MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating...

During her time in German service, she escorted the evacuation ship Wilhelm Gustloff when the latter was torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine with heavy...

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disasters in history, exceeded only by the January 1945 sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. The exact number of survivors is also a matter of dispute; most estimates...

repairs to her deck and forecastle. On January 30, 1945 the S-13 sank Wilhelm Gustloff, killing more than 9,000 people aboard. Gotenland, still damaged from...

worst maritime disasters of the 20th century (after the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945). "Viking Sallyn 32 vuotta vanha murhamysteeri nousi uudestaan...

biggest in terms of lives lost. The wartime sinking of the German Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945 in World War II by a Soviet Navy submarine, with an...

Tiger. In 1945 Löwe was one of the escorts to the Wilhelm Gustloff on her last voyage. The Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed and sank with a great loss of life...

28 Jan:  Sanuki Maru 29 Jan: USS Serpens, U-763 30 Jan: USS Pontiac, Wilhelm Gustloff 31 Jan: Berlin III, USS PC-1129, U-2520 Unknown date: Christian Radich...

the catastrophic sinking of several large passenger ships occurred: Wilhelm Gustloff and Goya were sunk by Soviet submarines, while Cap Arcona was sunk...

1945, Löwe was one of the escorts for the MV Wilhelm Gustloff on her last voyage. When Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed and sunk, she stood alongside and...

Year Country Description Lives lost Use Image 1945  Germany Wilhelm Gustloff – The German militarized KdF flagship sank after being hit by three torpedoes...

Admiral Hipper received a distress call from the sinking transport Wilhelm Gustloff, which was also carrying refugees. The cruiser did not stop to pick...

very dangerous by mines and Soviet Navy submarines. On 30 January Wilhelm Gustloff, carrying around 10,000 passengers and crew, was torpedoed by the Soviet...

civilians perished in other maritime disasters of the war, including Wilhelm Gustloff, Cap Arcona and Junyō Maru, but there were also military personnel...

of Gustloff Werk (Gustloff Works), a division of the Wilhelm Gustloff Stiftung (Wilhelm Gustloff Foundation), a nationalized corporation composed of companies...

Giese, Erich Koellner, Diether von Roeder, Hans Lüdemann, Hermann Künne, Wilhelm Heidkamp (flagship) and Anton Schmitt, commanded by Kommodore Friedrich...

from France, with the loss of more than 3,000 lives; the sinking of Wilhelm Gustloff, after the ship was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, with more than...

at the University of California. Laconia incident RMS Lusitania MV Wilhelm Gustloff SS General von Steuben "SS Athenia [+1917]". Wreck Site. 13 March 2021...

Portugal's coast". CNN. 23 September 2018. "6 more bodies recovered from MS Bulgaria". United Press International. Retrieved 10 November 2011. WRECKSITE...

18°32′E / 54.667°N 18.533°E / 54.667; 18.533 (ORP Wicher (1928)) Wilhelm Gustloff  Germany 30 January 1945 A German cruise ship that was torpedoed by...

ships sunk by submarines List of maritime disasters in World War II MV Wilhelm Gustloff Hackett, Bob; Kingsepp, Sander; Cundall, Peter. "AWA MARU: Tabular...

cold, stress, and bombing." The mobilized Strength Through Joy liner Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk in January 1945 by Soviet Navy submarine S-13, killing about...

28 Jan:  Sanuki Maru 29 Jan: USS Serpens, U-763 30 Jan: USS Pontiac, Wilhelm Gustloff 31 Jan: Berlin III, USS PC-1129, U-2520 Unknown date: Christian Radich...

rescued more than 500 passengers from the torpedoed ocean liner MV Wilhelm Gustloff on the night of 30 January. All of the surviving Type 39s supporting...

commander, Commodore Friedrich Bonte, lost his life when his flagship Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp was sunk. However, Captain Warburton-Lee would make a fatal error...

from Soviet submarines in the Baltic Sea on the route west. The ship Wilhelm Gustloff sank, taking about 9,400 people with her – the worst loss of life in...

Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy. 1945 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being...

669.00 to the Patapsco Scrap Corporporation on 7 May 1945. USAT Sicilien MS Tunis (1935) Public Law 101, Acquisition of Domestic or Foreign Merchant Vessels...

October 1944, Manners accidentally rammed the Royal Norwegian Navy corvette HNoMS Rose in the North Atlantic. As a result of damage suffered in the collision...