Just been up watching some YT simulations of famous ships going under.
Lusitania, HMHS Titanic, HMHS Britannic and finished watching with Andrea Doria. Thinking to myself, I'll check out where M/S Stockholm ended up.

I discover that it was supposed to make its final voyage from Hull cruising up through the norwegian fjords (BV's heimat!) exactly this week!! Because of the covid-stupid-19 it was scrapped in Tilbury instead, already in march.

Another weird coincidence. Anyone else that can share strange coincidences like this? I.e, you read about something that you are interested in and then all of a sudden a major coincidence hits you? They seem to happen on a quite regular basis.
Strange strange strange.

Before the simulations I watched a Columbo episode (The one with William Shatner as an actor and killer) so there is one more thing:

All four of these beautiful ships got hit on their starboard sides! Not one parted from this world starting with a problem located on the port (no pun intended).

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... HMHS Titanic, HMHS Britannic ...

Titanic and sister ship Olympic were RMS (Royal Mail Ships). Their sister ship Britannic was indeed HMHS (Her Majesty’s Hospital Ship). I was drowned in Titanic trivia by a fanatic for too many years to let this pass without comment

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Thinking to myself, I'll check out where M/S Stockholm ended up.

It's still alive, it has now the 11th name (MV Astoria) - [en.Wikipedia.org] .

"The 2020 cruise season was intended be the last for Astoria in the CMV fleet. Her final journey may be a 13-night cruise from Hull to North Cape, in October 2020" - [www.scmp.com] , [www.travelandleisure.com] .



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... HMHS Titanic, HMHS Britannic ...

Titanic and sister ship Olympic were RMS (Royal Mail Ships). Their sister ship Britannic was indeed HMHS (Her Majesty’s Hospital Ship). I was drowned in Titanic trivia by a fanatic for too many years to let this pass without comment

Nice one!! Of course, my mistake!

SS Carpathia is the only famous ship not to have been struck, hit or for other reason been sunk on the starboard side!!! The only port side victim!!

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Another weird coincidence. Anyone else that can share strange coincidences like this? I.e, you read about something that you are interested in and then all of a sudden a major coincidence hits you?

Regarding ships, I've watched a two-part TV-Documentary about cruise ships / ocean liners on 11/12th January 2012 and then the next day the Costa Concordia accident happened .... [en.Wikipedia.org] .

It was a strange coincidence (felt like a jinx). Another strange coincidence in this context is that the RMS Titanic collided on 14-Apr-1912 with an iceberg while the Costa Concordia collided on Friday, 13-Jan-2012 with an underwater rock and (partiallly) sank - almost exactly 100 years later ....



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SS Carpathia is the only famous ship not to have been struck, hit or for other reason been sunk on the starboard side!!! The only port side victim!!

...and it was the Carpathia that was first on scene to rescue Titanic survivors! You’re on a roll, MadMax! (Seriously, I endured years of this...)