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The list of shipwrecks in 1968 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1968.(This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.)

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  • The list of shipwrecks in 1968 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1968.(This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.) (en)
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  • The tanker ran aground in the Panama Canal, blocking it. (en)
  • The Liberty ship was driven ashore near Osaka, Japan. (en)
  • thumb|right|The sunken Alvin photographed on the ocean bottom in June 1969.The deep submergence vehicle sank in the Atlantic Ocean at approximately , about south of Nantucket Island, when steel cables lowering her over the side of the research ship Lulu snapped and she fell into the water with her hatch open. All three crew members escaped. Alvin was refloated in September 1969, overhauled, and returned to service. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground in a cyclone at Akyab, Burma and broke up, a total loss. (en)
  • Caught fire at Antwerp, declared a constructive total loss. Scrapped in January 1969. (en)
  • The Liberty ship ran aground at Cabo San Lorenzo, Mexico and was abandoned. (en)
  • thumb|USS Bache aground.The was blown ashore by a gale outside the harbor at Rhodes in the Aegean Sea during a three-day port call there. Deemed a constructive total loss, she was decommissioned and scrapped in situ. (en)
  • The motor vessel was lost off Kodiak Island, Alaska. (en)
  • The tanker burned and sank at Ensenada, Argentina, after burning oil from the tanker Islas Orcadas spread to her and set her on fire. (en)
  • The cargo ship sprang a leak in the South China Sea east of Tai Tung, Taiwan. and was abandoned. Beached at Koto Soh but broke in two, a total loss. (en)
  • The steamer sank in the Atlantic Ocean while being towed to Italy for scrapping. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, New York, United States by United States Navy vessels. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off California. (en)
  • The tanker broke in two off the coast of Natal in a storm. Both sections sank. (en)
  • The Liberty ship ran aground in the Gironde and broke in two, a total loss. (en)
  • The decommissioned patrol frigate was sunk as a target. (en)
  • The 7-ton gasoline-powered screw fishing vessel was destroyed by fire at the Alitak Cannery at Akhiok , Alaska. (en)
  • Vietnam War: Tet Offensive: The blockade-running naval trawlers were sunk by U.S. aircraft off the coast of South Vietnam. (en)
  • The Liberty ship ran aground south of Dakar, Senegal , a total loss. (en)
  • The ferry sank near Zamboanga, Mindanao. Only eleven survivors of between 300 and 500 people on board. (en)
  • The motor vessel sank off Point Stanhope in Southeast Alaska. (en)
  • thumb|right| with the sunken Ocean Eagle off Puerto Rico, 1968.The tanker ran aground at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Later broke in two, a total loss. (en)
  • The motor vessel sank in Cook Inlet near Anchorage, Alaska. (en)
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  • The barge sank off Hoy, Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, while salvaging the wreck of . (en)
  • thumb|right|The wreck of E Evangelica in January 2008.The cargo ship ran aground in the Black Sea off Constanţa, Romania . Declared a constructive total loss. (en)
  • The motor vessel was wrecked at Point Couverden in Southeast Alaska. (en)
  • The trawler was last reported off Iceland on this date, lost with all twenty crew. (en)
  • thumb|right|Salvage of TEV WahineThe New Zealand inter-island ro-ro ferry of the Union Company, foundered on Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour and capsized near Steeple Rock. Of the 610 passengers and 123 crew on board, 53 were killed. (en)
  • The fishing vessel was shelled and sunk by North Korean ships. (en)
  • thumb|right|Bow section of Scorpion on the ocean bottom, photographed by the bathyscaphe .The sank in the Atlantic Ocean about southwest of the Azores on or after this date with the loss of her entire crew of 99. (en)
  • Vietnam War: Tet Offensive: The blockade-running naval trawler was sunk off South Vietnam when her cargo exploded when the patrol craft fast hit her with gunire, or was blown up by a scuttling charge. Her commanding officer and one other member of her crew later were killed by South Vietnamese troops in a firefight ashore. (en)
  • The trawler issued a mayday on this date which was heard but not responded to. Lost with all twenty crew. (en)
  • The Liberty ship foundered in a typhoon . (en)
  • The Liberty ship sank near Djibouti City. (en)
  • The cargo ship foundered. (en)
  • The cargo ship sank at Vado during a storm. (en)
  • The corvette sank in 1968 or 1969. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target. (en)
  • The motor vessel was wrecked at Kodiak, Alaska. (en)
  • The 14-gross register ton, motor cargo vessel was destroyed by a storm at Lake Minchumina in central Alaska during or before 1968. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean at by the heavy cruiser , the guided-missile light cruiser , the guided-missile frigate , and the destroyer . (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire at Juneau, Alaska. (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire at Cape Spencer in Southeast Alaska. (en)
  • The coaster sank in the Bay of Biscay west of the mouth of the Gironde. All crew rescued by a Spanish trawler. (en)
  • The freighter sank off Bligh Island, Nootka Sound, Canada after hitting a submerged rock. She began leaking oil fuel in 2020. (en)
  • The sank in the Mediterranean Sea about from Toulon, France, with the loss of her entire crew of 52. Wreck found 2019. (en)
  • The Leviathan-class submarine disappeared in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on her delivery voyage to Israel. Claims that sank her with depth charges are disputed by Israel. (en)
  • A tsunami destroyed the motor vessel off of Kokinhenik Bar on the Copper River Delta in Alaska. (en)
  • The Golf II-class ballistic missile submarine sank in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Hawaii with the loss of all 98 crew members. (en)
  • The cargo ship, refloated after running aground in September 1965, is scuttled off Riviera Beach, Florida, to form an artificial reef. (en)
  • The Liberty ship was wrecked on the coast of Vietnam . (en)
  • The Liberty ship ran aground near Casablanca, Morocco. She was later refloated but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped. (en)
  • Vietnam War: Tet Offensive: The blockade-running naval trawler was beached after being shelled by U.S. ships, then scuttled with demolition charges. Three members of her crew were killed and her commanding officer and executive officer were wounded. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a gunnery target off Baja California, Mexico, by the destroyer . (en)
  • The trawler capsized and sank off Isafjordur, Iceland with the loss of eighteen of her nineteen crew. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego, California, by the ships and aircraft of the carrier battle group . (en)
  • The coaster sank south of Sule Skerry, Orkney Islands following and on-board explosion. One of her five crew was killed. (en)
  • The survey ship struck a wreck in Da Nang harbour, South Vietnam, and sank. All 12 crew members were rescued by a United States Navy vessel. (en)
  • The bulk carrier struck a rock in the Panama Canal and sank. Refloated the following day. (en)
  • The second Norwegian tanker in ten days to have an explosion and fire evacuated 29 members of its crew into two lifeboats, southeast of Cape Farewell, Greenland The master, chief mate and first engineer remained behind, and were four days later by . One man was found dead on the ship; the lifeboats were never located after a 10-day search. (en)
  • Ran aground off Campbeltown, Argyllshire declared a constructive total loss. (en)
  • The crab-fishing vessel was wrecked in the Aleutian Islands on the northwest coast of Unimak Island near Cape Sarichef with the loss of three lives Her sole survivors was rescued by United States Coast Guard personnel. (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire near the small-boat harbor in Homer, Alaska. (en)
  • The motor vessel sank off Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of Alaska. (en)
  • The cargo ship sank after colliding with an unidentified ship at the entrance to the Dardanelles, Turkey. Fifteen of her twenty crew were killed. (en)
  • The crab-fishing vessel was wrecked on Marmot Island in the Kodiak Archipelago near Kodiak, Alaska. The United States Coast Guard rescued all five people on board. (en)
  • Vietnam War: Tet Offensive: The blockade-running naval trawlers were beached at Gio Linh, South Vietnam, to facilitate unloading and then scuttled. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target by the United States Navy. (en)
  • Vietnam War: Tet Offensive: The blockade-running naval trawler sunk by gunfire off the coast of South Vietnam by the cutter and the radar picket escort vessel and patrol craft fast . (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire on the beach at Skagway, Alaska. (en)
  • The dredger capsized and sank in the River Clyde during a storm. Three crew were killed. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean by elements of the United States Pacific Fleet. (en)
  • The 1,357-ton barge was destroyed by fire at Ugashik, Alaska. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target off Key West, Florida. (en)
  • The coaster was driven ashore at Las Palmas, Spain, and declared a constructive total loss. (en)
  • Vietnam War: Tet Offensive: The blockade-running naval trawler was sunk off South Vietnam when her cargo exploded when the high endurance cutter hit her with gunfire. (en)
  • The gillnet fishing vessel was destroyed near the False Pass entrance to the Bering Sea by a fire in her galley that went out of control. The only person aboard barely survived by jumping overboard just before a gasoline tank exploded and swimming to shore in heavy clothing and rubber boots. (en)
  • The was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego, California by the submarine . (en)
  • A storm destroyed the motor vessel at Ketchikan, Alaska. (en)
  • After entering shallow water in Narragansett Bay off the coast of Rhode Island during a storm, the , 156-gross register ton tug struck an unidentified object and sank quickly in of water just south of Hope Island at without loss of life. (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire at Twin Points in Stephens Passage in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target on or about this date. (en)
  • The steam-powered whaler foundered and was lost off South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. (en)
  • The motor vessel was wrecked off Point Stanhope Island off the west coast of Etolin Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. (en)
  • The cargo ship struck a submerged object at Brăila, Romania and ran aground. Refloated but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped in May 1969. (en)
  • The cargo ship caught fire in the South China Sea off South Korea and was abandoned. She was towed into Pusan but declared a constructive total loss and consequently scrapped. (en)
  • She was wrecked off South Wales. Four crewmen of the sand dredger were saved by the Atlantic College lifeboat and the Porthcawl lifeboat in partnership with the Mumbles lifeboat. (en)
  • The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Gibraltar. The crew were rescued by . (en)
  • The cargo liner caught fire and sank at New York, United States. Subsequently refloated, repaired and returned to service. (en)
  • The tanker struck a Vietcong mine in a South Vietnamese port and was damaged. (en)
  • Vietnam War: Tet Offensive: The blockade-running naval trawlers were beached at Trieu Phong, South Vietnam, to facilitate unloading and then scuttled. (en)
  • The tanker suffered an explosion, caught fire, and sank at Ensenada, Argentina. (en)
  • The tanker exploded and sank south of Eastbourne, Sussex with the loss of three crew. Thirty-nine crew saved by the Eastbourne Lifeboat Beryl Tollemache and the frigate . (en)
  • thumb|right|The sinking of Devilfish.The decommissioned was sunk as a target by a Mark 16 MOD 8 torpedo fired by the submarine in the Pacific Ocean off San Francisco, California, at . (en)
  • Sank between Ameland and Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands. (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire in Seal Bay on the coast of Alaska. The wreck report did not specify in which of many Seal Bays along the Alaskan coast the incident took place. (en)
  • The 57-gross register ton, fishing vessel was wrecked in Ouzinkie Narrows on the southeast end of Spruce Island in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago. (en)
  • The fishing vessel was sunk by a Cuban-exile-operated speedboat. (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire in the Gulf of Alaska miles east of Cape Chiniak on Kodiak Island. (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire at False Pass, Alaska. (en)
  • thumb|right|Coos Bay sinking.The decommissioned Casco-class cutter was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia by the guided-missile destroyer , one other U.S. Navy ship, and 35 aircraft. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground at Praia de Atalanta, Cape Verde. (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire at the Alitak Cannery at Akhiok, Alaska. (en)
  • The 183/1 -class motor torpedo boat was sunk in a collision in heavy fog with . Seven crewmen killed. (en)
  • The motor vessel was lost off Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands. (en)
  • The motor vessel sank on the south-central coast of Alaska near Icy Bay, northwest of Yakutat. (en)
  • The survey ship ran aground near Lion Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula. She was later refloated. (en)
  • The motor vessel sank in Thorne Arm on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. (en)
  • Charny began taking on water in one hold during a storm while on a voyage from Canada to Haiti. The vessel sank but all 24 people on board were rescued. (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire off Sumner Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. (en)
  • The bulk carrier was holed by in the Atlantic Ocean . She was beached in Cádiz Bay and abandoned. (en)
  • The buoy tender was sunk in a collision with the motor vessel in the Mississippi River near White Castle, Louisiana. Only three of her 20 crewmen survived. (en)
  • The schooner capsized and sank off Canouan Island, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Forty-one of the 79 people on board were killed. (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire in Tonki Bay on the coast of Afognak Island in Alaska′s Kodiak Archipelago. (en)
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