April Fool's Day, 1873 - The grand ... The lifeboats wreck before they can escape and the stern sinks rapidly. It seems hopeless for everyone aboard Atlantic, but rescue is on its way in the ...

Unlike the SS Atlantic, one of Lynskey's previous subjects, which ran aground off Prospect, N.S., in 1873 with some survivors, the Hungarian's wreck was located more than two kilometres offshore ...