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SS G. P. Griffith was a passenger steamer that burned and sank on Lake Erie on 17 June 1850, resulting in the loss of between 241 and 289 lives. [1]: 54 The destruction of the G. P. Griffith was the greatest loss of life on the Great Lakes up to that point, and remains the third-greatest today, after the Eastland in 1915 and the Lady Elgin in 1860.
Comet was first dubbed a "true treasure ship" by shipwreck historian Frederick Stonehouse in 1973. When she sank, her vessel was valued at $45,000 and the cargo at $50,000. [ 5 ] The Sault Evening News of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan announced in 1980 that Comet was the "only known treasure ship on the bottom of the lake" when interviewing Great ...
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The ship was en route to Montreal from Buffalo, New York. All crew were saved and taken aboard Dalwarnic. Ship was named after one other co-owners of the ship. [35] USS Ohio United States Navy: 1884 A ship of the line that burned in Greenport Harbor. Oregon United Kingdom: 6 March 1886
2023 – Port Newark disaster, cargo ship catches fire in Newark, New Jersey — 2 firefighters killed. 2023 – MV Fremantle Highway caught fire off the coast of the Dutch island of Ameland around 11.45 pm on 25 July 2023 while en route from Bremerhaven, Germany, due to arrive in Egypt's Port Said on 2 August 2023.
Between 241 and 289 lives lost when the ship caught fire. Third-greatest loss of life in any Great Lakes shipping disaster. Grand Traverse: 20 October 1896 The bulk carrier sank in a collision with the Livingstone. H.A. Barr: 24 August 1902 The barge sank off Point Stanley
The ship's launch was originally planned for July 1971. [3] [4] However, on June 24, 1971, the ship suffered a major engine room fire which killed four and caused serious damage. Sea trials and delivery were delayed by a year to June 1972. [5] The Roger Blough assisted in the search for SS Edmund Fitzgerald.