List of shipwrecks in the mid-Atlantic Ocean

This is a list of shipwrecks located in the main body of the North Atlantic Ocean, rather than in one of its marginal seas.

For shipwrecks elsewhere in the Atlantic Ocean and its marginal seas, see List of shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean.

Ship Flag Sunk date Notes CoordinatesA tanker that was torpedoed by northwest of the Butt of Lewis, Scotland.A troopship that was torpedoed by the north of the Azores.A merchant ship that sank after being torpedoed by southeast of Great Inagua Island. It was one of 8 merchant ships that continued to fly the Latvian flag after it was annexed in 1940.A merchant ship sunk by .A decommissioned corvette scuttled off Madeira Island south of Cabo Girão as a dive site and artificial reef. A merchant ship sunk by .A passenger liner that was torpedoed by .A patrol yacht that was torpedoed by southwest of Guilvinec, France.A Liberty ship torpedoed by .A tanker that was torpedoed by and later exploded, splitting in half.A sailing ship that was wrecked at Tristan da Cunha.A submarine that sank under tow off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.An ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship that was torpedoed by about north of Rockall.A merchant ship wrecked on Manoel Luis Reef north of São Luís, Brazil.A mail steamer that caught fire and sank west of Scilly.An ocean liner that was sunk by northwest of Malin Head, Ireland.A merchant vessel that was torpedoed by southeast of Fort Pierce, Florida.A decommissioned scuttled southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, after weeks of weapons testing against her.A sunk at her moorings at Casablanca, French Morocco, by United States Navy dive bomber aircraft during the Naval Battle of Casablanca.An armed merchant cruiser that was torpedoed by off Reykjavík, Iceland.An ocean liner that sank in a collision in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts.A troopship that was torpedoed by north of the Azores.A cruise ship that was torpedoed by , resulting in over 800 deaths.A packet ship that was abandoned in the North Atlantic following a hurricane.A scuttled off Delaware about southeast of Cape May, New Jersey, to form part of an artificial reef.A Dutch merchant ship that was torpedoed by .A merchant ship that was torpedoed by .A cargo ship that was sunk by the Italian .An ocean liner that was torpedoed by about south of Rockall.A steamer that was sunk by from Fuerreventura Island in the Canary Islands.A steamship that caught fire a few days out from New York City, allegedly due to sabotage.A Q-ship that was sunk by .A German auxiliary cruiser that was sunk by .A sunk by a mine north of Ireland off Tory Island.An escort carrier that was torpedoed by .A steamship that caught fire and sank en route to New York City, with 473 deaths.An that was sunk by near Gibraltar.A cargo liner that was torpedoed by .A passenger liner that was torpedoed by Merchant vessel that was torpedoed by .A motor ferry that capsized and sank off the coast of Guyana northeast of the mouth of the Pomeroon River after a large wave — apparently a rogue wave — struck her.A Barracuda-class submarine scuttled for use as a sonar target off Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island. A merchant ship that was torpedoed by A cargo ship that was torpedoed by east of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.A Liberty ship that was attacked by and scuttled northeast of São Miguel Island.The largest battleship ever built by Germany. After sinking , Bismarck was pursued for two days by British ships and aircraft, and was eventually sunk by , , , and . A light cruiser that sank after running aground on a shoal off Cape Finisterre.A that was torpedoed by off the Canary Islands.A steamer that was sunk by during World War I.A that was scuttled after a battle with .A that was torpedoed by .An escort trawler that was sunk by off the Canary Islands.A sunk as a target east of North Carolina.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by east of Newfoundland.A torpedoed by the Imperial German Navy submarine just west of the Strait of Gibraltar.A tanker that was torpedoed by off Cuba.A tanker that was sunk by the Italian .A tanker that was torpedoed by off the coast of Sierra Leone.A tanker that was torpedoed by .A cargo ship that was torpedoed by the Imperial German Navy submarine northwest of Spain.A steamship that was torpedoed by southeast of Greenland.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by west of Ireland.A screw steamer that was torpedoed by southwest of Fastnet Rock, Ireland.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by west of Gweedore, Ireland.A masted turret ship that capsized and sank in a gale off Cape Finisterre, Spain.A armored cruiser that sank off Ferrol, Spain, after striking rocks on the Meixidos shoal.A passenger ship torpedoed by the Imperial German Navy submarine in the Southwestern Approaches.A steamship that was torpedoed by . United States Coast GuardA decommissioned high endurance cutter sunk as a target near Vila do Porto in the Azores.An oil tanker that caught fire and sank off Saldanha Bay, South Africa, spilling a total of of oil.An ocean liner that was torpedoed by .A cargo ship that was sunk by southeast of the Fastnet Rock, Ireland.The floating warehouse and cistern, a former French Navy protected cruiser, sank at Dakhlet Nouadhibou on the coast of Mauritania.A Bénéteau First 40.7 sailing yacht that capsized southeast of Nova Scotia, Canada, after her keel detached. Her overturned hull was last sighted on 20 May and presumably sank sometime after that.A decommissioned that accidentally sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, while tethered for use as an underwater torpedo target.A merchant ship that sank after being torpedoed by .A passenger ship that was torpedoed by . 260 people were killed, including 77 children who were being evacuated to Canada.A passenger ship sank by .A passenger steamer that was torpedoed by .A cargo ship that was torpedoed by .A passenger steamer that was torpedoed by .A cargo ship that was torpedoed by about west of Cape Finisterre, Spain.A steamship that was torpedoed by northwest of the Azores.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by west of Cape Finisterre, Spain.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by about northwest of Cape Finisterre, Spain.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by about northwest of Madeira, Portugal.A cargo ship that was scuttled as part of Operation Sandcastle.A steamship that was torpedoed by .A decommissioned frigate scuttled as an artificial reef near Portimão, Portugal.A sunk as a target off North Carolina.A sunk as a target off Florida. United States Coast GuardA cutter that was sunk as a target off Virginia.A merchant ship that was torpedoed by southwest of Freetown, Sierra Leone.A that sank under tow west of Gibraltar.A refrigerated cargo ship that was torpedoed by about 350 miles southwest of Freetown, Sierra Leone.A that was torpedoed by .A cargo ship that was torpedoed by northwest of Rockall.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by north of Rockall.A light cruiser that collided with north of Ireland.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by southeast of Cape Sable Island, Canada.A D-class submarine that accidentally sank pierside at Naval Submarine Base New London, in Groton, Connecticut.A naval trawler that was sunk by while fishing off the coast of Ireland.A cargo ship that was sunk by the Italian .A that sank after colliding with the British destroyer off the Isles of Scilly.A sunk as a target.A D-class destroyer that collided with west of Ireland.An sunk as a target southeast of Charleston, South Carolina.A German blockade runner that was accidentally sunk by .An ocean liner that was torpedoed by .An ocean liner that was scuttled after taking damage from German bombers.A sloop that was torpedoed by .A light cruiser that was sunk by .An ocean liner that was torpedoed by .A steam merchant ship that was torpedoed by off the west coast of Africa.A steamship that was torpedoed by and later sank under tow.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by . A cargo ship that was torpedoed by off the coast of South America.A collier that was torpedoed by south of Iceland.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by northwest of Cape Finisterre.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by .A cargo ship that was torpedoed by about southeast of Rockall.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by about off Freetown, Sierra Leone.A CAM ship that was torpedoed by east of Cape Farewell, Greenland.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by .A cargo ship that was torpedoed by .A cargo ship that was torpedoed by .A cargo ship that was scuttled northwest of Ireland with a cargo of obsolete chemical ammunition.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by off the coast of Greenland.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by about east of Sable Island, Canada.A cargo ship that was sunk by west of Cape Town, South Africa.A CAM ship that was torpedoed by .A cargo ship that was torpedoed by north of the Azores.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by about southeast of New York.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by about northwest of Bermuda.A cargo liner that was torpedoed by southwest of Rockall.A refrigerated cargo ship that was torpedoed by .A cargo ship that was torpedoed by the German submarine .A cargo ship that was torpedoed by about southwest of Barra Head, Outer Hebrides.A cargo ship that was scuttled off Ireland with a cargo of chemical weapons.A cargo liner that was torpedoed by .A tanker that was torpedoed by that was unescorted.A cargo ship that was sunk by .A cargo ship that was torpedoed by .An ocean liner that was torpedoed by northwest of Gweedore, Ireland.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by about northwest of the Virgin Islands.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by .A tanker that sank after being torpedoed by U-507 north of Gibara, Cuba.A Q-ship that was torpedoed by .An F-class destroyer that was torpedoed by .A merchant ship that was torpedoed by east of Rockall.An that was torpedoed by . British East India CompanyAn East Indiaman that sprung a leak and sank south of Cape Agulhas, South Africa.A decommissioned patrol vessel sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean by a RIM-7 Sea Sparrow antiship missile fired by the frigate ().A decommissioned corvette scuttled as an artificial reef off Porto Santo Island in the Madeira Islands.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by southwest of Ireland.An oil tanker that suffered three large explosions and sank about 130 miles northeast of the Canary Islands.A merchant ship that sank after being torpedoed by .A that was torpedoed by near the Bay of Biscay.A and world's first guided missile destroyer sunk as a target off the Virginia Capes.A tanker that sank off the north coast of Cuba after being torpedoed by the German submarine .A armoured cruiser sunk by a mine off Mainland in the Orkney Islands between Brough of Birsay and Marwick Head.An ocean liner which hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage to Greenland and sank with all hands.A sunk as a target.A merchant ship torpedoed by . Originally a German ship but was later transferred to the UK as part of World War 1 reparations.A passenger-cargo vessel torpedoed by west of Lerwick, Shetland Islands.A cargo ship torpedoed by . The last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy.A that was torpedoed by .A H-class destroyer that was torpedoed by and later scuttled.A that was torpedoed by .A Japanese submarine sunk by Allied forces along with its cargo of opium, caffeine, and gold.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by about southwest of Cape Palmas, Liberia.A captured armored cruiser abandoned during a tropical storm while under tow in Crooked Island Passage in the Bahamas. Subsequently drifted before going hard aground between two coral reefs off Cat Island in the Bahamas less than south of Bird Point.A cargo ship that was sunk with gunfire by about west of Cape Finisterre, Spain.A cargo ship that was torpedoed by .An American steam tanker that sank after being torpedoed by .A torpedoed near the Isles of Scilly just west of the English Channel by the Imperial German Navy submarine .A torpedoed off Cape May, New Jersey, by the German submarine .A protected cruiser wrecked on an