fuckyeahwrecks
transportation gone awry
**planes, trains, automobiles, airships, streetcars etc that have come to an unfortunate end. **
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Photo reblogged from The Garden Of Forking Paths
The first Atlantic ocean liner disaster happened a generation before the Titanic, when the SS Arctic struck another ship off Newfoundland in 1854, and sunk, killing 400 people.
The Arctic stuck the SS Vesta, a French ship, that made it back to shore. The photo above is a color-adjusted version of a Currier lithograph. Another Currier print shows the correct amount of masts:
