num_pages: 191
description: Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, but in terms of loss of life it doesn't even rate as one of the 50 worst maritime disasters of the last 300 years.The cases of ships sinking are legion: besides icebergs and enemy torpedoes, ships have been sunk by fire, explosions, flooding, capsizing, storms, collisions and human error. Many of these disasters have been almost forgotten, such as the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945, when 10,000 German civilians died in the freezing Baltic, many of them trapped below decks in total darkness.Including maritime disasters from all over the world, Final Voyage tells the stories of both the ships that were lost and the people who were on them.
language: English
title: Final Voyage: The World's Worst Maritime Disasters
publisher: A&C Black