In 1941, the SS Politician did run aground at Calvay, just off the island of Eriskay.
But in Florida anyone trying to get people off the island wins sympathy from Cuban exiles.
The bad was they didn't have enough money to get off the island.
The closure of bridges and tunnels off the island left it effectively cut off from the mainland for now.
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Providence Resources is currently exploring six sites off the island of Ireland, including those off County Cork and Rathlin island.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported the drills will take place Monday or Tuesday in the Yellow Sea off the island.
At 6 a.m. the morning after the murder, three men were discovered trying to sneak off the island via the ferry.
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The couple's children, now middle aged, frequently implore them to move off the island and live with them on the mainland.
With all their bickering, they've managed to isolate themselves from almost everyone both on and off the island, including their own children.
At present patients have to be transferred by ambulance to Seaclose in Newport before the patient can be airlifted off the Island.
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Commerce and Employment Minister Kevin Stewart said the States were working out the costs of building a sizable farm off the island's north coast.
The waste strategy, which includes kerbside collections of recyclables and export waste off the island, is due to be rolled out over the next few years.
When the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck a reef off the island of Giglio on January 13, international attention inevitably focused on the actions of the master.
The family of a Manx Special Olympian who died in South Korea have said they are overwhelmed by the support they have received on and off the island.
The ship remains partially submerged off the island of Giglio.
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Song Young Ok said she has not been told to stop selling tickets for the ferry off the island, and doesn't know when the military drills will take place.
It has been lying on its side off the island of Giglio, on the coast of Tuscany, since it capsized a year ago with the loss of more than 30 lives.
The German press is beginning to report that certain people, forewarned of the looming closure of the banks, decided to whisk their money off the island and out of the affected banks.
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The team from the University of Rennes in France say they found the crystal while examining the wreck of a British ship sunk off the island of Alderney - in the English Channel - in 1592.
Just off the island, you can take a dive at some of the best scuba sites in the world, including the famous Cod Hole, or fish for black marlin, tuna and swordfish on the Ribbon Reefs.
He said he had moved all his company's money off the island years earlier out of fear that the banking system would eventually collapse, and he suspected it wouldn't be a pretty sight when banks reopen.
For instance, lorries crossing into Manhattan are now subject to stringent checks, and the local press is full of reports on "lockdown" plans which would seal off the island should intelligence suggest another terror attack is imminent.
You can't even get off the island.
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The main island, Apo Island -- not to be confused with the better known island of the same name off the island of Negros in the central Philippines -- is a palm-fringed beauty, ringed by golden sand and home to an emerald-green interior lagoon embraced by mangroves.
Italian prosecutors have launched an investigation into the shipwreck, detaining the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, for questioning while top Italian officials criticized the ship for sailing so close to the shore of the island of Giglio, causing it to strike a rock formation just off the coast of the island.
The other five people cut off on the island were transferred back to safety by the inshore lifeboat.
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Naval frigate Dartmouth which was deployed against Jacobites in 1690 and sank on 9 October 1690 off the small island of Eilean Rubha an Ridire at the southern entrance to the Sound of Mull.
The collision off Lamma Island was the worst maritime accident in Hong Kong for over 40 years.
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Navy ships visit, Air Force jets fly overhead and war games are played off the Pacific island's shores.
The cruise liner struck rocks and turned on its side January 13 off the Italian island of Giglio.
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