List of shipwrecks in 1990
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subject: Category:Maritime incidents in 1990
desc: The fishing vessel sank off Naked Island in Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of Alaska. The fishing vessel Breaker rescued her crew of three.
desc: The crab-fishing vessel was wrecked on a beach on Otter Island in the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. A United States Coast Guard helicopter rescued her entire crew of six.
desc: The fishing vessel burned and sank in Prince William Sound off Point Pigot on the south-central coast of Alaska. The vessel Azuma Searay rescued the only person aboard.
desc: The troller rolled over and sank in the harbor at Wrangell, Alaska. Another fishing vessel rescued all four people – two adults and two children – aboard.
desc: The cargo ship was beached at Vitória, Brazil after her engine room flooded. She was refloated in July, but was declared a constructive total loss and sold for scrap. Mineral Star was scrapped at Alang, India in 1992.
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desc: Eritrean War of Independence: Two speed boats were shelled and sunk during a battle with the minesweeper .
desc: The fishing vessel sank near Robert Island in Southeast Alaska. The fishing vessel Alaska Dawn rescued her crew of two.
desc: The fish processing trawler capsized and sank in the Bering Sea approximately south of Saint Paul Island with the loss of nine lives. There were 22 survivors.
desc: The cargo ship sank in the English Channel off Margate, Kent, United Kingdom, with the loss of one of her four crew.
desc: The Finnpusku combination capsized and sank off Hanko. Later raised, repaired and returned to service in 1991 as Botnia and Steel.
desc: The fish tender sank in Ugashik Bay, Alaska, in rough weather while operating with a hole in her hull. The refrigerated cargo ship Mizuho Ace rescued her entire crew of seven.
desc: The fish tender sank in Valdez Narrows on the south-central coast of Alaska after she lost steering and struck a rock. Her crew of four swam to shore in survival suits and survived.
desc: The halibut longliner sank in seas off
desc: Eritrean War of Independence: The cargo ship was hit by rockets fired by Eritrean rebels and either sank or was beached . Later declared a constructive total loss, lending credence to the possibility that she was beached.
desc: The retired floating drydock was scuttled as an artificial reef in the North Atlantic Ocean off Fire Island south of Long Island, New York.
desc: The salmon-fishing vessel capsized off Montague Island off the south-central coast of Alaska. The only person aboard perished.
desc: The ferry suffered two fires fifteen minutes apart whilst in the Skagerrak. The second of which was arson. One hundred and fifty-eight people were killed in the fire, which burned for ten hours. She was subsequently repaired and returned to service.
desc: The fishing trawler was fishing in Bute Sound when her nets were snagged by the submerged submarine . She was pulled down and sunk with the loss of all four crew.
desc: The crab-fishing vessel was wrecked on Wingham Island in the Gulf of Alaska. A United States Coast Guard helicopter hoisted her four-man crew to safety.
desc: The salmon-fishing vessel sank after an engine room fire destroyed her off Ninilchik, Alaska. Her two crew members were rescued from a life raft.
desc: The was sunk as a target.
desc: The longline halibut-fishing vessel sank on Portlock Bank in the Gulf of Alaska east of Kodiak, Alaska. The fishing vessel Sandra Su rescued all eight people aboard.
desc: The fishing vessel ran aground and was lost in Bass Harbor in Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of Alaska. A United States Coast Guard helicopter rescued her crew of five.
desc: The fishing vessel capsized in Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of Alaska. The fishing vessel Controller Bay rescued the only person aboard from atop Puck′s overturned hull.
desc: The fishing vessel sank near Yakutat, Alaska. Wearing survival suits, all three of her crewmen were rescued by a United States Coast Guard helicopter.
desc: The salmon-fishing vessel capsized and sank in Unimak Pass in the Aleutian Islands. Both members of her crew – a man and a woman – perished.
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desc: The salmon seiner sank without loss of life during a voyage from Chignik to Kodiak, Alaska.
desc: The fishing boat was stranded on a beach in Pingtan County, Fujian, and 25 corpses were found in two of its holds who had died from suffocation. It was used by the Taiwan military for repatriation of 76 mainland Chinese illegal immigrants, 63 of whom were kept in holds sealed with long nails by the military.
desc: The retired fishing trawler was scuttled as an artificial reef in the North Atlantic Ocean south of Long Island off Shinnecock Inlet, New York.
desc: The schooner ran aground on Ship Rock, Catalina Island, California whilst avoiding a collision with a powerboat and sank.
desc: The destroyer sank in the Taiwan Strait whilst under tow to India for scrapping.
desc: The retired tug was scuttled as an artificial reef in of water in the North Atlantic Ocean east of Ocean City, New Jersey, at .
desc: The longline fishing vessel was destroyed off Cape Hinchinbrook on the south-central coast of Alaska by a fire that started when a leaky gasoline can was placed near her cook stove. Her crew of three survived.
desc: The bulk carrier was beached at Pendower Beach, Falmouth, Cornwall.
desc: The fish tender ran aground and sank while at anchor in Ursus Cove on the south-central coast of Alaska.
desc: The asphalt tanker ran aground on the southern shore Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Salvage efforts initially failed and the vessel was declared a total loss and abandoned. A second round of salvage attempts later freed the vessel several months later.
desc: The fishing vessel ran aground in Cannery Bay on the northern coast of Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands after a wave struck her. The only person aboard survived.
desc: The retired tank barge was scuttled as an artificial reef in the North Atlantic Ocean off Harvey Cedars, New Jersey, in of water at .
desc: The fish tender was wrecked without loss of life on Fern Reef off San Fernando Island in Southeast Alaska.
desc: The fishing vessel was destroyed by fire in Prince William Sound near Port Bainbridge , Alaska. The only person aboard survived and was rescued by the fishing vessel Serenity .
desc: The ferry capsized and sank off Haifa, Israel, killing 20 crew members of the aircraft carrier , who were being transferred to that ship.
desc: After being refloated from where she had sunk about a year earlier at her moorings near Port Lions, Alaska, on Kodiak Island, the derelict 1,588-ton steamer – formerly a ferry and later a fish processing vessel – was towed out of Kizhuyak Bay and scuttled in waters deep in the Gulf of Alaska. One account claims that she began to sink on her own before the scuttling process could begin, forcing her towing vessel, the salvage tug Salvage Chief , to cut her loose to avoid being pulled under with her.
desc: The fishing boat was hit by the accompanying Taiwanese naval frigate ROCS Wen Shan to the north of Keelung. It then broke into two pieces and sank. 21 people were drowned. It was used by the Taiwan military for repatriation of 50 mainland Chinese illegal immigrants.
desc: The salmon troller was wrecked without loss of life in Yakutat Bay on the coast of Alaska after her anchor line broke.
desc: While trying to enter the harbor at St. Paul on Saint Paul Island in the Bering Sea, the crab-fishing vessel became trapped in ice and was forced aground by wind and surf. A United States Coast Guard helicopter rescued her crew of six as waves broke over her. She broke up on the beach, and her wreckage later was removed.
desc: The fish tender capsized and sank in bad weather off the Barren Islands off the south-central coast of Alaska. Her crew of two survived.
desc: The retired fishing trawler and clam dredger was scuttled as an artificial reef in the North Atlantic Ocean east of Ocean City, New Jersey, at .
desc: The longline halibut-fishing vessel dragged her anchor, ran aground, and broke up in the surf in Main Bay on the south-central coast of Alaska. Her two-man crew survived and was rescued by the fishing vessel Rain Song .
desc: The cruiseferry caught fire at Finnboda, Nacka, Sweden. Her superstructure was consequently scrapped and the hull was salvaged and rebuilt.
desc: The fishing vessel sank in Bristol Bay south of Dillingham, Alaska, after colliding with the vessel Shinei Maru No. 63 . All 55 members of her crew survived.
desc: The lake freighter struck a bridge abutment at Port Colborne, Ontario. The ship received an crack in her hull and the abutment was also damaged.
desc: The fishing vessel was swamped and wrecked on Perry Island in Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of Alaska. The only person aboard spent the night on the island and was rescued the next day by the fishing vessel Northern Light .
desc: The fishing vessel was destroyed by fire in the Pribilof Islands. The fishing vessel Shishaldin rescued all 19 members of her crew from life rafts.
desc: The salmon troller struck a rock and sank at Point Turbot in Southeast Alaska. A private helicopter rescued her crew.
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desc: The fishing vessel flooded and was abandoned in Swanson Harbor in Southeast Alaska. The fishing vessel Jenny rescued her crew of four.
desc: The longline halibut-fishing vessel capsized and sank on the south-central coast of Alaska in Cook Inlet off Dangerous Cape after she took water over her stern while heavily loaded with fish.
desc: The P-205 Type patrol boat was destroyed by a bomb planted by ETA at San Sebastian.
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desc: The Troubles, RFA Fort Victoria bombing: The was damaged at Belfast, County Antrim by a bomb placed in her engine room by the IRA. She was repaired and entered service three years behind schedule.
desc: The salmon gillnetter capsized suddenly and sank off Peninsular Point in Chatham Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. The fishing vessel Polar Lady rescued all seven members of her crew.
desc: The fishing vessel sank in of water in Cook Inlet off Kasilof, Alaska. The only person aboard survived.
desc: The crab processor – a former PCE-842-class patrol craft and auxiliary minelayer – was towed out into the Pacific Ocean and scuttled sometime in the 1990s.
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desc: The bulk cement carrier foundered in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight with the loss of all nineteen crew.
desc: Eritrean War of Independence: The speed boat flipped from a depth charge explosion during a battle with the patrol boat .
desc: The decommissioned was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off Morehead City, North Carolina, to form an artificial reef.
desc: The cargo ship sprung a leak when a ballast tank cracked. She capsized and sank in the North Sea while under tow northwest of Haugesund, Norway. Four crew were killed. The wreck was located in 2023.
desc: The fishing vessel was wrecked without loss of life in Kashega Bay on the coast of Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands.
desc: Eritrean War of Independence: The speed boat blew up and sank during a battle with the minesweeper .
desc: The longline halibut-fishing vessel rolled over sank with the loss of one life near Port Chatham on the south-central coast of Alaska. A United States Coast Guard helicopter rescued her three survivors.
desc: Eritrean War of Independence: One or two speed boats were shelled and sunk during a battle with the patrol boat .