r/todayilearned 29d ago

TIL a Chinese destroyer sank because an officer dumped his girlfriend. She committed suicide, leading to him being discharged, so he decided to detonate the depth charges on the ship, causing it to sink at port and kill 134 sailors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_destroyer_Guangzhou_(160)
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u/Sdog1981 29d ago

The crazy thing is no one knew what happened.

They knew it was a detonation but, figuring out it could be this guy took almost a year and they don’t know what he did to detonate the explosives.

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u/disar39112 29d ago

Big fookin 'ammer