There have been many ships that have sunk over history, some of the more notable sunken ships are The Sultana, The Titanic, The Endurance, The Lusitania, The Andrea Doria, Princess Alice and Wilhelm Gustloff. The aim of this site is to list as many as possible (but nowhere near the tens of thousands of ships that have sank in recorded history) that have, with the causes and photos of the sunken ships.

Probably the most commonly known vessel that sank was The Titanic, thanks to the block buster 1997 movie of the same name. On the night of 14 April 1912, during her maiden voyage to New York, The Titanic hit an iceberg, south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.

The Bismarck, which was another ship (a battleship) that was made into a popular movie called Sink the Bismarck! in 1960, became another sunken ship due to the Battle of the Denmark Strait in May 1941. The then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the order to 'Sink the Bismarck', spurring a relentless pursuit by the Royal Navy. Two days later, with safer waters almost in reach, Fleet Air Arm aircraft torpedoed Bismarck and jammed her rudder, allowing heavy British units to catch up with her. In the ensuing battle on the morning of 27 May 1941, Bismarck was heavily attacked for nearly three hours before sinking. Tirpitz, the sister ship of Bismarck, also sank some time later in Norway.

RMS Lusitania was a British luxury ocean liner owned by the Cunard Steamship Company and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland. Christened and launched on Thursday, 7 June 1906, Lusitania met a disastrous end as a casualty of the First World War when she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-20 on 7 May 1915. The great ship sank in just 18 minutes, eight miles (15 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,198 of the people aboard.

More recently, The MV Princess of the Stars, flagship of the Sulpicio Lines fleet, left the port of Manila on June 20, 2008 on its way to Cebu City. The ferry sent a distress signal at midday on June 21 when its engines allegedly stalled in rough seas near Sibuyan Island. San Fernando mayor Nanette Tansingco sent a speedboat and confirmed that the ferry had a hole in the hull, was partially submerged and that several bodies had been found nearby. Later reports revealed that the hole in the hull was actually the ship's bow thruster reportedly, the number of passengers was between 700 and 800.