Table 4. Causes of maritime casualties of 15 flags with 1,500 ships.
*sample size insufficient, so statistically insignificant.
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	Eng Tot	Ships No
	S	SGF	Tot	FE	F	FC	Tot
Greek	29	18	47	32	12	9	53	20	6	5	5	2	5	4	3	150
Panamanian	28	14	42	14	11	8	33	28	17	5	4	7	6	3	5	150
Liberian	29	19	48	21	11	4	36	17	8	15	10	2	9		5	150
Cyprus	26	20	46	23	9	4	36	30	12	5		3	12	1	5	150
UK	25	17	42	10	7	3	20	10	15	11	5	6	5	5	6	125
Japanese	14	17	31		2	3	5	16	26	38	7	4				127
Philippine	16	19	35	11	7	4	22	12	20	6	5	5	1	1	1	108
Italian	21	13	34	10	4	7	21	16	7	9	5	4	1	2	3	102
Spanish	11	9	20	9	10	4	23	15	10	14	4	9	2	2	1	100
Lebanese*	22	12	34	10	1	2	13	9	6	3	2	3	4	2	2	78
Norwegian*	7	6	13	9	6		15	7	7	12	5	6		1	2	68
Brazilian*	14	11	25	3	1	5	9	9	3	6	2				4	58
USA*	11	4	15	7	1	1	9	6	7	6	8	3	3		1	58
W.German*	9	5	14	5	1	1	7	5	9	14	1	5		2		57
Chilian*	8	1	9	1	1		2	2	4		1			1		19
G.Total			455	61	32	18	304	202	157	149	64	59	48	24	38	1,500
%			30.3				20.3	13.4	10.5	9.9	4.3	3.9	3.2	1.6	2.6	100