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		nickpinkston on Sept 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scientists find wreckage of ship that tried to war... Same for the Britannic, Titanic's sister ship that was converted into a hospital ships and then torpedoed (or mined?) and sank faster than her sister.

akiselev on Sept 29, 2022 [–]

Violet Jessop [1] survived both!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop

rdc12 on Sept 29, 2022 | | [–]

And the collision of the RMS Olympic (the first of the three in that family) with the HMS Hawke. As did the coal stoker Arthur Priest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_John_Priest

unlog on Sept 29, 2022 | | [–]

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsinkable_Sam

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