Two Australian warships, the HMAS Melbourne and the HMAS Voyager, collided off the New South Wales coast.
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193 people die when a ferry capsizes in the North Sea.
The Clermont steamboat by Robert Fulton made its maiden trip up the Hudson River.
The SF F-4 submersible boat sank and killed 21 people near Hawaii.
The Santa Maria sunk.
The Soviet K-278 Komsomolets nuclear submarine caught fire and sank off the coast of Norway.
