The British ship HMS Minotaur sunk, killing 480 people.
The Clermont steamboat by Robert Fulton made its maiden trip up the Hudson River.
HMS Pandora sank at The Great Barrier Reef after a voyage to hunt down the Bounty mutineers in 1790.
Isaac Briggs & William Longstreet was awarded a patent for the first steamboat in the US.
British naval vessel HMS Royal George sank, and over 800 lives were lost.
The English transport ship Duke William sank in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people.
The French ship named Aurore transported the first African slaves from Senegambia, West Africa, to Louisiana, US.
'Victoria' became the world's first recorded ship to have circumnavigated the globe when it arrived back in Spain.
The Santa Maria sunk.
