What is the ship that sank in the Baltic sea and is in the novel Salt to the Sea?
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Salt to the Sea Salt to the Sea is a 2016 historical fiction young adult novel by Ruta Sepetys. It tells the story of four individuals in World War II who make their way to the ill-fated MV "Wilhelm Gustloff". The story also touches on the disappearance of The Amber Room, a work of art stolen by the Nazis that has never been recovered.
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MV Wilhelm Gustloff MV "Wilhelm Gustloff" was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by  in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German civilians, Nazi officials and military personnel from Gdynia (Gotenhafen) as the Red Army advanced. By one estimate, 9,400 people died, which makes it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history.
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MS Sama (1936) MS "Sama" was a Norwegian motor merchant ship, she was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine during World War II.
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Lady Hutton Lady Hutton is a former luxury yacht built in 1924 at Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel, Germany. She has now been converted to a hotel and restaurant ship, riding at anchor at the Riddarholmen in Stockholm since 1982. In addition to its size and proximity to the old city, much of her fame is tied to Barbara Hutton, for whom the ship is named.
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MV Cemfjord The Cemfjord was a Cyprus-registered cargo ship which foundered in the Pentland Firth off the north-east coast of Scotland on 2 January 2015. Built as the general cargo ship Margareta in 1984, she was converted to carry cement in 1998 and was en route from Aalborg, Denmark to Runcorn, Cheshire, United Kingdom when she capsized in bad weather and sank in 270 ft of water. All eight crew were presumed lost. No bodies were recovered, and the ship has been left as a sea grave.
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SS Dronning Maud (1925) SS "Dronning Maud" was a 1,489 ton steel-hulled steamship built in 1925 by the Norwegian shipyard Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted in Fredrikstad. "Dronning Maud" was ordered by the Trondheim-based company Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskipsselskap for the passenger and freight service Hurtigruten along the coast of Norway. She served this route as the company flagship until she was sunk under controversial circumstances during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign.
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Lene Marie Lene Marie was a ketch-rigged tall ship, of 106 ft overall and 200 tons displacement. She was built in Denmark in 1910 as a Baltic trader just before World War I. During the Second World War the "Lene Marie" sank in the Baltic Sea during a storm. She was raised by the Americans as part of their efforts to rebuild Denmark after the war.
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MS Palatia (1928) MS Palatia was a German liner, built in 1928. After serving for several years on the Hamburg America Line's route to the Caribbean, she was sold to the Soviet Union in 1940. Following the outbreak of war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in June 1941, she was captured by the Germans and pressed into Kriegsmarine service.
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Phoenix (1845) The Phoenix was a steamship that burned on Lake Michigan on 21 November 1847, with the loss of at least 190 but perhaps as many as 250 lives. The loss of life made this disaster, in terms of loss of life from the sinking of a single vessel, the fourth-worst tragedy in the history of the Great Lakes.
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Albatross (1920 schooner) Albatross, originally named Albatros, later Alk, was a sailing ship that became famous when she sank in 1961 with a group of American teenagers on board. The events were the basis for the highly fictionalized film "White Squall".
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SS Carl D. Bradley The   was a self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Michigan storm on November 18, 1958. Of the 35 crew members, 33 died in the sinking and 23 were from the port town of Rogers City, Michigan. Her sinking was likely caused by structural failure from the brittle steel used in her construction. She was the sister of the ill-fated  .
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Thyborøn Thyborøn is a fishing village in Jutland, Denmark with a population of 2,119 (1 January 2014), primarily famous for being the site of numerous shipwrecks, such as that of the Imperial Russian naval vessel "Alexander Neuski".
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No Greater Love (novel) No Greater Love is a novel by Danielle Steel. It tells a fictional story based on the true event of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
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Anna Kristina (ship) Anna Kristina is a Norwegian-flagged, galeas-rigged Hardangerjakt. Originally named Dyrafjeld, the sloop-rigged vessel was built on a Norwegian farm in 1889. The ship's early career was as a cargo ship in the Hardanger region, with occasional voyages as far afield as Russia. She was sold to new owners and rerigged as a galeas in the late 1920s. The sails were removed during World War II, but continued in merchant service until the mid-1970s. After a series of accidents, the vessel was laid up, then sold to new owners, who restored the vessel and renamed her "Anna Kristina". Charter work occurred throughout the 1980s, including involvement in the First Fleet Re-enactment Voyage.
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HMS E18 HMS "E18" was an E-class submarine of the Royal Navy, launched in 1915 and lost in the Baltic Sea in May 1916 while operating out of Reval. The exact circumstances surrounding the sinking remain a mystery. The wreck of the submarine was discovered in October 2009.
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald SS "Edmund Fitzgerald" was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there.
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SS Radaas SS "Radaas was a 2524-ton cargo steamship. She was built by and launched in 1890 as Marstonmoor for Moor Lines. She was sold to a Greek company in 1902 and renamed Athos Romanos", before being sold to Danish interests during the First World War and renamed "Radaas". She was sunk by the German submarine "UB-40" under the command of Oberleutnant Hans Howaldt on 21 September 1917. She was 18 miles west of Portland Bill en route from Tyne to Bordeaux when the torpedo struck her in the port side.
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SS Dettifoss SS "Dettifoss" was an Icelandic Cargo Ship that was Torpedoed by  in the Irish Sea 25 nmi out of Belfast, United Kingdom ( ), while she was travelling from New York, United States to Belfast, United Kingdom and later to Reykjavík, Iceland.
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Struma disaster The "Struma" disaster was the sinking on 24 February 1942 of a ship,  , that had been trying to take nearly 800 Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to Mandatory Palestine. She was a small iron-hulled ship of only  GRT that had been built in 1867 as a steam-powered schooner but had recently been re-engined with an unreliable second-hand diesel engine. "Struma" was only 148.4 ft long, had a beam of only 19.3 ft and a draught of only 9.9 ft but an estimated 791 refugees and 10 crew were crammed into her.
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SS Sant Anna SS "Sant′ Anna" was an Transatlantic ocean liner converted into a troopship in 1915, torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea on 11 May 1918 with 605 casualties.
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SS Schiller SS "Schiller" was a 3,421 ton German ocean liner, one of the largest vessels of her time. Launched in 1873, she her trade across the Atlantic Ocean, carrying passengers between New York and Hamburg for the German Transatlantic Steam Navigation Line. She became notorious on 7 May 1875, while operating on her normal route, when she hit the Retarrier Ledges in the Isles of Scilly, causing her to sink with the loss of most of her crew and passengers, totalling 335 fatalities.
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New Carissa MV "New Carissa" was a freighter that ran aground on a beach near Coos Bay, Oregon, United States, during a storm in February 1999 and subsequently broke apart. An attempt to tow the bow section of the ship out to sea failed when the tow line broke, and the bow was grounded again. Eventually, the bow was successfully towed out to sea and sunk. The stern section remained on the beach near Coos Bay. Fuel on board the ship was burned off "in situ" with napalm, but a significant amount was also spilled from the wreckage, causing ecological damage to the coastline.