The Clermont steamboat by Robert Fulton made its maiden trip up the Hudson River.
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After eleven months of imprisonment, 83 men from the US Navy were released by North Korea.
The SF F-4 submersible boat sank and killed 21 people near Hawaii.
Two Australian warships, the HMAS Melbourne and the HMAS Voyager, collided off the New South Wales coast.
'Victoria' became the world's first recorded ship to have circumnavigated the globe when it arrived back in Spain.
The British ship HMS Minotaur sunk, killing 480 people.
