Sentence examples for ship abandoned from inspiring English sources

Kaufmann speculates about cultural aspects: three decades after Drake's ship abandoned a pregnant African woman on an island, Shakespeare created Sycorax, the mother of Caliban.

While I was reading this book, I researched trends in animal trafficking and found a sickening article from The Guardian about a creaking wooden ghost ship abandoned by poachers off the coast of China in 2007.

Admiral Giovanni Pettorino, the operational commander of the Italian coastguard, said this was "the third case we have recorded in this last few weeks of a ship abandoned to its fate with hundreds of people aboard".

A ship abandoned by its crew off Italy with 360 migrants on board has arrived at the Italian port of Corigliano Calabro, the coastguard says.

One that was dropped from a ship abandoned decades ago".

After the assault, Cofresí and his crew left the ship abandoned in the ocean.

But when the boat developed mechanical troubles the crew apparently boarded another ship, abandoning their human cargo.

* Edward Belcher in five ships; much sledge exploration; rescues McClure; 4 ships abandoned in the ice.

Although the deepest port on the East Coast, it hosted few ships, abandoned sardine factories lined its shore, and its bars were filled with the under- and unemployed.

Their latest tactic is sending "ghost ships" — abandoned merchant vessels packed with Syrian refugees — on a crash course with European shores.

Earlier this week, almost 1,000 migrants were rescued from another ship found abandoned without any crew.