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On the left is a full-size replica of the ship Deliverance, one of two vessels that Sir George Somers and his group of settlers rebuilt following the shipwreck of the Sea Venture in 1609.
He was the inventor of the "no-party system"--"a more sophisticated version of the old one-party system that led Africa to shipwreck and plunder."
For non-epopts: reading these is like reading Jane Austen--with every so often a hellish sea battle or shipwreck.
The most famous is Crash Boat Beach, named after a shipwreck that happened just offshore.
The first recorded Europeans to arrive in the Yucatán, in 1511, were doubly unfortunate: a group of Spanish sailors survived a shipwreck on the coast of what is now Quintana Roo, only to be sacrificed by the Mayan natives.