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Bet You Never Had A Ship Do This...
In my continuing quest for merchant ships and their names, I stumbled across this at www.warsailors.com, a Norwegian merchant website:
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Oh, Bomma was also part of the fleet that transported Norway's gold for safekeeping in the US. |
I've read a few articles over the years of Italian skippers beaching their vessels in the Med the minute a warship appears on the horizon :lol:
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How about the U-boat sunk by a toilet malfunction?:D For details go here: http://uboat.net/boats/u1206.htm .
Strange but true! I just thought of this. Maybe the "crash dive of doom" bug (where you load a game & the boat sinks slowly until it reaches crush depth) is meant to model this and therefore, not a bug at all!:D |
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Haha, great story!
Apperantly, a specialist was needed to 'operate' the toilet. What a lousy job the guy must have, flushing toilets for other people! (and you can imagine the hazards of being a toilet specialist :huh: ) |
Actually, some US Captains did the same on polar convoys when the lot got clobbered by U-Boats. There is even a documented account where one captain beached his ship near a small fishermen village and insisted the freight has been properly delivered to a russian port (so he insisted on being properly paid as per contract obligations).
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