shipwrecked

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International law requires belligerents in a war to assist sailors wounded or shipwrecked in battle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Ninety-six people have been rescued so far and a search is continuing for other passengers who were aboard the shipwrecked vessel that was heading towards Spain's Canary Islands.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 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

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

The morning after they landed, Aeneas with his friend, the faithful Achates, left his wretched shipwrecked followers to try to find out what part of the world they were in.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton