List of roll-on/roll-off vessel accidents
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This is a list of Roll-on/roll-off vessels which took on water and capsized or sank due to problems with the loading doors or vehicle decks, or other causes not associated with their construction as Roll-on/roll-off ferries.
- MV Princess Victoria in 1953 killing 133 people[1]
- SS Heraklion in 1966 killing over 200 people[2]
- TEV Wahine in 1968 killing 52 people
- MS Herald of Free Enterprise in 1987 killing 193 people
- MS Jan Heweliusz in 1993 killing 55 people
- MS Estonia in 1994 killing 852 people
- MS Express Samina in 2000 killing 82 people
- MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98 in 2006 killing almost 1,000 people
- MV Queen of the North in 2006 killing 2 people
- MV Cougar Ace in 2006 killing 1 person [3]
- MV Baltic Ace in 2012 killing 11 people
- MV Sewol in 2014 killing 304 people
- SS El Faro in 2015, this happened during a hurricane, so far there has been 1 body recovered.
References
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- ↑ http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys?currentPage=all
