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- The retired sidewheel paddle steamer burned and sank during a storm while moored at the Navy pier at Middletown Township, New Jersey. (en)
- The 7-gross register ton motor vessel was destroyed by fire in Stephens Passage in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska south of the Snettisham Rocks . (en)
- Explosion and fire while discharging cargo at Luanda, Angola. She was declared a constructive total loss and scrapped in June 1978. (en)
- The 156-gross register ton, shrimp-fishing vessel sank in the Shelikof Strait between the Kodiak Archipelago and the mainland of Alaska. The fishing vessel Heidi J rescued her entire crew. (en)
- After transfer to the Republic of China Navy, the decommissioned ran aground while under tow from the United States to Taiwan and was declared a total loss. (en)
- The cargo ship ran aground at Godøystraumen. She was refloated. (en)
- The sailing vessel sank in Resurrection Bay off Seward, Alaska. The Alaska Marine Highway motor ferry Tustumena rendered assistance to the people aboard Wind Dance. (en)
- The 180-ton motor vessel lost steerage south of Cape Sarichef, Unimak Island, Alaska, became disabled, and sank without loss of life in winds and seas in the North Pacific Ocean near Rootok Island east of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, at . A United States Coast Guard helicopter based at Kodiak, Alaska, rescued her four-man crew. (en)
- The coaster sank off Cornwall, United Kingdom with loss of life including two children. (en)
- The cargo ship was sunk in the Indian Ocean by a time bomb planted as part of an insurance fraud scheme masterminded by Austrian businessman Udo Proksch. Six of the ship′s 12 crew members died. (en)
- The 166-gross register ton, crab-fishing vessel capsized and sank in the Bering Sea approximately east-southeast of St. George Island in the direction of Cape Sarichef on Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands. The fishing vessel Sea Venture rescued her entire crew of five. (en)
- The cargo ship caught fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea 2 nautical miles off Borolos Lighthouse, Damietta, Egypt. (en)
- The vessel was wrecked on rocks on the coast of Alaska. (en)
- The 11-gross register ton, fishing vessel was lost in Bertha Bay in Southeast Alaska. (en)
- Ran aground at Sestrice Island and declared a constructive total loss. (en)
- Caught fire and sank, Elusina, Greece (en)
- The cargo ship collided in fog with and sank in the Dardanelles with the loss of fifteen crew. (en)
- A Saudi Arabian general cargo vessel was sailing from Jeddah to Port Sudan with her cargo of Toyota vehicles and spare parts when she struck the reef about north of Port Sudan. (en)
- Ran aground off Tumpat, Malaysia and abandoned. (en)
- Ran aground on the Angelica Shoal and declared a constructive total loss. (en)
- Sprang a leak and sank north of Gijon . (en)
- The cargo ship was wrecked at Tripoli, Libya. (en)
- The oil tanker broke up in the Pacific Ocean with the loss of three crewmembers. (en)
- The fishing vessel was sunk by Kampuchean Navy vessels. (en)
- The tanker ran aground at Wilhelmshaven, West Germany. (en)
- A Lowestoft trawler foundered off Gwennap Head, Cornwall during a southerly gale. (en)
- The ship ran aground off Galle, Sri Lanka and sank. (en)
- The vessel sank in Malina Bay on the coast of Afognak Island in Alaska′s Kodiak Archipelago. (en)
- The fishing vessel was sunk at El Callao Peru by an explosion. (en)
- The Panamanian freighter Ukola broke in half and sank in the Gulf of Mexico during a gale while en route to Galveston, Texas from the Dominican Republic with a cargo of sugar. Only three of the ship's 23 crew members were rescued. (en)
- The coaster sank off St Abbs Head, United Kingdom with the loss of five of her six crew. (en)
- The T2 tanker was struck by at Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles and was severely damaged. Declared a constructive total loss, she was scrapped at Santander, Spain. (en)
- The tug was scuttled in the Tasman Sea off New South Wales, Australia. (en)
- The 81-gross register ton, motor vessel sank in Orca Inlet off the coast of Alaska. (en)
- The fishing vessel grounded and was wrecked in the Bering Sea approximately off Cape Cheerful on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands. (en)
- The 8-gross register ton motor vessel was destroyed by fire in Southeast Alaska between Ketchikan, Alaska, and Tree Point . (en)
- Ran aground off Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom. All seven crew rescued. (en)
- The roll-on/roll-off cargo ferry sank in the North Sea with the loss of one crew member when her stern door lost watertight integrity. (en)
- Ran aground on the Île d'Orléans, Quebec, Canada, refloated but declared damaged beyond economical repair and Scrapped in October 1978. (en)
- Eritrean War of Independence: The patrol boat was lost, with reports variously blaming the loss on a storm and on an attack by the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, or the patrol boat was sunk by the Ethiopian Air Force while trying to defect to the Eritrean People's Liberation Front. (en)
- The 11-gross register ton, fishing vessel was wrecked on the coast of Kodiak Island in Alaska. (en)
- The fishing vessel sank in the Gulf of Alaska south of Marmot Island in the Kodiak Archipelago. (en)
- With two people – a man and a woman – aboard, the fishing vessel sank near Dundas Bay in Icy Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. The man perished. The woman drifted in a survival suit for eight to ten hours, reached shore, and walked before a United States Coast Guard helicopter rescued her. (en)
- The retired railroad barge was scuttled as an artificial reef in the North Atlantic Ocean off Sea Girt, New Jersey, in of water at . (en)
- The 8- or 38-gross register ton, fishing vessel sank in Marmot Bay on the coast of Alaska's Kodiak Island. (en)
- The coaster sank off Anglesey, Wales. All four crew were rescued. (en)
- The cargo ship exploded and caught fire. She sank the next day. (en)
- The decommissioned netlayer was destroyed as a target. (en)
- While towing the riverboat tender Cowboy , the freezer boat – formerly a ferry of the Washington State Ferries fleet – was wrecked in bad weather on Egg Island in the Egg Islands on the south-central coast of Alaska south of Cordova. Cowboy rescued all nine members of her crew. (en)
- Adrift after losing power, the Alaska Department of Public Safety patrol boat sank in heavy seas in Portage Bay in Southeast Alaska, west of Petersburg, Alaska. (en)
- A Grimsby trawler on her first voyage after a major refit, went ashore at Penzer Point, south of Mousehole, Cornwall. It is believed the crew were down below having breakfast and the trawler was on automatic pilot. The Penlee Lifeboat had insufficient power to tow Conqueror off the rocks and she assumed a 35° list and broke up on the rocks. (en)
- The passenger/vehicle icebreaker ferry sank off the coast of Labrador after striking heavy ice. (en)
- The 134-gross register ton fishing vessel sank in the Gulf of Alaska approximately west of Cape Spencer, Alaska. Her crew of five abandoned ship in a life raft, where one died of a heart attack and was cast adrift. The oil tanker Overseas Chicago rescued the four remaining survivors from the raft south of Cordova, Alaska. (en)
- The livestock carrier sank outside Fishguard Harbour, Wales. (en)
- The fishing vessel was swamped and sank on Long Sands Bar in Nushagak Bay off the coast of Alaska. (en)
- The St Malo trawler was lost on Pednathise, within the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly. The lifeboat came within hearing distance of the crew, but all drowned in the heavy seas before they could be brought aboard. (en)
- The cargo ship collided in foggy weather with in the Sea of Marmara, Turkey and sank with the loss of twenty-two crew. (en)
- The decommissioned Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer was sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California during a missile exercise. (en)
- The oil tanker caught fire and sank in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii. (en)
- The 10-gross register ton, fishing vessel was wrecked in Bertha Bay in Southeast Alaska. (en)
- The T2 tanker capsized at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The wreck was scrapped ''in situ. (en)
- The tug sank while moored at Petersburg, Alaska. She later was abandoned on the beach at Kupreanof, Alaska. (en)
- The auxiliary schooner, a former coastal freighter, sank in a lagoon near Papeete, Tahiti. (en)
- The bulk carrier ran aground at Thunder Bay, Ontario. The ship was freed the next day, suffering damage to her ballast tank. (en)
- The trawler sank off the Runnelstone, Cornwall, United Kingdom, and was aided by the Isles of Scilly ferry . (en)
- The dragger sank off the coast of Maine after striking something in heavy seas. Two crewmen were rescued from her life raft by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter, and one by from her skiff. Two crewmen died. (en)
- The decommissioned was sunk as a target off the coast of Puerto Rico. (en)
- The shrimp-fishing vessel was swamped and sank in the Gulf of Alaska approximately south of Cape Chiniak on Kodiak Island. (en)
- An Aberdeen trawler wrecked on the Ve Skerries, Shetland in adverse weather conditions. A volunteer helicopter crew was assembled at Sumburgh Airport which rescued all 8 crew. (en)
- The fishing vessel grounded and was lost in the Bering Sea off Cape Cheerful on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands. The Alaska State Trooper patrol vessel Vigilant rescued the eight people – four men, three women, and an infant – on board. (en)
- Carrying a cargo of oil, the , 1,546-gross register ton tanker broke in half in a storm off Eastern Point at the entrance to the harbor at Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her stern section sank southwest of Eastern Point Light in up to of water at . Her bow section sank east of Eastern Point in of water at . One crew member perished. (en)
- Ran aground at Luce Bay, Galloway, became a constructive total loss and later scrapped. (en)
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