Titanic Losses 1,513---Tsushima-Maru 1,515

Lives Lost on Tsushima-Maru Exceed Those of Titanic

Photo from the grounds outside Tsushima-Maru Memorial Museum

An article published at Yahoo hinted that Tsushima-Maru losses were a few less than those of the Titanic.

 August 22 was the 68th anniversary for the sinking of the Tsushima-Maru.

For my article published August 28, 2012, Dave Bartruff was used as a reference.

In his Washington Times article on the Tsushima-Maru he gave these numbers:

Losses:  Titanic 1,513        Tsushima Maru 1,508 

Dave's story was published August 23, 2012.  His figures, I'd say must be accurate.

He is married to one of the survivors of the incident.

The Numbers Have Recently Changed

 

Seven more names have been added to the list of those lost at sea on August 22, 1944.

For more on this story, see the Ryukyu Shimpo (琉球新報)


Tsushima-Maru Museum staff investigate before adding any victims names to their list.

Boarding an evacuation ship during war is done a bit differently than hopping on

A LUXURY LINER LIKE THE TITANIC.

Surely, there wasn't a guest book passengers signed as they scrambled aboard.

For now, the loss of lives from the Tsushima-Maru stands at 1,515

Years of silence and secrecy about the sinking of this ship haven't helped matters.

Let's hope everyone has finally been accounted for and the numbers don't rise next year.

 

Sunday's Silly Sign (Photo) Jun 26, 2011

This Sunday Silly Sign was a bit of a challenge for me to compose and shoot.  We were on this boat, bouncing around on the waves, speeding towards Ie Jima, an island off the west coast of Okinawa, Japan.

Remember that movie TITANIC where that kid Leonardo Da Vinci, er something like that, drowned, just because there wasn't any room on the liferaft for him ?  Well, I ain't goin down thataway.

Whenever I place my life in the hands of some sorta public transportation, first thing I do is figure out a way to escape alive.

So, I sat down on the deck of this bouncing boat, in the rain, and made sure I snapped a photo of the sign telling me how to escape.

While everybody else was Ooh-ing and Aah-ing at the scenery breezing by while we were speeding across the ocean I sneaked into a dark corner and reviewed this shot on my LCD screen.

All that crap about Checking, Launching and Boarding, somebody gets paid to do that stuff, not me.

The only part I'm interested in knowing is how to ECSAPE.  So, that's what I read first.

It says CUT OFF THE PAINTER BY THE KNIFE and they have a picture of the guy there.

Lucky for me they don't have those BOOBS AT THE TSA working here in Japan or they probably wouldn't let me take my pocket knife on the boat.

Really, I wouldn't want to be the one who has to cut the little guy.  I'd stand back and hope somebody else does it first.

They couldn't pay me enough to be one of the painters on these boats, either.  I ain't that dumb ya know.  Just smart 'nuf to make sure I don't wind up in the drink like that Leonardo Guy.

If they'd a had some of these silly signs for people to read on that Titanic boat, maybe it wouldn't of really happened the way it did and Leonardo, whoever he was could still be painting for us !


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