1879, Dec. 2.--Steamer Borussia sank off the coast of Spain; 174 lives lost. 1880, Jan. 31.--British trading ship Atlanta left Bermuda with 290 men and was never heard from. 1881, Aug. 30.--Steamer Teuton wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope; 200 lives lost. 1883, July 3.--Steamer Daphne turned turtle in the Clyde; 124 lives lost. 1884, Jan. 18.--American steamer City of Columbus wrecked off Gay Head Light, Massachusetts; 99 lived lost. 1884, July 23.--Spanish steamer Gijon and British steamer Lux in collision off Finisterre; 150 lives lost. 1887, Jan. 29.--Steamer Kapunda in collision with bark Ada Melore off coast of Brazil; 300 lives lost. 1887, Nov. 15.--British steamer Wah Young caught fire between Canton and Hong Kong; 400 lives lost. 1888, Sept. 13.--Italian steamship Sud America and steamer La France in collision near the Canary Islands; 89 lives lost. 1889, March 16.--United States warships Trenton, Vandalia and Nipsic and German ships Adler and Eber wrecked on Samoan Islands; 147 lives lost. 1890, Jan. 2.--Steamer Persia wrecked on Corsica; 130 lives lost. 1890, Feb. 17.--British steamer Duburg wrecked in the China Sea; 400 lives lost. 1890, March 1.--British steamship Quetta foundered in Torres Straits; 124 lives lost. 1890, Dec. 27.--British steamer Shanghai burned in China Seas; 101 lives lost. 1891, March 17.--Anchor liner Utopia in collision with British steamer Anson off Gibraltar and sunk; 574 lives lost. 1892, Jan. 13.--Steamer Namehow wrecked in China Sea; 414 lives lost. 1892, Oct. 28.--Anchor liner Romania, wrecked off Portugal; 113 lives lost. 1893, Feb. 8.--Anchor liner Trinairia, wrecked off Spain; 115 lives lost. 1894, June 25.--Steamer Norge, wrecked on Rockall Reef, in the North Atlantic; nearly 600 lives lost. 1895, Jan. 30.--German steamer Elbe sunk in collision with British steamer Crathie in North Sea; 335 lives lost. 1898, July 4.--French line steamer La Bourgogne in collision with British sailing vessel Cromartyshire; 571 lives lost. 1898, Nov. 27.--American steamer Portland, wrecked off Cape Cod, Mass.; 157 lives lost. 1901, April 1.--Turkish transport Aslam wrecked in the Red Sea; over 180 lives lost. 1902, July 21.--Steamer Primus sunk in collision with the steamer Hansa on the Lower Elbe; 112 lives lost. 1903, June 7.--French steamer Libau sunk in collision with steamer Insulerre near Marseilles; 150 lives lost. 1904, June 15. General Slocum, excursion steamboat, took fire going through Hell Gate, East River; more than 1000 lives lost. 1906, Jan. 21.--Brazilian battleship Aquidaban sunk near Rio Janeiro by an explosion of the powder magazines; 212 lives lost. 1906, Jan. 22.--American steamer Valencia lost off Cloose, Pacific Coast; 140 lives lost. 1906, Aug. 4.--Italian emigrant ship Sirio struck a rock off Cape Palos; 350 lives lost. 1906, Oct. 21.--Russian steamer Variag, on leaving Vladivostock, struck by a torpedo and sunk; 140 lives lost.