The ferry MV `` Princess Victoria '' was lost Earnings_and_losses at sea in the North Channel east of Belfast with 133 fatalities Death , and many fishing trawlers sank .

It also led to Causation the final breakup Destroying of the oil tanker MV `` Braer '' , from which the storm Catastrophe derived Giving its name ; it had been stranded Motion in rocks off the Shetland Islands by a previous storm Catastrophe nearly a week beforehand GetReady .

The passenger ferry MV `` Doña Marilyn '' sank in the Visayan Sea en route from Manila to Tacloban City .