had been shipwrecking

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of shipwreck.
  shipwreck

  noun

  the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.

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