(CLOSED) **Baker's Dozen: Ships that became famous because they were sunk/lost/destroyed***

1. RMS Titanic - sunk by an iceberg, 1912
2. Bismarck - sunk in combat on her first mission in 1941 killing over 2,000 sailors.
3. RMS Lusitania - torpedoed by German sub, 1915
4. PT-109 - rammed and sunk by a large Japaneses warship leading to JFK's very heroic actions in the aftermath.
5. ARA General Belgrano - torpedoed by a British sub during the Falklands War, 1982
6. HMS Terror - lost in the Arctic during the Franklin Expedition, 1848
7. USS Maine - Its explosion in the harbor of Havana led the Spanish-American war, 1898.
8. USS Arizona - Sunk at Pearl Harbor and is now a memorial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_Memorial
9. A two-fer, SS Mont Blanc collided with SS Imo in Halifax harbor, Dec 6, 1917 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion

1. RMS Titanic - sunk by an iceberg, 1912
2. Bismarck - sunk in combat on her first mission in 1941 killing over 2,000 sailors.
3. RMS Lusitania - torpedoed by German sub, 1915
4. PT-109 - rammed and sunk by a large Japaneses warship leading to JFK's very heroic actions in the aftermath.
5. ARA General Belgrano - torpedoed by a British sub during the Falklands War, 1982
6. HMS Terror - lost in the Arctic during the Franklin Expedition, 1848
7. USS Maine - Its explosion in the harbor of Havana led the Spanish-American war, 1898.
8. USS Arizona - Sunk at Pearl Harbor and is now a memorial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_Memorial
9. A two-fer, SS Mont Blanc collided with SS Imo in Halifax harbor, Dec 6, 1917 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
10. SS Andrea Doria - Immortalized in a Seinfeld episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_yeuO96dAA

1. RMS Titanic - sunk by an iceberg, 1912
2. Bismarck - sunk in combat on her first mission in 1941 killing over 2,000 sailors.
3. RMS Lusitania - torpedoed by German sub, 1915
4. PT-109 - rammed and sunk by a large Japaneses warship leading to JFK's very heroic actions in the aftermath.
5. ARA General Belgrano - torpedoed by a British sub during the Falklands War, 1982
6. HMS Terror - lost in the Arctic during the Franklin Expedition, 1848
7. USS Maine - Its explosion in the harbor of Havana led the Spanish-American war, 1898.
8. USS Arizona - Sunk at Pearl Harbor and is now a memorial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_Memorial
9. A two-fer, SS Mont Blanc collided with SS Imo in Halifax harbor, Dec 6, 1917 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
10. SS Andrea Doria - Immortalized in a Seinfeld episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_yeuO96dAA
11. SS Edmund Fitzgerald - sunk during a storm on Lake Superior, 1975

1. RMS Titanic - sunk by an iceberg, 1912
2. Bismarck - sunk in combat on her first mission in 1941 killing over 2,000 sailors.
3. RMS Lusitania - torpedoed by German sub, 1915
4. PT-109 - rammed and sunk by a large Japaneses warship leading to JFK's very heroic actions in the aftermath.
5. ARA General Belgrano - torpedoed by a British sub during the Falklands War, 1982
6. HMS Terror - lost in the Arctic during the Franklin Expedition, 1848
7. USS Maine - Its explosion in the harbor of Havana led the Spanish-American war, 1898.
8. USS Arizona - Sunk at Pearl Harbor and is now a memorial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_Memorial
9. A two-fer, SS Mont Blanc collided with SS Imo in Halifax harbor, Dec 6, 1917 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
10. SS Andrea Doria - Immortalized in a Seinfeld episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_yeuO96dAA
11. SS Edmund Fitzgerald - sunk during a storm on Lake Superior, 1975
12. RMS Carpathia - known for rescuing survivors of the Titanic disaster, was hit by a German torpedo and sank on July 17, 1918. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carpathia#Sinking_and_aftermath

1. RMS Titanic - sunk by an iceberg, 1912
2. Bismarck - sunk in combat on her first mission in 1941 killing over 2,000 sailors.
3. RMS Lusitania - torpedoed by German sub, 1915
4. PT-109 - rammed and sunk by a large Japaneses warship leading to JFK's very heroic actions in the aftermath.
5. ARA General Belgrano - torpedoed by a British sub during the Falklands War, 1982
6. HMS Terror - lost in the Arctic during the Franklin Expedition, 1848
7. USS Maine - Its explosion in the harbor of Havana led the Spanish-American war, 1898.
8. USS Arizona - Sunk at Pearl Harbor and is now a memorial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_Memorial
9. A two-fer, SS Mont Blanc collided with SS Imo in Halifax harbor, Dec 6, 1917 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
10. SS Andrea Doria - Immortalized in a Seinfeld episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_yeuO96dAA
11. SS Edmund Fitzgerald - sunk during a storm on Lake Superior, 1975
12. RMS Carpathia - known for rescuing survivors of the Titanic disaster, was hit by a German torpedo and sank on July 17, 1918. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carpathia#Sinking_and_aftermath
13. SS Sultana-- Worst maritime disaster in U.S. History, 1865 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)

Honorary Mention:
USS Oriskany - Sunk intentionally to create world's largest artificial reef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFU-g_1CVnk

feel like I should also mention the Mockba - Russians flagship that got knocked out by Ukraine with a drone and 2 Polaris torpedoes

Wilhelm Gustloff 1945
Estimated 9,400 people died, largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Wilhelm_Gustloff
(disaster mention as a kind of "Honorary Mention" above)