shipwreck
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A shipwreck off the coast of Turkey is the oldest shipwreck in the world, our team of archaeologists believes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Three masts removed from a bomb-laden shipwreck in the Thames Estuary have been successfully taken to a maritime museum.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The world's oldest shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Turkey, archaeologists say.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Eighty-two people survived the shipwreck, all Ethiopian nationals, according to the updated toll.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
We cling to each other like survivors of a shipwreck, astonished that neither of us drowned.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
The coast of southern Turkey is littered with ancient shipwrecks.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
It called it "one of the deadliest shipwrecks recorded" on the route.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Why do shipwrecks hold such an irresistible lure?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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
“Yes, in The Tempest. Marvelous play! Yet I have always wondered why there are so many stories about shipwrecks, when so few of us are sailors.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
British mariners shipwrecked on Palau some 50 years earlier had helped another confederation, the Koror people, in war with a feuding village.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
A wildfire sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner has burned nearly a fifth of Santa Rosa Island and marks what officials called the largest blaze recorded on the island in modern history.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 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
The survivors may have been subject to protections provided to shipwrecked sailors, or to those given to troops who have been rendered unable to continue fighting.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 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
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 Alexander Whyte
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 John Schonberg
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 John Henry Goldfrap
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
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