Reap the Wild Wind (1942) was another smash; John Wayne and Raymond Massey starred as competing salvagers in the Florida Keys (circa 1840) who battle storms, shipwrecks, and a giant squid.
— What with all those cataclysmic storms, shipwrecks, sea battles and marauding pirates in 17th-century Dutch marine paintings, it's a wonder anyone dared venture off land at all.
Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks and drownings.
A storm, a shipwreck and possibly pirates!
A sea-blue fabric covers the stage, and popping through it are drowning victims of the storm and shipwreck.
1611), Prospero, living on a mysterious ocean island, is a magician whose art consists of staging redemptive illusions: storm and shipwreck, an allegorical banquet, "living drolleries," a marriage masque, moral tableaux, mysterious songs, and emblematic set pieces.
"I decided to concentrate on two primal images from the play: the tempest itself — the storm and shipwreck and its aftermath — and the strange moody island full of spirits," Mr. Salle said in an e-mail.
Layers of superimposition in a British version of The Tempest from 1908, directed by Percy Stow, position the crucial storm and shipwreck in a very Shakespearean "discovery space" at the centre of the frame.
Among the many scenes of jaw-dropping beauty: a ghost whale arcs across the night sea; the still, golden dawn after a storm and shipwreck that bests Titanic.
The ship is struck by a violent storm and shipwrecked, leaving the survivors stranded on an isolated island.
