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Winslow Homer drawing of an Atlantic victim cast up by the sea Burial service for victims of Atlantic shipwreck, April 1873, Lower Prospect, Halifax County, N.S. Recovery and burial of the large numbers of victims took weeks. Divers were paid rewards for recovering the many bodies trapped within the hull.
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.
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1873 Ship State Description Alexander Oldham United States: The sidewheel paddle steamer was lost during 1873. [1] Alsager United Kingdom: The ship was scuttled by her crew. Three of them were taken to Auckland, New Zealand, for trial. [2] Arapiles Spanish Navy: The ironclad ran aground off the coast of ...
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 ...
Wooden full-rigged ship owned by the Columbia River Packers Association and used as a cannery tender. [3] Jessie: 28 June 1898 Swamped in turbulent water at the mouth of the Kuskokwim River. 18 miners from the Columbia Exploration Company were believed to have been massacred by Yup'ik Natives or lost with wreck. One person, a trader called Ling ...
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 ...
The wreck’s location is approximately 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic Ocean. Where is the Titanic wreck – and how far down is it? Rescue operation changed to a ...
Coast Guard officials said at a news conference Monday afternoon that they have deployed two C-130 aircraft for an aerial search and that the sonar buoys can listen to a depth of 13,000 feet.