DATE 



POSITION 



DESCRIPTION 

 OF INCIDENT 



LIVES 

 LOST/INJURED 



DAMAGE 



31 Aug 1899 48'30'N 48'44-W from Glasgow lo 



New York 



Sept 1899 Off the Strait of Belle Isle from 



Labrador, arr St Jofin s Sept 26"" 



11 Mar 1898 Lynn Canal. Alaska At Victoria 1 4"' 



May 1898 55 mi S of Cape Race, from 



Marseilles to St Pierre spoken to 

 23 May 



27 May 1898 43 40 N 48M5W from Liverpool to 



Boston, arr 31", 



18 Jun 1898 6 mi E of Gull Is, from Swansea to 



Tilt Cove. Nfld 



July 1898 On tfie Banks of Nfld from Henley 



to Canada 



•■17 Feb 1897 From Danzig Dec 23 to Halifax, off 



Cape Race Feb 7 



Apr 1897 From Saint Jotin NB, at Dublin 7 



April after voyage of 19 days 



1 Apr 1897 43°55'N 48°23'W from Bnstol to New 



York 



9 Apr 1897 From Barbados an- St Johns April 



11" 



12 Apr 1897 From Marseilles to Nfld, spoken to in 



43°N 48°W on 18'ApriP) and put 

 into St Pierre 



12 Apr 1897 48°30N 48°50W from Glasgow'' to 



New York 



14 Apr 1897 Off entrance to St Marys Bay 



46°30'N 54°W 



26 Apr 1897 42'N 48°W from Cardiff lo Norfolk 



(Virginia?) 



SS CITY OF ROME struck a 

 berg (a growler) at half speed in 

 fog at noon 



Schooner LILY OF THE WEST 

 struck an iceberg 



Steam schooner ALICE 

 BLANCHARD struck a floating 

 lump of ice 



Bark BAYARD hit a berg (see 

 also 6 May 1885) 



SS CESTRIAN hit a berg at 

 night in fog 



SS PARA struck a berg (two 

 reports crushed in ice) 



Bark FORTUNA hit an iceberg 

 (another report records 

 Norwegian SS FORTUNAT) 



SS STATE OF GEORGIA last 

 seen in field of ice 



SS GLEN HEAD hit a berg 



SS BROOKLYN CITY hit a large 

 berg at 11.45 pm 



Bark CORDELIA hit a berg or 

 floe 



Brigantine CLAIR struck ice 

 (berg?) 



SS BOHEMIA encountered ice 

 heavy pack for 3 hours 



French Brigt VAILLANT collided 

 with a berg from St Malo to St 

 Pierre 



SS KNIGHT BACHELOR hit a 

 berg 



None 



Crew saved 



None known 



None known 



None known 



Unknown 



Crew 1 2 days in 

 open boat: picked 

 up and landed at Tilt 

 Cove 



2 walked ashore 

 before ship went 

 missing. 32 lost 



Unknown 



Unknown 



Unknown 



None known 



None known 



78 lives lost, 4 

 Survivors landed at 

 St Pien-e having 

 resorted to 

 cannibalism 



Unknown 



jettisoned 



Growler cut in two bow stove 

 below waterline 



Sank almost immediately 



Hull punctured, forepeak filled 

 with water even with pumps 

 going 



Lost stem, bowsprit, jib boom. 

 foremast, topgallantmast and 

 yard; leaking badly 



Twisted stem tp port 20 . 

 crushed plates and forcing 

 topgallant forecastle skyward 

 Bulkhead held, not leaking 



Sank 



Sank 



Lost 



Unknown 



Bows stove in, flooding forepeak 

 and damaging watertight 

 bulkhead 



Bows stove in and leaking also 

 lost foretopmast in a gale 



Bowsprit, figurehead. |ib boom 

 and headgear earned away and 

 leaky Forecastle stove in above 

 waterline 



16 plates damaged alx}ve 

 waterline 



Sank Survivors picked up by 

 VICTOR EUGENE (see 

 28/4/1897) seven days later 

 Victor and Eugene may be two 

 separate vessels 



Bows stove to the bulkhead 

 butts 30 of bows gone. 62 

 plates broken Arr Halifax 30" 



NRC - Instiute for Marine Dynamics, 14 December 2000 



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