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In the early days of
October 1860, approximately 100 miles (160 km) from Boston a storm hit. Side paddle wheels are not an optimum structure for vessels in stormy seas, and the ship sprung a leak. The leak was brought under control, but due to the extra stress on the coal-fired steam engine a
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was a 380-foot-long (120 m) passenger sail and steamship which was built in 1860, and sank on its maiden cruise. It initially sailed from Galway, Ireland to St John's, Newfoundland, and thereafter sailed on to Boston, Massachusetts. But the ship foundered in
October 1860 in a storm off
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fire had by then started below deck. On 7 October 1860 the smoke and flames forced passengers and crew up on to the top deck in the storm. The lifeboats were lowered, but the waves smashed them against the ship's iron hull. According to eyewitness accounts, the hulls of the
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in the waters off Boston, noting the highly distinctive side paddles. Subsequent dives with a remote operated vehicle in 2014 were able to retrieve artifacts from the wreck site which positively identified the vessel as an
Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company ship.
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approximately 100 nautical miles (190 km) from Boston. Although all of the lifeboats were smashed in the storm, all of the passengers and crew aboard were saved by the heroic actions of a fruit transport ship, the
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swiftly broke up and sank. 591 passengers and crew were transferred from one of the largest passenger ships of the day to a tiny merchant vessel, during a storm, without a single loss of life. The
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The wreck was rediscovered in 2014 by The
Endurance Exploration Group, Inc. Endurance Exploration was appointed custodian of the wreck by the courts, a precursor to a potential salvage claim.
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The precise coordinates of the wreck site have not been made publicly available, but it has been stated in various sources that the wreckage is believed to lie in international waters.
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Based upon the evidence available, the company were able to obtain an order from U.S. District Court for the Middle
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as one of about 20 shipwrecks that it prioritised to locate. In 2013, after an exhaustive side sonar scan search it identified what it believed to be the wreck of the
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