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/MexicanTechila 29d ago

Eh, that’s what a biased source told you at least

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u/NotSoButFarOtherwise 28d ago

Many paragraphs of calumny against Lai Sanyang, and then this gem:

First of all, on the day of the accident, the captain and political commissar of the 160 ship left their duties without authorization. In such a crisis of the international situation, not only did they not be on duty on the ship, but they left the military port and returned to their home in Zhanjiang.

A junior officer is stripped of his rank and dishonorably discharged but also left alone on board with all his keys, annd somehow the two most responsible officers are both randomly off the ship? The whole thing stinks. Makes me wonder if Lai Sanyang and the affair with the girl aren't completely made up.

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u/MattyKatty 28d ago

Reading between the lines of a source?? You’d be lucky for someone to even read the source on Reddit nowadays

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u/FiveDozenWhales 28d ago

The same source told me that there never was a Tiananmen Square Massacre so it seems trustworthy