The 1,123 ton cargo ship Armenian sailed from Middlesbrough, England bound for Kronstadt, Finland on
Aug. 1, 1882 and was never heard from again. The last report of the ship was made by a Lloyd's agent in
Lemvig, Denmark on Aug. 23 when he reported that two vessels had sighted a capsized ship about ten miles
from Bovenbergen. There was no positive identification, but it is thought this was the Armenian. The only other
evidence from the ship was a lifeboat which washed up at Houstrup, Denmark with the body of the wife of the
captain and a trunk with her belongings. To my knowledge no trace of the other twenty-two people was ever
found. The ship was reported overdue on Sept. 14 and missing on Sept. 21.