shipwrecked

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International law requires belligerents in a war to assist sailors wounded or shipwrecked in battle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Under the Second Geneva Convention, countries at war are required to take "all possible measures" to rescue wounded or shipwrecked sailors after a naval attack.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

“It looks like two classically shipwrecked people,” Smith said, calling it a “highly questionable decision that these two people on that obviously incapacitated vessel were still in any kind of fight.”

From Salon • Dec. 5, 2025

On Friday, Italy's coastguard said it was searching for the survivors of a shipwrecked vessel carrying about 30 people in the search and a rescue area of Malta, some 50 miles southeast of Lampedusa.

From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025

When it was his turn to read novels out loud, he liked The Swiss Family Robinson and Robinson Crusoe, stories about people shipwrecked on islands and learning how to survive.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French