Sentence examples for shipwreck claimed from inspiring English sources

Ibrahim Mbalo, a Gambian who was one of just 28 survivors when a shipwreck claimed the lives of around 800 people last April, has described how passengers pull each other down when the water rushes below decks, since many cannot swim and need something to hold onto in order to stay buoyant.

Migrant Crisis UP TO 700 PEOPLE DROWNED TRYING TO CROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN Three shipwrecks claimed hundreds of lives.

Legal scholars said the strong opinion was likely to affect shipwreck claims in many territorial seas and by nations other than Spain.

Yet Elian, who survived a shipwreck that claimed his mother's life in an effort to escape from Cuba in 1999, has never vanished from the minds of those pilgrims who still pass by the house in Little Havana that has become a shrine of sorts.

In addition to various landholdings with produced rent for the abbey they held the Right of Wreck, which meant they could claim shipwrecks washed up on the shore of their lands.

In correspondence with the BBC, he claimed that the shipwreck was caused by a wave that was created by the King Jacob's propellers.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the disaster and a shipwreck a week earlier that claimed an estimated 400 lives were "urgent reminders of the critical need for a robust search-and-rescue capacity in the Mediterranean".

Migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean have claimed more than 1,750 lives this year – 30 times more than in the same period in 2014.

The most notorious shipwreck there occurred in October 2013 and claimed 366 lives.

Discoverer Donald Dennis claimed the identity of the shipwreck had been confirmed by the Navy, the Queensland Maritime Museum, and the Australian War Memorial.

This is the happiest tale told in an eloquent new exhibition, "Claimed by the Sea: Long Island Shipwrecks," which opened on June 14 in Cold Spring Harbor at the gallery of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, known as Splia.