Sentence examples for shipwreck off from inspiring English sources

They are the lucky ones, unlike the hundreds of migrants who died in a fire and shipwreck off the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa last week.

Twins Sebastian and Viola are separated during a shipwreck off the coast of Illyria; each believes the other dead.

On December 8, 1875, Hopkins read the newspaper's account of a shipwreck off the coast of Kent.

Last April, it was the eight hundred who drowned in a single shipwreck off the Libyan coast.

Both drowned in a shipwreck off Mauritius and was succeeded as governor-general by the celebrated Jan Pieterszoon Coen.

Mered is believed to be responsible for a notorious shipwreck off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa in 2013.

Early in the last century, a travelling circus was shipwrecked off the uninhabited west coast of Tilos.

Along the way he gets shipwrecked off Easter Island, surfs the longest wave of his life - and prepares himself for a rare ascent of Cerro Corcovado.

Alas, their vessel was shipwrecked off Casablanca and, although players and officials were all rescued, they never made the Canaries nor, indeed, any proposed kick-offs.

In 1741, on his second North Pacific voyage, Bering was shipwrecked off Bering Island in the Commander Islands, where he and many of his crew died.

It came to the Queen's attention that Frenchman Jean Laborde, who had been shipwrecked off Madagascar in 1832, was knowledgeable in the production of cannons, muskets and gunpowder.