<story><title>A Ghost Ship Drifting Through International Waters</title><url>http://www.sobify.com/the-lyubov-orlova-a-russian-cruise-ship-drifting-through-international-waters/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stevewepay</author><text>Articles like this really strike home how huge this world is.  I feel ignorant when my first thought is that we should be able to locate a cruise ship in the ocean, but I clearly underestimate how huge this world really is.  It&amp;#x27;s also hits home when entire planes like the Malaysian airline plane can disappear and literally no one knows what happened to it.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Ghost Ship Drifting Through International Waters</title><url>http://www.sobify.com/the-lyubov-orlova-a-russian-cruise-ship-drifting-through-international-waters/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>speeder</author><text>This made me remember of Battleship São Paulo&lt;p&gt;Battleship São Paulo was a ship that... sort of fought on WW1 (it started the war as active, but the British complained it had poor fire control, the ship was sent to US for refit, but the refitting ended after the war ended). And fought on WW2 (during WW2 the ship had problems with mobility, having a top speed of only 10km&amp;#x2F;h, that was nowhere close of the original design speed, so it was decided to use it as stationary defensive platform in Brazil&amp;#x27;s northeast, where a couple of U boats were attacking transport ships).&lt;p&gt;In 1951 it was sold to a british scrap company, the tug line broke mid-transport and the ship was lost very hard (as in: people have no idea where to look for it, they don&amp;#x27;t even know the initial direction that the ship went after the tow line broke).</text></comment>