Synonyms:
shipwreck
Meaning: a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
Usage examples
"Here's what I found at the very site of that final shipwreck!"
I never knew how we managed to prevent a shipwreck on that voyage and to reach the shore.
Just then Captain Nemo asked me what I knew about the shipwreck of the Count de La Pérouse.
The alternative was dreadful, as famine presented them on the one hand, and shipwreck on the other.
How they will tell the shipwreck When winter shakes the door, Till the children ask, "But the forty? Did they come back no more?"
I shrink from paining or offending you, but it is my duty, as your mother, to warn you against a marriage that will make shipwreck of your happiness."'
But just then the renowned French explorer Captain Dumont d'Urville, unaware of Dillon's activities, had already set sail to search elsewhere for the site of the shipwreck.
It is the Isle of Blasted Hopes. Its enchanting landscape has allured many a landsman to his ruin, and its beacon, seen through the haze of a south-east gale, has guided many a watchful mariner to shipwreck and death.
There Dillon collected many relics of the shipwreck: iron utensils, anchors, eyelets from pulleys, swivel guns, an eighteen-pound shell, the remains of some astronomical instruments, a piece of sternrail, and a bronze bell bearing the inscription "Made by Bazin," the foundry mark at Brest Arsenal around 1785. There could no longer be any doubt.