The paddle steamer <a about="#mwt52" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"SS","href":"./Template:SS"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"Arctic"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Arctic" id="mwYA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="SS Arctic" typeof="mw:Transclusion">SS<span typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><i>Arctic</i></a>, owned by the Collins Line of New York, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Arctic_disaster" id="mwYQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="SS Arctic disaster">sinks</a> off the coast of Newfoundland, following a collision with a smaller vessel, the <i id="mwYg"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Vesta" id="mwYw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="SS Vesta">SS Vesta</a></i>. Only 88 of over 300 people on board survive. About a dozen of the occupants of the <i id="mwZA">Vesta</i> are killed when their lifeboat is hit by the <i id="mwZQ">Arctic</i>.<sup about="#mwt56" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_27#cite_note-9" id="mwZg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwZw">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt53" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFGraham2002">Graham, Ian (2002). <i id="mwB24">Alfred Maudslay and the Maya<span id="mwB28" typeof="mw:DisplaySpace"> </span>: a biography</i>. Norman, Okla: University of Oklahoma Press. p.<span id="mwB3A" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>255. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB3E" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB3I" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780806134505" id="mwB3M" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780806134505"><bdi id="mwB3Q">9780806134505</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt53" class="Z3988" id="mwB3U" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Alfred+Maudslay+and+the+Maya+%3A+a+biography&amp;rft.place=Norman%2C+Okla&amp;rft.pages=255&amp;rft.pub=University+of+Oklahoma+Press&amp;rft.date=2002&amp;rft.isbn=9780806134505&amp;rft.aulast=Graham&amp;rft.aufirst=Ian&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeptember+27"></span></span>