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Not sure what’s next, I pull my phone from its waterproof case and learn that English King Richard the Lionheart is said to have shipwrecked on Lokrum while returning from the Crusades in 1192.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2021

During his six-month stewardship of Britain he had weathered a series of crises that would have shipwrecked a lesser man and brought down many a stronger government.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have done wrong, and have shipwrecked every hope in this world.

From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony

Trenchard had told him some ugly truths that morning of how in his love-making he appeared to have shipwrecked the Cause ere it was well launched.

From Mistress Wilding by Sabatini, Rafael

Your father's fault—a fault that would have shipwrecked fourfold more ability than ever he possessed—was a timidity that went to very cowardice.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Lever, Charles James