On 27 September 1994, the car ferry Estonia departed from the Estonian capital of Tallin at 19.00 with 989 people on board heading for Stockholm. She never arrived. Six hours into the stormy crossing, the 15,000 ton ship sent out a desparate Mayday call. 28-minutes later, she had sunk to the bottom of the Baltic Sea, claiming the lives of 852 passengers and crew. It was Europe s worst post-war maritime disaster.

In 1945, the voyage of the Wilhelm Gustloff is a last chance for thousands of terror-stricken German refugees desperate to flee Soviet troops. The ship is on its way to safety when its suddenly torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, sending more than 9,000 people to their deaths in the icy Baltic Sea. Now, NGC examines the events leading up to the catastrophe and looks for answers to the mystery surrounding the fateful night.

Desperate suicide mission that is one of the most dramatic stories of World War II.Today, Yamato lies at the bottom of the East China Sea, sunk by a massive explosion that entombed 3,000 Japanese sailors in a colossal naval disaster. Built in secrecy and launched just after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Yamato was almost twice the size of her American counterparts, with the largest guns ever mounted on a warship. However, the Japanese supership was obsolete the day she was launched. As it sank below the waves, the golden age of the battleship, the 20th century first superweapon, had already faded from history.