Final Crossing
On the evening of 9 April 1968, the Wahine departed from Lyttelton for a routine overnight crossing to Wellington. She had aboard 610 passengers and 125 crew members.
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Famous quotes containing the words final and/or crossing:
“With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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Lenin in a sealed train through Germany
Hsuan Tsang, crossing the Pamirs
Joseph, Crazy Horse, living the last free
starving high-country winter of their tribes.
Surrender into freedom revolt into slavery—”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)