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Charles Joughin, Chief Baker on Titanic, helped passengers board life boats (forcibly boarding those who thought it safer to stay on the ship), drank a 1/2 bottle of liqueur, then threw chairs overboard for use as flotation devices, rode the side of the ship down while it sunk, and survived
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After John F Kennedy's WWII PT boat was sunk he wrote a message on a coconut asking for help. The coconut message worked. Kennedy kept the coconut and it became a Presidential paperweight.
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When divers were collecting bodies from the wreckage of the boat Jascon-4, 3 days after it sunk, one of the divers was grabbed by a survivor who managed to survive by finding an air pocket in the toilet.
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There is evidence that the British Admiralty deliberately send the luxury liner Lusitania into waters patrolled by German U-boats in the hope that the ship would be attacked and sunk with Americans on board, thus drawing the US into WWI. 1,198 people drowned, inc. many women and children
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A German U Boat U-215, sunk in 1942, is presumed to still be airtight with the remains of 49 German sailors entombed within
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A British soldier whose ship was sunk by a U-boat survived for 70 days at sea. After being rescued, he was sent back to England from the Bahamas on a cargo ship. It was hit by 2 torpedoes from a U-Boat as they were approaching the UK. There were no survivors.
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Nobel Prize winner Guglielmo Marconi had secured free passage on the Titanic's maiden voyage but decided to take an earlier ship to catch up on work. Three years later he disembarked the Lusitania right before it was sunk by a German U-Boat.
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A man named Poon Lim survived 133 days at sea on an 8 square foot raft after his ship was sunk by a U-boat. To stay alive he drank the blood of animals he caught and at one point killed a shark with a jug of water.
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The RMS Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic, rammed a U-Boat and sunk it, making it the only merchant ship in World War I to have sunk an enemy vessel.
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Submarine Commander Eugene Fluckey, credited with the most tonnage sunk in WWII, incl. a Carrier and leading men on land to blow up a train. He got 4 Navy Crosses, the Medal of Honor, his boat got several Presidential Unit citations and not one of his men got a Purple Heart.
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Drowning was used in the Armenian Genocide with thousands of people thrown into the sea or put in boats that were deliberately sunk.
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In 1942 RMS Laconia was sunk by a German U-Boat who then commenced rescue operations, broadcasting their humanitarian intent on open radio. With a deck full of survivors, USAAF bombers then sunk the boat. The German navy subsequently abandoned attempting rescue of civilian survivors.
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After the sinking a british U-boat during WWII, Herbert Schultze sent radio message "cq - cq- cq - transmit to Winston Churchill. I have sunk the British steamer Firby. Posit 59.40 North and 13.50 West. Save the crew, if you please. German U-boat". This made Schultze famous in Germany & UK.
After their boat was sunk by a sperm whale (inspiration for "Moby Dick") some of the survivors decided to take the much longer east route to South America instead of the Polynesian islands because they feared the cannibals that lived there. They then had to resort to cannibalism to survive. - source
There is an area around the Outer Banks of North Carolina nicknamed "Torpedo Alley" where over 400 ships were sunk and 5,000 people killed due to German U-Boat attacks during WWII - source
During World War 2 the German U-boat men often referred to the Bay of Biscay as the Valley of Death as more than 70 German subs were sunk in its waters by the Royal Air Force.
The boat which sunk, taking the Antikythera mechanism is theorized to have been en route to Julius Caesar.
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In 1915 Elbert and Alice Hubbard boarded the RMS Lusitania, leaving New York. 11 miles from the coast of Ireland the ship was hit by a German u-boat's torpedo and sunk. Elbert and Alice refused to be separated into lifeboats and remained together on the sinking ship. They both died.
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Hundreds of Missouri River steamboats sunk in the early 1800’s and are buried underground because the river path has shifted. Landowners along the river are unaware of the millions of dollars of treasure buried beneath their land, as many of these boats were loaded with supplies.
About Augustus Agar, a Royal Navy officer with a wild 37 year career: he sunk a Soviet cruiser using a torpedo fired from a small boat, was knighted for spying, captained the Royal Yacht, smuggled £2 million in gold to Canada, and was pulled so deep by a sinking ship that he got the bends.
Boats are made very strong but some still sink if they collide with other boats or objects. The passenger ferry called Dona Paz collided with an oil tanker in 1987, resulting in 4,375 deaths. In 1912 the Titanic, a ship that was considered unsinkable, struck an iceberg and sunk. 1517 people died when the ship went down.
Georg von Trapp whose life was made famous in Sound of Music was successful Austrian U-boat commander in WW1, sunk several Allied ships including French cruiser with loss of 684 lives
During WWI the only enemy vessel sunk by an american battleship was when the USS New York accidentally ran over a U-Boat
