Wilhelm Gustloff's Failure

In Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Erik Larson tells a story of events surrounding the sinking of Lusitania. He argues that the ship would not have sunken if time management was different and Room 40 gave detailed directions and warnings to the ship. He claims that the ship sank for many reasons which led to significant consequences such as United States joining Britain for World War I.

The ship had many indications of failure before even hitting the ice. They were warned multiple times by neighboring ships of possible danger, passengers reacted terribly in the chaos - taking the ‘every man for themselves’ approach, pride, the lower class were not seen as equals and therefore not prioritized, and the #1 cause made by crew and passengers alike is ignorance. The crew had been warned about the icebergs in their path but would not slow down for the sake of an image. The ship was barely filled with water when the people had been first notified of the hit, hundreds could be saved with such a fast notice but instead they locked a whole class of people in with the water too die. At one point

The Titanic is different from the other ships because, they thought that the Titanic was unsinkable. “It’s another ice burg warning…the captain had seemed quite unconcerned” on 106 and 107 so they aren’t worried that they will not hit the ice burg and sink because those people don’t think it can sink. “There was much talk among the passengers about the Titanic being unsinkable.” On 105 so they aren’t worried that the boat will sink. “Nicknamed the Unsinkable ship” on page 102 it even says unsinkable

This event pushed the United States into WWI, because the Germans sunk the ship and caused many Americans to die. It was sunk, because the Germans thought that the Americans were transporting weapons to Britain.

The ship was shot down by Germany and was carrying Americans on board. 128 American passengers were killed. In 1916 the U.S. and Germany entered into an agreement called the Sussex Pledge. The pledge meant that Germany agreed to give us fair warning before sending an attack on ships in that area so we would know to get americans out of there to safety. This I think was a good idea because it let us know to move out of the way, and helped us save lives. In 1917 Germany decided to ignore the Sussex Pledge and continued to shoot down ships without giving us warning. This killed many more American citizens. I think that instead of that leading us into a war we should have just told all American citizens to stay out of that area until the war was

The Germans sunk the Lusitania on May 7, 1915, killing over a thousand innocent men, women, and children and injuring hundreds. The ship was not suppose to be carrying any weapons or ammunition, however, a

The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was the most deadly disasters during World War 2. The Wilhelm Gustloff was built and named by no other than Adolf Hitler. It was for a German Military Transport Ship when being planned out.

The exact number of casualties are very high. By 9:55 that morning 2390 people were killed and 1178 more were wounded. With those number, only 68 civilians were killed. While that seems like a lot there was very high numbers for cost of the damages. 21 Ships were sunk and 323 airplanes were damaged or destroyed. It cost roughly $100 million to make a battleship which 8 were sunk, $2.5 billion dollars for a destroyer which 3 of were sunk. That is only 11 of the 21 ships and it is already $8.3 billion dollars and around 1.5 million gallons of fuel which would be $2.9 million dollars in today’s

many factors that went into why the shipmates died at midnight on July 30, 1945.

That is a clear indication that no ship, be it passenger or warship nor weapon bearing or not, flying the colors of any enemy known to the German forces were to enter those waters. With this knowledge one would think that sending a passenger ship into dangerous waters would require an escort. The Lusitania was not escorted. The captain of the ship Captain Turner was also advised on several occasions to reroute to a safer location or docking. These requests were ignored. It was also confirmed that the Lusitania, a passenger ship, indeed was carrying weapons and ammunitions. Along with that it is believed the Lusitania suffered from a second explosion, either the ammunition stored down below or a possible second torpedo launched from the U boat. Knowingly travelling into enemy waters, unguarded, with weapons, the Lusitania was inevitably sunk in order to achieve an excuse to join actively into the war for profit.

MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military ship which sank on January 30,1945. It was evacuating German people from Gdynia when it was attacked by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea. The ship could not defend itself as the anti-aircraft guns were frozen.The Soviet’s sent 4 torpedos in the ship’s direction out of which 3 were successful.Many people died in the torpedo attack and many jumped into the freezing waters and died there. In all,more than 9,400 people perished out of 10,600 people on board making it the deadliest shipwreck of all time.After the attack Wilhelm Gustloff sank bow first in less than 40

Submarines were effective and best known for sneaking on the enemy. They were lightly armored and served as easy prey if discovered. It also had small crew numbers which made it hard to take prisoners from captured steamships. Despite these reasons, the Germans were non reluctant to break the international rules of warfare. The Germans attacked and sank the British passenger ship carrying American civilians on board. The American people were in disbelief and accused Germany of violating international rules. However Germany disagreed to the accusations.

The RMS Titanic; A Tragedy Based on Class. In April, 1912, the so called "unsinkable" Titanic set sail to New York. The great ship was as big as five city blocks, and weighed thousands and thousands of tons. Everyone who was everyone grabbed a room on the luxurious ship for the trip of a lifetime. On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg an sank into the icy depths of the North Atlantic.

1. I have been fascinated by the history of the Titanic for as long as I can

When analyzing this disaster the first thing to consider is the engineer’s design of the Titanic. The Titanic was employing many new and innovative designs that were believed to make the Titanic the safest ship ever built at that time. The engineer’s of the vessel made claims that the Titanic was “unsinkable” and that “even in the worst possible accident at sea, the ship should have stayed afloat for two to three days.” One of the features that lead them to this claim was the 16 watertight compartments in the hull of the ship. The way they were designed allowed for up to four compartments to be breached and they ship would still carry