; 110 lives lost.
1874, Dec. 24.--Emigrant vessel Cospatrick took fire and sank off
Auckland; 476 lives lost.
1875, May 7.--Hamburg Mail steamer Schiller wrecked in fog on Scilly
Islands; 200 lives lost.
1875, Nov. 4.--American steamer Pacific in collision thirty miles
southwest of Cape Flattery; 236 lives lost.
1878, March 24.--British training ship Eurydice, a frigate, foundered
near the Isle of Wight; 300 lives lost.
1878, Sept. 3.--British iron steamer Princess Alice sunk in the Thames
River; 700 lives lost.
1878, Dec. 18.--French steamer Byzantin sunk in collision in the
Dardanelles with the British steamer Rinaldo; 210 lives lost.
1879, Dec. 2.--Steamer Borussia sank off the coast of Spain; 174 lives
lost.
1880, Jan. 31.--British trading ship Atlanta left Bermuda with 290 men
and was never heard from.
1881, Aug. 30.--Steamer Teuton wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope; 200
lives lost.
1883, July 3.--Steamer Daphne turned turtle in the Clyde; 124 lives
lost.
1884, Jan. 18.--American steamer City of Columbus wrecked off Gay Head
Light, Massachusetts; 99 lived lost.
1884, July 23.--Spanish steamer Gijon and British steamer Lux in
collision off Finisterre; 150 lives lost.
1887, Jan. 29.--Steamer Kapunda in collision with bark Ada Melore off
coast of Brazil; 300 lives lost.
1887, Nov. 15.--British steamer Wah Young caught fire between Canton and
Hong Kong; 400 lives lost.
1888, Sept. 13.--Italian steamship Sud America and steamer La France in
collision near the Canary Islands; 89 lives lost.
1889, March 16.--United States warships Trenton, Vandalia and Nipsic and
German ships Adler and Eber wrecked on Samoan Islands; 147 lives lost.
1890, Jan. 2.--Steamer Persia wrecked on Corsica; 130 lives lost.
1890, Feb. 17.--British steamer Duburg wrecked in the China Sea; 400
lives lost.
1890, March 1.--British steamship Quetta foundered in Torres Straits;
124 lives lost.
1890, Dec. 27.--British steamer Shanghai burned in China Seas; 101 lives
lost.
1891, March 17.--Anchor liner Utopia in collision with British steamer
Anson off Gibraltar and sunk; 574 lives lost.
1892, Jan. 13.--Steamer Namehow wrecked in China Sea; 414 lives lost.
1892, Oct. 28.--Anchor liner Romania, wrecked off Portugal; 113 lives
lost.
1893, Feb. 8.--Anchor liner Trinairia, wrecked off Spain; 115 lives
lost.
1894, June 25.--Steamer Norge, wrecked on Rockall Reef, in the North
Atlantic; nearly 600 live
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