Titanic Sinks Again!

 

A 16-foot cabin cruiser named the Titanic II went the way of her namesake Sunday, when she sprung a leak and sunk on her maiden voyage.

Briton Mark Wilkinson, 44, had to be rescued from the harbor at West Bay, Dorset, in the U.K., as he clung to the sinking boat.

“If it wasn’t for the harbormaster, I would have gone down with the Titanic,” Wilkinson told the local paper. “It’s all a bit embarrassing – I’m fed up with people asking me if I hit an iceberg.”

Er, what? Yes, well, the registered name of the boat was Titanic II.

Wilkinson had bought the boat second-hand, named it the Titanic II, and decided to take it out fishing. A large hole opened up in the vessel’s fiberglass hull on his way back to the harbor.

*The “unsinkable” Titanic ocean liner hit an iceberg in 1912 on its maiden voyage to New York; 1,517 lives were lost.

A THOUGHT: Time for Wilkinson to move on to his next hobby – launching the Hindenburg II.