Acts 27:39-44 - The Shipwreck
39 at day-break they made an unknown land, with a creek, where they resolv'd, if it were possible, to run the ship ashore. 40 accordingly, having heaved in their anchors, they drove with the sea, then loos'd the helm, bois'd the mizen-sail to wind, and made to shore: 41 when falling into the confluence of two currents, they ran the ship a-ground: where the fore-castle stuck fast and would not give, but her stern was shatter'd by the violence of the waves.
42 the soldiers propos'd to dispatch the prisoners, for fear any of them should swim for their lives; but the centurion, 43 who had a mind to save Paul, prevented their design: and order'd all that could swim immediately to get off to shore, 44 and the rest to get upon the planks, or other pieces of the wreck: and by this means it happen'd that they all came safe to land.