Tag: disaster

Titanic rescue: OceanGate CEO didn’t want ex-military 50-year-old White guys on the books as they aren’t inspirational

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A fired director of marine operations had raised numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns. Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, the company operating the missing Titanic tourist submersible, admitted to avoiding hiring experienced 50-year-old White guys because they aren’t inspirational. He instead chose to employ younger, inexperienced staff who could be trained up on the job.

Shock as it is revealed the bolts of the reactor on a British nuclear submarine were fixed with superglue

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The Royal Navy ordered a thorough investigation after it emerged that during repairs to the nuclear submarine Trident, broken bolts on the nuclear reactor cooling pipes were ‘fixed’ with superglue instead of being replaced. It was discovered by accident only after one of the damaged bolts fell off during an inspection aboard the 16,000-ton submarine HMS Vanguard.

U-Boat Commander Extraordinary

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Exactly one month after Britain’s declaration of war on the German Reich (September 3, 1939) a U-boot skipper’s audacious opportunism sent the first of five of Britain’s battleships and battlecruisers to the bottom of Scapa Flow. Situated on Scotland’s stormy west coast this fortress harbour served as an English lair from which Royal Navy ships ambushed German shipping navigating the North Sea.

The Fate of a Passenger liner seized as a prize of war by the Soviets

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After the defeat of the Workers Reich on May 8, 1945, the armies of the British, Soviet and American empires plundered everything they could lay their hands on. Soviet plunder of the defeated Reich included the seizing of the German-built transatlantic liner SS Berlin III. This super liner, after providing German workers with affordable Mediterranean cruises, in July 1939 was converted into a hospital ship and later evacuated thousands of troops and civilians fleeing the rapacious Red Army.