shipwrecked
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Founded in 1964 as an offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline broadcast from a ship until 1991, when it was shipwrecked off the Kent coast.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Newly shipwrecked on the island is Tolomeo’s usurping brother, Alessandro, who is having second thoughts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
Crusoe had, after all, been on a slave-trading voyage when he was shipwrecked.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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