Category: SS Arctic
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While Traveling From New York from Liverpool, England, the SS Arctic Struck the SS Vesta, a Small Fishing Boat, 50 Miles Off the Coast of Newfoundland – 322 Souls would Perish. September 27, 1854.
Original caption: “Wreck of the U.S.M. Steam Ship ‘Arctic’. Off Cape Race Wednesday September 27th 1854. On her homeward voyage from Liverpool, during a dense fog, she came in collision with the French iron propeller ‘VESTA,’ and was so badly injured that in about 5 hours she sunk stern foremost by which terrible calamity nearly…
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