Maritime Disasters Trivia Quizzes

In this quiz, we will recall 10 maritime accidents that had a great impact, either due to the number of victims, environmental impacts, or due to other tragic historical consequences. This quiz requires you to rank these accidents in chronological order.

Match the name of the maritime disaster with the date and location it occurred.

Disasters at sea are not new, and unfortunately are not a thing of the past, either. Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, but was the iceberg the cause? We won't go into that here, but we will look at what caused a number of other maritime tragedies.

Shipwrecks are some of the most deadly disasters in history. Listen... This is your captain speaking.

Here are some famous shipwrecks throughout history. I've included the years they sank to help you. Can you place them in the correct order from earliest to most recent?

These vessels and/or their passengers all came to grief. Can you put the disasters in the right order?

Immortalised in song, the loss of the "SS Edmund Fitzgerald" was an absolute tragedy when it sank in 1975. We retrace the last voyage of this ship in an effort to understand what happened. (Just don't rely on the song lyrics to give you correct answers).

Just picture the scene! Chaos all around, the ship's leaning dangerously to port in a force 20 gale rounding The Horn and some bright little spark decides it's his job to say this to the Captain! Here's a 'broadsides' look at some old Naval disasters.

Over the years there have been thousands of shipwrecks, some of which have become famous. I will tell you of some well-known shipwrecks and you have to name the ship. Clues will be provided in most cases.

Let's investigate some ships that went down under Down Under - shipwrecks along the coast of Australia.