Sentence examples for shipping disaster from inspiring English sources

It was the country's worst shipping disaster for more than six decades.

In 1987 the world's most deadly peacetime shipping disaster occurred in the central Philippines, when another ship owned by Sulpicio Lines, the Dona Paz, sank with the loss of more than 4,000 lives.

Chinese authorities have now fully righted the cruise ship which capsized on the Yangtze River on Monday night, but with nearly 340 people still missing, and 103 bodies recovered from the site, the incident is set to be the country's deadliest shipping disaster in seven decades.

If this terrible news be verified, the loss of the Titanic will rank as the worst shipping disaster in the history of the world.

If the government cannot demonstrate that sufficient money is available to immediately clean up the next shipping disaster, then it is simply failing to protect our reef".

It failed because of a shipping disaster on the Saint Lawrence River on 22 August 1711, when seven transports and one storeship were wrecked and some 850 soldiers drowned; the disaster was at the time one of the worst naval disasters in British history.

"If you look for a list of shipping disasters in Dutch history, you won't find it," Mr. Daalder said.

The government is failing to protect the reef from the effects of shipping disasters, according to environmental lawyers, who say inaction to secure remediation funds will become a bigger problem as shipping traffic increases.

Most notably, one of New Zealand's worst shipping disasters occurred here: the wreck of the passenger-steamer Tararua, en route from Bluff to Port Chalmers, which foundered off Waipapa Point on 29 April 1881 with the loss of all but 20 of the 151 people aboard.

Toya Maru ferry disaster, deadliest ship disaster in Japanese history.

The capsized ship disaster appeared to be the largest of its kind in terms of loss of life this year.