With the news surrounding the capsizing of the cruise ship, Costa Concordia, you may not know that at least two other ships named Concordia have sunk over the years.
Back in 1708 the Concordia was a Dutch sailing ship which left Batavia (now named Jakarta) in Indonesia bound for the Cape of Good Hope and then back home to the Netherlands. With 130 passengers and crew on board the ship encountered bad weather and disappeared somewhere near the island of Mauritius off the southeast coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean.
Another Concordia was a barquentine, a three masted sailing ship built in Poland for West Island College in Montreal Canada and used as a sail training ship. On February 17, 2010 the Concordia was 300 miles off the coast of Brazil when a microburst wind tipped it on its side and it sunk rapidly. All 64 people, crew, students and teachers were rescued.
Then last Friday disaster hit the latest Concordia, the Costa Concordia cruise ship which hit a reef off the coast of Italy and partially sunk killing an as yet unknown number of vacationers.
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