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MV Doña Paz: Largest Non-Military Loss
MV Doña Paz: Largest Non-Military Loss
This Philippine-registered passenger ferry sank after colliding with the MT Vector on December 20, 1987. With a possible death toll of 4,375 people, the collision resulted in the deadliest ferry disaster in history during peace time. While most of the passengers slept during the night of December 20th, the ferry collided with the Vector, which was carrying 8,800 barrels of gasoline. The impact caused a fire which quickly spread to the Doña Paz, as well as lighting the surrounding water on fire. The life jackets aboard the Doña Paz were reportedly locked up, forcing passengers to jump into flaming shark-infested waters in order to attempt escape.

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MV Goya: At least 6,000 People Killed in 7 Minutes
MV Goya: At least 6,000 People Killed in 7 Minutes
This German transport ship had 6,100 documented passengers on board (and possibly hundreds more undocumented) when it was struck on April 16, 1945, by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea during World War II. Just seven minutes after being struck by the torpedo, the ship sank, killing almost all of the passengers and crew aboard, either inside the ship, or outside by drowning and hypothermia in the icy waters. This disaster is largely believed to be the second-worst in maritime history, based on the number of casualties. The ship was loaded with women and children (only two children were among the 183 passengers who survived).

[DannyDrama]

Burying them at sea seems like feeding a mauling victim to a lion. Right kick in the balls.

[invertigo]

Originally Posted by LadyCPlum ↗

Joseph's story is profiled in a book called "Women and Children First". Juliette was so afraid of losing another member of her family that she basically kept her daughters on extremely tight leashes. They did manage to gain some autonomy when married, but the younger one died before her older sister and baby brother. The 2nd-class passengers actually remember Joseph comporting himself in a very gentlemanly manner during the sinking, a great way of describing someone of African descent during that time period.

His story has also been mentioned in every single public Titanic exhibition I've ever been to. He's one of the most famous passengers on the ship.

[bernard]

I wonder where Jack and Rose are :P

[LadyCPlum]

Originally Posted by DannyDrama ↗

Burying them at sea seems like feeding a mauling victim to a lion. Right kick in the balls.

A lot of them were probably third class passengers, entire families traveling together with no one to really look for them. And you also have to remember that a pretty large amount of bodies were never recovered at all. So they either went down with the ship, literally, or the elements took them before the steamers charged with collecting the bodies could get to them. John Jacob Astor's body was so badly crushed and mangled I think they identified him using an engraving on one of th pieces of jewelry he had on him.

[LadyCPlum]

Originally Posted by invertigo ↗

His story has also been mentioned in every single public Titanic exhibition I've ever been to. He's one of the most famous passengers on the ship.

Another story that's pretty heartbreaking is that of a young first class couple on their "grand tour" 2-year honeymoon, Victor and Maria Penasco y Castellana. They were from Spain, extravagantly rich, intensely in love. But they decided they wanted to travel on the Titanic, basically for the heck of it, and didn't tell either of their families that they were doing so. Instead they paid a friend or a hotel clerk to keep sending postcards and letters from another place so their families wouldn't know. Victor went down with the ship, and Maria was in the same lifeboat as the Countess of Rothes. She remembers all night long this beautiful young girl, with long wet hair, in her nightdress, wailing in vain for her husband, and nobody could understand what she was saying, so they tried to help her out the best they could. She was so helpless she couldn't even help out with the rowing. His was another body that was never recovered. And all this time their families kept receiving postcards, so they were in complete disbelief when they found out they had been on the Titanic.

[invertigo]

This is a great site if you have time to read all of it @_@
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivors/

The # 1 most fascinating story to me is of Masabumi Hosono. He made it to a lifeboat, but it was a decision he regretted for the rest of his life.

[LadyCPlum]

Originally Posted by invertigo ↗

This is a great site if you have time to read all of it @_@
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivors/

The # 1 most fascinating story to me is of Masabumi Hosono. He made it to a lifeboat, but it was a decision he regretted for the rest of his life.

Yeah, it was considered incredibly shameful and cowardly for him to have done that with so many women and children still aboard.

[monicauri]

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