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    If the house got messy, my mum used to say - it looks like the wreck of the Hesparus. Was the Hesparus a real ship?

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    See here>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Hesperus

    Ducky

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    Thanks ROMOS

    It was a poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, of which the poem was based upon part fact and fiction. However, I do believe there also was a ship by that name that sank in a different storm.

    Shootah

    It was a poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, about a Notheastern storm that ravaged the Maine coast in 1839, sinking 20 ships and killing 40 people. Although the poem was part fact and fiction, I do believe there was a ship by that name that sank, in a different storm than the one the poem was wrote about.

    IT is in a poem by Henry Wadsworth (hope i got second name right).

    ROMOS

    See my link.
    lewboy

    Looks like we had same idea perhaps MY mind is getting great as well.

    My mother used to use that same expression.  Until today, I always thought that she was saying..."the wreck of the hespers" and I had no clue what that meant and never even thought about the meaning.  I'm guessing that she was only repeating something that her mother used to say!  So, let's all "Google it".    :)

    ROMOS

    See my link.


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