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Please add Geni profiles for those who died in a shipwreck . Do consider breaking out large numbers of profiles into a "related project." notes From Shipwreck - Mysteries of Death at Sea It is a terrible tragedy when a boat is lost and those who are lost with it are not recovered for a proper burial. "When vessels leave port and just disappear, the doubt is corrosive. It eats away at ...
Many did not make it to the new land, they were probably buried at sea and may have no monument to their passing.Please add profiles to this project for persons who died at sea on their way to South Australia.==Shipwreck* SS Admella 1859 ==Resources* Family History SA * The Ships List * SA State Library Shipwrecks and Sea Rescue * ABC Shipswrecks SA This project is included in The History Link ...
Around the middle of the 19th century, the great Irish famine brought thousands of impoverished families to America. One of the immigrant ships, the Carricks of Whitehaven, went down off Cap-des-Rosiers on May 18, 1847. Of the 187 passengers on board, 87 perished at sea and 100 survivors were taken in by families in the village. In 1900, St. Patrick’s Parish in Montréal offered the Carricks Mon...