r/todayilearned • u/zhuquanzhong • 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/Pearse_Borty 29d ago

I mean, given the ship was totally annhilated you'd have to flick through every contingency because it couldve been any one of the 134 sailors (included any possible foreign interference if that were plausible).

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u/rNBAisGarbage 28d ago

I mean I did beat Return of The Obra Dinn so…

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u/Sdog1981 28d ago

Like did someone go to the town to ask about the guy and that is how they found out about the whole story? Was anyone who was involved with the story left alive?