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    SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24 July 1915, the ship rolled over onto its side while tied to a dock in the...
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    lives on Lake Michigan. In an incident at a Chicago dock in 1915, the SS Eastland rolled over while loading passengers, killing 841. In 2007, the Great...
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    Titanic (redirect from SS Titanic)
    Titan: Or, Futility SS Atlantic, White Star Line ship lost in 1873 with the greatest loss of life for the company before Titanic SS Eastland, a ship capsizing...
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  • used as a makeshift morgue for victims of the capsizing of the steamer SS Eastland. The 88,000-square-foot (8,200 m2) facility was renovated and opened...
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    worked temporarily for Western Electric, and was planning on being on the SS Eastland. He was running late, however, as he was attempting to gain weight to...
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    PS Alpena (redirect from SS Alpena)
    the 19th century List of storms on the Great Lakes Sea Wing disaster SS Eastland "Alpena I". michiganshipwrecks.org. Retrieved 20 August 2018. Alpena...
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    armoured cruiser, sunk at the Battle of Dogger Bank (1915), 770 dead. SS Eastland, 24 July 1915, excursion boat, 845 dead, greatest loss of life on the...
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    ecological concerns as the spread of invasive species. In 1915, the SS Eastland, an excursion steam-liner preparing to leave the dock on the south gangway...
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  • use. On July 24, 1915, employees of the Hawthorne Works boarded the SS Eastland in downtown Chicago for a company picnic. The ship rolled over at the...
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    them Czech immigrants, were among those killed in the capsizing of the SS Eastland in Chicago on July 24, 1915; they were preparing to depart on a company-sponsored...
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    of the Michigan Steamship Company, original owners of the ill-fated SS Eastland. Robert Blacker preceded his wife in death in 1931. Upon Nellie's death...
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    crew of the SS Frosta were injured or killed in the accident. List of shipwrecks in 1976 PS General Slocum Sea Wing disaster SS Eastland "George Prince...
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    in the 20th century List of disasters in New York City by death toll SS Eastland SS Lexington Sea Wing disaster Sultana disaster Mary McCann "PS" stands...
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  • December 1987. Retrieved 26 January 2023. Jackson, Joe (20 January 2012). "SS Kiangya — China, 1948 | Unsafe at Sea: Asia's History of Deadly Ferry Disasters"...
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    Institute of Chicago. They are called Mother and Pilgrim. Victims of the SS Eastland shipwreck (1915). Anton Cermak, Chicago mayor assassinated in 1933. Otto...
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    musicals, Eastland and Winesburg, Ohio. Eastland is a musical telling the story of a 1915 disaster in which the passenger ship SS Eastland capsized while...
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    Ship motions – Terms connected to the six degrees of freedom of motion SS Eastland – Passenger ship that rolled over in Chicago in 1915 Stabilization while...
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    Infamous among these are Lady Elgin which sank in 1861 with 300 lives lost, Eastland, which capsized in the Chicago River in 1915 with the loss of 844 lives...
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  • Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas". 1915 – The passenger ship SS Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers...
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    was disabled off Waukegan, Illinois, in Lake Michigan. In 1915, the SS Eastland capsized while docked in the Chicago River, with the loss of over 800...
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    Crimes” to stories about famous shipwrecks such as the disaster of the SS Eastland. In September 2014, Doughty's first book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other...
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    commissioned in 1918 and was constructed by retrofitting the former SS Eastland, a passenger ship which in July 1915 rolled over in the Chicago River...
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    warehouse. It was used as a makeshift hospital on 24 July 1915 after the S.S. Eastland capsized in the Chicago River on the opposite shore, directly across...
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  • Wrigley Field opened (originally called Weeghman Park). 1915 July 24, the SS Eastland Disaster.[1] Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium founded. 1916...
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    the bridge and sank. She was declared a total loss. The passenger ship SS Eastland was scheduled to sail from the dock at the Clark Street Bridge when she...
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    the first to leave the ship in a lifeboat [AP 2-04-06]. In 1915 the SS Eastland was raised from the Chicago River after capsizing earlier the same year...
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  • waterfront. Her daughter, Fi, investigates the death of a boy on the SS Eastland drowning that still haunts the building where his body was brought following...
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    Largest loss of life in the history of the U.S. Navy at sea 844 1915 SS Eastland Accident – shipwreck Chicago, Illinois Passenger ship capsized in Chicago...
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  • gained much sympathy from the general American public. In 1915, the SS Eastland Disaster on the Chicago River resulted in the largest loss of life from...
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  • child every year. By 1915, Gordon had adopted seven children. When the SS Eastland disaster occurred in July 1915, offered to adopt another two children...
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