Vessel

Date

Cause

Briton (1)

1857

Lost at sea on passage to Seville

Athens

18 May 1865

Lost in Table Bay

Dane (1)

26 November 1865

Wrecked near Port Elizabeth

Celt (2)

8 February 1875

Wrecked off South Africa

Namaqua

April 1876

Wrecked off Port Nolloth

European

5 December 1877

Wrecked off Ushant

Kafir

13 Feb 1878

Wrecked off Simonstown

American

23 April 1880

Sank off Las Palmas

Teuton

31 August 1881

Wrecked off Quoin Point, South Africa

Nubian

19 December 1892

Wrecked near Lisbon

Durban

11 June 1893

Wrecked off Teneriffe

Union (2)

September 1894

Lost on the bar at Chinde near the mouth of the Zambezi River

Mexican

5 April 1900

Sank after collision near Cape Town

Union Steamship Company

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