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1. Sister ship to the Titanic, she was sunk in the Aegean during World War I.
2. This luxury cruise ship burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934. 134 people died within sight of land.
3. The sinking of this Great Lakes ore freighter in the mid-1970's, became the subject of a ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
4. In 1918, this US Navy collier disappeared without a trace, one of the first 'victims' of the alleged Bermuda Triangle.
5. The War Between the States had ended scant days before this Mississippi River steamboat exploded.
6. Although the ship was lost, the rescue of passengers from this Italian liner in 1956 was one of the most successful ever.
7. In 1880, this Royal Navy training vessel disappeared in the Atlantic with all hands, without a trace, and with no explanation to this day.
8. Reportedly a survivor of the Titanic, Empress of Ireland, AND Lusitania disasters, the actual existence of this seaman may be a seagoing 'urban legend'.
9. The explosion of the French freighter Grandcamp in this Texas city in 1947 lead to the worst industrial accident in US history to this date.
10. In December of 1917, a munitions ship exploded in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, with greater loss of life onshore than aboard. She was the:
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