All the survivors of U-27s sinking, including several who had reached the Nicosian, were shot by Baralongs crew.

After the sinking of the Essex of Nantucket by a whale, on November 20, 1820, ( an important source event for Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ) the survivors, in three small boats, resorted, by common consent, to cannibalism in order for some to survive.

* 1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking ; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.

The movie portrays a scene in which the U-boat sailors kill the Allied merchant crewmen who have survived their ship's sinking, in compliance with naval policy and so that the survivors do not report the U-boat position.

* November 20, 1820 After the sinking of the Essex ( whaleship ) of Nantucket by a whale the survivors were left floating in three small whaleboats.

* November 20 – After the sinking of the whaleship Essex of Nantucket by a whale the survivors are left afloat in three small whaleboats.

This includes 534 dead from the 131st Field Artillery Regiment ( Texas Army National Guard ) and 133 from USS Houston ( out of 368 survivors of its sinking in 1942 ).

Realizing that he would have to interview survivors of the disaster to give him a full understanding of the sinking Lord, who was on a tight buget, began writing letters to the editors of various newspapers asking survivors to get in touch with him.

RMS Carpathia of 1901 ( 13, 555 GRT ) became famous for rescuing the survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Margaret " Molly " Brown ( née Tobin ) ( July 18, 1867 – October 26, 1932 ) was an American socialite, philanthropist, and activist who became famous due to her survival of the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, after exhorting the crew of to return to look for survivors.

Directed by Ronald Neame and starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters and Red Buttons, the film detailed survivors ' attempts at escaping a sinking ocean liner overturned by a giant wave triggered by an earthquake.

* RMS Carpathia was a steamship, notable for its role in the rescue of survivors from the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912

On February 14, 2002, as part of the annual award of the Immortal Chaplains Prize for Humanity, a special reconciliation meeting took place between survivors of both the American and German sides of the sinking of the Dorchester.

The plane breaks up and sinks in three minutes, with many panicking passengers refusing to leave the sinking aircraft ; 52 of the 69 people on board die, and the United States Coast Guard rescues the 17 survivors.

Navy firing detail as part of a burial-at-sea in 2008 for one of the 316 survivors of the USS Indianapolis ( CA-35 ) sinking on July 30, 1945, during World War II.

Captain Gilbert C. Hoover, commanding officer of the and senior officer present in the battle-damaged US task force, was skeptical that anyone had survived the sinking of the Juneau and believed it would be reckless to look for survivors, thereby exposing his wounded ships to a still-lurking Japanese submarine.

Eight days after the sinking, ten survivors were found by a PBY Catalina search aircraft and retrieved from the water.

After the sinking of the SS Merak by the German submarine U-104 near Diamond Shoals, North Carolina LV-71 rescued the survivors but was sunk as well shortly thereafter.

His son Hubert Edward Dannreuther was a British admiral and one of six survivors of the sinking of HMS Invincible.

The most famous was in May 1915 when the lifeboat of the day ( the Ketzia Gwilt ) rescued survivors of the RMS Lusitania sinking.

Since 2003, Steve Biddulph worked with the Uniting Church in Australia to build a suitable memorial for victims and survivors of the SIEV X sinking.

Lillian Gertrud Asplund ( October 21, 1906 – May 6, 2006 ) was one of the last three living survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912 ; and also the last survivor with actual memories of the disaster.

Two days after the sinking, four rescue ships and two helicopters in the region were searching for survivors ; four people were rescued from the wreckage on November 6.

Despite strenuous efforts, Captain Hood's isolated ship came under heavy fire and was unable to cut off the trailing Justice as the French survivors escaped seawards, Zealous being struck by a number of French shot and losing one man killed.

The Tonnant, its decks crowded with 1, 600 survivors from other French vessels, surrendered as the British ships approached while Timoléon was set on fire by her remaining crew who then escaped to the shore in small boats.

It is still visited on occasion by fishermen, French Navy patrols, scientific researchers, film crews, and shipwreck survivors.

* The German senior level ( naval and national ) leadership requested the Vichy French to send warships from Dakar and / or Côte d ' Ivoire to pick up the survivors.

Fifteen years later in 1776, the chevalier de Tromelin ( from whom the island takes its name ), captain of the French warship La Dauphine, visited the island and rescued the survivors — seven women and an eight-month-old child.

The French army's Indian allies slaughter the survivors for unclear reasons.

* May 20 – First Barons ' War in England: Occupying French forces are defeated at the Battle of Lincoln by English royal troops led by William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke and survivors forced to flee south.

Although the few French survivors resisted from all sides, by the end of the first day the German assault troops had only suffered about 600 casualties.

Other histories tell of French survivors from Jean Ribault's Fort Caroline whose ship the Trinite wrecked on the shores of Cape Canaveral and from whose timbers, a fort was built.

In August 1782 he made his name by capturing two English forts ( Prince of Wales Fort and York Fort ) on the coast of Hudson Bay, but allowed the survivors, including Governor Samuel Hearne of Prince of Wales Fort, to sail off to England in exchange for a promise to release French prisoners held in England.

After Austria had to request assistance from the United States Army, Swiss Air Force, French Air Force, and German Bundeswehr to evacuate survivors after the 1999 Galtür Avalanche a decision was taken to equip the Austrian Air Force with medium sized transport helicopters.

The survivors fled with hundreds of other inland inhabitants over the Marowijne river to neighbouring French Guiana.

Mahala Dutton-Douglas and her French maid, Berthe Leroy, were survivors.

In the early historical period of the island, the 16th century, French explorers found members of the Neutral Nation of Native Americans, also known as the Attawandaron, living on the island ; by 1651, the nearby Seneca Nation had chased off or killed the Neutrals, having also absorbed some of the survivors.

Only 23 survivors of the 1st BEP, led by Captain Jeanpierre, managed to escape to French lines: it became the first French parachute battalion lost in combat, followed by the 3rd BCCP, of which only 14 soldiers returned unscathed.

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The 1, 000 starving survivors of the garrison became prisoners, while 68 cannon and 40, 000 rounds of cannon shot fell into French hands.

The French defeated a Mamluk army in the Battle of the Pyramids and drove the survivors out to Upper Egypt.

After this massacre, the French soldiers accompanied the survivors to Fort Edward to avoid further bloodshed.

For example, in the Yiddish, Wiesel writes that, after liberation, some of the male camp survivors run off to " fargvaldikn daytshe shikses " (" rape German shiksas "), whereas in the French, they " coucher avec les filles " (" sleep with girls ").

After all the survivors are rescued, there's a big party with speeches about friendship between the French and Germans.

* 1650-53: Huron survivors of the Beaver Wars settle at Lorette under French protection.