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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
List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1873 Ship State Description Atlantic United Kingdom The wreck of Atlantic. The ocean liner hit an underwater rock off Marr's Head, Meagher's Island (now Mars Head, Mars Island), Nova Scotia, Canada, and sank with the loss of between 535 and 560 lives.
English: The SS Atlantic left Liverpool, England, for New York on 20 March 1873. Eleven days later, the captain decided to steam to Halifax, Nova Scotia, the nearest port, because the vessel's coal supply was running low. However, en route, the ship went ashore at Mars Head, near Lower Prospect, in the early morning of 1 April. The loss of life ...
An English boy, being the only child saved from the wreck of the Steamship Atlantic, which sunk off Lower Prospect, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada on the 1st of April, 1873. Date 1873
English: SS Atlantic disaster. Published in The New-York Times, 3 April 1873. "Map of the Nova Scotia Coast Where the Disaster Occurred, with the Location of the Scene of the Wreck." The whole front page was devoted to the tale of the disaster.
A French ship that sank following an 1856 collision while on its maiden voyage has been found off the Massachusetts coast, according to a report. For nearly 170 years, Le Lyonnais lay at the ...
“Presumed human remains” have been discovered near the wreck of the Titan submarine, the US Coast Guard announced on Wednesday.. The remains will be brought back to the US and analyzed, part ...
SS Schiller was a 3,421-ton German ocean liner, one of the largest vessels of her time.Launched in 1873, [1] she plied her trade across the Atlantic Ocean, carrying passengers between New York City and Hamburg for the German Transatlantic Steam Navigation Line.