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RMS Atlantic was a transatlantic ocean liner of the White Star Line that operated between Liverpool , United Kingdom , and New York City , United States . During the ship's 19th voyage, on 1 April 1873, it ran onto rocks and sank off the coast of Nova Scotia , killing at least 535 people. It remained the deadliest civilian maritime disaster in the Northern Atlantic until the sinking of SS La Bourgogne on 2 July 1898 and the greatest disaster for the White Star Line prior to the loss of Titanic 39 years la
Atlantic was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast in 1870, and was the second ship built for the newly born White Star Line . She was powered by a steam engine producing 600 horsepower (450 kW) driving a single propeller, along with four masts rigged for sail . She sailed for New York on her maiden voyage on 8 June 1871.
On 20 March 1873 Atlantic departed on her 19th voyage from Liverpool with 952 people on board, of whom 835 were passengers. En route, the crew decided to make port at Halifax, Nova Scotia to replenish coal for the boilers.