The British Columbia News of March 25th, 1898, made the announcement that the City of Ainsworth was changing her route temporarily due to railway activity: “The Steamer Ainsworth is scheduled next week to begin trips on the run between Kuskonook and Bonner’s Ferry for a tri-weekly run…The Ainsworth has been undergoing repairs and a thorough overhauling at Kaslo for several weeks past and will be in good condition for the run. Captain Lean will be her master and W Marshall purser.”   

Ship Name: City of Ainsworth 

Tonnage: 193

Year Built: 1892

Ship Type: Flat Bottomed Stern Wheel Steam Ship 

Nationality: Canadian 

Year Wrecked: 1898

Location Wrecked: Two Miles from Pilot Bay, Kootenay Lake 

Reason for Wreck: Suddenly Sprung Leak in a Storm 

Sources:  

https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=19310

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lloyd_s_Register_of_Shipping_1893_Steame/xAtYEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=city+of+ainsworth+1892+ship+tonnage&pg=PR665&printsec=frontcover

https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/ndaymine/1.0308288#p0z-3r0f:captain%20lean

https://newspaperarchive.com/kaslo-british-columbia-news-mar-25-1898-p-5/

https://newspaperarchive.com/cascade-record-dec-03-1898-p-5/

https://newspaperarchive.com/nelson-economist-dec-07-1898-p-5/

https://newspaperarchive.com/nelson-daily-miner-dec-13-1898-p-1/

https://newspaperarchive.com/nelson-daily-miner-dec-06-1898-p-1/

https://newspaperarchive.com/helena-weekly-independent-dec-08-1898-p-9/

https://newspaperarchive.com/pullman-herald-dec-03-1898-p-6/

https://newspaperarchive.com/harbour-grace-standard-dec-23-1898-p-4/

https://newspaperarchive.com/victoria-daily-colonist-mar-18-1899-p-7/

https://newspaperarchive.com/seattle-post-intelligencer-dec-01-1898-p-1/

https://newspaperarchive.com/helena-weekly-independent-dec-15-1898-p-6/

https://www.uasbc.com/sites/default/files/foghorn-pdf/UASBC_2019_July_Summer.pdf

The Oregon Daily Journal from December 30, 1918, announced the return home of third officer Nolan of the Dumaru, long assumed to have been lost: “More like fiction--a tale of Jack London or Stevenson--is the story told by Nolan of the wanderings about the broad expanse of the Pacific, in an open boat, with rations running low, ever on the lookout for land or a friendly sail. Accompanied by a convoy of sharks, grim reminders of the fate that possibly awaited them, the nine men drifted about, subsisting for the greater part of the time on a half a cracker and two swallows of water a day, and when the crackers were about exhausted, on the fins of flying fish.” Ship Name: Dumaru 

Ship Type: Wooden Hulled Steamship 

Nationality: United States of America 

Year Built: 1918

Tonnage: 3500 Tons 

Year Wrecked: 1918

Location Wrecked: Two Hours from Guam 

Reason for Wreck: Explosion Due to Lightning Strike 

Lives Lost: 17

Sources: 

https://time.com/archive/6787180/navy-three-cs-for-the-seven-seas/

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Marine_Review_and_Marine_Record/zFgcAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=dumaru+tonnage&pg=PA111&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Wreck_of_the_Dumaru/QifVAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1

https://books.google.com/books?id=_igDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22&dq=dumaru+shipwreck&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJ3-XJkcmUAxUKlCsGHd8yF5wQ6AF6BAgKEAM#v=onepage&q=dumaru%20shipwreck&f=false

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1090690525/?match=1&terms=dumaru

https://www.newspapers.com/image/457433134/?match=1&terms=dumaru

https://newspaperarchive.com/la-crosse-tribune-and-leader-press-feb-09-1919-p-10/

https://newspaperarchive.com/portland-morning-oregonian-feb-03-1919-p-6/

https://newspaperarchive.com/portland-morning-oregonian-apr-18-1918-p-6/

Captain William Barnes of the Greycliffe made his official statement regarding the collision between his ferry and the Tahiti: “I called at Garden Island and picked up as usual and was proceeding to Neilsen Park. I was hardly half way between Garden Island and Neilsen Park, and was heading slightly north of Shark Island light, when I heard two blasts from a vessel: I looked on starboard side, but saw nothing; I stepped across to the port side side of the wheel house, and on looking astern I saw Tahiti within a few feet of my port quarter aft. I had not seen or heard of the Tahiti previously.”   Ship Name: Greycliffe 

Tonnage: 90

Ship Type: Steam Ferry 

Nationality: Australia 

Year Built: 1911

Year Wrecked: 1927

Location Wrecked: Sydney Harbour 

Reason for Wreck: Collision with the Tahiti 

Lives Lost: 40

Sources: 

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lloyd_s_Register_of_Shipping_1919_Sailin/9yZjEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=union+line+tahiti+lloyd&pg=PA170&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Statistical_Register/64oV9yh8xC0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=greycliffe+ferry&pg=PA454&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_State_Reports_New_South_Wales/fQQ0AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=greycliffe+ferry&pg=PA309&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Australasian_Insurance_Banking_Recor/i81sMhJoXCEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=greycliffe+ferry&pg=PA1098&printsec=frontcover

https://australianpolice.com.au/nsw-police-history-index/water-police/the-1927-tahiti-greycliffe-disaster/

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16825471?searchTerm=tahiti%20greycliffe%20court%20of%20appeals

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16439234

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/179377288?searchTerm=william%20shakespeare%20greycliffe

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/179373007?searchTerm=william%20shakespeare%20greycliffe

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/192773504?searchTerm=greycliff

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/283758741?searchTerm=greycliff

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/93997197/8938032

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/32083970?searchTerm=greycliff

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/94355261?searchTerm=greycliff

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/259922093?searchTerm=greycliff

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/196285345?searchTerm=greycliff

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/214525282?searchTerm=greycliff

https://collection.motat.nz/objects/37380/steam-engine-triple-expansion

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3889383/458889

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/1298215

Salvatore Chiappara, steward of the bark the Giovanni, told his story to the newspaper reporter of The Sun, of New York City, after arriving in that city: “The Giovanni, which had been storm-tossed for many days, neared Cape Cod. She was sailing under her main foresail and topgallant sail, the only canvas which the angry winds had left her. The sea was running high, the wind whistled shrilly through the shrouds, and the vessel, but poorly answering to her helm, was almost literally at the mercy of the elements. The waves swept over the decks, which the intense cold rendered so slippery that it was only by clinging to the bulwarks or the shrouds that the seamen could make their way from spot to spot in the performance of their hazardous duties.”Ship Name: Giovanni 

Nationality: Italy 

Year Wrecked: 1875

Location Wrecked: Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Reason for Wreck: Ran Aground in Storm 

Lives Lost: 14 or 15 Depending on Source 

Sources: 

https://books.google.com/books?id=c6AYAAAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Giovanni+shipwreck+cape+cod+1875&source=gbs_navlinks_s

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1875/03/06/79236104.html?pageNumber=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/73995958/?match=1&terms=giovanni%20shipwreck

https://www.newspapers.com/image/83496200/?match=1&terms=giovanni%20shipwreck

https://www.newspapers.com/image/78647637/?match=1&terms=giovanni%20shipwreck

https://www.newspapers.com/image/51907317/?match=1&terms=giovanni%20shipwreck

https://www.newspapers.com/image/428242283/?match=1&terms=giovanni%20shipwreck

https://newspaperarchive.com/savannah-morning-news-mar-06-1875-p-2/

https://newspaperarchive.com/burlington-daily-hawk-eye-gazette-mar-19-1875-p-1/

A note: Sorry if this episode sounds like our narrator had a head cold, our narrator had a head cold.

The Daily Gazette of Burlington, Iowa, from the 19th of August, 1887, contained the following description of the City of Montreal being abandoned: “There was a heavy sea running, and it was with difficulty the boats were kept from being smashed. The crew worked splendidly, and all the passengers were placed in boats in comparatively short time. How the boats floated with their loads is a miracle. As the last boat was putting off from the ship several of the passengers and crew were seen aft.”

Ship Name: City of Montreal 

Year Built: 1871

Tonnage: 4,000

Ship Type: Single Screw Iron Hulled Steamship

Nationality: United Kingdom 

Year Wrecked: 1887

Location Wrecked: 400 Miles from St John’s, Newfoundland 

Reason for Wreck: Cargo Fire 

Lives Lost: None 

Sources: 

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Seaboard/9nw9AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=city+of+montreal+inman+line+lloyds&pg=PA463&printsec=frontcover

https://www.newspapers.com/image/409975294/?match=1&terms=%27city%20of%20montreal%27%20ship%20fire

https://www.newspapers.com/image/409694253/?match=1&terms=%27city%20of%20montreal%27%20ship%20fire

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1058692741/?match=1&terms=%27city%20of%20montreal%27%20ship%20fire

https://newspaperarchive.com/burlington-daily-gazette-aug-19-1887-p-2/

https://newspaperarchive.com/london-evening-news-aug-30-1887-p-1/

https://newspaperarchive.com/kingston-daily-british-whig-aug-19-1887-p-1/

https://newspaperarchive.com/east-liverpool-evening-review-aug-22-1887-p-3/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/400908839/?match=1&terms=%27city%20of%20montreal%27%20ship%20fire%20lost%20boat

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Nautical_Magazine/cQgAAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=fire+cotton+cargos+city+of+montreal+1887&pg=PA265&printsec=frontcover

The Straits Times of the 29th of November, 1932, featured the following interview: “We picked up the S.O.S. of the Nevada through St. Paul’s radio Station,” Captain R. K. Healy, commander of the President Madison, told Newspapermen on the arrival of the liner at Victoria, B.C. on Oct. 5. “This was at 11.30 o’clock on the night of Sept. 26, and our course was immediately altered to render what aid we could. The wind was blowing heavy and from the east-south-east and we were about 600 miles west of Amatignak Island. Steaming at full speed we arrived at the scene of the wreck at noon on Sept. 29.” Ship Name: Nevada 

Year Built: 1920

Ship Type: Steel-Hulled Screw-Propelled Steamship 

Nationality: United States of America 

Tonnage: 5642 

Year Wrecked: 1932

Location Wrecked: Amatignak Island

Reason for Wreck: Navigational Error in a Fog 

Lives Lost: 34

Sources: 

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lloyd_Register_of_Shipping_1933_Steamers/HXCAEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nevada+States+Steamship+Company+1920+ss+west+niger&pg=RA12-PR49&printsec=frontcover

https://www.newspapers.com/image/506257538/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/500544991/?match=1&terms=nevada%20president%20madison

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1083727030/?match=1&terms=nevada%20president%20madison

https://www.newspapers.com/image/60248916/?match=1&terms=nevada%20president%20madison

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19321129-1.2.4.1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/506257192/?match=1&terms=nevada%20president%20madison

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19321001-1.2.37

https://www.newspapers.com/image/19602389/?match=1&terms=nevada%20president%20madison

https://www.newspapers.com/image/95993582/?terms=nevada%20president%20madison

https://www.newspapers.com/image/506257457/?match=1&terms=nevada%20president%20madison

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19330323-1.2.4.1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1083695510/

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19320930-1.2.48

The captain of the Elder, Dempster, and Co ship the Susu was the focus of the story of the Flachat in the London Daily Telegraph on the 1st of March, 1898: “The Susus, owned by Elder, Dempster, and Co, was ready to sail for Garachico on the night of the 15th, but owing to the bad weather she did not leave until six the next morning, when the sea and wind had gone down. It was about 7:30 a.m. when Anaga Point was passed, and as the captain looked shorewards, he saw two masts in the distance. He thought it was a schooner, but on using his glass saw distinctly that it was a steamer. He therefore headed for the shore until near enough to be of assistance if required.”

Ship Name: Flachat

Year Built: 1880

Nationality: France 

Tonnage: 2277

Ship Type: Iron Hulled Screw Propelled Steamship 

Year Wrecked: 1898

Location Wrecked: Anaga Point, Tenerife

Reason for Wreck: Navigational Error in Poor Weather 

Lives Lost: 78

Sources: 

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3816769/3816772/13/flachat?from=search

https://www.newspapers.com/image/810835048/?terms=french&match=1

https://newspaperarchive.com/washington-evening-journal-feb-18-1898-p-1/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/393383061/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1237807300/?match=1&terms=flachat

https://www.newspapers.com/image/820653383/

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4606194/4606198/83/flachat?from=search

The Evening Express from the 7th of November, 1903, ran a story about the trials and tribulations of the crew of the Eldorado: “An attempt was made to force the passage of the Moose River, but the current was so strong that at the end of three days only fourteen miles had been covered, and the party turned back. Next the Abitibi River was tried. Numerous falls and rapids were encountered, and two canoes were upset, the crews experiencing narrow escapes from drowning. The nights were bitterly cold, the food was scanty, and the supplies of rations had to be reduced.”

Ship Name: Eldorado

Tonnage: 1600 Tons 

Ship Type: Iron Hulled Steamship 

Nationality: United Kingdom 

Year Wrecked: 1903

Location Wrecked: Near Fort George, James  Bay, Canada 

Reason for Wreck: Struck a Rock in a Fog 

Lives Lost: None 

Sources: 

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4137500/4137503/50/eldorado%2BOR%2Bhudson%2BOR%2Bbay?from=search

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fur_Trader_s_Photographs/vt-EU9dG2eYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=revillon+freres+eldorado&pg=PA89&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Report_Covering_Investigations_at_James/AGTX2bG5JpQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lady+head+hudson+bay+company+shipwreck&pg=PA23&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Boy_s_Own_Annual/32EQC_WOd3YC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=eldorado+steamship+wreck+1903+canada&pg=PA74&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sessional_Papers_Legislature_of_the_Prov/cHdOAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=revillon+freres+eldorado&pg=RA5-PA22&printsec=frontcover

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/10/20/104914322.html?pageNumber=1

George Bates, pilot of a Lydd steam tug, told the Cumberland Evening News on the 25th of February, 1928: “We first heard the news of the collision about 8:40 pm, the message stating that a Russian barque was in distress. I got my motor boat ready, and preparations were made to launch the Dungeness lifeboat, but another message came through, which led everybody to believe that no assistance was required. It stated that the S.O.S. was all clear. Naturally, the lifeboat was not launched, and I did not go out.” Ship Name: Alcantara 

Tonnage: 1682-Tons 

Ship Type: Single-Screw Steamship 

Nationality: Italian 

Year Wrecked: 1928

Location Wrecked: About Three Miles from Dungeness, English Channel

Reason for Wreck: Collision with the Tovarisch

Lives Lost: 24

Sources: 

https://www.newspapers.com/image/973021286/?match=1&terms=alcantara

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1263945262/?match=1&terms=alcantara

https://www.newspapers.com/image/813756186/?match=1&terms=alcantara

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1188644259/?match=1&terms=alcantara

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1143022549/?terms=alcantara

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Law_Times_Reports/ZEMyAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=tovarisch+alcantara+collision+court&pg=PA611&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Weekly_Notes/Rf1GpCh-qloC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=tovarisch+alcantara+collision+court&pg=PA252&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Law_Reports/7xnIeTZMNZ8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=tovarisch+alcantara+collision+court&pg=PA15&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lloyd_s_List_Law_Reports/7bUzAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=alcantara+italian+lloyds+1928&pg=PA183&printsec=frontcover

19-year-old Samuel J Evans, one of two apprentices who had been on the Jason, sat down with the newspapers to tell his story on December 6th, the day after the Jason had met with disaster. The New York Times of December 7th, 1893, reported: “We sailed,” said he, “from Calcutta last February with a cargo of jute butts for Boston. Two days after leaving port, we were nearly dismasted in a storm and had to put into Mauritius for repairs. During the gale, our mate was washed overboard and lost. After leaving Mauritius, we had fair weather up to the equator. Since Nov. 15, we have encountered easterly gales, with frequent snowsqualls.”

Ship Name: Jason

Tonnage: 1,512

Ship Type: Iron Hulled Schooner

Nationality: British 

Year Built: 1870

Year Wrecked: 1893

Location Wrecked: Cape Cod 

Reason for Wreck: Ran Aground in Storm 

Lives Lost: 24

Sources: 

https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70407/pg70407.txt

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/12/07/109271091.html?pageNumber=8

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/09/10/102472311.html?pageNumber=6

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lloyd_s_Register_of_British_and_Foreign/HxIIklya2Y8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=a+%26+jh+carmichael+lloyds&pg=PP454&printsec=frontcover

https://www.newspapers.com/image/881615955/?match=1&terms=jason%20shipwreck%20cape%20cod

https://www.newspapers.com/image/173917080/?match=1&terms=jason%20shipwreck%20cape%20cod

https://www.newspapers.com/image/533316952/?match=1&terms=jason%20shipwreck%20cape%20cod

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Just_a_Little_about_the_Lower_Cape_Perso/iJA1fqToXLMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=jason+cape+cod+shipwreck&pg=PP27&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_England_Magazine/Ta8VAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=jason+cape+cod+shipwreck&pg=PA257&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cape_Cod_Magazine/bUYVAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=jason+cape+cod+shipwreck&pg=RA8-PA14&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_American_Marine_Engineer/IhZGAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=jason+cape+cod+shipwreck&pg=RA2-PA34&printsec=frontcover