Ship Accidents on Icelandic Shores, 1925–2025

Iceland ship accidents

Introduction Iceland’s shoreline is one of the most dramatic in the North Atlantic. It is also one of the most unforgiving. Over the last hundred years, ships have been wrecked, torpedoed, driven ashore, or overturned in waters around Reykjanes, the Westfjords, and the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago. Some disasters became national traumas because entire crews and passenger […]