ShipwreckDB
139 famous shipwrecks from ancient vessels to modern disasters. Depths, locations, and the stories beneath the waves.
Most Famous
RMS Titanic
The most famous shipwreck in history. Struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New...
Bismarck
Nazi Germanys largest battleship. Sunk by the British Royal Navy after a 8-day chase. The Hood was d...
Vasa
Sank on her maiden voyage after sailing less than 1.5 km. Too top-heavy with 64 guns on two decks. S...
USS Arizona
Destroyed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 1,177 of 1,512 crew died. The memorial straddl...
HMHS Britannic
Titanics sister ship, sunk by a mine in WWI. 30 of 1,066 died - most in lifeboats sucked into the st...
USS Indianapolis
Delivered the atomic bomb components for Hiroshima. Torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. 880 crew went...
HMS Terror and Erebus
Franklins lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All 129 crew died from lead poisoning, scur...
Battleship Yamato
The largest battleship ever built, with 46 cm guns - the largest ever fitted. Sunk by US aircraft du...
Treasure Ships
Nuestra Senora de Atocha
Mel Fisher spent 16 years searching for it. The cargo was worth 400 million dollars. 260 people died...
Whydah Gally
The only verified pirate shipwreck ever found. Was the flagship of Black Sam Bellamy. Carried 4.5 to...
Queen Annes Revenge
Flagship of Blackbeard, the most notorious pirate. Originally a French slave ship captured and renam...
SS Central America
Called the Ship of Gold. Carried 30,000 pounds of gold from the California Gold Rush. 425 of 578 die...
HMS Sussex
Carried 10 tons of gold coins worth 4 billion today. Lost in a storm off Gibraltar. The gold has nev...
SS Republic
Sank in a hurricane while carrying a large cargo of gold coins. 80 of 110 passengers died in the lar...
Mysteries
USS Cyclops
Vanished without trace with 309 crew. No wreckage was ever found. The largest non-combat loss of lif...
SS Waratah
Vanished with 211 passengers and crew. No wreckage, bodies, or distress signal was ever found. Calle...
SS Naronic
Vanished with all 74 crew. Two lifeboats were found empty, the only trace. A mysterious message in a...
Flight 19 / TBM Avengers
Five torpedo bombers disappeared during a training flight. The rescue plane sent to find them also v...
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
The largest ship on the Great Lakes. Sank in a storm with all 29 crew. No distress signal was ever s...