shipwreck

Researchers in France and Croatia analyzed the protective coating on the Roman Republic shipwreck Ilovik-Paržine 1, which sank about 2,200 years ago off the coast of what is now Croatia.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

This week, millions of people across Europe gathered to watch the eclipse, an ancient Roman shipwreck was discovered off the coast of Sicily, and Cristiano Ronaldo married his long-time partner.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

In Homer’s poem, the goddess Calypso rescues Odysseus from a shipwreck and keeps him on her island for seven years, even as he longs for Penelope and Ithaca.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Anwar said the traffickers arrested after the April shipwreck were released on bail despite facing potential life sentences.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

“He means Hespawoo,” Cassiopeia added, for indeed, “sheeted ghost” was a phrase taken from “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” an absolutely thrilling poem about a shipwreck that the children knew quite well.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Some shipwrecks are partly or completely buried beneath sediment, which can greatly reduce their ability to release pollutants into the surrounding water.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Of course, not all shipwrecks find themselves in such relatively hospitable conditions—the Titanic, for instance, is slowly being gobbled up by iron-eating bacteria.

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

One of the most famous polar shipwrecks has been filmed in detail on the sea floor for the first time.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2025

Some three million shipwrecks lie on the ocean floor, and along with them, much of human history hides beneath the waves.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

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

Newly shipwrecked on the island is Tolomeo’s usurping brother, Alessandro, who is having second thoughts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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

They carried the shipwrecked crew through the ocean toward a city that rose in yellow stone out of the water of a lagoon.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

“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

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 John Henry Goldfrap

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