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There are countless incidents reported on marine disasters. RMS Titanic. The sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Titanic in 1912, with more than 1,500 fatalities, is probably the most famous shipwreck, but not the biggest in terms of lives lost.
HMS Sussex – the third-rate ship was lost in a fierce storm on 1 March off Gibraltar. There were two survivors from a crew of 500. 498 1120 England: White Ship – Ship carrying William Adelin, heir to the English Throne and the Duchy of Normandy, and more than 300 others. Drunk crew ran it aground in the English Channel.
The ship was towed and beached. 33 people died while around 200 passengers were rescued. [51] 33 2012 Italy: Costa Concordia – The Italian cruise ship ran aground, capsized and sank in shallow waters on 13 January off the Isola del Giglio, killing 32 people (27 passengers and 5 crewmembers) out of 3,216 passengers and 1,013 crewmembers aboard. 32
It became the largest passenger ship ever wrecked, with almost double the number of people on board than on the Titanic. Thirty-two people died, and the captain was convicted of manslaughter in 2015.
Lifeboats could not be safely launched in the rough seas and the ship quickly listed trapping many passengers inside. Of the 952 people on board, 535 perished. Among women and children, only one young boy survived. This incident is credited with starting the “Women and Children First” rule that affected the Titanic disaster decades later ...
"It's really quite surreal," the Titanic director James Cameron said of the tragedy. James Cameron Says He's Struck by Similarities Between the Titanic Sinking and the Tourist Submersible Skip to ...
‘Titanic’ director James Cameron on the ‘catastrophic implosion’ of Titan submersible: “I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly ...
The sinking was one of the worst maritime disasters in the Second World War, and one of the worst maritime disasters in history involving a children's ship. [4] While only 54 of 112 children of the Titanic died, [5] 98 of 123 children on the City of Benares were lost. [6] On the Lusitania 94 children were lost.