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Amazingly, the Titanic disaster was not the worst passenger shipwreck of the century!
In fact it wasn't even close.
As many as 9,000 people may have died when the Wilhelm Gustloff went down and the Lancastria and the Cap Arcona each may have taken more than 5,000 persons to their deaths.
As for size, the Normandie and the Seawise University were each nearly twice as big.
And, what about the Empress of Ireland?
More passengers died in that disaster in 1914 than died on the Titanic, yet hardly anyone seems to have heard of it.
Then, there is the unluckiest liner of all: the Principessa lolanda, the only important liner ever to sink at its launch.
This book is a gold mine of facts and rare photographs about the grisliest and most fascinating shipwrecks this century involving passenger ships.
There has never been another book like it.
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