"maritime tragedy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a tragic event that occurs at sea, such as a shipwreck or a boat accident. Example: The sinking of the Titanic is one of the most infamous maritime tragedies in history.
This is a national maritime tragedy".
The Donkey's Ears: Politovsky's Letters Home (2000) is a long epistolary poem from the perspective of a figure from an early 20th-century maritime tragedy.
In October last year 39 people died and 100 were injured in Hong Kong's biggest maritime tragedy in decades when a commuter ferry collided with a smaller boat.
The maritime tragedy was later depicted in numerous films, most notably James Cameron's Titanic (1997), which won 11 Academy Awards and became the first film to earn more than $1 billion at the box office.
Hong Kong's nautical safety has been in the spotlight since the city suffered its biggest maritime tragedy in decades in 2012 when a boat and commuter ferry collided, killing 39 people and injuring about 100.
Yet two months later, at the anonymous graves with their scratched in numbers, it is as if they have been forgotten, the evidence of Europe's worst maritime tragedy in years literally buried away.
Ellis combines his narrative skills and his illustrator's hand to present an eloquent accounting of maritime tragedies wrought by human overuse and abuse, most of it offshore and out of sight.
MANILA — Forty people, 11 of them children, died after a ferry capsized in the central Philippines, the coast guard said Wednesday, the latest in a long line of maritime tragedies.
He said: "This story is a sensitive portrayal of how a young child is affected by the loss of her father in one of the worst maritime tragedies in history - the sinking of the Titanic".
With more than 400 people unaccounted for, the tragedy appears to be China's worst maritime disaster in 70 years.
Indeed, this last contemporary tragedy at sea evokes other terrible images of maritime disaster.
