The shallows where his ship stranded were volcanically active.

But all I saw was what was in my mind - the water boiling on those shallows, the pumice and the smell of sulphur, the ship stranded.

The ship, lifted by a formidable wave, had just stranded, and her masting had fallen without wounding anybody.

On 3 August the last two remaining French ships stranded in the bay were defeated, one surrendering and the other deliberately set on fire by its crew.

Innumerable skeletons of camels lay in all directions; the ships of the desert thus stranded on their voyage.

And what did this one intend, now that his ship had stranded him on the station?

In spite of this, the ship ran aground inside the bay and stranded the crew, passengers, and slaves onshore.

Thank God she hadn't jumped ship in the dot-com boom, which had lured so many of her friends away, then stranded them.

According to the National Shipwrecks Database the ships stranded include:

Seven years ago, I made a decision that left this crew and this fine ship stranded thousands of light-years from everything we knew.