Previous Shipwrecks
"It becomes our painful duty, this week, to record one of the most melancholy and awful disasters that ever occurred in the vicinity of the port of Liverpool... On Thursday, morning the ill-fated vessel (Ocean Monarch) put to sea... and scarcely had the alarm been given, when she was in a complete blaze. The passengers became frantic with despair, and numbers at once plunged in the ocean to escape the more awful death which apparently awaited them." - Christian Visitor, September 13, 1848
Many deadlier shipwrecks occurred, prior to Titanic, but are less well known.
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