SS Portland
Written By Mister Gu on Sunday, June 6, 2010 | 2:20 PM
On November 26, 1898, the steamship SS Portland left India Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, for Portland, Maine, on a regularly scheduled run. She never made it to port. The vessel sank, carrying 192 individuals to their deaths. They were among the 500 or so victims of the “Portland Gale,” an epic blizzard that packed winds of hurricane force, a storm of greater ferocity than the famed blow of