(Lamphear, 8-9).
After the men were off the ship and safe on shore, there still was the problem of the cargo on the grounded Sindia. How were they going to get the cargo off of the stranded ship? A consensus of those involved, including the captain, crew, rescuers and townspeople seemed to come up with the same idea. A wrecking company would be hired to salvage all it could from the ship. Due to the fear of another storm the company was hired to start the salvage work immediately. Another reason to begin the work was to salvage the items before looters ransacked the ship.
As the company continued its efforts the salvaged material was first sold to the New York underwriters and put up for auction. The auction did not work out the way the underwriters had hoped. ( Seibold, 10-15).
Later, the ship, including cargo, was sold to the Sindia Company for .
$ 5,500. The estimated value of the cargo alone was $1,200,000. While most of the items salvaged were sold on the Ocean City Boardwalk, a large amount of her contents still lay in the hull today. ( Seibold, 10-15).
Once the wrecking crew abandoned its operations on the vessel and the work was done, it became a popular play place for children and families visiting the beach. My Grandmother can recall playing in and around the ship as a child. In the pictures taken of the deteriorating ship you can see children playing and sitting all around the ship. It became so popular that the city built a boardwalk out to the ship. They charged people to come out there and they turned it into a major tourist attraction of Ocean City. Many of the pictures that you see of the sunken ship are of its masts and parts laid strewn on the beach. My Grandmother and Aunt can remember there times spent playing on the ship. They both recall playing on the metal parts that still lay above the surface. These parts remained longer then the ship because of the material of which they were made.
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In the poem, Auto Wreck, by Karl Shapiro, Shapiro uses vivid details to display to the reader a disturbing car crash. ... In stanzas two and three of Auto Wreck, Shapiro portrays a stiff, lackadaisical atmosphere. ... In conclusion, Karl Shapiro's, Auto Wreck, has a lasting impression on the reader. ...
Adrienne Richs' "Diving Into the Wreck" illustrates the feeling of sensitiveness towards a tragedy, assuming it is a ship wreck, and how that tragedy has the capability to scar an individual. ... The usage of these specific elements seem to construct the mysterious atmosphere of the wreck that the narrator is surrounded with and the emotions the narrator feels given by the wreck. ... These certain objects serve as the commencement into "diving into the wreck," the type of commencement that seems to have made a large impact on the narrator for they are dragged back into reco...
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