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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	RMS Titanic	33,175
2	Francis Drake	4,230
3	Edward Smith	1,722
4	Sidney Leslie Goodwin	885
5	Bartholomew Roberts	795
6	Juan Sebastián Elcano	454
7	Alexander Selkirk	408
8	Feng Yuxiang	245
9	Adoniram Judson	205
10	Mariano Moreno	148
11	John Forrest	101
12	Christian Ferdinand Schiess	86
13	Thomas MacDonough	85
14	García de Silva Figueroa	60
15	Francis Harvey	54
16	Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens	53
17	Futabatei Shimei	49
18	Frank Watson Dyson	45
19	Samuel Argall	43
20	William Jay Gaynor	43
21	Christopher Levett	34
22	William Christie (astronomer)	33
23	William Paterson (explorer)	32
24	William de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle	27
25	John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne	27
26	Emile Dechaineux	27
27	Frederick Wollaston Hutton	21
28	Herman Spöring, Jr.	20
29	Samuel John Mills	17
30	David Lewis Macpherson	17
31	Alexander Knox Helm	17
32	William Symonds	16
33	James Hope Moulton	15
34	Esaias Boursse	14
35	Thomas Boyle	14
36	George Duff	14
37	Henry Swearingen	13
38	Mary Watson (folk hero)	13
39	Richard Roberts (sea captain)	13
40	Richard Baird Smith	12
41	Charles H. Workman	12
42	Talbot Hobbs	11
43	Gamaliel Bailey	10
44	Jiro Sato	10
45	George Fleming Davis	10
46	John Cooke (Royal Navy officer)	10
47	Richard Robson	9
48	Joseph Wanton Morrison	9
49	David Milne (Royal Navy officer)	9
50	Henry Vansittart	8
51	John Cushing Aylwin	7
52	Miguel de Oquendo	7
53	Horace Holley (minister)	7
54	Lennie Mayne	6
55	Robert Cecil Beavan	6
56	Claude Jones	6
57	William Harris (beachcomber)	6
58	Jack Doubleday	6
59	Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl	less than 5 views
60	Alfred Edward Sephton	less than 5 views
61	John Minor Maury	less than 5 views
62	Robert Hanna Hammond	less than 5 views
63	Milton Ernest Ricketts	less than 5 views
64	Dominique Monet	less than 5 views
65	Fred Farrington	less than 5 views
66	George Burgess (bishop)	less than 5 views
67	Príncipe de Asturias (ocean liner)	less than 5 views

Subcategories

• Deaths by firearm in international waters
• Deaths due to shipwreck

Parent categories

• Deaths by location
• Maritime history

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