The ship ran aground 23 nautical miles (43 km) north of
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and was severely damaged. She was refloated but had to be beached. Declared a
constructive total loss.[8]
The
drilling rig ran aground off
Bergen. One leg broke off and six crew were killed. Although declared a constructive total loss,[12] the rig was later repaired and returned to service.
The offshore patrol vessel collided with
Plainsman (Singapore) in the
Firth of Forth during
foggy weather and sank. All 42 people on board rescued by Plainsman.[29]
The
minesweepercapsized within a minute of colliding with the
frigateHMS Mermaid (Royal Navy) in the
North Sea 60 nautical miles (110 km; 69 mi) north of the island of
Texel, the
Netherlands. She sank several hours later in 160 feet (49 m) of water. Twelve members of her crew lost their lives; accompanying ships rescued 32 survivors. She was brought to the surface the next day and scrapped in 1977.
The 2,186-ton
factory trawler with a
Romanian crew of eighty-four drove into the northern part of the
Seven Stones Reef known as the North-east Rocks. All the crew were rescued and the trawler slipped into deep water.[39]
The passenger ship, the ex-Kronprins Frederik [
de], was travelling with pilgrims between
Jeddah and
Suez when a fire broke out that exacerbated by poor and obsolete firefighting equipment. The ship sank due to the inability to extinguish the fire. 102 out of the 403 passengers and crew were lost.[54][55]
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