MERCHANT SHIPS TOTALLY LOST, BROKEN UP, ETC.  1963

From Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Casualty Returns for the year ended 31st December, 1963.

This table does not include vessels condemned, broken up or taken out of service not consequent upon casualty.

Casualty Type Definition:

Lost – Ships total losses which for want of insufficient information, or for other reasons, cannot be classified

Missing – Ships posted as missing during the year

Wrecked – Ships lost through stranding, or striking rocks, sunken wrecks, etc.

Vessel Name	Build Year	Tons Gross	Flag	Description	Voyage or Service	Cargo	Casualty Type	Circumstances and Place	Date	Collision Other Vessel
Donan Maru	1946	2849	Japan	Motorship	Aparri to Nagoya	Lauan logs	Missing	Left Aparri 31st May and last reported 190 miles off Shionomisaki on 6th June	1963
Marine Sulphur Queen	1944	7240	United States of America	Steamship	Beaumont to Norfolk, Virginia	Molten Sulpher	Missing	Left Beaumont 2nd February and last reported 3rd February in lat. 26 40N., long. 88W.	1963
Vachic	1961	118	France	Motorship	Trawler		Missing	Left Concarneau for fsihing grounds 29th December and last reported 9th January in lat. 50 50N., long. 10 40W.	1963
Donald	1945	3950	Greece	Motorship	Ploce to Djakarta	Steel bars	Missing	Left Ploce 12th August and Suez 17th August and last reported by wireless 3,387 miles from Djakarta on 27th August.	1963
Laguna	1947	609	Brazil	Motorship	Imbituba to Rio de Janeiro	Manioc flour	Missing	Left Imbituba 11th December for Sao Sebastiao and Rio de Janeiro and last reported by radio telephone wehn off Paranagua on 12th December.	1963
Castillo Montjuich	1919	7072	Spain	Steamship	Boston to Bilbao	Grain	Missing	Left Boston 5th December for Corunna and Bilbao and last reported by wireless in lat. 43 12N., long. 34 20W. on 14th December.	1963
Creusa	1903	160	Italy	Wooden Auxillary Motorship	Arbatax to Savona	Timber	Missing	Left Arbatax 30th January for Savona and last reported off Porto Vecchio on 1st February.	1963
Igasa Maru	1944	889	Japan	Motorship	Maratsu to Aburatsu, Kyushu	Coal	Wrecked	Stranded and sank on Shirase Shoal, Saganoeki, Kyushu.	July 26, 1962
Ingerfem	1953	1963	Norway	Steamship	Hammerfall to Heroya	Dolomite	Wrecked	Stranded and sank near Langesund; subsequently refloated and broken up.	December 1, 1962
Stina B.	1937	249	West Germany	Motorship	Szczecin to Kolding	Coal	Collision	Sunk by collision with Pstrowski off Travemunde in dense fog.	December 13, 1962	Pstrowski
Mark Slavin	1945	9751	Panama	Tanker Twin Screw Motorship	Recife to Fortaleza	Petrol	Wrecked	Towed into Recife after stranding and sold for breaking up.	January 1, 1963
Barcelona	1943	1829	Panama	Steamship	Houston to Vancouver	Rice and canned fruit juice	Foundered	In lat. 8N., long 82 35W.	January 3, 1963
Akershus	1954	442	Norway	Motorship	Stavanger to Oslo	General	Collision	Sunk by collision with Norsk Skald outside Horten.	January 3, 1963	Norsk Skald
Aow Siam		300	Thailand		Kuala Trengganu to Singapore		Wrecked	On Pulau Labas Island, South China Sea, in monsoon.	January 5, 1963
Joao Diogo	1905	1452	Portugal	Steamship	Leixoes to Lisbon		Wrecked	N. of Peniche.	January 8, 1963
J. H. Fisher	1931	461	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Steamship			Collision	Sunk by collision with Esso Glasgow off Spurn Head in heavy eather.	January 12, 1963	Esso Glasgow
Marnipo	1943	7260	Lebanon	Steamship	Constantza to Alexandria	Sugar	Wrecked	Near Gelibolu, Dardanelles.	January 12, 1963
Derna	1930	996	Lebanon	Steamship			Wrecked	At Constantza.	January 13, 1963
Östanhav	1948	834	Sweden	Motorship	Kalmar to Gdynia	Wheat	Foundered	Capsized and sank 20 miles S. of Oland Island due to cargo shifting in heavy weather.	January 16, 1963
Yusho Maru	1943	842	Japan	Motorship	Otaru to Tsuruga	Sulphide Ore	Foundered	In lat. 42. 25 N., long 139 26W. due to Cargo shifting in heavy weather.	January 18, 1963
Vestanhav	1949	499	Sweden	Motorship	Malmo to Gdynia	Grain	Foundered	3 miles outside Gdansk in heavy weather	January 18, 1963
Inaha	1923	255	British Commonwealth (OCC)	Twin Screw Motorship			Foundered	15 miles off New Britain.	January 19, 1963
Kerolay	1948	205	France	Motorship	Trawler		Wrecked	On rocks 1 mile outside Lomener	January 19, 1963
Orizia	1943	7180	Italy	Steamship	Genoa to Houston	General	Wrecked	Outside Veracruz, in heavy weather	January 20, 1963
Adelfotis II	1929	3725	Lebanon	Steamship	Middlesbrough to Antwerp	Ballast	Wrecked	On Herd Sand, River Tyne.	January 20, 1963
Aghios Nicolaos	1921	988	Greece	Motorship	Laurium to Constantza	Ballast	Wrecked	Near Akhtopol, Bulgarian Black Sea coast, in heavy weather.	January 21, 1963
Levante	1930	944	Italy	Motorship	Tunis to Marseilles	General	Wrecked	N. of Arbatax, Sardinia, in heavy weather.	January 23, 1963
Junyo Maru	1941	672	Japan	Tanker Motorship			Wrecked	Stranded and sank at Susami Bay, Wakayama Pref., in heavy weather	January 24, 1963
Nicolaos Tsavliris	1944	7278	Greece	Steamship	Bougas to Piraeus	Ballast	Wrecked	At Kilyos in heavy seas.	January 25, 1963
Rhuys	1948	205	France	Motorship	Trawler		Collision	Sunk by collision with Ville De Nantes S.W. of Cape Finisterre.	January 26, 1963	Ville de Nantes
Nuestra Senora Del Carmen	1895	3482	Spain	Steamship		Coal	Wrecked	At Vallcarca in heavy weather.	January 27, 1963
Coruche	1948	1154	Portugal	Motorship		Drums of fuel oil & general	Fire	Burnt out at Bissao; subsequently towed to Lisbon and broken up.	January 29, 1963
Poppea	1955	110	Italy	Wooden Motorship	Ceuta to Anzio	Frozen fish	Wrecked	On rocks at Cabo Berberia, Formentera Island.	January 29, 1963
Tan	1921	2335	Turkey	Steamship	Zonguldak to Istanbul	Coal	Wrecked	On rocks at Elmas Burnu, entrance to Bosporus, in heavy seas.	January 29, 1963
Aiace Primo	1918	1579	Italy	Steamship	Monopoli to Constantza	Ballast	Wrecked	At Cape Shabla, near Varna.	January 30, 1963
Necton	1956	350	Netherlands	Motorship	Norwich to Rotterdam	Barley	Foundered	In lat. 52 5N., long. 3 48E.	January 31, 1963
Charlotte Donald	1945	309	France	Wooden Twin Screw Motorship	French Polynesian Islands	Copra and general	Wrecked	Struck reef and sank off Nuku-Hiva	January 31, 1963
Caplina	1953	793	Peru	Tanker Motorship	Callao to San Juan	Oil	Wrecked	10 miels S. of Callao after engine trouble.	January 31, 1963
Trysfjord	1928	167	Norway	Motorship			Wrecked	Stranded and sank outside Kragero, Norway.	February 2, 1963
Anita	1943	145	Netherlands	Wooden Twin Screw Motorship	For Curacao	Fruit and general	Foundered	In lat. 11 5N., long 68 10W.	February 3, 1963
Roumeli	1941	7111	Lebanon	Steamship			Wrecked	In Musel Bay.	February 3, 1963
Taiyo Maru No. 17	1946	303	Japan	Motorship	Trawler		Wrecked	Stranded and sank off Goto Islands, Japan.	February 4, 1963
H. C. Whiteman	1892	177	United States of America	Motorship	Tug		Collision	Sunk by collision with Washington Carrier in River Mississippi of New Orelans.	February 4, 1963	Washington Carrier
Achroite	1934	314	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Steamship			Wrecked	5 miles N.W. of Rosslare Lighthouse after breaking moorings in heavy weather.	February 5, 1963
Grietje	1949	296	Netherlands	Motorship	Garston to Douglas	Coal	Wrecked	On rocks S. of Douglas, I.O.M. (Isle of Man)	February 5, 1963
Johan Collett	1956	1995	Norway	Motorship	San Antioco to Ghent	Zinc Ore	Foundered	In lat. 49 39N., long. 3W. due to cargo shifting in heavy weather.	February 6, 1963
Anna Greta	1907	292	Sweden	Motorship	Visby to Oxelösund		Lost	Sprang leak in pack ice and sank in Baltic Sea	February 6, 1963
Prudence	1900	289	Commonwealth (Canada)	Steamship	Tug		Fire	Extensively damaged by fire at Erieau Docks, Ontario; subsequently sold and broken up.	February 9, 1963
Flachsee	1940	1335	West Germany	Twin Screw Motorship	Bremen to Cork	General	Collision	Sunk by collision with Canuk Trader N.E. of Varne Light-buoy.	February 11, 1963	Canuk Trader
Alca	1938	5483	Finland	Motorship	Antwerp to Jacksonville	Potash and sulphate	Collision	Sunk by collision with Avafoss in River Scheldt	February 12, 1963	Avafoss
Gudrun	1946	1707	Sweden	Steamship	Stockholm to Ellesmere Port	Woodpulp	Wrecked	At Sandhamn, outside Stockholm.	February 12, 1963
Berry Bretagne	1961	238	France	Motorship	Trawler		Wrecked	Struck rocks and sank off Torr Head in heavy weather.	February 14, 1963
W. J. Townsend	1944	289	United States of America	Wooden Motorship	New York to Charleston, South Carolina	Ballast	Wrecked	On reef off Oregon Inlet Light, North Carolina	February 16, 1963
Tensya Maru No. 2	1898	191	Japan	Motorship			Foundered	At entrance to Tokyo Bay.	February 17, 1963
Tau	1919	484	Brazil	Steamship	Natal to Vitoria	Salt	Wrecked	Off Brazilian coast between Porto Seguro and Porto Velho	February 18, 1963
Sierra Banderas	1961	671	Spain	Motorship	Requejada to Emden	Minerals	Wrecked	On bar at Requejada due to engine trouble.	February 19, 1963
Albatros	1913	118	Norway	Wooden Motorship	Fishing		Wrecked	At Kaagen, Nord Troms, Norway, in heavy weather.	February 20, 1963
O.K. Service IV	1937	143	Commonwealth (Canada)	Wooden Auxillary Motorship	La Have, Nova Scotia to Gonaives Bay, Haiti	Dynamite	Wrecked	On reef off Mayaguana Island, Bahamas	February 23, 1963
Egli	1921	1964	Greece	Motorship	Thessaloniki to Alexandria	Pyrites	Foundered	3 miles N.E. Psathoura Island, Aegean Sea.	February 26, 1963
Zipper	1943	263	British Commonwealth (OCC)	Wooden Twin Screw Motorship	British Guiana to Barbados	General	Foundered	100 miles off Georgetown, British Guiana	February 27, 1963
Electra	1924	1338	Greece	Steamship	Rouen to Molfetta	Scrap Iron	Wrecked	Off Finisterre.	February 28, 1963
Rosita K.	1930	1572	Greece	Steamship	Constantza to Marseilles	Maize	Wrecked	On rocks near Kunduz Dere, Turkish European Black Sea coast, in heavy weather.	March 1, 1963
Christian S.	1944	2884	Columbia	Steamship			Fire	Burnt out while under repair at Barranquilla and sold for beacking up.	March 4, 1963
Vepo	1943	184	Norway	Wooden Motorship			Collision	Sunk by collision with Agdenes outside Lensvik.	March 4, 1963	Agdenes
Seabank	1935	365	Irish Republic	Motorship	Dublin to Newport	Ballast	Wrecked	On Ardinary Beach, S. of Mizen Head, in heavy weather.	March 4, 1963
Ignacio Mercader	1951	211	Spain	Motorship	Trawler		Foundered	Sprang leak and sank outside Tangier.	March 5, 1963
Maroui	1944	294	Commonwealth (Canada)	Wooden Twin Screw Motorship			Fire	Caught fire and sank while icebound at Caspe, Canada.	March 5, 1963
Maneah	1936	2676	France	Motorship	Las Palmas to Buenos Aires	Ballast	Wrecked	On rocks at Boavista Island, Cape Verde Islands	March 7, 1963
Ariston	1937	1077	Norway	Steamship	Ventspils to Ghent	Potash	Fire	Caught fire while icebound off Stubbekobing, subsequently arrived Masnedsund and sold for breaking up.	March 9, 1963
Fiducia	1939	228	Netherlands	Motorship	Amsterdam to Middelharnis	Ballast	Wrecked	On rocks outside Nieuwe Water-weg.	March 13, 1963
Silver Valley	1944	7161	Liberia	Steamship	Rijeka to Leixoes	Fertiliser	Wrecked	Outside Oporto.	March 15, 1963
Agios Nektarios	1944	410	Greece	Motorship	Piraeus to Trieste	Cotton	Fire	Caught fire and sank outside Patras.	March 18, 1963
Protoklitos	1943	7230	Liberia	Steamship	Bremerhaven to China	Fertiliser	Wrecked	Stranded Berlenga Island; refloated but sank 5 miles off Cabo da Roca while under tow.	March 18, 1963
Tagus	1938	1109	Portugal	Motorship	Lourenco Marques to Beira	Petroleum products	Fire	Caught fire after explosion and sank outside Inhambane.	March 19, 1963
Sao Silverio	1921	685	Portugal	Motorship	Vianna to Villagarcia		Wrecked	On Salvora Island outside Vigo.	March 19, 1963
Höegh Aronde	1945	3884	Norway	Motorship	Sassandra to Valencia	Phosphate and logs	Foundered	60 miles W. of Essaouira in heavy weather.	March 21, 1963
Linavea	1945	190	Spain	Wooden Steamship	Trawler		Wrecked	Stranded and sank off Cabo Moras, N.W. Spain, in heavy weather.	March 23, 1963
Northgate	1941	429	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Motorship	Caen to Flixborough	Iron ore	Foundered	Sprang leak and sank outside Havre.	March 24, 1963
Ingeborg	1924	291	West Germany	Motorship	Hamburg to Lysekil	Herring meal	Wrecked	At Graadyb, Esbjerg Channel in dense fog.	March 25, 1963
Akti	1936	1775	Greece	Motorship	Dijibouti to Rotterdam	Copra	Fire	Caught fire and sank at Bougie	March 27, 1963
Polurrian	1948	339	British Commonwealth (OCC)	Motorship	Sohana to Rabaul	Copra and cocoa	Foundered	Capsized and sank 10 miles W. of Buka Passage.	March 28, 1963
Valor	1943	6872	Panama	Steamship	Korea		Wrecked	On rocks near Mukho	March 28, 1963
National Glory	1920	1350	Panama	Steamship	Brunei to Hong Kong	General	Fire	Caught fire after explosion and sank in lat. 18 25N., long. 113 32E.	March 31, 1963
Hai Ziang	1962	3800	China (Nationalists)	Motorship	Yokohama to Kaohsiung	Steel plates and general	Foundered	Sank in Lat 25 10N., Long. 122 10E due to chargo shifting in heavy weather	April 1, 1963
Bulwark	1920	1374	South Africa	Steamship	Cape Town to Durban	General	Wrecked	At Danger Point, Cape Agulhas in dense fog.	April 1, 1963
Susanna	1918	849	Greece	Motorship	Itea to Black Sea	Olives	Wrecked	Stranded in lat. 45 50 1N., long. 30 18E.; subsequently refloated, towed to Odessa and condemned.	April 2, 1963
Air Plover	1942	126	British Commonwealth (OCC)	Wooden Twin Screw Motorship			Wrecked	On reef outside Jobos Bay, Puerto Rico	April 3, 1963
Estrella	1926	3410	Panama	Steamship	Ilichevsk to Taranto	Coal	Wrecked	2 miles E. of Sile Lighthouse, Black Sea.	April 3, 1963
Brittany	1952	16644	Greece	Twin Screw Steamship			Fire	Burnt out while undergoing repairs at Skaramanga, Greece	April 8, 1963
Kirkley	1946	115	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Wooden Motorship	Trawler		Wrecked	E. of N.W. Scroby Buoy, Great Yarmouth	April 8, 1963
Tokai Maru No. 11	1945	932	Japan	Motorship			Wrecked	At Ohama Saki, near Aomori, in heavy weather.	April 8, 1963
Sulan	1902	127	Iceland	Wood Motorship	Fishing		Foundered	Capsized and sank off S.W. Iceland	April 10, 1963
Tourliani	1927	2758	Lebanon	Steamship	Valona to Gdynia	Asphalt in drums	Wrecked	Suffered extensive damage when stranding near Landskrona. Completed voyage and declared a constructive total loss after survey; to be broken up.	April 12, 1963
Arctic Sealer	1944	749	British Commonwealth (OCC)	Wood Motorship			Foundered	Sprang leak and sank off Canada Bay	April 15, 1963
Petronap	1943	2347	Panama	Motorship			Fire	Burnt out at San Lorenzo Island while awaiting repair.	April 20, 1963
Columbus	1927	184	Netherlands	Motorship	Liege to Halmstad	Iron	Foundered	Off Hook of Holland.	April 21, 1963
Bernieres	1942	7278	France	Steamship		Timber	Wrecked	Stranded alongside east jetty of Vridi Canal, Abidjan; subsequently refloated, towed to Rotterdam and broken up	April 21, 1963
Helga Smith	1945	2089	Greece	Motorship	Montreal to Kristiansand S.		Foundered	Sprang leak in engine room; taken in tow but sank off Cape Broyle, Newfoundland	April 23, 1963
Marie Stone	1946	109	Commonwealth (Canada)	Wooden Auxiliary Twin Screw Motorship			Fire	Caught fire and sank at Broad Cove, Placentia Bay	April 23, 1963
Cato	1946	939	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Motorship			Collision	Sunk by Collision with City of Brooklyn in Avonmouth Docks; subsequently raised and broken up.	April 24, 1963	City of Brooklyn
Siderurgica Oito	1948	5438	Brazil	Steamship	Imbituba to Vitoria	General	Wrecked	On rocks outside Imbituba	April 25, 1963
Santirso	1920	847	Spain	Steamship	La Laja to Bordeaux	Iron pyrites	Collision	Sunk by collision with Spolanda 20 miles off Cape St. Vincent.	April 26, 1963	Spolanda
Vivian	1945	7608	United States of America	Steamship	Chittagong to Yokohama	Ballast	Lost	Engine room wrecked when propeller and shaft were lost in Lat. 10 48N., long. 95 48E., towed to Singapore, condemned, and sold for breaking up.	April 28, 1963
Lucy Elena	1947	288	Panama	Motorship	Fishing		Foundered	Off Mancora	April 29, 1963
Valö I	1886	110	Sweden	Wooden Auxillary Motorship			Lost	Struck iceberg and sank off S.E. Greenland	April 29, 1963
Aghios Georgios II	1916	1653	Lebanon	Steamship	Kenitra to Granton	Esparto grass	Fire	Caught fire and stranded in Pevensey Bay; subsequently refloated and broken up.	April 30, 1963
Flora A.	1936	1218	Lebanon	Twin Screw Steamship	Arzew to Granton	Esparto grass	Fire	Caught fire in lat. 39 48W., long. 8 50W., towed to Vigo and condemned.	May 1, 1963
Transcaribbean	1945	760	United States of America	Steamship	New York to Bermuda	General	Wrecked	On rocks outside San Juan, Puerto Rico	May 1, 1963
Yuejin	1959	11482	China Republic	Steamship	Tsingtao to Moji	Maize and minerals	Wrecked	Struck rocks and sank off S. Korea	May 1, 1963
Madrid	1922	1057	Panama	Steamship	Puerto Cortes to San Juan, Puerto Rico	Lumber	Foundered	Sprang leak and sank S. of Santo Domingo	May 2, 1963
Randi Brövig	1949	3130	Norway	Motorship	Rotterdam to Santos	Ballast	Fire	Sunk by explosion in refrigerating machinery in lat. 17 28S., long. 37 49W.	May 7, 1963
Pinta	1959	500	Netherlands	Motorship	Port Limon to New York	Lumber	Collision	Sunk by collision with City of Perth in lat. 40 13 8N., long. 73 50 1W.	May 7, 1963	City of Perth
Strandsund	1963	200	Norway	Motorship	Kragero to Slemmestad	Heavy sand	Foundered	Capsized and sank at Rakke, near Larvik	May 8, 1963
Nordenham	1956	662	West Germany	Motorship	Riga to Rouen	Coal	Collision	Sunk by collision with Rhone at mouth of River Weser in dense fog.	May 10, 1963	Rhone
Rene Michel	1950	120	France	Wood Motorship	La Pallice to Tangier	Machine Tools	Foundered	In Lat. 41 54N., Long. 9 59W.	May 12, 1963
Puerto De Castellon	1961	678	Spain	Motorship	Casablanca to Hamburg	General	Collision	Sunk by collision with Bruce M. in lat. 49 28N., long. 3 19W. in dense fog.	May 20, 1963	Bruce M.
Mparmpapetros	1944	7070	Lebanon	Steamship	Buenos Aires to Naples	Grain	Wrecked	On reefs at Porto de Pedras, 40 miles N. of Maceio	May 23, 1963
Kattegat	1932	242	Netherlands	Motorship	Ymuiden to Helsingborg	Saltpetre	Collision	Sunk by collision with Wilke off Gedser Rev Lightship in dense fog.	May 26, 1963	Wilke
Alkimos	1943	7037	Greece	Steamship			Wrecked	On rocks 31 miles N. of Fremantle after breaking tow in heavy weather	May 31, 1963
Evanghelistria	1949	121	Greece	Wooden Auxillary Motorship			Wrecked	Struck reef and sank off Zante Island.	June 1, 1963
Beg-Meil	1963	256	France	Motorship	Fishing		Foundered	Off Conakry in heavy weather.	June 4, 1963
Thomas A.	1937	1113	Greece	Steamship	Galatz to Liverpool	Timber	Fire	Burnt out and beached near Scalambri	June 4, 1963
Kaiko Maru No. 28	1960	540	Japan	Motorship	Fishing		Collision	Sunk by collision with Fina Italia 30 miles from San Juan, Puerto Rico	June 4, 1963	Fina Italia
Kaptanpantelis	1938	5199	Lebanon	Motorship	Calcutta to Rijeka	Ore	Wrecked	On Fialdu, Maldive Islands	June 4, 1963
Elisabeth	1920	179	Sweden	Wooden Auxillary Motorship	Warnemunde to Ronne		Fire	Caught fire off Rostock; towed into port and condemned.	June 4, 1963
Seekonk	1944	1136	Commonwealth (Canada)	Oil Tanker Motorship			Fire	Burnt out at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island	June 7, 1963
Inger Skou	1954	4430	Denmark	Motorship	Rosario to Callao	Cattle	Wrecked	Struck rock and sank in Messier Channel, S. Chile. in dense fog.	June 10, 1963
Carmen	1930	4240	Panama	Steamship	Takoradi to Burntisland	Bauxite	Collision	Sunk by collision with Sadikzade 8 miles E. of South Foreland	June 13, 1963	Sadikzade
Agios Ioannis	1943	7238	Greece	Steamship	San Francisco to Japan	Scrap iron	Wrecked	Outside Ohara, Chiba Prefecture, in fog.	June 13, 1963
Gianni Zeta	1957	1594	Italian	Motorship	Casablanca to Sete	Phosphate	Collision	Sunk by collision with Fosna in lat. 36 8N., long. 4 43W. in desnse fog.	June 19, 1963	Fosna
Tensho Maru	1960	160	Japan	Tanker Motorship			Wrecked	Off Joga Shima, Japan, in dense fog.	June 20, 1963
Southern Sea	1962	240	Philippines	Motorship	For Manila	Galvanised sheets and generators	Collision	Sunk by collision with Stapper off Tagubanhan Island N. of Negros.	June 24, 1963	Stapper
München	1961	941	West Germany	Motorship	Trawler		Foundered	Off western Greenland in heavy weather.	June 25, 1963
Fleurus	1926	1103	Panama	Motorship			Fire	Caught fire and sank at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia	June 26, 1963
Fukusho Maru	1949	342	Japan	Motorship			Collision	Sunk by collision with Kenryu Maru in Ise Bay, Japan	June 26, 1963	Kenryu Maru
Algarrobo	1915	3289	Chile	Steamship		Coal	Wrecked	On rocks alongside Baron Mole, Valparaiso, in heavy weather.	June 26, 1963
Taihei Maru	1960	425	Japan	Motorship			Collision	Sunk by collision with Unzen Maru at Kinkazan, Japan, in fog.	June 27, 1963	Unzen Maru
Naguilan	1955	4710	Chile	Motorship			Wrecked	In Valparaiso Bay.	June 27, 1963
Othelius Nilsen	1960	247	Norway	Motorship	Fishing		Foundered	Capsized and sank off Kinarodden, Nordkynhalvoya, due to cargo shifting in heavy weather.	July 1, 1963
Paloma	1920	1743	Panama	Twin Screw Motorship	Split to Port Sudan	Cement	Fire	Caught fire in lat. 21 28N., long. 37 26E.; towed to Port Sudan and sold for break up.	July 1, 1963
Havre-Aubert	1946	197	Commonwealth (Canada)	Wooden Motorship		General	Fire	Burnt out at Gaspe.	July 2, 1963
Netty	1939	250	Netherlands	Motorship	Amsterdam to St. Helier	Grain	Collision	Sunk by collision with Fina Canada off Sandettie.	July 2, 1963	Fina Canada
Caribbean Trader	1943	2861	Liberia	Steamship	Coatzacoalcos to Tampa	Ballast	Wrecked	On reef 68 miles N. of Progreso, Mexico.	July 6, 1963
Patrician	1947	3604	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Steamship	Constantza to Glasgow	General	Collision	Sunk by collision with Santa Emilia off Tarifa, Straits of Gibraltar in dense fog.	July 8, 1963	Santa Emilia
Kofuku Maru No. 3	1959	225	Japan	Motorship			Foundered	Near Genkai Island, Fukuoka Prefecture, in heavy weather.	July 9, 1963
Ciudad Del Salto	1928	1922	Uruguay	Twin Screw Motorship	Antonina to Montevideo	Yerba mate	Wrecked	Stranded and sank off Cabo Polonio.	July 10, 1963
Ciudad De Asuncion	1930	2330	Argentina	Triple Screw Motorship	Montevideo to Buenos Aires	Passengers	Fire	Caught fire and sank in River Plate	July 11, 1963
Wesleyville	1946	149	Commonwealth (Canada)	Wooden Twin Screw Motorship			Fire	Caught fire and sank at Catalina, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland.	July 15, 1963
Trebisnjica	1943	7145	Yugoslavia	Steamship	Naples to Havana	Ballast	Wrecked	On Hogsty Reef, N. of Cabo Maysi.	July 17, 1963
Tritonica	1956	12863	British Commonwealth (OCC)	Motorship	Havre St. Pierre to Sorel	Titanium ore	Collision	Sunk by collision with Roonagh Head in River St. Lawrence in dense fog.	July 20, 1963	Roonagh Head
Pax	1958	499	West Germany	Motorship	Mo-i-Rana to West Germany	Iron	Foundered	Off Ytterholmen Lighthouse, S.W. of Sandnessjoen.	July 21, 1963
Kyokuyo Maru No. 5	1942	419	Japan	Motorship			Foundered	At Kashiwajima, Kochi Prefecture in heavy weather.	July 21, 1963
Vinodol	1956	177	Yugoslavia	Wooden Motorship	Rasa to Torviscosa	Coal	Collision	Sunk by collision with Banshu Maru No. 2 4 miles W. of Brioni Island	July 23, 1963	Banshu Maru No. 2
Maasym-N.	1952	496	Netherlands	Motorship	Teignmouth to Spezia	China clay	Wrecked	Stranded and sank off Cabo Burela, northern Spain, in fog.	July 23, 1963
Blikur	1956	500	Faroe Islands	Motorship	Facringehavn to Eggers O	Oil and fishing equipment	Lost	Sunk by ice off W. Greenland.	July 24, 1963
Mazurek	1955	183	Poland	Motorship	Fishing		Foundered	Capsized and sank 11 miles N. of Hanstholm.	July 26, 1963
No. 15 Kyung In		412	South Korea	Motorship	Moji to Inchon	Ammonium nitrate and Nitric acid	Fire	Exploded and sank in Korea Strait.	July 27, 1963
Ilona	1961	250	West Germany	Motorship	Amsterdam to Westerhafen	Coke	Collision	Sunk by collision with Kalmarsund XI off Terschellinger Bank Lightship	July 27, 1963	Kalmarsund XI
Kastela	1943	7261	Yugoslavia	Steamship	Churchill to United Kingdom	Grain	Lost	Sunk by ice in Hudson Strait.	August 3, 1963
Kilstraum	1890	172	Norway	Motorship			Foundered	Sprang leak and sank off Iceland	August 5, 1963
Maria Isabel Alonso	1949	278	Spain	Motorship	Trawler		Wrecked	Stranded and sank near Scatari Island.	August 7, 1963
Wairangi	1942	12829	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Twin Screw Motorship	Rio Grande to Stockholm	Coffee and oranges	Wrecked	Stranded at Klovholmen, Stockholm Archipelago; subsequently refloated and sold for breaking up.	August 14, 1963
Shintatsu Maru	1959	441	Japan	Motorship			Wrecked	At Kinkazan in fog.	August 15, 1963
Viriato	1944	594	Portugal	Wooden Auxillary Motorship	Fishing		Fire	Caught fire and sank 2 miles off Graciosa Island.	August 23, 1963
Styrfjell	1943	176	Norway	Wooden Motorship		Artificial manure	Foundered	Sprang leak and sank near Stad.	August 28, 1963
Skyros	1947	3923	Greece	Twin Screw Motorship	Buenos Aires to Piraeus	Frozen meat	Fire	Caught fire off Brazilian coast, beached in lat. 12 10S., long. 37 44W. and burnt out.	August 28, 1963
Laxö	1948	149	Finland	Wooden Motorship			Wrecked	Stranded and sank outside Pörtö, Gulf of Finland.	September 4, 1963
Aguila De Oro	1877	221	Spain	Composite Steamship	Teneriffe to Huelva	Asphalt in drums	Wrecked	On Huelva Bar.	September 6, 1963
Victoria	1934	405	Greece	Tanker Twin Screw Motorship	Piraeus to Amfilochia	Kerosene	Foundered	Off Derveni, Gulf of Corinth.	September 7, 1963
Flushing	1937	129	United States of America	Motorship	Tug		Foundered	Capsized and sank near Hell Gate, NewYork, while towing barge down river.	September 7, 1963
Tinganes	1920	326	Faroe Islands	Wooden Auxillary Motorship	Fishing		Wrecked	Struck submerged rock and sank off Cape Farewell, Greenland.	September 8, 1963
Alacrity	1940	554	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Motorship	Swanse to Brussels	Anthracite	Wrecked	At Portheras Cove, Pendeen, in dense fog.	September 13, 1963
Paul Gufflet	1947	101	Congo Republic	Motorship	Trawler		Wrecked	135 miles N.W. of Pointe Noire.	September 13, 1963
Newfoundland Cruiser	1925	567	Commonwealth (Canada)	Motorship	Montreal to Cape Dorset, Baffin Island	Diesel oil and gasoline in barrels	Wrecked	On rocks at Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, in heavy weather.	September 15, 1963
Aberdeen City	1957	264	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Motorship	Trawler		Wrecked	At Start Point, Orkney Isles.	September 16, 1963
Jezreel	1930	4750	Panama	Twin Screw Motorship	Misumi to Pusan	Coal, steel and general	Wrecked	In lat. 32 34N., long. 130 6E.	September 16, 1963
Beltana	1937	3125	Commonwealth (Australia)	Steamship	Fremantle to Melbourne	Steel and general	Wrecked	Stranded on Corsair Rock; refloated and sold for breaking up.	September 16, 1963
Vanguard	1962	499	Netherlands	Motorship	Antwerp to Hull	General	Collision	Sunk by collision with Mary K. 8 miles off Great Yarmouth in fog.	September 17, 1963	Mary K.
Gefion	1962	143	Finland	Wooden Auxillary Motorship	For Ornskoldsvik		Foundered	Sprang leak and sank in Gulf of Bothnia	September 18, 1963
Dzierzynski	1939	12636	Poland	Twin Screw Motorship	Shanghai to Gdynia	General	Wrecked	Suffered severe damage through striking pier between Kruisschans and Baudouin; condemned and sold for breaking up.	September 19, 1963
Holmbank	1948	515	British Commonwealth (OCC)	Motorship	Timaru to Wellington	General	Wrecked	Stranded and sank near Peraki, Banks Peninsula	September 20, 1963
Roland	1916	249	West Germany	Motorship	Ronne to Kiel	Stones	Collision	Sunk by collision with Rio Quequen in lat. 54 25 48N., long. 11 47 42E.	September 24, 1963	Rio Quequen
Yokohama Maru	1944	981	Japan	Twin Screw Motorship			Foundered	Sprang leak 26 miles from Keelung; taken in tow but sank in lat. 25 13N., long. 122 13E.	September 27, 1963
Bahia De Nuestra Senora	1958	327	Spain	Motorship	Trawler		Collision	Sunk by collision with Rythme in lat. 44N., long. 51 30W.	September 30, 1963	Rythme
Norma	1934	397	Brazil	Motorship	Macau to Santos	Salt	Wrecked	12 miles N. of Pirambu, near Aracaju.	September 30, 1963
Humbergate	1960	200	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Motorship	Porthoustock to Bristol	Stone	Foundered	7 miles W. of Trevose Head due to cargo shifting.	October 2, 1963
Ronda	1948	4608	Norway	Motorship		Coal and general	Collision	Sunk by collision with Lucile Bloomfield in Havre in rain and fog.	October 2, 1963	Lucile Bloomfield
Aramar	1903	1344	Brazil	Twin Screw Motorship		Coffee	Wrecked	On reef 8 miles N. of Tamandare.	October 3, 1963
Giuseppe Emilio	1909	1851	Italy	Steamship	Zhdanov to Venice	Coal	Collision	Sunk by collision with Braila in Sea of Marmara in fog.	October 4, 1963	Braila
Alfonso Calvino	1948	169	Spain	Wooden Steamship	Trawler		Wrecked	Condemned after stranding near Marin.	October 5, 1963
Maine	1947	4513	France	Motorship	Libreville to Dakar	Timber	Wrecked	3 miles W. of Tabou, Ivory Coast.	October 8, 1963
Hoko Maru No. 32	1958	240	Japan	Motorship	Fishing		Foundered	In lat. 31 27N., long. 132 2E. in heavy weather.	October 9, 1963
Sörvaer	1946	141	Norway	Wooden Motorship	Fishing		Fire	Burnt out at Tromso.	October 9, 1963
Vauquelin	1944	219	Commonwealth (Canada)	Wooden Motorship	Quebec to Forestville	Ballast	Fire	Caught fire and sank near Cape Dogs, River St. Lawrence.	October 10, 1963
Taishin Maru No. 1	1948	153	Japan	Motorship			Wrecked	On Suito Island, Okinawa	October 11, 1963
Rio Amadorio	1944	137	Spain	Wooden Auxillary Motorship	Fishing		Foundered	Sprang leak and sank off coast of Spanish Sahara.	October 13, 1963
Marianne Wehr	1957	499	West Germany	Motorship	Flixborough to Lubeck	Stones	Foundered	Off Elbe lightship in heavy weather.	October 14, 1963
Manticos	1945	3549	Lebanon	Steamship	Libreville to East Mediterranean	Logs	Wrecked	Stranded and sank in lat. 11, 10N., long. 16 29W.	October 14, 1963
Bahama Islander	1944	110	British Commonwealth (OCC)	Wooden Twin Screw Motorship	Nassau to Cat Island, Bahamas	Survey equipment	Wrecked	On reef off Eleuthera.	October 14, 1963
Koshi Maru	1962	830	Japan	Motorship	Marcus Island to Japan	Scrap	Foundered	Capsized and sank in approxiamtely lat. 28N., long. 151 10E. in typhoon.	October 17, 1963
Northern Spray	1936	620	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Steamship	Trawler		Wrecked	On N.W. coast of Iceland in heavy weather.	October 23, 1963
Alcedo	1918	276	Spain	Steamship	Trawler		Wrecked	Near Santander.	October 23, 1963
Juan Ferrer	1960	682	Spain	Motorship	Bilbao to Liverpool	General	Wrecked	On rocks near Mount's Bay, Land's End.	October 23, 1963
Aghios Marcos	1943	272	Greece	Tanker Motorship			Wrecked	On rocks St. Andrew's Bay, outside Beirut.	October 24, 1963
Hai Fu	1945	7650	China Nationalist	Steamship	Houston to Kaohsiung	General	Wrecked	Stranded on reef off S. coast of Oahu Island; refloated and subsequently condemned.	October 26, 1963
Agnes	1901	192	Sweden	Wooden Auxillary Motorship		Deals, battens and boards	Lost	Reported lost.	October 26, 1963
Actuality	1945	945	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Motorship	Amble to Yelland	Coal	Collision	Sunk by collision with Betty Anne-8 12 miles from Dungeness lighthouse in fog.	October 27, 1963	Betty Anne 8
Iciar	1922	4684	Spain	Steamship	Immingham to Bilbao	Coal	Wrecked	Outside Bilbao in fog.	October 28, 1963
Belisco	1944	2201	Brazil	Twin Screw Motorship	Santos to Rio Grande	Ballast	Wrecked	16 miles S. of Cidreira Lighthouse, Rio Grande.	October 29, 1963
San Juan De Nepomuceno	1939	400	Spain	Motorship	Fuerteventura to Teneriffe	General	Foundered	Sprang leak and sank 15 miles from Punta Abona, Teneriffe.	October 31, 1963
Vlieland	1952	282	Netherlands	Motorship	London to Paris	Whisky and general	Collision	Sunk by collision with Kalmarsund XI off Havre.	October 31, 1963	Kalmarsund XI
Pauline C. Winters	1923	140	Commonwealth (Canada)	Wooden Auxillary Twin Screw Motorship	Newfoundland to Riverport, Novia Scotia	Codfish	Foundered	Sprang leak and sank 2 miles W. of Boat harbour, Strait of Belle Isle.	November 1, 1963
Itapema	1948	291	Brazil	Motorship			Fire	Caught fire and sank at Mucuripe.	November 2, 1963
Fuku Maru No. 7	1962	239	Japan	Motorship	Fishing		Wrecked	On Middleton Reef, 300 miles from coast of Australia	November 2, 1963
Lord Stanhope	1935	448	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Steamship	Trawler		Wrecked	At Ingolfshofdhi, S. coast of Iceland.	November 7, 1963
Kimolos	1931	481	Greece	Motorship	Sunderland to Leningrad	Ballast	Foundered	Off Dago Island.	November 8, 1963
Lys Immatricule	1958	113	France	Wooden Motorship	Fishing		Wrecked	Stranded and sank N. of Ile de Groix.	November 11, 1963
Star 30	1940	142	British Commonwealth (OCC)	Motorship			Foundered	Sprang leak and sank 40 miles off Miami.	November 14, 1963
Dynafuel	1946	3100	United States of America	Tanker Motorship	Newington, New Hampshire to Newark, New Jersey	Ballast	Collision	Sunk by collision with Fernview in Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod.	November 14, 1963	Fernview
Inagua Foam	1945	3141	Liberia	Twin Screw Motorship	Puerto Deseado to Houston		Wrecked	Stranded and sank near Manaus, River Amazon.	November 14, 1963
Thor	1914	149	Sweden	Wooden Auxillary Motorship			Foundered	Near Lavon.	November 17, 1963
Eiyo Maru	1948	895	Japan	Motorship	Wakamatsu		Collision	Sunk by collision with unknown ship at Moji; subsequently raised and broken up.	November 17, 1963
WM. H. McAllister	1943	140	United States of America	Motorship	Tug		Wrecked	Struck Schuyler Reef and sank in Lake Champlain near Port Douglass.	November 17, 1963
Deutgan	1940	211	France	Motorship		Copra and general	Wrecked	South Malekula in heavy weather.	November 18, 1963
Thessaloniki	1929	2231	Greece	Tanker Motorship	Thessaloniki to Piraeus	Ballast	Wrecked	Stranded and sank 10 miles N.W. of Port Kumi, Euboea Island.	November 22, 1963
Trezic	1963	148	France	Wooden Motorship	Lobster fishing		Wrecked	On rocks outside Porto Grande.	November 24, 1963
Snurp III	1943	126	Norway	Wooden Motorship	Fishing		Collision	Sunk by collision with unknown ship in Vigrafjorden, N. of Aalesund.	November 25, 1963
Saphir	1963	151	France	Motorship	Trawler		Foundered	Capsized in heavy weather; taken in tow but sank N.W. of Brest.	November 26, 1963
Martin Bakke	1936	5484	Norway	Motorship	Valparaiso to Copenhagen	Nitrate and general	Wrecked	Stranded in River Scheldt in dense fog; subsequently refloated and sold for breaking up.	November 30, 1963
Bharatveer	1943	7274	Commonwealth (India)	Steamship	Calcutta to Cuddalore	Coal and crude oil	Wrecked	Suffered heavy damage when driven ashore in cyclone; subsequently gutted by fire and sold for breaking up.	December 6, 1963
C. Trader	1944	2392	United States of America	Motorship	Willapa to Astoria	Timber	Wrecked	Stranded and sank at entrance to Columbia River	December 6, 1963
Ingeborg	1931	300	West Germany	Motorship	Par to Rauma	China clay	Collision	Sunk by collision with Manchuria in River Elbe.	December 7, 1963	Manchuria
Hans Boye	1918	282	Denmark	Motorship	Torshavn to Ventspils	Herring in barrels	Foundered	Sprang leak and sank N. of Ventspils in heav weather.	December 8, 1963
Kamei Maru	1961	998	Japan	Motorship		Sulphide ore	Foundered	Capsized and sank in Tsugaru Strait due to cargo shifting in heavy weather.	December 8, 1963
Fort Albany	1942	617	Commonwealth (Canada)	Twin Screw Motorship	Montreal to Seven Islands	Calcium	Collision	Sunk by collision with Procyon in River St. Lawrence, 54 miles from Montreal	December 8, 1963	Procyon
Sainte Adresse	1942	943	Commonwealth (Canada)	Motorship	Montreal to Seven Islands	General	Wrecked	Near Escoumins.	December 9, 1963
Elizabeth Cooper	1937	227	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Motorship	Hopper Barge	Sand	Collision	Sunk by collision with Mancunium in Manchester Ship Canal; subsequently refloated and sold for breaking up.	December 10, 1963	Mancunium
Kohyo Maru No. 12	1946	146	Japan	Motorship	Fishing		Wrecked	Stranded and sank in lat. 33 51N., long. 139 37E.	December 11, 1963
Madinina	1945	318	British Commonwealth (OCC)	Twin Screw Motorship	Trinidad to Martinique	Cement	Foundered	12 miles N.W. of St. Vincent, West Indies	December 13, 1963
Jonetta	1957	499	Norway	Motorship	Stavanger to Tromso	Concrete building materials	Foundered	N. of Halten lighthouse in heavy weather.	December 13, 1963
Regina	1857	246	Finland	Iron Motorship	Vasklot to Stockholm	Timber	Wrecked	At Ronnskar, Vaasa Archipelago.	December 17, 1963
Consul Horn	1957	452	West Germany	Motorship	Haifa to Freetown	Ballast	Wrecked	Near Cape Juby	December 18, 1963
Mary Pauline	1920	175	Commonwealth (Canada)	Wooden Twin Screw Motorship	Sydney, Nova Scotia to Grand Bank	Coal	Wrecked	On sand bar at Miquelon St. Pierre.	December 19, 1963
Corfu Island	1943	7075	Lebanon	Steamship	Wismar to Canada	Ballast	Wrecked	Near Grindstone light, Magdalen Islands.	December 20, 1963
Douala	1957	2333	France	Motorship	Montreal to Bordeaux		Foundered	Off Newfoundland in heavy weather.	December 21, 1963
Quibian	1930	731	Panama	Twin Screw Steamship			Foundered	In Colon bay, C.Z.	December 21, 1963
Lakonia	1930	20314	Greece	Twin Screw Motorship	Cruise	Passengers	Fire	Caught fire in lat. 35N., long. 15 15W.; taken in tow but sank 250 miles W. of Gibraltar.	December 22, 1963
Itza	1946	393	Mexico	Motorship		Salt	Foundered	Broke in two and sank at Roca Partida, near Alvarado in heavy weather.	December 23, 1963
Emerance	1963	157	France	Motorship	Trawler		Wrecked	Stranded and sank at Slyne Head.	December 23, 1963
Amazon	1944	7281	Greece	Steamship	Venice to Buenos Aires		Wrecked	Stranded near Cap Bon; subsequently reflaoted and sold for breaking up.	December 24, 1963
Eisho Maru	1956	495	Japan	Motorship			Collision	Sunk by collision with Tensya Maru No. 10 off Choshi.	December 25, 1963	Tensya Maru No. 10
Stancrown	1956	8002	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Motorship	Halifax to Klaipeda	Wheat	Wrecked	Stranded off Klaipeda; subsequently refloated and condemned.	December 25, 1963
Eddycreek	1953	2224	Great Britain and Northern Ireland	Steamship	Naples to Genoa		Wrecked	Stranded E. of Capraia Island in gale; subsequently refloated and sold for breaking up.	December 25, 1963
Capitaine Louis Malbert	1951	4261	France	Steamship	Hartlepool to Aarhus	Coal	Collision	Sunk by collision with Rosborg in Kattegat in dense fog.	December 30, 1963	Rosborg