SS Hungarian
Ocean Liner · United Kingdom · Lost 1860 · Nova Scotia & Sable Island
The Allan Line steamer Hungarian was wrecked off Cape Sable in 1860 with the loss of everyone aboard, and no cause was ever determined.
Benjamin C. Kuban
The Vessel and Her Loss
SS Hungarian was an Allan Line steamship on the Liverpool–Portland route. On 19 February 1860 she wrecked on rocks off Cape Sable, Nova Scotia. With no survivors to explain what happened, the cause of the disaster was never established. Newspapers reported that a few figures could be seen clinging to the ship's last standing mast the next morning before the wreck broke apart completely.
Vessel
- 1858
- William Denny and Brothers
- Dumbarton, Scotland
- Iron
- 298 ft
- 38.5 ft
- 2190
- Steam, single screw, auxiliary sail (barquentine rig)
- Allan Line
Loss
- February 19, 1860
- Grounding
- Off Cape Sable, Nova Scotia
- Atlantic Ocean, off southern Nova Scotia
- Liverpool, England → Portland, Maine
- Mail and general cargo
- 237
- 237
- Not established
The Wreck Today
- Not established
- Completely broken up in the surf
- Not established
- Not established
- Not established
Position
- Not established
- Position not established
- Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (78/100)
The cause of the wreck and the exact number aboard are not firmly established, as there were no survivors to give an account.
Nova Scotia Archives, Where the Land Meets the Sea: Shipwrecks of Nova Scotia
Voyage details and loss location.
The New York Times, 22 February 1860
Contemporary report of total loss.
