The tragic fate of the Titanic naturally recalls other great disasters within memory. In the past twenty years the principal wrecks have been as follows:- H.M.S. Victoria, sunk after collision with H.M.S. Camperdown, June 22nd, 1893 ... 359 Elbe, sunk off Lowestoft, Jan 30, 1895 ... 334 Reina Regente, Spanish cruiser, wrecked of Cape Trafalgar, March 10, 1895 ... 400 Colinia, wrecked off coast of Mexico, May 27, 1895 ... 108 Drummond Castle, wrecked off Ushant, June 16, 1896 ... 247 Salier, wrecked off north coast of Spain, December 7, 1896 ... 289 La Bourgoyne, sunk after collision in Atlantic, July 4, 1898 ...546 Mohegan, wrecked on Manacles, October 14, 1898 ... 107 Stella, wrecked off Casquets, March 30, 1899 ... 105 City of Rio de Janeiro, wrecked off San Francisco, February 22, 1901 ... 122 Asian, Turking transport, wrecked in Red Sea, April 1, 1901 ... 180 Govermorta, lost in cyclone, Bay of Bengal, May 6, 1902 ... 739 General Slocum, burned, Long Island Sound, June 15, 1904 ... 1020 Mikasa, Admiral Togo's flagship, sunk by explosion in her magazine, September 10, 1905 ... 599 Hilda, wrecked off St. Malo, November 19, 1905 ... 128 Berlin, Great Eastern Harwich boat, driven by a violent gale on to a pier at the Hook of Holland, and totally lost, February 21, 1907 ... 141