I Have Always Been Interested In the Titanic
The Sea Has Always Drawn Me... As interesting as the Titanic and her sisters are, they are only a few of the many ships who have met disaster at sea. Titanic was lost mostly due to human pride and the Britannic was in a war zone although marked as a hospital ship which didn't prevent her loss. Olympic managed to sink a submarine herself and survived.
Just as interesting are ships like Lusitania which went down as fast as a ship can after two torpedoes struck her. Or the Swedish munition ship that blew up in Halifax harbor in WW I after colliding with another ship and destroyed a portion of the city. Another would be the HMAS Sydney lost in WW 2 with all hands which we have only anecdotal evidence of exactly her fate except she intercepted a German merchant cruiser and both were lost. HMS Hood destroyed by shellfire in WW 2 not unlike her earlier brethren in WW I.
Ships great and small, powerful and insignificant can be destroyed by nature's fury, man's folly, or through man's anger. What must be remembered is when on the water your vessel is only as safe as humanity can make it, but is also vulnerbale to greed, pride, ignorance, etc. This is proved time and time again in incidents like the Andrea Doria, the recent Costa Concordia, or even the US destroyers in the early 20th century that all steamed into rocks one after another in the fog off of the West Coast. The only consistency is that while man can build great vessels to ply the world's seas, he can also commit great folly to destroy such.
Just as interesting are ships like Lusitania which went down as fast as a ship can after two torpedoes struck her. Or the Swedish munition ship that blew up in Halifax harbor in WW I after colliding with another ship and destroyed a portion of the city. Another would be the HMAS Sydney lost in WW 2 with all hands which we have only anecdotal evidence of exactly her fate except she intercepted a German merchant cruiser and both were lost. HMS Hood destroyed by shellfire in WW 2 not unlike her earlier brethren in WW I.
Ships great and small, powerful and insignificant can be destroyed by nature's fury, man's folly, or through man's anger. What must be remembered is when on the water your vessel is only as safe as humanity can make it, but is also vulnerbale to greed, pride, ignorance, etc. This is proved time and time again in incidents like the Andrea Doria, the recent Costa Concordia, or even the US destroyers in the early 20th century that all steamed into rocks one after another in the fog off of the West Coast. The only consistency is that while man can build great vessels to ply the world's seas, he can also commit great folly to destroy such.
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