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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
In early 1819 a party from Volunteer investigated the wreck, finding it on the rocks, full of water, with hundreds of Haida on board or nearby, determined to repel any attempt to salvage anything. [4] USC&GS Carlile P. Patterson United States: 11 December 1938 A research vessel that ran ashore in the Gulf of Alaska. City of Seattle: 15 August 1912