The Titanic Slides Into the Water
On May 31, 1911, the hull of the RMS Titanic slid into Belfast Lough before 100,000 spectators — the largest moving object ever built.
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
On November 10, 1975, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a Lake Superior storm with all 29 crew, becoming the Great Lakes' most famous shipwreck.
Sunk by a Whale: The Real Moby-Dick
On November 20, 1820, a sperm whale rammed and sank the Nantucket whaleship Essex in the Pacific, beginning an 83-day survival ordeal that inspired Moby-Dick.