List of roll-on/roll-off vessel accidents

This is a list of roll-on/roll-off vessels involved in maritime incidents and accidents.

Date	Name	Incident
31 January 1953	MV Princess Victoria[1]
26 September 1954	Hitaka Maru	Capsized in Tōya Maru Typhoon with loss of crew, but no passengers.[2] Also romanized as Hidaka.
26 September 1954	Kitami Maru	Capsized in Tōya Maru Typhoon with loss of crew, but no passengers.[2]
26 September 1954	Seikan Maru No 11	Capsized in Tōya Maru Typhoon with loss of crew, but no passengers.[2] Refloated in 1956 and returned to service.[3]
26 September 1954	Tokachi Maru	Capsized in Tōya Maru Typhoon with loss of crew, but no passengers.[2] Refloated in 1956 and returned to service.[3]
26 September 1954	Tōya Maru	Caught in Tōya Maru Typhoon. 1,430 people aboard were killed in the accident.
8 December 1966	SS Heraklion	Unsecured refrigerator truck forced open midship loading door[4]
10 April 1968	TEV Wahine	Caught in storm off Cyclone Giselle, ran aground on Barrett Reef, then capsized and sank off of New Zealand
15 February 1985	MV A Regina	Ran aground and wrecked. No casualties or serious injury
6 March 1987	MS Herald of Free Enterprise
26 April 1988	MV Reijin	Capsized and sank off the coast of Portugal on maiden voyage
14 January 1993	MS Jan Heweliusz
28 September 1994	MS Estonia
26 September 2000	MS Express Samina
26 September 2002	MV Le Joola	Second deadliest non-military maritime disaster
14 December 2002	MV Tricolor	Collision, no casualties, vessel required salvation by wreck cutting in 9 sections due to being a hazard to navigation.
31 January 2004	MV Diamond Ray	Collision with container vessel Trade Zale during anchoring in the bay of Ulsan, requiring salvage tugs, no casualties[5][6]
15 May 2004	MV Hyundai No 105	Collided with tanker MT Kaminesan and sank close to Singapore Sentosa island, no casualties but crew required rescue[7]
3 February 2006	MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98
22 March 2006	MV Queen of the North	Failed to make a planned course change, ran aground and sank.
23 July 2006	MV Cougar Ace	Was successfully salvaged and returned to service.[8]
8 March 2007	MV Repubblica di Genova[9]
5 December 2012	MV Baltic Ace	Collision with container vessel Corvus J.
7 May 2013	MV Jolly Nero	During unberthing collided with the Pilots' office tower[10]
16 April 2014	MV Sewol
3 January 2015	MV Hoegh Osaka	Developed severe list and was intentionally grounded.
1 October 2015	SS El Faro	Hurricane Joaquin[11]
26 January 2016	MV Modern Express	Severely listed in the Bay of Biscay, crew evacuated, no casualties, vessel required salvation by towage [12]
20 September 2018	MV Nyerere	Captain distracted by cellphone.[13]
10 March 2019	MV Grande America	Caught fire and sank in the Bay of Biscay, no casualties[14]
9 September 2019	MV Golden Ray	Capsized in St. Simons Sound, no casualties[15]

References

1. Gordon, D (22 January 2003). "Princess Victoria". Irish Sea Shipping: The Online Shipping Magazine. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
2. Nakao, Masayuki. "Seikan Railroad Ferryboat Accident". Failure Knowledge Database. Institute of Engineering Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
3. Pearce, W.A. "Japanese Railway Ships". Japanese Railway Society. Japanese Railway Society. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
4. Papanikolaou, A; Boulougouris, Evangelos; Sklavenitis, A (2014). "The sinking of the Ro–Ro passenger ferry SS Heraklion". International Shipbuilding Progress. 61 (1–2): 81-102. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
5. Honshu Shipping Co, LTD. v. M/V Trade Zale (United States District Court, N.D. California). Text
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7. "Ship Carrying 4,000 Cars Sinks off of Singapore". NBC News. Associated Press. 23 May 2004. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
8. Davis, Joshua (25 February 2008). "High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace". Wired (16.03). Retrieved 26 March 2018.
9. McDaniel, Michael S. "A Cargo Nightmare Prize Contender". Cargo Law. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
10. Winfield, Nicole (8 May 2013). "Italy cargo ship crash: Nine people feared dead after collision with Genoa port control tower". The Independent. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
11. Byrne, Matt (7 October 2015). "After 6 days, Coast Guard ends search for survivors of El Faro sinking". Press Herald. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
12. Staff (3 February 2016). "Ro/Ro Modern Express Successfully Taken in Tow". Maritime Executive. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
13. Yonazi, Jim James (18 December 2018). "Training in Alertness Crucial to Mitigate Disaster Effects". Daily News. Tanzania Standard Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
14. "Fire-Stricken Grande America Sinks off France". World Maritime News. Offshore Energy. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
15. Alonso, Melissa; Andone, Dakin (9 September 2019). "Four crew members are missing after a cargo ship capsized off the Georgia coast". CNN. Cable News Network. Retrieved 19 September 2019.