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shipwreck

[ship-rek] / ˈʃɪpˌrɛk /










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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

And in an age when many steamboats, cheaply built and poorly maintained, did, in the words of one contemporary, “a wholesale business in human slaughter,” Vanderbilt never lost a ship to fire, explosion or shipwreck.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Curtis, a travel content creator, said he was exploring the coastal path when a friend mentioned a nearby shipwreck.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 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

By the time that George Bass became arguably the first archaeologist to dive down to a shipwreck, the art of diving had changed immeasurably from the method used by the sponge divers at Antikythera.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler




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