Some died dropping into the sea from the sinking ship, wearing nothing but ... early morning darkness of April 1, 1873. The tragedy that struck the SS Atlantic has forever marked the communities ...

Amidst the French steam ship torpedoed by a German U-boat ... Atlantic as anybody out there,” he said. On April 1, 1873, the ...

All crew and passengers were rescued before the ship sank. April 1 - White Star Line's "Atlantic" is wrecked off the coast of Halifax after entering rough seas. More than half of its 900 occupants ...

Holland America Line (HAL) started life in 1873 as the Dutch-American Steamship Company, a shipping and passenger line that plied the Atlantic ... while in each ship’s atrium, there’s a ...