Sinking within 5 minutes, Pirate had 12 sailors missing and one dead.

Lawsuits filed by the families of the dead sailors could also influence the outcome.

It took several days for the bodies of the dead sailors to be recovered, with a burial ceremony held on 3 June.

They had left the dead sailor in the prison.

But there are a lot of dead sailors who took things for granted.

German casualties amounted to 16 civilians and 116 sailors dead.

Those western lands, he told me, were inhabited by the souls of dead sailors.

A statue over the dead sailors was raised at the Reposaari church one year later.

But he had sixty dead sailors and two damaged warships to think about as well.

The result: 20,000 sailors and their families dead, 20 ships lost.