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Wrecking is the practice of taking valuables from a shipwreck which has foundered or run aground close to shore. Often an unregulated activity of opportunity in coastal communities, wrecking has been subjected to increasing regulation and evolved into what is now known as marine salvage.
The last shipwreck was the Merrimac, which occurred in 1999. With the many advances in modern navigation, the two lighthouses have been decommissioned. Due to the strange (and mostly uninhabited) location of Sable Island, Guglielmo Marconi made it an outpost for radio communication experimentation. In 1901, Marconi thought this Atlantic island ...
Shipwreck on the Coast is an 1862 maritime painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. [1] [2] It drew inspiration from the works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. [3] Viewed from a rocky coastline it shows a completely dismasted vessel. [4] It was part of a thriving tradition in nineteenth century art depicting shipwrecks. [5]
Annie C. Maguire was a British three-masted barque sailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 24 December 1886, when she struck the ledge at Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Lighthouse Keeper Joshua Strout, his son, wife, and volunteers rigged an ordinary ladder as a gangplank between the shore and the ledge against which the ship was ...
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The Palatine Light is an apparition reported near Block Island, Rhode Island, said to be the ghost ship of a lost 18th-century vessel named the Palatine.The folklore account is based on the historical wreck of the Princess Augusta in 1738, which became known as the Palatine in 19th-century accounts, including John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "The Palatine".
At 1:26 a.m. the ship appeared to turn and its lights shut off and on again. At 1:28 a.m. the ship made impact and, seconds later, the portion of the bridge above it crumbled and plummeted toward ...
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