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Maritime Newspaper Articles - 1870

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From the New York Times Dec. 25, 1873;

A CATALOGUE OF SEA DISASTERS
The Manchester Guardian’s London correspondent writes: "The VILLE DU HARVE", is, I believe, the fourteenth large Atlantic liner totally lost with great sacrifice of life, since the Cunard vessels began to run in 1840.
The first great disaster of this class was that which occurred to the GOVERNOR FENNER, bound from Liverpool to New York, which was run down off of Holyhead on the 19th of February, 1841, 2he3nh 122 persons perished.
The PRESIDENT, as far as known, foundered in the following month.
In August, 1848, the OCEAN MONARCH was burned off Great Orne’s Head, a few hours after leaving Liverpool, and 178 lives were sacrificed.
On Christmas Eve, 1852, the ST. GEORGE, from Liverpool to New York, was burned at sea, with about 50 persons.
The GEORGE CANNING, coming out from Hamburg, was lost with ninety-six lives, on New Year’s Day, 1855.
The PACIFIC, which was the first steamer to cross the Atlantic in less than ten days, disappeared with 186 passengers and crew in 1856, being supposed to have struck an iceberg.
The AUSTRIA was burned in mid-ocean with 471 souls on board on the 13th of September 1858;
The INDIAN was lost of Newfoundland with twenty-seven lives on the 21st of November 1859.
The HUNGARIAN, with 203 persons, went down off the coast of Nova Scotia in February 1860;
And 240 lives were lost in the wreck of the ANGLO-SAXON, off Cape Race, on the 27th of April, 1863.
The CITY OF BOSTON was probably wrecked on an iceberg in February, 1870, with several hundred victims, not one of whom has been heard of since.
Twenty-four persons perished in the wreck of the GERMANIA, off La Rochelle, in December last.
The collision between the NORTHFLEET and the MURILLO, in January, caused a loss of 350 lives;
About 560 were sacrificed in the wreck of the ATLANTIC, on the 1st of April.
The statement that the VILLE DU HARVE was "the largest vessel ever built, with the exception of the Great Eastern, is manifestly erroneous; for while her tonnage xxxxrement was 5,100, that of the Warrior is 6,170; that of the Agincourt 6,021, and some of the more modern vessels of the fleet are still larger".

Contributed by Bill Kerchoff
NEWS ARTICLE Added March 25, 2008
Arrival information from: "New York Times"
Marine Intelligence (column)
May 26, 1870
pg. 8

"Bark Amaranth, (N. G.,)
Von Hagen, Bremen 34 ds.,
with mdse. and 329 passengers to Chas. Luling & Co.
Had 2 deaths and 3 births on the passage;
made the northen passage; had fine weather."
Donated by: Marty Gale

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