Shipwrecking
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Shipwrecking is an event in which a ship is wrecked by running aground or sinking. The resulting physical remains of a wrecked ship are called a shipwreck or wreckage.
The sinking of the Titanic, illustrated by Willy Stöwer in 1912
Life raft from MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994
Ivan Aivazovsky's The Ninth Wave painting (1850) shows a handful of survivors clinging to the mast of a sunken ship.
Bounty awash in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., 29 Oct. 2012
MS Estonia
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MS Estonia was a car-passenger ferry built in 1980 for the Finnish shipping company Rederi Ab Sally by Meyer Werft, in Papenburg, West Germany. She was deployed on ferry routes between Finland and Swe
Shipwrecking
…capsizing of the vessel. The hulls of large modern ships have even cracked in severe storms. Equipment failure caused the shipwreck of the cruiseferry Estonia in 1994. The stress of stormy seas on the hull and especially the bow caused the bow visor to break off, in turn tearing the watertight bow door open…
As Viking Sally at Stockholm
As Silja Star in 1991
Estonia's bow visor