January 11, |
1866—Steamer London on its way to Melbourne, foundered in the Bay of Biscay; 220 lives lost. |
October 3, |
1866—Steamer Evening Star from New York to New Orleans, foundered; 250 lives lost. |
October 29, |
1867—Royal Mail steamers Rhone and Wye, and about 50 other vessels driven ashore and wrecked at St. Thomas, West Indies, by a hurricane; 1,000 lives lost. |
January 22, |
1873—British steamer Northfleet sunk in collision off Dungeness; 300 lives lost. |
November 23, |
1873—White Star liner Atlantic wrecked off Nova Scotia; 547 lives lost. |
May 7, |
1875—Hamburg mail steamer Schiller wrecked in fog on Scilly Isles, 200 lives lost. |
November 4, |
1875—American steamer Pacific in collision thirty miles southwest of Cape Flattery; 236 lives lost. |
March 24, |
1878—British training ship Eurydice, a frigate, foundered near the Isle of Wight; 300 lives lost. |
September 3, |
1878—British iron excursion boat Princess Alice sunk in collision in the Thames; 700 lives lost. |
December 18, |
1878—French steamer Byzantin, sunk in collision in the Dardanelles, with the British steamer Rinaldo; 210 lives lost. |
January 31, |
1880—British training ship Atlanta left Bermuda with 290 men and was never heard from. |
March 16, |
1889—United States warships Trenton, Vandalia, and Nipsic and German ships Adler and Eber wrecked on Samoan Islands; 147 lives lost. |
March 17, |
1891—Anchor liner Utopia in collision with British steamer Anson off Gibraltar and sunk; 574 lives lost. |
June 22, |
1893—British battleship Victoria sunk in collision with the Camperdown off Syria; 357 lives lost. |
June 25, |
1894—Steamer Norge wrecked on Rockall Reef in North Atlantic; nearly 600 lives lost. |
January 30, |
1895—German steamer Elbe, sunk in collision with British steamer Crathie in North Sea; 335 lives lost. |
March 11, |
1895—Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta foundered in Atlantic at entrance to Mediterranean; 400 lives lost. |
July 2, |
1898—Steamship Bourgogne rammed British steel sailing vessel Cromartyshire and sank rapidly; 571 lives lost. |
June 15, |
1904—General Slocum, excursion steamboat with 1,400 persons aboard; took fire while going through Hell Gate, East River; more than 1,000 lives lost. |
September 12, |
1905—Japanese steamship Mikasa wrecked by explosion; 599 lives lost. |
February 21, |
1907—English mail steamship Berlin wrecked off Hook of Holland; 142 lives lost. |
