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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













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