The Last Cruise Ship That Sank

The HMHS Britannic was a sister ship of the infamous RMS TitanicIt was constructed by the same company ie.

The last cruise ship that sank. More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died. Costa Concordia The Italian cruise ship ran aground capsized and sank in shallow waters on 13 January 2012 off the Isola del Giglio killing 32 people 27 passengers and 5 crewmembers out of 3216 passengers and 1013 crewmembers aboard. There were two sinkings of major ships last year.

Of the 4200 aboard 32 died and 64 were injured. The cruise ship Costa Concordia lies partially sunk just a few hundred yards from the rocky coast of the Italian island of Giglio on Monday. On 13 January 2012 the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground and overturned after striking an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio Tuscany resulting in 32 deaths.

Keeping in mind the previous tragedy the HMHS Britannic was built with more safety measures such as a greater number of lifeboats and a reinforced hull around the parts vulnerable to icebergs. Herein are mentioned worlds top ten ships sunk by accident with icebergs in terms of lives lost. The Artania cruise ship set sail on a 140-day world cruise from Hamburg Germany to Bremerhaven Germany on December 21 2019.

Costa Concordia disaster the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13 2012 after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Typically cruise ships that sink are those sailing in inhospitable waters like the Antarctic Ocean or ships belonging to. From 1972 to 2011 98 cruise ships have run aground according to Mr.

Perhaps the most famous in recent memory was the COSTA CONCORDIA which sank after striking Giglio Island on the Italian coast when Capt. Keeping this in consideration Has any cruise ship ever sunk. Islander 1901 Death toll 40.

There wasnt a fatality on a US airline until the Buffalo crash last month and there hadnt been in over two years. Posted March 2 2009. In respect to this when was the last time a cruise ship sank.