Sentence examples for great shipwreck from inspiring English sources

The great shipwreck on show in Stockholm, the Vasa, was on its way out here when it sank in 1628.

It's a very sophisticated, knowing performance, elegant and then muscular, with a great shipwreck at the end.

From 1869 onwards, members of the family systematically recorded most of the great shipwreck disasters that occurred around the islands and off the coast of Cornwall.

"This is the year of the greatest shipwreck ever known," wrote Wood of the sinking of the Titanic.

There have been over 1,600 known shipwrecks in the Great Barrier Reef region.

The coast's notorious for shipwrecks so there's great scuba diving for the adventurous too.

"It is highly likely that this shipwreck will provide the greatest collection of artifacts ever assembled from the reign of England's William and Mary," says a draft Odyssey plan.

"That would make it the greatest treasure ever recovered" from an old shipwreck, he said.

The shipwrecks lie at depths as great as 280 feet, Mr. Greco said, which is beyond the range of most sport divers.

In it, the Englishman found that the great wanderer had "escaped pirates, storms and shipwrecks," "dodged the Black Death" and "survived the near-fatal consequences of undercooked yams".

As of 2007, over 1,600 known shipwrecks have occurred in the Great Barrier Reef region.