Perils of the Atlantic: a century and a half of maritime challenges and disasters, 1850-2000
The wreck of the Arctic, September 27, 1854
A hostile shore, stormy weather, and inattentive lookouts make for a deadly combination: the White Star liner Atlantic fails to make Halifax, April 1, 1873
The Ville du Havre and the Loch Earn: the sudden loss of the second-largest ship in the world, November 22, 1873
The SS Pennsylvania of the American line and the great hurricane of 1874, February 23, 1874
Grounding of the steamship Rusland of the Red Star line off Long Branch, New Jersey, March 17, 1877
The graceful City of Brussels and the deadly fog of the Irish Sea, January 7, 1883
The loss of the Cunard liner Oregon, March 14, 1886
An inconceivable horror: two White Star liners crash off New York: the collision of the Celtic and the Britannic, May 19, 1887
An Atlantic disaster narrowly missed: the explosion of the engines on the City of Paris, March 25,1890
Fire at sea on the City of Richmond, June 1891
The City of Chicago and the Old Head of Kinsale, July 1, 1892
Ocean racing can be hazardous!: the St. Paul and the Campania experience near disaster, January 25, 1896
The loss of Holland America's gallant Veendam to causes beyond comprehension, February 6-8, 1898
A sinking tanker in heavy weather can be a tricky thing: the Vindobala, December 1898
The wireless brings aid for the first time: the Republic and the Florida in collision, January 23, 1909
The ultimate catastrophe: the largest ship in the world, the SS Titanic, strikes an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic, April 14-15, 1912
Fog in the St. Lawrence can be deadly: the loss of the Empress of Ireland, May 29, 1914
The Lusitania meets an untimely fate, May 7, 1915
Fire at sea, a dead captain, and a sociopathic killer: the Morro Castle disaster, September 8, 1934
It never should have happened: the collision of the Italian Andrea Doria and the Swedish Stockholm, July 26, 1956
A final voyage can have more than one ending: the SS Seabreeze I, December 18, 2000.
