Shipwrecks

Among the important marine disasters

recorded 1866- 1912 are the following:

 

1866, Jan. 11.--Steamer London, on her way to Melbourne,

foundered in the Bay of Biscay; 220 lives lost.

 

1866, Oct. 3.--Steamer Evening Star, from New York

to New Orleans, foundered; about 250 lives lost.

 

1867, Oct. 29.--Royal Mail steamers Rhone and Wye

and about fifty other vessels driven ashore and wrecked at St Thomas,

West Indies, by a hurricane; about 1,000 lives lost.

 

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1873, Jan. 22.--British steamer Northfleet sunk

in collision off Dungeness; 300 lives lost

 

1873, Nov. 23.--White Star liner Atlantic wrecked off Nova Scotia;

547 lives lost.

 

1873, Nov. 23.--French line Ville du Havre, from

New York to Havre, in collision with ship Locharn and sunk in sixteen

minutes; 110 lives lost.

 

1874, Dec. 24.--Emigrant vessel Cospatrick took

fire and sank off Auckland; 476 lives lost.

 

1875, May 7.--Hamburg Mail steamer Schiller wrecked

in fog on Scilly Islands; 200 lives lost.

 

1875, Nov. 4.--American steamer Pacific in collision

thirty miles southwest of Cape Flattery; 236 lives lost.

 

1878, March 24.--British training ship Eurydice,

a frigate, foundered near the Isle of Wight; 300 lives lost.

 

1878, Sept. 3.--British iron steamer Princess Alice

sunk in the Thames River; 700 lives lost.

 

1878, Dec. 18.--French steamer Byzantin sunk in

collision in the Dardanelles with the British steamer Rinaldo; 210

lives lost.

 

1879, Dec. 2.--Steamer Borussia sank off the coast

of Spain; 174 lives lost.

 

1880, Jan. 31.--British trading ship Atlanta left

Bermuda with 290 men and was never heard from.

 

1881, Aug. 30.--Steamer Teuton wrecked off the

Cape of Good Hope; 200 lives lost.

 

1883, July 3.--Steamer Daphne turned turtle in

the Clyde; 124 lives lost.

 

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1884, Jan. 18.--American steamer City of Columbus

wrecked off Gay Head Light, Massachusetts; 99 lived lost.

 

1884, July 23.--Spanish steamer Gijon and British

steamer Lux in collision off Finisterre; 150 lives lost.

 

1887, Jan. 29.--Steamer Kapunda in collision with

bark Ada Melore off coast of Brazil; 300 lives lost.

 

1887, Nov. 15.--British steamer Wah Young caught

fire between Canton and Hong Kong; 400 lives lost.

 

1888, Sept. 13.--Italian steamship Sud America

and steamer La France in collision near the Canary Islands; 89 lives

lost.

 

1889, March 16.--United States warships Trenton,

Vandalia and Nipsic and German ships Adler and Eber wrecked on Samoan

Islands; 147 lives lost.

 

1890, Jan. 2.--Steamer Persia wrecked on Corsica;

130 lives lost.

 

1890, Feb. 17.--British steamer Duburg wrecked

in the China Sea; 400 lives lost.

 

1890, March 1.--British steamship Quetta foundered

in Torres Straits; 124 lives lost.

 

1890, Dec. 27.--British steamer Shanghai burned

in China Seas; 101 lives lost.

 

1891, March 17.--Anchor liner Utopia in collision

with British steamer Anson off Gibraltar and sunk; 574 lives lost.

 

1892, Jan. 13.--Steamer Namehow wrecked in China

Sea; 414 lives lost.

 

1892, Oct. 28.--Anchor liner Romania, wrecked off

Portugal; 113 lives lost.

 

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1893, Feb. 8.--Anchor liner Trinairia, wrecked

off Spain; 115 lives lost.

 

1894, June 25.

-- Steamer Norge, wrecked on Rockall Reef, in the North Atlantic;

nearly 600 lives lost.

 

1895, Jan. 30.--German steamer Elbe sunk in collision

with British steamer Crathie in North Sea; 335 lives lost.

 

1898, July 4.--French line steamer La Bourgogne

in collision with British sailing vessel Cromartyshire; 571 lives lost.

 

1898, Nov. 27.--American steamer Portland, wrecked

off Cape Cod, Mass.; 157 lives lost.

 

1901, April 1.--Turkish transport Aslam wrecked

in the Red Sea; over 180 lives lost.

 

1902, July 21.--Steamer Primus sunk in collision

with the steamer Hansa on the Lower Elbe; 112 lives lost.

 

1903, June 7.--French steamer Libau sunk in collision

with steamer Insulerre near Marseilles; 150 lives lost.

 

1904, June 15. General Slocum, excursion steamboat,

took fire going through Hell Gate, East River; more than 1000 lives

lost.

 

1906, Jan. 21.--Brazilian battleship Aquidaban

sunk near Rio Janeiro by an explosion of the powder magazines; 212

lives lost.

 

1906, Jan. 22.--American steamer Valencia lost

off Cloose, Pacific Coast; 140 lives lost.

 

1906, Aug. 4.--Italian emigrant ship Sirio struck

a rock off Cape Palos; 350 lives lost.

 

1906, Oct. 21.--Russian steamer Variag, on leaving

Vladivostock, struck by a torpedo and sunk; 140 lives lost.

 

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1907, Feb. 12.--American steamer Larchmond sunk

in collision off Rhode Island coast; 131 lives lost.

 

1907, July 20.--American steamers Columbia and San Pedro collided on the

Californian coast; 100 lives lost.

 

1907, Nov. 26.--Turkish steamer Kaptain foundered

in the North Sea; 110 lives lost.

 

1908, March 23.--Japanese steamer Mutsu Maru sunk

in collision near Hakodate; 300 lives lost.

 

1908, April 30.--Japanese training cruiser Matsu

Shima sunk off the Pescadores owing to an explosion; 200 lives lost.

 

1909, Jan. 24.--Collision between the Italian steamer

Florida and the White Star liner Republic, about 170 miles east of

New York during a fog; a large number of lives were saved

by the arrival of the steamer Baltic, which received the "C. Q. D.,

" or distress signal sent up by wireless by the Republic January 22.

The Republic sank while being towed; 6 lives lost.

 

1910, Feb. 9.--French line steamer General Chanzy off Minorca;

200 lives lost.

 

1911, Sept. 25.--French battleship Liberté

sunk by explosion in Toulon harbor; 223 lives lost.

 

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