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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The SS Lady Elgin was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship that sank in Lake Michigan off Chicago, Illinois after she was rammed by the unlit schooner Augusta in the early hours of September 8, 1860. The passenger manifest was lost with the collision, but the sinking of the Lady Elgin resulted in the loss of more than 400 lives in what was called "one of the greatest marine horrors on record." Four years after the disaster, a new rule required sailing vessels to carry running lights. The Lady Elgin disaster…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The SS Lady Elgin was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship that sank in Lake Michigan off Chicago, Illinois after she was rammed by the unlit schooner Augusta in the early hours of September 8, 1860. The passenger manifest was lost with the collision, but the sinking of the Lady Elgin resulted in the loss of more than 400 lives in what was called "one of the greatest marine horrors on record." Four years after the disaster, a new rule required sailing vessels to carry running lights. The Lady Elgin disaster remains the greatest loss of life on open water in the history of the Great Lakes. Her shipwreck was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.