Morro Castle

[ mawr-oh, mor-oh; Spanish mawr-raw ]

noun

1. a historic fort at the entrance to the harbor of Havana, Cuba.

Example Sentences

Nonetheless, she said, nothing can beat crossing the Bay of Havana to the Spanish colonial Morro castle and admiring the gentle curve of the Malecon being lapped by the waves of the Florida Straits.

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“The Coast Guard boat came by and piled the bodies on the deck and put sheets over them,” said Greg Bogan, whose relatives rescued 64 passengers that jumped from the Morro Castle as it drifted from Sea Girt to Asbury Park where it ran aground, 84 years ago this Saturday.

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The Morro Castle was en route from Havana to New York City carrying 550 passengers and crew when a fire started minutes before 3 a.m. in a storage locker.

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The fishermen motored the Bogan’s 50-foot wooden party boat Paramount north of Manasquan Inlet to the sight of smoke billowing from the Morro Castle.

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The Morro Castle rescue brought the Bogan family a lot of notoriety.

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