DID YOU KNOW

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DID YOU KNOW SHIPS


1The World 'The World' is the largest privately owned residential cruise ship where its residents can permanently live as it travels around the globe.

2. Ships sent to retrieve dead bodies of the victims of the Titanic disaster found so many bodies that they ran out of embalming supplies. They decided to only retrieve bodies of 1st class passengers due to “the need to visually identify wealthy men to resolve any disputes over large estates.”

3. The “Law of General Average” allows shippers to jettison random containers off a container ship in an emergency and legally, everyone shipping goods on the same ship must share in the cost of the loss equally.

4. When the USS West Virginia was finally raised after being sunk during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, deceased men were found in an airtight storeroom. On the calendar, 16 days were crossed off in red pencil.

5. Aboard the World War 2 British battleship HMS Vanguard, an Engineer traveled 7 miles and climbed 3,000 feet of stairs daily during his turn of inspection and the ship’s bakery produced 1,000 lbs of bread daily.

And as always have a chilled day from the viking.

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