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The wreck involved nine British merchant vessels and their naval escort, the frigate HMS Convert, that ran aground on the reefs off Grand Cayman.
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Oddly, the number 3 was involved in a wreck almost identical to that which took the life of Earnhardt: being spun out, colliding with another vehicle and being turned into the outside wall in turn number four.
* 1853 – President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.
However, en route to death row he is involved in a train wreck and escapes.
January 22, 1912: 382 ( now numbered 2012 ) was involved in a wreck that killed 4 prominent railroad men and injured several others.
Only one Yellowstone was retired before dieselization took place on the Missabe ; Number 237 was sold for scrap after it was involved in a wreck.
Divers to the wreck speculate that it was either a Navy ammunition ferry, a privately owned ferry, or some vessel involved in a collision.
The three motorized cars involved in the wreck, 726 ( the lead car ), fourth car 725, and final car 1064, were repaired and returned to service.
His car connected with the car of Eddie Cheever, Jr. and several other cars were involved in the wreck.
They become romantically involved, but Nick dies in a car wreck caused by a drunk driver, at which point Ann starts raising Nick's teenage son, Alex ( Glenn Scarpelli ).
The next day Sadler was involved in a wreck where he hit the inside fence ( a blind spot on the track, not well-recorded by video cameras ) after being hit from behind by A. J.
He was involved in a midget car wreck in Chicago, suffering head injuries after striking a concrete wall.
In the 2008 Sharpie 500, an irate Clint Bowyer, who was involved in a wreck involving Waltrip, said " Michael Waltrip is the worst driver in NASCAR period!
Busch was involved in a violent wreck at the end of the 2009 Coke Zero 400 powered by Coca-Cola at Daytona International Speedway.
Benson was involved in a wreck in the early stages of the races and ended up with broken ribs and he missed three Cup races.
Soon after BNSF received the locomotives, 169 was involved in a wreck and will most likely be retired.
For example, he crashed at Las Vegas Motor Speedway while running very well, and was involved in a wreck with only 40 laps to go, while running 7th.
Following that race, Hamlin finished 43rd in the Pepsi 400 at Daytona International Speedway after being involved in a wreck early on in the event.
He got involved in a mid-race wreck that ended his day.
He was involved in a mid-race wreck that ended his chance at defending his title.
In the fall race at Talledega, Raines was running near the Top-10 when a lead car lost a tire, causing the first major wreck of the race ; the # 70 was involved in the wreck and finished 34th.
He was fourth in points before the Winston Select 500, during which he was involved in a multi-car wreck.
She subsequently became involved in the aftermath of the notorious mutiny that took place subsequent to the Batavia wreck.
After a promising start in Hollywood, Walker was involved in a 1946 car wreck.
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Grace Darling was the daughter of Longstone lighthouse-keeper, William Darling, and on September 7, 1838, at the age of 22 years, she and her father rescued nine people in a strong gale and thick fog from the wreck of the Forfarshire, which had run aground on Harker rock.
Alfonso Bernard O ' Reilly, a local farmer trekked through thick forests and rugged terrain to discover the wreck and two emaciated, badly injured survivors, nine days after the crash.
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The supplies of the 275 settlers were overwhelmed by 250 survivors of the wreck of the British East Indian Ship ATLAS in May, and the colony failed in October.
Chamberlain is the only individual to have divided both major British political parties-Gladstone's Liberals in 1886 and the Unionists in 1903-in each case helping to wreck the political prospects of that party.
The oldest was called James ; he died, travelling steerage to Australia, in the wreck of the SS British Admiral on 23 May 1874.
Salt raking continued here and there, wreck gleaning was profitable in Grand Bahama, but New Providence was the only island with any prosperity because of the large British military establishment.
Reilly and a British SIS agent posing as one of the exhibition pilots diverted public attention while they removed the magneto from the wreck and substituted another.
Napoleon wanted a trade embargo against Britain, through which he hoped to wreck the British economy.
* City of Ainsworth, a pioneer sternwheeler from British Columbia ; its deep-water wreck is a heritage site
In 2012 divers from the British Sub-Aqua Club in Chester undertook conservation work on the wreck placing zinc corrosion inhibitors on the wreck.
During the Falklands War, there was an Argentine wreck on a reef just south of the islands, and British soldiers lived for around four weeks there.
* Receiver of Wreck, an official of the British government whose main task is to process incoming reports of wreck
British Team Lotus driver Martin Donnelly had a horrific crash during Friday practice ; the seat of his Lotus 102 broke free and was flung clear of the wreck.
The Receiver of Wreck is an official who administers law dealing with wreck and salvage in some countries having a British administrative heritage.
Elsewhere in the British Isles, each of the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man have their own laws of wreck and salvage and their own " Receiver of Wreck ".
In 1799, the Royal Navy purchased the HMS Fox, a 14 gun British war schooner only to see it wreck later that year.
In 1923, he went on to salvage the wreck of the British schooner Cape Horn which lay in of water off Pichidangui, Chile, salvaging $ 600, 000 worth of copper.
In 2005, The Age newspaper reported Canberra mathematician Dr. Frank Coningham's claim that in the 1980s he had seen a document in a collection of British Parliamentary Papers showing British authorities " dismantled the wreck to prevent an Australian land claim by the King of Portugal.
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