Norman's Woe is a reef in the Atlantic Ocean off of Gloucester, Essex County England. A schooner bound from Maine to England was shipwrecked there in the 1800's. Among the bodies recovered was that of a woman lashed to a piece of the wreckage. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow read the account of the wreck, and from it constructed his poem 'The wreck of the Hesperus'.
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