Sinking of The Emigrant Ship "Austria" | Josef Püttner | 1858 19th Century precariously balancing on a piece

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Sinking of The Emigrant Ship "Austria" | Josef Püttner | 1858 19th Century precariously balancing on a pieceThe sinking of the emigrant ship Austria on 13 September 1858 stands as one of the most tragic maritime disasters of the nineteenth century. The Austria, an Austrian Lloyd steamship bound from Hamburg to New York with over 500 emigrants on board, caught fire in the mid Atlantic after a crew member accidentally ignited varnish while fumigating the steerage with an open flame. Within minutes, the ship was engulfed in flames, forcing passengers and crew

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