shipwreck's Usage Examples:

This reef is the site of several historic shipwrecks; however, the dive takes place on the deep water side along the wall.

Their vessel, laden with 116 tuns of wine, had suffered shipwreck near Shoreham.

10 It has been charitably suggested that, his collection and notes having suffered shipwreck, he was induced to supply the latter from his memory and the former by the nearest approach to his lost specimens that he could obtain.

boisterous weather and shipwrecks.

A military station having been fixed by the British government at Port Victoria, on the coast of Arnheim Land, for the protection of shipwrecked mariners on the north coast, it was thought desirable to find an overland route between this settlement and Moreton Bay, in what then was the northern portion of New South Wales, now called Queensland.

The minute character of the narrative, the accurate description of the various journeyings, the unimportance of some of the details, especially some of the incidents of the shipwreck, are strong reasons for believing that the narrative is that of an eyewitness.

From a shipwrecked English sailor he met with, who had lived with the savages, he heard of the river Brisbane.

The claim that St Paul was shipwrecked at Meleda off the Dalmatian coast, and not at Malta, has been clearly set at rest, on nautical grounds, by Mr Smith of Jordanhill (Voyage and Shipwreck of St Paul, London, 1848).

The small Martello tower contains a museum about Guernsey shipwrecks, with many salvaged artifacts and related illustrations.

In 1529 the manuscript translation of Deuteronomy is mentioned as having perished with his other books and papers in a shipwreck which he suffered on the coast of Holland, on his way to Hamburg.

But, while he caused storms and shipwrecks, he could also send favouring winds; hence he was known as Soler, " the preserver.

Even wetting the skin with sea-water has been found useful by shipwrecked sailors.

The shipwrecked sailors.

Synonyms:

ship,

Antonyms:

carry to term, improvement,