The biggest ship
The biggest ship collision ever recorded at sea is the 1987 catastrophe, involving a Philippine passenger ferry, Dona Paz and the oil tanker MT Vector, in the Tablas Strait, near Manila, Philippines.
On the night of December 20, 1987, MV DonaPaz was sailing from Tacloban, Leyte, to Manila with thousands of passengers, surpassing its capacity since it was the Christmas season.
Of all the people onboard both vessels, just 26 lived, 24 from the Dona Paz ferry and 2 from Vector, taking the total death toll to 4386, the highest for any peacetime maritime disaster caused by a ship collision at sea.
Some even refer to this disaster as ‘Asia’s Titanic’, and it is the deadliest ship collision in maritime history, in terms of lives lost.
Unfolding of the Biggest Ship Collision At Sea
At around 10:30 p.m., while crossing the Tablas Strait close to Dumali Point, Marinduque, the ferry collided with the oil tanker MT Vector, loaded with 8800 barrels of
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