Weatherday: Baltic disaster

Damp and blustery through the morning, with persistent bursts of rain. These will ease through the afternoon, but strong winds from the northwest will continue, moderating after dark.

Highest temperature 4deg and a distinct wind chill factor.

On this day in 1945, the worst maritime disaster in history happened when the German ocean liner Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk by a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea, with an estimated 9,000 passengers killed.

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