Biggest Cruise Ship Accidents

Lets start with the biggest two.

Biggest cruise ship accidents. British ocean liner RMS Lusitania was the worlds largest passenger ship for a brief time when it launched in 1906. 55 rows Lusitania passenger ship en route from New York to Liverpool. A large crane has collapsed onto the Oasis of the Seas cruise ship during a routine dry dock at the Grand Bahamas Shipyard in Freeport Bahamas.

300 1647 Dutch Republic. Sank in 18 Minutes. When an accident occurs deaths as a consequence can occur either more of less immediately or particularly in the case of exposure to contaminated air toxic chemicals or radiation some years later due to lung damage cancer etc.

Unlike ocean liners which are used. White Ship Ship carrying the heir to the English Throne and the Duchy of Normandy and more than 300 others. Purposeful disasters such as terrorist attacks are omitted.

Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. On 13 January 2012 the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground capsized and later sank in shallow waters after striking an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio Tuscany resulting in 32 deaths. These are some of the worst things to ever happen out at sea.

Drunk crew ran it aground in the English Channel. Those events can be found at List of battles and other violent events by death toll. The vessel was sunk on 7 May 1915 after being attacked by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland killing 1962 passengers and 1191 crew members.

For todays video we decided to do the top five cruise ship disasters. Everyone knows the story of the Titanic the unsinkable ship that hit an iceberg in 1912 killing 1500 of the passengers and crew members. Horrible cruise ship events.