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"final official visit to the wreck"

Writer's picture: Margot MorrellMargot Morrell


Hurley's Journal, November 8, 1915


Pay the final official visit to the wreck with the chief and Wild. Yesterday's mild blizzard has put the final touch to the destruction wrought by pressure and the salvage gangs. Large snow ramps have formed around the remains of the hull, almost entirely burying the decks; the fo'c'sle being entirely buried beneath the floe. But for the stump of the foremast and the funnel, one would be sceptical if told that the collection of fragmentary timbers and twisted rails was once a ship. After saluting the ensign with a detonator fired on the poop, we returned sadly to camp.

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