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This Day In Wrecks

1943: The Congressional Limited, a Pennsylvania Railroad train, derails at Frankford Junction in PA.  79 passengers are killed.  (pictured)

1962: The first of the Blackfriars ships, dated to 2nd century CE Roman Britain, is discovered in the River Thames by archaeologist Peter Marsden.  Several other ships from a much later date are subsequently found at the site.

2009:  SuperFerry9 capsizes and sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Phillipines while carrying 971 people.  There are 10 fatalities on the ro-ro ferry.