The SS Central America also had 500 people on board when it went down Sept. 12, 1857. Despite the deadly outcome, the ...
When the Dutch navy sailed up the Thames estuary in 1667 and launched a surprise attack on British ships, the naval administrator and diarist Samuel Pepys panicked that “the whole kingdom is ...
The ship went down 200 miles from Cape Hatteras, part of the Outer Banks barrier islands, historians said. Most of the people on board died. But about 145 of the passengers got to safety with the ...