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Steamer


1961 Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die

1959 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship. 200 drown just yards from shore

1957 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270

1949 128 die as fire guts Canadian passenger steamer Noronic in Toronto

1947 Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400

1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard

1928 British steamer "Vestris" capsizes and sinks off Virginia, kills 110

1921 Steamer "Hong Koh" runs aground off Swatow China killing 1,000

1915 800 dies as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago

1912 Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die

1900 Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in San Francisco Bay

1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574

1879 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware)

1865 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 Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico

1861 U.S. removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent

1860 Loss of steamer, "Lady Elgin"

1860 Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" drowns 340 in Lake Michigan

1856 John Rutledge, Liverpool - New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die

1856 Steamer Pacific lost

1854 Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die

1852 Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard

1851 City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line

1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200

1841 Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300

1806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer


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