	ferry disaster may rank among worst tragedies fading hope for passengers trapped aboard a partially sunk channel ferry raised fears the accident could rank among this centuries worst peacetime ping tragedies belgian transport minister herman de croo said there was no hope of rescuing any of about passengers trapped in the herald of free enterprise after it capsized off the belgian coast last night if confirmed the toll would make the incident the world s worst since a soviet liner the admiral nakhimov collided with a freighter in the black sea last september and sank with the loss of nearly lives a further people were rescued the world s deadliest single peacetime incident at sea was the sinking in of the titanic with a loss of lives the second biggest loss of life in peacetime was in when people drowned when the liner empress of ireland collided with a freighter on the st lawrence river in canada the world s worst maritime disaster was in wartime that took lives when the german liner wilhelm gustloff was torpedoed by a soviet submarine in january in more than were feared dead after two ferries sank near dhaka drowned when a ferry capsized in china and died when a launch sank off the malaysian state of sabah reuter 
