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Song Parodies -> "Largest Loss in Maritime history"
Original Song Title:
"Winning is Not Always a Victory"
Original Performer:
Hexen
Parody Song Title:
"Largest Loss in Maritime history"
Parody Written by:
Robert D. Arndt Jr.
The Lyrics
My entry into the maritime disaster race, but of course I chose a German ship. My entry is of the greatest maritime disaster in history, the MS Wilhelm Gustloff.... a preventable tragedy.
From Gotenhafen to Kiel
"Operation Hannibal"
MS Wilhelm Gustloff sailed
Regardless of the peril
10,582 souls aboard
Children, males, and females
Gestapo, BDM, SS
As well as Nazi officials
Largest loss in maritime history
Largest loss in World War II
A tragedy, but not a war crime
Armed with three 105 (mms) and eight 20 (mms) too
Jan 30, 1945
MS Wilhelm Gustloff left port
As Hansa and a torpedo boat failed
She was left with only one armed escort
The ship had four captains
Friedrich Petersen gave the orders
Against advice from Lt.Com Wilhelm Zahn
He headed out into deeper waters
Activating red & green lights
To avoid collision in the dark
The ship became a military target
As a Hospital Ship she was not marked!
Largest loss in maritime history
Largest loss in World War II
A tragedy, but not a war crime
Armed with three 105 (mms) and eight 20 (mms) too
Soviet submarine S-13
Under command of Capt. Alexander Marinesko
Targeted the MS Wilhelm Gustloff
Hit her with a 3-spread torpedo salvo
The first torpedo “For the Motherland”
Struck near the port bow
The second torpedo “For the People”
Hit above midships, killing crowds
(BDM girls torn apart amongst the screaming sounds)
The third torpedo “Leningrad”
Hit the engine room, cutting power
As those alive rushed to the lifeboats
Gustloff sank in under one hour
Largest loss in maritime history
Largest loss in World War II
A tragedy, but not a war crime
Armed with three 105 (mms) and eight 20 (mms) too
Many people were trampled to death
The fortunate just drowned
Others died in freezing Baltic water
The wounded ceased to make a sound
The Gustloff listed hard to port
Settled by the head
Stern lifting slightly, she went down
With all the rest of her dead
All four captains survived
Official KM inquiry against Wilhelm Zahn
His degree of responsibility never resolved
By May 1945 the Third Reich was gone
Largest loss in maritime history
Largest loss in World War II
A tragedy but not a war crime
Armed with three 105 (mms) and eight 20 (mms) too
Thank God some were saved- souls 1,252
"Operation Hannibal"
MS Wilhelm Gustloff sailed
Regardless of the peril
10,582 souls aboard
Children, males, and females
Gestapo, BDM, SS
As well as Nazi officials
Largest loss in maritime history
Largest loss in World War II
A tragedy, but not a war crime
Armed with three 105 (mms) and eight 20 (mms) too
Jan 30, 1945
MS Wilhelm Gustloff left port
As Hansa and a torpedo boat failed
She was left with only one armed escort
The ship had four captains
Friedrich Petersen gave the orders
Against advice from Lt.Com Wilhelm Zahn
He headed out into deeper waters
Activating red & green lights
To avoid collision in the dark
The ship became a military target
As a Hospital Ship she was not marked!
Largest loss in maritime history
Largest loss in World War II
A tragedy, but not a war crime
Armed with three 105 (mms) and eight 20 (mms) too
Soviet submarine S-13
Under command of Capt. Alexander Marinesko
Targeted the MS Wilhelm Gustloff
Hit her with a 3-spread torpedo salvo
The first torpedo “For the Motherland”
Struck near the port bow
The second torpedo “For the People”
Hit above midships, killing crowds
(BDM girls torn apart amongst the screaming sounds)
The third torpedo “Leningrad”
Hit the engine room, cutting power
As those alive rushed to the lifeboats
Gustloff sank in under one hour
Largest loss in maritime history
Largest loss in World War II
A tragedy, but not a war crime
Armed with three 105 (mms) and eight 20 (mms) too
Many people were trampled to death
The fortunate just drowned
Others died in freezing Baltic water
The wounded ceased to make a sound
The Gustloff listed hard to port
Settled by the head
Stern lifting slightly, she went down
With all the rest of her dead
All four captains survived
Official KM inquiry against Wilhelm Zahn
His degree of responsibility never resolved
By May 1945 the Third Reich was gone
Largest loss in maritime history
Largest loss in World War II
A tragedy but not a war crime
Armed with three 105 (mms) and eight 20 (mms) too
Thank God some were saved- souls 1,252
http://funkoffizier.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ms-wilhelm-gustloff-2.jpg
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One of several large ships sunk while carrying refugees away from the Red Army. Steuben, Cap Arcona. Latter was carrying inmates from a concentration camp, unknown to the RAF, which bombed her.
In 1945 what remained of the Kriegsmarine evacuated 2.2 million Germans from E Prussia- makes the Dunkirk evacuation look insignificant by comparison!
Excellent. I don't know the original song, so I read it as a poem. This shipwreck is well known in all countries at Baltic, but little known outside. The fourth torpedo, reading "Za Stalina!" (For Stalin) of submarine S-13 got stuck on the torpedo tube. Karmic justice!
Susanna, have you done anything on Tirpitz or Bismarck??? I love your style in storytelling!!!
I only wish that S-13 had ran into a Type XXIII coastal U-boat. By the end of the war 62 had been built with 18 in Norway and the rest in N German ports. 10 made it to operational status and sunk 5 Allied merchant ships for no losses. 7 were lost to a training mission, a mine, 2 collisions, and 3 to British aircraft bombing. Type XXIII:
http://rpmedia.ask.com/ts?u=/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2008-0212%2C_Uboot_Hecht_(S_171%2C_ex_U_2367).jpg/300px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-2008-0212%2C_Uboot_Hecht_(S_171%2C_ex_U_2367).jpg
A Type XXIII on the end of three Type XXIs:
http://www.uboataces.com/images/elektroboat2.jpg
Didn't the Japanese have the largest subs during the war? I think I saw a program on History Channel with one that carried planes! Good story with the tragic Gustloff too!
You are thinking of the I-400 submarine carriers meant to attack the Panama Canal. They carried three Seiran floatplanes inside a long external hangar. Quite impressive!
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