Hurricane tracking chart for the year 1893. There were four hurricanes active during August of that year. Hurricane track number 4 probably caused the delay and subsequent re-routing of the SS Scandia from its original Baltimore destination to Philadelphia.

Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, North Atlantic Hurricane Tracking Chart (Miami, Florida: Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, n.d.); digital image, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/Track-Maps.html : downloaded 26 November 2008), for the year 1893.