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The list of shipwrecks in 1978 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1978.(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 1978 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1978.(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 decommissioned was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean by an Exocet missile fired by the destroyer and a torpedo fired by the submarine . (en)
  • The fishing vessel sank off Spruce Cape on the coast of Kodiak Island in Alaska′s Kodiak Archipelago. (en)
  • The cargo ship collided with in the Strait of Gibraltar and sank. Atlantico sustained severe damage to her bows. (en)
  • The vessel sank with the loss of one life southwest of Puale Bay on the coast of the Alaska Peninsula in Alaska. The vessel Cape Fairwell rescued her three survivors. Jeffery Allen was salvaged in October 1979. (en)
  • The vessels, possibly "Swift" boats or auxiliary patrol boats, were sunk by a Vietnamese Navy vessel north east of Hon Doc Island. (en)
  • The bulk carrier collided with cargo ship and sank off Gibraltar. (en)
  • The fishing vessel was wrecked on the coast of Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands. The vessel American Viking rescued her entire crew. (en)
  • The 137-gross register ton, crab-fishing vessel capsized and sank in the Gulf of Alaska off the south end of Alaska′s Kodiak Island with the loss of four lives. There was one survivor. (en)
  • The tanker ran aground off the coast of Dyfed, Wales. (en)
  • The coaster collided with and sank in the Seine downstream of Rouen, France with the loss of four of her five crew. (en)
  • The cargo ship was wrecked on Shab Abu Reef near the Straits of Gubal. The vessel Interusja rescued her cew. Kimon M. slid off the reef and sank some days later. (en)
  • The tug sank without loss of life in Herring Bay on Frederick Sound in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska after logs she was towing broke loose in heavy weather and tore her stern open. Another tug rescued her crew. (en)
  • Under tow by the fishing vessel Pacific Sea after drifting for three days after her engine failed, the double-ended fishing vessel capsized and sank on the west side of Cape Suckling on the south-central coast of Alaska after a huge wave struck her broadside. Pacific Sea rescued her crew of two. (en)
  • The troller sank in heavy seas off Cape Lynch on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. (en)
  • The Bayliner Sport Cruiser ran aground in Strawberry Channel from Point Bentinck off the south-central coast of Alaska and capsized in the surf. The only person on board died. (en)
  • The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank whilst on a voyage from Bangkok, Thailand to Apapa, Nigeria. (en)
  • The motor vessel sank in Alaska Native Brotherhood Harbor at Sitka, Alaska. (en)
  • The fishing vessel ran aground and sank in Terror Bay on the coast of Kodiak Island in Alaska′s Kodiak Archipelago. (en)
  • The troller dragged her anchor during a storm, struck a rock, and sank off the west coast of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska near White Sulfur Hot Springs . The only person aboard reached shore in a skiff; the fishing vessel Midnight Charger rescued him five weeks later. (en)
  • After she struck a rock and flooded, the charter boat was towed to Bass Harbor on the coast of Naked Island in Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of Alaska, where she was stripped and burned. (en)
  • The coaster capsized and sank north east of Flamborough Head, Yorkshire with the loss of five crew. (en)
  • Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978: The 1,129-gross register ton motor vessel — a former passenger ship in use as a floating function hall and waiting area for the restaurant Anthony's Pier 4 in Boston, Massachusetts — broke free of her permanent docking cradle during a blizzard and sank without loss of life in of water in Boston Harbor beside the west side of Pier 4 at . Her wreck was removed in February 2017 and scrapped. (en)
  • The gillnetter sank off of “The Castle” on the Copper River Flats on the south-central coast of Alaska. (en)
  • The fishing vessel sank in the Pacific Ocean with the loss of all hands. One body was recovered from the ocean off Bahia Tortugas, Mexico. (en)
  • Sank in the Black Sea off Kilyos, Turkey. (en)
  • Sank off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. (en)
  • The was scuttled in Smitswinkel Bay. (en)
  • The was sunk as a target off Puerto Rico. (en)
  • The was sunk as a target. (en)
  • The decommissioned was sunk as a target. (en)
  • The fishing vessel sank in the Bering Sea. (en)
  • Lebanese Civil War: The coaster was sunk by rockets in Beirut harbor, Lebanon. Raised in 1981 and scrapped or towed to sea and scuttled. (en)
  • Grounded on the quayside at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk due to surge tide. Ship cut up for scrap later that month. (en)
  • The 18-gross register ton motor vessel sank off Ugak Bay, Alaska. (en)
  • The tanker was scuttled west of Fastnet Rock, United Kingdom. (en)
  • The floating hotel sank at anchor in Seldovia Bay in Cook Inlet on the south-central coast of Alaska. Her wreck later was refloated and in January 1979 was scuttled in the Gulf of Alaska. (en)
  • The vessel sank off the Aleutian Islands from Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The vessels Cape Lynch and Crystal rescued her crew. (en)
  • Bulk carrier scuttled in Nedstrandfjorden by the ship owner in an insurance fraud scheme. (en)
  • The cargo ship sank off Bangkok, Thailand. She was raised in November 1979 and moved to a new anchorage but sank again. (en)
  • The yacht was seized by the Kampuchean Navy for drug smuggling. She reportedly was scuttled and her two crewmen were executed by being burned alive. (en)
  • The 35-gross register ton motor vessel sank in Lituya Bay in Southeast Alaska. (en)
  • thumb|Amoco Cadiz. Ran aground on Portsall Rocks, off the coast of Brittany, loaded with 255,000 tonnes of crude oil. (en)
  • The cargo ship collided with off Oporto, Portugal and sank with the loss of eleven of her 24 crew. (en)
  • Eritrean War of Independence: An unknown number of fishing vessels were shelled and sunk by the Ethiopian Navy along the coast of the Eritrean part of the Ethiopian coast. (en)
  • The vessels, possibly Patrol Craft Fast or auxiliary patrol boats, were sunk by a Vietnamese Peopl's Navy vessel near Hon Doc Island. (en)
  • thumb|Astron, 2008. The cargo ship ran aground at Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and was wrecked. (en)
  • The tanker collided with the bulk carrier and sank off Ouessant, France. The bulk carrier washed out her tanks in the area where the accident occurred. She was forced to stop by after ignoring demands from the dredger Baccarat to stop. Her captain was fined ₣50,000 for illegally discharging the oil. (en)
  • The 64-gross register ton, fishing vessel was destroyed by fire in Sakie Bay near Dall Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. (en)
  • The cargo ship sprang a leak and sank in the Tyrrhenian Sea southwest of Cape Miseno. (en)
  • The cargo ship foundered off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. Five crew killed. (en)
  • The cargo ship sank in the Peloponnesus with the loss of eight of her nine crew. (en)
  • The fishing vessel capsized and was lost off Sitkinak Island in Alaska′s Kodiak Archipelago. (en)
  • The 197-gross register ton, tug sank in Katlian Bay in Southeast Alaska sometime prior to 1979, i.e, in 1978 or earlier. (en)
  • The motor vessel was overdue on a trip in Hawaii between Honolulu Harbor and Kawaihae Harbor and was presumed capsized and sunk in the Pacific Ocean. (en)
  • The decommissioned Loch-class frigate was scuttled to form an artificial reef in False Bay off the coast of South Africa. (en)
  • The vessel was wrecked on Igitkin Island in the Aleutian Islands. Wearing survival suits, her crew of four reached shore and was rescued by the seagoing buoy tender . (en)
  • The vessel was stranded and sank in Danger Bay, also known as Kazakof Bay on the coast of Afognak in the Kodiak Archipelago off the coast of Alaska. The United States Coast Guard rescued her two-man crew. (en)
  • The fishing vessel burned and sank in Whale Pass in the Kodiak Archipelago between Kodiak Island and Whale Island. (en)
  • The vessel was lost off Sitkalidak Island in Alaska′s Kodiak Archipelago. (en)
  • The fishing vessel was destroyed by fire at Old Harbor, Alaska. (en)
  • The sailboat disappeared along with her captain, Alain Colas, in the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores after Colas sent a final message on this date. (en)
  • While under tow, the vessel sank without loss of life off Spruce Island in the Kodiak Archipelago near Monashka Bay on Kodiak Island. (en)
  • Typhoon Lola: The cargo ship drove into Fides Orient at Manila and was damaged beyond economic repair. Subsequently scrapped. (en)
  • The troller struck a rock and sank in Southeast Alaska near Elfin Cove and George Island northwest of Juneau. (en)
  • The fishing trawler was wrecked in a blizzard off Falmouth, Cornwall. Three men drowned. (en)
  • The fishing vessel sank in Hinchinbrook Entrance off Zaikof Point near Schooner Rock on the south-central coast of Alaska. The fishing vessel Lone Fisherman rescued her crew. (en)
  • The aircraft carrier ran aground at Loch Ryan on her way to the breaker's yard. Later refloated and scrapped. (en)
  • The motor vessel foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Namibia at . (en)
  • The struck a reef in the Pacific Ocean off Cikobia Island, Fiji, and sank. (en)
  • The coaster foundered off The Lizard, Cornwall. All thirteen crew rescued by a French warship. (en)
  • The crab-fishing vessel sank in the Bering Sea north of Amak Island in the Aleutian Islands after her lazarette flooded during a storm. (en)
  • While carrying a cargo of construction materials to a cannery, the former landing craft sank off of Wide Bay on the south-central coast of Alaska. The United States Coast Guard rescued her crew of six from a life raft. (en)
  • The bowpicker was destroyed by fire and abandoned in the Copper River Flats near Pete Dahl Slough on the south-central coast of Alaska. (en)
  • struck by Romanza whilst berthed at Piraeus. Declared a constructive total loss. (en)
  • The was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean off Newport, Rhode Island. (en)
  • The motor ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean in a severe storm after being struck by a rogue wave. (en)
  • The cargo ship sprang a leak off Cape Engaño, Dominican Republic and was beached. She was declared a total loss. (en)
  • The vessel was destroyed by fire on the east coast of Crooked Island in the Kodiak Archipelago near Kodiak, Alaska. A Kodiak Western Airlines Grumman Goose flying boat rescued her entire crew of three. (en)
  • Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978: The pilot boat capsized and sank off Marblehead, Massachusetts, during a blizzard with the loss of all five people on board. She was refloated in 1981, repaired, and returned to service as a towing vessel with the name Grampus. (en)
  • The tug was severely damaged by fire. Declared a constructive total loss and consequently scrapped. (en)
  • The tourist boat capsized on Pomona Lake in Franklin County, Kansas, after a tornado hit her. Sixteen of the 58 people on board drowned. (en)
  • The cargo ship foundered off Lowestoft, Suffolk with the loss of seven crew. (en)
  • The crab-fishing vessel capsized and sank in Kachemak Bay off of Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska, with the loss of two lives. (en)
  • The oil rig, being towed on a barge, ran aground at Guernsey, Channel Islands, when the tow broke in a storm. Her crew were rescued by the St. Peter Port Lifeboat and Royal Navy helicopters. (en)
  • The destroyer was driven ashore on the coast of Brittany, France. A total of 233 crew were removed by a French coast guard helicopter. A French tug refloated the ship. (en)
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