9 Ship Disasters Worse Than The Titanic

Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, but that's not the only tragedy in terms of ships out there. Join us as explore some other tragic ships that were lost.
9. USS Cyclops
So there's no doubt that the Titanic was a tragedy, and there are few things worse than a vessel going down for all the world to see. But just as bad is hearing that a boat is missing and they don't know where it is, this is what happened in 1918, when in March of that year a massive Navy ship vanished.
This was the USS Cyclops, and at the time, it was the biggest ship in the Navy. It was 550 feet long and had over 1000 crewmembers. Lest you think this was a "new vessel' that had a flaw, it had been sailing for 8 years without a hitch. She had been to multiple oceans, helped out on multiple kinds of missions and at the time in 1918 was a key supply and delivery vessel for the United States during World War I.
8. St. Patrick
If you're still not convinced that there can be a fate worse than the Titanic, then I wish you to look to a place in the other major ocean of the world: The Pacific, for it is in these waters that you'll find the Bering Sea, a stretch of water so treacherous that all manner of ships have been battered, bruised, blooded, and of course, sunk there. But by and large one of the most haunting tales from that place was of the scallop vessel the St. Patrick, and how it was abandoned...and then sunk.

7. Wilhelm Gustloff
Back in World War II, all sorts of ships were being used for various purposes, including being turned from civilian ships into military vessels and more. Such was the fate of the ship known as the Wilhelm Gustloff. The German vessel was originally constructed to be nothing more than a cruise ship that would ferry around German working class men. But then, once World War II went into effect, the ship was turned into a floating hospital, and then, it became a training base of sorts for U-Boats (German submarines).
The Gustloff actually had a very long career under the German command, but eventually, things started to turn sour for the Axis powers. Russia had switched sides after Germany's betrayal of their pact, and thus they started to march right into German occupied areas. The result of this was many German officers, military personnel and civilians being evacuated by any means that were available to them. One of them was the Gustloff.
6. RMS Empress of Ireland
In May 1914, the liner known as the RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River, and when it went down it took 1012 people as a result. This was not long after the sinking of the Titanic, and was one of the biggest losses of line on board a cruise liner at the time.
But what makes it so tragic is why the vessel sunk at all. Because it wasn't a storm or a natural disaster that took the ship down, rather, it was another vessel. You see, on the river that day was a thick and heavy fog, because of that the ship couldn't tell that they were very close to another vessel, a Norwegian Collier.
5. SS Edmund Fitzgerald
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald remains one of the biggest mysteries in terms of a sunken ship. Not the least of which is because of where it went down: in Lake Superior in the United States. What's more, the ship had a twist in regards to what happened to the crew.
Lake Superior is known to act like a sea, which means that it gets its own storms from time to time. This included November of 1975, when she and another ship the Arthur M. Anderson, set off from Detroit and into the storm towards their destinations.
4. The Maine
What's worse than being a sunken ship due to a natural disaster that could've been prevented and then being turned into a love story by James Cameron? Ok, that last part isn't so bad, but the rest of it is! Anyway, how about having your tragedy being turned into a war crime...that didn't actually exist?
The USS Maine was a US Navy ship used around the late 1800's, and was eventually sunk near Havana Harbor in Cuba in 1898.
3. Mont Blanc
Still not good enough for you? Ok, let's head to Canada, Nova Scotia to be precise, to talk about one of the biggest explosions in human history! This is the tale of the Mont Blanc. It happened on December 6th, 1917, as World War I was starting to wind down. The French Vessel known as Mont Blanc was in Halifax Harbor and preparing to leave to go to France to deliver a large amount of explosives.
2. Carroll A. Deering
If you're looking for a truly mysterious case of a ship being lost, found, and yet still having a mysterious vibe about it, you need to look at the Carroll A. Deering. Why is this one so special? Because it went through the Bermuda Triange!
1. The Sultana
For all the faults that the Titanic was later found to have, there's little doubt that when it came to its sinking, there were many factors that couldn't be blamed on human error. Unlike the steamboat known as the Sultana back in 1865.

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