Word: solent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graving dock, only one in England big enough to accommodate giantesses like the Queen Mary, was out of commission with smashed floodgates. The Empress basin was blocked by a sunken tanker, its wharves torn by gaping holes. Leaving port the master of the Magalhaes counted 23 wrecks in the Solent. "South England is dying," he concluded, "no miracle can stem the tide...