As in North Cornwall and South-West Ireland, the fierce Atlantic gales created ideal conditions for deliberate shipwrecking, which until 100 years ago was very common along the coast ( although shipwrecking was common across all the Celtic Sea ).
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As in North Cornwall and South-West Ireland, the fierce Atlantic gales created ideal conditions for deliberate shipwrecking, which until 100 years ago was very common along the coast ( although shipwrecking was common across all the Celtic Sea ).
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His short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony, followed by his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures, was published by J . Taylor of Paternoster Row, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.
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That ship, of course, has a name : the Seabourn Legend, a massive luxury superliner bound for the Caribbean in " Speed 2 : Cruise Control " which veered dangerously off-course, almost shipwrecking Bullock's promising film career.
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Orosius is thereby able to present the past as a series of adversities with concrete examples, from Noah s flood to the shipwrecking of ships in the Mediterranean Sea, and the future as something positive despite the reality of the times in which he lived.
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Col . Zafar Kiyani said the ship was being tugged to a shipwrecking yard at Gadani, some 40 kilometers ( 25 miles ) west of Karachi, when the tugboat's cables broke and high tides pushed the tanker to shallow water where it ran aground.
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Struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 November, she was stripped of gear and sold to Franklin Shipwrecking on 2 August 1947, then resold to the National Metal and Steel Corporation in Los Angeles, California on 17 July 1949, where she was scrapped.
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In 1615, the shipwrecking and death of governor Pieter Both, who was coming back from India with four richly laden ships in the bay, caused the route to be considered as cursed by Dutch sailors and they tried to avoid it as much as possible.
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By doing this, they hoped to avoid the dangerous southern or south-eastern winds, locally known as " " ventos carpinteiro " " ( " carpenter winds " ), since after shipwrecking the ships'wood would be reused by locals as building materials.
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Launched during the final weeks of the Second World War as " "'Lyngdalsfjord " "'and only completed in late 1949, the ship sailed in both Arctic and Antarctic waters for more than 53 years until shipwrecking off the coast of Norway in 1992.
