Test Your Knowledge: Shipwrecks Quiz

The ferry collided with a tanker and caught fire in 1987; it was captured on video.

The incredibly overloaded ship was filled with undocumented passengers; no one will ever know the real death toll.

It stayed afloat long enough for most passengers to realize they were going to die.

The munitions were hidden below deck; the Germans targeted the ship even though there were more than 1,000 civilians on board.

The ship was carrying munitions when it collided with another ship; the explosion also killed about 2,000 people.

It is Europe's worst-ever peacetime sinking; 852 people died.

Waves of nearly 20 feet (6 meters) --and possible mismanagement by the crew -- caused the ship to take on too much water.

Most were carried away by currents and never seen again.

Its remains lie in about 130 feet (40 meters) of water and is accessible to motivated divers.

A total of 1,012 people died. The 1914 crash is still Canada's worst peacetime ship disaster.

But the overloaded ship probably had close to 1,000 people onboard when it sank.

It was simply not maintained and probably should not have even been on the water.

It carried troops heading to World War I battlefields; more than 900 died.

There were perhaps 1,300 souls aboard and only nine survived; hundreds of dead bodies washed up onto land.

In 1921, the passenger ship snapped in two after hitting rocks near China; 1,000 people died, some while waiting for help.

It was just 8 feet, but in 1850, many people didn't know how to swim, so jumping in the water was a death sentence.

A fast maneuver may have caused it to capsize; the exploding gunpowder didn't help, either.

A Soviet submarine blasted the ship with a torpedo near East Prussia.

More than 5,000 of them were children, but because it had guns on board it was considered a target.

It cost the Khan around 100,000 men and 4,000 ships and ended his attempted conquest of Japan.

The ferry caught fire and began listing. It sank as it was turning back to port, killing more than 1,000 people.

The Graveyard of the Atlantic is actually two locations, both on the eastern side of North America; horribly rough waters cause many sinkings.

The ship simply listed to one side and sank, right there at the dock.

Poor design and carelessness were to blame; rescuers acted quickly but too many people were already below deck.

She turned too sharply and the ship tipped to one side, allowing water to course through the gun ports.

The Senegalese ferry was far too overloaded and 1,863 people drowned.

Only one lifeboat managed to deploy; it saved 25 lives.

It sank in the 1850s on the Missouri River and is now under a field in Kansas City, Kansas.

The incredible depth of the wreckage made it difficult to find until modern technologies spotted it.

In 1914 the ship became lodged in ice, it was crushed and sank; some explorers would like to find it but the 12,000-foot deep water and cold will make the task very difficult.