Top 10 cruise ship disasters in the World || Cruise Ship Sinking || Biggest Ship Accidents

the Titanic may be the most famous ship disaster but surprisingly it's not even close to being the deadliest wreck that ever occurred on a luxury liner today we are going to show you top 10 worst cruise ship disasters in the world number 10 Costa Concordia one of the biggest passenger ships ever wrecked the Costa Concordia had 17 decks six restaurants a three-story theater and enough room for 4,200 vacationers On January 13th 2012 captain Francesco Schettino agreed to a request by the ship's chief maitre d Antonello to voli and sailed closer to the island of Isola del Giglio than normal white tu voli a native of Giglio wanted to impress and salute local residents unfortunately captain Shetty no turned off the ship's alarm for the computer navigation system and later admitted he thought he knew the waters well enough to navigate by sight however the ship's first mate testified that the captain had left his glasses in his cabin and requested them the Costa Concordia struck an underwater rock capsized and sank killing 32 passengers Shetty knows worst maritime sin he abandoned the ship with 300 passengers still on board a Coast Guard officer in contact with the ship at the time of the sinking claimed he told Shetty no to get back on board after being convicted of manslaughter and pursuing several appeals Shetty no only started his 16 year prison sentence in May of 2017 the salvage effort the ship was completely dismantled was the largest effort of its kind number 9 MTS se nose built by a French company and first launched in 1952 the MTS se nose was purchased by a Greek company in 1976 on August 3rd 1991 a C nose set sail for East London South Africa and headed north for Durban led by captain Deanna's of rama's the ship reportedly headed into 40-knot winds and 30-foot swells and lest the typical sail away outdoor deck party with British entertainers Moss and Tracey Hills was moved to an indoor lounge the sea conditions worsened that night leading to the ship rolling from side to side and eventually an explosion was heard due to a lack of repairs for the waste disposal system this all led to the ship losing power and water filling its generator room so the generators were shut down and the ship was led adrift a distress call was sent and answered by numerous South African helicopters and a Dutch container ship shockingly the captain and many crew members were among the first to be airlifted to shore leaving the entertainment staff to coordinate the rescue efforts and help passengers to safety all 571 passengers and the crew members were saved by the time the ship sank nose first into the sea number 8 MV Dona Paz was a philippine registered passenger ferry that sank after colliding with the oil tanker montana vector on December 20th 1987 built by Onomichi zosyn of hiroshima japan the ship was launched on April 25th 1963 as the him a ori Maru with a passenger capacity of 608 in October 1975 the him a romero was bought by seoul paseo Lines and renamed as the MV Don Sol Paseo after a fire incident occurred on board in June 1979 the ship was refurbished and renamed as the MV Dona Paz traveling from Leyte island to the Philippine capital of Manila the vessel was seriously overcrowded with at least 2,000 passengers not listed on the manifest additionally it was claimed that the ship did not have a radio and that the life jackets were locked away however official blame was directed at vector which was found to be unseaworthy and operating without a license look out her qualified master with an estimated death toll of 4,000 386 people and only 25 survivors it remains the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history number seven the SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours on July 24 1915 the ship rolled over onto her side while tied to a dock in the Chicago River a total of 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the great lakes after the disaster Eastland was salvaged and sold to the United States Navy after restorations and modifications Eastland was designated a gunboat and renamed USS Wilmette she was used primarily as a training vessel on the Great Lakes and was scrapped after World War two number 6 ms Estonia was a cruise ferry built in 1979-80 at the German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papen Berg the ship sank in 1994 in the Baltic Sea in one of the worst maritime disasters of the 20th century it is the second deadliest peacetime sinking of a European ship after the RMS Titanic and the deadliest peacetime shipwreck to have occurred in European waters with 852 lives lost number 5 RMS Lusitania the sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday 7 May 1915 during the first world war as Germany waged submarine warfare against a United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany the ship was identified and torpedoed by the German u-boat u-20 and sank in 18 minutes and also took on a heavy starboard list the vessel went down 11 miles 18 kilometers off the old head of kinsale 429 Ireland killing 1198 and leaving 761 survivors the sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany contributed to the American entry into World War 1 and became an iconic symbol in military recruiting campaigns of why the war was being fought number four SS Andrea Doria pronounced was an ocean liner for the Italian line homeported in Genoa Italy most famous for her sinking in 1956 when 46 people died named after the 16th century Geno's Admiral Andrea Doria the ship had a gross register tonnage of 29 thousand one hundred and a capacity of about 1,200 passengers and 500 crew for a country attempting to rebuild its shattered economy and reputation after World War Two Andrea Doria was an icon of Italian national pride of all Italy's ships at the time Andrea Doria was the largest fastest and supposedly safest launched on 16 June 1951 the ship undertook its maiden voyage on 14 January 1953 number three HMHS Britannic was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's Olympic class of steam ships and the second to bear the name Britannic she was the fleet made of both the RMS Olympic and the RMS Titanic and was intended to enter service as transatlantic passenger liner Britannic was launched just before the start of the first world war she was designed to be the safest of the three ships with design changes action during construction due to lessons learned from the sinking of the Titanic she was laid up at her builders Harland and Wolff in Belfast for many months before being put to use as a hospital ship in 1915 in 1915 and 1916 she served between the United Kingdom and the Dardanelles on the morning of 21 November 1916 she was shaken by an explosion caused by a naval mine of the Imperial German Navy near the Greek island of Key and foundered fifty-five minutes later killing 30 people there were 1060 five people on board the 1035 survivors were rescued from the water and lifeboats Britannic was the largest ship lost in the first world war the loss of the ship was compensated by the award of SS Bismarck to the White Star Line as part of post-war reparations she became the RMS majestic number two RMS Titanic the RMS Titanic sank in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean four days into the ship's maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City the largest ocean liner in service at the time Titanic had an estimated 2,000 224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at around 23 40 ships time on Sunday 14 April 1912 her sinking 2 hours and 40 minutes later at 2:20 on Monday 15 April resulted in the deaths of more than 1500 people making it one of the deadliest peacetime marine disasters in history Titanic received six warnings of sea ice on 14 April but was traveling near her maximum speed when her lookouts sighted the iceberg unable to turn quickly enough the ship suffered a glancing blow that buckled her starboard side and open six of her 16 compartments to the CDOT Titanic had been designed to stay afloat with four of her forward compartments flooded but no more and the crew soon realized that the ship would sink they used distress flares and radio wireless messages to attract help as the passengers were put into lifeboats number one MV wilhelm gustloff the deadliest maritime disaster in history wasn't exact an accident the MV Wilhelm Gustloff was built as a cruise ship for Nazi Germany's state operated tourism organization yet later served as a hospital ship for the German Navy and floating barracks by January 30 1945 the Germans were losing World War two and Russia's army was closing in on that winter morning ten thousand five hundred eighty two people were packed onto a boat designed to carry 1900 the passengers included Nazi officers wounded soldiers and thousands of civilians many of whom were children a Russian submarine saw the Gustloff which was moving slowly and wasn't marked as a hospital boat and shot three torpedoes at it many of the lifeboats were frozen to the deck and there wouldn't have been enough to save the ten thousand plus people on board more than nine thousand of the passengers reportedly died in the icy waters over six times as many passengers who perished in the titanic sinking you

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Published: Sat Feb 22 2020