Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Part 41

TOLL OF THE SEA

Among the important marine disasters recorded since 1866 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 ash.o.r.e and wrecked at St Thomas, West Indies, by a hurricane; about 1,000 lives lost.

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 s.h.i.+p 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 s.h.i.+p 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 s.h.i.+p 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.

1884, Jan. 18.--American steamer City of Columbus wrecked off Gay Head Light, Ma.s.sachusetts; 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 steams.h.i.+p Sud America and steamer La France in collision near the Canary Islands; 89 lives lost.

1889, March 16.--United States wars.h.i.+ps Trenton, Vandalia and Nipsic and German s.h.i.+ps 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 steams.h.i.+p 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.

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 Cromartys.h.i.+re; 571 lives lost.

1898, Nov. 27.--American steamer Portland, wrecked off Cape Cod, Ma.s.s.; 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 Ma.r.s.eilles; 150 lives lost.

1904, June 15. General Sloc.u.m, excursion steamboat, took fire going through h.e.l.l Gate, East River; more than 1000 lives lost.

1906, Jan. 21.--Brazilian battles.h.i.+p 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 s.h.i.+p 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.

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.--j.a.panese steamer Mutsu Maru sunk in collision near Hakodate; 300 lives lost.

1908, April 30.--j.a.panese training cruiser Matsu s.h.i.+ma 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.