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When you look at the picture you can tell there were just too many people on board. The ones that got it the worst were the ones crowded around the boilers. Some Confederate soldiers who witnessed it built a raft out of logs and managed to rescue some Union soldiers before they drowned. I read where one passenger used an alligator cage for a life preserver and the alligator was pissed, kept trying to bite him.
When you look at the picture you can tell there were just too many people on board. The ones that got it the worst were the ones crowded around the boilers. Some Confederate soldiers who witnessed it built a raft out of logs and managed to rescue some Union soldiers before they drowned. I read where one passenger used an alligator cage for a life preserver and the alligator was pissed, kept trying to bite him.
Is that true alias ... about the alligator.... very sad story though..
Then again very few people have heard of Britain's worst ever maritime disaster, the Lancastria, a troop ship which was built on the Clyde as the Tyrrhenia.
Off the French port of St Nazaire on the afternoon of 17 June 1940 the Lancastria came under attack from the Luftwaffe.
After receiving three direct hits from a Junkers 88 bomber the liner sank in just 20 minutes, claiming the lives of between four and six thousand men, more than the Titanic and the Lusitania disasters combined, and the largest single loss of life for British forces in the whole of World War II.
Today, the Lancastria Association of Scotland is at the forefront of a campaign to persuade the British and French governments to recognise the liner's final resting place as a war grave.
Then again very few people have heard of Britain's worst ever maritime disaster, the Lancastria, a troop ship which was built on the Clyde as the Tyrrhenia.
Off the French port of St Nazaire on the afternoon of 17 June 1940 the Lancastria came under attack from the Luftwaffe.
After receiving three direct hits from a Junkers 88 bomber the liner sank in just 20 minutes, claiming the lives of between four and six thousand men, more than the Titanic and the Lusitania disasters combined, and the largest single loss of life for British forces in the whole of World War II.
Today, the Lancastria Association of Scotland is at the forefront of a campaign to persuade the British and French governments to recognise the liner's final resting place as a war grave.
Even fewer know about the sinking of MS Estonia, the worst peacetime maritime disaster in Europe, claiming 852 lives. And this happened just 23 years ago.
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