INCREDIBLE YARNS FROM THE WORLD OF SHIPS, BOATS AND SAILORS
Added on: 11th Nov 2016
RAMON ARTAGAVEYTIA SURVIVED THE SINKING OF
A SHIP IN 1871. IT WASN'T UNTIL 41 YEARS LATER
THAT HE MUSTERED UP THE COURAGE TO GET
BACK ON A BOAT. UNFORTUNATELY FOR HIM
THAT BOAT'S NAME WAS THE TITANIC
IN SPITE OF NEVER HAVING HAD ANY TRAINING,
ADMIRAL YI SUN SHIN DEFEATED 333 JAPANESE
SHIPS WITH A FLEET OF ONLY 13 KOREAN SHIPS
WHEN RESEARCHERS FROM TEXAS STATE
UNIVERSITY RAN OUT OF MONEY WHILE
STUDYING THE PIRATE CAPTAIN MORGAN,
IT WAS THE CAPTAIN MORGAN RUM COMPANY
THAT GAVE THEM MONEY TO CONTINUE!
ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL PIRATES TO EVER
SET SAIL WAS CHING SHIH. SHE WAS A CHINESE
PROSTITUTE WHO ENDED UP COMMANDING
NEARLY 2,000 SHIPS
THE MS ESTONIA SANK IN THE BALTIC SEA IN 1994
AND ALL 852 PASSENGERS ARE STILL AT THE
BOTTOM. IT IS ILLEGAL TO DIVE TO THE WRECK
THE CLAW OF ARCHIMEDES WAS AN ANTI-SHIP
WEAPON DESIGNED TO BASICALLY LIFT SHIPS
AND THEN DROP THEM INTO THE OCEAN. IT WAS
USED BY THE GREEKS AGAINST THE ROMANS
TOMMY THOMPSON WAS A TREASURE HUNTER
THAT FOUND THE SHIPWRECK OF THE SS CENTRAL
AMERICA. IN 1987 HE RECOVERED NEARLY $1
BILLION FROM THE WRECK AND DISAPPEARED
IN 1969, THE SHIP NAMED BAYCHIMO WAS SPOTTED
DRIFTING IN THE ARCTIC. IT WAS ABANDONED
NEARLY 40 YEARS EARLIER IN 1931 NEAR ALASKA
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