At uni, sail horribly fateful vessel (9)

I believe the answer is:

lusitania

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'fateful vessel' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.

'at uni sail horribly' is the wordplay.
'horribly' indicates an anagram (a horribly wrong version of the letters).
'at'+'uni'+'sail'='atunisail'
'atunisail' anagrammed gives 'LUSITANIA'.

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(Other definitions for lusitania that I've seen before include "I nail us at the torpedoed liner" , "Ocean liner sunk in World War One" , "Liner sunk by U-boat in 1915" , "Doomed ship" , "part of Iberia" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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