California Shipwrecks

California State Lands Commission.

Eastland Disaster Historical Society - History of a Chicago & Great Lakes Steamliner Shipwreck

English East India Company Ships

Data for all ships of the East India Company, including shipping Losses in the Mercantile Service 1600-1834 (includes Shipwrecks, Captures & Missing Vessels).

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable.

Halifax Explosion Remembrance Book - A List of Those Who Died

Kristianiafjord Crew-members 1917

Crew list of the Norwegian-America Line ship Kristianiafjord, which departed New York, New York, eastbound to Norway via Halifax, on July 7th 1917 with about 900 passengers. On July 15th 1917 she was wrecked near Cape Race with no loss of life.

New Jersey Scuba - Artifacts & Shipwrecks

Other Lost Boats

A list of US submarines, the crew and the passengers that were lost since 1915.

Out of Gloucester

Fishermen's memorial and more.

Passenger List: Angel Gabriel

Wrecked off Pemaquid Pt. Maine on Aug. 15, 1635.

Ships Wrecked or Sunk

United Kingdom.

SHIPWRECK Mailing List

For anyone with a genealogical interest in shipwrecks and persons lost at sea, on inland waterways, on lakes, etc. Archives: browse or search.

Shipwrecks in the Atlantic

Database of shipwrecks in the North Atlantic from 1841 - 1978.

Sinking of the SS Golden Gate

Sinking of the SS Golden Gate in 1862 off Manzanilla, Mexico on its way to Panama from San Francisco. Includes a list of the 338 passengers on board, including lists of survivors and the 180 who died in the fire and sinking.

Steamer 'City of Dunedin' - Mysterious Sinking

Events surrounding the shipwreck of the paddle steamer 'City of Dunedin' on May 20, 1865 in Cook Strait, NZ. Crew and passenger list. Information on other wrecks.

The Clallam Disaster

On the 8th of January 1904 the ferry Clallam foundered and sunk with the lost of 54 people.

The Great Lakes Shipwreck File: Total Losses of Great Lakes Ships 1679 - 1999

Online searchable database of shipwrecks.

The Halifax Explosion

On December 6, 1917, in the midst of the Great War, a French munitions ship caught fire in Halifax harbor. The subsequent explosion flattened much of Halifax, killed 2,000 people and injured 9,000 more.

The Loss of HMS Captain - September 1870

Includes family stories and genealogies about the victims & survivors of the sinking of the Royal Navy's HMS Captain which went down off the coast of Cape Finisterre on September 7, 1870.

The Official RMS Republic Website

Detailed study of the facts surrounding the sinking of the RMS Republic, the largest vessel in history to sink to her day, succeeded only three years later by the Titanic.