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Shipwrecks in Estonian waters
132 shipwrecks in estonian waters, each tied to the real place where it happened or is told, county by county. See them on the map →
- The destroyer Jakov Sverdlov, once the famous Novik 1941
- Submarine Akula, lost in a snowstorm 1915
- Submarine S-5, sunk in the wake of the Kirov 1941
- The destroyer Kalinin, built in Tallinn and sunk off Juminda 1941
- The rescue ship Saturn and the doomed Vironia 1941
- Submarine L-2 on the last voyage to Hanko 1941
- Virsaitis, the ship of three navies 1941
- Submarine M-103 north of Vormsi 1941
- U-679, the U-boat found where no one expected 1945
- Torpedo boat T18, bombed in September 1944 1944
- Liisa, sunk on the first day of the war 1941
- G90, one of seven German torpedo boats lost in one night 1916
- Alice H., an early victim of the First World War 1914
- Minesweeper T-214 Bugel in the Juminda minefield 1941
- The passenger steamer Ella, first to sink off Juminda 1941
- Luga, a ship full of wounded, scuttled off Juminda 1941
- Axel Carl, a Danish ship seized on the first day of war 1941
- The ferry Estonia, 28 September 1994 1994
- The night three German torpedo boats were lost in Narva Bay 1944
- Torpedo boat S59, lost in the 1916 raid 1916
- Leeni, mined while dodging aircraft 1941
- The naval tanker T-11, the former Ossag II 1941
- Submarine Shch-301 in the Juminda minefield 1941
Harju County
- Submarine Kalev, still missing 1941
- Destroyers Z35 and Z36 in their own minefield 1944
- The Bungsberg wreck off Naissaar 1943
- The Lootsi cog, a medieval ship under a building site 1360
- Broken Line: remembering the ferry Estonia 1994
- The Nargen wreck and the divers who disturbed it 1590
- Glückliche Ankunft, plundered and burned 1767
- Sancte Marcus off the Witch's Stone 1705
- The nameless wreck on Littegrund shoal 1750
- The ice steamer Fennia off Lohusalu 1888
- Stella Maris, crushed by spring ice off Keri 1905
- Meeme, Estonia's only warship lost on duty 1924
- The Saaremaa schooner that burned at Rammu 1942
- Raketa, a reparations schooner left on the shore 1957
- The frigate Geroi by the Pakri dam 1808
- The ship with five names: Prezidentas Smetona 1945
- Uisko, ten minutes to the bottom 1943
- Icebreaker Pjotr Veliki, sunk in three minutes 1917
- The Dutch galiot Barteld Herman in Kolga Bay 1870
- The Danish schooner Najaden, holed by ice 1905
- Riksens Ständer, burned on the Aegna shoal in 1790 1790
- Minesweeper No. 6, caught in its own navy's nets 1915
- Minelayer Jenissei, torpedoed off the Pakri islands 1915
- Jaen Teär, the barquentine that sank on Christmas Day 1945
- The destroyer Surovy, identified by the name on her stern 1941
- Utena, a Lithuanian reefer ship lost off Juminda 1941
- Kretinga, lost with all hands off Loksa 1941
- Submarine Shch-322, missing since October 1941 1941
- Submarine S-12, lost north of Naissaar in 1943 1943
- Minesweeper T-387, torpedoed off the Pakri islands 1944
- Submarine Jedinorog, lost under tow as Russia left Tallinn 1918
- Success, the British steamer off Keri 1885
- Old ships turned into a shore defence at Kiikri Street 1750
- The Viljo wreck, a medieval ship moved to the sea 1487
- The icebreaker Krišjānis Valdemārs off Mohni 1941
- Rasma, beached on Mohni and destroyed there 1941
- The troopship Josif Stalin, drifted ashore at Lohusalu 1941
- The Lithuanian steamer Panevėžys north of Naissaar 1939
- The destroyer Gordy, lost on the way to Hanko 1941
- Mõntu, a reparations schooner sunk as a pier 1959
- Vodnik, the former Pearu, mined off Juminda 1941
- The great sailing ship Mihkel, run ashore at Paljassaare 1941
- Old ships sunk to block Tallinn's harbours, 1941 1941
- The steamer Berkut, lost as the First World War began 1914
- The transport Lunacharski, bombed as Tallinn was abandoned 1941
- The destroyer Engels, mined north-east of Juminda 1941
- The storm that pushed the sea from Finland to Estonia 1883
- Two ships lost at Pärispea and the Loksa rescuers 1857
- Storm throws the spirit ship Romulus onto Loksa beach 1929
- The British steamer Baltannic on the rocks at Suurupi 1927
- The brick boat Villu run aground on Naissaar on purpose 1937
Hiiumaa
- HMS E18, the submarine that never came home 1916
- The lightship of Hiiu Shoal 1941
- Kassari's survivors row to Kõrgessaare 1939
- The minelayer West in Hari Strait 1941
- The Latvian steamer Krimulda in the Väinameri 1941
- E. Russ, the freighter full of cars 1919
- Gullkrona: shipwrecked Finns taken for spies 1941
- The minesweeper Shchit off south-west Hiiumaa 1916
- The brig Aid, aground off Hiiumaa 1863
- Minesweeper T-212 Shtag in Soela Strait 1941
- Submarine M-94, torpedoed off Hiiumaa 1941
- Submarine M-81 on the Laine bank 1941
- Minesweeper Imanta at the entrance of Soela Strait 1941
- German motor torpedo boat S-106 north of Hiiumaa 1941
- Houtdik, a Dutch steamer mined off Kõpu 1914
- Zemlya, one of U-26's victims off Vormsi 1915
- Survivors of the barque Neptun row ashore at Ristna 1928
- Tormilind, pride of the Baltic sailing fleet, capsizes off Tahkuna 1937
Ida-Viru County
Lääne County
- SMS Magdeburg and the captured codebooks 1914
- The destroyer Kazanets, torpedoed off Osmussaar 1916
- The minesweeper Dago, torpedoed at anchor 1915
- The Swedish steamer that became Minesweeper No. 1 1915
- Schleswig-Holstein, a battleship turned target on Neugrund 1945
- U-479, lost on a mine in November 1944 1944
- Vohi, burned out at Osmussaar 1941
- The coaster Kosmos, wrecked in Voosi Strait 1941
- Kimolos, a peacetime loss of 1963 1963
Lääne-Viru County
Pärnu County
Saaremaa
- Three British warships lost off Saaremaa 1918
- The Maasilinn ship, Estonia's medieval survivor 1550
- Unknown wrecks off Ruhnu 2024
- The destroyer Grom in Kassari bay 1917
- The destroyer Okhotnik in the Irbe Strait 1917
- German torpedo boat S31 off Ruhnu 1915
- Marta, bombed in Soela Strait 1941
- Torpedo boat TKA-24 under the guns of two cruisers 1941
- A mystery wreck off Sõrve, probably the Iller 1944
- Volare, the 'Greek ship' stranded in Ariste Bay 1980
- Submarine S-11, sunk in Soela Strait and raised in 1955 1941
- The last German boats lost off Sõrve, autumn 1944 1944
- Islanders free a Dutch ship stranded at Pilguse 1865
- The Norwegian steamer Gimle stranded off Sõrve 1926
- The Norwegian collier Skogland wrecked off Vilsandi 1925
Tartu County
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