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Maritime Disasters

Can you identify the names of the ships involved in the following historical disasters?
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Last updated: February 17, 2022
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First submittedFebruary 17, 2022
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This ship sank in the Thames River in 1878 after a collision— at least 600 drowned.
Princess Alice
This ship caught fire and burned in New York City’s East River in 1904– over 1,000 were lost.
General Slocum
This ship caught fire and sank off the Philippines in 1987 in the world’s worst peacetime maritime tragedy— over 4,000 died.
Doña Paz
This ship sank in Lake Superior in 1975 with the loss of all 29 hands; the cause is still undetermined.
Edmund Fitzgerald
This ferry sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994 after the bow visor failed in stormy weather — 852 lives were lost.
Estonia
This ship sank after a collision in the St. Lawrence River in 1914 with over 1,000 lives lost— Canada’s worst in peacetime.
Empress of Ireland
This cruise ship capsized in shallow Italian waters in 2012 in controversial circumstances— 32 died.
Costa Concordia
This ferry capsized and sank while leaving Zeebrugge harbor in 1987– 193 were lost.
Herald of Free Enterprise
This ferry sank off South Korea in 2014 in controversial circumstances with the loss of 304 lives, most of them schoolchildren.
Sewol
This ferry sank in a cyclone off New Zealand in 1968– 53 perished.
Wahine
This German liner full of refugees was sunk by a submarine in the closing days of WWII— over 9,000 died in the world’s worst maritime disaster.
Wilhelm Gustloff
This ship rolled over while docked in the Chicago River in 1915– over 800 drowned.
Eastland
This munitions ship exploded in Halifax harbor in 1917, killing 1,700 people
Mont Blanc
This ship vanished without a trace in 1909 with all 211 souls onboard
Waratah
This ocean liner caught fire off the New Jersey coast in 1934 with the loss of 137 lives
Morro Castle
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