One of my cats finally achieved her lifetime ambition and made it to the high shelves in my home office ... where I keep the ship models. I walked in and so surprised the little dickens that she got caught in some rigging, freaked out and did the mambo in fast-forward across the entire fleet.
Which means one destroyer for this GB will not be my 1/700 Arleigh Burke, but rather my 1/350 USS Cole. Safely packed away, though, were the Maille Breze and Gearing.
Besides the Burke, I had to deep-six my beloved 1/72 Schnelleboot, a 1/700 Yamato, An Airfix HMS Belfast and I may be able to salvage the Glencoe WWI Subchaser.
Please help me through this tragedy with humorous anecdotes of your own accidentally-destroyed warships ... misery loves company.
BTW - the cat is still alive, but has a limp that I told the wife was acquired in her fall from the shelves ....... ;)