MilesGregarius
Half-baked Renegade
Nope. No Soviets.
Nope. No Soviets.
This is really strange, knowing that I have no chance i tried googling it, but that didn't help.
There are only two reasons I can think of for sinking a current major combat vessel:
a) scuttling a crippled ship
b) hostile forces seized it (i.e. a mutiny)
A block ship would almost certainly be an older and/or weaker vessel unless the situation was desperate, and outside of WWII I can't think of any time when that is likely.
Unless it is an poor navy with older ships, then maybe they wanted to dispose of it (i.e. they had an antiquated cruiser that was still more powerful then the rest of the fleet, but not worth running).
Hmm... did the ship's name begin with "Ko"?@Flying Pig - It was definitely an overtly hostile act, no mistaken identity.
New question. This one should be a lot easier:
Who was the first explorer to survey enough of Antarctica to prove it a continent instead of merely a collection of islands?