Lost Tall Ships
Tall ships are sometimes lost, such as by a storm at sea. Some examples of this include:
- Bounty full-rig ship lost off the North Carolina coast as Hurricane Sandy approached in 2012.
- Concordia was a triple mast Barquentine built in 1992, operated by Canada as a school ship. Lost at sea in 2010 in a squall.
- Asgard II, an Irish national sail training ship, commissioned in 1982, was lost in 2008 off the French coast. The 2-masted brigantine is thought to have collided with a submerged object.
- Fantome a former yacht built in 1927, then operating as a cruise ship was lost in Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
- Marques, built in 1917, it was lost in a 1984 Tall Ships Race.
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Famous quotes containing the words lost, tall and/or ships:
“Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain’t-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on—our lost narcissism lives on—in our ego ideal.”
—Judith Viorst (20th century)
“The small sleek one wants to stop,
docile to the imploring soul of the trashbasket,
but the young tall curly one
wants to walk on; the glistening sidewalk
entices him to arcane happenings.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)