No One Talks About The Shipwreck Worse Than The Titanic

Let's check out the shipwrecks that were even worse than the Titanic!

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[LITTLE]

The Wilhelm Gustloff was so unfairly overshadowed by the Titanic and Lusitania wrecks. The amount of deaths was unbelievable.

[sandrasausville]

The fact that Titanic's sister ships were also damaged in some way is just creepy

[a.grimes]

Gordon Lightfoot’s song _The Wreck of the_ Edmund Fitzgerald, is a heartbreaking telling od the real-life story of the sinking of the SA Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975 in Lake Superior. All 29 of her crew, including her captain, Captain Ernest M. McSorely, were killed in the wreck somewhere near Whitefish Bay or Whitefish Point. The Mariners’ Church in Detroit used to annually ring a bell 29 times friom November 1975—November 2005, and last year, after Lightfoot’s death, they rang it 29 times yet again, and added 1 more for Lightfoot.

Truly a heartbreaking story especially for all of us Michiganders.

[ThrillSeeker]

I think what makes the Titanic so historically significant is the status of the first class passengers, the nature of the sinking, the dichotomy of the rich and poor on board, the language barriers found in the signs, the confusing internal layout and the atrocious safety and mangement protocols. Still, the other tragedies are no less significant.

[corntrooper]

I’m seeing a consistency with overcrowded ships in the video

Edit: The captain of the Costa Concordia is a coward for escaping the ship before anyone else

[cadeyochim]

The reason why no one talks about the Wilhelm gustloff is because it sank in WW2, and a lot of people died in that war, and that ship was just a small percent of all deaths in that war

[tears-of-stone]

I’m surprised The General Slocum didn’t make this list. Another Shipwreck that maybe should have been included is White Stars first major disaster, The Atlantic.

[tamar.davidson]

The lesson is: don't bring passengers more than the capacity

[AndyJourney]

MS Estonia: The worst peacetime shipwreck on European waters
RMS Empress of Ireland: The Canadas Titanic

[Chisszaru]

I started to thing about the M/S Estonia, which sadly sank in between Sweden and the country of Estonia, which did claim a lot of lives. They did make a documentary about it, and a few Youtubers have talked about it. I don't remember how many died that day, but i know the ship could handle up to around 4000 passengers, but i don't remember how many lost their lives

[RoarOfWolverine]

The USS Indianapolis will be forever remembered because of one of the greatest monologues ever delivered in a classic movie. Robert Shaw’s drunken telling of the story in Jaws is a chilling telling of the the event. The monologue was all the more believable because Shaw was actually dunking on at the time. Of course, he spent the entire movie intoxicated because he was an alcoholic, but a brilliant actor.

He wasn’t even the first choice for the role of Captain Quint, but I can’t imagine any other actor in that role. Lee Marvin was Spielberg’s first choice, but he turned down the role. It seemed as if Shaw was born to play Captain Quint, probably his most noticeable role from every movie he was in.

The fact that he wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar that year is a testament to how corrupt and political the Oscars had become many years earlier. It always seemed that any movie that was a blockbuster was always snubbed by the Oscars, where they usually select the more artsy fartsy films that few people watched or remember if they did.

[didgereemedia]

Interesting trivia;
The actor who portrayed John Jacob Astor in Titanic (1997) was a survivor of the Wilhelm Gustloff.
The fear in the scenes were he's inside the Grand Staircase as it flooded was genuine.

The actors name is Eric Braeden

[Cosmosarmorevan]

The one that literally went upside down and sank remained me of the Poseidon movie

[RonaldMartin-xu]

My step-father's grandmother was the last body recovered from the sunken Eastland. Barbara Lukens, 32.

[thermslusitania]

The lusitania should've been mentioned. 1, 197 people died and it sank in the middle of a war zone where there was u-boats

[SamHesselbeinTXA]

For the last one in shipwrecks, the USS Indianapolis wasn't sunk before, but instead AFTER its trip to Leyte Gulf; accurately discussed by Robert Shaw in the movie "Jaws", the Indianapolis finished transporting components for the Hiroshima bomb. The mission was so secret at the time that upon the surprise attack from the Japanese sub, no distress signal was given out. The only things that were accurate though were the amount of crewmen, the fact the waters were shark-infested, the number of days it took for the US Navy to realize the incident, and the amount of survivors being rescued from the ship itself.

[loganaqua]

The Empress of Ireland. Sunk on May 29th 1914 after a collision with the Storstad in the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Took 14 minutes to go down. 1012 people died. The tragedy is forgotten because World War 1 happen on July 28th the same year. People at Pointe-au-Père near Rimouski did not forget. They build a museum for the tragedy so people can learn about it.

[demonzone]

The Titanic is a tale of when man's hubris challenges the All Mighty.

[DudeEM]

The 2nd incident in this video, the MV Doña Paz, I was 6 years old during that time
About 2 to 3 days after the incident, my family went to the beach (yes, we do go to the beach even in December) this was according to my mom as I don’t remember that day. Being in another major island, Negros Occidental, relatively nearer to the site of tragedy, my Mom suddenly yanked me out of the water as bloated corpses were being washed ashore the beach we were in. It was the talk of the town for weeks. All the camera film rolls have been consumed by that time so no picture were taken, but why would they. Some people’s lunches went out their entrance holes in a projectile manner due to the appearance of the corpses. Good thing I didn’t witness any of it as my mom told me and my brother to climb on the rear portion of our Jeep to play with our toys far from the shore.

[robertrosejr]

I hate to say this but the Titanic was not 882 ft long it was 883.3 ft long.I just figured I should let you know. Also, the amount of light bulbs that was on board the Titanic at the time was actually more than a British border trade wanted on there so the White Star line actually did really good by doing that.