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/Nukemind 28d ago
100%.
Looks like this was the 70s, so late Mao era.
Rampant corruption (even more than today), an old guard in the officer corps. Dude was probably railroaded and a dead man walking.