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Having an abandon ship kit available will greatly supplement the personal survival kit carried by prepared mariners.

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The historic skirmish between a U.S. Navy blimp and a German submarine lasted only five minutes and was the only battle of its kind during World War II.

The German cruiser SMS Konigsberg was the hard-to-kill fleet in being that occupied 20 Allied warships for 9 months in WWI before finally sinking her.

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From curses to alien abduction, the mystery of the Mary Celeste has had many theories attached to it. Why would a captain abandon a perfectly seaworthy ship?

A storm in the English Channel on Christmas in 1951 would bring down the Flying Enterprise. Its Captain, Kurt Carlsen, heroically saved passengers onboard.

In 1915, Turpitz, a pig rescued from the German cruiser Dresden, became the mascot of HMS Glasgow and raised nearly £2,000 for the British War Effort.

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U.S.S Houston gained fame as a "presidential" ship. But the cruiser met an heroic end aganst the Japanese in the Battle of the Sunda Straits.

Carrying the Hiroshima bomb to Tinian, the heavy cruiser Indianapolis was ordered from Tinian to Leyte Gulf but was sunk by an enemy submarine, resulting in many deaths.

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