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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 ...
The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union.
RMS Titanic On the 14th of April 2012 it was 100 years ago the Titanic disaster took place. This project aims to identify and list the survivors and casualties of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In this Titanic centenary year the Titanic project will become an ongoing project with the aim to build all passenger family-trees Overview RMS Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world...
See Finnish page.Project was started 2 January 2019.
Eyemouth Disaster 1881 - Berwickshire, Scotland The Eyemouth Disaster was caused by a European windstorm which struck the south-eastern coast of Scotland (Berwickshire), and England on 14 October 1881. One hundred and eighty-nine fishermen, mostly from the village of Eyemouth, were drowned. The event is still referred to locally as "Black Friday". Casualties * Eyemouth - 129* Burnmouth - 24* Ne...
Barnes-Hecker Mine=---Inundation>The Cleveland-Cliffs owned Barnes-Hecker iron mine was started in 1917 some five miles west of Ishpeming. By 1925 it was 1,067 feet deep and as safe as they made them. Upon opening a great quantity of water was encountered and mining had to be discontinued until mining operations drained most of the water from the ore stratum. >At 11:20 on the morning of Wednesd...
The Hindenburg=The Hindenburg was a large German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume. It was designed and built by the Zeppelin Company (Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH) on the shores of Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen and was operated by the German Zeppelin Airline Compa...
Tornadoes= ==Add profiles for those who have DIED in or as a result of injuries from a Tornado.== * If the tornado is a well-known historic event, please consider making a project for it, and listing it in this umbrella.* If all you know is "died in a tornado," add to this project.* Use discussions to ask questions, make comments, etc. Also Known as : twisters or cyclones A tornado is a viol...
See also the Finnish page of this project.Project was started 2 January 2019.
The Finnish Air Force DC-3 disaster occurred when a plane of this class crashed into Lake Juurusvesi in Rissala on 3 October 1978, killing all fifteen people on board. It was caused by a cracked exhaust valve, resulting from metal fatigue in an engine cylinder. Most of the victims were politicians and prominent businessmen attending a National Defence Course meeting organized by the Finnish Def...
S/S Oberon==S/S Oberon oli Suomen Höyrylaiva Osakeyhtiön omistama matkustajahöyrylaiva joka liikennöi Helsinki/Hanko – Kööpenhamina – Hull -linjalla.Alus rakennettiin vuonna 1925 S. A. des Chantier & Ateliers de St. Nazairen (Penhoët) telakalla St. Nazairessa Ranskassa ja viimeisteltiin luovutuskuntoon Earle's Shipbuildingin telakalla Hullissa. Aluksen pituus oli 92,33 metriä, leveys 13,40 metr...
Mary Stanford Lifeboat Disaster 1928 ==East Sussex Image Right The memorial grave at Rye Harbour. RNLB Mary Stanford (ON 661) was a Liverpool-class lifeboat which capsized in Rye Harbour in 1928.The disaster occurred on 15 November 1928 when the whole of the 17-man crew of the Mary Stanford Lifeboat were drowned, practically the whole male fishing population of the village of Rye Harbour. Imag...
Aperçu=L'exhaussement des eaux du lac Saint-Jean entre 1926-1930 fut une catastrophe écologique et humaine incompréhensive. Des communautés entières ont été éradiquées pour satisfaire les désirs économiques de dirigeants industriels et hommes politiques de l'époque. Aucune personne en ces temps n'a porté attention aux familles qui perdront tout.Le but de ce projet est d'immortaliser les famille...
Quintinshill Rail Disaster= The Quintinshill rail disaster occurred on 22 May 1915 near Gretna Green, Dumfriesshire, Scotland at Quintinshill, an intermediate signal box with passing loops on each side on the Caledonian Railway Main Line linking Glasgow and Carlisle (now part of the West Coast Main Line).The crash, which involved five trains, killed a probable 226 and injured 246 and remains th...
The Evening Star Sank on October 3, 1866 ==== .........283 Parished ==Evening Star – On 3 October 1866, the Evening Star sank after sailing into a hurricane 180 miles east of Tybee Island, GA. Of the approximately 300 aboard, 283 perished. The ship contained lifeboats for only 60 people and not enough life vests for all on board. One group of survivors were picked up by a passing vessel and tak...