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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 ...
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.
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.
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
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. There were 371 survivors.
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 ...
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 ...
This 1998 image shows a 17–ton portion of the hull of the Titanic as it is lifted to the surface during an expedition to the site of the wreck.