0 an accident in which a ship is destroyed or sunk at sea, especially by hitting rocks, or a ship that has been destroyed or sunk in such an accident: --
1 to make someone suffer a shipwreck: --
2 the destruction or sinking of a ship at sea, or a ship destroyed this way: --
Many of his friends were lost in shipwrecks then.
There have always been shipwrecks, but the consequences now are far worse in a world that lives on oil.
We must also ensure that many of the ideas are not shipwrecked by over-zealous interpretation of funding rules.
The causes of those shipwrecks have not been tackled seriously enough.
Incidentally, huge sums of money are generated by people sponsoring those archaeological investigations into shipwrecks and selling the objects that are pulled out.
Because there is no protection, priceless pieces of history are being torn out of our annals of time by ignorant, greedy looters of shipwrecks.
Every suggestion would be shipwrecked because of environmental assessment.
Unfortunately the world is awash with lost opportunities, with shipwrecked good ideas.