The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-18
NARONIC WASLOST
ONSECONO VOYAGE
Vessel Of White Star Line Went
Down Twenty Years
Ago.
ONE OF SEAS MYSTERIES
titanic Stands Alone, in That IT
Met Disaster on Maiden
Trip.
ONE OF SEAS MYSTERIES

-, ~" ORR April t7.-In the melan-
,S Foii Oh marine tragedies ma,
"hieh overlook the Titanic s,,,1
ulohe In the fact that it is the urs, nn
h,, -, ,tsih conspicuous vessel
''- TIE, i'e' uiaaster Oh her maiden voyage
was another star crossed craff
and s!nsularly enough she hcint,,si.
70 LIB same linc--which went IA En-.
port OF missing ships on h..r s.cnn,,
.nis being the Naronic. a uu.
ny" steamship. which had attracte,,
80. attention on her arrival hero
t,n,Ito ane yards OF her British ship
ouitaeFs' Carrying about 900 All ,ni',
she steamed out of this nor, -, -,
te'"!H voyage. That was nearly twan,,,
searh ago. and since then there Mas
fate. met mex
10 onumeratc all the disasters when
nave como TO ships, ,aven in rnr.n,
years. would require many cnii,
Ia buiate. 10 recall some ,,f ths mo-,
',o,"pie' thcfe was the wreck OF tho
htantic. OF Nova Scotia. in l.7a ,y,,s
me loss Of 672; tho tounderinr ar ,,,a
racine TWO Years later, and Thu, drawn
ins OF zoo OF her passengers and crew.
80 ny eo!lisi3n OF the Anchor
.lhsF Utopia. which was sunk IN 1891.
With loss OF 57i.
The Oregon D.Isuatcr.
Taking only few or the mas, ~,
poriaht disasters OF the past ouart.r
OF "a century. one finds the Oregon fn,,,
usfihs OF Fire Island. after coIIi.,,,,
win q schooner. She was oripi,.ii,.
one OF the Guion fleet, bu, al m, I'm.
~ the disaster waA unds- charter IN
tne me whose boast 1t was tina, il
carried no napkins. but never los,
me No lives wsre lost then
II was In 1880 that tho oI,,
inner cry 81 Paris went staggering IN
poEt "!th large section OF the Allan
nc s"hsning against her bulkhea,,s
mere hhd been an accident to her ma
tn'hcry' and gaping hole had b son
- AZ Her A!ots' She managed 10
Teach port but II was one OF tn MIR.
ac!es OF the day that she dIu. Jus,
H!"e years iater the old liner who's,
""'heu had b=en shortened to Paris uae
IN the clutch OF the Manacle Rocks.
On bitter January day of 1895 The
TO- OF the North German Lloyd Line.
WAS IN the English Channel when ~
was run into and sunk b. the c-a,s.a
some fe" OF the El3=s passengers wera
saved. but the majority, 800, went to,xn
With the sinking liner
me next great disaster came In JuIy
iH'a, whcn Tho Er:nc!, Line s,cafushi,,
bousSosne was sunk in midoeean by
S Soi!'s'oh win the Cromar,ysh!re. tile
iost numbering 53J. II was ONLY "A f.w
years previous that the Bourgosae had
suhk inc Atlas liner A!lsa by collision
IN TINS hasbor. Following the sinItiuc
OF the bou:goBne came tha founIering
OF the Norge. in 1904, and the drowning
OF 100. The Larchmon, UP the sound,
ADDED another 1873 - the toll, OF IN,
sea
Only Four Survivors.
In March hurricane tho French
inner WIG de ST. NnZaire foundered
"hen Two days out OF this port.
browning all except two survivors
VINO days later We're pulled from be-
meath the corpsea Of others who had
crowded Into the only llfeboat which
was ever picked up from the wreck
Ih!rty lives wcro lost when tho
American liner 81. Pau .am,ncl and
sunk the British cruiser Gladiator.
Then there was the tragedy of ina
General Slocum and her 1000 and odd
lives. and The holocaust OF the Ho-
boken fire. which sent the Main, the
bremen and the Saale drifting down
stream ablaze. with 4 record of $50
lives blotted out.
The sinking of the Republic by the
Florida In January, 1909. involved tho
loss OF only six persons.
The most notable disaster imme.
d!ately preceding this ono OF the IT,
tan!c was when tho steamship Delhi,
carrying the Princess Royal and her
husband, the Duke OF Fife, and their
two daughters to Egypt. was driven
ashore on the coast of Africa. All tile
passengers were saved, but the death
of the Duke OF Fife soon after was due
10 exposure ne suffered at tho time