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Sep 29, 1994 · More than 800 people were dead or missing after an Estonian ferry capsized and sank in a stormy Baltic Sea just before 2 A.M. today in one of history's worst ferry disasters. Rescuers pulled 126 ...
May 13, 2022 · The MS Estonia sank in the small hours of September 28, 1994 on a scheduled voyage from Tallinn to Stockholm and off the Finnish Turku archipelago. 852 people perished, 137 survived. The sinking is, in terms of loss of life, the second-largest peacetime maritime disaster involving a European vessel ever, after the Titanic.--
Sep 28, 2020 · The further details and circumstances of MS Estonia's doom will be discussed at length on "Pealtnägija" on Wednesday. Background. The ferry Estonia sank on the night of September 28, 1994, sailing from Tallinn to Stockholm. The sinking of Estonia is the largest maritime disaster in peacetime in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people from 17 countries.
After a monstrous storm struck the ship Estonia on Sept. 28, 1994, the ferry capsized near midnight beneath frigid seas on its way from Estonia to Sweden. Of the 989 passengers and crew aboard, only 137 survived—making it Europe’s worst peacetime sea disaster of the 20th century. Retired BYU communications professor Jack A. Nelson (BA ’54) recently published […]
Estonia: Created by Miikko Oikkonen. With Jussi Nikkilä, Claes Hartelius, Kaspar Velberg, Pertti Sveholm. The sinking of the MS Estonia, the deadliest civil maritime disaster in European waters, and its aftermath are chronicled in this powerful drama series.
