The destruction of the frigate's upper works exposed her hold, and the next morning the stranded sailors were able to collect some supplies that had floated out.

In midwinter, the stranded sailors, Steller among them, began killing the slow-moving and unwary cormorants for food.

Officially this trip was to return some stranded Japanese sailors, but it was also an unsuccessful attempt to open Japan to American trade.

King Kamehameha V sent his steamer Kilauea to rescue the stranded sailors, all of whom survived.

Some rumours say that he was thought to be a stranded foreign sailor (some say French) who could not speak English.

She married the stranded Spanish sailor Gonzalo Guerrero and with him raised three children.

Then the door fell over backward and he sprawled across it, like a stranded sailor on a raft.

The two stranded sailors on board the Alf watched their ship being destroyed.

Russian authorities arrest eight "pirates" on suspicion of hijacking the cargo ship Arctic Sea by posing as stranded sailors.

Built in 1876 to help stranded sailors, its long colorful history spans nearly 70 years.