shipwrecked
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Ignited by a shipwrecked sailor’s emergency flare, the fire was first reported on the island’s southwestern coast in the early morning hours of May 15.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
“Yes. But, when you were shipwrecked, you sailed from the place in a boat woven mostly of spells, and it didn’t leak water. Was it illusion?”
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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