10 Worst Maritime Disasters in History On A Map

On this map, you can see the route of each ship before it sunk, and where it sunk. These ship sinkings had the most fatalities in history. Can you name them all in four minutes, with the help of a map?

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If you can't see the routes of the ships well enough, click the map to zoom!

As there was no map showing the route of some ships, I created my own visuals based on the descriptions of the ships' sinkings (ex. the ship departed from Stockholm, the ship stopped at Libreville) so don't expect them to be fully accurate.

These are estimates including stowaways, crew members, etc.

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Ship Sinking	Deaths	Fatality Rate
Sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff	ca. 9,343	~88.3%
Sinking of the MV Doña Paz	ca. 4,385	~99.4%
Sinking of the RMS Lancastria	ca. 4,000	~61.8%
Sinking of the SS Kiangya	ca. 3,920	~84.8%
Sinking of the MV Le Joola	1,863	96.7%

Ship Sinking	Deaths	Fatality Rate
Sinking of the SS Sultana	1,547	72.4%
Sinking of the RMS Titanic	1,517	68.3%
Sinking of the Neptune Ferry	ca. 1,500	~83.3%
Sinking of the SS Taiping	ca. 1,500	~97.7%
Sinking of the SS Castillo de Olite	1,476	69.9%