| Date | Ship | Cause | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1854, March | City of Glasgow | British steamer missing in North Atlantic | 480 |
| 1854, Sep 27 | Arctic | US (Collins Line) steamer sunk in collision with French steamer Vesta near Cape Race | 285-351 |
| 1856, Jan 23 | Pacific | US (Collins Line) steamer missing in North Atlantic | 186-286 |
| 1858, Sep 23 | Austria | German steamer destroyed by fire in North Atlantic | 471 |
| 1863, Apr 27 | Anglo-Saxon | British steamer wrecked at Cape Race | 238 |
| 1865, Apr 27 | Sultana | Mississippi steamer blew up near Memphis, Tennessee | 1 450 |
| 1869, Oct 27 | Stonewall | Steamer burned on Mississippi River below Cairo, Illinois | 200 |
| 1870, Jan 25 | City of Boston | British (Inman Line) steamer vanished between New York and Liverpool | 177 |
| 1870, Oct 19 | Cambria | British steamer wrecked off N Ireland | 196 |
| 1872, Nov 7 | Mary Celeste | US half-brig sailed from New York for Genoa; found abandoned. | unknown |
| 1873, Jan 22 | Northfleet | British steamer foundered off Dungeness, England | 300 |
| 1873, Apr 1 | Atlantic | British (White Star) steamer wrecked off Nova Scotia | 585 |
| 1873, Nov 23 | Ville du Havre | French steamer sank after collision with British sailing ship Loch Earn | 226 |
| 1875, May 7 | Schiller | German steamer wrecked off Scilly Isles | 312 |
| 1875, Nov 4 | Pacific | US Steamer sank after collision off Cape Flattery | 236 |
| 1878, Sep 3 | Princess Alice | British steamer sank after collision in Thames River | 700 |
| 1878, Dec 18 | Byzantin | French steamer sank after collision in Dardanelles | 210 |
| 1881, May 24 | Victoria | Steamer capsized in Thames River, Canada | 200 |
| 1883, Jan 19 | Cimbria | German steamer sank in collision with British steamer Sultan in North Sea | 389 |
| 1887, Nov 15 | Wah Yeung | British steamer burned at sea | 400 |
| 1890, Feb 17 | Duburg | British steamer wrecked, China Sea | 400 |
| 1890, Sep 19 | Ertogrul | French frigate foundered off Japan | 540 |
| 1891, Mar 17 | Utopia | British steamer sank in collision with British ironclad Anson off Gibraltar | 562 |
| 1895, Jan 30 | Elbe | German steamer sank in collision with British steamer Craithie in North Sea | 332 |
| 1895, Mar 11 | Reina Regenta | Spanish cruiser foundered near Gibraltar | 400 |
| 1898, Feb 15 | Maine | US battleship blown up in Havana Harbour | 260 |
| 1898, Jul 4 | La Bourgogne | French steamer sank in collision with British sailing ship Cromartyshire off Nova Scotia | 549 |
| 1898, Nov 26 | Portland | US steamer wrecked off Cape Cod | 157 |
| 1904, Jun 15 | General Slocum | Excursion steamer burned in East River, New York City | 1 030 |
| 1904, Jun 28 | Norge | Danish steamer wrecked on Rockall Island, Scotland | 620 |
| 1906, Aug 4 | Sirio | Italian steamer wrecked off Cape Palos, Spain | 350 |
| 1908, Mar 23 | Matsu Maru | Japanese steamer sank in collision near Hakodate, Japan | 300 |
| 1909, Aug 1 | Waratah | British steamer, Sydney to London, vanished | 300 |
| 1910, Feb 9 | General Chanzy | French steamer wrecked off Minorca, Spain | 200 |
| 1911, Sep 25 | Liberte | French battleship exploded at Toulon | 285 |
| 1912, Mar 5 | Principe de Asturies | Spanish steamer wrecked off Spain | 500 |
| 1912, Apr 14 | Titanic | British (White Star) steamer hit iceberg in North Atlantic | 1 503 |
| 1912, Sep 28 | Kichemaru | Japanese steamer sank off Japanese coast | 1 000 |
| 1914, May 29 | Empress of Ireland | Canadian Pacific steamer sunk in collision with Norwegian collier in St Lawrence River | 1 014 |
| 1915, May 7 | Lusitania | British (Cunard Line) steamer torpedoed and sunk by German submarine of Ireland | 1 198 |
| 1915, Jul 24 | Eastland | Excursion steamer capsized in Chicago River | 812 |
| 1916, Feb 26 | Provence | French cruiser sank in Mediterranean | 3 100 |
| 1916, Mar 3 | Principe de Asturias | Spanish steamer wrecked near Santos, Brazil | 558 |
| 1916, Aug 29 | Hain Yu | Chinese steamer sank off Chinese coast | 1 000 |
| 1917, Dec 6 | Mont Blanc, Imo | French ammunition ship and Belgian ship collided in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia | 1 654 |
| 1918, Apr 25 | Kiang-Kwan | Chinese steamer sank in collision off Hankow | 500 |
| 1918, Jul 12 | Kawachi | Japanese battleship blew up in Tokayama Bay | 500 |
| 1918, Oct 25 | Princess Sophia | Canadian steamer sank off Alaskan coast | 398 |
| 1919, Jan 17 | Chaonia | French steamer lost in Straits of Messina, Italy | 460 |
| 1919, Sep 9 | Valbanera | Spanish steamer lost off Florida coast | 500 |
| 1921, Mar 18 | Hong Kong | Steamer wrecked in South China Sea | 1 000 |
| 1927, Oct 25 | Principessa Mafalda | Italian steamer blew up, sank off Porto Seguro, Brazil | 314 |
| 1928, Nov 12 | Vestris | British steamer sank off Virginia | 113 |
| 1934, Sep 8 | Morro Castle | US steamer, Havana to New York, burned off Ashbury Park, New Jersey | 134 |
| 1939, May 23 | Squalus | US submarine sank off Portsmouth, NH | 26 |
| 1939, Jun 1 | Thetis | submarine sank, Liverpool Bay | 99 |
| 1942, Feb 18 | Truxtun and Pollux | US destroyer and cargo ship ran aground, sank off Newfoundland | 204 |
| 1942, Oct 2 | Curacao | British cruiser sank after collision with liner Queen Mary | 338 |
| 1944, Dec 17-18 | 3 US Third Fleet destroyers sank during typhoon in Philippine Sea | 790 | |
| 1947, Jan 19 | Himera | Greek steamer hit a mine off Athens | 392 |
| 1947, Apr 16 | Grandcamp | French freighter exploded in Texas City, Texas, harbour, starting fires | 510 |
| 1948, November | Chinese army evacuation ship exploded and sank off S Manchuria | 6 000 | |
| 1948, Dec 3 | Kiangya | Chinese refugee ship wrecked in explosion south of Shanghai | 1 100+ |
| 1949, Sep 17 | Noronic | Canadian Great Lakes Cruiser burned at Toronto dock | 130 |
| 1952, Apr 26 | Hobson and Wasp | US destroyer and iarcraft carrier collided in Atlantic | 176 |
| 1954, May 26 | Pennington | Sank off Rhode Island, USA | 103 |
| 1954, Sep 26 | Toya Maru | Japanese ferry sank in Tsugaru Strait, Japan | 1 172 |
| 1956, Jul 26 | Andrea Doria and Stockholm | Italian liner and Swedish liner collided off Nantucket | 51 |
| 1957, Jul 14 | Eshghabad | Soviet ship ran aground in Caspian Sea | 270 |
| 1960, Dec 19 | Constellation | US aircraft carrier caught fire in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York | 49 |
| 1961, Apr 8 | Dara | British liner exploded in Persian Gulf | 236 |
| 1961, Jul 8 | Save | Portuguese ship ran aground off Mozambique | 259 |
| 1963, Apr 10 | Thresher | US Navy atomic submarine sank in North Atlantic | 129 |
| 1964, Feb 10 | Australian destroyer Voyager sank after collision with aircraft carrier Melbourne off New South Wales | 82 | |
| 1965, Nov 13 | Yarmouth Castle | Panamanian-registered cruise ship burned and sank off Nassau | 89 |
| 1967, Jul 29 | Forrestal | US aircraft carrier caught fire off North Vietnam | 134 |
| 1968, Jan 25 | Dakar | Israeli submarine vanished in Mediterranean Sea | 69 |
| 1968, May | Scorpion | US nuclear submarine sank in Atlantic near Azores | 99 |
| 1969, Jun 2 | Evans | US destroyer cut in half by Australian carrier Melbourne, South China Sea | 74 |
| 1970, Mar 4 | Eurydice | French submarine sank in Mediterranean near Toulon | 57 |
| 1970, Dec 15 | Namyong-Ho | South Korean ferry sank in Korea Strait | 308 |
| 1974, May 1 | Motor launch capsized off Bangladesh | 250 | |
| 1974, Sep 26 | Soviet destroyer sank in Black Sea | 200+ | |
| 1975, Nov 10 | Edmund Fitzgerald | US cargo ship sank during storm on Lake Superior | 29 |
| 1976, Oct 20 | George Prince and Frosta | Ferryboat and Norwegian tanker collided on Mississippi River at Luling, Louisiana | 77 |
| 1976, Dec 25 | Patria | Egyptian liner caught fire and sank in the Red Sea | 100 |
| 1979, Aug 14 | 23 yachts competing in Fastnet yacht race sank or abandoned during storm in S Irish Sea | 18 | |
| 1981, Jan 27 | Tamponas II | Indonesian passenger ship caught fire and sank in Java Sea | 580 |
| 1983, Feb 12 | Marine Electric | Coal freighter sank during storm off Chincoteague, Virginia | 33 |
| 1983, May 25 | 10th of Ramadan | Nile steamer caught fire and sank in Lake Nasser | 357 |
| 1986, Apr 20 | ferry sank near Barisal, Bangladesh | 262 | |
| 1986, Aug 31 | Soviet passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov and Soviet freighter Pyotr Vasev collided in Black Sea | 398 | |
| 1987, Mar 6 | British ferry capsized off Zeebrugge, Belgium | 189 | |
| 1987, Dec 20 | Philippine ferry Dona Paz and oil tanker Victor collided is Tablas Strait | 4 341 | |
| 1988, Aug 6 | Indian ferry capsized on Ganges River | 400+ | |
| 1989, Aug 20 | British barge Bowbelle struck British pleasure cruiser Marchioness on Thames River in central London | 56 | |
| 1989, Sep 10 | Romanian pleasure boat and Bulgarian barge collided on Danube River | 161 | |
| 1991, Apr 10 | Auto ferry and oil tanker collided outside Livorno Harbour, Italy | 140 | |
| 1991, Dec 14 | Salem Express | Ferry rammed coral reef near Safaga, Egypt | 462 |
| 1993, Feb 17 | Neptune | Ferry capsized off Port-au-Prince, Haiti | 500+ |
| 1993, Oct 10 | West Sea Ferry | Capsized in Yellow Sea near western South Korea during storm | 285 |
| 1994, Sept 28 | Estonia | Ferry sank in baltic sea | 1 049 |
| 1996, May 21 | Bukoba | Ferry sank in Lake Victoria (Africa) | 500 |
| 1997, Mar 28 | Albanian refugee boat sank in Adriatic Sea after being rammed by Italian navy warship Sibilla | 83 | |
| 1997, Sep 8 | Pride of la Gonave | Haitian ferry sank off Montrouis, Haiti | 200+ |
| 1998, Apr 4 | Passenger boat capsized off coast near Ibaka beach, Nigeria | 280 | |
| 1998, Sep 2 | 2 passenger boats capsized on Lake Kivu, near Bukavu, Congo | 200+ | |
| 1998, Sep 18 | Ferry sank south of Manila | 97 | |
| 1999, Feb 6 | Harta Rimba | Cargo ship sank off Indonesia | 280+ |
| 1999, Mar 26 | Passenger boat overturned off coast of Sierra Leone | 150+ | |
| 1999, Apr 2 | Passenger ferry sank off coast of Nigeria | 100+ | |
| 1999, May 1 | Amphibious excursion boat sank in Lake Hamilton, Arkansas | 13 | |
| 1999, May 8 | Passenger ferry capsized off Bangladesh | 200+ | |
| 1999, Nov 24 | Dashun | Passenger ferry capsized near Yantai, China | 275+ |
| 2000, May 3 | 2 ferries capsized in storm in Meghna River, Bangladesh | 72+ | |
| 2000, Jun 29 | Overloaded ferry capsized in storm off Sulawesi Island, Indonesia | 500+ | |
| 2000, Aug 12 | Kursk | Russian sub,arine sank in Barents Sea | 118 |
| 2000, Sep 26 | Express Samina | Greek ferry sank off Paros, Greece | 81+ |
| 2001, Feb 9 | Ehime Maru | Japanese trawler sunk by surfacing US submarine Greeneville near Hawaii | 9 |
| 2001, Dec 22 | North Korean spy ship sank after exchanging fire with Japanese coast guard | 15 | |
| 2002, May 4 | Bangladesh ferry sunk in storm on Meghna River | 370+ | |
| 2002, May 26 | Barge struck interstate highway bridge over Arkansas River in Oklahoma | 13+ | |
| 2002, Sep 26 | Overloaded Senegalese ferry capsized in ocean off The Gambia | 950+ | |
| 2003, Mar 23 | Overloaded ferry capsized in Lake Tanganyika off Burundi | 111+ | |
| 2003, Apr 4 | Ferry sank near Chhatak in Bangladesh | 80+ | |
| 2003, Apr 21 | 2 ferries capsized in storms in Bangladesh on Meghna and Buriganga rivers | 180+ | |
| 2003, May 2 | Chinese submarine accident of Shandong province | 70 | |
| 2003, Jul 8 | Overcrowded ferry sank near Chandpur in the Bangladesh River | c. 400 |