The Day MV Estonia Sank
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2 min readSep 28, 2022
MV Estonia sank on Wednesday, 28 September 1994, between about 00:50 and 01:50 as the ship was crossing the Baltic Sea, enroute from Tallinn, Estonia, to Stockholm, Sweden, with the loss 851 lives.
At the edge of the ocean, where moon-flowers drip silver rain. That’s where she is. A woman, dead beneath shipless waves, spreading her light in blues and insolent greens on faraway beaches. She plays there with girls and boys…