NOTABLE PASSENGER SHIP ACCIDENTS
January 15, 2012 at 6:26AM
July 10, 2011: Overloaded cruise vessel sinks in Russia's Volga River, killing 122.
Dec. 20, 1987: In the worst peacetime shipping disaster, 4,340 drown when the ferry Dona Paz collides with the tanker MT Victor in the Philippines.
Aug. 31, 1986: Soviet passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov collides with a merchant vessel in the Black Sea, killing up to 448.
Jan. 27, 1981: 580 killed when Indonesian passenger ship Tamponas II catches fire and sinka.
April 12, 1912: The Titanic sinks on its maiden voyage, killing at least 1,496 people.
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