maritime disasters

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• - Contemporary articles about a fire in 1913 on a ship from Rotterdam.
  
• - Features an image gallery of major maritime disasters pictures, showing the grim side of merchant shipping.
  
• - Titanic, Lusitania, Empress of Ireland, Britannic, Andrea Doria.
  
• - A site where researchers can post and request information on the 1904 fire that sank the General Slocum in New York Harbor. Includes historical photos and message board.
  
• - An account of the June 15,1904 steamboat fire which killed more than 1,000 people on New York City's East River. Includes photographs, scanned documents, and other primary sources, as well as recent news.
  
• - A factual record with eyewitness accounts of the 1994 sinking of the passenger-car ferry Viking Sally.
  
• - Information on the Swedish Viking ship replica Ormen Friske which on June 22, 1950 was caught in a storm on the North Sea and broke apart. All 15 crew members lost their lives.