Frank Lucks Towers: An incredibly lucky!
Frank Lucks Towers from Liverpool was actually just a normal man as it is the beginning of the 20th Century, was one he had worked in several jobs, trying as they say, 'to make ends meet'. He was just a normal man, with one exception: A native Irishman had survived three major maritime accidents, so he was called by his friends only Lucky Towers.
all started sometime in March 1912. This month, Frank was with the shipping company White Star Line searched for a job and also receive. Only a short time later, in April, he shoveled coal into the huge furnaces of a giant ship that just took its maiden voyage - this ship was called the Titanic. The job was hard, the pay is not just appropriate and also the light of day the workers were below deck to see very often. But this situation did not last long. Even after less than two weeks, the Titanic sank after it collided with an iceberg. Frank Lucks Towers, however, had luck and survived the disaster that many people should cost you your life.
worked only two years later, the Irishman again on a ship, the Empress of Ireland. This boat runs since 1906 between Quebec and Liverpool - to 29 May 1914. was on this day, Frank Lucks Towers busy with his work, the Empress of Ireland collided in dense fog with the coal freighter SS Storstad. After only a few minutes, the Empress of Ireland sank. By 1012 nearly 1,500 people were killed. Miraculously survived Frank Lucks Towers also this disaster.
miraculously was still, however, that Towers in 1915, again a job pursued on a ship. This time it was the RMS Lusitania, one of the fastest passenger ships of its time. On 7 May 1915 was the ship just off the south coast of Ireland where it was made by a German U-boat identified. The U-boat went on the attack and sank the Lusitania. In the attack, 1198 people were killed. Several hundred survived, however. Towers also had managed with great effort in last minute into a fight your lifeboat and survived again a major catastrophe.
Note & Explanation: The story of Frank Lucks Towers seems too incredible to be true - and it is (according to current estimates) also. Contrary to earlier assertions, Frank Lucks Towers (also sometimes referred to as Frank Tower or toner is titled) is a fictional character. There is no evidence that a person was present in all three accidents and survived it.
true, however, is the story of Oscar
cat. This was initially as a cat on board the sinking of the Bismarck, and had survived. Floating on a board she had been rescued by the Marines of the destroyer HMS Cossack and recorded. A little later, was also the victim of a Cossack attack - Oscar survived and was taken up again after a short stopover on the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal. But this new home of the cat did not last long and fell in Gibraltar. As Oscar, now also known as Unsinkable Sam, was seen as less bad luck he was 'sent into retirement' and spent the rest of his life on land.
Picture (CC) by Jose Jimenez