"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
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"rangerssuck" wrote in message

Alrighty then... we both qualify for second grade. So, to kick it
up a notch: what starts with "F" and ends with "UCK?"

Firetruck

Here's a real puzzle that remains to be solved.

The RMS Titanic broke in half at the surface and spilled some of its
coal and boilers, which fell in a small cluster that almost certainly
marks the breakup position. However the Captain's hasty initial
distress message placed the ship 20 miles further west, almost an
hour's steaming and much more than the uncertainty of clear weather
navigation back then. They had taken a star sight only 4 hours earlier
and were accurate within about a more typical mile in latitude.
Titanic subsequently radioed a corrected position that was still 14
miles too far westward, on the far side of the ice field.
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...hart-jpg.1388/

The rescue ships headed for the reported position instead of the
actual one and the survivors were fortunate that their lifeboats had
drifted toward the track of Carpathia, whose captain covered up the
error by claiming he rushed to the SOS position at a miraculously high
speed. No one knew better until Ballard found the wreck.

-jsw