16:00 hrs-16:05 hrs, Indefatigable explodes leaving two survivors.
16:25 hrs, Queen Mary disintegrates, twenty survive.
2200 of his sailors vaporized.
Admiral Beatty was a bit of a dimwit so he was, of course, promoted, appointed First Sea Lord and granted an Earldom.Although I had posted the story a few times previously, the most memorable usage was on September 15, 2008:
Things that make you go "Hmmm" (AIG; LEH)
Watching Lehman crossing on the tape at two bits. The world's largest property casualty insurer in the $5's. Hmmm. ...Bitcoin $6,958.70 down 1,258.90 (-15.3196%) and off considerably from the all-time high.
"There's something wrong with our bloody ships today, Chatfield"