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IndexCulture & MediaNo. 21 peaking

HMS Doterel (1880)

Sloop of the Royal Navy

15×
vs its own baseline
18×
year on year
+0.0%
per month, last 90 days
81
confidence / 100
23 754 1,486 2,217 where it used to sit Sep 24 Feb 25 Jun 25 Nov 25 Apr 26 Sep 26
Attention share · views per billion sitewide, weekly 104 weeks to 2 Sep 2026 Normalised, deseasonalised — sitewide swings removed

Why we think this is real

Six tests · all shown, pass or fail

The floor moved, not just the peak

Its quietest recent week still sits 1,180% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.

12.80×

Not one event

Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.

19%

Not the calendar

How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.

33%

Human traffic

Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.

1.01× weekend

Enough history to judge

Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.

2071 days

Confirmed somewhere else

No second source yet. Common for consumer and culture topics, which do not show up in developer data.

0 of 4 sources

What it is

Wikipedia

HMS Doterel was a Doterel-class sloop launched by the Royal Navy in 1880. She sank at anchor off Punta Arenas after an explosion on 26 April 1881 during her maiden voyage to the Pacific. Her loss caused the deaths of 143 crew members, and there were 12 survivors. She was en route to join the Pacific Station. Her loss was initially the source of much speculation. Causes considered included an attack by the Fenians, a lost torpedo, and a coal gas explosion. An enquiry in September 1881 concluded coal gas was the…

Excerpt from HMS Doterel (1880) on Wikipedia, by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Trimmed for length.

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