List of shipwrecks in 1962

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The list of shipwrecks in 1962 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1962.

[edit] January

• FV Gai Floreal  France ran aground near Bennal Cove, St. Ives. All crew saved, ship towed back to France.^[1]

[edit] January 11

B-37  Russia destroyed by explosion at Ekaterininsky. S-350  Russia damaged by the explosion. A total of 132 people killed.

[edit] July

[edit] July 6

• Tuaikaepau  New Zealand ran aground on the Minerva Reef. Crew lived in the wreck of a Japanese vessel, wrecked two years earlier, for seven weeks before making a raft and some of them sailed to Fiji. Five crew died before rescue came.

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Ship launches:	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
Ship commissionings:	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
Ship decommissionings:	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
Shipwrecks:	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969

Ship launches:	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
Ship commissionings:	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
Ship decommissionings:	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
Shipwrecks:	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979