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NAR0N|C LOST ON
HER SECOND TRIP
Nothing Ever Heard of This WhiM
Star Liner-Other Famous
Sea Tragedies.

New York April 17.-In the melancholy
roll Of marine tragedies. that which over.
took the Titanic stands alone In the fact
that 1t 10 the first on record wherein q
conspicuous vessel has met disaster ON
her maiden voyage.
There was another star. crossed craft.
and singularly enough she belonged to
this same line. which went to the Dor.
Of missing ships on her second voyage.
this being the Naronic. fine new steam.
ship which had attracted much attention
on her arrival here from the yards of .hs
British shipbuiiders. Carrying about 3s0
all told. she steamed out Of this port on
her return voyage. That was nearly 20
years ago. and since then there has been
no word as to how she met her fate
To enumerate all the disasters which
have come to ships. even in recent years.
would require many columns to tabulate,
To recall some of the most notable. there
was the wreck OF the Atlantic off Nova
Scotia. in 1873. with the loss OF s72: the
laundering of the Pacific TWO years Yer
and the drowning of 256 of her passengers
and crew; the loss by collision of the
Anchor liner Utopia. which was sunk by
collision in 1891 with loss of STA.
Taking only few of the most imports
ant disasters Of the past quarter Of
century, one finds the Oregon laundering
off Fire island after collision with
schooner. She was originally one Of the
Guion fleet. but at the time of the dis.
aster was under charter to the line whose
boast 1t was that It carried no napkins
but never lost Il life" No lives were lost
then
1t was in 1890 that the old Imam
liner City of Paris went staggering Il
port with "A large section Of the Allan.
tic smashing against her bulkheads.
There had been an accident to her
machinery and a gaping hole had been
torn In her sides. She managed to
reach port but it was one of the mir.
acles of the day that she did Just
nine years later the old liner whose
name had been shortened to Paris,
was in the clutch Of the Manacle rocks.
on bitter January day Of 1895 the
Elbe of the North German Lloyd line
was in the English channel when She
was run into and sunk by the Crathie.
Some few Of the Elbe's passengers
were saved. but tine majority, 800, went
down with the sinking liner
The next great disaster came in
July, 1898. when the French line steam
ship Bourgogne was sunk in mid
ocean by collision with the Cromar-
tyshire, the lost numbering 535. II
was only few years previous that the
Bourgogne had sunk the Atlas lineI
Ailsa by collision in this harbor. Fol.
lowing the sinking Of the Bourgogns
came the laundering OF the Norg- /,
1904 and the drowning OF $50. The
Larchmont. up the sound ad led an.
other ls3 to the toll Of the sea.
ONLY TWO SURVIVORS,
In March hurricane the French line,
Vile de ST Nazaire foundered when two
days out Of this port. drowning all except
two survivors. who days later were pulled
from beneath the corpses of others who
had crowded into the only lifeboat which
was ever picked up from the wreck.
Thirty lives were lost when the Anleri.
can liner St. plul rammed and sunk The
British cruiser Gladiator. Then there was
the tragedy of the General Slocum and Ter
1000 ana odd lives, and the holocaust
of the Hohoken ire, which sent the Main,
the Bremen and ,he Saale drifting down
stream ablaze, with a record of l5O lives
blotted out,
The sinking OF the Republic by the
Florida in January, 1919. involved the loss
of only six persons
The most notable disaster Immediately
preceding this one of the Titanic, was
when the steamship Delhi carrying the
Princess Royal and her husband the
Duke of Fife. and their two daughters 10
Egypt, was driven ashore on the coast OF
Africa All the passengers Were saved
but the death of the Duke OF me soon
tier was due to the exposure he suffered