shipwrecked

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From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

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

On Friday, Italy's coastguard said it was searching for the survivors of a shipwrecked vessel carrying about 30 people in the search and a rescue area of Malta, some 50 miles southeast of Lampedusa.

From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025

When the parties separate once more after their vessel is shipwrecked on a mysterious island, every moment Edwards spends away from Johansson and Bailey is time wasted.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2025

Crusoe had, after all, been on a slave-trading voyage when he was shipwrecked.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler