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Weekly Quiz # 147
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Posted by: golddust
Clue # 1:
I am a disasterous event.
Posted by: NelsonN
1985 eruption of volcano Nevado del Ruiz in Columbia?
Posted by: golddust
Yowser, quite a guess NelsonN, but not correct. You have become dangerous competition in these quizzes!
Posted by: golddust
Clue #2: The event involved POW's.
Posted by: golddust
Looks like you need another clue.
Clue # 3:
This event was under-recognized due to other events of the same time period.
Posted by: jojomataketa
The sinking of Junyo Maru,
......Japanese cargo ship, carrying 2,300 Allied prisoners and 4,200 Javanese laborers when it was torpedoed by the British HMS Tradewind in September 1944. The disaster resulted in the death of over 5000 pople!
http://members.iinet.net.au/~vanderkp/junyopg1.html
Posted by: golddust
Sorry Jojo, good guess but not the correct answer.
Posted by: golddust
Clue #4: This disaster occurred on a well known waterway.
Posted by: jojomataketa
The Arisan Maru was torpedoed by an American submarine on October 24, 1944.
There were 1800 POWs aboard - 1795 died. This Hell Ship sank in the South China Sea making it the worst naval disaster in the history of the United States. Two days later, five of the survivors were rescued by a Chinese fishing junk. The Chinese helped them reach American Air Corps forces. Other survivors were recaptured by a Japanese destroyer and taken to Formosa.
Posted by: golddust
Another good guess, but not the answer I'm looking for.
Clue #5: The event happened on an inland passage by water.
Posted by: bigwoo
The steamboat Sultana explosion:
The steamboat Sultana was a Mississippi River paddlewheeler destroyed in an explosion on 27 April 1865, resulting in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. An estimated 1,700 of the Sultana's 2,400 passengers were killed when one of the overcrowded ship's four boilers exploded and the Sultana sank not far from Memphis, Tennessee. This disaster was less noticed than it might have been, however, because of the recent assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the end of the Civil War.
....Most of these new passengers were Union soldiers (mostly from Ohio) just released from Confederate prison camps such as Cahawba and Andersonville. Sultana had been contracted by the United States government to transport these former prisoners of war back to their homes.....
Posted by: Old_Cat
Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865
Posted by: forwardone
Just to say that golddust has had to go away for a day, and will be back later today to continue on with the quiz.
Posted by: golddust
Well, it took much longer than I thought! And Bigwoo came out from the ethers as he usually does with the right answer! Congrats Bigwoo, you just beat out Old_Cat.
The sinking of the Sultana is considered the worst maritime disaster in US History, though even though the event Jojo posted rivals it.
golddust
Posted by: clifton
Wow, congrats Bigwoo! 
Posted by: forwardone
Well done bigwoo.
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Posted by: bigwoo
Thanks Very Much!!!!! 
Posted by: NelsonN
Yes, good job!
Posted by: nunulka
Well done bigwoo!
Posted by: Old_Cat
Congrats Bigwoo! 
Posted by: jojomataketa
Well done, Big http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...cing_Banana.gifwoo!