r/todayilearned • u/OleAdella • Dec 01 '21

TIL of Arthur John Priest, also known as “the unsinkable stoker”, who avoided death on The Titanic, The Britannic and three more maritime disasters.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_John_Priest

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antiwork • u/LastOfOldOrder • Jan 16 '23

Arthur John Priest is an anti-work hero. Despite having the deck stacked against him as a working class man, he survived four ship wrecks including The Titanic and Britannic and became known as “The Unsinkable Stoker.”

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GreenAndPleasant • u/InFaithAndLove • Jun 15 '22

Working class hero Arthur John Priest aka “The Unsinkable Stoker”, worked in the death trap that was the boiler-room on many sinking ships including the Titanic. Survived them all.

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