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The list of shipwrecks in 2014 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 2014.

January

3 January

• KMP Munawar ( Indonesia) the ro-ro ferry capsized and sank off Lombok Island with the loss of at least three lives.

11 January

• Unnamed boat ( South Sudan): A ferry in the White Nile River carrying women and children who were fleeing fighting in South Sudan capsized, resulting in 200-300 deaths.

14 January

• BJL I ( Indonesia): The ferry capsized at Tanjung Priok.
• ECC Topaz ( United Kingdom): The windfarm service vessel caught fire and sank in the North sea 11 nautical miles (20 km) east of Lowestoft, Suffolk at around 1pm. The crew of three was rescued by an RAF rescue helicopter from RAF Wattisham, and were not seriously injured.
• Elf ( United States): The tug sank in the Mamquam Blind Channel at Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. She was later refloated and taken under tow, but foundered off Point Atkinson, British Columbia.

15 January

• Sea Lion ( United States): The tug foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Atlantic Beach, New York. Her four crew were rescued.

19 January

• Rich Forest ( Panama): The cargo vessel was carrying logs towards China when it began sinking off of Guam. The USCGC Assateague and USCGC Sequoia (both  United States Navy) were sent to assist the vessel. The 24 crew were rescued by CS Sunshine ( Panama) under the AMVER scheme.
• Sportivo ( Philippines): The cargo ship collided with Jehan ( Philippines) in the Iloilo Strait. Her 29 crew abandoned ship and she consequently foundered.

20 January

• Bitu Gulf ( Panama): The tanker foundered in the South China Sea 40 nautical miles (74 km) off the coast of Vietnam. All sixteen crew were rescued by Ever Summit ( Panama).

21 January

• KM Sabahat ( Indonesia): The ferry foundered off Jakarta with the loss of seven of the 165 people on board.

26 January

• Aqua Marine ( India): A tourist boat carrying 45 passengers and crew capsized off of Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands with the loss of at least 22.

30 January

• Unnamed ( Yemen): A cargo ship, carrying car tyres and car parts sank off the coast of Al Shehar, Hadramout province with the loss of all twelve Indian crew.

February

1 February

• Le Sillon ( France): The trawler went aground at Park Head, near Porthcothan Bay, Cornwall. after losing power and steering approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) off Trevose Head. All six of the crew were safely rescued. Five crew members were recovered by a rescue helicopter from RNAS Culdrose, the skipper was picked up by the Padstow Lifeboat.

5 February

• Luno ( Spain): The empty cargo ship engines failed and she drifted onto the breakwater at Anglet, near Bayonne, France. She broke into two pieces, one either side of the breakwater. Her crew of twelve was winched off the wreck by helicopter.

8 February

• Elland ( Saint Kitts and Nevis): The cargo ship suffered an engine failure and cargo shift off Durankulak, Bulgaria and sank. Her eleven crew were rescued by M Izmir ( Malta).

21 February

• Horana ( Yemen): The cargo ship foundered in the Gulf of Aden. All eight crew were rescued by HNLMS Evertsen ( Royal Netherlands Navy).
• Sunrise Orient ( Vietnam): The cargo ship ran aground, capsized and sank on Cheung Chau Island, Hong Kong. Her seventeen crew were rescued.

26 February

• Hanze Goteborg ( Netherlands): The cargo ship ran aground in the Elizabeth River near Portsmouth, Virginia. The ship was freed the next morning with no reported damage or crew injuries.

• Madanfo ( Ghana): The fishing vessel sank off Tema while her crew unloaded Panofi Company ship of her cargo of tuna and salt.

March

6 March

• Ochakov ( Russian Navy): The Kara-class cruiser was scuttled in the Donuzlav Bay, Crimea, Ukraine. The scuttling was part of the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine and intended to block in ships of the Ukrainian Navy.
• Yakamoz 5 ( Turkey): The coastal tanker caught fire in the Marmara Sea off Istanbul. Her six crew were rescued.

7 March

• VM-416 ( Russian Navy): 2014 Crimean crisis: The Yelva-class diving support vessel was scuttled next to Ochakov.

9 March

• Sea Breeze ( Barbados): The cargo ship was abandoned in the English Channel 10 nautical miles (19 km) off The Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Her six crew were rescued by the Falmouth and Lizard Lifeboats. A magnetic patch was later placed on the hole in the vessels' hull and she was towed in to St. Austell Bay.

10 March

• Yusuf Cepnioglu ( Turkey): The container ship ran aground on the northernmost point of Mykonos, Greece. Twelve of her fourteen crew were rescued by the Greek Coast Guard; the other two by USS Bataan ( United States Navy).
• Unnamed: At least forty-two African migrants drowned off Bir Ali, Yemen during a crossing from Africa. Thirty were rescued by Yemeni Navy.

12 March

• Fosenbulk ( Norway): The cargo ship suffered an engine failure off Flatanger. Her four crew were taken off by helicopter. Fosenbulk was later towed in to Namsos by NoCGV Harstad ( Norwegian Coast Guard).

15 March

• John 1 ( Panama): The bulk carrier suffered a power failure and ran aground off Rose Blanche-Harbour le Cou, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Her 23 crew were rescued by helicopter.

17 March

• Beagle III ( Panama): The cargo ship collided with Pegasus Prime ( South Korea) in Tokyo Bay and sank with the loss of eight of her twenty crew.

22 March

• Pesante ( Netherlands): The dredger sank at Dordrecht, South Holland.
• Summer Wind ( Liberia): The bulk carrier was struck by an oil barge in the Houston Ship Channel in Texas causing a significant oil spill and closing the channel.
• Unnamed boat ( Democratic Republic of the Congo): A boat on Lake Albert, carrying refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo towards Uganda capsized with the loss of at least 107 people.

26 March

• Sumise Maru No. 38 ( Japan): The cement carrier collided with Kaisei Maru ( Japan) and sank off Hyōgo Port.

April

1 April

• KM Journey ( Indonesia): The cargo ship collided with KM Lambelu ( Indonesia and sank off Surabaya. Her seventeen crew were rescued.

4 April

• Grand Fortune 1 ( Mongolia): The cargo ship foundered in the South China Sea off Yeosu, South Korea. Three of her sixteen crew were rescued.

15 April

• Ornak ( Bahamas): The 228-metre (748 ft) bulk carrier ran aground off Lynnhaven, Virginia Beach, United States, due to high winds. She was refloated on 18 April.
• Todd Michael ( United States): The tug was driven ashore and wrecked in Lake Ponchartrain off New Orleans, Louisiana. Both crew were rescued by a United States Coast Guard helicopter.

16 April

• Asian Empire ( South Korea): The car carrier caught fire in the Pacific Ocean and was abandoned by her 24 crew, who were rescued by Asian Adonis ( Panama).

• Sewol ( South Korea): 2014 South Korean ferry capsizing: The ferry sank in the South China Sea whilst on a voyage from Incheon towards Jeju Island. The sinking cost 304 out of 476 people their lives.

17 April

• Tromso ( Bahamas): The tanker ran aground in Diego Suarez Bay, Madagascar and was severely damaged.

22 April

• Chanko ( Norway): The tugboat suffered an mechanical break-down, drifted onto shore at Edøya, near Sommarøy, Norway, and sank. Her crew of four were rescued by a lifeboat.

25 April

• Ag Marina ( Togo): The ship foundered in the Mediterranean Sea 30 nautical miles (56 km) west of Crete, Greece. Four of her seven crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from a Montenegro port towards Odessa, Russia.

28 April

• Nur Eye 1 ( Indonesia): The tanker was severely damaged by fire at Port Klang. All eleven crew were rescued.

May

5 May

• Zhong Xing 2 ( China): The cargo ship collided with MOL Motivator ( Marshall Islands) off Po Toi Island, Hong Kong and sank with the loss of eleven of her twelve crew.

9 May

• Galapaface I ( Ecuador): The freighter ran aground off the capital city Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, San Cristobal, in the Galápagos.

10 May

• Nereus ( United States): The autonomous underwater vehicle imploded and was lost in the Kermadec Trench.

15 May

• Miraj-4 ( Bangladesh): The Dhaka to Shariatpur ferry sank during a storm on the Meghna River in Bangladesh.

24 May

• The Brig Unicorn ( Saint Lucia): The restaurant ship foundered and sank off St Vincent and the Grenadines. All ten crew members were rescued.

29 May

• Shoko Maru ( Japan): The tanker suffered an onboard explosion and fire off Himeji. Seven of her eight crew were rescued, with her captain reported as missing. Shoko Maru later sank.

June

9 June

• Viet Long ( Vietnam): The cargo ship ran aground off Summer Island, Maldives (4°33′N 73°33′E / 4.550°N 73.550°E / 4.550; 73.550). Her twenty crew were evacuated on 10 June. During salvage operations on 3 July she broke in two and sank.

18 June

• Migrant ship: An unauthorised wooden vessel sank off Port Klang in the Strait of Malacca. Survivors, who did not have any travel documents, said they were returning to Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. Initially it was reported the passengers were trying to enter Malaysia. As of 17 June, there were approximately sixty survivors, five deaths and thirty-two missing. On 18 June ten people are reported killed and twenty-five missing and the survivors have been arrested under immigration laws.

19 June

• Migrant ship: A boat believed to be heading for Sumatra capsized off Sepang, near Kuala Lumpur in the Strait of Malacca. Eighteen people (fourteen men and four women) were rescued by nearby merchant ships.

30 June

• Migrant ship: A ship carrying over one hundred illegal migrants sank in the Strait of Sicily with twenty-seven rescued and seventy people missing.

July

2 July

• Pancar Indah ( Indonesia): The ferry, a converted landing craft tank, sprang a leak and foundered off Gilimanuk, Bali. All 35 people on board survived.

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• AMT Explorer ( Malta): The cable barge capsized and sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Sardinia, Italy. Her crew survived.

4 July

• Galuh Pulsaka ( Indonesia): The tanker was discovered abandoned in the South China Sea. It was towed to Tarempa Naval Base.

16 July

• Escapade ( United States): The casino ship ran aground off the coast of Georgia on her maiden voyage. All 96 passengers were taken off by the United States Coast Guard.

17 July

• Gelis Rauh ( Indonesia): The passenger ferry was destroyed by fire off Lombok. All on board were rescued.
• Millenium Time ( United Kingdom): The riverboat collided with a barge on the River Thames near Waterloo Bridge, London. Hundreds of passengers were safely evacuated from the boat, which has a capacity of 340. Seven people were injured.

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