Shipwrecks in the South Atlantic Ocean
48 wrecks located in the South Atlantic Ocean (Natural Earth marine areas), in date order, lost between 1852 and 2010.
- HMS Birkenhead 1852steamboat · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off South Africa
- HMS Maeander 1870fifth-rate frigate · Storm or weather · off Ascension
- Kestrel 1895shipwreck · off Brazil
- SS Lusitania 1911offshore dive site · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off South Africa
- SMS Gneisenau 1914cruiser · War action · South Atlantic Ocean
- SMS Scharnhorst 1914armored cruiser · South Atlantic Ocean
- Príncipe de Asturias 1916passenger vessel · off Brazil
- MV Dunedin Star 1942passenger-cargo ship · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off Namibia
- SS Stephen Hopkins 1942liberty ship · War action · South Atlantic Ocean
- U-179 1942U-boat · off South Africa
- U-128 1943U-boat · Scuttled · off Brazil
- U-161 1943U-boat · War action · South Atlantic Ocean
- U-164 1943U-boat · War action · off Brazil
- U-199 1943U-boat · off Brazil
- U-507 1943U-boat · South Atlantic Ocean
- U-513 1943U-boat · War action · off Brazil
- U-591 1943U-boat · off Brazil
- U-598 1943U-boat · War action · South Atlantic Ocean
- U-604 1943U-boat · Scuttled · South Atlantic Ocean
- U-848 1943U-boat · War action · South Atlantic Ocean
- U-849 1943U-boat · South Atlantic Ocean
- U-177 1944U-boat · South Atlantic Ocean
- U-860 1944U-boat · South Atlantic Ocean
- U-863 1944U-boat · South Atlantic Ocean
- HMS Thames 1947training vessel · Scuttled · off South Africa
- SS Guararema 1949ship · Collision · off Brazil
- ARA General Belgrano 1982light cruiser · War action · South Atlantic Ocean
- ARA Narwal 1982naval trawler · War action · off Falkland Islands
- HMS Ardent 1982frigate · War action · off Falkland Islands
- HMS Coventry 1982guided missile destroyer · War action · off Falkland Islands
- HMS Sheffield 1982guided missile destroyer · War action · South Atlantic Ocean
- HMS Pelorus 1994minesweeper · Scuttled · off South Africa
- SS Oakburn and Bos 400 1994offshore dive site · Storm or weather · off South Africa
- Petrobras 36 2001semi-submersible platform · Fire or explosion · South Atlantic Ocean
- Concordia 2010barquentine · Foundered · South Atlantic Ocean
- ARA San Juan diesel-electric submarine · South Atlantic Ocean
- Bom Jesus carrack · off South Africa
- Cospatrick Blackwall frigate · South Atlantic Ocean
- Eduard Bohlen ship · off Namibia
- HMS Dunedin light cruiser · South Atlantic Ocean
- HMS Fancy minesweeper · off Democratic Republic of the Congo
- RFA Sir Galahad landing ship logistics · off Falkland Islands
- RMS Carmania ocean liner · South Atlantic Ocean
- SAS Good Hope frigate · Scuttled · off South Africa
- SS Atlantic Conveyor container ship · South Atlantic Ocean
- SS Maori shoreline dive site · Grounding or wreck on rocks · off South Africa
- SS Negley D. Cochran ship · off Brazil
- SS Thomas T. Tucker shoreline dive site · off South Africa