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|description={{en|1=The [[:RMS Atlantic|SS Atlantic]] left [[:en:Liverpool|Liverpool]], [[:en:England|England]], for [[:en:New York|New York]] on 20 March 1873. Eleven days later, the captain decided to steam to [[:en:Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]], [[:en:Nova Scotia|Nova Scotia]], the nearest port, because the vessel's coal supply was running low. However, en route, the ship went ashore at Mars Head, near [[:en:Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia|Lower Prospect]], in the early morning of 1 April. The loss of life was horrendous — 565 passengers and crew. The disaster was the world's worst merchant shipwreck known at that time. Photograph of a lithograph originally published by [[:en:Currier and Ives|Currier and Ives]].}}
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|description={{en|1=The [[:en:RMS Atlantic|SS ''Atlantic'']] left [[:en:Liverpool|Liverpool]], [[:en:England|England]], for [[:en:New York|New York]] on 20 March 1873. Eleven days later, the captain decided to steam to [[:en:Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]], [[:en:Nova Scotia|Nova Scotia]], the nearest port, because the vessel's coal supply was running low. However, en route, the ship went ashore at Mars Head, near [[:en:Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia|Lower Prospect]], in the early morning of 1 April. The loss of life was horrendous — 565 passengers and crew. The disaster was the world's worst merchant shipwreck known at that time. Photograph of a lithograph originally published by [[:en:Currier and Ives|Currier and Ives]].}}

|date=1873

|date=1873

|source=Photo NSARM Ships: Atlantic / negative no.: Bollinger Neg. #5257 [http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/shipwrecks/archives.asp?ID=]

|source=Photo NSARM Ships: Atlantic / negative no.: Bollinger Neg. #5257 [http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/shipwrecks/archives.asp?ID=]

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