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Definition of Shipwrecks
1. shipwreck [v] - See also: shipwreck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipwrecks
Literary usage of Shipwrecks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1838)
"Report from a Select Committee appointed to inquire into the Causes of shipwrecks.
1836. THE rapid increase in the number of shipwrecks between the years ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1896)
"SOME MEMORABLE shipwrecks. BY W. GORDON SMYTHIES. ... Of these notable shipwrecks,
the first in respect of date comes HMS Ramillies, a vessel of ninety guns ..."
3. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1864)
"On shipwrecks in the ... The facts are taken from James's Naval History and a
book upon shipwrecks in the ..."
4. The New Dictionary of Statistics: A Complement to the Fourth Edition of by Augustus Duncan Webb (1911)
"shipwrecks The average annual number and tonnage of sailing and am vessels
belonging to the chief maritime countries, lich were removed from the register on ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... and "shipwrecks" may be at least mitigated; and that a final conquest of "Plagues
and Pestilences" is now at hand. In the preponderating prevalence of ..."
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