Sentence examples for tragic shipwreck from inspiring English sources

After a tragic shipwreck in 1789 at the mouth of the Tyne, a lifeboat was designed and built at Newcastle that would right itself when capsized and would retain its buoyancy when nearly filled with water.

Pope Francis sent a Twitter message calling for prayers for the "victims of the tragic shipwreck off Lampedusa".

As the Times notes, the "Life of Pi" trailer plays up one of the film's signature set pieces: A terrifying storm at sea that causes a tragic shipwreck.

Killed in a shipwreck a few years after its publication, Fuller passed into history as a tragic figure.

In Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe, the tragic, tortured protagonist toggles between feeling blessed and forsaken by God after he is shipwrecked.

A shipwreck.

"The shipwreck?" I ask.

"Shipwreck" was over.

Hardly tragic.

Or tragic.

Just tragic".