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SS Atlantic was a transatlantic ocean liner of the White Star Line, and second ship of the Oceanic-class. The ship operated between Liverpool, United Kingdom, and New York City, United States. During the ship's 19th voyage, on 1 April 1873, she struck rocks and sank off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, killing at least 535 people.
The ship was declared a total loss on 6 July 1994. The 344-foot (105 m) stern section collapsed completely to port and sank by early 1997, while the 379-foot (116 m) bow section remained intact. As months passed, the wreck attracted onlookers and even looters: Locals even created a zipline to the wreck to carry off anything valuable from it.
The Atlantic Ocean is here defined in its widest sense, to include its marginal seas: the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the English Channel, the Labrador Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the mid-Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the North Channel, the Norwegian Sea, and the waters of West Africa
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Although Oceanic was the class pioneer, her service with the White Star Line was fairly short lived, as, when Germanic came into service in 1875, Oceanic became surplus to the company's needs on the North Atlantic, and instead, she was chartered to the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company (O&O) to operate on the Pacific Ocean between San ...
The wreck of a passenger steamship that sank in 1856 in the Atlantic Ocean has been discovered about 200 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, a New Jersey-based salvage group said.
The fog-induced crash killed more than 100 passengers and crew members. However, last month, a dive team — headed by two New Jersey residents — found its wreckage about 200 miles near the ...
SS Atlantic may refer to, SS Atlantic, the Collins Line trans-Atlantic steamship. SS Atlantic, a steamship that struck rocks and sank off Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1873, killing at least 535 people. SS Atlantic, American passenger liner, that the Chinese magnate C.Y. Tung purchased in 1971 and converted into a university at sea under the name SS ...