1961 Event Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die 1959 Event 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship. 200 drown just yards from shore 1957 Event Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270 1949 Event 128 die as fire guts Canadian passenger steamer Noronic in Toronto 1947 Event Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400 1947 Event Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard 1928 Event British steamer "Vestris" capsizes and sinks off Virginia, kills 110 1921 Event Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000 1915 Event 800 dies as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago 1912 Event Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die 1900 Event Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in San Francisco Bay 1891 Event British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574 1879 Event 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware) 1865 Event Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 1,547. 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" blows up 1862 Event Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico 1861 Event U.S. removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent 1860 Event Loss of steamer, "Lady Elgin" 1860 Event Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" drowns 340 in Lake Michigan 1856 Event John Rutledge, Liverpool - New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die 1856 Event Steamer Pacific lost 1854 Event Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die 1852 Event Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard 1851 Event City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line 1847 Event Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200 1841 Event Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300 1806 Birthday Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer
