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The list of shipwrecks in 1970 includes ships that sank, foundered, grounded, or were otherwise lost during 1970.(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 1970 includes ships that sank, foundered, grounded, or were otherwise lost during 1970.(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 fishing excursion boat sank with the loss of one life in of water off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, at after colliding in fog with the cargo ship Mormacglen . (en)
  • The fishing vessel foundered in the Cabot Strait during a storm. (en)
  • The cargo ship suffered a catastrophic explosion in the Indian Ocean 400 miles off Mombasa, Kenya in which nine men were killed. She was towed to Mombasa but refused entry and later en route to South Africa the bow half broke away and sank off Mozambique. The stern was beached at Porto Amelia. Declared a constructive total loss she was later acquired by Greek interests and towed to Japan where she was joined to the bow half of Wafra and renamed Achillet. (en)
  • The boat was lost in Esther Passage on the south-central coast of Alaska. (en)
  • War of Attrition: The No. 260-class motor torpedo boats were sunk by Israeli Air Force A-4 Skyhawk aircraft in the Red Sea while sailing to Shadwan Island that was under attack by Israeli commandos. (en)
  • The coaster sank after a collision with in the English Channel. Four of her thirteen crew were killed. (en)
  • War of Attrition: The fishing vessel was sunk off the northern Sinai Peninsula by missiles launched from an Egyptian missile boat. Two crewmen were killed and two swam to shore. (en)
  • The tug was sunk as an artificial reef in the Atlantic Ocean off Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, at approximately . (en)
  • The tanker ran aground off Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia. (en)
  • A storm destroyed the motor vessel in Uganik Bay on the coast of Kodiak Island in Alaska. (en)
  • The retired training ship was scuttled in shallow water off Plymouth, England, at as a training facility for divers. Found to be an obstruction, the wreck was demolished with explosives. (en)
  • The yacht caught fire and exploded off Jersey, Channel Islands killing both crew, Félix Gaillard and Dominic Cirotteau. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off California. (en)
  • The barge, owned by J.D. Irving Ltd., sank off the coast of Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It was refloated in 1996, refitted and renamed ATL 2701 in 2001, and renamed again as Atlantic Sea Lion in 2009. (en)
  • The fishing boat was sunk by a Cuban exile-operated speedboat. (en)
  • The motor vessel was wrecked in Dry Harbor in Alaska. (en)
  • The cargo ship sank in the North Pacific Ocean ten days after she was abandoned after her cargo of bombs and other munitions broke loose and started to explode during a voyage from Bremerton, Washington, to Da Nang, South Vietnam. Fourteen members of her crew of 40 survived. (en)
  • The tanker ran aground on Cerberus Rock in Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and broke in two, resulting in the spill of 3.5 million litres of her cargo of crude oil. (en)
  • The Liberty ship ran aground on the coast of Angola and broke in two. (en)
  • The bulk carrier was scuttled as a temporary breakwater at Nanticoke, Ontario sometime in the summer of 1970. Refloated later, date unknown. (en)
  • Overloaded ferry sank in channel between Saint Kitts and Nevis. 91 survivors of 300. (en)
  • The fishing vessel – a purse-seiner – became disabled in Snow Pass near Ketchikan, Alaska, when a malfunctioning engine cooling line caused her engine room to flood. The fishing vessel My Ann took Valiant in tow, but the tow line parted and Valiant sank. (en)
  • The cruise liner sank in the Atlantic Ocean after catching fire the previous day north of Tenerife, Spain. All 270 crew and 447 passengers were rescued by . (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire off Cordova, Alaska. (en)
  • The Liberty ship ran aground in the Bahamas . She was declared a constructive total loss. (en)
  • The seiner sank with the loss of one life just north of Kodiak, Alaska, northwest of the Hanin Rocks . There were 11 survivors. (en)
  • The tanker ran aground at Bandar Abbas, Iran and suffered extensive bottom damage. (en)
  • The passenger/cargo ship was wrecked on a reef in the Gulf of Aqaba , a total loss. (en)
  • The collided underwater with her sister ship off Toulon, killing six crew and injuring four others. She was beached at Cap Cepet. (en)
  • The Liberty ship was driven ashore at "Chaina". She was later refloated and scrapped at Hong Kong. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target off Rhode Island. (en)
  • The motor vessel sank in Castle Bay near Chignik, Alaska. (en)
  • The Liberty ship ran aground in the Black Sea off Tuapse, Soviet Union, a total loss. (en)
  • The motor vessel sank in Frederick Sound in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska west of Cape Strait . (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean about off Lahaina, Hawaii to serve as an underwater rescue training vessel. She was raised in November 1984 and sunk again in deep water. (en)
  • The ran aground off Charleston, South Carolina. (en)
  • The M-class minesweeper was sunk as a target. (en)
  • The barge sank at Perryville, Alaska. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target. (en)
  • The fishing vessel was lost near Homer, Alaska. (en)
  • The motor vessel sank off Orca , Alaska. (en)
  • The tanker ran aground at Vigo, Spain. (en)
  • The coaster was in collision with a whale and sank of the Canary Islands, Spain. All four crew rescued. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean off the Mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. (en)
  • The bulk carrier was wrecked off the coast of Honduras. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Saigon, South Vietnam. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target off Puerto Rico. (en)
  • The barge sank in Bristol Bay off the coast of Alaska while under tow by the tugs Mr. Chuck and Arapahoe Scout . (en)
  • The tanker was abandoned off Muscat, Oman following a collision with a Russian merchant ship. (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire at Old Harbor, Alaska. (en)
  • The tanker collided with off the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom and was set on fire. She was beached on a sandbank off the Isle of Wight. (en)
  • The coaster capsized and sank off the Tees Estuary with the loss of all ten crew after its cargo was improperly loaded. (en)
  • The motor vessel sank in Bluefox Bay on the coast of Afognak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a torpedo target by either the submarine or the submarine . (en)
  • Vietnam War: The Nguyen Van Tru-class landing craft support ship was sunk by the North Vietnamese 126th Special Naval Commandos. (en)
  • War of Attrition: The Bahaire-class minesweeper was sunk by Israeli aircraft in the Gulf of Suez. (en)
  • The tanker split in two and sank in the Pacific Ocean with the loss of seven crew. (en)
  • The motor vessel sank in Kachemak Bay on the south-central coast of Alaska. (en)
  • Guinea-Bissau War of Independence: Raid on Conakry: Three Project 183R missile boats were destroyed by Portuguese forces. (en)
  • War of Attrition: The beached landing craft was further damaged by demolition charges placed on the harbor bottom under the ship by Egyptian frogmen at Eilat. She would eventually be refloated, towed to sea and scuttled. (en)
  • The coaster foundered north of Chicken Rock, Isle of Man after her cargo shifted. Two of her crew were killed. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia at . (en)
  • The crab-fishing vessel sank in the Gulf of Alaska near Spruce Island in the Kodiak Archipelago after reporting that her radar and depth finder had failed, leaving her two-man crew uncertain of her position during a gale with 30-foot seas and 60-mph winds. Debris from Sea Mill later was spotted at sea, but the bodies of the two men on board were never found. (en)
  • The decommissioned amphibious transport submarine was sunk as a target. (en)
  • Vietnam War: The blockade runner was beached and scuttled by burning when intercepted by enemy vessels. (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire at the fuel dock at Port Protection, Alaska. (en)
  • The Liberty ship was scuttled in the Atlantic Ocean at as a means of disposing of a cargo of obsolete chemical ammunition. (en)
  • The cargo ship sank in the Saint Lawrence River near Morrisburg, Ontario, Canada, after striking an underwater abutment near Crysler Shoal. Nine crew members and members of their families were killed. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground at Punta Maya, Varadero Peninsula . Salvage was abandoned after gale damage. (en)
  • The coaster sank in the Gulf of St Lawrence following a fire. (en)
  • The decommissioned guided-missile destroyer was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean off Virginia. (en)
  • The 41-gross register ton, fishing vessel sank in Cross Sound off Cape Spencer in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire at Ketchikan, Alaska. (en)
  • Vietnam War: The South Vietnamese LCS-class landing ship was sunk by North Vietnamese 126th Special Naval Commandos. (en)
  • The 96-ton fishing vessel capsized and sank either approximately off Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands or off the Kamchatka Peninsula with the loss of her entire crew of 17. (en)
  • Guinea-Bissau War of Independence: Raid on Conakry: The Project 183-class motor torpedo boats were destroyed by Portuguese forces. (en)
  • The 24-gross register ton, fishing vessel lost control of her rudder, ran onto rocks at Kodiak, Alaska, and was pounded to pieces by the surf. The United States Coast Guard rescued all 10 people aboard. (en)
  • The tanker sank in the Pacific Ocean with the loss of twelve crew. (en)
  • The Liberty ship was scuttled off Cape Kennedy, Florida, as a means of disposing of a load of nerve gas placed aboard her. (en)
  • The coaster ran aground off Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom. (en)
  • Sank off Sardinia with the loss of eighteen of her nineteen crew. (en)
  • War of Attrition: The No. 783-class missile boat was sunk by Israeli Air Force Dassault Mirages at Berenice, Egypt. (en)
  • War of Attrition: The landing craft was sunk with Limpet mines by Egyptian frogmen at Eilat. (en)
  • The cargo ship was run aground at Corunna, Spain, following a collision with . (en)
  • Anchored outside the harbor at Port Hueneme, California, with a skeleton crew of two and no passengers aboard, the cruise ship was driven aground and wrecked during a storm. Her wreck later was gutted by fire, cut down to water level, and filled with rocks to form part of a breakwater. (en)
  • The heavy lift ship was driven aground in Manila Bay during Typhoon Patsy. She later was refloated and scrapped. (en)
  • The motor vessel was wrecked near Point Couverden in Southeast Alaska. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean north of Puerto Rico at . (en)
  • The suffered an explosion whilst submerged off St Tropez and sank with the loss of all 57 crew. (en)
  • The sank in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of 52 of her 125 crew. (en)
  • War of Attrition: The Israeli Navy auxiliary, sunk at dock by Mines at Eilat, Israel by Egyptian frogmen in February, was raised and towed out and scuttled in deep water. (en)
  • Vietnam War: The Ham Tu II-class minesweeper was wrecked on this date. Ship was stripped and destroyed. (en)
  • The cargo ship was driven ashore and sank near St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (en)
  • The crab-fishing vessel burned and sank in a cove in Kovurof Bay on the coast of Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands. The fishing vessel Kenivan Bay rescued her crew. (en)
  • War of Attrition: The El Fateh-class destroyer was sunk by Israeli Air Force Dassault Mirages at Berenice, Egypt. (en)
  • The cargo ship collided with in the Paraná River and caught fire. She was abandoned and later refloated and laid up. A proposed sale fell through and she was scrapped in 1977. (en)
  • The cargo ship sprang a leak in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Palmas, Liberia. She was beached west of Cape Garraway but declared a constructive total loss. (en)
  • The vessel was lost in Columbia Bay in Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of Alaska after she collided with an iceberg. (en)
  • The cargo ship sank south of Hong Kong. Twenty-five crew survived. (en)
  • Vietnam War: The LCT-1466-class utility landing craft was sunk by a mine planted by either Khmer Rouge or North Vietnamese commandos. (en)
  • The cargo ship ran aground off Rhodes, constructive total loss. (en)
  • The tanker suffered a rudder failure at Istanbul, Turkey, and crashed into a six-storey building, killing three people. (en)
  • The oil rig supply boat capsized and sank in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of Alaska after colliding with an oil platform on Middle Ground Shoal . Her entire crew of five survived. (en)
  • The fishing boat was captured and scuttled by a Cuban exile group "Alpha 66"-operated boat. She later was raised, repaired, and returned to service. (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire off the southeast end of "Spoon Island" – probably a reference to Spuhn Island – in Southeast Alaska. (en)
  • After radioing that her compass was broken, her steering gear was malfunctioning, and that she was experiencing icing, and later that she was going ashore on a beach, the gillnet fishing vessel disappeared in Stephens Passage in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. The bodies of the eight people on board – a married couple, their 17-, 12-, 9-, and 8-year-old and -month old sons, and an 8-year-old boy who was a friend of the family – were never found. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target off Florida. (en)
  • The ferry foundered in the Cabot Strait while responding to the mayday call from Enterprise . (en)
  • The cargo ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of eight of her 33 crew. (en)
  • War of Attrition: The landing craft was sunk at dock with mines by Egyptian frogmen at Eilat. (en)
  • The cargo ship was wrecked at Genoa, Italy with the loss of 13 lives. (en)
  • The decommissioned light cruiser was sunk during an explosives test in the Pacific Ocean off San Clemente Island. (en)
  • Grounded near Mehidia, Morocco after developing engine trouble and a leak. Declared a total loss. (en)
  • The motor vessel was destroyed by fire in the Gulf of Alaska off Port Williams, Alaska, on the southern tip of Shuyak Island. (en)
  • The tanker ran aground off Syracuse, Sicily, Italy and caught fire. All 36 crew rescued and the fire was extinguished. The ship was refloated a week later. (en)
  • The crab fishing vessel caught fire and was abandoned near Seward, Alaska. The United States Coast Guard rescued two crew members from a life raft. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a gunnery target in the Atlantic Ocean 90 nautical miles off Norfolk, Virginia. (en)
  • The bulk ore carrier sank in the Pacific Ocean. Of her 29 crew, all but five were rescued. (en)
  • The motor vessel sank in "Dry Bay" on the coast of Alaska. The wreck report does not specify in which of many bays of the name the sinking took place. (en)
  • The vessel was wrecked in the Gulf of Alaska on the south end of Montague Island at the entrance to Prince William Sound in Alaska. (en)
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