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The SS Norge: The 1904 Atlantic Wreck That Killed 635 Immigrants

The SS Norge: The 1904 Atlantic Wreck That Killed 635 Immigrants

Langford, Harriet P.

Paperback

General European HistoryGeneral United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN13: 9798896654223
Publisher: Nobletrex Press
Published: Jul 31 2026
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

On June 28, 1904, in fog west of Scotland, the Danish immigrant steamer SS Norge struck Hasselwood Rock and began to die. In about twelve minutes, a ship carrying 795 people-families, children, laborers, dreamers bound for New York-was gone. More than 635 would never arrive. Those who escaped the sinking faced a second ordeal in open lifeboats, drifting for days across the North Atlantic while the world ashore had no idea who had lived, who had vanished, and who might still be out there.

The SS Norge tells this catastrophe as a human story from the inside out: from Scandinavian farms and port offices where tickets to America were bought at enormous cost, to the aging ship that gathered passengers in Copenhagen, Kristiania, and Kristiansand, to the bridge decisions made when fog erased the horizon. Here are the crowded decks, the collision shock, the lifeboats that could not save everyone, and the scattered survivors battling thirst, exposure, and despair. It is a disaster narrative powered by real people, fatal timing, and the terrible speed with which hope can turn to ruin.

Vivid, scrupulously grounded, and deeply compassionate, this book restores one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks before Titanic to its rightful place in history. It is a story about emigration, risk, memory, and the price ordinary people paid to reach another life. Once you board the Norge, you will not forget it.

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