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Is it unlucky to change the name of your ship?

Have you noticed just how many of our favourite wrecks are of ships that have had their names changed at some point in their lives? It's supposed to be unlucky - take a look at this and make your own mind up

wreck type how sunk previously known as...
Baygitano collier torpedoed 18 March 1918 Cayo Gitano
HMS Roedean minesweeper hit a mine !!! Roebuck
Betsy Anna   sunk under tow Oct 1926 Ashington
Binnendyk steamship mined 8 Oct 1939 -
Dagmar collier bombed 9 June 1941 Leonora
Elena R steamship mined 23 Nov 1941 Munindies
Gibel Hamam steamship torpedoed 14 Sept 1918 Bamburgh
Merchant Royal cargo steamer collision 3 July 1946 Goodwood
Moidart merchantman torpedoed 20 July 1917 -
Nyasaland collier shelled 8 April 1918 Diamante
P555 submarine asdic target 28 April 1947 S24
Pomeranian merchantman torpedoed 15 April 1918 Grecian Monarch