Naufrage

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Naufrage \Nau"frage\ (?; 48), n. [F., fr. L. naufragium; navis +
     frangere.]
     Shipwreck; ruin. [Obs.] --acon.
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:



  NAUFRAGE, French mar. law. When, by the violent agitation of the waves, the 
  impetuosity of the winds, the storm, or the lightning, a vessel is swallowed 
  up, or so shattered that there remain only the pieces, the accident is 
  called naufrage. 
       2. It differs from echouement, which is, when the vessel, remains 
  whole, but is grounded; or from bris, which is, when it strikes against a 
  rock or a coast; or from sombrer, which is, the sinking of the vessel in the 
  sea, when it is swallowed up, and which may be caused by any accident 
  whatever. Pardes. n. 643, Vide Wreck.