That was indeed a catastrophic loss of life Rathlin. I doubt it is commemorated in any way though, as the Germans do not glorify or even discuss their war dead. There have been some dreadful sinkings in the Philippines also with thousands of civilians dead. Titanic was however the largest recorded loss of life in a sinking at the time it occurred. My own grandfather was lucky to escape the carnage of Jutland in 1916, and WW2 did indeed see some horrendous deaths at sea, as well as on land, and yet still wars go on. When the steamship Lusitania was sunk, allegedly by a German torpedo in WW1, initial reports suggested more lives had been lost than on Titanic, and for a little while, it seemed to the shipwrights who built the latter ship that the focus would turn to Lusitania, and the Titanic disaster would be forgotten, but neither of these things turned out to be so. The loss of life on Lusitania did not exceed Titanic. It was simply that the rescue was not by a single ship (as with Carpathia for Titanic) but, since it occurred close to the Iirsh coast, passengers were swimming ashore or were rescued piecemeal by Irish fishermen etc. and taken to various places to recover. The final number of the dead was not confirmed for some days. Awful though it is when civilians drown in major catastrophes at sea, my heart goes out to the brave men of the engine room, who face slow and certain death locked in their watertight coffins.