Trivia Question: What British corvette’s sinking in 1878 was the costliest peacetime disaster in the Royal Navy’s history?
Answer: The H.M.S. Eurydice
The Eurydice holds a macabre place in British history. Those who build and pilot naval vessels for the U.K. would sometimes muse that they “didn’t want a second Eurydice.” A driving snowstorm caught the H.M.S. Eurydice and capsized it.
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