The Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed and sunk 30th January 1945 in the Baltic Sea with a loss of an estimated 9,400 people.
The ships final voyage was during Operation Hannibal in January 1945, when she was sunk while participating in the evacuation of civilian refugees, German soldiers, and U-boat personnel trapped by the Red Army in East Prussia. She was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea on the night of January 30, 1945 and sank in under 45 minutes, taking an estimated 9,400 people with her. The sinking of the Wilhem Gustloff ranks as the largest known loss of life in a single sinking in maritime history.
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The Germans sunk several ships while Wilson was President, but the most momentous sinking so far as the US was concerned was the sinking of the passenger ship, The Lusitania by German U-boats on May 7, 1915, killing 1198.
1) they responded by sinking the Zimmerman ship. And that ship was the Germans.
Yes, prior to the sinking of the Lusitania in May 1915, the German government issued warnings about the dangers of traveling on British ships, including the Lusitania, which was believed to be carrying munitions. These warnings were published in newspapers and emphasized that the waters around the British Isles were a war zone. Despite these warnings, many Americans, including those on the Lusitania, chose to travel on the ship, leading to the tragic sinking that resulted in significant loss of life and heightened tensions between the United States and Germany.
HMS Ocean
The sinking of Titanic was such a memorable disaster because she was the greatest, and largest, ship in the world.
During her sailing (and sinking) Titanic was the grandest (and largest) ship in the world).
a life boat
Songs for a Sinking Ship was created in 2010.
This Sinking Ship was created on 2007-02-20.
a small craft carried on a ship to provide a means of emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard the ship
Rats desert a sinking ship.
which prince died on the sinking of the white ship
Slow Note from a Sinking Ship was created in 1995.
My Beautiful Sinking Ship was created on 2001-09-04.
The passengers who left the sinking ship first were the women and their children
The Birkenhead Drill happened in 1852 when HMS Birkenhead began sinking and the Captain of the ship gave the order that women and children should be first off the sinking ship because there was not enough life boats for everybody and as a consequence all the women and children survived but all the men perished on the sinking ship.