Complex sentence: Named after the Isle of May, a island in the Firth of Forth, close by, it was a disastrous series of accidents amongst Royal Navy ships on their way from Rosyth in Scotland to fleet exercises in the North Sea.
Split into simpler sentences: Named after the Isle of May, a island in the Firth of Forth, close by. It was a disastrous series of accidents amongst Royal Navy ships on their way from Rosyth in Scotland to fleet exercises inthe North Sea.