- 1982 The U.S. submarine Jacksonville collided with a Turkish freight in the Atlantic Ocean near Virginia posing the age-old question of "If two boats sail on the Ocean, how long can it be before one will crash into the other?
- 1864 The clipper ship 'Snow Squall' which was leaking badly, put into Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands.Her sad future was to become a jetty for the harbor. Sadder yet was that her bow that her bow found it's way to the otherside of the world in Maine and became a museum.
- 1992 A ferryboat carrying pilgrims to a Buddhist shrine shrine collided with an oil tanker in the Gulf of Thailand with the loss of 90 souls. All were re-incarnated as the entitled off-spring of Texas oil men.
-2006 The Colombian Navy [ of all things!] seized a 60 foot submarine designed to smuggle cocaine into The U.S. Makes a person wonder how many got away.
-1883 A barque rigged ship named the "Palestine" employed an officer named Joseph Conrad caught fire in the Indian Ocean. Three days later, she was abandoned leaving Conrad with delicious fodder for his story "Youth." Read it.
-1757 Admiral John Byng, British Royal Navy, was shot by firing squad aboard the the HMS 'Monarch' in Portsmouth Harbor, England,for dereliction of duty. Remember, don't hit on the Vice Admiral's daughter.
-1873 The crew of the clipper ship 'Blue Jacket' spent a week in open boats before being rescued by the German ship ' Prymont' north of the Falkland Islands. Fire in the cargo of flax was blamed.
-1873 The White Star Line, later infamous for naming the ships they would launch with an 'ic' at the end of their names, lost the liner 'Atlantic' off of the coast of Nova Scotia with 585 unaccounted for and presumed dead. Someone at the home office should have seen this as a trend.
-1912 The White Star Liner Titanic on her maiden voyage struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic and sank along with 1517 lives. See, I told you so.
-1918 Mistaken identity caused the French airship AT-O to sink the British submarine D-3 in the English Channel. Further proof that the French can only be trusted with words and never a depth charge.
-1783 The East-Indiaman 'Count Belgioso' sailing north past St. Davids Head, sailed into a trap in Dublin Bay and was wrecked along the shore with 147 lives. Friggin' Irish.