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A HERETIC I AM

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7. I read an article about this collision that included an interesting fact;

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Original post)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 06:28 PM

Jul 2016

When the Stockholm collided, it did so in such a manner that it captured, for lack of a better word, a woman who was asleep in her bed. When it backed away and continued to port, this woman was trapped in the wrecked bow and she wasn't discovered until well after the Stockholm docked!

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60 years ago tonight: MS Stockholm collides with SS Andrea Doria [View all] Cooley Hurd Jul 2016 OP

Besides loss of life, the prototype Chrysler Norseman was in its hold. TheBlackAdder Jul 2016 #1

Sadly, true... Cooley Hurd Jul 2016 #2

You Need To Read.... Laxman Jul 2016 #3

Hahahaha!!! Cooley Hurd Jul 2016 #4

Why don't you tell them the astonishing tales of Costanza? Initech Jul 2016 #11

The Stockholm was renamed the Astoria and is still in service Sen. Walter Sobchak Jul 2016 #5

She's had a lot of names since 1956: Cooley Hurd Jul 2016 #6

I read an article about this collision that included an interesting fact; A HERETIC I AM Jul 2016 #7

Linda Morgan? Cooley Hurd Jul 2016 #8

That would be her, but I see my recollection of the story is wrong A HERETIC I AM Jul 2016 #9

Her half-sister, in the bed next to hers, unfortunately didn't survive... Cooley Hurd Jul 2016 #10