Sentence examples for were wrecked off from inspiring English sources

Two of the ships were wrecked off Sardinia, drowning the 1,000 or so children aboard.

Mortality among sailors was higher than in any other occupation and between 1861 and 1870, 5,826 ships were wrecked off the British coast with the loss of 8,105 lives.

The Garifuna (pronounced gah-REE-foo-nah) are descended from the native Arawaks of the Caribbean island of St. Vincent and a group of West Africans who landed there when two British slave ships were wrecked off its coast in 1634.

In 1568, some 350 fishing boats and merchant ships were wrecked off the coast of Skagen.

The fleet was caught in a hurricane en route, however, and Gates's ship was wrecked off Bermuda.

His fleet was wrecked off Mt. Athos with enormous loss, however, and because of this setback he was deprived of his command.

After the vessel was wrecked off the Dutch coast, he became an office boy and then a bookkeeper for a trading firm in Amsterdam.

However, the ship was wrecked off the Devon coast and her trunk was lost, save for a few items – including this book, which as a result became a treasured heirloom for the Brontë family.

An absorbing account of misfortune and fortitude, "Skeletons" is the story of Captain James Riley and his crew, whose merchant ship was wrecked off the northwest coast of Africa in 1815.

Yet a year after the discovery of the mussels living on the hull of the Oliva, a cargo ship that was wrecked off neighbouring Nightingale Island, the British government appears to have taken no steps to eliminate the invader.

However, on 27 December 1796, Hussar was wrecked off Southern France, and Maxwell once again became a prisoner of war.