A Melancholy List
The following are some of the most notable shipwrecks which have occurred since 1859, when the Royal Charter was wrecked and 446 lives lost : — IB6o.— Lady Elgin, sunk in Lake Michigan ; 287 perished. 1863. — Anglo-Saxon, mail steamer, off Cape Race ; 237 perished. 1866. — London, in Bay of Biscay ; 220 perished. 1870.— H..M.5. Captain, foundered off Finisterre ; 472 lives lost. 1873.— North Fleet, run into off Dimgeness; 300 perished. 1873. — Atlantic, struck on Meagher Rock ; 560 perished. 1874. — Cospatrick, took fire : 470 killed. 1876. — Great Queensland, laden, with gunpowder, supposed to haye exploded ; 569 perished. 1878.— H.MS. Eurydice, foundered; 300 perished. 1878.— Princess Alice, sunk in, the River Thames ; 600 or 700 perished. 1881. — Victoria, sunk in the Thames, Canada ; several hundreds drowned. IS9O. — Quetta, wrecked in the Torres Straits ; 160 perished. 1891.— Utopia, collision ; 570 perished.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 115, 21 March 1891, Page 2
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139A Melancholy List Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 115, 21 March 1891, Page 2
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