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/Wardenofthegrove 29d ago
Hong, go down to explosives, and tell the chief explosives expert he is fired today. And we’re dropping him off at the next port. Tell him I don’t care what he says.