The crew of the East India Company ship the Sussex, under the command of their captain, got ready to abandon ship. Another East India Company ship, the Winchester, was standing by to take them off. Not all of the crew was united however. There was a small stubborn group who felt that the ship just needed a little repair to be right again.

Ship Name: Sussex

Nationality: British

Ship Type: East Indiaman

Year Built: Unknown

Tonnage: Unknown

Year Wrecked: 1738

Location Wrecked: Bassas da India

Reason For Wreck: Inaccurate Chart

Lives Lost: 15, including those who died in Madagascar after the wreck.

Sources:

https://books.google.com/books?id=p4McAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA94&dq=wreck+of+the+sussex+1738&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-pvThuv38AhXrjYkEHTzKC5UQ6AF6BAgFEAI#v=onepage&q=wreck%20of%20the%20sussex%201738&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=NOleKI6jYJgC&pg=PA5&dq=wreck+of+the+sussex+1738&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-pvThuv38AhXrjYkEHTzKC5UQ6AF6BAgDEAI#v=onepage&q=wreck%20of%20the%20sussex%201738&f=false

https://www.oneearth.org/ecoregions/ile-europa-and-bassas-da-india-xeric-scrub/

https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/6/1/21#B74-heritage-06-00021

https://books.google.com/books?id=ByT1l36ZxGoC&pg=PA135&dq=sussex+shipwreck+1738+john+dean&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVt-Slt_38AhUKlYkEHdlrC-04ChDoAXoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=sussex%20shipwreck%201738%20john%20dean&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=z3emukhxXw4C&pg=PA219&dq=sussex+shipwreck+1738+john+dean&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjP36b5tv38AhV1lIkEHe1eAIIQ6AF6BAgDEAI#v=onepage&q=sussex%20shipwreck%201738%20john%20dean&f=false

https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2020/08/john-dean-celebrity-shipwreck-survivor-of-the-1740s.html

https://www.scarboroughsmaritimeheritage.org.uk/article.php?article=160

https://www.maggs.com/departments/early_british/all_categories/217980/

The Dutch ship, the Amicilia could see a flag flying from the top of a tall tree on a high point of land fluttering over Christmas Island. This certainly bore investigation since it was well known that there was no one living on Christmas Island. The Amicilia launched a boat and some men rowed towards Christma Island.

Ship Name: Vice Admiraal Rijk

Year Built: 1846

Tonnage: 469

Ship Type: Wooden Sailing Bark

Nationality: Dutch

Location Wrecked: Christmas Island

Year Wrecked: 1852

. Reason For Wreck: Struck Rock in a Storm

Lives Lost: 17

Sources:

https://www.marhisdata.nl/gezagvoerder&id=442

https://www.marhisdata.nl/schip?id=13822

https://english.cultureelerfgoed.nl/latest/weblog/2019/more-insight-in-the-thirty-shipwrecks-around-christmas-island

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c008845668&view=1up&seq=347

https://christmasislandarchives.com/shipwreck-account/

https://www.academia.edu/27051924/Closing_in_on_the_Fortuyn_Report_on_fieldwork_conducted_in_2016_at_Christmas_and_the_Cocos_Keeling_Islands

https://www.academia.edu/44013455/Wreck_Check_s_Closing_in_on_the_Fortuyn_Project

Misadventures in Nature’s Paradise by Graeme Henderson, Andrew Viduka, and Robert de Hoop

https://rsr.akvo.org/dir/project/3343/update?id=14389

The Kuroshio, also known as the Japan Current, carried the helpless, and unsteerable ship along in its tow. The ship was pulled across the pacific by the current and even though the pull weakened near Hawaii the Hojun-maru and the men on board of her were still carried up the coast towards what is now Washington State.

Ship Name: Hojun-Maru

Ship Type: Sengoku-bune

Nationality: Japanese

Year Wrecked: 1834

Reason for Wreck: Unmanagable, ran aground

Location Wrecked: Washington State

Lives Lost: 11

Sources:

http://www.berendt.info/assets/files/The%20First%20English%20Teacher%20Ranald%20MacDonald.pdf

https://www.knkx.org/2014-04-29/japanese-retrace-path-of-history-making-castaways-to-wash-coast-180-years-later

https://www.historylink.org/File/9074

https://www.columbian.com/news/2021/jun/13/clark-county-history-japanese-castaways/

https://www.britannica.com/place/Kuroshio

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10338782/

http://www.jmottoson.com/Kairei.html

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/647646/kuroshio-current-japan

http://staff.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/JapaneseShipwrecks-Grant-Keddie.pdf

https://www.historylink.org/File/9065

https://www.nps.gov/articles/castawaysatfova.htm

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20705601?read-now=1&seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents

https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-12/issue-2/jul-sep-2016/yamamoto-otokichi

The Captain of the French steamer Marie Louise watched the Italian steamer, the SS Sirio, get closer and closer to the shore with some concern. It grabbed his attention enough that he commented to his first mate that the Sirio was taking a dangerous course. He had hardly finished speaking when the Sirio suddenly stopped, and the bow of the ship lifted. The Marie Louise changed her course.

Ship Name: SS Sirio

Built: 1883

Tonnage: 3750

Nationality: Italian

Ship Type: Three Masted Passenger Steamship

Year Wrecked: 1906

Place Wrecked: Eastern Coast of Spain

Reason For Wreck: Incompitance, Poor Navigation \

Lives Lost: Between 200 and 300

Sources:

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/08/08/101793324.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/08/12/101845062.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/04/22/106749402.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/08/09/101844831.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/08/07/101427247.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/08/06/101377200.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/08/06/101377197.pdf

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12787213?searchTerm=sirio%20ship

https://immigrantships.net/newsarticles/1900_newsarticles.html

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/82259463?searchTerm=sirio%20ship

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/126788010?searchTerm=sirio%20ship

https://murciatoday.com/the-history-of-cabo-de-palos_26928-a.html

https://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/sitmr.shtml

https://www.italianliners.com/ngi-en

https://books.google.com/books?id=nQ0AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=EV8HGCW9Q9sC&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/77583365?searchTerm=sirio%20ship

Ten attempts in total were made to pull the men from the wreck of the Barque Mary Stoddart. Each time the boats were beaten back by the terrible storm that had caused the ship to ground to start with. Each time the men clinging to the rigging could see help get closer, and then turn from them again. On the shore the people could see the men in the rigging, so close yet still completely beyond help.

Ship Name: Mary Stoddart

Ship Type: Wooden Sailing Barque

Nationality: British

Location Wrecked: Dundalk Bay, Ireland

Year Wrecked: 1858

Reason for Wreck: Storm in Unfamiliar Waters

Sources:

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/argus/localnotes/talk-on-sinking-of-mary-stoddart-31510367.html

http://www.jbhall.clahs.ie/1858_the_sinking_of_the_mary_stoddart.htm

https://www.scarboroughsmaritimeheritage.org.uk/article.php?article=188

https://www.mc-research.com/county-louth/tragedies/1858.htm

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27729250?read-now=1&seq=9#metadata_info_tab_contents

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27730020?read-now=1&seq=15#metadata_info_tab_contents

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZ18580925.2.7

https://www.blackrockvillage.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/THE-MARY-STODDART.pdf

https://lifeboatmagazinearchive.rnli.org/volume/04/29/wreck-of-the-barque-mary-stoddart-on-the-irish-coast?searchterm=wreck+chart&page=15

As the survivors of the Portuguese shipwreck Sao Bento walked North along the coast of Africa they found traces all along their way of those who had passed before them. Only two years before the Sao Joao had wrecked on this same shore. Survival among the people who had been on the Sao Joao had been minimal, and those on the Sao Bento could only hope that fate would be more kind to them.

Ship Name: Sao Bento

Nationality: Portuguese

Built: 1551

Tonnage: 900 tons

Ship Type: Carrack

Year Wrecked: 1554

Reason for Wreck: Ran aground in a storm

Location Wrecked: Near the Msikaba River, South Africa

Lives Lost: An estimated 144 in the initial wreck, many more would not survive the walk to Maputo Bay.

Sources:

Reinvestigating the Wreck of the Sixteenth Century Portuguese Galleon Sao Joao by Elizabeth Burger. 2003

https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/ship-sao-bento-st-benedict-wrecked-transkei-coast

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015022635539&view=1up&seq=343&q1=BENTO

https://shiplib.org/index.php/shipwrecks/iberian-shipwrecks/portuguese-india-route/s-bento-1554/

https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA03040798_529

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-de-Almeida

https://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=3372

https://www.academia.edu/6947900/PORTUGUESE_SHIPWRECKS_and_THE_NGUNI

https://www.natalia.org.za/Files/27/Natalia%20v27%20article%20p30-41%20C.pdf

https://www.scielo.br/j/tem/a/Jrkwqtn38BGyRXSNxSVw9CH/?format=pdf&lang=en

https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/117/10/1683.pdf

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Grace Bussell was given a silver life saving medal for her efforts to save the lives of the passengers of the Georgette. Samuel Yebble Isaacs, a stockman who worked for her family received a bronze. The papers across Australia celebrated an Australian Grace Darling, few of them mentioned the name of Samel Yebble Isaacs. As for who saved how many, that is something we will probably never know.

Ship Name: Georgette

Tonnage: 460 tons

Ship type: Iron Hull Screw Steamer

Launched 1872

Ship Nationality: Australian

Sank: 1876

Location Sank: Calgardup Bay, Australia

Reason for Sinking: Sprang an Unexplained Leak

Lives Lost: 7

Sources:

The Cristabol Colon had traveled between South America, New York, and Spain along the same route for years but when the Spanish Civil War broke out the Cristabol Colon soon found herself to have little welcome anywhere. She seemed to be a ship that was doomed to wander.

Ship Name: Cristabol Colon

Nationality: Spanish

Built: 1923

Tonnage: 10,000 Tons

Ship Type: Steam Passanger Liner

Year Wrecked: 1936

Reason for Wreck: Navigational Error

Location Wrecked: Bermuda

Lives Lost: None

Sources:

https://www.thebermudian.com/culture/our-bermuda/shipwreck-stories-history-of-the-cristobal-colon/#:~:text=Built%20in%201923%2C%20the%20Cristobal,the%20crew%20of%20160%20men.

https://www.deeperblue.com/the-cristobal-colon-of-bermuda/

https://www.royalgazette.com/other/lifestyle/article/20121208/a-wreck-of-an-historic-name/

http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/cte.shtml

https://www.universolorca.com/en/personaje/rivas-the-cherif-cipriano/

https://www.britannica.com/event/Spanish-Civil-War

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/07/14/93523747.html?pageNumber=3

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/08/04/88685102.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/07/26/87967087.html?pageNumber=23

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/08/05/87969732.html?pageNumber=4

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/117598646?searchTerm=cristobal%20colon

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/50053485?searchTerm=cristobal%20colon

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/08/15/87976021.html?pageNumber=3

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/08/20/87980965.html?pageNumber=2

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/10/31/88708920.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/08/31/87984129.html?pageNumber=2

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/10/27/88707403.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

The trial of the crew of the Saladin was a celebrated pirate trial, long after the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. The tale of greed, betrayal, murder, and the huge amount of money that had inspired such acts was enough to grip the public imagination for years to come.

Ship Name: Saladin

Nationality: United Kingdom

Built: 1835

Tonnage: 550

Ship Type: Barque

Ship Wrecked: Nova Scotia

Year Wrecked: 1844

Reason Wrecked: Navigational Error

Lives Lost: None in the Wreck, 8 on the Voyage

Sources:

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/piracy

https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20190512/html.php

http://yarmouthhistory.ca/yarmouthhistory/LocalHistory/Entries/2014/10/1_Piracy_and_Murders_on_the_Barque_Saladin.html

https://novascotia.ca/museum/wrecks/wrecks/shipwrecks.asp?ID=4108

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=67&dat=18440808&id=54ExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FicDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3304,3181519

https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol05/tnm_5_4_1-18.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20090903050357/http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/AtoZ/Saladin.html