Trivia question for you

[manny78]

WHat is the biggest maritime distaster of all time ? One ship only. DOn't come with 10 japanese warships being sunked....

 

[drrman]

Titanic??

 

[Citruscide]

Worst ever I would think would be Peral Harbor.. .but that is more htan one ship


Around 1500 died on the Titanic...

around 1200 died on the Lusitania..

But a registered 1900 or so people died on the Sultana back in the 1860's... it's is difficult to know the exact number, they guaged by tickets sold.

*** The Sultana was a riverboat... don't know if it counts... as it was, I believe on the Mississippi? These three are my best guesses... in terms of death, they are definately huge... the only reason I knew about the Sultana is I took a Civil War Course back in College, it was stressed that no one really knew about it because it was toward the end of the civil war...

C-ditty

 

[manny78]

Worst ever I would think would be Peral Harbor.. .but that is more htan one ship


Around 1500 died on the Titanic...

around 1200 died on the Lusitania..

But a registered 1900 or so people died on the Sultana back in the 1860's... it's is difficult to know the exact number, they guaged by tickets sold.

*** The Sultana was a riverboat... don't know if it counts... as it was, I believe on the Mississippi? These three are my best guesses... in terms of death, they are definately huge... the only reason I knew about the Sultana is I took a Civil War Course back in College, it was stressed that no one really knew about it because it was toward the end of the civil war...

C-ditty

humm you think 1900 is a lot ? ehehe wait till I give out the answer.... its a lot more...

 

[KHMER ROGUE]

Worst ever I would think would be Peral Harbor.. .but that is more htan one ship




But a registered 1900 or so people died on the Sultana back in the 1860's... it's is difficult to know the exact number, they guaged by tickets sold.

*** The Sultana was a riverboat... don't know if it counts... as it was, I believe on the Mississippi? These three are my best guesses... in terms of death, they are definately huge... the only reason I knew about the Sultana is I took a Civil War Course back in College, it was stressed that no one really knew about it because it was toward the end of the civil war...

C-ditty

Tickets? LOL, there wasn't any tickets. People on the ship were P.O.W.s, rescued from Andersonville, an infamous Confederate prison camp. The boat was only capable of holding 376 people but the Union army insisted the boat take on more solders eager to reach Cairo, IL., where soldiers and P.O.W.s were to be mustered out of service. The enormous load totaled 2,200 people, plus 60 horses and mules and 100 hogs.

One of the boilers couldn't handle the stress and BOOM!



Manny, is it the Wilhelm Gustloff? At least 5,400 perished in that disaster.

 

[Citruscide]

Tickets? LOL, there wasn't any tickets. People on the ship were P.O.W.s, rescued from Andersonville, an infamous Confederate prison camp. The boat was only capable of holding 376 people but the Union army insisted the boat take on more solders eager to reach Cairo, IL., where soldiers and P.O.W.s were to be mustered out of service. The enormous load totaled 2,200 people, plus 60 horses and mules and 100 hogs.

One of the boilers couldn't handle the stress and BOOM!



Manny, is it the Wilhelm Gustloff? At least 5,400 perished in that disaster.

Yes, I know that... the operators kept talley of how many people were on the boat... they were paid a surcharge of 5 bucks each... so they crammed them on a boat that only held like 400 people...

C

 

[Citruscide]

http://users.accesscomm.ca/shipwreck/index6.htm -- guess you can get all the info there...

C

 

[KHMER ROGUE]

Somehow, I think Manny is going to correct us, aren't you?

C'mon, school us!

 

[manny78]

Somehow, I think Manny is going to correct us, aren't you?

C'mon, school us!

it was the Wilhelm Gustloff an hospitalship sunked by a soviet submarine. Official count says 5100 refugees died. I found that in an ol' submarine's book.