Eleven members of the Hong Kong cricket team perished, along with 114 other people when the SS Bokhara sank during a typhoon on October 10, 1892. Bokhara was a three-masted, two-cylinder steam engine, capable of a top speed of 13 knots. Launched in 1872, her main route ran between India and the Far East. She […]

A collision between two ships on November 4, 1875 took the sidewheel steamer SS Pacific to the bottom near Cape Flattery, Washington on the west coast of North America. Just two people survived. She had left Victoria for San Francisco with at least 275 people (it’s not known how many children were on board as […]

Though arguably Titanic is the major White Star Line disaster that still captivates people around the globe, it wasn’t the only catastrophe to befall the infamous shipping company. Almost four decades before Titanic‘s demise, the SS Atlantic, another trans-atlantic ocean liner met her end near Nova Scotia on Canada’s eastern coast. Atlantic was considered the […]

America’s oldest intact warship lies quietly in 110 feet of water in upstate New York. During the mid 1700s, the British, with their colonists, and the French and their Indian allies, were battling for governance of the new world, i.e. North America. No highway system existed and waterways provided expedient transportation for war materials and […]