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Subject: Shipwrecks Since 1833
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 07:57:30 -0700

Worlds ”Disasters

Shipwrecks Since 1833


1833
May 11, Lady of the Lake: bound from England to Quebec, struck iceberg; 215
perished.

1853
Sept. 29, Annie Jane: emigrant vessel off coast of Scotland; 348 died.

1865
April 27, Sultana: boiler explosion on Mississippi River steamboat, near
Memphis; 1,547 killed. Most of the dead were Union POWs finally heading home
at the end of the Civil War.

1898
Feb. 15, Maine: U.S. battleship destroyed in Havana harbor by an explosion
that killed 260 men. The incident led to the outbreak of the
Spanish-American
War in April 1898.

Nov. 26, City of Portland: 157 died nr. Cape Cod.

1904
June 15, General Slocum: excursion steamer burned in East River, N.Y.; 1,021
perished.

1912
March 5, Principe de Asturias: Spanish steamer struck rock off Sebastien
Point; 500 drowned.


April 15, Titanic: supposedly unsinkable British ocean liner went down on
maiden voyage after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500 people died.

1914
May 29, Empress of Ireland: sank after collision in St. Lawrence River;
1,024
perished.

1915
July 24, Eastland: Great Lakes excursion steamer overturned in Chicago
River;
812 died.

1916
Nov. 21, Britannic: sister shi of the Titanic sank in the Aegean Sea
following an unexplained explosion. The vessel, which was only on its sixth
voyage, was being used as a hospital ship during World War I. Only 30 of the
more than 1,100 people on board were killed.

1917
Dec. 6, Mont Blanc: French ammunition ship collided with Belgian steamer in
Halifax Harbor, Canada; 1,600 people died.

1928
Nov. 12, Vestris: British steamer sank in gale off Va.; 110 died.

1934
Sept. 8, Morro Castle: 134 killed in fire off Asbury Park, N.J.

1939
May 23, Squalus: submarine with 59 men sank off Hampton Beach, N.H.; 33
saved.


June 1, Thetis: submarine sank in Liverpool Bay, England; 99 perished.

1942
Feb. 24, Struma: steamer sunk by Soviet submarine in the Black Sea near the
Bosporus. Of the 778 people aboard, mostly Romanian Jews fleeing the
Holocaust, only one person survived.


Oct. 2, Queen Mary: rammed and sank a British cruiser; 338 aboard the
cruiser
died.

1945
Jan. 30, Wilhelm Gustloff: cruise ship carrying German refugees and soldiers
sunk by Soviet submarine in Baltic. It is thought that as many as 10,000
people were aboard, of which only about 900 survived.


April 9: U.S. ship, loaded with aerial bombs, exploded at Bari, Italy; at
least 360 killed.

1948
Nov.: unidentified Chinese troopship evacuating Nationalist troops from
Manchuria sank nr. Yingkow, killing an estimated 6,000 persons.


Dec. 3, Kiangya: Chinese passenger ship carrying refugees fleeing Communist
troops sank off Shanghai; over 3,000 believed to have been killed.

1949
Sept. 17, Noronic: Canadian Great Lakes cruise ship burned at Toronto dock;
about 130 died.

1952
April 26, Hobson: minesweeper collided with aircraft carrier Wasp and sank
during night maneuvers in mid-Atlantic; 176 persons lost.

1953
Jan. 9, Chang Tyong-Ho: South Korean ferry foundered off Pusan; 249 reported
dead.


Jan. 31, Princess Victoria: British ferry sank in Irish Sea; 133 lost.

1954
Sept. 26, Toya Maru: more than 1,000 killed when commercial ferry sank in
Tsugaru Strait, Japan.

1956
July 25, Andrea Doria: Italian liner collided with Swedish liner Stockholm
off Nantucket Island, Mass., and sank next day. At least 52 died or were
unaccounted for.

1962
April 8, Dara: British liner exploded and sank in Persian Gulf; 236 dead.
Caused by time bomb.

1963
April 10, Thresher: atomic-powered submarine sank in North Atlantic; 129
dead.


May 4: United Arab Republic ferry capsized and sank in upper Nile; over 200
died.

1968
Late May, Scorpion: nuclear submarine sank in Atlantic 400 miles southwest
of
Azores; 99 dead.

1970
Dec. 15: ferry in Korean Strait capsized; 261 lost.

1976
Oct. 20, George Prince: Mississippi River ferry rammed by Norwegian tanker
Frosta nr. Luling, La.; 77 dead.

1983
May 25, 10th of Ramadan: Nile steamer caught fire and sank in Lake Nasser,
near Aswan, Egypt; 272 dead and 75 missing.

1987
March 9: British ferry capsized after leaving Belgian port of Zeebrugge with
500 aboard; 134 drowned. Water rushing through open bow is believed to be
probable cause.


Dec. 20.: over 4,000 killed when passenger ferry Dona Paz collided with oil
tanker Victor off Mindoro Is., 110 miles south of Manila.

1990
April 7, Scandinavian Star: suspected arson fire aboard Danish-owned North
Sea ferry killed at least 110 passengers in Skagerrak Strait off Norway.


April 7: double-decker ferry sank in Gyaing River in Myanmar (Burma) during
a
storm and 215 persons were believed drowned.

1991
Dec. 14: ferry carrying 569 passengers sank in Red Sea off coast of Safaga,
Egypt, after hitting a coral reef. Over 460 people believed drowned.

1993
Feb. 17, Neptune: triple-deck ferry capsized off southern peninsula of Haiti
during a squall. Over 1,000 passengers believed drowned. About 300 survived
the sinking.

1994
Sept. 28, Estonia: passenger ferry capsized off coast of southwest Finland
and sank in a stormy Baltic Sea. Only about 140 of the estimated 1,040
passengers aboard survived.

1996
Jan. 21, Gurita: overloaded ferry sank off the coast of northern Sumatra,
killing 340.

1999
Feb., Harta Rimba: ship sank in the South China Sea, killing about 325
people. The ship had not been licensed for passenger use.

Nov. 24, Dashun: ferry carrying more than 300 passengers sank after catching
fire. More than 150 confirmed dead, with another 140 missing.

2000
June 29, Cahaya Bahari: ferry carrying mostly Christian refugees from the
island of Halmahera sank approximately 40 miles off the coast of Sulawesi.
None of the 492 persons on board survived.


Aug. 12, Kursk: Russian nuclear submarine sank to bottom of Barents Sea
following an explosion; none of the 118 men aboard survived.

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