Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-11

Rhone and Wye, and about so other
vessels, driven ashore and wrecked
at st. Thomas, West Indies, by hurri-
cane. about a thousand lives lost.
| 1873, Jan. 22-British steamer North
fleet, sunk in collision Of Dungeness,
300 lives lost.
1873, Nov. 23-White Star liner, At
lantic, wrecked off Nova Scotia, SAT
| lives lost.
| 1874, Dec. 26-Immigrant vessel Co.'S
patrick, took fire and sunk off Auck-
| land. New Zealand. 476 lives lost.
| 1875, May Hamburg mail steam
| err, schiller, wrecked on fog off Scilly
| island, 200 lives lost.
| 1875, Nov. American steamer, Pa
cific in collision 80 miles southwest of
Cape Flattery, 236 lives lost.
1878, March 24-British training ship
Eurydice, a frigate, foundered near
Isle of Wight. 300 lives lost.
1878, Sept. 3-British iron steamer
Princess Alice. sunk in collision in
the Thames river, 700 lives lost.
1878, Dec. 1S.-French steamer By
cantin, sunk in collision in the OAR
danelles, with the British steamer
Rinaldo, 21O lives lost.
1880, Jan. 31-British training ship
Atlanta, left Bermuda with 200 men
and was never heard from.
1881, Aug. 30-Steamer Teuton,
wrecked off the Cape Of Good Hope
200 lives lost.
1884, Dec. 7-Steamer City of Co
lumbus, wrecked on reef near Mar
tha's Vineyard, 100 lives lost
1887, Jan. 29-Steamer Kapumba, in
collision with the bark Ada Melore off
the coast of Brazil. 800 lives lost
1887, Nov. 15-Steamer Wah Yung,
caught fire between Cambon and Hong
Kong, 400 lives lost
1889, March 16--United States war
ships Trenton. Vandalia and Nipsic,
and German warships Alder and Eb-
en-, wrecked by hurricane at Apia, Sa-
moan islands, lat lives lost.
1890, Feb. 17-British steamer Du-
burg. wrecked in the China sea, 400
lives lost.
1890. Sept. 19-Turkish frigate Erpo-
giul, foundered Off Japan, 500 lives
lost.
1891, March 17-Anchor line Utopia,
in collision with British steamer An
son, off Gibraltar, SAT lives lost.
| 1892. Jan l3-Steamer Namehow,
wrecked in China sea, Al lives lost.
1894, June 25-Steamer Norge,
wrecked on Rockfall reef, in the North
Atlantic, nearly 600 lives lost.
1895. Jan. 3O-German steamer Elbe,
sunk in collision with British steamer
Crathie, in North sea, 1876 lives lost.
1885, March 11-Spanish cruiser
Reina Regenta, foundered in the At
lantic, at entrance to the Mediterra-
mean, 400 lives lost.
1898. Feb. 15-United States battle
ship Maine. blown UP in Havana har-
Dor, 26O lives lost.
1898, July 4-French line steamer La
Burgoyne. in collision with British
sailing vessel Cronartyshire, ST. lives
lost.
1888, Nov. 2s and 29-Steamer Portland.
foundered in storm in Massachusetts bay,
with all on board, 1s9 lives lost.
1904, June 15-Gen. Slocum, excursion
steamboat, took fire going through He'll
Gate. East river, more than 1000 lives
lost.
1906, Jan. N-Brazilian battleship Aoui-
daben. sunk near Rio Janeiro, by an ex-
plosion Of powder magazines, 2l2 lives
lost.
1906, Aug. Italian immigrant shin
sirio. struck rock off Cape Fales, $50
lives lost.
1907, Feb. u-Steamer Larchmont, col
lided with the schooner Harry F. Knowl-
ton in Long Island sound. $50 lives lost.
1903. March 23-Japanese steamer Matsu
Maru. sunk in collision near Hakodate.
800 lives lost.
1908. April ao-Japanese training cruiser
Matsushima, sunk off the Pescadoes, ow-
ing to an explosion, 200 lives lost.
1909. Jan. A-Collision between Italian
steamer Florida and the White Star lin
er Republic. about ITO miles east of New
York, during fog. Republic sank while
being towed. 8 lives lost.
1909. Aug. 1-Steamer Waratah, from
Sidney, Australia. by way of Port Natal
South Africa. for London. first heard
from July 26, 900 lives lost.
1910. Feb. 9-French steamer General
Chanzy. foundered off Minora, 200 lives
lost.
1911. Sept. 25-French battieship Liberia
sunk by an explosion in Toulon harbor
"a lives lost, !
1912. April 15-White Star liner Titanic
coliided with iceberg OF Crank Banks.
1895 lives lost.
1914. May z-Princess Ireland was In
collision In the St Lawrence. 1927 lives
lost
1918, May [Cunard liner Lusitania.
torpedoed by German submarine, 10
miles ON Kinsale, lives lost about 1850.