Wreck
HMS Hermes lies upside down in approximately 30 meters (100 feet) of water in position 51°06′18″N 1°50′18″E / 51.105°N 1.83833°E / 51.105; 1.83833Coordinates: 51°06′18″N 1°50′18″E / 51.105°N 1.83833°E / 51.105; 1.83833 .
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Famous quotes containing the word wreck:
“Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Crash on crash of the sea,
straining to wreck men, sea-boards, continents,
raging against the world, furious.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“the thing I came for:
the wreck and not the story of the wreck
the thing itself and not the myth
the drowned face always staring
toward the sun”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)