Posted on 01/01/2017 4:47:58 PM PST by Eddie01
The Jews sank the Titanic.
I thought it was an iceberg.
Iceberg...Goldberg...Greenberg....what’s the difference?
Another bad shipwreck was the SS Lexington. It was loaded with bales of cotton and they put the cotton next to the burners. Jacob Vanderbilt, was usually the captain, but he was sick. Of the 143 passenger, only 4 survived. One person missed the boat, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Yep, she was going into refit during the winter layover. The run that claimed The Fitz was the last of that shipping season. It may have been that she grounded on seven fathom shoal earlier in the day. Or that she encountered a rogue wave in Superior known to sailors as “The three sisters”. Those are the competing theories, along with the damaged/ loose hatch cover.
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