shipwreck
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The party aimed for Ternate, an island in Indonesia, 800 miles from their shipwreck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Part of a historic shipwreck has been revealed on a beach in the wake of Storm Chandra.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
The ship would, over time, attain legendary status and prompt the widespread belief, on at least three continents, that it was, as Mr. Sancton writes, “the most valuable shipwreck in history.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Meanwhile, nonfiction authors contemplate a Spanish shipwreck, a racially motivated murder, the origins of great ideas and how laughter can change our lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
Inside the building, the commotion resembled that of a shipwreck.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Why do shipwrecks hold such an irresistible lure?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
IOM says at least 375 migrants were reported dead or missing in January alone after a series of "invisible" shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean during periods of extreme winter weather.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
Homer’s “The Odyssey” follows Odysseus, a Greek king trying to get home after the Trojan War, a journey interrupted by Cyclopes, sirens, shipwrecks and gods with grudges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026
Unlike at calm Rongelap, where the Warrior could get as close as half a mile to shore, the water around Mejato was thick with coral and sported two visible shipwrecks to warn Willcox away.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
“I could give lessons in any number of subjects,” she thought, “but not poetry. There are simply too many poems about shipwrecks, which would hardly be suitable, given the circumstances.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Coast Guard initially reported a shipwrecked sailor may have sparked the blaze after firing flares for help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
International law requires belligerents in a war to assist sailors wounded or shipwrecked in battle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Ninety-six people have been rescued so far and a search is continuing for other passengers who were aboard the shipwrecked vessel that was heading towards Spain's Canary Islands.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 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
He, a poor shipwrecked man, had equal honor with her.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
“Maybe fate brought you here for a reason,” Blackthorne is told shortly after shipwrecking in Japan.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
He was in danger of shipwrecking on that fatal sunken reef to American character, popularity.
From Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41 by Unknown
Instead he continued: “But I ain’t the one to bear a grudge, Duval, although you did come mighty near shipwrecking my faith in human natur’.
From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by Goldfrap, John Henry
And of the risks I ran of utterly shipwrecking my character and good name and from which Thou didst rescue me.
From Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings by Whyte, Alexander
I’ve had a pretty good hardening already, what with knocking on the head, drowning, shipwrecking, starving, and walking off my legs.”
From Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor by Schonberg, John
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