Oh the irony 
http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/06/08/boat-named-titanic-ii-sinks-on-maiden-voyage/
Boat named Titanic II sinks on maiden voyage
Not the Titanic in question, obviously. (Getty Images)
If you name your boat Titanic II, you’re asking for it.
Nevertheless, when Mark Wilkinson of Birmingham, England headed into a Dorset harbor on his 16-foot cabin cruiser, that was the name plastered on its side.
The boat sank. Go figure.
“It’s all a bit embarrassing and I got pretty fed up with people asking me if I had hit an iceberg,” Wilkinson said.
He was headed back from a fishing trip when the newly-purchased boat went down, according to a story on Yahoo News. He clung to nearby pilings until rescued.
The harbormaster who rescued Wilkinson said the breach in the Titanic II’s fiberglass hull might have happened because a repair job deteriorated, according to the Christian Science Monitor.
This might be why airlines retire the flight numbers associated with crashed planes — or why there aren’t too many airships called Hindenburg these days.
