In Titanic's Shadow
The World's Worst Merchant Ship Disasters
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
While the near 1,500 victims of Titanic accounted for a huge loss of life, each of the ships here had a greater number of casualties, in some cases more than five times as many. In total, these 27 merchant ship sinkings resulted in a staggering loss of life at sea – more than 96,000 in total, 3,840 per ship. While the circumstances were different to Titanic, the outcome in each case was no less tragic. Yet, despite the fact that Titanic ranks behind so many other losses, so powerful has her name become that it was the inevitable choice to describe some of these other events, ‘Germany’s Titanic’ and ‘The Titanic of Japan’ being two examples. Ships include the Lancastria, Britain’s worst maritime disaster with 3,000 lost; the Ryusei Maru, a Japanese ‘Hellship’ loaded with 6,000 Allied POWs, torpedoed by a US submarine; and the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German liner packed with 7,800 civilians, sunk by a Russian submarine. There were no survivors and this tragedy was the worst maritime disaster of all time.
Customer Reviews
The Book is Good, the Description is Not.
To anyone who writes the book off due to finding inaccuracies in the description, please know these are not even accurate to the book itself. I almost did too, but decided to check it out anyway. The inaccuracies are limited to the description.
One such example is how the description claims that that the Wilhelm Gustloff had a definitive 7,800 and no survivors, whilst in reality, as other documentaries, interviews, and books, including the actual content with In Titanic’s Shadow, the exact number of passengers is unknown, and the death rate varies based on estimates. (Anywhere from 6,000 to 9,000) and there were approximately 900-1,000 survivors.
I don’t know if it’s a mistake on the publishers part or what, but to all those who do notice mistakes in the description, this is not what is presented.
The book is very informative and well-presented, and accurate, unlike the description.
This is a message to all those who are interested in finding out about these forgotten shipwrecks, you are going to get some differences than what you read before buying the book.
Again, don’t let the description fool you, the author is not spreading misinformation about these tragedies, it’s just whoever wrote the description.