List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll

List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war) which occurred in the United Kingdom or involved UK citizens, in a definable incident, where the loss of life exceeded 40.

Contents

1 500 or more fatalities 2 Under 500 fatalities 3 Under 300 fatalities 4 Under 100 fatalities 5 See also 6 External links

500 or more fatalities

• 800,000 – Black Death epidemic, 1347–1350 [estimate]
• 750,000 – Irish potato famine, (1846–1849) [wikipedia averaged estimate]
• 225,000 – Spanish Flu epidemic, September–November 1918 [estimate]
• 60,000 – Great Plague of London, 1665 [estimate]
• 12,000 – Great Smog of 1952, London [estimate]
• 8,000 – Great Storm of 1703, English Channel, 26 November 1703 [estimate]
• 3,000 – London Bridge fire and panic, July 1212 [estimate]
• 2,000 – Bristol Channel and River Severn storm surge/tsunami, 30 January 1607 (New style) [estimate]
• 1,550+ – HMS Association, HMS Eagle, HMS Romney and HMS Firebrand (Cloudesley Shovel squadron shipwrecks), Isles of Scilly, 22 October 1707
• 1,518 – RMS Titanic sinking, 1912
• 1,400 – Baltic storm shipwrecks of HMS St George (739 fatalities), HMS Defence and HM Brig Fancy, Jutland, 24 December 1811
• 1,012 – RMS Empress of Ireland, Saint Lawrence River, 30 May 1914
• 800 – HMS Royal George capsize, Spithead, 29 August 1782
• 786 – Princess Alice and Bywell Castle collision, River Thames, Woolwich, 3 September 1878
• 748 – Royal Charter Storm – wreck of Royal Charter, Lligwy Bay, Anglesey (455 fatalities) and others, 27 October 1859
• 738 – HMS Bulwark, magazine explosion, Sheerness, 26 November 1914
• 690 – HMS Queen Charlotte fire, off Livorno, 17 March 1800
• 677 – HMS Vanguard magazine explosion, Scapa Flow, 9 July 1917
• 653 – SS Norge shipwreck, Rockall, 28 June 1904
• 585 – Tramore Bay storm, shipwrecks of Seahorse (363 fatalities), Lord Melville, Boadicea and Apollonia, County Cork, 30 January 1816
• 576 – SS Utopia disaster, collision with HMS Anson, off Gibraltar, 17 March 1891 (mostly Italian passengers)
• 558+ – HMS Sussex treasure fleet shipwrecks (13 ships), off Gibraltar, 19 February 1694
• 546 – RMS Atlantic sinking, Nova Scotia, 1 April 1873
• 531 – North Sea Flood of 1953 and storm, 31 January – 1 February 1953 (307 land fatalities, 224 sea fatalities including ferry Princess Victoria) [UK victims only]
• 500+ – London cholera epidemic, 1854

Under 500 fatalities

• 481 – HMS Captain shipwreck, off Cape Finisterre, Spain, 6 September 1870
• 480 – SS City of Glasgow disappeared after leaving Liverpool for New York, March 1854
• 473 – Cospatrick (Shaw Savill line) emigrant ship fire, South Atlantic (out of Gravesend), 18 November 1874
• 450 – HMS Birkenhead sinking, near Cape Town, 25 February 1852
• 439 – Universal Colliery mining disaster, Senghenydd, Caerphilly, 14 October 1913
• 431 – HMS Otranto shipwreck, Islay, 6 October 1918
• 421 – HMS Natal, magazine explosion, Cromarty, Scotland, 30 December 1915
• 410+ – 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, 26 December 2004 [UK victims only]
• 400 – HMS Winchester shipwreck, reef off Key Largo, Florida, 1 September 1695
• 400 – Pomona clipper shipwreck, Blackwater Band, Wexford, 30 April 1859
• 380 – Mary Rose sinking, Portsmouth, 18 July 1545
• 379 – HMS Dasher, fuel explosion, Firth of Clyde 27 March 1943.
• 374 – Driver clipper ship, disappeared Atlantic Ocean out of Liverpool, February 1856
• 364 – HMS Eurydice shipwreck, Isle of Wight, 22 March 1878 (commemorated by Gerard Manley Hopkins in "The Loss of the Eurydice")
• 358 – HMS Victoria rammed by HMS Camperdown, Mediterranean Sea, 22 June 1893
• 344 – Pretoria Pit Disaster, Westhoughton, Bolton, 21 December 1910
• 335 – SS Schiller shipwreck, Isles of Scilly, 7 May 1875
• 331 – HMS Curacao run down by RMS Queen Mary, 2 October 1942
• 320 – Northfleet shipwreck, off Dungeness, 22 January 1873

Under 300 fatalities

• 297 – Tayleur shipwreck, on Lambay Island north of Dublin Bay, 21 January 1854 on her maiden voyage. ("the first Titantic")
• 290 – HMS Atlanta disappeared at sea out of Bermuda, after 31 January 1880 (sister ship of HMS Eurydice)
• 285 – Gordon riots, London, 2–13 June 1780
• 276 – Hollandia VOC shipwreck, Annet, Isles of Scilly, 13 June 1743
• 270 – SS London shipwreck, Bay of Biscay (out of Gravesend), 11 January 1866
• 270 – Great Sheffield flood, Bradfield Dam, 1864
• 270 – Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie, 1988 [total of all victims]
• 266 – Gresford Colliery mining disaster, Wrexham, 22 September 1934
• 260 – Earl of Abergavenny shipwreck, Shambles Bank off Portland Bill, 5 February 1805
• 240 – HMS Lutine shipwreck, Vlieland, 9 October 1799
• 237 – SS Anglo Saxon shipwreck, Cape Race, Newfoundland (out of Liverpool and Londonderry), 27 April 1863
• 227 – Quintinshill rail crash triple collision, Dumfries and Galloway, 22 May 1915
• 220 – Great Blizzard of 1891, 9 March to 13 March 1891
• 215 – Lady of the Lake, struck iceberg, North Atlantic, 11 May 1833
• 207 – Blantyre Mining Disaster - gas explosion, 22 October 1877
• 205 – Iolaire sinking, Stornoway, 1 January 1919
• 193 – M/S Herald of Free Enterprise disaster, Zeebrugge, 6 March 1987
• 190 – SS Cambria Anchor Line shipwreck, Inishtrahull, 19 October 1870
• 189 – Eyemouth fishing fleet storm disaster, Scotland, 14 October 1881 [1]
• 183 – Victoria Hall theatre panic, Sunderland, 16 June 1883
• 178 – Ocean Monarch fire and shipwreck, off Great Orme, Llandudno 24 August 1848
• 177 – City of Boston steamship, disappeared Atlantic Ocean out of New York and Halifax to Liverpool, possibly struck iceberg, January 1870
• 173 – Bethnal Green tube station panic, 3 March 1943
• 172 – HMS Serpent shipwreck, off Camariñas, Galicia, 9 November 1890
• 167 – Piper Alpha oil platform, North Sea, 6 July 1988
• 157 – Deutschland (1866) shipwreck, Kentish Knock, Thames Estuary, 6 December 1875
• 155 – Minnie Pit mining disaster, Podmore Hall, Staffordshire, 12 January 1918
• 150 – Clifford's Tower fire, York, 1190 [Estimate]
• 146 – Dan-Air aircrash, Boeing 727 G-BDAN, Flight 1008 from MAN, Tenerife, Canary Islands, 25 April 1980
• 144 – Aberfan landslide, Glamorganshire, 21 October 1966
• 141 – SS Berlin shipwreck, Hook of Holland, 21 February 1907 (Great Eastern Railway steamer out of Harwich)
• 136 – Wellington Colliery mining disaster, Whitehaven, 11 May 1910
• 134 – Chilwell munitions explosion, Nottinghamshire, 1 July 1918
• 132 – Princess Victoria ferry disaster, North Channel, 31 January 1953
• 129 – John Franklin expedition, Erebus and Terror lost in Northwest Passage, 1845-1848
• 128 – HMS Gladiator shipwreck, Isle of Wight, 25th April, 1908
• 125 – HM Brig Primrose shipwreck, The Manacles, Cornwall, 22 January 1809
• 124 – Daphne capsize, River Clyde, Glasgow, 3 July 1883
• 123 – Ocean Queen clipper ship, disappeared Atlantic Ocean out of London, February 1856
• 119 – National Colliery mining disaster, Wattstown, Glamorganshire, 11 July 1905
• 118 – Staines air disaster, BEA Flight 548, July 18 1972
• 112 – SS Stella shipwreck, London and South Western Railway steamer, The Casquets, Channel Islands, 30 March 1899
• 112 – Harrow & Wealdstone station rail crash, 12 October 1952
• 112 – Dan-Air aircrash, Comet G-APDN from MAN, near Barcelona, Spain 3 July 1970
• 108 – Invicta International Airlines aircrash, Vickers Vanguard G-AXOP, Flight 435 from BRS, Switzerland, April 10 1973
• 106 – SS Mohegan shipwreck, The Manacles, Cornwall, 14 October 1898

Under 100 fatalities

• 99 – HMS Thetis submarine disaster—flooded through torpedo tube during sea trial, Liverpool Bay, 1 June 1939
• 98 – Britannia Airways Bristol Britannia G-ANBB from LTN, aircrash at Ljubljana, 1 September 1966
• 96 – Hillsborough disaster crush, 15 April 1989
• 94 – Carlingford Lough disaster, SS Connemara and SS Retriever collided and sank, Carlingford Lough, County Down, 3 November 1916
• 90 – Lewisham rail crash, December 1957
• 88 – Armagh rail disaster, 12 June 1889
• 88 – Air Ferry aircrash, Douglas C-54 G-APYK, from MSE, Mont Canigou, France, 3 June 1967
• 86 – Theatre Royal fire disaster, Exeter, 5 September 1887
• 86 – SS Egypt shipwreck, off Ushant, 20 May 1922
• 85 – Rohilla, ran aground off Whitby, 30 October 1914
• 84 – British Eagle International Airlines aircrash, Bristol Britannia G-AOVO from LHR, Innsbruck, Austria, 29 February 1964
• 81 – Easington mining disaster, 29 May 1951
• 80+ – PS Queen Victoria shipwreck, off Howth Head, 15 February 1853
• 80 – Llandow air disaster, Fairflight Avro Tudor G-AKBY, Glamorgan, 12 March 1950
• 80 – Creswell Colliery mining disaster, Derbyshire, 26 September 1950
• 79 – Yarmouth Suspension bridge disaster, Great Yarmouth, 2 May 1846
• 75 – Tay Rail Bridge collapse, Scotland, 28 December 1879
• 75 – HMS Affray submarine disaster, English Channel, 17 April 1951
• 73 – Silvertown TNT explosion, 19 January 1917 [2]
• 72 – Stockport air disaster, British Midland Airways Argonaut G-ALHG, 4 June 1967
• 70 – RAF Fauld underground munitions explosion, Staffordshire, 27 November 1944 [3]
• 69 – HMS M1 submarine wreck—collision with surface vessel—off Plymouth, 12 November 1925
• 67 – 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, [UK victims only]
• 66 – Ibrox disaster crush, Glasgow, 1971
• 65 – Theatre Royal panic, Dunlop Street, Glasgow, 17 February 1849
• 64 – Masbrough boat disaster, Rotherham, 5 July 1841 [4]
• 64 – HMS Truculent submarine disaster, collision on surface, Thames Estuary, 12 January 1950
• 63 – BEA aircrash, Vickers Vanguard G–APEC flight 706, Aarsele, Belgium, 2 October 1971
• 60 – HMSM M2 submarine wreck, Lyme Bay 26 January 1932
• 59 – BEA Comet G-ARCO bomb disaster, off Rhodes, 12 October 1967
• 56 – Bradford City disaster, soccer stadium fire, 11 May 1985
• 55 – Manchester air disaster Flight 28M, 22 August 1985
• 51 – Summerland fire disaster, Douglas, Isle of Man, 2 August 1973
• 51 – Marchioness disaster, River Thames, 20 August 1989
• 50 – Ariana Afghan Airlines aircrash, Boeing 727 YA-FAR, Gatwick, 5 January 1969
• 49 – Hither Green rail crash, 5 November 1967
• 47 – R101 airship crash, Beauvais, France, 5 October 1930
• 47 – Auchengeich mining disaster, Lanarkshire, 18 September 1959
• 47 – Kegworth Air Disaster, British Midland Flight 92, Leicestershire, 8 January 1989
• 45 – Six Bells Colliery mining disaster, Aberbeeg, Monmouthshire 28 June 1960
• 45 – Chinook helicopter crash, near Sumburgh, 6 November 1986
• 44 – R38/ZR-2 airship crash, River Humber, near Hull, 24 August 1921
• 43 – Aquila Airways aircrash, Solent flying boat G-AKNU, near Southampton, 15 November 1957
• 43 – Moorgate station tube disaster, 28 February 1975

See also

• List of wars and disasters by death toll (worldwide)
• List of disasters (by subject)
• List of natural disasters in the United Kingdom
• List of British rail accidents (Chronologically sorted)
• List of British rail accidents by death toll
• List of rail accidents (worldwide)
• List of historic fires
• List of riots
• List of terrorist incidents
• List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners
• List of shipwrecks
• European windstorm
• UK topics

External links

• Aviation Safety Network database
• 20th century coal mining disasters
• Historical weather events
• Ships List wrecks site

See also: List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll, 1190, 11 January, 11 July, 11 May, 1212, 12 January, 12 June, 12 March, 12 November