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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