List of shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean
This is a partial list of shipwrecks which occurred in the Pacific Ocean. The list includes ships that sank, foundered, grounded, or were otherwise lost. The Pacific Ocean is here defined in its widest sense, to include its marginal seas: the Bering Sea, Bismarck Sea, Bohol Sea, Celebes Sea, Chilean Sea, Coral Sea, East China Sea, Gulf of Alaska, Java Sea, Philippine Sea, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, Seto Inland Sea, Sibuyan Sea, Solomon Sea, South China Sea, Sulu Sea, Tasman Sea, Visayan Sea, and Yellow Sea.
North Pacific
Bering Sea
Bohol Sea
Ship | Flag | Sunk date | Notes | Coordinates |
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Mogami | Imperial Japanese Navy | 25 October 1944 | A Mogami-class heavy cruiser scuttled after sustaining damage in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. | 09°40′N 124°50′E |
Celebes Sea
Ship | Flag | Sunk date | Notes | Coordinates |
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USS Capelin | United States Navy | 2 December 1943 | A Balao-class submarine missing in the Celebes Sea-Molucca Sea area. | |
USS S-36 | United States Navy | 21 January 1942 | An S-class submarine scuttled after running aground on Taka Bakang Reef at the southern end of Makassar Strait, approximately 60 nautical miles (110 km; 69 mi) west-northwest of Makassar, Celebae, Netherlands East Indies. | 04°57′N 118°31′E |
East China Sea
Gulf of Alaska
Ship | Flag | Sunk date | Notes | Coordinates |
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I-180 | Imperial Japanese Navy | 26 April 1944 | A Kaidai 7-type submarine sunk by the United States Navy destroyer escort USS Gilmore (DE-18) southwest of Chirikof Island. | 55°9′57″N 155°40′0″W |
Prinsendam | Netherlands | 11 October 1980 | A cruise ship that sank off Southeast Alaska. | 55.883°N 136.450°W |
Ryou-Un Maru | Japan | 5 April 2012 | A Japanese fishing boat that was swept out to sea by the March 2011 tsunami, and drifted across the Pacific. She was discovered a year later in Canadian waters, and scuttled by the United States Coast Guard cutter USCGC Anacapa 180 nautical miles (330 km; 210 mi) off Southeast Alaska. |
Philippine Sea
Sea of Japan
Sea of Okhotsk
Ship | Flag | Sunk date | Notes | Coordinates |
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Dalniy Vostok | Russia | 1 April 2015 | A fishing trawler that foundered and sank south of Zavyalov Island, with at least 57 dead. | 56.4833°N 150.4167°E |
USS Herring | United States Navy | 1 June 1944 | A Gato-class submarine sunk by Japanese shore batteries off Matsuwa Island in the Kuril Islands. | 48°0′N 153°0′E |
Hakuyo Maru | Japan | 10 June 1945 | A cargo ship sunk by the U.S. Navy submarine USS Dace about 120 nautical miles (220 km; 140 mi) west of Shimushu Island.[15] | 47°21′N 149°07′E |
Hokusei Maru | Japan | 21 September 1943 | A commercial fishing vessel sunk by the U.S. Navy submarine USS Wahoo west of the Kuril Islands.[16] | 45°34′N 145°46′E |
Kasado Maru | Japan | 10 August 1945 | A cargo ship bombed by a Soviet aircraft off the mouth of the Kikhchik River on the Kamchatka and later catching fire.[17] | |
Naniwa | Imperial Japanese Navy | 26 June 1912 | A Naniwa-class protected cruiser that ran aground off Urup. | 46°30′N 150°10′E |
Niitaka | Imperial Japanese Navy | 26 August 1922 | A Niitaka-class protected cruiser wrecked on the southwestern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. | 51°30′N 156°29′E |
Novik | Imperial Russian Navy | 20 August 1904 | A protected cruiser scuttled at Korsakov on Sakhalin Island after suffering damage in combat with the Japanese protected cruiser Tsushima in the Battle of Korsakov. | |
Usugumo | Imperial Japanese Navy | 5 July 1944 | A Fubuki-class destroyer that was torpedoed by USS Skate 330 nautical miles southwest of Paramushiro in the Kuril islands. | 47°43′N 147°55′E |
USS Wahoo | United States Navy | 11 October 1943 | A Gato-class submarine that was sunk by Japanese aircraft in La Pérouse Strait. | |
Zaosan Maru | Japan | 19 June 1945 | A merchant fishing vessel sank by USS Cabezon near Paramushir Island.[18] | 50°39′N 154°38′E |
Seto Inland Sea
Sibuyan Sea
Ship | Flag | Sunk date | Notes | Coordinates |
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Musashi | Imperial Japanese Navy | 24 October 1944 | A Yamato-class battleship that was sunk by United States Navy aircraft in the Sibuyan Sea. | 13°07′N 122°32′E |
South China Sea
Sulu Sea
Visayan Sea
Ship | Flag | Sunk date | Notes | Coordinates |
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Kinu | Imperial Japanese Navy | 26 October 1944 | A Nagara-class light cruiser sunk by United States Navy aircraft southwest of Masbate during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. | 11°45′N 123°11′E |
Yellow Sea
South Pacific
Bismarck Sea
Chilean Sea
Ship | Flag | Sunk date | Notes | Coordinates |
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Almirante Latorre | Chilean Navy | 11 April 2005 | A decommissioned County-class destroyer that sank in the southeastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile while under tow to the shipbreakers. | 35°58′0″S 77°22′0″W |
HMS Good Hope | Royal Navy | 1 November 1914 | A Drake-class armoured cruiser sunk by the Imperial German Navy armoured cruiser Scharnhorst near Coronel, Chile, in the Battle of Coronel. | 36°59′01″S 073°48′49″W |
USS La Moure County | United States Navy | 10 July 2001 | A Newport-class tank landing ship that was sunk as a target in the southeastern Pacific Ocean about 150 nautical miles (278 km; 173 mi) west of Valparaíso, Chile. | 32°49′08″S 74°17′09″W |
HMS Monmouth | Royal Navy | 1 November 1914 | A Monmouth-class armoured cruiser sunk by the Imperial German Navy armoured cruiser Gneisenau and light cruiser Nürnberg near Coronel, Chile, in the Battle of Coronel. | 36°53′53″S 073°50′45″W |
Coral Sea
Java Sea
Solomon Sea
Tasman Sea
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean.
- Map of New Zealand wrecks to 1936
- 20th century New Zealand wrecks
- Sunken Ships of the Second World War, a website that contains a database of shipwrecks from World War 2, including those from the Pacific Ocean.
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