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Comment: I was reading an article on a news site online and I came across the following: "A ship sunk near the shores of Wales on December 5, 1664. Another ship went down on the same location on December 5, 1785. A third ship sunk to the bottom of the sea on the same location on December 5, 1866. Each of the shipwrecks had only one survivor. In all the three cases, a survivor's name was Hugh Williams."
I looked online and was surpised to find the same story a few times, but I cannot find what I would call a credible source to verify if this is true.
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I'll offer this, FWIW - if the ships were local vessels, then it's quite possible for the survivors in each case to have the surname Williams. It's a common Welsh surname.
Hugh? Got me there.
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I read this in the "Book of Lists" by Irving Wallace, titled "Amazing Coincidences".
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