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Two of the ship's 378 crew and trainees survived; most of those who were not carried down with the ship died of exposure in the freezing waters. 376 1815 British East India Company: Arniston – On 30 May, the East India Company ship was wrecked in a storm on the South African coast after a navigational error; 372 people were lost; 6 survived ...
The crown ship of King Eric XIV of Sweden's fleet. The gunpowder store exploded and as many as 1,000 people, including Swedes and the invading Lübeckians, died. [2] 900–1100 1692 France: Soleil Royal – On 3 June, in the Battle of La Hougue, the French flagship was attacked by 17 ships
List of ships captured in the 19th century; List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (19th century) List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (1861–1870) List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (1881–1890) List of shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly (19th century)
Pages in category "19th-century deaths" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 252 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A total of 133 ships were sunk during the storm and another 90 badly damaged according to the Board of Trade records. The death toll was estimated at 800, including some people killed on land by falling rocks and masonry. Twice as many people died in these two days as had been lost at sea around the British Isles in the whole of 1858.
SS Wairarapa was a New Zealand ship of the late 19th century plying the route between Auckland, New Zealand and Australia. It came to tragic fame when it hit a reef at the northern edge of Great Barrier Island, about 100 km out from Auckland, and sank. The death toll of around 130 people remains one of the largest such losses in the country's ...
W.H. Gilcher was a steel-hulled freighter that went missing on Lake Michigan on 28 October 1892. 18 people were killed. William B. Davock United States: 11 November 1940 Sank near Pentwater in the Armistice Day Blizzard. 32–33 people were killed. Wisconsin United States: October 1929 A steamboat that sank off the coast of Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Constable of the Tower of London, 1430 – 1475.He fell overboard a ship and his body was found in the English Channel; George, Duke of Clarence (born 1449), executed for treason against his brother king Edward IV of England on 1478, by drowning in a barrel of Malmsey wine; or so the legend says, because modern assessments favour the traditional decapitation ...