Complex sentence: One of the saddest events to befall the island happened when the "Annie Jane", a three-masted immigrant ship out of Liverpool bound for Montreal, Canada, struck rocks off West Beach during a storm in September 1853.
Split into simpler sentences: One of the saddest events to befall the island happened 158 years ago. The "Annie Jane", a three-masted immigrant ship out of Liverpool bound for Montreal, Canada, struck rocks off West Beach during a storm in September 1853.