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Hace 1 día · The Wreck of the Golden MaryCharles Dickens (1812 - 1870)A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fi...
Hace 5 días · The Queen Mary was some 20 times larger, and it sliced through the cruiser, which sank. Nearly 340 crew members on the Curacoa were killed. After the war, the Queen Mary resumed its career as a passenger liner. Following a retrofit, the ship made its first postwar commercial voyage in July 1947.
Hace 1 día · The wreck of Lusitania was located on 6 October 1935, 11 miles (18 km) south of the lighthouse at Kinsale. It lies on its starboard side at about a 30-degree angle, in roughly 305 feet (93 m) of water.
Hace 3 días · Father Stan Smolenski, August 22, 2021. On the rainy evening of Aug. 21, 1879, 15 persons saw a two-hour vision on the gable of St. John the Baptist church in the humble village of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland. Whoever came, saw. Ranging from 5-75 years of age, they acknowledged seeing the same religious tableaux.
Hace 3 días · One of the most profound meditations on the mystery of suffering is given by the poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, in his marvelous tour de force, “The Wreck of the Deutschland.” A Jesuit priest, as well as being possibly the finest poet of the Victorian age, Hopkins was prompted to write the poem after reading the report of a ...
Hace 4 días · The wreck of a car following the bomb in Talbot Street, Dublin, in 1974. Many of the bereaved families and survivors have been engaged in long-running legal action against the British government...
Hace 4 días · Ashore were Indigenous people on their coastal night watch, listening to the ship crash against the shoal. The New Amsterdam History Center’s Mapping Early NY project uncovered correspondence and ship manifests to pinpoint the shipwreck, and tell the story of the rescue on an ice laden beach.
