Sentence examples for a sinking passenger from inspiring English sources

It concerns the spiritual odyssey of a young "water clerk," drawn to the sea by "light holiday literature," who abandons a sinking passenger ship called the Patna.

In Metropolis Superman is seen as a hero as he rescues a sinking passenger boat.

Its U-boats were ordered to engage in unrestricted warfare, even if this meant sinking passenger liners and the trading ships of neutral nations.

I think of the last soldier to die in a war after the truce has been declared, or the passenger on a sinking ship who has missed the last lifeboat.

We all had the look of passengers leaving a sinking ship.

He said that New York didn't get a story of "an Andrea Doria," when officers abandoned the passengers on a sinking liner, but "we got a story of heroes, we got a story of pride".

And, as we have seen with the rise of the Tea Party, there is a growing anger directed at our government for its inability to plug the holes in what many feel is a sinking ship on which they are passengers.

Lusitania survivor Parry Jones told the BBC: "I don't think anybody took very much notice about this because they thought - well no nation would dare go to the point of sinking a passenger liner and especially a liner so famous as the Lusitania.

Boatbound will have to do everything in its possible to avoid an Airbnb-esque disaster with a sunk boat and injured passengers.

Part of the reason is that no shipping company has been closed down by the government because of a sinking that killed its passengers.

The policy was short-lived, however, as on 7 May 1915, the U-boat torpedoed and sank the passenger liner, causing a diplomatic crisis with the United States.