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what epic battle was andrea gail a part of?

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Eastwards, the Brahmaputra Valley cuts across the Shillong plateau ringed by the Garo, Khasi and Jaintia Hills, and through the Assam-Burma range. The Brahmaputra swings across its wide valley which is encased in an immense rocky corridor. On the banks of this fabled river, tiny hamlets are skirted by golden rice fields and gently undulating tea estates. On the slopes, tussar silkworms are bred on the mulberry trees, and pineapples prickle the hills in even rows. For me, personally, the monsoon rains have a significance which is rooted to my idea of life, and of the awareness of the kind of person I am. When the heavens open up, lightning and thunder play their celestial dance and wind tossed clouds shift restlessly in the unending dome of the sky, my soul is awash with memories, fragments of poetry take birth, forgotten songs come to life. Everything is beautiful and pure… not just the rolling fields and the dripping trees, the urgent, impatient streams rushing down between hilly bo

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Andrea Gail began her final voyage departing from Gloucester on September 20, 1991, bound for the Grand Banks. After poor fishing in the Grand Banks, Captain Billy Tyne apparently decided to try fishing near the Flemish Cap. The ship began her return voyage on October 26, 1991. The last reported transmission from Andrea Gail was at about 6:00 p.m. on the evening of October 28, 1991. Captain Tyne reported his coordinates as 44° north, 56.4° west, or about 180 miles (330 km) northeast of Sable Island. He also gave a weather report indicating 30 foot (9 m) seas and wind gusts up to 80 knots (150 km/h). His final recorded words were, “She’s comin’ on, boys, and she’s comin’ on strong!” The storm created waves reported to exceed 100 feet (30 m) in height, and these waves doomed the Andrea Gail and her crew of six somewhere along the continental shelf near Sable Island Chaunceys. No further messages were heard from the vessel and no other ships reported hearing a distress call. On October 30

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