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[Byron]

Most interesting.

The losses of seven out of eleven destroyers at Honda Point in 1923 I had not known about and was indeed a tragedy.

News was recently that the last bodies have now been recovered from the Costa Concordia and the captain looks to be in big trouble especially when you hear the Coast Guard Commander shouting at him to get back on board immediately and arrange proper ship evacuation.
By coincidence I just came across this - happier times in Barcelona in 2007
when he was playing "music" on the ship's horn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8KK0...eature=related

As regards HMS Victoria I did not know there is also a Tripoli in Lebanon.
The incident no doubt caused the Admiralty some embarrassment and the French some smugness as they had dropped rams in ship design.
She is still sticking out of the seabed like an arrow it seems.
Those flag signals remind me of the Crimea War - "Send three and fourpence, we're going to a dance".
Lady Bracknell's words also seem appropriate - "...................but to lose two smacks of carelessness".