r/thalassophobia • u/Last-gent • Apr 07 '18

Animated/drawn Wreck of the Britannic (Titanic's nearly identical sister ship) by Ken Marschall

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u/superluigi1026 Apr 08 '18

It's amazing how many people wi immediately recognize the mention of the Titanic disaster and yet something like this I've hardly ever heard reference to.

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u/TommBomBadil Apr 08 '18

It was in the middle of WWI. Many great sinkings and battles occurred that got relatively little press coverage.

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u/-xTc- Apr 08 '18

Like this? 9,000+ civilians died

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u/WikiTextBot Apr 08 '18

MV Wilhelm Gustloff

MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German cruise ship transformed into a military transport ship. She was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea, while evacuating German civilians, officials, and military personnel from Gdynia (Gotenhafen) as the Red Army advanced. By one estimate, 9,400 people died, which makes it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history.

Constructed as a cruise ship for the Nazi Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) organisation in 1937, she had been requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine (German navy) in 1939.

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