A passenger ship is sunk in a hurricane off the Carolina coast with very heavy loss of life.

A late hurricane had caught a number of ships off the coast of South Carolina and the Star Line steamship Evening Star on its regular run from New Orleans to New York City foundered with a heavy loss of the lives of most aboard, which included among them a New Orleans female opera company and a circus troupe. Of the 270 people aboard only twenty-two were reported to have survived, floating on upturned lifeboats in three small groups for days before being rescued or reaching land.  (By John Osborne)

Source Citation

"Three Shipwrecks," Harper's Weekly Magazine, October 27, 1866, p. 678.

How to Cite This Page: "A passenger ship is sunk in a hurricane off the Carolina coast with very heavy loss of life.," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/45748.