Sentence examples for ship going down from inspiring English sources

It sounds like an old wooden ship going down with all hands on board!

It's like The Cruel Sea, the ship going down– Jack Hawkins with his duffel-coated frown.

As a boy, Greene dreamed one night of a ship going down; he awoke to learn that the Titanic had sunk earlier that night.

"If you have a cruise ship going down with 400 to 500 people," he asked, "who goes to rescue the people?

There is no record of any other ship going down in flames in the North River at that time, which suggests that the Tijger, a trading vessel a world away from home, burned and sank beneath the water where almost four hundred years later two towering buildings devoted to world trade burned and sank to the ground.

Steerforth abandons Emily to go to sea, and in one of those coincidences that Charles Dickens can never resist, Emily's broken-hearted fiancé, Ham, eventually gives his own life in a futile attempt to rescue a sailor from a ship going down in a storm, and that sailor turns out to be none other than Steerforth.

"Our ship went down within 20 minutes," he says.

Either that or a cruise ship went down and this was what had washed up onshore.

The ship went down, disappearing in icy waters nearly three miles deep.

If a ship goes down, rescue crews will know which area to concentrate their search.

When the ship went down, the people in steerage were hit hardest.