarine HMS Onyx ( Royal Navy).

20 September

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1981
Ship Country Description
Tungufoss  Iceland The coaster sank in a storm 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Land's End, Cornwall, United Kingdom. all crew rescued by a helicopter from RNAS Culdrose or the Sennen lifeboat.[16]

21 September

List of shipwrecks: 21 September 1981
Ship Country Description
BRP Datu Kalantiaw  Philippine Navy
BRP Datu Kalantiaw.

Typhoon Clara: The Cannon-class destroyer escort was driven ashore on Calayan Island with the loss of 79 of her 97 crew.

24 September

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1981
Ship Country Description
MV Dimitris  Greece The 963 grt freighter (formerly known as MV Harrogate of Associated Humber Lines) flooded, foundered and was lost[17]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown date 1981
Ship Country Description
Chrisoula K  Greece ran aground on the Sha`b Abu Nuhas reef and later sank.[18]

October

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1981
Ship Country Description
S-178  Soviet Navy The Whiskey-class submarine was rammed and sunk by Refrizkerator-13 ( Soviet Union) in Golden Horn Bay. Thirty-one of her crew were killed.

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1981
Ship Country Description
S-363  Soviet Navy The Whiskey-class submarine ran aground off Karlskrona, Sweden and was damaged. After a diplomatic incident and military standoff, the submarine was refloated on 5 November and towed into international waters for handover to the Soviet Navy.

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1981
Ship Country Description
Temple Hall  Greece
File:2008-12-15 Lanzarote Wreck.jpg
Temple Hall, February 2008

The cargo ship was beached at Arrecife, Canary Islands after developing a leak. The stern section of the ship survives as of February 2014.[19]

November

15 November

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1981
Ship Country Description
USS Charles R. Ware  United States Navy The decommissioned Gearing-class destroyer was sunk as a target in the Caribbean.

26 November

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1981
Ship Country Description
Globe Asimi  Gibraltar The tanker ran aground at Klaipeda, Lithuania and broke in two.[20]

27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1981
Ship Country Description
Elma Tres  West Germany The cargo ship foundered 215 nautical miles (398 km) west of Hamilton, Bermuda with the loss of all but one of her 24 crew.[21]
Euro Princess  Yugoslavia [22] The cargo ship ran aground off Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. All 26 crew rescued by helicopter.[21]

December

13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1981
Ship Country Description
Bonita  Ecuador The freighter capsized by two massive waves 40 miles north of Guernsey while on voyage from Hamburg to Panama with fertiliser. One member of crew lost, the rest saved by navy helicopter and St Peter’s Lifeboat, Sir William Arnold.[23][24]

14 December

List of shipwrecks: 14 December 1981
Ship Country Description
Grain Ville  United Kingdom The cargo ship foundered off County Wexford, Ireland. Five of her nine crew were rescued.[25]

19 December

List of shipwrecks: 19 December 1981
Ship Country Description
Mark  Panama The coaster was lost in Mount's Bay, Cornwall while bound for Spezia, Spain with a cargo of china clay from Teignmouth. All six of her crew were lost and the wreck has never been found.[26]
Lifeboat Solomon Browne RNLI FLAG.png Royal National Lifeboat Institution The lifeboat was lost while attempting to rescue the crew of the Union Star ( Republic of Ireland) off Tater Du, Cornwall. Eight crew lost from each vessel.[27]

23 December

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1981
Ship Country Description
Dimitrios  Greece
File:Nauagio Dimitrios.jpg
Dimitrios
The laid-up cargo ship was swept from her offshore anchorage by a storm and wrecked on the beach at Valtaki, near Gythio, Greece.

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1981
Ship Country Description
Marina di Equa  Italy The bulk carrier sank in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of all thirty crew.[28]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1981
Ship Country Description
Aurore The fishing trawler, a former yacht, sank in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel after sriking an unidentified object. she was later refloated and restored to her original configuration as a yacht.
Harp The merchant ship sank in the South Atlantic Ocean during a storm.
Holland XXIV  Netherlands
USS Ozark  United States Navy
USS Ozark sinking
Serving as a target ship, the decommissioned mine countermeasures support ship sank in the Gulf of Mexico 28 to 30 miles (45 to 48 km) due south of Destin, Florida, the day after being hit by a Maverick missile fired by a United States Air Force F-4 Phantom II from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

References

  1. ↑ "Soviet tanker runs aground" The Times (London). Thursday, 8 January 1941. (60820), col D, p. 4.
  2. ↑ "Searchers find five bodies from Greek ship" The Times (London). Tuesday, 27 January 1981. (60836), col H, p. 5.
  3. ↑ "Hope fades" The Times (London). Wednesday, 28 January 1981. (60837), col H, p. 7.
  4. ↑ "500 feared lost from Java Sea ferry boat" The Times (London). Wednesday, 28 January 1981. (60837), col C, D, p. 1.
  5. ↑ "762 saved in Java ferry disaster" The Times (London). Thursday, 29 January 1981. (60838), col C-F, p. 8.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Five saved as ships collide in Thames" The Times (London). Saturday, 31 January 1981. (60840), col C, p. 1. (Continued on page 3, cols B-D.)
  8. ↑ Nellie M history and profile
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ "Greek ship sinks" The Times (London). Thursday, 26 March 1981. (60886), col H, p. 6.
  12. ↑ "28 saved in sea collision" The Times (London). Thursday, 21 May 1981. (60933), col E, p. 2.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "450 trippers rescued from holed steamer" The Times (London). Tuesday, 4 August 1981. (60997), col H, p. 1.
  15. ↑ "Refloating of tanker lifts threat to gas pipes" The Times (London). Wednesday, 5 August 1981. (60998), col G, p. 2.
  16. ↑ "11 dead as storms sweep Britain" The Times (London). Monday, 21 September 1981. (61308), col G, p. 1.
  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ "Oil threat to beaches in Sweden" The Times (London). Friday, 27 November 1981. (61093), col H, p. 8.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 "Ship's crew lost in heavy seas" The Times (London). Saturday, 28 November 1981. (61904), col D, p. 5.
  22. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  23. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  24. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  25. ↑ "Four missing as ship sinks in a storm" The Times (London). Tuesday, 15 December 1981. (61108), col D-G, p. 1.
  26. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  27. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  28. ↑ "Thirty missing as freighter sinks" The Times (London). Wednesday, 30 December 1981. (61119), col D-F, p. 1.
  29. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

See also

Ship events in 1981
Ship launches: 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Ship commissionings: 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Ship decommissionings: 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Shipwrecks: 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
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