shipwreck
noun
[ ˈʃɪprɛk ]
• the destruction of a ship at sea by sinking or breaking up, for example in a storm or after striking a rock.
• "these islands have a history of shipwrecks and smuggling"
shipwreck
verb
• (of a person or ship) suffer a shipwreck.
• "the English envoy was shipwrecked off the coast of Sardinia and nearly drowned"
