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Capsize of the Novorossiysk – 29th Oct 1955 - over 600 Souls Lost #maritimehistory #OTD
On the afternoon of 28 October 1955, Novorossiysk returned to Sevastopol from a gunnery drill in the Black Sea. The battleship anchored...
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Oct 30, 20172 min read
MV George Prince ferry disaster 20th Oct 1976 #maritimehistory #OTD
The MV George Prince ferry disaster was a nautical disaster that occurred in the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana,...
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Oct 24, 20171 min read
Achille Lauro hijacking - 7 Oct 1985 #maritimehistory #OTD
On October 7, 1985, four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) hijacked the Italian MS Achille Lauro liner off the coast...
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Oct 17, 20171 min read
Volturno - On Fire in the North Atlantic - 9th October 1913 -520 rescued, 130 lost #maritimehistory
SS Volturno was an ocean liner that burned and sank in the North Atlantic in October 1913. She was a Royal Line ship under charter to the...
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Oct 9, 20173 min read
Curacao and RMS Queen Mary Collide 2 Oct 1942 with the loss of 337 men #maritimehistory #OTD
The RMS Queen Mary was used as a troopship throughout World War II and usually crossed the Atlantic without an escort, relying on her...
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Oct 3, 20172 min read
Toya Maru - 26th September 1954 -1,300 lost #maritimehistory #OTD
Typhoon No. 15, Marie, which had blown through Honshū, was in the Sea of Japan at 12:00 on September 26, 1954, heading northeast and had...
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Sep 26, 20172 min read
1857 Lefort Sinks in the Gulf of Finland - 826 People lost #maritimehistory
On 22 September 22, 1857 Lefort was in the Gulf of Finland en route from Reval to Kronstadt along with the ships Imperatritsa Aleksandra,...
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Sep 19, 20171 min read
SS Noronic destroyed by fire in Toronto Harbour with the loss of at least 118 lives #maritimehistory
SS Noronic was a passenger ship that was destroyed by fire in Toronto Harbour in September 1949 with the loss of at least 118 lives It...
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Sep 12, 20171 min read
The Mayflower Departs Plymouth for New England #maritimehistory
The Mayflower was an English ship that famously transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth,...
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Sep 5, 20171 min read
Sinking of the SS Admiral Nakhimov 31 August 1986 #maritimehistory
SS Admiral Nakhimov (Russian: Адмирал Нахимов), launched in March 1925 and originally named SS Berlin, was a passenger liner of the...
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Aug 29, 20171 min read
Marchioness sinks on the Thames- 20 August 1989 - 51 dead #maritimehistory
The Marchioness disaster was a fatal collision between two vessels on the Thames in London on 20 August 1989, which resulted in the...
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Aug 22, 20171 min read
SS Islander - sinks after hitting an iceberg -14 August 1901, Alaska #maritimehistory
Canadian-Pacific steamer SS ISLANDER sank after striking an iceberg departing Skagway, Alaska. The SS Islander was a 1519-ton, 240-foot...
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Aug 15, 20171 min read
SS Golden Gate - 27 July 1862 #maritimehistory
SS Golden Gate - On 27 July 1862 the Pacific Mail Steamship Golden Gate caught fire and burned 15 miles off the coast of Manzanillo,...
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Aug 1, 20171 min read
Eastland - 24 July 1915 #maritimehistory
The SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24 July 1915, while moored to the dock in the Chicago River,...
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Jul 25, 20171 min read
HMS Thunderer - 14 July 1876 #maritimehistory
HMS Thunderer – On 14 July 1876, shortly after completion, the ironclad turret ship suffered a disastrous boiler explosion which killed...
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Jul 18, 20171 min read
Bulgaria – sank on 10 July 2011 #maritimehistory
Bulgaria – sank on 10 July 2011 in a storm on the Kuybyshev Reservoir of the Volga river near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, Russia, while sailing...
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Jul 11, 20171 min read
Angamos – On 6 July 1928 #maritimehistory
Angamos – On 6 July 1928 she sailed bound for Talcahuano and sank off Punta Morguillas Lebu, Chile. Of the 269 aboard 262 were lost and...
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Jul 4, 20171 min read
Demas Victory – Capsized 30 June 2009 #maritimehistory
Demas Victory – a Dubai-based supply ship capsized 10 nautical miles (19 km) off the coast of the Qatari capital city of Doha in rough...
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Jun 27, 20171 min read
MV Princess of the Stars - 21 June 2008 #maritimehistory
Around noon on June 21, 2008, the motor vessel Princess of the Stars capsized off the coast of San Fernando, Romblon, at the height of...
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Jun 20, 20171 min read
Sinking of the RMS Lancastria - the largest single-ship loss of life in British #maritimehistory
RMS Lancastria (later HMT Lancastria) was a British Cunard liner commandeered by the UK Government during World War II. She was sunk on...
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Jun 13, 20171 min read
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