This is a list of transportation fires where a ship or other transportation has caught on fire.
List of transportation fires
Ship fires
1800British warship — 673 deaths
1807The slave ship — some 100 deaths
1840Steamship Lexington in Long Island Sound — 139 deaths
1850Sailing ship in the Indian Ocean – no deaths
1865Sultana on the Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tennessee — 1,547 deaths
1893Cargo ship in Santander, Spain — 590 deaths
1904Steamship General Slocum in New York City — 1,021 deaths
1906 fire in Hong Kong — 130+ deaths (14 October) 1908 in Malta — at least 118 deaths 1913 burned at sea, later scuttled — 135 deaths 1917Munitions ship Mont-Blanc burned, drifted and detonated in the Halifax Explosion — roughly 2,000 deaths 1924City of Singapore at Port Adelaide — 3 deaths, 13 injured 1934 off Asbury Park, New Jersey — 137 deaths, ship gutted and beached 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor, sinking and several other ships; extensive fires generated aboard and around ships 1942 in New York City, ship capsized and sank at pier 1944Bombay Explosion (1944) — Fort Stikine docked in Bombay, India underwent a fire which caused two explosions and set fire to the area killing around 800 people 1944Port Chicago disaster — E. A. Bryan docked in Port Chicago, California underwent massive explosions and fire while munitions were loaded. 320 people were killed and 390 were injured. 1947Texas City disaster — two ships' cargoes of ammonium nitrate caught fire and exploded, killing 581, more than 5,000 injured. 1947 in Hong Kong — 200 deaths 1949 in Toronto, Ontario Canada — 118 to 139 deaths 1958 – Artemis - after collision at Hoek van Holland, port of Rotterdam 1963 near Madeira burned — 128 deaths 1965 near Nassau, Bahamas — 90 deaths 1965Orient Trader in Toronto, Ontario, Canada — no deaths or injuries. Was towed from pier into harbour and totally destroyed by fire. 1967 in the Gulf of Tonkin — 134 deaths. 1972 — Collided at Río de la Plata with Tien Chee, a tanker carrying 20 000 tons of crude oil. – 83 deaths 1972 in Hong Kong, ship sank in harbour 1980, capsized and burned for three days 1985 off the Malabar coast of India — 34 deaths. 1987Doña Paz in the Philippines — an estimated 4,000 deaths 1989 Princess of Scandinavia, fire broke out on board during a crossing to Harwich 1990 off Norway — 159 deaths 1991Moby Prince disaster in Livorno, Italy. 140 killed. 1994 near Somalia 2001 in Allanburg, Ontario, Canada — Bridge lowered on the ship, this tore off the wheelhouse and funnel and caused a fire that burned out the aft cabins and engine room. No deaths. 2006 in the Caribbean — one death 2007Cutty Sark, 19th-century clipper in dry dock as a museum ship in Greenwich, London, extensively damaged while undergoing restoration on May 21 2011, Norwegian cruise ship, September 15, two deaths 2014 in Strait of Otranto, Greece — 12 deaths confirmed (including two rescue crew members who died indirectly), 18 others believed dead. 2019MV Conception, dive boat in California's Channel Islands – 34 deaths. 2020 about east of Sri Lanka in the Sangaman Kanda Point - 1 death 2021MV X-Press Pearl anchored off Colombo Port in Sri Lanka 2022 Superyacht Princess in Torquay, sank in harbour 2023 – Port Newark disaster, cargo ship catches fire in Newark, New Jersey — 2 firefighters killed. 2023 – MV Fremantle Highway caught fire off the coast of the Dutch island of Ameland around 11.45 pm (CET) on 25 July 2023 while en route from Bremerhaven, Germany, due to arrive in Egypt's Port Said on 2 August 2023.