Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-17
The Greatest Ocean Disasters.


Among the celebrated disasters in
VoIVing large loss of life have been
these:
1854. Sept Craftsmanship Arctic.
from Liverpool. rammed by French
steamship Vesta. off Cape Race; 367
dead.
1858. sept.-steamship Austria burn
Cd iE mid-acean; 40 dead
1863. April 2S-Allen line clipper ship
Anglo Saxon lost on rocks at Clam
Cove near Cape Race; 332 dead.
1866. Jan. 11-Steamer London. on
her way to Melbourne, Australia,
founaered in the Bay of Biscay; 200
lives lost
1866. Oct 3-steamer Evening Star,
from New York to New Orleans,
feundered; about 250 lives lost
1861 Oct 29-Royal Mail steamers
Rhone and Wye and about 50 other
vessels driven ashore and wrecked at
st. Thomas, West Indies. by d hurri-
cane: about 1000 lives lost.
1873, Jan. 22-British steamer North
fleet sunk in collision off Dunge-
ness: 300 lives lost.
1873. April steamship Vile du
Havre. New York fer Havre sunk in
collision with steamship Lock Earn
in md-oeean 227 dead.
1873. Nov. 23-White star Liner At
lantie wrecked off Nova Scotia; 5f1
lives lost.
1874, Dec. 26-Emigrant vessel Cos
patrick took fire and sank off Auck-
land. New Zealand AS lives lost.
1875. May Hamburg mail steamer
Schiller wrecked in fog on Scilly Is
lands; 200 lives lost
1875, Nov. 4-American steamer Pa
cific in collision 50 miles southwest of
Cape Flattery; 236 lives lost.
1878, March 24-Brtish training ship
Eurydice, frigate, foundered near the
Isle of Wight; 300 lives lost.
1873, May 6-German warship Gros-
ser Kurfest rammed by Koenig Will
helm; pa dead.
1878, Sept British iron steamer
Princess Alice sunk in a collision in
the Thames river; 100 lives lost.
1878, Dee. 1S-French steamer Bysan-
tin sunk in collision in the Dardanelles,
with the British steamer Rinaldo; 2l0
lives lost
1885, Jan. 3t-Brtish training ship
ATLANTA left Bermuda with 300 men
and was never heard from.
1885, June 1f-Sound steamship Mar
ragansett run down near mouth of
Connecticut river by the Stonington
and Cunard; "a dead.
1851 Aug. 2O-Steamer Teuton,
wrecked off the Cape Of Good Hope, zoo
lives lost. ''
1888. Jan. 19-Steanship Cimbria run
down by the Sultan near the mouth
of the River Erne: 400 dead.
1854, Jan. Steamship City of Co
Iumtus, Boston for Savannah, struck
reef near Martha's vineyard: 100 dead.
1887. Jan o9-Steamer Kapunda in
collision with bark Ada Melore, off
coast of Brazil; 300 lives lost.
1887. Nov. 15-British steamer Wall
Yung caught fire between Canton and
Hong Kong: 400 lives lost.
1882 March 16-United States war
ships Trenton, Vandalia and Nipsic
and German warships Adler and Eber
wrecked by hurricane at Apia, Samoan
Islands; III lives lost.
1890, Feb. 17-British steamer Du-
burg wrecked in the China sea; 400
lives lost.
1890. Sept. 19-Turkish frigate
Ertogrul foundered off Japan: $40
| lives lost.
1891. March t7-Anchor liner Utopia
in collision with British steamer An
son off Gibraltar and sunk; 574 lives
| lost.
1892, Jan. 13-Steamer Namehow
wrecked in China Sea-; Ala lives lost
1892. Oct,-The Utopia in collision off
Gibraltar; 500 dead
1893, Aug-The Victoria. warship
| in collision off Tripoli; 800 dead.
1894, June 25-Steamer Norge wreck
| ed on Rocktail Reef. in the North At
lantic; nearly 600 lives lost.
| 1895. Jan. 30-German steamer Elbe
sunk in collision with British steam
| er Crathie in North Sea; 1886 lives
| lost,
| 1895, March 1l-Spanish cruiser
| Reina Regenta foundered in the At
| lantic at entrance to the Mediterra
mean; 400 lives lost.
1897. April Brigantine Valiant OF
st. Pierre, MID struck an iceberg; 4
| dead.
| 1S9S-July IA, 1S9S-French liner La
| Rurgoyne rammed by steamship Gro
martyshire on the Grand Banks; So
| dead.
| 1898, Nov. Craftsmanship Portland
| Boston for Portland, lost in snow
storm in Massachusetts, bay; 129 dead