sociology - 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
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