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The Sinking of the RMS Loughreen (Royal Myrish Ship Loughreen) was an event which took place on January 8, 1989, in which a passenger ferry originating from Merser, Gladomyr, to Staatsburg, Renesia struck an iceberg, causing it to take on water and inevitably sink over the course of an hour. Occurring during the early hours of the morning, rescue attempts were weakened in strength due to the darkness as well as initial confusion and chaos which eventually resulted in the preventable loss of several hundred more lives than were necessary. She was carrying 860 passengers, mostly hailing from Renesia, Gladomyr, and Ecoralia, and was forced to turn around back to Gladomyr due to a blockage in the East Ecoraland Canal which formed during its trip. As a result of a crucial oversight, the weather conditions in the ship's route back grew dangerously rough, to the point where steering became strenuous and any potential obstacles turned into an extremely dangerous hazard. This happened to be the case when an iceberg was spotted in the ship's path, and when a maneuver to avoid it failed, the ship struck the berg and caused an explosion within the lower decks, which further resulted in a large hole in the bow of the ferry. (See More...)

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