Maritana runs aground on the Shag Rocks.

Under the command of Capt. G.W. Williams, the Quincy-built ship runs aground just after midnight off Outer Brewster Island. At dawn, the vessel begins to break apart. Williams, 10 other crewmen, and 13 passengers, including several women and children, drown, and some dozen survive. The ship’s figurehead of a beautiful woman, which had been deemed unlucky because it had been used on a previous ship, is later recovered and donated to the Bostonian Society in 1908.