1994 sinking of the MS Estonia

The ferry was damaged by high waves on the overnight run from Tallinn to Stockholm and sank in the early hours of 28 September 1994, in Finnish waters near the island of Uto. She vanished from the radar screens of other ships following the situation 28 minutes after her first radio distress call. The bow door was raised from the sea bed off Uto that November, and a joint Swedish and Estonian probe completed in 1997 found that she had been seaworthy when she left Tallinn.

Date
1994-09-28
Deaths (Wikipedia list, low end where it gives a range)
852
What the pin marks
Where she sank in the Baltic Sea, at the wreck as the cited page positions it.
Where the position is published
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Estonia

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: ferry, baltic sea, bow door, inquiry, 1994

Coordinates: 59.382, 21.682

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