tragedy worse than the titanic

they said it was the most

technologically advanced they said

it was Unsinkable and when it sank they

made a movie about it these were the

main reasons why the Titanic disaster

became world famous but unfortunately

this is not the only large-scale

shipwreck and sadly there have been

cases much worse than the tragedy of the

Titanic

one of them occurred on April 27

1865. the Sultana Steamboat carried

passengers and cargo daily between St

Louis and New Orleans it was a pretty

large wooden boat with three decks and

was 260 feet long and 70 feet wide

almost twice the size of a basketball

court

the ship could carry about 350

passengers but on that unfortunate day

more than 2 000 people were on it on

April 23rd she was making a routine

Voyage from New Orleans when it broke

down something was wrong with the boiler

so the vessel docked in Vicksburg for

repairs

at the Port the ship's Captain James

Cass Mason found out about an excellent

opportunity to earn a lot of money all

he needed to do was to transfer a large

group of former prisoners to the north

the captain agreed to do it but the

problem was that the boiler required a

lot of time to repair Mason was afraid

that his competitors would take the job

so he decided to sail despite the

malfunction the ship had he patched up

the holes in the boiler instead of a big

repair and invited all the ex-prisoners

on board

so there was a broken boiler an excess

number of passengers a lack of lifeboats

and not the best River conditions also

the captain refused to send the

ex-prisoners to the hold so they were

all with ordinary passengers there were

strong chances for a shipwreck but the

greedy desire to earn more money was

Stronger

the Sultana went on a voyage and sailed

up the river for two days at this time

one of the biggest Mississippi floods in

history began the River overflowed its

Shores because of the flood with the

water level rising several feet all the

trees on the shore disappeared and only

the tops were sticking out of the water

the ship sailed opposite this powerful

current making the boiler work too hard

on the evening of April 26th the Sultana

arrived in Memphis Tennessee and they

loaded even more 120 tons of sugar and

200 passengers she got incredibly heavy

around midnight the ship continued its

dangerous Journey the captain sailed to

barges to load a shipment of coal

at 1am the vessel left the barge at 2 am

the broken boiler unable to withstand

the load suddenly exploded the Sultana

was just seven miles north of Memphis

few people survived that day the problem

was that passengers trying to escape

from the fire jumped into a cold River

with a strong current

the Sultana disaster is considered the

most tragic shipwreck in the history of

the United States the exact number of

those who didn't survive is still

unknown according to various sources

this number was from 961 to 1800 people

don't be surprised that almost no one

knows this story there were many more

survivors in the Titanic tragedy and

everybody heard about it but the Sultana

sank during one high-profile event 12

days before the Shipwreck the country

lost Abraham Lincoln people hadn't yet

recovered from this news so no one paid

much attention to the tragedy of the

Sultana

many catastrophes happened quite

recently by historical standards one of

them occurred in 2002 the fairy lejula

was a Senegalese vessel

the ferry sailed twice a week mainly

along the coast of Dakar carrying

passengers who traded mango and palm oil

it made daily voyages and never faced

severe problems thanks to Modern rescue

equipment and good repair service

but one day the ship's crew discovered a

malfunction and sent the boat to port

for almost a year lejula was in a

non-working condition awaiting repairs

but it didn't get high quality service

after Poor maintenance the ferry set off

on its last voyage

on September 26 2002 lejula sailed

between Southern Senegal and Dakar and

at 11 PM headed toward Gambia where a

strong storm began the wind raised high

waves but this wasn't critical for the

large passenger ship unless the number

of people on board didn't exceed the

established Norm majula was supposed to

carry about 500 passengers but had many

more people that day

two manhassengers poor repairs and a

strong storm caused severe problems for

the ship but the main factor in the

Shipwreck was that lejula was only Built

for sailing in coastal Waters but that

day it sailed far from the shore

big waves started rocking the boat and

at some point it just turned upside down

the ship's deck went underwater and its

lower parts stuck above the surface like

an iceberg all the passengers sitting in

cabins fell on the ceiling and lost

their orientation in space

there were no holes or damage in the

ship's Hall and water flooded the lower

decks for a long time the vessel stood

in a Twisted position for several hours

then the boat began to sink when the

water seeped through the deck and hold

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the ocean was warm but no one came to

save the passengers people had to wait

almost four days to be rescued

unfortunately only a few managed to

survive

the Philippines is a very dangerous area

for ships this place consists of several

thousand islands and a vast area with

shallow water ships can run aground and

damage the hull with reefs and pitfalls

on September 20th 1987 one of the most

terrible disasters in navigation history

occurred there a Philippine passenger

Ferry called Dona Paz left one of the

islands and sailed toward Manila the Sun

was shining the ocean was calm and the

visibility was good but for some reason

the crew members didn't notice how the

tanker Vector was approaching them

the two ships collided at low speed the

Collision wasn't strong but the problem

was that the vector had tons of oil on

board and the donut Paws crashed into

the cargo hold where that oil was stored

so it spilled all over the ocean and

then a spark slipped through not only

did the two ships catch fire but also

filled with water both ships sank in a

matter of seconds only a few dozen

people survived that disaster

on September 27 1854 the passenger ship

Arctic sailed from Liverpool to New York

the fog came rolling down and visibility

got really bad another boat appeared out

of the thick white Haze the French

steamer Vesta the ships were close

enough to each other that a collision

was inevitable the French vessel was

smaller so it seemed to the arctic's

captain that Vesta had received a lot of

damage and while he was staring at the

other ship his boat got quickly filled

with water

the order to sail to the shore as fast

as possible but the ship's engines

stopped working because of the flood

then the ship's crew started to lower

lifeboats with women and kids still when

Rescuers found lifeboats with people it

turned out that only 87 out of 400

people survived

C5 crew members and 22 passengers

surprisingly they were only grown men

among them the ship's Captain survived

by clinging to the wreckage

all newspapers wrote about this story as

one of the most terrible and shameful

tragedies in navigation history

survivors were criticized because they

didn't save women and kids and the crew

members were accused of violating the

law since the safety of passengers

should be higher than the safety of

sailors but despite this none of them

were brought to responsibility

unfortunately shipwrecks still occur to

this day but fortunately there are fewer

of them than before thanks to Modern

navigation systems and radar but no

technology can guarantee there won't be

a super strong storm or any other

emergency that no one can foresee.