#nr 3 the stockholm is now called astoria

[smolsleepyfox]

My favorite wtf fact about maritime history is definitely that while yeah, sometimes ships collide, there is more than one ship that rammed another ship, survived, and went on to RAM ANOTHER SHIP. You'd think this is both rare enough and teaches a lesson so that one ship shouldn't do it twice.

My second favorite fact is that a surprising number of Norwegian ships have rammed other ships, including a Norwegian ocean vessel (!) sinking another ship on the Great Lakes (which are notably not an ocean.)

My THIRD favorite fact is that the ships doing the ramming usually come out more or less fine. And even if one or both ships sink, they often are refloated and remain in service. The ship that sank the Andrea Doria in 1956, back then called Stockholm, is still in use!