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Over 200 fatalities
Deaths Italics indicate an estimated figure |
Event | Year | Notes |
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3,500,000 | Black Death pandemic | 1347–1350 | See discussion of death toll estimates at Black Death in England#Death toll. |
1,000,000[1] to 1,500,000 | Great Irish Famine | 1845–1849 | See discussion of death toll estimates at Great Famine (Ireland)#Death toll. |
225,000 | Spanish flu pandemic | 1918 (Sep–Nov) | |
100,000 | Great Irish Famine (18th century) | 1740–1741 | |
65,000 | Year Without a Summer | 1816 | Famine and typhoid fever in Ireland[2] and food riots in England and France, caused by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora affecting the weather. |
60,000 | Great Plague of London | 1665 | |
20,000 [3] | Laki volcano fissure eruption | 1783–1784 (Jun–Feb) | |
8,000 | Great Storm of 1703 | 1703 (26 November) | |
5,000+ | Great Famine (14th century) | 1315–1317 | |
4,000 to 12,000 | "The Great Smog", London | 1952 (December) | |
4,000+ | Blockade of Porto Bello | 1726–1727 | Deaths resulting from yellow fever. |
3,500+ | 1782 Central Atlantic hurricane | 1782 (16–17 Sep) | Loss of HMS Ramillies, HMS Centaur; storeships Dutton and British Queen; captured French prize ships Ville de Paris, Glorieux, Hector and Caton; plus other merchantmen. |
3,000 | 1212 Great Fire of London | 1212 (July) | Source for fatalities is the Guinness Book of Records,[4] but historical evidence unclear. |
2,400+ | Tainted blood scandal | 1970s–1980s (deaths up to decades later)[5] | . |
2,139 [6] | 2003 European heat wave | 2003 (4–13 August) | |
2,000 | Bristol Channel floods | 1607 (30 January)[7] | |
2,000 | Sweating sickness (sudor anglicus) | 1485 ff. | |
1,900+ | Christmas Eve storm | 1811 (24 December) | Wrecks HMS St George, HMS Defence and HMS Fancy off Thorsminde, Jutland; and HMS Hero and HMS Archimedes off Texel, Netherlands. |
1,550+ | Scilly naval disaster | 1707 (22 October) | HMS Association, HMS Eagle, HMS Romney and HMS Firebrand. |
1,517 | RMS Titanic | 1912 (15 April) | US Senate inquiry gave 1,517 fatalities.[8] |
1,200 | Strait of Gibraltar storm | 1694 (1 March)[7] | Wrecks HMS Sussex and accompanying ships. |
1,012 | RMS Empress of Ireland | 1914 (29 May) | Ship registered in London, crew almost entirely from Merseyside. |
1,000 | 1867 Barbados hurricane | 1867 | RMS Rhone, RMS Wye and up to 50 other vessels driven ashore.[9] |
1,000 | Great Hurricane of 1780 | 1780 (10 October) | Royal Navy ships lost included HMS Cornwall, HMS Experiment and HMS Ontario |
900+ | Plymouth Sound storm | 1691 (3 September) | Wrecks HMS Coronation and HMS Harwich. |
900 | HMS Victory (1737) | 1744 (3 October) | Wrecked on the Casquets in the Channel Islands. |
890+ | Walker Expedition disaster | 1711 (22 August) | Seven transport ships and one storeship wrecked in thick fog on the Saint Lawrence River, Canada. |
843 | HMS Vanguard explosion | 1917 (9 July) | Magazine explosion. |
800 | HMS Royal George capsizes | 1782 (29 August) | |
748+ | Royal Charter Storm | 1859 (26 October) | The Royal Charter and other ships wrecked in Lligwy Bay, Anglesey. |
738 | HMS Bulwark explosion | 1914 (26 November) | Magazine explosion. |
699 | HMS Ramillies [10] | 1760 (15 February) | Runs aground off Bolt Head, Devon. |
690 | HMS Queen Charlotte fire | 1800 (17 March) | |
646 | SS Mendi | 1917 (21 February) | Rammed by SS Darro off the Isle of Wight. |
640 | Princess Alice disaster | 1878 (3 September) | Collision with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames near Woolwich. |
635 | SS Norge shipwreck | 1904 (28 June) | |
612 | Tramore storm | 1816 (30 January) | Wrecks the ships Sea Horse,[11] Boadicea and Lord Melville.[12] |
600+ | an unidentified troop ship | 1796 (23 January) | shipwreck possibly one of Admiral Christian's West Indies convoy wrecked on Loe Bar, Cornwall.[13] |
600 | HMS Coronation (1685) | 1691 (3 September) | 2nd rate ship foundered off Rame Head, Cornwall.[14] |
564 | SS Utopia disaster | 1891 (17 March) | Collision with HMS Anson off Gibraltar.[15] |
546 | RMS Atlantic | 1873 (1 April) | |
531[16] | 1953 North Sea storm and flood | 1953 (31 Jan – 1 Feb) | Included the ferry MV Princess Victoria. |
520 | HMS Namur | 1749 (14 April) | Wrecked in a storm near Fort St David. |
500+ | 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak | 1854 (Aug–Sep) | Cholera epidemic in London. |
500 | HMS Minotaur | 1810 (22 December) | Wrecked on Haak Bank near Texel, Netherlands. |
500 | "Black Monday" | 1209 | Massacre of English settlers by Irish clans, near Ranelagh, Dublin, on Easter Monday. |
491 | HMS York | 1804 (Jan) | Struck the Bell Rock and sank with the loss of her entire crew. |
481 | HMS Captain | 1870 (6 September) | Sank off Cape Finisterre, Spain. |
480 | SS City of Glasgow | 1854 (March) | Disappeared after leaving Liverpool for Philadelphia. |
473 | Cospatrick | 1874 (18 November) | Caught fire in the South Atlantic. |
470 | HMS Courageux | 1796 (18 December) | Shipwrecked at Apes' Hill, Barbary Coast (now Monte Hacho, Ceuta, Africa)[17] |
454 | Vryheid | 1802 (23 November) | Formerly the Melville Castle, shipwrecked in a gale off the Kent coast between Hythe and Dymchurch. 18 of 472 on board survived. |
450 | HMS Birkenhead | 1852 (25 February) | Shipwrecked near Cape Town. |
439 | Senghenydd Colliery Disaster | 1913 (14 October) | Gas explosion at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire. Britain's worst mining accident. |
431 | HMS Otranto | 1918 (6 October) | Shipwrecked off Islay. 351 United States troops and 80 crew perished. |
421 | HMS Natal | 1915 (30 December) | Magazine explosion. Precise number of deaths disputed; 421 is highest estimate. |
421 | Dumfries cholera epidemic | 1832 (15 Sep – 27 Nov) | |
406 | Cataraqui | 1845 (4 August) | Shipwrecked off King Island, Tasmania. |
400+ | Rochdale and Prince of Wales | 1807 (19 November) | Carried troops leaving Dublin for the Napoleonic Wars. |
400+ | HMS Invincible | 1801 (16 March) | Sank off Norfolk while en route to the Battle of Copenhagen. |
400 | HMS Winchester | 1695 (1 September) | Shipwrecked on a reef off Key Largo, Florida. |
400 | Pomona | 1859 (30 April) | carrying, mainly Irish, emigrants from Liverpool to New York. Shipwrecked on a sandbank at Ballyconigar, off Wexford, Ireland. |
384 | Annie Jane | 1853 (28 September) | Emigrant ship out of Liverpool, wrecked Vatersay. |
383 | The Oaks explosion | 1866 (12 December) | Colliery disaster, Barnsley, Yorkshire.[18] |
380 | Mary Rose | 1545 (18 July) | Sank off Portsmouth. |
379 | HMS Dasher (D37) | 1943 (27 March) | Accidental fuel explosion, Firth of Clyde. |
374 | Driver | 1856 (February) | Clipper ship out of Liverpool, disappeared while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. |
372 | Arniston | 1815 (30 May) | Wrecked at Waenhuiskrans, South Africa. |
369[19] | Queen | 1814 (14 Jan) | Wrecked in Carrick Roads, Cornwall. |
360+ | Elizabeth | 1810 (18 December) | Chartered East Indiaman wrecked off Dunkirk. |
358 | HMS Victoria | 1893 (22 June) | Rammed by HMS Camperdown in the Mediterranean Sea. |
352 | HMS Princess Irene | 1915 (27 May) | Explosion while on the River Medway, Sheerness. |
347 | HMS Athenienne | 1806 (20 October) | Wrecked off Tunisia. 100 survivors crammed into the ship's launch. |
344 | Pretoria Pit Disaster | 1910 (21 December) | Underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery, Westhoughton, Lancashire. |
340 | Aeneas | 1805 (23 October) | Troopship wrecked on the Îles aux Mortes along the Canadian coastline while carrying troops to Quebec. |
338 | HMS Curaçao | 1942 (2 October) | Light cruiser run down and split in two by RMS Queen Mary. |
335 | SS Schiller | 1875 (7 May) | Shipwrecked off the Isles of Scilly. |
329 | Air India Flight 182 | 1985 (23 June) | Act of terror: destroyed by a bomb, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while in Irish airspace. |
317[20] | HMS Eurydice | 1878 (22 March) | Sank off the Isle of Wight. Commemorated by Gerard Manley Hopkins in the poem "The Loss of the Eurydice". |
300 | White Ship | 1120 (25 November) | Shipwrecked off Barfleur, Normandy, taking the only legitimate son of King Henry I of England. |
300 | Sibylle | 1834 (11 September) | Emigrant ship out of Cromarty wrecked off St. Paul Island, Nova Scotia. |
300+ | HMS Amphion | 1796 (22 September) | Magazine explosion while at Plymouth, Devon. |
300 | HMS London | 1665 | Accidental explosion while in the Thames Estuary. |
299 | Kapunda | 1887 (20 January) | Emigrant ship out of London, collided with the barque Ada Melmore off Brazil. |
297 | RMS Tayleur | 1854 (21 January) | Shipwrecked off Lambay Island, Dublin Bay during its maiden voyage after its iron hull deflected its compass. |
293 | Northfleet | 1873 (22 January) | Rammed at night by a Spanish steamboat while anchored off Dungeness. |
290 | HMS Sceptre | 1799 (5 December) | Wrecked during a storm in Table Bay, near the Cape of Good Hope. |
290 | Albion Colliery explosion | 1894 (23 June) | Firedamp explosion.[21][22] |
285 | Gordon Riots | 1780 (2–13 June) | Rioters shot by troops. |
281 | HMS Atalanta | 1880 (31 January) | HMS Eurydice's sister ship, disappeared after leaving Bermuda bound for Falmouth, Cornwall. |
276 | VOC Hollandia | 1743 (13 June) | Shipwrecked off Annet, Isles of Scilly. |
270 | Great Sheffield Flood | 1864 | Caused by collapse of Dale Dike Reservoir during its first filling. |
270[23] | Pan Am Flight 103 | 1988 (21 December) | Blown apart at 31,000 ft over Lockerbie, Scotland, by terrorist bomb in forward hold. |
268 | Abercarn mining disaster | 1878 (11 September) | Mining disaster at Abercarn, Monmouthshire.[citation needed] |
266 | Gresford Disaster | 1934 (22 September) | Mining accident near Wrexham, North Wales. |
260 | Earl of Abergavenny | 1805 (5 February) | Shipwrecked off Portland Bill. |
253 | HMS Saldanha | 1811 (4 December) | Shipwrecked during gale off Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland. |
250+ | Night of the Big Wind | 1839 (6–7 January) | |
250 | RMS Royal Adelaide | 1849 | Shipwrecked on a sandbank off Margate, Kent. |
247 | Doddington | 1755 | Shipwrecked in Algoa Bay, South Africa. |
246 | HMS Avenger | 1847 (20 December) | Wrecked off the Galite Islands, Tunisia. |
241 | Exmouth of Newcastle | 1847 (28 April) | Shipwrecked off Islay.[24] |
240 | HMS Lutine | 1799 (9 October) | Shipwrecked off Vlieland. |
238[25] | MV Dara | 1961 (8 April) | British-India Steam Navigation Company passenger liner evacuated in the Persian Gulf off Dubai following explosion and fire. |
238 | HMS Tribune | 1797 (16 November) | Wrecked during a storm off Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. |
237 | SS Anglo Saxon | 1863 (27 April) | Wrecked in dense fog off Cape Race, Newfoundland, Canada. |
226 | Quintinshill rail crash | 1915 (22 May) | Three-train collision in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. |
224 | Neva | 1835 (13 May) | Convict ship out of Cork wrecked on reefs off King Island, Tasmania. |
220 | SS London | 1866 (11 January) | Sank during gale in the Bay of Biscay.[26] |
220 | Great Blizzard of 1891 | 1891 (9–13 March) | [27] |
220 | Hartley Colliery Disaster | 1862 (16 January) | Caused by steam engine metal fatigue. |
215 | Lady of the Lake | 1833 (11 May) | Struck iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. |
212 | Sovereign | 1814 (18 October) | Wrecked off St. Paul Island (Nova Scotia). |
210 | Rinaldo | 1878 (18 December) | Collision with French steamship Byzantin in the Dardanelles.[9] |
208 | Harpooner | 1818 (November) | Military transport ship shipwrecked off Newfoundland. |
207 | Blantyre mining disaster | 1877 (22 October) | Gas explosion. |
205 | HMS Iolaire | 1919 (1 January) | Admiralty yacht returning soldiers to Scotland after World War I. Sank off Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides. |
205 | SS Hungarian | 1860 (20 February) | An Allan Line Royal Mail Steamer out of Liverpool and Queenstown (Cobh) wrecked off Cape Sable Island (Nova Scotia).[28] |
- ^ "The Irish Famine". BBC. 2011. Retrieved 2013-02-02.
- ^ Bill Bryson; A Short History...;p 372; ISBN 0-385-40818-8
- ^ Estimate of mortality in England.
- ^ "In July 1212, 3,000 were killed in the crush, burned or drowned when London Bridge caught fire at both ends". (p.184) Norris McWhirter and Ross McWhirter (1971). Guinness Book of Records. Guinness Superlatives Limited. ISBN 0-900424-05-2.
- ^ http://www.taintedblood.info/background.php accessed 01/09/2015
- ^ Difference between the number of deaths in that period and the average number in other years.
- ^ a b New style dating.
- ^ "Passenger List and Survivors of Steamship Titanic". United States Senate Inquiry. 30 July 1912. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
- ^ a b Marshall, Logan, Sinking of the Titanic and Great Disasters of the Sea, 1912.
- ^ Formerly HMS Royal Katherine.
- ^ Andy Taylor. "The Wreck of the Sea Horse". Discover Tramore. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
- ^ Grocott, Terence (1999). Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras. Journal of Navigation: Cambridge University Press 52 p.149–162.
- ^ Treglown, Tony (2011). Porthleven in years gone by Local Shipwrecks. Ashton: Tony Treglown. ISBN 978-0-9539019-7-5.
- ^ Eekelers, Dirk; Lettens, Jan. "HMS Coronation (north part) [+1691]". wrecksite. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
- ^ 562 passengers and crewmembers of Utopia and two rescuers from HMS Immortalité. "The Dead of the Utopia", The New York Times, 20 March 1891.
- ^ British victims only.
- ^ Grocott, p41.
- ^ "Oaks Disaster Victims". Dearne Valley Landscape Partnership. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
- ^ Allen, Tony. "Queen [+1814]". wrecksite. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
- ^ 317 named fatalities (Memorials & Monuments in St Ann's Church – HMS Eurydice).
- ^ "Albion Colliery". BBC Wales. 2008. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
- ^ "Albion Colliery Cilfynydd". Welsh Coal Mines. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
- ^ All victims, regardless of nationality.
- ^ Islay Info
- ^ Mostly non-British nationals.
- ^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/london.htm
- ^ Woodward, Antony and Penn, Robert (2007). The Wrong Kind of Snow. ISBN 978-0-340-93787-7
- ^ http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/wrecks/wrecks/shipwrecks.asp?ID=2197