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The sea can be pitiless.
In 1477, a small ocean-going craft was found washed ashore in County Galway, Ireland, with the dead bodies of a man and a woman still lashed to it.
Of the innumerable maritime mishaps in history, none would have a greater lasting impact on the course of world events.
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