Acts 27:39-44 - The Shipwreck
39 And when it was day they did not know the land, but they perceived a bay having a shore, on which they wished if possible to thrust the ship. 40 And taking up the anchors, they committed [the ship] to the sea, loosening at the same time the fastenings of the rudder and raising the top sail to the wind, they bore down towards the shore. 41 And falling on a place with a sea on both sides, they run the ship aground. And the bow being firmly fixed, remained immoveable; and the stern was broken by violence.
42 And the design of the soldiers was to kill the prisoners, that none might escape by swimming; 43 but the centurion wishing to save Paul, prohibited them from this design, and commanded those able to swim to cast themselves into the water first, and go to the land; 44 and the rest, some on boards, and some on parts of the ship; and in this way all were brought safely to land.