HC Deb 29 October 1990 vol 178 c341W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list by year since 1980 to date(a) the number of bulk carrier ships that have sunk and (b) the number of crew lost; and if he will show in his answer the number of British ships and crew involved.

Mr. McLoughlin

Figures of vessels which sank, and of the number of crew lost, are not recorded. The numbers of ore/bulk/oil carriers recorded as total losses are as follows:

Year Number
1980 21
1981 16
1982 17
1983 26
1984 17
1985 22
1986 20
1987 18
1988 8
1989 12

Only one ship was United Kingdom registered—the Derbyshire which sank in September 1980 with the loss of 44 lives.