Occasion Costa Concordia cruise ship carrying 4,200 passengers crashing into rocks and tipped off the coast of Italy, a look at the 10 disaster worst shipwreck history.
10. Mary Rose
As the ships of the British Admiralty under King Henry VII, Mary Rose ship is contributing many large ships in the war with France, Scotland and Brittany. However, after being upgraded in 1536, the ship received naval mission led attack on a French fleet of 7 / 1545. But the ship had capsized and then sunk in the sea but unexplained.
Ship Mary Rose was the first ships to be equipped with the two side guns. It is also one of the first warships to be close to naval service without performing any other task regardless. However, in the final battle, the ship had capsized and then sank into the sea claimed the lives of 400 sailors. As predicted, possibly because of a sudden turned with large artillery on both sides by the board made it out of balance and capsized.
It was accidentally discovered on the Mary Rose in 1971 after it was salvaged in 1982 to serve the purpose of conservation and research.
9. Landing craft HMS Birkenhead
HMS Birkenhead iron hull ships are run by the first steam engine built for the Royal Navy. Initially, the HMS Birkenhead was designed to act as a frigate but was later converted into a military ship transfer.On 02/26/1852, it transported large amounts of 73 soldiers of the Regiment in Algoa Bay region.However, it was wrecked at Gansbaai near Cape Town, South Africa.
As a warship, HMS Birkenhead buoy not enough women and children should be given priority while the men struggled with the waves. However, they still can not hold out to sea and is gradually exhausted.Only 193 people out of 643 people on board survived the accident. But the supreme sacrifice of the soldiers were praised until later.
8. Passenger ship SS Eastland
As the passenger ship based in Chicago, SS Eastland was mainly used to transport tourists. On 24.07.1915, the ship SS Eastland, along with two other steamships are Theodore Roosevelt and the Petoskey has received a contract employee of the company carrying electricity to the city of Chicago to Indiana, Michigan picnic. Because large numbers of workers, the vessel is equipped with a large lifeboat, so much so that it resists lime instability.
On the fateful morning, the ship carrying 2,752 passengers left the harbor. However, only 15 minutes later, a large number of others have flocked to the side of the ship. The sudden change in balance makes SS Eastland capsized completely tilted to one side. The fact that hundreds of people standing at the edge of the ship tilted dead and hundreds others died because the furniture weighed in during the tilt train. The accident did not think the deaths of 845 people, including mostly women and children.
7. Passenger ship MS Estonia
MS Estonia was played in 1979 at the new shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. Of MS Estonia accident occurred on 28/09/1994 at 0h55 to 1h50, when the ship crossed the Baltic Sea en route from Tallinn (Estonia) to Stockholm (Sweden). When in distress, the ship was carrying 989 passengers and crew.
The first sign when the ship is in distress MS Estonia's metal screams rang out at each other and the ship is off Turku archipelago. 15 minutes later, the ship's starboard side appears a large crack. At 1h20, a female voice weak, "Haire, haire, laeval on haire" (warning, alarm, warning all ships) echo over a loudspeaker system.
Soon after, the lifeboat was lowered. However, the ship tilted 30-40 degrees to the starboard side, causing the release of dangerous boat. In addition, the accident also caused power outages across the ship, making the navigation system and its alarm inoperable, making rescue efforts hampered somewhat.The case has killed 852 people, only 137 passengers were rescued.
6. Ship RMS Empress of Ireland
Ship RMS Empress of Ireland was closed during the year 1905-1906 by Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, Govan, Scotland under company orders from steam ships of the Canadian Pacific.
The ship Empress of Ireland to Quebec City (Canada) at 16:30 on 05/28/1914 with 1477 passengers and crew. Captain Henry George Kendall was given control of the vessel earlier this month, and this is the first voyage he set sail on the ship Empress commanding position.
Dawn the next day, when the ship is running in the area Pointe-au-Pere, Quebec in dense fog conditions, it was the ship carrying coal crashed Norwegian Storsrad right. The accident has caused the ship's starboard Empress severely damaged, causing water and spread on the hull. The ship sank within 14 minutes, when most passengers were sleeping, causing them to react.
Only 465 out of 1,477 passengers survived. Among those killed are 130 children, 247 women and playwright, novelist famous British Laurence Irving. Also, one other lucky person is Tower, who is determined to survive the two hit a sinking Titanic and the Lusitania, have been reported to survive the accident Empress.
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