S-13:
The Soviet Submarine
that Killed 9,400 People

The attached article recalls an event in W.W. II history that is still remembered today as the greatest maritime disaster of all time: January 30, 1945, when Soviet Navy submarine S-13 sank the German liner Wilhelm Gustloff as she fled the Danzig port overloaded with fleeing German families.

Written 18 years after the attack, this article erroneously attributes the sinking to two submarines and killing 8,000; but this was not the case.

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