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Shipwreckings are spectacular events with a potential for large loss of life. This, plus the lack of difficulty in targeting particular individuals, makes them potential tools of statecraft.
Examples
| Page name | Date | Location | Fatalities | Description |
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| Cheonan sinking | 26 March 2010 | South Korea | 46 | The sinking of the South Korean Corvette 'Cheonan' on 26 March 2010 with the loss of 46 South Korean sailors, quickly blamed on North Korea by the US and its allies. |
| Kursk submarine disaster | 12 August 2000 | Arctic Barents Sea Kola Peninsula | 118 | A Russian nuclear submarine sinking in 2000. Either an accident -or caused by a secret collision with a NATO submarine. |
| Moby Prince | 10 April 1991 | Italy Camp Darby | 140 | A ferry catastrophe during a military smuggling operation |
| SIEV-X sinking | 19 October 2001 | Indian Ocean | 400 | While presented as an tragedy caused by greedy people smugglers, the real story is probably a carefully stage-managed psychological operation, including a deliberately foreseen sinking arranged by Indonesian proxies of the Australian government, in order to put pressure on the Indonesian government to make people-smuggling illegal. |
| Sinking of MV Sewol | 16 April 2014 09:00:00 | South Korea 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) off Donggeochado Jindo County South Jeolla Province | 295 | A ferry sinking which killed hundreds of schoolchildren. Officially, an accident, but information hidden and falsified in investigation. |
| Sinking of The Maine | 15 February 1898 | Cuba Havana Spanish-American War | "Remember the Maine" - a sudden sinking the nature of which remains subject to debate | |
| Sinking of the Atlas | 1 October 1958 00:50:00 | 0 | German cargo ship sunk by French agents in 1958. Blamed on fictional Red Hand terrorist organization. | |
| Sinking of the MS Estonia | 28 September 1994 | Baltic Sea | 852 | Biggest sea disaster in modern Europe. Literally covered up by the Swedish government. 2020 documentary found smoking gun that it the official narrative was a total lie. |
| Sinking of the MV Magdeburg | 27 October 1964 | UK River Thames | 0 | Ship sunk by the CIA in British waters to enforce blockade of Cuba. |
| Sinking of the RMS Lusitania | 7 May 1915 | Ireland UK | A shipwreck that facilitated the entry of the US into World War I. | |
| Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior | 10 July 1985 | 1 | A murderous act of sabotage against Greenpeace. | |
| The Sinking of the SS San Flaviano | 28 April 1958 | British oil tanker sunk in 1958 by the CIA bombing under false flag. The purpose was make foreign companies like Shell suspend operations and in Indonesia, to weaken the Indonesian economy and destabilize the government. | ||
| Titanic/Sinking | 15 April 1912 | Atlantic Ocean | The deadliest peacetime sinking of a superliner or cruise ship in history, possibly not an accident | |
| Ursa Major/Sinking | 24 December 2024 | Mediterranean Sea | Russian cargo ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea | |
| Whiskey on the Rocks | 27 October 1981 | Sweden Karlskrona | 0 | Soviet submarine that ran aground on the south coast of Sweden in 1981 |
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