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  The Titanic is actually one of many tragedies where ships have come to grief but I expect it was noteworthy because it was so large and it was its maiden voyage.
  So many ships, including fishing vessels, have been lost in hazardous seas.
  
  My gt-grandfather Thomas Russell, was a master mariner who was lost with all hands, on the Rosalind barque from Grimsby (where he lived), THOUGHT to have been caught in a cyclone which was raging in the Gulf of Mexico at the time. The family waited, and waited, and waited but he never came back. My grandmother was aged 6 (next to youngest), and Thomas left a grieving widow and 11 sons and daughters. When she was young she remembered nothing but tears.
  That was in 1889. Some years earlier he had, in a sailing ship called the "Ferdinand de Lesseps" carried stone for the (failed attempt) at building the Panama Canal and was a very experienced navigator and mariner.

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