Today is 110th Anniversary since the incident of the RMS Oceanic "The Queen of the Ocean" (but the Titanic now has that nickname), it crashed into a reef in the early hours because its crew marked the incorrect position of Foula, so after the accident, all the occupants abandoned the ship, First Officer Lightoller (Titanic's second officer) was the last man to leave the ship but he brought with him a watch as a souvenir, and the ship was abandoned there, on September 29 due to a gale the sea swallowed her Today is too the 90th Anniversary of the incident with Morro Castle an American Oceanliner, of the Ward Line sistership of SS Orient she on her last voyage from Cuba to USA, the captain death by a heart attack on September 7th 1934 and her First officer takes the role of Captain, at 2:50 AM of September 8th a fire starts on her storage locker, the fire was intensifying while the First officer try to beach the ship so he had to abandon that try, the passengers moved to stern and the most of crew members moved to bow, the passengers had 2 options jump or burn but the winds was strongers and move the water making difficulty the swimming, the crew try to save them lauching rings and objects to make an improved float just 6 lifeboats was launched, the passengers didn't know how to use lifeboats so most of them died because they was unconsious and drowned or their necks breaks, 137 persons died and the ship was scrapped in Baltimore in 1935 Too is 80th Anniversary of SS Rex an Italian Oceanliner from the Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione, she was sister (or running mate) of Conte di Saboya and one of many winners of the Blue Ribband taking it away from Bremen, on September 8th 1944 she was attacked by Beaufighters of the RAF and P51 from USAF and the ship was critically damaged, at the noon of the same day other Beaufighter from RAF and South African Air Force attacked her again, the ship rolled to port side and finally sunk in shallow waters, the ship was scrapped there in 1950
Today is 110th Anniversary since the incident of the RMS Oceanic "The Queen of the Ocean" (but the Titanic now has that nickname), it crashed into a reef in the early hours because its crew marked the incorrect position of Foula, so after the accident, all the occupants abandoned the ship, First Officer Lightoller (Titanic's second officer) was the last man to leave the ship but he brought with him a watch as a souvenir, and the ship was abandoned there, on September 29 due to a gale the sea swallowed her
Today is too the 90th Anniversary of the incident with Morro Castle an American Oceanliner, of the Ward Line sistership of SS Orient she on her last voyage from Cuba to USA, the captain death by a heart attack on September 7th 1934 and her First officer takes the role of Captain, at 2:50 AM of September 8th a fire starts on her storage locker, the fire was intensifying while the First officer try to beach the ship so he had to abandon that try, the passengers moved to stern and the most of crew members moved to bow, the passengers had 2 options jump or burn but the winds was strongers and move the water making difficulty the swimming, the crew try to save them lauching rings and objects to make an improved float just 6 lifeboats was launched, the passengers didn't know how to use lifeboats so most of them died because they was unconsious and drowned or their necks breaks, 137 persons died and the ship was scrapped in Baltimore in 1935
Too is 80th Anniversary of SS Rex an Italian Oceanliner from the Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione, she was sister (or running mate) of Conte di Saboya and one of many winners of the Blue Ribband taking it away from Bremen, on September 8th 1944 she was attacked by Beaufighters of the RAF and P51 from USAF and the ship was critically damaged, at the noon of the same day other Beaufighter from RAF and South African Air Force attacked her again, the ship rolled to port side and finally sunk in shallow waters, the ship was scrapped there in 1950