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Is this supposed to be a list of historical (as opposed to fictional) shipwrecks? If we don't include AIR ship wrecks like the Hindenburg, R-100 and Akron, or SPACE ship wrecks like the Columbia and Challenger shuttles, and DO include large watercraft wrecks, sinkings, scuttlings and collisions in oceans, seas, rivers and lakes...

Here are a few off the top of my head:

•Atocha- Spanish treasure galleon •Titanic- Harland and Wolff design failure, White Star Lines, owner, J.P. Morgan •Olympic- Harland and Wolff design failure, White Star Lines •Britanic- Harland and Wolff design failure, White Star Lines •Maine- USN Battleship- •Andrea Doria- collision •Edmund Fitzgerald- Freighter, Great Lakes •Arizona- USN Japanese bombing raid at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii •Reuben James- •Bismarck- German Battleship •Thresher- USN Sub •Merrimac- Confederate States of America Ironclad •Monitor- United States of America Ironclad •Bounty- British, scuttled by mutineers at •Hesperus-(?) •PT-109- USN Captain John F. Kennedy's Patrol Boat •All those interesting ancient Viking, Phoenician and Greek ships

Also, a couple of questions:

Is it still considered a shipwreck if ships collide, or run aground, but don't sink, like the Exxon Valdes? And what size is too small to be considered a shipwreck? Was PT-109 a boat wreck instead of a shipwreck? What's the smallest a ship can be before it's classified as a boat?

9tmaxr (talk) 03:14, 26 June 2011 (UTC)