Table 2. Causes of maritime casualties of 15 flags with 500 ships.
S=Standing, fine weather; SGF=Standing in gale, fog or engine failure; FE=Fire in engine room; F=Fire, unspecified; FC=Fire in cargo; Fail=Cargo failure, or shifting; Str=Struck object.
Flags Strandings Fire Leak
Tot		 Gale
Tot		 Coll.
Tot		 Expl.
Tot		 Fail.
Tot		 War
Tot		 Str.
Tot		 Ships
No
S SGF Tot FE F   FC Tot
Greek               1  1            2 
Panamanian 15 5 20 5 5 1 11 14 10 2 2 3 2 2 66
Liberian 19 12 31 14 6 3 23 9 2 9 6 1 4   85
Cyprus 11 12 23 8 3 1 12 14 8 3   1 2 1 64
UK 8 4 12 7 2   9 3 8 3 2 1 2 3 43
Japanese 2 4 6         2 7 11 1       27
Philippine 7 6 13 6 5 4 15 7 11 14   3     53
Italian 7 4 11 5 2 2 9 5 5 2 1 1 1 1 36
Spanish 3   3 4 4 1 9 7 5 2 2 1     29
Lebanese 5 2 7 5 1 1 7 2 3 1     2 2 24
Norwegian 2 1 3 4 2   6 1 2 4 1       17
Brazilian 4 2 6 2 1 3 6 3 2           17 
USA 3   3 1 1 1 3 2 3 3   1 1   16
W.German 2 2 4     1 1 1 2 4   2   1 15
Chilian 4    4         1 1            6
G.Total     146       111 72 70 48 15 14 14 10 500
%     29.2       22.2 14.4 14 9.6 3 2.8 2.8 2 100