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Britalian
Jul 26, 2008, 08:11 PM
Although ships like Titanic, Lusitania, etc are better known, I believe the single worst loss of life at sea was a German ocean liner near the end of world war II. Does anyone know the name of this vessel, and where it occurred?
George_1950
Jul 26, 2008, 08:17 PM
"The sinking of the Wilhem Gustloff ranks as probably the largest loss of life in a single sinking in maritime history." See: Wilhelm Gustloff (ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Gustloff_(ship))
N0help4u
Jul 26, 2008, 08:23 PM
America's worst
worst ship disaster (http://www.ezl.com/~fireball/Disaster01.htm)
Memory, Down with the Ship -- In These Times
The worst maritime disaster in world history was the subject of a 1959 German film called Night Fell Over Gotenhafen. “Banned in the East,” Grass explains
www.inthesetimes.com/article/94/ - 37k --the link would not open for me.
http://www.geocities.com/freepagesfree/disasters.htm
smokedetector
Jul 26, 2008, 08:24 PM
The name of the ship was the Wilhelm Gustloff. It was sunk by the Russians in 1945 in the Baltic Sea. For more information, see the Wikipedia article here:
Wilhelm Gustloff (ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Gustloff_(ship))
smokedetector
Jul 26, 2008, 08:25 PM
:-( aww too late