page_title: SS Atlantic (1870)
section_title: Recovery of the dead
hierarchical_section_title: SS Atlantic (1870) / Recovery of the dead
caption_attribution_description: English: &#160; File name: 10_09_000103 Title: The wreck of the "Atlantic" -- Cast up by the sea Creator/Contributor: Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910 (artist) Date issued: 1873-04-26 Physical description: 1 print&#160;: wood engraving Genre: Wood engravings; Periodical illustrations Notes: Published in: Harper's Weekly, Volume XVII, 26 April 1873, p. 345.; Drawn by Winslow Homer.; Signed: W H. Collection: Winslow Homer Collection Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department Rights: No known restrictions Flickr data on 2011-08-11: Camera: Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW, Sinar m Tags: Winslow Homer User: Boston Public Library BPL
context_page_description: RMS Atlantic was a transatlantic ocean liner of the White Star Line that operated between Liverpool, United Kingdom, and New York City, United States. During the ship's 19th voyage, on 1 April 1873, she struck rocks and sank off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, killing at least 535 people. It remained the deadliest civilian maritime disaster in the North Atlantic Ocean until the sinking of SS La Bourgogne on 2 July 1898 and the greatest disaster for the White Star Line prior to the loss of Titanic in April 1912.
context_section_description: Recovery and burial of the large numbers of victims took weeks. Divers were paid rewards for recovering the many bodies trapped within the hull. According to one newspaper account, a body of one of the crew members was discovered to be that of a woman disguised as a man. "She was about twenty or twenty-five years old and had served as a common sailor for three voyages, and her sex was never known until the body was washed ashore and prepared for burial. She is described as having been a great favorite with all her shipmates, and one of the crew, speaking of her, remarked: 'I didn't know Bill was a woman. He used to take his grog as regular as any of us, and was always begging or stealing tobacco. He was a good fellow, though, and I am sorry he was a woman."
caption: Winslow Homer drawing of an Atlantic victim cast up by the sea
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