The English transport ship Duke William sank in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people.
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A Morse code distress call was made at sea, which led to the first radio sea rescue.
A 400-year-old shipwreck was discovered just 15 miles off the coast of Portugal.
Isaac Briggs & William Longstreet was awarded a patent for the first steamboat in the US.
Oil tanker 'Exxon Valdez' runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
'Victoria' became the world's first recorded ship to have circumnavigated the globe when it arrived back in Spain.
