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List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1898 Ship State Description Mataura United Kingdom: The ship struck a rock off Desolación Island, Chile. She was beached in Sealer's Cove and abandoned. The ship broke in two during March and was a total loss. [5] Relief United States: The steamer filled and sank at Pier 3, Port Richmond, Philadelphia. Raised the ...
Maine was a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on 15 February 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April. U.S. newspapers, engaging in yellow journalism to boost circulation, claimed that the Spanish were responsible for the ship's destruction. The phrase, "Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!"
SS La Bourgogne was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT) ocean liner and mail ship that was launched in France in 1886 and sank in the North Atlantic in 1898, killing 562 of the 725 people aboard.
The ship's two iron boilers were constructed at the Bath Iron Works, ... 1898, Portland, ... Portland sank off of Cape Ann with all hands, the exact number of which ...
SS Mesaba was a British passenger and cargo ship of 6,833 gross register tons (GRT) in operation between 1898 and 1918. She was torpedoed and sunk by SM UB-118 21 nautical miles (39 km) east of the Tuskar Rock in the Irish Sea on 1 September 1918 with the loss of 20 of her crew, while she was travelling from Liverpool, United Kingdom to Philadelphia, United States.
1898 France: La Bourgogne – The passenger ship sank on 4 July after a collision in dense fog with the British ship Cromartyshire off Sable Island, Nova Scotia. La Bourgogne was carrying 730 passengers and crew, of whom 565 were lost. [5] 565 1891 United Kingdom: Utopia – Collided with HMS Anson while trying to enter the Bay of Gibraltar on ...
America (Official No. 107367) [2] was a steel-hulled ship, built by the Detroit Dry Dock Company in Wyandotte at what is today the Wyandotte shores golf course [3] and launched on April 2, 1898. [4] The ship was 184 feet long, 31 feet wide, and 11 feet in depth. [4] She had a gross tonnage of 486 tons and a net of 283 tons. [4]
Coincidentally, seven years later on September 30, 1905, the L.R. Doty 's sister ship the Iosco also sank while towing the Olive Jeanette. However, on this occasion both vessels were lost to the waters of Lake Superior. [5] Olive Jeanette (in 1890) The Storm in the Milwaukee Sentinel on October 26, 1898