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Vaskning (lit. ' Sinking ') is the act of pouring out champagne in the sink.Sinking probably started in Sweden as "a reaction to the ban on spraying champagne in many bars" and the sinking is usually done by a person ordering two bottles of champagne and asking the bartender to pour out (sink) one of them. [1]
The Marques was a British-registered barque that sank during the Tall Ships' Races in 1984.. The Marques was built in Valencia, Spain, in 1917, as a polacca-rigged brig.She was used to carry fruit from the Canary Islands to northern Europe.
The only survivor found was a pet dog. The sinking of the SS Princess Sophia is to this day the worst maritime accident in the history of British Columbia and Alaska. 343 1970 South Korea: Namyoung-ho – The ferry sank on 15 December. It was carrying 338 people, who were traveling from Busan to Jeju; 326 people killed. See Sinking of Namyoung ...
Sinking may refer to: Sinking of a ship; see shipwrecking; Being submerged; Sinking, a 1996 studio album by The Aloof; Sinking (behavior), the act of pouring out champagne in the sink; Sinking (metalworking), a metalworking technique; Sinking, a 1921 novella by Yu Dafu "Sinking", a song by No Doubt from the album No Doubt (No Doubt album)
For her second patrol, Robalo went to the South China Sea, assigned to interdict Japanese tanker traffic from French Indochina to the fleet anchorage at Tawi Tawi. [21] On 24 April 1944 off Indochina, [22] she was bombed by a Japanese antisubmarine aircraft, suffering shattered and flooded periscopes and loss of radar, while taking a harrowing plunge to 350 feet (110 m) after her main ...
Bounty sinking during Hurricane Sandy. October 2, 2015: Captain Michael Davidson, master of the cargo ship El Faro, was recorded on the voyage data recorder encouraging the ship's helmsman, not moving due to fear and exhaustion, to join him in abandoning the vessel, before the recording ended with both still on the bridge of the sinking ship.
Sinking [ edit ] At about 11:58 pm on 12 January 1920, Afrique was passing between Pierre Levée and the Plateau de Rochebonne [ fr ] , 23 miles (42 km) from Olonne-sur-Mer , when she lost engine power in a gale.
To Hitler the sinking was shattering, and validated his fear of open-sea warfare against the British navy. In addition Hitler's confidence in German sea power and Raeder began to wane. When the British interrogated the survivors of the Bismarck , it was clear that morale aboard the vessel before it sank was very low because Lutjens was driving ...