En route from New York to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Havre" id="mwASQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Le Havre">Le Havre</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_La_Bourgogne" id="mwASU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="SS La Bourgogne">SS <i id="mwASY">La Bourgogne</i></a> collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sable_Island" id="mwASc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sable Island">Sable Island</a>, with the loss of 549 lives.