TOLL OF THE SEA
Among the important marine disasters recorded since 1866
are the following:
1866, Jan. 11.--Steamer London, on her way to Melbourne,
foundered in the Bay of Biscay; 220 lives lost.
1866, Oct. 3.--Steamer Evening Star, from New York to
New Orleans, foundered; about 250 lives lost.
1867, Oct. 29.--Royal Mail steamers Rhone and Wye and
about fifty other vessels driven ashore and wrecked at St
Thomas, West Indies, by a hurricane; about 1,000 lives lost.
1873, Jan. 22.--British steamer Northfleet sunk in collision
off Dungeness; 300 lives lost
1873, Nov. 23.--White Star liner Atlantic wrecked off
Nova Scotia; 547 lives lost.
1873, Nov. 23.--French line Ville du Havre, from New
York to Havre, in collision with ship Locharn and sunk in
sixteen minutes; 110 lives lost.
1874, Dec. 24.--Emigrant vessel Cospatrick took fire and
sank off Auckland; 476 lives lost.
1875, May 7.--Hamburg Mail steamer Schiller wrecked
in fog on Scilly Islands; 200 lives lost.
1875, Nov. 4.--American steamer Pacific in collision thirty
miles southwest of Cape Flattery; 236 lives lost.
1878, March 24.--British training ship Eurydice, a frigate,
foundered near the Isle of Wight; 300 lives lost.
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