Fate
Retribution subsequently sailed to Britain and was fitted at Woolwich in October 1803 for service for Trinity House at a cost of £484, equal to £36,183.51 today. She was broken up at Deptford in June 1805.
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Famous quotes containing the word fate:
“This generation is very sure to plant corn and beans each new year precisely as the Indians did centuries ago and taught the first settlers to do, as if there were a fate in it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.”
—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)
“And though in tinsel chain and popcorn rope
My tree, a captive in your window bay,
Has lost its footing on my mountain slope
And lost the stars of heaven, may, oh, may
The symbol star it lifts against your ceiling
Help me accept its fate with Christmas feeling.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)