Fate
Shannon was finally broken up at Chatham, a process completed on 12 November 1859.
Read more about this topic: HMS Shannon (1806)
Famous quotes containing the word fate:
“... fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“Ev’n thou who mourn’st the Daisy’s fate,
That fate is thine—no distant date;
Stern Ruin’s ploughshare drives , elate,
Full on thy bloom,
Till crush’d beneath the furrow’s weight,
Shall be thy doom.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“It seems our fate to be incorrect ... and in our incorrectness stand.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)