drown vs shipwreck

drown

verb
  • To inundate, submerge, overwhelm. 

  • To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. 

  • To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. 

  • To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. 

  • To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items. 

shipwreck

verb
  • To wreck a boat through a collision or mishap. 

noun
  • An event where a ship sinks or runs aground. 

  • A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy. 

  • destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss 

How often have the words drown and shipwreck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )