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Comments Off on 6/15/1904: More than 1,000 people taking a pleasure trip on New York City’s East River are drowned or burned to death when a fire sweeps through the General Slocum riverboat.
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Comments Off on Budapest: Cruise ship collidedes with and sinks a sightseeing boat packed with South Korean tourists killing 7; 21 still missing
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Comments Off on 5/29/1914: The Empress of Ireland, carrying 1,477 passengers and crew, collides with the Norwegian freighter Storstad in the gulf of Canada’s St. Lawrence River resulting in the drowning of over 1000 passengers and crew
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Comments Off on At least 30 people are dead and a couple of hundred are missing after a boat sank over the weekend in Lake Mai-Ndombe in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Comments Off on 4/27/1865: The steamboat Sultana explodes on the Mississippi River near Memphis, killing 1,700 passengers and Union soldiers.
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Comments Off on 4/15/1912: The RMS Titanic sinks into the icy waters of the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg, killing 1,517 people.
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Comments Off on A cruise ship, Viking Sky, with 1,300 passengers on board suffered engine failure off the west coast of Norway on Saturday, sparking an arduous evacuation in treacherous conditions.
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Comments Off on At least 71 people have died, including 12 children, as an overcrowded ferry capsized in Iraq’s Tigris river in Mosul.
