In 1855, the French frigate Semillante, which was transporting soldiers to Crimea, sank nearby, killing all 693 on board.

A well housing in the front dirt yard, a rusty 1949 Oldsmobile with bullet holes across the windshield sinking on its rims nearby, big yellow tumbleweed skeletons scattered among a few sunflowers, then the raggedy cottonwoods along the creekbed across the road and the majestic snowcapped Midnight Mountains beyond.

Diana came up beside me and sank to the ground nearby.

The dreadnought HMS Vanguard sank nearby in 1917, reputedly the worst maritime disaster in UK waters.

The next day the Catalina found the lifeboat with the crew, and the Aksel nearly sunk nearby.

It is not to be confused with that of the French warship Maillé Brézé which sank nearby in 1940 but was later removed and cut up in Port Glasgow in 1956.

The dining room got its carved ceiling and linenfold panelling after a Portuguese ship sank nearby in 1526.

It was named after the SS Cheviot which broke up and sank nearby with the loss of 35 lives on 20 October 1887.

He sank into a chair nearby, taking her hand in gentle fingers, but she sensed, through the touch, that he, too, was distressed and even frightened.