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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 steamboat.
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Comments Off on 5/29/1914: The British liner Empress of Ireland, carrying 1,477 passengers and crew, collides with the Norwegian freighter Storstad in the gulf of Canada’s St. Lawrence River & over 1000 perish.
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Comments Off on 4/15/1912: The “unsinkable” RMS Titanic sinks into the icy waters of the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage, killing 1,517 people.
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Comments Off on April 14, 1912: Just before midnight in the North Atlantic, the RMS Titanic hits an iceberg and begins to sink.
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Comments Off on 2/15/1898: A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the USS Maine in Havana harbor, killing 260 American crew members
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Environment, Maritime, Structural|
Comments Off on An oil spill from an Iranian tanker that sank in the East China Sea is rapidly spreading (two huge slicks covering 52 square miles)
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Comments Off on A ferry carrying 251 people has capsized in stormy seas off the east coast of the Philippines and a number of casualties had been reported
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Comments Off on 12/6/1917: A Belgian steamer and French freighter, both loaded with ammunition, explode in Canada’s Halifax Harbor, leveling part of the town and killing nearly 1,600 people and injuring approximately 8,000.
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Comments Off on July 25, 1956: The Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, claiming the lives of 51 people.
