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SS City of Benares was a British passenger liner used during the Second World War to carry passengers and evacuees across the Atlantic. On 17 September 1940, the German submarine U-48 torpedoed the ship while it was sailing for Canada as part of a convoy. Of the 90 children aboard under the Children...
SS Arctic was an American wooden-hulled paddle steamship operated by the Collins Line on transatlantic passenger service. On 27 September 1854, it collided with the French steamship Vesta in fog off Newfoundland and later sank in the North Atlantic. The disaster killed roughly 300 people, with no wo...
SS Norge was a Danish passenger steamship operated by the Thingvalla Line and used mainly on routes carrying European emigrants to North America. On 28 June 1904, she struck Hasselwood Rock near Rockall in the North Atlantic and sank rapidly, leaving too little lifeboat capacity for those aboard; mo...
SS Valencia was a passenger steamship that wrecked on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island in January 1906 while traveling from San Francisco to Seattle. After striking a reef in poor weather, the vessel became trapped near a rugged shoreline, where heavy seas frustrated evacuation and rescue eff...
SS Ville du Havre was a French transatlantic passenger steamship that sank in the North Atlantic after colliding with the British sailing ship Loch Earn in November 1873. The liner went down rapidly, causing a large loss of life among its passengers and crew. The disaster is also remembered through...
SS Tayleur was a large iron-hulled sailing ship built for the White Star Line and intended to carry passengers from Britain to Australia. On its maiden voyage in January 1854, it struck rocks off Lambay Island near Dublin after navigational and handling difficulties and sank with heavy loss of life....
SS Persia was a British passenger liner operated by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. On 30 December 1915, during the First World War, the German submarine U-38 torpedoed the ship without warning in the Mediterranean while it was traveling toward India, and the vessel sank rapidl...
SS Egypt was a British passenger liner operated by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. On 20 May 1922, it collided with the French cargo ship Seine in fog off the coast of Brittany and sank, killing 86 people. The wreck attracted sustained attention because it carried a large shipm...
SS Pacific was an American passenger steamship lost off the coast of Washington in November 1875 after colliding with the sailing ship Orpheus. The vessel had departed Victoria, British Columbia, for San Francisco carrying passengers and cargo, and only two people are known to have survived. The sin...
SS Sirio was an Italian passenger steamship operated by Navigazione Generale Italiana on routes carrying travelers and emigrants between Europe and South America. On 4 August 1906, it struck rocks near Cape Palos on Spain's Mediterranean coast and foundered. Several hundred people died, although con...
Canadian passenger and freight steamer that sank near Douglas Island, Alaska, in August 1901, notable in part for the gold cargo reportedly carried aboard at the time.
Soviet passenger cruise liner that sank off New Zealand's South Island on 16 February 1986 after striking a submerged rock; one person died.
British passenger steamer of the Atlantic Transport Line that wrecked on the Manacles reef off Cornwall on 14 October 1898, drowning approximately 106 people.
American passenger steamer SS City of Columbus wrecked off Gay Head, Massachusetts in January 1884, killing over 100 passengers; local Wampanoag men played a key role in the rescue.
British Lamport and Holt cargo-passenger liner that foundered in heavy seas off the US Atlantic coast in November 1928, killing 112 people.
German passenger ship wrecked at the entrance to Hook of Holland harbor during a storm in February 1907, killing over 120 people.
