CAPTIVATING FACTS ABOUT SUNKEN SHIPS
Added on: 8th Oct 2016
A GERMAN U-BOAT (U-1206) ONCE SANK
BECAUSE ITS TOILET MALFUNCTIONED
THE GREATEST MARITIME DISASTER IN WORLD
HISTORY WAS THE SINKING OF THE WILHELM
GUSTLOFF (MORE THAN 9,000 DEATHS)
UNFORTUNATELY, THE STORY OF THE WILHELM
GUSTLOFF HAS BEEN LOST TO HISTORY FOR
SEVERAL REASONS, THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BEING
THAT IT HAPPENED DURING WWII AND IT WAS A
GERMAN SHIP
THERE ARE MORE THAN 20 SUNKEN GERMAN
SUBMARINES OFF THE EASTERN COAST OF THE US
IN 2000, RUSSIAN SUBMARINE KURSK (K-141) SANK
AND ALL ABOARD PERISHED BECAUSE THE
RUSSIANS REFUSED OFFERS OF ASSISTANCE FROM
THE US, BRITISH AND NORWEGIAN NAVIES
IN 1779, THE US CAPTAIN JOHN PAUL JONES
REFUSED TO SURRENDER TO THE BRITISH.
FINALLY, WITH HIS SHIP BURNING AND SINKING,
JOHN AND HIS MEN MADE IT ONTO A BRITISH
VESSEL AND TOOK IT OVER
WHEN THE OCEANOS CRUISE SHIP BEGAN TO SINK IN
1991, THE CREW ABANDONED SHIP BUT GUITARIST
MOSS HILLS TOOK OVER AND DIRECTED
THE RESCUE EFFORT
ONLY TWO YEARS AFTER THE SINKING OF THE
TITANIC, THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND SANK IN
THE SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER KILLING OVER A
THOUSAND PEOPLE. BECAUSE OF WWI, ITS
STORY WAS LARGELY FORGOTTEN
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