Liner down in 1919 hurricane

On September 19, 1919 the U.S. Navy Subchaser SC 203 found the wreckage of the Spanish passenger liner Val-banera on Half Moon Shoals. The liner was last sighted on September 9 when it was turned away from Havana Harbor because of hurricane winds. No trace was every found of the more than 300 passengers and crew of the ship making the Hurricane of 1919 the fourth deadliest storm to hit the United States.