sailing the cruel seas can end in
disaster
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 most infamous shipwrecks number 10
the Costa Concordia kicking off our list
is this avoidable disaster the Costa
Concordia embarked on its Italian cruise
with over 4,200 Souls aboard but when
the captain apparently tried to thrill
shore side observers with a sail by he
misjudged and ran aground in the
Tyrrhenian sea this negligence later got
him charged with crimes like
manslaughter and abandoning ship while
the wrecked boat became a hot tourist
destination for those with morbid
curiosity number 9 ss Edmund Fitzgerald
the Great Lakes are prone to shipwrecks
and the biggest was the Edmund
Fitzgerald no distress calls were sent
before she sank in Lake Superior so it’s
unclear what felled the ore freighter
and killed its 29 member crew but 35
foot waves and hurricane force winds
were likely to blame despite her tragic
end
mighty Fitz would never have been as
famous at Gordon Lightfoot not told her
tale
it’s gender number 8 MV Vilhelm Gustav
the Nazis used this former hospital ship
to evacuate German civilians and
military during World War two x’
operation hannibal but soon
three soviet torpedoes hit singing the
gustav into the baltic sea within 45
minutes though passenger manifests were
not kept it is known that thousands of
women and children perished and that
this was history’s deadliest maritime
disaster today the wreck is honored as a
war grave number seven and mass Estonia
as it sailed through the Baltic Sea from
Estonia to Sweden this very experienced
significant distress when its visor
broke allowing water to flood in she
quickly tilted dramatically and anyone
inside likely went down with the ship
only 137 survived whether the Estonia
was transporting drugs or was sabotage
as suggested by conspiracy theorists we
may never know regardless the Estonians
failure changed safety guidelines
forever number six the SS mullah the
Canadian province of Nova Scotia was
devastated when the SS emo crashed into
the SS mold blunt with its cargo of
wartime explosives
the Halifax Explosion killed roughly
2,000 injured 9,000 more
caused a tsunami and destroyed
everything in its wake in fact it
remains one of history’s largest
man-made explosions today the event is
one of many memorialized and Halifax’s
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic number
five the RMS Lusitania during World War
one the luxurious Lusitania carried
passengers and government shipments
through Atlantic Ocean war zones however
on a voyage from New York to Liverpool
she was torpedoed by a German u-boat and
sank in 18 minutes
the British government was condemned
when it was eventually discovered that
she was secretly hauling weapons on that
ill-fated trip however American deaths
in the tragedy spurred the u.s. to join
the war causing a turning point in the
battle number four the USS Arizona
December 7 1941 a date which will live
in infamy this catastrophe forced the
u.s. into World War 2 the Arizona was
downed by the surprise Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor killing almost
two-thirds of its crew still visible
from the surface the ship remains an
astonishingly good shape
despite its decades under the salt water
the Memorial Museum erected there is one
of the world’s most well known war
graves and serves as a symbol of
American determination number 3 MV La
Jolla the Jula embarked on its fateful
trip from southern Senegal to Dakar at
three times over capacity an hour after
reporting favorable conditions the ferry
encountered a storm which caused it to
capsize in minutes rescuers finally
turned up the following morning but by
then most survivors had already drowned
the government was heavily criticized
for mishandling the rescue effort
number two MV dunya Paz
though most passengers were undocumented
this is considered history’s deadliest
peacetime sea disaster while sailing in
the Philippines this ferry collided with
the MT vector oil tanker causing a fire
that engulfed and sank both ships
survivors braved fiery shark-infested
waters filled with scorched bodies but
even so only 26 lived an inquiry later
deemed the vector unseaworthy and
partially blamed her inexperienced crew
for the tragedy number one the RMS
Titanic taking the top spot on our list
is the unsinkable ship within three
hours of hitting an iceberg on her
maiden voyage from Southampton to New
York City the pride of the White Star
Line had sunk into the Atlantic the
wreck was not located until 1985 but the
Titanic had deteriorated so much that it
was decided she will spend her final
days on the ocean floor do you agree
with our list which shipwreck do you
find the most memorable for more
historical top tens be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
disaster
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 most infamous shipwrecks number 10
the Costa Concordia kicking off our list
is this avoidable disaster the Costa
Concordia embarked on its Italian cruise
with over 4,200 Souls aboard but when
the captain apparently tried to thrill
shore side observers with a sail by he
misjudged and ran aground in the
Tyrrhenian sea this negligence later got
him charged with crimes like
manslaughter and abandoning ship while
the wrecked boat became a hot tourist
destination for those with morbid
curiosity number 9 ss Edmund Fitzgerald
the Great Lakes are prone to shipwrecks
and the biggest was the Edmund
Fitzgerald no distress calls were sent
before she sank in Lake Superior so it’s
unclear what felled the ore freighter
and killed its 29 member crew but 35
foot waves and hurricane force winds
were likely to blame despite her tragic
end
mighty Fitz would never have been as
famous at Gordon Lightfoot not told her
tale
it’s gender number 8 MV Vilhelm Gustav
the Nazis used this former hospital ship
to evacuate German civilians and
military during World War two x’
operation hannibal but soon
three soviet torpedoes hit singing the
gustav into the baltic sea within 45
minutes though passenger manifests were
not kept it is known that thousands of
women and children perished and that
this was history’s deadliest maritime
disaster today the wreck is honored as a
war grave number seven and mass Estonia
as it sailed through the Baltic Sea from
Estonia to Sweden this very experienced
significant distress when its visor
broke allowing water to flood in she
quickly tilted dramatically and anyone
inside likely went down with the ship
only 137 survived whether the Estonia
was transporting drugs or was sabotage
as suggested by conspiracy theorists we
may never know regardless the Estonians
failure changed safety guidelines
forever number six the SS mullah the
Canadian province of Nova Scotia was
devastated when the SS emo crashed into
the SS mold blunt with its cargo of
wartime explosives
the Halifax Explosion killed roughly
2,000 injured 9,000 more
caused a tsunami and destroyed
everything in its wake in fact it
remains one of history’s largest
man-made explosions today the event is
one of many memorialized and Halifax’s
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic number
five the RMS Lusitania during World War
one the luxurious Lusitania carried
passengers and government shipments
through Atlantic Ocean war zones however
on a voyage from New York to Liverpool
she was torpedoed by a German u-boat and
sank in 18 minutes
the British government was condemned
when it was eventually discovered that
she was secretly hauling weapons on that
ill-fated trip however American deaths
in the tragedy spurred the u.s. to join
the war causing a turning point in the
battle number four the USS Arizona
December 7 1941 a date which will live
in infamy this catastrophe forced the
u.s. into World War 2 the Arizona was
downed by the surprise Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor killing almost
two-thirds of its crew still visible
from the surface the ship remains an
astonishingly good shape
despite its decades under the salt water
the Memorial Museum erected there is one
of the world’s most well known war
graves and serves as a symbol of
American determination number 3 MV La
Jolla the Jula embarked on its fateful
trip from southern Senegal to Dakar at
three times over capacity an hour after
reporting favorable conditions the ferry
encountered a storm which caused it to
capsize in minutes rescuers finally
turned up the following morning but by
then most survivors had already drowned
the government was heavily criticized
for mishandling the rescue effort
number two MV dunya Paz
though most passengers were undocumented
this is considered history’s deadliest
peacetime sea disaster while sailing in
the Philippines this ferry collided with
the MT vector oil tanker causing a fire
that engulfed and sank both ships
survivors braved fiery shark-infested
waters filled with scorched bodies but
even so only 26 lived an inquiry later
deemed the vector unseaworthy and
partially blamed her inexperienced crew
for the tragedy number one the RMS
Titanic taking the top spot on our list
is the unsinkable ship within three
hours of hitting an iceberg on her
maiden voyage from Southampton to New
York City the pride of the White Star
Line had sunk into the Atlantic the
wreck was not located until 1985 but the
Titanic had deteriorated so much that it
was decided she will spend her final
days on the ocean floor do you agree
with our list which shipwreck do you
find the most memorable for more
historical top tens be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
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