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Mandeville, John, Sir, 1300-1399?

"Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters"


1878, Sept. 3.--British iron steamer Princess Alice sunk
in the Thames River; 700 lives lost.
1878, Dec. 18.--French steamer Byzantin sunk in collision
in the Dardanelles with the British steamer Rinaldo; 210
lives lost.
1879, Dec. 2.--Steamer Borussia sank off the coast of Spain;
174 lives lost.
1880, Jan. 31.--British trading ship Atlanta left Bermuda
with 290 men and was never heard from.
1881, Aug. 30.--Steamer Teuton wrecked off the Cape of
Good Hope; 200 lives lost.
1883, July 3.--Steamer Daphne turned turtle in the Clyde;
124 lives lost.
1884, Jan. 18.--American steamer City of Columbus
wrecked off Gay Head Light, Massachusetts; 99 lived lost.
1884, July 23.--Spanish steamer Gijon and British steamer
Lux in collision off Finisterre; 150 lives lost.
1887, Jan. 29.--Steamer Kapunda in collision with bark
Ada Melore off coast of Brazil; 300 lives lost.
1887, Nov. 15.--British steamer Wah Young caught fire
between Canton and Hong Kong; 400 lives lost.
1888, Sept. 13.--Italian steamship Sud America and steamer
La France in collision near the Canary Islands; 89 lives
lost.
1889, March 16.--United States warships Trenton, Vandalia
and Nipsic and German ships Adler and Eber wrecked
on Samoan Islands; 147 lives lost.


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