perishing vs shipwreck

perishing

noun
  • The act of something that perishes; decay or destruction. 

adj
  • Extreme; used of environmental or bodily conditions. 

  • Extremely cold. 

shipwreck

noun
  • destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss 

  • An event where a ship sinks or runs aground. 

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

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

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