The sinking in 1912 of the Titanic with a loss of 1,513 lives is not, as most people seem to believe, the greatest sea disaster of all time. Far from it! It was dwarfed by the sinking thirty-three years later of the German vessel Wilhelm Gustloff, torpedoed in the Baltic Sea by the Russian submarine S-13. Close to 8,000 people drowned, most of them women and children-- more than five times the number of victims that went down with the Titanic.
1912年铁达尼号沉没，1513人丧命。但这并不像大多数人相信的那样是历史上最大的海难，情况远非如此。在那以后33年德国船“威廉·古斯特洛夫”号在波罗的海被苏联的鱼雷击沉，造成的海难要严重得多。将近8000人被淹死，其中大部分是妇女和儿童----受难者比铁达尼号沉船超出5倍多。
