Wreck of sunken liner found
2003-04-19 15:51
Leipzig, Germany - German deep sea divers have discovered parts of the wreck of the Goya, an ocean liner which sank in 1945 with thousands of refugees aboard, MDR television said on Thursday.
The divers, who were being filmed by a documentary team from MDR, found the wreck about 80m below the Baltic Sea.
The Goya was carrying more than 7 000 German refugees when it was sunk by two torpedoes from a Russian submarine on April 16, 1945, making it one of the world's worst maritime disasters.
By comparison, around 1 520 people died when the Titanic sank in 1912.
Of those aboard the Goya, only 175 people were saved.
- AFX