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Enter Poem or Quote (Required)Required MV WILHELM GUSTLOFF This was the worst ship disaster, with the greatest loss of life at sea A German ship that was overloaded, with over 10.600, war refugees Sank on the 30 January 1945 by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic sea By Soviet Naval Officer, Captain Alexander Marinesko, who died 1963 Stranger than be; he was actually facing a court martial, due to drink So did this up his rankings, when as the Wilhelm Gustloff he did sink Not so, by Oct 1945 the same year he was dishonourably discharged After being lower from a Captain to a Lieutenant, so was not life hard No message gave, that it carried refugees as it crossed the Baltic Sea So no war crime committed carrying soldiers from the German military The first torpedo hit the bow, as putting crew members out of action Next hit a drained swim pool that held 373 ladies, with a bad reaction Third hit the engine rooms for Wilhelm Gustloff there is now no hope With all of this the ship starting to portside as began to rapidly slope The ship itself carried four Captains, it was Friedrich Petersen's choice To sail the ship with its navigation lights on, as the others gave voice it was to miss a German mine sweeper convoy, coming head on in fog This grubby weather made the rescue work of the survivors, hard flog Though; it should be mentioned, all four Captains survived the sinking No information was found as to why, that is left, to your own thinking Be 44 minutes after, the Wilhelm Gustloff ship was dangerously listing Another six minutes, the ship sank bow up, her metal soul unresisting Out of all the unlucky 10.600 passengers only 1,252 of them survived Most lost to the very icy cold waters of the Baltic Sea, none as revived Alas, of the 9,400 victims who died, 5,000 of them were, but, children All those refugees wishing for a new life, they were hoping on building After the war was over, the Soviets, returned to strip her, as in looted Signs of hand-made damage, and detonators, scarring her undisputed Not one bit of evidence of human life on that ship was found to remain Hiding the evidence of their blame, did though, not lessen, their shame Conspiracy theory . . . Rumours that the "Amber room" had been loaded onto the ship, in 27 boxes before it’s ill-fated journey, and as it was only found out later a message sent to the four Captains aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, that a convoy of sea mines sweepers were just ahead of her was fake, it was the reason why Captain Friedrich Petersen switched on the navigations lights in the first place, only for it be shortly torpedoed, later after the cold war had ended, the ship had been found heavily looted opened up speculation as to the reason why, could this actually have been a case of premeditated sabotage to prevent old Prussia treasures from leaving Germany . . . : / 10 Feb 1945 . . . 11 days later Soviet Captain Alexander Marinesko, sinks another ship. the ship General von Steuben, killing on estimate 4,500, strange quip The ship had been sunk from a fire at dock, under the name Munchen only to be salvaged, and renamed the now ill-fated Gen. von Steuben Indiana Shaw . . . : /
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