Kate Wreck

Built in 1874 the Kate was an iron-hulled English steam freighter she was on route from Galveston, Texas to Le Havre, France with a load of cotton when she struck an unmapped reef 22 miles northwest of Bermuda’s Gibbs Hill Lighthouse. As the ship began taking on water the captain ask for help, and a tug boat towed and grounded her on the south shore to prevent the Kate from sinking. Nearly all of the more than 3,600 bales of cotton cargo were saved, and no lives were lost. Nearly two weeks later, on December 10, a gale broke her up further and pushed the Kate into deeper water.