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*****NEWS FLASH*****
Boat named Titanic II sinks on maiden voyage
If you name your boat Titanic II, you’re asking for it.
Nevertheless, when Mark Wilkinson of Birmingham, England headed into a Dorset harbor on his 16-foot cabin cruiser, that was the name plastered on its side.
The boat sank. Go figure.
“It’s all a bit embarrassing and I got pretty fed up with people asking me if I had hit an iceberg,” Wilkinson said.
He was headed back from a fishing trip when the newly-purchased boat went down, according to a story on Yahoo News. He clung to nearby pilings until rescued.
The harbormaster who rescued Wilkinson said the breach in the Titanic II’s fiberglass hull might have happened because a repair job deteriorated, according to the Christian Science Monitor.
This might be why airlines retire the flight numbers associated with crashed planes — or why there aren’t too many airships called Hindenburg these days.
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