10 Worst Cruise Ship Disasters

The hospital ship Steuben was carrying mostly wounded and refugees when it was torpedoed and sunk shortly after midnight in the Baltic Sea by a Soviet submarine.

10 worst cruise ship disasters. On April 14 1912 the supposedly unsinkable ship carrying 2200 people sank into the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Looking back here are ten of the worst cruise disasters that have ever happened. The worst of cruise ship disasters are incidents such as Costa Concordia the Titanic or the SS.

Princess cruise ship disaster page 7 10 of the worst cruise disasters doentary disasters at sea why 10 worst cruise ship disasters page 1. Its one of the worst ship disasters while wartime. Consider this one the mother of all cruise ship disasters.

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Passenger ship Wilhelm Gustloff torpedoed by a Russian submarine. Freedom of the Seas A one-year-old girl died after falling from a Royal Caribbean ship docked in Puerto Rico. Looking back here are ten of the worst cruise disasters that have ever happened.

Fortunately the fire was contained quickly however not before the blaze spread across three decks 100 cabins and claimed one life. The sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Titanic in 1912 with over 1500 fatalities is probably the most famous shipwreck but not the biggest in terms of lives lostThe wartime sinking of the German Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945 in World War II by a Soviet Navy submarine with an estimated loss of about 9400 people remains the deadliest isolated maritime disaster ever. 4000 19 March 1945.

In 2006 a mysterious fire sprung up on the decks of the Star Princess a cruise ship headed for Montego Bay and carrying more than 3800 passengers. 9000 10 February 1945. The ship sunk in only 70 minutes and took with it 9343 out of the 10000 passengers never to see the freedom which they sailed towards.