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• 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.

  • Ship Wrecks

• 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.