5 Worst Cruise Ship Disasters

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5 worst cruise ship disasters. Youd be hard-pressed to find someone in the US who is unfamiliar with the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic and in more recent history disasters including the sinking of the Costa Concordia and the loss of power on the Carnival Triumph have garnered significant press. In 1912 it was the largest passenger ship ever built. White Ship Ship carrying the heir to the English Throne and the Duchy of Normandy and more than 300 others.

For todays video we decided to do the top five 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. Lets start with the biggest.

The following are the lowest-marked of the bunch with ratings of 3 stars or fewer out of 5. On 4 August 1975 two passenger ships Hongxing 245 and Hongxing 240 on overnight trips between Guangzhou and Zhaoqing collided and sank on Zhujiang River 432 of the 800 aboard were lost. Here for your consideration are historys most devastating cruise ship disasters.

History has engraved memories of worst cruise ship disasters. Its one of the worst ship disasters while wartime. Black Watch the ship became host to an outbreak of Legionnaires Disease.

Worst Disaster in Canadian History. 5 RMS Empress of Ireland. Posted on May 7 2012 by Beverly Jenkins.

May 31 2018 by Justin Andress View All On 1 Page. When Audrey and Robert Heath took a trip aboard the MS. Príncipe de Asturias Sank near the island of Sao Sebastiao Brazil on 5 March 1916.