Who in their right mind would name a boat Titanic II in the first place?   Fortunately there was no loss of life.   Prophetically enough, there is already a movie, Titanic II.  It sank at the box office over a year before the cabin cruiser.

Titanic II sinks on maiden voyage

When Mark Wilkinson took ownership of a cabin cruiser called Titanic II, perhaps he should have realised the omens were not good.

When he took his new 16ft boat out for its maiden voyage, it lived up to its namesake, and sank.   Mr Wilkinson was left floundering as the vessel sprang a leak and began taking on water before disappearing beneath the waves. Holidaymakers looked on while Mr Wilkinson, from Birmingham, was pulled out of the sea by the local harbour master.

Titanic II was was later towed out of West Bay harbour in Dorset.  Mr Wilkinson, aged in his 40s, said afterwards: “If it wasn’t for the harbour master I would have gone down with the Titanic. “It’s all a bit embarrassing and I got pretty fed up with people asking me if I had hit an iceberg.”

Thanks to Alaric Bond for passing on this tale of woe.