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:
“A lost inch of gold may be reclaimed, but never a lost inch of time.”
—Chinese proverb.
“He hung out of the window a long while looking up and down the street. The world’s second metropolis. In the brick houses and the dingy lamplight and the voices of a group of boys kidding and quarreling on the steps of a house opposite, in the regular firm tread of a policeman, he felt a marching like soldiers, like a sidewheeler going up the Hudson under the Palisades, like an election parade, through long streets towards something tall white full of colonnades and stately. Metropolis.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
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We’ll call him so, if not plain Ralph,
For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses,
With which like Ships they steer their courses.”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)