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Example sentences for: shipwreck

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The first recorded Europeans to arrive in the Yucatán, in 1511, were doubly unfortunate: a group of Spanish sailors survived a shipwreck on the coast of what is now Quintana Roo, only to be sacrificed by the Mayan natives.
(The Misty Isles, the mythical homeland of Queen Aleta in Prince Valiant , once made a practice of slaughtering shipwreck survivors the moment they washed up on beaches.
The Cuban government says González should be returned to his Cuban father, claiming that his mother, who perished in the shipwreck, had kidnapped him.
Explorers found the oldest deep-sea shipwreck yet.
Fitzedward Hall (1825-1901) traced his career as an etymologist to a shipwreck.