The Shipwreck Archives

Salvatore Chiappara, steward of the bark the Giovanni, told his story to the newspaper reporter of The Sun, of New York City, after arriving in that city: “The Giovanni, which had been storm-tossed for many days, neared Cape Cod. She was sailing under her main foresail and topgallant sail, the only canvas which the angry winds had left her. The sea was running high, the wind whistled shrilly through the shrouds, and the vessel, but poorly answering to her helm, was almost literally at the mercy of the elements. The waves swept over the decks, which the intense cold rendered so slippery that it was only by clinging to the bulwarks or the shrouds that the seamen could make their way from spot to spot in the performance of their hazardous duties.”Ship Name: Giovanni Nationality: Italy Year Wrecked: 1875Location Wrecked: Cape Cod, MassachusettsReason for Wreck: Ran Aground in Storm Lives Lost: 14 or 15 Depending on Source Sources: https://books.google.com/books?id=c6AYAAAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Giovanni+shipwreck+cape+cod+1875&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1875/03/06/79236104.html?pageNumber=1https://www.newspapers.com/image/73995958/?match=1&terms=giovanni%20shipwreckhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/83496200/?match=1&terms=giovanni%20shipwreckhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/78647637/?match=1&terms=giovanni%20shipwreckhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/51907317/?match=1&terms=giovanni%20shipwreckhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/428242283/?match=1&terms=giovanni%20shipwreckhttps://newspaperarchive.com/savannah-morning-news-mar-06-1875-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/burlington-daily-hawk-eye-gazette-mar-19-1875-p-1/

A note: Sorry if this episode sounds like our narrator had a head cold, our narrator had a head cold. The Daily Gazette of Burlington, Iowa, from the 19th of August, 1887, contained the following description of the City of Montreal being abandoned: “There was a heavy sea running, and it was with difficulty the boats were kept from being smashed. The crew worked splendidly, and all the passengers were placed in boats in comparatively short time. How the boats floated with their loads is a miracle. As the last boat was putting off from the ship several of the passengers and crew were seen aft.” Ship Name: City of Montreal Year Built: 1871Tonnage: 4,000Ship Type: Single Screw Iron Hulled SteamshipNationality: United Kingdom Year Wrecked: 1887Location Wrecked: 400 Miles from St John’s, Newfoundland Reason for Wreck: Cargo Fire Lives Lost: None Sources: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Seaboard/9nw9AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=city+of+montreal+inman+line+lloyds&pg=PA463&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/409975294/?match=1&terms=%27city%20of%20montreal%27%20ship%20firehttps://www.newspapers.com/image/409694253/?match=1&terms=%27city%20of%20montreal%27%20ship%20firehttps://www.newspapers.com/image/1058692741/?match=1&terms=%27city%20of%20montreal%27%20ship%20firehttps://newspaperarchive.com/burlington-daily-gazette-aug-19-1887-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/london-evening-news-aug-30-1887-p-1/https://newspaperarchive.com/kingston-daily-british-whig-aug-19-1887-p-1/https://newspaperarchive.com/east-liverpool-evening-review-aug-22-1887-p-3/https://www.newspapers.com/image/400908839/?match=1&terms=%27city%20of%20montreal%27%20ship%20fire%20lost%20boathttps://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Nautical_Magazine/cQgAAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=fire+cotton+cargos+city+of+montreal+1887&pg=PA265&printsec=frontcover

The Straits Times of the 29th of November, 1932, featured the following interview: “We picked up the S.O.S. of the Nevada through St. Paul’s radio Station,” Captain R. K. Healy, commander of the President Madison, told Newspapermen on the arrival of the liner at Victoria, B.C. on Oct. 5. “This was at 11.30 o’clock on the night of Sept. 26, and our course was immediately altered to render what aid we could. The wind was blowing heavy and from the east-south-east and we were about 600 miles west of Amatignak Island. Steaming at full speed we arrived at the scene of the wreck at noon on Sept. 29.” Ship Name: Nevada Year Built: 1920Ship Type: Steel-Hulled Screw-Propelled Steamship Nationality: United States of America Tonnage: 5642 Year Wrecked: 1932Location Wrecked: Amatignak IslandReason for Wreck: Navigational Error in a Fog Lives Lost: 34Sources: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lloyd_Register_of_Shipping_1933_Steamers/HXCAEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nevada+States+Steamship+Company+1920+ss+west+niger&pg=RA12-PR49&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/506257538/https://www.newspapers.com/image/500544991/?match=1&terms=nevada%20president%20madisonhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/1083727030/?match=1&terms=nevada%20president%20madisonhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/60248916/?match=1&terms=nevada%20president%20madisonhttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19321129-1.2.4.1https://www.newspapers.com/image/506257192/?match=1&terms=nevada%20president%20madisonhttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19321001-1.2.37https://www.newspapers.com/image/19602389/?match=1&terms=nevada%20president%20madisonhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/95993582/?terms=nevada%20president%20madisonhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/506257457/?match=1&terms=nevada%20president%20madisonhttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19330323-1.2.4.1https://www.newspapers.com/image/1083695510/https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19320930-1.2.48

The captain of the Elder, Dempster, and Co ship the Susu was the focus of the story of the Flachat in the London Daily Telegraph on the 1st of March, 1898: “The Susus, owned by Elder, Dempster, and Co, was ready to sail for Garachico on the night of the 15th, but owing to the bad weather she did not leave until six the next morning, when the sea and wind had gone down. It was about 7:30 a.m. when Anaga Point was passed, and as the captain looked shorewards, he saw two masts in the distance. He thought it was a schooner, but on using his glass saw distinctly that it was a steamer. He therefore headed for the shore until near enough to be of assistance if required.”Ship Name: FlachatYear Built: 1880Nationality: France Tonnage: 2277Ship Type: Iron Hulled Screw Propelled Steamship Year Wrecked: 1898Location Wrecked: Anaga Point, TenerifeReason for Wreck: Navigational Error in Poor Weather Lives Lost: 78Sources: https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3816769/3816772/13/flachat?from=searchhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/810835048/?terms=french&match=1https://newspaperarchive.com/washington-evening-journal-feb-18-1898-p-1/https://www.newspapers.com/image/393383061/https://www.newspapers.com/image/1237807300/?match=1&terms=flachathttps://www.newspapers.com/image/820653383/https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4606194/4606198/83/flachat?from=search

The Evening Express from the 7th of November, 1903, ran a story about the trials and tribulations of the crew of the Eldorado: “An attempt was made to force the passage of the Moose River, but the current was so strong that at the end of three days only fourteen miles had been covered, and the party turned back. Next the Abitibi River was tried. Numerous falls and rapids were encountered, and two canoes were upset, the crews experiencing narrow escapes from drowning. The nights were bitterly cold, the food was scanty, and the supplies of rations had to be reduced.” Ship Name: EldoradoTonnage: 1600 Tons Ship Type: Iron Hulled Steamship Nationality: United Kingdom Year Wrecked: 1903Location Wrecked: Near Fort George, James  Bay, Canada Reason for Wreck: Struck a Rock in a Fog Lives Lost: None Sources: https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4137500/4137503/50/eldorado%2BOR%2Bhudson%2BOR%2Bbay?from=searchhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Fur_Trader_s_Photographs/vt-EU9dG2eYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=revillon+freres+eldorado&pg=PA89&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Report_Covering_Investigations_at_James/AGTX2bG5JpQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lady+head+hudson+bay+company+shipwreck&pg=PA23&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Boy_s_Own_Annual/32EQC_WOd3YC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=eldorado+steamship+wreck+1903+canada&pg=PA74&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Sessional_Papers_Legislature_of_the_Prov/cHdOAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=revillon+freres+eldorado&pg=RA5-PA22&printsec=frontcoverhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/10/20/104914322.html?pageNumber=1

George Bates, pilot of a Lydd steam tug, told the Cumberland Evening News on the 25th of February, 1928: “We first heard the news of the collision about 8:40 pm, the message stating that a Russian barque was in distress. I got my motor boat ready, and preparations were made to launch the Dungeness lifeboat, but another message came through, which led everybody to believe that no assistance was required. It stated that the S.O.S. was all clear. Naturally, the lifeboat was not launched, and I did not go out.” Ship Name: Alcantara Tonnage: 1682-Tons Ship Type: Single-Screw Steamship Nationality: Italian Year Wrecked: 1928Location Wrecked: About Three Miles from Dungeness, English ChannelReason for Wreck: Collision with the TovarischLives Lost: 24Sources: https://www.newspapers.com/image/973021286/?match=1&terms=alcantarahttps://www.newspapers.com/image/1263945262/?match=1&terms=alcantarahttps://www.newspapers.com/image/813756186/?match=1&terms=alcantarahttps://www.newspapers.com/image/1188644259/?match=1&terms=alcantarahttps://www.newspapers.com/image/1143022549/?terms=alcantarahttps://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Law_Times_Reports/ZEMyAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=tovarisch+alcantara+collision+court&pg=PA611&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Weekly_Notes/Rf1GpCh-qloC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=tovarisch+alcantara+collision+court&pg=PA252&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Law_Reports/7xnIeTZMNZ8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=tovarisch+alcantara+collision+court&pg=PA15&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Lloyd_s_List_Law_Reports/7bUzAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=alcantara+italian+lloyds+1928&pg=PA183&printsec=frontcover

19-year-old Samuel J Evans, one of two apprentices who had been on the Jason, sat down with the newspapers to tell his story on December 6th, the day after the Jason had met with disaster. The New York Times of December 7th, 1893, reported: “We sailed,” said he, “from Calcutta last February with a cargo of jute butts for Boston. Two days after leaving port, we were nearly dismasted in a storm and had to put into Mauritius for repairs. During the gale, our mate was washed overboard and lost. After leaving Mauritius, we had fair weather up to the equator. Since Nov. 15, we have encountered easterly gales, with frequent snowsqualls.” Ship Name: JasonTonnage: 1,512Ship Type: Iron Hulled SchoonerNationality: British Year Built: 1870Year Wrecked: 1893Location Wrecked: Cape Cod Reason for Wreck: Ran Aground in Storm Lives Lost: 24Sources: https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70407/pg70407.txthttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/12/07/109271091.html?pageNumber=8https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/09/10/102472311.html?pageNumber=6https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lloyd_s_Register_of_British_and_Foreign/HxIIklya2Y8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=a+%26+jh+carmichael+lloyds&pg=PP454&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/881615955/?match=1&terms=jason%20shipwreck%20cape%20codhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/173917080/?match=1&terms=jason%20shipwreck%20cape%20codhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/533316952/?match=1&terms=jason%20shipwreck%20cape%20codhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Just_a_Little_about_the_Lower_Cape_Perso/iJA1fqToXLMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=jason+cape+cod+shipwreck&pg=PP27&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_England_Magazine/Ta8VAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=jason+cape+cod+shipwreck&pg=PA257&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Cape_Cod_Magazine/bUYVAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=jason+cape+cod+shipwreck&pg=RA8-PA14&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/The_American_Marine_Engineer/IhZGAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=jason+cape+cod+shipwreck&pg=RA2-PA34&printsec=frontcover

The Melbourne Argus on the 17th of March, 1933, had a very small article at the bottom of its seventh page: “Fears are growing that the Japanese cargo steamer Kinsen Maru has sunk with all hands. Nine ships unsuccessfully searched for lifeboats and wreckage yesterday. The Kinsen Maru, which was commanded by Captain M. Yerabu, had a crew of 33. She was carrying a cargo of 3,000 tons of zinc concentrates from Port Pirie and 3500 tons of meat from Melbourne.”Ship Name: Kinsen Maru Year Built: 1905Nationality: Japanese Tonnage: 4,717Ship Type: Screw Steel SteamshipYear Wrecked: 1933Location Wrecked: 400 Miles East of Bowen, North Queensland CoastReason for Wreck: Flooded and Sank Due to a Storm Lives Lost: 25Sources: https://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/T-Ships/tiberius1905.htmlhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Lloyd_Register_of_Shipping_1933_Steamers/HXCAEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=kinsen+maru+1933+lloyds&pg=RA1-PR120&printsec=frontcoverhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/223849420?searchTerm=kinsen%20maruhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/193026562?searchTerm=kinsen%20maruhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/193026167?searchTerm=kinsen%20maruhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/223852322?searchTerm=kinsen%20maruhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/160950527?searchTerm=kinsen%20maruhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170283180?searchTerm=kinsen%20maruhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/237073022?searchTerm=kinsen%20maruhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4724256?searchTerm=kinsen%20maruhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/113446912?searchTerm=kinsen%20maruhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/22137266/1693178https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4723954https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/61379583

The Virginian Pilot from the 3rd of September 1933 contained various interviews related to the sinking of the Coldwater, as well as the complete story of what had occurred. “Courageous action on the part of Captain West was credited with the fact that there was no loss of life. ‘Captain West is the hero’ was the terse comment of Capt. Makepeace Ridley, veteran Dollar Line Captain in command of the liner. ‘To him goes all the credit. His courage, and prompt action by all members of his crew, were the reasons why all were saved. They rescued themselves, although we had a lifeboat overboard, ready to lend assistance.’” Ship Name: ColdwaterNationality: United States of AmericaShip Type: Single Propeller Oiler Burning Steel Hulled Steamship Year Built: 1920Tonnage: 5,110Year Wrecked: 1933Location Wrecked: 80 Miles South of Cape Hatteras Reason for Wreck: Collision in Storm Lives Lost: NoneSources: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Merchant_Vessels_of_the_United_States/7uoWWE_b3iAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Coldwater+ship+1933&pg=RA1-PA1006&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Lloyd_s_Register_of_British_and_Foreign/VTn0E0U_gQcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=president+wilson+dollar+line+lloyds&pg=PA1236&printsec=frontcoverhttps://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=IPT19330902.1.7&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------https://www.virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=VPTNL19330903.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/09/05/99924772.html?pageNumber=35https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/09/03/105800373.html?pageNumber=3&login=google&auth=login-google

The Sydney Empire from June 21st, 1864, contained a detailed account of the fate of the All Serene, as told by the survivors: “She appears to have proceeded on her way without anything occurring worthy of notice until the 20th of February, when she experienced equally weather, accompanied by thunder, lightning, and rain. Although the most unmistakable indications of a storm were evident as early as three o’clock in the morning, yet very little preparation for it appears to have been made by Captain Meyers until noon, when he gave an order to have the royal and top-gallant yards and mast taken down.”Ship Name: All Serene Tonnage: 1,000 tons Nationality: AustralianShip Type: Wooden Sailing Vessel Year Wrecked: 1864Reason for Wreck: Capsized in StormLocation Wrecked: Fifty Miles from Tonga  Lives Lost: 21Sources: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/150463471?searchTerm=All%20Serenehttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/60555517?searchTerm=shipwreckhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/39118694https://files02.sl.nsw.gov.au/fotoweb/pdf/1381/138199810.pdf

The Malaya Tribune of the 8th of August, 1928, described what had occurred when the first typhoon of the season, which had so troubled shipping, made landfall in the Philippines: “High winds have lashed the sea into a fury. Telegraphic communications from Pettit Barracks at Zamboanga state that half the Army post there is under water. The sea wall that protects the barracks and part of the city had been undermined by the heavy seas and broken through in three places. One barracks building had been partly destroyed and another had one corner smashed in.” Ship Name: Cap Lay Year Built: 1921Tonnage: 8477Ship Type: Steel Hulled Screw Steamship Nationality: French Year Wrecked: 1928 Location Wrecked: Near Hai Phong, Vietnam Reason for Wreck: Thrown into a Rock During a Storm Lives Lost: Estimated at Around 50 Sources: https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singfreepressb19290222-1.2.89?qt=captain,%20benteu&q=captain%20benteuhttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19281228-1.2.59?qt=cap,%20lay&q=cap%20layhttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singfreepressb19280723-1.2.57?qt=cap,%20lay&q=cap%20layhttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitsbudget19280802-1.2.44?qt=cap,%20lay&q=cap%20layhttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette19280727-1.2.29?qt=cap,%20lay&q=cap%20layhttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/maltribune19280809-1.2.102?qt=cap,%20lay&q=cap%20layhttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singfreepressb19280707-1.2.115?qt=cap,%20lay&q=cap%20layhttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/maltribune19280822-1.2.87?qt=cap,%20lay&q=cap%20layhttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/maltribune19280808-1.2.14?qt=cap,%20lay&q=cap%20layhttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singfreepressb19280720-1.2.66?qt=cap,%20lay&q=cap%20layhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Casualty_Returns_1928/BLpgEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=cap+lay+french+shipwreck+1928&pg=PA54&printsec=frontcover

The Glamorgan Monmouth, and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian of the 28th of November, 1840, described the storms that had wrecked havoc on the village of Pill, in North Somerset, where over half of the crew of the City of Bristol came from: “We have had a continuation of gales, accompanied by storms of rain, snow, and hail, throughout the week; scarcely a vessel has arrived but bears evidence of the dreadful weather they have encountered at sea, which at times increased till it blew a complete hurricane. Some idea may be formed of it, from the fact of a pilot skiff having been blown high and dry on “Nelson’s Point”; and that a boat was swamped near the same place, having six hands on board, and had it not been for timely assistance, there is no doubt, from the heavy sea then running, they would inevitably have perished.” Ship Name: City of Bristol Year Built: 1827Tonnage: 210Ship Type: Sidewheel Paddle Steamship Nationality: United Kingdom Year Wrecked: 1840Location Wrecked: Llangennith, WalesReason for Wreck: Ran Aground in a Storm Lives Lost: 27Sources: https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3393315/3393318/25/city%2BOR%2Bof%2BOR%2Bbristol%2BOR%2Bshipwreck?from=searchhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3329940/3329943/11/city%2BOR%2Bof%2BOR%2Bbristol%2BOR%2Bshipwreck?from=searchhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3633448/3633451/26/city%2BOR%2Bof%2BOR%2Bbristol%2BOR%2Bshipwreck?from=searchhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3393315/3393317/11/city%2BOR%2Bof%2BOR%2Bbristol%2BOR%2Bshipwreck?from=searchhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3393315/3393319https://journals.library.wales/view/1272866/1276731/74#?sf=1&m=48&h=shipwreck&cv=73&xywh=-1246%2C1407%2C5257%2C2004

One of the people who had been on the Pregreso for her destruction told his story to the Marine Engineering Log for January, 1903: “I knew it was an explosion, but was not sure until later as to just what had happened. I can say, positively, that the cause of the explosion did not lie in the oil burners, which were working splendidly. We did not see anyone as we left the after fire room, and I think there was no one else in that particular portion of the ship. It was a hard struggle for us to reach the upper deck because of the dense smoke and the darkness that enshrouded everything.” Ship Name: Progreso Year Built: 1884Tonnage: 1919Ship Type: Steel Hulled Steamship Nationality: United States of America Year Wrecked: 1902Location Wrecked: San Francisco, CaliforniaReason for Wreck: Explosion of Oil TankLives Lost: 14 Sources:   https://newspaperarchive.com/new-york-tribune-dec-04-1902-p-5/https://newspaperarchive.com/oakland-tribune-dec-03-1902-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/honolulu-hawaiian-gazette-dec-12-1902-p-2/newspaperarchive.com/newport-hoosier-state-dec-10-1902-p-3/https://newspaperarchive.com/new-york-times-dec-04-1902-p-1/https://newspaperarchive.com/akron-daily-democrat-dec-05-1902-p-1/https://newspaperarchive.com/spokane-press-dec-03-1902-p-1/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Marine_Engineering_Log/x9ZHAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=steamship+progreso+explosion+1902&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Journal_of_the_American_Society_of_Naval/lhq76w_0q-MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=steamship+progreso+explosion+1902&pg=PA272&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Engineering_and_Mining_Journal/uPxRojjmyUgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=steamship+progreso+explosion+1902&pg=PA818&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Marine_Review_and_Marine_Record/RGY-AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=steamship+progreso+explosion+1902&pg=RA22-PA17&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Reports_Containing_the_Cases_Determined/62RMAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=steamship+progress+explosion+1902&pg=PA519&printsec=frontcover

A C Buchanan, His Majesty’s Chief Agent for Emigration to Upper and Lower Canada, sent in his end of the year emigration report for 1834 with the following information: “Before concluding this report, it is with regret that I feel myself compelled to notice the increasing number of shipwrecks to emigrant vessels, particularly during the past season, attended with a very serious loss of life. The list shows the number of vessels lost last season to be 17, and the loss of lives to amount to 731.” He would follow this by blaming the use of “ardent spirits” on emigrant vessels, but his next paragraph seems to have placed the blame more accurately. “Public attention having been of late often directed to the subject of light-houses, as a means of additional security of navigation…”  Ship Name: JamesTonnage: 363Ship Type: Brig Nationality: British Year Wrecked: 1834Reason Wrecked: Sprang Leak in Storm Location Wrecked: Off Great Bank, Newfoundland Lives Lost: 250Ship Name: Astrea Tonnage: 300Ship Type: Barque Nationality: BritishYear Wrecked: 1834Reason Wrecked: Struck Rock Location Wrecked: Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Lives Lost: 271Sources: https://limericklocalstudies.ie/wp-content/uploads/obits/1834/06%2028%201834%20james.pdfhttps://capebretonsmagazine.com/modules/publisher/makepdf_php-itemid-766.pdfhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/4459875/4459877/7/astrea%2BOR%2Bshipwreck?from=searchhttps://newspaperarchive.com/saint-johns-newfoundl-and-patriot-jun-17-1834-p-3/https://newspaperarchive.com/lancaster-examiner-and-herald-jun-12-1834-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/london-standard-jul-10-1834-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/albion-and-the-star-apr-20-1835-p-4/https://newspaperarchive.com/london-standard-jul-08-1834-p-3/https://newspaperarchive.com/christian-advocate-jul-14-1834-p-7/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nautical_Magazine/f09WAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=laidler+james+shipwreck+1834&pg=PA508&printsec=frontcover

The Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph of the 2nd of January 1901 reported: “One of the most furious gales of recent years swept over this vicinity on Thursday night, but fortunately without effecting any really serious harm. Slates were swept off roofs, some trees were blown down, and debris of all kinds whirled about. But, at sea, and around the exposed coasts of Wales, the storm unhappily was attended by vastly more serious results.” Ship Name: RagnaNationality: Norwegian Year Built: 1892Tonnage: 1079Ship Type: Steel Hulled Bark Year Wrecked: 1900Location Wrecked: Trefin, Wales Reason for Wreck: Blown Ashore During a Storm Lives Lost: 3 Sources:   https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lloyd_s_Register_of_Shipping_1901_Sailin/5mBjEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=ragna+norwegian+ship+1901&pg=PR296&printsec=frontcoverhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/4117217/4117221https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3634712/3634715/30/ragna%2BOR%2Bshipwreck?from=searchhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/4251683/4251690/42/german%2BOR%2Bshipwreck?from=searchhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3747434/3747440/120/ragna%2BOR%2Bshipwreck?from=searchhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3645300/3645301/1/ragna%2BOR%2Bshipwreck?from=search

Notable Shipwrecks, Retold by Uncle Hardy, published in 1873, contained an account of the loss of the Floridian. It set the scene as follows: “A south-westerly gale ravaged our English coasts on Wednesday, the 28th of February, 1849. Beginning in the early morning, it increased every hour, reaching its height at dusk. Then a heavy snowstorm set in, which lasted till midnight. Wholesale havoc was done on the eastern coast, especially on the dangerous shoals off the Kent and Essex shores. The particular shoal known as the Long Sands proved fatal during the tempest to several vessels.” Ship Name: Floridian Year Built: Approximately 1838 Tonnage: 500 TonsShip Type: Bark Nationality: United States of America Year Wrecked: 1848Location Wrecked: Long Sands, United Kingdom Reason for Wreck: Navigation Error During Storm Lives Lost: Estimated at around 170Sources: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2965618https://books.google.com/books?id=MUKVfj1OhnUC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=floridian+lloyds+1849&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=ZbfKpi7m9Q8C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=floridian+shipwreck+1849&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=bpilott18490407-01.2.9&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/62045665https://newspaperarchive.com/vevay-indiana-palladium-apr-07-1849-p-2/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015013716496&seq=38&q1=floridian

The Graham’s Town Journal from September 15th, 1842, featured a scathing article about the recent shipwreck in Table Bay, especially the loss of the Waterloo. “Yet we should lose no time in having our Life Boat and other Humane Apparatus in readiness, and our Boatmen, now experienced Salvors, should hold themselves prepared for sudden calls. If in the finest weather a vessel of the Waterloo class touch the sand or mud, to say nothing of rocks, her doom is sealed; and unluckily the sides of our Bay seem to have a sort of elective attraction on everything rotten.” Ship Name: WaterlooYear Built: 1815Tonnage 414Ship Type: East Indiaman Nationality: British Year Wrecked: 1842Location Wrecked: Table Bay, South Africa  Reason for Wreck: Ran Aground in Storm Lives Lost: Over 200 Ship Name: Abercrombie Robinson Year Built: 1825Tonnage: 1415Ship Type: East Indiaman Nationality: British Year Wrecked: 1842Location Wrecked: Table Bay, South Africa Reason for Wreck: Ran Aground in Storm Lives Lost: None Sources: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12411445https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228139728?searchTerm=abercrombie%20robinson%20waterloohttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/73841411?searchTerm=abercrombie%20robinson%20waterloohttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37115057?searchTerm=abercrombie%20robinson%20waterloohttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3393813/3393815/10/waterloo%2BOR%2Babercrombie%2BOR%2Brobinson?from=searchhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/225012559?searchTerm=abercrombie%20robinson%20waterloohttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/226512147?searchTerm=abercrombie%20robinson%20waterloohttps://books.google.com/books?id=_rJLAAAAcAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=waterloo+table+bay+shipwreck+1842&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2953505?searchTerm=abercrombie%20robinson%20waterloohttps://books.google.com/books?id=SZRTOwrlPJ0C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=waterloo+table+bay+shipwreck+1842&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=zVSVsyjwl4UC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=waterloo+table+bay+shipwreck+1842&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=QHNbAAAAQAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=lloyds+abercrombie+robinson&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=iJjZ6vsTCqkC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=waterloo+table+bay+shipwreck+1842&source=gbs_navlinks_s

The Straits Times Weekly Issues from the first of June, 1887, reported the proceedings of the Marine Court of Inquiry against Captain Harrison of the Fair Penang. The witness was Mate Farquharson of the Bentan: “Cross-examination continued, -- I cannot say that if we continued on our respective courses we should have passed without collision. We were meeting end on -- I cannot say if the other ship was a little to our side or another. No one when he sees the three lights of a steamer is allowed to do otherwise than take it that she is coming on right ahead.”Ship Name: Bentan Year Built: 1872Tonnage: 340Ship Type: Single Screw Steamship Nationality: Singapore Year Wrecked: 1887Location Wrecked: Near Batu PahatReason for Wreck: Ship Collision Lives Lost: Estimated to be Around 100Sources: https://books.google.com/books?id=7N9XEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Bentan+singapore+ship+1887&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/stweekly18870601-1.2.40?qt=bentan,%20fair,%20penang&q=bentan%20fair%20penanghttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette18870513-1.2.12?qt=bentan,%20fair,%20penang&q=bentan%20fair%20penanghttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette18870405-1.2.14?qt=bentan,%20fair,%20penang&q=bentan%20fair%20penanghttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/stweekly18870713-1.2.28?qt=bentan,%20fair,%20penang&q=bentan%20fair%20penanghttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes18871029-1.2.24?qt=bentan,%20fair,%20penang&q=bentan%20fair%20penanghttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/stweekly18870720-1.2.12?qt=bentan,%20fair,%20penang&q=bentan%20fair%20penanghttps://books.google.com/books?id=ckQAAAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=bentan+fair+penang+1887&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette18870510-1.2.12https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette18870405-1.2.13https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/39530729/2932006

The New York Times from April 8, 1853, announced that there was some concern felt about the fate of the Independence: “There was much anxiety felt for the safety of the Vanderbilt steamship Independence, from which nothing had been heard, though she was thirty days beyond her time. She had a large number of passengers on board. She was to have connected with the steamship Northern Light, from New-York, Jan. 20, and was last seen on the 15th of Feb., off Cape St. Lucas. Hopes were entertained that she had put into some intermediate port. The steamer Sea Bird has gone in search of her.”Ship Name: Independence Year Built: 1849Tonnage: 900 Tons Nationality: United States of America Ship Type: Wooden-Hulled Steamship Year Wrecked: 1853Location Wrecked: Isla Santa Margarita, Mexico Reason for Wreck: Struck Reef, Caught Fire Lives Lost: 127Sources: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1853/04/26/297733022.html?pageNumber=3https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-adventures-of-the-real-tom-sawyer-35894722/https://books.google.com/books?id=KB1RAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=nicaragua+line+1850+independence+steamship&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=bSkzAQAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=california+1850+independence+steamship&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1853/04/08/87851371.html?pageNumber=1https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18530820.2.2&srpos=11&e=------185-en--20--1--txt-txIN-captain+sampson-ARTICLE---1853---https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1853/04/26/297732902.html?pageNumber=1https://books.google.com/books?id=TY-6xUtVLUAC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=shipwreck+independence+1853+california&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/161105901/16376278https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1853/05/09/87853202.html?pageNumber=3https://newspaperarchive.com/crawford-county-courier-may-03-1853-p-2/

In Walter Stevens Harrington’s Heroines of Canadian History, published in 1909, the plight of the crew of the Conductor was described as follows: “All night the eight victims of the storm clung to such treacherous foothold as they could gain. Daylight still found them battling for their lives. The sea had not abated. The huge waves came roaring towards them, and, as though bitterly disappointed at their inability to reach the chilled mariners upon their insecure footing, they angrily dashed the spray over them, so that their clothing soon was saturated with the ice-cold water.” Ship Name: Conductor Year Built: 1849Ship Type: Three-Masted SchoonerTonnage: 250 tonsNationality: Canada Year Wrecked: 1854Location Wrecked: Long Point Island, Lake Erie Reason for Wreck: Diven Ashore in Storm Lives Lost: None Sources: https://greatlakeships.org/2907686/datahttps://www.marshcollection.org/wp-content/uploads/SoundingsVolV1-Number1.pdfhttps://books.google.com/books?id=yTgQt2EYftoC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=abigail+becker+poem&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books/about/Women_the_Lakes.html?id=PpGBAAAAMAAJhttps://books.google.com/books?id=FUgdAQAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=conductor+shipwreck+1854+great+lakes&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=KYxs-veYXowC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=conductor+shipwreck+1854+great+lakes&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=waI5AQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Abigail+Becker+1854+parliament+canada&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=3l5QNSVJBAcC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=conductor+shipwreck+1854+great+lakes&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=92U-AQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=conductor+shipwreck+1854+great+lakes&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=8YgfAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=abigail+becker&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=J6zgqHnAaUwC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=abigail+becker&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=IUowAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=abigail+becker&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=3Z0sAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=abigail+becker&source=gbs_navlinks_s

The New York Times on August 25th, 1929, had a chance to go to the stateroom of Captain George Pietsch and see what he had to say about his recent misadventure. It was two in the morning, but faced with reporter questions, the New York Times reported: “Captain Pietsch smiled, shrugged his shoulders and replied: ‘I’m twenty-five years on sea, yes? We sailors are not afraid. Once, twice, three times I went down in the war, but I am not dead, yes? We were castaways, but we were afraid of nothing.’ He insisted that there was no disorder, no scrambling for the boats.”Ship Name: Quimistan Year Built: 1871Tonnage: 1,661Ship Type: Iron Hulled Screw Steamship Nationality: German Year Wrecked: 1929Location Wrecked: Atlantic Ocean, 800 Miles from DelawareReason for Wreck: Old Age, Poor MaintenanceLives Lost: None Sources: https://newspaperarchive.com/ogden-standard-examiner-aug-25-1929-p-11/https://newspaperarchive.com/kingsport-times-aug-22-1929-p-6/https://www.seamenschurch-archives.org/sci/archive/files/3cb5af43f10b4978c6fd189a50df6e5d.pdfhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/08/23/issue.htmlhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/08/28/94175997.html?pageNumber=52https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/08/25/118348952.html?pageNumber=23https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55940046?searchTerm=quimistanhttps://books.google.com/books?id=1dz6c_UTYekC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=quimistan+ship+1929&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=xiHmAAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=quimistan+ship+1929&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=NmBjEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=quimistan+ship+1929&source=gbs_navlinks_s

The Lifeboat. The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution from March 1930 reported all of the heroism of the lifeboat service from the past quarter. In it was included the following report: “On 25th November, at 2.35 in the afternoon, a message was received by the Tenby Coastguard from the Fishguard Radio that the steamer Molesey, of London, of 4,000 tons, was nearly on the rocks at Shokham Island, off the Pembrokeshire coast. A whole gale was blowing from the S.W., with squalls, and very heavy sea. The telephone and telegraph lines were down between Tenby and Pembroke, and the message had to be taken part of the way by car, so that it was nearly two hours after the S.O.S. was sent when the Honorary Secretary of the Angle Lifeboat Station received the message.”Ship Name: Molesey Year Built: 1899Tonnage: 3788Ship Type: Steel-Hulled Cargo Screw SteamshipNationality: United Kingdom Year Wrecked: 1929Location Wrecked: Middle Island, near Milford Haven, United Kingdom Reason for Wreck: Blown Ashore in Storm Lives Lost: 7Sources: http://teesbuiltships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=169814&vessel=ROKEBYhttps://newspaperarchive.com/charters-towers-northern-miner-nov-28-1929-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/cairns-post-nov-28-1929-p-5/https://newspaperarchive.com/adelaide-advertiser-nov-28-1929-p-34/https://newspaperarchive.com/auckland-star-nov-28-1929-p-7/https://newspaperarchive.com/washington-c-h-herald-nov-26-1929-p-5/https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/SOTON_Documents/Plimsoll/14049.pdfhttps://rnliarchive.blob.core.windows.net/media/1311/0301.pdfhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/11/29/97783501.html?pageNumber=10https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/11/28/92017449.html?pageNumber=24https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/11/27/94211850.html?pageNumber=1

The World of Adventure, by Cassell and Company, published in 1899, contained the story of the Vicar of Mullyon, a man who had been active in the story of the wreck of the Jonkheer Meester Van de Wall van Puttershoek: “The wind swept right up from the sea, scarcely more than half a mile distant from the vicarage, and its shriek in the trees outside, together with the thundering of the surf upon the shore, were all the sounds his ear could catch. If another sound commingled with the din it was effectually drowned. Nor could anything be seen; no blue light, no rocket, nor any signal of distress--only black darkness. The cry, if cry it had been, was not repeated.”Ship Name: Jonkheer Meester Van de Wall van PuttershoekTonnage: 650 tons Nationality: Dutch Ship Type: East Indiaman Year Wrecked: 1867Location Wrecked: Men-y-grib Point, England Reason for Wreck: Blew onto Rocks During StormLives Lost: 24Sources: https://books.google.com/books?id=6BY5AQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=shipwreck+1867+jonkheer&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/60842002?searchTerm=french%20shipwreckhttps://books.google.com/books?id=Ogj6f-YU74gC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=jonkheer+meester+van+de+wall+van+puttershoek&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=ydLjnrqh-q4C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=shipwreck+1867+jonkheer&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33148/pg33148-images.htmlhttps://newspaperarchive.com/london-magnet-apr-08-1867-p-2/https://books.google.com/books?id=5MwHAAAAQAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=shipwreck+cornwall+1867+jonkheer&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://www.opc-cornwall.org/deaths/mullion_death_wreck_jonkheer_1867.pdf

Rector Elwell wrote an account of the wreck of the Bohemian for the Portland Transcript, which was published on March 5th, 1864. “On Saturday we visited the scene of the wreck. The distance from the city is about nine miles. As you pass to the left of the two light houses, the wreck lies in full view, a quarter of a mile from the shore, heading off, with anchors down. She is right under the light-house, and off against a little cove, where the waves were gently rippling over the sands as if they never knew storm or wreck. It was high tide, and her hull was hidden by the waves, but we could see the smoke stack, the masts with broken topmasts dangling from them, and the white stanchions, looking like the ribs of some stranded monster.”Ship Name: BohemianTonnage: 2,200 TonsShip Type: Iron Hulled Screw SteamshipYear Built: 1859Nationality: United Kingdom Year Wrecked: 1864Location Wrecked: Cape Elizabeth, Maine, United States Reason for Wreck: Navigational Error in Fog Lives Lost: Between 20-50 Sources: https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3055496/3055498/13/bohemian?from=searchhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3400836/3400838/8/bohemian?from=searchhttps://newspaperarchive.com/portland-daily-press-apr-05-1864-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/philadelphia-age-feb-27-1864-p-2/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1864/02/24/90528790.html?pageNumber=5https://books.google.com/books?id=PJE9AAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=bohemian+montreal+line+1864&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=JlmZUYrDH4IC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=bohemian+shipwreck+1864&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=wigEAAAAQAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=bohemian+shipwreck+1864&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=hVSEdKlElR4C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=bohemian+shipwreck+1864&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=eNkaAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=bohemian+shipwreck+1864&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Lloyd’s Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters by James Lloyd, published in 1856, contained an entire section about the Moselle, including the following passage: “The Moselle was regarded as the very paragon of western steamboats; she was perfect in form and construction, elegant and superb in all her equipments, and enjoyed a reputation for speed which admitted no rivalship. Her commander and proprietor, Capt. Perrin, was a young gentleman of great ambition and enterprise, who prided himself, above all things, in that celebrity which his boat had acquired, and who resolved to maintain, at all hazards, the character of the of the Moselle as ‘the swiftest steamboat in America.’”Ship Name: Moselle Year Built: 1838Nationality: United States of AmericaShip Type: Side Wheel Steamship Year Wrecked: 1838Location Wrecked: Cincinnati, Ohio River Reason for Wreck: Boiler Explosion Lives Lost: At least 136 Sources: https://newspaperarchive.com/the-philanthropist-may-01-1838-p-8/https://newspaperarchive.com/indianapolis-indiana-journal-may-05-1838-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/pottsville-miners-journal-and-pottsville-general-advertiser-may-12-1838-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/martinsburg-gazette-may-09-1838-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/trumansburg-advertiser-may-16-1838-p-6/https://newspaperarchive.com/logansport-herald-may-10-1838-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/richmond-indiana-palladium-may-05-1838-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/carlisle-herald-and-expositor-may-08-1838-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/the-madisonian-may-05-1838-p-3/https://books.google.com/books?id=dSnJMRtk0lMC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=moselle+inquiry+1838&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=OZwsAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=captain+perin+moselle&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=eJxABLtxX60C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=captain+perin+moselle&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=rItfOzjU0g8C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=captain+perin+moselle&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=JlYqAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=moselle+ship+explosion+1838&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Mr. Finlayson, a member of the Australian House of Representatives was quoted to have said the following about what had caused the wreck of the St Paul by the Daily Standard on the 31st of March, 1914: “Commander Brewis, who lately inspected the coast of Australia, made a recommendation in regard to improving the lighting of Moreton Bay,” he said, “and it is unfortunate that no effort has yet been made to guarantee the safety of navigation on our coast, which is notoriously ill-lighted and dangerous to navigation.”Ship Name: Saint Paul Year Built: 1912Tonnage: 1633-tonsShip Type: Steel Hulled Steamship Nationality: France Year Wrecked: 1914Location Wrecked: Smith’s Rock, Moreton Bay, Australia Reason for Wreck: Navigational Error Lives Lost: 18 Sources: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/239132166?searchTerm=st%20paul%20shipwreckhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/114333566?searchTerm=st%20paul%20shipwreckhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/220574219?searchTerm=st%20paul%20shipwreckhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/217062631?searchTerm=french%20shipwreckhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/124712509?searchTerm=french%20shipwreckhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/58504960?searchTerm=st%20paul%20shipwreckhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/174276035?searchTerm=st%20paul%20shipwreckhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/42882602?searchTerm=st%20paul%20shipwreckhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/180946304?searchTerm=st%20paul%20shipwreckhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/80149841?searchTerm=st%20paul%20shipwreckhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/82172624?searchTerm=st%20paul%20shipwreck

The Monmouthshire Merlin, on the 29th of June, 1850, gave an account by commercial traveler John Cameron: “It was a beautiful day, and we spent it pleasantly on board. The steamer was excessively crowded with passengers, a large number of them being ladies. Every berth was occupied, as well as the seats and sofas. I walked the deck until, I think, about one o’clock in the morning, when I went to my berth on one of the sofas in the saloon. The weather was then fine, and indeed, it could not be said to be dark during the whole night.” Ship Name: Orion Year Built: 1847Tonnage: 898-tons Nationality: BritishShip Type: Iron Hulled Sidewheel Steamship Year Wrecked: 1850Location Wrecked: Rocks Near Portpatrick Scotland Reason for Wreck: Navigational ErrorLives Lost: Estimated Between 50-60Sources: https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3394887/3394889/5/https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3394887/3394890/10/?from=searchhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/4347159/4347163/37/https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4520877/4520885/54/?from=searchhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3598703/3598705/3/https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3053183/3053186/21/https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3089825/3089826/4/https://books.google.com/books?id=pF0vAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=orion+shipwreck+1850&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=NLkDAAAAQAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=orion+shipwreck+1850&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=B4JuHjET2eUC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=orion+a+tribute+of+gratitude+reverend+j+clarke&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015031404612&seq=240&q1=orionhttps://books.google.com/books?id=IhtXAAAAcAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gbs_navlinks_s

The Sydney Morning Herald on the 7th of September, 1857, published what they had learned from Canadian Newspapers that had just arrived about the Montreal: “There were 330 steerage passengers, and 10 cabin passengers, who sailed in the John McKensie from the Clyde at the above date. Two died at sea. Of the steerage passengers who arrived in Canada 78 did not go on by the steamer Montreal, from Quebec, some preferring the railroad, and others remaining in that city. The remaining 256 of the Scottish emigrants, however, started from Quebec at four o’clock on the afternoon of the 26th, by this ill-fated vessel…”Ship Name: Montreal Year Built: Unknown Tonnage: Unknown Ship Type: Wooden Sidewheel Steamship Nationality: Canadian Year Wrecked: 1857Location Wrecked: Cape Rouge, St Lawarance RiverReason for Wreck: Ship Fire Lives Lost: Between 200 and 300 Sources: https://www.pressreader.com/canada/montreal-gazette/20080629/281775624919305?srsltid=AfmBOopOQ6ZpbzMuL-o1pgaE2eot11GVFr39cYloBnZT-QODq5DeaVqRhttps://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article482820.htmlhttps://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=tdj18570629-01.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN----------https://books.google.com/books?id=AZZgcChlY4AC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=montreal+lawrence+river+fire+1857&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18570801.2.5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13000361https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4464210/4464215/38/montrealhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3054856/3054860/28/montrealhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1857/07/06/78501624.html?pageNumber=3https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1857/06/30/78501189.html?pageNumber=1https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1857/07/03/issue.htmlhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1857/07/15/78502123.html?pageNumber=4https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1857/07/18/78502393.html?pageNumber=4

Ralph Tinkham, one of the passengers who had been on the City of Honolulu, wrote a letter to the newspaper of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, from which he had graduated: “Replying to your inquiry relative to my experience at the burning at sea of the SS City of Honolulu, I am free to admit that the episode has considerably more serious and interesting features in retrospect than was the case at the time. The ‘City of Honolulu’ was a splendid ship of 17,000 tons, equipped well above the average of Pacific shipping, for the convenience and comfort of passengers, and providing excellent service. These facts only add to the shock of realization that this fine vessel has been another contribution to Davy Jones’ locker.” Ship Name: City of Honolulu Tonnage: 10,688Ship Type: Twin Screw Oil Burning Steamship Year Built: 1896Nationality: United States of America Year Wrecked: 1922Location Wrecked: 670 Miles from San Pedro, California Reason for Wreck: Electrical Fire Lives Lost: NoneSources: https://newspaperarchive.com/altoona-mirror-oct-23-1922-p-12/https://newspaperarchive.com/van-nuys-news-oct-17-1922-p-1/https://newspaperarchive.com/corona-courier-oct-13-1922-p-3/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23876928https://books.google.com/books?id=z4DNAAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=city+of+honolulu+ship+fire+1922&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=l4GyXktqZ3gC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=city+of+honolulu+ship+fire+1922&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=IGpOAQAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=city+of+honolulu+ship+fire+1922&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=TeM1AQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=city+of+honolulu+ship+fire+1922&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=zd4jAAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=city+of+honolulu+ship+fire+1922&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=Ao2Y6Z3drUMC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=friedrich+der+grosse+ship+seized&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/10/13/107073361.html?pageNumber=2

Mr. Falk, who had been an Ablebodied Seaman on the Gothenburg, remembered his experience to the Adelaide Express and Telegraph on the 4th of April, 1911: “I don’t think,” he said, “I should have been saved had it not been for one of the others. He came to me as I stood aft, and said I had better leave as the engine-room was full of water, and there was no hope of saving the vessel. As we pulled over the reef to shore we could see sharks and turtles beneath us. The boat was smashed up eventually.” Ship Name: Gothenburg Ship Tonnage: 459Ship Type: Iron Hulled Screw Steamship Year Built 1855Nationality: Australian Year Wrecked: 1875Location Wrecked: Great Barrier Reef, Near Holbourne Island Reason for Wreck: Navigational Error in Storm Lives Lost: 100Sources:https://books.google.com/books?id=jDUZAAAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=ss+celt+1855+gothenburg&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/209927669https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197679252/22387500https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/169481418?searchTerm=gothenburghttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202135279?searchTerm=gothenburghttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/200631741?searchTerm=gothenburghttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18335564?searchTerm=gothenburghttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/224358488?searchTerm=gothenburghttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8935760https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/40089615https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1875/05/09/79085610.html?pageNumber=2https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1875/04/27/88160790.html?pageNumber=6

The Malacca Weekly Chronicle from the 19th of January 1889 reported the following: “That navigation in the Straits of Malacca is attended with difficulties and dangers of no mean order is fully borne out by the sad history of the past few years. One more collision, disastrous in its consequences, has just been added to the already too long list of casualties in Malayan waters…” Please note that we were not able to find a picture of either ship and therefore we selected a picture of the Port of Singapore around the correct time period.Ship Name: Pyah Pekhet Year Built: 1875Tonnage: 319Ship Type: Iron Hulled Screw Steamer Nationality: British Singapore Year Wrecked: 1889Location Wrecked: Near the Entrance of Klang Strait Reason for Wreck: Collision with the Chow Phya Lives Lost: 14Sources: https://hhtandn.org/notes/399/chow-phya-general-historyhttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singdailytimes18780316-1.2.7https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/stweekly18901029-1.2.15?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhethttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/malaccawkchronicle18890119-1.2.3?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhethttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette18890208-1.2.18https://books.google.com/books?id=1TUSAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=pyah+pekhet+ship&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://www.marhisdata.nl/docs/_docs/9277-Chow-Phya--1858--aanvaring.pdfhttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette18890122-1.2.7?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhethttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes18890202-1.2.22?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhethttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes18890204-1.2.22?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhethttps://books.google.com/books?id=qqDhrLBNZrkC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=burmah+steamship+line+pyah&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/malaccawkchronicle18890629-1.2.11.1?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhethttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette18890219-1.2.13?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhethttps://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/malaccawkchronicle18890119-1.2.9?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhet

The Evening News from Monday the 9th, 1854 included the following speculation: “Doubtless the Yankee Blade was heavily insured: and steamboating business on the Pacific has not been of late so lucrative as in times past, and with little future prospects of its ever becoming what it has been; it therefore suggests itself to us that this running of steamers on rocks -- far away from their due and proper course, is a ready means of turning ships into money, regardless of the loss of human life.” Ship Name: Yankee Blade Year Built: 1853Tonnage: 1,000Ship Type: Side Wheel Steamship Nationality: United States of America Year Wrecked: 1854Location Wrecked: Point Conception, California Reason for Wreck: Navigation Error in Fog Lives Lost: 30 Sources: https://newspaperarchive.com/nevada-city-journal-oct-13-1854-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/warren-mail-nov-25-1854-p-1/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1854/11/15/88145793.html?pageNumber=3https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1854/11/10/88145284.html?pageNumber=1https://newspaperarchive.com/muscatine-tri-weekly-journal-nov-17-1854-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/shasta-courier-oct-14-1854-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/columbia-gazette-oct-14-1854-p-2/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZCdIyR8wtYYC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=yankee+blade+shipwreck&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=Gq0nIm8B22EC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=captain+randall+yankee+blade&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=W2MxAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=captain+randall+yankee+blade&source=gbs_navlinks_s

The New York Times of April 7, 1884, quoted Fritz Vick, the second boatswain of the Daniel Steinmann, in the following statement: “The weather was bad on Wednesday and Thursday. I went on duty at 8 o’clock Thursday night. It was foggy and blowing heavily, with rain and snow. About 9 o’clock the rain held up, and it looked as though it was going to clear up. The Captain had been on the bridge two days and nights.” Ship Name: Daniel Steinmann Tonnage: 1790 Ship Type: Iron Hulled Steamship Year Built: 1875 Nationality: Belgium Year Wrecked: 1884Location Wrecked: Sambro Island, Nova Scotia Reason for Wreck: Navigational Error Lives Lost: 124 Sources:https://books.google.com/books?id=_a0EAAAAQAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=daniel+steinmann+1884+shipwreck+halifax&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=L59YMBXkAZoC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=daniel+steinmann+1884+shipwreck+halifax&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=EAz84yBQ8kUC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=daniel+steinmann+1884+shipwreck+halifax&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://newspaperarchive.com/biddeford-daily-journal-apr-07-1884-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/the-fairbury-gazette-apr-12-1884-p-7/https://newspaperarchive.com/elkhart-weekly-review-apr-10-1884-p-1/https://newspaperarchive.com/dixon-daily-telegraph-apr-05-1884-p-1/https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-daily-globe-apr-05-1884-p-11/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/04/05/issue.htmlhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/04/07/106149206.html?pageNumber=1

Second Engineer Preacher of the Abyssinia gave a complete statement to the newspapers, including the following: “This is the third time I have been in a fire at sea. On previous occasions we were able either to completely subdue the flames, or at any rate keep them under control until the vessel reached port. Then, however, the outbreak was discovered when we were only three or four hundred miles from home. On this occasion we were 1,500 miles from land.”Ship Name: Abyssinia Year Built: 1870Tonnage: 3651Nationality: British Ship Type: Iron Hulled Screw Steamship Year Wrecked: 1891 Reason for Wreck: Cargo Fire Location Wrecked: Mid Atlantic Lives Lost: None Sources: https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3428758/3428762/74/abyssiniahttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/4428826/4428829/29/abyssiniahttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3984039/3984044/74/abyssiniahttps://books.google.com/books?id=BR5cAAAAQAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3984030/3984035/51/abyssiniahttps://books.google.com/books?id=PPJRAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=abyssinia+ship+1891&source=gbs_navlinks_s

The San Francisco Call on January 15, 1902, contained the following statement: “Captain Hall stated that he had discharged five members of his crew the previous trip for drinking on shipboard. He made the amusing statement that when he found two officers drunk during that voyage he went below in search of two quartermasters to promote to their places and found them drunk also. The captain admitted that he saw two waiters drunk on the steamship’s last voyage.”Ship Name: Walla WallaYear Built: 1881Ship Type: Steamship Nationality: United States of AmericaTonnage: 3,069Year Wrecked: 1902Location Wrecked: Cape Mendocino, California    Reason for Wreck: Collision with the MaxLives Lost: Estimated at 40 Sources: https://books.google.com/books?id=fJk3803V-qYC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=walla+walla+steamship+1881&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/bcbooks/1.0222484#p314z-6r0f:walla%20wallahttps://newspaperarchive.com/san-francisco-call-jan-15-1902-p-7/https://newspaperarchive.com/san-francisco-call-jan-11-1902-p-3/https://newspaperarchive.com/skagway-daily-morning-alaskan-feb-19-1902-p-1/https://newspaperarchive.com/san-francisco-call-jan-26-1902-p-27/https://newspaperarchive.com/portland-morning-oregonian-jan-10-1902-p-5/https://newspaperarchive.com/san-francisco-call-jan-16-1902-p-7/https://newspaperarchive.com/san-francisco-call-jan-14-1902-p-12/https://newspaperarchive.com/san-francisco-call-jan-06-1902-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/portland-morning-oregonian-jan-16-1902-p-5/https://newspaperarchive.com/san-francisco-call-jan-05-1902-p-18/https://newspaperarchive.com/portland-morning-oregonian-jan-08-1902-p-5/https://newspaperarchive.com/the-evening-times-jan-03-1902-p-1/https://books.google.com/books?id=j95HAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=walla+walla+shipwreck+1902&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=Iq4PAQAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=walla+walla+shipwreck+1902&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MG19020111.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------

Tales of Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea, edited by James Lidnridge and published in 1846, opened its story about the wreck of the Droits de l’Homme with the following passage: “The action which was fought between the Droits de l’Homme, a large French two-decker, and two British frigates, under the command of Sir Edward Pellew, and Captain Robert Reynolds, on the 13th of January, 1797, was one of the most remarkable in naval history, both from the singularity of its circumstances, and the appalling nature of its result.”Ship Name: Droits de l’HommeNationality: FrenchYear Built: 1794Ship Type: Ship of the Line Year Wrecked: 1797Location of Wreck: Audierne Bay. FranceReason for Wreck: Ran Aground in Sea Battle Lives Lost: No Solid Number but Possibly Over a ThousandSources: https://books.google.com/books?id=YD3FnOwPgBkC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=droits+de+l%27homme+shipwreck&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=ymYyAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=droits+de+l%27homme+shipwreck&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=sM09AAAAcAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=droits+de+l%27homme+shipwreck&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=oXxrAAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=droits+de+l%27homme+shipwreck&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-11974https://books.google.com/books?id=Qy0-NE5lXOUC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=french+shipwreck&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=rTFFAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=droits+de+l%27homme+shipwreck&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Volume Two of the Mariner’s Chronicle, published by James Cundee in 1804, contained the following information about the wreck of the Jonge Thomas: “ The surge rose to an amazing height on the shore, and Zoul River was so swollen as to be almost impassable. It is true, from the middle of May to the middle of August, the Company’s ships are prohibited from lying in the road; yet it sometimes happens…”Ship Name: Jonge ThomasShip Built: 1764Tonnage: 1150Nationality: Dutch Republic Ship Type: East Indiaman Year Wrecked: 1773Location Wrecked: Table Bay, South AfricaReason for Wreck: Driven Aground in a Storm Lives Lost: 149Sources: https://books.google.com/books?id=2HYcAAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=jonge+thomas+shipwreck&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=x1DZsCwxpxcC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=jonge+thomas+shipwreck&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=qCpDAAAAcAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=jonge+thomas+shipwreck&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=ErsrAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=wolraad+woltemade&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://www.vocsite.nl/schepen/11028/https://books.google.com/books?id=x7BWAAAAcAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=french+shipwreck&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=YmtHAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=jonge+thomas+shipwreck&source=gbs_navlinks_s

On the 3rd of January, 1919 the New York Times included the following editorial: “Where, or rather on whom, the responsibility for the grounding lies it is now too soon to discuss, but it is a grave one, and its nature is hinted by the wonder why the steamer was so far out of her course and why she went ashore that has been expressed by the fishermen and other seafaring folk who know the nature of the bottom off Fire Island. The fog was the immediate cause, but it is not an adequate explanation, for several other vessels successfully found their way through it and into port.”Ship Name: Northern Pacific Ship Type: Steam Turbine Transport Tonnage: 8225Year Built: 1914Nationality: United States of America Year Wrecked: 1919 Location Wrecked: Fire Island, New York Reason for Wreck: Faulty Navigation in Fog Lives Lost: 2 Sources: https://books.google.com/books?id=LeNHAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Northern+Pacific+William+Cramp+and+Sons&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/northern-pacific.htmlhttps://books.google.com/books?id=iDwtdGXDjR8C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=northern+pacific+1919+court+martial&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://newspaperarchive.com/boston-daily-globe-jan-02-1919-p-3/https://newspaperarchive.com/altoona-mirror-jan-04-1919-p-1/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/01/02/issue.htmlhttps://newspaperarchive.com/iowa-city-citizen-jan-02-1919-p-1/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/01/03/issue.htmlhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/07/19/97102132.html?pageNumber=3https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/01/04/102843993.html?pageNumber=1https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-daily-globe-jan-03-1919-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/north-adams-transcript-jan-02-1919-p-1/

On September 14th, 1901 First Class Stoker Henry Bridge wrote a letter to his father that would later be considered prophetic: “Am leaving on Monday morning for Newcastle to bring torpedo-boat destroyer round to Portsmouth. We are chancing our lives in the new boat, and should not be surprised if she went up smash.”  Ship Name: CobraYear Built: 1899Nationality: United Kingdom Ship Type: Twin Screw Steam Turbine Topredo DestroyerYear Wrecked: 1901Location Wrecked: Wrecked Near Outer Dowsing LightshipReason For Wreck: Broke in Half in a Storm Lives Lost: 57Sources: https://books.google.com/books?id=KSAPAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=british+torpedo+boat+cobra+1901&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=dHs4AQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=hms+cobra+inquiry&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=l0FIAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=hms+cobra&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3481809/3481812/71/francis%2BOR%2Bbarnes%2BOR%2Bcobrahttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3481639/3481643/74/survivor%2BOR%2Bcobrahttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3481934/3481937/40/survivor%2BOR%2Bcobrahttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3481269/3481272/39/survivor%2BOR%2Bcobrahttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3481889/3481892/66/cobra%2BOR%2Btorpedo%2BOR%2Bboathttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3346023/3346031/150/cobra%2BOR%2Btorpedo%2BOR%2Bboathttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3481444/3481446/30/cobra%2BOR%2Btorpedo%2BOR%2Bboathttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3432381/3432385/82/cobra%2BOR%2Btorpedo%2BOR%2Bboathttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3481334/3481337/60/cobra%2BOR%2Btorpedo%2BOR%2Bboathttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3481919/3481921/13/cobra%2BOR%2Btorpedo%2BOR%2Bboathttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/4236450/4236452/4/cobra%2BOR%2Btorpedo%2BOR%2Bboathttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3806241/3806249/124/cobra%2BOR%2Btorpedo%2BOR%2Bboathttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3062930/3062933/20/cobra%2BOR%2Btorpedo%2BOR%2Bboathttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3481699/3481701/21/cobra%2BOR%2Btorpedo%2BOR%2Bboathttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3480274/3480276/11/viper%2BOR%2Btorpedo%2BOR%2Bboathttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3480179/3480181/14/viper%2BOR%2Btorpedo%2BOR%2Bboat

One of the survivors of the Wilhelmsburg wreck wrote a narrative account for The Examiner on December 26th, 1863: “Of the Wilhelmsburg, one of the largest vessels sailing from Hamburg, nothing remains but a portion of the after-part, which, in consequence of the strength of the deck, still remains a little above water. I will briefly tell you our adventures from the time we sailed.” Ship Name: Wilhelmsburg Year Built: 1853Tonnage: 1,200Ship Type: Barque Ship Nationality: GermanYear Wrecked: 1863Reason for Wreck: Blown Ashore in Storm Location Wrecked: Terschelling Island Holland Lives Lost: Between 250 and 300 Please note that the title image does not show the Wilhelmsburg, we could find no fitting picture of the Wilhelmsburg to use unfortunately.Sources: https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/4f72a42c97f83e0308602377#:~:text=The%20Wilhelmsburg%20was%20a%20three,emigrants%20under%20the%20Bounty%20Scheme.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/150315685?searchTerm=wilhelmsburg%20shipwreckhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/207687183?searchTerm=wilhelmsburg%20shipwreckhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3400684/3400686/10/wilhelmsburghttps://books.google.com/books?id=QGJEAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=wilhelmsburg+shipwreck+1863&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=Zbj2OfTfbdMC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=wilhelmsburg+shipwreck+1863&source=gbs_navlinks_s

The Shasta Courier on June 3rd, 1865 carried a piece encouraging people to book passages on the ships of the Nicaragua Transit Company: “The Nicaragua steamer Moses Taylor sails on the 13th inst., connecting with the Golden Rule on the Atlantic side. The Taylor is a safe and comfortable steamer - the Golden Rule is unrivaled for speed and comfort. The time - which, by the way, is the great point with travelers - is from two to five days quicker on the route than by the old monopoly via Panama.” Ship Name: Golden Rule Tonnage: 3,000Ship Type: Side Wheel Steamship Nationality: United States of AmericaYear Built: 1863 or 1864Year Wrecked: 1865Location Wrecked: El Roncador Reef Reason for Wreck: Poor Navigation in Bad Weather Lives Lost: NoneSources: https://newspaperarchive.com/savannah-daily-herald-jul-03-1865-p-7/https://newspaperarchive.com/pittsburgh-daily-pittsburgh-gazette-aug-23-1865-p-1/https://newspaperarchive.com/shasta-courier-jun-03-1865-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/gold-hill-daily-news-jul-22-1865-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/weaverville-weekly-trinity-journal-jul-08-1865-p-1/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1865/06/25/80309496.html?pageNumber=5https://newspaperarchive.com/shasta-courier-jul-01-1865-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/gold-hill-daily-news-jun-27-1865-p-4/https://books.google.com/books?id=H94UAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=golden+rule+shipwreck+1865&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=IYNEAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=golden+rule+shipwreck+1865&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=VIi04u0fssoC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=golden+rule+shipwreck+1865&source=gbs_navlinks_s

The New York Times on the 25th of March, 1887 made note of an expected ship being overdue: “The steamship Scotia, of the Fabre Line, due here from Mediterranean ports over a week ago, has not been heard from since she left Gibraltar on Feb. 27. She had on board from 800 to 1,00 passengers, of whom a large number originally sailed on the steamship Burgundia, which was beached near Naples after having been run into by the Italian man-of-war Italia some weeks ago.”Ship Name: Scotia Nationality: French Year Built: 1881Tonnage: 2492Ship Type: Iron Hulled Screw Steamer Year Wrecked: 1887 as Scotia 1889 as MarsLocation Wrecked: Blue Point Long Island Reason for Wreck: Navigational Error in Storm Lives Lost: 1Sources: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/03/27/100903339.html?pageNumber=3https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/03/25/100902939.html?pageNumber=2https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4484537/4484540/40/burgundia%2BOR%2Bitaliahttps://newspaperarchive.com/ogdensburg-journal-mar-26-1887-p-1/https://newspaperarchive.com/baltimore-sun-mar-28-1887-p-1/https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3027110/3027112/3/italian%2BOR%2Bshipwreckhttps://www.ggarchives.com/OceanTravel/ImmigrantShips/Scotia.htmlhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/04/26/100909043.html?pageNumber=8https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/03/29/100903916.html?pageNumber=8https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/03/26/100903083.html?pageNumber=1https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/04/03/100904592.html?pageNumber=3https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4407968/4407971/28/scotia

The Legislative Assembly of Victoria Australia on June 2nd, 1874 turned their discussion to the suitability of lighthouses on King Island in the wake of the recent wreck of the British Admiral. Mr. Francis stated what he knew of the matter, “The lighthouse question was a matter of intercolonial concern. In the opinion of Captain Stanley, the officer in charge of the marine survey, the present site was not the most desirable one of the lighthouse, and a meeting of harbour-masters from the various colonies was recently held, in Sydney, to consider this and other kindred questions.”Ship Name: British Admiral Ship Built: 1873Nationality: United Kingdom Ship Type: Iron Hulled Sailing Vessel Tonnage: 1800Year Wrecked: 1874 Location Wrecked: King Island Australia Reason for Wreck: Navigational ErrorLives Lost: At Least 80 Sometimes Estimaed Higher Sources: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/93140108?searchTerm=shipwreckhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5871196https://books.google.com/books?id=01eRD8kf8ngC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=British+admiral+shipwreck+kings+island+1874&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=Iy0-AAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=British+admiral+shipwreck+kings+island+1874&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=HrICAAAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=British+admiral+shipwreck+kings+island+1874&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=tq9CAQAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=British+admiral+shipwreck+kings+island+1874&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=tHw4AQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=British+admiral+shipwreck+kings+island+1874&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WSTAR18740613.2.34?query=kerr%20a%20son

The November 1866 issue of the Merchant’s Magazine and Commercial Review came to Captain Knapp of the Evening Star’s defense: “We notice that a daily paper refers to the commander of the steamship Evening Star, which was lost off the coast of Florida on the 3d of October, as an unqualified and inexperienced navigator. So far from this being the case, we know him to be one of the best men in the service, who, for his personal qualities and nautical skill, was held in very high esteem.”Ship Name: Evening StarShip Built: 1863Tonnage: 2,200Ship Type: Side Wheel Wood Hulled SteamshipNationality: United States of America Year Wrecked: 1866Location Wrecked: About 240 miles Northeast of Matanillia ReefReason for Wreck: Caught in HurricaneLives Lost: A Minimum of 250  Sources: https://newspaperarchive.com/lancaster-daily-intelligencer-oct-31-1866-p-1/https://books.google.com/books?id=dzoIAAAAQAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=evening+star+shipwreck+1866&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=myw_AQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=evening+star+shipwreck+1866&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=um5JAAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=evening+star+shipwreck+1866&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=F9AeQXO0oWYC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=ingersoll+lifeboat+red+white+and+blue&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1866/11/11/83463455.html?pageNumber=3https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1866/10/10/83460451.html?pageNumber=4https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1866/12/09/80807370.html?pageNumber=6https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1866/10/11/83460507.html?pageNumber=1https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1866/10/16/83460947.html?pageNumber=2https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1866/10/10/83460428.html?pageNumber=1https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1866/10/15/83460840.html?pageNumber=1https://newspaperarchive.com/lancaster-daily-intelligencer-oct-31-1866-p-1/https://newspaperarchive.com/manitowoc-pilot-oct-19-1866-p-1/

The Flintshire Observer on the 11th of February, 1892, reported the following: “It is reported that the captain of the Eider is strongly in favour of the view that the ship will yet be saved. It is understood to be this impression which induces him to stay at his post until the ship has been lightened of her cargo. The Queen’s message to the lifeboatmen has been posted on the front of the lifeboat houses, and the crew and their friends are very proud of it.”Ship Name: EiderYear Built: 1883Ship Tonnage: 5,129Ship Type: Iron Hulled Propeller Steamship Ship Nationality: German Year Wrecked: 1892Location Wrecked: Atherfield Ledge, Isle of Wight Reason For Wreck: Flawed Navigation in Fog Lives Lost: None Sources: https://books.google.com/books?id=bQdGAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=captain+heinecke+north+german+lloyd&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/02/02/106082444.html?pageNumber=8https://newspaperarchive.com/new-harmony-register-apr-01-1892-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/oil-city-derrick-feb-03-1892-p-1/https://newspaperarchive.com/huron-daily-huronite-feb-02-1892-p-2/https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3722251/3722256/56/crew%2BOR%2Beiderhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3724564/3724571/166/eiderhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3722836/3722841/40/eiderhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/4429001/4429004/23/eiderhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3787537/3787544/71/eiderhttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3725784/3725785/9/eider

The Olean Herald reported on November 20th, 1930 the following piece of news: “The saddest figure among the survivors was Captain T J Jones, 75-year-old commander of the Highland Hope. He was overcome with grief at the disaster, and, landing at Peniche, had to be supported by two of his officers. Captain Jones had acquired an enviable reputation for navigation, and young officers vied for places on his ships that they might learn under him the hard lessons of the sea.”Ship Name: Highland Hope Year Built: 1930Nationality: United Kingdom Tonnage: 14,129Ship Type: Diesel Motor Vessel Year Wrecked: 1930Location Wrecked: Farilhões Islands, PortugalReason for Wreck: Incorrect Navigation in Fog Lives Lost: 3Sources: https://newspaperarchive.com/lethbridge-herald-oct-20-1930-p-19/https://newspaperarchive.com/lowell-sun-feb-26-1931-p-15/https://newspaperarchive.com/mackay-daily-mercury-nov-21-1930-p-6/https://newspaperarchive.com/lincoln-nebraska-state-journal-nov-20-1930-p-4/https://newspaperarchive.com/the-montana-standard-nov-20-1930-p-4/https://newspaperarchive.com/hammond-lake-county-times-nov-19-1930-p-10/https://newspaperarchive.com/brisbane-telegraph-jan-05-1931-p-6/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/78015713https://newspaperarchive.com/olean-evening-herald-nov-20-1930-p-1/https://books.google.com/books?id=6Jk7AwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Harland+and+Wolff+Highland+Hope+1929&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=i5zlAAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=highland+hope+nelson+steamship+company+1930&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Robert Crawford, agent of the Northern Navigation Company told reporters of the Winnipeg Free Press on December 11th, 1906 the following: “There will be an inquiry, without a doubt, but there are circumstances when the loss of a vessel cannot be attributed to any failure on the part of any of the men on board. On a day when the wind is blowing fiercely, and when snow is falling to such an extent that it is impossible to see, a wreck is liable to happen in spite of all nautical intelligence and skill.”Ship Name: MonarchShip Built: 1890Tonnage: 2017Ship Type: Wooden Hulled Steamship Nationality: Canadian Year Wrecked: 1906Location Wrecked: Isle Royale, Lake Superior Reason for Wreck: Lost Bearings in Snow StormLives Lost: One Sources: https://newspaperarchive.com/traverse-city-evening-record-jan-14-1907-p-5/https://newspaperarchive.com/belding-banner-dec-20-1906-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/canton-morning-news-dec-12-1906-p-8/https://newspaperarchive.com/winnipeg-tribune-dec-13-1906-p-5/https://newspaperarchive.com/norwich-sun-dec-11-1906-p-1/https://newspaperarchive.com/winnipeg-free-press-dec-11-1906-p-5/https://books.google.com/books?id=f4ScAAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=monarch+1906+isle+royale&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=6Acm8wYmdKEC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=monarch+isle+royale+1906&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=KxZJAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=monarch+isle+royale+1906&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=jH3VAAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=monarch+isle+royale+1906&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=4yclAQAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=monarch+isle+royale+1906&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=5TAzAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=monarch+isle+royale+1906&source=gbs_navlinks_s

In 1885 First Lieutenant Fremont of the Third US Artillery swore in front of the third auditor of the Treasury Department the following statement: “In ordering the regiment to the then new stations on the Pacific, where we were to remain for a long period, large supplies were advised to be taken, and an advance of three months’ pay was ordered to be made to enable us to supply our needs and all of the supplies with that means purchased, and a vastly greater amount, the accumulation of years of service, were lost on that unseaworthy ship.”Ship Name: San Francisco Year Built: 1853Nationality: United States of AmericaTonnage: 2500Ship Type: Sidewheel Steamship Year Wrecked: 1854Reason for Wreck: Engine Broke in Storm Location Wrecked: Atlantic about 200 Miles from Charleston South CarolinaLives Lost: An estimated 220 Sources: https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-post-jan-16-1854-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/washington-sentinel-jan-21-1854-p-3/https://newspaperarchive.com/portage-sentinel-may-17-1854-p-2/https://newspaperarchive.com/sag-harbor-corrector-jan-18-1854-p-3/https://newspaperarchive.com/new-york-herald-jan-16-1854-p-6/https://newspaperarchive.com/daily-union-apr-29-1854-p-1/https://newspaperarchive.com/newburyport-herald-jan-20-1854-p-1/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1854/01/16/75361724.html?pageNumber=1https://books.google.com/books?id=N7FHM_-twQQC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=wreck+of+the+san+francisco+1853&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=9aAiDhWN6lkC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=court+martial+san+francisco+ship+1854+major+wyse&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=mDCYcf-P0X0C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=wreck+of+the+san+francisco+1853&source=gbs_navlinks_shttps://books.google.com/books?id=riwjAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=wreck+of+the+san+francisco+1853&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Captain Pickings of the USS Charleston wrote to the Navy Department on February 8th, 1984: “The Aquidaban was sighted coming in, not flying the admiral’s flag. She was fired at by all the forts, and stood towards and anchored near the Tamandre, returning fire, but only occasionally, with her large guns. It was a remarkable sight to see this vessel come in before all the forts and batteries and seemingly without any injury at all. I hear from a good source that she was struck twice, but without material injury.” Ship Name: Aquidaban Year Built: 1885 Nationality: Brazil  Tonnage: 4950 Ship Type: Steel Hulled Steam Battleship  Year Wrecked: 1906   Location Wrecked: Port Jacarepagua, Brazil Reason for Wreck: Magazine Explosion  Lives Lost: 212 Sources:  https://www.jstor.org/stable/42884015?seq=6 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/87334494/8155411 https://news.hrvh.org/veridian/?a=d&d=idadbgfa19060201.1.7&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- https://newspaperarchive.com/columbia-herald-jan-26-1906-p-11/ https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/06/14/109701042.html?pageNumber=7 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/01/23/101334908.html?pageNumber=1 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/07/25/106868059.html?pageNumber=6 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/04/24/109698723.html?pageNumber=1 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/04/23/109698511.html?pageNumber=2 https://newspaperarchive.com/the-kaukauna-sun-jan-25-1906-p-4/ https://newspaperarchive.com/the-cleveland-leader-oct-08-1894-p-2/ https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/02/26/106095789.html?pageNumber=1 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/05/28/106906743.html?pageNumber=5 https://newspaperarchive.com/albury-banner-and-wodonga-express-jan-26-1906-p-24/ https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1926/july/cordite-aquidaban https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/10/21/102478121.html?pageNumber=5

The Weekly Mail from the 28th of November, 1908 reported the following: “A detachment of the Malta Artillery is at the Custom House rendering assistance, and a staff of military and naval doctors is doing everything possible for the injured survivors, who have been removed to the naval hospital at Valetta. The direct cause of the disaster cannot yet be stated, but it appears probable that it was due to an explosion…”   Ship Name: Sardinia  Ship Built: 1888 Tonnage: 1514 Nationality: United Kingdom  Ship Type: Steel Hulled Screw Steamship  Year Wrecked: 1908 Location Wrecked: Off Fort Ricasoli, Malta  Reason For Wreck: Fire in the Hold  Lives Lost: 83 Sources:  https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3808795/3808802/113/sardinia https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4198334/4198337/58/sardinia https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-08-08/arts-and-culture/the-ss-sardinia-disaster-2280554497/ https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3379239/3379246/176/sardinia https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19081219-1.2.67?qt=sardinia,%20ship,%20fire&q=sardinia%20ship%20fire https://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/G-Ships/gulfofcorcovado1888.html https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4198039/4198042/80/sardinia https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4197250/4197253/103/sardinia https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3434466/3434472/163/sardinia https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4197305/4197308/109/sardinia https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4197310/4197313/48/sardinia