Bible Verses About Ships: Were often wrecked

Y'hoshafat built some large "Tarshish" ships to go to Ofir for gold, but they didn't make the voyage, because they were wrecked at 'Etzyon-Gever.

as when the wind out of the east wrecks the "Tarshish" ships.

But they encountered a place where two currents meet, and ran the vessel aground on the sandbar there. The bow stuck and would not move, while the pounding of the surf began to break up the stern.

At this point the soldiers’ thought was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim off and escape.

But the officer, wanting to save Sha’ul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to throw themselves overboard first and head for shore,

and the rest to use planks or whatever they could find from the ship. Thus it was that everyone reached land safely.

Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.