I will take the easy one first
1. RMS Titanic - sunk by an iceberg, 1912
2. Bismarck - sunk in combat on her first mission in 1941 killing over 2,000 sailors.
share1. RMS Titanic - sunk by an iceberg, 1912
2. Bismarck - sunk in combat on her first mission in 1941 killing over 2,000 sailors.
2. RMS Lusitania - torpedoed by German sub, 1915
4. PT-109 - rammed and sunk by a large Japaneses warship leading to JFK's very heroic actions in the aftermath.
share1. RMS Titanic - sunk by an iceberg, 1912
2. Bismarck - sunk in combat on her first mission in 1941 killing over 2,000 sailors.
3. RMS Lusitania - torpedoed by German sub, 1915
4. PT-109 - rammed and sunk by a large Japaneses warship leading to JFK's very heroic actions in the aftermath.
5. ARA General Belgrano - torpedoed by a British sub during the Falklands War, 1982
1. RMS Titanic - sunk by an iceberg, 1912
2. Bismarck - sunk in combat on her first mission in 1941 killing over 2,000 sailors.
3. RMS Lusitania - torpedoed by German sub, 1915
4. PT-109 - rammed and sunk by a large Japaneses warship leading to JFK's very heroic actions in the aftermath.
5. ARA General Belgrano - torpedoed by a British sub during the Falklands War, 1982
6. HMS Terror - lost in the Arctic during the Franklin Expedition, 1848
1. RMS Titanic - sunk by an iceberg, 1912
2. Bismarck - sunk in combat on her first mission in 1941 killing over 2,000 sailors.
3. RMS Lusitania - torpedoed by German sub, 1915
4. PT-109 - rammed and sunk by a large Japaneses warship leading to JFK's very heroic actions in the aftermath.
5. ARA General Belgrano - torpedoed by a British sub during the Falklands War, 1982
6. HMS - lost in the Arctic during the Franklin Expedition, 1848
7. USS Maine - Its explosion in the harbor of Havana led the Spanish-American war, 1898.
This was a reference to William Randolph Hearst provoking a war with Spain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJw1_xxRZ84
I'm still not sure if it was genuinely attacked by Spain or if it was a freak occurrence gone wrong, and the US and Hearst just used it as an excuse to go to war.
I saw some research a few years ago from some Harvard guys claiming it was an internal malfunction that caused the ship to explode. Who knows.
That's right. And it was Hearst's propaganda that began "yellow journalism."
share1. RMS Titanic - sunk by an iceberg, 1912
2. Bismarck - sunk in combat on her first mission in 1941 killing over 2,000 sailors.
3. RMS Lusitania - torpedoed by German sub, 1915
4. PT-109 - rammed and sunk by a large Japaneses warship leading to JFK's very heroic actions in the aftermath.
5. ARA General Belgrano - torpedoed by a British sub during the Falklands War, 1982
6. HMS Terror - lost in the Arctic during the Franklin Expedition, 1848
7. USS Maine - Its explosion in the harbor of Havana led the Spanish-American war, 1898.
1. RMS Titanic - sunk by an iceberg, 1912
2. Bismarck - sunk in combat on her first mission in 1941 killing over 2,000 sailors.
3. RMS Lusitania - torpedoed by German sub, 1915
4. PT-109 - rammed and sunk by a large Japaneses warship leading to JFK's very heroic actions in the aftermath.
5. ARA General Belgrano - torpedoed by a British sub during the Falklands War, 1982
6. HMS Terror - lost in the Arctic during the Franklin Expedition, 1848
7. USS Maine - Its explosion in the harbor of Havana led the Spanish-American war, 1898.
8. USS Arizona - Sunk at Pearl Harbor and is now a memorial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_Memorial