MV GOYA , DROWNED IN BALTIC, TORPEDOED BY SOVIET - 6700 DIED IN 7 MINUTES 1945 APRIL 16
MV GOYA , DROWNED IN BALTIC, TORPEDOWED BY SOVIET - 6700 DIED IN 7 MINUTES 1945 APRIL 16 Goya was a Norwegian motor freighter. Completed in 1940 for Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Rederi company, she was named after Francisco de Goya. Following the invasion of Norway she was seized by Germany and pressed into service of the Kriegsmarine as a troop transport. Near the end of the Second World War, the ship took part in Operation Hannibal, the evacuation of German military personnel and civilians from German-held pockets along the Baltic Sea. Loaded with thousands of refugees and Wehrmacht soldiers, the ship was sunk on 16 April 1945 by the Soviet submarine L-3. Most of the crew and passengers died. The sinking of Goya was one of the biggest single-incident maritime losses of life of the war, and as such one of the largest maritime losses of life in history, with just 183 survivors among roughly 6,700 passengers and crew.[1] History of the ship Early service Goya was...