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Sinking

Sinking (沉沦) is a short story by the Chinese writer Yu Dafu, first published in 1921, about a Chinese student in Japan driven to drown himself by loneliness and national humiliation.

Sinking of ARA General Belgrano

The Sinking of ARA General Belgrano: 2 May 1982 torpedoing of the Argentine cruiser (ex-USS Phoenix, 13,645 tons) by HMS Conqueror outside the exclusion zone; 323 of 1,093 crew died, 770 survived, and the Argentine fleet withdrew to port afterward.

Sinking of HMAS Sydney

The sinking of HMAS Sydney was the loss of the Australian light cruiser with all 645 aboard on 19 November 1941, in a mutually destructive battle with the disguised German raider Kormoran off Western Australia.

Sinking of IRIS Dena

Sinking of IRIS Dena: Iranian Moudge-class frigate torpedoed by the US submarine USS Charlotte on 4 March 2026 off Galle, Sri Lanka; 87 dead, 32 rescued, first US submarine sinking since World War II.

Sinking of KM Sinar Bangun

The sinking of KM Sinar Bangun was the capsizing of an overloaded wooden ferry on Lake Toba, Indonesia, on 18 June 2018, leaving 164 missing.

Sinking of MV Sewol

Sinking of MV Sewol (세월호): South Korean ferry that capsized off Jindo on April 16, 2014 en route Incheon to Jeju, killing 304 of 476 aboard, mostly Danwon High students, after overloading, low ballast, and a sharp turn.

Sinking of MV Teratai Prima

The sinking of MV Teratai Prima was a 2009 ferry disaster in which an Indonesian ferry capsized in the Makassar Strait off Majene, West Sulawesi, leaving 313 dead or missing.

Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse

The Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was the 1941 loss of two British capital ships off Malaya. They were the first capital ships sunk by Japanese land-based aircraft on the open sea.

Sinking of the ferry Neptune

The sinking of the ferry Neptune was a 1993 maritime disaster off Miragoâne, Haiti, in which an overloaded ferry capsized, drowning hundreds to over a thousand people.

Sinking of the Filo Jet

Filo Jet, formerly Iris Jet (IMO 8962034), a catamaran ferry of Filo Denizcilik that capsized and sank off Kyrenia, northern Cyprus, on 30 August 2026 with 267 aboard, killing at least 12.

Sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise

The sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise was the capsizing of a British roll-on/roll-off ferry in 1987. It killed 193 people and reshaped maritime safety rules.

Sinking of the Montevideo Maru

The sinking of the Montevideo Maru was the 1 July 1942 loss of a Japanese transport torpedoed by USS Sturgeon, killing over 1,000 Australian prisoners and internees from Rabaul.

Sinking of the Moskva

The Moskva (ex-Slava), Slava-class Project 1164 cruiser and flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, sank 14 April 2022 after two Ukrainian Neptune missiles hit it; the largest Russian warship lost in combat since World War II.

Sinking of the MS Jan Heweliusz

The Polish ro-ro ferry Jan Heweliusz, also MS Jan Heweliusz, capsized and sank on 14 January 1993 near Rügen in a hurricane on the Świnoujście–Ystad route; 55 of 64 aboard died, Poland's deadliest shipping disaster.

Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior

The Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace's flagship (a former trawler acquired 1978), was sunk by French DGSE limpet mines at Auckland on 10 July 1985 under Operation Satanique, killing photographer Fernando Pereira; France later admitted the attack and paid compensation.

Sinking of the RMS Lusitania

Sinking of the RMS Lusitania: 7 May 1915 torpedoing of the Cunard liner by German U-20 off Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing about 1,198 including 128 Americans; second explosion and munitions cargo controversy.

Sinking of the Roman fleet (255 BC)

The sinking of the Roman fleet in 255 BC was a storm off Camarina, Sicily, that destroyed most of 364 ships carrying home survivors of Rome's evacuated African army.

Sinking of the SS Andrea Doria

The sinking of the SS Andrea Doria, an Italian Line ocean liner, occurred off Nantucket in July 1956 after a collision with the Swedish motorship Stockholm; 51 died.

Sinking of the SS Arctic

Sinking of the SS Arctic: Collins Line paddle steamer lost September 27, 1854, after colliding with the French steamer Vesta in fog off Cape Race, Newfoundland; about 350 died, all women and children perished, and the disaster prompted Maury's Atlantic steam lanes.

Sinking of the SS La Bourgogne

Sinking of SS La Bourgogne: July 4, 1898 loss of the French Line steamer after collision with the barque Cromartyshire in fog off Sable Island, Nova Scotia; about 549 or more deaths, few passengers survived, followed by limitation-of-liability litigation.

Sinking of the Titanic

The sinking of the Titanic, also called the Titanic disaster, killed about 1,500 people in the North Atlantic after the liner struck an iceberg on 14 April 1912.

Sinking, joints and closure in immersed tube tunnels

Sinking, joints and closure in immersed tube tunnels covers how prefabricated tunnel elements are lowered onto the seabed, sealed with Gina and Omega gaskets, and closed at the final joint.

Sinlaku Corona

Sinlaku Corona, a 300 km rimmed-plateau corona on Venus south of the Hecate rift and Zverine Chasma junction, mapped as four flow units fSia–d with a sparsely fractured rim.

Sinlap (crater on Titan)

Sinlap is an ~80 km impact crater on Titan at 11.3°N, 16.1°W, the only Titan crater observed by both Cassini RADAR and VIMS, with a flat floor, well-preserved ejecta, and a downwind water-ice-rich parabolic halo.

Sinminhoe

Sinminhoe (신민회, New People's Association) was a secret Korean nationalist society founded in Seoul in 1907, attributed to An Chang-ho, that sought to restore Korean sovereignty through education, industry, and publishing.

Sinmu of Silla

Sinmu of Silla (신무왕) was the 45th king of Unified Silla, reigning from the fourth to the seventh month of 839, less than half a year.

Sinmun of Silla

Sinmun of Silla (신문왕), personal name Kim Jeongmyeong, was the 31st king of Silla from 681 to 692, who suppressed an aristocratic revolt and built Unified Silla's institutions.

Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin ("We Ourselves") is an all-island Irish republican party seeking a united Ireland. Formerly linked to the Provisional IRA, it won 73 of 105 seats in 1918, ended Dáil abstention in 1986, and now leads Northern Ireland's government.

Sinn Sisamouth (ស៊ីន ស៊ីសាមុត)

Sinn Sisamouth (ស៊ីន ស៊ីសាមុត, 1932, died 1975-1979), the "King of Khmer Music," was a prolific Cambodian singer-songwriter of the 1950s-1970s who blended Khmer music with Western pop and disappeared under the Khmer Rouge.

Sinn und Form

Sinn und Form is a German-language literary and cultural journal founded in 1949 in East Berlin, regarded as one of the most significant German literary journals.