Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History
Benson Lossing, Ed.

Wrecks.

The report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, showed: Number of disasters to documented vessels within the field of operations of the life-saving stations, 364; persons on board, 2,655; persons lost, forty-eight; estimated value of vessels, $6,127,500; of cargoes, $3,342,690; total value of property imperilled, $9,470,190; value of property saved, $7,234,690; of property lost, $2,235,500; number of vessels lost, sixty-one. Besides the foregoing there were also 329 casualties to undocumented craft—sail-boats, row-boats, etc.—carrying 781 persons, of whom five were lost. During the year 675 persons were succored at the stations, and a total of 1,447 days relief given.

The following is a list of the most notable wrecks and casualties in American waters, and disasters to American vessels in foreign waters:

Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, etc.

La Tribune, thirty-six guns, wrecked off Halifax; 300 lives lost......Nov. 16, 1797

Transport Aeneas wrecked off Newfoundland; 340 lives lost......Oct. 23, 1805

Transport Harpooner wrecked near Newfoundland; 200 lives lost......Nov. 10, 1816

Magazine of steam-frigate Fulton explodes at Brooklyn navy-yard; vessel entirely destroyed; twenty-six lives lost......June 4, 1829

Brig Billow lost in storm on Ragged Island, N. S.; all on board, 137 in number, perish......April 9, 1831

Lady Sherbrooke, from Londonderry to Quebec; lost near Cape Ray; 273 persons perish; thirty-two only saved......Aug. 19, 1831

Ship Lady of the Lake, on passage to Quebec, wrecked on an iceberg; 215 lives lost......May 11, 1833 [449]

Steamboat Royal Tar, of St. John's, N. B., destroyed by fire in Penobscot Bay; thirty-two lives lost......Oct. 25, 1836

Ship Bristol, on passage from Liverpool to New York, wrecked near Rockaway, L. I.; seventy lives lost......Nov. 20, 1836

Ship Mexico, from Liverpool, wrecked on Hempstead Beach, L. I.; 108 lives lost......Jan. 3, 1837

Steamboat Home, on passage from New York to Charleston, S. C., wrecked in a gale near Ocracoke; about 100 lives lost......Oct. 9, 1837

Steamboat Pulaski, from Savannah to Baltimore, bursts a boiler off coast of North Carolina; of nearly 200 passengers and crew only sixty are saved......June 14, 1838

Steamboat Lexington, New York to Stonington, burned off Eden's Neck, L. I.; 140 lives lost......Jan. 13, 1840

Brig Florence, Rotterdam to New York, wrecked off southeast coast of Newfoundland; fifty lives lost......Aug. 9, 1840

Steamer President, New York to Liverpool, sailed March 11, with 136 persons on board; not heard from after storm of......March 13, 1841

William Browne, of Philadelphia, wrecked by striking ice on her passage from England to America; about seventy lives lost; sixteen passengers who had been received into the long-boat are thrown overboard by the crew to lighten her......April 19, 1841

Steamboat Medora, of Baltimore, explodes her boiler just after leaving the wharf; twenty-eight killed and forty injured......April 14, 1842

Phoenix wrecked in a storm off the coast of Newfoundland; many lives lost......Nov. 26, 1843

Brig Sutley, from Pictou, N. S., to Fall River, Mass., wrecked in Vineyard Sound; thirty drowned......June 27, 1846

Steamer New York, from Galveston to New Orleans, founders at sea; about twenty lives lost......Sept. 7, 1846

All but twelve out of 104 vessels in port at Havana sink or are wrecked, and fifty coastwise vessels destroyed by a hurricane......Oct. 10-11, 1846

United States brig Somers struck by a squall off Vera Cruz and sunk; forty-one lives lost......Dec. 8, 1846

American emigrant ship William and Mary wrecked on a sunken reef near the Bahamas; about 170 persons perish......May 3, 1853

Aurora, of Hull, sails from New York April 26, and founders; about twenty-five lives lost......May 20, 1853

Steamer San Francisco, bound for California with 700 United States troops, founders at sea, and 240 of the soldiers are swept from the deck and perish......Dec. 23-31, 1853

Ship Staffordshire, from Liverpool to Boston, strikes on Blande Rock, south of Seal Island; 178 lives lost......Dec. 30, 1853

Steamer Georgia, from Montgomery, Ala., destroyed by fire at New Orleans; sixty lives lost......Jan. 28, 1854

Ship Powhatan, from Havre to New York, with 311 emigrants, goes ashore in a gale on Long Beach, 7 miles north of Egg Harbor light, and is wrecked; no passengers saved......April 16, 1854

Steamer Arctic, from Liverpool, struck by the Vesta, 40 miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland, in a fog, and sinks; over 350 lives lost......Sept. 27, 1854

Collins line steamer Pacific leaves Liverpool for New York with 240 persons on board and is never heard from......Sept. 23, 1856

French steamer Le Lyonnais sunk off Nantucket by collision with the bark Adriatic; 260 lives lost......Nov. 2, 1856

Steamship Tempest, Anchor line, 150 persons on board, never heard from after leaving port......Feb. 26, 1857

Steamship Louisiana, from New Orleans to Galveston, burned near Galveston; fifty-five lives lost......May 31, 1857

Steamer J. W. Harris sunk in collision with steamer Metropolis in Long Island Sound; fourteen lives lost......Aug. 8, 1857

Steamer Central America, from Havana to New York, springs a leak in a heavy storm, Sept. 8; 100 persons are taken off by a passing vessel, Sept. 12, and soon after she sinks, carrying down over 400 persons......Sept. 12, 1857

American ship Pomona, Liverpool to New York, wrecked on Blackwater Bank, the master mistaking the Blackwater for the Tuskar light; only twenty-four out of 419 persons saved......night of April 27-28, 1859 [450]

Steamship Indian, from Liverpool to Portland, strikes on Seal Ledge, about 65 miles east of Halifax, and breaks in two amidships; twenty-four lives lost......Nov. 21, 1859

American emigrant vessel Luna wrecked on rocks off Barfleur; about 100 lives lost......Feb. 19, 1860

New mail steamer Hungarian wrecked near Cape Sable, N. S.; all on board (205) lost......night of Feb. 19-20, 1860

Steamer Canadian strikes on ice-field in Strait of Belle Isle, Newfoundland, and founders in half an hour; thirty-five lives lost......June 4, 1861

British mail steamer Anglo-Saxon wrecked in a dense fog on reef off Cape Race, Newfoundland; about 237 out of 446 lives lost......April 27, 1863

Steamer Constitution wrecked on Cape Lookout shoals; forty lives lost......Dec. 25, 1865

Steamer Evening Star, from New York to New Orleans, founders at sea; about 250 lives lost......Oct. 3, 1866

Steamship City of Boston, Inman line, 177 persons on board, never heard from after leaving port......Jan. 28, 1870

Steamer Varuna, New York for Galveston, founders off Florida coast with thirty-six passengers and all the crew except five......Oct. 20, 1870

Steamer Kensington collides with bark Templar off Cape Hatteras; both wrecked and many lives lost......Jan. 27, 1871

Staten Island ferry-boat Westfield explodes at New York; 100 lives lost, 200 persons injured......July 30, 1871

Steamer Metis sunk in collision on Long Island Sound; fifty lives lost......Aug. 30, 1872

Steamer Missouri, from New York to Havana, burned at sea; thirty-two lives lost......Oct. 22, 1872

White Star steamer Atlantic strikes on Marr's Rock, off Nova Scotia; 547 lives lost out of 976......April 1, 1873

French steamer Ville du Havre, from New York to Havre, sunk in sixteen minutes in mid-ocean by collision with ship Loch Earn; 230 lives lost out of 313......Nov. 23, 1873

American steamer City of Waco burned off Galveston bar; fifty-three lives lost......Nov. 9, 1875

American ship Harvest Queen wrecked by collision about 45 miles from Queenstown; twenty-seven lives lost......Dec. 31, 1875

Loss of twelve American whaling ships in Arctic ice, reported by whaling bark Florence; about 100 lives lost......Oct. 12, 1876

British ship Circassian stranded on Bridgehampton Beach, L. I.; twenty-eight lives lost......Dec. 29, 1876

American steamer George Cromwell stranded off Cape St. Mary's, Newfoundland; thirty lives lost......Jan. 5, 1877

American steamer George Washington stranded off Mistaken Point, Newfoundland; twenty-five lives lost......Jan. 20, 1877

American ship George Green stranded near Dartmouth, England; twenty-four lives lost......Jan. 22, 1877

American steamer Leo burned 83 miles south of Tybee light, Georgia; twenty-three lives lost......April 13, 1877

United States sloop-of-war Huron wrecked on coast of North Carolina; about 100 lives lost......Nov. 24, 1877

Steamer Metropolis wrecked on North Carolina coast; about 100 lives lost......Jan. 31, 1878

American steamer Emily B. Souder founders off Cape Hatteras, N. C.; thirty-eight lives lost......Dec. 10, 1878

Thirteen American fishing schooners founder off George's Bank, Newfoundland; 144 lives lost......Feb. 12-16, 1879

American steamer Champion wrecked in collision with ship Lady Octavia, 15 miles from Delaware light-ship; thirty-one lives lost......Nov. 7, 1879

American steamer Narraganset wrecked in collision near Cornfield Point shoal, Long Island Sound; twenty-seven lives lost......June 11, 1880

American steamer Seawanhaka burned off Ward's Island, N. Y.; twenty-four lives lost......June 28, 1880

American steamer San Salvador lost at sea while making a trip from Honduras to Cuba; twenty-nine lives lost......August, 1880

Steamer City of Vera Cruz founders off Florida coast; sixty-eight lives lost......Aug. 29, 1880

Steamer Bahama founders between Porto Rico and New York; twenty lives lost......Feb. 4, 1882 [451]

Thirty-five wrecks during a storm off Newfoundland......about Dec. 19, 1882

Six American schooners founder off St. George's bank; seventy-six lives lost......November, 1883

American steamship City of Columbus wrecked on Devil's Bridge, off Gay Head light, Mass.; ninety-nine lives lost......Jan. 18, 1884

Belgian White Cross line steamship Daniel Steinman struck on rock off Sambro Head, N. S.; 131 lives lost......April 3, 1884

Three American schooners lost at sea between Gloucester and St. George's Bank; forty-two lives lost......Dec. 26, 1885

Cunard steamer Oregon, from Liverpool to New York, run into by an unknown schooner, 18 miles east of Long Island; all the passengers (631) and crew (205) taken off in safety, the ship sinking eight hours afterwards......March 14, 1886

Three Atlantic steamers stranded in one day: the Persian Monarch on the Portland breakwater, the Cunard steamer Pavonia on High Pine Ledge, Massachusetts Bay, and the Beaver line steamer Lake Huron on Madame Island, 7 miles below Quebec; each owing to heavy fog......Oct. 29, 1886

German ship Elizabeth stranded near Dam Neck Mills, Va.; twenty-two lives lost......Jan. 8, 1887

American sloop yacht Mystery, on a. pleasure trip, capsizes off Barren Island, Jamaica Bay, N. Y.; twenty-five lives lost......July 10, 1887

American ship Alfred D. Snow stranded off coast of Ireland; thirty lives lost......Jan. 4, 1888

Steamer Vizcaya, from New York to Havana, run into by schooner Cornelius Hargraves near Barnegat light, N. J.; both vessels sink within seven minutes; about seventy lives lost......Oct. 29, 1890

Ward line steamer City of Alexandria, from Havana to New York, burned at sea; thirty lives lost......Nov. 2, 1893

Steamer Jason wrecked off Cape Cod, Mass.; twenty lives lost......Dec. 6, 1893

United States corvette Kearsarge wrecked on Roncardo reef, about 200 miles northeast from Bluefield, Nicaragua......Feb. 2, 1894

United States battle-ship Maine blown up in Havana Harbor, Cuba......Feb. 15, 1898

United States torpedo-boat Winslow disabled by shore batteries off Cardenas, Cuba; rescued by other vessels......May 11, 1898

United States blockading fleet destroys Spanish fleet off Santiago, Cuba......July 3, 1898

Spanish battle-ship Maria Teresa, sunk in battle off Santiago and afterwards raised, abandoned in a gale off San Salvador while en route to New York......Nov. 1, 1898

Steamers Portland and Pentagoet lost with all on board (about 180), and nearly 200 other vessels wrecked (loss of life about 200), in great storm on North Atlantic coast......Nov. 26-27, 1898

Steam ferry-boat Chicago sunk in collision with steamer City of Augusta in New York Harbor......Oct. 31, 1899

British steamer Ariosto wrecked near Cape Hatteras, N. C., twenty-one drowned......Dec. 24, 1899

Pacific Ocean, etc.

Explosion of steamboat Gazelle at Canemah, Or.; twenty-one killed and many wounded......April 8, 1854

Steamboat Secretary, crossing San Pablo Bay from San Francisco to Petaluma, bursts her boiler; more than fifty lives lost......April 15, 1854

Steamer Northerner wrecked on a rock near Cape Mendocino, between San Francisco and Oregon; thirty-eight lives lost......Jan. 6, 1860

American vessel Oneida run down by Peninsular and Oriental steamer Bombay, off Yokohama; about 115 lives lost......Jan. 24, 1870

American steamer Pacific collides, 30 miles southwest of Cape Flattery; 236 lives lost......Nov. 4, 1875

American schooner Sunshine stranded near Cape Foulweather, Or.; twenty lives lost......Nov. 18, 1875

American bark Malleville stranded on Vancouver Island; nineteen lives lost......Oct. 10, 1882

Grappler burned near Bute Inlet, Vancouver Island; about seventy lives lost......about May 3, 1883 [452]

American schooner Flying Scud, bound for Kadiak, Alaska, never heard from; twenty-four persons on board......November, 1886

American schooner Harvey Mills founders, 60 miles southwest of Cape Flattery, Wash.; twenty-three lives lost......Dec. 14, 1886

American bark Atlantic stranded at entrance to Golden Gate, Cal.; twenty-seven lives lost......Dec. 17, 1886

American ship St. Stephen, from Port Townsend to San Francisco, founders at sea; twenty-seven lives lost......April, 1887

British bark Abercorn stranded on Damon's Point, north of Gray's Harbor, Wash.; twenty-two lives lost......Jan. 30, 1888

American ferry-boat Julia explodes her boiler at South Vallejo, Cal.; thirty lives lost......Feb. 27, 1888

American bark Ohio stranded near Point Hope, Alaska; twenty-five lives lost......Oct. 3, 1888

United States steamers Trenton and Vandalia wrecked, and the Nipsic stranded, in a storm at Apia, Samoan Islands; fifty-one lives lost. In the same storm the German steamers Adler and Eber are wrecked, with a loss of ninety-six lives......March 16, 1889

American steamer Alaskan founders at sea between Aslona, Or., and San Francisco; twenty-six lives lost......May 13, 1889

Ship Elizabeth wrecked at entrance to San Francisco Harbor; eighteen lives lost......Feb. 22, 1891

United States squadron destroys Spanish squadron in Manila Bay, Philippine Islands, Spanish loss about 600 killed or wounded......May 1, 1898

Steamer Chilkat cast away off Eureka Harbor, Cal., ten lives lost......April 4, 1899

United States cruiser Yosemite wrecked off the island of Guam......Nov. 13, 1900

Pacific mail steamship City of Rio Janeiro wrecked off Fort Point, Cal.......Feb. 23, 1901

Steamer Walla Walla sunk in collision with an unknown French ship off Cape Mendocino; twenty-seven lives lost......Jan. 2, 1902

Great Lakes.

Steamboat Erie burned on Lake Erie about 33 miles from Buffalo; about 170 lives lost......Aug. 9, 1841

Steamer Phoenix burned on Lake Michigan, 15 miles off Sheboygan; about 240 lives lost, mostly emigrants from Holland......Nov. 21, 1847

Steamer Anthony Wayne, from Sandusky to Buffalo on Lake Erie, explodes her boiler and sinks; thirty-eight killed or missing......April 27, 1850

Steamer Griffith, from Erie to Cleveland, burned; only thirty or forty out of 330 lives saved......June 17, 1850

Steamer Atlantic collides with propeller Ogdensburg on Lake Erie and sinks in half an hour; 250 lives lost......Aug. 20, 1852

Steamer E. K. Collins, from Sault Ste. Marie to Cleveland, takes fire on the lake and is burned; twenty-three lives lost......Oct. 8, 1854

Steamer Northern Indiana burned on Lake Erie; over thirty lives lost......July 17, 1856

Steamer Niagara burned on Lake Michigan; sixty to seventy lives lost......Sept. 24, 1856

American steamer Lady Elgin sunk in collision with schooner Augustus on Lake Michigan; of 385 persons on board, 287 lost, including Herbert Ingram, M. P., founder of the Illustrated London news, and his son......Sept. 8, 1860

Steamer Sea Bird burned on Lake Michigan; 100 lives lost......April 9, 1868

Steamer Hippocampus wrecked in Lake Michigan; many lives lost......Sept. 8, 1868

American steamer Equinox founders on Lake Michigan, 8 miles off Point Au Sable; twenty-six lives lost......Sept. 9, 1875

American steamer St. Clair burned on Lake Superior, near Fourteen Mile Point......July 9, 1876

American steamer Alpena founders on Lake Michigan; sixty lives lost......Oct. 16, 1880

Northwest transit service steamer Asia founders between Ontario and Sault Ste. Marie; about ninety-eight lives lost......Sept. 14, 1882

American steamer Manistee founders off Eagle Harbor, Lake Michigan; thirty lives lost......Nov. 14, 1883

British steamer Algoma stranded on south shore Isle Royal, Lake Superior; forty-eight lives lost......Nov. 7, 1885 [453]

American steamer Champlain burned off Fisherman's Island, Lake Michigan; twenty-two lives lost......June 17, 1887

American steamer Vernon founders on Lake Michigan; forty-one lives lost......Oct. 29, 1887

Steel steamer Western Reserve breaks in two on Lake Superior; twenty-six persons drowned......Sept. 1, 1892

Propeller Wocoken ashore off Long Point, Lake Erie; fourteen lives lost......Oct. 14, 1893

Propeller Dean Richmond founders off Dunkirk, Lake Erie; twenty-three lives lost......Oct. 14, 1893

Propellers Philadelphia and Albany collide off Point Aux Barques, Lake Huron; twenty-four lives lost......Nov. 7, 1893

Steamer Niagara founders in Lake Erie; sixteen lives lost......Dec. 5, 1899

Mississippi River.

Steamer Rob Roy explodes near Columbia; about twenty lives lost......June 9, 1836

Steamer Ben Sherrod, racing with steamer Prairie, takes fire 30 miles below Natchez; 175 lives lost......May 9, 1837

Steamer Dubuque explodes near Bloomington, Wis.; twenty-six lives lost......Aug. 15, 1837

Steamer Monmouth collides with Trenton, in tow of steamer Warren, near Prophet Island, and sinks; of 490 emigrant Creek Indians, 234 perish......Oct. 29, 1837

Steamer General Brown explodes at Helena; sixty killed and injured......Nov. 25, 1838

Steamer Edna collapses flues near mouth of Missouri; thirty-three lives lost......June 28, 1842

Steamer Eliza strikes on snag 2 miles below mouth of the Ohio and sinks; thirty to forty lives lost......Oct. 13, 1842

Steamer Clipper bursts her boiler at Bayou Sara, La.; twenty killed......Sept. 19, 1843

Steamer Shepherdess strikes a snag below St. Louis; twenty to thirty drowned......Jan. 4, 1844

Steamers De Soto and Buckeye collide; the latter sinks and more than sixty persons are drowned......Feb. 28, 1844

Steamer Belle of Clarksville run down by the Louisiana and sunk; more than thirty drowned......Dec. 14, 1844

Steamer Edward Bates collapses two boiler flues; twenty-eight killed......Aug. 12, 1848

Twenty-three steamboats with their cargoes burned at St. Louis......May 17, 1849

Steamer Louisiana explodes at New Orleans; sixty killed, eighty injured, and twelve missing......Nov. 15, 1849

Steamer Anglo-Norman explodes at New Orleans; seventy-five to 100 killed, wounded, or missing......Dec. 13, 1850

Eight steamboats destroyed by fire at New Orleans; thirty-seven lives lost......Feb. 4, 1854

Steamer Caroline burned at the mouth of the White River; forty-five lives lost......March 5, 1854

Steamer Pennsylvania bursts her boiler 80 miles below Memphis; about 100 lives lost......June 13, 1858

Steamer Princess explodes boiler and burns near Baton Rouge; twenty-five killed, thirty-five injured......Feb. 27, 1859

Steamer Ben. W. Lewis bursts boiler at Cairo; fifty lives lost......June 24, 1860

Steamer Miami explodes boilers, burns, and sinks; 150 lives lost......Jan. 30, 1866

Steamer Stonewall burned below Cairo; 200 lives lost......Oct. 27, 1869

Steamer T. L. McGill burned; fifty-eight lives lost......Jan. 14, 1871

Steamer H. R. Arthur explodes; eightyseven lives lost......Jan. 28, 1871

Steamer Oceanus explodes; forty lives lost......April 11, 1872

Steamer George Wolfe explodes; thirty lives lost......Aug. 23, 1873

Steamer Golden City burned near Memphis; twenty lives lost......March 30, 1882

Steamer Robert E. Lee burned 30 miles below Vicksburg; twenty-one lives lost......Sept. 30, 1882

Steamer Yazoo strikes a log 35-mile point above New Orleans, and sinks; nineteen lives lost......March 4, 1883

Flues of steamer La Mascotte collapse and vessel burned near Crawford's Landing, Mo.; thirty-four lives lost......Oct. 5, 1886

Steamer Kate Adams burned near Commerce Landing; thirty-three lives lost......Dec. 24, 1888

Steamer John H. Hanna burned opposite Plaquemine, La.; twenty-two lives lost......Dec. 24, 1888 [454]

Steamer Corona explodes; thirty-eight lives lost......Oct. 3, 1889

Ohio and other American rivers.

Boiler of steamer Moselle explodes soon after leaving her dock at Cincinnati; over 100 lives lost......April 25, 1838

Steamer Shamrock bursts her boiler on the St. Lawrence River and sinks; sixty-eight lives lost......July 9, 1842

Steamer Lucy Walker explodes three boilers simultaneously at New Albany, Ind.; fifty to sixty killed and about twenty wounded......Oct. 23, 1844

Steamer Swallow is broken on a rock in the Hudson River, near Athens......April 7, 1845

Steamer Tuscaloosa, 10 miles above Mobile, bursts two boilers; about twenty killed and many injured......Jan. 28, 1847

Brig Carrick wrecked in a gale in the St. Lawrence; 170 emigrants perish......May 19, 1847

Steamer Talisman collides with the Tempest on the Ohio between Pittsburg and St. Louis; more than 100 lives lost......Nov. 19, 1847

Boilers of steamer Blue Ridge on the Ohio River explode; thirty lives lost......Jan. 8, 1848

Steamer Orville St. Johns burned near Montgomery, Ala.; thirty lives lost......March 7, 1850

Steamboat Henry Clay burned on the Hudson River; over seventy lives lost......July 27, 1852

Boiler of steamer Reindeer in the Hudson explodes; thirty-eight lives lost, twenty injured......Sept. 4, 1852

Steamer Reindeer bursts a flue at Cannelton, Ind., Ohio River; fifty killed or injured......March 14, 1854

Steamer Montreal, from Quebec to Montreal, burned; nearly 250 lives lost, mostly emigrants......June 26, 1857

Steamer Missouri explodes her boilers on the Ohio; 100 lives lost......Jan. 30, 1866

Steamer Magnolia explodes her boilers on the Ohio River; eighty lives lost......March 18, 1868

Steamers United States and America collide in the Ohio River near Warsaw and burn; great loss of life......Dec. 4, 1868

Steamer Wawasset burned in the Potomac River; seventy-five lives lost......Aug. 8, 1873

Steamer Pat Rogers burned on the Ohio; fifty lives lost......July 26, 1874

Steam-yacht Mamie cut in two by steamer Garland on the Detroit River; sixteen lives lost......July 22, 1880

Steamer Victoria capsized on Thames River, Canada; 200 drowned......May 24, 1881

Steamer West Point burned in York River, Va.; nineteen lives lost......Dec. 26, 1881

Steamer Sciota wrecked in collision on the Ohio River; fifty-seven lives lost......July 4, 1882

Steamer W. H. Gardner burned on the Tombigbee River, 3 miles below Gainesville, Ala.; twenty-one lives lost......March 1, 1887

Notable wrecks and shipping disasters in foreign waters: Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean sea, etc.

Governor Fenner, from Liverpool to America, run down off Holyhead by the steamer Nottingham, out of Dublin; 122 lives lost......Feb. 19, 1841

Emigrant ship Edmund, with nearly 200 passengers from Limerick to New York, wrecked off the western coast of Ireland; about 100 lives lost......Nov. 12, 1850

Steamship St. George, from Liverpool to New York, with 121 emigrants and a crew of twenty-nine seamen, destroyed by fire at sea (the crew and seventy of the passengers saved by the American ship Orlando and conveyed to Havre)......Dec. 24, 1852

British steamer City of Glasgow sails from Liverpool for Philadelphia with 450 passengers and is never heard from......March, 1854

Steam emigrant ship Austria, from Hamburg to New York, burns in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean; of 538 persons on board only sixty-seven are saved......Sept. 13, 1858

British steamship City of Boston sails from New York for Liverpool, Jan. 28, 1870; never since seen; a board, stating that she was sinking, found in Cornwall......Feb. 11, 1870 [455]

Atlantic steamer Deutschland, from Bremen to New York, during a gale, wrecked on sand-bank, the Kentish Knock, at mouth of the Thames; 157 lives lost (many emigrants)......Dec. 6, 1875

Bark Ponema collides with the steamship State of Florida about 1,200 miles from coast of Ireland; both vessels sink; only thirty-five out of 180 persons saved......April 18, 1884

For the list of vessels sailing from port and never afterwards heard of, see steam navigation.