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On the morning of September 30, 1893, Margaret A. Muir was carrying 4,375 barrels of salt from Bay City, Michigan, to South Chicago, Illinois. [1] The ship's captain David Clow reported the ship was heading toward the Wisconsin coast and had cleared the Straits of Mackinac .
On 20 December 2021, a cargo ship illegally carrying 130 passengers sank off the northeast coast of Madagascar. A hole in the hull caused the engine room to flood, leaving the vessel vulnerable to wave action. At least 85 people died during the accident.
The two boats carried a total of 70 passengers. The vessels were discovered adrift off Madagascar's north coast on Saturday in the Indian Ocean. It is believed their engines had failed.
In the 1980s, Madagascar moved back towards France, abandoning many of its communist-inspired policies in favour of a market economy, though Ratsiraka still kept hold of power. [ 53 ] Eventually, opposition, both within and without, forced Ratsiraka to consider his position and in 1992 the country adopted a new and democratic constitution.
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Madagascar was a large British merchant ship built for the trade to India and China in 1837 that disappeared on a voyage from Melbourne to London in 1853. The disappearance of Madagascar was one of the great maritime mysteries of the 19th century and has probably been the subject of more speculation than any other 19th century maritime puzzle, except for the Mary Celeste.
The Rouse Simmons was a three-masted schooner famous for having sunk in a violent storm on Lake Michigan in 1912. The ship was bound for Chicago with a cargo of Christmas trees when it foundered off Two Rivers, Wisconsin, killing all on board.