Soon after beginning research on the Gustloff disaster it became apparent a separate page should be opened where readers could obtain additional information on the other disasters of the epoch. The Gustloff tragedy taken by itself was of gargantuan proportion but, when viewed along the many others which occcured within that short period, it takes on a proportion which is difficult to grasp.

These pages will contain short articles on the individual disasters which occurred within the same period of January to May 1945. In addition, they will contain links to other sites on the Internet which cover those events at greater length. The pages will be updated on a regular basis as additional information becomes available.

Following is an index of all ships mentioned in this special feature. Others will be added as they become available.

Arisan Maru Japanese freighter carrying 1800 American POW torpedoed Oct 24th, 1944

Armenia Soviet Ambulance Ship - Torpedoed - 3 survivors

Birkenhead The sinking of this ship did not occur in the 1945 time period yet it is included here because of one little 'known' fact. Details coming soon

Cap Arcona One of the worst maritime disaster of all time yet, almost unheard of. See entry for 'Thielbek' for detais.

Dorchester Troopship torpedoed Feb 3rd, 1943.

Deutschland Coming Soon

Empress of Ireland Another 'little-known' maritime tragedy.

Goya New data updated

Hipper Did the Hipper 'sail past' the doomed Gustloff or did it actually make an attempt at rescuing survivors? Answer: It did!

Junyo Maru One of the, if not 'the', largest maritime disaster of all times yet, little known. Several good references.

The Lancastria Disaster The Lancastria is perhaps the least known of all the great ship tragedies.

Leopoldville One of the best kept secrets of the war. Which would explain why so little was, and to this day still is, known about it.

Loewe Ship involved in the rescue oif survivors

Lusitania Coming soon

Nova Scotia British ship sunk 28 November 1942 in Indian Ocean by U-177 Captain: Korvkpt. Robert Gysae. The U-177 was sunk 6 Feb, 1944 in the South Atlantic west of Ascension Island, by US bombs (VB-107). 50 dead.

Steuben Great loss of life. Also sunk by same Soviet Submarine.

T-36 Torpedo-boat T-36 saved 564 lives.

Tielbek The Thielbek along with another ship, the Cap Arcona carried among themselves over 16,000 refugees when they were sunk. Only 1600 of them survived!

Titanic Where it all began

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