"is unlikely that he knew about it. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20717 RMS Atlantic RMS ""Atlantic"" was a transatlantic ocean liner of the White Star Line that operated between Liverpool, United Kingdom, and New York City, United States. During the ship's 19th voyage, on 1 April 1873, she ran onto rocks and sank off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, killing at least 535 people. It remained the deadliest civilian maritime disaster in the North Atlantic Ocean until the sinking of on 2 July 1898 and the greatest disaster for the White Star Line prior to the loss of in April 1912. ""Atlantic"" was"
"substantial loss for the company came only four years after its founding, occurring 31 March 1873 with the sinking of the SS ""Atlantic"" and the loss of 535 lives near Halifax, Nova Scotia. While en route to New York from Liverpool amidst a vicious storm, the ""Atlantic"" attempted to make port at Halifax when a concern arose that the ship would run out of coal before reaching New York. However, when attempting to enter Halifax, she ran aground on the rocks and sank in shallow waters. Despite being so close to shore, a majority of the victims of the disaster"
"RMS Titanic RMS ""Titanic"" was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. RMS ""Titanic"" was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three s operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff"
"RMS Nova Scotia (1926) RMS ""Nova Scotia"" was a UK transatlantic ocean liner and Royal Mail Ship. In World War II she was requisitioned as a troop ship. In 1942 a German submarine sank her in the Indian Ocean with the loss of 858 of the 1,052 people aboard. Vickers, Sons & Maxim, Ltd of Barrow-in-Furness built ""Nova Scotia"" for Furness, Withy & Co of Liverpool. She was the sister ship of RMS ""Newfoundland"", which Vickers had launched for the same owner 11 months previously. Her 1,047 NHP quadruple expansion steam engine was fed by five 215 lb/in single-ended boilers"
"ship ""Tropical Sun"" had run aground on rocks near Salt Island very near the wreck. RMS Rhone RMS ""Rhone"" was a UK Royal Mail Ship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP). She was wrecked off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands on 29 October 1867 in a hurricane, killing 123 people. She is now a popular Caribbean wreck dive site. RMSP ships carried mail, passengers, horses, and cargo on regular scheduled routes. Its first services had been between Southampton and the Caribbean, but in 1851 it added a new route between Southampton and"
"Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers The Allan Shipping Line was started in 1819, by Captain Alexander Allan of Saltcoats, Ayrshire, trading and transporting between Scotland and Montreal, a route which quickly became synonymous with the Allan Line. By the 1830s the company had offices in Glasgow, Liverpool and Montreal. All five of Captain Allan's sons were actively involved with the business, but it was his second son, Sir Hugh Allan, who spearheaded the second generation. In 1854, Hugh launched the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company as part of the Allan Line, and two years later ousted Samuel Cunard to take control"
"RMS Rhone RMS ""Rhone"" was a UK Royal Mail Ship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP). She was wrecked off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands on 29 October 1867 in a hurricane, killing 123 people. She is now a popular Caribbean wreck dive site. RMSP ships carried mail, passengers, horses, and cargo on regular scheduled routes. Its first services had been between Southampton and the Caribbean, but in 1851 it added a new route between Southampton and Rio de Janeiro. This growing trade, and a number of ships lost at sea, created"
"RMS Lady Hawkins RMS ""Lady Hawkins"" was a steam turbine ocean liner. She was one of a class of five sister ships popularly known as ""Lady Boats"" that Cammell Laird of Birkenhead, England built in 1928 and 1929 for the Canadian National Steamship Company (CNS). The five vessels were Royal Mail Ships that CN operated from Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Caribbean ""via"" Bermuda. In 1942 the sank ""Lady Hawkins"" in the North Atlantic, killing 251 of the 322 people aboard. Cammell Laird of Birkenhead, on the Wirral in England built all five ""Lady""-liners, and completed ""Lady Hawkins"" in November"
"tow lines were cut, she repeatedly crashed on the rocky breakwater outside Apra Harbor, Guam and broke into three sections. After World War II, the Cunard White Star Line operated three ships on the Southampton—New York run. The famous RMS ""Queen Mary"" and RMS ""Queen Elizabeth"" operated a weekly express service, with the smaller and slower RMS ""Mauretania"" sailing as the third ship on the route. The company placed an order for a running mate to the ""Mauretania"", a ship of similar speed and proportions for the transatlantic run. Ultimately this was not to be the role of the new"
"1 April 1873, ""Atlantic"" struck an underwater rock off Marr's Head, Meagher's Island (now Mars Head, Mars Island), Nova Scotia. All 10 lifeboats were lowered by the crew but were all washed away or smashed as the ship quickly filled with water and partially capsized. Survivors were forced to swim or climb ropes first to a wave-swept rock and then to a barren shore. Residents of the tiny fishing village of Lower Prospect and Terence Bay soon arrived to rescue and shelter the survivors, but at least 535 people died, leaving only 371 survivors. The ship's manifest indicates that of"
"RMS Victorian RMS ""Victorian"" was an ocean liner of the Allan Line, built for service between Britain and North America. The liner was and was the first large civilian ship propelled by steam turbines. ""Victorian"" was in service for almost a quarter of a century, and was broken up in 1929. Canadian Pacific Steamship Company bought the Beaver Line in 1903 and entered the transatlantic trade. To compete, the Allan Line ordered two large new liners in October 1903. They were originally intended to be conventional twin-screw ships powered by reciprocating steam engines. The specification was changed to three-shafted vessels"
"awarded the MBE for his leadership in saving lives from ""Lady Hawkins"". He was also awarded Lloyd's War Medal for Bravery at Sea. RMS Lady Hawkins RMS ""Lady Hawkins"" was a steam turbine ocean liner. She was one of a class of five sister ships popularly known as ""Lady Boats"" that Cammell Laird of Birkenhead, England built in 1928 and 1929 for the Canadian National Steamship Company (CNS). The five vessels were Royal Mail Ships that CN operated from Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Caribbean ""via"" Bermuda. In 1942 the sank ""Lady Hawkins"" in the North Atlantic, killing 251 of"
"SS Cambria (1869) SS ""Cambria"" was a British cargo-passenger steamship wrecked off the north-west of Ireland on 19 October 1870 with the loss of 178 lives. The iron-hulled ship was built at the Robert Duncan & Co. shipyard in Port Glasgow for the Anchor Line, to operate on the trans-Atlantic route. She was launched on 1 March 1869, and sailed on her maiden voyage on 8 May, sailing from Glasgow, and calling at Moville in County Donegal, Ireland, before heading across the Atlantic to New York City. ""Cambria"" departed New York on 8 October 1870 under the command of Captain"
"Saint John also convinced the company to forego plans to build into Nova Scotia by concentrating on reaching the Northumberland Strait first. This would give the city a steamship connection through the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Canada East, as well as allowing coal and other goods to avoid the circuitous and hazardous transit around Nova Scotia. Construction started in 1853, heading northeast from Saint John up the Kennebecasis River valley. Unfortunately construction did not proceed very far and the company went bankrupt in 1856 with the colonial government of New Brunswick taking over the company’s line in 1857. That"
"On 2 January 1918 torpedoed and sank the second in St. George's Channel. In January 1933 the second was abandoned in a gale and sank about 600 miles southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. The company added a service to Canada in the same year. On 1 July 1941 the first was serving as a weather ship in the Atlantic when torpedoed and sank her with the loss of all hands. On 21 December 1942 torpedoed and sank the first in the Atlantic. On 5 May 1943 torpedoed and sank the third SS ""Bristol City"" (1920). The company extended its Canadian"
"another American ship, the , was to regain the honor. On 27 September 1854, ""Baltic""<nowiki>'s</nowiki> sister ship ""Arctic"" suffered a collision with the French screw-steamer ""Vesta"", and sank with heavy loss of life. Two years later, another of the four Collins Line steamers, ""Pacific"", sailed from Liverpool on September 23, 1856 with almost 200 passengers and crew and was never heard from again. Loss of these two ships—which some blamed upon the Line's emphasis on speed—caused serious financial harm to the company and also damaged its reputation. To make matters worse, Congress rescinded its generous subsidy to the Line in"
"SS Laurentic (1927) The second SS ""Laurentic"" was an 18,724-ton ocean liner built in 1927 by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, for the White Star Line. She served on the Canadian route from 1927 to 1936. After the merger of the White Star Line with Cunard Line, the ship was mainly used for cruise service. After December 1935, however, she was laid up unused in Liverpool. In August 1939, she was requisitioned and converted into an auxiliary cruiser for the Royal Navy for service in the Second World War. The ""Laurentic"" was torpedoed by the on 3 November 1940 off Bloody"
"Atlantic (1848) Atlantic was a steamboat that sank on Lake Erie after a collision with the steamer ""Ogdensburg"" on 20 August 1852, with the loss of at least 150 but perhaps as many as 300 lives. The loss of life made this disaster, in terms of loss of life from the sinking of a single vessel, the fifth-worst tragedy in the history of the Great Lakes. ""Atlantic"" was built in 1848 or 1849 in Newport, Michigan, now called Marine City, by J. L. Wolverton. ""Atlantic"" was relatively large for the time, long with a tonnage of 1,155 tons, a beam"
"RMS Niagara RMS ""Niagara"" was an ocean liner launched on 17 August 1912 and owned by the Union Steam Ship Company intended for the Australia-Vancouver, Canada service. She was nicknamed ""the ""Titanic"" of the Pacific"", but after the sinking of the real this was dropped in favour of ""Queen of the Pacific"". She should not be confused with an earlier RMS ""Niagara"", an ocean liner built in 1848 for the Cunard Line. At the start of World War II, RMS ""Niagara"" was operated by the Canadian-Australasian Line, maintaining a service from Auckland, New Zealand, to Suva and Vancouver. On 19"
"built for the African Steamship Company and placed under the management of Elder Dempster Lines. On 3 September 1897, she made her maiden voyage from Avonmouth, Gloucestershire to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. On 13 November 1898, she was chartered to the Atlantic Transport Line. In 1899, a rebuild left her at . ""Montcalm"" made eleven trans-atlantic voyages between 1898 and 1900. On 5 April 1900, she sailed from Liverpool for Cape Town as a transport ship in support of the Second Boer War. ""Montcalm"" then made six return voyages from Cape Town to New Orleans, carrying horses or mules. In June"
"lost and finally gave the order to abandon ship. Two crew members lost their lives in her sinking. Today, the wreck of the ""Alaunia"" lies on its port side in the English Channel in 15 metres (50 feet) of water. Cunard revived the name in 1925 when they built a second , which served until 1957. picture - http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/cunard6.html RMS Alaunia (1913) RMS ""Alaunia"" was an ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line. She was built in 1913 at Greenock and measured 13,405 tons gross. She was one of the three ships Cunard ordered Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company to"
"during the War of 1812 was discovered in Shanks Harbor in the United States. Artifacts from the wreck of the ""Atlantic"", a 19th-century liner which sunk off the Marshead, Nova Scotia coast in April 1873 included a tile from the ship's staircase and a heavy ""dead eye"", used to secure rigging for the ship's mast. The Underwater Society kept several volumes containing statistics, reports, diagrams, photographs and other pertinent information on the shipwrecks. The wrecks were discovered in the St. Lawrence River from Lake St. Francis to Kingston, Ontario, the Rideau Canal and the Ottawa River from Montreal, Quebec to"
"14 April. About midnight she hit an iceberg and five compartments started to flood. Two hours afterwards she sank. There were only enough lifeboats for half the passengers and 1,503 people perished. In 1985 her wreck was identified by sonar 4,000 m down and explored using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). Some objects from the wreck have been recovered. RMS ""Queen Mary"" was built in 1936 by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland for what is now the Cunard Line. She made runs across the Atlantic between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York City in partnership with ""Queen Elizabeth"". The"
"1883 she was refitted and re-engined, and from 1894 she served on the Liverpool–New Orleans cotton route. ""Ambriz"" was sold in 1896 to the ""Cie Française de Charbonnage et de Batelage"" (""French Coaling & Shipping Company""), for which she served as a coal depot ship, regularly sailing from her base at Madagascar to Europe to replenish her coal supply. She was wrecked off the coast of Madagascar in February 1903. SS Asiatic (1870) SS ""Asiatic (sometimes operated as the RMS ""Asiatic) was a steamship operated by the White Star Line from 1871 to 1873, a sister ship to . Sold"
"Railway. On 20 January 1911 she went ashore on Haisborough Sands while on a voyage from Antwerp to Grimsby in thick fog. She was refloated on 21 January and resumed her journey. She was sold in 1914 to Greek owners and renamed Elikon. She was sunk on 2 February 1917 in the Atlantic Ocean west of Cape Penas, Spain () by . Her crew survived. SS Lincoln (1883) SS ""Lincoln"" was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1883. The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding of Hull and launched on 7 March"
"in service for another ten years. In 1969 she was sold for mercantile use, for use as a fish factory ship. HMCS St. Stephen (K454) HMCS ""St. Stephen"" was a that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for St. Stephen, New Brunswick. ""St. Stephen"" was ordered on 1 February 1943 as part of the 1943–1944 River-class building program. She was laid down on 5 October 1943 by Yarrows Ltd. at Esquimalt and launched 6 February 1944. She was commissioned"
"later from Liverpool to St John's, Newfoundland, Halifax, Nova Scotia and Boston. The Liverpool — Boston route was worked by a pair of sister ships, RMS ""Newfoundland"" and RMS ""Nova Scotia"". The first ""Newfoundland"" and were built in 1925 and 1926 but were requisitioned in 1940 and 1941. Both were lost to enemy action: ""Nova Scotia"" as a troop ship in 1942; ""Newfoundland"" as a hospital ship in 1943. A second ""Newfoundland"" and ""Nova Scotia"" were built as replacements in 1947 and served until 1962, when Furness, Withy sold them to Dominion Navigation Co. A third ""Newfoundland"" and ""Nova Scotia"""
"Line, which also endured until 1880. The flag was the same as for the Liverpool line, but with red at the hoist instead of blue. The ships included the ""Columbia"", ""Sir Robert Peel"" (built 1846), ""Patrick Henry"" (after her 1852 transfer from the Blue Swallowtail line), ""Prince Albert"", ""Yorktown"" (1847), ""London"" (1848), and ""Rhine"". Many of these ships were actually owned by the partners (in shares) individually, and not owned by the company itself. As its business grew, the company's reputation expanded, even to Canada. In 1835, the ""Quebec Mercury"" commented on ""[T]he exertions of Messrs. Grinnell, Minturn & Co."
"SS Drottningholm RMS ""Virginian was a steam turbine powered transatlantic ocean liner, launched in 1904 for the Allan Line. She operated from 1920 to 1948 for the Swedish American Line as SS ""Drottningholm. ""Virginian"" was built in 1905 by Alexander Stephen and Sons in Glasgow for the Allan Line of Canada. She was a sistership to and operated in Allan Line service until 1920. In 1912, she was one of several ships in wireless radio communication with , giving iceberg warnings, and at one point erroneous wireless messages had ""Virginian"" towing ""Titanic"" to Halifax, Nova Scotia and that all on"
"SS Mont-Blanc SS Mont-Blanc was a freighter built in Middlesbrough, England in 1899 and purchased by the French company, Société Générale de Transport Maritime (SGTM). On Thursday morning, 6 December 1917, she entered Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada laden with a full cargo of highly volatile explosives. As she made her way through the Narrows towards Bedford Basin, she was involved in a collision with , a Norwegian ship. A fire aboard the French ship ignited her cargo of wet and dry picric acid, TNT, and guncotton. The resultant Halifax Explosion levelled the Richmond District and killed approximately 2,000"
"SS Norwich City The SS ""Norwich City"" was an oil-fired steam freighter powered by a triple expansion steam engine. She was built in 1911 by William Gray & Company, Ltd., West Hartlepool, England, with engines by the company's Central Marine Engine Works. On 23 or 24 April 1928 (sources differ), the ship ran into the Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and lost her funnel and masts. In November 1929, ""Norwich City"" carrying a crew of 35 men left Melbourne bound for Vancouver via Honolulu. During a storm on 29 November 1929, the unladen freighter ran aground in"
"Rosalind (1890 ship) SS ""Rosalind was a passenger and cargo carrying ship that was operated by the Red Cross Line between New York and St John’s, sailing along the northeast coast of North America, in the early part of the twentieth century. Originally named Tosari when she was launched in 1890, she was renamed Admiral"" after a year when she was bought by Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie. She joined the Red Cross Line in 1902 and worked the route for twelve years before colliding with Shag Rock off the coast of Nova Scotia and sinking on 17 March 1914. She is"
"Atlantic Ocean and sank with the loss of 272 men—over half of those on board. SS ""Henry R. Mallory"" was built by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. of Newport News, Virginia (yard no. 193), and delivered to the Mallory Steamship Line on 21 October 1916. Named for Mallory Lines president Henry R. Mallory, she operated on a New Orleans – New York route, carrying passengers and freight. After the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, the United States Army, needing transports to get its men and materiel to France, had a select committee of shipping"